I'm Tim Apachele, your host for Moving Hawaii Forward. Each Tuesday, our show is dedicated at looking at traffic on Oahu and finding ways to both address it and hopefully solutions to improve it. One option to relieve traffic was a demonstration ferry project, the Department of Transportation Services, set up back in 2008. It was short-lived, however, there were and have been discussions about from a couple lawmakers that maybe another ferry could be put in service. I'm here with Stan Osserman, also known as Stan the Energy Man, who may have some ideas about ferries or potential involvement of alternative energy for this future concept. So with me today, Stan, thank you very much for coming on the show. Very much appreciate it. And I'm looking forward to some of your ideas about not only ferry service, but also alternative energy for other vehicles. So thank you. Good to be here, Tim. Yeah. Nice to finally meet you and congratulations on your show. Oh, appreciate it. It's been looking good so far, so I'm really impressed that we definitely need to be talking more about transportation. As you know, Blue Planet keeps giving Hawaii and Oahu a D-minus and D-plus area for transportation, and we're not doing too well in renewable transportation so far. So thanks for the help. Texas A&M, their traffic review for the nation puts so Honolulu about number seven. So we're always either six or seven, and that's not a good place to be when you're trying to attract tourists. Nope, sure not. Yeah. Dan, how did you get into the alternate energy business and how did you all start this? Well, I was actually working with a National Guard. I was an active duty officer, full-time officer, I should say, with the National Guard for the last 35 years, retired in 2014. But during that time, when I was a colonel, the governor wanted all the colonels in the Guard to facilitate anything that had to do with active duty projects, like Makua strikers or new flight patterns or whatever it was. Mine happened to be energy. So I was actually selected by the governor to work on energy projects with USPACOM and all the components here. So about 2005, 2006 forward, I was doing a lot of energy stuff between the military and the state of Hawaii, and that's how I got into energy overall. When I retired, the job at HCAT came open and had been open a while, and they were looking for someone that had my kind of background, so I jumped in there to run HCAT. Okay, so you are focusing mostly, though, if I'm not mistaken, on hydrogen energy and the application to the state. You're on the state task force, you had that up, right? Well, I'm the state hydrogen implementation coordinator. Right, okay. And that was put into law two years ago, and I'm going to be meeting this afternoon with DOT on some other initiatives on hydrogen in the transportation sector. But a lot of people think hydrogen is something separate from an electric vehicle, and actually one of the biggest points I'd like to make today is that hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are electric vehicles. And electrification of the transportation sector is critical for us to meet our goals, our zero emission goals and our clean energy goals. And the hydrogen piece starts to feed back into the solving some of the grid's problems. So some of the things we could be doing to help transportation, i.e. fuel cell vehicles, could also be helping the Hawaiian electric folks with their grid stabilization and energy storage issues that they're going to have to look at as they absorb more and more renewable energy. Right, and the military is getting involved with alternate energy sources for their ships and vehicles and everything, if I'm not mistaken. Yes, they're very active nationwide. I understand the Navy is actually looking at biofuels. They've already done it. They've already done it, yeah. It's Air Force as well. As well. Yes. And so you're working with them as far as the application of hydrogen, or? Right, we're doing two major, we have two major focuses. We've started off in hydrogen with hydrogen vehicles. Currently, we also are doing a microgrid with the Hawaii Air National Guard out at Hickam where we'll demonstrate the wing, a flying wing, a fifth generation top of the line fighter wing can literally come off the grid if it needs to and function entirely off renewable sources for an indefinite period of time. And that may sound fairly common sense and straightforward, but it's never been done before. It's never been demonstrated, and as you know, what works good on paper doesn't always play out well in reality. But we've had some great engineers working on this and they're highly competent that it's gonna demonstrate something that the whole DOD would like to adopt. And for sure, the Air Force has said they want to try and look more seriously at it. Right, I have a friend who works with Cummins and their diesel engines, and things have come a long way over the years because biofuels were gonna be the savior for reduction of fuel consumption. And when it comes to certain technologies of diesel engines that just didn't quite come to save the day, but it's getting better and better as we progress through the years. And there's some great folks like Kelly King and the folks doing Pacific biodiesel that are working on it locally. And a lot of it has to do with, again, this is a holistic approach. When you start looking at biodiesel, you have to also look at agriculture because you're getting the feedstock from agriculture. Well, if you're growing crops just for fuel, maybe that's not as good as growing food and using the residual from that food crop, the stalks, the stems, the leaves to turn into fuel. And it's all got energy in it and most of it's even hydrogen that way. You get on both sides of the street, right? Okay, well, I wanted to talk about, you had mentioned some ideas to me off the show about how we could try to look at traffic issues on the east side of being, excuse me, the west side of say the Ave couple A area. And I'd be interested to kind of follow up on that with you. Sure. Well, I've had a lot of interface with DOT and some folks at Pearl Harbor that are frustrated when it takes so long to get from West O'ahu and even as far as the stadium area in Pearl Harbor Hickam for their folks. And they've always looked for ways to reduce the travel time, the transit time, and reduce the cost even if they can. And we've looked at just all kinds of things. They used to have small little shuttle cruisers that went in Pearl Harbor that could take care of some of the folks that worked for the Navy inside Pearl Harbor at Fort Island or a Navy base proper. But most of those have kind of stopped either from lack of use or whatever. But with traffic, it's always, it's like supply and demand. The worse the traffic gets, the more people are willing to look at alternatives. I think we've almost reached that tipping point where people are just so fed up with sitting in traffic for an hour and a half on a bad day and at 45 minutes on a good day maybe, that it's worth looking at some alternative answers. And one of the things that we have to understand is that not everybody can own a car or should own a car or wants to own a car. But public transportation is not a moneymaker. It's something that the state has to commit to and say, hey, we understand that we're gonna have to pay a bill here, but it's for the greater good. It's to get people more productive or to make more jobs. I mean, if there's more jobs and more production, then there's more tax revenues and it pays for itself. So just to hit on that point, Stan, DTS, which is the bus, their subsidies are 176 million, okay? So even with the best transit systems in the country, the best they're pulling off the fare box is about 19 to 20 cents. Maybe it's a little bit better nowadays, but maybe it's around 20, 21 cents, but that leaves an 80 cent off the dollar deficit for each and every person that gets on that bus. Like I say, it's not a moneymaker. And anybody that goes and thinking it could be or gets sold that it can be, that's a tough case. Okay, well, let's talk a little bit more about your idea about how this might work. Okay, well, one of the things that I can tell you is that transportation is always, in a business sense, it's always a lose. If you can cut transportation logistics costs, you're getting way ahead. And most of the folks like Amazon and folks like FedEx and UPS, they get it. They understand that if you can make things more efficient, they've got it down. So how do you move the most people, the fastest? Well, first of all, you try and shorten the distance, if you can. You try and put the most people on a single vehicle, get an efficient vehicle, try and do that. But we're kind of out of space and out of ideas when it comes to West Oahu. But when you really look at some of the terrain and look at the possibilities, you mentioned in your intro that we've tried a ferry before from West Oahu to downtown and that wasn't really successful. Well, did we shorten the distance? No. Did we make it more convenient? Maybe when