I'm first going to say a few words of introduction concerning the topic and afterwards I'm going to introduce our speaker, Gary Young. So the topic of imagining a world without borders actually developed out of courses which I'm teaching here in religions and world philosophies. And the first reason is philosophical because in a course on world philosophies we talked about utopias what kind of utopian visions were developed and as you may know a utopian vision is a vision of a world as it should be of an ideal world which is different from reality and so I had this idea of a kind of mind game of thinking of what would happen if a world without borders were created. Would our world as it exists now and humanity as we know it now would it be prepared for such a world or would it lead to chaos and killings and various other bad things. So the idea of a world without borders is a very complex idea and it's complicated to determine and concerns many different issues. For example, should one allow some immigrants to enter and others not then the question comes up who is a good immigrant and who is a bad one. How can one identify those who are going to contribute to society and distinguish them from those who have criminal reasons and might commit terrorist acts. Also one might ask is a borderless world more practicable in some regions of the world than in others? So many different aspects can be discussed from a philosophical perspective and we will hear more about this by Gary Young Soon. The other basis is historical so as you probably know borders as we know them today developed in connection with modern European nationalisms and the creation of nation states in the 19th century but it was not the same in other historical periods. So the period I'm specializing on late antiquity was quite different. On the one hand the Roman Empire and the Persian Empire were enemy empires who fought against each other but nevertheless people were able to move freely between these regions they could go back and forth for example from Rome, Palestine to Persian Babylonia without any hindrance and you might ask what the reason for this is and the reasons were probably that both the Romans and the Babylonians were interested in trade and they benefited from trade so that was probably one of the reasons why they were keen on having this kind of exchange going on. The next reason for developing this topic is personal. As you can probably already hear from my accent I was born in Germany and I'm now what is in Germany called from a so-called migration background because my father was a refugee from communist Hungary who eventually settled in Germany but decided to remain stateless. And so now this also leads me to contemporary issues because we are now in the development of Brexit and you have probably also followed discussions about the wind rush scandal in the news so now like many other EU nationals I ask myself should I leave or should I go? So on the one hand we are all used to the internet where there are no borders and where we can make easy connections to people worldwide and many professions especially academic professions and sciences require professionals to be very mobile but on the other hand in Britain and also in many other European countries especially for example in Hungary and Poland movements have developed which stress national identity and an ideology which is very much based on the local which seems almost retroactive going back to some kind of earlier period of time. So what could be the reasons for these developments in a world which has become so global nowadays? So I'm very excited that Gary Young, the editor at large at the Guardian was willing to talk about this topic and he's actually my favourite Guardian writer and also reason why I'm a subscriber to the digital edition of the Guardian and he has published many very very interesting articles on the topic of migration, immigration and immigrants from the Commonwealth nations in the Guardian recently but he's not only a writer but also a filmmaker so some of you might be familiar with this documentary film about angry white Americans where he explores possible reasons for Donald Trump's rise to power and what I especially like is that he tackles difficult subjects and he doesn't hesitate to really express what needs to be said and also expresses himself in a very clear and persuasive way. Concerning this documentary he also has a recent book published by the name Another Day in the Death of America. He holds a number of honorary doctorates for example from Cardiff University and London South Bank University and has received various awards and prizes for his journalistic work. I look forward very much to welcome Gary Young and to hear what he has to say about our topic. Thank you, thank you so much Catherine, thanks for having me just before I start I'll remind you vote today if they took away that right you'd soon notice. Imagine that Martin Luther King never had a dream. Imagine instead of thinking outside the narrow confines of his time and place he'd resolved to work only within them. Imagine he had instead risen to the steps of the Lincoln Monument and announced a five point plan that he thought he could both sell to the black community and win a majority for in both houses of Congress that would bring civil rights legislation that one step closer. He chose not to engage in the nitty gritty of the here and now and instead address not what will be or could be but what should be.  I'm fully aware that no nation is going to get rid of its border tomorrow or even next year and if you're looking for a discussion of workable immigration policies that can be enacted in this country or elsewhere within this parliamentary session or the next then watch question time or listen to the today program. There you will find people going round in circles about what is practical rather than bothering themselves with what is ethical or moral. Idealism is the flesh on which pragmatic parasites feed and it's not naive to hope that what is not possible in the foreseeable future is nonetheless necessary and worth fighting for. As a descendant of slaves and a child of an immigrant working class single parent family I owe my life and my presence on this stage to those outrageous and brave enough to fight for a society that they insisted upon even when they could not imagine it ever materializing. If politics is the art of the possible then radicalism must entail the capacity to imagine new possibilities. Oscar Wilde once wrote a map of the world