Shaber 1000 here something strange happened Well, actually this morning. Let me tell you about it. Okay guys, so right now It is what 407 407 a.m. Wednesday March 16th Still shaking a little bit So You know, I'm in the bedroom Watching YouTube and I just hear this big bang come from out Here in here somewhere dining room living room area So I came out and I started going over the cameras Nothing moved Nothing has moved, but it picked it up. Not only did it pick that one up. It picked up one Right before that that I did not hear You won't need your your you won't need your headphones for those guys because it's both I'm explaining this day, but like I said, I did not hear the first one Until I was going over the footage. That's the one.  I got to stop the video right there because I Didn't have the right attire on if you know what I mean So you're not gonna want to see me come out of that bedroom. Trust me but So I'll show you these two cameras on Their own now. I've only got one mic. Okay, I can only have one mic on that on my DVR system And that one is for the camera that's facing Down the hallway and the TV and the front door So what I what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna show you Camera one and camera two on their own Then I'll show them to you side-by-side and I'm just gonna sync the audio with it From camera one So There's no there's no mics outside. There's like I said, there's only one mic Did I say camera anyway, there's only one mic So and then I'll show you all four It was definitely in here. You can tell you can tell it. It's just I don't know what it was Here it is guys, you know I'll play one number one camera and number two camera is showing, you know over here at the sink back door, you know The stove here that's number two number three number four be outside I'll just go ahead and sync the audio from Mike one to all of it Like I said, I'll show you won't I'll show you camera one I'll show you camera two and I'll show you both them You guys can look at it and see that nothing moved And then I'll show you all four cameras I Don't know. Let me Disturbing Bruno did not hear it Which is strange. I mean he can hear a nap fart from 50 paces and he'll growl and bark He did not move did not wake up Monkey did not hear and did not wake up. So that well, maybe it was me So I immediately was going over to footage. That's what I've been doing. I've been looking around here. I Went outside thought maybe you know something hit because you know that back door There's all glass thought maybe something hit that but some maybe something hit the window out here Nothing nothing So but it's definitely in here because I got the mic right over there and and it definitely happened But you can't see anything moving nothing that the camera doesn't pick up, you know, here's the couch It's nothing there You know picture didn't fall Nothing fell. Nothing's moved So anyway guys check it out. I'll loop these for you a couple times and let me know in the comments And I'll see you guys in the next one. Shea Berry met the man legend gone for now Enjoy the clips see what you think


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We're going to go figure out what the bulls and bears, what those buyers and sellers are communicating to you and I just passed one o'clock in the afternoon. I want you to know that I'm absolutely grateful for your presence here, but way more important than that. During this next hour, I'm here to serve you. So feel free to pick up that phone. You can dial in at<PHONE_NUMBER>. If you can't dial in, we've got you covered. Go ahead and send me an email. Steve at TFNN.com. Inside the subject heading, please put radio show question. Of course, in our Tigers Den. Well, any ping will do. So let's go ahead and get this show started on terrific Tuesday. Of course, this is Tiger. Financial News Network. I'm Steve Rhodes. Welcome to LUS Show right now. The Dow trading down about 31 points. 26104. S&P is off 6. So all the indices are in the red. So too is the spot volatility index. That's down 35 cents. We're going to have to pay attention to that. Must not have gotten the memo. If you take a look at gold, that's up for buck silver 19 pennies. That's a little over 1% to the upside lights. We'd crude down a quarter. Natural gas is basically flat, slightly higher. Lead the charge dollar wise to the upside stock wise. It's Mercado Libre up 15 bucks. Bio Rad Labs 12 Shopify 12. Home Depot 9. Beyond Meets up about 9. To the downside, Madison Square Gardens up 25 bucks or nearly 9%. Surrepto Therapeutics up 17%. That's 21 bucks. NetEase off 11 or 4%. Netflix down 9. That's a little over 3%. Of course, I want to look at what you want to look at. But I don't know what you want to look at. So let's look what I want to look at. Now let's look at what the market is doing out here. It really just kind of boiled down the old soup to nuts. Price is trading in between a short-term support and resistance line that's established right here as we take a look at the EES Mini. Here's what we know about the EES Mini. We know that right at about 2,300 hours, this was on August 18th, is the last time that we saw a breakout inside the EES Mini. Now we say a breakout because we had nine consecutive closes on a 30-minute basis, where the close was greater than the close four bars earlier. That sets up that breakout level. 29.0375. You want to know how these work? Price will pull back, and it will pull back to where it last broke out. So the beauty of using this tool out here versus saying, hey, you know, the breakout really took place all the way down here at the swing point at about 2 o'clock in the afternoon, back on August 15th, is you and I don't have to do that. We don't need to do that. We shouldn't do that. What we should be looking for is where do we see breakouts and break downs at? Now in the 30-minute chart here for the EES Mini, you can see all the way back over here at about three o'clock in the morning on August 14th, 29.32. That was a breakdown level. Then we had another one that occurred out here at about four o'clock. We began at four o'clock yesterday afternoon. Nine consecutive closes with the close lower than the close four bars earlier, setting up 29.3050. So how is it that price at about 2.30 this morning then again at four o'clock this morning and almost in essence at about the open? Why didn't it find resistance? Well, that's where price had broken down. What does price do? When you top, so to speak, I use top as kind of a, okay, I don't want to go higher any further. You go back and you test support. So in essence, that's exactly what took place between that 9.30, 10 o'clock session out there. Price got back. It didn't exactly at 29.0375. It got to 29.04 and a quarter. Two ticks away. That's good enough for me. So what you can see here is you just have a good old short-term consolidation with price.  Right now, price is right there, dead square in the middle. So not doing a whole lot. Okay, so what else can we do? What else can we make a determination of as to what's going on? Well, we said that spot ball of tilt X was down, it's down 40 cents right now. So let's go peek in on it. Let's go peek in on it just simply by taking a look at the New York Stock Exchange chart. Now we're looking at a daily timeframe. And the daily timeframe, the very bottom portion of the screen is the spot volatility index. It's trading at 1649. The 50-day exponential moving average is 1637. That's the number to be watching today. I could care less whether the S&P 500 is pulling back or not. The question is where does the spot volatility index close? Now, not that I couldn't care less. It's just that what's more important, we already took a look what's important on the ES mini from the short-term standpoint. Now what we're trying to gauge is, hey, what's that spot volatility index doing? Now it is normal to get down once it's been above that 50-day as it has for quite a while. To get down and test that area, we looked at support inside the ESP down to 30-minute chart. Well, support, in essence, for the spot volatility X is a 50-day exponential moving average. But of course, you know and I know that if the spot volatility is close below the 50-day exponential moving average, it's telling us that there's plenty of liquidity go around and we should continue to see the markets move higher out there. The markets meaning the S&P, the markets in general, certainly the New York Stock Exchange. Now if you take a look at panel number two, panel number two is the Advanced Declining Oscillator. Yesterday closing above zero. Right now it is above zero. Day two is more importante. It's not just one close, but it is two consecutive closes above zero line that says, okay, buyers are the ones that are in control. So on the short-term timeframe chart right now, I would have to say we're neutral short-term. Now as we take a look at the spot volatility X, it's leaning towards bearishness or sellers in control. But a close