Hey guys, it's Nate, A.K.A. The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. We're talking Road to the Finals, Upgrades, and Champions League football today because it's a big time Tuesday and your boy got a sale because I have some coins. It's a great day. Champions League today and tomorrow, I wanna talk about Road to the Finals because that is like the only interesting thing that is going on inside of FIFA right now. There's literally no content yesterday on Monday. Nothing, we had a no content day. First one in a long time, if you actually go back, I'm not sure how many days it's been since we had no content, but this is how it used to be in FIFA, man. This is how it used to be, but we're so used to having content every single day that it's now weird when we don't. We did not have content yesterday. So the market didn't even move that much, man. A lot of people just went and actually some of these Road to the Finals have gone up even further into the games coming and I wanna talk about what you should be doing with these Road to the Final Cards if you've already bought them, if you wanna try to trade with them live during the games because all of the hype and everything related to RTTFs boils down to today. And I think I sold my Jamie Vardy 547 that I bought at 500K, that's a W. I still have my Hazard right there. You can see I bought this at 720,000 coins and I think Hazard right now is 755. So I'm kinda holding that because I think Madrid are gonna do pretty well on Wednesday. But let's talk about Road to the Finals and today and what you should be doing with these cards. First off, let's take a look at the two teams because these cards are inflated a lot. They have gone up a lot in the past couple of days from the panic selling that we saw on the weekend. These guys weren't as affected. They're very rare for number one and number two, people know that their games are this week. So a lot of people have been investing in them for the upgrade and this is again, we're gonna talk a lot today about selling in the hype. I think a lot of these guys, you're gonna wanna sell in the hype. That's the safest way to go because a lot of these guys, if not all of them, are gonna be dropping later this week, after this weekend and into the new year, team of the year, timeframe 2021 because we don't have champions in the games after today and tomorrow. We don't have champions in the games until February. Long wait ahead for these cards and we see it happen every year. They drop off when the competition is kind of at its lowest point. Then they rise back up after team of the year when February is not too far away. So Davies, 627,000 coins. We're gonna look at this website today. This is the Champions League UEFA.com. We're gonna look at some of the permutations which basically means who needs what to get into the next rounds, to the knockout rounds of the group or to the knockout stage of Champions League. So we're gonna look at some of those today, some of the games that everybody's gonna be watching on Tuesday and Wednesday and some of the market movements you might see because of that. Now of course, this Davies card has just been on a slow and nice rise since he came out of packs. 627,000 coins at the moment. This is basically the highest this card has ever been. Yes, he does look cracked. Yes, with a plus two upgrade that will be coming this Friday. Yes, I do think they are gonna upgrade real to the finals this Friday if they do it like they have been in years past. But I still think that's way, way too expensive for right now in this game. Teo Hernandez, team of group stage card has very similar and honestly, I would say better stats than Alfonso Davies. Doesn't have the hype per se. This is not a live item, but this is 247,000 coins for a 96 paced French left back who has just as good of links, I would argue. As Alfonso Davies, of course, he's got the Byron links but still, I think this card's very overpriced, especially because it's a live item. He's hyped, people know that Byron are probably gonna go pretty far but I think you wanna sell this kind of card in the hype and sell a lot of these cards into the hype. Now again, let's take a look at which teams are already in because the teams that are already in, right? These guys right here, Byron, Manchester City, Porto, Liverpool, Chelsea, Sevilla, Dortmund, Barcelona and Juventus. These guys are confirmed to be going on to the knockout rounds. For those items that have rode to the finals, right? Griezmann, 600,000 coins. He is close to his highest mark ever. Salah 1.52, all of these teams that are already guaranteed to be moving on, right? J-Zoos, 800K for this card, I think's pretty high. Akangia, 237, there's a lot of center backs from the Bundesliga this year and this one doesn't get the best links. Out of all of them, he doesn't get the best links. I would be watching the cards that are in already, right? We talked about J-Zoos from City, Salah from Liverpool, Akangia, you know. Do we have Juventus? Who is our, do we have a Juventus rode to the final card? Or am I booming? We don't have a Juventus rode to the final. I don't think we have Chelsea either, that's right. Unless there was an SBC, which I'm forgetting which SBCs were out for whichever cards that were rode to the finals, except for Athletico and actor Arara. But anyways, I would sell these guys into the hype, right? J-Zoos, those guys we just mentioned, sell them into the hype honestly, either right after the game or before the game because these cards, the only hype that they have riding on them is the actual upgrade. And do you think that J-Zoos getting a plus one from an 85 to an 86 is really gonna go up to like 950 or to a million coins, a big jump in price after he gets a plus one upgrade when the market is dropped off so much? This card right now costs the exact same price as the best player in the game, and that is Neymar. Neymar is 800,000 coins, Gabriel J. Zeus is also 800,000 coins. Sell the card, even if you're on Xbox, everything, man. These cards are inflated, they are high, sell before, take your cash because a lot of these cards are only going to go lower, right? Now, we talked about those teams. Let's talk about the teams that are still possibly on the fence, right? Mochengladbach, Shakhtar, Real Madrid, Inter. Group B and Group H are gonna be big ones to watch. Ajax with Promes, Atalanta, even Atlético Salzburg and Lazio Brug. But these three teams and these four teams right here is where it's really gonna get interesting today because this is why I bought the Hazard, right? This is why I bought Hazard because I think Real Madrid are gonna come out swinging. Now, of course, I am a very casual football fan, but Madrid, they're playing against, let me find it really quick. They're playing against Mochengladbach. Now, Mochengladbach's been playing pretty well. They've been, obviously, have a lot of points in the group. All of the teams that are in Group B, I believe, are tied on nine points, and it's only coming down to the differences between the head-to-head and goal difference. Real Madrid will go through if they win, right? That's what they need to do. They're focused on winning, or if they draw and Shakhtar lose to Inter, then they also go through, but they're focused on winning, right? So that's why I have this Hazard because if Real Madrid score first, this Hazard is going to fly up. It's gonna go over 800,000 coins where he was before.  We'll talk about that a little bit later in the video, too. But what I would say is, if you wanna be risky with it today, just know that if you buy a Hazard, and if Hazard, let's say, Real Madrid go up a goal, but then Mocha Gladbach, they come back and they score two and they win. So you have Zakaria, who would be dropping after that first Real Madrid goal would be scored, right? Zakaria's like 230K right now, 224. This card would drop if Real Madrid scored in the game, but if they equalize or start coming back, this card's gonna start rising and Hazard's gonna drop because it's all about who is gonna get the upgrade because the upgrades are coming this Friday for whoever gets first or second in the group, moving on to knockout round. If the team that gets third, whatever team gets third, there will not be an upgrade coming for them going down to Europa League. They're not gonna get upgraded even to a Europa League card if they do it the same way they did last year until February when they play their first game in the round of 16 and possibly get upgraded. So that's kind of the risk reward play with cards like this today. If Zakaria and Mocha Gladbach score first against Real Madrid, this card's probably gonna go up 20, 30,000 coins, if not more. Actually, it could go up even more than that because this guy with a plus one would look pretty cracked as well. He's already a really good card, but still, I feel like this guy, he had the early game hype with his CDM card for his gold card that was in a lot of star teams. I don't feel like he's that usable or that used as much anymore. So I would honestly, all together, probably sell this guy in the hype because if you bought the Zakaria, you probably got him at like the 210 range. You're making 10K a card. If he hits 235 or 240 pre-game tomorrow, then you're chilling, right? Take the coins there with that one. But that's kind of how it works during the game, right?   Now that could flip flop and there's a lot of risk reward potential with that kind of play. But also, after the game, the losing teams' cards are going to drop. They're gonna fall, they're gonna crash because there's still live items, yes, if they're getting to third place. Again, like Mochengladbach, if Real Madrid beat them and Shaktar, I think, I don't know what Shaktar had to do for Mochengladbach to get in. Well, Shaktar has to draw, I don't know. I'm not entirely sure on second place for that group. I'm just kind of using this as an example for the win-lose situation. This card would still drop off, right? Or maybe if we use the other example as in like Leipzig versus Manchester United, right? Leipzig will go through if they be united or if Leipzig draw and Paris lose, which I don't think PSG is gonna lose because PSG has to play to win. They have to avoid defeat against Istanbul. So, your guy like Klosterman, this guy's actually up a lot right now. Klosterman is 370,000 coins to right now. He was 330K, 340 yesterday. He's up 35 to 40,000 coins already. This card is in the hype before the games today.  