Okay, hello everyone, good morning and I think you all are feeling better after the coffee. Thanks for coming here. So today we're going to talk about imposter syndrome and unconscious bias training. Just to tell you I don't know why but I'm feeling imposter syndrome right now while talking in front of you all. So to start with, I will just go to the introduction part, who we are. So I'm Amita Sharma, I am a diversity advisor currently working in the DI team for Fedora and I'm the council member as well, ambassador from India. And I work for Red Hat as well as a senior quality engineer based in Pune, India. So I have my teammates from the diversity inclusion team, they're going to introduce themselves. Okay, so hi, I'm Yana, I come from Albania and I'm part of Hacker Space that we have there, Open Labs. Part of Fedora, I'm part of the ambassadors group for the EMEA region and also I'm part of different sub-projects like diversity and inclusion team, come-ups and sometimes I like to do other things when I have free time. And yeah, part of Fedora I like to contribute to other open source communities as well. And yeah, thank you. So hello, I'm B, I'm from India but right now I'm living in Germany. I'm a student here studying data analytics. In Fedora, I contribute to the community operations team mostly on data analytics stuff and I'm also involved with the diversity and inclusion team for their different initiatives. But and I'm also involved with other communities like Mozilla and yeah, yeah, and I'm also a Google Summer of Code mentor this year for Fedora. Hi, I'm Justin Florey, fast J Florey 7. I've been a Fedora contributor for the last couple of years. I mostly am active with the community operations team and the diversity and inclusion team and for all of us with this team, we're really excited about this workshop because it's an opportunity to kind of show some of our own biases that we bring into working in open source project communities and becoming more aware and conscious of those biases. Spoiler alert too, you'll find some more information coming up in a new or an upcoming Fedora podcast episode. So keep an eye out for the diversity and inclusion episode from Eduard on the Fedora podcast. So I just want to make a quick announcement. This entire this workshop is very interactive. I said this earlier, but we would really appreciate it if you sit along the center instead of being so distributed. And yeah, it would be really nice. Come on, come on from the tables. Yeah, exactly. See, I can also stand behind this desk and just hide. So I'm not doing that. Please come in the center, come in the front. So this is the agenda of the workshop we have. What is the imposter syndrome and unconscious bias? We're going to talk about it a little more in detail. We all know about the definition, aware about it, but am I audible? Okay. So we know about the definitions, of course, but we're going to go deeper about it. We're going to know more facts about it. And we will explore ourselves if there are any symptoms we have about these things or the people around us. What to expect from this workshop? There are lots of games we're going to play. So usually in the session or all of the sessions you are sitting at your place and just listening to one person. So this is not going to happen in this workshop. You need to move a little bit and increase the steps on your, whatever you are wearing, the MI band or whatever. So be ready for that. Be a little active. You had a coffee. Why do we need to talk about it in Fedora? So we had a fantastic talk from Rebecca and we know that the problems exist, right? So, but we always try to ignore them or just try to deny them. So that should not be the case. We should be aware about that these problems or issues exist. And that is why we are here, the open source communities and the people in the open source community who are the contributor. And they face these challenges or the issues. So that is why we would like to discuss these things here in this workshop. How can we manage such feelings in our day to day life? So we're going to give some tips and you will come to know after doing some of the activities about these tips. And I just quickly want to add that we are so glad that you are all here and that you want to be a part of this workshop. So we feel that you at least recognize this a little bit. But even if you don't, we have like a few slides to explain you what it is. Right, so this is for the heads up that not everything you try today will feel comfortable. So it is nothing to scare you, but the activities we're going to do, the things we would relate with, or the things which you will do and make you think about your past or the things that you have encountered in your life, you may become emotional about that or stuff like that. So there is nothing like that to hide or feel uncomfortable about it. Even if you do that, please feel free to take a moment and for yourself. Okay, so now we'll start the imposter syndrome workshop. It will be about an hour or so and yeah, yeah. So this program is divided into two parts. First we will talk about the imposter syndrome. We have few slides and then we have activity for the imposter syndrome and then we'll have a small break and then we'll talk about the unconscious bias, what it is all about and then we'll have the activities related to the unconscious bias. So what is exactly the imposter syndrome? Any of you would like to talk about it, what do you feel, what it is all about? I know the definition is there and you are reading very fast, but still deep inside, what do you think, what it is or? Maybe I show up hands, how many of you felt that you feel like you're faking it or like you don't deserve the opportunity that you've had just by showing up here? I felt like, why am I the person I'm here, why am I here, why am I this imposter, why am I this, I'm such a fake, where are they going to find out that I'm a fraud, I have no idea what I'm doing. So show up hands, I know for me it's been that way a lot of times. Exactly, so that is what it is, we all face, so this is an emotion, human emotion that you face it in your life once, twice or more than that or you are in that phase that you are feeling it, it's a feeling, it's natural. So nothing to hide about it and nothing to ashamed about it, right? So we're gonna learn about it, why activities more instead of just reading to the slides. And here is one picture in the next slide, which we liked a lot, that's why I put it in the slide and she would like to explain it.  And you said a few things but you still felt like you didn't know much about the issue.  Just nodding along, kind of understand what's going on. Yeah, baby at flock a few times. Okay, so I have felt this a lot too. That's why I like this image. And I feel like this is a good representation of how imposter syndrome catches us in our daily lives. We don't realize it what's happening but we start feeling ashamed of ourselves or that we don't know enough stuff to talk about with other people. So this is just one of those imposter syndrome moments which I wanted to show you. Okay, so this picture says a lot. If you see, the people who are going through this phase of feeling that they think that they don't know much about the topic but the rest of the world is so accomplished they know that stuff, they are talking about it and they know everything and the moment you start feeling that I'm not very confident about yourself and that is the moment you start to stop even participating in the conversations. For example, there was a meeting last night I was in and there was a topic going on about containers and many people were talking about it and I was like I fell a little withdrawn from the discussion that I, oh my God, these are the geek people. They are talking something very rocket science and then the moment came. Okay, I also use the container and I can probably talk about a sentence or two and then I was not feeling very confident that I should speak about it or not and I was just thinking about it and then the other person just spoke about the same sentence which I was about to talk. So for that time period I was in this feeling. And this is the feeling which can come and go. This can be a phase where you are in for a longer time or this can be the thing which you have been facing your life long since your childhood because of some incidents.  This week I'm just completely going to concentrate on Flock and I don't know what I'm going to do after. Have you ever felt like this? So just show your hands if you feel like this before. So yeah, so this is another example of how imposter syndrome catches you when you are not aware of it and you feel like everybody has everything sorted out in their life, their life is very nice and they're just you know breezing through but I'm struggling with my daily efforts or with my tasks. So this is just a case of imposter syndrome, this happens with everyone. Like this is a short disclaimer, we will come to that later but don't feel worried, this happens with everyone, this is not just you and we will realize that in a few more slides.  