below, what was that, 1636 today would say, no, that's not the case. And that combined with the Advanced Declining Oscillator, if it does close above zero today, that would definitely be telling us, no, that is not the case. Now, we've got more. We have to take a look at more. And here I'm right now focused on the S&P, the New York Stock Exchange. If we take a look at the S&P 500, what do we know about its market breadth? See, the Advanced Declining Oscillators, in essence, has provided you and I with information about the market breadth in the New York Stock Exchange. Well, what's the market breadth for the S&P 500? I am glad you asked me that question because here's what we know. We know that we had a bullish crossover yesterday. At the close yesterday, you had a positive bullish crossover of market breadth. What's that mean? Jelly bean. What that means is that there's 164 constituents inside the S&P 500 trading above resistance. Resistance is the top of the profile. Only 81. So just slightly less than half, if my math is correct. Slightly less than half are trading below the bottom of their profile. Now, you can have periods of time where it goes back and forth from positive to negative and you get in essence a consolidation message. But right now, the market breadth for the S&P 500 for its daily timeframe is bullish as it wants higher price. That's why what we will do is pay attention to the spot volatility index. Again, that number to be watching at today's close around 1636. This is Steve Rhodes with TFNN. We get back. I want to take a look at what you want to look at. Well, Peter was asking about can we pull up the VIX futures? They roll the contracts tomorrow. If we take a look at that real quickly, well, we'll take a look at it for Peter. We get back from this breakout here. 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Details on the Tigers Den are on the front page of TFNN.com We're accessing your newsletter subscriptions. We even have new pricing in six months and yearly options. Check out the new TFNN.com now and experience all the upgrades. TFNN.com Educating investors. Call now. Toll free at 1-877-927-6648 internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER> Welcome back, folks. We'll come back to the SpotBall utility next. We've got a call around the line. We have call ahead seating here. Let's go to Brent in Martinez, California. Brent, thanks for calling. Thanks for holding. How are you doing this morning? Doing well, Steve. Thanks so much for taking the call. Sure, my pleasure. I know you want to take a look at Freeport Macmaran and why don't you tell us what you're doing, how I can help you out? I haven't looked at the stock for a while. I have no position or anything. What I was hoping you could look at is I was looking at the weekly chart, a three-year weekly, but I really am only going back to this little trick. I'm flying a little blind because I don't have any Internet. I'm just doing this on my phone. No problem. I believe it's back in April of 2019. There's a high around 14 and a change, and then it came down to B point would be it looks to me like around either late May or June. Yes. And then the C point would be looks like, I guess, again. July. I just want to look, I might have broken that swing point. I'm just trying to project out what it could potentially go down to maybe seven range or something. If that's what you have, is there something further back, what some levels down there that would make sense to of course we need to see a reversal, but I just was wondering if there's something further back on the chart down in that range that would make sense that it could be some support for it. Okay. So that's great. And great job to end it off of your phone. So what Brent is asking about with your guide, here's the weekly chart for Freeport and Mac Moran, and Brent is trying to determine, hey, is there a small a to b equal CD pattern that is underway? Correct out there. This would give us a one to one price projection of about $6.86. Now, on a weekly basis, price doesn't have to stop at the one to one because only 60% of the time does an equity or any instrument make a one to one. So we've got to be able to identify whether this is one of those time periods now. We don't have to worry about that. As price hits that level, should it hit that level? Then as Brent pointed out, we'd look for some type that has completed. So Brent, it would be 544 is the 1.272 and 686 is the one to one. Now, the other thing that we need to do when we're taking a look at Freeport and Mac Moran is pay attention to what's going on inside the Australian dollar because here's a chart. The top portion of the chart is the Australian dollar. The bottom portion of the chart is Freeport and Mac Moran. And these two are very much tied together. So in order for Freeport and Mac Moran to find a bottom, these are the daily timeframe versus weekly that we were just looking at, ideally like to see a pattern complete inside the Australian dollar. So I'm just pointing that out to you. Now, let's take a look at you had asked the questions or anything else down in that level on a weekly chart. So for this, I'm going to just switch over to my black background charts or my e-signal charts out here. It's going to be a little bit easier for us to take a look at that level. The other thing that we want to do is ask ourselves the B point which was the week of May 27 that had volume of 67 million shares. It was passed last week with 119 million shares. So our theory is that when you pass a swing point with volume, it's what we refer to as a confirmed A to B equal CD to the downside. So in Brent's case, he's asking that question, hey, where do we see on the left-hand side? The chart takes us back into 2016 out there. Now, I would have to say if in 2016, more likely than not the price would head all the way back down to the lows of January, which is in the 390, 352 to 466 range out there. And it's very possible that there's an even larger A to B equal CD to the downside in Freeport and Mackamaran. The larger one, let's just see what that looks like with that price projects for us. And here's that new A to B equal CD. That gets us down to 403. So I think from the weekly perspective, you know, that would seem more likely and more logical, which would get you back to the 2016 swing point area.  It was bar number eight that identified the bottom back chart. You've got price below all the different profile levels out here. So I think unless there's some type of big turn in the Australian dollar, let's go take a look at that here. Well, first, any questions about about what we've just looked at in Freeport Mackamaran itself? No, you're doing what I was hoping you could take a look at it. I'm looking forward to seeing the archive. Again, I can't when I get back a little bit, but at this point, I just listen to what you have to say, and I'll go back and review it, you know, more thoroughly once I have that sure. So here's the Australian dollar and I want to put this on a weekly timeframe chart as well. And so the Australian dollar Brent on the week of December 31st, 2018 made a gigantic bullish hammer candle and so that low I'm going to give you that price now. Well, that says Apigee. Don't worry about that is .67435. Now that level is held, but I would say that if price were to get the Australian dollar were to close below that level, you know, we have that expression if you're long, you're wrong, meaning that if you see a close below the bottom of hammer candle, if you're long, you're wrong. So in order for for Freeport Mackamaran to make those lower levels out there, which has been tested the last three weeks and is held, but I think that would give you your confirmation. Okay, that's great to you. I really appreciate it. And again, I'll, you know, review it in our times once they're coming to fix my internet. Hopefully they can do that. It's terrible. It's terrible. It's weird. It's like when I was down a big survey, which I love being down there, but you kind of get used to it. You know, you know, the conveniences that we have every day that when you don't, I mean, I was fine down there. It's such a beautiful place and sure there's plenty of stuff to do just like it is at my own house. But I just it's a little weird when you don't have it. You kind of get used to it. So did they did they fix the Pacific Coast Highway area where Big Sur where there was a rock slide a couple of years ago is where there was still some ongoing work. You could tell where there had been a big area taken out and it's more or less finished doing the last parts of it. And so yeah, it's much more accessible now. Very good. Very good. Alrighty. Hey, thanks. Always good to hear from you and let me know if there's anything else we can do. Oh, well, I guess one last thing, though, because inside Freeport Mac Maran, and what's interesting about watching Freeport Mac Maran so price has been moving lower, doing less relative energy, no