The following is a presentation of TFNN. The Morning Market Kickoff with your host, Tommy O'Brien. Tommy O'Brien. Good Monday morning, everybody. I'm Tommy O'Brien, coming to you live from TFNN, 9.06 a.m. Monday morning, coming into a holiday week. We have four days of trading closed on Friday for December 24th, Christmas Eve, Saturday, of course, Christmas. We haven't got those presents, folks. Get out there and get them right now because days are running out. Markets, though, not taking the week off just yet. We got some negative action continuing the run that we had where it was Thursday, slide from higher to lower. Friday, some volatility as well when we had options expiration going on on Friday and the acceleration picks up over the weekend. Now, we have a couple of fundamental events going on. The Omicron variant still spreading rapidly. Seems like that is just going to rip through the population over the next month or two. On top of that, you have Senator Manchin torpedoing the Build Back Better plan that was going to happen potentially late this year, early next year. Goldman out already saying that that's going to take a full percent off of the GDP forecast. One full percent, 100 basis points just like that gone from that bill in 2022. So where the market activity falls in terms of what is the real influence here? Is it the variant? Is it the potential for a stimulus plan? It's not even a stimulus plan, right? Build Back Better plan from the president that that gets torpedoed. One of them playing into the market, I would say it's a little bit of both potentially. We jump over to yields though, not too much of a move on yields, right? Check that out. We're sitting right now at 130 108. When you take a look at the yields in terms of what we're talking about right now in the 10 year, you're sitting right at about 1.4 percent, right where we were on Friday. So no move in yields as the market takes off about 1.2 percent to kick things off. Got the S&P down 1.21 to be exact, NASDAQ 100 off 1.4 percent this morning.  VIX spiking as you would expect, really above where we were on Friday, right? Look at the action. I mean, we had some huge action to the downside on Thursday just like that. The VIX hits 27.39 this morning. You're trading right now at 25.78. Crude dramatically trading lower. Crude trading at 67.82. You're down 4 percent in the price of crude. You back it up to Thursday. We were trading at 72.64. So you give up about $5 in the price of crude over about two days of trading with the weekend included in there. Gold giving back some of the gains it had the last week. Gold's off about $6. Excuse me, hit 18.15 on Friday. We covered notes and bonds. Pretty calm action so far this morning. The VIX, as we said, above 25 right now. Okay, let's jump over to the headline. So you got the mansion shock. Supposedly a shock. Not too surprising, folks. Senator Manchin, he is a Democrat. He represents West Virginia, though. And West Virginia, I had to look it up again. West Virginia, Trump won West Virginia in 2020 just to illustrate to be a Democratic senator from that state by 38 points, 39 points. He won it 68 percent to 29 percent. So I say sometimes that Senator Manchin gets a little bit of the unfair burden from the Democratic Party when he represents a state that Trump won by 38.9 points, 38.9 points to be exact. Nonetheless, he torpedoes that. In my opinion, there was a lot of good in there as well, folks, when you talk about whether it's pre-K, that type of stuff. I tell you, I got a son right now in pre-K who's four years old in the house. And fortunately, you know, we have the ability to be paying for that. It's unfortunate that we actually have to be paying for that in my opinion. It seems like society would be well served by being able to send kids to universal pre-K, which is not quite the case right now. Nonetheless, that gets torpedoed. Goldman cuts forecast by about a percent. What I will say is that when you look at crude, it's remarkable maybe that crude in terms of the shutdowns going on pointing to more of an impact of the variant. But I think it's just both coming down the line because this variant spread in, you're seeing countries locked down. You're seeing countries in prohibit travel. You're seeing sporting events even at home. Let's jump to this headline because it's interesting when you talk about COVID hitting the NFL. We got two games going on tomorrow. I think it is Tuesday. The NFL's got two games going on as they're trying to get all their games in because you have people testing positive out there. The NBA said it postponed five games on Sunday. Yeah, three NFL games for week 15 were postponed. The NHL had at least 20 games postponed. All right, all this plays into the economy, folks. Anytime you got 20 games, 15 games, five games, three games, the economic stimulus that goes with each one of those events, right? Think about every person attending that event, every family, you're buying whatever you're buying there, right?  All of that mattering. Now, this one talks about the betting sites. Just like the leaves left scrambling as players test positive routine, sports betting companies are making backup plans in case their business models need adjusting. Yeah, I mean, these companies, folks, man, you're looking for a company that's been pummeled. DraftKings Accelerate Tire Friday, which is interesting. You're going to open a little bit low with the market today, but take a look at some of these betting stocks, because it might be time to try and find a low, man. You're talking about DraftKings. Earlier this year it was at 74.38. You give back the entire one you had from the COVID loads, okay? Think about that, right? You are below where we were in DraftKings anytime since over the last, what's that? Since they go public? Since they go public going all the way back to basically May. They pushed this out in May of 2020, and you're back to those prices from 74. Now, that's DraftKings. Penn, which owns Barstool Sports, is back to 48 bucks. That's talking about prices we haven't seen since August of last year. Now, this chart goes back further, but I mean, think about, right? I mean, you're now back to almost where you were pre-pandemic levels on some of these stocks given back that full acceleration from 142, but they might be in trouble for the foreseeable future because there are games that are being canceled across the board, folks. You got it over in Europe going on with soccer matches over there. You got it here with football, basketball. What else was in here? Something was in here getting postponed. Nonetheless, keep your eye on it because those variants spreading will have an impact, folks.  