Okay, so we're going to start the first hands-on or lab session now. So this lab session is going to test our communications between our target board and our Laura network. To do this, we're going to load into our target board a pre-compiled file which has an AT command set. So we're just going to treat it literally as a modem to send information up to our Laura network so that we can test all the connectivity of our Laura network to make sure everything is working. So what we're going to do, so we're going to have a first play around with the Laura technology. You're going to see in a few seconds what a Laura network consists of and then we're going to program our discovery board to be a Laura class A-N node. And as I said, we're going to use it as a modem with AT commands at this point. So we're going to use it in one of its basic forms to transmit information across a network. So this is what we need for a Laura network.  And this is our discovery board containing the STM32 microcontroller. This device is then going to talk to our gateway. The gateway is just a pipe or a conduit or channel which converts the RF signals from our device into something the network server can understand. So it's just literally there as a format changer from RF to a cable structure. The network server, there's only one in the Laura network and this is controlling the whole of the network. So in equivalent, it is giving out like IP addresses or IDs to each of the device when they join and it will control the routing of all the traffic from the device through to the application servers which are doing the control or the monitoring or analysis of all the devices that are connected to the network. Finally, the application servers. So you can have multiple application servers in a network. You don't just have to have one like our diagram is showing. And these can do different functions. So each application server can be configured to talk to a specific set of notes and they can analyze the data from different devices that are collected and you can view them and different customers can view different application servers depending on what your system needs to control. So what do we need here in our hands-on lab session? So we need our Laura gateway.  So this will provide the connectivity from our end devices into something we can then view on a laptop. So we have a laptop connected via ethernet to our multi-tech gateway and this is just so we can see what is going on inside the gateway. This particular multi-tech gateway is a three-in-one device. So it contains our gateway, our network server and our application server. So it's all in one box. By default Laura isn't part of the standard kit but the multi-tech box has two auxiliary sockets and you can see there to the top right of the picture there is the Laura card which is the actual Laura gateway element and that plugs into the back of this multi-tech box so that we can have the connectivity to our Laura gateway. And everything is then viewed on a laptop via a web interface which we'll be showing you later on in the hands-on. We also need our Laura 1 Discovery board. So this is containing the Murata module which has inside it the STM32L0. This, like all other STM32 boards, has an integrated ST link so that we can connect it directly to our laptops via a micro USB cable and it will appear as an embed-enabled device.  We will need to program some firmware into our target board to make the AT Command and Projects available by default. What's included in the board out of the box is just demonstration software. So we will need to download our iCube-LR1 software package and program into our target board, the AT Slave example. We have already included that in the participant.zip which was on the memory sticks that have gone round. And I will show you how to do that in the coming slides. Finally, we will need a PC terminal software so that we can use our laptop over the USB cable to talk to our LoRa1 board via AT commands. So we will then send a command to our LoRa1 board and then the LoRa1 board will convert that command and transfer it over the LoRa network. So we'll now go straight into the hands-on. So the first thing we need to do is we need to connect our laptops to our target board, the Discovery boards, with a micro USB cable. You will need to wait 30 seconds or a minute while all the drivers load. If you've not got stlink utility already installed in your laptop then you will need to install this first as this will contain all the drivers that the Discovery board will need when you connect it into your target board. If we now look for the binary file that we need to program into our board. So in the participant folder we need to go into the hands-on framework, projects, multi, applications, and LoRa, and then AT slave. And here we have our AT slave xe.bin file. So this is now what we need to drag and drop onto our Discovery board, which should have appeared in your Windows Explorer, like mine has down there, dis underscore L072Z. It's appeared as my eDrive. And to program the board, you just drag and drop the file onto there. And you will notice on your Discovery board that one of the LEDs next to the USB connector should start flashing green and red. This means that the board is being programmed with the required software. So next thing we need to do, we need to launch our terminal window. So we now need to go and find out what comports our board has appeared on. So for me, it has appeared as comp71. We need to set our board rate to be 9,600 with eight data bits, one stop bit, and no parity, and no flow control. We also need to set the carriage return and line feed so that we can move the cursor down every time we type a command on our screen. So if we OK that, and now to validate that we can send a command, I will send the basic AT command, and I get an OK. So I now know my laptop is now talking to my Discovery board. So the first item we need to send to our Laura network is we need to send a join request. So I will go AT plus join, and I've got an OK return from the target board. So to check to see if we have joined, because remember all I'm doing is communicating with the target board. I don't know if the board has successfully joined the network, so I will now go and ask to see what my status is with AT plus NJS equals question mark. So this will tell me my status. It's returned a one, which means that I am now actually connected to the Laura gateway. So I'm now in a position to send a message across the Laura network. So I'm going to now send a message. So AT plus send. So I'm going to send two elements. I'm going to put a keyword in because we are going to look for that keyword in our gateway so that we can send a response. And then I'm going to type my name. So I can see on my diable screen that I have sent the message. So if I send that, I get an OK. So that means my message is now left. And now I want to check to see if the gateway actually received my message. Because again, all I'm doing is talking to the node at this end. So I want to go for AT plus receive equals question mark to ask it what it received. And there I have got my received message from my discovery board or my moat to say that I got a gateway response and my name has been echoed back to me. So I can see that my board has actually sent the message out OK and my board has received a message back and that message is now displayed on my screen. So if we now look at the debug screen from the multi-tech gateway with my webcam, you can see there that my debug screen has generated two items in the debug screen. One of them is my inbound message containing the word moat and then one of them is the outbound message which is the gateway response. So you can see directly on the debug environment through my laptop which my second laptop which is connected to the multi-tech gateway you can see what is actually going on on the Laura network.