I think they might be favorites as well if I looked at the odds and the lines correctly. But again, it all comes down to what happens during the game. So, that's why my initial advice is to sell on the hype because you just wanna take your safe coins if you're already making coins. And especially before the upgrades come because once the upgrades come, all of these cards drop. If we take a look at last year's team, which is gonna take me just a second to pull up, if we take a look at last year's squad of the road to the final players, I believe this is a factual statement that every single card last year dropped off after the knockout rounds were over. After the knockout rounds were over, yeah, let's take a look at Shunmin Sun, right? This is Shunmin Sun's 89 rated live item last year. We'll zoom in just for viewing purposes. He went from 2.06 million right in the time that we are now, right? This is literally Tuesday, the game that they probably played last year. Tuesday, December 10th is when they most likely played and what happened, right? They won, of course, they cemented their spot. They, I don't even know where Spurs were in the group, to be honest, last year, if I'm being completely honest, I kind of forget. But you just see this drop off, right? Heading into those next couple of weeks towards team of the year and stuff bottoms out during that team of the year timeframe and then, of course, stuff kind of comes back as the games begin back up in February, right? Let's take a look at another card, maybe on more of a, you know, cheaper budget, right? Let's look at Dortmund and Sancho. Dortmund and Sancho, look at this man, first week of December, he comes back up, climbs back up to 229,000 coins and then, bang, drops off the next week to 160. So maybe you don't want to sell today on Tuesday. Maybe you want to try to ride it out and see if there's more upgrade or more, you know, potential for, you know, like this Klostermann card. Let's say Leipzig beat Man U and you're, and this guy is getting a lot of hype. He's gonna, he might have some crazy, insane looking stats. You might wait until this guy gets the upgrade on Friday or close up to that time because he might actually not drop. He might actually keep going up if they do win. Some cards, it's gonna be tough to know which ones, but some cards might be a little bit undervalued still because of their upgrade and the upgrade potential and how much that card could be valued at after it gets upgraded, right? So that's kind of the thought process. If you want to hold on, it'll be a little bit more risky even with the upgrade coming, but the upgrade should be coming Thursday night into Friday because what EA does is they wait for all the games to be played, Champions League, Europa League, all of the games, they wait for them to be played and that's where they do the upgrade. After all that's been played, they can do it one time, sweep through and do an upgrade, right? Obama Yang, 970, Arsenal's already through. He's gonna go to an 89. This guy's probably gonna drop 100K because people are gonna sell this card and again, just to my point that I said earlier, I feel like these cards have even more of a reason to drop right now because they're rare, right? They're invested in, a lot of people are holding these cards because they think the price is gonna go up when the upgrades come. Another reason to sell early, by the way, but again, this market has been sold off so much in the past two days. Name are going from 970 to 800 and Bobby going from 13 to 116. Even these Team of the Group Stage cards continue to drop because everybody in this game is not buying these players. They're not buying their teams. Some stuff did rebound a little bit today. Pogba's getting invested in for out-of-packs Team of the Week investing. Joe Gomez is up a bit. People buying some meta-golds but the rest of the market is really, really low and let's talk about this promise for a second, man. 300 and 10,000 coins. This guy's up a 100K from where he was last week. Now, a lot of this initial price boom, right? Basically this amount right here, from 200K to 250, is all because of the air-divisit objectives that came out. People are linking this card to Gravenbach, to the right wing, I forget the guy's name, to Dumfries. Dumfries is extinct on the market right now because of the links to the new air-divisit milestone players that are in the game. People are doing that objective because those cards look sick. Iax, man, I don't know what's gonna happen with Iax, dude, because it's such a close one. If we take a look at this, Atalanta will go through if they avoid defeat. So Atalanta has to avoid defeat and if Iax want to go through, they have to win. It's win and in for Iax and same thing for Atalanta, man. So this is like one of the biggest matches people are watching this week. Again, I don't know who's gonna win. A lot of people seem to think that Iax are gonna win because of the way this card is risen up. If this card does not win, if Iax do not win, this guy's gonna be like under 200K again. Maybe not quite that low because now he has the links to the new foundation players. But this will even be a card to watch because of those new links and because of people using those players. He might rebound a slight bit after a lot of panic selling. And again, these cards are very rare. They're very good to trade with. So we're gonna be taking a look at these cards even after the games are played and after the upgrades happen because these are very rare items, they're gonna fluctuate a lot and some of them are pretty desirable. People like to use them in their teams. So we'll take a watch at those. But of course, if a team does get third place and they go down to your robo league, no upgrade is happening on Friday. And yeah, I feel like I just talked a lot right there about these roads to the final cards. But I wanna try to make it clear because a lot of them are gonna be at their highest in the mass sphere of things over the next month. Today or tomorrow or Thursday into Friday. That's like, this is like the last chance if you wanna dish them out, take the coins before a lot of them are probably gonna drop lower. That's what I would do. Now really quick, at the very end of this video, I wanna say one last thing. This today is one thing that we saw on Twitter. Footwatch tweeted this out earlier today and this, I'm not gonna make a separate video on this. I'm not gonna rant about it. But I think this is wild. This is incredible. So Footwatch found some code tonight that was popup error, G-O-I-P Blacklist. FIFA Ultimate Team is currently not accessible due to a demand from the authorities of your region. Now I think from what I've heard that this is possibly going towards the Netherlands and Belgium with the issues and the lawsuits and the just kind of the way that the government in those countries is viewing EA and the gambling aspect of the game. Of course, there's been no FIFA points in Belgium. I think for like a year in FIFA now, I don't know about the Netherlands. I'm not sure about FIFA points there. But to me, what this means is EA, if your country blocks FIFA or says, hey, we want you to not have our game playable in our country because of things that go on inside your game, AKA gambling, the PAC odds, like all the stuff that is the gambling aspect, which is a lot of the laws that the countries are making are going against the gambling aspect of FIFA Ultimate Team with the PACs and the Kinder Egg, all that stuff that was in last year. That's where this is coming from, I think. But basically what this is, is a pop-up error is what EA added, G-O-I-P Blacklist, which makes me think that, let's say your country blocks FIFA or your country's government says, you can't play FIFA or we want FIFA to be turned off because of the stuff that's inside it. This message is what EA is making. They added a message into the code that would come up and say this message right here, like a pop-up inside of the game because that FIFA is basically banned in your country. And I think that it's crazy that we have gotten to this point where a football simulation game is gonna be banned in the country because of loot boxes, because of gambling, and because of what those countries think this game is promoting to underage. And to, I mean, without the proper safety and without the proper, I don't know what it exactly is, I haven't delved into all the research about it, but I just think that's crazy, all right? That's all I wanted to say about it. I think it's crazy. I hope, I hope, I hope, I hope that nothing ever has to happen with that. I hope something changes or whatever, but I just thought that was pretty wild to see that being tweeted out today. And just the fact that that has to be something that is possible in a game, a video game, a football simulation. So it sucks, but it is what it is. If you're in one of those countries, I feel for you. If that happens to be, if you're not able to play FIFA, ultimate team, because of your country, I don't think you can blame your country. I think you have to blame the game itself because it's not your country that has the problem, it is the game that is the core problem. And we kind of knew that, but that's the issue at hand. So not to end the video on a sour note because today's probably gonna be a really awesome day of football with Champions League.  So one last mention as well. These team of group stage items that are right here, they're not live, okay? Don't be buying these today. You might see them fluctuate though. You might see them fluctuate because people think that these are live. Please do not buy team of group stage cards today. They're not live items. If you wanna be risky, you might see them move because people will think that they are live. So another long video, boys, I apologize, I get rambling. I'm trying to make them a little bit shorter, you know, as you guys request, but I felt like there's a lot to talk about today and I wanted to really clearly get my point across about road to the finals. So if you enjoyed this one, smash the thumbs up on it, comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe to the channel if you're new. It's been Nate the Foot Accountant, catch you guys later. Peace, out.