And yeah, it's not like you're living in fear, folks, but it does impact things. And being that close to things, we were fortunate to be able to pull him out of class on the Friday. He's on Christmas break now. Seems like he did not contract the virus, so that's a good thing, but you see the ability of people, whether they're in school, right? What if we were working and maybe you wanted to take the day off instead of sending them right back to class in a class that had active COVID in it, that's going to impact the economy as well. Even though we will get over this in the next two or three months, there will be an economic impact and let's jump to some of the travel stocks because this is where these stocks have gotten ahead of the market with the pullback here, right? You just pulled back from November of $22 back to $16. You see the drop-off we had when the variant first surfaced. You had American Airlines trading at about $19 in change. You're trading at $16 in change right now. Delta Airlines, when the variant popped over, there's your gap from the Thanksgiving. You were trading at $39. These travel stocks, they closed that gap and then gave it up. Remarkable because they will be impacted. International travel will be impacted. Cruise travel will be impacted by this, folks. You got Carnival down another $0.60. They were above $20 before the variant. You're going to open at $17 in change for them. And you could say it's a small blip in the road. How small? That's our best guess, but nonetheless, you're going to see it hit this economy, especially when you talk about some travel stocks. Stay tuned, folks. We'll be coming right back. And you can trust Larry's analysis. After all, he's got 45 years experience as a day trader. Larry will also provide daily charts, videos, and data on the key markets that he's tracking. 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Watch online at tfnn.com or on tfnn's YouTube channel and become the investor you were born to be, TFNN, Educating Investors. Welcome back, folks. We have the S&P's right now down 53 points, and if you've been watching the program enough, I have a chart up here with a channel line to the upside of this S&P 500 that might be at the size of a break beneath it, folks. We are playing with a level that's definitely below there, probably lower than we've been. You look where we were back in October, floated with that line, got below it by a decent fashion, but nonetheless, you're talking about trading down to a low of 45-26 right there on the bar that we have so far going on this morning. You're trading right now still down 52 points at 45-57, but look at that. I mean, we've bounced over 30 points. We've done 82 points at one point in the S&P 500. You get the NASDAQ down about 200 right now, NASDAQ 100, that is. All right, jumping over to Moderna. So let's take a look at Moderna. Moderna shares, you're going to open above 318. So on this chart, we got a print of about 320, 318 or so, definitely far off the highs we had a 497, but you're talking about a bump of about 6%, 7% in the pre-market. There's your acceleration overnight after the acceleration you had on Friday. Moderna shares, third dose, boosts, antibodies against Omicron. Looks like the booster is quite a difference compared to the two shots here, folks. I have been boosted. I encourage you to go out there and talk to your medical professional, your doctor to see if it's right for you. It is safe. It is effective. And yes, with two doses, it looks like people will be okay in general. But the third dose just does a much better job. It seems like of avoiding infection and fighting it off if needed. We saw a 37-fold increase in neutralizing antibodies by the booster dose. Now, the booster dose is 50 micrograms, which is half the dose used for the primary immunization. The company said in a statement, they're also testing a 100-microgram dose, microgram dose, which increased antibody levels 83-fold compared with the primary two-dose course. So nonetheless, good news out there for the booster seems to keep coming. Good news on the booster, whether it's Moderna and Pfizer, the two mRNA vaccines. There's your action on Moderna. We jump over to Pfizer shares. Pfizer positive as well by about a dollar as we have negative action in the market across the board. All right, jump it down the line to see what else we have in terms of stocks. Making moves. We talked about Moderna and, yeah, we talked about the airline stocks, the travel stocks weighing on that. I mean, if you thought about taking a cruise, probably going to have to rethink that one coming down the line in a big way. Airlines getting hit, cruise gets hit and getting hit, biogen in the positive. After announcing it would cut the price if it's Alzheimer's drug. Agilum? Agilum? Now, this was the one that made all the press, right? They got approved. There was a big uproar about that getting approved. And whether it was warranted and being approved, you had people quitting on the board over the FDA, I believe. You spike up to 468. You actually trade all the way below that. You're up a few dollars this morning as they cut the cost of that drug, but there is a lot going on there in a big way in terms of, man, you know, I remember that was a make or break scenario for the stock.  It gets disapproved, you trade down $200. It's just a binary event with huge implications on Biogen. It gets approved, you trade up to 468, but now there's an investigation going on in terms of how it was approved, et cetera. You're actually below where you were coming into that event. And yes, cutting the price by half now, because I believe part of that borrower was the cost as well on top of it. Pretty remarkable, you just cut the cost by half, right? Talk about huge implications. Cerner, medical records technology provider. They're going to announce a deal to be acquired by Oracle in an all-cash transaction in the mid-90s, Cerner. Yeah, there's a pop for you. Now, this had been talked about last week. You spike up to 97, 90 bucks. It's interesting when you think about it. When you talk about all-cash transaction, right? Interesting when you look at it. If you really think a company is just going to absolutely take off, then you pay all-cash for it because you want it all. You don't want that to have anything.  