You're welcome back to the breakfast on Plus TV Africa. We're talking about a conversation that began, you know, on Monday, really, the NLC declared a 5-day warning strike in Cajunas State over the sack of about 7,000 workers from the state civil service and other parts of the state. You know, they began to protest and it was just a lot because we saw pictures of, you know, what looked like thogs attacking that NLC protest in Cajunas State. We spoke to NLC president, Aibawaba, here on the show yesterday and other Labour leaders as well. And the headlines we've seen today is that NLC has called off the strike, saying they want to negotiate with the federal government on the way forward. And to speak more on this, we've invited a risk and policy management expert, Mr O'Shnoe Ibrahim. Good morning. Thanks for joining us. Thank you so much for having me. Good morning, Nigerians and good morning to you all. Good morning. So, after what seemed like it was going to be a stalemate, you know, a brick-man ship, Labour saying this protest will run its full course for the next five days. The Cajunas State government standing its ground to say we're not shifting grounds, you know, these workers have been sacked and nothing will be done about it. We see that Wabba announced that the NLC suspended the strike immediately to give dialogue a chance. Did you expect that this would happen so soon? I will start by commanding the federal government of Nigeria for standing up to save the ordinary citizens and the Cajunas and especially the Nigerian workers there. I believe what's happened is just, you know, a test for the true leadership. Wabba has been a very dogged, responsive, gentle giant over the years. I have known him at least in the last 20 years. Governor Narsu also believes that a lot of things needs to be corrected in the state civil service. I remember in 2007 when we are clamoring of unlawful political recruitment into civil service, I'm taking it from the handbook of Governor Rufai. Where a governor or a political person believes that for me to bring unneeded civil service into the system, or civil service into the system will make me to win an election and the rest of them, but forgetting that the liability of payment and salary and emolument will be showed on the state governor. You can imagine Cardinal State's local government system and the primary escape sector, including superb, having nothing less than over 27,000 workers and some of them are living in Nabuja, some are living in Lagos, some are living in Kalu, some of them are not even coming to work at all. You can imagine that and the state government out of the revenue is very small and manual revenue they are collecting, they are paying for recurring expenditure, they are paying almost 70% on salaries. So, and this is not about Cardinal State alone, a lot of states who are afraid to take that bold step, to tell them that look, I don't need your service and this has to give way for this. You can imagine a Cardinal State, a very big state for instance, spending almost 80% of the revenue on recurring on civil service. You can imagine that. What about the other ordinary Nigerians, who are not civil servants, who are not in public service, who needs light, who needs road, who needs good medical care, who needs other social amenities that are not benefiting from the resources of the state? OK, well, when it is... They are not benefiting from the resources of the state. So, I believe what happened is as a result of the restructuring that we are clamoring for. The power at the center is too much. The state should be able to harness its resources so that they can get more revenue and take out their liability and expenditure. I believe what is happening between the state and Cardinal State government is a very pure lack of communication. You know, if you are quoting the federal law section 2 or section 20 of the labor law, Cardinal State will tell you that they have their domestic power and they have the right to make their laws to harness or to channel their oppression in Cardinal State. So, that's why I'm appreciating Dr. Chris Inge again for bringing the full party to the table so that peace give way. All right, Mr Ashinaw, that's what I see from our conversations yesterday with Ayubah Waba. You know, there has been people who have mentioned ghost workers, and you know, like you've also mentioned here, there's people who are benefiting from the state funds without actually being in the state service or being at work. But is it a failure of the Cardinal State government to clearly show or prove that these are ghost workers? The labor president also mentioned that there was no conversation between the government and labor before these steps were taken. And so it feels like it is just a cutting down of numbers because the state cannot pay, which is unfair. I think we've lost him there, you know, and that's where I feel like there's some misunderstanding here. If you say, you know, we are sacking 7,000 people without actually being able to show that these were ghost workers, then it leaves room for questioning. And then if you say, oh well, you know, we suddenly cannot pay this number of people, and so we're going to fire, you know, 7,000 or 4,000 or 5,000 workers, it still sounds very unfair. So we need to know what it is, what the excuse is. Yeah, it's not the workers' fault that you can't pay them. You know, if they are part of the state's workforce, they are meant to be paid. But Ayubah Waba even argued otherwise yesterday, atlining just how much the state makes in Internet and Generative Revenue. Exactly. How much they get when it comes to federal allocations every month. So he argued, you know, with figures that the state does have the funds to pay their salaries. Well, the state, you know, might also have their own counter argument and say, you know, that's not true. But, you know, in the lack of, you know, clarity, in the lack of a natural conversation, in the lack of these meetings, and I think that's one of the challenges that they had. There was no correspondence between both sides before, you know, those steps were taken. If you fire 5,000 people because, well, you can't afford to pay them, what do you expect those 5,000 people to do? And isn't it a failure on your part that you can't pay your workers? Isn't it a failure on the part of the government that they've not been able to generate enough internally generated revenue, including support from the federal government and government allocation to pay workers?   No, you don't fire 5,000 people in a country where we still have one of the highest levels of unemployment in the world. A box 23 million unemployed. How many of these 5,000 people are going to decide, well, I think I'm going to go into kidnapping. Look at what Cardona is dealing with, you know, security-wise. How many of these 5,000 people or 4,000 people who have been fired will maybe go into crime? And so there has to be a balance somehow, some way.  Welcome back, Mr Oshinowo. There is obviously some delay with the connection here, but we'll see how we can manage through. What I was asking is, should the government have been able to prove that the reason it sacked these 4,000 or 5,000 workers was genuinely because they were ghost workers?  I will answer that question in two ways. I've been a special adviser in the legacy of the government and I know what is ghost worker. I also know that politicians will load the civil service schedule of a plant with frozen names. Or people who are not into the service so that they can get some, you know, some stipend at the end of the month. Secondly, the Cardinal State government right now has been bleeding. The financial strength of the state has gone so low based on the dangling of the national resources or the share that comes to Cardinal State in terms of the revenue, the fact everywhere there is economic crisis. Probably River State and Lagos State are the ones surviving. Maybe because of their prudency and financial management are probably on taxes. But it is a known fact that most of the states are suffering. They don't have the financial strength to take care of this high number of civil servants in their respective state. Also, if you can do a simple investigative journalist to find out that most of civil servants who are on the schedule of most of the state government, some of them are prosy, some of them are not even working. They are not in Cardinal State so you will blame the governor for fishing out these guys. If they are 30,000, they have to leave because they are not working and they are hanging salary and the liability is on the shoulder of the government. So what I expect the labor and Mr Nosedu will fight to do is to come to the table. It's not about who wins and the governor, leader does not use force. You use dialogue to show your strength. That is what I expect from the governor. The governor is not a minister anymore. He is not a digital guru again. He is a governor. He can express governor. He is a two-time governor. So I expect him to sit down with the national leadership of the neighbor and fight to other areas. If you have asked 20,000 or 7,000 to go on whichever number, you have to pay them. If you can't pay them at once, you have to negotiate with them. I will pay social time. I will pay this one. I will pay this time. I will pay this time. So these are the things that he needs to do. But if you say that these persons have been on the wage bill of the Cardona State Government without actually working and they are ghost workers, then why do they need to be paid off now that they are fired? There needs to be some balance here. If you say that they have been on the wage bill just surviving, not working, politicians have put some of