And many thanks for staying with us this beautiful Monday morning. We have Okpunabon Katari on standby. He joins us off the press. Okpunabon, happy holiday. And thank you for joining us. Good morning, Nancy. Good morning, Andrews, and happy holiday. All right, then. Let's take a look at the punch newspaper. As always, we run through the pages of the National Dailies, and we have, I guess, share their thoughts on the big stories. On the punch, 2023 budget federal government plans, 1.35 trillion-hour war chest against Boko Haram and bandits. I find that really interesting. Underneath, to acquire fighter jets, ammunition, and budgets, one billion-hour for terrorist persecution. IG and Baxon rode petrol in nothing states and promises advocate security. That's what we find underneath the board caption on the punch newspaper. Muslim-Muslim aggrieved APC Christians to dump Tunibu and Shatima. Federal government borrowed 22.3 trillion-hour foreign education garb 609 million dollars according to the Central Bank of Nigeria. Controversy surrounds alleged release of 101 Boko Haram terrorists. Presidency, Attiku, Governors IU, begin campaign in Uyo. That's the capital of Aqaibam state. Forex, scarcity hits gas suppliers and price hike imminent. Shareholders knock Kogi and group alleged exploitation. NDLEA seizes one billion-trama-dollar Lagos Airport. Hoodloom's rape-quarra-vacity students arrested with 87 phones. And internet fraudsters contact Facebook hairballist, dismemberment man for ritual. You also have a picture, a pictorial representation of a pro-Tunibu rally, a ground yesterday APC. Very excited. That's what the punch is quoted to say. Well, let's move away from the punches. We have the leadership newspaper.  Let's not forget that's a lot is going on, prayers and thoughts, but we're also hoping that actions would also be greeted with all of this thoughts as Lokoja is facing a serious flooding issue. There's also a pictorial representation. If you look at the front page, you see that very saddening. And you have this paper saying that the deployed drones in telling the story of the misery of many dead and displaced persons and businesses ruined by the floods in Niger's north central region. Transporters hike fare as fuel scarcity lingers. And there might just also be a lot of connection with the situation in Lokoja. Now, just before we move away from the punch, I beg your pardon, the leadership newspaper, Mass Decession, Retirement Looms as Military Proposes New Service Scheme. That's it on the leadership. This, their newspaper, is the next one. This, their newspaper, is the next paper for us. Emerging business leaders from north, matching tech unicorns of the south. They are bold, audacious, and ready to take Niger to new frontiers. Now, there's also a pictorial representation to that story. Buhari grieves as Anambra recovers 16 borders in both tragedy and a federal government words into Dangote Kogi government's dispute. PDP kicks off presidential campaign in Uyo. And that's it on this day newspaper. Now, quickly, we'll turn our attention to the daily trust before we have a guest share his thoughts on some of the headlines. On the daily trust, House 62 Airlines went Moribah since 1960. House 62 Airlines went Moribah since 1960. Multiple charges hash business environment responsible. That's what operators are saying. Need for alternative funding. 3,000 rendered homeless as flood heats 17 emo communities. A non-disclosure of leaf-ted crude caught freezes three oil and gas firms account. Half-load submerged 4,400 hectares of rice in Nassarua. It's a lot for food security. Anambra boat accident. 16 bodies recovered as Buhari orders rescue operation. That's the boat accident. Very unfortunate. Dangote to approach quarters. Kogi moves to recover the company. These are some of the headlines this morning on the daily trust newspaper. Okunabon Katara's with us. Okunabon, thank you for being with us this morning on the breakfast. Thank you. Thank you once more, Messi. All right. Let's start off with the punch. On the punch, we have the 2023 budget as focus. And the federal government is proposing 1.35 trillion Naira as watchers against Boko Haram and bandits. However, we also see that for the fight against terrorists and the prosecution, the federal government is set to acquire fighter jets, ammunition, and has budgeted. There's a budget of 1 billion Naira for all of this. What are your thoughts, especially when we understand that there's also a lot that happened in 2021, you know, or the budget that we have over time for the fight against terrorists and all of the equipments that we have actually poachers. But it feels like, you know, the fight against terrorists, bandits, and whatever you are still on the high. Okunabon? I've lost you guys, but I can hear you now. I lost you at the point. So I'd like you to share your thoughts on the federal government's proposal or plans to spend 1.35 trillion Naira. This is like a war chest against Boko Haram and bandits. I heard that. I heard that. So my question is, what do you make of this, especially when we know that over the years, we have, you know, spent so much in terms of defense, we have acquired, you know, different jet fighters and what have you, but we don't seem to be victorious against the fight against bandits and Boko Haram. Let's see, can you hear me? Loud and clear. Ok, what we are bothered about is the efficacy of the expenditure. It is actually going to produce the desired results. And because if we go by antecedent, you realize that the issue of banditry has become, or Boko Haram banditry did not do what I did. Those issues have become gravely trained for the military top brass. I'm going to use the immediate past statuses as examples. I'm talking of Burakai and Koh. Where billions of Naira were spent, or what have they spent on the fight against crime and criminality by this bandit. And when their subsensors came into office, they said, including the President, Chief of Amistad, and all the southern states, said the Chief of Amistad, who was not, after that time, the Chief of Amistad, because the man died, his predecessor died in a plane crash. But even the NSN corroborated the story that all the monies that were released to the former family teams who were not accounted for, and there was nothing, no purchase on ground to justify the need of those monies. So that is why we talk of the efficacy of the expenditure. I agree going to produce the desired result. How is this now a gravely trade? In other words, a conduit flight is not a kind of an opportunity for these service teams to test or align their pockets. That is our real worry. And again, if you look at the fight against terrorism, well, the President's service team and the President's representatives are not commending as they're from predicate, the top five. But not, I think, he will justify all the monies released to the Ministry of Defense could be justified, because I think this service to a very large extent are almost, almost winning the war. Because even today, you say, you've got to the particular community. By tomorrow, the service would have raided and raided our capital, three other communities. So it's a complicated situation. Nevertheless, why we have to commend the President for their effort, for what he's doing? A man who will not even make so much learn about the socks, if you even imagine the way you're remaining adept on your needs, trade adept on your needs. He didn't make much learn about it. He was not an empty vessel. One like this other one that will remain one person, I will want to make, turn it into one bigger piece. But I think that the major problem that you guys are having is not just the money that have been budgeted for this, but the issue of the misuse of those monies that have been budgeted. And that is why whenever they say, X amount is budgeted to fight Boko Haram or the soldiers here or what have been, a lot of people impune the sincerity because it is seen as one country fight. And an opportunity for these soldiers to make a lot of money, to fed up or lie in their pockets. And sadly, we have the President that is not even bothered about the corruption in the defense ministry. Rather, what he does is to reward corruption by promoting all those that we accused, not by Nigerians, not just by the alcoholics, not the ordinary Nigerians, but the energy, not much is either right or wrong. And these presidential service teams, these are radio ligations, not coming from another Nigeria. And Mr. President, to all of those, I wanted to use the word, but it was an air, so all of those characters decided to promote them and make them impossible. In other words, it's to making them from persecution. And I strongly believe that whoever will succeed, Mr. President, to investigate those allegations, to investigate those things. We have the NSE, we have another number of witnesses that will come out to stop searching and cause the allegation to defend the NSE system. So my question here now is, do you think that finance is the issue? Because every other time we seem to be paying attention to it. I mean, when we talk about the financing. They said they spend this money on purchase of arms and ammunition to fight the war. That is what they are paid. So of course you can't go by, because if it's about the technical know-how, I believe our soldiers have what it takes to fight in Bukohara. In as much as a lot of people say because it is, it is not a conventional one, for example, it's a little bit complicated. But I don't think so. The truth about it is that you're talking about a commitment, you're talking about incentives, you're talking about commitment. And that's what I'm saying. When these money are released, the service fees don't even, it doesn't even take them down. Because they don't buy the equipment, so it's not difficult to fight in Bukohara. You can't fight them without the equipment. Number two, you get the money of incentives. And like when some of these, as that was your relief, they said it as those who are going to pay themselves. So on their way they meet about three different checkpoints. The second one will tell you by then, we apologize, but you have to give us our own cost. The second one will tell you by then, we apologize, there's nothing we can do about it. The second one will tell you what to take care of. That's what I mean. So you need the money because you need to buy a equipment. No doubt about that. But it goes beyond the money. It has to do with incentives and commitment by both the federal government and the soldiers on ground.  