it was working. But when it didn't work, you were screwed. And then you had to be out in the ocean. Well, I'm a fisherman. I've designed boats and built boats. And my son and I have fished for over 25 years. And the Hawaiian Ocean is nothing to fool with. You get outside the reef. You're in serious Hawaiian waters that'll take a big boat and make it real uncomfortable at best. It could even be dangerous. And during that demonstration, the duration was a full one hour. Right? Did it save you time? That's enough time to get you green in the gills, so to speak. Yeah, if you're prone to seasickness, that's just another thing added to it. Did it save time? Okay, that's a great question. And I want to address that because I had last week two guests on. They were both commuters. One gentleman, I think he woke up at 3.30 in the morning so he can be at work at seven. He had a solid two hour one-way commute into town. And the other gentleman, he woke up at 5.30 just so he can get to Pearl. And so what was fascinating though is I asked him the question about what do you do when you're in bumper to bumper? I mean, how do you feel that time? And it's a stressful, it has to be stressful. And the gentleman that went to Pearl Harbor said the following. You assume that it's relaxing because you have the music on but you're not relaxed. You're in a constant state of trying to be alert so you don't get into a fender bender. So you're never in a state of relaxation. Whereas to address your comment, if you're on a ferry for an hour, you actually can relax. You can read the paper. You can take a nap before you go into work. That can be said for any kind of public transportation. People on the bus will read, listen to books on tape. I lived in Washington, DC for a summer. People on the Metro there are, they can actually sit down and start work. They can start working. They can work on their laptops. They can do a lot of things. You can't do it when you gotta pay attention to the road. I mean, if you're not paying attention here, you're part of the problem causing accidents that make the commute even slower. That's correct. So, you know, duration, comparing duration is a valid point, but I think there's a state of relaxation that you get to enjoy on one mode versus you're being a single occupancy vehicle driver. So that's why I think the ferry is still a very viable idea and a good concept. And we'll talk a little bit about how the project was set up to begin with and the expectations of what was a viable success. And I think sometimes transit agencies tend to set the bar a little too high. And then after a year's demonstration project, they said, well, we didn't hit our numbers, we weren't even close to the numbers, and therefore this demo didn't work, and we're not gonna do it again. So we'll talk a little bit about that with the ferry project that was back in 2008, but go ahead, I'm sorry, I didn't take you off track here. Yeah, so for what I'm proposing or what I'd like to propose is that we look at express buses on a ferry. Not individual cars on a ferry, but express buses. And I don't know if the producers can throw up any of the slides I've got, but if we can pull one up there. This is actually one of the, this is the end state. This is the trip across Pearl Harbor, as I envision it, and being a military guy, I'm fairly familiar. In fact, if you look at the right-hand side where that red line ends, that's where my hydrogen station is essentially, so I'm very familiar with that corner. But what I've done is drawn a line from a formerly used part of Iroquo Point, which is basically abandoned and owned by the Navy right now with a perfectly good landing site for ferry boats that could make a very short commute inside Pearl Harbor across the Channel, which is maybe 500 yards. I mean, it's almost like a bridge makes more sense except you can't put a bridge there. And if you use the express buses and you put people in express buses, maybe you had a big parking lot. One of my other shots actually spans out a little bit. You can actually see where you could park cars on the right-hand side there where you could actually park some vehicles. I outlined it in black. Is that in black, okay? Yeah, and that's all Navy slash state land that's not currently occupied by the Pulao Rifle Range or any of the housing in Iroquo Point. It's just old weapon storage area that's been abandoned and could be used for mass parking and shuttle buses. I don't know how many acres it is, but I would imagine it's probably at least 100 to 150 acres. It's a lot of area. That's a lot of area. You could put PVN to cover parking. You could put a bus depot in there. And on the left, if you look farther to the left at Kalailoa, that's also state land that's turned over from the Navy or in the process of being turned over from the Navy that could be used also for parking and the buses could start there. And there's several routes that could get you from there to that drop off point for the ferry to go across that short channel. And again, that does shorten the commute which is part of the key. And it also keeps it in the calm water of Pearl Harbor Channel. You can schedule it, you can put a controller there that makes sure that you de-conflict ships coming in and ships do come in and out of Pearl Harbor quite often but it's not constant and you could definitely synchronize the ships. Okay, well, I'm gonna ask a couple of questions about that when we come back from our commercial break. So, this is Tim Mappichella, we'll be right back. Aloha, this is Kelea Akina with the weekly Ehana Kakao. Let's work together program on the Think Tech Hawaii broadcast network, Mondays at two o'clock PM, movers and shakers and great ideas. Join us, we'll see you then, aloha. Aloha and happy new year, it's 2017. Please keep up with me on Power Up Hawaii where Hawaii comes together to talk about a clean and just energy future. Please join me on Tuesdays at one o'clock. Mahalo. Aloha, I am Reg Baker and I am the host of Business in Hawaii with Reg Baker. We broadcast live every Thursday from two to 230 in the Think Tech studios in downtown Alululu. We highlight successful stories about businesses and individuals and learn their secrets to success. I hope you can join us on our next show on Thursday at two o'clock. Until then, aloha. Welcome back, I'm Tim Appachell. This is Moving Hawaii Forward. My guest this afternoon is Stan Osterman and we're talking about the ferry and we're talking about the viability of maybe another ferry could be implemented and we could try to move people from the Ewa area or the Iroquois Point to Pearl Harbor area. Stan, thanks. Thanks, Tim. And yeah, when we left off, we were talking express buses and you could also put some passengers on their military passengers that if they had a military ID, when they get to the other side on Hickam and Pearl Harbor, they could show their ID and get off the ferry, but the rest of the folks have to stay on the bus and then the bus would route itself straight to the freeway, counterflow to the traffic coming in to Pearl Harbor and Hickam. So it would actually be counterflow already. You wouldn't have to do any special coning or anything. It's a fairly short and a straight route that we already know the articulated buses can make. Well, I think we have a photo of that harbor. So let's take a look at that. There you go. That yellow line there depicts the actual route on the right-hand side of getting to the freeway through Hickam Air Force Base. And on the left-hand side, just shows some of the feeders that go into that area that's abandoned by the Navy right now are not used particularly by the Navy on the south side of their storage areas that could be used for parking lots, maybe parking lots with PV on top, parking vehicles, charging vehicles, shuttling buses across on the ferry. Interesting. And so you could have a morning commute that maybe starts at 4.30 or 5.00 a.m., starts moving across the harbor and then stops at 7.00 or 8.00 a.m. and then starts up again in the afternoon going the other direction, maybe even opening it up to POVs or private vehicles during the middle of the day instead of just the covered city buses. How many buses can you do in vision that could fit on the ferry? I'm looking at between four and six articulated buses on a single ferry. So it'd be really big. That's about 80 people. If it's a full, full bus, it's about 80 folks. So you'd have to really sit down and look at the infrastructure first and then the design of the ships, the ferries that you'd put into place, maybe see if there's something already built that would suit the need and would work and we could get at a reasonable price and look at the price. If you have to start a design from scratch, that's probably gonna be pretty prohibitive. But I mean, I'd say we have the variety of buses. If an articulated bus won't fit, maybe regular 40-footers would work fine. And you just start working with what you can afford and try it out and make sure that it runs right and it works and if it does expand it, if it doesn't, you really have a huge