Do you think that in your life there might be unconscious priming that's happening around you that you're completely unaware of? We divide as humans, we are easy to control. Be in control of your own brainwashing. If you're not in control of it yourself, you're still being brainwashed. The question I have for you is, do you think that it's possible that you are being subconsciously programmed and you're completely unaware of it? Does that scare you? Would it make you pay more attention to your surroundings and every single thing that you did if you were subconsciously being programmed completely out of your awareness? Well, you just might be and I'm going to give you a couple of stories that make you realize how possible it is and how little people understand what's actually going on. So I'm going to give you a couple of stories about it. One of them there was a study that was done about something called unconscious priming. Unconscious priming, you can Google it, you can look it up if you like to but Yale did a study to see if they could change the way that somebody feels about something simply by the temperature of the coffee that they're holding on to. And so what happened was they had these students come in. They would come in and the researcher would meet them down on the bottom floor and they would say, hey, good to meet you, dah, dah, dah, dah.  And so they would hand them the cup of coffee. They would put their stuff down. They would tie their shoe. They'd pick up their stuff and then they get the cup of coffee back from them. And then the person that was part of the research, but didn't know that they were part of the research at the time, that was part of the study that would go in and they would read a one page story. And it was just a typical story. And then they were given a quiz, real quick quiz at the end of it where they were told to answer questions about the person. And, you know, so they would take one character from the story in one page and then they would answer questions about them.  And what they realized was this, was that even though they had just held a cup of coffee for about 15 seconds at most, it changed the way that they felt about the people that they were reading about, about 15 minutes later. So here's what happened. The people that were given an iced cup of coffee, because there was iced cup of coffee that was handed to people. And then there was a hot cup of coffee that was handed to people. People that were given the iced coffee felt that the character that they had the questions about was much colder, less social, and more selfish. The people that were handed a hot cup of coffee for the researcher to be able to tie their shoe felt that the person was warmer, more social, and someone that they could trust. So let me pause right there. These people were given a cup of coffee. One set of people were given a hot cup of coffee. One set of people were given a cold cup of coffee. And across the board, statistically, the people who were given the cold cup of coffee felt that the person was cold, less social, and more selfish. The people that were given the hot cup of coffee felt that the person was warm, more social, and somebody they could trust. So if they're given literally 15 seconds of holding onto a cup of coffee and it changes their perception around the world, around them and everything that they think about people, what is happening in your world that is changing your perception? Think about that for a second. How crazy is that that just a simple temperature of something that somebody holds for 15 seconds can change the way they feel about people 15 minutes later? All right, I got some more stories, I'm not done. So there was also researchers that went in and they had students come into a room and they had them answer questions, actually come up and see how creative that they could be. And what they didn't realize was that some students went into this room and they were, they constantly, like three or four times, they saw the logo for IBM because IBM was just, IBM is seen as a typical standard company, not very creative, but there was, they said, okay, we're gonna go ahead and we're gonna put something up on the board and they'd turn the computer on and they'd see the IBM logo, it would be right there and then they'd be, okay, this is what we're gonna do. And what they had people do was figure out as many uses that they could use for a brick besides what a brick is normally used for, besides like throwing through a window to break the window, besides building a house, any of that type of stuff. What can you, how can you be creative? So they had people see the IBM logo three or four times before they were asked the question to write down what it was that they could come up with, non-typical uses for a brick, and then they had another set of people that instead of seeing the IBM logo, they saw the Apple logo and it wasn't like, they're like, hey, this is an advertisement for Apple. It was just like, they happened to see it, it was either in the room somewhere or it just popped up as they went to ask them the questions. Now if you look at the two companies between IBM and Apple, if you were to look at the two of them, you say IBM is a pretty typical company, not very creative, not outside the box, you don't really see a lot of advertisements for many of that type of stuff. When you look at Apple, Apple tends to be a very creative company, people tend to think that they're a creative company, they trust them a lot, they have creative packaging, they love a lot of, there's people that are hardcore about Apple. I don't know too many people that are hardcore about IBM. Here's what's crazy, exact same situation, just different logos that they saw. The people that saw the Apple logo found three times more uses for a brick than the people that saw the IBM logo. Isn't that pretty crazy? Simply because people know that they're, when they deal with Apple, Apple is more creative. So when they saw the Apple logo, they became more creative in all of the uses that they could find.   And it starts working together. The same way that when you hold onto a cup of coffee and you feel cold, it lights up a certain part of your brain. And that certain part of your brain has other neurosynaptic connections around it. So when you see something, it doesn't just affect one part of your brain. It affects many parts of your brain.   Another example of how this is used is grocery stores. Here's something that's really interesting, okay? One of the best that I find as far as grocery stores that deal with people and the way they skew and change your perception around everything is Whole Foods. Whole Foods is one of the first ones to do this. When you walk into a Whole Foods, what do you almost always have? I'm thinking of Whole Foods that I walk into that's right down the street. Flowers, right? Flowers and fresh produce. Why? Because they want you to feel that this is a fresh place to walk into because when you walk into a place that has flowers, you can smell the flowers, you can smell the fresh produce. It makes you feel as a human, like we are sensory organisms.   It actually turns on parts of your brain to go, oh yeah, this is great, I really like this. This is, I feel fresh in here. I've never walked into a grocery store and all of the dead animals and flesh was in the front. Why? Because that'd be a really weird place to put it. Where do they put the meat in every single grocery store in the very back? Why don't they put the meat in the front? Because that's not how they want you to walk in. They want you to walk in seeing beautiful colors. They want you to walk in smelling beautiful scents. They don't want you to walk in and just see dead animal parts right there.  And so what happens with the fresh flowers, with the fresh scents, everything, is it makes you a little bit more hungry and at the same time, makes people feel better when they see beautiful colors and they smell beautiful scents. So if this is what companies are doing and able to do with you at all points in time, do you think that in your life there might be unconscious priming that's happening around you that you're completely unaware of? Absolutely, 100%. The best psychologists in the entire world work for advertising agencies, right? And I'm not trying to be doom and gloom. I'm just trying to make you aware of what's happening so that you can start to program yourself. And that's what we're gonna do today. But advertising agencies know that at the core of every human fear, like fear that holds you back, at the core of every single one of them is the feeling of I'm not enough. And if I'm not enough, then I won't be loved. And so advertisers know this and they exploit your psychological weaknesses. And what happens? They know the feeling of I'm not enough is what's usually at the core of most people's fears. And so what they do is they make advertisements to make you feel subconsciously like you are not enough until you buy our product. Simple, it makes sense. That's how they start to sell more. If you wanna know more about this, there's a beautiful documentary. It's like four hours long. It will blow your mind. That's called The Century of Self. I believe that's what it's called. Pretty, I'm like 99% sure that's what it's called. The Century of Self. And it goes through talking about how it used to be before like the 1940s, it used to be that people would, 1940s, 1950s, people would buy stuff based off of if they needed it. And then a lot of psychologists learned about psychology and human behavior. They came into advertising agencies and they started to actually use the advertising and the psychology in advertising to make people stop buying things that they need and make them buy things that they want. And so the perfect example that they give inside of this, The Century of Self, is that there was a, I'm gonna try to remember this because it was about two years ago that I watched this, is that pre 1950s, cigarettes were seen as something that only men smoke. So women weren't really ones who smoked this. And so there was a guy that came in and the guy that came in was actually the Sigmund Freud's nephew. He was Sigmund Freud's nephew and he came in and he's like, I'm gonna come in and help you with the psychology behind this because if you're only selling to men, you're missing out on an entire 50% of the market that's out there. How can we change the perception and start selling cigarettes to women so that women can start consuming them?  And so they had the women go and they were walking through and they went to all of the news outlets and they said there's going to be a line of women who are going to be, I think they called them suffragettes is what they called them. And they said they're going to go and have freedom torches that they're going to show to take over their power, take their power back. So they're gonna have freedom torches. And what happened was they went to all the news groups. There's gonna be these women they're gonna have freedom torches.  We gotta see whenever this thing happens. So as soon as they're walking, there were these women that were in these dresses they had inside of their dresses, they had cigarettes.  