By giving them a stock, you're giving them a piece of the action and the acceleration higher. By paying all-cash, man, they want it all. Cerner spikes to 90 bucks. Yes, acquired by Oracle in the mid-90s. Now, canopy. Canopy had been on a little bit of a tear. These cannabis stocks, not so much, man. It's like, no matter when they get a pop, it just doesn't stop in terms of you give it back up. Now, for the first time, that's a weekly, right? Cannot find a bid on that stock down to 869. Absolutely shocked that this thing trades below the $9, but you give it all back, folks. Maybe this is the area. You could have said that on Friday, though, and just like that, we're going to open back down to 9 bucks. After Piper's Handler downgraded the stock to underweight, citing sales trends that are under pressure across canopy's business. It just doesn't stop on that cannabis sector in terms of taking hits over and over to the downside, we jump over to their competitors. Tilray in just Max Payne's situation for all these. What, Aurora is another stock in that sector? I mean, just taking in even the huge pop these things had three years ago out of the equation. This year alone, Aurora from 19 bucks down to $5 and change. All right, jumping down the line, continuing to take a look at what we have going on. Sunrun, the solar company stocked down about 10% in the pre-market, following a downgrade for them. Let's check out their stock run. We'll pull up this 15-minute RUN. Is there a symbol? Yeah, it just keeps dropping. We'll take a look at the daily. So you're down about $4. On their downgrade, AT&T gets an upgrade to overweight from neutral based on better broadband outlook for telecom companies than for cable providers. AT&T's in the positive.  I think that was what, Thursday's action? Yeah, Thursday's action. Look at that pop on AT&T, man. That was quite a bar to the upside there. There was your pop continuing to run higher to 24 bucks. You had a big pop in Verizon as well. Verizon, almost straight and higher. You had about 53 right where you closed yesterday. Holding up pretty well. You got some decent dividend stocks there that are going to be less volatile than the general market, especially when an interest rate's sitting at about 1.4% right now on that 10-year. What else we got going on? That was pretty much down the line of what we're talking about for stocks making moves. Interesting article out here talking about who's making the most money in wages. How about recruiters? It would make sense. With the wage, with the labor market so tight, US recruiters in high demand get the largest bump in real wages. Salaries stack up to the fastest inflation in decades. How about 14% from the last year? That's a real rise. Real wise, right? Adjusted for inflation. Yes, that is a real wage jump of 4% adjusted for inflation. What do we got inflation going at? 9% in some certain areas. So you're talking about 23%. You need a raise to have a 14% real raise. The top 15 when you get down the list. So recruiters were at 14%. Educators and corporate trainers, public relations, restaurant manager. How about that? A real raise of 7.5%. Cleaners, coordinators, operations administrator. Yeah, operations is a big one that you're going to be paying for. Security specialist, web developer, legal development ops engineer, consultant, SAP consultant, stylist out there getting a real raise of 5.7% software engineer and transformation specialist down the line for the companies with the bigger wages out there. When the bottom line, you stack things up. Sales representative, sales, sales. That's a tough one. When sales are just eroding in a big way. Property manager, interesting in terms of how real estate is done. Property manager probably just can't keep up with inflation. I mean, these numbers are getting raises here. Okay, these are inflation adjusted. We got a much bigger raise than 1.2%. So they're getting raises. They just aren't keeping up with inflation to the tune of losing 1% real wages a year. Customer experience specialist, distribution specialist. We got sales again. Low end of the spectrum here. Cashier, realtor. Surprising realtors aren't keeping up, but I guess you don't get raises. 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We had a lot of great webinars that we've done over the last year on top of the newsletters. We got some great ones coming up for the next year as well. I encourage you to get over there. Get your Tigerdolls. Whether you're a current subscriber, you can apply it right to your account, folks. If you're a monthly subscriber, you lock in those added savings. We do this sale about twice a year. So we'll do this one. Next one probably coming up maybe June or July. I was going to say Thursday or Friday. June or July, twice a year. So get these Tigerdolls before that sale ends on Thursday. Jumping over to yield. So it is interesting that you have yield sitting so calm with the market going a little bit haywire right now. We're sitting right at about 1.4 percent on the 10-year. You look where we are on the curve. The two-year, about 6-tenths percent. On the two-year right now, the 30-year, 1.8 percent. So pretty calm action on the 10-year. Interesting, trying to digest what is moving this market in terms of the 10-year versus the 30-year. And just like that, we do have a little bit of a rise. That's probably pushing yields closer to 1.39 percent. Putting that on a five-minute chart. Yeah, since I came on the air at about 9 o'clock, you've risen from about 13108 to 13112. So yields decreasing a little bit as this market pulls back, S&Ps down 57 points. Let's jump to some of the fang stocks. Amazon shares down 1.9 percent coming into the holiday season. Be interesting to see how these companies navigate supply chain issues, wage issues. They're going to be getting all those packages as they should be to where they need to be. We jump over to Walmart shares. Flat going into that. We got Target shares down 1.6 percent target. Really giving it back a little bit from their recent high. All-time high that is of 268. We jump around to some of those other fang stocks. Apple shares down 1.4 percent right now to 168. Talk about close, man. It is remarkable they get within pennies of $3 trillion and give it up just like that to 168. You're now talking about $14 away from where we need to be for $3 trillion for Apple. Microsoft has had some volatility recently, man. Microsoft, right? Let's put it on a 15 minutes to see last week. You accelerate higher on Fed Day up to 337, I think. Yeah, 337 and just like that, you give back $20 from Thursday to Friday's low. This morning, you're down about 810 percent, but look at Microsoft catching a little bit of a bid on the open. We jumped to Google shares. Google down about 1.5 percent. These tech stocks really trading lower now. On the flip side of that, tech stocks trading higher. Zoom shares actually trading lower on a day like today. That is interesting. Maybe all the acceleration built into maybe zooming a little bit more than we thought with the most recent variant. You jump to the five minute, excuse me, back to the daily. Zoom even was higher than that, I think, right? Yeah, 588 last