So you have to accept yourself how it is, you cannot have all the knowledge in the world of all the topics. So it's okay to not to know a few things. So you don't have to feel negative about it. So next slide, do you feel like you are faking it? I mean you are into a job which you have been doing since ages, I mean many years and then suddenly you start thinking okay, I'm no more good fit for this job, I'm just faking it and what if my boss figure it out, I will be kicked out of the job and then carrying that baggage and the fear almost every day about it. Do you think you can relate? Just show your hands quickly. So there are quite a few hands for all of these different examples of imposter syndrome. So we know that some of us are feeling it. So we are going to play a quick game so that we can identify when we get caught with those symptoms or I mean the game will help us realize what are these situations which can which lead us to feel feeling like an imposter. And also sometimes we see a person is very confident, sometimes overconfident and when she or he says that I'm feeling imposter syndrome or I'm facing this phase in my life, we say okay but you seem very confident even the overconfident sometimes. So this is the side defect of the imposter syndrome if the person deep inside feeling not very confident they tend to show these symptoms that they are very confident. I mean they start faking it so that is another side effect. So it's a game time so you have a paper which you and I is distributing and I'll hand over the mic to B to take it over now. So I hope you are all excited for this game have you ever played bingo before? Yeah. So it's like a bingo for imposter syndrome but we have a few modifications to the game. We will call out the statement and if you have ever felt like that before we want you to cross it out or if that statement applies to you you should cross it out and we will stop the game when we cover like a majority of these statements and after that we will just like do some introspecting and show off hands to see how other people feel too. So if you ever feel like uncomfortable being a part of this game just feel free to take a moment for yourself and I mean maybe you don't want to cross out something so ideally we would like you to be truthful to yourselves but if you don't feel like it we we encourage you to just you know take a moment. The prizes okay it's a secret we are not going to know. Okay so are you ready to start the game? Do you all have the paper for the bingo and a pen? I think yes. It's a very exciting game and it will let you think about yourself more this is the time that you think or introspect your own feelings so don't hesitate to play it honestly and I am also playing with you people. Yeah we are all also playing with you so you will know how we fare too in this game. Okay so is everyone ready? Cool. So the first statement is that I should feel lucky to have gotten into school the job the promotion etc. Have you ever felt like this? If you have felt like this just cross out the box. Yeah. So I'm repeating the statement I should feel lucky to have gotten into the school the job the promotion etc. Does anyone want me to repeat it or did you get it? Okay so yeah so the second statement is I always hold back when working in a group or a team. Always hold back when working in a group or a team. So if you have felt like this before or you feel like don't talk as much to the rest of the team until you are there. You don't voice your opinions. The communication part. The example I stated about the meeting. I was partially aware of the topic but still I was holding back in fact because I was doubting what my statement would be. So the question he asked is what is the meaning of the holding back here. So when you have doubt on yourself in spite of that you know about the topic but still you hold back to share your opinion and don't communicate. For example I have shared one example with you about the meeting where I was aware of the subject but I was holding back a little bit because I have seen people who are much more aware about the topic and I mean they developed that product. So I was a little holding back that I may or may not be correct about the statement I'm going to make. So that is the holding back here. Okay so the other statement have you ever said to yourself I should be able to do everything myself. So I don't need others to help me and I can just do this alone. So the statement is I should be able to do everything myself. Okay so the next one. Never tell someone you met in a bar you are an engineering math or science mayor. So here we just don't want to like it might be a bar or it might be a stranger like you never tell someone some stranger you met like on the first conversation that you had an engineering maths or science major. Or in your career. Because you feel probably that person would be better than you and you just don't say this in the beginning. Yeah so I'll explain you with an example that if you walk in the bar and you say that I am the doctor engineer or I am the modularity engineer and the person may start asking you the questions. Yeah. Okay and you have the fear what if I won't have the answers to his questions. So that is holding you back from disclosing your identity. Or if you feel like telling others that you are a science or engineering major is basically pigeonholing you into a concept or into a stereotype which you don't want to belong to. Okay so can we move. I would like to share the joke but I would you like to share the joke what was it I want to live. All right so please if you can. Okay so I was telling my neighbor that this is like I was a software engineer because I was the first time on my channel. Okay that was funny. Has it ever worked? Well not yet but you never know. Thanks for sharing it was very important. So the next one I should succeed at everything I do because you are afraid to fail and you think that you need to succeed on all the things that you do. I should succeed at everything I do. And just feel free to say bingo when you hit bingo. Okay Okay so moving on the next one is like I should be able to anticipate problems before they occur. If you have ever felt like this like if I should be able to anticipate problems before they occur. So this might be related to your work like some product crashing or some bugs or something or that maybe you could have coded it better to avoid that fault. If you have ever felt like this then just cross it out. Okay so moving on. I always share credit with others even if you did all the work. So the statement is always share credit with others even if you did all the work. So if you have ever done this maybe at your university or school projects yes school projects team projects where you know that your friends don't do nothing but you will put their names at credit for them. No bingos yet. Come on enjoy my plate. Okay so next one is always assume you will fail so you will not be disappointed when you do. I'm going to repeat it always assume you will fail so you will not be disappointed when you do. So this is basically about scholarships or like say job applications where you feel like you won't get the opportunity so you just set up a negative mindset for yourself. Okay so next one I always panic before a test presentation performance or interview. Performance evaluation. So I'm going to be truthful. I'm going to cross this out because I panicked before this workshop a lot. Yeah it says always so always always you have to follow it. Okay and okay so the next one is I was admitted or hired because of some kind of mistake. Yeah yeah. So horizontal vertical slanting but it should all be in a line you know.  Okay so no bingos. Next one I never never challenge yourself too much so the statement is that you never challenge yourself too much maybe at work or just in studies or in personal life or everything. Do you want to go next? The next one never show up men especially. Yeah never show up men especially so it basically means that you never talk back to men. I guess this relates more to women who feel like an imposter and they never talk back to other people so we are giving all the girls out there an extra chance if they've ever felt it you know to get ahead or really on we know you are near. I think it's probably okay if there is some flexibility that you know doesn't have to be always or never but if you have identified you felt this way before I think a lot of times not just like once and sometimes it was not every time it's not always it's not never but like most often it's still okay to cross the space. So then there are other points like yeah yeah the next one is I always apologize for mistakes or for not knowing something.  Are you sure there are no bingos yet? I'm purposefully trying to avoid my bingo here. What? I always assume when people are complimenting you they are just being nice. No straight lines, horizontal lines like slant lines somewhere there just okay so the next one is I never make declarative sentences statements like I know the answer so if you have like if you never confidently say that you know the solution or the answer or you never voice up even if you know it then most of the time yeah most of the time we say okay nobody wants it yeah nobody wants it we are just going to take it the next one is okay so you always attribute your accomplishments to something other than yourself cross it out people cross out things let us know okay so the one after that is you do not let people see you studying or working too hard do not let people see you studying or working too hard are you sure like we have one how come nobody else has one okay maybe this is like just the last two if you don't get a bingo in this nobody gets surprised like we leave it yeah we take the prize yeah so we have a special candy for you but okay we will give it to you later after the workshop nice you went because of this right so she how you feel about winning the bingo I feel happy anybody else who would like to share their experience while playing this game would like to share some example which are relevant to any of these statements we encourage you to come over here or speak about it so that we can learn from you and how did you overcome them I think you want to speak for sure Marie a big clap for Marie so Marie is the badges queen fidora badges queen so I did not get a bingo and