Shishin Literary Director of Omsk's Fifth Theater. So I'll begin by asking Dave, we had a fantastic talk back last night, which centered around Dave's essay, Adam Smashing Playwright. And that was about the works of Klovdiev. And I wanted to, Dave, would you favor us with a few points from that essay? Sure. You know, one of the things after I first encountered Yuri Klovdiev in 2008 in Slovakia when I was at a festival, John Friedman had curated the Focus Russia portion of the Nova Drama Festival that was there. And I walked into a theater not knowing what I was going to see. I didn't speak a lick of Russian. And I saw a production of Iron Machine Gunner and was absolutely floored by this work. Kind of the same way where you may be able to listen to John Coltrane for the first time you ever heard him and totally superseded all language. And it was one of the first experiences of my life when I realized that theater can live in another level beyond understanding. And so that night, I talked to John a little bit about the piece. And I said, I think I know what this play is about, but I don't know. Can you tell me about it? And John said, well, you want to see a translation? And a week later, we had one. And a week after that, we went into rehearsals. So it was a really exciting journey. And on that journey, I've encountered a lot of Klovdiev's work.  And when I say that, I'm not necessarily just talking about the attitude of the work. It's uncompromising nature. But I'm talking about the idea of two words being slammed together to create another word. And I find that Klovdiev's work, Klovdiev, what he's doing across many, if not most, if not all of his pieces, is taking two diverse genres and smashing them together to come up with a new way of telling a story. His plays really defy simple descriptions. I would say, I am the machine gunner is kind of like Grand Theft Auto Meets Saving Private Riot. Martial Arts is kind of Rista Terabethia meets Pulp Fiction. So he's taking these things that we know, childhood and drug dealing and smashing them together in this way that kind of creates a fantastical reality that really drags us in his audience members. So that's a little bit of what I've observed. And if you go through his docu-drama, the polar truth, you wind up seeing him kind of smashing docu-drama up against some very rich storytelling and how he managed to capture the me-you of people with HIV within that play and capturing that with real tenderness as well as real rebellion. And so kind of, as I think about Klovdiev's work, I really do consider him to be an atom-smashing playwright where it is these two things coming together. And we coined the term while we were working on Machine Gunner of the aesthetics of badass. And in some ways, I feel like Klovdiev is really kind of working within that kind of uncompromising, intimidating work that is intimidating not just for you out there as audience members, but also as an artist beginning to tackle it. He leaves so much freedom within this work. I'm the Machine Gunner is one block of text and Graham figured out, okay, this is who speaking when he leaves that up to you, which requires, as an artist, a hell of a lot of effort because he's not giving it to you. We're really used to, in American theater, I think having things prescribed to us.  I was in Moscow and went to see a production that was nine people. So it can really be blown apart in all of these different ways. That would be helpful. Right, eight other people. So, yeah. When you were figuring out all this. So that's a few thoughts kind of on your Klovdiev and kind of the me you that I see him working out of in kind of an overview of his work. Yeah. Thank you, Dave. And something that you had mentioned about there are different productions that have gone on in Moscow, Klovdiev's work. It seems like Masha, this might be something you could speak to. I've seen several productions that were done with his play, Razvalimi. And I've been at the reading at Lubionko festival when the first, the martial arts were read. And it was, when it was read first time and we're going through all this like world that he creates and this kind of mystery and all this city folk, childish city folk that is used there. You kind of how you can make it on a stage. And what I've seen here in both productions in the Iron Machine Gunner and the Martial Arts. It's the brilliant piece of art and not in any U.S. play, theater you can find such a great work. And I want to congratulate Austin and the Breaking String and the Salvation Guard with that we've seen here. And that it is all happened.  And I hope that some people who I hope seen that through the webcast that may be in Russia and some other places also appreciated it a lot. And I think that the Iron Machine Gunner is the really brilliant piece of theater and acting and design and just congratulations. What I love about Kiro Klavyev is that he's controversial. He's not very easy one to do and to work within the theatrical space and you need to think a lot. And I know that when we've been together in Moscow and we've seen the slow sword and when you were thinking about just doing the slow sword here, you decided not to do that. So it is not easy to work with Klavyev because he creates his own world. He has his own mythology, which he invents and builds. And each and every piece that he creates, he has his own mythology in. And I think that is his unique character. Maybe John will correct me, but I think so, yeah. Absolutely, thank you, Masha. And we'll have a chance to return to some of these points after trying to get some of the ideas on the table if I can start it yourself. Pavel, I wanted to turn to you, you're from Olmsk, which is a several-hour plane flight from Moscow out in Siberia. And I'm curious if you might talk some about new Russian drama or now I suppose it would be contemporary Russian drama in the provinces, how it's experienced, because a lot of it comes from the provinces, I understand. I mean, might you speak to that point? So I think that here in Austin you've got more Russian, new contemporary Russian drama than in provincial. No, that's true, that's true exactly. Because I travel quite a lot in Russia because I'm programming a third festival which held in Olmsk. So this is why I'm trying to say as many productions as possible, especially in the provinces, not in Moscow. And I should say that Moscow is very different from the other parts of Russia, even from St. Petersburg in a way. And for me, I should admit, well, although I am ashamed to admit, but I've seen these two productions, productions are these two plays for the first time here in Austin. I am the machine gunner, so it's my first time sitting stage in martial arts as well. Although, so a new Russian drama, contemporary Russian drama and contemporary Russian playwrights are not very popular outside of Moscow, unfortunately. And there are very many state-owned feet companies in Russia and about 400 feet is in the whole country. And I think you can, well, there are only about 10 or 20 companies who stage contemporary playwrights. And so I don't know why, maybe this is because of the uncomfortable nature of this playwriting because it deals with the issues that we Russians, especially far from Moscow, are not ready to face. Or trying to avoid somehow. And although this, as far as I see it, this concept is going away now because theater people believe that Russian audience do not need contemporary playwriting. And what we do in a laboratory format as when we present contemporary plays as stage readings, something, they attract lots of audience in provinces, in Omsko, Novosibirskoye, Krasnoyarsk. And I think that it will change in, well, maybe not in the nearest future, but maybe in five years' time. It will change and there will appear more and more productions based on contemporary playwriting. And I would like to mention what I call St. Petersburg Anomaly, well, because St. Petersburg was as much a provincial city as Omsk is now, I should say, theater-wise, I mean. The repertoire was quite traditional. There's obviously nobody from St. Petersburg here because if there was, they would have been throwing things at him. But he's right. Anyway, when you think, well, two years ago, say, when you were talking about St. Petersburg and about the repertoire of theaters in St. Petersburg, it was quite traditional. Light comedies or Russian classics, so 150 versions of Chekhov's Seagull in every theater. And that would be the repertoire of St. Petersburg theater. But nowadays, things are different and there are lots of young theater companies appearing in St. Petersburg, especially Etude Theater or On Theater, Laboratory On Theater. And they produce shows based on contemporary playwriting only. And Klovdiev, who lives in St. Petersburg, but, well, now appears on stage there. And there is a great production, I would say, of Razvalini, Masha mentioned that. Razvalini, it's translated into English. It means the ruins. It is the last name of a family, actually. And it tackles with even more uncomfortable issues than I am the machine gunner, probably, because it deals with the issue of cannibalism during the Second World War and the siege of Leningrad then. So, you know, and it is a shocking play, but it is somehow, it is a very, first of all, it is a very good production of it. And it is very popular in St. Petersburg now. You can't buy tickets for that show. You should buy them, well, a month in advance, at least, in order to get to that show, you know. So, St. Petersburg, unlike Moscow, it's very conservative city, but I think that St. Petersburg will be an example for Omsk or Yekaterinburg or for Novosibirsk and new contemporary Russian drama will appear there as well. So, I hope so. So, I think that there are