Hi everyone. It's Dave from Art Resin. I just wanted to know, would it be helpful or something that you would watch and want to see to do live videos? We thought we'd play around with it. So what we could do in our live video, here's some things we could do. And we have, this is like a workshop area where we film stuff, but there's lots of great projects we're working on. Tons of just fun stuff. And so you can ask questions while we make stuff, tools. You can see how we organize our studio space. We can go over art ideas. What else could we do? I'll show you what else we could do. And then you can ask questions live, I think. I'm not totally sure how it works. But we have so many different things we're making. And you guys can just watch live while we do stuff. Neat. Hey, Jamie. Thanks for saying neat. I always thought it'd be fun to do live videos because then I can hear exactly from you guys what's useful and what you like to see in here. So where I'm going now, this is more of the fine art studio. So we're still building it. There's going to be stuff here. But look at the gorgeous windows. And so this is where we make the art. And there's not dust. So spiffy. Hey, Deco painter and tea. Yeah, we are love this freaking space. So we'll be doing live videos. We have lots of projects. I'm not going to do it today, because I don't want to. And that's it. So please, if you see this video, comment below and just tell us. Yes, David, I would watch these studio workshop art videos, making stuff. And you can bring your questions, we can even like, I'll start each video by saying so what do you want to talk about? And we can just do that, we can just make stuff, we'll just mix up tons of resin, we can put stuff in it, we can cover wood, we can build guitars, we can do flow art, we can just go and go and go hello, hello. Yes, absolutely. Okay, I'm going to go. I got a busy day. But hopefully not for long. But yeah, please let me know in the comments, you could even put questions and then we can start by solving those questions and go from there. And I'm going to have Pat filming. So thank you in advance, Pat. All right, everyone, have a wonderful day and a good rest of the week. Yes, I would. Okay, please. Yeah, thank you. It's so exciting. And you know what the best part of this is, this is going to help me make stuff again.  So let's make stuff.  We can build canvases, we can, we have so many good tips, I'll bring in different people. We have, we have artists that just work here and help us out with stuff and test materials. We have lots of good materials. Okay, first live video, this is fun. I'm excited. Thank you everyone for being nice and talk to you later.


Okay, let's get started then. Okay, so welcome everyone to this SOAS Centre of Taiwan Studies book talk. We're really delighted to welcome Sydney UN Professor of Communication at Northeastern State University. And today she's going to be talking about her award-winning book, Identity Politics and Popular Culture in Taiwan, the Sa Jiao generation that was published in 2017. I'm delighted to see that we've got quite a few SOAS students have joined today's session, particularly as we also use one of her blog pieces. What is Taiwan Identity that was published in the SOAS Chinese Institute blog? So many of us are familiar with that piece but also her book. And I'm also delighted to have checked that we do actually have the e-book of Sydney's book in the SOAS library. So if you enjoy today's talk, you make sure you go into a little bit more detail. The other thing I should say about Sydney is that like many of us in the Taiwan Studies field, she's also involved in Taiwan Studies institutions. So she's a member of the Board of Directors of the North American Taiwan Studies Association, an association that's also had a huge impact on Taiwan Studies in Europe. As many of us had our first Taiwan Studies conference experience at NATSA. And I know many of us are going to be taking part in next year's conference and NATSA conference as well. And we'd also welcome Sydney and your colleagues to come and join us at the European conference in the future. And I know that one of the things that's really exciting is the way that NATSA and EATS are starting to work together a lot more. So I'm going to hand over now to you Sydney and welcome to SOAS and hopefully in the future we can really bring you to London, not just online. So over to you. All right. Thank you, Daphit, for your introduction. And good afternoon, everyone. I know it's about 5 p.m. in your time. And my name is Sydney Yue. I'm an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern State University. And it's my honor to be here to share with you about my research. And I would like to especially thank Daphit for your invitation. So basically my book was published in 2017. It's been a few years. However, I do believe that the phenomenon I mentioned in my book is still powerless or vulnerable in the Taiwanese society. So I would like to use this opportunity to have a kind of a presentation. And I also look forward for your comments and feedbacks in the end. I am working on something extended from this book project. So any of your comments would be very helpful. So in today's presentations, I probably will cover four aspects. First, I would like to talk about the origin of the project. How did I start to study Sajiao? And secondly, I think I would like to share with you some of the dominant discourses about the Sajiao culture or the Sajiao phenomenon. And then the third thing I would like to share is the fieldwork I conducted in Taiwan and what I found. And lastly, I think I would like to connect Sajiao with the political communication or the election culture in Taiwan. And this part I touched a little bit in my book, but I did not do a very thorough analysis. So after I present what I found about the politicians use of acute elements, I would like to hear your input on that part. So let's start from my introduction of the origin of the project. Okay, so many people knew when, when they knew that I started Sajiao, they would ask me, how did you start? Why did you want to do that? And to be frankly speaking, I did not come up with that topic when I applied for my PhD degree. I was interested in gender, I was interested in popular culture in Taiwan or in East Asia, and maybe intercultural communication, but I did not have a topic. And as a graduate student, you probably will feel pressured because if you do not have a topic, you will have a hard time like a painful searching process, right? And the worst thing is that I even switched my advisors. So what I did actually was, do you still see my screen? I think I lost it, I just saw a lot of people participant. I'll re-upload it now. Okay, I can still continue my story because it doesn't matter. Okay, so when I'm working or like searching my dissertation topic, I just keep visited my professor, my new advisor. I chat with her in the office and I also ask her questions, you know, did you have any project that worked with you? And finally, she said, Sydney, I was working on the collecting terms, native terms for persuasion. And I would like to get to know some Mandarin Chinese terms in persuasion, could you give me some? And the three terms you saw on the screen would be the three terms I gave to my advisor. The first term is the general expression of persuasion in Mandarin Chinese, Qin. And then I gave her the masculine form of persuasion, that is Ji. And then I gave her the third term, that is Sa Jiao, I labeled it as a feminine form of persuasion. And that was the beginning of my dissertation in the journey of studying Sa Jiao. My advisor actually asked me a lot of questions about Sa Jiao. Why adult women in Taiwan would like to manipulate their significant order by playing cute? She could not understand as an American middle-aged woman. She thought it's