And that was the way that women to in this perception of what happened here took back their power to be able to smoke cigarettes and say it's not just gonna be men that are gonna smoke cigarettes. It's gonna be women as well. And that alone sparked women smoking cigarettes from the fifties on. And so they knew how this psychology work. It's mind-blowing when you start to see how psychologists are in advertising and actually hijack your system and exploit your psychological weaknesses. So once again, I'm not saying this to be doom and gloom. I'm saying this so that you can understand that your mind, if you're not very self-aware is able to be hijacked very easily by people who understand how your mechanisms in your brain work better than you do, right? And so you've gotta start thinking about these things. If an advertising agency can make you feel differently just by watching a 30-second ad to make you wanna buy their product. If a grocery store can make you feel differently based off of the stuff that you see and the stuff that you smell. If a brick, can you give them up three times more uses for a brick simply by the logo that you see walking into a room? If a company or if a school can make you feel differently about someone that you read on a piece of paper simply by the temperature of the coffee that you're holding onto, then there's millions of these things happening around the place and you've gotta be very aware of what's going on. This is one of the reasons why I tell people not to watch the news because the news is hijacking this system like crazy right now. It's also why I tell people not to watch stuff like reality TV. People that are yelling at each other and terrible people and the Kardashians and all the shows that are happening where people just, they don't seem to treat people very well every time I've seen that. And also when there's like the housewives of whatever place they all are at now that what happens is when you're watching these things it might be like, oh, this is just a mind, I was busy all day. I just wanna watch something that's just entertaining. You've gotta ask yourself, is this just entertaining or is this making me feel better about myself in the world around me or is this just a curse about myself in the world around me? Is the news keeping me informed or is it keeping me conformed? And then you also gotta start thinking about the people that you surround yourself with. You've heard me say before and you've heard everybody say before, you're the average of the five people that you spend the most time with. If you hang out with five people that are extremely fit, even if you're not in shape, you're going to get in shape simply because the same way that all these things get into your brain all of the people around you are gonna get into your brain in certain ways as well. Oh man, they're fit, I'm fit. Subconscious you're gonna go, I should actually start working out more. They invite you to go work out. You start showing up because you wanna feel better about yourself.      Right? The people that you follow on Instagram, is it programming you in some sort of way? I always tell people, go through your news feed, go through the people that you follow. Now that you know that this is a thing, and start removing people that you feel are not good for your own personal psychology.  So you can go, okay, beautiful. This is how it works. I understand that this is my system being hijacked. I understand that this is going to affect me this certain way. The music that I listen to, is it something that makes me feel better, or is it something that makes me feel worse? Is this how I would talk to somebody in real life, or is this just something that I say when I'm all alone, and I don't want to say this when my mom's around, or I don't want to say this when my girlfriend's around, or I don't want to say this when people that I respect are around? Right? You start thinking about every single thing that you do. You start thinking about the people you hang out with, the music that you listen to, the ads that you see, the news that you watch or don't watch, the food that you eat, the places that you shop, and you start to become very aware of, oh, that makes sense now. Oh, that makes sense now as well. And it's not doom and gloom, it's actually empowering because you go, you know what? I'm going to surround myself with all of the people, all of the stuff, all of the music, all of the podcasts, all of the YouTube videos, all of the books, all of the people that are going to get me to a better level of who I want to be, because if anybody can hijack the system, why can't I hijack my own system, since I'm in the system all day long, why can't I hijack my own system to create the life that I want, to become the person that I want to become?   So you've got to ask yourself, am I in control of my priming? Am I taking control of it? Or am I just leaving it up to chance?  So be very careful.   The other day, last week, I was in the paint store. And I don't watch the news, I don't watch TV, I don't even have any TV stations that could come in. Got Netflix and YouTube, that's basically all I watch on my TV in my house. And I was inside of the paint store and I won't tell you what station it was on or any of this stuff. But what it was on was it was on a very popular talk show. Won't tell you which one it is. And it happened to be on a station that the talk show was talking about a lot of things that were very politicized. And every time we would go to the commercials, the commercials would have a news flash, like little break that would happen. And it was another thing that was going on, right? And what I became aware of in this moment, obviously I've known it, but to be able to actually see it, I was in there for about three to four minutes. And I was like, I wonder what they're actually gonna be talking about. And it was so blatantly obvious to me that this station was trying to push their propaganda to make you think and feel a certain way. Now, I'm not saying what station was, any of those things, but what I'll tell you is no matter what side it is, whether it's the left or the right, whatever it is, they are trying to have a war for your mind by throwing out propaganda in things and making the world seem a lot worse than it actually is. And within three to four minutes of being in there, I became very uncomfortable because I was like, I can literally feel how other people that don't know this is going on can think that the world is absolutely terrible right now and think that the world is absolutely going to shit to think that there's so much to be afraid of and I've gotta pick a side of what side I'm on. You know, I've gotta be on this side. And when I pick a side, this is important to know, when I pick a quote unquote side, that puts me on one side, which means that there is always an enemy, which is the other side, right? And it was so obvious that this one side was trying to push their agenda and push their agenda and push their agenda into somebody who is not aware of what is going on. They are going to be extremely easily influenced into number one, thinking the way this side thinks. Number two, seeing that there was a side that is against them, that they need to be fearful of.   The first thing, why is the news so negative? And I've done episodes on this before in the past. The news is so negative because as a human, our brains naturally go towards what is negative, AKA what is wrong. Why is that important? Because 10, 20, 30, 100,000 years ago, when we focused on what was wrong, we were able to fix it, which then meant that we would stay alive because what was wrong 100,000 years ago could mean death if we don't fix it. So now, what happens is the news in this media, not even just the news now, it's also just the media, these stations, then they disguise them as talk shows. They disguise them as TV stations. They disguise them as all of these different shows they put out there are out there putting fear and fear and fear and fear and fear into people. And the reason why is because when you're fearful, you're going to watch more because you want to find the solution to this problem. And the more that you watch these stations, the more money that they're gonna make off of ad revenue. If you watch them, they're going to get more ad revenue. The more millions of people that watch their shows, their TV stations, their news stations, their talk shows, all of those things, the more people that watch them, well, they're gonna make more money. So that's the first thing. So you've got to be very clear as to what you're watching and to be very clear, is this something that is supporting me growing into the person that I want to be or is this something that's actually holding me back and keeping me in a fearful state? Just simple way to diagnose, just ask yourself this question. What I'm feeling, what I'm watching right now, how does it make me feel? If you're watching TV and the news happens to pop up and you say, how does this make me feel? And you're like, I feel really worried. I feel very fearful. And I don't feel very positive about the direction of the world. Turn it off, get it off as soon as possible because that's not helping you create the life that you want. That's holding you back. That's keeping you paralyzed. That's immobilizing you versus mobilizing you towards what it is that you want to create. So the first thing to be very aware of is that they are putting fear into every person that's out there because it's an easy way to control. The second thing that you have to realize is this, and I'm once again, before I go any further, I'm not saying that the world doesn't have problems. The world definitely has problems. And the world will always have some problems in some sort of way. There's 7.5 billion people on this planet. Are there a few bad apples out there?  Absolutely. There will never be nothing bad. I don't believe that will ever get to that point. What I'm saying is, it seems way worse than it actually is based off of number one, all of the cameras now exist in the world because everybody's got a camera inside of their pocket. And number two, how it can be pushed over and over and over again through every platform, through the news, through social media, through everything that you could possibly see. So, is the world perfect? No, will it ever be? No, but it's nowhere near as bad as they make it seem, right? So that's the first thing to be very aware of. The second thing as to why would the media, I don't even just say the news anymore, why would the media, the stuff you see on TV, talk shows, all of these things, why would they put so much negativity and so much fear based stuff out there? Reason why is because the easiest way to control people is through fear, guilt, and shame. You say again, the easiest way to control somebody is fear, guilt, and shame. Think about what's been going on the past year and how much fear, guilt, and shame has been put out into the media. It is crazy how much has been put out there, right? And I'm not talking about any side. I'm not part of any side just so you guys know. I don't believe in any specific side. I don't think that there is a side to just go for. But when somebody picks a side, as I said earlier, once you pick a side, you now have a side that you're against, right? If I'm rooting for one basketball team, if I'm watching a game and the Miami Heat are playing and I'm a Heat fan, they're playing another team. That other team I want to lose. So if I'm on one side, whether that's the left or the right or whatever it is that people believe in at this point, I want the other side to lose. And when I want the other side to lose, I'm losing. And the reason why is because when you can, when we're split up and divided, it's the phrase that we've all heard. United we stand, divided we fall. If we divide as humans, we are easy to control. We are easy. I don't have a side, right? I don't have a specific side that's that, that I believe in or that I think is right or wrong. I think that there's different sides of both of them, but there's another thing that also is very important as well that people don't take into account is that you're seeing the world through your lens of the world based off of everything that has happened to you in your past, right? You're seeing the world, you think the way that you think, you believe what you believe based off of the way that you were raised and circumstances that were presented to you in your life. Let me say that again. You think the way that you think and you believe what you believe based off of the way that you were raised and circumstances that life presented you with. So someone who doesn't believe the exact same thing that you believe and think the exact same way that you think is because of the way they were raised and the circumstances that life presented them with. So it's very important to realize who's to say that if instead of having your life, you had their life that you wouldn't think exactly the same as them. So what I want you to realize is that we need to stop looking at other people and saying, that's the enemy, I'm different than them, this is my side, that's another side. The only thing that we should be doing at this point is focusing on how we can love the other people. Now this is really interesting because I put up a video on Instagram talking about this the other day. And most people will in full agreement, yes, we need to figure out a way to love more, to love more, to love more, because the opposite of love is fear. Think about how much if I don't like the other side, what if that side is, it's coming from a place of fear, right? Love is the only thing that's gonna get us through all of this, right? There is no other way. Battling and picking sides will not solve our problems.  