very many, very many good playwrights nowadays in Russia. There are quite a number of them, but they belong to small spaces. Now, they're somewhere in Moscow and even smaller spaces in St. Petersburg. But, well, let's meet here in five year time. I don't know. Something has changed by then. Thank you so much, Pavel, for giving us kind of a global view of Russia in its entirety, all 11 of her time zones and new Russian dramas place in it. I wonder if we might zero in on Moscow since we have a gentleman here who's absolutely immersed in that particular scene, John, see several hundred productions a year. I want to swing out first before I come back to Moscow because an interesting thing, Pavel lives in Omsk. He's actually from Ekaterinburg. And it's really important to say that another real center for playwriting is in the city of Ekaterinburg, Pavel's hometown, where in fact you can see lots of contemporary plays because there is a playwright by the name of Nikolai Kalyada who has his own theater, who teaches playwriting there and who does a lot of productions of contemporary plays. And take some of them on tour from time to time. But the only other city really in the last 10, well, yeah, 10, 15, 20 years that has really had a concentrated number of writers outside of Moscow, new writers outside of Moscow has been Talyati, which is where Klovdiev is from. If any of you were here at the reading today of Trash, the author of that play is also from Talyati. But the interesting thing there is if Kalyada stays in Ekaterinburg and writes his plays and stages his plays, and most of Kalyada's students stay in Ekaterinburg and write their plays there, Vasily Sigurdyev, Alek Bogaev, Yaroslav Pulinovich, I realize that's alphabet soup, but those are all really big names in Russian drama, very big names in contemporary Russian drama. All of them have stayed in Ekaterinburg and continue to build and develop the art form in that city. Talyati, which produced several really fine writers, Klovdiev, two Doreninkov brothers, a guy by the name of Vadim Ivanov, it did not hold as a unique place that was capable of developing a school over a period of time. Klovdiev ended up going to St. Petersburg, as Pasha pointed out. Misha Doreninkov moved to Moscow, Vadim Ivanov unfortunately died of cancer as a very young man, 44 years old, a little over a year ago, and so there's just one of the major writers left there in Talyati, so Talyati never really, it's a major city, it produced several major writers, but it is not going to do that anymore. That's the Talyati phenomenon, as it was called, is now over, it's a part of history.  There's lots of examples. I mean, again, I hesitate to throw alphabet soup at you, but believe me, we're talking about major writers when I say someone like Mikhail Ugarov, who founded theater doc and is a guru of contemporary Russian drama. Misha Ugarov is not from Moscow, he's from Arkhangelsk. Maxim Kuruchkin, who many of you know personally because Max has been here twice, Maxim Kuruchkin is not from Moscow, he's from Kiev, he comes to Moscow, and so Moscow is a place that gathers, that attracts like a magnet and provides opportunities for people to stay, grow, and produce new work, and of course the variety of things being done in Moscow is enormous, and if we talk about Kladyev and we talk about Kuruchkin or if we talk about Olga Muchina again, whom many of you may know because she was produced here two years ago, Graham staged her play, Flying, which I wanna point out is just out as a movie, came out about 15 days ago, Flying came out as a movie in Russia, and these are all, and Muchina was also, she was actually born in Moscow, she grew up outside of Moscow in return. These are all very different writers and Moscow is more than capable of having room for these people and giving them an opportunity to develop each in their own way. So the atmosphere there in the playwriting community is really extremely varied, and indeed I will just support what Pasha said, literally in the last two years, St. Petersburg has gone from being a zero on the map of contemporary writing to on a scale of 10 to maybe five or six already. I mean, you know, a huge leap thanks to this theater called On Theater, which has really invigorated the city and has created an interest in new plays and is going to continue on sure doing so. So it's one last thing. I would say that we are at a turning point in contemporary Russian drama because the writers who showed up began creating new styles, giving us new names, giving us new kinds of works, that is Maksim Kuritskin, that is Yuri Klovdiev, and the like, they are now, if you will, masters. They are now major writers, they are established writers, we know them, we trust them, we can trust them, we know that they're going to give us quality, we know what kind of quality that is, we know what kind of style it is, and their authority now is such that it's much harder for younger writers coming up behind them. Many of the younger writers for the last couple of years have looked like they are epigones, they have looked like they're copying, they have looked like they're using the models of these writers who we can now call masters, and it's been pretty hard for them to break through. I think we're beginning to see a few signs of another generation pushing up through, and indeed, maybe not even five years from now, maybe Pasha will have to come back in five years for the provinces to catch up, but I think maybe in three years in Moscow, we may see a whole other generation coming up, pushing up under Kuruchkin Kravyev and the likes. That's absolutely wonderful. I wonder if I might solicit reactions or reflections to some of these thoughts from the audience. Yes, sir. Yeah, I'm going to explore the idea here. That's a good thing to do. So how representative of contemporary Russian theater is Moscow and what makes it so controversial? I think those are pretty easy to answer. What makes it so controversial is incredible violence, cannibalism, the ruins, the play the ruins is was pretty shocking. Monotheist. I'm sorry? Monotheist. The monotheist. Extremely violent. What you saw here tonight is challenging. It's in your face. I think that's an easy one to answer. How, what's the word you use? How characteristic? Yeah, representative. Well, in the sense that he's pushing envelopes, in the sense that he's pushing an audience to go beyond their usual comfort zone, I think he's, I think all of the writers that we're talking about in this generation all try to do that in very different ways. Kurochkin tends to do that more intellectually, stylistically, confusing the audience, throwing them red herrings one after another, sending people off on wild goose chases, all kinds of stuff, that's all a matter.  So it's not just social things, it's also, because it seems to me, again, as a total amateur, that Russians tend to worship their classics, like Chekhov, like you said, right? So is it also, I guess, social, in terms of not just rejecting the old way of writing plays, or you know, like Chekhov, right? Because like for example, you said that in the St. Petersburg there were 150 productions of Chekhov. That means that there's- Well, not $115. $75. No, no, no. No, no, no. That means that there's that much demand for that kind of stuff. And so by presenting, say the ugly side of contemporary Russian society, is that, by itself, controversial? Do you want to take that, Marcia? In a way, yes, because what was called a new drummer was formed as an answer to the completely becoming artificial theater, which sticked to the classical authors. And the young generation failed to believe in that, and just had no sense in what was happening on this stage, and they wanted to do something that they're really feeling true and right, and appealing. And what is important about Kravdyev is that this sense of the provincial Taliaty, the sense of this time between 90s and 2000s, and the amount of events, and violence, and destruction, and blood, what was happening in the country, and in Taliaty, in particular, because of businesses, crimes, and guns, and shooting in the streets, it was happening. And there were no articulation for that in the theater, in the art at all. And he just find the way to speak about what was bothering him. And it was kind of sincere way to do that. And there is, I believe, where his uniqueness is. Are there any productions of this with actual children playing for children?  