The podcast like this, who gonna bring it to the table? Boss talk, who your girlfriend favorite? Boss talk, we gon' do it how you want it. Boss talk, yeah, everybody on it. Boss talk, it's a unique hustle. Boss talk, yeah, we came from the stroke. Check it, check it, check it. It's a unique hustle. It's your boy E.C.O. And I remember the lovely, amazing official, Miss Jamaica. What's going on?  Man, hey man. We got a special guest here today, y'all. We down in Houston, Texas. One more again, you know. That's how I say one more again, man. Yeah, that's my terminology, man. We have a very, very, very special guest here today. And she really don't need an introduction, not in Houston. Not in Houston. She's a, what you say, a local? Oh, she's a very local, man. Dr. Michelle Maneves? Yes. How are you doing today? I'm so normal. Welcome to Boss Talk 101. What a boss is talking, man. Hey, man, we got this woman, Miss Maneves, Dr. Maneves. Listen, I'm so excited about this because this young lady here, she helps you with all type of different things, man. Men and women. Especially men and women. Don't talk about the men stuff too much. But let's just talk about the women first because it's something that my wife has had issues with and I have to deal with it a lot. So I really wanna tackle some of these issues, you know. Just, let's first of all, let's find out. Just Miss Maneves, Dr. Maneves, where are you originally from? I'm Vietnamese, 100% Vietnamese, and I speak fluent Vietnamese. Wow. But you're born and raised here in Houston? I was born in Orange County, California. Oh, okay. But I got here as fast as I could. How old were you when you came to Houston? Three. Oh, really young. I'm very Houston. Yeah. Very Houston.  Okay, so are they both from? Vietnam. Yeah, so they're immigrated from Vietnam. How long have they been here? How long were they in California before they moved here? So in California, when we first immigrate, there's a huge Houston population of Vietnamese people that there's another huge population right outside of Orange County called Westminster.  Wow, that's awesome.  As an adult, very hard. You know, just the whole immigration process itself.  How old were they when they moved here? She was 18. Oh, so she was really young, wow. Yeah. And your dad was? Also 18. Wow. Yeah, yeah. So they came here on a boat. My mom's boat was robbed by pirates 17 times.  That must have been scary. Did anything happen to, did she tell you like anybody, did anybody get killed, thrown off the boat? Can we think about parents? I'm thinking about parents of the Caribbean where, you know, fights and all of that, swords. Did any of that happen? You know, it's one of those sword topics where you kind of just let it be in the past. We have so much to look forward to. We're so grateful. We have a lot, a lot of good coming our way. So we like to focus on that. I like the way how you put it. That's nice because a lot of times people, in anything that they go through in life, they tend to focus on the past. And so they can't move forward to the future because they focus so much on the past. Right, it's all about how you react. Everyone's got baggage. Everyone has trauma. But how do you bounce back from that? How do you react to that? And how many kids do they have together? Two, just my sister and I. Oh, no boys. Oh. No boys. It would have been nice to have a brother though. How far apart are you and your sister? Three years. So how was that growing? Are you older or younger? I'm older, but I act younger. Wow, okay. Yeah. So she was the big little sister. Big little sister, yeah. She was a big corporate lawyer, all of that. Then I started this practice and I said, I'm only good at being a doctor. It's the only thing I'm good at. I need someone to help me. So I made her quit her job and now it's like, it's so much fun. It's so much fun. So your parents must be very proud of y'all because of where they come from and to see y'all achieve this, what you have. Was it hard for you when you were a kid? Did they push you like really hard like because of where they came from? Like you have to be somebody. You have to this. That happens a lot in first generation immigrants. My parents not so much. Oh, you really just wanted us to be happy. Mm-hmm. Wow.  You know what I'm saying? Like you seem like the person I be like, don't, you know, cause I really like the lady doctors better than the men. So I really can rock with you because I'm a ladies man. I got married 20 years ago. And so, you know, I always did better with the ladies. We can tell. Yeah, I love the ladies. That's why I got y'all two sitting here. I'm in my own zone, you know what I'm saying?  You from Vietnam? Well, my family and her family's from here. Well, that's where she came from. You was over there too, right? No, I was born in North Carolina. She's born in California. Okay, well, all I'm saying is you got the roots. You know, I always heard that all of the Islanders and all the ladies outside of this country, they love the U.S. men. I got a friend that does security and he told me what happened when he went over to these other countries. He put me on game. So I know y'all love us, you know, the brother special over here in the United States. Don't pay him any attention, okay? That's the way the show goes. Don't pay him any attention, because he doesn't. So, okay. You didn't watch the show, have you?  Wait, didn't we just clutch my pearls with y'all? No, I just like to mess with people, man, but I definitely appreciate you coming on the show. I think we've had, like I said, we've had... But I want to say how we ended up reaching out to her. How was it? It was Tiffany, another young lady that we met. In Port Arthur. But she, we didn't meet her in Port Arthur. She's from Port Arthur. We met her in New Orleans. That's crazy. We were talking because, you know, she had her fibroid issue and I also suffer from fibroids and she recommended you. But one thing that stood out about the story that she told me about you, which to me is old school, is the fact that she said, when she was in the doctor's office, how you scoot forward on the seat and you sat right by her side and said, tell me everything. And you were asking her detailed questions about just everything. You don't find that any more because I've been to so many different doctors and they'll ask you one or two questions and then that's it and they're out the door. Next patient, I'm ready. They're not spending as much time with you really finding out. And then when she told me, oh, let me call you because she had your cell phone number, I thought that was crazy. I'm like, how many doctors give their patients a cell phone number to reassure this person that everything is gonna be okay? That never happens. And I'm like. Not anymore, not anymore. So I'm very, I'm very old. I know I'm young, very doctor, but I'm very old school. And Tiffany specifically and a lot of my patients, they will start talking and I say, so what's going on? And they start talking and then they'll pause. And then they'll look at me and then they'll keep talking and pause, pause, pause because they're so used to doctors interrupting them, asking the question because the doctor already thinks, I know the answer, let me just speed this up. But if you just listen to the patient, they give you the answer. And so once they realize I'm not gonna interrupt them I'm actually really here to listen to them. The whole story flows out. How it affects their lives. You've got five cats, I wanna know all five cats' names. And that makes it personal. Think medicine and probably what the doctors that you've encountered, it's almost a systematic thing. It's not their fault. The hospitals make them move fast. You can't spend more than this amount of time. You get docked if you spend this amount of time. So that's part of the reason why I started my own practice. I just want to do medicine the way I think medicine should be done. And if I wanna spend an hour with a patient, I will spend an hour with a patient. How much does the insurance companies impact on the doctor's time with their patients and what they do? And how much does that impact a doctor? For me, it doesn't impact me at all. I don't care what the reimbursement is. I don't care how much they pay me. I will still spend the exact same amount of time that I want to with the patient. Okay, let me take it back a little bit. Cause I'm an old country boy. I'm out of East Texas. I don't know much. Now I'm just trying to understand you got out of school and you said I want to be a doctor and you went to... Yale. Bam, Yale. You know, that's one of them prestige colleges that everybody talks about getting into. You had to be pretty sharp in order to even get into that college. Right, cause not many people get in. So just break down the process of your thinking in high school of I'm going to try to push the narrative and go to Yale. I never thought I was going to go to Yale. I'm very Houston, very, very Houston. I want to stay here for all of my training. I did my medical school here, internship residency. So I thought I was going to stay here for fellowship. Then one day my mom says, Michelle, you know what an Ivy League is? I said, yes, mom. I know what an Ivy League is. She's like, can you just go to one? So I have something to brag about at brunch. Did she say that? And I'm like, do you not have enough to brag about already? So I applied to Yale as a joke. I said, okay, mom, look, I applied. And magically I got an interview. I was like, Northeast doesn't like the South. They're not going to, and I'm a female.  