bullish reversal signal or anything. But again, just kind of watching that Australian dollar hammer candle and then on the daily chart, you know, maybe there's some type of bounce that will be coming first. So that's all I've got with Freeport Mac Maran. Just quickly, what would be the 1.618? Would it be those numbers you were looking for? So the 1.618 would be a price point of $3 and 64 cents. Okay Yeah, kind of down in that range. All right. Well, the patient is always and see what happens in what you told me is very helpful, and I really appreciate it. You just have a wonderful day and I'll talk to you soon. You bet that was Brent in Martinez, California dollars down 53 S and P off eight. We'll be right back. We're looking forward to seeing you in the next episode of Future's contracts. I'm certain you are or strive to be one of the best of the best at everything you do in life. It's the most common trait that we tigers and tigers is share. If you're looking to become the best of the best when it comes to managing your money, let me teach you to do what most wealth managers tell you can't be done, which is how to time the markets. I'm Steve Rhodes, author of Mastery Probability and for the last 12 months, timer digest has been tracking my newsletter in the nation for the S and P 500 for the last 12, six and three months. Timer digest also ranks me as the number one market timer for gold as well. 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Then we'll come back to that Spotball utility next with Bill in Jupiter. Bill, thanks for calling. Thanks for holding. How are you doing this afternoon? I'm well, Steve. Thank you all by yourself. Also doing well. Thanks for asking. So tell me about Goldilocks. What you want to look at and how I can help you? Sure. So Steve, this morning I was watching Larry Pesanto. And something interesting came up regarding gold, and that is that, um, large speculators apparently this is based on the Commitment of Traders report. Yeah, I'd speculated there are long, you know, net long while commercial interests are net short. And I was curious to use the Commitment of Traders report at all. You're such a great technical trader. You may not use it. I don't know, but I use it and what you thought about that. So I used to, yeah, I used to use it and keep a bunch of the Commitment of Traders charts updated. I don't have those updated. The second person in the last half hour that's asking about the COT reports for gold. So I can't, I can't discuss it just as I, since I don't have any information about it. But so but here's what I can share. So that being said, because you've taken a look at the COT data, what is your, what's your take on gold and what it's doing? So what's what's your, yeah, what's what's your take at this stage? What did you glean from the information this morning? Plus as well, your own technical prowess. I'm, you know, I, it looks to me like gold is consolidating a bit. Okay, I don't know whether you think that's right or not. And knowing that there are large interests on either side, what seemed to me would make it consolidate even further, although Larry was saying the last time this happened, I forgot what, what the date was. It was many years ago that gold really got took a pretty steep decline. But it would seem to me that having competing interests like that would continue to have gold consolidate or go sideways. So let's talk about the consolidation and let's let me give you what I would consider to be the consolidation area. And it's because this morning there was a brand new TAS market profile, TAS market profile and TAS market profiles provide us with a with resistance and support levels and I consider the TAS market profiles to be kind of our virtual first down markers on our screen out here. And so the bottom of that box is $1,500 and 30 cents and the top is $1,534.70. So in essence there's our consolidation range. If price were to close above the top of the box bill $1,534.70, which is not above the most recent high from the trading day of August 13, we'd still say that there's a breakup because resistance has failed. Likewise, if we are to see a break below the bottom of the box, $1,500.30, you would anticipate that price is going to continue to fall. So yes, you're right, there's our consolidation level. Now what I like to do is take a look at specifically charts from a technical perspective. Are there any tops or bottom signals on whatever the timeframe might be? So this is a daily timeframe chart that we're looking at. And we take a look at the daily timeframe chart what we can see here is price had moved higher, did a less relative energy, created the bearish reversal candle that happened to be a key reversal signal that was back on August 13th, created another bearish reversal candle, bearish engulfing candle, three trading sessions ago. That is a topping pattern. But in order for a topping pattern to have something more intermediate, meaning larger pullback, for example, the price target of $1412, we must see support broken. Now support was broken yesterday, and that's when price broke through its Stevie's Green Line, the oscillator and change line. But at the same time, and I was ready to give subscribers the short signal. But however, what gold was saved by the bell, saved by a new profile out there. And the reality is because that's where buyers are lined up, $1530, and which is nice because the other profiles are way down around $1405 or something like that. So the great news is we definitely have topping patterns, but we also haven't seen the price of gold bust through support. So regardless of the commitment of traders data, my take is if we see a close below $1500.30 in gold, it's going to confirm the short term or intermediate term top that we see on the daily timeframe and price should pull back to $141210. That's a price level where it most previously broke out. Otherwise, it's just consolidating sideways as you have properly pointed out. Wow, interesting. But Steve, it's below $1530 now. No, it's $151710. The December contract for gold. $1500. A close at this level would indicate the gold is going lower. No, no, no. The number for gold is $1500.30. The number for gold is $151710. The number for gold is $153010. No, my fault, my fault, good years on your part. That's speaking on my part. Yeah. So it's at $1500. At least I was sort of it is it is going sideways, obviously. I mean, just have to look at the chart. It's going sideways, but not for long. It's something's going to happen. It's interesting. means anything and I don't necessarily use it myself I just happen to be listening to Larry this morning I thought that was pretty interesting and couldn't wait to ask you what you thought about that. So here's the deal here's what I've learned about the commitment of traders data it's it's instead of looking at the speculators you want to look at the commercials and then you want to look at the category that I fit into the non the I forget what they call it what's the name of it but it's basically all the little guys so if you take a look at the commitment of traders data it's usually if you watch all the little guys and you have to track this on a percentage basis out there and you'll find that the little guys when they get up to a certain level you can identify tops and bobs is kind of like a contrarian viewpoint you also take a look at the commercials and commercial traders and see what they're doing the speculators throw that data out at least when I went back and I used to you know look at that stuff for really religiously I didn't find it of much use with regard to the speculators but large commercials the big money yes and then a small little guys at this CFTC says we're you know we're too small to track so to speak and not so fast so but look I think we have enough information out here with regard to the technicals as to what gold's doing and now we just have to wait to see is it going to bust through support or break above resistance I don't know which that answer is we'll soon find out terrific Steve thank you you bet thanks for calling let's go take a look at the spot volatility index though Peter had asked but I know he's got to go maybe he'll check out the archive here what we can see is a spot volatility index actually it's now ticked up it's trading out at 1705 that's up 17 pennies but what you can see what Peter was asking about were the futures contracts out here so you'll see August through April 2020 and actually the way that the spot volatility is a spot volatility index is set up price below all of its futures contracts is really a bullish setup but what you and I know it really isn't a bullish setup until price closes below the 50-day exponential moving average it really is that simple so to speak so right now it's trading above that level and what may be going on the market can't discount this bill just talked about a consolidation we can see a consolidation period back here in 2018 this little green box rectangle and we have a new one right here that is forming and this might be it this might be the trading range 2950 to about 2820 and the s&p cash we'll be right back if you're in the cd market and looking for a secure investment the tiger first mortgage program may work for you the security for these first mortgages are building lots in the tax opportunity zone in st. 