Oh, there's this side, there's this side. There's battling, all they're doing. There's no love at all in all of that, right? Closing off will not solve our problems. There is no other side that you can be on. The only side that you can be on right now or ever is human. You are a human, no matter where you're from, no matter what you look like, no matter what you believe in, no matter any of those stuff, none of those things matter.  And everybody else that's on this planet, all 7.5 billion of them are human as well. When we are divided, we are easily conquered. If you look around and you don't see the things in this world that you currently, if there's certain aspects of this world that you don't like, I completely understand that. But fighting is not going to create something better. What's going to create something better? Figuring out a way to love more, right? To unite, not to divide. When people are united is when things happen. But when we say that's evil, this person's evil, that side's evil, what happens, we get divided. And when you divide, nothing's gonna actually happen. Nothing good is going to actually happen. Look at the past 100 years of how much division has happened in the past 100, 200 years, right? Does it look like it's going in the right direction? Probably not. If you watch the news, it looks like it's going in the wrong direction really fast actually, right? But anything that you've tried to do in the past and put somebody into a box, and anything that's happened is put somebody into a box of this is what you believe, this is what I believe, this is what they believe, divides people. And when you are divided, you are easily conquered. So what we need to do is figure out a way to love more. Let me give you an example of what I mean. As I said a few minutes ago, people believe what they believe and they think what they think based off of what has happened to them in the past, what life has brought to them and what they were taught, right? So I might look at somebody and say, you know what, I don't necessarily believe the exact same things that they believe, but does that mean I can't love them or find some sort of love for them? It might be hard sometimes, but it doesn't mean it's impossible. It means it's something that we got to work towards, right? So you look and you've heard the phrase, love your neighbor, right? Love your neighbor, love your neighbor. When we're divided, nothing's gonna happen that's gonna be good. But when we unite and we can work through our problems, we can work through things that are going on, that's when things actually start to change, right? So if I look at somebody and I say, okay, this person, I don't agree with much of what they said. Actually, I don't agree with most of what they said, but I didn't have their life. I didn't have their circumstances. I didn't have any of the things that they had. So if I was in their exact same shoes and I went through the exact same life that they had, would I think the same as them? And there's a possibility that I would, which means that how can I say I'm better than them and that my opinion in my stance is better than them? I can look at them and I can say, you know what? I don't agree with them, not a hundred percent. There's some things that we definitely on other sides, but I can love them either way. Why can I love them? Because number one, I'm an empathetic person. We all have empathy and we can always be empathetic towards other people and what they've been through in their lives, right? Number two, if I want things to actually change, I need to be able to look at someone who doesn't agree the same thing as me and say, I can still love them through this. I can figure out a way for us to work together. That's the only way that this is going to work. And I can say, okay, if I come from a place of love when I go and speak to this person, they're more receptive to listening to me and to listening to my side.  And what are they going to do? They're going to build up their walls and they're going to push their side further. So if we really want to have an intelligent, intellectual, you know, adult conversation, maybe I should come from a place of love first and not a place from division and hatred towards them. Come from a place of love. And that would make them more receptive to actually listening to what it is that I have to say. Maybe that's a way that we can actually get them to change. Because if what they've been taught and what life has presented them with, what if I come from a place of love and present them with a different option and present them with something different? Maybe then that would change them in some sort. Maybe it wouldn't. But in reality, I know that if we come from a place of love and everything that we do, life is going to be a lot better. And that's the thing that the world is missing. So what I want you to realize is that right now, there seems to be a war for your mind. You're in control of all of the things that you watch, all of the things that you listen to, all of the people that you hang out with, the music that you listen to, the media that you consume, whether that's visually, auditorily, the people that you hang out with, you're in control of all of those things. And all of those things brainwash you in some sort of way. The question is, is it brainwashing you to become the person that you want to become? Or is it brainwashing you to hold you back and not get you to move forward? All I know is that when I walked into that paint store and I saw those three to four minutes, I was like, oh my God. I literally physically did not feel good in my body. And I was like, I gotta get out of here as quick as possible. Because number one, I could see what it's doing to me. And number two, I could see what it's doing to other people who aren't necessarily paying attention and who don't have this knowledge as well. So just be, number one, come from a place of love. Be very loving in everything that you do. And number two, realize you're in control of the information that comes into your head. Being in control of it. Be very diligent about what you allow to come into your head. Number three, look at everyone else around you and realize that if I pick a side and if I become divisive, we're easily conquered. The only way that we're going to change this world and to becoming the world that we want to be is we have to first become that change. If we want people to get along more than they're getting along now, we need to first be the people who start getting along with people. If we want people to be more loving, we need to first be the people that are more loving. Gandhi said it, still makes sense. Be the change you wanna see in the world. What do you need to do and change within yourself to be the change that you wanna see in the world? What change do you wanna see in the world and how can you take that and put it inside of you? There's a war for your mind going on. Being in control of what's actually coming into your head.  I had put up yesterday a Instagram and Facebook stories poll and I put up a couple of different things and one of them said, do you think aliens exist, yes or no? Is money the root of all evil, yes or no? And then one of them said, do you think the world is getting better or worse? And I was super surprised to find that 78% of the people who follow me think that the world is getting worse. Yeah, I was super surprised by that. And the reason why is because I think that typically the people who follow me tend to be more optimistic versus pessimistic. And so I wanted to dive into the issue to talk about my viewpoints of if I think the world is getting better or worse, because I was super surprised and what I think is I think the world is getting better but I think the world is going through an awakening. So let me give you an example of what I mean by this. Let's say that somebody is 50 years old, right? And they don't take care of their body. They eat whatever they want to eat. They eat greasy food.  They don't care about anything. They just literally eat whatever it is that they want to eat, nothing healthy. Let's also say that they don't ever work out, never. They've worked out in years and years and years. And let's say they're overweight, 30, 40, 50, 70, 100 pounds of weight. I don't know what is, but let's say they're overweight because of the fact they haven't been taken care of themselves and they also don't get much sleep. They don't get good sleep. And then one day that person has a heart attack and the heart attack luckily doesn't kill them but it does give them a heart attack. They do have a heart attack. Heart attack isn't fun, I'm sure. Never had one before but I'm sure it probably isn't the most fun thing in the world. So you look at this and you say after years and years and years of abuse and neglect and not treating their body right, their body has a heart attack. And because of that heart attack, the person wakes up and they go, oh my God, I almost just died. I'm now becoming aware of how I haven't taken care of my body. I haven't been treating it right. I haven't been giving it the right fuel. I have been just eating stuff for taste and not for actual health reasons. I haven't worked out and God knows long how it's been since I've worked out. I don't get any sleep. I don't get good sleep. I drink a lot of alcohol and all of that over years and years and years and years has accumulated to this one moment of me having a heart attack. Now, I have a choice. Either I can go back to life as it was or I can make some different choices based on my heart attack. And let's say that person aside, do you know what? I want to live long enough to see my daughter walk down the aisle. I want to live long enough to be able to be a grandfather that ends up being able to play with his grandkids and go to their sports games and be able to continue to travel. I want to live longer than just past the age of 60 years old. I want to live to 85, 90. What would it look like for me to live to 90 and see my grandkids get married as well? And they start to take care of themselves. They start eating healthy. Maybe they hire a nutritionist. They hire the nutritionist and take care of their body. They hire someone that teaches them how to work out and the right ways to move. They start figuring out ways to improve their sleep and they read books around improving their sleep. And because of this heart attack, their entire life shifts because they now woke up to how they have been treating their body. Why do I bring this up? Well, why don't you just think about what we've been going through? And actually before we dive into what we've been going through, if somebody were to have a heart attack and then switch their entire lives around and change for the better and lived longer and was able to see their daughter walk down the aisle and be able to hang out with their grandkids and have a better life and be healthier and happier and better sleep and all that stuff, is the heart attack still bad? Or was the heart attack the thing, the good thing that came in to awaken this person from the sleep that they were in and the neglect that they were giving their body. And now, ah, that's amazing, because