The Strain was written by Chuck Hogan and Guillermo del Toro and You know unfortunately Guillermo's skill as a filmmaker doesn't really translate to skill as a novelist This is the introduction song. It's not very good, but it's not too long now before I get into the Real meat of the review. I just want to give a few quick announcements about the channel As of this recording the Aragon video should have just come out yesterday, I think and After that there will be another review, which I don't really want to talk about because it's actually Really weird and out there. So we'll just you'll see that in a couple of days After that is the Maya mortal read through and then there should be this and then I'm gonna review another patron requested book which is Kind of weird because I don't normally get those very often now I'm getting two in one month But you know, whatever I'm gonna do that and then I'm reviewing the bands of mourning Which is the final Mistborn book at least the final one that's out so far And by then it should be May and in May. I don't know exactly when I'm gonna be releasing a Scripted video about the rise and fall of Artemis Fowl, which should be a lot of fun and then I have a scripted video all about World War Z which should also be pretty great and Somewhere in there once I'm finished with all the reviews I'm gonna start reading the House of Night books so that I can get in and do a whole thing on that So that should be a lot of fun, but you know and none of that's set in stone But you know that's how it is, but anyways the strain so the strain is basically a modern take on Vampires, you know, it's actually kind of a combination of the old vampire myths and modern zombie outbreak stories because vampirism is like a virus which Which when people get infected it Kills them and then sort of brings them back in a different form and then they go after you only instead of eating your brains or eating Your flesh they're trying to drink your blood and if they drink your blood then it spreads and it just gets bigger and bigger from there so yeah, it's like combination of the two and Originally Guillermo del Toro actually wanted to make this into a movie But he just wasn't able to do it for whatever reason so he wrote this series of books with Chuck Hogan And then it got popular enough that he was able to turn it into a television show Which I have seen and I think the television show is really really good It's on Hulu by the way if you have that hashtag not sponsored, but anyways, I think it's really good Not say it doesn't have issues, but Yeah, the show is better than the book that said I'm gonna try and talk about the book a little bit more on its own merits because it came first now That said the plot of this is Well, it's structured Kind of like a thriller But also kind of like a movie and that's what I mean when I say Guillermo del Toro's Skill as a filmmaker doesn't really translate into skill as a novelist because the structure of a movie or television show is different from the structure of a book and for example The characters in this most of them particularly the main character Ephraim when he is first introduced it's like it starts in a scene where he's just in his apartment playing video games with his son and Then it goes into His whole backstory about his divorce and how much he loves his son and the issues he had with his wife and How much his job as a doctor at the CDC means to him and all that and Like that's most of his development right there is given to you in like a page and that's Well, it's kind of obnoxious, and I know that's a common thing in thrillers Especially thrillers that are aimed at adult men like you know those Paperback books that you buy it like the airport, you know that that's pretty common and I guess Some people are okay with that But honestly, I find it super obnoxious because it does that with most every character in this book with the exception of Abraham Satracian and Satracian is like this old holocaust survivor who ran into Vampires or as he calls them Shkregoi back during World War two and Learned oh shit. These are real and he spent pretty much the rest of his life hunting them and so when this book starts He realizes what's going on before anybody else And so he actually meets up with Ephraim and some others and he tries to help them or rather they try to help him Might be more accurate putting it Bring the plague to an end before it can get out of control Now plot-wise this book is Man I'm not sure if I like it or not because like I said its structure Is kind of clumsy and doesn't work all that well in the form of a book, but It starts off amazing and it actually starts off better than a TV show I think because At the very beginning a plane lands at an airport in New York City And it just goes completely dark like all everything shuts off and then they go inside and everybody on board is dead Like they have no idea what killed them and so they bring in the Center for Disease Control And that's how Ephraim and them get involved and they just look at it like yeah I don't know what killed these people but then the bodies go missing and then they start coming back to life as you know as vampires and they go around killing people and The thing is in the show Um The audience had a pretty good idea of what was going on from the beginning at least a general idea like all the Smaller details you found out along with the characters whereas in the book The audience and the characters have no clue what's happening at first So you're finding it out with them and it does an amazing job of building up tension and just making you really afraid for what's gonna happen next and Making you realize okay.  