there were actually things that you listed or named off that I've overcome and I didn't cross them off because I look at my life and I see what I'm doing and I'm proud of it and I've come to own that and when people ask me about my life I tell them proudly and people are always kind of impressed that I have a full-time job and I do this and I do my fine art and there's a lot that I want to do and accomplish and I guess I'm proud to say that I did not get bingo because thank you because I've overcome some of those feelings so like when I came to my first flock four years ago I think that I struggled with a lot more of these things but I realized that it's okay that I'm not an expert developer or engineer or I don't do ambassadors or anything else I'm here to do design and to contribute that knowledge to this community and I'm proud of that so thank you very much Marie for sharing your experience so that is what is the bottom line is you have to accept yourself you have to respect yourself first because you cannot know all the topics in the world you cannot be the expert of each and everything just be happy of doing what you want to do in your life and accept it accept yourself embrace your skills and respect yourself that is what it is all about and we are also going to do like a quick show of hands so you can count the number of things you crossed out and every thing every box you crossed out gets one point so we did about 15 to 20 statements so I'm just going to divide them into some buckets so if and if you are in that bucket range just you know raise your hand so if you crossed out less than five statements on this bingo just raise your hand okay yeah less than five okay so we have three people here who crossed out less than five if you crossed out five to ten statements on this bingo yes I guess most of us crossed out five to ten statements here and I guess that I mean it's equally balanced between everyone and if you crossed out more than ten statements on this bingo just raise their hand okay so I'm going to raise my hand too because I almost crossed out everything I said somehow but okay so yeah but I just want to let you know that you're not alone how like whatever level of imposter syndrome you feel you are like there are always other people who feel the same and so you're not alone who feels like this and I mean it might be because of your background or your experiences or something but I just want to let you know that there are also other people out there who feel the same way so we are quickly going to move on to our next slides and because we are running short of time for this workshop so after this we yeah we wanted to basically this game was to identify like how imposter syndrome affects us so how this different situation sabotage our like our career or our work or academics and we want you to be able to identify these situations from now on so that whenever something like this happens to you you can recognize it and just stop yourself and take a moment and think like this is just my imposter syndrome speaking I'm doubting myself I'm not going to do it I'm going to rest and I'm going to be confident because I've done so many things till now I have been here for like for me 23 years of my life or like and I'm moving on and I'm going to move on from this too and I'm going to keep on moving forward so this one example I would like to share I was going through the notes of B sorry I'm sharing it there were a lot lots pain notes notes written scribbling flow charts everything and in the corner of those notes it was written do it be bold and it was highlighted start with colors and everything so this is what you can do in your life just to boost your morale and confidence yeah and we also have some tips for how to tackle imposter syndrome later on just in a few slides in a few minutes you'll see them and you can actually use them in your daily life when you feel like imposter syndrome is affecting you yeah so yeah so this is just a quick game we are showing a few quotes on the screen can you identify who said these quotes I mean you can guess basic things even if you cannot see the name like so the quote is why would anyone want to see me again in a movie and I don't know how to act anyway so why am I doing this so when you see the word movie for example you make the connection with an actress or actor or actor yeah some maybe oscar winning actor yeah what no it's not mel Gibson you are very near the name is the same no it's not maybe it's similar not no it's the same she said maryl she said mel and I said the name okay yeah she heard it this was said by maryl strip and we all know how a great actor she is she has already won like eight golden globes and three academy awards and I'm pretty sure you have seen at least one movie with her in it so if not you need to go watch her movies go go go so yeah that was her and even though she's such a brilliant actor she said that quote so it's not just us but also famous people and celebrities who feel it yeah the successful people basically so this is another one and yeah so so I have written 11 books but each time I think oh oh they are going to find out now I've run a game on everybody and they are going to find me out no it's not George I don't mind no what no what no she's a poet memories I mean I said she take it all in could have been an answer but yeah this quote is not by her yeah she's a civil rights activist and also a Nobel laureate yes it it was said by Maya Angelo and Maya and she won a Nobel prize and yet she feels like this so I mean I can never imagine myself winning a Nobel prize and I try to reassure that it's just imposter syndrome talking that maybe I can win it but still she already won it and she feels like it so we just wanted to let you know that it's not just like people like you and me but also successful people who are like very ahead in their careers in the life and they still feel this so this is an important thing which is happening to most of us and we need to be able to identify like when this affects us and to recognize it and you know to effectively like handle it so that we can still be successful or like move forward in our lives yeah so uh just a quick question like do why do we feel like why do we feel this why do we feel like an imposter does anyone have any ideas okay why do we feel like an imposter because it depends on the situation or the circumstances we are in we have more geek or skilled people around us and we feel under confidence and we don't want to talk about the fact we know that is an example of when we encounter the imposter syndrome and sometimes we we have been failing you know continuously on some attempts and then our confidence is going low on every attempt then after that also we start feeling that okay I'm not the one who can accomplish this in my life so at that point we also feel started feeling like this sometimes there are like negative thoughts and the negative discussions coming to towards you from some people and you you know that they are false but still they are impacting your unconscious mind and that is how you start feeling negative about yourself so these are a few points Marie want to talk a little bit more walk so something that so something that I feel and I think other people might identify with as well like starting as a youth like you see maybe an older successful person like you're young maybe you're seven you're eight you're 12 and you think to yourself that person has it all together they have a career they have a life and you continue on and you get those things but your mind never really changes you're still with your own mind and like you feel like there should be this moment where you're like I've made it I've I've done it all or I've accomplished these things but you're still you're still that same person so part of you like hold on or me part of me hold on to that feeling that I haven't accomplished that thing yet but I think in reality there's not going to be that epiphany moment there might be a moment where you feel the success or you feel an accomplishment or but you're still in that same mind that you've had your whole life I mean I don't know if anyone else feels that way but I do yes absolutely and one of the point which is which you might agree or not but I'll give you the example to back that up your physical parents also comes into the picture sometimes for example I love dancing a lot my friend knows how much I love dancing but I have never ever participated in any dance competition during my school or college days because I think I look bulky and if I dance on the stage people will judge me and I it'll look awkward or bad but but when I started doing it after a long long long time I mean in the Red Hat Pune office we have the opportunity to do dance on the stage just show show it off to people the number of compliments I got even the people who saw me dancing I mean they can tell that I dance well so these kind of things small things can hold you back and I not today I regret that that I I never participated in any any dance competition during my school or college why I have not done that before so there is also a category where you you feel like your physical appearance can come in between your success so we don't have a lot of time so I will say them a bit very fast and Justin wants to skip the slides so I don't want to say again all the things that we said but we want to emphasize that I mean we we are not alone in this so and it's okay if we fail or it's okay even to suck because in this way we will learn from our mistakes and we will be better so we have let's say two kind of tips when you suck at something but gradually improve two things can happen right so you know what being awful at something really feels like and