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So without wasting much time now let us move on to the first news article discussion. Have a look at this news article. This news article is taken from the text and context page. See this news article gives us an insight about which is greater rights or duties. Before that why are we discussing it? See recently in a virtual summit our Prime Minister Narendra Modi he has stated that the country has wasted a lot of time fighting for rights and neglecting one's duties. See this statement portrays a contradiction between citizens rights and duties. So in this discussion let us understand what are rights, duties and we'll also see the issues arising from conflating or combining the rights and duties. The syllabus relevant to this article is highlighted here for your reference. Please go through it. First of all let us start our discussion with the origin of fundamental duties of the citizen. See during the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's government 42nd amendment to the constitution was made. See there were several controversial changes made by this amendment. Here I will give two such changes from this 42nd constitution amendment. First is curtailing the power of judicial review and writ jurisdiction of the Supreme Court and High Courts. The other is empowering parliament to pass laws to combat anti-national acts. Apart from this such laws were permitted to take priority over fundamental rights. See many such controversial changes which either directly or indirectly put down the fundamental rights of the citizens were removed or limited by the 44th constitution amendment act. But remember there are few noteworthy changes made by the 42nd constitution amendment. One such change was the inclusion of part 4A which talks about the fundamental duties of the citizen. As we know the fundamental duties enumerate the duties that must be followed by a citizen and the citizen of the duties stated in part 4A of the constitution to both the state and other individuals. So by 42nd constitution amendment act the fundamental duties were included in the constitution. This part enumerates the duties which must be followed by the citizens and the citizens owe the duties to both the state and other individuals. See some of them or moral duties while other or civic duties. For example cherishing noble ideals of freedom struggle is a moral duty whereas respecting the constitution national flag and a national anthem is a civic duty. So here a moral duty is an action that is required by morality or responsibility as a human being. It is more related to our behavior. In contrast a civic duty is an action required by law for a citizen to perform. In other words civic duty is the main duty of a citizen to run and develop the nation. Note that though these fundamental duties cannot be directly enforced by the courts the parliament is free to enforce them by suitable legislation. In addition to this we have legal duties. Here law and rules formulated by the government come under the legal duties which help people to use their rights. Let me give few examples for this. First one is to pay our taxes. The next one will be to refrain from committing violence against our fellow citizens and then to follow other laws that parliament has enacted. Note that breach of these legal duties triggers financial consequences such as fines or even a jail term. So the citizen are already following a host of duties. This includes all the three duties like moral duty, civic duty and legal duty. A moral duty is related towards our behaviors, laws and rules formulated by the government come under the legal duties which help people to use their rights. Whereas civic duty is the main duty of a citizen to run and develop the nation. All these come under part four of the Constitution of India. Now what is the core need of all these duties? See the duties of every citizen is important in order to maintain peace and harmony in the society. So the fundamental duties and other legal duties create a feeling that the citizens are not mere spectators but active participants in the realization of national goals. So far we saw how fundamental duties evolved. Now we'll move on to discuss the origin of fundamental rights. See India has seen the worst of dehumanization during colonialism itself. During those times the voices of many were unheard. For example the criminal tribes were treated as less than humans. Apart from this from the long and brutal colonial history the constitutional framers of India they took holocaust as an example.  By looking at all these examples the constitutional famers of India they understood the importance of guaranteeing the citizens some basic rights called as fundamental rights. See these rights were mainly framed to ensure basic dignity and equality to each and every citizen. So the fundamental rights in part three of constitution stand as a bulk walk against dehumanization. For example take article 19 which gives all citizens the right to freedom of speech and expression to assemble peacefully and without arms to form association or unions to move freely throughout the territory of India to reside and settle in any part of the territory of India to practice any profession or to carry on any occupation trade or business. So firstly the fundamental rights were formulated based on the principle of anti-dehumanization. Secondly the constitutional framers of India were also aware of the deep stratification of the society based on gender, caste and religion. See all these had kept the people in permanent conditions of subordination and degradation. For example there was forced labour, untouchability, discriminatory access to public spaces etc right. So in order to stand against such cruel hierarchy the fundamental rights were engraved in the Indian constitution. For example take article 17 which is a fundamental right guaranteed by the constitution of India. This article 17 talks about the abolition of untouchability. Also its practice in any form is forbidden under article 17. Additionally this article mentions that the enforcement of any disability arising out of untouchability shall be an offense punishable in accordance with law. So the second principle based on which the fundamental rights were enumerated is the anti-hierarchy. So the purpose of part 3 fundamental rights is revealed by the twin principles that is anti-dehumanization and anti-hierarchy. Because of this fundamental rights were meant to play an equalizing and democratizing role throughout the society. Now considering the importance of the fundamental rights or the constitutional framers they made them justiciable that is they can be enforced by the court. If you can recall we have a separate article for this also. It is article 32 which provides right to constitutional remedies. So so far we had discussed the reasons and importance behind the inclusion of duties like fundamental duties, legal rights and the fundamental rights in the Indian constitution separately. Now let us discuss the major problems mentioned by the author which is the conflation of rights and duties. To understand this let me give an example. See when we look back at the Supreme Court's judgment from the early 1980s they upheld the differential treatment of male and female flight attendants. This was on the ground that women had a duty to ensure the good upbringing of children. Also it upheld that it is the women's duty to ensure the success of the family planning program in the country. Here we can understand that without the moral compass of rights the burden of duties will only be forced upon the already vulnerable and marginalized section of the citizens. See fundamental duties and other duties in Indian constitution serve as a source of inspiration for the citizens. They also promote a sense of discipline and commitment among the citizens. But it is very important to combat hierarchy which can be ensured by the enforcement of fundamental rights. Why? Because this fundamental right will further aid in understanding duties in its proper context. It is for this reason the constitution which is a Charter of Liberation is fundamentally above rights. So the author says that it is only after the guarantee of humanity, dignity, equality and freedom one can expect the duty from a citizen. Because these fundamental rights ensure transformation of the society from the cruel hierarchy and dehumanization. If all these goes on well and when the society is completely transformed ensuring democracy and equality we can then update to the stage where real duties are the result of the fulfillment of rights. See these quotes were mentioned in Mahatma Gandhi's book named Hind Swaraj. So make note of these points you can use it as value addition in your main sansa writing. So that's all about the article. In this article we saw about what are duties, what are rights. We saw about the origin of duties and rights separately and then we saw about the issues which arise from combining rights and duties. Finally in the conclusion we saw that the fundamental rights must ensure transformation of the society from the cruel hierarchy and dehumanization which will further lead to a situation where the country can expect the duty from a citizen. That's all about the news article. Utilize these points to enrich your main sansa. With these learnt points now let us move on to the next news article discussion. See this editorial article is written in the backdrop of upcoming union budget for the next financial year. It will be submitted next week to the parliament. So in this article the author explains what is the macroeconomic status of our country and what stands should be taken by the government on the policy front. So in this discussion let us see about India's macroeconomic status and the suggestions given by author for stimulating growth. The syllabus relevant to this article is highlighted here for your reference. Please go through it. First of all what is this macroeconomics. See when we say macroeconomics it means a wider picture of the economy. Particularly it focuses on how an overall economy behaves. That is how the market or other systems that operate on a large scale actually behaves. And for this economic wide phenomena or taken into consideration such as inflation, price levels, rate of economic growth, national income, cross domestic product. That is the GDP and change in unemployment. This is why to know the macroeconomic situation of India author has talked about all these indicators in the editorial. Today let us see some of these indicators. First indicator is as usual inflation. I hope you are all aware about the term inflation. Inflation means there is a rise in general level of prices of goods and services. That is prices of most goods have gone up. This erodes the purchasing power of money. It leads to rise in the cost of living and ultimately affects the poor. We know that right. Now the rate of inflation can be measured using either the wholesale price index WPI or retail price index RPI. Now that RPI is generally known as consumer price index or CPI. See CPI is more important here because it is used as a tool by government and RBI for targeting inflation and for monitoring price stability. What does this word targeting inflation mean? It means the announcement of official target ranges for the inflation. See it is announced by the central government in consultation with RBI. Currently government has notified 4% CPI inflation as the target for the period April 2021 to March 2026. See note these points very very important and also remember this target has an plus or minus 2 tolerance range. That is CPI inflation could be maximum of 6% or minimum of 2%. So as per government inflation should not go beyond this target. If it appears to go beyond it then RBI adjusts its monetary policy in such a way to keep inflation close to the agreed target. See as you know monetary policy actually deals with the supply of money in the economy and the rate of interest. So adjusting its monetary policy would also mean that RBI will change its interest rates. The interest rate we are talking here is about the repo rate. For those who are not aware repo rate is the interest rate at which RBI provides overnight liquidity to banks against the collateral of government securities and other approved securities. So RBI increases its interest rate or repo rate when there is rise in inflation or decreases it when there is low inflation. So to decide what will be the monetary policy RBI looks at inflation numbers first. According to the recent data WPI inflation rose to a record high of 14.32% in November 2021 but there was decrease in December 2021. In December 2021 WPI inflation came down to 13.56%. On the other hand CPI inflation is at 5.03%. So we can say it is within the target range but it is still in the upper limit of the target. Based on these data we can say inflation is high but according to experts this inflation is transitory or