weird. And so I have to answer her questions and look very professional and endorse that. That could be a potential dissertation topic. And I did it. Right. So the lesson for many graduate students on the spot today, maybe if you do not have any topic or thesis, that's a good strategy just to bother your advisor and then work with them and then maybe you can come up with a dissertation topic. All right. And I think that's the beginning. But also I think my interactions with my advisor actually plays an important role in shaping my research. So here is the photo of my advisor and me in my graduation ceremony. I want to show this image, not just to recognize her help. But also I want to highlight the interactions between me and her. In the process of doing my dissertation, I was looking for a translation for Sa Jiao in English, and I couldn't find any proper term. I think the closest term probably will be playing cute. However, this term, in my opinion, did not capture the nuances or significance of Sa Jiao in the Taiwanese context. So finally, I decided that maybe I just use the transliteration Sa Jiao as the native term to show that is a quite unique Taiwanese culture. And also, I think when I originally I tried to do these Sa Jiao study in terms of a gender perspective, because in the previous research, Sa Jiao actually has been studied as a women's talk, women's ways of speaking, women's ways of expression. However, I do believe that the interaction between me and my advisor changed my thought to kind of elaborate this project from the gender perspective into a cultural perspective. As I submitted my chapters to the advisor and my advisor, Christine Fitch, started to get to know more about what Sa Jiao is. So, occasionally, she would ask me, Sidney, are you Sa Jiaoing to me again? And I was like, what did I do? Or what did I say? Why did you say so? And after reflecting or pondering what I have done or what I have said to her, I realized maybe I did Sa Jiao to her exactly. And that made me wonder why I would like to, I performed Sa Jiao in front of a cultural outsider, my advisor. And that aha moment made me think Sa Jiao probably is not just about gender, but also about power relations. She's my advisor, and I'm just a powerless graduate student. When I felt guilty, I didn't submit my work on time, or I felt less confident. I was just looking for a communication solution, you know, how to persuade my advisor, even though I did not reach her expectation, I still a good student. And that communication pattern I'm looking for back to my cultural knowledge. I think it's a cultural package I have. I carry with me from Taiwan to the United States. So that moment or that interactions make me think, maybe I need to explore further what Sa Jiao means to Taiwanese or to many Mandarin Chinese speakers. All right. And let's start back to the Sa Jiao. Let's see if I can, can you see the screen right now? Yeah, this is Sa Jiao. Okay, good. So basically Sa Jiao combined two Mandarin Chinese word. The first word is the verb, and the second word is the objective. And we can see that the first word actually is hand movement. And I did a little bit of a special effect I want to show you. So basically Sa is a verb, hand movement, you throw things out. And Jiao basically shows feminine prettiness. Basically, we have a phrase called Ren Bi Hua Jiao means one person is prettier than a flower. And it is used to describe female most of the time. Literally, so the phrase of Sa Jiao could be saying that one is showing off their feminine prettiness. And in most dictionary, Chinese dictionary, you would find the term Shi Ai Zuo Tai as the explanation of Sa Jiao. And to translate the Shi Ai Zuo Tai into English, you can find the phrase expression to deliberately act in front of someone because of the awareness of the other person's affection. So basically, we could have, we could elaborate two features of Sa Jiao from this description. First, Sa Jiao is related on love and like a doll have to make sure that your audience actually likes you or loves you, otherwise your Sa Jiao may not work.  Okay, so in this expression or in this two features, we do not see a lot of gender implication, right? So when I, before I went back to Taiwan to conduct my field work, I actually already done some literature review and browse all of the Sa Jiao studies beforehand. And I felt it's very interesting. The dominant discourse in Taiwan about Sa Jiao actually is quite gender explanation. So you would find that Sa Jiao is a necessary skill for women, and the Sa Jiao has to be naturally performed. Moreover, a Sa Jiao character should have certain body features that they should look young. Their body should be very tiny, slender, and the Sa Jiao's female probably should have a very attractive voice. And of course, this female image should be pretty and cute. And so I found this fascinating why the Sa Jiao discourse is all about women. And it sounds like Taiwanese women are given a lot of a pressure that they have to be good at Sa Jiao and they need to know the skills so that they can be to maintaining the relationship in a heterosexual relationship. So when I go back, when I went back to Taiwan and conduct my, oh, this one is just an example to show you in the contemporary Taiwanese society what kind of a female image would look like a Sa Jiao feature. So these are the book covers from the romance novel in Taiwan. This is a very popular genre. Can tell that these women are portraying very innocent, cute, and pretty features. And I argued in my book, this kind of a female ideal image was actually heavily influenced by the Japanese Kawaii culture after the 1980s, 1990s. Because of this popular cultural flow, the gender role or gender expectations in Taiwan actually have certain salient change. Okay, now let's talk about some of my findings in Taiwan. According to Catherine Ferris, she, I think she's the first figure studying Sa Jiao in Taiwan. She defined Sa Jiao as a set of actions that involve the imitation of a child's gesture body movements and ways of speaking. And as you can see, these are some examples how people define or identify Sa Jiao behavior. If you do this kind of a cute performance, you are conducting Sa Jiao. And also, I do not think Sa Jiao should be just study as a women's speaking act or facial expression or body movement. Because all these figures, they are celebrities in Taiwan and all of them could perform certain Sa Jiao feature that is pouting. Right, so Sa Jiao actually is the action of with informal feminine childish and irrational performance. However, the feminine expression does not always attach to a female body. That's, I think that's important contribution of my book because I do not deny that Sa Jiao actually is a gendered performance. However, we should apply Sa Jiao to an even broader social phenomenon. Alright, so basically what I did in Taiwan in two summers was just, you know, walking around in Taipei in a specific area. There were a lot of department stores, restaurants, banks, parks or on the bus. All of these public settings are the place I collect Sa Jiao cases. Okay, so it was not very difficult for me to locate or identify Sa Jiao scenes in everyday communication, everyday life in Taiwan. And after I collect sufficient numbers of Sa Jiao case, I decided I kind of a categorize their functions. So I believe that Sa Jiao has some practical everyday communication functions and the top three are greeting, apologizing and negotiating. So you may ask me, how did I determine this thing is a Sa Jiao thing, right? In previous studies from Catherine Ferris or Dr. Chow, they already gave me a lot of Sa Jiao features. So basically I used their observations, their principles to identify those Sa Jiao behaviors I found in Taipei. And these features included the following. Okay, they are not at the whole list, but these are some very salient Sa Jiao features. For example, high pitched baby voice, or maybe you can say some nasal sound, excessive usage of sentence vinyl particles, tag questions, deliberate acute performance. So for example, I think the common phrase for apology in Mandarin Chinese would be 對不起. And if you want to add a little bit of Sa Jiao flavor, you could use the sentence vinyl particles in the 對不起 phrase. So I'm going to demonstrate a little bit. I will try my best because I don't think I'm a Sa Jiao person. But anyway, 對不起. If you want to add a Sa Jiao flavor, that would sound like 對不起啦. 