investment. Well, obviously you have a military employer that would be very interested in getting their workers there on time. That's the fed side. And the last demonstration project was between the city and the fed. They split that cost equally. And so maybe there is an opportunity for the feds to say, we're willing to try another demonstration project. I think so and I think people underestimate the great relationship that the military has with the city and the state here in Hawaii. Across the whole island chain, the military has been great stewards of the land and they've really tried hard and I can tell you the leadership in the military really tries hard to work well with the state and the folks at the Chamber of Commerce and the state. They really work hard to make the military feel welcome. And the military is a huge part of our economy here. So it's a win-win-win. If we just sit down, put our heads together and say, hey, can we try this and how do we make it happen? Well, that's a good point, Stan. And that is, can we try this? But I think, and I think you pointed out very well that the other ferry project, demonstration project, probably didn't work. The ridership didn't happen for a variety of reasons. One could be it was just too rough. I don't know. I never wrote it, I just never wrote that particular ferry. And so the question is expectations of what's success? How do you look at success? And if you do obtain success, how do you fund it for years to come? But here's an example where expectations are created for a demonstration project, but not necessarily realistic. So back in 2008, before they put that ferry into place, again, it went from Barbers Point to Aloha Tower, Pier 9 on Aloha Tower, right? Pier 9 in Aloha Tower area.  Doesn't sound like a lot, but 400 is better than nothing.  And there was only three trips in the morning. There would be a responding three trips. Yeah, return trips. So you take 150 times three trips, that's 450 maximum capacity. They were estimating 400. Okay, so that tells me that they thought they were gonna get ridership well above 80, 90%. And that doesn't happen. It takes years to grow ridership, be it a new route on a bus, be it, I used to write a water taxi from West Seattle to downtown Seattle. And it took years to get the ridership up where people could depend on the boat. It was on time. And it took at least three years for people to feel comfortable. So the point is a demonstration project maybe should be more than one year, to see how do you tweak it left, how do you tweak it right to get the right mix so that this thing can be successful. Exactly, and I think scaling is part of that. You know, it's like the problem we have with hydrogen right now. How do you get it on the road in transportation? Well, where do you start? It's gonna start small and it's gonna have to grow. Some things scale well, some things don't. This kind of project could scale pretty well. If you made one investment in one ferry that could move four 40 foot buses, which would be kind of on the low end. You talked about it with 80 people per bus. About an hour to articulate it. An hour to articulate a bus. Max, max. Let's go with maybe 50 people on a 40 foot bus, including people standing up. You got four buses, that's 200 people right there. Right, on one trip. We start off, yeah, on one trip. And they're making, from that short distance, that's probably a 10 minute drive. And that includes docking on both ends. It's like almost longer to try and dock on either end than the whole trip, than the transit itself. So you think the shortest interval would be about 30 minutes at best? I would think that that would probably be the longest interval. The longest, yeah. But you know, you've done, you know, 50 to 20 minutes, I think. To get across the channel is literally five minutes. It's gonna be positioning the ferry into docket and do it safely. And maybe having to wait for a ship to clear the channel before you can cross, those kind of delays would increase the time. But again, that's- Are those facilities there now? Are they all set and ready to go? Well, what's interesting is the, and Zuri just put up the images again, on the right hand side there, that whole landing is actually completely unused. It's an old landing for ships and offloading like the big cargo ships and things. But totally unused, has a fairly large parking lot. I would say 300 feet by 1,000 feet in front of it, which could be used for maneuvering the buses around and getting them in and out of there in the afternoon. To the right of it is a wastewater treatment plant. So it's not going anywhere. And it's not a facility that has a lot of vehicles and stuff moving in and out. And to the left is where the army puts their ships that do transport. So that area is already taken up. But that area where the red line ends on the right is pretty much unused. The one on the left, special ops uses it from time to time for training. It was put there originally for onloading and offloading munitions. And all those little pads you see in the green area to the left, they're basically empty concrete pads. So it's almost all ready to go, almost. There's gonna have to be an investment there, but it's not $800 million or anything close to what we're spending on some of the other alternatives that we're looking at. So I think if we scaled it small enough, started it off, like you say, give the ridership a chance, give the confidence in the system a chance to prove itself and have people like go park down there, jump across, get over there, be in downtown quick. Let me ask you the correlation between start times at the base versus where the gridlock actually begins on H1. So what are the starting times, do you think? Well, Pearl Harbor Shipyard actually starts fairly early. Those folks are in 5.30. In fact, probably the harbor picture that we had up there, I can actually point to the areas, my son works in the shipyard. They have to park like a half mile away from where they're working. I mean, when you look at the shipyard is just on the north side of Hickam, so it's about the top 30 or picture, that whole part of Hickam is the shipyard. And if you look for the big parking lots, they're a quarter mile or a half mile away from where most of the guys have to work. So if you had a shuttle bus that went on the ferry from West Oahu that was on with the other buses, that was just servicing Hickam. And the people showed their shipyard ID when they got on the shuttle bus and it went straight there. Those folks wouldn't have to drive in and out of Hickam and they could probably start their typical time and decrease the traffic that starts at four and five a.m. from West Oahu. Likewise, I've actually been approached by some of the contractors for Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam to do shuttles on Hickam and Fort Island. Again, that use like the boats that aren't used by Arizona memorial tours to shuttle people more like the old. That would be a fascinating perspective because here's the problem when you get to with the Department of Transportation Services.  And the problem with a custom bus is that it's geared towards a specific targeted employee base. And what they want for recovery, believe it or not, is 100% of operational costs. Now remember, I said all your other regular buses are getting luck at best maybe 19, 20 cents on the dollar. But because it's a specialized bus, they want 100 cents on the dollar, which makes it really, really difficult. Well, that necessarily isn't realistic.  Well, and here's how we got it. I mean, we ran a number of custom buses to the Boeing Corporation. They had their main plan up in Everett, Washington, and we would go from South County all the way up to Everett, Washington. And what would happen is you look at what the revenue was recovered from those who wrote it, but that differential, the Boeing company actually would pay for it. Exactly, and that's how you do it. The Pentagon works the same way, by the way. It's a federal agency. But if you work in the Pentagon and you agree to take public transportation, they give you an annual pass for the whole trip. So if you're looking for that kind of return and the government's willing to say, yeah, we're employers of X number of people out here and it's worth our effort to tell them that's how those things work. That's the kind of effort you need to make. Well, Stan, what I love about this show is I have guests that come on that bring new innovative ideas, things that haven't been really thought about or they've been tried. You know, here's a new way of trying something new. And rather than just sit and gridlock and just be frustrated, we're bringing solutions to the table and I can't thank you enough for bringing your solution to this table. And I think it's a topic worth of discussion in the future. And I'll be glad to come back and talk about how we'll implement it. Okay, good. All right, well, that's our show for this week. I'm Tim Appichella and this is Hawaii Moving Forward and come back next Tuesday and we'll talk to you again. Thank you.