They will put in their best. That is number one. Number two, if they are also encouraged, that's what I'm saying to you. They are also encouraged. Unfortunately, you cannot say that you cannot say that you are not encouraged. You cannot say that you are not encouraged. You are not bothered about this weather. How do you think it's going to be committed? That it's going to be compromised. That's the point I'm making. So the money is just to me. But it goes beyond, excuse me, it goes beyond finance. It has to do with incentives. It has to do with commitment. It has to do with water. These are the issues. So it's a top mantra of issues. But you cannot rule out money. Money has to be cultural in the world because you need to buy these equipment. That is number one. Number two, you also need to encourage the soldiers that are going there to die. Because when you send a man to go by look around, he's not sure what he's going to survive. It's not much. Although that is what he's trying for. So they are cultural as that money is. The other thing is incentives. The top of the leadership. These leaders have been saying in this world, as you look around, you can imagine, you come out from this city. Chief of Amistad, Burakha, who said they were going to last for 10 years. You have already made up his mind that they are going to some other character. He's not up his mind already. And he's not going to. And so he says that because he knew that he had embedded the funds. As I was saying, behind this example, you have embedded the funds. And in order to give a reason for not being able to contain the situation, he said he's going to last for 20 years. Even if he's going to last for 40 years, what are your efforts in stopping this? What are the reforms that you are leaving? So it's not that we're not just talking about funds. We are talking about incentives. We are talking about the commitment. We are talking about the provision of the needed arms and ammunition to fight in this war. Well, I mean, we need to move away from that. Even though some people would say that we live in a system where we don't seem to understand the kind of war that's been fought. And sometimes we pay attention to saying, hey, we need the Turkano jets. I mean, the kind of war that we're in is not the conventional war. And so do you need the Turkano jets? Are we getting the right equipment? That's on the one hand. We also have a situation where just recently, you have a person who's actually made some comment saying that due to the fact that the military is not properly taken care of and what have you on the payment and all of the issues surrounding the welfare. Some persons have resulted to sabotage. You know, arms and what have you. So there's a lot that's going on beyond just saying we're chunking monies. We were purchasing the fighter jets and what have you. And when we look at it with the current results that we have, it's it's not yielding anything that we expect. But basically, you don't have to record what I said. For example, the vision of the jet, you just mentioned, only the answer to tell you would be relevant on that jet. But you see, it goes beyond that. It's seen as a great injury in a lot of cities as an opportunity to make money to light their pockets in a lot of these characters. So they are not really bothered. That's why it's up to the leadership. There is no sincerity of people. The question is, are these things done for essentially good reasons? The answer is no, because there's no commitment. And the commander is also not bothered. When I read this example, his media advisors would come up, sportsmen would come up to make one announcement, make one announcement together. And at the end of it all, you see, you show them what you're going to do, show the high blood pressure of the society, the greater people, and the name of a complete performance. You gather the money, you say, you need such a man. What is for me to do? They don't go to him to tell him we need it. He's a general, a retired general. You should know. They go to him to say, we need it. And he says, okay, we need it before. They go, they take the phone, go work your way, and do whatever they want to do with it. There is no, if that's the case, a man cannot get it. So they are not really bothered. What they really want is the money to blind their pocket. That's the point. Even the soldiers, they can't do it. They're not really comfortable. So you can see the level of compromise. And how will you end this war? Is that one great victory? So, otherwise, you even need to build up a business, one trillion, to contain this. Then it's actually working. Nigerians will be happy with it. Nigerians are incensed, because so much is attached of this, but the nation will not be able to show for it. And you've said these things cannot be expected from that nation. They are comfortable. That is why Nigerians are bitter about it. About whatever they say, it's a matter of being budgeted. The capital that Nigerians are content, that money has dug in back to the Sahil Sea. It's not for any Nigerian purpose. Open up on Katera. Let's also look at the leadership newspaper. It talks about Haka Hill. It's Lokoja. And it's the issue of the flooding. I'd like you to show your thoughts on this. The situation that has led us as a country, because whatever affects a certain part of the country, affects the entire country. And we hear reports saying that goods and services or products have not been able to be moved to the other parts due to the current situation, not to talk about those who lost their lives. But really, what do you think that the government should be doing? Some quarters have said that a state of emergency should have been declared. Your thoughts? While the truth is, it's a global disaster. You have floods all over the world right now. I mean, as America, a lot of these Western countries here, they even have the most sophisticated equipment to fight this. But there is really nothing you can do. But what Nigerians are bothered about is the rescue mission. That is what Nigerians are really bothered about. Now, the difference between what we have here in Nigeria and the other civilized life is that when you have to flood another civilized life, it is beyond the human capacity to continue. But in Nigeria, these things are not made because of lack of time planning. Who likes a lack of it or who likes to disrepair to the time planning rules and time planning laws. And that's why you have to flood. You have shanties, most of them do on waterways, most of them do on villages and so on. Now, I'm not an expert. I'm not a time planner. I'm not an expert in that. But it is very simple. What we expect and given the way we live in this part of the world, I'm talking about such an idea as school. When these shanties and school and houses or people build, they're not just shanties. They mean you go and you see beautiful buildings, expensive buildings on villages and so on. When, for example, because we have a system that is compromised, rather than stop the building or rather than demolish the building, you see that what most of these people do is go to bribe the officials and disarm the other way. It is only when you have this disaster that you see people shouting and talking. Then the next one, system two, about when these things happen within seconds, within minutes, you see this movement needs to save lives and property. That is also not the case in this part of the world. There is not even a delay and so much damage will not be caused before you see the government responding. So these are the issues. But what I think about the problem is the global issues. And then if there is, you see, in America, in some of these countries, in this one, this one is safe here. But the problem is the response system mechanism is much better until there are those problems that are different to at least do a damage control in this civilized land. Yeah, it is not the case. I'm saying the flooding in those civilized countries are not occasioned by the disregard for town planning laws. But in this one of the countries, most times disregard for town planning laws. Don't build on this, but this is the one I will. Don't build on this. Don't do this. The authorities will get money and receive rights and allow this country to go ahead and build. And we will only respond. The less of them in most cases wait in that part of the world. It's so sad, it's unfortunate. But even those who are involved can not escalate themselves because they know that what they are doing is wrong. But probably because of the situation, the harshness of the economy, why they know that what they are doing is wrong. But it's like, what is wrong? You see a building that is deadly. And you know that the integrity of that building is in question. You see cracks all over, pieces all over. Yes, you want to move into that building. Believe in that. Why are you feeling that there is nothing wrong?   