對不起哦. 對不起嘛. Something like that. I don't know how you feel because I cannot see any audience's face if you smile or can you give me a thumbs up to show that I did a good job. Anyway, so thank you, thank you. So basically that expression, I will identify as a Sa Jiao feature. And for the native Taiwanese Mandarin speakers, they will feel a sense of acute. Okay. And another example I found very fascinating is that I observe a lot of female clerks in Taiwan would greet their customer by saying, how are you? 你好. With a very cute expression. So they instead of saying 你好, they will say 你好. It's just like a kitten meowing and that kind of expression is amazing to me because I always feel like wow, it's so cute. It's so cute to the Taiwanese Mandarin Chinese listeners. And I do think that expression could shorten the distance between listeners and speakers. And that is important elements for Taiwanese. They want to express their friendliness. They want to show people that we could establish intimate relationships. And these features are important for Taiwanese. Taiwanese are proud of being friendly. And so that's the reason I think Sa Jiao culture is very prevalent in Taiwan nowadays. And so after my literature review and my fieldwork in Taiwan, I actually claim that Taiwan is the island of Sa Jiao. I say this based on the three evidence. First, I think the gender role actually shows Sa Jiao culture is encouraged in. Taiwan. Women are expected to be good at Sa Jiao. And if women feel that they want to be marketable in a marriage market, they probably will actively to learn how to perform those deliberate cute actions. And secondly, in my fieldwork, I think Sa Jiao performance is prevalent in everyday communication in Taiwan. Men and women perform Sa Jiao all the time. And they try to use those Sa Jiao tactics to achieve certain communication challenges or communication problems. And I do think I mentioned, you know, the cultural codes of friendliness, friendliness and intimacy plays a significant role in Taiwanese people's worldview and their value. And the third one actually is my argument based on my funding. I think Sa Jiao culture is growing and the growth of Sa Jiao culture actually is concurrent with if you observe movement or localization movement and democratization in Taiwan. I guess it's kind of a collective mental state when most of Taiwanese realize that they are not Chinese anymore. They are just Taiwanese. And they also witnessed all these powerless or vulnerable status Taiwan faced nowadays. They are struggling in between the superpowers that the United States and the PRC. And that kind of mentality actually influence people's everyday communication. So that is my argument. And I use the political communication as my evidence to say, you know, it's not just about interpersonal relationship building. But in general, Taiwanese people maybe unconsciously perform a certain cute actions, try to persuade each other to accomplish their communication tasks. So then in my book, I mentioned the election in Taiwan. I think if you know, in 1998, Chen Shui-bian, during that time he was the Taipei mayor, he was running for his second term. And he created this Appian-wa-wa, the Appian doll for his campaign. I think it's the beginning of cute elements that has been used in Taiwan's election. And he failed for his rerun for the mayor. However, he was elected as the first DPP president in Taiwan from 2000 to 2008. And I'm not saying that those cute elements determine his victory. However, I do think starting from him, I think the Sajiao performance used those cute elements in their campaigning. So it says something. It works. It is an effective method. So we see a lot of politicians use those elements. And here is an example, like Tsai Ing-wen, the current president in her first run, like the second presidential election in 2016. She has those piggy banks and the personal five dolls. These are very cute. And these worked when she tried to encourage her supporters to donate money or support her. However, I want to also mention one point. She, a Tsai Ing-wen, is the first female president in Taiwan. And her public image actually is not very feminine, or we would say she seldom played cute in any public settings. We do not see her wearing a skirt. She always looked very professional and in dark suits, right? However, her personal image, she probably choose to be gender neutral as a female leader for Taiwan. However, it does not mean that she could avoid use of the cute elements in her campaigning. Her team actually had to use those cute elements to help her shorten the distance between her and the voters. And the cute trend still continued. We see in 2020, in social media, a lot of visual artists actually create a lot of cute figures for Tsai Ing-wen. And this one is an example. The Taiwanese visual artists' array created a lot of cute, cutified Tsai Ing-wen icon here. All of these figures are Tsai Ing-wen. And Tsai Ing-wen tries to promote her policy and to show her achievements in her first four years. And this is a promotion for her tax reduction policy. Okay, so we still see a lot of cute elements used in Taiwan's election. And we would like to ask why, right? I'm not just favoring Tsai Ing-wen. I'm going to show you some male politicians' cute elements or cute figures. Here they are, right? So basically the first one is incumbent Taipei mayor, Ko Wen-je, and his cute cartoon figure. And the second in the middle, that is the presidential candidate for 2016 for the DPP party. He has also a cute figure of him. And the third one, everybody probably know him. This is Ma Ying-je, our former president.  But you can tell it's a cute performance. And the last one actually is a presidential candidate for 2020. And he has also those cute icon to represent him. So finally, this is the last slide I want to show you. This is Tsai Ing-wen in her first 2016 campaign. And this image was created by one of her young supporters who is also a visual artist. And I don't believe it's paid by Tsai's campaign. It's a voluntary work, you know? And in this young artist's eyes, Tsai Ing-wen becomes a teenage superwoman, right? With cat ears. And Tsai Ing-wen has two cats, Ah Tsai and Xiang Xiang. You can see these two cats around her in other very cute elements in that image, right? So when I showed this picture to an American audience, they were shocked that it was created by her supporter. And they reasoned it could be interpreted as an attack by the opponent to belittle the female candidate if it happened in the United States, okay? One female professor, if I saw myself portrayed this way, I would be so mad. I was so harmless and like a doll. How could people feel flattered when they are cutified this way? So this is a professor's comment on Tsai Ing-wen's cutified image. Hearing her response, I was also pondering, yeah, why don't Taiwanese get mad? Why do Taiwanese people view the cute image as compliment instead of insult? And what is the danger of the Sajiao culture? What is the danger of using the cute elements in everyday communication? And that would be some directions for my future project. So I probably would just stop here and I am looking towards send the feedbacks and questions. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much.