I'll never get in. So that's why I applied there because I didn't want to get in. I want to stay in Houston. But it was meant for you to get in. It was. It really was. But would it be in a boys club there? How hard was it, your internship there? How hard was it being there in those years that you were there? Being a female. For me, it wasn't really an adjustment because I'm used to dealing with things like that. For them, it was a huge adjustment, right? Because I'm coming in with my pink scrubs. Every morning I walk in and I go, good morning, today's going to be a great day in the Angiosweets. For the first three months, they were just like, oh, this girl's here again. And I thought, I called my mom. I was like, listen, everyone's so rude up here. They're so abrasive. So either I'm going to turn into one of them or I'm just going to quit. She was like, Michelle, keep being sunshine. Keep being sunshine. And sure enough, towards the end of the year, when I walked into the room, they greeted me. Good morning, Dr. Manavis. It's going to be a great day in the Angiosweets. That must have melted your heart. Oh, it made me so happy. I can't imagine. It made me so happy. Wow. So you've always wanted to be a doctor, even in, as a kid growing up, is that your feel of career you always wanted to take on? No, I didn't know. I just wanted to do something that made me happy. Science made me really happy. Understanding the human body made me really happy.  To be able to explain why your finger hurts from here all the way up to your brain, what's processing, I thought that was so cool. That's amazing. I think that's amazing for you, because there's something for everybody to do. And you've got to tap into your gift. And I think that that's what you've done. You've really figured it out like, there's no regrets. Right? No regrets. Absolutely not. If I could do it all over again, I'd do it exactly the same way. So do you have a specialty? Like when you went to school, did you specialize in something specifically? So I chose radiology. That's where you read CTs, MRIs, all of that.  So I was like being in a dark room by myself, doing things very efficiently is perfect. And there was this thing called interventional radiology. That was a part of radiology. And everyone wanted that rotation. And they were fighting over, they wanted it at the beginning of the year so they could put it on their CV. And I was like, don't worry about, I don't even know, put it at the end for me, put it at the end. So it was at the end, I did the rotation and I was just blown away. The minute the patient leaves your angiosuit, you've made a difference. Whether it's a biopsy, you get to know what that strange thing is made out of. Whether they need a line for chemotherapy, you're helping with that. What we're talking about today, fibroids, men with their prostate that are enlarged, you get to make a difference and it's a fast turnaround. How could I not be a part of that? Right. So I love the fact that you go through all these different categories because it brought you to where you are here today, being so knowledgeable in the field that you're in today. So right now you deal with women who do, who suffer with fibroids. You deal with... Men who suffer from enlarged prostate and women who have fibroids. Right. So the men most and foremost. That is my favorite procedure. That is my thing. And why is that your thing? And how many doctors do that? Not very many. Not very many. Why it's my thing is, I like to use my brain, I like things that are complicated. So I was like, what is the most difficult procedure that we offer in this specialty? The prostate one? Cool. I'm gonna be an expert in that. So that's what I decided. Wow. Is it a very difficult procedure? Very difficult. Very difficult. How is the recovery time? Oh, zero. Really? Yeah, yeah. So basically, interventional radiology is image guided surgery, minimally invasive surgery. So I do everything through an IV. The same thing you get in your arm or your wrist in the hospital. Everything happens just through that IV. So very minimally invasive. And what I do is I place that IV into the artery. I'll inject some dye, use my big X-ray machine to see the dye. The dye illuminates all of the blood vessels in the pelvis. I find the blood vessels that are feeding the prostate. And right now the prostate's really big. It's really greedy. It wants all this blood to grow.  And the prostate just shrinks in response to that. So in one day? No. So being minimally invasive, it does take time to work. So my men start, I say at six weeks, you will start to notice a difference. And that's what's published. But in my experience, it just varies. I had one guy that was waking up 17 times a night to go to the bathroom 17 times. And you really underestimate the importance of a good night's sleep. So I did the procedure on him. He calls me a week later. My men never call me after the procedure. I call them, see if they're checking on them. And I was like, what went wrong? The procedure was perfect textbook. He goes, doctor, I just wanted to let you know that last night I only woke up to pee once. So for him it works in a week. Wow, so that's one of the signs is that you pee a lot. Pee a lot. And men don't like to talk about their problems. They're a little more reserved. So by the time they get to me, they've been suffering for a really long time. They don't know who to talk to. So getting up at night to urinate, all through the day urinating, when they start, they feel like it doesn't start right away. And then the stream is a lot weaker. So it's not coming all the way out. Erectile dysfunction is another big thing that happens with men with prostate issues. Really? Because when I think about peeing a lot, I know that also having kidney problems can cause you to pee a lot too. So how can you know the difference between this is really what I'm suffering from? Like how can we self-diagnose or husbands or boyfriends or so forth to know which one it might be? There's no such thing as self-diagnosing. I've gone to school for many, many years. Many, many years. And it's my job to figure it out. So that's one of the things I love. Some of my patients and some of the referring doctors will just send me a big question mark. We can't figure this out. We don't know what it is. And I think when you get so specialized, your very tunnel vision, you don't see the whole patient anymore. So when I do get a man that pees a lot, it could be, I'm getting a lot of younger patients, it could be an STD. It could be something wrong with the kidneys. Whatever it is, I will figure it out. And if I can't help, I will find someone that I trust to send you to that person. What's the youngest person, youngest kid that this can happen to? So it starts at 50 with men? Oh, 50. Yeah. Which I was wondering. Wow. Well, I don't pee like that. So, there we go. What you mean? Don't try to put that on me. I rebuke you Satan in the name of Jesus. I'm not peeing like that. I don't do that. And you know it and I know it. I'm naughty and I can pee good. Just, I'm not having issues. But I understand people do go through it. And I understand that it's something that many men suffer from. Is a lot of it have to do with genetics? No. Not at all? Not really. Really? Just the prostate just gets there. 