Ever wondered what iambic pentameter means? Let me show you the easiest way to spot it. When it comes to iambic pentameter, it's one line of writing made up of ten syllables. The first syllable is unstressed, meaning it takes a short time to pronounce. The second syllable is stressed, meaning it takes just a bit longer to pronounce. This happens five times in one line of writing. An example of this is when Macbeth says, So is the unstressed syllable. Foul is the stressed syllable. And is unstressed. Fair is stressed. A is unstressed. Day is stressed. I is unstressed. Have is stressed. Not is unstressed. Scene is stressed. Count them all when you have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Ten syllables. Each stress and unstressed syllable goes in a pair which you call a metric foot. And in iambic pentameter there's five metric feet in total.


A thousand years ago, a group of wasps decided to make their nest on top of this cave art, and if they hadn't done so, we would never have been able to date this ancient artwork. Why depict kangaroos in a cave? While we don't know the extent of the ancient cataclysm, we do know that humans were forced into the earth for protection of the intense display outside in the open. Within these boundary systems, people would live for long spells and creativity in art was vital for long term sanity. In these caves, they sought shelter. They also show us there was something emanating in the sky, and in the aboriginal tradition, this was perceived as the lightning brothers. Carbon 14 dating has revealed that 17,000 years ago, there was a cave presence in this region. It shows us something must have been going on because the kangaroo is only the latest find. Other cave art depictions literally shows the arrival of gods. According to aboriginal tradition, they radiated in the dream time. In the trauma of their mind, it was real but felt like a dream. The kangaroo is highly significant because it now represents the oldest known cave art in Australia when trying to figure out the timeline of the global past. This wasp's nest may prove the holy grail in terms of dating to a rough time in history when this was triggered. It puts us in caves 17,000 years ago. It still shows us that there was a movement towards sheltered areas. The research by a team from the University of Melbourne confirmed the painting is between 17,500 and 17,100 years old. This makes the painting Australia's oldest known in situ painting, said post-doctoral researcher Dr. Damian Finch who pioneered the new radiocarbon technique. The line painting of the kangaroo, which is about two meters in length, was painted on the sloping ceiling of a rock shelter on the Ongango clan estate above the Drysdale River in the northeastern Kimberley region of western Australia. It is just one image among many in the region's galleries of rock paintings which researchers believe were repeatedly painted over by generations of artists for millennia, a possible timeline of the lasting event. Dr. Finch goes on to say that, we radiocarbon dated three wasp nests underlying the painting and three nests built over it to determine confidently that the painting is between 17,500 and 17,100 years old, most likely 17,300 years old. This is a significant find as through these initial estimates we can understand something of the world these ancient artists lived in. We can never know what was in the mind of the artist when he, she painted this piece of work more than 600 generations ago, but what we do know that the naturalistic period extended back into the last ice age so the environment was cooler and drier than today but what do you guys think about this anyway? Comments below and as always, thank you for watching.


Tesla invested 1.5 billion. That's right. That's with a bee guys a billy billion dollars in Bitcoin and is set to accept it for payments in the future as you guys can see on every news outlet today Everything has to do with Elon Musk and Tesla guys. We're now officially flying Past the moon and heading straight for Mars Bitcoin is now officially up in the last 12 months 354 percent and it is currently up 49% year to date guys So for those who were saying that it was too late to get into Bitcoin if you would have put your money into Bitcoin on January 1st, you'd currently be up 49% Where else do you get a return on your investment of 49% in under two months? So how soon can Bitcoin? Realistically hit 50k is now a good time to buy Bitcoin What are the next trades that we're looking to get into this week guys? This will all be answered and more coming up Hey, what's up Jay here and welcome to Bitcoin daily bringing you guys the best tips tutorials and Ideas to help you become profitable and successful traders The goal of this channel is to empower you guys with the knowledge and Resources to help you guys get to that next level. So if you're new here guys consider subscribing Also, make sure to hit the like button and turn on that notification bell So you guys are notified as soon as we post new content five times a week The first thing that we're talking about today is Tesla, of course and Elon Musk So Tesla invested 1.5 billion dollars in Bitcoin and is now set to accept it for payments in the future That's right guys So that means that you can literally take your Bitcoin to Tesla and buy a Tesla car with your Bitcoin Not right now, but very very soon So no more Lambos. It's now Tesla So once Tesla accepts Bitcoin as form of payment It is expected to increase the demand for Bitcoin to new heights that affects the market price directly in an SEC filing on Monday Tesla announced that it invested 1.5 billion dollars in Bitcoin guys the mega tech and automobile company also revealed that it Intends to accept bitcoins as a form of payment in the near future So you see here in their official statement that they said they bought 1.5 billion in Bitcoin under the policy and that they may acquire And hold digital assets from time to time or long term Then they went on to say that we expect to begin accepting Bitcoin as a form of payment for our products in the near future So as you guys know over the weekend Elon has been talking and tweeting about doge posting memes And just kind of you know putting who let the doge out Hottle in the rainforest the people have spoken they had a poll of the future currency of earth and 71% of the people voted dogecoin versus all the other crypto combined then last night He put D is for dogecoin instructional video So he posted this video about dogecoin and then finally he put back to work I go so this definitely played in as a big part of this pump here in doge over the weekend as you guys can see It continued up after I had kind of this little bear flag here as you guys can see that was going on in doge then a few PR tweets from Elon Musk and Doge Continued up to a high of about what was a high here eight zero point. I mean point zero eight cents Eight cents, right? Of course when the news came out that Tesla invested in Bitcoin Bitcoins price took off. So over the weekend. We kind of had you know a chillout period here as we kind of went down forming that bull flag and then Once that news came out pumped to new all-time highs at 45k So it is now being reported that other companies are expected to follow the same path as Tesla in the near future guys as you guys can see my hometown of Miami is also drafting a resolution to put Bitcoin on The public balance sheet, which would be amazing and also some rumblings about Apple could be the next company to buy Bitcoin now, where would that take Bitcoin? Definitely past 50k So let's go over a brief timeline of events that led to Elon Musk and Bitcoin so December 20th of last year Michael Saylor offers Elon Musk his Bitcoin playbook in a tweet December 30th Silver former grayscale CEO tweeted at him I see you at some point in January of this year is when Tesla invested its $1.5 billion in Bitcoin We don't know the exact date or the exact price that they got in at on January 9th Sober also tweeted Twitter is going to absolutely lose its mind when Elon and Tesla Disclose Bitcoin holdings and of course on January 29th is when Elon Musk added hashtag Bitcoin to his Twitter bio So that might be around the time where Tesla Bought the 1.5 billion so hopefully you guys were not trying to short this market as I've told you many times as 365 million dollars worth of shorts got liquidated within one hour this morning So looking at some of the other companies in this space if any of these companies with a Whole lot of cash holdings decide to also get into Bitcoin guys guys. This will take Bitcoin Just out of here. All right guys. I know that's a lot of information. It's been a crazy crazy Monday guys Let's do a recap of the Friday's trades over the weekend, right? So the first trade that I gave you guys on Friday was at 38,000 a