Um, that said it also goes on a little too long in that Building tension era. I think in fact, I would say this book should have been longer because excuse me um Yeah, the first like two-thirds of it or the first half of it Excuse me again. The first half to two-thirds of it is like just building tension and Well, there's like very little release in there anywhere. So when the climax comes it feels like it goes down a little too quick and that's just a little disappointing to me like it's not awful, but a little disappointing and So I wish that this book had just been a little longer Like let's say 60 70 pages longer so that they could add a few more steps in between them Finding out what's going on and confronting the master as he's called not to mention that more time also would have allowed them to have character developments in there somewhere like I Get it. This is just the first in a trilogy and there will most likely be some more later on I don't know how closely the show follows these books like the first one is followed pretty closely But I don't know about the second and third ones. But anyways, it would have been great for there to be some other character development in there and Well, there really isn't that much other than again Abraham Satracian who his back stories revealed through a series of flashbacks Which are spread throughout the book, which is a very good way of doing it and quite frankly the pros in this the actual writing itself is Not good. Okay. It Spends a little bit too long describing actions like The way I would put it is that it's very good at describing scenery particularly when it's describing like the vampires and What they look like and it does a great job of making them feel grotesque because you'll get like entire paragraphs just describing How their skin is pale and how their eyes are dead and how They have like stingers in their mouths and what those look like and it'll go into detail about like Dead bodies after they've been killed and stuff and it really does make everything feel grotesque and unpleasant Which you know this story, I don't know if I'd call it a horror story, but it definitely has a lot of horror elements So it's great that they did that but when it's describing people's actions like it should Use you should usually keep those not to a minimum necessarily, but You shouldn't spend too long on it because then action scenes and stuff can get really bogged down like Just say he swung his sword cut off the beast's head something like that rather than he swung his sword Like a baseball player it reminded him of when he was a kid and used to play baseball And he usually really loved all the blah blah blah like this book has moments where it goes on like that and It really drags the whole thing down like this could have been a really quick-paced Story after you know after all the tension has been built up and we already realized okay Yeah, fucking vampires and shit like that could have been great but as it stands the action scenes are well, they're not great and One last thing I want to mention that Did bother me is that well This doesn't really have a Villain well, okay, it does have a villain, but it doesn't focus on him all that much like In the show we have you know the master. He's the head of the vampires and he is the overall villain But we don't see him all that often. We mostly see his lieutenant who is this old German Nazi who is now a vampire? And in the show, he's you know, he's pretty good like he is the one that we see the most So they got a decent actor to play him and he comes across as intimidating yada yada yada Whereas in the book it's just the master and because we don't see him that often We don't really have a focus for the heroes to be fighting against, you know, it's just okay, yeah, they're fighting the vampire horde and I feel like that drives it down a bit especially because Satracian again, he's an old Holocaust survivor. So having somebody who was a Nazi is a pretty big deal in the show whereas in the book We just don't get any focus like that and Well, that's that's really disappointing Now I want to reiterate like I know I was complaining about this a lot, but I enjoyed this book I thought it was decent, you know, if you want to get the story. I Would recommend the show because again the book is just It feels like they took the structure the story structure of a movie and glommed it onto a book and that just didn't work super well and I don't know if Guillermo or Chuck Hogan is to blame for the pros but like, you know, it's just clunky and I didn't like it that much but Yeah, if you got nothing better to do or if you couldn't get into the show for whatever reason but you think that the concept is really awesome, then I'd go ahead and check it out and For that matter, I should mention that this book came out during like the midst of the twilight and vampire craze So that was when we were getting books like Twilight or Vampire Academy or the Vampire Diaries and you know shit like that And so having vampires like this who you know meant business and were coming out and they were gonna fucking kill you That would definitely be really refreshing if you read it back then whereas nowadays that's kind of faded so I Don't know how others would feel about that. 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The following is a presentation of TFNN. The morning markets kickoff with your host, Tommy O'Brien. Good morning everybody. I'm Tommy O'Brien, coming to you live from TFNN Friday morning, 9 a.m. Eastern time. We've got about 30 minutes to go until the start of trading coming into a long weekend. Martin Luther King Day on Monday, markets closed, but boy they're not closed today, folks. We've got some action continuing the run we had yesterday, putting the S&Ps on a 15 minute. Not that long ago. You backed things up 24 hours ago and you're talking about almost 100 and what, 15? Yeah, 115 S&P points we were trading higher. Quite the sell-off and the retail sales missed this morning. We'll get into that in a moment. We have the NASDAQ 100 down 110 points right now. That's 7 tenths percent. You get the S&Ps 7 tenths percent and you get the Dow right at 7 tenths percent and guess what? You get the Russell? 