October for Zoom shares. I mean, it is crazy. We have vaccine efficacy and this thing just tanks all the way into this year to 200. It's talking about earlier when this thing was down at like 175, saying if you get back to pre-pandemic levels of 100 in Zoom, I would definitely be mine there. Not sure we get back there. Maybe this is the bounce. Zoom is a great company, folks. I don't imagine you give it all back to where we were pre-pandemic levels. You had Zoom trading in 2019 at 105. Their company has changed dramatically for the better since then, dramatically. Yes, they're not growing as fast as they thought, but man, Zoom has become a word in the English language that it was just not there prior to COVID. Now, this morning, interestingly, you give back 10 bucks just that quick, so I don't think it's going to be that dramatic. Yes, things are changing slightly, folks, but I don't imagine a huge transformation to our lives. You're going to see certain things, right? I'm a little bit less likely, myself speaking, to go into big events, right? Maybe I was going to be open to seeing a movie, going to a sporting event. Maybe I'm going to let this wave subside to that. It doesn't mean I'm going to change family holiday plans to that degree, as in I'm not going to need to Zoom as much as during the pandemic. Because I'm vaccinated. I have my booster. I'm not just worried about that.  So Zoom, yes, they will benefit, but not like they're going to benefit in the middle of the pandemic. Okay, let's jump down the line and see what else we have going on. Let's see. NFL recruiters. Okay, let's just jump around to some of the stocks that I like to take a look at, particularly volatile Disney. They're going to take a beating when you got things shutting down. California shut it down hard on Disney. I wonder if they'll come back to that type of a model. To Disney, trained down about 2% today to 145. Uber, it said some nice action last week, but they're giving it back a little bit today with the market. Uber trade to above 40. Last week you were at 3488. You kick off the week, you end the week actually almost 15% higher at about 40. You're down about 3.3% for Uber shares so far this morning. We jumped to docusign. This thing's been pummeled in a big way, but interesting looking at some of these markets. I mean, you look at a market that's at all time highs, but these are the types of stocks that people say, you know, there's a lot of weakness in this market beyond just all time highs. If you take out the fang stocks, you have docusign down 1.3% today. You make a low last week of about 130 though. You see that acceleration? 136. Is that going back a little bit further? Let's pack it up. Yeah, there's your low a couple weeks ago. 131 since then. We've been skipping across. It looks like nothing on this chart, but that's only because the fall off was so substantial. I mean, you're up, what is that? $22 off of the lows of where you were. And as I mentioned last week, you were at 136. So you're talking about $17 above those lows. That's about a 12, 13% pop for docusign. Back on the daily, it's going to take a while to fill that gap and repair that damage done, but nonetheless, docusign down 1.4% with the market so far today. We jumped to Bitcoin. Bitcoin has just been a slide to lower prices. I imagine we got 40,000 coming to us in Bitcoin eventually. Our man Basel Chapman is coming up live next with the Tiger Technicians Hour. He loves that cup and handle formation. He talks about the symmetry of the moves. And I learned that nice one from him and I'm always looking for that symmetry. And it seems like this one's just got a little bit further to go to make that symmetrical one to the bottom side. You're talking about from 41,000 right now. You're sitting at 45. I had to double check this when I looked at it last week. I said, was Bitcoin just at 69,000 in November? November 10th, five weeks ago, and you're at 45,000? Boy, talk about volatility. We back it up on a three-year weekly. You see the run. Bitcoin, 65,520 back in April. We spike at 69,335. Seems all but natural. We give that back to about 41,000. Maybe that's the buy correlates to the high, which is interesting that we had from January back in that area as well. Stay tuned, folks. We'll be coming right back. Finish up the show. Are you in the market for buying or selling real estate in the Bay Area, including the surrounding St. Petersburg, Tampa, and Clearwater markets? Tiger Real Estate LLC is a firm that has extensive experience in the Tampa Bay Area. 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All right, we got a conversation in the den. It starts off with him saying, all right, and because this is important, okay? It's important because I have a young son. All right, and you have to protect society, folks, whether it's from the norms of democracy or it's the norms of rational, reasonable conversations. Okay? So first, the comment is not a single professional athlete because I was talking about sports shutting down. So Jimmy and the Den decides because you're out there putting it out there, Jimmy. So stand up for the statements you're saying, okay? He's out there saying not a single professional athlete has been hospitalized. It's just wrong, folks. It's just straight-out wrong facts that get used by people for a political narrative, okay? There are many, many, many, okay? Many people that are professional athletes that have been hospitalized. In the NFL, you have it, okay? You have it this year, you have it last year. Many people. Then he says as many people have died from the flu as died from COVID. Not true. Almost a million people died of COVID. But people like to throw out these nonsensical statements to help their narrative, okay? And then he says it would just be better if we all got it for natural immunity, okay? I have a young son. I go to doctor's appointments, folks. I don't know if you know when you have a young child, okay? First you go for the right-of-way appointment. Then you go for the monthly appointment. Then you go for the two-month. And then you go for the four-month, the six-month, the nine-month, okay?   The doctor doesn't tell me, hey, guess what? Just let him get everything, okay? Because most of the time the kids are fine and then his natural body will do it. It's crazy pills, okay? And it goes hand-in-hand with what's going on with democracy right now, since it does, okay? Because somehow we're taking crazy pills that the ex-president, the last president, Donald Trump, is gonna run again in 2022.  If I had a son that was in high school and they lost a presidential race for high school, okay? And he came home and he complained that all the votes were fake and everybody was out to get him, okay?  