you realize that you do have a talent or a perseverance and this builds confidence at you so have you ever heard of the quote like failures are the stepping stone to success so it's like suppose you applied for a job maybe you didn't get that job but you got another better job because you had that interview you practiced there you networked with other people there and they recommended you to a better position which might have been a better fit for you so we just want you to know that it's okay to fail that you might fail a lot of times everybody fails a lot of times but still like it will teach you something and you should take that as a learning opportunity it will teach you about hard work and it will teach you other aspects maybe and you will realize that you can keep going on and on so it will just build your perseverance yeah so we just this is a last like we have some tips to tackle imposter syndrome so with the game I hope we taught you a little bit about situations where you can identify imposter syndrome and these are a few tips to tackle it if you have ever if you ever feel like imposter syndrome is creeping up on you or like you feel like your imposter syndrome is acting up again before say a big opportunity or something so you can so the first one is like you should keep a journal so I don't know how many people actually do this but I recently tried it a little bit and it can be anything like some small points about your day about what you did or like how you felt so this will help you basically identify maybe imposter syndrome situations or like you might write about the challenges you faced and maybe later on after you a few days you realize that maybe it was wasn't big as a failure as you thought it would be I agree that keeping a journal will help you a lot because even if you are in a job and after six months or one year you are assessed in that job for the appraisal I never used to maintain a journal but I have been done for a year and every I'm I don't think there is any human who can remember everything you do for one last year then my manager suggested me to keep a journal of what the things you have I've been doing and I was amazed to look at that the points the number of points I have written for myself for that year which I have done which I would never have been able to remember if we I have not written them in a journal and I think also one thing to note there too is after you do it for a while you'll go back and you'll read something you wrote you'll be like you'll look back and you'll be like wow did I really think that way or like wow I was so silly of me to think that I couldn't do this thing and you'll look back you know a year in hindsight and realize that whatever these challenges or these things that you were going through or the things that you were trying to accomplish were they'll feel like you'll feel silly or you'll feel it'll be it'll be a funny experience just to go back and read and be like wow like that's how I was thinking even just like a year ago and see how things have changed for yourself yeah and another one I want to quickly emphasize is that maybe you should build like a positive community around you you can have a group of friends who discuss like with whom you discuss challenges you faced recently or you discuss about your work or just like personal life so basically build a professional support network and you can ask them for advice or just you know talk to them so that you know that they are also going through similar experiences or they have also faced these kind of situations sometimes in their life and that will just help you keep moving forward so yeah and another another thing we wanted to say was that and this is very important like you have to recognize that failure is a part of learning process so I don't think I can emphasis this enough so I know it's tough I have been there myself I have failed multiple times in I have applied for so many scholarships and I'm not sure like I have I got maybe one or two so but still it's a learning process with every application I learned something new about myself about what I'm doing and that I'm actually contributing something here in Fedora or at my university and I'm doing something good even though it's a bit even it's if it's little or something yeah so I just want to quickly go through this and so the first one is like keep a journal second one is you set some goals for yourself so maybe you can take up running just set a goal that I will run one kilometer every day and when you do that you feel a sense of accomplishment like you did something small already and you do it consistently so it will help you you know feel better about yourself that you are already doing this much and it will create that positive energy into your work or like personal life and the third one is what we already talked about like build a professional support network it can be professional or it can be a group of friends and that can also help you get like by 360 degrees we mean like it can help you get diverse feedback so you will know different opinions from different people about what they are going through and you will know different perspectives about the same thing which you might not have thought before update your CV you have many more accomplishments than you think you have do not underestimate yourself in your resume write it all there maybe they can go through it they can read it it's but you have to put yourself out there and recognize that you have done it all and be proud about it the next one is get a coach it can be your friend or some peer or maybe like somebody yeah some mentor or some senior from your work or university someone it's just someone who has gone through the same challenges or like who can guide you through the process we already talked about recognize learning and failure are okay and yeah keep a positive feedback file it can be your journal just write that just write something simple like i'm glad i did this today like this is one thing i did today and i'm very happy about it or something simple like that and it will help you reinforce positivity in your life the next one is do things outside of work that make you feel good so basically take up hobbies like we said you can set some small goals and try to achieve that and the last one is like yeah this is very important that you say it out loud to someone you trust like that you talk about your imposter syndrome so the first step to tackling imposter syndrome is trying to identify it and the next one is like saying it like recognizing it and talking to people that that this is happening so that you learn how they're doing like if they're feeling the same or like how they're tackling it and what they're doing about it or so they'll call you out when you are feeling like an imposter but you're really you really are okay so these are a few tips from us and that is the end of this imposter syndrome workshop we will have the unconscious bias and training workshop after this and yeah if you thanks a lot for being here and if you have any questions just let us know now we will have we plan to have a five minute break which might be a little bit shorter because we are running a little bit out of time so it might be a two minute break but if you want to go out and grab some water or coffee or just feel free to do that does anyone have any questions so hey I found out that it doesn't really help me to know that other people feel the same thing feeling imposter syndrome because I like that well they just have this syndrome but they're still way better than I am and I shouldn't be here so it doesn't really help me to know that what helped me is a video that I saw once on the internet I don't even remember that it was kind of popular there was this guy dancing at the music festival it was on the hilltop and he was dancing in a crazy manner all alone on the on the sign there were people sitting and it was long like four five minutes and then there's another person who comes and join him and and dance in a crazy manner too and of course 30 seconds later there's like a crowd of people joining them and all dancing in a crazy manner together so what I learned is yeah exactly so I learned it's it's very important to have leaders and to have people who who do this crazy thing but it's extremely important to have the number two that's the person who joins them and who creates the whole movement so in a in a in a world where everybody is pushing you to be a leader and all that I think it's very important to not be the leader but be the second person who's going to create this movement and push and help me think forwards so I don't really strive to like be better than everybody as I used to do that well both my parents are teachers so I was kind of pushed in that way but yeah so I think it's also important to like not try to be the best at everything that's all thanks a lot okay so we are going to have a quick break a few minutes and then we'll start the next unconscious bias training workshop thank you 32 yeah and we have a lot of games planned there too so we excited more prizes for you if you like you're welcome to a really suck and it's not just like in your head do other people try to say to you that you really really suck like more than one person nice see this is a posture syndrome well you get stuck sometimes but not more than if you're else yeah I mean if you're really really suck they will say to you like you really really suck and sometimes