temporary in nature as it is caused by disruption in supply chain and volatile energy and food prices. See when there is disruption in supply chain this means the supply is not meeting the demand. This disruption here is caused by pandemic and then the energy and food prices are actually volatile because their supply can vary due to weather or geopolitical events. Further energy and food are important components while calculating CPI. So their volatility affects CPI also. So this was about the inflation. So far we saw about inflation and how inflation must be taken into account to formulate policies as an indicator. Now the next important indicator is bond yield. See bond yield is the return an investor realizes on a bond. The return occurred by holder or measured by the yield. Here the return is the rate of interest paid as coupons. Fact to be noted here is bond yield is inversely proportional to the current value of the bond. The greater the yield the lower the current market price of the bond or as bond price increases the bond yield falls. See bond yields are important because they are used by economists to diagnose the health of a country's economy such as inflation, lending rate of the central bank, growth rate and national income. Plus bond yield are also a very predictive means of estimating the trajectory of an economy. See as investors sell government bonds prices drop and the yield actually increases. A higher yield actually indicates greater risk. If the yield offered by a bond is much greater than what it was when issued, there is a chance that the company or government that issued it is financially stressed and may not be able to repay the capital. So this is an issue that you have to make note of. Another important issue is higher bond yield will mean that the government will have to borrow at much higher rates. So what is the current situation regarding bond yield? See according to the author the bond yield are increasing ahead of the union budget. When we talk about higher bond yield we also need to look into the fiscal deficit. See fiscal deficit means the total expenditure minus the total receipts except the borrowing and other liabilities. That is it means the deficit that arises when the government's expenditure exceeds its revenues. So to bridge this deficit government will borrow more through bond. According to the revised budget estimates fiscal deficit as a percentage of GDP rose to 9.5% in 2021 to 22 and the news is government is planning to bring down fiscal deficit in the range of 6%. So for this unfortunately government will have to borrow at much higher rate due to higher bond yields. Apart from this government may also have to borrow to finance its social sector schemes and health sector requirements. So by taking these two indicators into consideration as a suggestion author recommends a medium term fiscal consolidation employing critical measures. See fiscal consolidation is defined as the concrete policies that are aimed at reducing government deficits and debt accumulation. Author is suggesting medium term fiscal consolidation because a full blown instantaneous fiscal consolidation would mean aggressive measure by government such as reducing capital expenditure. Here by reducing this capital expenditure deficit can be overcome. But the problem is capital expenditure is important in the pandemic situation scenario to spur growth. See capital expenditure refers to the money spent by the government on the development of machinery, equipment, building, health facility, education etc. If government stops spending for these it will drastically affect these sectors which are trying to revive. So through a medium term fiscal consolidation government can aim to bring down fiscal deficit in a phased manner. So now based on the above observations author suggests the government to take an accommodative fiscal policy stance. See fiscal policy refers to the government's decision about taxation and spending. Now author wants it to be accommodative rather than restrictive. Accommodative would mean government should not stop spending worrying about fiscal deficit because it is necessary to spur growth. So we have to wait for the budget and see the policy stance of the government. These are all the important points that you have to make note of very very important points with the budget upcoming. These points will help you in value addition in your main sensor. So in this discussion we saw about two important indicators. First thing is about inflation. Second one is about bond yield. We saw how these two indicators influence the policy making and finally we saw the suggestion given by author. With these learnt points now let us move on to the next news article discussion. Look at this news article. It talks about the different support ensured by NATO to Eastern Europe. Since Russia's military is building up around Ukraine NATO has ensured its different support by providing standby forces ships and fighter jets. Today we are not going to get into the issue of what is happening around Ukraine. Instead let us use this opportunity to discuss in detail about this NATO. See the North Atlantic Treaty Organization abbreviated as NATO is a transatlantic alliance. This alliance consists of the like-minded North American and European countries. It is the world's largest peacetime military alliance. Now let's have a brief discussion on the history of NATO. See NATO was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada and several other Western European countries in order to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. Note that this NATO was the first peacetime military alliance that the United States had entered outside the western hemisphere. See after the destruction caused by the Second World War the nations of Europe struggled to rebuild their economies. Also they struggled to ensure their security. At that time United States thought that Europe should become economically strong, re-oam and integrate because it is vital for US to prevent the communist expansion across the continent. So all these led to the creation of NATO. See we discussed about NATO which is against the Soviet Union. So to counter-attack NATO Soviet Union started an organization called as Warsaw Treaty Organization or Warsaw Pact. Know the difference between these two organizations. Now coming to the membership of NATO. See NATO's membership is expanding since it is open to any European state which can further the principles of NATO treaty. NATO currently has 30 members. I have given you the member states in this image given here. Note that all the decisions of NATO are taken by consensus. Thus it is an expression of collective will of all 30 member countries. Now let us know the purpose of NATO. See politically talking NATO promotes democratic values and enable members to consult and cooperate on defence and security related issues. It also enables to solve problems and build trust and in the long run it helps to prevent conflict as well. Secondly NATO utilizes its military power to undertake crisis management operation when diplomatic efforts fail. Thus under NATO's collective defence clause its military aspect comes into play. That's all about the article. So we saw what is NATO. Its history in brief and its purpose. See try to remember the member states of NATO with the map provided here. We will now move on to the next news article discussion. This news article mentions that union health ministry has revamped the website and app for central government health scheme which is nothing but CGHS. So let us see some crucial informations about the scheme the website and its app. See CGHS is a welfare scheme introduced under ministry of health and family welfare. It is a contributory health scheme. It is the nodal health care provided of certain categories of beneficiaries. The beneficiaries include central government employees, prisoners and certain other category of beneficiaries who are enrolled under the scheme. The scheme also includes the eligible dependents of these beneficiaries. So basically CGHS carters to the health care needs of eligible beneficiaries in all four pillars of democratic setup namely legislative, judiciary, executive and press. Note that it was initially introduced in Delhi in 1954 itself. Since then it has grown all over the country and now more than 70 CGHS units function across the country. Now let us see some of its features. First thing is it provide medical service at the level of wellness centers or polyclinics, government hospitals and private recognized hospitals. Second thing is it provides health care through allopathy as well as indigeno system of medicine. That is it also provides service in homeopathy, ayurveda, unani, yoga, siddha and naturopathy. Third important thing is it also provide the family and child welfare services like immunization, anti-natal and post-natal care and issue of conventional contraceptions. Fourthly prescribed medicines are also issued from the pharmacies of wellness centers and finally it also provides domiciliary or home visits to severely ill patients and elderly immobile patients. And in 2020 CGHS also started tele-consultation. See here tele-consultation means consulting beneficiaries through virtual mode without physically visiting a health care facility. CGHS facilitates tele-consultation with specialist. It is provided using the existing eSanjeevi platform of the union health ministry. Note these points very important for preliminary examination. Note that its mobile application is called My CGHS. Now this app has been linked with the CGHS website and it has several updated features. Let us see them one by one. Firstly it provides real-time information. See this enables the ease of service delivery for the beneficiaries who can avail it within their home especially during the covid pandemic time. So this will benefit more than 40 lakh beneficiaries of CGHS. Secondly the website is universally accessible and has been made bilingual. As of now it provides information in English and Hindi. In the future government is planning to make it a multilingual platform. Next it now includes features like audio play of the text and option to increase the phone size. This is to provide access to visually impaired persons. And finally it also provides facilities such as tracking of medical claims, status and downloading of CGHS card, accessing history of medicines, online appointment systems, etc. So these are some of the important points that you have to make note of. In this discussion we saw about CGHS. We saw that it was introduced under Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and it is a contributory health scheme. We saw some of the features of the scheme. Followed by that we saw that in 2020 CGHS also started daily consultation. We saw what is a daily consultation and then we saw about my CGHS app and we saw some of the updated features of my CGHS app. With these learnt points now let us move on to the next part of the news article discussion which is nothing but the preliminary practice questions. Now look at this first question. This question is about NATO. Consider the following statements. Statement 1. The US created Warsaw Pact to counter Soviet Union. Statement 2. Destructions caused to European nations by World War II is one of the main reason for creation of NATO. Which of the statements given above is correct? Option A 1 only, Option B 2 only, Option C both 1 and 2 and Option D neither 1 nor 2. See the correct answer is Option B 2 only. First statement is incorrect because the Soviet Union created Warsaw Pact to counter NATO created by US, Canada and several western European nations. Second statement is correct because European nations they struggled to rebuild their economies from the destructions caused by World War II. So US thought Europe must be economically strong, re-armed and integrated to prevent communist expansion across the continent. Thus created NATO. So the correct answer here is Option B 2 only. Now moving on to the next question. This question is about Central Government Health Scheme. Who among the following are eligible under the Central Government Health Scheme CGHS? Statement 1. Pensioners of Central Government Statement 2. Ex-governors, ex-vice presidents and their families. Statement 3. Freedom fighters. Statement 4. Sitting and retired judges of High Court. Select the correct answer from the code given below. Option A 1 3 and 4 only, Option B 1 2 and 3 only, Option C 2 1 4 only and Option D 1 2 3 and 4. See in our discussion itself we saw that CGHS actually includes all the four pillars of democratic setup like legislative judiciary, executive and press. So the correct answer here is option D 1 2 3 and 4. The main questions are displayed here. Please read it, write an answer and post it in the comment section. With this we came to the end of the news article discussion. If you like the video, like, comment and share and do subscribe to Shankar IS Academy YouTube channel. Thank you.