9 tenths percent. A little bit more negative action. Bitcoin rebounding nicely from 39,000. You make it up to almost 45,000 this morning. We're back at 42,300. You have Ethereum at 32.16 this morning. We jumped to Crude. Crude holding up relatively well with the market volatility Crude spikes to 83.35. 83.35 this morning. We've pulled back a bit solid dollar really from that pullback. Look at the volatility just this morning, 6 a.m. Eastern time, 83.35. You dive down to $1.50. We've bounced a bit to 82.41 and the gold contract up a little bit, up about 4 bucks to 18.25. We jumped to the all-important notes and bonds. We're getting a little bit of higher price and lower yield. We're up one tick but we're up. I mean you look where we were at 6 in the morning. This morning you're up a solid 12 ticks in the 10-year right now. You get a 10-year approaching 1.7 percent as we rise in price and the yield shrinks 1.7 percent. We're approaching that 10-year as you are positive by one tick but again, volatility. We're talking about 12 ticks. Just in the last three hours, let's jump over to the VIXs. We've got some negative action cascading from yesterday into today. The VIX trading at 2160 Monday spike, 2333. And taking a look at these markets on a daily basis before we jump to the economic news, I've talked about the channel lines. I'm keeping them up there while we chop around on this bottom line. I mean where this bottom line falls, you could make the case that maybe all of these tails are forming a little bit of a better region slightly lower, right? I mean when you're talking about a form of linear regression, folks, it is an art not of science. If you're drawing channels, there is no exact scientific model. If there was a scientific model, they would have an exact calculation that you use to draw the exact channel that you use to be profitable. That's not the exact way that it works. There is personal bias. You have to set them. But as you can see, depending on where you set this, we're at a critical level. On those S&Ps, as we've had been on numerous occasions, 4617, not that long ago, folks, January 4th, we were trading at about 4800. The last two days, quite the sell-offs that we have going on in the S&Ps, given up basically almost 3% we're approaching in that time. Okay, let's jump over to the retail sales numbers. Lots going on here. We have a drop of 1.9%, well worse. One way to put it, projected 0.1% decline, broad with 10 of the 13 major categories weakening. The overall purchases decreased 1.9% after a revised 0.2% gain a month earlier. That's revised down 1.10%. It was 0.3% too, so you got a downward revision on top of the miss. The figures are not adjusted for inflation. So imagine you have inflation spiking, you have the same goods costing more, and even with the same goods costing more, you're seeing the value of overall purchases declining. That's an exacerbated form of a decline then because if prices were flat, you would be declining even more, right? Probably. At least that is the theory. The median estimate was looking for a 0.1% drop. The year-end slide in retail sales sets up for a tepid handoff to the first quarter. It was quite a banner year. Now let's jump around because there's a couple different parts of this. You're talking about a year, excluding autos, we all know the story with autos. This one almost a little bit more startling and maybe indicative of the broad economy. Excluding autos, you had sales falling 2.3%. The market was looking for an increase of 0.3%. In addition to the weak number, they talk about the revision there. But here's the number. When you talk about the year, considering that the sales numbers are not adjusted for inflation, it points to a slow ending to what had been otherwise a strong 2021 in which sales rose almost 17% from the pandemic's guard 2020. They talk about the CPI number in there. They talk about that, etc. Now, restaurants and bars which posted a 41.3% annual gain in 2021 to lead all categories, they saw a decline of 0.8% for the month. Gas stations were a close second for the year with a 41% surge in sales. They had a 0.7% decline. Fuel costs were moving lower. Not sure that'll be the case in January with crude back near $83. Gas prices fell 0.5% to close out the year when prices at the pump soared 49.6%. Remarkable. Now, jumping back to the different categories of the number, 10 of the retail categories showed declines in receipts last month, led by non-store retailers which includes e-commerce. Those sales, 8.7% from a month earlier. Department store receipts declined 7%. After a 5.5% drop in November, furniture stores, electronics outlets, sporting goods establishments also fell. Restaurants and bars, the report's only services-oriented category dropped 0.8% as we just talked about as well. Motor vehicles, 0.4%, automakers struggled to meet demands, putting it lightly. The government's report showed retail sales excluding gas and motor vehicles slumped 2.5%. The control group, which are used to calculate GDP, that excludes food services, auto dealers, building material stores, and gas stations, that's a lot. We're talking about a fall of 3.1%, though. That number, when you take out all of those numbers, may be more indicative of a true retail perspective of what people are spending on the retail purchases they are making. Overall, 2021, total retail sales climbed more than 19% compared to the prior year. Retail sales in 2020, boy, we just had a full stop on sales when people just adjusted to a new life, whether it was March, February, March, really March and April adjusting to