you know what? Now I can treat my body the right way and that heart attack woke them up is what you can say. It is their awakening from everything that they were going through. Now is a heart attack bad? Or was maybe the heart attack a blessing? Was the heart attack something that actually ended up being good? Because in the long term, it changed them. And I think basically what we're in right now is the middle of a heart attack, right? I'm assuming that when you go through a heart attack, it's not very fun. No one's like, holy shit, this is great, I'm having a heart attack. It's usually people are probably freaking out and probably hurts a lot. It's probably something that you don't wanna go through. But if you think about what we're going through and the heart attack that we're going through, the amazing thing about it is that we're now starting to wake up to everything that is wrong in the world that we need to fix. And this isn't me saying this, I take this side of this, I don't take any side in politics or any of that stuff. In my opinion, doesn't matter because everyone has an opinion. So it's just me talking from just a, this is the way that I view the world. We're now waking up to old, oppressive and evil systems that are being brought to the surface. And a lot of people who were not aware of them are now aware that there's a lot of things happening that maybe they weren't aware of, maybe different racial things, maybe different gender things. It's becoming apparent that some people have been held down by society. It's been apparent that maybe some people don't get 100% equal opportunities. Like group A might not get the same opportunity as group B based off of where they lived or where they grew up in the school that they were able to go to in the education system that they had. It's becoming aware of how our government is not set up for the people's best interest but maybe their own.  But in turn, now we're in the middle of a time where things can start to shift, things can start to change. So is having a heart attack fun? Probably not. I don't think anybody's ever, I've never heard of somebody using the adjective as fun for a heart attack. But does it seem like sometimes if you're in the middle of a heart attack, it's hitting the fan? Probably.  My rebuttal would be yes. I do think, my argument would be yes. I think that it is something that helped. A heart attack is an awakening for bad health in most cases. Obviously there's circumstances outside that where someone just has heart problems but in most cases a heart attack is an awakening to bad health. Civil unrest is an awakening to how we should look at the systems that we have and see if we can make them better for all people. So the same way that a heart attack wakes up somebody who hasn't been taking care of the health, civil unrest wakes up the public to how we should be treating people and start to change our systems and processes. Makes sense? So, another thing that we should consider when we're talking about the the way that the world looks really bad right now is that you have to realize we're seeing a lot more footage, a lot more videos, a lot more pictures than we ever have of things that are bad that are happening in the world. Are there things that are bad or happening in the world? Absolutely. Are there more than there ever have been? Absolutely not. And I'm gonna share some statistics with you around that in just a little while to tell you that. But I think what you also have to realize is that if you were to rewind 20 years ago, 25 years ago, 99% of people did not have a phone or I mean, actually not even take phone. They didn't even have a camera to take pictures.  A phone was made to make phone calls. But if you just think about that, now every single person has a camera in their pocket at all times, they can take pictures of anything. So things that were kind of under the surface and hidden a long time ago are now coming to the surface and they have to come to the surface just like a heart attack so that you can be able to work through them. So that's one thing, another thing that I want you to consider is that now there's a lot more cameras than there ever have been. So if you're seeing more things and thinking that the world is worse because of that, you just have to realize there's just a lot more cameras than there ever have been. And once again, I'm gonna go over the statistics and just admit I think they're gonna kind of surprise you. Another thing that has shifted a lot in the past 20, 30 years is that the news used to be something that you could trust. The news had no hidden agenda. Now we all know that they have their own agendas that they want to push to you. And so they're pushing them. Another thing that you can actually start to think about is the rise of social media. In my opinion, social media is not a good thing. It's not a bad thing. It's just a thing. And the human condition is now coming out through social media. But the interesting thing about social media is that social media makes it easier to share information faster and more widespread than anytime in humankind. So if it was 30 years ago and you saw something with your own eyes that was bad that happened in front of you, the only people you could really tell is I guess you could call the cops, you could tell your neighbors, you could tell your family.  Millions or hundreds of millions of people could see it. News groups could pick it up and then it would be all over the place. So it's not that things are getting worse, it's just that the darkness is coming to light because we are able to share this information quicker than ever before. And to dive into the statistics which I want to share with you guys, it's super interesting is this. So there's a, I did my own research on this and there's also a Harvard psychologist, he's a cognitive psychologist named Steven Pinker. He's actually got a couple books about in a TED talk about how the world is getting safer and it's better than it ever has been. It just seems like it's not based off of the fact that we have a lot of information that we can share, pictures, videos, immediately. If you go to the Department of Justice's website and on the Department of Justice's website if you look at statistics, firearm homicides are down 39% from 1993. So if you look at it, you think, oh my gosh, there's so many more people dying from guns. There's actually 39% less people than there were in 1993 and it continues to go down year over year. I'm not here to argue firearms so don't even think that that's what I'm trying to get across. I'm just trying to give you plain and simple statistics to show you that the world is actually getting better. To make you feel better about, maybe it's not as bad as I thought it was, maybe it is actually starting to get better. Non-fatal firearm accidents are down 69%. So non-fatal firearm accidents are down 69%. The numbers of people who are murdered on a yearly basis in the United States is down. And now you might say, okay, well what about outside of the United States? I understand. There's places where things have gotten worse and they've gotten better and things have gotten worse and things have gotten better. But if you look at the world collectively as a whole and I understand there's gonna be some anomalies to this, everybody. But if you look at the world collectively as a whole, the number of people killed in war is one-twelfth of what it was in the 1950s and the 1960s. So you literally have to look at that and go, wow, one-twelfth of what it was before 60, 70 years ago. So now, right now, is the safest time to be alive as a human? Is it perfect? Hell no, absolutely not. But what I think we're going through is a little bit of a heart attack. We're starting to realize some of the ways that we weren't taking care of our, quote-unquote, body, other people's bodies. Our system, the body that we are all a part of, the governments that we're a part of, the local areas we're a part of, the nations we're a part of and the world that we're a part of, we're starting to become very aware of old, evil, oppressive systems in a very blatantly in front of us now and we're now able to start to work through those things. So is it the most comfortable time to be alive? Absolutely not. Will it get better? Will there be something good that comes out of all of this? I tend to be an optimistic person, so I think yes. And I would like to argue that with anybody. I think that it is getting better. Statistically, it's showing it's getting better. There's books that are written on it getting better. Is everything perfect? Absolutely not. There is no way you will ever hear me say that everything is perfect and I don't think humans are perfect. Therefore I don't think everything ever will be perfect. But I tend to lean towards the side of everything is working for me, not against me. The world is working for me, not to me. And if that's the case, I also feel the world is working for you and not to you. It's never working against you. It's always working towards your side. So is it perfect? Absolutely not. But what I would recommend is this. If you're starting to feel the feelings of the world being heavy, of the news being heavy, of stuff that's happening in society being heavy, turn off the news. The news is not there to support you. It's not there to inform you. I promise you that.  So turn off the news if you're starting to feel like the world is heavy. Turn off social media if you're starting to feel like things are heavy as well. Go out and experience the world. Walk outside, look at the sun and you'll realize, man, things aren't as bad as they seem to be when you watch them on the news. On the screens, everything seems to be collapsing. When you walk outside of your house, it tends to be a lot better. And I'm a very optimistic person. So I think we're going in the right direction. I think we have a lot of work to do. I think there's a lot of things that still need to be worked through.  Everything that you see influences the way that you feel. Everything that you hear influences the way that you feel. Every person that you talk to influences the way that you feel. Everything that you read on social media or see on TV is going to influence the way that you feel. And in turn, that kind of brain washes you to be a certain way. So if you're thinking of it this way, if every single thing that comes into our brain, in a way brain washes us to feel a certain way, why don't we take control of our own brainwashing? Why don't I go, you know what? I'm not going to look at the news today. I'm not going to turn on social media today. I'm going to read a book. I'm going to watch some YouTube videos from some motivational speakers or from some psychologist or neurologist or whatever it is you're trying to learn from and be in control of your own brainwashing. Because I promise you this, if you're not in control of it yourself, you're still being brainwashed. Is it the brainwashing that you want? I would prefer to wake up and say, I'm in control of my own brainwashing. I'm going to put on the music I like. I'm going to listen to the podcast I like. I'm going to read the books that I like. I'm not going to turn on the news. I'm not going to turn on social media. And I'm going to hang out with the people that I like because ultimately that's the way that we get better. So is the world getting worse? I don't think that it is. I just think that we're in the middle of a heart attack. And I feel like on the other side of this heart attack, the world will be better. People are going to work it out. We're going to figure it out. And the evil, old, and oppressive systems will be worked through and released and will be on our way towards a better society and hopefully a better human connection. Hey, thanks so much for watching this video. If you want to learn even more about mastering your mind, click right here and watch this video as well. If you continue to eat with the media and news feeds you and all that negativity, you're going to have to deal with the sickness that comes from it.