So most times living in these buildings are guilty of what we accuse the government of. If you know that this is the work of God, you don't need to write anybody down. Because eventually it is going to affect you and all your money you start doing it with, including your life and the life of your loved ones. So we end up with what we call the... So this is from the government agency. I think that's the name again. We have to do a lot, a whole lot of publicity on this. I'm talking about no one, no one. That's not a very good thing. We have to do a whole lot. No one is talking about sleeping. No one is talking about inactive. I have to speak like that. All that is wrong. This is not the way it's supposed to be. It is treading itself and treading its duty in terms of our next creation. It has to do a lot on this. So why are you also going to blame the government? You're also going to blame the victims. Open up on Kateria. I mean quickly, let's just move this on. It's still on the leadership newspaper. And we're talking about the current situation in Lokoja. But you have rightly stated, although you have tilted the other side of the divide, you have stated that this is a global phenomenon. And we understand that flooding happens across, but some people believe that the flooding that we're experiencing in Nigeria is manmade because of human activities and other issues that you have mentioned. And this particular one is that, I mean, if you have denimers putting out information, are we not supposed to be proactive? Because when you talk about natural disaster, the disaster is happening. Probably your ears are not inclined. If your ears are inclined, all you said is what I said. I told you I said this government is comfortable because they did rise and turn the other way. I said all that. And so what you're saying, you're only reoccurring what I said. I said, including the victims, who got to rise, knowing too well that what they are doing is wrong. So I think that this is not enough, it's not enough, it's not enough. But there, in Nigeria, the difference is, one, the government, for example, are compromised. And two, the victims themselves are equally guilty. They are comfortable because they rise, the government officials, to be compromised. And that is why it is not me. You know that this is a drainage. Why build on it? This is a water. Well, why build on it? And at the end of the day, you spend hundreds of millions on the digital education, only for it to be demand or washed away by water. Now, it goes beyond the editing.  I said all this. I said it's good money. We agree that it's an international number. In Nigeria, the difference, that's what I said. I said, but in Nigeria, the difference is that, in most cases, it is money. And also, the rest of the system is bad, where this is happening. It's bad. So you are practically right when I got here, like I said. The Daily Trust, the People's Democratic Party, begins her presidential campaign today, or they've started their campaign already. What are your thoughts, really? Especially when it's like there has been a lot of trouble. Of course, they have to start. The ban has released their presidential campaign. A lot of people thought that giving the excuse in the party is a major delay. But, I mean, no one man is indispensable in this world. No one man. And Mr. President, Mr. President, the format back to the country, will not put anything on hold because of a macroscopic view. Why the campaigns will go on? The negotiations can continue. And if it goes to future, better. If it doesn't, fine. It's not going to be there because A, B, C, E, S, D, and O are good. Therefore, my decision should be on hold. No, it's not going to be. So, I mean, we need to take it to a prime one, because here's the chairman of the campaign council, that is number one. And number two, they know that the problem is going to be a plenty of problems. And not to give up that there is going to be a whole start. Now you have a director who wants to post certain efforts in the state. He really needs to look at the decision he's provided in sign. You realize that you're trying to push the other political parties from campaigning. That's what he's trying to do. So, the project is always that. I mean, I know how you said it, Dan. I want to be the president of the campaign. I want to be the president of the campaign. And that is what they're doing. They have to keep up. They have to keep up. And so the future is in that problem today. Well, thank you so much. We have to go on. We appreciate your thoughts. And making our time to be with us this morning on Off the Press and the Breakfast. Thank you. All right. Then have a great day. And that's the march we can take this morning on Off the Press, up on the Bon Quatara as a public affairs analyst. It's been great with his thoughts on some of our national dailies. We'll return tomorrow with the paper review. But in the meantime, we take a break. But just before then, let's tell you what happened today in history being the 10th of October. Stay with us.


Students have been sharing resources for years. When I was in university, I remember at the frat rush week, some of the fraternities would show you their filing cabinets in which they had 20 years of all the homework assignments and exams from every course on campus. And, you know, they're very proud of this. I went to a boring school. And, you know, what that said was back then only the students who were part of very organized clubs had access to this. But it's been going on since forever. All Course Hero is, is the modern version of that. It's the sort of crowdsourced version of that. My advice to faculty would be put all your shared resources on your course website, the Computer Science 110, the entire courses in the MOOC, and we use a strategy of active learning in which basically the way it works is students will, the evening before class, they'll work through a video. They'll sort of work step by step through a video in which they'll learn some design technique. And then the first thing that happens in lecture maybe is a 10 minute problem that they should know how to do based on the design technique. It's kind of a warm up problem. And then the second thing will be a problem that starts out looking like they know how to do it and then all at once they run into a dead end that they don't know how to handle yet. And what we do at that point is we introduce additional design technique in response to that problem. By the end of the term they've consumed the entire MOOC. The MOOC is kind of the textbook. And in lecture they've done some more interesting, more complicated problems. I do hear from students who go on to other courses, they'll come back to me and say, gosh, it was so great that we had all that stuff, all those videos, all those practice problems, all that material. You know, I wish we had it today. What we've learned in the market, in the MOOC based market is that learners really feel like multiple courses in a focused area that advance their career and that are clearly of university quality. You know, that's the thing people want. By putting, for example, the MicroMasters and Software Development online, we make available to anyone in BC, anyone in the world, but by inclusion, anyone in BC, you know, UBC's first three courses in Software Development. So if you happen to live somewhere far from Vancouver or you happen to have a job that doesn't allow you to take time off to come back to school, you can kind of take these three courses, get started on a career, and know whether it's right for you. One of the things that we say about our MOOCs at UBC is, you know, we have learning objectives, but more importantly, we have this notion of a transformative learning experience. You really have to feel like, well, I know why I did this thing. So that's, I think, the biggest thing we're learning how, is how to make things that truly compete for people's time. And I actually think the next frontier in MOOCs is for schools including UBC to look more aggressively for other universities' MOOCs, other universities' really good open courses that we can use.