The martial arts had never been produced in Russia. There were only one reading during the festival of young playwright, young drummer, Lubimov Kovansk. The world premiere of that display took place in Baltimore, Towson University, two years ago? Three. Already three years ago. Three years ago, staged by Yuri Urnov. And the second production in the history of the world, just watched it. So in the middle of the 90s, when this new drummer trend started to be formed, there were several major centers. It was Moscow, it was Yekaterinburg, and it was Telyatyev when Vadim Ivanov, the major playwright, started gathering people around himself doing the festival, doing readings, bringing people from Moscow and from other places to read the plays and to create some vibe around that. And so appeared Durninkov Brothers, Klovdiv, Kira Malina, and some other authors who went, Kira now lives in Ukraine, Misha in Moscow, Yuriy in St. Petersburg, Slava Durninkov stayed in Telyatyev and he's doing some social work there and still writing, I believe. And what we're now witnessing is that these centers of why playwriting life is a bit switching, changing. Moscow stays as more political and now more socially engaged. Young writers are more willing to participate in the social project, in the applied theater, the what the theater dog does, or they try to find the new forms and do adaptations of the classics, what the Ugarov does with the center of drama and playwriting. Yekaterinburg encapsulates what they were doing, their trends and their mythology, their own mythology, also very dark one about apocalypse. It was like, believe that they are knowing about that a lot and they're writing about that, the cigarette, the Bagaev and Yaroslav Polinovich appeared like a very, very young voice and she's very popular now in Russia and she's staged all over the country in Yaroslav in so many different provincial theaters and that is like in the country what Paschus holds. So some playwrights, they are popular even in the province because even in the provincial cities where a new director came to the theater and he wants to change something, first thing that he tries to do is the new drama because it's like very, very new to what people think, people feel, what are the tips of fingers and yes. And now during the like past, maybe two Lubyumovka festivals, we're witnessing that they're appearing very interesting center in Minsk, for example, in Belorussia. Some playwrights are coming from there. They're writing in Russian, they're kind of Russian language playwrights and they're coming to Moscow because Moscow becoming a gate to any other theaters around the country and they can get their plays to be read, to be heard and then maybe get some future for like staging. I asked Dave, you were nodding your head. Yeah, well, as an American going over to something, there's a couple of things that I found really interesting in kind of the controversy and the things you're asking about this. I had the great pleasure of going to Lubyumovka which is the Young Playwrights Festival where Marshall Artaid is reading and saw something that I'd never see in the US which was in a room half this size, 120 people squeezing in, people propped up in window sills to hear readings of plays, people crammed out doorways to the point where I had a colleague who was like, I'm claustrophobic, I gotta get out of here. And there's this huge hunger for this writing among young people that I found remarkably encouraging. So, but as Pavel was bringing up, who's gonna pay the ticket price to come see the productions? And when we get into controversy, there was one thing that happened, correct me if my memory of this is wrong, but a number of these writers started writing for TV and started putting some of these issues into television episodes. And there was a television show, I believe called Schola that came out, Schola, which is school, right? And when- I was just translating a good rush out. Oh, okay, I'm working on it, I'm working on it. That's my job here, I love it. And when that came out and these things were put on TV because TV is that much more impactful, the series was, I think, wasn't it put on hold for a while or wasn't it canceled? Because this shouldn't be going to the mass. It's okay in the theater. Okay, that was a hug, just stop, I've got a thousand which is not what you want. That's great, there was actually one audience member that had a really powerful reaction. I got a chance to speak to it. I wanted to ask him to share his thoughts and experiences with Johnny Meyer. Johnny is a veteran of the war in Afghanistan and a particularly powerful experience watching. I am the machine gunner. I wonder, Johnny, who might talk a bit about that. Well, first things, I just wanted to say thanks for everything for coming out. It's great to all the great institutional support and creative work that goes into bringing this to Austin. So thank you for that. And yeah, I am a machine gunner and both plays have a powerful effect on me and they're just beautifully done so congratulations to you all man. But I guess the effect that I had with a machine gunner was that for many of us, as Mr. White mentioned over the break, I think that many of us have grandparents that were in World War II as well. And I myself lost my grandfather, last veteran in my family besides me, I had just passed away over Christmas. But what's shocking and amazing about I'm a machine gunner is that here is an instance of a grandfather that's a veteran who's experienced so horrifying and so entrapping that the pathos of violence committed him, not only him, but his grandson and subsequent generations into that sort of psychology of violence trapped into those mechanisms and that Joey gave us tonight in those two characters. And it was an extraordinary thing to see here and it was wonderful to watch the narrative break and us as human beings, of course, are trying to put it back together again. I'm sure we all did, flawlessly. But it was extraordinary to watch that art come at us and see what we do with it. And what happens and what the trap that was set for both the characters of Joey was in it. That was extraordinary. So I just thanks to everybody for what an amazing, amazing thing to know that somebody's writing like that.  You realize that's gonna get quoted many, many, many times. Oh, it's so amazing. I mean, thank God, it's the kind of thing, it had an illy like song of the hubris and honor and the difference between the two and how they cross over. What's the difference between honoring your grandfather and catching on to the hubris that they never leave us there? And God, think of the, you can't help but think, what was it like for the wife, the grandmother, who had to live with that, or the children, or to your character who lived with them there? It was gorgeous.  And both sides of life, I had a powerful experience to the other one too, but I think that I just had to speak about that. I'm sorry. This is great, my country. Thank you. I'll say thank you to Johnny. I'm sorry, I have to take my leave. Thank you for your reaction. Great work. Thank you for saying so. Great origin. And thank you all for being here. Love you all. Thank you. Thank you. All right, I think we have time for one more question in this formal structured atmosphere and we will transition into the lobby where we can continue discussion. Yes, we'll go one, two. I said one question, let's do it. So quickly, yes, man? Tanya, yeah. You can actually see millions of Russians living in Israel, Germany, and the United States. And look, there is a Russian theater in Houston, children's theater in Houston, in Boston. Prepare for that, there should be some playwrights. Since this is an international project, has this mirror image of their reality got any depiction, or have it got its way through across the borders in Moscow? Of immigration? American, right. Of people living in immigration. The short answer to that, Tanya, is no. And that's also a historical answer, largely, as you probably know. The writers left after the revolution, by and large, rarely did their best work. Nabokov is an extreme exception, thank you, thank you. The vast majority of writers who emigrated then and now tend not to do their best work after immigration. Playwrights, specifically, must be in the language. They must be in the culture. Without that, it's virtually impossible to write a good play. And so you get very, very, very few playwrights working in immigration. There were a few in the 20s, the teens, 20s, 30s, a very few, none of which have ever had any real impact. And so I feel very safe in saying that there is no one of importance doing it now. Be happy to be proved wrong. But at this point, I think that's a pretty clear answer. Thanks, John. And then Chris, you had a question? Yeah, of mine, I've worked in a collection that a lot of what is coming out is just this, not just, but is an exuberant expression of artistic freedom that had not been known previously. And you wonder how does now, are they going to just hold on to this artistic freedom that they have? Are they going to fight for it? Are they going to suffer for it? I don't want to dominate. Do you want to, do you guys want to take that? You don't want to take that? Well, I understand why she doesn't want to. I can, but I'm not as much in the material as you, for example. I know some projects that are happening, and I know the position of Yelena Natolevna Gremina and Mikhail Ugarov who are running the theater doc and that what they are doing and how they adjust themselves within their reality and political reality. They are doing, already done the two productions about the Magnitsky death, and it's a quite straightforward thing. It's kind of, it's not a court session, but it's a kind of artificial way of telling what these murderers will get after they die in a way, but revealing the actual facts of the case and actual names and interviews. It's very documentary based. And on the other hand, they get the government money and they do social projects on them and they go for schools and they do theatrical adaptations of plastics. So they kind of find their balance to save their artistic freedom and do right things anyway. Very briefly, kind of a coda. I'll just say that your question, Chris, in a sense presumes that it's kind of monolithic. You say, will they want to preserve their freedom? But all of these writers are all very different. They're all very, they're all individual. You have Nikolai Kalyada in Yekaterinburg actively supporting Putin and his policies. You have Gremina in Moscow actively opposing Putin's policies. You have Yuri Klavyev in St. Petersburg who is politically, is kind of like all over the place. If we talk about him politically, he's a very difficult figure to pin down. So it's, the answer, the reason nobody wanted to answer your question myself included is because it would take an entire history book. Yeah, that's a really big question, which is hard to answer. It's full diversity of different points. Well, then there's lots of time to talk about it. So let's do it. Thank you all so much.