80% of men over 50 will have an enlarged prostate. Does it matter about the race? Because I know certain things, you know, it's more predominantly in this race. So fibroids, yes. Okay. Prostate, no. Prostate, no. And I've also heard every man, what I said, 50 and a half door are supposed to go and check the prostate every single year. It is important to get your physicals, yes. And it's important to get your physicals stay up to date. Are you just looking away? Because you're... You know, I'm looking at one of my friends, he just was talking to me every nine years? Every four to five years. Oh, he said every four to five years. You say every year. You the doctor. Well, I want you to meet with your doctor, talk to your doctor, tell him what's up, keep him updated. Because a lot of times when we have issues that are very personal, it's hard to share, you know. And it's really hard to form that bond with someone you just met.  Exactly. So if you feel like someone really cares, it's easy to open up to them. So that's why I really try to make that environment in my office.  Because most people have insurance, it covers for their physical every year and so forth. But what turns people off like myself is because I can't find that person who's willing to spend that time to sit down and hear everything that's wrong and be like, okay, this is what you need to do. Try this and really act like you care about me. Instead of just thinking about me as a check. Even if like, even like I've had two C-sections and I've noticed and my husband always mentioned that doctors, when they're, you're having a child and they can deliver your child naturally, but they see a way where they can have them, have you do a C-section, they're gonna always prompt for a C-section because they're making more money. And to me, a lot of doctors is all about the money and not about the patient. So how can you figure out if that doctor that you're about to see, are they gonna really care about me or are they gonna care about this check? I think the biggest, trust your gut. So you can tell if someone cares about you. You can tell if someone hears you. That's real. Let's talk about that for a second, because I did, you know, I seen a guy talking about that one night on a reel and he was telling, he was talking about how much you get paid if you, if a person is having a baby, he said that if the baby turns wrong, or it's pretty much up to that doctor to say, this needs to be a C-section or not. But he went on to say, if this person's in debt, if this person's just got out of school, these are factors that they factor in in a person's mind that this person could make that call just to benefit themselves. In anything that we do. In anything, it's not just doctors, right? In anything that we do, that people can do things and make the wrong decision just because it benefits them on a job. This is, this is all I'm saying. The two categories that they talk about is mechanic and doctors. Those are two categories. And lawyers. And lawyers. Right. So, but it's just, it's not just them though. Others are doing it on a smaller scale or even on a larger scale. So that's just who that person is, you're right. It has to be a person's heart that we look at. To say, you say gut, I say energy and heart like, what that heart looked like. Is that person really somebody who I can trust?    I'm almost provoked to come in and see you, but I'm just not there yet with you. I'm not there yet. No, but I'm working on him. I'm just showing you some.  I kind of like, whoa. Because you mean mugged me when I walked in. Yes, you did. How do you want me to respond to that? I was on the phone with my friend, he had just called me, he's trying to make it over here and you walk in and you're, ah, it was, whoa. Because she's a rare sunshine. She doesn't. Yes, she came in doing that thing, man.  How hard is it when it comes to student loans, when it comes to the expenses that you've accrued because some people go out and get credit cards and all kinds of stuff. How hard or how easy was it for you? And before you answer that question, our daughter mentioned to me the other night, she's like, mom, she's about to do a project on it.  I'm not surprised. Yeah, that's not, yeah, I could have told her that. And she's about, and I'm like, wow, that much. Yeah. Life is life and it's expensive. This kid's different. She come to me the other day and she tells me how many people on this earth now that the population is going up, that it's getting bigger now. And I'm like, I don't really care, but I gotta listen to them and be like, oh really, you know, because I don't want it to feel like I don't really care. But at the end of the day, if there's a billion now and there was, you'll know whatever number it was before. She said eight billion. Eight billion and there were six billion. I'm really not tripping on it. I'm just happy to be here, you know. But her, she's very into this stuff. So go ahead and answer the question about how much debt. So it could be very expensive depending on where you trained. I have some friends that are $400,000 in debt when they finish. So it's really hard to catch up. Really hard to catch up. 400? And then even if you have a successful practice, say very successful practice, you can catch up in what, 10 years, five years? I'm on track for 15 years. Wow. But so here it is, you know, because you go out, you gotta look at the part.  You got to have a Bentley or the Benz or the Range Rover truck, you know what I'm saying? You gotta pull up. You're the CEO founded office. They're looking as you come in. Oh, how's it going? Oh, it's okay, Jan. How's it going? Everybody has an image that they uphold. Not there, maybe not you. But I'm just telling you, when I see a doctor, they are looking like doctors out here. Now, if they're a young doctor, if they're in debt, I hadn't seen one that was just walking around here looking like, oh, hell, it's breaking loose. That's all I'm saying. Am I right? We try to keep it together. We try to keep it together. Because there is an image, there is an image that you have to uphold with the practice. Am I correct? So the tone that I wanted with the practice and its access vascular health, I want to, I don't care so much about image, but I care if you feel my heart. So if what I do and what I put out there, if you see in my eyes, if you hear in my voice that this is what I was born to do, this is what I was meant to do, and I will take the best care of you, and that's the image that I want everyone to see. And I really hope that comes across. I really hope that comes across. And go ahead and tell our audience the name of your practice and the location. No, no, no, I got that right here. It's going, let me do that. Oh, oh, okay. Yeah, this is Dr. Manavish, and she will be over at 51 51 Katie Freeway, sweet 170 in Houston, Texas. It's right in the heights, right off the highway. And how long have you been located there? Four months. Oh, new location. Awesome. I like it. My partner, a shout out to Dr. Rose. We went over to his dentist, dentistry. He just opened up a new location. Another location. That's all right, I like it. So what is your goal? Are you gonna do like multiple locations, having different practices? So one of the reasons why I chose access, it's multifactorial, but you know, we get access into the arteries and the veins to do our procedures, but I also believe in access to care, access to education, knowing all of your options. So I do a lot of mission work. And I really feel like what I do should not be a luxury. So where you're born, you can't control that. But where you're born dictates what kind of healthcare you get. And I think that's silly. Right. So we started in Tanzania. So we have an IR lab there. And in my lifetime, it's probably not gonna happen. But I really hope that the next generation carries it out because I don't wanna stop until there's IR in every single country. I love that. I love the fact that you're trying to make a change. I love to know that doctors are going overseas to other places because healthcare is not affordable in other places at all. A lot of times parents can't afford it. They just, but a lot of home remedies in those countries is what is happening. And that's not here in the States a lot. Everybody depend on modern technology or doctors, pills, everything. I'm from Jamaica and a lot of times I'm not saying you don't have that, but you have a lot of home remedies. The grandma said go pick this leaf and boil this and drink this and this is, it helps with this, it eases this pain. I remember my grandmother was having headaches. There's this plant that I used to, that we had outside.   