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So for the last maybe six months, the Forex market has been popping. It's been moving up and down the whole place. But I noticed something last night and the S&P 500 actually caught my attention and so did Bitcoin. So I'm actually seeing a change of direction in terms of where investors are putting their money, slowly going away from FX and was gradually moving into the S&P 500. The indices, the BTCs and alternative forms of investment. Now, you guys are in luck because like I said, the top-down analysis, you can use it to analyze. So no matter where the money goes, no matter where the money goes, that's what I'm trying to say. No matter where the money goes, you'll catch it. No matter where the money goes, you'll catch up. We'll always catch it. Once again, if you haven't grabbed the Forex Smart Sheet Program, which has the top-down analysis, the link is in the description as always on my team will put it around here somewhere. 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I'm gonna delete everything on my chart like I always do. So I want you guys to be, to obviously flow with me, right? I want you guys to flow with me and listen to what I have to say. I want you guys to kind of like understand my vibe. I'm gonna use the top-down analysis. It works 99.9% of the time. We're gonna be using that to analyze Bitcoin. Now, from what I can see on Bitcoin, Bitcoin is doing, Bitcoin might be pushing for an upside to about $48,000 per coin. Now, why do I think this is the case? It's simple. Top-down analysis, you know, we must always come up with a monthly timeframe to see what exactly is happening. Now, Bitcoin had this massive push to the upside when everybody was like, Bitcoin, 64K, then he dropped. Everybody go wiped out. Instead of going up and getting like, yeah, I told you Bitcoin is the best. It's the best, it's the best. I told you it's the best, it's the best. A technical analyst like me was never excited about Bitcoin, especially from the second wave. Why? Because look very carefully. This is the high of the market, which was about $65,000 per coin. I said to myself, the only time I'm gonna get excited about Bitcoin is if we're able to breach this price level about here, it is $65,000 per coin. As you can see, the market came here, flicked it the first time, flicked it the second time, literally spent about two months here, was unable to do it. Once I saw this, this officially printed a double top. So once I saw this red candle, and then I saw this other red candles forming, I already knew for sure that Bitcoin was about to go into a bearish trend. This was, this uptrend was automatically over. For Xmas tree students, you know, one of the rules of a trend reversal is a double top on a higher timeframe. I wasn't supposed to say that. But for Xmas tree students, you know, it's simple and easy. So just by looking at the monthly timeframe, I already knew the uptrend was over. Now, when the uptrend is over, what do we do next? We bleed all the way to the downside. We must, the rules state that after every double top, we must always bleed all the way back down to the neckline. So at this point, I already knew Bitcoin was gonna drop all the way down to 34K. So imagine being able to predict the collapse of Bitcoin from about 56K all the way down to 34K. So that's a 20K difference, right? I don't even know what happened why I wasn't shorting it exactly, but that's a conversation for another day. I predicted it, but I was just too busy with so many things, right? Anyways, that dropped. Not only did we drop, once we breached the neckline, I started looking for potential areas where we could potentially collapse down into and the next level target was actually all the way down here. If I plot this properly, it was actually about here, okay? Now as you can see, we've pulled into this level and all of that, but sorry guys, but just looking at Bitcoin, if I just look at it again, this guy is giving me vibes of a push to the upside, okay? And it pulled back, and we might be pushing for another, yet another high. Yes, it's looking like we want to, we might want to push higher for Bitcoin. So if I come on the weekly timeframe just to get a glimpse of whatever the hell is going on, if I adjust this properly for the sake of adjustment purposes, and I put my black line here, if you want to learn how to analyze just like me, grab the Forex Matching Program, the link is in the description down below. So as we speak, Bitcoin has crossed all my areas of concern. This was the very, very strong bottom at 31K. It touched it a couple of times, double top here and it broke above it. This was the black line of death. It's crossed it as we speak. So right now, just looking at Bitcoin, hold on guys, sorry guys, somebody's at the door just give me a sec. So guys, let me take it again, right? The report seems to be distracting me, okay? Kick it off from the monthly, we're already seeing what the monthly has to show us. Like I was saying earlier, the weekly plotted my key levels. I can tell you for free, obviously you can see the top down analysis in action from the monthly, we're going out to the weekly, from the weekly we're coming out to the daily. Now I have this class space to work with, right? All of here. Now I can comfortably come on the four hour timeframe to see what exactly is happening. Can you see all of this space to the upside? So what I'm going to be doing is I'm going to be expecting a proper blowout to somewhere around here, wait for a pullback and then I'm going to start looking for long opportunities into $47,000 per coin. Without any IOTI doubt, I see no reason why Bitcoin should not be shooting into 47K. Yes, so you heard it here first on DapSea Radio, Bitcoin should be shooting all the way to, for you can see it looking very ripe, looking very ripe to the upside, $47,000 per coin next up for BTC. Now let's go over to the S&P 500, which I had actually predicted during my last trillion top video. I'm just going to click over it on from the monthly timeframe. So that you guys can see, so you can see very clearly like, I mean, at the time when I, so easy guys, so freaking easy, so easy, so easy, so easy. So let's come on the monthly timeframe. I've already seen this massive bullish trend to the upside, I've seen this pullback, actually let me delete this, delete everything. Right, so I'm going to delete everything so that you guys can understand what I mean. S&P 500 simple straightforward, high, low, higher, high, high, low. The markets obviously had come into putting this high, but I knew for a fact that because of how the uptrend was pretty much built, this wasn't the market, in order for a trend to change, we need to at least come and put in a double top. Okay? At least an equal top or a slightly higher top before we reverse. So I knew that this guy wasn't done yet. So when I look closely, I zoomed in pretty nicely, I was able to discover that it's actually a trend line running like so. So when this guy started to pull all the way down here, I left from my monthly came about to my weekly and I realized that there was some level of support about here. You can see, so this was pretty much the neckline of this inverse head and shoulder pretty nice. And you can see we've come and jumped into it. And then if you draw your Fibonacci from swing low to swing high, this is what they call the Willis zone. I call this here pretty nicely, so simple, so straightforward on my last video. If you're doubting me, you can always go back to check it. So it's so simple and straightforward. I am calling S&P 500, you heard it here first at 47,000, not 47,000, 4786 points, basis points. The S&P 500 said, nobody's talking about Bloomberg, nobody's talking about CNN, all the fancy analysts, they don't know this stuff. How do I know this? Because I am a chart bro. I'm a chart bro, I'm a chartist. I see what they cannot see. I see what they cannot see.  So I'm telling you guys for free, S&P 500 is going to rally all the way up to 4786 basis point. I'm already along this. I became the longest in the Willis zone. Don't know what the Willis zone is. Willis zone is pretty much a confluence whereby uptrend, support and Fibonacci come into a point of confluence. I named it after myself called the Dapper Willis, the Willis zone. So this is the Willis zone. Willis zone always works. Bouncing to the Willis zone, got into some buys, was on a four hour timeframe. As the market came in, so simple, so straightforward, I just drew a very simple counter trend line like so. Bam, once I just started to see some very nice bullish pattern on a lower timeframe. As you can see, like I said to you guys, I analyze on higher timeframes, analyze on higher timeframes and I come down to lower timeframes to execute my entry. So my entries are actually somewhere about here. Stop loss is so small. My stop loss is literally so small. I give me a sec just to this long position.  