Hey guys, welcome to titanium and garage and if you're new to the channel Feel free to subscribe I've got hundreds of videos and hit the bell if you want notifications for my upcoming videos This is my latest project. I've got a 05 Scrambler 500 that's got some Issues going on now. I've been going through this thing and I can get it to run She idles fine she drives up and down good, but they give her the throttle hard It just wants to choke out or if I tow something behind it It just wants to choke out and die first day. I went through the car made sure the car was clean Make sure you didn't have any issues with that and I went ahead and Saw a little black smoke coming out of the tailpipe and it told me a couple things Told me the valves weren't opening correctly Timing was off. So the first thing I did was I pulled the rocker cover off and I want to check the The rocker to valve clearance And as I was taking it apart Notice I had a lot of slop in this chain another thing. I noticed is I've got A little bit of free play going on up here, which is not normal. So that's telling me that the chain stretched The tensioner up here So the tensioner up here is probably maxed out. I'm going to pull that out Yeah, because What it's doing is the engines rotating And this is kind of Sloppy as this is with that much play in it Now the crank isn't turning. It's just the cam turning And as loose as I see this chain is That chain needs to get replaced I need to reset the valves. Let me show you had another engine I got over here almost the same identical engine and There's no free play And this is nice and tight. I think the story on this engine was the Piston seized up. So I'm gonna take the chain off of that and the tensioner and I'm gonna put it on this bad boy Hopefully that'll correct my issues Like I said, it was a blown a little black smoke Which right away was telling me that the the valves were in opening at the correct time Or could be possible valve seals Are leaking. So here's my quick tip of the day So if you got a scrambler or even a sportsman 500 for that matter that's Spit and sputtering backfiring when you give a full throttle Check your timing check your chains. I've shot a couple videos now on how to build players 500 engines and I can't stress enough You know replace that chain the chain stretches, you know, especially this has got I think this has over 4,000 miles on it You know things wear out things things stretch out Put a new chain in that I got one ordered and I'm gonna reset the valves and the timing And hopefully I'll be good to go. All right, also as I'm checking the valve clearance. I got this at top dead center and This is not Going underneath here at all and this is a 0.006 that's what your Your valve clearance is The other side the exhaust side is loose. This is the intake side. That's pretty tight So that would explain why it was probably blowing some black smoke That and the chain slop and when this thing was running I did notice a little chain slop I could hear a little rattling noise in the engine and so that was my first clue That's something that was going on with that chain All right, so I went ahead pulled the stator and what I'm trying to do is I'm trying to line up See the mark there the mark on the gear can't see it because it chains in the way and Two top divots with the mark down here once you get the crank lined up with this mark And I have a video on this and I'll post the link how to do this It's actually pretty simple, you know, it's a lot easier to do any kind of Timing if you want to set your timing by doing it this way Yeah, it's a little messy because you got to pull the stator off But then you know you're exact you get the mark on the case Right here. And there's a mark on the crank. I should say the the gear And your two marks up here So I'm gonna go ahead and replace that chain and then reset my rockers And I should be ready to go So I discovered something new I thought there was slack in the chain and the chain was Stretched but as I am rolling on the cam back and forth watch this little geared on here It moves and the crank stays You see that and I also noticed this nut is loose So What I'm thinking is the key way All right, so if you watch that key way now the nuts move There's slop in that gear in that key way cranks not moving The gear or the sprocket is so I'm gonna take the chain off Loosen that pull that out and see what's going on because that's obviously throwing the timing off and Throwing off the the valves Which is probably why it's blowing a little black smoke. I'm sure Intakes opening before the exhaust should be Something something's not right. So I'm gonna go ahead and take that apart. See if that keyway is warm I'm gonna take the chain tensioner off first then the cam sprocket and I'll go from there looks like that Tensioner is maxed all the way out to percent and I'm gonna go ahead take this off We're dropped on All right, I'm looking at that sprocket Let me see if there's any We're in there and I'm looking at this key way Okay, I just happen to have another sprocket. I'm gonna give that a try Might have to replace that key way Okay, that's got some slop in it You know, we can see that key way that's right here. Oh This is about ready to come out. I'm gonna pull that out and inspect it It's probably worn out so I'm gonna replace it All right, so here's that key way. She's got a nice groove in it Maybe you can see that in the camera See the line going across there. All right, so I just replaced that key way and Show you how she fits now Nice and snug. It's not moving It's gonna pop that in there And put the chain back on All right, so I went ahead and I tighten your up real tight and now I'm in the middle of Setting the timing so there's a timing mark here. It's timing mark on the sprocket There's a silver link on the chain And up on top two marks there Two silver links you line that all up and your timing should be right on and then all you have to do is Adjust the valve lash between the rockers Let me show you. It's nice and tight now. I'm wiggling the cam sprocket and That is not moving. So my guess is this nut came loose the sprocket was moving in and out or the key way and through the timing off so Yeah, and also don't forget to tighten that nut when you put it back on I just move that out of the way to make the chain go in and out easier once they get this bad boy back together So yeah, she runs. All right guys, so I was gonna show you how it fires up and I Started it up and it idled for a couple seconds and then nothing so I've been going through my carbs thinking Okay, maybe I'm getting too much gas. I saw some gas coming out of the carb And I got me thinking. Let me double check the timing. You can see I got the T for top dead center And now that I'm looking at my my cam gear the two divots aren't on the top like it should be So I started pulling the flywheel off Let me show you what I found here I already pulled the bolt Get you in the light here. I had sheared the key way off Just keep that in mind too if you're having issues with with the nut starting my key way is actually on the bottom That through the timing completely off. So here I thought Here was cleaning the carb trying to go through everything. I thought well let me double check my timing because After two or three revolutions the chain will make the tensioner move a little bit and Just want to double check your valve lash after that the chain will tighten up So yeah, yeah, here.  I'm gonna double-check the valve last That should be good to go. So what would cause your key way to shear off like that? one thing I can think of right now is I was a messing around with my carburetors and I grabbed An aftermarket carburetor and I put it on Yeah, once I went to fire it up. I noticed it was leaking gas out of the bottom So I'm thinking fuel got into the cylinder and hydro locked it So, you know, obviously it's not gonna spark pistons pushing up push compresses all the fluid inside and At the same time while you're starting it would shear off the key way for the flywheel Make sure I drain a case make sure there's no field on dawn at the bottom. I'm gonna try firing it up With the spark plug out to make sure there's no more gas in the cylinder And go from there. Hopefully I can get this bad boy fired up They show you what this bad boy can do


The following is a presentation of TFNN. The Trader's Edge with Steve Rhodes. Toll free at 1-877-927-6648 or internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER>. The Trader's Edge. Now, Steve Rhodes. Good morning, folks. Welcome to the July 31st, the magnificent Monday edition of today's Trader's Edge show. I'm your Steve Perseverance, Rhodes, who absolutely knows that each of us should always be pioneers of our future versus prisoners of our past. Hope everyone out there is having a great day. Hey, let's make sure we have an extraordinary one. Now, the easiest way to do that is to always remember that life is happening for us, not to us. That's right. When you and I make that one little two-by-four shift, it means we can find the gift in every set of circumstances that life is going to toss at us. Now, today you and I are going to go check on the circumstance of these markets. We'll go figure out what those bulls and bears, what those buyers and sellers are communicating to you and I at just past 11 o'clock in the morning. I want you to know I'm absolutely grateful for your presence here, but even more important than that. That's this. During this next 53 minutes, I'm here to serve you. So feel free to pick up that phone. We'd love to hear from you at<PHONE_NUMBER>. Now, if you've got a question but you can't call in, we've got you covered. Send me an email. Send that off to Steve at TFNN.com. And inside the subject heading, please put a radio show question. Of course, if you're inside, our tiger is dead. Well, then any and every ping will do. But get this show started on magnificent Monday. Of course, this is Tiger Financial News Network. I'm Steve Rhodes. Welcome to the show. Right now we've got most of the U.S. indices trading the upside. The one that is not is the transports. They're off 23 points, about a little less than two-tenths percent to the downside. Otherwise, other U.S. indices trading higher. Down to 54 points, less than two-tenths percent. Same for the S&P, which is six points. Same for the Nasdaq, which is 24 points. Seven-tenths for the Russell. That's a 14-point move. 17 points for about four-tenths for the semis. You've got gold trading up seven bucks. About four-tenths percent. Silver's up 40 pennies. One in six-tenths percent there. Light's recruit up six-tenths or 51 cents. Natural gas up two cents. 