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The following is a presentation of TFNN, the morning market kickoff with your host Tommy O'Brien. Tuesday morning everybody I'm Tommy O'Brien, coming to you live from TFNN, hope everyone had a great Labor Day weekend out there, starting the week off, four day week of course, starting things off on Tuesday morning and we got markets barely in the red this morning. We have an S&P, we'll call it flat negative by less than one point, zooming in on the action on Friday, quite a little sell off early in the session. You accelerate higher into the close, little bit of volatility on that Friday action over the Labor Day weekend. You actually trade higher in terms of over Labor Day itself. Monday you trade to a high of 45-48 right around that area, we're about 15 points off that level. You see the market catch is a bit at about 5.30 in the morning. You trade up about eight points coming into the open though, all the markets right near flat. We got the S&Ps negative by one. You have the NASDAQ 100 negative by one right now. You got the Dow negative by 13 and you got the Russell within about half a point or where it closed on Friday. We'll call that flat as well. Bitcoin with some volatility. How about that up to 53,125 right now you're back to 51,095. You give back $2,000 El Salvador. They're going to be recognizing Bitcoin as a currency stores there. Business is going to be required to accept Bitcoin as a form of currency. Some analysts coming out saying that's really not going to be put in the bid that you might expect into the cryptocurrency Bitcoin, but nonetheless catching a bit. We put Bitcoin back on a daily. You see the acceleration we're bumping up to the 618 of the full move we had from the 65,520 high back in April. You trade down to under 30,000. We've now clawed back 61.8%. Keep your eye on that. We're literally bumping right up against that level this morning. 51,711 on my chart. And we're trading at 51,075. Crude backing off some of the acceleration it had accelerated into Thursday and Friday last week above $70 this morning. We're back to 67,91 in crude. You got gold off $20. We have some dollar strength this morning. You got gold down $20 at 18,12. Gold has had quite a pop. Now interesting, talked about it on my show on Friday. Critical area for gold might be bumping up against a little bit of resistance here. That resistance correlating to where you were July 15, also towards the end of July, also correlating to a 618. We just talked about a 618 right in Bitcoin. Correlating to the 618 of the full move gold had going from 1920 down to 1676, or that or thereabouts. Bouncing up to that level about 1827, the high on Friday to get it in full context. You're talking about 1836,90. The high we have technically today, going back to the open saffron. Yes, it was last night. You're talking about a high of 1833, $20 off that level so far on gold. Silver's down 30 cents. Silver, giving back some of the gains as well it had. Look at that bar on silver. Let's zoom in. That bar on silver, you had almost a full dollar. I think it was a full dollar, $23.91. Yes, to $24.94 on Friday's action this morning, giving back some of those gains to $24.49 and notes and bonds. The 10-year, we're getting a little bit of lower price and higher yield this morning. You got the yield on the 10-year this morning. We're talking about 1.37%. We're down about 13 ticks. Interesting, you get this type of action. We have no market move whatsoever, right? S&P is flat, NASDAQ flat, Dow flat, and we'll call the Russell flat. When you're within about five points on the Dow, one point on the Russell, one point in the NASDAQ 100. But we see higher yield this morning up about four ticks right now. Four basis points. You're talking about decent move. You get the 10-year down 13 ticks. As we come into a couple of weeks from now, we're going to get another Fed meeting. Late September, that'll be on the table. We just got, of course, the jobs number on Friday for the month of August. A tough number. For the first time, I really think that a pullback could be possible. And it sounds like blast for me. I know it does. But you're talking about a market that is just relentlessly higher. And what I was trying to wrap my brain around this weekend is that there's been so many revisions of what was expected when the economy charged higher and when the market specifically got ahead of the economic resurgence. And it seems like every time we miss on a jobs number that the market pretty much just represents the best case scenario as you progress a couple months into the future. And now, of course, the rationalization of the 200 plus thousand jobs added for the month of August was that the Delta variant was a four to six delay, four to six weeks delay of the economic resurgence that we're all expecting, hoping, pricing into the market. Yes, that's possible, but that's one case of many. And I feel like every time we get a type of miss like that, that there's no recalibration in the market to at least the recognition that the possible scenarios that could play out are now at least representing that there could be a much greater chance of a much slower recuperation of the economy and the jobs that we're hoping to add, particularly relevant this morning with the extra unemployment benefits expiring yesterday. You now have seven and a half million people, I think, just immediately losing that source of revenue. That was pushing a lot of spending. The whole point of that money was to keep people alive as they got back into the jobs that they would come back. We now expire those benefits at a time when we're only getting gaining two hundred and thirty five thousand jobs.  It's a lot of personal bias that I'm spewing this point of the show to give you some analysis in my own opinions. But it's something you at least want to keep your eye on, because at least the pressure coming up on some of the jobs numbers in the next two or three months, I said, there's there's only so long that you can argue these cases before you get to the point that you say, listen, we were wrong. It's not happening. The economy has not come back as quick as we thought. The benefits have now expired. And we might not see the type of growth that we were pricing into these market prices. Now, I say all that. We get to the article that starts off the program this morning with Goldman, cutting U.S. growth forecast as consumers sees harder path. It's a pretty slight cut here. We're talking about economic expansion in twenty twenty one cut to five point seven percent from six percent. What they do, though, is that they up the twenty twenty two forecast as they they see follow through into more of a pickup in twenty twenty two. So even they are arguing, listen, we have a delay here in twenty twenty one, not as quick as we thought we're trimming it from six percent to five point seven. We're pushing the twenty twenty two forecast up to four point six from four point five, explaining the downgrade in twenty twenty one. Excuse me. And this is their economist. Walker wrote that American consumers are likely to spend less on the delta variance emergence, fading fiscal support and a switch from demand for goods to services. He added that supply chain disruptions had hit inventory restocking as well. So pretty marginal in terms of the cut.  The bank also lifted its projection for the unemployment rate to four point two percent from four point one percent. So a pretty slight number, almost as slight as you could make it. But I don't see how you see that type of economic expansion with two hundred thousand jobs added. The point being is that, man, there's a lot to live up to in the next month or two. Maybe three. You can make the case. But if you don't live up to it to then, what happens by the end of the year, if we're not seeing some positive numbers out of September, October, November jobs, they're going to be here before we know it, folks. And people might not be waiting till the end of the year to find out how those numbers go, especially coming into a year where you're talking about we're up almost twenty percent in the S and P start off the year around thirty seven, thirty eight hundred. We're trading at forty five hundred right now in the S and P and tax, tax hikes, definitely possible in the years to come. But all my point to a little bit of selling in the future, we'll find out. Stay tuned, folks. We'll be right back. Golden ratios give shape to everything in our world represented in the Fibonacci sequence. These special numbers define the patterns that make up our universe. Not even markets can escape the omnipotence of these ratios. 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This thing starts at record territory to begin the year and we have not had that many pullbacks folks in this market. That is a weekly.  