that new normal. Nonetheless, those numbers hit at 8.30 and the market sells off pretty quickly, putting things back on a 5-minute chart to see the escalation this morning. We were already coming into negative territory on that number, and we were trading at 46.24, so we were already in quite a little sell-off coming into this number in the market. I mean, yesterday's action, right? Quite the sell-off indeed on numerous fronts. You got to sell off right out of the gate. You got to sell off at about noon, and then you got to sell off to end the day that began about 2 p.m. and did not stop. You traded down a solid almost 60 points from $4,700 down to approaching $4,640 at the close, and you accelerated into the close with volume. I mean, when I got off the program yesterday, I mean, I got off the program, and we were trading at $4,730 in the S&Ps just yesterday, and we're trading $110 points below that price level now. That sell-off began at 10 o'clock, literally right on the dot. All right. So we get retail sales. You see the impact it's having over there. Interesting, right? What happens in terms of these are starting to see some of the effects of some of the comps? We had a year where sales are up 19%, but you're dealing with some comps where we're coming into much more normal numbers, and you're going month over month, but to beat those numbers from last year to carry that out, you're going to see similar things happen when we talk about the CPI number. It is very difficult to maintain a 7% number on CPI. When you're dealing with comps that for the next couple of months, year over year basis, yeah, we're going to be at 7%, but as we go through the year, we'll find out. We've got some bank running to go over. JP Morgan trading lower. We'll be right back. Everything in the universe is governed by the Fibonacci sequence. This mathematical principle is responsible for everything from the most aesthetically pleasing artwork to patterns in the stock market. 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Now, the daily is not going to register the action overnight just yet, but you're talking about $160, so you're going to open right at this price area, kind of right where we've been oscillating around for the better part of a while. We give back a lot of those gains. We're talking about $8. You're talking about what? Four to five percent. You're going to open negative on JPMorgan. Now, getting into the numbers. Fixed income trading revenue slides are bigger than expected, 16 percent, 1 percent drop in both commercial and consumer loans, a declining trading revenue, steeper than analysts expected. Shares the company dropped after the firm reported a 16 percent slide in fixed income trading revenue, worse than the 13.5 the market was looking for. The number I keep my eye on though, expenses rising double digits from a year earlier as compensation costs increased. The firm said it to expect costs to rise to about $77 billion this year, surprisingly weak and were hampered by uncharacteristically poor expense management. That's some consultants out there talking about. The real surprise came in the 5 percent increase in non-interest expense, which looks difficult to justify referring to the jump from the third quarter. The results offer a look at how the U.S. economy fared in the final three months, including as a highly contagious Omicron. Yeah, and JPMorgan is lower there. Earnings guidance. Here we go. Net interest income excluding the market's business to be $50 billion for the year higher than 2021. Total trading revenue fell 11 percent. The market was looking for a 9 percent drop.  Equities also declined though, falling 2 percent to 1.95 billion. Mergers and acquisition fees. How about that one? 86 percent rise to 1.56 billion. That was a beat helping push the firm's net income to 10.4 billion compared with expectations in 9 billion.  Income is what matters most. 10.4 billion. Market was looking for 9 and your stock drops 4 percent for a bank diamond earlier this week. Loan growth on the business side will probably return to normal while consumer loan growth will return to normal and majors take another 6 to 9 months for JPMorgan. So JPMorgan, you're going to open down about 1.60 this morning in the banks. Getting a little bit hit. We jump over to Wells Fargo. Wells Fargo was trading higher. We'll see how they are trading. Fourth quarter revenue tops estimate profit jump seems like Wells Fargo is just talking about yesterday. It might be in a little bit of a recovery from the woes they've faced over the previous years. Wells Fargo, $1.25 a share. Market was looking for $1.13. How about a beat on revenue of about $2 billion? $20.856. Market was looking for $18.824. Net income, an 86 percent increase. They get to a reserve release of $875 million in there. Lending began to pick up in the second half of 2021 with 5 percent growth in loans from its consumer and commercial portfolios in the final 6 months. And Wells Fargo. A little bit of a flip side action to JPMorgan. And yeah, you were higher. You gave it up. Now you're barely higher by about 40 cents to 46.42. You take a look at Wells Fargo as I was talking about though.  That's January 15th at 32 bucks. We're going to open today at 56. Now, Citi in the likes of JPMorgan. That's the last year. You've popped nicely from about 57. You've had a nice start to the year from 60 to 67 as rising yields given the banks a little bit of an advantage, but you're going to get back some of that. There's your pre-market action as Citi out with their numbers trading lower. You jump over to Citi. There's the article. Fourth quarter profit declines 26 percent. There's the number for Citi there. 18 percent year-over-year increase in operating expenses. 