30 treasury. Printed out of 124.19. That is up 11 ticks. Now, leading the charge dollar-wise today, we've got Chipotle. $36 moved nearly 2 percent. Nearly 2 percent for Mercado. Lear Bay, 22 bucks there. Adobe's up 19. Model power system, 16 in chains. And United Rentals, 15 bucks. 15 and a half trading up three and a half percent. Trading out at 461.58. To the downside, it's Thermo Fisher. Leading the charge off $12.50. Followed by Silicon at 965. Regenerance down $7.00. And change as is Johnson and Johnson. Water's corp of seven bucks as well. That's about a 2.5 percent move to the downside. Of course, I want to look at what you want to look at. Let's begin by paying attention to the equity future contracts. I'll start and take a look at those. Here are the daily time frames. What do we know? We know that if the ES mini closed about 46.09, 25, it will negate its roads momentum indicator top. And that will suggest a further move higher. 46.09, 25. If we take a look at the NQ, the NQ very likely wants to target its profile resistance zone or level. And that's up at the 15, 967 area. Now, I would naturally guess what the NQ needs to do to get back to its bullish ways would be closed above 16.062.75. If it does that, it will negate its roads momentum indicator top and suggest a further rally. In the case of the Dow, the Dow has two different tops out of the Dow equity future contract. It has both a sell the D point and a TD9 count top. Now, the TD9 count top would be negated with a close above 35, 6.93. But the real top to watch now is the sell the D point. In order for the YM to be in a bullish mode, what we need to see is a close above 35, 843. That's the number to have on your pad of paper. The Russell 2000 has an A to B equal CD pattern. It also has a roads momentum indicator top that's at 2007. We're trading at 2007.30 right now. A close above 2007 negates that signal would then suggest to you and I that price will complete at least the 1 to 1 A to B equal CD. That 1 to 1 price target is 2030. So as we speak right now, we have basically two tops that are in place, two top, the roads, and when I say two tops that are in place, the NQ and the Dow, those tops are still in place. Right now, the tops for the ES and the Russell 2000 are being threatened. Let's not stop there. Why not? I don't know. Let's not stop there. Let's go dig into, now I had to reset my machine just before we came on the air. The whole thing kind of crapped out so to speak. And so I don't have everything back in line the way that I need to. But I do have the ability to take us over to take a look at those day trading charts if you will for the NQ. We can take a look at the intraday time period. So no need to really talk about the daily time frame. If you look at a five hour chart, conditions here are bullish. Bullish because price above the top of its profile are in change line. This suggests a run up to 16062 over time. In the case of the four hour time frame chart, we have a consolidation with inside the profile. Its level of resistance is at 15917. So close above 15917, which suggests to move to 16062, same as the five hour chart. The two hour time frame chart has a TD9 count top with a resistance level that formed back at 10 o'clock in the morning on July 27. That number is 15904. A close above 15904. Well, that would then say, well, 15917, the four hour chart is really that resistance. Oh, you're not seeing those charts, hold on. That didn't go over there. Now you're seeing those charts. So here's back on the five hour chart. You can see you're above profile and that green oscillator in change line. If you take a look at the four hour chart, you are within profile but above the green oscillator in change line, 15917 being the magic number there. And here's your TD9 count top at lower high at the 15904 area. Let's still call it 15917. A close above that, we should see higher price. 60 minute time frame. We've got a sideways consolidation. You had a TD9 count bottom that formed at 1230 last night. It took price right up to resistance.  It's just an easy pattern to understand. I teach it to you. You can just subscribe to Mastering Probability and you'll get the access to that workshop. No reason for us to really spend time on the 15 and the 10 minute charts out here. So the end queue we're really watching resistance and we're going to call it the 15917 area.  Let's get those up, see what we're dealing with here. And this will take just a few moments to pop it. Again, we're trading above that key level, 460925 as we speak right now. And a close above that suggests higher highs. Where are the next resistance points then as we take a look at these intraday charts? The five-hour chart does not show anything. Everything is still, I take that back. The five-hour chart shows a consolidation with inside of profile. It's next upside resistance target, 4634. Same thing for the four-hour timeframe chart. The four-hour timeframe chart later this afternoon could form a TD9 count pattern, but too many things need to take place between now and then for that to occur so we won't go through those details. But again, 4634.50 resistance in the case of the two-hour timeframe chart, it has a resistance zone. And that zone is between 4618, which so far has held its resistance. So if you see a close above that, that key area will have failed. But the zone is between 4618 and 4634.50. No surprise there. So if we're going to get up to 4635, we really need to see a close above. Let's call it 4618. What is the TD9 count top-out here on a 15-minute chart just out of curiosity? 4618.75, that's the new number. 4618.75, you close above that, we're headed higher. Steve Rhodes with TFNN. We'll be right back. Currencies, commodities, and bond markets are as important as ever right now with how they're driving the volatility in equity markets across the globe, which is why it's a great time to try out Teddy Kegstad's Tiger 4X report. Teddy Kegstad breaks down the 4X markets during his 30-plus years of experience as a trading veteran of futures, 4X stocks, and options. 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At TFNN, all our newsletters come with a 30-day money-back guarantee, so you have absolutely nothing to worry about. Visit TFNN.com and try Mastering Probability 30 Days Risk-Free Today. TFNN Educating Investors. Let's go out to Omaha, Nebraska and speak with Mike. Mike, thanks for calling. Thanks for holding. How are you today? I'm fine. How are you, Steve? Excellent. Thanks much for asking. You want to take a look at ticker symbol SPWR. Tell the folks what you're doing and how I could best help you. I got in on Friday, 9-21. I think it may have some room up, but I just want to see what you say about having a swing trader. There's some room upside. Here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to switch from these white background charts and go over to the black background charts simply because it provides the answer to your question out there. We switch over here. I'm just going to expand out to the daily time frame and then a daily time frame. There's a brand new market profile to this one. I'm going to turn off price for the moment because this market profile looks like both the center and the bottom are at the exact same spot. This new profile and this tells us where both buyers and sellers reside as of today. The buyers are at 9-41 and that's both the center of the profile and the bottom. That's a very strong support level. I know you got in around 9-20, you said. I would say a price close below 9-41. I would take whatever remaining profits there are. As far as the upside potential, the top of the profile where the sellers reside is at 9-96. That's in the daily time frame. This is going to be a candle's back up here. You're trading right now at 9-69. The first answer to your question is where is your upside resistance? Is that correct? That would be at 9-96. That's on the daily time frame. Your weekly time frame. This is kind of interesting. Peer price is trading below the bottom of its daily profile, which is 9-63 is the bottom of the weekly profile which price close below last week. Now, you need to close below a bottom of profile for two consecutive sessions to suggest that this really is a real move and it wants to head lower. Not that it can't be a real move, but we're really looking for confirmation here. But right now what price is trying to do is get back above that 9-63 level. So you'd really like to see price hold that. And then if you do, that would give you that more confidence at 9-96. You said you're just a swing trader. And you've got that 11-54 real upside weekly price target. I can switch back to just a swing trade though, right? So you're going to be in and out. I think I've given you the information that you're looking for. Is there something else that you need? No. The TD counts are going to have potential for the upside because they want to have it keep going down and it's not falling, finish falling. So I'll share with you what it's actually done here. So SPWR, which is Sun Power Corp. Gapped down big time on July 26. The volume behind that move was 23 million shares. Going into a roachment to indicator bottom from July 10 that only did 5 million shares. But it still never busted out that swing low and you're back above that swing point. And any close above 943 on less than 5.3 million shares, today so far you're doing 2 million shares so it almost seems like it's too much volume. But that would be a rejection of that swing point. Daily wise there is no TD 9 counts for you to be concerned with. Price was just pulling back to that roachment to indicator bottom from back on July 10. There is no bottoming signal per se on the weekly although let me just expand this out. I can come up with an A to B equal CD to the downside that was confirmed in July the week of July 14th out there. What that would then say to you Mike is at a close below that level that level meaning the low of that candle session and that is at 899 that would tell you that you're on the wrong side of the trade to the upside. The only TD 9 count pattern you mentioned that is on the monthly timeframe and bar number 8 will complete today. It still needs that 9th bar in order for that to happen. That means in the month of August you would need to see a close below 1322. So I think instead of I think I just trade this