And in no time her headache is gone. I mean, they knew these, because medicine comes from a lot of these plants. So they know that, but here they don't practice that. Not so much, but I mean, if it's your first generation immigrant, there's lots of remedies that my mom does, you know. We are going to Jamaica next. Shout out to my mentor, Dr. Gizmo. She's from Jamaica. Awesome. And so she called me up once like Michelle, I wanna go to Jamaica next. Can we do that? Can you do that with me? Yes. Awesome. When is that? I wanna go. Let me get like my feet wet and running with this business first. Nothing could have prepared me for this. I'm a really good doctor. Yes. But as a business owner, you're HR.  So you don't have like a huge team and this like, I'm just wanna be a doctor. Y'all take care of everything else. I have a very small team of people that believe in me. Awesome. That really see my vision and believe in that vision. So my little sister is my everything. Actually, she runs the practice. Doesn't that pretty woman get up in there like that? I don't know. I'm trying to figure that out. It's hard to get the older men to take me seriously. I'm serious. Look, you don't know what, what? But when they walk in, you know, they already did their research. They know why they're there. And then when I start speaking about it, that puts them at ease. You know, just first glance, no one takes me seriously. No one takes me seriously.  You coming at looking at me, telling me this is wrong with me. I'm gonna be serious.  I know what is going down. I don't like wearing my white coat.  I don't like wearing my white coat. Right. It makes you nervous. It puts the wall up. Never wear my white coat. Damn, white coat, man. It's your old dude's big. You feel like you've been, I don't know. Nervous as hell. It does. It really does. And you could, some patients have a white coat syndrome. So you take their blood pressure. It's super, super high. And it's a real thing. And I think it really puts a wall up, you know?  That's why I scooted my chair closer with her friend Tiffany. Didn't have a white coat on. What's going on? Tell me what's going on. Wow. I wanna ask you about just really the way, you know, it's a crazy thing. I just had this phobia when I go. I fell out when I was little when I got a shot and I ain't never been the same since. I go in there just like, damn. And you gotta understand, when both of your parents died in the hospital after surgery, it sends you to a place where you don't trust no more. I'm being real with you. And I'm like, I'll just fall dead in the front yard. I can do better than they did. It was looking good when they went in there. But then when they came out, it was one didn't live long after and the other one did the next day. So I'm just saying like, that's a big deal for me. I don't know about other people. I hope somebody getting this, you know what I'm saying? But when I went to talk to my dad, he was doing just fine. And I was like, man, you sure about this? And he was like, yeah, I'm gonna do it. And I'm like, okay, so you're gonna do it. Okay, and I left at the hospital that night and because I had experienced something early on with my mother, I was like, this dude's tripping. Like, wow, I wouldn't do it. I'm being real. My mind, that's the way I felt. And the next day he was dead. I'm being real. So this is the kind of thing that makes a person when they do go skeptical of what people are doing because my biggest misconception, I want people to get this. Yeah, you can help me. But what if you don't? What if you don't work? What if my other partner, and I'm just giving you worst case scenarios, he owns a pain body shop. You've been there for years. She know what I'm talking about.  He didn't make it. This here just happened about two months ago. I can't say his name.  And then my wife had to force me to go a lot of times, you know what I'm saying? So I'm just telling you from a perspective of a person just opening up about personal ways that you feel like, man, I go, but I don't feel comfortable when I go. I'm being real. So you're, I hear a lot of what ifs. What if I don't make it out? What if they don't do a good job? No, no, no, no, they didn't make it out. You know what if my mom didn't make it out, my dad didn't make it out. But what if they got no- And my friend didn't make it out. That's all I'm saying. What if you got in a car wreck on the way there? You still could have went, yeah, so, but the cutting the legs off and all that stuff to save him and then it don't work, that's a horrible way to die. That's all I'm telling you. It is. And it's a trip because, and I'm gonna let you talk.  So I don't have any scalpels in my facility so that I'm not cutting. But what your friend experienced sounds like a condition that really affects a lot of Americans, specifically the black community. And that's peripheral arterial disease. So, I mean, we grew up in the U.S., right? Like, we eat burgers.  Like I said, I don't want to scare people. I was telling you about my experience. You know what I'm saying? All I'm telling you is, and you right. Let's talk about that. You said in the black community, they'd be chopping off stuff. What is that? So when the fat kind of narrows the blood vessel, you're not getting enough blood down to your legs. And so when that happens, your body has to start conserving, right? So kind of the first thing you get is, you're walking and you get a cramp or your toe starts turning a different color. And so all of that is because of what we call peripheral arterial disease. That's fat in the arteries and that can calcify. And so one of the procedures that I do, because we do everything with the blood vessels, I'll go in there through the IV, find the area, I'm like a glorified plumber. Find the area that's kind of blocked off.  And then I'll take out all the fat, use a little balloon to open up the vessel to what the size it should be. And then the blood flows to your legs as you're stored. So if you're able to do that, then you avoid an amputation. So interventional radiology, one of our hashtags is hashtag stop the chop. Wow. We believe really strongly in that. It shouldn't, you shouldn't go straight to the worst case scenario with you. You shouldn't have to go straight to someone cutting. Right. And if that's what you choose, then okay. But you have to know that there's other options. See all the options. And then you pick the one that's right for you. As long as the knowledge, knowledge is key. Knowledge is key. But you see, when you think about the fat, like what you were talking about, I'm thinking about, so does that have to do with how they eat? And all of lifestyle? It's not so, but it's just getting older. You know? Okay. I have fat in my blood vessels I'm sure. Okay. That's the reason why I'm asking that because then when I see people who do all these different surges for all these different things to remove this fat, but they go back to eating whatever and however and don't really try to take care of their bodies because they know that, I've heard people, I promise you, who tell me, Oh, I don't even work out.  If this happens, I just go do another surgery. Exactly. Yeah.  Right? And I tell my patients like this is not, just because you have a new lease on life doesn't mean you go back to your old ways cause you're going to end up right where you were. And the procedure gets more and more difficult for me the more times that I have to go back in and fix it to the point where there's one day where I'm not going to be able to help and you have no choice but to go under the knife. So if that's what you're trying to avoid, we need to make some changes.  