all those names there to gain money from the Cardona State Government, then why is there a conversation about paying them off when they are fired? Because they are not legitimate staff in the first place. Look, let me say this very clearly. You cannot use illegitimacy to end legitimacy. You cannot enter into the civil service. There is a number of times that you have to come to work in civil service. Let's assume you were engaged during the Governor of Yakuwa, when the late Governor of Yakuwa was in service, and for five, eight years you didn't show up in the office and you were handing the state revenue, and the government noticed that you had not been around and you had to go. You are not expressing the Governor to pay you instantly. Don't forget that the states to pay the pensioners, they have the backlog of pensioners that they have to pay. They have the current working civil service staff that they have to pay. So these are the immediate need for the Governor. The Governor will take his priority that, who am I supposed to pay? Is it you that you have been handing the state resources for eight years or five years that have not been coming to work? Am I going to pay you all that? But all these things are what they call, you know, table discussion. You have to bring the labor. The labor let them understand that these are the things that we need to do. The existing workers, they need to be taken care of. The lawful pensioner who has retired from the state civil service also needs to be well taken care of. So if all these proxy workers, we are fishing them out, we are not expecting me to pay them right now. I am going to pay them at social, social, social time at this trend and batches. So that is allowed. All right. So, Mr Oshinaway, Brian, are these some of the... So the Governor is right by telling them that I am not going to pay people who have not been coming to work for five years or for two, three years. So I will continue to pay.  I think the Governor is doing well on that. So the labor must also understand that that is where in the trying time in this country.  So they want us to know that. So when they get to the table in Abuja today, hopefully we will see what is going to happen. But I am sure that wisdom will prevail. OK, Mr Oshinaway, really that meets in the shadow to hold at 11am today. What do you think are some of the decisions that they are likely to reach that you feel this to be a middle ground?  What I can see is that the labor has shown maturity and I am calling on Governor Nassir Oherufa, a big man in a small body to please also to shift ground. If we not declare the labor leader wanted, of course I recognize that the state has their own laws that any other person must comply with the law. The labor leader is not immune from persecution. So but I appreciate what labor has done last night. They respect the federal government, the call of the strike temporarily. So I expect the Cardinal State representative in Abuja today to also shift their base to let reason prevail, to let labor know that they are financially strung. They need finances to take care of their demand and other priorities and other investments is there for them to develop. So if you look at Cardinal State today, the governor has done fantastically well in terms of prudency management at a time he reduced some salary of the government functionaries. He also that I know, I know him very well, he's not living lavishly, he's not a governor that lives extravagantly, he's a prudent man. So if it were to be other governors who just live lavishly, I would state it very clearly here, you understand. So these are the things that I see that I expect the labor leader, both of them should have reasons to come to the table and hire not whatever. So I see them moving forward. I'm not sure and I see labor also that the strike will not continue because ordinary Cardinal citizens are suffering.  All the major facilities, most of the spaces are not working. So these are the things that I see that make them to rethink so that everybody can be on the table and all the strike workers too can be compensated in one way or the other. So I call on government to please to, among us, to reverse some of the decision by sacking the nurses, by sacking some staff who are joining the labor. Is the father of the state, he should please and please rethink and let a wisdom prevail. First of all, I don't know if we would like to celebrate a government official for not living lavishly. They are not expected to live lavishly in the first place. They are servants of the people and so I don't know if we should be celebrating that. But then second, the sacking of the nurses and lecturers, isn't that almost a signal to show the way that the sacking of those 4,000 or 5,000 people the decision was taken without actually knowing whether these persons were coming to work or whether they were ghost workers or not. The speed at which that decision was taken, doesn't that in any way or does that show you or tell the same way those 4,000 people were sacked in the first place without actually looking deeply into whether these people, like you've described, come to work once in four years. If you say that, you will not be feared to the government, I'm going to go into few policies. There is in risk management, there is what we call stress testing. The state government right now is stress testing. They know their posts, they know their processes of recruiting and disengagement.  I know that he wants to, when he wants to elect, do a primary of local government chairman, he asked some of the contestant to come and write a test so that anybody that he is putting as a chairman or he'll be elected as a chairman, let me use that one, will be a competent financial manager and somebody who can weigh the risk of anything he wants to do. So I'm not seeing Governor Rufai to just sack a civil servant with a higher level of level 10 or level 8 upward on a fiat on a stable, there is a process. The head of service must be involved. They must do proper due diligence considering the Cardinal's civil service law. So I'm not seeing Governor Rufai doing what you just said. I'm sure he must have gone through all the due process to disengage all these guys. And if you look at the presentation of the head of service, the woman, she made some very cultured and decent reasons why they are sacked and the process at which they are ejected out of the system. So we need to give them fair hearing. They have the process. They cannot do a sack of the above level 8. They have to go through the process. But the first thing you mean is that he will employ at disengage. Even the federal government, when the 2015, came out the ocean for instance, the state, more than 10,000 from the federal civil service, prosy civil servant. These are general routine in government. When you notice that you cannot undo the liability of the wage bill, you can ask some surplus or excess staff to go. It happens in private sector. It happens in private businesses as well. So these are the things. And I also call another state government who are using 90% of their monthly allocation to pay salary. It is not turnable anymore. That is why people like us are clamoring for constitutional review. This constitution that we are using is a prosy, is a product of military error. Seven months sitting down in a supreme military council and drafting one document, it is not turnable again. The state government should be able to harness these resources and pay reality into the federal government. First, so that they can have resources to engage, to pay other expenses and liability on their state.  They don't have money. All right. Miss Abraham, if you can hear me. Miss Abraham, I want to ask you lastly. Miss Abraham, this is just one of... Miss Abraham, can you hear me? All right. If you can hear me, this is just one of the many protests that we've seen in the past few years regarding labour, the judiciary staff union workers striking, doctors striking here and there. What lessons really can we say we have learned from all these strikes and the demands that Nigerian workers are placing on the government? You mean the lessons from the state government or from the NLC? On both parties? If they are not to look at both sides, both sides have learned few lessons. They have learned few lessons and they will continue to learn. Like the governor, I was not happy with the governor looking, declaring the NLC a labour leader wanted. He has never committed any crime. He is a lawful Nigerian and also is representing what he is doing is constitutionally right. But the governor also has the right to protect the state because if the protest is hijacked and some of the state properties or investment are damaged, it will cause the government a lot more to do it. So it is a welcome development that they are going to meet today so that we can move forward. There is a tension in the land already. If you look out everywhere from the east, south, west, north, name it, there is tension. So we don't want more tension, especially in Cardinal State, for a governor who is doing very well. We don't want any issue with him. I think it is a win-win for both of them. I will use that word. Ibrahim Oshinawa, thank you very much for joining us and for your time this morning. Thank you. Apologies for the slight delay in the feedback there. Thanks for that conversation. Of course, from 11 o'clock when the meeting does take place, we will bring you further updates on the Labour Cardinal State Government and the Minister of Labour engagement.  