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george listen in and you tell me which is stronger after we take a look at it so the first thing is let's look at ken ross gold let's take a look at our tass market profiles just like the gold contract was trading in a sideways consolidation so too is ken ross gold you can see that that is established by its tass market profiles the bottom of the box is 455 the top of the box is 517 so that's neither strong it's just neutral trading now now price yesterday got down to that 455 level didn't hit it to the tick but really close enough the box itself is equally distributed meaning the center which is at 492 is pretty much dead smack in the center there so neither bulls nor bears have an upper hand in between that price range in between that consolidation from a daily standpoint price above the weekly from a monthly and a quarterly prices above that so everything looks good there if we take a look at the daily time frame here look for any kind of topping signal or pattern i do have a roads momentum indicator top so very much like gold if ken ross gold would then be weak we would say george if price were to close below 456 and if it did that then what that would say is the target for ken ross gold could be all the way down to 341 it's not there yet but watch the level of 456 out here inside of it so it looks pretty strong i don't see any type of topping signal on the weekly time frame well i say that but let's go make sure about that well i take that back there certainly is a topping pattern c a to b equals c d that's what brent had called on now ken ross gold made a bottom back here in november of 2018 with a td set up nine count a roads momentum indicator bottom so a real nice way for it to make bottoms and now it has made the 1 to 1.272 a to b equal c d i'm looking at the weekly time frame chart so what that says though george is really watch 455 455 is the level that if ken ross gold closed below it's signaling to you that it wants to make an even further run lower out there so let's take a look at the other instrument you want a btg i think that's b2 gold or something like that btg uh let's go say b2 gold it is uh so here just simply from a profile standpoint price is trading above the top of its daily profile above the top of the weekly above the top of the quarterly above the top of the monthly so just simply from a profile perspective we would say that this is the stronger of the two not really consolidating sideways had moved sideways if it stays above 356 in essence it's above sellers out there now not that there weren't some sellers from the high on august the seventh out here august 7th that's where it's made it's a 52 week high at least it's 52 week high out there but the price really holding support at this stage the ultimate support on this would be three dollars and 20 cents if we take a look at btg i didn't populate my other charts let's do that here as we pull this over you know i don't have a topping pattern per sages yet if i do my wave counts from the bottom um yeah that's not a topping a signal or pattern out here uh which would be wave count number seven so this looks pretty good let's look at the weekly time frame chart see what we see uh do we have any kind of topping pattern here there's the a to b equal cd pattern as well so let's draw that in so here that a to b equal cd the one to one was 365 the one one point two seven two three dollars and 99 cents now in this case here there is no topping signal from a weekly standpoint of that a to b equal cd there's no bearish reversal candle out here uh so this looks uh stronger i would say that this looks stronger btg looks stronger than ken ross gold although ken ross gold was just really consolidating sideways out there so george and tampa i hope that that helps you out if not write me back and i'll answer those questions uh next the other question that has come in this is coming in from uh looks like jane jane b uh wants to take a look at um micron technologies i'm uh she's in long just wondering where it might bottom so it could take a look at the micron do the same thing emu is a ticker symbol out here and so as we take a look at micron here's what we know as well about its market profiles it's trading above the top of its box it's trading above the top of the daily box above the top of the weekly box above the top of the monthly box so uh again above resistance levels out there you're asking where might this bottom so my i would guess jane you're asking where might this pull back to so where this could pull back to on a retracement here would be the top of its market profile and that level is 43 49 uh let me get move going on my other uh charts as well not my but emu i might help and why is not a active ticker symbol out here so that would be an area where it could people pull back to now micron technology this is a instrument that subscribers and i are long the reason that we're long is because this tested several times a breakout area this is a gap so different than the td setup nank on although we'll take a look at that and see that that also identified the bottom but there was a breakout on july 10th 51 million shares when price pulled back there on august 5th it was with 35 million 35 going against 51 the next test of that was on august 7 35 million the next test of that level was on august 9 22 million see how volumes kind of drying on the vine so to speak and august the 12th i would tell me uh the drying on the vine a one dollar one dollar royalty for using this terminology but you also had to pull back the light volume on august 12 so it was telling us that uh sellers didn't have the energy to push through that gap to the upside and that in essence is when we went ahead and went long now there was this nice move out here on august 13th good volume 33 million shares um and you know prices struggling to get over that level but here's mu on the daily basis by the way emu mu is a nice little sake out there if you ever see it on a menu it's tiger's favorite sake if we take a look at the uh td set up nine count so in addition to price pulling back to a breakout area with lighter volume this also had a nice bottom here with that td set up nine count uh we'd like to see price stay above steve's green line that's 44 43 um that would be nice that would be a test of a bullish area out there a test of support and would suggest that this should run to 47 68 so with regard to bottom out here you've got the top of its daily profile 43 49 the bottom is at 41 40 out there um and that's what I see when we take a look at the ticker symbol emu so Jane I hope that that helps you out with regard to uh micron technologies no other questions in of course we just got about a minute to go before we head to break and then we've got the two minute uh wrap but uh so what else is it that we should really be focused on I just want to keep things as simple out there and the easiest way to keep things simple again watch the es meaning just doing nothing more than trading between support and resistance and support is 29 0 3 75 that is short term support 29 0 3 75 you see a break below that oh then we have to take a look at other areas of support the other thing we're watching is that spot volatility index today and that is 17 bucks trading 17 even steven but we took a look at what that 50 day exponential moving average line is and that's the key level to be watching dow's off 90 s and p down 13 nasdaq 127 we'll be right back since 1984 basal Chapman has been using the Chapman wave methodology to advise traders of his expert market opinion well originally hand drawing charts from the late 1970s into the 1980s basal noticed that prices under most circumstances virtually always had a certain number of legs to the upside before declining sharply later basal found the computer software which included the standard market technical indicators enhanced the degree of accuracy and calling price turns 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task market profiles it's above the weekly and quarterly uh those were in the 187 and 197 uh levels prices trading above the top of the weekly that's at 209 16 and prices trading above the top of the daily that's at 204 10 we do know that apple is trading into its swing point from july 31st that had volume of 69 million shares yesterday it tested with 24 million shares today you're at 15 million shares nonetheless a price can close above 211 30 jim that's the bottom of that swing point even with light volume it says that price could go ahead and test the top of that level that's at 221 37 ideally you