What are the symptoms? Let's talk about fibroids for a little bit. But first, before I ask you about the symptoms, I want to ask my husband, how did it affect you? Cause you know, I've been suffering from fibroids for a very long time. How do you feel about that? How did that affect you and your lifestyle? I'm gonna be real with you. You know, I'm a spiritual guy. So when I made my vow, I didn't make my vow playing games. It was for better or for worse. So a lot of times I have to really sacrifice anyway in some of the things that I would want to do because of self, self ego selfishness.  So I've watched you go through it a long time but I know what I signed up for. This is something that's not uncommon. To me, if you want to be real, women, I don't know, for me it's like they're aliens for me. I'm gonna be real because of the stuff, the cycles and all that stuff. See, people don't want to be real. I'm just giving you all the feel. Cause we're so different from you. Y'all are different from me. So, and I don't even like the sign of anything, like anything, you know how I am. So I stay away anyway. I'm trying to figure out how not to be in the way but try to be there for you. You know what I mean? I'm gonna flip the tables really quick because you gave a very male answer, right? Yeah, sure did. You said you watched her go through it. What did you watch? I watched her hurt. Like, you know, she was hurting and her stomach would be hurting and you don't even want to hear it. I'm not gonna say that. Go ahead. I don't care. Feel this for me. Like, what? Get pushed to your hand here, do that. Can you feel it right there? I'm like, Lord Jesus. Like, this is what, this is the way she is. She think I supposed to look at everything. I'm not no doctor, but I still try. You know what I mean? And so yeah, I went through it with her. Yeah, because he's my husband. I want him to know what I'm going through. You know what I mean? Cause what's the way there's a time when I cannot speak for some reason or something God forbid, but anything like that, he needs to be able to tell you, the doctor or anybody, this is what she's been going through. This is what, this is, this is where it is. I know exactly where it is. You know what I mean? And I will say, there's a lot of men that call in for their wives. So we know women are resilient. We suffer through a lot. And so some women think this really heavy period where I have to wear a tampon, a pad and a diaper. This is just, this is just normal. This is just me. You know, so you suffer in silence. You push through because we can push through.  Sees this is not the way it's supposed to be. And then they do their research and that's when I get the phone call. Do their research with what? Google? Yeah. Yeah, I knew that's what they were looking at.  If there's not a okay, it's gonna be okay. This may not be that. It's a, this is that. And you need to go.  So you gotta watch that, man. When you search that bar, you better understand it's gonna give it to you harshly. Well, if you search Fibroid Houston or Ufi, that's the name of the procedure. You're in Fibroid embolization. All right. Good thing I come up first before death. So what are all the symptoms? Because I know what I suffer from.  Like when I mean, it feels like I'm an old woman with arthritis all through my body. That's how it feels.  But of course, you know, the cycle, long cycles, heavy cycles, what else? What else do people suffer from? I know I have a lot more of what I can't even think of. See, I don't have to answer this question.  But everybody's symptoms are different because I have bloating, but I know people who bleed constantly. I don't go like nonstop, but I know I've heard of people who say that they don't even get a break. They go months without even stopping. So I know the severity is different between everyone else. I remember seeing a woman who looked like she was nine months pregnant. And she wasn't, it was fibroids. That was that big. I didn't know they can grow that big. How big can a fibroid grow? I've seen a woman that also looks nine months pregnant. Wow. Yeah. So you basically, it could get worse. It could get worse. What makes that type of situation occur? Is it just the person? It's so genetics is a big one. Hormones. And a lot of people, we wanna find something that we did wrong. What did I do? What did I eat? What did I expose myself to? And this is, and I get a lot of young women, I'm young, I'm healthy, I work out, I do all of this. Why is this happening to me? Why is this happening to me? Right. And so I'm like, it's not happening. You're happening to it. And it hasn't met Michelle Manaviz yet.  Man, Michelle Manaviz. I have one more thing that I won't like to say because in my mind- Let me plug this in, let me plug this in. That's again, 5151 Katie Freeway Suite 170 in Houston, Texas. Guys, this is Dr. Manaviz and she is on Boss Talk 101, where the boss is talking. Favorite things is to debunk. Debunk. But a lot of times women will come and say, I know you're gonna think I'm crazy, but, I know you're gonna think I'm crazy, but I feel like an old woman. And I have to sit down before and really, rub my back out before I can stand up again and walk. Right. So if you've got a fibroid that is on the posterior, on the back wall, that's right next to the spine. If it gets big enough, it's gonna squish those nerves that are coming out of the spine. So you have this nerve that goes all the way down your leg.   If you've got a fibroid that's sitting in the front, it's pushing on your bladder.  It's like little babies in there causing all the pressure. So these heavy periods, we split them up into hormonal and bulk symptoms, but these heavy periods, back pain, leg pain, it can radiate down. All of these things are, it's so different for every patient. Some patients won't have a really heavy period. Some patients have a little pain of pain. Every once in a while they don't know what it is and there's a fibroid there. So just because it sounds like it's crazy, it sounds like it's all made up in your head, there's a reason for it. The human body is amazing. Wow. Man, I wanna just say thank you for coming on our show. My absolute pleasure. Thank you so much for having me. Man, Dr. Menevis is the dopest doctor in Houston, Texas. You guys gotta get over here and see her. I ain't never seen nobody smooth as she is. She gonna smooth her way into your places where you don't want nobody to be.  I like that part about her. She's not the one to quick to jump with the knife and just start, or whatever that is that you look like. It's a cutter, okay? It's just, whatever the case, maybe she's gonna do it to perfection. But you said she doesn't have to cut, but how serious can someone actually die if you don't cut? Like if you- Yeah, if it gets to a place, I'm pretty sure she the doctor, she that dancer. With every procedure, with my procedures as well, there's risk. There's risk, okay. Right, you have to outweigh. Does this affect your life enough? For men, do you have to plan, if you're going somewhere, if you're going to Costco, you know there's a bathroom here. You know this gas station lets people in without buying something so that you can go pee there. It dictates your life. For women, good luck wearing white pants.   You don't have to stand up and turn around and look at your seat to see if it leaked.  And for the males, had a guy that's going on a cross-country motorcycle tour because he always wanted to, but he didn't want to be the guy that said, can we stop and make the whole group stop because of him. Now he gets to go and enjoy. That's the whole point from all this. Thank you so much. I'm man, Dr. Maneves. I appreciate you for coming on Boss Talk with an old one man. How can people get a hold of you on social media? Are you on social media? I am on social media. How can they get a hold of you on social media? At Maneves, so M-M-A-N-E-E-V-E-S-E. So that's on Instagram. And I mean. And I know you got a TikTok cause I found your TikTok the other day. Oh my gosh. She's TikToking. She's TikToking. She's TikToking. She's TikToking. It's not my generation, but I'm trying.  It drives me wild. Drives me wild. I'm trying though. That's a place where you can use that white coat on TikTok. Check it man. Hey man, it's been another great segment. A Boss Talk on a one. What a Bosses Talk. And we out.