more from a swing standpoint out here and if price can overcome 996 you know you still got that gap that you're dealing with but I'd say at that stage and you'd be looking at 1059 and 1154 as your battleground areas. Appreciate it. Thank you so much. Perfect. Mike, thanks for calling. I hope that you call again. That was Mike in Omaha, Nebraska and that was ticker symbol SPWR Sunpower Corp. Let's go to our next question that came in. The next question coming in from Greg M. And Greg wanted to take a look at Palantir. PLTR is the ticker symbol. Let's actually get to Greg's question and came in by email and says hey Steve would you look at PLTR for me and discuss the potential of an A to B equals CDT upside you own the stock you've you've also taken profits recently like your thoughts on support and resistance levels and where you might add on pullbacks out there. Okay, Greg, so let's see first question you wanted to look at an A to B equals CDT upside. So what I'm going to do here we're going to switch back to those black background charts because that's where we can draw in that pattern and give you some accuracy. So we'll switch back there. We'll take I believe it was the daily timeframe that you were looking at out here. Let's take a look at its A to B equals CDT patterns. I see one that we've already drawn in there but let's get rid of that and now let's take a look. So the A to B equals CD I would believe the one that you're looking at would look like this. I would start down here with my A point being May 4th low and that didn't work. So Steve has got to do this again. It shows the high of the pattern. Let's try this one more time. The low of May 4th please listen. There we go. Now for your B point that's it. That's easy. That's going to be the high of June 6th, June 7th I should say and your B point is going to be low of June 23rd. Now that B point did volume of 227 million shares. When it was passed it was passed with 63, 87 nowhere near that type of volume has it passed that today you're at 83. So 83 got 160 maybe 200. You're going to be close today. Do you need to pass that B point with volume to have an A to B equal CD pattern to the upside? And the answer that question Greg is no you do not. Would you like it? Sure you'd like it. Do you have to have it? No you don't have to have it. Here's what we know right now on a daily time frame. Price is trading above its most recent highs. It's trading above the top of its daily profile closed above that on Friday. So your one-to-one price target is up at the 2344 level. This is above resistance. So support I would say old resistance would become new support and for this instruments that would be 1757 at least on this black background chart. Let's take a quick peek here at the weekly time frame. See what we have here in on a weekly basis the swing point did volume of 632 million shares. We closed above with 265 last week. But you are above resistance on the weekly time frame chart. You ask also asked for that that resistance was 1716. You close above that last week you close above it this week. That becomes support. So your two support levels are 1757 and 1716. Resistance now when you take a look at Palantir Palantir on a monthly basis may have run into that resistance level and that is the bottom of its wall is structured monthly profile that form below price. So here's what we know the first level of resistance is 1985. The price must close above that to then suggest that move to that A to B equal CD target regardless whether it was volume or not at 2344. So your real battleground right now is 1985 and if price can start trading above that level that then Greg should lead you to higher price. Steve Rhodes with TFN we get back from this break. We're going to take a look at National Gas for Kota US dollar Japanese yen as well. Of course I'd love to hear from you<PHONE_NUMBER> or Steve at TFN dot com. 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here what we can see is this actually formed a buy the D point pattern last month the month of June out there because what we have is we had a nice bullish engulfing candle so the A to B equal CD and your A point would have been the high from June of 2022 your B point would have been the low from October 2022 your C point was likely the high from November 2022 made more than one to one A to B equal CD it actually had formed a buy the D point pattern back here in February 2023 that pattern was negated when price closed below the bottom of that hammer candle so it's not like this pattern can't fail it most certainly can but on a monthly time frame chart what this has is already has a buy the D point with price consolidating with inside his profile now if I put up the continuous contract out here which has more data but this has enough data for me to say okay this is good this is a good pattern so you already have a monthly buy the D point pattern and I did not realize that when I had the when I had this chart up here why didn't I realize it well I mean we do have a buy the D point pattern I suppose I would be using the same the same candle for both a B and a C point of an A to B equal CD to downside and that's what you'd have to do here so that's why that didn't really stick out at me but what did stick out me out at me on the continuous contract was the TD9 count bottom but we're negating that all together now because what we've got is we've got a current contract which is September and we've got a buy the D point pattern with price consolidating with inside the weekly timeframe out so I want to clarify because I was giving everybody a price point that we needed to see price close below using a continuous contract and I'm saying throw that out the window sorry about that if we take a look at the weekly timeframe chart you've got a confirmed TD9 count bottom a confirmed roads momentum indicator bottom just simply with a consolidation with inside his profile so what we know here is the real key level of resistance for natural gas is going to be about $2.85 the top of that profile if price can overcome that level then we'll see a move up to the 326 ish area that's under September contract on a daily timeframe we just have a good old fashion consolidation between profile support and resistance that's at 250 2.501 to be exact and 2.757 up at the resistance area so that's pretty much what I've got for you on natural gas whoever asked so what I can share with you is you've got a bottom on the weekly a bottom on the monthly no real pattern on the daily no bottom pattern I should say but since we're already off of those lows we're inside of profile levels we're going to just simply say that is unimportant as we speak what is important is going to be $2.85 out there you close above that and then you're off to the upside when it comes to natural gas let's take a look how that was code out there code also want to take look at the US dollar Japanese yen so let me close out these charts free up some resources get over to that currency pair which is smarty look like you want to continue to further weekend or strengthen when we take a look at the US dollar index but here we take a look at it now how did Stevie come up with that I came up with that by taking like first at the daily timeframe so at a daily base with regard to the Japanese yen forms a beautiful TD9 account bottom does that on July 14 makes a nice move higher into that oscillator and change line wasn't able to hold it pulls back test and rejects that that swing point from July 14 and now today a close above the level from July 21st 14195 will trigger an A to B equal CDT upside what's that going to look like excellent question so it's drawn the A to B level out here or approximately let's go ahead and take that over to the C point that C point would say well we're going to get up to is about the 143 and change level but price may really be targeting here's what I want you to know or notice see how prices along the left side of that blue diagonal line that was the same blue diagonal line that created that A to B line this communicates to you and I that more likely than not what price wants to do is more than a one to one A to B equal CD and that would then take us up to the 144 73 level so that's what I see when I take a look at the daily timeframe for the US dollar Japanese yen what else do we have out here you've got price trade above its green monthly Oceter and change line above its weekly green Oceter and change line those are bullish conditions out here so it really does look like what the US dollar Japanese yen does want to do is trade higher right now it's dealing with a couple of topping patterns intraday wise those topping patterns in the 30 minute roads went to mitigator top key level of support is 141 93 you've got a TD 9 count and roads went to mitigate our top on the 60 minute chart key support there 141 75 you've got a TD 9 count top now you don't have that's not going to you got a wave stem we're not going to go into the 120 minute chart so 141 75 would be the areas I would be watching for a support out there let's go out to John and Philly John thanks for calling thanks for holding how are you today Steve I'm doing just fine thanks for taking the call my pleasure is always and you want to take a look at light sweet food what are you doing I apologize I should ask just up front you're halfway into the show have you discussed oil with your audience already today I have not then then here's my question Steve I'm with the world specifically directed answering the following question with this rally just by way of background I have been trading I've been trading oil virtually exclusively from the long side but particularly in the past three months since that early May low and we've been rallying very nicely since I believe it was the 27th low so we're just stair stepping higher the uptrend is clear to everybody who takes a look my question to you sir is could you just bisect the daily weekly charts using your indicators to let us know if there is something we need to be on look on the outlook for right here right now for a possible rally completion yes we do have something John that would be the daily time it would really be two different timeframes the daily and the weekly we'll focus on the daily because what the daily is going to do today is form bar number 8 of a TD9 count in order for bar number 9 to occur tomorrow lights recruit will need to close above 78-78 so I would say odds favor that lights recruit will form a TD9 count top between today and Wednesday now prices above