My dog, they're running back wheel routers just absolutely like dog.  He's your maddened bull. What is up with these guys? You know we can make super bummer, dude.  Makes no sense. Really makes no sense. Everybody says how much they like, oh yeah, no money spent, yeah. Oh yeah, all CFM we love it. Literally my worst videos. Literally my worst videos.  YouTube, CFM. Here we are.  We are Cleveland Brown's CFM regular teams. We're four and three right now. We're going to play the Cardinals. Kyler Murray, our boy Aiden. Young kid, good sweaty kid. Pause. He's super tough. He's going to be one of the best man players probably in five years. Not right now. He's fake sweaty right now, but he's going to keep getting better. You guys know we played him a lot of last year. He was the Jalen Waddle guy. The Cowboys guy. So we'll play him now. This is it. Now I don't even know if I'll use this intro because the game might be trash. Maybe the game is terrible. Maybe it's not worth watching. But if you're listening to this intro, it's going to be a good game. But we need a Jersey Glitch for months so bad. We really do. Bakalella?  Come on, Mukamora. What's going on with the boys?  How are we getting absolutely rolled? That was way too much for what our type of pressure that we've got. No, no, no. Good job. Good work, boys. Do you really just make that play?  Is that Harrison Smith? Let's go, Chubb. That's what I need out of you, big fella. That's what the boys need out of you. I can't lie. The White Helmets have brought the Cleveland Brown swag to the next level.  There's just no way Breez Hall has just...  Jesus Christ.  They're just absolutely insanely goaded, dude. Yeah, these kids make a million trades. All they do is make trades. I don't know what the hell they do, but they literally just make trades. It's just insane. I just gotta guard the running back myself, man. Oh, my elbow went down first.  I swear, why would I not, unless you kids just can't have gift pregnancy. You might not be able to have gift pregnancy if I'm... I don't see him as raging. I mean, just hold on. Man, I wanted a truck right there because I needed it first down. That was a truck situation and we just didn't get it. It's tough. Did you try that?  Oh, J.O.K., do you want to play?  Can we block a little bit here, kids? Yeah, this guy's not playing man-cover, bro. He's just playing cover four, put the controller down, you know. Ah, it's just no way. That was just the, ah, damn, I thought I'd get a better throw there.  I thought I'd get a way better throw or, like, pass them. I didn't think he'd play that.  One more second, like, one more split second and it gets by him. I guess, I don't know. I don't know. He was fast-fingering something, doing too much.  God damn. There you go, Zidarius. There you go, kid. I need to play in the Audibles. I need a different play in the Audibles so somebody gets open here. Good chubber. Look at chubber. Hubba chubber. Lodge him more. I mean, dawg, the running back wheel route is just absolutely, like, dawg.     Oh, my God. Oh, my God. How am I the only one that can't score on everybody pancake? How am I the only one? And I can tackle by three people. Sportsy?   This is just miserable.        Like, dog.   Oh, my God. How do I know he's just one quick snap verse right there?   Somebody gonna be open.  Oh, my God. Jesus Christ.  Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Every year, just complete shitter. Dumb as a rock, man. Dumb as an absolute rock. Let him get away with that, dude. Just let him get away with snap throwing a streak right there, dude. GG's.


Okay, very good morning everyone. I hope you had an excellent weekend Monday the 12th of August As you can see usual routine on a Monday. You've got the calendar here to the side. So I'm going to split this Delivery into two sessions me looking at the fundamentals. I'll try to highlight some of the real Calendar events that could act as real pivot points for different assets and reasons Why and then my colleague Sam's going to come on look at the market much more from a technical perspective and looking at the Charts in more detail trade setups not just for today, but also for the week ahead so quick overview though general sentiment for this morning and Yeah, a little bit of risk appetite in terms of Equity markets a little bit higher this morning the actual fix for the PBOC I mean one I did tweet on my way into work this morning the first number I look at When I wake up, maybe I'm a little bit sad But the first thing I check these days is the one fix because that is the barometer really the kind of The trigger point of kind of market sensitivity or has been in the last week and that came in at seven point zero two One one per dollar So that was weaker than Friday setting but stronger than market expectations. So again this kind of measured Devaluing of their currency continues But again as long as it's being done in a very controlled manner then the markets are quite comfortable with that and again Even though their currency is weakening. It's actually being done in a way that's actually slightly stronger than expected. So No real risk coming from that if anything a little bit of relief overnight in Asia a little bit quiet You have got a Japanese holiday Singapore Thailand lots of other nations as well in the Asia Pacific region are closed So fairly quiet, but overall stock futures this morning. You can see off to a positive footing Dax already up a hundred and twenty three on the session your stocks has run up to It's our one had a rejection in the futures that is but again higher this morning Elsewhere in the other charts oil is pretty quiet gold testing back towards a pullback on that fifteen hundred dollar handle Technically and psychologically relevant. I'll let Sam look at that though in more detail Then the other thing that's quite interesting here is the currency markets got some real evident euro weakness Italy of course very much in focus Not sure if you caught Salvini Getting his sunblock on down in southern Italy catching some rays trying to really cajole sentiment in southern Italy obviously where his La Liga party is particular pop popular This coming after last week. We heard of course that he's looking to break up the existing coalition government and look to run on his own To take advantage of what has been this this popularity of his party under this more nationalist view So you wrote a little bit weaker that BTP boomed spread definitely needs to be watched as a kind of European I Guess barometer of sentiment I think Italy definitely has Ratched it up now a few levels and is back up the hierarchy of real risks to the market this week and we'll look at that in a Second Otherwise the pound actually doing the reverse you've got a bit of a divergence here It's definitely a euro weakness story because cable is flat Dollar by product of that euro move a little bit firmer But cable up around its pivot level and we'll talk about Boris He's obviously being busy again promising the world and more at the weekend And we'll pick through some of those headlines and what do they mean? But yeah, as I'm delivering this briefing just keep an eye on the euro. You've got that s1 near-term support which Coincides quite clearly with a nice area of technical relevance. You can see here from some of the previous Weeks price action. So as we come down to this 12 14 type area Be there you go just testing it right now Be interested to see how the price action responds it around these these levels, but again Sam will add his his view So let's have a quick look then and I run through first of all the calendar And a couple things to have a look at before I do though. I thought I'd just recap on this Last week particularly interesting Sam was saying I was off the desk on Friday afternoon But apparently my understanding is that Trump went on a bit of a the tirade on Twitter and was firing out You know everything and anything in regards to China witch hunt Epstein just everything that was going on at the moment and This is what it's led to Volatility is back S&P 500 registers longest streak of big daily moves since the beginning of the year and So just looking here at the S&P 500 intraday percentage range you can see this cluster of sizeable price that activity that we've had and of course this then lays its hand to that Kind of risk-off rotation and of course gold had a phenomenal week last week gains in excess of 4% You know way outperforming anything else you get your hands on effectively when it comes to Haven assets In focus so can that continue well again, let's have a look at the week and see what we've got on the agenda To see whether or not these trends have gone any further legs or not today is Particularly quiet in terms of scheduled events. There really is not a lot going on at all not unless you're trading Softs like wheat soy Corn these types of products cuz later on this afternoon late afternoon. You've got the The wansley report Otherwise, it's very quiet. So moving on Let's let's look at the UK for a start and that will bring in some of the both economic and political updates to look out for if You're looking at Sterling from an economics point of view It's an interesting week for the UK because on Tuesday you get the latest claimant count rate employment change and average hourly earnings now you'll remember hourly earnings and it just generally wages in the UK has been a bit of a sweet spot in terms of The kind of the measurements that would lead MPC members to want to be hawkish Incredibly multi-decade low unemployment rate, which is leading to the best Decade high wages at the moment in the UK would all be favorable of tightening conditions in terms of its policy Ramification, however as we go further through into the week That's Tuesday Wednesday. We get UK CPI and of course then just given What we've had with this kind of front-loading of infantries in Q1 that then Basically translating into weaker demand for Q2 and how is this now impacting as well this political uncertainty the Consumers confidence to continue to spend and its demand for goods. So we get CPI on Wednesday always a key figure Then on Thursday we get then that rule consumer metric UK retail sales coming out And so quite interesting week for economic data for sure for the pound but overall