would have volume which is 69 million shares i don't see that taking place today a close inside a swing point with volume sex suggests you are more likely than not to go test the top of that so at this stage here i don't know if it is or it isn't but a close below 211 30 today you'll have your third test and rejection of the bottom of that swing point on light volume out there if we take a look and just step back i take a look at the monthly time frame chart with stevie's other tools out here uh what do we know i don't really have a significant topping pattern or signal we know that price did pull back from back in october of uh oops hold on a second here october of 2018 uh is where we began seeing a pullback and where price pulled right back to on a monthly time frame chart was where it had broken out 140 to 20 very similar to take a look at a short term chart for the es mini as we did so understanding these breakout and breakdown levels using that td setup nine count pattern is uh very helpful and understanding what the market is doing so if we take so support held on the longer term basis out there if we take a look at the weekly time frame chart it does have a valid roads momentum indicator top and really not until price were to close above 224 23 would we say that it has found its mojo so what's apple doing jim and in the end there's nothing real bearish so to speak today about it but it's pushing into a key swing point with light volume and uh watch today's close for a signal to 1130 hey folks thanks so much for being here stay tuned david whites up next tom will bryant three to five i'll be back with you on wonderful wednesday take care


Hello everyone. So I'm so happy to attend our conference to give this talk around our open source, around the tech, around the community. And I'm Tristan Pian, the co-founder and CTO of Sophia Yex. My professional is around distributed database and database management automation. So apart from my area, my professional, I engage a lot in Apache Software Foundation. And now mentoring three incubator Apache projects. So that's one of the reasons I want to give some talk around our open source, around our community. Because Sophia Yex, they start up, it's based on a successful community or successful infra database project. That is the Apache-sharing Sophia. So apart from that, about our community, I also help such Apache foundation projects or incubator projects to give their help or give their suggestions around their open source tech community and projects to make them become stronger, healthier and popular. Sometimes I will post some articles around startup, around the distributed database, around big data, around open source on my Twitter and LinkedIn, and GitHub. So if you are interested in such topics, welcome your look at them. So today our topic is around community. Before we really consider how to make your open source community become attractive, we need to know that a community is made of two important parts. First one is project itself. It includes about the code, your programmer, your programming and your infrastructure, your documents. Another important part is the people. Because of the people, our community could have the capability to become the popular, become attractive, become diverse. So today I will focus on two elements to give them my thinking around them. The last one is about persistence. That's another very important and key point here. Because before we consider how to run our community, we need to first answer this question. Why do you think that open source is important for you? So that's related to another element here, that is persistence. Some people will think you want to show your talents and get to recognize from others, from the industry. Another people will think I want to make our community become active. I want to receive many feedback from our contributors or from our industry, from the users. And some people will think that I just want to make our community become live longer or healthy. So that will help for my business part. So no matter which reason you want, it's your reasons I want to know that part. I mean you need to know that part because that will give you motivation, give you incentive around your persistence to run your community. To make your community become popular. So everyone has his answer. So what's that about you? Alright, so when we first solve the persistent issue, next one will really enter into project part and people part. First we need to answer this question. What's the key value of your project? From the maintainer or from the founder of an open source project. We just want to people give our feedback and user project. But we need to change your perspective. We need to become, we need to become a user. Why we use project? Because I found this project can help me solve the issues around my industry, around my company. And the second, maybe I found the idea of the architecture of this open source project so attractive and so wonderful, so I want to be part of that. That could become the rhythm. So from the maintainer part, you need to consider what's the value you can present to your any users and your contributors. That's the foundation of everything. Let's take a picture of this. For example, at the beginning, we really just have only one feature. That is how to shard our traditional database, like the PostgreSQL or MySQL or Oracle to make it become the distributed database. That's the only key feature we can present to our users. And at that time, I mean, that's maybe around 2016 or 2017, shard or distributed system is so hot. So people want to use it to help them to upgrade efficiently and effectively their traditional database cluster, MySQL cluster or PostgreSQL cluster. That's the value. Because of that value, we can attract the first bunch of the users and contributors. And gradually, that we found, we need to consider the next step, the next milestone for our project or for our community. Because I gave this example here, Apache Attic. Apache Attic is a group project that all of them that people don't want to use them or have no values for the future users or no people want to maintain them. So they enter into the frozen time, frozen period. So that means maybe one day they will really die, but currently they are frozen. So we don't want to or open source projects become died in one day, we hope, right? So we need to consider the next milestone or the future of this project. And for Sharding Sophia, we found that people not just want to use a shard, not just want to make their traditional database become the distributed system. They also want to help them to automatically manage their database like data encryption or database gateway, or help them to governance the traffic for database and your application. I mean the traffic between application and your database. So like the rewrite splitting or data encryption or SQL audit distributed authentication. So we gradually found it not can just to present the key, the only one key key values to users that Sharding. We also present them more features to our users than Sharding Sophia from the database middleware become the data platform. So that's the story. I give this history just to want to take the evidence forward user for audience that if you want to your community become more and more popular, you need to consider currently value and future value, currently perspective and future architecture. So that's the key values for your community. All right, so next part. Okay, that's the one of the benefits from the successful open source. That means you can you can have your startup company. Next part, it's about the infrastructure. Now you solve the issue that why open source is important for you. And what's the value for your open source project. Next one that how to build this building. First, you need infrastructure. The infrastructure include two parts. First one is hot. I mean, infrastructure, like your code base, right? And your test system and your developing language, what's your developing language, etc. So here I gave the important element or factors here for your hot infrastructure. No matter your newcomer or your veteran, I recommend GitHub. It's not the pitch, but it's really useful for us because GitHub, it's a platform, which can prevent a lot of useful tools, infrastructures, GitHub actions to help you create your code base, give a place, create a place for users and committers to raise the pull requests and issues and run all the tests. So that's important. Another one, it's about your programming language. From this image you can see here, it's the most in demand programming language 2022. And if your project is developed by Python, that means most of the Python developers could be the potential committers or contributors to your community, right? That gives your community a lot of chance. But if you use developer language that few of the people use it for their project, that means you only have a small potential contributor