Okay, very good morning. It is Tuesday 14th of January. Hope you're you're doing well Got Sam back. So he's gonna have a look at some technical levels after I give a bit of an overall Macro update of what's going on for me to talk about of course is really focus on the US China Confirmation of signing the deal which is still set for tomorrow and all things looking good for the moment Other than that having a look at the US European trade talks, which are also ongoing over the next couple of days And then some other things just to be aware from a calendar perspective So that's kind of what I'm going to talk about but First things first quick look at the charts and an overall feel for sentiment and actually index dot futures a little lower This morning. I mean the Dow did finish up last night about 83 points But since then we've kind of just drifted back south in the futures S&P just finding a little bit of near-term support at its pivot level in the center right chart the DAX having Blip lower through the cash opens at a normal pick up in the volume through the futures And we're just having a look down at the S1 which was the lower bound of yesterday's price activity So worth keeping an eye there. I think really too much to speak of fundamentally there But the the general narrative this morning is a little bit of risk off in the equity market Which is quite unusual because overall the the kind of vibe Coming out of the US China situation is fairly positive But perhaps this is a little bit of that, you know kind of by the rumors sell the fact It's looking good at the moment that the deal phase one at least will get executed at this point But maybe a little bit coming off the table and that consequently just seeing the US 10 year just Claw back some overnight initial losses seen at the beginning of the age of pack sessions. We're back to pivot flat essentially Having moved up three or four ticks from the low scene overnight Pretty similar price action really in gold. I mean we finished it really a firm footing last night on Wall Street So ever since that point we've had a bit of reversal of those initial moves and gold Which Sam will look at in more detail after breaking through the early part of the Asia Pacific session You'll see on the daily pivots We broke a test that came pretty close proximity to the low that was seen back on what last Thursday Absolute extension of the run lower than the general lack of liquidity in the overnight session And then the in the daily pivots the s1 and To just working out as a nice range playing. We're just providing a bit of a Support point now having got back above that s1 at the moment in the futures Interestingly from a from a top level That with the macro themes at play It's almost like Iran Never happened in respect to not only oil prices way lower than we were even before the initial Flaring of that issue in the Middle East But this is what I was trying to convey at the time with the kind of mantra of Keep calm and carry on is that look if you take yourself out of the intraday initial knee jerk almost emotive reaction that in actuality the The probability of escalation is fairly limited And as we we did know at the time these these Washington high-level trade talks were happening and almost Right on cue the spotlight has gone from Iran back on to China. It's not that Iran has gone away It's just no one's talking about it anymore And that's an important thing I think for any intraday trader is that you've it's almost not so much the news It's that the human behavior and the fact that we tend to be very blinkered in what we're looking at from subject matter And that's an important thing to comprehend when you're looking at the the short-term Fundamental drivers in markets that are dictating sentiment and what asset class is really acting as the trigger point or the domino That leads then other correlations and these are the ways and means that hopefully from watching these briefings You're getting a sense of how we kind of put things together Otherwise the other thing before I get into the headlines to mention is the pound Still looking a little heavy down 34 at the moment. So it is underperforming One thing that I did see in the FT this morning Economists are warning the next Bank of England governor So Andrew Bailey and the UK Chancellor have to take early measures to ensure the Bank of England has tools for the next recession this of course then adds to that growing chorus of dovishness coming out of the likes of Flagate at the weekend in the financial times But Carnit and railroad last week and then Haskell and Saunders who have been the dissenters with the weak economic data Contraction of point three percent in GDP in November last year a weak industrial manufacturing Production this all coming. We've got CPI A bit later on in the week got retail sales at the end of the week There's a lot coming for the UK the economic data hasn't broken a trend generally speaking the economy is deteriorating People are bringing forward their Potential for a rate cut from the Bank of England in the near term Remember this was way out Into the future but given these two factors of forward guidance almost from the Bank in addition to the quality of the the weakness of economic situation in the UK the pound does Remain, I'd say quite biased to the downside for the moment Trigger points of course might come That need to be overlaid then with any key technical levels of interest on the downside For an extension of this trend lower Around the data points now today. There isn't really any major UK data points is tomorrow As I said, I think that's when the CPI is coming out will be quite keen in the retail sales number later on In the week, but we're just retesting that lower bound of the price activity yesterday So worth keeping an eye here where we're trading at the moment I had here previously marked up you can see there was that area of Consolidation at the high end of the range that we were trading on 23rd 24th Worth just keeping an eye on any further break beyond that point. I've already got marks here the lower Of the price on the candlesticks the scene on 24th on the Daily session it'll be 1 28 58 and then the prevailing low down on the 23rd, which would be today's s2 at 29 40 But perhaps a bit of a lack of any Fundamental cue on the docket for the UK so any Continuation would be more trend and then technical breaches might exacerbate some further movement if that was to be the case Let's get quickly update on the headlines then it shouldn't take me too long few things though to be aware of and I would say on the balance my expectation now of the Conclusion because as I was intimidating there was potential of What if the trade deal doesn't get signed this week, but The headlines are about to go through kind of alleviates perhaps some of that uncertainty I wouldn't discount that probability of it all coming undone, but I'd say it's now particularly small as a risk that being because from The US's points of view last night the trump administration lifted its designation of china as a currency cheat Saying that the nation has made quote enforceable commitments not to devalue the yuan This is quite symbolic really if you remember the US have been quite Forceful in their rhetoric that China is a currency manipulator They put them on this kind of periodic report that the Treasury releases where it specifically outlines names of which are on the watch list Of which China was one, but they've removed them just before a deal is going to get signed So overall that's a net positive if you like for the idea that this could go through Otherwise what are the Chinese doing well The Chinese have pledged to buy nearly an additional 80 billion dollars in manufactured goods from the US over the next two years Plus over 50 billion more in energy supplies Beijing would also boost purchases of US services by around 35 billion over the same two-year period according to sources and Reuters And you will remember that phase one agreement calls for Chinese purchases of US agricultural goods to increase By some 32 billion over two years or roughly 16 billion a year way bigger than what they are previously purchasing so overall You know, I hate to say it without asking for Sam to toss me the the MAGA cap, but I mean there's some pretty punchy numbers that trumps managed to Deliver in regard to Up-front commitments from China purchasing a variety of different goods and certainly that does help in Areas of which were feeling a bit of a strain from the ongoing escalation particularly in the farm belt in America. So In this sense, yes, it's good as I said though the