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So, here the Linaro Connect and you talk about the VPP on ARM64, so hi. My name is Phanappa. I work for ARM. I'm the Principal Software Engineer. So, what is a VPP? It is a Vector Packet Processor.  Is it designed to do with multi-threaded applications? Yes, it's a multi-threaded application, but when we say Vector Packet Processor, it's doing packet processing in parallel on a bunch of packets.  Yes. So, it says here, it works on various ARM platforms out of the box. Yes. Do you see a CI test pass? The ARM boards are getting added. Is this for the networking or what kind of business is this? Yes. So, let me give you a overview of what we are doing here. So, VPP is the software switch and it has got various protocols tags that do the packet processing. So, what we want to do at ARM is we want to make sure that VPP works well out of the box on various ARM platforms. So, the best way to do that is to get into the CI loop of VPP. So, we started this project around three to four months back. Today, we pass all the unit test cases. We are working on enabling the CC test cases. And we have shipped the ARM hardware to the FIDO lab where this CI is run. And right now, this hardware is getting racked. And once that happens, we'll be able to run CI on the platforms. So, after that, anybody should be able to get clone the VPP repository and, you know, make release and make test. It should be working on that.  Or how does that work? So, the ARM platforms are acting as the routers and switches to route the internet traffic, for example. And VPP is that routing software. So, by enabling VPP on ARM platform, we are making sure that the ARM platforms can be used as routers and switches. So, what is the demo right here? So, in this demo, what we have got is, we have got two boards. One is the Qualcomm Centric 4400, which is a 48-core ARM V8 compliant processor. Then, we have got another SOC. It's a 4-4... Marvell Macchiato Bin. Marvell Macchiato Bin, yes. Do you have this running on the server somewhere? These two are running in the Austin lab at ARM. And now we know that you connect remotely to them to do that. Yes. So, here I'm trying to show a demo. This is the VPP running on the Macchiato Bin and we have got the traffic generator, which is sending traffic. And I have a traffic generator console where I can issue commands to the traffic generator. So, now on the VPP, all the commands that VPP supports can be executed on Macchiato Bin. So, for example, we could run show IPR and it shows the state of the router. So, it shows the hard cache in the router and then you can issue commands like show interface wherein it shows how many packets are coming in to the router and how many packets got transmitted out of the router. So, this is very important for the future of the ARM networking solutions, right? Yes. They've been waiting for this? Yes, I mean, VPP is one of the... What have you been doing before this? It's one of the solutions to do this kind of stuff. Yes, VPP is one of the next generation solutions that we are looking at enabling on ARM. And yes, this is very important for us.


friends welcome to my channel I am Arpita Kharwa and in this video I am going to talk about how you can choose a research topic. Now this video is relevant for all those who are planning to do their PhD or who want to present a research paper in any university or who are in their masters final year and are looking forward to do their dissertation or if you have enrolled yourself in an MFIL program in that case too this video is going to help you a lot. Now choosing a research topic is the most challenging part of any research because it is the base and it is the starting point of the research. If you don't choose a research topic appropriately chances are that you might end up leaving the research all together. I have seen a lot of students who struggle with their research topic take up anything start doing their research and towards the end of their PhD they find that their guides have all together rejected the topic and they have to begin again by choosing another topic which is more appropriate or else if you have not chosen a specific appropriate topic you might yourself leave the research because you don't know where to go what to do how to justify the topic. So in this video I'm going to give you a step by step guide which is going to help you to choose a research topic very easily and start with your research. So let's start. Now the first important thing that you must remember when you decide to choose a research topic is your interest area. Yes guys you should always remember the fact that the research topic should be from your interest area. There are a lot of students who call me every day and ask me that ma'am can you please suggest me a research topic and I sometimes wonder that you would probably come tomorrow and ask me that ma'am I think you are well read and you are well educated so is it okay if you can select a life partner for me you would never do that right because you know that life partner cannot be selected by anybody you need to know your own likes dislike your own compatibility with a person and only then you can decide whom to marry. The same thing exists in the case of choosing a research topic. Research topic is very individualistic you need to see a topic you need to choose a topic which appeals to you. I'm an anti-feminist so if somebody asked me that okay you have to do a feminist study of some particular author or a particular work I would really be unhappy I would not know what to do what not to do and I would not feel like doing the research. On the other hand my interest areas are psychology and mythology so if I choose a topic which is related to these two areas I would feel like doing research I would feel like studying a lot more and finding out my own interpretation. So you need to always remember the fact that if you're not happy the learning would not occur so the first prominent factor in any field of study is your interest area. Now the first important thing that you need to understand here is that look into the vast field of literature into the ocean of literature and decide what is your interest area. It can be a particular literary movement like transcendentalism, romanticism, modernism. It can be a particular literary theory for example Marxism, psychoanalytical criticism or maybe feminism. It can be a particular author maybe you are a big fan of Shakespeare or Jane Austen or maybe Jerry Pinto so you can even take up that writer and you know look at that writer from a very very new angle. Another important area where you can do your research is any literary art form. For example paintings, cinema all these important art forms are nowadays incorporated in literary research so if you are really interested in knowing more about cinema, filmography, cinematography in that case take up a book and its adaptation okay you can take up a movie and the book on which that movie was based and then do a comparative study that would be a great thing or you can take up a particular literary genre maybe crime fiction, detective or maybe if you're interested in children's literature. So by knowing your interest area you actually know what you would like to invest your next three years into. For example my interest area is psychology and I'm really very interested in studies of books as well as movies. So I took up these two movies Dears in the G and Eat Pray Love which has Julia Roberts as the leading star and I devised a topic based on my interest area. So my topic the initial research topic was quest of self-discovery a comparative study of the female protagonist in Dears in the G and Eat Pray in Love. So you can see how I was able to figure out the topic by knowing my interest area better. So in the similar fashion you can also know your interest area and then figure out what particular topic would you like to do a research on. After knowing your interest area the next important thing that you must do in order to finalize a research topic is background study. Let's first look at the aim of research. What do you think is the aim of research? Aim of research is either to find out some new fact or to revisit the existing fact and look at it and see if they're still valid today. So basically research aims at adding something new to the existing body of knowledge. Now if you take up a research topic on which a lot of work has already been done then you would just be copying from a place and pasting it in your research and that will not be called as a research because you are not adding anything new in the existing body of knowledge. So it is very important for you to do a background study of all the works which has already been done on that particular topic. For example when I decided to take up a topic in which I would be looking at deer's indigie and eat prey love from psychoanalytical point of view I first saw what works were already done in this particular field and I found out that a lot of works have been done on these movies but they have been done from feminist point of view. Nobody has actually compared these two works and looked at both these works from psychoanalytical point of view. So I knew that I'm going to add something new to the existing body of knowledge. Now it doesn't matter that you're taking up a new author like Jerry Pinto and doing a research because nobody has ever done a research on him. You can also take up any old author like Shakespeare or Jane Austen or George Iliad and look at their works from a different angle which is still not explored. So when you will