obviously a lot of the headline press has been dominated by Mr. Johnson once again the new Prime Minister where he's pledged Basically since he's come in he's pledged two billion pounds every week Reading about it at the weekend about this new a new two billion pounds worth going into the Basically UK's jail system. I know that's not the correct terminology, but you know what I'm talking about The point being is that we are pretty much at maximum capacity. I think it's something like I was watching the news last night There's eighty four thousand inmates. I think in Britain I think the maximum capacity is about eighty six thousand and he's suggesting then that we should have harsher punishments Longer terms we should have therefore you need more money more facilities and so on But all of this of course has come through really key things more Brexit planning Downside protection planning two billion NHS two billion and now this latest kind of infrastructure around the jail system another two billion All of which though. He's not given any details about where the six billions coming from now a couple things here the government's own Appointed body the office of budget responsibility Their report which they issued about six weeks ago said that if we have a no-deal Brexit the budget deficit in the UK The immediate aftermath the impact will be to the tune of thirty billion pounds and He's going on a spending spree of six billion The point being is I'm not trying to politically criticize Boris here But it's quite clear what his strategy is here And that is that a general election is in the offering. I think it's an Absolutely, all of what this is is as the headlines would suggest Johnson being accused of spending for votes and that's exactly what he's doing and I don't blame him because Ultimately, this is a tactic that has been Successfully deployed and rolled out by the president Donald Trump where he's promised the world Delivered arguably less than half of what he said, but that's not the point, you know We live in a new realm of economics and you know personally part of my frustration about the remain Campaign for instance in this country is its obsession with economics. Have you not learnt that doesn't work It doesn't resonate correctly with with the majority and Boris, you know Definitely obviously with Dominic Cummings under his belt being the chief strategiser. I think it's absolutely Just going down this path. They're really striking an accord and a motive one Trying to gee this up for a general election. So Yeah, all of this Is just again political posturing What does it mean for the pound? Well, I don't think you should really looked at look at this tactically to Put in as a variable into your trading Strategies more of this this is more about the medium term and what's going to transpire over the case of the next coming Weeks about this issue of a general election, of course Boris at this point is saying Apps absolutely not what the government is doing and we are not looking to call a general election But one thing you should have learnt by now if you weren't familiar with politics over the last three years Never believe a politician as far as you can throw With that being said what I am interested in this week is this is the pound on a daily continuation chart and We are at Really interesting levels now. That's that double bottom that we had in the aftermath of the actual This is the EU referendum vote. Of course that seismic Repricing of the pound that we had on the evening of the the surprise vote On the referendum. This was then that double bottom October and then retest in beginning of 2017 And we are within a whisker of that level Now given where we are absolutely even within today's session That's not out of the realms of being tested but definitely this week That is a big target and I do believe that if that breaks I don't see any reason why we don't go flying down to 115 in pretty rapid fashion the only thing I think that could counteract this is does Trump come in and basically intervene in the dollar now we know that he Has a track record of doing this verbally. Is there any kind of physical element where he'd want to step in and do that? likelihood of that low But he'll be fully mindful of this the fact that you know if the euro is weakening of the pounds weakening by default The dollar is going to strengthen and if China's Allowing its currency to weaken all of this is against them the ability of the US to remain competitive So really he's got to start upping his game to weaken his own currency I think that might be the saving grace of this pound getting really crushed in the medium term But yeah, definitely this week all eyes on that level. I would definitely be keeping a Very close eye on there at the moment. Obviously we're moving in the opposite direction in the intraday environment But definitely needs watching As I'm speaking I can see Euro's just broken that level and you can see the extension there As we broke through technically that level a little further push through nice little break there gold as well Under a bit of pressure is by default the dollar strengthens now up to tents managing to get ourselves back below that 1500 Which is going to be quite key. I know there's some long-term levels I know Sam's got his eye on that he can he can share with you anyway Let's just quickly run through the other headlines of note. Obviously the trade war is key Over the weekend. I was kind of looking for any comments In regard to China or the US and basically they remain absolutely Far apart it seems at this point Not helping either I feel is this situation which is kind of escalating in its In its violence that's happening in Hong Kong China being quite explicit that they do not want any interference from the UK or America, but as that situation Gets to the point where I can't really think of how that's gonna resolve itself and the biggest Obviously flashpoint would come if there was some kind of Chinese mainland Chinese military occupation coming in To control the situation That would be a massive escalation that would probably then cause great Decisions to have to come out of the Western world and how they're going to tackle that or not And so yeah, I definitely at this point on the trade side They remain very far apart and one thing that we've seen here is Goldman Sachs They've come out last night and they've basically said that the fears of the US China trade war Leading to a recession are increasing Goldman's no longer expect a trade deal Before the presidential election at the end of 2020 They expect tariffs targeting the remaining 300 billion of US imports from China to go into effect and they've also Lowered their excuse me their fourth quarter US growth forecast by 20 basis points to 1.8 percent Again, just to refresh your memory. What was the GDP? That came in In terms of the previous one for Q2 at 2.1 percent So a continuation of a slowdown in North American growth But in fitting with the overall global growth story that we've been pricing in so they're still hearing a lot of these kind of bearish calls About the the near-term horizon for sure that seemingly are growing at this point The other thing before we could jump back to the calendar look at some of the other economic highlights is is Italy and I was just looking at this firstly Not sure if you were aware of this, but Every quarter or so the rating agencies S&P Moody's and Fitch have an update and the ones that are very much in focus Italy is is one of them They avoided a credit downgrade from Fitch ratings on Friday, but the agency has effectively left them on negative outlook Citing high debt levels and a fresh round of political uncertainty So they're on watch to be reviewed in the coming months And I think that's probably an appropriate stance given the fact that they need to see what happens yet The president of Italy has not yet Declared that there is going to be an election as much as Salvini has Intended towards that being the next step given he wants to break the existing coalition with the five-star movement So without that without knowing that next political phase I think the rating agency has to just sit on its hands for the time being but point being here that they've avoided a Downgrade which would have been obviously very detrimental to their assets and The spread BTPs over boons and that definitely needs to be watched. Here was a great article I'm going to share the link into the training life chat room I'll share it on our YouTube As a comment as well, but basically this is a short sharp 10-minute read of everything you need to be aware of for the political scenarios with its FX and Rate implications about what the next potential moves might be For the Italy and its political situation that's developing at the moment very great read here from the guys at ING One of the things here. This is a really fascinating graphic actually because what they're saying is that Salvini Well, just let me quickly show you in Italy The league is the gray line here. So when the we had the hung parliament in Italy Not that long ago. What a year ago They had to form a coalition with what was by far the most popular party which was the anti-establishment five-star and you can see here the two converged within about Three months of the two parties coming together and the five star basically have been losing Popularity ever since their first day in office and quite the opposite from the more nationalist viewed League under Salvini who have just surged to popularity Almost there are about thirty percent thirty eight percent in the polls All you need in Italy for the threshold for a parliamentary majority is forty percent They are just off that and the expectations are that given their stance and their views on on issues like immigration The party that they probably team up with on the coalition would be the brothers of Italy Which are the most furthest right-leaning in terms of their political stance. So They're interesting times ahead for sure for Italy Okay, back to the calendar quick wrap up then and let's hear from from Sam on the technical side So other things I've got my eye on this week Definitely growth potential in Europe and actually we are looking for a contraction in the German economy to be announced on Wednesday morning so look out