breakout trade, right? Which was right here So I told you guys there could be some consolidation in the area But if you were able to take this trade and took it all the way up first of all it went all the way up to 41,000 first before testing this 38k range again And then you would have been able to enter that 38k breakout yet again and ride it all the way up So if you guys wrote this from 38k all the way to the new all-time highs of 45k guys That would have been a hundred and eighty four percent profits if you use 10x leverage like we did if instead You opted to enter at forty thousand dollars guys and wrote it all the way up to a 45k guys You would have done around a hundred and twenty five percent profits using 10x any theorem I told you guys that our favorite trade here if we had a pullback was to enter back at 1500 right and guys look exactly where it went and went down to 1500 of course of course guys So if you guys were able to enter at 1500 guys and wrote it all the way back up Let's just say to 1700 in case you didn't start the top you just wrote it to 1700 You would have made 75% profits using 5x leverage if you wrote it from 16 to 1700 You would have done 31% profits if you wrote it Let's say from 17 to 78 1780 you would have done about 23 and a half percent profits And if you just wrote 1750, which is was the previous all-time high test this new all-time highs 1780 You would have done about eight and a half percent profits. So guys, I hope you caught any of these trades We gave you guys a bunch of different options to enter guys If you entered any of these should have made some very very good profits over this weekend All righty guys, so we went ahead and moved up our Fibonacci retracement levels all the way to the new all-time highs And we're gonna look for the next possible points of interest levels in Bitcoin this week Right. So the first thing that we're looking at when we when we move the Fibonacci level all the way up to the new highs up here is That now the retracement level of 23.6% is Right on that $40,000 mark, right? So that is gonna be the big level if we see some sort of retracement This is going to be a buy area right down here at that 40,000 area because now it's One a Fibonacci retracement level and number two. It's a huge whole number So that 40,000 a whole lot of zeros we spoke about this last week People are gonna be coming in to buy more on that dip if we were to dip back down, right? Now the other possible support that we can be seeing buyers coming in is at the previous all-time high Which is right at that 42k level. So that's another level that we're watching guys You can see currently we're right. We're almost at 43 right around that 43 range So if we continue down further than what we've seen here, which could be expected as we're in currently Pretty oversold here on the four-hour and I'm sure if we look at the dailies We're getting into oversold territory and on the weekly. We're already in oversold territory So if we see, you know kind of the usual bull flags That would mean that the pattern would be something like this and we can expect to probably get a bounce Maybe around that 42k range. Now if that doesn't happen, then we can maybe expect a you know consolidation back down to 40k and Looking and look for a bounce there at the $40,000 range Now what do I expect from Bitcoin if it continues up if we break 45 guys 45 is a very very big number It's right in the middle between 40 and 50. So that's why it was obvious that that would be a big rejection zone Right, so that's gonna play definitely a big Resistance zone there But once we break above out and above 45k the next the next stop is 50k, right?  So a break of 45 I would say that's probably the last Major resistance just cuz it's such a whole number such an even number and it's right smack in the middle right before 50 So that's gonna be the last major resistance that I think that we should see before Launching straight to 50k, right? So 50k is gonna be that next big number, you know And I definitely think that we can get there this month if everything keeps going the way it is right now, right? We can definitely expect some consolidation now here at these current levels before moving up again So expect another sort of bull flag forming here before we do a continuation up, which should lead to 50k In ethereum, we're still watching the same levels guys remember we spoke about our target being that 1920 range currently where we have a new high of 1780 currently we're creating right around that 1700 range, which is that previous resistance as well We went all the way down and tested the support which is a good thing for this run You need you need to have pullbacks like this so that then you could bounce and go up higher, right? So we had a nice nice bounce here now We're going we're retesting this area and I expect some more Consolidation before a breakout to the upside also remember that when Bitcoin is moving a lot when it has impulse moves Like it did today it takes money out of the rest of the market because People are coming out of Ethereum and putting their money into Bitcoin to ride that wave up as Bitcoin begins to consolidate here Some of that money should flow out back out of Bitcoin and into a theorem Which should cause a theorem to break the previous highs right here and you know hit not only our target of 1920 but our other target of 2000 which is going to be that big big number for ethereum if we do see some sort of pullback I'm expecting to see it back to this range, which is that 1500 dollar range Of course, we have supports at each even number like you know 1700 1600 all the way down to 1500 1500 being the strongest one out of the bunch guys I hope you guys aren't joining this video so far next We're gonna hit you guys with those trade setups for this upcoming week with the exact positions that we're looking to enter If you're finding value in this video so far make sure to hit that subscribe button Make sure to smash that thumbs up button guys And also don't forget to turn on those notifications and share this video with your friends and family So to make sure that they have the knowledge as well to properly invest in not only Bitcoin But in their future alright, so the first trade setups that we're gonna be watching in Bitcoin It's gonna be back at this 42k area, right? So at 42k here last time we saw that that played our resistance which rejected rejected us back down to our lows down here Right, so I'm looking for a possible bounce at 42,000 currently is that 42 700 if we continue down I'm looking for an entry right around that 42k range now. Remember it is a minor support I wouldn't say it's a major one. So I'm not putting I'm not risking a lot on that And of course, we're not looking to catch the price as it goes down We're looking to catch it as it bounces back up if it continues down below that then the next entry We're looking for is $40,000 That's gonna be our biggest support that we're watching and looking for an entry on that We probably be risking more around that 3% range on that trade if we do see a break out here this week Then the range that we're looking at is of course above $45,000 guys again if we see a breakout above 45 I believe that we can possibly see 50 by the end of the month We might possibly see a movement up to like that 48 range some Consolidation back down and then continuation up to 50 where we're gonna see definitely a whole lot of price action We can see possibly a big rejection there at that mark as a lot of people I would imagine are gonna be looking to take profit at $50,000 remember guys 50 is a huge number when it comes to human psychology and market psychology So there's gonna be a whole lot of selling going on at that point And I imagine price will probably get rejected several times before we're able to break out and continue up We would need a big catalyst to break through 50k So another major news event like today's Tesla news is what would be needed to launch right through 50k and continue up Arnaway to a hundred thousand dollars in 2021 so on this trade I'm looking at risk probably around 3% as well on a breakout any theorem guys We're kind of around the same levels as Friday, right? So we're looking for entries right here on this 1700 range now the thing with the 1700 there's a whole lot of consolidation as you guys can see happened here So 1700 I'm only risking about 1% on this trade, right? If we continue lower then another 1% trade can be taken at 1600 and if we get to 1500 then that's where I'm starting to look to open up my risk a little bit more and To risk around 3% on that trade now if we do get a breakout above all-time highs I'm looking for an entry probably above 1780 if you want to be a little bit safer you could do 1800 above that on those entries I'll probably be looking to to risk about 3% of my portfolio as well on a Breakout trade to that upside above all-time highs in Ethereum and that is pretty much it guys We covered everything that we wanted to talk about that happened over the weekend and the big big news of this morning Then we covered our analysis on both Bitcoin any theorem and Ended it with of course some trade setups that we're watching for the rest of this week to hopefully make not only ourselves Some profits, but we want to make you guys our beautiful beautiful community some profits as well If you enjoyed the video guys make sure to hit that subscribe make sure to put a thumbs up on this video It helps us to continue to expand our reach and our audience and continue to spread that mass adoption of crypto currency And that knowledge as well. Thank you guys so much. I will see you in tomorrow's video Have a beautiful beautiful day as always peace and love