18 percent to 3.13.5 billion for the quarter. That's quite a number when you're talking about almost a 20 percent year-over-year increase in operating expenses. Now I'm not sure if that's impacted greatly the comps they were dealing with last year at this time, but nonetheless it is a real increase. Earnings per share though still beat 146, but not clear if that's comparable to the 138. Not sure why that makes sense, but 17 billion versus 16.75 net income though dropping 26 percent. Probably a factor of year-over-year increases of 18 percent to 13.5 billion. Quite a number there in the big way. Global consumer banking business saw revenue decline 6 percent year-over-year to just under 7 billion. North America region revenue fell by 6 percent. Not good when you see declining revenues across the board when you're talking about global consumer banking decline 6 percent. North America revenue fell by 6 percent. In Asia revenue dropped by 9 percent. Latin America 4 percent. Expenses within the bank's global banking division surged by 33 percent. That's pretty staggering. I mean if you're operating a business and you've got a 13 million dollar expense budget, well your expenses just went up to 13.3 million dollars. There's lots of companies folks out there with a million dollars expenses, easy.  That's quite an increase as we all know. For 2021, net income nearly doubled to 21.95 billion. Well, full-year revenue declined by 5 percent. And city can open a little bit lower. You're trading 65.70 from 68.72 this morning for city. All right, let's jump around to some of the facts. You get the NASDAQ 100 down 125 this morning. You're going to have Amazon approaching 3200 on the open. 3205, we jump to Apple shares. Apple quite a pullback from the recent 182 when changed $3 trillion mark. We're almost coming back to Monday's lows. We're at 170.80, down more than a dollar overnight. You jump to Microsoft shares. Yeah, Microsoft's quite a give-back yesterday from 320 to 305. This thing got punished in a big way. You're down to 303 from Microsoft. We take a look at it a daily. Taking a look at the run that we had for the final quarter, pretty remarkable. You've now given back almost $50 for Microsoft shares and putting this on a little bit of Fub Fibonacci to see where we're at. We're just crossing the 618 of the entire run that you had. If you might want to see that hold, if that does not hold, I imagine that we're going right back to 280 from Microsoft shares. Quite a pullback yesterday for sure. We jump to Google. See how they're opening up. $27.55, down about $7 for Google shares. There's your action overnight for Google. We jump to some of the social media or Meta. Meta back to 322. You were down to 315 earlier in the week. Facebook, I imagine, is going to be a company that's going to be particularly volatile over the next three, five, 10 years, folks, as the Metaverse develops. You're going to see technology improve. You're going to see the market get excited about that technology, whether they come out with a new Oculus, right? Whether there's just leaps and bounds made of what Facebook is doing, the offerings that they have. I mean, you have to remember the reach they have, the billions of people that they reach through their social media network.  And they have the reach to be talking to people. But guess what's going to pull them back when they start talking about costs? Because there's going to be a lot of costs going into this equity. But Zuckerberg is a very bright guy, no matter what you think of him. And he's seen the way that he's become one of the richest people in the world through advertising. And guess what, virtual real estate, virtual real estate for advertisers, it's going to be as important as virtual real estate for advertising on the internet. And he's trying to get ahead of it. So we'll see where we go. But volatility is going to be there. And you're seeing a play out right now for Facebook shares. Down about four bucks on the open to 322-22. All right, folks, it's going to be an interesting open. Stay tuned. We'll be back in three minutes for the opening bell. We get the S&Ps down 33, coming into the long weekend. We'll be right back. Stay tuned. And don't forget to subscribe to our channel. Educating investors. And don't forget to subscribe to our channel. TFNN is excited about our new software charting program, the Art of Timing the Trade Charts. In collaboration with Tom O'Brien and using his best-selling book, The Art of Timing the Trade, your ultimate trading mastery system, David White has programmed an outstanding piece of software that will complement any trader's methodology. Using this first-of-its-kind program, the Art of Timing the Trade Charts allows you to scan thousands of stocks for Fibonacci formation setups, including guardleafs, ABCs, butterflies, and much more. 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Down just more than half a percent, markets getting a little bit of a lift on the open right now. 15,401 markets only have been open for about 30 seconds. We'll jump over to Tesla. Tesla shares this morning, trading down about 1 percent, down just over 1,000. We bounce right at 1,000 pre-market at 1,019. You give back 100 bucks quite a day for yesterday to the negative side for Tesla from 11-15, trading at 10-15 basically this morning. Now, I bring up Tesla. Make sure I get this article. Come on. There we go. Dogecoin. So after Elon Musk says it can be used to buy Tesla merchandise, it's pretty fascinating that the richest man in the world is out there selling trinkets for his company in worthless crypto that he's pumping and dumping. That's my take on things, folks, okay?  