I recently did a lecture where about 40-50 people attended and I asked the question how many people have invested more than $10,000 on their education on their you know just invested in themselves and when I say education by the way I don't mean classical education necessarily.  So ask the question who spent more than $10,000? About 10 hands went up out of the 50 and then I asked how much how many people spent more than 25,000 and then about five hands went up and then I asked who spent here more than $100,000 on himself and then my hand went up and two other hands went up and then I asked the following question asked who here makes more than $100,000 a year and lo and behold the same three hands out of the 50 people got up or erect. What I'm trying to say is investing in yourself is not the same thing as investing in things investing in self-image investing in any bullshit that somebody told you that you need to invest in.  So no matter how much you invest in it you know it's gonna be a good investment.  That's not you. If buying a car, let's say even a luxury car is part of what gonna make what is gonna make you feel more at ease with yourself, more successful, it's gonna help your feel better about yourself. This is a good investment.   You sacrifice right now because you want to have more later.  Now I personally spent more than $2,000 on books this year. I spent over $50,000 on coaches, training, courses, spent a lot of money traveling the world, living in the most luxury apartments I could afford and that's quite a lot of money. Just because I always cared about investing in myself. It wasn't always easy. It wasn't always fun, but it always ended up fulfilling what it was worth, meaning I had a dream, I knew what it was worth, I sacrificed what was needed and then I accomplished what I set out to accomplish. So start investing in yourself from today. Read books, buy books and read them, buy courses, pay your mentors if you need to. You don't always need to pay mentors, but if you do don't hesitate to pay them any money you spend on education or courses or mentors, whatever it is, any money that you spend on yourself will come back tenfold. Don't worry, just trust the process. Till next time, see you soon.


Hi, my name is Leon Rowe currency trader and trading coach at trading 180.com and welcome to this week's supply and demand Forex and gold fundamental and technical analysis if you're new or more welcome to you And if you are returning an equally warm welcome to you and don't forget to please like subscribe and share Press the like button and subscribe button if you find the content that provide every week useful and Yeah, keep supporting the channel and gets this quality content out to the guys that really need it and unlike the vast majority of Trading videos and analysis videos. You might see up there from our youtubers. I my approach is to combine fundamental analysis, which I re-establish value via inflation interest rates business cycle monetary policy and Combine that with technical analysis and employ supply and demand strategies like daily supply and demand zones We've captured pain belief and stop hunts And we use also technical analysis for risk management trade entry and profit targets so What we're gonna do first before we get on to the fundamentals and technicals Just look at the week ahead and look at what's coming up with regards to any kind of news events and Market moving news events and from a Sunday on Sunday. We've got Current account, which is always worth watching and unemployment rate for the Swiss francs so that current accounts for the Japanese yen and that has an effect on GDP unemployment rate Obviously has an effect on GDP as well. So if you have high unemployment, it means you're probably going into a recession Low unemployment means you're probably growing So if you're trading any of those pairs, that's worth Watching on the Monday and again, we've got GDP growth rate Final it's expected to you know come out pretty much as as expected As far as the fourth quarter day and those surprises there Tuesday We've got some again GDP growth rate, but it's more to do with the the estimate I think the the preliminary has come out as minus 0.6 and when it comes to as estimates and finals Then they're really not too far from the preliminary. So again, no surprises there unless There is a surprise obviously But it's pretty much a negative growth for the for the euro area and employment change From Australia, we have a consumer confidence change which is seen by trading economics has quite an important news data, so Let's see if that does have any kind of effect on Australian dollar price Wednesday, we've got core inflation for the for the US which is definitely going to be watched as You know high inflation higher inflation would mean that the Fed have to potentially High crates If they if inflation does move above their 2% target, which isn't really expected for at least another year or so But it seems that the bond market is pricing that in a reflation trade as it's called And so inflation year on years are definitely going to be watched You also have a Bank of Canada interest rate decision makes expected to they're expected to hold So again anything other than that is a definite trade in my book because it would wrong foot the market Thursday we have Probably some trying to see a press conference that I definitely be watched the press conference And ECB rate decision, that's definitely what's as well. It's expected anything out of the Unexpected anything that comes out unexpected is definitely to be traded because I think the market is pricing in obviously The consensus is that there's going to be no change and if there is a change then The market has to be priced a value of the euro. That's really how to if you are trading the news And looking for news trades. It's really trading the unexpected rather than the expected So and then we've got the press conference after that so that would definitely give forward guidance to the What the ECB are thinking regarding Inflation and monetary policy and then Friday we've got industrial output for the pound I guess the for Europe Canada unemployment part-time Employment change so that's going to be important important for Canada is is employment and then we've got PPI month for month Yeah, I think budgets but nothing really to market moving I think the US economy is going in the right direction And I'll get into that as we go into now the technical so Looking at the Dow Jones dollar index and the Dow Jones dollar index is just a measure of dollar strength against other currencies like the Euro the pound the yen and some others now technically you know, we did see prices go through these supply zones and I say this You know continuously and I will continue to say this is that there is no technical analysis level that will stand in the way of fundamentals and risk sentiment because technicals are just a level Just just again just technical analysis, but the financial institutions They make their decisions on whether they should buy or sell based off of liquidity. This is one Fundamental analysis, which is understanding and determining the value of a currency or an asset and obviously risk sentiment So I was saying last week Fundamentally that I wanted to be a buyer and I've been saying it matter of fact for a long time And you know traders will generally say, oh, yeah, yeah, right, right, but found post Which is the 27th of January 2021, which is time-stamped and I said to the private members in our discord group I've been reading a few articles and it seems to be a bit of a shift between buying euros and selling Dollars in the short term. It looks like Europe is lagging behind the US in terms of a vaccine rollout Therefore projections for GDP will also lag. So for the short term, right in the short term is one to three month period I am looking to see if there are buying opportunities for the dollar as long as data supports my bias, which it has been since the 27th of January, so the data to look for is growing GDP for dollar and lagging for the euro The ECB are potentially being forced to do something about the unwanted Strength of the euro and then please go to our eurozone channel news channel for that Which means that they have to find a way to weaken the euro The Fed has been winning the currency war over the past six months, but that is now Translating into potential growth for the US economy. So again, any positive GDP and inflation news Support from the US supports a dollar buy bias for the short term again one to three month period And I said that I would cover this in the evening call, which we have every Wednesday. So I was looking at obviously the data just like everyone else and again making my predictions which makes it easier on a price chart to then just look for buy trades, which I was doing and Again on Friday supportive data US jobs growth surges past estimates unemployment dips to 6.2 percent. So again that supports Economic growth, which is why we were long dollar and this was an article that I had Was in last week's video On the 20th published on the 25th of February why the dollar is more robust than it looks the US will probably grow faster than the rest of the Develop world this year and relative rates Expectations will rise plus the EM trade is overcrowded. So we were as In our group anyway, and I can speak for myself that I was long from the 27th of January Which was right here. This is where I was saying that I was long. So then it's just a case of looking for Confluences on the dollar Dow Jones dollar index and other dollar crosses to get long. That's all I was doing. I was ignoring Supply zones because I understood that if the dollar is You know value right if it is a bargain down here And if I'm right about the trade then all I have to do is look for buy trades Does that mean I win every single trade? No, but it what it does mean is that when