It's an erosion of democracy and it's gonna be called out on TFNN folks, okay?  Folks, vaccines have been required for school since I've been alive and probably since you've been alive, okay? So this new insane rhetoric, okay? It is very dangerous. And I ask you to call out this rhetoric when you see it like I'm calling out where I see it, okay? It's crazy pills, okay? And it's very dangerous, just like, okay? And listen, Republicans have a lot of great ideas, folks. I fall right in the middle and it makes me sad that Republicans are getting run over that I can't even think about voting Republican, otherwise votes won't matter because I will be fulfilling, okay, their goal of electing probably Donald Trump to the next election where he says that all votes are fake on the ones that he loses. Okay, I have a son who's not even one year old. I want to protect democracy to where he can be 80 or 90 years old and be okay with the fact that the country is going to be okay if we respect everybody's right to vote, okay?  That we're going to have a president, regardless of what you think about January 6th, which is its own deal, okay? But we're going to have a president that literally doesn't think a vote is fair if he loses. If somebody in high school acted like that, folks, and your child wanted to hang out with that person that lost their election and said that it was garbage and everybody was out to get him, and guess what, that's not the truth, folks, okay? So this anti-vaccine rhetoric, okay, Jimmy? Saying that, yes, you are ranting, okay? You're ranting that not a single... This all started with an exaggeration because everything is an exaggeration, folks, okay? Because I'm talking about NFL games getting shut down. And Jimmy says not a single person in the pro sports, not a single pro athlete. Talk about a definitive statement, Jimmy. Not a single pro athlete.  Not a single pro athlete's ended up in the hospital. Well, he's wrong, okay?  So I'm here to correct it because it's not true. And it's life or death when you're putting out that type of information. And there's tons of people, okay? There's a lot of exaggeration after the fact, after I called you out for your BS information that you're using to fight against the vaccine. Okay? Stand up for what's right, folks, okay? This is a stock show, but this is going on when I talk about how things matter when the NFL gets shut down games and betting sites get shut down to games. Anti-vaxxers take that opportunity, okay? And they say everybody should just get it. Natural immunity, okay? Folks, it's not how it works, okay? The political crazy pill going on in people's heads, I don't get it, okay? But if you have a young kid, you show up and every single appointment, they're getting vaccines because that's what keeps people safe, okay? Don't fall into the trap of these fear mongers talking about that, okay?  Vaccines are great, but I read on the Internet that it's even better if we just let your kid get everything, okay? Because they'll probably be fine. And I believe in the human, you know, you'd look at your pediatrician like they were crazy. Well, stand up for what's right, all right? This deal of just talking about garbage, folks, my rant, okay? But it goes hand in hand with what's going on in democracy right now, too, okay? Because if you remember the election, I was dealing with the same people in the Tigers then, okay? Saying just let the votes be certified in the states and all this will go away, right? Just let the votes get certified. That's what they said. Just let the votes get certified and then the election will be settled. Well, here we are four years later with January 6th in tow and the same exact people are gonna be saying, okay? Well, you know what? Let's just see where the election goes and we'll see what happens. We'll see what happens. We'll see how Trump handles things this time when he loses, okay? Because he was the president last time when he lost and he spent four years saying that the votes don't matter. That if he loses, it's not fair, it's not right. It's a childish tantrum that he is throwing, folks. And it goes hand in hand with not recognizing the reality we live in, okay? Vaccines work, okay? Yes, there are side effects that are rare and do happen, okay? I'm not taking crazy pills myself and I'm not just polishing the world and saying that they're perfect, okay? They do happen. Talk to your doctor. There are people that it may make sense not to get vaccinated, okay? Overall, it is not a fair statement to be in there, okay? Saying that nobody needs them. Nobody healthy gets hospitalized, right? It's the same exact routine. Stand up for what's right, folks, okay?  And I'm already getting emails. I'm seeing them coming in. I love it. Send me all the emails. If you don't believe in vaccines, send them to me and send them to me. Why? All right? I would love to read them. I like information, folks, okay? And if there's something out there I'm not aware of, I want to know it, okay? But when I see bad information in my Tiger's Den, all right, in the TFNN Tiger's Den, saying no professional athletes ever go to the hospital, okay? It's garbage. It's garbage. Call it out for what it is, folks, because it's becoming way too prevalent that people feel proud to spread bad information, okay? You should be ashamed for spreading bad information that might cause people to make bad decisions for their own health.  And it's life or death sometimes, Jimmy, okay?  Telling people don't need the vaccine because healthy people don't go to the hospital, they do. So it's important to get that information out there. We'll talk stocks for the last few minutes when we come back. Stay tuned, folks. 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 in technical market analysis. 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We give up 30 points, and we give up a lot of those points right on the open. We were just trading at 4557. You give up 20 points in the last 14 minutes of trading right now in the S&Ps. Yeah, what's up with this market, GB? I'm not sure. NASDAQ, a little bit of a different story, though. 15,605. You're down 1.2% in the NASDAQ. 101.6% in the S&Ps. The Dow's off 1.8%. The Russell really picking up steam off 2.4%. Crude picking up steam as well. Off below 67 bucks. You're trading at 66.92%. Gold, negative as well.  