be reading the previous research papers of scholars who have done some work in this particular field where you will be working on you would find out the research gap. Now what is a research gap? A research gap is areas which were left unexplored in the previous researches and from that particular research gap you will get your topic. So make it a habit before choosing a research topic you go through different articles, journals and existing research papers and then figure out a research gap and finally you take up either a totally unexplored area or a partially unexplored area and begin your research. Also remember that this background study is going to help you a lot when you will be writing your synopsis or you will be writing an introduction to your thesis because in your synopsis you need to justify your topic and also mention the previous works which have been done in that particular topic. A review of literature is an essential part of her research and if you don't do it then your research is not complete. And finally another important thing that you must understand before you decide your research topic is to limit the genus. Now what do you mean by limiting your genus? If you take up a very bulky topic for example exploring symbolism in the poetry of W. B. Yeats this seems to be a very simple and a very sweet research topic but you cannot understand how bulky this topic is. There have been more than 250 poems written by W. B. Yeats and each poem contains millions of symbols. So how are you going to present all of this in a research paper or in a PhD thesis of about 250 pages? Now this is a very bulky topic and this is going to be a never-ending research. So what is important is to become specific. After you know your interest area, after you know the research gaps in the previous researches you need to make your research topic extremely specific or else you would find that if you've taken a very open-ended research topic you are going to go haywire and you will never reach a definite conclusion at the end of the research and you might find that your entire PhD thesis was concluded to be nothing at the end. So in that case what is important is that you know a very specific topic and how would you get to a specific topic? Understand either take up two or three authors or take up few selected works of one particular author. If you take up five authors and you are researching on ten works of each of them you would find that in a PhD thesis of 250 pages you would just be summarizing and giving an introduction to all of these works and that would not be a PhD thesis that would be a mere summary of 50 works. So it is important either you take up two authors and one one work of each author or you take up one author and few works of that author but become very selective in what you are choosing. Also understand the fact that whenever you are doing a background study you should always take up works which you have read and also you must note that it's not just that the work you would be talking about in your entire research you would also be bringing a lot of different associated theories. For example if you're doing a research on post-colonial literature and any particular writer like Chinua Aachibe you need to bring in Bill Brown's theory of thing. Bill Brown is a great post-colonial thinker who said that in all these post-colonial works you will find that the post-colonial world represent thing theory. What is this thing theory? Every colonized person feels as if he has no identity in the world and his existence is reduced to a thing. If he is not of any use people are going to throw him. So his existence is merely a existence of a thing. So whenever you're doing a research on any post-colonial work you need to bring all these different and associated theories and look at these theories as well as their interpretation on the work that you have picked up for your research. So your research would not only go around the two or three authors you have chosen but it is also going to go beyond that. You're going to explore a lot of theories and you're going to look at those works in the light of those theories.  With that note I would like to end this video lecture. It was really amazing discussing this topic with you guys and I would also be making a lot of videos on PhD research paper, how to write a research paper, how to go about with your PhD thesis and what are the mistakes that you should avoid doing and how you can make this journey of PhD a lot more easier and a lot more fulfilling. So stay tuned to this channel. If you've not yet subscribed then it's time to subscribe to this channel because I'll be posting a lot of videos on all these topics in the upcoming weeks. Apart from that another important announcement I would like to make, registrations are open for the online course of UGC-Net English Literature according to the new syllabus. You can look at the list of all the writers that we cover in our online course in detail on our website www.arpatakarwa.com. The link is given in the description box below. 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The following is a presentation of TFNN. The Trader's Edge with Steve Rhodes. Toll free at 1-877-927-6648 or internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER>. The Trader's Edge. Now, Steve Rhodes. Good afternoon, folks. Welcome to the September 9th, the terrific Thursday. In addition of today's Trader's Edge show, I'm your host, Steve. Perseverance Rhodes, who absolutely knows that each of us should always be pioneers of our future versus prisoners of our past. Hope everyone out there is having a great day. Hey, let's make sure we have an extraordinary one. And the easiest way to do that is to always remember that life is happening for us, not to us. That's right. When you and I make that one little forward shift, it means we can find a gift. In every set of circumstance, that life is going to toss at us. Now, today, you and I, we're going to go check on the circumstance of these markets. We'll go figure out what those bulls and bears, what those buyers and sellers are communicating to you and I just past one o'clock in the afternoon. I want you to know I'm absolutely grateful for your presence here. But more important than that, and that's this. During this next 60 minutes, I'm here to serve you. So feel free to pick up that phone. Call us at<PHONE_NUMBER>. We'd love to hear from you. If you can't give us a call, we've got you covered. You can always let those fingers do the walking. That's right. Go ahead, send me an email. Send it to Steve at tfnn.com inside that subject heading if you be kind enough to put radio show question name in our Tigers Den. Any ping will do. So let's go ahead and get this show started on terrific Thursday. Of course, this is Tiger, Financial News Network. I'm Steve Rhodes. Welcome to LUS Show. Right now, we've got most of the industries trading higher. The Dow is basically flat as is the S&P 500. The Nasdaq is up 6. The Russell is up 19. Semi is 26.  They've been all over the place. They're down 75 points. The Nasdaq composite is up. Wilshire is up. Spot Boltonix is down a little bit. Off-aid pennies 1788. Needs to get lower than that in order to give the all clear sign to the S&P 500. Gold's up 5 bucks right now and Silver's down 3 cents. Lead in the charge dollar-wise to the upside. You've got Restoration Hardware. 52 bucks. That's a big move. 8 percent. Lulu Lemon 44 bucks. Another big move. Nearly 12 percent. Moderna up 32. 7 percent. Shopify 30 or 2 percent. To the downside, it's BioGen. B-E-I-B off 23 bucks. 7 percent. Boston Beer down 20. C-Limited Ads off 18. And Equinix is down 15. Buck Groonies. So certainly there are things to look at, but we're going to look at what you want to look at. And what you want to look at, that's that you being Michael W, we're going to get to our first question. Michael W writes and says, can you please look at the December live cattle contract that appears to be forming a potential TD9 bottom. What would be needed for a valid signal? Thank you. And that is Mike W in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Mike, thanks so much for writing. Thanks so much for listening in. So here what we've got up on our screen out here are the various futures contracts. One that he's interested in is panel number two. That is the December contract. So we can see it's below a trend line. We can see that it's below profile supports. We don't have any other support out here as we take a look at this chart. Let's pull over Stevie's white background chart. So here you can see that Michael is an aficionado of the TD9 count, and he is absolutely correct. There is going to be bar number nine that forms today and is going to generate a TD9 count bottoming pattern. What we also see here, Michael, now we like, along with that pattern is Noslater and Changeline that recently changed colors about two bars ago. Typically when that line changes colors, we see a test of that line in support. Now, not necessarily at the 132.35 level where it's printing right now. So we have to come back, you know, days and keep monitoring the stock chart. We do know that at a Valentini nine count that the bottom can form a bar is eight, nine or the bar following nine. So the first thing you ask is, what do we need for a valid signal? We really need to understand how tomorrow is looking or how tomorrow trades unless we see some kind of short-term signal confirmation, short-term signal, intraday signals that a bottom is in fact attempting to form as we speak right now for bar number nine. Now, here's the issue. Not all TD9 counts work. You know that. And if, no, I am looking at the chart and I do see a few TD9 counts that in fact have worked out here. So we respect the pattern most certainly for the December contract for our live cattle futures. So what do you do?  