bigger medium-term risk is whether China actually commit and follow through and we see these types of kind of pledges materializing in practice and The money hitting the bank account as far as USA PLC is concerned is yet to be seen But for the moment the de-escalation almost is China are making an olive branch We're committing to buying much more in a variety of different ways of US goods But then equally so the US downplaying its rhetoric saying look actually China is no longer The kind of top level in terms of being a currency manipulator They're now acting in a more appropriate way and making enforceable commitments not to devalue their currency So these are all positive signs for tomorrow It being signed off by the Chinese vice-premier and the authorities in Washington One thing we've also had overnight is some Chinese trade data Chinese exports year-on-year 7.6 percent that's more than double Forecasts of 3.2 percent Chinese import 16.3 above the expected 9.6 percent Something interesting to be aware of here. I mean as you can see from this chart, that's quite a healthy Situation in regards to a rebound slightly in the export number, which is a positive further stabilization in China Certainly helps things overall But the European Union actually continues to be China's largest trading partner China obviously set to announce its GDP numbers on Friday, so it's going to be interesting to see how that plays out the stats bureau Said at the weekend that the country still on target to reach its economic growth quota kind of a six to six and a half percent So we're interested to see whether or not materializes China Of course have been doing what they can Ahead of the China New Year don't forget Chinese New Year kicks off on the 25th of January So we often get this kind of front-loading if you like of activity given that the whole country goes on lockdown for a prolonged period of time China have been trimming their key interest rate this month looking to Keep ample amount of domestic liquidity in order to circumvent then the disruption that New Year always has This is quite a seasonal thing So if you do start hearing of these big liquidity injections on behalf of the Chinese central bank That's not unusual as we go into that Lunar New Year holiday So yeah, I mean otherwise trade-wise where is Trump? What is his movements? These are Eastern times So this is obviously subbing out what five hours if it's New York six Chicago From London, but you can see here Trump really just going about his business. There's nothing really direct where he's got specific Interest with the trade stuff. That's kind of left to his advisement team But the other thing that is happening, of course at the moment is this you might not have recognized this chap But he's a chap that you should start to get familiar with because he could be definitely important for the way of which European assets and might react and this is because Obviously now we're seeing some kind of short-term resolution between the US and China This is the chap who Negotiates on behalf of Europe on Trade negotiations with the US and his name is Phil Hogan He's the European Union's new trade chief and he's going to be in Washington for the next three days Now this chap's got his work cut out a little bit because if you remember the last flash point was that the US Said they wanted to apply duties of about 2.4 billion dollars worth on French goods Over disgruntlement on the digital Services tax on some of the big tech names that Europe were imparting on the likes of kind of Amazon Google and so on so You know beyond China one thing just to be aware of is how does that talk go and that's ongoing seemingly they all want to do this at once Europe talking to the US And also China are looking to finalize and translate and sign the deal with the US as well So just to keep an eye on other quick things that I thought I'd mention I Do talk to a lot of our junior traders because we are macro traders, so we're not looking at Individual trading of single stocks. We're looking at overall industry movement And one thing to be aware of in that regard is how to break through the noise and And monitor what news is relevant for the index that you're trading well for the S&P 500 In that fashion It's got a little bit even more simplistic because the top five companies now and the S&P 500 account for nearly 20% Of the entire S&P 500 so remember there are what? 505 actually listed entities on there Given some of the dual listings that appear, but the overall the top 500 companies almost One fifth is just the top five names those that you would be familiar with Microsoft your Amazon's your Facebook's and so on One thing I guess from a macro point of view Small cap underperformance as it says here is a bit of a concern You know in a healthy economic sense to keep it Simplistic you would want smaller companies feeling like they're performing well They're very positive about the future the fact that they're getting dwarfed at the moment Could be a bit of a sign of a times where people are rotating more into some of these bigger more safer names out of them They're more sensitive to the economy domestically the smaller names Which aren't performing so well at this point Okay, I mean that is pretty much it from me so to finish off from a calendar perspective What have we got US CPI is the kind of dish of the day that's coming out 130 that's the major thing on the block and then you've got Keeping an ear out for anything more in regard to the US China situation in the afternoon then other than that not too much Weekly API infantry is not until aftermarket setting the scene then for the DOEs in Wednesday sessions speaker wise ECB's merch speaking shortly Feds Williams who is a voter Is going to be speaking at 2 p.m. London time this afternoon 8 a.m. In Chicago and then Feds, Georgia at 6 p.m London time, but a non-voter these days Okay, just before I hand you over Sam had witnessed the Equity index is just coming under a little bit of further pressure The DAX has broken technically that point which gives it a nice little platform for the short on that s One As I said, there's not really been anything Fundamental of key significance But I guess the one thing I'd want to say and and just to finish is if you just stick the S&P on A 90 minute, you know take yourself out of this smaller time frames. Let's not forget where we are at the moment I mean we are literally at all-time highs and so You know a little bit coming off the top I don't think is all that surprising and as I said if we did get a bit of by the rumor Sell the fact type price activity In the lights of the S&P. I don't think that that's a meaningful sign to worry We do of course have and final thing on the calendar the big banks kickoff earning season You'll get JP Morgan Wells Fargo and city I'll have more details on those a bit earlier a bit later when we get close to the release but Earning season not really looking to be particularly important this time around. I don't think it's going to be spectacular But I don't think it's going to be a disappointment either So I don't think it's going to really change the global order of things from a macro perspective But really there's an area there for me and I'd be interested to see what Sam has to say But I'd say that 60 to 68 in the S&P futures really is quite a decent area support And and now I think we kind of play this kind of range between these levels here Around 3300 that being the lower bound and an area of consolidation here I could well be warranted at this point. So I'm not going to look to stress too much about trying to Curve fit a narrative behind this sell-off this morning. I just think take yourself out a little bit Of that short-term mindset and look at the broader picture We are pretty mid-range of that range that's been in play the last couple of sessions All right, thank you over to Sam and I wish you good day here. Thanks so much guys Yeah, hi guys Hi guys, good morning start there again. Good to be on. I hope we all had a good weekend Yeah, the Dax just just picking up a touch. So we'll start off with the equities You can see Dax and your stocks has come under a bit of pressure here bit of support has gone However, if you are literally looking for a short now I would just hold off because we are about to come to quite a key level of support on the Dax that we had