profile levels so even though it's got that top it's more of a neutralish type signal and really would suggest that we should at least see a retracement and the target for that retracement right now would be about 78-77 that's the current print for the daily oscillator on change line the second chart that suggested beyond look for a top would be the weekly timeframe and in the weekly timeframe what I've drawn in here is a consolidation pattern so we're trading up near or close to the consolidation high we're getting up towards that level we've got a daily TD9 count top that is in place out here the monthly if it can close today above the area John of 79-87 suggested it wants to make a move to the 85-59 area so maybe we're going to see a spike higher in the next couple of days that completes or sets up that TD9 on the daily hold on through this break here we've got about four seconds we'll come back finish looking at lights we recruit you might think that if you want to be successful at trading in the stock market you're going to need a crystal ball after all it's impossible to predict the future right like any endeavor in life before you decide it's impossible get some advice from the experts you might find that it's not so impossible after all for daily market overviews that give you direction on the key indices 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topping patterns of the 30 to 60 show a confirmed roadsman to indicator top but a close on a 30 or 60 minute basis John above 8170 would suggest that the rally will continue which I think is the likely outcome here but price needs to close above those those intraday levels to suggest that will continue from this year and the reason why I think that it will is price is trading above profile levels in most of those instances as well as their green oscillator and change line so I do believe the rally will extend itself for another day or so before we get that short-term top what say you my friend thanks so much for all that my one observation to share is since way back last December ish daily chart that goes back that far so I'm kind of going from memory which could be a bit off but that's okay since that point in time we've had multiple rallies you know on the daily chart basis which have all stalled out in the vicinity of 83 bucks a barrel and we're here at you know 81 and a half and so as I look at that just share two things one I wouldn't be surprised if sellers take control and cap the rally at that 83 level again regardless of what happens over the intermediate term and if in fact we do get to 83 and clear it where sellers are stuffed that will be incredibly important because should that scenario unfold 83 which has proven to be a stubborn roof months and months now would flip to becoming a floor so I can envision this week next week as being a very pivotal time well you know this consolidation to a certain extent so you went back to December of 2022 and in essence that's what this weekly chart was showing also was that top of the consolidation now in one sense we could say that the consolidation really began let's say November of last year this would then be the since that time period this would be the third time up to try to bust it up is it usually the fourth time up that it does that well you know Steve those are decent rules of thumb to pay attention to but I confess I don't I have found when I fixate on rules of thumb I can get locked into a point of view and wedded to a point of view and then get hamstrung should something else occur so I'm just going to focus on what the buyers and sellers do with this 83 area and keep in mind this idea that when we do get above 83 whether it's you know this week or this month or sometime further out in time that that becomes a floor and that will be a very important thing to use as a trader you know for risk management perspective absolutely absolutely John is there anything else I appreciate your help as always you bet good to speak to you that was John in Philly let's go on to our next request out here this from Dan inside the Tigers they might take a look at ticker symbol let me just close this seven charts out here SPR SPRO so we'll get to that here momentarily get back up to the right spot I just have to find it is it here there we go perfect okay so let's start take a look at this ticker symbol SPRO is SPRO Therapeutics trading out right now at about a buck 61 had a nice gap to the upside that gas so this formed a TD9 count top TD9 count bottom I should say completed that pattern on a Friday formed it on Thursday completed on Friday Friday was also a confirmation of a roadsman to minicator bottom and now today prices trading above profiles trade above its TD9 count breakdown resistance of buck 53 Dan are you long this instrument here this is giving you a change in trend signal as we speak today on that daily basis a second close tomorrow above 153 would be that confirmation out there if we look at the monthly weekly timeframe you've got a TD9 count bottom that formed last week it's going to complete this week so this suggests that the next level is of resistance to your next battleground I should say is it about a buck 68 a buck 68 happens to be the center of its weekly profile now price can clear that level Dan then your next resistance level is between a buck 86 and a buck 87 a buck 86 would be the weekly TD9 count bottom or its threshold or its breakdown level and 187 right now is the current top of its weekly profile the monthly chart loves the nines it's got a TD9 count bottom out there it's just led to a sideways move but right now looks like you're off the Schneid with today's move to the upside got big for this instrument you're already about 2 million shares out there doesn't trade anywhere near that average on a daily basis so things are looking very bright for sparrow therapeutics so Dan I hope that helps you out and thanks much for the request we had a request for the swabby one that came in from Kota inside the Tigers then SWAV is the ticker symbol so let's take a look at what this is doing which right now is triggered this is by the way today this triggered a roads momentum indicator signal the signal is different than the top or bottom this would be a bottom signal now it's required here Kota in order for price to confirm that pattern would be a bullish reversal candle if we get that that confirms a roads momentum indicator bottom that would then tell you that you've got resistance at 266 and 268 those would be the areas that price would need to clear the weekly timeframe chart does not have a bottom pattern prices below profile this could be the second week below profile you could actually take out a swing point this is the swing point from the week of July 7 the volume on that swing point for the week was 1.8 million shares last week as an example we were moving into 1.5 million shares so we're not below that area just yet you've tested and rejected that swing point out there but I would be watching a true rejection in the weekly is going to hold because that swing low being tested with lighter volume then what you should get that is that bullish reversal candle on the daily timeframe the monthly chart not really telling us a lot it's a gigantic profile so price is the support level here for the swabby one between 134 and 154 that's that bullish structured area and resistance up at 320-54 now prices lost momentum we say that because prices trading below its green change line so overall with regard to a shockwave medical in order to get on its merry way to the upside the first thing it needs a bullish reversal candle the second thing we'll need to do is take on those old buyers now may have become sellers they're sitting at the 266 93 level so hope that helps you out and thanks so much for the request next request coming in from my email is from I believe it's from Hector and the fuel injectors Hector wants to take a look at XLE Nick wants to take a look at the GDX we'll do both those things we get back to this break if you're looking for potential trading setups in the stock market then rocket equities and options report is a newsletter you should try Tommy O'Brien delivers options and equity trades when the markets present them using a combination of fundamentals and technicals sign up for rocket 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we do have an A to B equal city to the upside on the daily time frame with its initial price target of 88.69 today is going to become bar number 8 of a TD9 count much like lights we crude that John and I were taking a look at the XLE has that daily TD9 count top is likely to form tomorrow complete the very next day out there so I'd be looking for that as a short term again the price target 88.69 may in fact come to fruition over the course of the next couple of days out there but no way to be equal city on the monthly time frame I'm assuming that you're looking at the new one that could form not until we get above the 94.71 but again in summary we should see a short term top form in lights in the XLE form between Wednesday of this week the last request take a look well it's not really the last request we got two more see if we get them in here this is from Nick he says good morning Steve what would negate GDX and nuggets A to B equal city to the downside that would require a close above the swing point from July 25th that swing point high is 3189 14 million shares traded hands that day you're into it right now with 5.2 million shares so likely that high is going to be a little bit of a test now this is only a counter trend move here it's only a counter trend move the GDX would stop at 31.70 that's that's going to be a real key level out there if price can close above that 31.70 then likely this is not a counter trend move will negate will forget about the A to B will CD pattern and price should go on and target 32.40 remember the GDX is so directly correlated to gold and silver you've also got to always take that into mind that out here meta does not have any kind of a topping confirmed topping pattern out here it does have a roadsman to indicator signal but jambalaya that needs that bearish reversal Canada to confirm that pattern otherwise looks like Facebook wants to go target the 353 area out there in the gate by the way it's weekly TD nine count top last week folks stay tuned for all the great news to actually be back around 3.15 with Tom for a quick segment take care have a magnificent marvelous Monday


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