For what the big dogs? The big dogs. This is what I say, you can keep your risk to reward very small. So you can keep your risk very, very small and your reward really, really massive. So at the end of the day and if I'm risking 3% on this trade, I'm definitely sure of about, so this is a 61, so three times six. So you're looking about what potentially an 18% return on investment on just this one trade as we speak. So this is what I always preach about. Quality over quantity, quality over quantity, quality over quantity. This is going to be one of my first trades in quite a bit. So I'm long the S&P 500. I'm going to be monitoring it pretty nicely. I have no doubts in my body that S&P 500 is going to rally. It's definitely, definitely. First level target for me, S&P 500 is always going to be at 100% retracement, which is here. At this point, I will be taking out 50% of my position. Hold on. 50% of my position somewhere about here. Guys, once again, I mean on this video, I'm showing you guys as things are playing out. But if you check my previous video, just before this one, I show towards the end, just go to the very end of that video. I think the last pair I went over was S&P 500. I literally said it was going to bounce off of here. It has bounced. I've gone into the trade. Because I don't want people coming on here saying, oh yeah, yeah, yeah. It's easy to say it now. And the way the trade is already playing out, I literally walked everybody through the process. I said, this was going to happen and this is what I'm going to watch out for and see exactly how I'm going to execute the trade. So I've executed my trade and then the market is pointing all the way to the upside. So first level target, $4,588. Why do I keep calling it dollars? $4,588 basis points. Take that out. Next level target, $4,786 basis points. So these are the two authentic classes that I'm closely monitoring. BTC is, we'll get there. Just give you another 10 days. You'll give us in my setup. S&P 500 already going. And then over to currencies. So you guys know me, big fan of AEDUSD. It's been the longest time. My guy has been swinging and coasting. And then I remember when the last pullback was this one. Jumped into here. I always tell people, when you plot your key levels, keep them, leave them. When I plotted this level, the market tried, tried, tried, tried, it broke above it. I left the level, it came back down, tried it again. It still came back down close below it and then it started coming down here. This is resistance, ladies and gentlemen. You see the thing about levels in the market is it is very dynamic, okay? The market isn't just going to just go to your level and just turn around. It hardly happens, it will play around with it. So keep your levels, don't ever adjust it. So as we came down here, I started to see a cluster of a supply cluster. I kept my thinking about here. I actually wanted to jump into another trade, but I just didn't have the time. I've been so busy.  I am short all the way from here and I also have another opportunity somewhere, another trade somewhere on here. So I have two sell positions in AUDUSD. This would have been a fantastic third, but unfortunately I didn't get into it. But I can tell you, ladies and gentlemen, AUDUSD is coming down to 0.6192, 0.61920, next level target for AUDUSD. Nothing is going to stop it. It's coming down here. It has taken forever. It's taking the better part of, from 23rd of March, what am I saying? From February, it's taking the better part of a year. But sometimes, guys, that's exactly how the market just rolls. So I keep telling people place your trade and go do other things. There are other trading opportunities. They are the long-term trade. There are trades I'll play out in one week. There are trades I'll play out in three days. There are trades I'll play out in two months. So you need to have all these trades, you understand, stacked up. The idea of the market is to place trade so that the market will make money for you while you sleep. So as the market is, the idea is, okay, we've seen the first setup, okay? First setup is here, it's happening. You place the trade. Second setup is over and you place the trade. So the market is coming down.  At the end of the day, this move is 0.700 all the way down to 0.600. So 1,000 paper move. At the end of the day, you've pretty much between a 1,000 paper move because you have like two to three positions open. Fam, you've pretty much back like 2,500 paper easy. It has taken a while, but it's worth it. Absolutely worth it. And in all of this, you're checking your chart once in a day, once in two days. You've made more money. At the end of the year, or at the end of the quarter, you found all that, look, all my friends that I started trading with have all blown their accounts. They've blown multiple accounts, three, four, five accounts, nothing to show for it. But you that just stuck with the top-down analysis. Guys, you're up to 1,500 pips and you're so stress-free. You're just chilling and adding positions. I call the AEDUSD for the longest time. I check my Twitter and check everywhere. AEDUSD has been bearish and I've held on to my bias. Guys, I believe in the top-down analysis and it has made me so freaking rich. So now is the opportunity to believe in something. A lot of people have run away from the market because they didn't have anything to hold on to. I hold on to the top-down analysis and it has made me so much money. Once again, the link to the Forex Mastery program which has the top-down analysis is in the link down below. So AEDUSD, I can see next level target is gonna be this green bar. If we break here, 0.600. Let me quickly go over to EuroDollar. So EuroDollar is pretty much sitting on this blue bar. I told you guys, it's simple. Low, lower high. You come and put in a lower low, at least an equal. But for now, the reason why EuroUSD is not dropping is because of this blue bar. I'm watching this blue bar very carefully. Today is the 13th of November. The last monthly candle, which was October, has closed as an indecision candle, all right? Now it looks like we're about to reverse. So right now, the market doesn't know exactly what it wants to do. It knows what it wants to do, but it has all that technical issues, like this level. This market is not just gonna ignore this level. This level held here, held here, held here, and almost potentially held here, even worried the market here, even still acted as support somewhere around here, okay? So don't think that this market is just gonna come here and drop. No, it will play around with it. It will play around with it for quite a bit. Oh yeah, trust me. So at the moment, the Euro is gonna play around here, but right now, the Euro is pretty much ranging. We're not gonna touch it. GBPUSD, same situation, same scenario, okay? I need, for me to be interested in both GBPUSD and EuroUSD, this major level of support needs to be taken at once. We can take it out if you zoom in pretty nicely. 1.200 all the way down to 1.0600. So you're looking at about 1,400-pip drop potentially. That's huge, okay? All you need to do is just be freaking patient, wait for us to clear, and then you can have something like the S&P 500 where everything is pretty much nicely done. Oil, I'm not gonna get into oil today because oil is gonna take too much of my time. I'm gonna be monitoring oil pretty nicely over the next couple of weeks. I think during my next trade of talk, I'm gonna go over oil, but for now, these are my major pairs I'm focusing on. I'm a long S&P 500. You can see this is a bullish engulfing candle on the monthly timeframe, although the monthly hasn't closed yet, but we have a bullish engulfing candle on the weekly, okay? This is enough for me. Once I see, so it's a confluence. Support level held, bounced off of trend line support, bounced off of normal support, trend line support as well. You guys forgot to know what the trend line support looks like. I'll just show you guys what you're talking about here. So we have trend line support. We have normal support. We have Fibonacci support. Willisome confluence, all the way to the upside. So we have three levels of confluence. That makes a Willisome. And then to make matters even more interesting, we have candlestick confirmation. Bullish engulfing candle bounced off of this region. Say no brainer, guys. So once again, guys, I hope I've been able to shed light on all these pairs. I think this time next week, I'm gonna be going over the JPY pairs as well. I think I actually just wanna be touching on every and anything. I just wanna show you guys how it's done. I wanna flex my top-down analysis skills. I wanna show you guys how it's done. Because too many people are doubting me. They're doubting the tech, the chat bro, the chat bro. How, how, how, everything I see happens. Thanks to Price Action though.  Everybody wants to take pictures with you. Like, oh my God, he's such a good trader, blah, blah, blah. And guys, I'm gonna leave you with this. Don't be the regular guy who just posts screenshots and doesn't really know how to trade. You see, the reason why I will most likely outlive most of the forex influencers out there is because I'm not about hype. Do you get what I mean? Yes, I post flashy stuff every now and then. But at the end of the day, when we open up the charts, fam, I can do this year in, year out. Year in, year out, and the trades work out. My core, my core in forex is actually chart work. This is where, this is where I do my real flexing. Not on the gram, not on YouTube. I don't have about to really start flexing. As a matter of fact, after this video, I'm heading to one of the most amazing resorts in Dubai. I'm gonna go create content there, show you guys around it. I'm just actually just spending a couple of days there. It cost about $1,500 a night. So I'm going out there because obviously I want to start creating content for the new YouTube channel whereby I show you guys behind the scenes, into my life, how I trade, and stuff like that. So I think that video should be out in 10 days as well. So we have two channels that are gonna be running parallel to each other. One is for lifestyle and all the cool stuff. And this one's strictly for chart work. Money, how can we make money? Buy, sell, up and down, ebbs, the flows, Elliott wave, really zone and all that kind of good stuff. Once again, I think that's about it. Thank you for staying to the very end of this video. I'll catch you guys in my other screen. I've gone over at S&P 500, BTC 8, US, Eidro USC, and GBP USC. That's it guys, see you guys in my other screen. Let's go. Thank you guys for staying to the very end of that video. I knew it was long, but I just had to break it down.  I need you guys to see what I'm on. To see the P I'm on, I have to make money right away. Don't mind all these guys, this is the way. I didn't show you guys the way. Thank you guys for staying to the very end of this video. I love you guys very much. I'll catch you guys in my subsequent videos. 