for that that precedes then the European GDP reading We're going to get on Wednesday morning and then Thursday is the main day for US economic data And I do feel like US economic data does carry a real renewed level of interest given this markets Indecision on whether or not to buy into Jerome Powell's Mid-cycle adjustment phrasing, you know, is Jerome Powell right is this Unprecedented times where actually we just need a little kink in interest rates to then resume the upward trend of the the increasing rate cycle This is why economic data like retail sales New York Empire Philly Fed Industrial manufacturing production. They're all coming out on Thursday. So really key day for US data Then on Friday things tail off fairly quiet Maybe front direct investment in China could be quite interesting just given everything that's going on there domestically And then you've got the University of Michigan sentiment the preliminary reading on Friday Okay That is pretty much it from me. So really it comes down to continuation of Focus on the trade war rhetoric any developments there US data key on Thursday, and I'm keeping on further developments of Italy in regards to then this political situation Salvini and that that BTP wouldn't spread as an indicator of risk And then finally that big level in cable The trigger point on that I feel doesn't necessarily need to come politically out of the UK Because I don't think we're going to get too much more. I think it'll be a continuation of what Boris has been doing The data could well act as a bit of a catalyst and underlying that as well dollar movement will be key Given how close that level is Okay, guys, that's it from me as you can hear my voice is now fading. So I'll hand you over to Sam. Cheers Thanks, and I think I speak for everyone saying that we're glad you're better than you were on Friday Well looked after we'll have a quick look over the euro to begin with is breaking out of Those lows that we had at the back end of last week What a support level it had been and the 112 handle is as big to be honest and just having a look back here to the beginning well, sorry the last couple of days of July you can just see the importance of this point so We then retested it after breaking through on the sick and we're just hitting. Well, the low of the day is Half a tick below 112 so really key level obviously to the upside keeping in a close eye on those lows that we did just break through as well So but had that marked up To the downside if we were to get through 112, which of course we're not at the moment and it's holding quite firmly You've got the the s1 from the day but also we'll be looking down to any of those previous highs that we did break through on the fifth Would last Monday where the euro was just pushing higher and higher and higher against that dollar. So perhaps That push that we had last Monday wasn't necessarily warranted as much and we were coming in last week And they were talking about you know an extra quarter point being priced into a cut and really the euro does push You know through all these resistance points like they weren't there But that now gives you the opportunity is looking for support just below where we're trading now and Having a quick look at any of these these trend lines to the downside got a nice one that would be coming in Around the s1 is s2 as well as keeping a close eye on that For the euro obviously for the pound as I mentioned that big level Not too far away now from the low that we reached this morning Just over 30 ticks, which is incredible to think just how far We have come since the beginning of May And the pound obviously gonna have to have that marked up and that was to go You've got to imagine there's gonna be a decent decent push below there and a fast money move to be honest I think you might see first test of it and it will first retest of it have a decent level of support But once that goes it could really get quite ugly for the pound however this morning We have just had a decent enough Push Haven't seen anything out on their headlines with the pivot on the first test You can see acting as a strong resistance point to the upside if we were to get through you can see a nice area just above 121 from pride a and then you've got If I just move this above the camera as well You'll see was also the low that we had back on the first So that's a key level key line in the sand We never really had the opportunity to get up towards the one 23 or 24 Which we've acted as a good level of resistance and as you can see while the euro last Monday was just pushing higher and higher The pound was just drifting drifting to the downside. We have of course after those the poor numbers that we had on Friday The UK just broken out of that range so any retest of that area I think will certainly interest people around 121 the pivot for now Containing price having a quick look over the Japanese yen as well So we've just got the dollar side of things Strengthening not just against the the euro we saw but also the yen here We had a bit of a false break of this trend and I'd still look to to have this on Let me just modify that a bit. You can see it sort of contain there as well But both to the upside and the downside so we're keeping a close watch on that should we get any break through Of this and that's pretty much how I would have the yen for now waiting for the opportunity either way Obviously keeping maybe an eye on what stocks do in the the afternoon for any correlation there and this morning It's having a look over at the the moving averages I'm just gonna quickly put the moving average cross on as it already has the the two that I want to talk about The 200 day moving average holding price up as we know we've talked about this We couldn't close below and it's acted as a good level support We've now got the 50 the red line here acting as that resistance level So worth keeping a no close eye on that the 50 certainly the last time we we broke through it And then acted as support back in June could be looking for a similar type reaction there Certainly on the daily chart above where we're trading over than that 50 you do have some key really key resistance around 2962 Previous all-time high support when we then broke through and also a decent breakdown area from the first of the month So worth keeping a close watch on that at just over 3% away from that all-time high if we have a week like we did last week Well the last few days that we had the last week will be up towards That that high again there so more intraday. Obviously keep a close eye on that there the 50 DMA If you can just put the pivots on here to have a quick look around you can see we are just from last 15 minutes or so just come up to test this and then here you go You've got that third test now So had this marked up and you can see strong enough reaction with the low volume there Of that third test to the downside slightly steeper But we are getting squeezed in from both ways if we were to have a more aggressive move to the downside Again, I'd be looking to see can we get a third test of this trend line from the low that we had Overnight on Monday night Tuesday morning And then obviously the Wednesday test of that as well looking to come in at the moment around s1 And of course Friday's low and that's a key level as well from the high of the 8th goal Does Anthony mention was just drifting low this morning 1500 has broken. You've got quite a lot of previous Resistance around there. I should say around the s1 as well, which had broken through Next key levels. I know we've got a couple of trend lines that could well come into play. It's going to move that above the Above the camera so the highly 18th you can see that coming into the breakthrough that we had on the 6th And the 7th overnight so that retest of it coming in around if it was to come in now 1494 Which looks like a quick quite key level We've also got some support from the 7th there as well to the upside any of those retests of those lows That we had broken through would of course be worthwhile having on and maybe later in the week likewise with the s&p But this one to the upside just keeping an eye on these trend lines That was squeezing price over the last couple of sessions or so so it might be later on in the week We do get that breakthrough, but if the dollar is to strengthen and it's already up naught point one eight percent Gold might just have a leg lower this week Whereas you know last Monday, of course the dollar was incredibly weak And we did push higher in gold as well quick look over to see what the DAX is up to on the open We have pushed higher however finding resistance up near those are one levels and I know the s1 And those lows from Thursday Well, so the low from Thursday was the initials the last support that we had back on Friday, which had pushed things To the upside quite key resistance on Friday Thursday's high and also the low that we had back on the second That's the line in the sand for the DAX this morning if we can get back up there You know imagine the 50 DMA for the s&p might come into play in and that little trend line would actually get a break through quick look at oil to wrap things up decent push higher on on Friday after that what this has put this on that that low that we had from Well the month, but it was also of course the low that we had Well, yeah from June and January as well. So really key level of Support there in oil and the recovery has been as strong a lot of Resistance by where we're trading near the R1 today from those previous highs of the fifth and the sick Not too much going on this morning the pivot to the downside looks pretty important as well Or just a bit below 10 ticks below 53 75 higher the seventh lower the sick and lower the first as well Any questions as usual, please do let us know We'll be doing the strategy report as usual the pound is coming back up to test that high From the morning, but 120 106 a key level that might give an opportunity for that further leg down to 120 Hope you'll have a good trading day and I'll catch you in the chat