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Okay, we're back. It's four o'clock rock. And where are we? We're in Hawaii, the state of clean energy every Wednesday at four o'clock. You can set your clock. Okay, my co-host and former commissioner of the PUC and an active player in Hawaii Natural Energy Institute, John Cole, John S. Cole. E. Cole. John E. Cole. Thanks, Jay. Today we're here again the last Wednesday of the month. This month's been centered around UH and the University of Hawaii and what's going on with energy. And today we're going to talk about energy efficiency and some really cool structures that our guests work with. We have Professor Olga Boric-Lubecki, who is with the College of Engineering. She's a professor of electrical engineering. And Jim Mascary, who's at HNEI, the same institute that I work for, Hawaii Natural Energy Institute. Okay, well, first let's talk about what HNEI is doing with the special zero energy classroom. Okay, keska se kasa. That's a match. It means what is this zero energy classroom? So the net zero, it's a net zero NZE classroom. These were designed to be highly energy efficient and to generate at least as much energy as they're going to use. So therefore the net zero on an annualized basis. This was a project that was funded originally by the Office of Naval Research. And it's actually comprised of five different buildings. One at an Ewa Beach at Elima Intermediate, two over in Kauai. And they've been up and we've been monitoring for them for a couple of years. The final two of the five, we just completed a couple of weeks ago at the University of Hawaii, Manoa College of Education. Are they permanent or movable, these structures? They are. Technically, they're portable, but they're temporary structures. They're temporary structures, but like most of our temporary structures, they'll be there for quite a while. And the big question, of course, and I'm speaking for David Ege here, are they air conditioned? They are air conditioned. And that's actually one of the features. The air conditioning is somewhat of a specialized approach to air conditioning, where generally we default to an off condition. And then when they need it and want it, then they will push and override, it'll stay on for an hour. These are classrooms, multiple teachers. They have different functions in each class, so they have different needs. So basically, rather than turn the air conditioner on at the beginning of the day and just leave it on all day and all night, it's basically on demand. Push a button. Push a button and it's on demand. You know, in the MLIC, the Manoa Innovation Center, they have exactly that, had it for a long time. If you want air conditioning, you know, push the button. It works very well. In addition, we've got very high efficient lighting, ceiling fans to circulate the air, to create the comfort in the classroom. So my question is, why? Why, Jim, why are you doing this? What? Well, the university has a long term goal of 100% renewable by 2035. Now, this is, we're trying to demonstrate the technologies that we can actually build net zero buildings and stay comfortable at the same time. We look at the Department of Education and we see all these very, very uncomfortable classrooms, looking very closely at why are these uncomfortable, where now we're demonstrating we've got good practical solutions to comfort. They only need to rely on the air conditioning for, you know, a couple of months within the year. The rest will all depend on opening the windows, natural ventilation, ceiling fans and create a perfectly comfortable environment. Okay, so I'll make a civilian guess here. The sun comes and beats on the solar panels. The solar panels fill batteries. The button takes the juice out of the batteries and it puts it in the lights, the air conditioner, whatever else. Is that it? Is that that simple? We're getting close, because... What am I missing here? It is connected. Your turn is coming, Olga. It is connected to the grid. Oh, okay. But we will be, as part of our research, and part of the intent of this, to answer the question about why, is it also gives us a platform for energy efficient research. And that's where Olga will come in. But we'll be doing some battery testing and some battery comparisons out there as well. So we will have batteries, we'll be simulating an off-grid condition, but we are connected to the grid. Okay. How far along are you in this project? We have completed the classrooms there in their first semester of occupancy and it's kind of a shake down quarter. As we, as my team completes, putting in the instrumentation and the sensors that we need to be able to monitor all of the energy. And are there students or people in the classroom? Yeah, yeah, from the college of education. This is real-time, real-time things. Real students out of college of education. And you tell them what you're doing. Absolutely. We've got posters on the wall telling them, this is how the building, these are the features of the building. We're trying to instill a culture, trying to instill a culture within the school of college of education. You know, he said sensors. I heard him say sensors just now. That's the magic word. Yep, absolutely. So at the College of Engineering, you're working on sensors. That's right. But you haven't always been working on sensors. There was a time you were working on radar. And that's when we met. We met when you were working on radar. You and your husband. That's correct. Actually, we have been working on these sensors for a long time. But they're radar-based sensors. Ah! It all comes together now, radar-based sensors? Exactly, yes. So actually, we are using Dopplerator technology that we originally developed for medical monitoring for energy efficiency purposes. So we are still looking for heartbeats and for respiration in the room. But we're not necessarily looking for medical features. So we're now actually looking to decide if there is an occupant in the room or not. OK. Stopping there just for a moment. You see what happens. You develop a technology for one use. And then you say, aha! We could use it for something else. You know, I think Thomas Edison did things like that. Well, it's kind of like we have a hammer, so we're looking for a nail, right? But this is a good fit because energy efficiency is such an important area. And there is a need for the sensors that can detect people when they're not moving. Because the limitations, the main limitation of the current technology is if you're just sitting at your computer and typing or reading, they will think that you're not there. So what may happen in an office environment, the lights may turn off while you're actually in your office. And then you may need to get up and wave your arms and walk around a little bit, which may not certainly be a bet, right? It would be getting a little bit of exercise. You should stand up once an hour, right? You should stand up once an hour anyway, right? But people do get annoyed. So it is a nuisance. And what happens is they essentially disable the sensors because they don't like them. Or they, yeah. So can we go back to the story about the hotel rooms in Europe compared to the US, compared to Asia? Because I just came back from Europe. And I was charmed, as I always am, with putting my hotel key card in a little slot. As I walked in the door of the hotel room, I was going to turn everything on. And nothing would go on until I did that. And then on the way out, in order to leave, I had to take this out of the little slot. And that was my key again. And that's how I left. I was charmed, because I was so totally efficient. But it doesn't work, right? Well, it doesn't always work, because if you have multiple cards, you can override the system, right? So you can leave one card in the room and let the AC leave it running and walk out with another card. And this cost the hotel some money. And this cost the hotel a lot of money. And actually, typically in hotel rooms, energy bills are pretty high. I mean, energy consumption is high compared to residential. Like when people go on vacation, and especially if they're paying for a relatively expensive hotel room, they really don't want to worry about if they turn their AC on. I'll leave the TV on, leave everything on, right? And it is kind of part of their bill, right? They're not going to be charged separately. So the same sort of thing happens in dorms and also with classrooms. If the users of the space are not responsible for their electric bill, they don't have a lot of motivation to worry about how is that energy used. I can go to Simply Safe, a security company, and for $6, maybe $15, whatever, something in there, I can buy a sensor that will spot anybody walking around this room here. If it's on, it's always going to spot. What do you bring to that table that's beyond my $6 sensor from Simply Safe? Right, $6 sensors are hard to beat. But the key is you said that the sensor can detect anyone walking in the room. So if there is a large motion, if you have somebody opening the door and walking in the sensors, we'll pick them up. The problem is what happens when the person stops moving. So essentially, our technology most likely would be used in conjunction with the technology that you mentioned. So as a baseline, so as a baseline, you can use the sensor that you mentioned, which is most likely a passive improvise sensor that would essentially detect when people walk into the room. But then once there is no signal coming out of the sensors, we would check to see is that really true or not. OK, then we're back to the radar reading, my respiration, and pulse, and what have you. Yes, exactly. Suppose my pulse is slow. Can you still read it? Yes. Well, we can actually tell people from different sources of motion. So for example, if you have a fan in the room and there are several of those in the classrooms, we can differentiate the fan from the person