You're talking about records everywhere in this and barely a pullback. It's pretty well defined channel line. We're talking about it many times. You put this thing even on a three-year weekly back to the lows. You had a little bit of some outliers maybe to the low in the bottom. This channel line originally began on my charts. You're talking about from the November acceleration. They correlate pretty well whether it's the highs that we had around that area whether it's the lows from November 2nd when things really accelerated in the market. We come down to that area around March and as you can see whether it was June, July or August we get bounces on that level correlating right to the acceleration from November and where we are in this channel line. You could be off of the higher area or maybe we got a little bit of a smaller channel line dating back to about May in the S&P's but no matter how you shake it in the NASDAQ we're bumping up near the highs. You back it up to there's your November acceleration. This one correlates pretty well in the lows in terms of November to the low in March to the low in May. I've talked about it many times in NASDAQ bumping up towards the higher boundary of that line correlating to a trend line from February 12th as well across that level. Excuse me. All right jumping around to what else we got going on across the market. So Bitcoin ETF is likely coming soon. Is it better to just buy Bitcoin? You know it's interesting all the articles coming out with Bitcoin in terms of and that's really the point of this right. We're going to have ETFs. It would be interesting if the first time you get an ETF that maybe that's another high. I mean it's not a coincidence. I've talked about it many times. You back things up to where Bitcoin makes it's all time high. The daycoin base goes public not a shock at all. And then you back down to 30,000. We've got almost a second acceleration at a time when basically that's an impending that the market's thinking about it but we're bumping right up against that 618 on the retracement of Bitcoin at 51,060. All right folks let's jump over to our man Kevin Hanks every trading day 11 a.m. Eastern time on Tiger TV the TD Ameritrade Network fast market Kevin Hanks Alex Coffey and the team breaking down the action of the day walking you through hypothetical trades talking about defined risk and options. Kevin Hanks. Good morning. Good morning Tommy O'Brien. Yep you know welcome to the start of the fall trading season and you know we're off to a pretty hesitant start. Let's put it that way. I mean you know we've got all four markets either unchanged or down less than a tenth of a percent so I would say this is a very cost pretty cautious start to the trading week though although you do have yields drifting a little higher here but often considered a pretty hesitant start to the week. Kevin you got right to it man I was going to say kind of interesting that we do have a little bit of a move in terms of we got yields we got the 10 year down about 12 ticks so you got a 10 year yield up to about 1.37 the market really not no huge movement in terms of where we are like you're talking about a tame movement to start things off. A little bit of a trim of the forecast out there from Goldman on GDP Kevin I'm going to get here ask you like fundamentally we've talked about it before but we just got the jobs number on Friday of course we didn't get to talk to you we talked to you last on Thursday. A little bit of a miss on the jobs number we got Goldman out there trimming things a little bit. What do you see as these months come we got a Fed meeting of course coming up in a couple weeks. I think there's a lot of expectations you know they're going to be built out and what are you looking for as we kind of you know get into like you say the summer's passed us man it's still hot in Florida Kevin but for many the summer's passed us we're getting into fall trading people maybe back at their desks or desks at home. What are you looking at on the next couple months fundamentally that maybe you're just keeping on your radar of what the market is kind of anticipating looking for. Yeah well you know the person that jumps out at me with Friday's number is the wages part you know the wages part of the unemployment data was hot at point six that was higher than expected the 235,000 jobs I'm not sure what the miss was I think I don't know was the missed the jobs or was the missed the expectations for the jobs because now that the benefits have worn off as of September 6th you should start to see those seven and a half million people start to meet those jobs so I think the expectations for this job data was the missed not necessarily the number because that collision between those people and those jobs and we'll get a jolt's number tomorrow morning that's expected to be right around 10 million jobs that's the next big hurdle for this economy is to get those people aligned with those jobs and when that does settle I think drone power have a much better idea of the employment part of his mandate and so I think that's still uncertain and it may take more than 30 days to get through but you know I think that's what we're really uh looking at right now Tommy is getting all these open positions filled what I think is so fascinating man and and I think you're right that you know those estimates man put talking about an August jobs number with benefits still there obviously they weren't factoring in or whether it was even the variant whatever it was but what I find so fascinating Kevin is that the market just takes it in stride right so even if it was a miss the market just kind of just moves right past it and says well that was a miss but that just means that it's all going to become and do like the next month and I just think the expectation my own take is like man these these numbers coming up whether we get you're talking about the feds always interesting when we get the fed meeting because of what's happening with the volatility when we start getting the September October November jobs number there's only so often so long I think that they can say that stuff in the market just doesn't even budge Kevin it doesn't even move lower when the analysts like you said at least we're wrong you know at least in the best case scenario they've just pushed things back but I think the market is just turning to this best case scenario situation and there's only so long maybe it can do that we get some earnings this week coming up Kevin still we get some names out there what are you guys going to be talking about on the program today yeah we're going to be looking at earnings like Bolio is going to do a presentation at PayPal and the payment space today as we get late in earnings Tommy as you know the names get a little thin so we kind of make our keep ourselves busy looking at other big important names so the focus of today's show will be the payment space so PayPal today and I love what you guys do man I love the trades of course that are based around earnings I make those trades myself whether you're just looking out to a Friday expiration of the week earnings but I love the trades you guys do Kevin where you push it out you know six weeks or something like that leading into an earnings event maybe you're leading into the end of the year that we got some volatility coming out in the payment space talk about a cool space El Salvador they're just bypassing all the dollars man going straight to crypto this morning yeah see how that shakes out I'm not sure how important an insolvent country is adopting crypto I'm not sure how big of a move that is for crypto I mean obviously it jumped overnight and it's come back down because I'm not sure that's the game changer everyone thinks it is Tommy I would I would agree that's our own two takes folks but I would agree one one analyst I was reading out there today said they got a bankrupt economy unfortunately and that's kind of the truck they're turned into Kevin man we appreciate the conversation as always we'll be watching today we look forward to the conversation about the payment 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agree uh el salvador unlikely to spur more bitcoin adoption so mark mobius out there uh he's out there talking about basically saying uh unlikely to spur in terms of demand now the way he puts it and i let me just get down and find the exact quote and talking about yeah mobius said el salvador is grasping its draws with bitcoin uh the central american nation unfortunately a bankrupt country with real problems um there are other available options to process and they only bought 400 bitcoins folks talking about 21 million dollars that is literally nothing nothing nothing at all um be careful out here you got an etf that's going to be coming to market you got an etf yeah you may have some more buying but folks when you talk about the retail exposure to bitcoin i mean robin hood has brought it to the masses already i'm not sure an etf is going to bring it to the masses the one thing it might do is actually you know buy the rumor sell the news type event on that market bitcoin just for some context as well we're trading at 51 thousand you're back to the 618 of the full move we had up maybe you had a lot more pumping in bitcoin because it's the headline crypto out there ethereum almost made it back up to the all-time high as a 4406 you make it uh above 4 000 actually on friday it reached a high of 4056 you see a much bigger clawback of the losses you had in ethereum versus bitcoin ethereum a stronger cryptocurrency in the recent run it had than bitcoin it's really tough to be to pick winners and losers right is ethereum or bitcoin the better crypto play right now go i'm not sure and if anybody tells you they have a plan that's their personal bias but if you want money into the crypto sector right what you can always do is maybe you put a thousand dollars into you know crypto maybe you put five thousand maybe you put a hundred dollars whatever you're comfortable with uh point being maybe that's your crypto fund and then what you can do is you can trade strength versus weakness within the two currencies right so you know that is a point where ethereum looks a lot stronger than bitcoin right now on this recent run we'll see how it reacts you know you have ethereum down almost four percent right now you have bitcoin positive one point eight percent technically so varying a bit but that's something to keep your eye on too and keep your mind around that's one way and i don't folks i don't own any bitcoin i don't own an ethereum um but if i had money in the crypto sector i would be thinking about putting a portion that i wanted to use a very small portion because most of these as long as you're comfortable with them potentially going to zero and then i would interchange those for different cryptos depending on the strength of the weakness of those cryptos and maybe by doing that you're able to