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Wait a second, I didn't even register it. All right, I got a QV. Get a Vernon Davis here and probably another 82 Patrick Willis. Doesn't count guys, 82. All right, hey, I got myself a quarterback. Sean Watson. Now what we need is a half back and we'll get out of here clean because we're gonna have a middle linebacker. We're gonna have a tight end and we're gonna have a Cramarty pro. Ooh, big one. This man had 15 receptions, 183 yards. Oh, another big one. Gary, let's go. Dude, what? Those are two of my best pulls this entire year in the same pack. And then 82 crow. We're gonna get another Cramarty. So I'm gonna go 83 ball. That's probably gonna be my half back. Jordan Brooks. I don't mind a middle linebacker. Another team of the week. It's Marlon Humphrey. I need that 92 or I don't want it. It's 82 crow. We're gonna go Marlon Humphrey here. I think that's a good pickup. This is our final actual pack and then we just gotta hope that we get a 92 in those toppers. Blame Brown by Hughes. Blame Brown is not a- Whoa! Oh! Ah! This helmet isn't wearable.  I really just pulled staffers. Oh, I about broke my headphones going that. Are you kidding? That was the final pack. That was the last pack. I could have pulled a player because all of these are toppers now. You know, I would love like 92 Vernon Davis but I don't care anymore. If I- Whoa!  Oh my God. I did not just roll back to back. 92 overalls. 92 Cramardi, 92 staffer. This team is golden. Now here's something that I can do. So I've already opened two bundles. I'm gonna quick sell for training everything I just pulled that I'm not gonna use. Then I'd go to the store and buy like rising star packs for the training point. So there's veterans, heavyweights, flashback and rising stars. I'm gonna do rising stars because I still need a safety. I'm hoping I can get there by James. Ooh, actually, you know what? He could go at safety. Coraline Sutton, badass. I'm cool with that. I'm gonna go flashbacks. I could grab Robert Woods, I think. Robert Woods would be my best pull here. Ah, I'm good. I'm good. All right, you're ready for a drastic change in team right here. Let me see it. Let me see staffer baby. Oh, there's an 82 overall team. Yeah, how do you like the bench, Mitch Trebisky, your trash. If you come at fourth quarter, Mitch, I'm blocking you from a gentle. Matthew Stafford, Bo Jackson, Tyree Kil, Robert Woods, Coraline Sutton, George Kil, Hunter Henry, Tyler Higby, Vernon Davis is gonna start a pullback. At least he's in. Defense, we got Sam Mills, Patrick Willis, Derek Brooks, Damian Wilson, that's ugly. Now John Lynch should not be here. This is from the last episode. I think it makes sense that the only person we expect to hear is the Matthew Stafford. So I'm excited to see what abilities he gets. I'm assuming I'm gonna get like hopefully Pocket Dead Eye and Gunslinger and I can do some damage with those too. All right, we're going Pocket Dead Eye, Identifier and Set Feet Beam. No, no, no, we want Pass Lady. Just one with leading bullet passes.  Let's go boys, let's go. Yo, I got a question for you guys. Do you think when I do pack and plays I should I keep the same team? So basically like a series or should I restart it every time? Cause what I've been doing so far is reset the team every time. But if you guys wanted to be like recurring that'd be kind of cool too. So Stafford and Kramati will probably be the QB in the corner for a long time, but we also don't lose them, you know? And we can add like really good halfbacks and stuff. So let me know. That's gotta be the weirdest top three I've ever seen in my whole life. Did I read that right? Did that say 96 overall Sam Mills? First in 10, let's see what you got Stafford. Ooh, is that there? Wow, look at this coverage.  They put bench press acrobat on them and then they run cover two man and they just clamp everything. Ooh, but Coral and Sutton's open. I am dotting the 93 overall man up. Dude, it's Coral and Sutton touchdown. He's not gonna sink to it. What are you doing? How do you have a 96 overall on your team? Stafford, three for three, just drove all the way down the goddamn field. Thinking this is a read option? Maybe no, it's a pass. He's just gonna throw underneath to Reggie Bush. Let's see if he runs this ball. I feel like he's gonna run the ball. It's kind of what I'm waiting for here. Oh, it's a play action. Oh, and I went on Erica Rowe.  That took me completely out of the play. I'm just gonna hit this off the Reggie Bush. Great blocks, dude. This team, this team is doing everything they need to win this game. This is really surprising. We're playing like truly the best team I've ever played to. I've never seen a 96 overall sandmills, bro. All right, let's see if he sniffs this out. He does not sniff it out. We got a lot of room to work with. Stop and go. We're going for it. Nine, eight. We gotta be aggressive. This is gonna be a tough game to win. I'm gonna send Kittle up. Robert Woods on the slant. Let's see who gets there. Who's open? Kittle, early. No, he gets ball at half. So I need to be leading by a position we'll be walking into half. Oh, Reggie Bush. Why am I running all over this guy? My offensive line is like an 80 overall. Dude, maybe I, maybe I Stafford scramble. Maybe that's what I do here. Yup, we're gonna do it. We're gonna do it. Stafford, step it up. God, oh. I'm so proud of my team right now. I'm so proud of how we're playing. So out of this formation last time, he threw underneath. He threw underneath right here.   You know what though? This is gonna sound stupid, but that might have been good as far as clock management goes because I need to be leading by a possession before half, right? And if he had used the whole clock on that drive and scored, then I couldn't be leading in half. Ooh, that's a blitz. Oh, easy. Easy pass for Stafford. Coral and Such did get that juke.  It's so bad. That is such an easy juke. I'm frustrated. I am sexually frustrated. We're going to the Five Live Magic. He's on Taylor Mays. Oh, now he's back on Ronnie Lott. Easy underneath. Ooh, I'm getting some serious input delay here. Let's see how this goes. Oh my God, the input delay is unbelievable. I threw that ball two seconds before that. First and 10, 13 seconds left. I'm on the 13. Ooh, do you think we can thread a needle here? I don't know if it's worth trying, but we'll see if we can. All right, we're gonna step up with Stafford. Lay ourselves down. We got eight seconds. Do we take an end zone shot? Do I just kick this one? You throw one at the end zone. Hopefully you catch it or it's incomplete, right? I'm pretty sure that's the move here. Second and three. RB, he's there. God, God. 21 to 14 is exactly what I needed. We're gonna kick off to him. First and 10, he's gonna run right side. I think we're on top of this. Yep. All right, I am on Derek Brooks. I'm gonna look for the underneath on the halfback if he's not running it. He motions Chase Claypool across. That's a scary, scary card right there. Okay, so corner route, angle route. Ooh, I don't even know what that is. I literally, I don't know what he just did. What route was that? You know, it's so crazy that this guy knows like these very, very good route combinations on offense, which tells me he's really experienced. He has no idea how to play defense. Wait, what?  I wasn't even commentating because I thought there was absolutely no way he was gonna make that pass, that? That is truly the most unbelievable pass I have ever seen in this whole game. I'm not kidding. That is not an exaggeration. Five wide, I believe this is man coverage. I'm just hoping that Coralyn Sutton can just take this puppy. Is he there? No, Sam Mills is on top of it, he dropped it. Sam Mills dropped it.  Okay, this is gonna be the exact same defense, right? It's a read. I have to read either Sutton or Woods to make this play here. Sutton, but that defense is draping me. Couldn't complete. Darn it. We're fighting a pretty uphill battle here though. So I'm just, I'm proud of the squad for what we've accomplished so far against a very solid team. Second in inches, this is a running down for me. He's not gonna make it one. Oh my God, Cramarty has just gotten bullied over there on the corner route. Assuming he stays in man coverage. I'm thinking I can score off at this. Yeah, I think this is a man coverage blitz again. It is. So I just gotta hold for a second. Beautiful. God, he is throwing that. Oh, he stayed in bounds. This game is very winnable still.  I can go slant, kiddle, slant, Sutton. And he just has to commit to one. So, oh no, no, no, no, no. There's someone there. Kiddle got it. Kiddle caught it. Dude, Stafford is throwing this ball so fast. Fourth in inches. All right, he is gonna think that this is a slant. We're handing this off to Reggie Bush. Easy. Our PLP zone bubble still got him, man. All right, let's see what he reads. He reads A or X. Easy. All right, so we're gonna hand this off to Reggie Bush again. Oh, he slinks through to the one. A few minutes later. Fourth and goal, the biggest play of this game. It's all or nothing right here, boys. Let's see what we got. Wow, not a single person blocks the guy right over top of the QB. That's depressing. Does he throw underneath or throw the corner around? He's gonna throw one of the two. I can pick this off, because I know what he's doing. Oh, mom oh! M別詠名! The shooting ain't no oh no! That's Sean Murphy. Dude, Murphy Budgig has been playing amazing and kamarty has been getting bullied. We know the read, it's an obvious read. Just gotta see where the user goes, he commit to A. He does, we throw Sutton. Every time. All right, so it looks like he's gonna stay in zone. If he stays in zone, I can hit the Sutton route. I think, does he stay in zone? Kiddler, Kiddler! Dah, dah! I'm gonna try and stop them, dude we stopped them right there.  Is such a sketchy pass to throw, I cannot believe he just threw that.  First in 10, he goes to a slip screen. Great play call. I am not on the right, dude. I'm on Richard Seymour. Big hit, oh, that's where we need the fumble. So a field goal with seven seconds left. In my books, I'm very proud of the team. We did not come away with a victory, though. What a game! Hey, Gigi to my opponent. Matt Stafford with a 150.1 QB rating. 21 for 25, 263 yards.  All right, boys.  This video is dope. I hope you guys enjoyed. Let me know if I should continue with the same team or reset it every time and I'll see you guys next video. Peace.


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