We don't know if that's yesterday, today. Well, it's not yesterday, today or tomorrow. So if the pattern fails, the price target to the downside just so you know is 125, 25. That's a TD9 breakout level. That area has been tested and rejected and has held. So there's no reason why price wouldn't head back to that level. We do have a confirmed roadsman to mitigate our top. But a valid bottom. So now we ask that question. If I put up the weekly chart, so the weekly chart, you're going to have to forget it because we're in the December contract, not enough data. But the oscillator and change line here, prices below that, you can see a roadsman to mitigate our top and price signaling that a potential pullback to the 124, 135 level. But let's not spend our time really there. Let's look at some intraday charts. What do we see? Well, on a 10-minute chart out here, we did get a roadsman to mitigate our bottom and price failed right at the TD9 breakdown resistance level. So Michael, one signal would be two consecutive closes above 129.47 on a 10-minute chart to then suggest, okay, that's bottom worthy for sure. On a 15-minute timeframe, two consecutive closes above 129.30. But really because there's a new profile that's formed here, what you need to see is a close above 129.49. Two consecutive closes on a 15-minute timeframe. That then suggests to run to 131.17. The 30-minute timeframe chart, roadsman to mitigate our bottom, price is consolidating with inside its profile. So there, on 29, 28 level that you're watching, 60-minute chart, roadsman to mitigate our bottom out here. It's resistance level that price would have to clear to give you the all clear sign. Price have to clear, all clear. Come on, Steve. We'll come up with a couple of other words out there. 130 would be the number there. But 15-minute, 10-minute, 30-minute, what have we got on the 120-minute chart out here? We got nothing, not a zilch, because price closed below its TD9 pattern. And so you've got the real resistance levels at oscillator and change lines. So if you're looking for a really all clear sign, it's going to be about 129.55 as we speak right now. The four-hour timeframe chart has wave number seven, letter G as the bottom. That is likely to be confirmed, but that would be two o'clock. This two-hour timeframe chart, we're not looking at two hours, we're looking at four hours. The four-hour timeframe chart, well, let me tell you when that's going to close, because I don't know, but I'm going to tell you. It was at two, so not until today's close out here. So 130. No, that's not right. Sorry about that, folks. Apparently I'm having a mathematical issue. And on the five-hour timeframe chart, you've got a TD9 count pattern. You've got the TD9 count, and you've got bottom signals on the short-term timeframes. They have not taken out your levels of resistance that you need to confirm that today is the bottom of that count. But in essence, that's what you would do out there. And it seems like you've got this under control. I wish I had some other levels of support for you. I don't. We do know where price we'll head to or is likely to head to if it does not form a valid bottom. So that's what we're going to do. We're going to do that. We're going to head to if it does not form a valid bottom. Not a valid pattern, but a valid bottom, meaning that it fails out there. So, Mike, thanks so much for writing in. Hope that helps you out with regard to your cattle tradeout, their live cattle. No other questions at this moment. So let's go take a look at the... Joel, do that when we get back from this breakout here. Unless, because we do have call-ahead seating out here. And that means if you do...  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And then if you have time, can you discuss where you decide to start your TD9 count and why you start recounting one bar after another? That one might be more complicated, Eddie. That would take up a good portion of the show here. But there is that workshop that you've got access to.  But with regard to the Nikkei 225, I wanted to put up on the screen so you could see exactly what he was referring to. So there was a three-drive to a bottom pattern that was confirmed out here. It was confirmed with this bearish reversal candle on August the 23rd. And you can see it's had one heck of a move out here. But when we do go take a look at the global flow of capital, so first Eddie would depend. If he asked me to start here and just look at the last date or 10 days out there, I mean I'd have to go through a number of changes to do that on the global flow of capital charts. But I want to kind of keep things in perspective for you as well. And what I mean by that is where did I put it? Good Lord. I thought I brought it over here. I did. Okay. So first, my first level of perspective is let's just take a look at general worldwide markets. And here we've got the Dow in the upper left. You can see it's up against a horizontal trading range or resistance level. Next to that you've got the Shanghai, not even anywhere close to, you can see it's still in a descending trend out there. And the Nikkei, the same thing. So the Nikkei's got some resistance. Just so you know, it's got resistance at about the 31-181 level. And price would need to clear that, close above that. On a monthly timeframe, this is a quarterly chart, but this is a monthly horizontal trading range levels that we're looking at. So on a monthly timeframe, Eddie, price would have to close above that to signal that it's ready to get back to its 1990 highs out there. Yeah. Take a look at the Hang saying, just been consolidating really since 2008, hasn't taken out those highs or what have you. So, you know, do the last eight days mean anything? And if I go take a look at, let's just do this here and take a look at the year. So I can certainly share with you the year with regard to the global flow of capital. So that takes a look at this. And we've got the, where is the Nikkei? Right in front of me, there we go. It's on a page two or the second page out here. So 9% move versus 15% in terms of US dollars for the Dow or 20% in terms of for the ES mini, you know, twice as much. Yeah. And I think what we see here, we take a look at the bigger picture. The bigger picture is still that it is really the US indices that are really now starting to pull out in front. And we do remember from a US standpoint, September is the difficult month of the year out there. So I'm not too worried about the Nikkei. I think it's done what it's supposed to be doing and should continue to add higher based upon that three drive to a bottom pattern out there. I pointed it out to subscribers, but we didn't take long position in there. Of course, you know, I'm bopping myself upside the head now. Of course, in any event out here. So let's go take a look at NTNX, which is what you also wanted to look at. So NTNX, let's see where that is trading. That is Nutanix Inc. It's got a brand new bear structured profile. So if you're long this, you would like to see this close above and stay above 4273. Currently prices printing at 4306. If you could get a close of about 4450, then it says, hey, I'm on my merry way to continue to move higher. Let's take a look at Stevie's white background charts. First of all, prices above all profiles, daily, weekly and monthly. So that's a bullish signal. The question is, do we see anything on the daily or weekly chart that gives us a pause? And turns out there is Eddie. Two days ago was bar number nine of a TD9 count. So you have a valid TD9 count pattern. And this really suggests that price will go target its oscillator and change line. Now it's back inside this bear structured profile. So if it does close below 4273, you're looking at 40s, 22 or thereabouts. And a close below that, the bottom of the profile, 3829. And if price close below that, 3,504. So your questions, can we look at it? We are. You've asked me to discuss the TD9s. I sort of am, but I'm not sharing with you where it starts. But that's covered in that workshop out there. So if you just, that should be pretty much a straight away. So you've got a top on the daily. Let's go see on the weekly chart. Do we have any kind of signals out here? The only signal that you've got on the weekly chart really is kind of bullish. Price above that bullish structured profile. It's above its weekly TD9 count top. It closed above that last week. But where price ran into resistance was at the 48, 48, 4010 level, actually price above that. That's a TD9 breakdown area. Now everything in here in Nutanix looks pretty good. But you've got to be concerned about that daily TD9 count top. But as long as price remains above 4022, Eddie, the signal is neutral, valid top. The price is within sight of profile, price above that oscillator and change line. So I hope that helps you out with regard to each of your questions out there. And thanks so much for taking the time to write in. Next question coming in from Jim. And Jim says, I'm wondering if you would recommend to buy an ATER. You wanted to buy it, but worried about getting chasing it. OK. So let's go take, first let's go see what it's doing, what pattern signals it offers to us. And we'll begin by looking at those TAS market profiles. So again, the ticker symbol here is ATER. That is Ethereum, Inc. And Ethereum, Inc. Boy, you got to like what this did yesterday, Jim. Closed above a