grow that more exponentially or exponentially versus what you're talking about if you're just trying to pick winners and losers between the crypto sector when you're going to get some variations um completely all right jumping around what else we got going on uh let's see where do we start off so an interesting on out here i just want to comment on this and you know it's a little bit of a comment but so i'm looking through i'm looking at what we have coming up right we have lululemon earnings are coming up we got game stop earnings coming up we got i was a oracle earnings coming up this week we'll get into that in a moment so i'm always pulling up articles getting ready for the program and what i found interesting was i was over here a fox business news article just came up trying to find news events economic numbers this week earnings out this week you know things to put on kind of your your mind frame or what to look for what's possible i'm always looking for earnings events maybe for trades in my newsletter uh and what i found such a shame is that on fox business and i'm not a fan of fox but this they all do this what i'm about to tell you about all right bloomberg does it cnn does it cnbc does it is that they hawk the worst possible financial products that you could ever think of and in this case it's even better that fox owns the one that they're hawking so this is a product let me get this back here um that i linked to now i saw i'm i'm just on a regular article here talking about the week ahead and there was a link on here saying that variable i'm going to scroll down so you can see where this is okay it's on the your money section it says uh here's why variable rate student loan refinancing may be a smart move and just by scanning this page i said what what is that article who who in the variable who in the student loan refinancing business uh no in market consumer market people looking to refinance their student loans with rates where we are the right now why you would consider a variable rate yes there is a slight benefit we're on the market right we know that if you if you don't lock in the rate that you have right now and you let vary yes they're going to give you a little bit of a better rate right now the risk on the other side of that when we're in a uh kevin just talked about it there was wage inflation in the jobs number friday and there weren't the jobs that we thought we were going to get okay so i have to click on this i said myself i have to click and see what this is right so i click on the variable rate student loan and it brings me over to an article published today here's why variable rate student loan refinancing may be a smart move oh hey by the way uh this is sponsored by credible which is majority owned by our parent fox so fox is out there at fox business and they all do this folks okay that's the point this is not a knock on fox it's just how i happen to google them find them to which is majority owned by our parent fox corporation and solely responsible for its services and what it walks you through is that it just creates the best case scenario of if a borrower refinances forty thousand dollars worth of student loans you can save more than forty six hundred dollars on a ten year interest rate and that is because rates on the five-year variable rate student loan fell to two point five nine percent in contrast rates on a ten-year fixed with three point four six so if you lock in a five-year variable rate you don't lock it in i guess if you just uh secure a five-year variable rate you can lock in two point six no you can't lock it in i keep saying lock in right this is the whole point it's crazy um it's just such a a disservice to to combine this you know it's a little bit of a rant folks people do it all the time i hear ads on bloomberg of rudy juliani hawking some some scam gold coin company and i'm saying to myself why does michael bloomberg that's worth fifty five billion dollars need to sell time on on their bloomberg radio station for rudy juliani to hawk gold coins for some company and and siphon money out of people that don't know any better i wish that these companies with all this money would do a little bit of a better job of taking money from people that they really you know we're doing a service for people because this is not a service saying that if you refinance forty thousand dollars you can save maybe forty six hundred dollars meanwhile do you know the type of losses you open yourself up to if rates rise in a possible inflationary environment anyway keep your eye on that because you know we all have the ability to vote with our dollars and that stuff really frustrates me when companies that just have no need for these types of things and they're all over the internet all right and that's why i bring up what is bloomberg fox cnn but to be hawking out there saying you know students potentially should be refinancing because you can save forty six hundred dollars unfortunately there are a lot of students with a lot of student debt that have no financial awareness that come out of student of a um a degree that 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territory got the rustle positive by five points as well interesting you get that type of an acceleration of the rustle and we got the dow getting punished big time right now dow down a half a percent 192 points i know bowing's down big yeah look at bowing down 1.7 percent eventually bowing will be a buy at some point folks but as i was talking about you know invest with your dollars invest in what you care about and you believe in that's part of it i mean it's very difficult to not invest any of your dollars in china um but when you look at just the scape of the scope of what's happening in terms of she and what's going on over there and the lockdown in terms of the company i don't use tiktok folks because it's pretty cool uh i've been on it but when they first change their terms of service i mean they're able to get your fingerprint i think you're your face recognition there's so many things that they get in there um just be careful on that one and be willing to vote with your dollars when you can i mean i have an iphone they produce their phones in china right i'm not oblivious to that fact um i'm only willing to sacrifice so much in my personal life i'm not going to just cut the cord and not you know and go live without electronics of any degree um but it's something to think about because the world is changing and when you look at what you believe in what you vote for um there's a lot that you can vote for in your dollars and talking about you know those those articles out there whether it's fox or bloomberg you know and you know whether it's bloomberg allowing ads with rudy juliani hawking gold or fox pumping their own credible site to have student loan um student loans refinanced with a variable rate it's just such a disservice to everybody i could never run a business and lay my head down at night when i'm a company as big as fox taking ads to pump financial products that talk about financing student debt on a variable basis it's just ridiculous uh bowing down about 1.6 today you look at where we are on bowing you back it up to a three-year weekly could be we're creeping actually below that trend line now maybe we're going to break that trend line you put back on a five-year daily to see the full collapse we got down to 89 dollars you bounce off that area in october you bounce again off that trend line exactly in july and we've been skipping around that area now actually below that area though basically for the first time today breaking that channel line an ode to our man bud waltz we trade low we come back we test that channel line you watch out you could trade even low from there all right jumping around the line let's see what else we got going on we got some companies out with some stories today we got jd they're gaining a little bit today they got a new president that's a chinese company i would not be investing in that bowing yeah so this is the deal with them ryan air is not going to purchase 10 737 max 10 billion tens of billions of dollars it would have been they cited disputes over prices not what you want to see for a company like bowing that could use a win out there so they're paying the price today down 1.6 percent on their shares Spotify gets an upgrade to overweight from equal weight at keen bank let's see how they're trading on the open spot never quite gotten into Spotify i've been fortunate to have serious Spotify up 5.1 percent still well off the highs early this year of 387 this is quite a volatile company down to 200 almost 20168 as recently as august 19th you're up almost 30 percent just in the last few weeks for Spotify all the markets creeping towards the rare we got the nasdaq 100 down 10 points now let's see what else we got johnson johnson merc am jam downgraded several of the big large cap pharmaceutical companies saying upside is limited for those names and yeah match group on they're joining the s and p 500 online dating mtch mtch there's your pop up 6.7 percent give it back some of the gains climbing towards the all time high 174 68 but yeah quite a quite an achievement for them as they and they have so many brands match group i mean they're associated with match let's see if they list them in here um yeah okay cupid plenty of fish our time tinder and they they almost have a monopoly not quite though you got bumble out there right is bumble bmbl i believe down 1.3 percent for bumble today taking a look at bumble breaking out of the downtrend since they go public 84 80 i had to see kind of coming right in that area let's extend that one to the right there we didn't come quite back and test it but maybe that was your test there on august 25th