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Hi everyone, my name is Bharati, I'm from Chakra Innovation and before I begin the story of what we do, I would like all of you to look at this picture that you see here which says Breathe. This Breathe is not written with normal black paint. It is written with pollution and smoke that we were able to capture in India. So I would like to tell you more about how we are helping people breathe. As you might know, air pollution is one of the leading causes of deaths across the globe. It causes cardiovascular diseases, it causes respiratory diseases, it causes cancer and it causes irreversible lung damages to the lungs of children all across the globe. Unfortunately, there aren't many effective technologies that are available out there to control the polluting sources. So looking at this, we decided to develop something that can control pollution at source and stop it from going out into the air. So we have a technology that takes pollution at source, captures more than 90% of smoke that is coming out of it and it is able to do so without consuming a lot of energy. So we consume only 1% of the energy to capture this pollution without causing any adverse impact on the engine. It's a retrofit device, so it's scalable and that's not all. We are able to take this pollution and convert it into something useful. So right here with me, I have a bottle that has pollution trapped in it. So it's one of the largest killers of the world trapped in a bottle and it can be put to use like textile printing, cardboard printing, etc. We've been selling this technology to a lot of industries in India. We've had extraction, we've been running the device for almost a year across 30 locations in India. We've already received around 70K euros worth of sale and we're looking at 170K in this year. We also have good margins on the product, so we plan to scale up the technology and take it further. To take it further, we've also partnered with some of the largest industries in India. So we have a large oil and gas company that is helping us develop it for their boilers and their generators. We have Bosch, which is a German company helping us refine this technology further and make it more effective. We've also been awarded, so we were a part of the Echoing Green Fellowship and also a part of the Forbes 30 and the 30 for social entrepreneurship. And we have a team of young enthusiastic engineers, but it's not just the young blood which gets things done. We have a support from experienced people in the industry with more than 30 years of experience who are helping us take this technology further. And if we're looking for from Slush, it's not just investors, but also networking and helping us grow this technology further. And with that we have to end. Thank you so much, Bhatti. Let's see what if you read things. I think this sounds super cool, it's both reducing pollution and making products out of it, so I'm wondering why then are you aiming for 70K and 170K with such an amazing product? I mean... So for the last one year we were working on refining the product and we've only been selling it properly for this year. So right now we have a small production set up and we obviously need money to scale up that production, so our constraint is not on the demand side right now we have demand, but we want to set up the supply large enough. So right now with the money that we have, we have a small production facility, but we want to scale it up further. Maybe I missed it, but can you really briefly reflect on the technology? So how do you produce a product and is the product harmful? How do you actually secure safety of that product? Sure. So the technology to capture is again a technology that we've applied a patent for.  There is innovation in the design as well as the process in which we are capturing it. It is made out of stainless steel, so the only harm that we do is what happens while stainless steel is being produced. The ink that we have which gets captured in the solvent is absolutely safe to use. So we have it tested for heavy metal and carcinogens, there's nothing like that in it. The carcinogenic nature comes when it's in the air and it goes into your lungs, but not when it's in a binder. Thank you for an amazing presentation and I must say that's very unique. And I like the fact that you are working with corporates in industry like oil and gas and you mentioned some companies. What is your future deployment plan when it comes to other corporates or other industries? Do you have any other clients in line that you would like to work with? Sure. The product that we have is for stationary diesel generators and for small-scale boilers that are used in the industry, but we want to scale it up and use it for larger industries as well, which have furnaces and chimneys that are burning biomass so that we can capture pollution from there as well. We're mostly targeting B2B because we believe that industries need to become a lot more sustainable and people are already doing a lot. So that's the broad idea. And can you apply the product also domestically to local heaters? Or is it only designed for big industry facilities? So at least in India and the developing countries, there are very few domestic polluting sources except for firewood and cook stoves, but they're also being replaced. So we're not really focusing on the domestic industry right now. We might consider it, but not in our focus right now. And I'm curious about your expansion. Are you currently just focused on India or would you like to go into other markets? So we want to go into other markets. In fact, we've been looking at the European and the US market as well, where there are very strict norms and the current technologies are either very costly or consume a lot of energy. So we believe there is a huge market for us out there, and we are looking for people who can help us expand into other countries, as well as Africa and other Southeast Asian countries. Thank you so much. Are there any competitors doing the same or similar things out there? So in terms of controlling pollution from industrial sources, there are certain technologies available, but they're not as effective. In terms of making ink out of pollution, there is one competitor in India. They're doing this with vehicles. So they're taking the exhaust from vehicles and converting into inks and paints. Thank you. All right. Thank you so much. All the way from India, Bhakti and Chakra. Thank you so much.


Hey, everyone. Welcome to this week's video update for pro members. Today is Friday, April 2nd. Happy Good Friday. So Thursday yesterday was the last trading day for the week. And we are into April. So taking a look at the markets, specifically the SPX to begin with, you can see that ever since the election, I mean, this thing has just been in an absolute march higher. And really, we've been talking about that since the election, since we had that initial push. Now we had that news about the vaccines that pushed it up even more. The indication was that this thing was going to continue to push higher. And now the S&P, with a big update on Thursday, heading into the long weekend, SPX up over 4,000, 4,020. All-time highs in the face of everything going on, economic, political, and otherwise, stocks don't care. They just continue to rip higher. There's so much money in the system. And I still continue to see that for the near future. If this thing does continue to push, and we have kind of a blow-off type looking top where this thing just really extends, we will definitely be adding some short delta. But at this point, we are staying relatively delta neutral with a small amount of short delta, which has certainly helped us through this big push higher. And we've continued to add in some long-call diagonals and some other positions that have helped as well. So that's the SPX. NASDAQ has not fared so well. Looking at NDX, it's certainly not up at its all-time highs. But it could be there in two days as well. I mean, a couple big pushes higher, and the NASDAQ could be there too. It had a lot more weakness on this downturn a few weeks ago. It's been consolidating, and now it looks like it's breaking out of this consolidation area. So we'll see if that will continue. And the NASDAQ can get up to new all-time highs. Tech got hit the hardest. The Russell as well, not quite as strong. Russell had some decent downside. In fact, we got smoked out of a couple of iron ducks in this big move down. And now it's starting to rebound. So it's kind of breaking out of this little consolidation area as well. So we'll see if the Russell can push back up to new all-time highs as well. The Dow's right there. I mean, it's getting ready to push into new all-time highs. It should probably do that on Monday, I would guess. But we'll see. So markets continue to be strong. Taking a look at the 10-year yield, TNX, the 10-year treasuries. So they've actually kind of pulled back last week and popped back up. And so just kind of consolidating at this point. Remember, interest rates have an inverse correlation to bonds. So if interest rates are going up, that means bonds are going down. And so if you look at something like ZB, we have a short premium position in ZB. And so you can see the bonds have just been continuing to go down along with the 10-year notes as well, ZN, pretty similar price pattern. So we'll see what happens there. If interest rates continue to push higher, then we'll continue to see downside in bonds. If you look at oil, we had a position in oil. We actually took off today. Had a little drop. And then it really just chopped around, which was nice. Gave us a nice implied volatility contraction today. You can't see it on here because this indicator doesn't really work on the futures contracts. But if you look at the corresponding ETF, USO, for example, you can see we got a nice contraction. I mean, implied volatility just got annihilated today. And you'll see that happen sometimes going into a long weekend, whether that is a extended weekend into Monday or a extended weekend with Friday being off at the market closed that day before.  