bearish structured daily profile. Nothing more bullish than a failed bearish pattern or signal out there. Price is also trading above the top of its weekly profile. So I understand the chasing comment. Now let's go take a look at, oh wait, I got the wrong, I'm sorry, here we go, ATER. Thought I had punched it in here. And on the daily timeframe, boy, you like it on all kinds of accounts out here. So price also cleared ATD 9 breakdown level of 8.91. The next one that it dealt with already today is 10.72. It's still dealing with that. But you've got your change in trend signal. Your question is, you know, would I chase it, do you want to chase it? Let's look at the weekly chart. Let's just go through the larger timeframes. The weekly chart has ATD 9 count bottom. Price above the oscillator and change line. The close above 9.26 tomorrow. That's telling us about a change in trend and move to 16.55. So the reward risk looks like it's worthwhile. Monthly timeframe chart, not enough data. 15-minute chart. Short-term top says 9.51 could be an entry area. 30-minute chart. Roadsman to indicator top says 9.07. So, you know, the short-term timeframe charts, even the 65-minute has a TD 9 count top. TD 9 count potential in the 130. And so I think that the intraday timeframe charts have answered that question for us, Jim. This is worth going after. But the short-term charts are suggesting that you should see some type of a pullback. So look at these levels. 9.51 is an area to watch. Below that, 9.07. Below that, 7.94. 9.61 on the 65-minute. The 30 is at about 8.60. So, yeah, be patient here. Don't chase it right this very second. Wait to see if those intraday signals give us some type of retracement. And those would be the areas that I'll be watching. So I hope that that helps you out, Jim. Thanks much for writing in. Of course, folks, I'd like to hear from you too, as well.<PHONE_NUMBER>. If you can't call in, you can always send us an email. Steve at tfnn.com. Please put radio show question in that subject, Teddy. We'll be right back. 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I don't currently have a position in this, but my thinking is what we've experienced last week or so is just another... I'm not convinced that it's bottomed, so I'm looking for a place to go short. I mean, so many times it's had counter-turn rallies and then it just turns around and goes back down. So I was looking for a place to go short, so I have a couple of questions for you. One, what's the profile? Is this a bullish or a bearish profile? Then I was looking for support and resistance level, both at the daily and weekly level, please. Sure. So in the daily, price is above its profile levels. The last profile formed maybe about two weeks ago, and the top of that profile was $39.67. So price is above the back, and that's a positive. The weekly is the one where price is consolidating within it. 42, and it's a slightly bullish structured weekly profile. Support between $40.05 and $40.96. And resistance at $42.78. Price got up towards the $42.78 level earlier in the week. It looks like maybe on today's Thursday on Tuesday. And as price was getting close to that $42.78 area. So that would have been your more ideal level to take a short on. Let's pull over my other... Well, first, any other questions about profiles before I switch chart panels? No. Okay, so let's pull over the other white background charts to give you an idea where price is likely targeting or headed to. And at this stage without... So there's a completed A to B equal CD to the upside. And that completed yesterday. I can't easily draw that in here. What I can do is draw some lines. So here's the A to B point. And I'll just make a duplicate of that. It won't be able to give me the extensions, but you'll see the A to B equal CD. It was an extension. And yesterday's little bear sash candle gave you that confirmation. So what price should do here, Robert, is price and that oscillator and change line should catch up to each other. That's currently printed at 40.65. Not likely to be the area that a good reward risk right now when this is printed at 40.52. And if it holds 40.65, it could create an A to B equal CD to the upside. We don't know that. So you do have the topping signal out here. If I look at a little bit longer term chart, you had mentioned weekly. We took a look at weekly charts out here. What I don't have is any kind of a... Well, I've got an A to B equal CD to the downside, but what's missing here for me to confirm the pattern is a bullish reversal candle. Price got up to its oscillator and change line. It's turned down, but it's got that support in the 40.05, 40.96 level. So not necessarily ideal levels to... Pretty narrow band. Yeah. I like your thinking. And I see what it is you're absolutely looking at. So it has nothing to do with the thinking, I think. It's just dealing with where there's different levels of support. You're trying to go short out here. And I just don't know if the reward risk works out for you. I was kind of looking at it. If I look at it on a weekly basis, I'm just not totally convinced that it's broke the channel. And that's interpretation, right? And then the same thing if I look on a daily, if I use a daily candle, I'm not sure. But every time it seems to do a rally, it just gets slapped back down. So here's a terrific guess. So to take a look at this chart that we have up on our screen here, you're time to be... This is the weekly chart. You're time to be long. Certainly signals are when prices are above the red and green line, the oscillator and change line. So take us into where we're at since you've had that decline from February. We can see that the oscillator and change line is really active as a resistance point, as it is this week. So again, your thinking is correct. I don't see a... I see an A to B equal CD down that hasn't been confirmed with the bullish reversal candle. I don't see any other bottoming signal. And because the oscillator and change line has held this resistance, all that makes sense. It's just that you've got a bullish structured weekly profile too. So, you know, and support isn't that far away because the first level of sport is 4096 and you're 4152. So I struggled to suggest knowing that you're also focused on the weekly profile that now is really the time to go short. Got it. Okay. No, that's helpful. I appreciate it. Okay. Are you going to cover gold and silver today? Why don't we do it together? What are you looking for? Well, that's another one. And I know that you're... there's a lot of people that are kind of thinking maybe this is the bottom in gold and, you know, no one really knows. You just have to take a position and manage your risk. Sure. But it just seems like... it just seems like gold's been on a downtrend. And so I was just looking for going potentially short the GDX. Got it. Okay. So... So in order to... So you want me to look at gold or you're more focused on the GDX? GDX. Okay. So let's go... I know you always look at both of them. I do. So... But I just want to make sure I'm clear with regard to your thinking. So where I thought you were looking to go short gold, you're really looking... you're saying, hey, gold's in a downtrend, so I'm going to go short the mining equities. So no problem. Now, in order for that to really take place for you, to get the clear signal, and I still have the gold chart up on our screen out here, you really need to see price close below 1772.60. And 1770... So gold is the left-hand panel that we're looking at. What do we know about gold? We know it completed by the D point on the daily and on the weekly basis. So we have both daily and weekly profiles that are up here. What else do we know about gold? Gold is consolidated with inside its bullish structured weekly profile that runs from 1772 to 1836. So I would say if you want to go short the GDX, what you're really looking for here, Robert, is you're looking for gold to be up at that 1836 level, up at resistance. Because right now, gold is at support. And support is the bottom of its daily profile, that's 1786.30, and the center of its bullish structured profile, which is 1788.60. Does that make sense? I want to just make sure I'm being clear here or you get what I'm saying. No, I understand what you're saying. I understand what you're saying. You're saying that it's too close to support. That's right. You really want to sell something. We want to be at resistance to buy something. Ideally, we'd be at a level of support. And when we take a look at the gold chart, to the extent that we respect the task market profiles, which I most certainly do, you're near support. So you'd like to see those support levels broken. If you see a close blow 17.72, then that says we get all the way back into the 16.60 area. So I like that idea of that trade better. Let's go take a look at silver, because you're talking about... 17.62 or 17.72? I'm sorry. 17.72.60. A close blow that could get us back to the 16.67 area. Okay. That's a wide enough spread to say, hey, that's a trade. That would be a trade to take. So your two shorting signals from the gold standpoint is either gold closing below support, 17.72.60, or gold getting back to resistance, 18.36.70, or thereabouts. Cool? Got it. Thank you. Okay. Stay on through this break out here, because I know others have that question. And we're going to go next, take a look at silver. And then we'll go over to the GDX. So we're on the phone with Robert in Kansas City. We'd love to hear from you two folks,<PHONE_NUMBER>. We get back to this break. We'll take a look at silver. We'll take a look at the U.S. dollar, and we'll go take a look at the GDX. 