because the patterns of your heart and respiration are very different from the mechanical motion. Or for example, you may have a curtain blowing in the wind or you may have air movement due to the AC system. We can differentiate those kind of motions or human motions because human motions have very unique signatures. See that picture? Yes. That's my baby. She weighs four pounds. She's a Yorkshire terrier. Can you get this picture? That's my baby, Emily Ka'ea. So we can tell the difference between her and her. That's my question. So she would not register on your radar. Well, you could get by. Not necessarily. We can pick up geckos and cats and dogs. But the thing is, they all look different. So depending on how complicated the processing is, you can set it to a four-pounder, a 20-pounder, a 30-pounder. Well, you see that dog is going to have different heart and respiration patterns than a human being, right? So you can look for different patterns, right? Or you can just say look only for human patterns, depending on which space you're monitoring. So where in the College of Engineering does this kind of science fit? Electrical engineering? Electrical, yes. OK. All these things you described are electrical engineering. Yes. OK. And you've worked on this for some time because you were working on the Afghanistan issue, trying to find people behind the walls. Yes. So now this is easy. Now, how does this connect with Jim's zero energy room? Right. Well, actually, the classrooms that Jim built are a fantastic opportunity for us. They are essentially a research platform. So we can use them to test the accuracy of our sensors. So our sensors are still in research, right? So we still need to prove that they can do better than the commercial sensors. We actually are pretty certain that they can. But when we present our data, normally our audience likes to see how do they compare with the commercially available sensors in realistic environments. So this is an environment that's very energy efficient. It already has commercial off-the-shelf sensors in use. And essentially, we would use these research platforms to test the performance of our sensor against the performance of the sensors that they're already used. Got in the vibe of having a flash on one of those Tom Cruise movies where he wants to steal some diamonds or something, lowers himself down to the case where the diamonds are and the sensors don't pick him up because he's just above the line of the sensors. Can you cover the whole room, including the part where you lower yourself down from the ceiling? Well, you certainly can. I mean, you have to know what the room is, right? What is the shape and the size of the room? And then you can design your sensors to cover the whole area. Again, it's a software thing. Well, it's software and hardware, right? So you have to place the sensor in strategic locations. Isn't that great to be an engineer? I should have gone that road. Well, it can go through the walls. Well, it can go through the walls. So I mean, if you're talking about the telerooms, you actually don't want to go through the wall, right? You just want to test that particular room. You can adjust it for that. But you can actually, you can build the sensors so that it actually senses through the wall. So you use different combinations of your antenna aperture and the frequency, radar frequency, and the power that you're sending. So you can actually tweak it for different space or different types of wall materials and that sort of thing. Now, we heard Jim talk about this one hour button push, OK? And then we heard you all talking about how the sensor would look in the room and tell us was anybody there, even if he was really quiet or small, four pounds. And when we come back from this break, I want to ask you a very important question. Does your technology replace his technology? Don't answer. Are you going to eclipse what Jim is doing in the push button? We'll be right back after this break and find out the answer, right? Please join us at St. Tech, Hawaii. My program is Asia and Reveal. My next program is on November 17, Thursday, 11 AM. This is Johnson Choi, your host. Looking to energize your Friday afternoon? Tune in to Stand the Energyman at 12 noon. Aloha, Friday here on Think Tech, Hawaii. I'm Ethan Allen, host of likable science here on Think Tech, Hawaii. 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Also of the Hawaii Natural Engineering Institute. Next to him, Dr. Olga Borek, Becky, who was professor of electrical engineering at the College of Engineering at UH Manoa. So we left hanging with this question. And which of you wants to answer my question as to whether Olga's technology is going to replace your push button 18th century technology where you turn everything on and off with a switch with a button? Let me take a stab at that. Because one of the things that we're trying to accomplish with our net zero building is to create a culture, to create some interaction between the user and their environmental conditions. Let them determine whether they are actually comfortable or not comfortable. And so giving them the ability to be able to turn off or turn on manually while it seems very archaic, it's actually very efficient. Power to the people, absolutely. I mean, it's tough enough that we give them occupancy sensors that turn the lights on and raise the lights up and dim them when there's plenty of daylight. So there's nothing they can do with the lights other than turn them off. The ceiling fans aren't too much fun to vary the speed on. And so the only thing left is the mechanical system for them to play with. Okay, so you would leave the push button in place because it's that sense of empowerment? Well, from a research perspective, yes. As we study this for the next couple of years to try to determine a baseline of behavior, then we'll watch to determine whether are they turning it on during times when it's completely comfortable without the air conditioning just because it's there? Or are they turning it on only when the conditions are such that it really requires air conditioning? Yeah, I think I got it. It's the watch bird watching you. Your technology is watching his technology. Well, something like that. I think our technology can help to improve the conditions a little bit. How would it work? How would it integrate with the push button? Well, I think if you have people that left the room, and the room is empty, and they didn't push the button, then our technology would essentially push the button. It would override the push button. Yes, right. So essentially the goal is to avoid waste of energy when the space is empty. But it wouldn't work the other way. In other words, if we came into the room and it needed energy, your technology is not gonna push the button for the people in the room. They still have to push the button old fashioned style. We could, we could, but I think the way that the space is configured now. The way it's configured, and actually in energy efficiency design, in fact, in California, they're even requiring what you just suggested, which are called vacancy sensors, as opposed to an occupancy sensor. A vacancy sensor will turn off when somebody leaves the room, but it has to be manually started up. It has to be a conscious decision made to start a device as opposed to automatic. So her device would be able to close it out at the end of the day with very high sensitivity towards whether anybody's in there or not. But starting it up would be still manual. So you're the closing out technology rather than the starting up technology, an accurate closing out technology. Well, I guess the bottom line is what you want to avoid the waste, right? So like Jim mentioned, what we're really looking at is this vacancy sensor, right? So making sure that if you have space that's not unoccupied, we do not waste energy. We know that for sure. That is really unoccupied. And on the other hand, we do not want to turn off the lights if people are there, right? Because it's not only a comfort issue, it's also a safety issue. Okay, now suppose I'm a student in the library classroom, the special net zero classroom, and I leave and I'm the last one out the door. And as I walk out the door, I realize, and it's closed down now, the lights are off, the energy is off, we are reaching efficiency by not providing energy to a classroom in which nobody is present. As I walk out the door, oh, whoops, I forgot my cell phone, or I forgot my pencil, or I forgot my notebook, and the like. So I come back in, nothing. Yeah, well, usually actually, the sensors are set with some delay, right? So usually they're going to give you some grace period of maybe five minutes or 10 minutes or something like that, right? So that's actually something that can be adjusted, right? But if you go home and you remember that you forgot something and you come back a couple hours later, right, you would have to push the button. And that really depends on what device is set to, occupancy sensing or vacancy sensing. Okay, so here we have the classrooms are built, the buttons are in, the appliances are in, whatever they are, you know, and we're ready to go, and Olga's working on this thing, but it's not done. So you have it installed. What is your path in terms of developing this device, installing it and implementing it? We are actually working on plans for installation. No, they're not in the rooms now, but as the buildings were worked on, we actually talked to Jim about the possibility of this testing. So Jim actually provided a platform for us. So the building is pretty much ready. So we've prewired. Yeah, it is prewired for. Well, you gotta just put it in. Yeah. Okay. And so it'll just be that, it'll be a vacancy kind of thing. If