And we certainly saw that today. I talked about it in the live stream room that we just took some trades early in the day because I saw the market either grinding sideways or grinding higher. And implied volatility just getting absolutely sucked out. You can see the VIX was down 10% on the day. VIX futures down 5 and 1 half percent just on Friday. So continuing to see volatility get to low levels that we haven't seen in a while. If you look at the spot VIX, you can see if we scale this out a little bit. I mean, we're at the lowest point that we've been in the VIX since before the pandemic. So that's how low the VIX is. You draw this kind of line right here. I mean, we were down in the back in 2016, the VIX got down to under nine, but kind of having that average right in that kind of 12-ish or 15-ish area. We've had a much higher average up around 25, 30-ish area recently, but now we're down to under 20. We're at 17 on the spot VIX. So continuing to see no fear, no fear in the marketplace. So now a couple of things, does that mean we go out and buy volatility? No, it does not. I mean, volatility can stay low for a long time. In fact, volatility contracts about 2 thirds of the time and only expands about 1 third of the time. So don't go crazy buying VIX futures or trying to buy VIX options or anything like that. I mean, if we look across the board at the implied volatility, we use the IV% and IV rank. I mean, both of those are at zero, but that can stay at zero for an extended period of time. So while volatility is mean reverting, remember the percentile and the IV rank, they measure implied volatility versus itself, in this case the SPX, over the past year. So that doesn't mean that this can't stay at zero and implied volatility can continue to contract. We also have the 21-day indicator on here. So where implied volatility has been over the last 21 days. So if we see some spikes in the short term indicator, we can also look at that as a potential premium selling opportunity. We're not going to be selling strangles or necessarily even iron condors, but being net sellers of options when we do get spikes. But this is also a good environment, potentially, to be doing some of the double diagonals, red strategies, weekly double calendars. You're getting those at a cheaper price. And if you do get just little blips, little pops in implied volatility, those can expand pretty quickly. And you can benefit from those. So we'll continue to do that. We'll still continue to put on iron ducts. Iron ducts are a valid strategy in any implied volatility environment. The weekly double calendars, double diagonals, and things like that will continue to do. And we will continue to add different directional plays using verticals and diagonals to make directional plays in specific stocks, maybe some indices. But we like to do those directional plays in stocks as we see fit as well. And we'll go through some of those. So with that, let's jump in to the alert. Actually, day trading update. I don't have my sheet up. On the day trading front, we had a red week. Actually, let me bring this up because I want to point it out. Had two blunders in Tesla and Amazon specifically do 100% to my decision-making process on these trades. And it cost us. It turned what should have been a green week into a red week. So let me just bring this over real quick and bring up the year-to-date summary. So on the mighty 90s, had a small red week of minus 535 on the pairs trades, plus 214.50 on the runners, minus 3,000. So minus 3,300 for the week. Now, put that in perspective, we've had 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 green weeks in a row. So you're going to have times when you have red, but it's just unfortunate. It came at the cost of me personally making bad decisions, letting a couple losers just get out of control that cost us a red week.  So total of 54,000 in profits since then. But now we've got to work our way back over the next week or so, hopefully, to get back up into a new equity high P&L. So there's your day trading recap. I post more detail on that in the Profits Channel in Discord if you want to check that out. And so with that, let's jump into the alerts and bring those up. So first day, Monday, March 29th, we did a closing trade in FedEx. So after FedEx announced earnings, it opened up above the expected move. If we put on a post earnings short put vertical, just like we teach in our earnings course, FedEx took a little heat on this one, but ended up bouncing right back, booked over 50% of max profit. Let's take a look at a chart of FedEx. I'll show you what we're talking about here. So in FDX, here's earnings. Come on, Toss. Update for us. All right, so here's where earnings were, and then here is the expected move after earnings. You can see price opened up here. Started to come down a little bit. That's when we got long using that short put vertical. The next couple of three days took some heat. It came right back down. I didn't get out early because it was still holding pretty well above the pre-earnings price, which is actually right here. And so it came down and kind of tested that, tested it right here. And at this point, we actually added a long call diagonal is holding that level. A lot of times after earnings, price will come down and touch the expected move, or it might come down and touch the pre-earnings prices, whether that's the top or the close. And it did both. And so it looked like it was holding well and then just fired back up. So we were able to book a nice profit in FDX. SPY, closing, adjusting trade. So we did a vertigo. So in this one, just within a couple of days, we got a nice spike in implied volatility. And so we closed out half of our contracts of this. We had 12 to start. So we just closed out six and booked a really nice profit. And then we held the other six. I'll get to that when we get to our, when we closed out the total trade. Next alert, SPX opening trade. This was an iron duck that we put this one on with 16 DTE. So let's take a look at SPX. And I'll show you what we've got there. So here it is. With the big move up on Friday, prices moved up, we're almost at max profit on our beak. Well, it's about 120, we're at about $95. So we're not ready to take this off. As we teach in the course, what I like to do is look at the expected move of price to get back into our duckhead area. And we still got a 22% chance. If that gets under 15, 10 to 15%. So if price stays here or keeps moving higher as we get closer to expiration, we'll just close this out early, book that beak profit and take the money and run. But we'll give it a chance. I mean, if we do get a decent downside in the market, still have a 22% chance to get back into that max profit area. While we're here, this was an alert that we did on Thursday here. And this is a weekly double calendar. This started off pretty Delta neutral, but even after I put this on, price moved up that much. I was looking at putting on another one, but I thought, you know what, let's just wait till Monday. This is still well within range, but on Monday if price is hanging out here or really anywhere this way, we'll probably add another one and within the same expiration cycle and just continue to layer those on. I mentioned because of how low implied volatility is, I mean, look at this, $675 was the cost to put this on. A lot of times we're paying $7, $800 to put these on. So with implied volatility cheap, these calendars get even cheaper. Now that creates a situation where typically our profits are less as well, but I don't mind putting a couple of these on, layering in two, three, four of these in a week if we get the opportunity. So we'll see what happens. Obviously if we open up on Monday and the markets drop, we'll be right back to center plus our profit tent should increase with that implied volatility spike. So we'll see what happens, but that's the plan in SPX. FDX, so here's a closing adjusting trade. So this was that long call diagonal that we added that I mentioned. So we closed out half of this. We were over 80% profit on this piece. So we closed out half and just held the remaining piece to see if we get some even higher prices. And then the next alert, RUT did a closing trade. So this one price ran higher after we put this on. So we just closed that out early for beak profit. Still have one on with eight DTE. So let's check out RUT. Obviously markets closed, so don't pay attention to this wild and crazy P&L line. We are not up $2,000 on this trade. It's just hanging out here right in the beak where we have a beak profit of $165. So again, we've got about over 20% probability. We could still get back to the max profit area, but if this thing runs higher into next week, we'll just close it out, book that beak profit, redeploy that capital into some more high probability trades. Opening in BABA. So we did a, here's what I got directional. I put on a couple of diagonals. I went long Starbucks and short BABA. So let's take a look at both of these together and I'll show you what we are, what the thinking is behind this. So on BABA, BABA has been extremely weak. So when we're doing these directional plays, we like to get short the weaker stocks and be long the stronger stocks. Now, obviously that can reverse at any time, but we tend to, so if we see in BABA in this case, we've just seen continued weakness, little bounce, continued weakness, little bounce, continued weakness, little bounce. And so that's why we're getting short here, looking for a continuation lower. We already started to get that a little bit, even in the face of the market, the S&Ps being up an extreme amount, the SPX was up 1%, BABA was down 1%. So that worked well, right? Even with the market up, if the stock is down and you're short, that's the kind of stock you wanna be in because what you might see, a lot of times you'll see is, let's say Monday the market opens down, well, the weak stocks are gonna be the weakest. And so if we see BABA get even weaker than the market, that's what we wanna see. Doesn't always work out like that, but again, we're playing the probabilities. We're keeping our position size super small on these. I mean, we're talking $339 of buying power and that's our max risk. And so we're gonna be trying to book 50 to 100% profits on these, we're already up about $100, which is about almost, 30, 28% profit on this. So if we get some continued downside, that's what we're looking for in BABA. And then just the opposite in Starbucks, Starbucks has been an extremely strong stock, just making new highs, higher lows, higher highs. And so I had this little pop up and pullback so we got long right here, looking for a potential continuation. The other thing is it's right under all time highs. So if we can get just a little push up through the all time high, we should be able to book some nice profits in here. Again, small size, 328 bucks in risk. So when we put these on, if this trade falls apart and goes against us, we're okay taking max loss. So we're position sizing to take full loss if these trades fall apart, but if they push up, there's some really nice profit potential, nice return on investment. SPY closing