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But before that break, we established that gold is sitting at a decent support level with one other support level a little bit lower, which is the 1772. Now, Robert, when we take a look at silver, we can see that it had formed a bearish-structured daily profile, which price closed above on August 27, and it has been above that level ever since. Price continued its rally and got up to the center of its slightly bearish-structured weekly profile. So that's a clear resistance level of 2491. So price is trading in between resistance from profile standpoint and support. But it's above a bearish-structured profile. And so it's more at support than anything else. And so we have both gold and silver really at support. And I would say I could not suggest to you that you would go short the gold mining equities knowing that they're going to take their cue from these two precious metal contracts. So any questions there? Even though GDX is below 3210 earlier in the week, you're mentioning that as a key point. Maybe it was last week. Sure. So let's go take a look at the GDX. Let's put up the GDX now. When we take a look at the GDX on a daily basis, all that has transpired here so far today is a test of its red oscillator and change line at $31.86. Now, if price were to close below that, so that's a level of support that has held. This area has been tested about four or five times since over the course of the last couple of weeks. If price did close below that, it would signal that you would expect or anticipate the GDX to move lower into its next level of support, which is $30.91. But right now, it's held that red oscillator and change line. And that is not a short signal. That is a signal of price coming back to a level of support and so far holding. Does that make sense? No, it makes sense. I guess we'll see how it unfolds. I'm looking at the GDX trending down from June and every time it just looks like counter-trend rallies to me. So hear what you're saying, understand what you're saying. I'll make the support resistance. I get it. The question is, when it turned on Tuesday, is it just reversing another counter-trend rally? Is it going to head lower just like it did on August the 4th? Or is it an intermediate term bottom and it's going to head higher? So the turn on Tuesday, and you're referring to Gold's turn, right? GDX. GDX's turn. Well, that was certainly a result of the turn inside of Gold, which had gotten up to resistance, which was the top of its weekly profile. That's at 1836 level where I said, hey, if you're going to take a short, you'd want to do it from up at a resistance area versus where price is at the bottom. As I pull over the GDX here on the daily timeframe, did Tuesday's candle session mean anything? It's got a rogement to indicator bottom. That was confirmed on August 23rd. And with price still above, it's all it was doing was getting back inside its profiles, but with it being above the oscillator and change line, it's still bullish. I know it's kind of hard to believe, but I have to be consistent in the way that I interpret these tools and charts, and I don't ever want to change that. And it's not that I could be totally wrong on this, but with regard to the tools that we're using out here, this much I know. So then the other thing I would throw out there, of all the months to try to short Gold, September is the absolute worst month of all. It doesn't mean that it can't, but it's the absolute worst month of all. And the reason that is, Robert, is if you take a look at the course of the last 40, 50 years, I forget how long my chart goes back and takes a look at that. September has almost a 70% chance, I believe, of closing higher in September than it did in August. We don't have many months like that that have those 70% chances. So there's a lot going for Gold here. Whether it gets that traction, move to the upside, I don't know, but Tuesday's action specifically didn't negate any kind of a bullish pattern or anything. In order for that to occur, you need to see a close at least below this red oscillator and change and I currently print in 3186, okay? That's great. That's some healthy feedback, a counter perspective. I like that. Yeah, no problem. Yeah, absolutely. It wasn't intentionally being counter, but I would have reviewed it the same way, no matter what. The last piece of the puzzle certainly is the US dollar index. And that yesterday ran into a potential resistance level, that resistance level, that oscillator and change line. So you can see it's green, prices pulling back. Well, we don't know, and it's got a valid bottom, TD9 count bottom, right above TD9 count breakout support at 9168, but what we don't know is will prices find support at 9235? Because it's back inside this bullish structured profiles at 9194. Obviously, in order for me to be correct about the direction of gold and the miners out here, you'd ideally see a close in the US dollar index below 9168 out there. So that's just something to keep an eye on. But the US dollar index, in order to go short gold, you'd like to see that US dollar index moving higher. And what it did yesterday, it ran right into smack dab into a resistance level, that oscillator and change line. Okay. All right, thank you Steve. You bet. Always good to speak to you. That was Robert in Kansas. Quick look here. Just folks, let me just see if there's any e-mail requests. So there are a few that have come in. Hector and the fuel injectors. Hector wants to take a look at the CVX. So let me get CVX going here and we'll skip the black background charts because I see there's a number of requests and we're not going to get to them. Sorry, not to all of them. Well, I'll do my best. But with regard to CVX, I'm a dollar bull through Christmas. Uh-oh. Okay. We kind of covered the dollar. Can you see a scenario where oil climbs with the dollar? Or does oil sell off with the other commodities as the dollar climbs? Oh, so that's not even asking about CVX and you wanted to ask about CVX. So your first question really is about the dollar and I sort of covered that. And what I say is sort of covered that right now with regard to the direction of the dollar. We know that it hit resistance. It did that yesterday. And now what we don't know Hector, and you're a dollar bull, if the dollar's bullish out here, it's got that nice TD9 account bottom, you need to see it close above 9318. 9318 is the top of the weekly profile. So if you see that, then you're absolutely right. With regard to Lightsweed Crude, Lightsweed Crude is, let's take a look at multiple timeframes here. Give me a moment to get to this panel. And so with regard to Lightsweed Crude, it too is trading into resistance. Now it's a contract rolled, maybe it was last week or the week before, like using my synthetic version of the contract. That way you and I can look at daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly timeframes out here. And that's what we've got. So Lightsweed Crude has got a close above, two consecutive close above 6939. And if it does that, then it's got an A to B equal seeder that gets you to 75027717. So watch for that. And then it's 7236 at the top of its barestructured weekly profile. So it's really at 7236 that your work is going to really be cut out for you. Out here, Hector. Can commodities go higher and the US dollar index go higher? And the answer there is absolutely. I don't think it's going to be that efficient for me to open up my chart that shows time periods where the dollar moves higher. Markets move higher. Gold moves higher. 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This one coming in from Mike in New Hampshire. And Mike wants to take a look at Bitcoin. And as we take a look at Bitcoin out here, you've got a Rogement to Mindicator top. That formed a couple of days ago on September 7th. A big old bearish engulfing candle. You're asking where is another place to add to your position? So price is back at its bottom of its daily profile about where it's trading right now. I'm just looking for any kind of signals on a short-term timeframe. Now, nothing that I've got out here to assist us. So you could add here, but you don't want it to really close below this level. You don't want it to close below the level of September 7th. And that is, let me give you that figure. That is at 46, 850. A close below that, Mike. Signals moved to 29, 480. So that's what I see when I take a look at the Bitcoin charts. I didn't see anything on a short-term timeframe to say that a bottoming pattern is in and go ahead and fire away out there. So I hope that that helps you out. The last question, this one is coming in from Sean. And Sean wants to take a look at ticker symbol, VICI. So we're just going to pull over the white background charts out here. And where do you see support and resistance? So with regard to support, you've got a TD9 count top. And support is going to be $29.37. Prices below, brand new profile that formed out there. That's its breakout level. That's coming from the daily timeframe. The weekly chart out here with regard to where is support. It's at 29.29. So we've got 29.29 on the weekly, 29.37 on the daily. If those levels get broken, that could signal quite a move lower out there. So Sean, I hope that helps you out with regard to VICI out there. And that's great. We got through everything. So folks, stay tuned. You've got two more great hours. Your favorite polar bear with the power trading hour. Dayboy is up next after that. Tom will grind. He'll take us on home. 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