base for you to pick up. So you get my point, right? Yeah. So by using GitHub or other platform, you create your code base, you create the cornerstone for your building, for your project, for your open source community. The next part, it's about your soft infrastructure. It's the culture or policies or regulation of this community. Because we have to know that our open source community or open source projects, it's not for a group of people or only for you. It's open, right? That means you can get the feedback and the contribution from the people all over the world. But everyone, each one has his thinking, has practice, has habits about coding, idea and development, developing, programming, right? So we really want to this community or this project, it's healthy. So we can set up quickly and support the future, hire more requirements from our community from the world, right? So we have to make up this regulation, this culture, calculate this culture. So anyone joined here or the future people joined here, he will found a community or this land is beautiful and it's regulated or it's opened for our contributors or users, right? Because if everyone just have no rules, just put this idea here, then this community one day will become messy and stable in the future. So for that, to reach that goal, we need to create our fundamental stuff. That is about your documents, your code conduct and your post, your articles, your documents. So here you can see that Shirting Sophia has this document for each big release and about the community, we also tell our people like how to get started and how to prescribe our Apache mail list and how to set up your dive environment and how to do your contribution. We make all the stuff become convenient for contributors to join here because the maintainer will only have two or three or a bunch of maintainer, but they cannot face thousands, hundreds of the contributors or users to ask their question. We cannot give their answers their questions so quickly, so advanced. So we need this document to help us to make it convenient for our users, for our contributors to learn about this project, about this project, about this community, about how to do blah, blah, blah. So here you can see we have a lot of documents around our project, around our community and also have some posts to introduce how others use our product for their scenarios, for their cases. So thanks for the community. They really help this project become like the thriving currently and in the future. Thanks to all the contributors here. And last part, it's about the people. So people, I said before that it's the key point here because from Apache Community Governance and principle that they believe the community is over code, they think that the people is more important than code or than your repo because if we just have the code base, that means you are only one people to maintain this repo.  So that means it cannot have a long-term healthy running mod, right? So we need people. How to attract people's attention?  So some of the people who are interested in such ideas, they will join here or your users want to become the contributors to fix down the bugs. And then you also need to create the hierarchy. This hierarchy, like here, from the contribution level or from the professional aspect that we create this hierarchy to tell the people how professional this person is. From the project PMC, that is the project management committee, they have the more knowledge around this community because they stayed here for a long time and they really did a lot of contribution here. So people trust them. People trust their knowledge, their professional, their idea, that project management committee. The next part, it's the next level, it's the committer. The committer means that they did a lot of effort and time here to go a lot of time here. So they are more professional than our contributor, right? So if they answer some question that people will think his authority, it's okay to believe or to trust, right? The next part is contributor. That means they just come across this project and do some contributions and then leave left. That's okay, that's fine. And we also sense their efforts here, but it's random, right? Okay, so next part is the user. User also didn't give some contribution here, but they will read their issues, their questions, they help to answer some issues, blah, blah. So they have the majority of that part. They are massive, but they also can help our project to grow up. So also important. So when we create this hierarchy, that means each contributor will stay here to earn his authority. And it also can help ourselves to know how to make the people in different levels to stay here or to make them happy because I thought it's a double win. It's not just from the community. For all of the people that stay here, they feel happy, they feel that they are recognized by the community. And they also learn a lot of new knowledge. They practice their skill sides. So they want to stay here, right? They want to do their contribution here. So it's a double win. When we have this hierarchy, then we can tell our community to make it open because open communication can create more chance for the future users and the contributors or our PMCs. So open communication is like you need to pay the role for your users, right? If you have no communication channel, then people create a wall for your users, your contributors and yourself. It's so bad, right? So open communication is like pay the role to the world. The last part is about the people outside. Alright, after that, I gave some cases to evidence that open community is important and the hierarchy and the system, the policy here is important because you can see here, I published the discussion so people can have the chance to know what is happening in this community and if you like it, this idea, they will give their public vote or cast their vote. And when we welcome the new commuter here, they will find, wow, I'm so welcomed by this community. They really published this email and this vote to tell that the whole community that I, today, from today, I will become the commuter of this community. I'm so honored to be here, right? So that maybe will create the belongings for them. The next part is about the people outside. That means we need to create the cooperation with the people outside. First, about the promotion part. Here, like about the short answer field, we have our channel, we have our Twitter. So we can have people, what is happening in the community and if there are any new commuters here and also I will give some talks about the tech, about the open source or write some articles to introduce these projects to tell people that we not just want to become the pitch, we not just to do the ad. We really want to solve people's issues. So that's why we stay here. That's why I wrote that article. I just want to present value to our any other. And people have their choice to listen to, to believe this project or not, to have a try or not. But for us, we need the first way to tell people, hey, there it's a wonderful project I think. So do you want to have a try? Yeah. And about the cooperation, like I said here, this example, Apache short answer field also have created some like the mixed project with another two Apache top-level project. So we group a new team to leverage each of the projects, the power and to create this new project to solve the load test online issue to for our users. So you can see here, right? So that's a potential chance for the cooperation. That's can also each to affect each of the community of the three projects, right? Because we create the cooperation, then the people in another project or another community will know us, will know this new project, then people that will can promote it or like create a more new idea, create more values to this industry. All right, so that's all about over a second stack overflow to publish our new article. Right, so the last part, it's about the persistence. Like I gave some the talk about at the beginning, right? So the persistence wins the trust precisely. From the history of Apache Foundation at the beginning, they're so small. It's the group of the people. But now they have more than 300 wonderful projects here. And for Apache Shooting Sophia, at the beginning, we have zero stars on the GitHub. But now we have more than 16,000 top stars at GitHub. That charming or that's a power of the process of the persistence. If you like open source, if you believe your projects, if you want to make become diversity, want to become better in the future, then you need to learn how to be patient with the time. That's the like a word I tell myself every day because it's not just about the open source project. It's also about our each person's life and about our career. So that's all the content about this talk. If you have any questions, I guess you can find me on my Twitter or GitHub, just a zero. So thanks for listening. Bye.