trade. So this was the, we closed the rest. Initially we closed half, we closed six of our 12 contracts. This was the final close and we closed the rest. So we were only in this for a few days, booked a really nice profit on our SPY vertigo. SPX weekly double calendar. So we closed out one of these. This was where price had moved up. It was close to our exit point and we just had one DTE. So we went ahead and just closed that and took a little loss on that one. And then we turned around and opened a new weekly double calendar with further out expirations. Front week nine days to expiration, back week 12. We typically like to be in that six to eight day range on the front week, going out to nine days is no issue with that either. And the reason I say that's okay is because Wednesday was a pretty decent update in the market, implied volatility was contracting. And so yeah, this was on March 31st on Wednesday. And so we put that on with nine days with the anticipation that if the next day the market fell, we wouldn't be able to put on one with that eight days to expiration. And so we went ahead and just put this on. So six to nine, even down as low as three or four days to expiration, that front week is fine. We don't like to go much further out than this though. So that was the one I already showed you on the analyze tab in TOS. And then FDX, here's the final close of that long call diagonal, booked over 100% profit on that portion. Remember we closed out half for about 80% profit and then booked the other half for about 100, over 100. ZBE, short strangle, so we rolled this out. We were down to 22 days to expiration. We were well over 50% of max profit on that. And as we near 21 days, we like to roll that out to extend duration. So if we take a look at ZBE, so you can see we're pretty close to where we put it on here. Got about a $1,200 max profit on this piece. So if we can get some more steady prices and implied volatility contraction, we should do well there. We're still just kind of managing this one, trying to get back to profitability. If we look at TLT, which is the corresponding ETF, you see implied volatility has been really high in here. And so that's why I'm really good with continuing to roll and carry short premium in bonds. Now we did have a very significant implied volatility contraction. You see the IV percentile is down to 37. IV ranks at 36. So we're under that 50 level, but I'm okay still holding on to this. I mean, if we get an implied volatility contraction where the IV percentile IV rank get like the stocks are right now where they're down under 10, then we'll maybe consider closing it instead of continuing to roll it. But for now, I don't, I mean, this is the highest premium on the board is in bond. So I'm okay having short premium in there for now. BA, so we closed out a long call diagonal that we had in Boeing. We put this on looking for a continuation higher in price. Didn't get that. So we were just down to expiration. So we just ended up just closing this out, taking what was left in the trade and taking a small loss there. SPY vertigo. So we added a new vertigo, this one with eight and 11 DTE. So if you take a look at SPY, had a question in the community, why did you do this in SPY with 10 contracts? Why not just do SPX with one? Couple of reasons. One, we've already got an iron duck and a weekly double calendar in SPX. So just to kind of get out of, you know, keep that a little bit cleaner. You can use SPY is just one 10th of the size. The other thing is we may take off, we may scale out of this. So if we get a quick move like we did last time, we may take off five of these contracts, book half and then let the other half ride to see if we can book some more profit. But here's how this set up. We've got about a 13, 14% probability that it'll stay in this little valley area, which we don't want to happen. So we want a big move higher or a big move lower to benefit this. And applied volatility expansion will help this position as well. Whereas, applied volatility contraction will create a SAG. I can't remember who it is in our community likes to call it SAG-E diapers. We don't like SAG-E diapers, but that's what volatility contraction will do these things. So hopefully putting this on with implied volatility and an extreme contraction like it was on Friday, hopefully if we can get a pop or a little down move or even an up move with implied, we're at a point in stocks that, I mean, if we see the indices continue to rip, we might get to a point where we're seeing implied volatility start to creep up even with stock prices going higher. And those are some fun times to trade. So we'll see if that happens. I'm not saying it will, but it's possible and we'll manage accordingly. CL closing trade. So here is our iron condor that we had on in oil. We were hanging around kinda 20, 25% of max profit over the last few days. And then today or on Thursday when we got that massive implied volatility contraction, this thing, the P&L just popped right up in this thing, booked almost 50% of max profit. Remember on these iron condors, we're typically trying to book 30 to 40% of max profit, booked almost 50% on CL. So nice oil trade. And oil, I think I showed USO, the corresponding ETF, the implied volatility was nice and high. It really got that contraction along with everything else on Thursday. But if this thing can pop back up, even if it's not above 50, oil is still one of the highest implied volatilities on the board along with bonds. And so we may add another position back into oil if we get the opportunity into next week. If implied volatility doesn't just fall apart on us. All right, Lowe's. Okay, so in Lowe's last week, we had on a long put diagonal. Always put the initial strategy here. So we had our short puts that were getting ready to expire. So we just let those expire worthless, booked max profit on our short puts. And then we just held onto our remaining long puts just in case Lowe's had a big move lower. We could end up booking profits on those long puts. Now it's pretty low probability chance, but there's no reason not to keep them. You're already kind of at, you already booked max profit on your puts and you're already at basically max loss on your long puts. And so just holding onto those is what we did. So we had those left and then we, so we just let those expire. So we ended up taking net net took a loss on the Lowe's diagonal. DKNG. So in this one, we had a long call diagonal. And so in this case, we just let our 80 calls, the short calls expire worthless. So we booked max profit on those, still holding our 77 calls, which again in this case are at max loss, but there's no reason not to hold them because if we do get a nice spike in price into next week, we can still book a potential profit or at least get back some of what were down on the trade. So we did that in DKNG and then the exact same thing on Disney. Let our short calls expire worthless, max profit and still holding the long calls in case we get a spike up in price, which the way this market's going, it's definitely doable. We'll see what happens. But if we get a decent spike, we're not gonna try to hold it too long. We'll just get out. Cause we were, I mean, we were holding these calls with just a week to expiration. So that theta decay is also working against you. So if we get a quick spike, we'll just take it and run. So that's it. Those were all the alerts for the portfolios. Let's take a look at some of our other positions. We've got a long put vertical in ES. You can see prices well out of range. So we need some price to move back down to get back into range. If not, we will probably just roll that to continue to keep that as part of our short delta for our portfolio. Like I said, we're pretty delta neutral right now. We've got a little bit of short delta, less than one to one on our short delta versus our theta ratio, which is right where I want to be. I mentioned ZB. We've got another short delta play in Apple. You can see it's just outside of its range. So need a little bit of downside to get back in. BABA, did I mention BABA? DE, another one of our short delta plays just outside of its range. Need a little downside to get back in there. DIA is quite a ways out of its range. I need some downside. And we'll be on this one. This was still in April, so we've got 14 days. So over the next week or so, we will be probably rolling that out from April to May, just extending duration, keeping that as short delta. I mentioned Disney. I mentioned DKNG, I believe. Yeah, so this was one where we're still holding the remaining long calls in case we get kind of that little spike up. We'll get back some of what we're down and move on there. IWM, another one of our short delta plays. This is the long put vertical. Looking for some downside to get back into range. Same with QQQs. Those big extended moves here the last couple of days. Those have kind of pushed those out of range. But what's cool is even with the prices moving higher and we're carrying short delta, our P&L is still going up with some of our other positions that we've got on. So if you can still book profits and be short delta when the market's going higher, that's the value of what we're doing here. Rut, I showed you the Iron Duck, SBA, Starbucks, SMH. So we've got this short strangle that's been adjusted into a straddle. And this thing was hanging out right in center earlier this week and it's moved all the way up here.  If not, we'll just continue to manage this. Still got plenty of juice in both our puts and calls. So if you look at our puts, yeah, still got plenty of premium there. So not looking to make any adjustments at this point. If price does continue to rip higher, then we may have to roll our puts up, but we will deal with that at that time. I mentioned SPX, SPY, and then lastly, XLK. Another short delta play. I was actually getting ready to roll this one. It was close to being at 50% of max profit then with the market just ripping higher, just ripped out of range a little bit. This is in April, so we'll see if we can get back into range in the next week or so, and then we'll roll this out to extend duration. So, oh, that's it. Those are all the positions. Those are all the alerts. Everybody have a great rest of your weekend, and we will catch you next week. Cheers.