Iran transfers hundreds of 700 km range ballistic missiles to Russia. Iran allegedly provided Russian occupiers with around 400 ballistic missiles. They are capable of destroying targets up to 700 km away, according to Reuters. Three unnamed Iranian sources told the media outlet that part of the transferred missiles are from the Fateh 110 short-range ballistic missile family, including the Zolfagar. Such a missile is capable of destroying targets at distances ranging from 300 to 700 km, as one of the Iranian sources revealed. The deliveries began in early January after an agreement was reached at meetings between Iranian and Russian military and security service representatives at the end of last year. These meetings took place in Tehran and Moscow. Another unnamed Iranian military official clarified that there have already been at least four deliveries of missiles. A new transfer is expected next week. Another official stated that some of the missiles were sent to Russia by ship via the Caspian Sea while others were transported by plane. There will be more shipments. There is no reason to hide this. We are allowed to export weapons to any country that we wish to, he added. An American official informed Reuters that Washington has seen evidence of active negotiations between Russia and Iran, but there are no signs yet that the deliveries have taken place. Rumours that Russia wants to obtain Iranian ballistic missiles spread as early as last year. Ukrainian intelligence services are verifying information about a possible transfer by Iran of its ballistic missiles to Russia, stated Andrew Cheneyak, a representative of the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine in a comment to RBC Ukraine. Iran became the first country to supply weapons to Russia for the war with Ukraine. Thus, the Russian army consistently receives Shahad strike drones from Iran, which are used to attack Ukrainian cities and infrastructure. In addition, Iran helped Russia set up its own production of these drones.


The following is a presentation of TFNN, the power trading hour with your host David White. Call now toll free at 1-877-927-6648 or internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER>. Now David White. And welcome all to another excellent edition of the power trading hour with me, your host. And of course it only matters where me and you are since we can be anywhere at this time. The following takes place between 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. So what do we have? Well, a little bit of rock and roll, a little bit of country, a little bit up, a little bit of down. Spies went down, what 391 up to 396 or 393 now. The S&Ps up about 7 points. Crude oil was down about 2.5, 3 bucks, it was up about 2 bucks. It's out at 102.80 now, solidly above 100. Probably the big news is that with a swipe of a pen, we don't have any more oil expiration. I don't know, when I read the article this morning on that, I don't know if that legally can stand, especially after the EPA ruling and of course after the defeats at the Supreme Court on some of the other rulings where the government actually has to come up with a reason that there's an emergency. They can't just wave their wand. I don't know if that's going to hold water, but probably can delay any new drilling for a little while. So when we look at some of the big movers out here today on earnings, probably wasn't a good day to get that kind of news at the same time. We get the chart up here. BKR, he says, Baker Hughes, I tend to post their rig report every Friday in the den when I remember to put it in there, but it gives me at least some kind of big idea. If you go to the website, you can subscribe to it too. And anyway, pretty nice rig report, but yeah, you don't want to kind of miss and then have the president say that we're not going to allow any more drilling in the United States. So yeah, bad news, probably why we started to see crude get back over 100 in the last couple of days, but well in the short term, you got to think that any kind of bounce in crude could be at least 50% of the previous high. That gives you about one, what, 110, 112, something like that in crude, and that's not going to make everybody else very happy. Certainly going to hurt the economy with, I think the last year, the best estimate I saw was that the average household paid $2,600 more for energy over the last year than they did the year before, which no one, again, is happy about. But more to the point in the economy, that's $2,600 not going to somewhere else like chips and technology or Ross closed stores or something like that. So if they wanted to take a lot of cash out of the market really quickly, certainly that is something that can be done. Okay, we can see, anyway, we'll go through the rest of big earnings today, but I thought that was, if you were talking about one that was really kind of moving on news, that was probably the one that didn't want to come out with rough numbers and then have basically a moratorium on drilling in the United States, too, and somebody in the dead said something, but I would say better that we have it, not need it, than need it, not have it. That's how nuclear wars are started, because the next one will be, right? So we want to be very careful that we don't have any more wars for oil or have to depend on the kindness of evil strangers. Okay, anyway, just a thought there, what do we have here, about three minutes left. Also in the news today, and I didn't have a chance to, Chipotle, CMG, right, saw them talking about that just before, doesn't seem to be hurting them in the news for labor issues with unions, unclear whether they were going to close the place before or not. Your previous high had 288,000 shares back on the 5th of July, 138,000 here today. So I don't know, let me know if anybody has any deep insight to this, you can give me a call today.<PHONE_NUMBER>, all I saw was some kind of store up in Maine. Does that really affect Chipotle people? Kind of like Starbucks, they had kind of the same thing, the roar on that has kind of died down also. On Starbucks though, as I noticed earlier, what you didn't like is the very light volume at previous highs. You do have a doji sitting out here today on 3.7 million shares. Yesterday, you tacked the previous high at 82.87, had 30 million shares with 6 million shares. So some of these bounces starting to get rather long in the tooth out here. And of course, we've got a little bit of news in gold, that is, it's dipped just a hair underneath 1700. I don't know if you can make a great deal about what's going on in that right now. I think a lot of people have been looking at oil as a better place to park their cash in the short term. And I don't have any deep insight. I have some theories, probably thinly thought out theories on maybe somebody like Putin selling his gold to keep the war going and maybe other countries doing the same. Maybe once you get through all that, or if God forbids peace breaks out, maybe that would change the complexion of gold. But I don't see anything in the charts or anything else out here that really changes a great deal. Email me at path at tfnn.com, as so many of you humble listeners have. And what else do we have out here? Well, we've got a good news day for history anyway. And see what else do we have out here. I think that's kind of it on the top end. We've got about 50 seconds left. Go back through. Probably the big surprise out here is Datadog, which we'll get into after the show, but kind of one of the big winners out here, up about 8%. They kind of bogus upgrade, but they may have caught a lot of people short this stock. Certainly had somebody stepping in yesterday probably knew that the self serving upgrade was coming to 178 on Datadog. Got a couple of questions on some other stuff in this sector. So we'll answer that today, along with the movers and shakers from earnings this morning. And then we'll go into earnings tonight. We'll be back in a minute. For booming inflation, we are purchasing powers eroded. There's no better place to protect your hard earned money than in gold. This the gold flagship asset is the Monk Todd Gold Project in the Northern Territory of Australia. This is Australia's largest undeveloped gold project. We are talking a world-class gold project in a tail one mining district. 