Now, let me get everything I got up here. Well, this is the article first as I jump around. Excuse me, one second while I make sure. Here we go. So this is the article that talks about doge jumps 9 percent after Elon says that they will accept doge for their merchandise. Now, here is the merchandise, folks, okay? It's a cyberwistle that looks like their truck inspired by the cyber truck. The limited edition cyberwistle is a premium collectible made from medical grade stainless steel, medical grade stainless steel for your cyberwistle with a polished finish. The whistle includes an integrated attachment feature for added versatility and 300 doges all it will cost you. Well, doge is trading right now at 19 cents, folks. If it's trading at 20 cents for simple math, you're talking about a $60 whistle made of medical grade stainless steel, $60 whistle. It says a lot, though, that Mr. Elon Musk is taking doge for his trinkets that are vastly overpriced to put it lightly and not taking them for his cars, which are right now seeing delays in shipments, et cetera. Nonetheless, it's pretty remarkable, folks. One of the captions this morning reading about this story.  I mean, that pretty much sums it up, which is pretty remarkable nonetheless. They're sold out. 300 doge. And Elon Musk continues to make headlines. This market's making headlines. Check out the Nasdaq 100 popping. You're up, I mean, you're up almost 100 plus points from where we were just 8.45 this morning. You were trading at a low of 15,000. Yeah, you just popped 130 points in the Nasdaq 100. They almost just don't look as large as the moves because we just had a sell-off that was 700 points. But this move this morning, put it on a one minute to exacerbate the move we have. You pull up the 8.30 number, we're trading at 15,380. Nasdaq 100 is now 50 points above where we were trading at coming into that retail sales number. You have the S&Ps just kind of chopping around where we were at 8.30. You trade down to 4,606. We gained back those 15 points back to 4,622. Right now, the Dow, though, continuing to sell off quite a divergence. Got the Dow at 35,650. Those retail sales, maybe the market a little worried for some of the retail players.  Yeah, these are going to be impacted, these companies, when you see a retail number that is that big of a miss in terms of what they're doing. Look at Coles on that pullback to start the year. Really end last year from November 18th at 62 bucks. You're trading at 47.82. Okay, let's see what else I got pulled up here in terms of talking about inflation numbers. That's the retail sales number here. Yeah, this one's an interesting one. Talking about the impact powerful firms have as we're in an inflationary period right now. There's been quite a consolidation of power players in many different industries causing there to be a consolidation of power within few players. Now, the example they use in this article about inflation risk getting sticky as big firms. Flex pricing power is Coke and Pepsi. You take a look at Coke and Pepsi, which raise prices within days of each other in July and subsequently recorded substantial margins, or you have the meatpacking industry where President Biden is trying to curb some of the power of conglomerates out there for the meat prices, which rose really 15% last year. You're left with a couple of giants in each industry. Then this crisis happens, demand contracts, and because these other guys are no longer there to create competition, what happens? They can raise prices much easier than if they had smaller players in the market. Now, this is a graph of market power. Talking about US industries have become increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few players. As I expand that out, that's the percentage change in concentration, and you look even from 2000. Now, I would need to get somebody on here to explain what this means when you go from zero to 100% in terms of percentage change in concentration. But you're basically bumping up against it, and there's many industries that used to have a lot of players, and now they have basically a few. In that industry, and in the time of inflation, that might not be a good thing for consumers overall. All right, jumping around, what else we got going on? Yeah, this one's an interesting one. Okay, we're talking about crypto. We're talking about the metaverse, right? Now, this article out here talking about stocks and property will be turned into NFTs. Venture Capitalist says, Bill Tye, Venture Capitalist, not familiar, but he must have been on CMBC out there. Company stocks in real estate will be among the many things that get turned into non-fungible tokens in the future. Tech investors said that it's going to happen and it's not even a question. It's one of those that he's putting, it's a matter of when, not a matter of if. And I would tend to agree, because there's a lot of things, folks, that you can say. It's a matter of when, not a matter of if. It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when. It's the expression, right? It's not a question of if it's going to happen. It's a question of when it's going to happen. I can tell you right now, flying cars, self-driving, flying cars, they're coming. It's not a question. If you don't think you're dialing up a self-driving car to pop up into your front door like the Jetson style, I don't know what to tell you. I mean, you are if you live long enough, because it's happening. It's just a matter of when. When you look at stocks, right? A stock is a certain asset, okay? It's a single asset.  