that does not include utopia is not worth even glancing at for it leaves out the one country at which humanity is always landing and where humanity and when humanity lands there it looks out and sees a better country and seeing a better country it sets sail. The map of my utopian world has no borders no border guards, no barbed wire, no passport control, no walls, fences or barriers. The world I think would be a better place without them. I believe in the free movement of people. As a principal I think we should all be able to roam the planet and live, love and create where we wish. Now I'm about to make the case for why I think that's desirable and what I believe we would need to be and do to get there but I would throw down the gauntlet to those who oppose the notion of open borders for what place Yarlswood Detention Centre, Australia's dumping ground for asylum seekers in Nauru or the jungle in Calais or the vessels in the Mediterranean what place do they have in your utopias? Why would you dream of them? So make no mistake, a world with open borders would demand a radical transformation of much of what we have now. It would demand a rethinking not only of immigration but of our policies on trade and war, the environment, health and welfare which would in turn necessitate a reevaluation of our history and our understanding of ourselves both as a species and as a nation. This is partly personal for me. I am from a travelling people. My parents were born and raised in Barbados, a small island in the Caribbean caught in the crosswinds of colonial ties and post-war labour scarcity. I have 14 aunts and uncles along with my parents, nine of them left Barbados for lives in Britain, the US and Canada. I have cousins scattered across the globe. Borders are no friends to diasporas. They privilege form-filling of a family. Borders exist by definition to separate one group of people from another and the primary two issues then become which other that will be and on what basis they should be separated. And as such they are both arbitrary borders and definite. Arbitrary because the borders could be drawn anywhere and they often move. Our countries are in a word to Benedict Anderson imagined communities. Indeed nation states as we commonly understand them are a relatively new idea. We've made Italy, said Massimo d'Aseglio at the first meeting of the newly united Italy's infant parliament in the mid-19th century. We have made Italy, now we must make Italians. We have lived far longer without countries than with them. And if you look at what's happening in Catalonia or Scotland or Flanders then some of the ones we are living with are far from being a settled fact. But if borders are arbitrary they are definite because wherever they are we have to deal with them and because the process that determines who is allowed to move where and why is exercised with extreme prejudice. America's 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act the White Australia Policy a series of measures lasting 70 years or Britain's 1962 Commonwealth Immigrants Act are among the most crude filters. But while the othering changes with time recently in the Western world the shift from race to religion has ground to suspicion over a generation has been breathtaking the fact of it remains the same. Some people won't be welcome not because of what they've done but because of who they are even if the groups of people in question may change. There was a Home Office report in 2007 about who gets stopped for extra questioning when coming into Britain and it revealed that non-white South Africans are 10 times more likely to be pulled aside and non-white Canadians 9 times more likely to be pulled aside than their respective white countrymen. Moreover, even though when translated into sterling the mean income of a black Canadian is almost double that of a white South African a black Canadian is still 4 times more likely to be stopped than a white South African.  This is not a glitch in the system this is the system. But it has relatively recently been compounded by a further contradiction which is that even then even as borders have become tougher for people they have all but been lifted for capital. The world now operates according to the Golden Rule and that's those that have the gold make the rules. Money can travel the globe virtually without restriction in search of regulations that are weaker and labour that is cheaper and when it does it often displaces people sucking investment and resources from one place at the flick of a switch shutting down factories and shifting them to the other side of the globe or introducing automation that renders some professions obsolete. But nobody asks a machine or money when it's crossing a border will you put someone out of work. Those who find their lives turned upside down by the free movement of capital are often prevented from moving country and looking for work. People should at least have the same rights or more since I believe humans are more valuable than money as machines. Sadly that is not a principle that underpins the system we live in. The rich can buy themselves citizenship virtually in about 20 countries cashed down. Meanwhile desperate people are turned away at borders all the time. It's a fact rarely stated but generally acknowledged and accepted that the global poor should not be allowed to travel. Indeed one of the more intriguing aspects of seeing Sergeant Javits life story of the new home secretary held up as an uplifting example this week is the detail that his father came to the country with just one pound in his pocket in 1961. That means where his own father to arrive at Britain's borders now Javit would not let him in and he's okay with that. It's absolutely right he said three years ago that today we should have an immigration policy based more on skills. That's most of the world as such the border stands as an ultimate point of confrontation in the broader dystopia that we have made possible. I think poor people should be able to travel not least because if they couldn't I wouldn't be here. Now in a time that remains I want to dwell preemptively on the more obvious retorts regarding open borders. The first relates to security. If we open the borders we will compromise our security goes to claim the overwhelming majority of people who've committed terrorist attacks here were either born here or are here legally. That shouldn't surprise us. So long as Britain has had colonial or imperial interests elsewhere it's had a terrorist problem here. We have been growing