and august 26th we're going to activate that trend line and i mean you could it's always an art not a science folks maybe it matches up there but uh bumble trading down 1.4 percent today but we're up to 60 dollars this would be a critical area as you see up to kind of the high we had on June 25th there and look at these markets folks i would listen if you have a ton of gains out there in a portfolio all right i love doing the news i'm giving you a little bit more analysis today breaking down because even in my own newsletter folks give it a try i encourage your rocket equities and options we have equity trades we have option trades as the name uh describes for the first time i'm really wrapping around that there's the potential folks i mean you know everybody's got their opinions of of why we've missed the jobs numbers right but we had a missed jobs number 235 thousand i mean these analysts ain't fools okay in terms that they were looking for 700 thousand jobs right or something like that they're not fools they were just wrong but the the thing is is that the market was pricing it off of some of the expectation that these analysts had then the analysts are proven wrong then the market does not reprice it it just changes the rationale for higher prices to further in the future that's the most fascinating part of this is that it's not that there's a miss it's there's a miss and that there's a complete recalibration of the reasoning that allows stock prices to go unchanged when there's obviously an analyst missed but the market is pricing the price of equities off of some of those analyst estimations so if they're wrong the market should lead you to that it's just that's you could you could go round and round on that folks where you wind up um you know you figure that one out you'll make a lot of money in this market we got yields rising a little bit as i said we get the tenure um you're not going to get rising yields in a higher market right now we get some rising yields you watch out which is why it was a little interesting that we had the tenure down 12 or 13 ticks this morning and we had markets unchanged not often that you would see a rising yield to the tune of up about four basis points so we were sitting at about 1.34 1.33 we're sitting at 1.37 right now and the market had just shaken it off the market might not shake that off for too long i mean it's going to be dicey folks if you got a lot of gains and you're carrying them into not necessarily the fed meeting in september because i think chairman powell's got enough ammunition from this jobs miss to extend things and not have to rush any type of tapering but really it's the jobs numbers because there's going to be a lot of expectations come september and really come october november september if there's a miss you can write the script yourself things just got started right labor day was september 6th everybody had benefits until september it takes a month or two to get a job you got to wait for those numbers to come in okay so if we miss in september you know what they're going to say the market looks like it'll listen then we go to october though man those excuses and those reasons all right not necessarily excuses but there are reasons to excuse the misses so they're kind of excuses and those excuses are running out folks i believe in this market we're going to be fine all right please get out there get vaccinated it's safe it's effective that's what's going to get us over this hump folks you want a strong economy we got to open it back up that's the quickest and best way to do it um but we might have some hiccups folks in the way because we haven't had many hiccups when this market's been up about 20% on a straight line shot to the upside going back all the way to november last year stay tuned folks we'll be right back to finish up the show sharpening your skills as an investor is like getting better at playing a musical instrument you have to practice sure but you also need excellent instruction from experts at tfnn you'll get advice and guidance from the authority and technical market analysis and it's not just dry tedious text either tfnn airs live financial content streamed live on tfnn.com and tfnn's youtube channel with tiger tv live every market day from 8 30 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this week uh wednesday we get game stop game stop shares this morning up about 1.4 percent we jump over to the volatility that we're looking at how about a 35 dollar move in either direction uh this week quite a move indeed for for a stock like game stock where any week you can move anyway let alone with some volatility from the earnings potentially 35 dollars what's that i mean that's talking about uh what jishai of a 20 percent move potentially on their earnings but we know that stock moves anyway 20 percent give or take we got lulu lemon out with their numbers as well on wednesday lulu that's some volatility for you more than a five percent move priced in for the event we're talking about a 24 dollar almost a 25 dollar move for the week this is where folks if you're trading options check out fast market uh lulu lemon when you can do 25 dollars so even directionally you can have a 12 to 13 dollar move as you can you can be selling volatility right you can be selling puts or selling calls to somebody and you can get a 12 dollar move and potentially break even that's a that's a decent move on the stock now with that said we know it's priced because that's the type of move they get but nonetheless lulu i believe they are out on wednesday yes they are wednesday tomorrow now right so we got lulu out tomorrow we got game stop out tomorrow and uh oracle i think we get out thursday which is another big one no no we're not oracle do they have it out there yeah i think they're wrong on that one yeah september ninth it could be but i think they're wrong on the oracle because i got them this is the 13th in here nonetheless game stock lulu lemon uh should be an interesting one these markets got a little negative action to kick things off the da really accelerating down 209 nasdaq down 19 thanks so much for starting your morning with me folks starting off fall trading stay tuned we got live trading all day we got a man dave white he's back today we got basil up next fast 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The Floyd County Sheriff's Department sat in on a conference call from the White House as they provided much-needed information on rules and obligations they must follow during this COVID-19 crisis. Floyd County Sheriff John Hunt invited me to attend this conference call and explain to me the added dangers they face while serving and protecting their citizens. I have served on the president's coronavirus task force. The secretary is actually over there right now as we speak. This is something that at the federal level we've been addressing for over two months now, but with respect to the role of law enforcement we recognize the extremely important role that you all have in the responsibilities for custodial management throughout the country. Okay yeah we've had our update this morning our conference call obviously with the Office of Health and Homeland Security and people who were briefing us weekly or morning. We've already taken some steps last week. Friday we were issued an order from the Supreme Court to limit access into our justice center. That'll minimize the obviously the efforts of spreading the COVID-19 if we were in contact with it. We transport about 20 a day from jail to court, vice versa court to jail. So we're trying to minimize that interaction and try to keep them isolated and keep from bringing something into the jail. The jail is down to zero visitations, not allowing any visitations at the jail. And you got to imagine if something was if they was to get one case then they're going to get a you know everybody there would get a case. So that'll hopefully minimize some of it and restrict a lot of the visitors from coming and going and hopefully until this can pass. It makes it even more challenging you know it's already challenging enough with the heroin and fentanyl and just every little thing in the world you know the meth and then now you got to worry about protective devices and worry about maybe coming in contact and we were talking earlier I mean even though we're Floyd County and we haven't had a case yet it's a small world when you start pinning the you know putting the needles in the in the geographical board and trying to figure out where this starts at because we all have family from all across Kentucky that come in contact with us and spread it so you could have it or have a contact with it and not know it. So we're trying to take those measures of preventing and just in case we don't want to spread it to nobody even if somebody wants to have it or get it so it's challenging every day now. There's some things we can do to minimize foot traffic coming and going but other than that we we still got to provide a service to the people we got to go out we got to answer our calls and we got to interact when we you know when it's called upon so yeah these guys still have to put themselves out there and hopefully I can my job is provide them the resources and based on these conference calls of what I need to do and what I need to provide to them and keep them safe minimize it by getting good facts listening to good source thank god we got a good governor who has been on this from day one who has given us leadership I mean daily twice daily three times a day so that's been beneficial to all of us in government we're in good hands we just got to do a few things to probably for the next couple of weeks until we see this get by or get some some something done to it to minimize it