Well, what do we do? We push out 100 shares of ownership. Each share represents 1% ownership in TFNN, okay? I imagine just from a simple understanding that I could somehow create some type of NFT that's a one-of-a-kind asset in a digital world. Each of those NFTs represents a 1% ownership as one share of TFNN. And those NFTs are able to be traded on an Ethereum blockchain or the Cordano blockchain. There's no reason why that can't happen. Now, I barely even understand what an NFT is. So if I can simply understand that an NFT is a one-of-a-kind asset, the crypto blockchain, or just a blockchain, is allowing for the transfer of those assets in a expedited, inexpensive way, okay? It's gonna happen. I mean, I think all the time, talk about as a trader, right? I think all the time, as a trader, why are markets closed over the weekend? Now, I don't wanna work over the weekend, okay? But it seems like in today's technological space where, and people do work over the weekend if they're not working during the week, I work five days a week, you know, with pretty long days out there, so I don't wanna work all weekend, even though I'm working, we're gonna finish this up because, imagine, there's no reason why shares can't get traded over the weekend. 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The funds are designed to be utilized only by sophisticated investors such as traders and active investors. Distributor, 4-Side Fund Services, LLC. Welcome back folks, we got quite a market right now. S&P is negative by 19 points still, quite a little bounce off the lows this morning. NASDAQ 100 though, back in the green quite a pop indeed. We put it back on a 15 minute, you're talking about a low this morning of approaching 15,300. We just popped almost 200 points folks. You zoom it in, markets only been open for 12 minutes and you're up more than 100 points in the NASDAQ 100 right now back to where we were at about 6.30 a.m. this morning with Dow selling off though. Dow down almost a full percent right now down nine tenths percent and you got the Russell down about five tenths percent. Jumping over to the market watch I'm going to take a look at some of the moves we have going on here. The banks really hitting the Dow, right? This is why I love this feature on the Thinkorswim platform. You jump over to the market watch, you pull up the indices, you can see the heat map and say geez what's happening to the Dow, right? Well what's happening to the Dow is you got JPMorgan down five percent, you got Goldman down 2.8 percent, you got Verizon down three quarters percent, you got Johnson down a full percent. Now what matters here is that the Dow for whatever crazy reason is a price weighted index, right? So you got JPMorgan, $160 stock today. You're down $8, okay? Home Depot is down 1.5 percent but you're talking about a stock that's trading at almost $400. They have a monumental impact. Home Depot is down $6 in price action down 1.5 percent because it's trading at 380. It's skewed impact there. You got Disney down 2.8 percent over there. Coca-Cola is in the red by 2.3 percent over there as well. On the flip side of it you have some of the stocks are barely in the green. Apple's up 3.10 percent. You got Microsoft up 7.10 percent but again Microsoft, both these stocks, I mean it's just so skewed. We've went over before a price weighted index makes zero sense whatsoever. As opposed to let's jump over to the Nasdaq 100. You got a lot of green there folks which is why you get the Nasdaq 100 for your points. The banks not a part of the Nasdaq 100 which is a big part of the negative action you're getting today especially hitting the Dow. We jump over to the S&P 500 and you see the banks weighing on things for sure but nothing to the likes of what we're getting on the tech sector. Navity is up 1.2 percent there. You got Microsoft and Apple and Google because you're not in the Dow. You got the market caps putting an impact on this index with the weight that they have and the companies they have, deservedly so. And let's jump around to some of those fang stocks. You got Amazon poppin' a good $40 on the open. You're up half a percent for Amazon shares. Microsoft up half a percent right now. You got Apple up two thirds, excuse me a quarter percent, two tenths percent, a little bit more. You get up over to Google shares up three quarters percent. There's a pop for you 50 bucks on Google on the open and we jumped to Meta up about half a percent as well and as I was saying what happened there Walmart? There's not much further retail sector. That is quite a pop on the open of almost $2 on Walmart, my goodness. Yeah, and it's been a run right from the open. There's a minute chart for Walmart shares. Quite a divergence here because you jump over to Target. Yeah, Target down 1.3 percent. So it looks like Walmart avoiding the depths of despair of the retail hit so far. Interesting action. Wonder why that market has such a divergence of Walmart versus the other players in the retail sector that are down dramatically. I mean, even you jump to some of the smaller ones, right? They're really down. Jump to Kohl's and TJ Maxx etc. Kohl's down 2.5 percent. TJ Maxx down 1.8 percent. Yeah, I mean the market is probably a little bit worried that you get such a retail sales pullback right now. And so what does that allow you to do? That allows you to do to potentially go into growth stocks again. It's the Nasdaq 100s are just higher but don't miss the account of banks and that they're having because the slide here is very real with JP Morgan escalating even from there. You down 5.6 percent. You just get about 10 bucks in JP Morgan man. You're back just like that folks. If you think you missed the run on banks, this might be by an opportunity in the year we got yields rising, but you got to pay attention to rising costs. I think JP Morgan had 11 percent increase in expenses. City had 18 percent almost to 20 percent. They have 33 percent in one quarter, I think it was on paraphrasing, but they had big, big increases to their expenses. But you just got quite a haircut. If you're looking for a position in JP Morgan, now you back things up on a weekly. Quite a mystery where we were earlier. We were talking about trading at $159 two years ago in JP Morgan. We're trading at $140 before COVID. Not that bad of a scenario, especially not that bad if you're worrying about some volatility