Every year, at the beginning of the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, we honour outstanding artists who also are engaged in social, environmental and humanitarian issues and who contribute to making the world a better place. It gives me great pleasure to introduce to you the Crystal Award winners of 2014. Matt Damon. Matt Damon is an accomplished actor, screenwriter and producer, recipient of the Golden Globe and many other awards. All of you have certainly seen a number of his movies. My favourite film of course is Invictus, where he plays the captain of the South African rugby team that he leads together with newly elected President Mandela to become the world champions. I have learned that Matt Damon is really passionate about his engagement as a social entrepreneur. He has long been devoted to environmental and social causes, including climate change science, early childhood education and ending extreme poverty. He is the co-founder with Gary White of Water.org, an international non-profit organisation dedicated to ensuring all people have access to safe water and basic sanitation. And he has engaged in many other organisations and causes like the One Campaign to support effective policies and programmes that are saving lives and improve futures. Damon, please join me on stage. Congratulations. Very much. This is a really, really big honour and I want to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Wait, sorry, that's the wrong speech. This is the Golden Globe speech I never got to give. I know I didn't win, but to be honest, I kind of want to give this speech anyway. It's pretty good. There's this part where I talk about what it was like working with Michael Douglas and I get kind of emotional. It's really good.  Anyway, I don't know, I'll do that next year maybe. I've got a different speech I want to give tonight. This really is a great honour to receive the Crystal Award. And it's an honour that doesn't really belong to me, but to a whole group of people at water.org, starting with my co-founder, Gary White, who was working on these issues back when I was playing Humpty Dumpty in a high school play. And I wish I could tell you that I'm making that up. I'm very grateful to be here at Davos with Gary because this is a really exciting moment in the life of our organisation. Gary and I got together and started water.org because we shared the same sense of, I guess you could call it, disbelief, that so many millions of people can't get a safe, clean drink of water or have a safe, clean private place to go to the bathroom. And it's not just an issue of their health or their human dignity that's at stake. This is the fate of entire communities, economies, entire countries wrapped up in that glass of water or that simple toilet. These things that the rest of us just get to take for granted. So Gary and I share this disbelief, but we also share a real sense of excitement and a growing confidence even that this is a problem that has a solution. The poor themselves are the solution. The power of the poor, not as recipients of charity, but as citizens, as consumers. Because when somebody's willing to give them a chance to give them a small loan, they're able to take their fate into their own hands, install a toilet or connect to a water utility that for them is literally a lifeline, a pathway to a better life. And that's the idea behind what we call water credit and you're going to hear us talking about it over the next couple of days. We actually can't stop talking about it, just ask my wife. It's because it's not an idea that we've just cooked up. This is in practice it's working and it's building momentum. So far it's helped more than one million people in five countries get access to water and sanitation. And our friends at McKinsey and Company who have better math skills than me tell us that this solution could reach up to 100 million people by 2020, 100 million people by 2020 if we get to help in resources and the expertise that are represented in this room. Today we're poised to begin leveraging the social capital markets to allow even greater scaling and that's something else that we're going to be highlighting over the course of this week. So for all my enthusiasm about water credit and the results it's getting and believe me there's a lot of enthusiasm and we feel really grateful for how well this is going. For me this award isn't so much about what we've achieved, it is I hope a vote of confidence in what we can achieve and what we will achieve because really we're just getting started. We are just getting started and we need you on board because access to water, fundamental as that is, is not an end in itself. Access to water is access to education, access to work, access above all to the kind of future we want for our own families and all the members of our human family. Thank you again. Juan Diego Flores. As an acclaimed Belcanto tenor Juan Diego Flores has performed at most of the world's best known opera houses. His main performances include operas by Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini and many more. But in 2011 he established the foundations in Fornira, Perel Peruch with the purpose of providing young underprivileged children with a musical education. The project is supported among others by Jose Antonio Abreu, the founder of El Sistema in Venezuela, who and who as some might remember is the former Crystal Award winner. We will have the privilege to hear Mr Flores sing a piece at the end of the concert that will follow the ceremony. Juan Diego Flores please join me on stage. Hello everybody. I'm really in awe, I'm really honored and privileged, but most of it I'm really surprised.  Sinfonia Peru has already achieved in these three years that thousands of children can really be transformed through music. We started in 2011 and we have already almost 15 musical centres dedicating to orchestral and choral practice. In 2009 I travelled to Venezuela and I was really so impressed by what I saw. I saw children happy and totally involved with music and I realised that society could be transformed through the power of music. In Peru we have a lot of poverty as you know. We have a lot of people that don't have water, that don't have electricity. I remember a girl telling me, thank you for creating this musical centre in my place in my neighbourhood. I don't have water, I don't have electricity, but I'm happy to come to the centre and to play my violin and to play and to practice so my orchestra becomes better. In an orchestra in a chorus children learn values, they learn a language of beauty, a language that feels a spirit and makes them better, better human beings. So they could by that transform the society. They go to the families and that attitude is contagious. It really passes that set of values and that spirit to the families and the families, the parents, the mother, the father, they become better and that is also transmitted to the whole community. So it's a contagious process. We are not stopping with the musical centres. We are about to begin also a project, a part of the project to help hand it up children, children who cannot hear, cannot talk. They will sing in a chorus also. You can, you're asking yourself how, but they can. And we are also starting schools of Lutier, which are kids that really build instruments. This is in the region of Cusco, famous for its artisans and craftsmen. So we are going to be providing our project with instruments. So I just want to thank my team. This is really a prize that belongs to them. I really want to help all the institutions involved with the symphony for Peru. And I want to thank you for making this, you know, helping me to sing or to play this symphony for Peru and I hope in the future you will also join us, come to Peru and hear this miracle that is social transformation through the power of music. Thank you very much. Maestro Lorin Mazal, whom we also wanted to honour today, can unfortunately not be with us due to a small injury that happened yesterday and prevents him from travelling. We wish him a speedy recovery. Shirin Nezat is a visual artist from Iran who lives in New York City, where art explores issues of her native society, especially the position of women. She addresses the social, political and psychological dimensions of women's experience in contemporary Islamic societies. Using Persian poetry and calligraphy, she examines concepts such as martyrdom, exile, the issues of identity and feminity. Her photographs and videos have been included in many international exhibitions. In 1997, she created her seminal work, Women of Allah, upon returning to Iran after many years of exile. She has participated in a number of film festivals and most recently won the Silver Lion at the festival in Venice for directing Women Without Men. Shirin Nezat, please join me on stage. Good evening. It's a true privilege to be here tonight. Such an honour to receive this award. Obviously, I'm very nervous as it's quite rare for a visual artist such as myself to address influential audience like you and must be rare for you to hear the voice of an artist whose world is realm of fiction. Yes, I'm an artist, but as Picasso once said, art is the lie that enables us to realise the truth. Yes, my work is fiction, but I believe through fiction we can go deeper into human psyche, deeper into reality, deeper into the universal plight of what is like to be a human being on this planet today. I tend to consider artists as conduits, art and culture as a bridge between people and the people of power. I consider art as a form of communication, art as a way to have emotional and intellectual impact on people without having any specific political or ideological agenda. Now, if you've ever doubted the significance of culture in times of political crisis, I beg of you to look at the Iranian culture as an example. Ever since the Islamic revolution in 1979, where the Iranian image quickly declined from that rich ancient culture of poets and mystics to now suddenly the barbaric land of fanatics and moloss, violence and oppression. It was here, my friends, that Iranian artists and Iranian culture unquestionably became the saving grace of this nation, both in respect to their own people and the world at large. When Iran was burning inside in the aftermath of the Islamic revolution, when Iranians were kept hostage by their own government but isolated in the world, when we suddenly woke up to a country where religion ruled the state, when our people were massacred for the smallest gesture of protest, when families began to be separated for good, when the West decided to take revenge and its embargo hit us hard, collapsing our economy and our medical services, when our government deprived us of the basic human rights, the freedom of expression, when artists, intellectuals, regularly became harassed, arrested and at times executed, our artists began to respond. Musicians, writers, filmmakers, visual artists, intellectuals, all people of imagination worked very hard in light of censorship and all the given boundaries and created the most powerful, imaginative, subversive artistic expression which quickly flourished into the world. Now, if I may take this opportunity and give a message to our newly elected president, Mr. Hassan Rouhani, a man whom I respect, a great deal and whose initiatives have been much welcomed at home and abroad. I would ask the president if, for the past many decades, Iranian artists and intellectuals have protected and preserved our national dignity in the world, now we pass the porch on to you, Mr. President. It is now your turn to be that saving grace of our nation. Mr. President, Iranians living inside and outside the country are badly broken, divided, separated, displaced. Show them unity, show them democracy, show them how we are all Iranians despite of our class, religion, Muslims, Christianity, Jews. Mr. President, let us erase the image of a country that fits the description of access of evil. Let's build a new image of a country that could be a model for peace, democracy and justice. And at last, Mr. President, this is for me. Take care of your artist, your intellectuals and accept that art is no crime, that it is every artist's responsibility to make art that is meaningful, that questions tyranny, that questions injustice. It is artist's task to be advocate for change, for peace and unity. And let me end with last quote by Picasso. He says, art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. Good luck, President. Thank you.