We jump over to the VIX. VIX spiking almost near 26%. And we jump to notes and bonds right now. Excuse me. And yeah, we're seeing a little bit of a rise. So much for no action right now. We got the tenure is up 6 ticks since I've been on the program right now to 131.14%. And you're talking about a yield right now to 1.38%. So we just dropped two basis points in the tenure right now to 1.38%. Over in Europe, negative action in a big way as you'd expect. The DAQ's off 1.8%. FTSE's off 1%. CAC rules off 1.3%. So you're talking about right in line with our indices right now as we have the Dow basically off 1.7%. FTSE off 1.8%. FTSE off 1.1%. NASDAQ 100 off about 9.10%. Let's jump to some of those fang stocks and see if they're holding things up. Apple, only down 8.10%. So that's a little bit ahead of the market. Microsoft holding up well as well. Only down half a percent right now. We jumped to Google shares. Down about 9.10%. So you could make the argument that some of the fang stocks holding up a little bit better than the market. Amazon though down 1.5%. All right, folks, thanks so much for tuning in. Starting your trading day with me. Stay tuned. We got our man Basil Chapman. He's coming up with the Tiger Technicians our next live. We got Larry Pezzimento at 11. Fast Market at 12. Steve Rhodes at 1 o'clock. I believe our man Dave White may be on vacation this week. But we'll have programming at 2. And Tom O'Brien, my dad, he'll be live from 3 till 4. 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We have downloaded the SCOOG section of materials in Swift Playgrounds, then we have our SCOOG device. You can see we only have a green light on here, but we need to connect it via Bluetooth. Once you hit run my code, you have the circle look em up, then on the bottom you have the button once, once it starts to blink blue, then you can connect SCOOG and then you're going to connect, it's going to be connected, it's calibrating. Once you hit these buttons, it will make the music go with it. See what you can make. And this is the SCOOG app itself. It's taking me through, you see I'm connected via Bluetooth. These are my notes to play in the bottom, and as I go through like GarageBand, intense.  You want to make sure that you turn off no more light, take your SCOOG. Thank you for watching this tutorial. Be sure to subscribe, like, comment, and follow us by clicking on the links below in the description.


So you're a quantum experience user.  Well, in this video, we're going to make a little quantum circuit and then find out. First, let's open up the quantum experience website. We're going to start a new circuit. Now let's drag over some gates and some measurements. OK, our circuit's all ready. Let's press Run. What's happening? Well, first, the circuit is converted to a chasm file, which is the type of quantum script file. Then that script is sent to the quantum processor in the lab. So now let's head over to the lab and check that out. So we're here in the lab, and the chasm file that we generated online has made its way over the internet to a computer like this. The computer turns those chasm files into instructions for waveform generators that can create pulses of specific frequency and shape to control the qubit. The pulses travel over coaxial cables up here and down to the fridge where our experiment is located. The fridge is off right now so that we can look inside. But normally, the experiment would be contained by several layers of shielding. And at the bottom here, the temperature is only 15 million degrees above absolute zero. The actual experiment is located in this shielding can, and that would be a five qubit quantum chip. The control pulses travel down these cables to the experiment where they control the state of the qubit. And after that, we send down a series of measurement pulses also along these cables, which interact with the qubit and then travel back up along these cables and then back to this computer where they're converted into the results that we see online. And now you know what happens when you press Run on the quantum experience.


Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds. We praise Allah and we seek His aid and we ask for His forgiveness. We seek His protection from the evil of ourselves and from the evil of our actions. Whomever Allah guides, none can misguide. And whomever Allah misguides, none can guide. I bear witness that there's no God but Allah alone.  This is the first khutbah after the end of Ramadan and as we say farewell to our past Ramadan, we find ourselves in a moment of muhassabah. Muhassabah is a time of self-examination, a time to see how well we achieved the purpose of the month. And as we kept hearing throughout the month, Allah says that fasting was prescribed for you just as it prescribed for those before you so that you may gain taqwa. Now taqwa is one of those words that we hear often pretty much at the beginning of every khutbah. But taqwa is not just this vague word that's translated as piety, consciousness of God or the fear of God. Taqwa comes from the Arabic word for wakia, a shield. It literally means a shield. And so what we're constructing during Ramadan is a shield to protect ourselves, something to hold up, something that we can protect ourselves with against the ego of our very selves. And this has also been indicated in another hadith where the Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, says, So the Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says, fasting is a shield. We use a different word in Arabic for a shield. Fasting is a shield. So when each of you fasts, let him not speak indecently, let him not act ignorantly. And even if a person fights him or insults him, let him say, I am fasting, I am fasting. And so here the Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, is informing us that the fasting person now has a shield.  And so he says, I'm fasting, I'm fasting. In other words, I'm above this pettiness. I'm above the insults. I'm above the fighting. And I'm stronger than his words and his words shall not hurt me. Unfortunately, the reality of some of us who fasts that instead of gaining patience out of fasting, we become more irritable. We become, you know, we ask people not to talk to us, not to nag us, not to annoy us. And fasting becomes an excuse to act horribly to the people around us, to our family, to our colleagues.  The Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, said, من لم يدع قول الزوري والعمل به فليس لله حاجة من أن يدع قعامه وشرابه. Whoever does not abandon false speech and acting on false speech, then Allah has no need for him to leave his food and drink. Think about this. There's no purpose in fasting. You may as well not do it, essentially.  And in the Quran, there's an entire surah. If you read it, you'll find that almost the entirety of the surah is dedicated to these sins of the tongue, these things that weigh us down. And that's in Surah al-Fujarat. And in the surah, not only does Allah tell us about these various things that are forbidden for us, but he also gets at what are the causes of these sins of the tongue. Why do people slander other people? Why do people spy on other people when it's spread rumors? Where does this come from?  