there's nobody there, it'll turn it off with a grace period or whatever to be determined, right? Right, well, initially we will use it to assess the accuracy of our sensor compared to the sensors that are there. So initially we're not going to control anything in the room with our sensors, right? I love to be one of your test model people. What I'll do is I'll sit at the desk like this, not move a muscle, try to lower my heart rate and see if you still pick me up. Yeah, absolutely, no. We'd love to test you. We can come here and test you during your show too. And you guess you can see how they feel about the questions that are being asked, right? So John, how does this relate to HNEI's mission? Well, our main mission is to reduce the state's dependency on fossil fuels and efficiency is the most cost-effective way to go about that. And there's so much opportunity, I think, with the efficiency that hasn't even been tapped into. I mean, this stuff is very high-tech and automated and as we get that way, you know, more and more, the better. But one of the things I've seen is, you know, you can install a lot of the energy efficiency measures and appliances and things like that. But if the people using the buildings or appliances or whatever aren't educated or don't know enough about it, it kind of goes the way. So it comes with an education and behavior change process, I think that's really important to do. That's what you want to tell the students what you're doing. Yeah. And Jim was mentioning that, you know, different people might have different comfort levels. So they have ways of getting input from the students and others that use the buildings as to whether they were comfortable that day or not. You survey the students. That's right. Yeah. What do you ask them? We're developing a sort of an informal polling device, electronic polling device where we basically ask a fundamental question, how comfortable were you? And give them a choice, very comfortable, slightly uncomfortable, slightly uncomfortable and very uncomfortable, whatever the scale is. And then just collect their responses and compare them to the actual environmental conditions within the temperature, the humidity, what we're observing within the space and then try to do a correlation between their perception of comfort and the actual conditions. So a lot of the one aspect of the area of work that we're doing is really tied to behavior and perception. Yeah. Well, perception is really everything. It's everything. And if you know that a certain set of parameters is comfortable for, you know, say 90% of them, that's what you want to achieve, right? That's right. That's right. And we'll have hard data on how warm is it in there with ceiling fans. Actually, you can actually have a fairly high temperature in there with the air motion moving across the skin and feel very comfortable. So we'll be able to actually document that. This is an architect's dream, isn't it? He's an architect, by the way. I'm sorry I revealed that. You can still talk to me. Okay. I promise.  That's what you want to do more than anything. We want to create comfort at a low cost for energy. Yeah. So, I'll give you a hypothetical, okay? Olga has finished all her research and testing and she has installed in the classrooms all of them, these devices, and you have finished your survey work and you've correlated, you know, the answers with the maximum, you know, not only the maximum comfort but the maximum efficiency that you could achieve, right? And HNEI has a record of all this. You know, it has all these lessons are written down and we have a book that's thick on exactly what we have learned in all this and what we have used to achieve what outcomes. How are you going to deliver that technology to me in my house? Can I buy it? I have my checkbook. Can I buy it? Can I incorporate that? Can I be as comfortable as your students? I want to be as comfortable as your students. When and how can I achieve that? I think Olga and I would have two different answers because she'll have a commercial market. Our audience is really is, you know, the energy efficiency research industry, if you will. And we're trying to contribute to the body of knowledge towards the design of energy efficient buildings. Not so much directed at a consumer but then it's up to others to be able to integrate those responses and that work. So you publish. So we publish. And other architects of like mine picked that up and before you know it, it's in this house and that house and this house. Correct, exactly. So you have to come back and tell us more as this goes by because then we can tell people how it works. Same thing for you, Olga. Olga, what is your answer to my question? Well, we are actually commercializing this technology. So through the office of the... What does that mean? I mean patents, is that what it is? That means patents and that means a startup. And we actually started several years ago and we were working with the tech transfer office at UH. We also worked with the UH accelerator. So we have been fortunate to have received some funding to actually take our research to the prototype stage and that is actually gonna help us with this further testing at the, at Zero Nine. Oh sure, sure. This is all, is it the same company that you were using for the radar back when or a different company, different product? Yes, yes. How interesting, okay. So then, assuming you have your venture capital and you have your patents, it takes five years to get a patent. What then?  I mean, can I find it on the store there?  Well, we are actually seeking the partnership with one of the larger manufacturers of these kind of technologies and with energy integrators. So we are, I think we would be too small to really make it to the Walmart shelf. So I think coming to market would be, you know, a more realistic path for us would be a partnership. Okay, Kmart, I don't know much. Yeah. But it would be an object, right? And I'd plug it into my house. It would live between the power source and the appliances, yeah. Yes, well, it could be a sensor that you can plug into a wall anywhere. And it would essentially just look for where you are and then communicate with the power system in your house. Adjustable. I could, all those parameters you were describing, I could change that. You could change them, right? So we would, I think we would most likely preset them to some level that most consumers would be happy with. And I could do that on my iPhone, right? Yeah, yes. I think I just revealed something. Or maybe I.


You're having work with Kevin Durant and Steph Curry. How are they the same and how are they different? There's three traits that I've noticed with all high performers in basketball and business and everything in between. The first was the lesson I learned from Kobe. They respect the process, they respect the fundamentals, they respect that you have to get in reps. They understand that there's no quick fix to being excellent at anything. So they respect the fundamentals. Number two, they do a masterful job of blending confidence with humility. They earn the right to be confident because they put in the work during the unseen hours. A guy like Steph Curry, I can't fathom how many millions of shots he's made in empty gyms when no one is watching since he was a teenager. So he puts in that work to earn the right to be confident. But they also have humility and humility is what allows them to be coachable, what allows them to stay open to feedback. But most important, humility is what allows them to say, no matter how good I currently am, I can still get better. Like even if you say I'm going to be the best shooter in the history of the game, I know I still can improve a little bit and that takes humility. So they blend those together. And then the other thing is they have a strong appreciation for the process. They're very clear on the goals that they want to accomplish, but they understand that the way to do that is to focus on the steps. Don't focus on the goal, focus on the day to day. So a guy like Kevin Durant or Steph Curry wakes up and says, what can I do today that's going to inch me closer to this massive goal that I have? And whether that massive goal is to win an NBA championship or to be the best shooter of all time or whatever it may be, all they focus on is what can I do today? Well, I have a workout this morning. How can I perform this workout with the focus and intensity that will get me a little bit closer to whatever that goal is? And that's something I've noticed amongst all high performance. Now the difference is they also have the self-awareness to know where they're unique, to know how they operate best. You know, they've refined and they've tweaked and they've tried. So, you know, Kevin Durant's morning routine will be different than Steph and Curry's. But what they share is they both understand the importance of starting your day in a way that's going to set you up for success, but they don't try to carbon copy anybody else. The standards we set in our life, in every area of our life, as a spouse, as a parent, as a speaker, as a business owner, as an executive, the standards we set today ultimately determine who will be tomorrow. You know, knowing that you put the work in and have the confidence to let it show, what I tell people is just be the best version of yourself in anything that you do. You don't have to live anybody else's story.  But the truth is you really don't. It doesn't matter where you come from, what you have or don't have, what you lack, what you have too much of, but all you need to have is an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive in the will to do whatever it takes to be successful and whatever you put your mind to.