I do win I'm gonna maximize my profits and hold on to the trade and I'm buying low and selling high That's exactly how trading works Get to trade without understanding fundamentals and to really kind of call yourself a forex trader If you don't understand the fundamentals, you're basically just a technical trader. You're not a forex trader You know 95% of these people who are on YouTube are not forex traders They're just technical traders so Basically, we understood where the value was understood that supply zones do not Counts we're not worried about supply zones in this sense. So with that being said again, not financial advice I'll just tell you what I'm doing And what I've done I'm looking potentially at just demand zones. I'm gonna delete these Delete that delete that or move that down there. These are where the demand zones are So if you do want to be a buyer of the dollar That doesn't mean the dollar is gonna go sky high forever in a day Of course, there's gonna be pullbacks But generally the path at least resistance should be to the upside for now unless obviously Something changes from a data perspective For me, that's my bias if you do want to get short and take advantage potentially of some profit-taking and a bit of a pullback on the dollar then you're looking at You know sell trades not on the dollar current on the DXY, but you'd be looking for Sell trades on other dollar crosses with this as Confluence so again, you'd use the demand zone as confluence on your dollar cross pairs You know trade or you'll be looking at sell trades as the dollar isn't actually a nice Supplier zone here. So looking for any kind of trades on the dollar yen Swiss dollar Frank dollar CAD for example Anyways, let's move on to the dollar yen and dollar yen again No supply zone that's gonna stand in the way of fundamental analysis So I would probably delete those as the dollar has been a nice buy against Especially against the safe haven currencies so what we have here is Some demand there so Really nice if you get in a pullback if we do get a pullback on the daily Then it's looking for buy trades on a lower time frame to look for at that demand zone If you are looking for any kind of short trades Maybe there's some sort of risk off Environment that comes in or sentiment or for example, there's really disappointing news out about the dollar Then it is a case of potential looking for some sell trades there if you want to take advantage of that But for now, I think again the path of these resistance is with the you know Buying the dollar in at least a short term. So let's see what happens with that Moving on to the dollar Swiss again. Look at that really really nice Trend to the upside. I was actually in this but exited Took some profit and wanted to get back in but didn't realize They didn't realize but I was anticipating a bit of a deeper pullback But the pullback did not happen. Unfortunately So there is some supply here There is some supply there a bit here as well So those are really the main areas to look for any kind of supply if you're looking to buy the Swiss Frank that is Decent area technically, but for me again Looking for pullbacks. I think that's a really nice zone to look for any kind of Any any trades in fact, I think the top of this area here and many of the private members group will recognize this zone here as CPR Zone so actually the top of that zone that 92 brown number just below that actually is a nice It's a different type of supply zone or demand zone I should say and And yeah, so for the guys that I am I'm privately mentoring that area there is actually really nice And I'll go over that set up in a in a in a private in a in a private video. So Let's straw some of these demand zones and Yeah, but from a daily demand zone perspective Maybe a deeper pullback might come that's going to be the area to look for any kind of long trades And I think these areas are really nice for continued dollar strength Dollar CAD the CAD has also been Strong a bit strong as well commodity currencies generally do well in a risk on Environment, so if you have two strong currencies, what should happen is you should get a ranging market really? It's trends tend to happen when you have a strong versus a weak currency, but when you have to Strong or to weak currencies You get a ranging market. You can see what's pretty much happened Last week where the market really didn't move anywhere strong as the dollar is you still have to choose it against the right pairs You have to choose the right pair just because the dollar is strong doesn't mean it's gonna be strong against every single currency That doesn't make any sense. So Again if you are in that the dollar CAD put it in me see that much price movement But I do think from a buying perspective, I do like this this demand zone here I think there's really a specially intraday. I think this is a really nice So if prices can come down to this one two five for a buy If you're looking for any kind of sell trades, I think this level has been touched several times So I don't think it's the greatest. I'd probably even say up to the one two lines One two nine fifty would probably be the preferable area to look for any kind of sell trades And that might not come within the next, you know, maybe couple weeks couple months Who knows so not really interested in trading this pair? Fundamentally or you know technically there's no real technical setups in the in the short term New Zealand dollar US dollar. So we've again with some dollars of US dollar strength We've seen lower highs and lower lows. So there is some Supply here and we're bouncing now off of an area that has some confluence of support and resistance And all support and resistance is is past supply and demand zones But we've got some demand here plus an area of support You can see where there's probably been some profit taking again This pair isn't necessarily a favorite of mine or something that I'm focused on simply because you've got two quite strong currencies, but from a buying the dollar perspective I think the top area is a really nice zone This is obviously a nice zone as well as you made lower highs and lower lows this area here But the premium trade I think it's going to be around the 74 round number between 74 and 7450 if I was looking for any kind of short trades That is really really That's a really nice trade setup But if you think that the New Zealand dollar is is a buy then I would probably Say this probably the 70 round number would be the best area to look for any kind of long trades Although currently now is decent now looking to the pound pound dollar and the pound has been suffering just a little bit but not as Sentiment has kind of gone off the the pound. I think the the vaccine trade Which is really driven price This year and even from last year the vaccine rollout trade, which has pushed the pound higher With and that's really that's had the expectation that the pound should want to the economy the economy should get back to normal quicker I think has leveled out a little bit and I will go into Some some fundamental news and it says having stabilized in February the UK economy seems certain to contract this quarter As lockdown continues to hit growth, but the Vaal, but the fast vaccine rollout Should spur recovery are argues Matthew Ryan senior market analyst at UK FinTech e-Bri and he basically breaks down why and he says investors are however focusing on the positives namely the UK's extraordinarily rapid vaccine rollout This has raised hopes of a return to near normalcy by mid 2021 and lifted the pound to the top of the G10 FX performance tracker so far this year is for this reason that we think the UK economy could be set to outperform most of its European counterparts during the remainder of 2021 so again even in you know the short term if you're looking at short-term plays The pound is probably you know a buy would it be a buy against the dollar? Again, two strong currencies not necessarily the best pair to trade but There are I think for me. I think this area here. It's 142 area It's a really nice zone to look for any kind of short trades from a long trade perspective You do have a few options currently right now, but with positive sentiment around the dollar Why would you want to really kind of stand in the way of that even if prices do go to the upside? It's not necessarily the smartest trade in the world to take and then you've got you know the next area down here, which is Which is a decent zone as well as we've basically led new to new highs from this one three six Fifty area down to the one three six. So it's got a few confluences around there as well. So pound dollar is Okay, I think better from a short-term perspective and a shorting, but Yeah decent for a potential buy as well moving on to the euro dollar and the euro dollar is Really selling off and again just understanding why you wouldn't want to be a buyer There was yes, there was demand zones here and there was a demand zone there But why why why fundamentally would you be buying the you know the euro? Understanding what's going on fundamentally with you know the dollar at the moment And I know a lot of traders would have been getting involved in that nice pin bar personally, I ended up selling right around here and Again just for some proof. We did I did create a video again for the private members group and the video was dated the second of March And it was the euro dollar sixty one point eight percent Fibonacci CPR setup Where we were looking at short trades and in this video this private members video do videos pretty much nearly every day you know going over some setups and This was basically the setup to the short side We were looking at this area here to get short when I say this area here What I mean is go down to a lower time frame. We were looking at it was this area here Right there for a short trade not going to go over the trade in this video because