Believers, let not some people mock other people for perhaps they are better than them. Walaa nisa'un min nisa'in asa'in yakoonu khayran minhum. And let not a group of women deride and mock another group of women for perhaps the ones mocked are better than the ones mocking. Walaa talmizu anfusakum walaa tanazabubil alqab. I do not taunt each other. I do not call each other names. Now look at the reasoning in this verse. Allah's advising those who are afflicted by the disease of gossiping about the faults of others, whether they do it openly or whether they do it through insinuation to question how much they actually know. Because perhaps they are better than you. Perhaps they are better than you. And so when this thought of speaking about the faults of others, about spreading things that we've heard about others comes to us, we should ask ourselves, do we really know with absolute certainty that whatever thing we want to talk about, whatever shameful thing we may have heard, are we sure that so-and-so actually did that thing? And even if we do know that he or she may have committed that thing, are we sure there was no justification in what he was doing? And then beyond that, maybe perhaps there was no justification, but perhaps there was a good intention and the person just misjudged his action. And even if he didn't misjudge his action and his intention was poor after all, how do you know that that person hasn't repented since committing that misdeed? And so what Allah is telling us is that we should, when these thoughts come to us, we should accuse ourselves first before we accuse others, because when we accuse others in the heart, this is what's known as Su'adun, bad opinion, and when we share that false accusation with others, that's when it becomes a Riba or a backbiting. Now, when the topic of Hussnaudun of maintaining good opinion of other people comes up, some people tend to think that maintaining a good opinion of other people is just simply naive. If we've heard something, you know, which is more realistic if we believe it. And yet, this objection isn't quite true, because Allah also says something else. He reminds us, وَلِلَّهِ الْعِزَّةُ وَلِهِ رَسُولِهِ وَلِ الْمُؤْمِنِينِ To Allah alone belongs honor, عِزَّة, and to His messengers and to the believers. In other words, Allah is telling us that it's categorically and factually known that your fellow believer has an honor and that he has a sanctity that cannot be violated and that their faults should not be exposed based on that sanctity. And so, when the thought of a bad opinion comes to you, you need to weigh it in this balance, weigh it between what is essentially an opinion, something you don't know for certain, and this statement of fact, a statement of certainty that Allah has told you, that the Muslim that I think may have done this misdeed, he has an inviolable honor, and there's a presumption of good opinion that comes with that honor that's gonna win out every time over the bad opinion. And so, we should not think it's only realistic to have a bad opinion of others, and that when we think negatively of a person that we just simply know in ourselves that negative impression is true. These bad opinions of others, these suggestions, these insinuations are not from the inside, that's the point. They come to your heart from the outside, and this is what's known as waswasa, they come from the shaitan in other words. And so, when we see a situation or we hear about a person and we can interpret what we saw or heard in a good light or a bad light, this is where the dangerous situation arises. It's the shaitan in this mahmal where in this place of interpretation that will whisper to us and suggest the worst possible interpretation of what we saw or the worst possible interpretation of what we heard, and suggest that that's actually the truth of what happened. And this poor opinion, this suspicion, we should cast away. In the same way that during Hajj we throw stones at the shaitan, we should cast stones at this thought because it's as though the shaitan is sitting beside us and feeding us these bad opinions of our fellow believers. And continuing in certain khujrat, Allah says, yaiyuhl ad-dina aamanu ijtanibu kathirum min ad-dun inna baaba ad-dunni ithim wala tajasasu. Believers avoid much suspicion. Verily, some suspicion is sinful and do not spy. And so suspicion then is the next step that happens here. After west-west of the shaitan, if we pursue it and we believe it, it becomes suspicion. And at this point, several of our scholars explain, this is where we become culpable for our evil thoughts of people. This is when suspicion becomes a sin, when we have started to believe it. And now after a person believes this basis, suspicion, he starts to spy on the person that he holds a poor opinion on because he wants to confirm his poor opinion on them. So you see people looking at other people's text messages and looking at their emails and asking others about, oh, what was he doing at this day at this hour? What was she doing at this day and at this hour? And so the cycle continues. They're looking to confirm their bad opinion and a love for business as well. Wala tajasasu because it becomes a never-ending cycle. This cycle just continues and worsens. First with whispers, then with maintaining a bad opinion of people and then a suspicion about those people that leads to spying and that spying leads to an inevitably worse opinion of people. And for those who are experienced in the world, you've seen this happen. Either you've been a victim of it, either you've been a perpetrator of it and we ask Allah's forgiveness and Allah's protection from this or you've observed this within other people. That's how it happens. It starts with something small and it grows and it grows and it grows and at each stage, there seem to be justifications for what's happening but at the end of the day, it's just sheytan leading you on. And in certain khujrat, what we're seeing then is that Allah's laying out these stages for us and at each stage, he's commanding us cease and desist now. Don't let this get worse. And so to summarize what we've been saying is that if at the first stage, a whisper comes to you, how do you stop this whisper by casting these out and by telling yourself this is a deception of sheytan? And then if you move to the second step of having a bad opinion, then you accuse yourself first for not having thought of the many reasons that your opinion is probably false. And then if you find yourself pursuing these suspicions, this is the third stage, then you accuse yourself for not having found an excuse for the person that you are suspicious of. Perhaps they had a good intention. Perhaps they have a dantoba from what you're suspicious of. And then if you find yourself spying on others, then you should stop knowing that this will only lead to further false positives and confirmation bias. And then Allah continues again, there's a fifth stage. Allah mentions this in the next verse, he says, wala yaghtab ba'adukum ba'adah ayyuhibbu ahadukum an yaakuna lahma akhihi meita. Do not backbite each other.  