Whoa, what's going on you guys? Welcome to the Single Guy Channel. My name is Lloyd. Today we're gonna be talking about how to get girls when you live with your parents. This is probably a common situation for some of you watching right now. I know it's a pretty common situation that's happening in general in the world. And it happened to me too, you know? Right after college, I lived with my parents for a little bit, but I was still able to be successful despite this, okay? And it's because I did the things that I'm going to tell you in this video, okay? So the first thing that I'm gonna talk about is how to still remain attractive to women, how to still be a good option for them, despite the fact that you live with your parents, and think too, what are the practical steps to dating, hooking up with when you've got your folks at home, okay? Because I know that was a big problem for me. Okay, cool. So before I get into this, if you are looking to get trained by me in person, then take a look at my boot camp schedule down below. Tell me what city that you're going to be in and look at the dates that I have, and then we'll try and work something out. Okay, cool. So the first tip that I'm going to give you about how to get girls when you live with your parents is how to remain attractive to them, because look, dude, I don't care who you are, women don't like a guy that lives with his parents, okay? They don't like it. It's definitely minus points for them for sure. But you can still be, holy cow, there's a huge thunderstorm going on right now. But you can still be extremely attractive to them if you, even though you live with your parents, and I was still able to be extremely attractive to them, because here's the thing, dude, a lot of guys think that women just want a rich guy, and it's true, women do like men who are rich, but they don't like the money part as much as you think. What they're really into is they're really into the qualities of a man who possesses a lot of wealth. Generally, guys that are very wealthy and successful are guys that are very driven, or guys that when they have a goal, they go after it and they accomplish it. Guys who are confident, guys who work hard, these are the kinds of guys that women really like, man. Those are very attractive things, and they're looking for them in a guy. And if you possess those traits, just because you live with your parents, they're probably going to be willing to overlook that fact because if you possess these in such high quantities. I mean, if you think about Jeff Bezos or someone like that, like they started in their garage too. Elon Musk was working out of a garage for a little bit too. Do you really think that if, oh, Jesus Christ. Holy cow. Do you really think they're gonna overturn or they're gonna overlook a guy just because he's living in the garage? No, no, women are looking. If you show the potential to be a successful guy, it doesn't matter where you're living or how you're living, okay? And it doesn't have to be just for money, dude. It can be if you're an artist, athlete, musician, whatever it is, dude. As long as you show that you're gonna be successful and you're driven in those areas, a lot of women are still gonna really be attracted to you. And that's one thing that women saw with me because I was always the kind of guy who was, I'm always pushing for a goal. And despite the fact that my current situation might not be the best, it might not be ideal for them, they know that my potential is. And so if you show a high level of potential, women are still gonna be very attracted to you, man. Okay, so a lot of times this is gonna come up in conversation, whether you're at a social event, whether you're at a bar, club, whatever. Where do you live? Or maybe somebody will ask a specific question and you won't be able to get out of it. Usually if they ask where do you live, I would usually just tell them the city and then that would be it. If they found out I live with my parents later, okay, I'm not gonna lie to people, but I wouldn't make that the focal point. If you bring it up, oh, I live with my parents in this area, obviously you're thinking about it a lot and it bothers you a lot clearly.   And if it doesn't bother you, it's not a big deal to you.  So what I would do is I would be like, yeah, I live with my parents, not a big deal. But that was the kind of mentality that I had. And I was always, whenever that topic would come up, I would always be talking about the future. I would always be like, yeah, I'm thinking about living in this area. Oh, and I'm thinking about doing this trip so they could see that my plan was not to stay in my current situation. My plan was to go and travel. My plan was to go move into this house or in this apartment or in this area, you know? That is the sign of a guy who has potential. And maybe his current situation isn't great, but his potential is really, really hot. Okay, cool. So that's how you kind of handle those situations. What I would do if you are looking, if you have a girl who's like, down to hook up with you or maybe you're dating a girl and you're looking to get some privacy, well, obviously you're gonna have to go back to her place. If her place isn't an option, then you're probably gonna have to use a car or get a hotel or do something like that, okay?  That's another thing too. Like if you're living with your parents in, Jesus. If you're living with your parents and you're mooching off people, you know, like no one's gonna wanna get what you do, okay? So make sure that you have at least something going for you during this period of time. If you're starting your own business, you're working for a company and saving up whatever it is, make sure that you've got something going on. Okay, so the way I would go, the way I would do it, like if I was gonna go back to another girl's place as opposed to my own, because usually what happens is like they ask you, hey, where do you live? Or let's go back to your place. Okay, if that would happen, then I would be like, oh, we can't go to my place. There's too many people there. Where do you live? And then she would tell me where she lives. If she lives close, cool, we can go there.  Have a nice little lookout, make it romantic. Do that sort of thing. If you're looking for an excuse to go back to a girl's place, you know, it's going well, she likes you. You guys wanna keep hanging out. Well, then just ask her about kind of, you know, what she has or her living situation. So maybe she has like a cool vinyl collection or maybe she has like some artwork that she wants to show you. Or maybe she has some fun games or like your favorite alcoholic beverage or something like that. Those are the kinds of things you say, oh, cool, you have a vinyl collection. Oh, I'd love to check that out. Do we have time? Why don't we leave just right now? Go there. Yeah, sorry, I'm gonna try and edit around this, this big thunderstorm that's going on right now. So yeah, if she has one of those things, then say, cool, I'd love to check that out. And then, you know, maybe you can go after the bar's closed or the party ends or when you guys are ready to leave. Cool, that's a perfect excuse. Again, you guys, this is something that you should only be thinking about as temporary.  So hopefully this helps you guys. If you've made it to the end, consider subscribing. I come up with videos like this every single week. If you're looking for a group of like-minded individuals that you can connect with, learn from, then join my Facebook group. I respond to questions, posts, messages, the fastest in that area. So check that out. 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So, Lee, I believe you're working on a pretty special project here that I think a lot of people in the dual hardware nerd community would appreciate. Why don't you tell us a little bit about this project that you're working on? I appreciate it. So yeah, it's called the documented history of electronic access control. So you talk about nerdy. It's very specific to documenting the history of our industry, basically, from the electronic access control side. So purposely not mechanical, purposely not outside of just the electronic access control side, where a lot of it came from is I like history. If you think about our industry, there's not a lot of documented history, frankly. And if it is, you've got it on, like, manufacturers' websites, but it's very specific to, like, that manufacturer. And if you're a young professional coming in, where are you going to get that information? If you're older in the career, and what I found is there's a handful of 80-year-olds that have been around from the beginning that, frankly, are either not talked to at this point or, unfortunately, passing away or don't talk about it, really, because no one's asking a lot of time. So my desire is to go out and to document that. So what we've done is we started a Kickstarter, which, happy to say, is about 120 percent. Thank you for participating. Over, so we got, like, eight days till the closes, and then we gave ourselves 365 days to go put it together. And it's myself, Bert Hart and Aaron Mann, who I think you all know each of those people. So each of us brings a different level of passion into what we'd like to do, like, Bert loves the graphics and the storytelling through pictures and the layout. Aaron's a wonderful writer, and I love going and digging in a lot of places. So my curiosity takes me. But yeah, so what we're going to do is take that next year, find the different stories. What we've noticed so far in just doing it is that there's no, like, specific, you know, linear timeline that you can do. So what we have seen is there's pockets of either location or technology or people that overlap at a certain time. So we're going to capture those. It'll be linear in that respect. But our hope is, is that it just is the beginning of what is an ongoing documentation of what has been a wonderful industry for me, you, a lot of people in the past and going forward. And these stories are just kind of going away. Like I'll give you a good example. It's like, where did RFID come from and why and how did it get into identities? And we can track a, you know, tests in the Basque region all the way to Anadi locks going into hotels, which reaches mobile now. And there's some really wonderful stories about regionally New Zealand versus the UK versus China versus here. When it comes to where did it all start and how did it all start and where did it overlap? And in the end, it's just a, it's an overall celebration of an industry that we want to tell its story and to get out. And it's been wonderful for me and started it actually with my father, which was he retired and sort of one of those things of like, Hey, what do you want to do something together? And we started working together on it.  