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And of course, we have no more excuses, do we? That was probably the best and worst day in mankind because from then on, everybody could say, well, we put a man on the moon. Why can't we do this or that or the other? But of course, probably for a long time going to be the biggest accomplishment. Kind of hard to think that since what, 1972, we haven't been back. And just a handful of people have ever been on a foreign body. But 1969, a lot of neat stuff came out of all the effort that came in to build that. And we still use all that stuff every day. But if the chip industry had anything to say that its genesis came from was, of course, the push to make small computers for the capsule, as they like to call it, and the lunar lander, a lot of other stuff. But hey, I do digress. Okay, let's back it back to once where we belong. As we said, I was showing Datadog, I forgot to put my charts up. That's on me. Had a nice bounce. But again, like I've talked about, a lot of these stocks, lower highs, higher lows, and then moves back into it. You want to wait for the breakout one way or the other. Although I suspect we have a lot of that coming on the downside. We'll see how the day comes out. Real tough resistance around these levels, even though the market started slide forward, we had a couple of hiccups during the day. Both of those after the fact found out that there were some giant cell orders, block orders, that were going through the S&Ps. And so you get a kind of a nice run. Big block order comes down, takes the S&Ps with it, tries to run again. You get the same thing again. Some people have been attributing it to news, and I'm not exactly sure, because I look at the news feed in real time. I don't see anything that really comes across that would make a lot of buyers or sellers in the market decide to move at all one time. I just think it's those big orders flowing through. And the previous one around, what was it, 1230 or so, I found incredibly interesting because I was looking at my email, and then a thing popped up that said, the bottom is in. And it was from CNBC, and the spies went down two points almost instantly. So I always thought that, I always think that stuff's kind of interesting.<PHONE_NUMBER> as we go into the rest of the market. It could be some distribution. It just looks to me like those are really big orders rolling through and all at once. So someone is getting out. Now, could that be one of those big hedge funds that was having problems? And as soon as the bounce was there, they decided to try to get out, or said that they would get out to their broker that was on the other end of that line. Don't know, but maybe people are just taking the money. Maybe the gentleman from California who's wired into buying and selling in the market via Congress, maybe he is starting to sell. Maybe those are his huge orders. You never know. But certainly we've got that. Now, on the earnings front, we've got Abbott Labs. Not much movement out here today. You wouldn't hardly know. Not a lot of volume. Other stocks out here that I thought of interest. Really negative conference call on ASML saying that they had production problems doesn't seem to matter, though. They are back up with some decent volume up to the June 27th high. So we can keep an eye on that. We already talked a little bit about Baker Hughes, and of course the gap down on that one. Did break through the previous low that had 6.4 million shares with 20 million shares, but we may not close underneath that level. Other stocks of interest out here was CMA. And this one had a nice little streak back up, but gave it almost all back to this morning. Comerica, let's see what we have here. Financial products operates through commercial banks, retail, wealth management, financial segments. So kind of interesting that kind of came up here and gave it up today. And of course, we had to get to Netflix here. Very interesting, sold off almost instantly earlier in the morning, got to 216 today, what's the low of the day out here? Did dip down to 200 and 10 cents the low of the day. But I don't know if there's a great deal else going on in this other than a lot of people are just sure that it's time to buy it. The numbers weren't that good. They lost a million subscribers, but a lot of people thought they'd lose two. So maybe you'd die from blood loss in two days instead of one. Don't know. Not a big fan of this sector quite yet. As I said, I think a lot of these productions need to dwindle down. I did think that it was kind of interesting that we saw some data coming out from third party sources and that half, almost half of all the views for Netflix over the last four weeks all came from one show and that's stranger things. So we do tend to have kind of a consensus in the market for what we're watching. My thought was this is season four of the thing and a lot of people think it's kind of long in the tooth, but kind of the same thing with Game of Thrones on HBO or Sopranos. Yeah, does something else come along? But generally it's not exactly at the same time. So I don't know what to say about this. You've got a lot of volume in it today, but a lot of people were short this thing. Numbers were not that good. So maybe just a lot of people on the short side of Netflix. We'll be back in a minute. Again, email me at path at TFNN.com. Email me at, email me at path at TFNN.com. Call me at<PHONE_NUMBER>. If you want to take advantage of this sector, now is the time to subscribe to my Gold Report. The Gold Report is a comprehensive look at the metal sector as well as the markets that move gold, which is the currency and bond markets. New subscribers get a 30-day money back guarantee so you have nothing to lose. 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CCJ, still got a little movement in that. We'll take a look at it for Joe. Yeah, like I said, what was it, Monday? Looked to me like this is gonna come up to about 25 right in the middle of this gap down that had some decent volume, about 8.7 million shares. You'd had a nice high up here to 2828.  But it's hard to not think that nuclear energy will prevail on the rest of the world, even if it doesn't here. Okay, I got a question to look at the usual suspects too quickly. So we'll look at that backup above the previous high on Apple. The 104, 104 million share high goes back to 151.74 on June 1st. Into it today with 44 million. So we're kind of at this inflection point and a lot of the stocks did come down on every volume. Some of them came up on okay volume like Apple. But certainly it looks like it's starting to run out of steam here today with challenging the previous high on half of its previous volume, at least so far today. Maybe more comes in, but I don't think there's gonna be enough to come in. More stocks on the side of lower highs, higher lows is Microsoft. It continues that it's really kind of at the high end of this triangle now. And so does it bust out or continuing going sideways in here for a few more days. Kind of tough to say. But we shall see. We looked at Netflix, Google was kind of interesting. It showed up as, let me do this, draw here. Showed up on my list of highly shorted stocks, which is kind of interesting. But I don't know if you see much out here in this today, but certainly you've got just a channel. I mean, talk about channeling stocks, just kind of hanging out here mid 113s, 114s in this area without a lot of signal. Anyway, lots of shorts in this comparatively for a big stock. But I think that happened when the reverse split came back in. It kind of added a bunch. I'm wondering how many people stayed in after the split. So let's go through the rest. Anyway, we looked at ASML, Broker, Datadog, Interactive Brokers. See what these guys are saying. They did test the previous low on just a scosh less volume from May 12th on June 14th. Just a big doji out there today on their earnings. Yesterday I said the company that I was going to be most interested in was J.B. Hunt on what they're saying on transportation and supply crisis that continues. I could tell when I went into the store yesterday. And a couple of the bays at Walmart's store were completely empty. And they were just putting back in eggs and stuff out of being out of them for three days. There's all that segment in there. I'm not exactly sure why I didn't get to talk to the guy. But I talked to somebody else and they all said, yeah, we just haven't had any of this and that and the other and sausage. We've