back on Thursday Late Thursday and of course the first test of that you would at least expect some kind of support to come through On that so a bit of horizontal support there Euro stocks just also pushing through and at a similar point where you have some of the the highs that we had on the 8th And then that sort of turn to a low there as well. So equities. Yes coming under a bit of pressure the S&P I've got here if you are still short and looking perhaps for a Short-term bottom worth having on the the trend line from the 10th It's Friday to Monday and that would come in on the futures anyway in a in a couple of points And I probably would have that marked up. However, is this, you know, the top of the the market for a week You wouldn't You know be too comfortable saying that now of course there could be many twists and turns ahead of that and mentioned 3260 the low that we had on the 10th before that final push up towards 3300 In the spot in the spoo sorry, and that is the high of the third of Jan as well It's a key level one to have marked up and you would say Is if we were to get anywhere near there today, which would be around 15 points to the downside It's not a bad place to perhaps to find a bit of a bottom But that's a newer stocks has come into an area of support The S&P in this case that trend line worth having on the Dow Jones is right on A key level as well the load that we had on the 10th and the low of the morning of the 9th Which is the high that we had on the 6th. So Equities just come into that support level now. Can we get a follow through then fine? We might get another leg down, but this is quite a key level speaking of key levels I'm just gonna move over to the pound. It's got a and this is on the 480 looks nice on the spot I put it on my Twitter to have a look at but you can just see starting on the the beginning of November It's gonna bring in this trend line, which we tested Yesterday and then little false break this morning, but you know, this is all about where we close of course And you can see here nicely respected going up through November into December and then January as well now But a break below there could you know lead to a further move down Be looking at that low that we had back on the 23rd of December and then back towards November levels Below 129 to 128 in a bit So keep an eye on that trend line whether it's to hold or not today will be pretty key And here this is just on the 480 chart. So keep a watch on that As well going into more intraday having a look at the 60 you can see that trend line just battling away with yesterday's lows the S1 so First test a bit rejected on all time frames So whether we can get that close below or not will be pretty significant above where we're training if we are to get a Retracement where would you feel more comfortable that maybe we can push higher well the low that we had on The the ninth just that area X up there. We broke through yesterday 130 37 Certainly one to keep a watch on we are getting squeezed from both directions I've got this on the 60 minute, but really it goes back onto that 480 as well You can see from those highs really price from both directions just getting squeezed in so Again, if we are later on to start to grind higher could well be at the top of this trend line Is the low from the night and those highs from overnight as well Which would be a really key resistance point having a look over at the euro We obviously broke that trend line last week and we are just recovering a touch on That you can see it's starting to get choppy on the retests of those those levels So just keep an eye just above where we're trading I think if we were to get and I just gonna draw this line up and just mark it for the reasons why the load that turned into The afternoon high on the 8th. We almost reached it. Yes there. It's the days are one I think if we can get back above there, you'd feel slightly more comfortable In some it may be the the next leg down in this market is is away away You can see yesterday. We came to test this trend line. It was very choppy however into late trade But we are the other side of that now So perhaps if you're looking for the euro and you're not in a trade now You've almost got this new mini range to be aware of those highs They are one key level if we can get back above there Then I think the euro could push higher But if we are to to break below the pivot the lows from yesterday as well below 111 72 and I would expect a bit of a quicker move down to yesterday's lows and the S1 So mini range there in play to keep an eye on there Just having a look now at gold So the It's just starting to push to the upside or it has been doing so while equities have been coming down so a bit of Reverse in all negative correlation coming through as money going into those safe havens I would just say though however if stocks are to bounce on these very important Support levels it could be that we then at the same time find resistance on what was Friday and yesterday Mornings lows you can see the importance of that if we are to To come back and test it you'd expect it a decent resistance level on there Of course from the spikes that we had back on the third we On the third yeah, the fifth and the seventh I should say we have started to drift lower And when we have this from those highs it's worth getting on those trend lines and quite where respected Yesterday to get that third test and we are now testing it right did what this moment So can we get maybe an hourly close above yesterday's lows this trend line and gold can continue to push higher And maybe we have found a bit of a flaw Around here if not and we do look to push low I would say the next key support point below Yesterday's low on the future certainly is around 1533 Was a high back on the second of Jan before we broke through and and this would be the first real Retest of that so keeping a watch on there, but certainly gold at the moment is is near a key level And I'd say 1547 and 1533 Resemble, you know break above we're happy to get in a bit of a bit of a long Maybe through the back end of the week and below there will go could come under a bit more pressure So keep a watch on that oil. I mean what a rascal of a market if you got long September off that spike big loss if you've got long on the evening of the seventh Another big loss and I mean must be down over 10% from that high here on the future Yeah nearly 12% and it's still drifting lower here keep a watch of course just below where we're trading You've got the low that we had back on the 6th of December around 57 62 and an area Which is pretty important You would have to say just looking previously into November's December's there's a lot of price action around that area So keep a level marked up there to see what will happen today's arm s1 also comes in the mix on that However, not the biggest move this morning only down 21 cent on the futures above where we're trading pivot Yesterday evening's highs got a keeper a watch on that and above there the original low at 58 60 from yesterday's Asian Session trade but has been drifting lower. I think you know how much more is there in this market? Well, we'll have to wait and see but I wouldn't really be too comfortable and getting long in less And this isn't necessarily the best trend channel to the downside but to the upside here You can see over the last few training sessions going back to the eighth unless we get above there You know, I'm not not looking for for any longs on that to have a quick look over stocks Just to see how they responded to some of these levels the Dow the Dow Just finding a bit of support around that point the Dax Hit it to the tick and has had a 20 point and more bounce. So yeah, so Definitely worthwhile just holding off your stocks perhaps the one that's a spite through that level But the Dax keeper a watch on that especially we come back to yesterday's low It's also today's s1, you know be an area where if you are looking to get short could be an attractive point But with this week playing more twists and turns to come I am sure eyes and is open going forward. Hope everyone has a good training date You know, we'll be in the chat any comments obviously on YouTube Please do get those in as well, but I hope you will have a good trading session and catch you all later on


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