this year because you're getting a dividend out of these companies and you're coming into a year where now we got yields 20 percent. We're probably going to get a few rate hikes this year. We will see, but nonetheless, a pullback for JP Morgan, a pullback for City as well. City getting a pop though up about $1.50 from where we were. So you cut that loss in half. City down 2 percent, Wells Fargo the strongest one out there. Look at that run up 1.7 percent from Wells Fargo. Bank of America down 2.6 percent from Bank of America. Now they are out with their earnings when next week. Yeah, Bank of America out with their numbers next Wednesday. Next Wednesday they'll be out with their numbers for Bank of America. All right, let's see what else they got going on. Retail sales stocks. We talked about that. We talked about the number in JP Morgan talked about there. Yeah, interesting one on Bill Ford out this morning. Ford's been quite a run recently and they talk about Bill Ford amassing even greater position on that company doubling down on four shares, quietly amassing more control of his grandfather's company in the process. He's the company's biggest individual shareholder 2.3 million shares of the company's common stock. Okay, but how many class B shares do you own which have all the voting power? More importantly, he owns 16.1 million or 23 percent of class B shares. That's quadruple what he had 10 years ago. Okay, now the class B shares can only be held by family members, I believe I get down here. So the biggest holder of the automakers class B shares carry super voting powers that have allowed the Ford family to retain control the company. Class B shares account for 2 percent of Ford's outstanding stock. They control 40 percent of the voting power and yes, class B shares are only available to family members. Now he got these shares from being on the board though. So it's not like he's spending a ton of money now. Most of the time, like we saw Elon Musk do when you exercise options, you'll usually sell a portion of that position to pay for the taxes. Otherwise, you have to take chunks of money from elsewhere to pay for the taxes of that transaction to not have to sell any of the options that you exercised. So what he's done is he's not sold any of the position in exercising the options and this is what he says here. He acquired 412,000. Yeah, they do. So I want to get the part that they talk about that it has to do with basically his action of being around on the board. Yeah, nonetheless, it does state that and it talks about in here that instead of cashing in on the 18 million in proceeds, he would have gotten from the exercising options, he just paid 20.5 million in cash as well as taxes on the gains to hold on to the shares. You know, it's a tantalizing article a little bit. It's always nice to see the owner of a company trying to maintain control and not selling shares. But I wouldn't read too much into that. I mean, that's a company that's been beaten down. They're finally on the run. That F-150 looks to be a huge success. They've traded from 12 bucks up to 24. But you back things up, folks. I mean, this stock was at 38 bucks in 1999. You've been chopping around between 5 and 15 bucks, you know from where you are, you look at where he was in 2012 you had this equity traded about $25 in between no, excuse me, $10 to what? Yeah, $10 basically $10 to $12 for the entire year of 2012. 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You're talking about basically right up to where we were at about 2 a.m. Eastern time you're now above where we were at the close and positive territory and you're talking about 200 points folks from where we were at 8.50 this morning. 15,322 How about 15,538 quite a turnaround. The Dow being bogged down by some of the banks this morning still. Dow down about 6.10% we jump over to those banks to see how they're reacting. Catching a little bit of a pop but nothing too dramatic kind of hanging where we were JP Morgan right where you opened almost down about 4.7%. Wells Fargo the strongest one out there with their numbers this morning down 2.2% and we jumped to city shares catching a little bit of a pop but still down 2.4%. Was it BlackRock out with their numbers? Yeah, BlackRock out with their numbers as well this morning down 1.7% from BlackRock. We jumped to the retail interesting action to say the least on Walmart catching a $2 pop for Walmart. Not sure, no real news on Walmart this morning but retail disappointing and Walmart though. Catching a bid while the other retail stocks suffered you got Target down about 9.10% I went over Kohl's and TJ Maxx we jumped to some of the home stocks. Low is going to be lower down 1.6% this morning. You got Home Depot down 1.6% as well this morning and man NASDAQ 100. Look at Apple Apple just traded up almost $3 from where you were at 8am this morning. No, exactly $3 Apple just added $50 billion in market cap in the last two hours. There's just some huge numbers when you're dealing with 16 plus billion shares of inequity Apple at 1.73 you're only 10 bucks away from basically all time highs. We jump over to Microsoft catching a little bit of a pop but well off the high cascade you had yesterday Microsoft at about 3.10 we jump over to Amazon shares up about half a percent right now let's jump to some of those growth stocks that have gotten pummeled man this stock zoom the pain doesn't end man this stock barely positive today but that is just straight to 1.60 for zoom. Roku shares catching a pop but same deal tough territory for those stocks that have gotten hurt Roku new lows 31 bucks thanks for starting your day with me folks Dave tuned we got live programming all day folks we got a Rand Basil Chapman coming up next we got Larry at 11 fast market at 12 Dave White


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