been out for three days. I thought, well, that's kind of interesting. I hadn't been to the store for a while. Anyway, I don't know. These guys were talking kind of like the Fed on one side. On one hand, everything's great. On the other hand, we're having problems keeping drivers because they're getting poached. So maybe that's a good thing overall for them anyway. Don't know enough about the over the road truck driving business. Maybe someone else does and we'll give us a call. But just an inside day on J.B. Hunt today. OK, what else do we have? Lydia Motors. What is it? Lithium motors down a little bit. Of course, Tesla tonight after the bell, right? I think that's it. So look at that. You're down today with a lot of volume. And I don't know if this is people trying to get out in front of it. One of the problems I don't think a lot of people have talked about. It's happened a little while ago for Tesla. And at least in the United States, they've lost the subsidies that go to them. Even General Motors is going to lose their subsidies for EVs. I think at the end of the year, I'm going to have to go back and look at that. But I think they are a very complicated thing that they did in the legislation. But as soon as you get to so many cars, then the clock starts ticking to the end of the I think it was the calendar year. But now I'm going to have to go back and look at it. Anyway, I think Ford has at least another year, which may be very good for them if they start getting the volume in the trucks out. Some of the other ones are out there. But the clock starts ticking when you start selling. And there's kind of like two things, which is time and volume that sets the end of those ones. So especially if you kind of come late to the party, you may be able to have a car if you took the time to make it really good. It's very competitive and also gets those wonderful dollars off from the government to push it. But anyway, lithium motors down today, a lot of volume out there, but not the end of the world either still in the trading zone. Let's take a quick look at Tesla. Very hard to figure out what's going on with them. Of course, a great deal is going to be what they say about production in China. In fact, I'd say 80% of what goes on with Tesla has to do with China and production in China for that part of the world. So probably the good news, I think we have a couple of gaming stocks from Macau that are coming out in the next few days, too. I saw that they were reopening them, I think, today or tomorrow. So we've got a little bit of that going on. The question is whether or not they're going to allow the factories in China to start reproducing Tesla cars to themselves. So we'll probably hear about that tonight. I'm sure some enterprising random act of journalism and or a market professional will ask if they do not. 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And of course, that makes all that stuff go up. As I said before, our average household is spending $2,600 more in energy than it did just a year ago. The question is, will we be spending $4,500 more than we did two years ago, a year from today? And it kind of looks like it. I don't think anything's going to slow down the rate of higher fuel prices unless we have a change of policy. But I would say 98.99999% is policy decisions affecting what's going on in natural gas at the moment. So anyway, doesn't look good on the chart. You got almost no volume into the gap down. Maybe you get to $28 and maybe you pull back a little bit. I don't think you're ever getting back to 18 again. But could you get to $25 to $22? You might on a general market kind of malaise or sell-off. We're, what, seven days away from the next at least half a point percentage rate hike to 1% interest rate hike, depending on what the Fed does. And an interesting number that I did here this morning or see in one of the articles is exactly what does 1% mean for interest rates on credit cards. Every 1% on credit cards is $6 billion a year to the consumer. Again, money that is not going to go into anything else but paying off the credit cards if people keep their interest rate or their balances where they are today. Yeah, we've seen, what, 175 crude before? So nothing new. I'm just wondering whether or not we'll see kind of a repeat of France circa just before the late 1800s if we do see $10 a gallon gas. I don't think let them eat cake is going to be able to pass this time to 2K. So, yeah, very, I mean, right now, I wouldn't be long natural gas. I'd be a seller here. And as I said, you almost always get a fairly good place to put in. And my guess would be that you want to go long natural gas somewhere around late August and hang on to it probably through March next year. If you want to trade it, probably different, but probably one of the better trades will be if energy keeps climbing and we're not allowed to actually produce any more in the United States, you've got to think that could UNG be $40, $50 by the end of next spring? I don't think that's out of the realm of possibility. OK, what else do we have out here? Looked at CCJ had a question about that. Question about GDXJ, the juniors. They will look at the seniors too. Is there anything else out here? Just kind of going sideways, not a lot of volume today. 1650 kind of rings a bell on where I've looked at gold before. I just haven't seen much out here that says that we want to be around that. I haven't checked the price of gold in the last few minutes, 1700, so kind of hanging out here. I would love to see a real washout, like $50 down and then $50 back real quick. Something just ran everybody out of gold and scared the bejesus out of them. And I mean just gap down or something like that. Something that really washed out the weak hands in the market and maybe made some kind of viable low in it. Right now just kind of meandering around down here. I don't see anything that really looks that good. As far as the gold miners, yeah, you're down. You don't have a lot of volume today, 4,200 bucks. A lot of that would depend on the dollar and I don't see a lot changing in that. Do I have that up? I do not see if I have it in this. Okay, now I do not. I'm going to see, I thought. Take a quick look at the dollar. Okay, come on Mr. Forex. There we go. And Mr. Dollar DX, okay. You got to 107.10, 106.96 on the dollar. That is the basket of the US dollar to six other foreign currencies. So down a dime, down 13 cents off the high. Not a lot going on out there. I think a lot of people are whistling past the graveyard and thinking the gold or the dollar is topped out. But we shall see tomorrow with numbers from the EU on their interest rate. Yep, always interesting. Okay. Okay. Oh, I was going to go through that and somebody just reminded me. I think we looked at everything out here except WIT, which we'll look at, and then we'll get into the earnings for tonight. I've got to accept that. Y-Pro. Yeah, I don't think there's anything in here. You can go on back to test the lows. A lot of times at five bucks, you find some fairly stiff support and that is because, of course, most places won't let you short a stock below 10 bucks and some below five. So you tend to see fairly strong support at both those levels on the downside just because shorts can't hammer a stock any longer. Again, not much going on here in Tesla. I have no idea. It's very hard to tell. I've looked at the Chinese papers, converted to English. I don't read Chinese. And you really don't get a real good sense on what's happening over there. Again, you kind of know what a lot of people are going to do. It's very hard to know what one person like Zing is going to do. 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As I said, CSX actually after the bell tonight, one of the other ones that probably not so much what they say in the reaction, but I want to hear what they're saying about transportation costs. And a lot of the reasons why stuff isn't getting where it should be and maybe they'll have some insight on what we should know to color our thinking going forward. As I said, last night with the transportation company and some of the others are giving us kind of a flavor out there, it's even in a bear market, there's some stocks that do well. So you've got a tale of two cities. And the question is, is the bad city gonna drag down the good city or is the good city gonna drag up the bad city part of what's going on?  I don't think that there's a big problem with the NASDAQ per se on interest rates, but certainly companies that have a lot of infrastructure like oil drilling and trains and planes, a lot of that stuff. That's what I'm interested to see what they think happens in the next three months. We'll see you tomorrow, same back channel, same back time, so when you can, not when you have to. Building wealth trading in the stock market seems impossible.