These secured overnight finance rate unchanged at spot 0.5%. Comment from the Fed Harpen says after finishing asset versus taper of March, they will probably expect a 25 basis point rate hike. Welcome traders. So, this week's live trade analysis session with me, Patrick Munnerly. Before we get going here, if you can hear me and you can see the welcome screen, if you could type a wine to the chat box so that I know we're good to go. Thank you, Joshua. Thank you, Sammy. Good stuff. Okay, let's get this show on the road. Before we start, just a bit of housekeeping here. If you have any questions, Hi, Jason. If you have any questions during the presentation, if you want to drop them into the Q&A or into the chat, I won't cover them as I'm going through the charts. What I will do at the end of the session is open up a brief Q&A where I'll cover off any questions you might have with respect to any aspect of trading or a chart maybe that you want me to take a look at that I don't cover in my presentation. Happy to do that at the end of the session. So, before we jump into the presentation, as always, we want to adhere to the risk disclaimer. Most pertinent to today's discussion is the fact that the views expressed by me here today are solely mine. They're not indicative of or representative of those held by Tick Mill UK or Tick Mill Europe Limited. Noel's got no sound. Okay, so for those that are here for the first time today, a brief introduction to myself. After I graduated from King's College London, I joined a city PLC consulting firm. I left with some colleagues and went on to successfully co-found a consulting startup which was focused on C-suite executive search for technology businesses. So, essentially, I had front-row seat in the dot-com bubble, witnessing people make and lose a fortune in the markets, sometimes quite literally overnight. So, I decided to explore my curiosity for markets. I had some capital to play with and some time on my hands and I started day trading the S&P 500, or probably more appropriately, day gambling, after some early beginners luck, I racked up some pretty solid gains. However, as is often the case, my beginners luck went out and as the market phase changed, I began to average down into what were going to prove to be some pretty significant losing positions. I eventually gave back all my gains and took a six figure hit on my personal capital. So, that was a gut wrenching and sobering experience is an understatement. So, I really had to stand back and figure out if it was feasible for me to make a living from the markets. So, I decided to get serious about trading and sort out a mentor with an excellent trading track record. Working with my mentor for a period of 18 months to two years was a time during which I was not just my technical game in terms of researching, developing, extensively back and forward testing strategies that crucially suited my personality, all of which are underpinned by a rigorous risk management approach. But most importantly, during this period of mentorship, I significantly developed my mental gains and probably most importantly of all, I made the watershed shift from being a highly goal orientated individual focused on financial gains to becoming purely process orientated. So, what does that mean? Well, it means I had to stop focusing on what I could make from the markets and start focusing solely on managing my mindset to allow me to consistently execute my trading strategy oftentimes in the face of negative feedback from the markets in the form of losing trades. But once you become process orientated and have a professional trading mindset and you understand the true nature of trading being a numbers game in which you're simply playing the probabilities, you lose that emotional investment and the hellish emotional roller coaster of living and dying by the outcomes of individual trades. I'm no longer concerned with the outcome of individual trades or even a small string of trades. My focus is on the next 100 trades because I know if I focus on excellence in execution, my edge will demonstrate itself over an extended series of outcomes. My multi-strategy approach has delivered profitable annual returns since 2008. Since 2013, I have also been managing investor capital through a managed account service, again, delivering annual positive returns. I'm currently responsible for managing a multi-million dollar portfolio. Since 2010, I've also mentioned hundreds of private traders of all experience levels from complete novices to former CME floor traders in developing the technical and mental skills to reap consistent returns from the markets. In addition to my fund management and mentoring, I'm resident market experts exclusively providing market and trade analysis to TICMIL. I provide an in-depth daily market outlook, breaking down fundamental and technical drivers for the day ahead. I also provide daily technical trade setup videos on three to five markets that I'm tracking through the TICMIL Trading View account. I also run TICMIL's rapidly growing E-mini strategy Facebook group where I post a daily video outlining my pre-market trading plan for the US cash trading session. I give my bias for the day ahead in specific action areas where I'm looking to engage the market. These pre-market plans have delivered over 1800 points of profit since we launched the group last April. The second TICMIL strategy group I ran is for traders who really want to take their trading to the next level. TICMIL Futures Trading Telegram Group is a real-time environment where on a daily basis I share in-depth insights analysis and trades. I also live streamed during the opening hour of the cash session in New York where traders can essentially look over my shoulder and watch in real time as I dissect the markets and identify asymmetric trading opportunities. These live trade sessions also act as a platform helping traders to develop a professional consistent approach to navigating the markets and most importantly the mental mind games that must be mastered to make it as a profitable market operator. That gives you a flavor of where I'm coming from. What I want to do now is jump into the charts. Before I do that I will just quickly post into the chat here for those that are interested in any of those trade groups I run. You can access the Facebook group just simply by submitting a membership request and for those who are interested in following the Trading View ideas that I post on a daily basis those videos we have this Trading View account TICMIL trade ideas I post daily their daily videos on like I say three to five markets that I'm tracking and for those that are interested in finding out more about the Telegram Futures Group that does require you to have a funded TICMIL Futures account but you can if you want to direct message me through LinkedIn there's my profile you can follow up with me on that through a direct message. So that gives you a flavor of where I'm coming from and now we want to jump into the charts. Today I'm going to use multi-time frames. The longer time frame is going to be the daily chart and what I'm going to do is through the intraday hourly chart identify some trading opportunities to align with what I perceive to be the daily trend. Now you'll notice that the colors of the candlesticks are slightly different to those of just the standard green meaning a bullish close and red meaning a bearish close. Mine are trends determined and the trend is based upon a volumized average price on the daily charts and on the hourly charts. So this just the reason I have these is just simply to better define trend and to not get taken out of trend moves on on the interim reversal. So that's just to explain the color coded nature of the candles. So looking first of all here at the S&P 500 this is the many futures contract here for the S&P 500. If you're trading the actual spot S&P 500 through Tick Millers in terms of the MT4, you need to adjust the levels. Currently I think the spread is about seven points but I use the futures for my trading. So what we're tracking here is essentially we've had what could possibly be considered a corrected move and the reason why I refer to that is that we had from the price here an ABC pattern and we traded just shy of the 4570 which was the equality objective versus the swing structure. When I'm talking about equality objectives, when I'm talking about our ABC in Elliott Wave terms would be considered a BC corrections. Now obviously we can have more complex corrections. You can do a double or even a triple correction but the initial objective for any corrective move is going to be the equality level and so that's the one that I'm always looking forward to pay attention to. So we have technically completed what can be considered a correction. The move off the lows of the current swing lows just ahead of that 4570, 4573. Also at this stage is corrective in nature and so far as we have this reaction high, the initial reaction low. So we have reaction high, reaction low and you can see there. Let's take a look at this one. We have traded just into what could be considered another correction. So if this scenario, if we're going to do a double correction, what we'd anticipate is that we are going to see this type of pattern developed. So we have this and then we have this and this and this and then we would get another corrective leg to the downside which more often than not will be equal to this leg here. So this would be considered a double correction. So we have this pattern or the XYZ pattern if you're an earlier wave fanatic. So this is the potential scenario versus this 4741 high but what I'm looking at here now on the intraday charts is we have potential triangle scenario and if we can hold support back into 4697, that's going to be a key level I'm going to be watching today as a potential trade zone for me. If we hold this 4697, it's also projected ascending trend line support versus the current swing structure we're in. If we can hold there, get bullish reversal patterns, then I would be looking for a move back up through this 4741 to take us up into the 78.6% retracement of the entire decline at 475750, then that would become a decision point for