Do not backbite each other.  And so the cycle of destruction continues and that this person now who has spoken to other about his opinions, about his suspicions, about his spying and what he's found as though they're confirmed facts and he's spreading rumors, he's entered the realm of backbiting. And what we should know about rumors and backbiting is, it's not only for things that are false, even if the rumor is true, the sin of backbiting, the sin of riba still remains. And that's because at the end of the day, the heart of this matter is realizing that we have no right to publicize the fault of others, even if the fault of others are true. And beyond that, we should think, don't we have something higher to aim for than talking about other people's faults about this filth and this muck? Don't we as human beings as ennobled creatures have a higher purpose, something better to do than to stab our brothers in the back to pull out a piece of their dead flesh and let it wait until it rots, wait until it has an awful stench, wait until it's oozing juices and pus and eat that than to offer it to others to eat? Do we not have any higher purpose than this? And so when the satanic whisperer comes to speak about the faults of someone you don't like, imagine that this is what you're doing.  I'll say this and I ask Allah to forgive me and you and the Muslim women, so forgive him, he is the most merciful. In the name of Allah, and praise be to Allah, peace be upon him, and peace be upon the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, and peace be upon him. Another theme in certain hujarat is that backbiting and sins not only have an adverse personal effect in our relationships with others but they also have a corrosive effect civilizationally on notions and on communities because we notice in this verse that we've been reading from that Allah says, do not backbite each other. La ilta ba'udukum ba'udah, do not backbite each other because normally when a person speaks ill of a second person then that news of that ill speaking reaches that second person and that second person is tempted then speak ill of the first person so it goes both ways often. And also in the verse, the wording that Allah has chosen here is that he warns us against eating the dead flesh of your brother. Why brother specifically? This is because when we gossip, when we slander, when we shred rumors and follow our suspicions, these suspicions tend to be about people and involve people within the same community, within the people that are close to us, our families, our friends and colleagues. And backbiting a person who's close to you is like backbiting a brother, it's like stabbing a person in the back. It betrays that trust or friendship that you have. It tears families apart and it leaves communities divided. And this is directly addressed by Allah in Surat al-Khujrat as well in the verses just prior to these ones where Allah says, Inna man mu'minuna ikhwa, fa aslihu bayna akhwaykum, wattaq allaha la'allakum turhamoon. The believers are blood brothers, ikhwa, blood brothers, meaning they're like one family. So bring peace between your brothers. Allah is juxtaposing here two sets of verses, one between prohibiting backbiting and spying and this verse about the unity of the ummah. Speaking about the faults of others and spreading unverified rumors only brings discord and fitna and it serves no other purpose than to feed our own ego because by putting down others we feel as though we have somehow risen. And this is the scheme of shaitan from the very beginning. And it's the sixth and the final step in his plot to divide the believers. He hopes that the whispering that you initially feel, that subtle small thing in your heart that you may not be aware of or that might just come and go, he hopes that this will take hold and he will hope that this will lead to bad opinion, bad opinion to suspicion, to spying, spying to backbiting and backbiting to division. But being a believer means letting go of our ego. It means becoming a member of this greater ummah, that we bring peace between people by hiding other people's faults, hiding other people's faults in public. And if the situation does arrive that we come to know of some fault of your brother, some fault of one of your family members, that we privately advise them, that we speak to them directly and that we don't spread word about it to other people. This is, and furthermore, when we advise them that we do it with gentleness and we do it with sincerity. This is the literal meaning of nasiha. And furthermore, the great scholar Ibn Atala al-Skandiri, this is one of his definitions of the mu'min, of the believer. He says the mu'min, the mu'min is someone who gives sincere advice to his brother in private and who covers his faults in public. And if someone else tries to expose your brother, it means that he stands up for his honor, he stands up for his ezzah, his inviolable sanctity, because he has a right to remain covered, just as you have a right to remain covered. And this is what Allah's ending this verse was. He's saying, Allah ends it with, wattaq allaha la'allakum tur hamoon, have taqwa of Allah so that he may show you mercy or that he may be shown mercy. And here it is, taqwa again. Taqwa, the shield, this power of restraint that was the purpose of Ramadan. Allah is telling us to harness it, harness it with our tongues. Don't speak about and don't listen to the faults of others, whether they're real or whether they're imagined. And do not entertain a bad opinion of your fellow believer. Restrain yourself, have taqwa, and Allah will show you mercy by not revealing your sins. Don't you remember all the times when you lost strength? Don't you remember all the times when you had failings? And don't you wish with the deepest regret that those failings were erased and that they had never happened and that your record didn't contain them? Remember that dark moment because everyone is susceptible to faults and to flaws. And just as we would not want hours to be exposed into slightest, then we should not even come close to speaking about the faults of others. Have taqwa of Allah so that he shows you mercy. Allah says in his noble scripture,