again, that's for our private members But the trade worked out Really really nice. We got in what I've got in around here. He's added to the trade around here So again understanding where we wanted to be sellers and It's easier to then do your technical analysis Just one way and look for these types of trades and if you're right, this is where you can get those really Lovely, you know five ten fifteen to one type traits now Going from a going on to the fundamentals Again three days ago eurozone on track for double dip recession Covid-19 lockdowns are dragging the eurozone eurozone into double dip recession according to the latest survey of European companies So again, not good news when you consider, you know, the divergence between the the Europe and the And the US and also as well in this article where traders map out day when central banks finally raised rates There was an article when I went over this last week I went over the top bit anywhere. I think it was around here this first paragraph talking about rate hikes, but US on pole Europe ain't non-starter and this was from the 10th of February With market based measures of inflation rising swap markets are slowly cranking up the pace of expected US rate hikes Traders are bracing for first 25 basis point hike in the fourth quarter of 2023 Then another 50 basis points over the next 18 months That's a slower pace than the last hiking cycle suggests There is room for more to be priced in that stands in contrast with Europe where some central banks bankers Continue to dangle the threat of rate cuts, right? So while one is one is dangling the the the threat I guess not even a threat, but the suggestion my market is pricing in a potential rate hike And then you're seeing rate cuts again the divergence in monetary policy So not least as a means to counter strength in the euro market pricing suggests that the First European central bank won't hike until 2024. So again, everything I was saying lagging yeah, so the euro as I was saying is lagging Yeah, lagging For the euro right there Yeah, so it's not it's not I'm not a genius or nothing like that It's just a case of understanding the the economics and seeing it play out in price. So Going back to The euro dollar We were short around here short around here and you're seeing it really play out Yeah, and that's pretty much what's happened going forward Again, there's no demands I'm just gonna stand in a way of of of value and fundamentals The price doesn't move because of any kind of indicator it moves because of Determined value and divergences in fundamentals.  In fact, it's pretty gonna be all the way down here And then you've got another demand zone down here so There are gonna be you know markets moving waves So you will get potential pullbacks and if you do want to take advantage of the pullback I would probably say look for price to kind of come down into this zone here Before looking at any kind of long trades But for me, it's all about you know the path of these resistance, which is you know buying the dollar as we have Some strong sentiment and supportive data for that and until that changes my my bias is to the is it is a euro dollar short looking at the euro yen euro yen again, we've had I guess a bit of a supply zone not necessarily the strongest area of supply, but I think potentially that's a decent buy The yen in the euro is a tough one to really kind of trade because we're in a we're in kind of risk on sentiment and I think The fundamentals on the euro yen aren't as clear and when they're not clear Basically, it's a case of you know stay out but from the technical analysis perspective This is a really nice zone to get look for long trades I would wait for prices if I wanted to get short I'd have to wait for prices to really kind of come down prove that There's some supply here and then look for any kind of short trades in the short term, but fundamentally Not really looking at that currency pair at all Looking forward to the Australian dollar US dollar again I think overall the consensus is that the Australian dollar should I Guess outperform the the US dollar, but in I think the short term It's not a trade or currency that I'm personally interested in There's there are a lot more easier trades out there and The guys in the private group do know what they are now Is there a buying opportunity here? I would say so. Yep, definitely within this zone of this Quite wide zone of of demand, but then we have Support and resistance zones within that to kind of break down where the way you probably may want to look for buying Opportunities if you think that the Australian dollar is a bargain against the US dollar Now if you think the US dollar is a bargain against the Australian dollar Then you're looking for pullbacks into that area there that 78 round number or up into this 7950 80 cent area is where you'll be looking for any kind of Short trades or to buy the US dollar and I think that actually I think we should want to enter into a ranging market So that actually might be a decent sell Looking at the Australian dollar Japanese yen and from a risk on perspective and I've been saying this for months We're in a risk on environment and this is what you see the Australian dollar Which is a commodity currency will do well in a risk on environment. That's a risk on And the Japanese yen does not do well in a risk on environment It's a safe haven currency and strengthens when there's a lot of fear uncertainty and doubt So we've had a bit of a pullback nice buying opportunity here personally. I prefer this 80 This 81 or 80 93 to 80 64 Demand zone. I don't think this has necessarily been a strongest area of demand just yet because it hasn't made higher highs Actually made a little micro one But preferably I would want price to come back down to here before looking at getting long doesn't mean that there isn't an opportunity to get here there definitely is and If that works out then brilliant if it doesn't then this is definitely my zone to look for any kind of long trades I think that's gonna be a nice bargain and even better is gonna be here and as long as risk remains on and there is global growth commodities are you know Commodity prices are going higher like oil copper iron or etc. Then the Australian dollar really is the buy and finally Gold and gold has not been doing too. Well And this is obviously due to Dollar strength the reflation trade and And as well as like Bond yield and government bond yield so gold balls lose steam for now For now yeah as yields trump inflation bet So there is an argument I guess that you know I say an argument But it's a fact that gold is a hedge against inflation So if inflation rises that should actually be bullish for gold, but in the interim What investors are doing are they are putting them putting taking their money out of gold because gold doesn't return a yield Whereas bonds doing bond is also considered a safe haven asset So if you were you know an investor Would you put your money in a safe haven asset that returns a yield or a safe haven asset that doesn't and this is why? Investors, you know are switching away from haven assets as yield rise and not necessarily switching away from bonds but they're probably getting into bonds but understanding that bonds pay a yield but what is supportive for I guess gold bullion is that you know Asian jewelry demand offers support so I think for the short term gold is gonna have a tough time it's gonna have a tough time But doesn't mean that it's not a buy doesn't mean that you should even you know short gold But there's always gonna be buyers for gold. So is there an opportunity at the moment? There's always gonna be opportunities for me I'm not really too keen on that the gold trade at the moment, especially with such strong sentiment around the US, you know a strong US dollar or stronger US dollar and And bond yields rising, you know, 10 year bonds, etc So gold I do expect it to kind of go into some sort of reigning market and when it does that's probably when I will start to Potentially be a buyer, but for now, I think I'm going to Not really look too hard at gold From a you know a buying or selling I need to really kind of see certain things fundamentally maybe pick up But again, there doesn't mean in the short term that you won't get you know pull back So if you do want to trade gold And you do want to take advantage of potential dollar strength and gold weakness That's going to be the first area to look for any kind of sell trades and this is going to be the next area to look for any Kind of sell trades if you're looking for a buying opportunity, I would probably wait for there to be proof of value I think anywhere in this zone here in fact, I think this zone here is actually quite a nice area It's got some confluence. Yeah, it's got some confluence of a you know a major support resistance Where traders would be looking at so that's quite nice So you got resistance resistance support support support in this area So maybe these 16 where we are now probably down to maybe 1660 Maybe actually a decent area to look for some buying opportunities As maybe in a catalyst might might be for some wait for some maybe some dollar weakness and some some dollar You know news to come out that isn't favorable for the dollar So that's really I would say the play for me for now if I'm looking to buy gold I'm never looking to to short gold unless really Things really start looking fantastic for the for the economy, but with all the money printing that's been going on I do think that gold is a buy. It's just all about timing anyways guys That brings us to the end of the analysis Please don't forget to like subscribe and share your comments are always welcome and I will try and get back to You know your questions as long as they're worth getting back to and I will see you in the next video Take care and have a great trading week


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