the market because what you'll also notice here is that versus the last leg of upside that we had, the Santa Claus rally as such, we actually held 78.6% retracement to the downside. So it's more often than not in these futures we will test these 78.6% retracements and then we'll see whether or not buyers have enough appetite to take us through that level because once we get a close through the 78.6% retracement, that sets up a high probability scenario of testing the 127 extension of that prior swing which would then have us up new all-time highs for the 871. So it's going to be an interesting session today in terms of futures. We've got PPI data out later today. If we hold this 46.95 to 97 area, I'm going to be looking for long positions to take us up into that 47.57. However, if we fail at the 94, that would suggest that this correction is complete and then we'd be thinking again about that double corrected scenario and we'd be targeting to move back down into the lows here 45.21 and 45.09 being the 127 extension. So that's what I'm tracking in terms of the futures there. Let's move and take a look at the dollar index. So this chart load, you can see the dollar is sitting right at the trend channel support. Now a bunch of people have sent me a message me regarding the the price section in the dollar and confusion as to why the Fed are pretty much locked into raise rates in March now, why we're seeing this dollar weakness. I've got a note here from Citi that I've shared in the in my in the trading groups, but for the purposes of you guys just quickly to get a take here from Citi who obviously see a tremendous amount of FX flow and positioning and you can see they identify three real factors and they're actually seeing a sector rotation and certainly a lot of investment banks have been calling this year for outperformance in terms of the euro stocks and the euro area. So what does that mean? Well, it means that fund flows could be shifting. So if US investment managers want to put on positions in Europe, that means they're having to convert dollars into euros to to put on those positions or sterling if they want to get exposure in the UK. So you can see here that Citi have highlighted these three factors. So positioning again from a CTA perspective remains very long dollars and we have also seen this big rise in oil which more often than not is a negative for the dollar and certainly that's what's happening at the moment and that's leading to some of these commodity currencies to outperform in terms of the dollar. So we're going to look more closely at the euro and sterling and these currency currencies. I just wanted to give you a heads up there on the institutional take as to why we're seeing why we're seeing a bit of a bit of weakness in terms of the dollar index. Citi do however know that they they are still looking for one for an additional one more high here in terms of the the dollar as we as we get that first rate high whether or not we're going to see that is is up for debate and certainly from a technical perspective if we can't hold the support here at 94.50 then I'm going to be moving to a bearish stance on the dollar and looking for price to extend to the downside. So if we close below that 94.50 any pullback back into this trend line support coming in just ahead of the 95 will will actually be to my mind anyway a shorting opportunity and certainly then I've been looking for a move down to test the yearly pivot 93.80s and if if we continue to find fresh selling there I'm looking for a test of this high volume lows 92.80s is the next downside objective. Now obviously the inverse scenario here is that we hold the trend line we get a bullish reversal and and then we start to develop for this final move up to make a new high as the fed potentially make their first move in March and I've been looking for a move up towards 97.70s to 98.00s handle and then from there we could see a more meaningful correction. So we really are testing pivotal levels for the dollar at the moment and it's going to be interesting to see how how the price action develops in terms of the hourly the intraday setup at the moment remains bearish and if we think in terms of the wave structure here we'd be thinking about another potential leg down here to get that break of the of the trend line and then we'd look for further corrective moves to find weakness before completing this initial structure to the downside so once we get that pattern developed then what I'd be looking for would be a three wave corrective move to basically equal what's what we've got here in terms of this potential one two if we if we're going to consider this is our way one this is our wave two correction then we've got this internal five wave structure developing so then we'd have a more meaningful correction that would take us back into that 95 area that I've just talked about if we do get the break and that will be the the opportunity on the short side to set up a move down into the yearly pivot 93.80s and then be on there 92.80s being the high volume nodes so that's what I'm tracking at the moment with the dollar now obviously the inverse would really require us to to see a sharp reversal from the trend line we're not currently seeing that and that's the first sign to me or the heads up that we might be seeing a more meaningful change in trend here in terms of the dollar more often than not when get if you look at these prior tests of the trend line we get some sharp reactions we're not seeing that at the moment in the dollar so that that can be the first alert that we're just going to see a more sustained change in trend in terms of the dollar index so if that's the dollar view let's take a look at the euro so the euro I was tracking on the daily time frame this wedge scenario we have broken out of the trend line resistance now what I really want to see is I want to seek to come to get to get really constructive on the euro I really want to see the the dollar break its trend line which we haven't quite done at the moment so for now the euro has tested into the equality objective 114.68 seeing a little bit of profit-taking but if we look at the intraday structure here and we think about the same scenario that or the inverse to what I've just talked about in terms of the dollar what I'd anticipate now is that we have that's this so we're going to move up into the 115 from there I'd look for a more sustained corrected pullback ideally then we get a test of this 114 these price as support and then we take off to the upside so you can see that this is the breakout point of this ascending triangle pattern that we've been trading in so any moves back now into this 114, 113.80 I'm going to be watching carefully for bullish reversal patterns to engage on the long side looking for a move up we want to be thinking about the yearly pivot here 116.30 as the next logical progression for a target in terms of the upside for the euro dollar now obviously any sharp rejection from this zone that gets back inside the trend line tomorrow would actually be a would be a bearish development less it's possible but less probable at this stage is what I would say so we'll be watching to see if we can get a weekly close through the trend line and then I think we can we can start to think about more significant upside targets for the euro and certainly one of them would be an equality objective versus this last meaningful correction that we had so if we overload that versus our current low you can see that would actually put us back up into 117.50s now from there we could actually do another leg to the downside or only because you can see that this could potentially be a wave three low wave four and then a wave five to the downside so again key decision points ahead but for now what we're looking at is the opportunity to engage on the long side certainly if we get a close another two-day close through that trend line is pretty it's pretty constructive for the bulls and we'll be looking to to get in long versus this this breakout point on the euro now let's take a look at sterling similar scenario on the daily chart here you can see we have taken out the trend line so the immediate target for me now with sterling is going to be 138 138 39 from there I'd anticipate a bit more of a corrective pullback but then again we want to be thinking about about upside extension in terms of sterling so any pullbacks at this stage back into 136 40s and this this ascending trend channel support here and just address that any pullbacks into this zone I'm going to be watching for bullish reversal patterns games get in on the long side and we'll be looking for an extension up into that 138 40s as the next upside objective so 200 pits to play for there if we can get this pullback to to hold the trend line support and then we'll be looking to get in on the long side looking at let's jump into some of these commodity currencies here we've got the dollar CAD now the dollar CAD this is also another key trend line test that's that's in play here you can see we have potential third test now more often than not these third tests will hold but with this with this color the current dollar dynamic any close through this trend line will again drag on the dollar and and see these commodity currencies advance so paying very close attention to this level here on the dollar CAD 124 50s if we get a close below there that's a significant bearish development we then want to be targeting 122 95s and then back into the lows here at 120 so for now we stay bearish the dollar CAD let me just draw in what I'm looking at here so any moves that when we take out the trend line and then three-way corrective moves into the trend line resistance here on the intraday the hourly timeframe so 125 20s to 125 30s would be opportunities on the short side for to set up an extension to the downside in terms of the dollar CAD at this stage again can't really get constructed unless we get a bullish reversal here that takes out this interim descending trend line resistance and then we could see a more sustained corrective move potentially or we ascend then up to that 132 23 a quality objective versus this bigger swing structure again possible but at this point