Let's go do this. So what we're going to do is where there's a book that's going to come out. There's a website that's going to be a dot org. And our plan is to give that to one of the associations because I don't really want to own it. I don't think anybody should. And then our hope is we're going to document the process. And my dream would be at ISC West would be to invite some of the older people that haven't been to one in a long time and actually do a showing and then have the opportunity to Q&A with them to do that. And then I don't know, hopefully this would be the first of many to happen after that. But yeah, so that's, that's what we're doing. And super encouraged and thrilled by the community's feedback. I mean, we put the Kickstarter out there being like, all right, can we drive some awareness and excitement around it and was shocked that, you know, within, I think it was like 30 days of the 60, we reached the goal that we had and all of the money is going to go towards putting that together. There'll be additional resources put into it on myself to go do that. But we're pretty stoked about it and then already starting to get the work on it. So I appreciate the opportunity to talk about it. Well, I appreciate you guys making the effort.   We have these industry experts that are literally dying, that are leaving that history that they have inside their head is leaving us, right? And they only know the story because they haven't documented it. And the history, the industry hasn't done a great job of documenting it. Or if they have, it's from a manufacturer. And it's obviously a little bit bias towards what their their point of view. So I'm happy that you are putting the work in and let us know how we can better support you. No, I appreciate it. Yeah, more is coming. I could it'll be an ongoing I've got a trip set up code. We're going to Japan and actually go talk to a couple of lock manufacturers there. But come to find out in the U.S. A lot of it's out of California, Southern California and the Northeast. And there's pockets. You've got a group in Nebraska that a lot of people talk about. There's some up in Michigan and actually surprisingly or not for our Canadian friends, a lot going on in that country that drove. If you think about, especially in the access control side, there's just a lot of innovation that happened along the lines. And come to find out one of the stories that we're going to talk about and tell the story more, too, is a lot of people think of the the dealer. The channel side is just to pass through an installation. But a lot of these electronic actions control companies, especially from a software standpoint, come from a lot of the dealers in the marketplace that generated or created their own solutions. And then they turn into companies and the rest of it. So there's some really rich stories. There's even found one of the original salespeople from New York City Marketplace. It's a woman who recently retired. She's been around for she was around for 25 years, I think it was. And the stories that she has about working that marketplace and dealing with getting large equipment up into the, you know, and then really the story around this idea where they would sell the systems to anybody and all of a sudden they started to verticalize them within like the financial marketplace and high tech and how certain things changed. The other part I'll tell you that was interesting is now we've started to gather artifacts. Scary is a lot of the messages that we had in 1973 are basically the same as today. Just different air cuts and different clothing in them. But I don't know if that's good or bad. I'm going to leave it. It feels bad that we're telling the same value creation stories that we did in 1973 and the year 2022. But maybe it's a good thing. I don't know. Consistency sometimes is a good thing. So those types of things that we're going to pull out and showcase and tell stories around and it won't be done. It'll never be done. But we will at some point say, all right, this is a good sort of beginning and we're going to get this information out in a book. And then my hope and desire is that either it sparks more people to go do that. And the next thing you know, we have like encyclopedias of interesting stories of the industry or we'll just continue to write and to document it. And my hope is that again, this is like maybe I need better hobbies. But to me, this is wonderful content marketing that, you know, if you think about legacy, you know, one day when I leave the industry, at least I can look back and say, hey, this here's a here's a blip that I was able to put out into the universe that maybe somebody would see value in. Yeah. I mean, and this is not a small undertaking. You said you're giving yourself 365 days, you and the team 365 days to do this.  Right. Because like the Kickstarter has only been out for what, 39 40 days so far. But that wasn't like the starting point, right? Like, when did you start thinking about this? About three years ago. Yeah. And then up until recent, it's just always been itching at me. And I have a folder that I've kept all the stories in that of documenting along the way. And then, but yeah, three years ago is when at least the idea of like, hey, why does this exist and how can you do this? And we just started to I started to ask questions around it and my father.  Now we're never a type of a thing. So let's go and see if there's interest in it. I don't know. Maybe it was just me that had an itch for this and come to find out that no one cared. And I still probably would have done it anyways, just for my own. But then when I saw the response of, I think it was like close to 60 backers at this point, which is I'm thrilled to see that. And actually globally, too. So yeah. So we're going to give it. Yeah, it'll it'll be it's a good amount of work, no doubt, especially if you want to make it good after writing one book and seeing how hard that was just to do that. And that that like I didn't I didn't need to go research on that one. That was me putting my words on paper and working with a writer to help put that together. And that that that was hard now going and getting stories out of people and how that all works. And actually, even the process of, you know, do I usually see what I traveled with this last trip I took to California to go interview a guy by the name of Bud Toy, who one of the original in the industry. I brought like bags full of stuff and we come to find out. We like just sat and talked and I wrote it down and a paper. And I was like, man, I just didn't need that extra piece of luggage with me. But you'll learn. I've not done this before. So we'll see what happens. But that's what it's part of the reason why we want to document it, too, is that nowadays, again, like this isn't you're not going to see this icon or at a film festival, right? It's a this is so I don't I don't profess to to be at that level. But I also think that these things are approachable. I could see that because you're because you're really into that. I said, well, do it on I.C. West. That's like maybe that'll be like a new thing. They'll be like marketing and storytelling and like, you know, they'll be just like they give awards for the, you know, the newest do Hickey that comes out, you know, at the maybe they'll have also these awards that we'll start doing. And we could turn this into like South by Southwest. Yes, that's in fact what I was. I don't know. There's something to be said about adding some of the arts around what we do that may not be so terrible. I think it's the creative things that keep life interesting 100 percent. This is how again, I think this is how we attract talent and then how we celebrate the past, because frankly, a lot of the stuff that you see that's new out in the marketplace has been built off of, you know, the shoulders of a lot of people down the road before. And I think this is a good way to celebrate that past. I can't wait. I am a backer. I can't wait for my copy. It'll it'll make its way to one side of this display. Yeah, now we have to go do like the totes and all the other stuff. All it's on the list of things we got to go do now. Yeah. Well, Lee, let us know how we can support with you. No, I appreciate that very much. And you all have so thank you for your doing. And the same goes to you if I can help in any way. And I love what you all are doing and keep doing it. So thank you.