given the dollar dynamic less probable would be my my thoughts at this point and certainly when we start now to look you can take a look at the Aussie here so we're seeing some strength in the Aussie I mentioned this last week so we've got a trench channel here to look at on the intro time frame so pullbacks now that find support into this high volume mode and the projected pitchfork support coming in 72 50s should be opportunities on the long side we want to engage there looking for a move up to ultimately test the trend line resistance coming in 74 60 74 70 now that obviously implies a failure of the trend line resistance trend line supports sorry in terms of the dollar CAD let's take a look at some of the commodities themselves and start to lean to the bullish side in terms of commodities and I'll explain why in a minute certainly with the oil move so you can see on the daily in terms of gold there's not really much to do here we're trading in the triangle at the moment and I've been waiting for the triangle to get a retest or a break before doing something in gold silver similar well we're trading within the wedge at the moment in terms of silver if we can get a move through the weekly range resistance here there would be an opportunity on the long side to play for this move here where we get a test into sending trend line resistance 24 25s there and there may be a new low before extending to the upside in terms of silver but the one that's of most interest to me at the moment in terms of commodities is crude oil so crude is sitting right at this trend line resistance so what we want to see in terms of crude now is any pullback into this trend line support and these prior highs so the 8040 level in crude this is what I want to pay attention to because if we can get back in here and we get a bullish reversal pattern from this area then I'll be looking on the long side to play for a break of that trend line resistance here on the daily time frame so through 83 20s and then we should break the prior highs at 85 85 39 and then in terms of upside objectives what we want to track is the fid tool here we have a 127 extension then up at 91 64 so we're through the 78.6 retracement which is really gives conviction on the bullish side so what we're looking for is that first pullback we could from the current levels if we look at if we think about it in terms of wage structure we could have a quite a deep pullback here which would still be bullish and still give us that extension then up through the the highs let's just measure that versus that pullback and then in early wave terms what we want to think about is five equals one so the fifth wave equal to the first wave as a minimum objective so we could pull back in theory here into the 76 level and it would still be a bullish structure versus this this equality objective and and set up that move to break the highs preferred scenario like I say is that on the intro time frame we're going to move back into this support so in 80 40s bullish reversal pattern from there to extend to the upside initially targeting 85 70s in terms of crude let's check in with the cryptos here bitcoin has tested that daily sending trend line support can't can't really get too excited about this until we take out this descending trend line once we do then we may have a more meaningful low in place in terms of in terms of bitcoin here and pullbacks then should should be opportunities on the long side to at least play for that gap fill up to the 53,700 level this is obviously the continuous future futures contract that's why it's got a gap obviously bitcoin itself doesn't actually have a gap because it trades 24 hours a day but this is the futures contract so it has a gap 53,600 will be the magnet if we can take out the descending trend line resistance ether really trapped at this stage in this descending trend line whilst this is still in play and I think the picture for ether remains pretty bearish and we can start to think about this trend line support projected pitchwalk support 2321 from rejections at the 3500 level so that's going to be a key test for ether if we can get through there then we can start to get constructive again on ether and start to think about upside objectives but for now it's uh it looks looks bearish dolly yen so we have dolly yen breaking it's uh it's trend line support it's internal trend line support here as we get through there the next stop for the dolly yen is actually going to be quite a way down back into this 111 80 ascending trend line support so in terms of the intraday what we want to see is a close through the uh the trend line support and the pivot at the moment so if we get a close if we get through back into 114 and then we want to think about a move that corrects in uh an equal weight to this last leg here so we want to see this type of scenario develop then we retest the on the daily we'd be retesting the trend line from below to actors resistance and that's going to be where the opportunity on the short side is and then we would be setting up for a downside extension into um trend line support coming in 112 30 so uh it's ample room on the downside and again this feeds into that idea of the dollar ultimately failing at its uh and its trend line support so it's really for me at the moment it's going to be key to watch how this dollar index uh responds to the uh the trend line test that's underway and like I say at the moment we're not really seeing much appetite in terms of in terms of the balls and so I'm starting to think in terms of a breakdown and then playing that first retest of the 95 level from below I think will be an interesting opportunity and obviously then that feeds into uh the FX majors as uh as I've discussed so those are the charts that I'm tracking at the moment and the uh the opportunities I see uh in developing in the in the coming sessions really and so uh keeping an eye on those I'll be updating them in the uh the tick mill uh trading view account which I posted the link for in the chat uh so at this point I'm happy to uh open up for any questions anyone uh have a chart would like me to take a look at but I haven't covered you can type it into the chat or the q and a okay sterling swiss to start with let's go okay so this one is sitting right at this trend line have we tested well we're just shy of trend line support uh trend line resistance there if we look at the intraday structure let's zoom out so we have the trend line support here oops so what I'll be looking for on this one is the quality objective so we have this leg this leg and this leg so I've been looking for a move uh whilst we hold 125 60s as resistance and let's see this pattern play out and then get in on the long side certainly thinking about that trend line test so we have uh 126 30s so we've given entry here potentially at uh this trend line support in this pivot cluster the quality objective 124 50s watch for bullish reversal patterns there and uh and I think that's a decent opportunity on the long side their third test of the trend line as well like that and uh and then we can play for a challenge on this uh descending trend line resistance uh which would actually technically be a fourth test and so um as you know those fourth tests uh the resistance is probably weakened significantly and so they provide a decent opportunity for a break and then we'd have that high volume mode 126 95 127 so this great risk reward scenario here nice technical setup and and yeah so watch for the bullish reversal pattern at the 124 50s sterling yen and this one is uh is looking at the moment like uh like it could do this ascending triangle pattern here so if we can hold 156 50s do we have a quality objective there let's just look yeah we have the equal legs 156 50s we have the pivot there um so any move into this own bullish reversal patterns engage on the long side we might consolidate here at the uh the trend line resistance third test but ultimately we'd be looking for a breakup and um if we extend then we can start to think about that 160 there on the upside which again if we think about the wave structure here we have a potential five equals one would put us up there um quite nicely and then from there i'd be anticipating uh we see a bit more of a sustained corrected move but you can see the structure there on the daily works nicely and we have a nice entry here watching for reversals from 156 50 and Kiwi CAD so the Kiwi CAD looks uh looks to be setting up that's yeah so what i'd anticipate here with Kiwi CAD is essential for um trend line here where price stalls out at the um at the 78.6 61.8 percent extensions from the uh this i classify this as a potential double double correction so an x y z pattern um but what we could look at is for um here on the let's do this one second to measure this and this and this so yeah what i like with this then is um we probably are going to correct higher here but ultimately what i'll be looking for will be for uh the price to stall out in and around these prior lows here 86.14 and then a final extension down into the 83 uh 83 level and then from there i think we could see a more sustained corrected move completing this uh the equality objectives on multiple swings there so um pullbacks like i say into 86.12 let's draw in what that might look like here so something like like this would work and then look to engage on the short side so that makes sense i mean okay any other questions equi if you don't have a question and any in the chat box is useful so i know that uh we're all on the same page and i've done a reasonable job of explaining what it is i am looking at and where the opportunities are for the week ahead okay if there aren't any other questions i'm going to uh are you using high can actually candles um now i'm not using high can actually these uh these are trend candles as as defined by the volume wasted average price no problem joseph okay like i say you can follow me on on the trading via put the link into the chat and feel free to join me in the the futures group for that daily trade plan and uh i'll look forward to uh recombining same time next week all the best everyone thanks very much


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