our own terrorists for years for the best part of a century we mostly were engaging with Ireland and our security that resulted that came out of that conflict emerged not as a result of tighter borders or more stringent policing but from a political settlement. Similarly the source of our terror problem isn't strong or lax borders but a thoroughly misguided foreign policy in which we either commit acts of state terror ourselves as in Iraq or in Yemen. This would also help if we address this problem with the issue of refugees. First of all we don't take anything like our fair share of refugees even compared with other European countries let alone the rest of the world but what's particularly galling is because a significant number of refugees are fleeing from wars that we've created and states that we have failed regimes we subsidize and regions we have disabled people to come here then maybe we could start by not going there and messing it up. Similarly with our trade policies which punish poorer countries by preventing them from developing as we did with nationalized industries protected by subsidies and thereby confine them to the volatile markets of raw materials on the whims of multinationals. These are often countries which Britain and other western nations actively and intentionally underdeveloped during colonialism so there we have a historical responsibility. Much of the migration in the world at present it should be pointed out is not voluntary but forced by extreme poverty natural disasters and wars it would be a better world if people only moved if they wanted to and if they did not have to move to eat. Environmental policies particularly on climate change arms control and responsible foreign and trade policies would all assist in allowing many people to stay where they would rather be at home. Put another way those who insist that we cannot afford to take in the world's misery should make more of a concerted effort to ensure that we are not helping to create the world's misery. And that brings us on to the welfare state and the health service and so on which is our core. How do we sustain with national taxes these things that we value if they are then free to the world. Now clearly if we didn't contribute so much to global poverty this would be less of an issue but and we shouldn't forget the huge health inequalities within nations. A black man in Washington DC has a lower life expectancy than a man on the Gaza Strip. But even then just because you have no national borders doesn't mean that there can't be national rights and obligations. The pragmatist in me says we have free movement in the European but in the European Union so far because we're still in it but I'm still not eligible for an Italian pension. So ring fencing a system whereby those that contribute can benefit should not be beyond our can. That's a pragmatist in me. The idealist in me though asks the question do you want to live in a world where healthcare is determined by an accident of birth and if your answer is yes is that because the accident occurred in your favor. But the thing that all of these caveats have in common and I know there are more is fear. A fear of others that others might take what is ours might pollute what we share and that fear is a potent force. It can drive people into the arms of fascist, racist, bigots and bullies. We have seen recently where that fear gets us. What happened with the wind rush generation was not a mistake. It was a whole point of the hostile environment policy. People are treated as illegal unless they can prove otherwise. Not content with the physical border on the water's edge and the airport frontier it revealed that we now have borders that are invisible and omnipresent dividing communities and generations at whim and will. The border now represents not a physical space but a political one that can be reproduced without warning in places of learning at any moment almost anyone your boss, doctor childhood master or landlord can become a border guard. Indeed they may be legally obliged to do so and on the basis of their judgment you may be denied livelihood, family home and health is that the world we want. The great thing about dreaming is that you always have something to wake up to and I don't want to wake up to this anymore. Nation states are a relatively new concept. Migration is as old as humanity. Borders seek to regulate and restrict that basic human custom to travel for the distinct purpose of excluding some and privileging others. They discriminate between all people with the express intention of them being able to discriminate against some people. They do not simply set boundaries for countries they are metaphors for how we might imagine other human beings. Immigrants are not the problem. Borders are. Thank you. That was a fantastic discussion it raised all kinds of questions. I'm going to exercise the Chairman's prerogative and ask the first one how do we move from dystopia to utopia? You start with the smallest question obviously. Arguably for example something like the European Union and we weren't in Schengen but nonetheless that was the beginning of something. That was a test case and what we saw was that Greece or Portugal did not empty out that not everybody left Poland or Romania and that while I think we as a country were not prepared and could have been prepared in terms of investment and social investment and so on the sky did not fall in the sky did not fall in. The problems that we have are not problems due to immigration I believe and I think it was working class who traded in credit default swaps and crashed the economy that's not the problem. So I think that we've had this experiment and this experiment has I believe enriched us. I think Britain is better, more interesting more engaged place for having new and different people in it and we went from 12 to 15 to 27 countries so I think all of the problems I have in the European Union and I have many that would be an example of how that move is possible. That's great. Ladies and gentlemen Gary has kindly agreed to take some 20 to 25 minutes of questions if your hand is recognized wait for the roving microphone to come to you say your name and then please feel free to ask your question. Do we have anyone who wants to lead off from the audience so gentlemen with the glasses in the back there please. Thank you for the talk. I guess I have one quick question which is to what extent in this country anyway is some of the ills that you diagnosed to do with the failures of social democracy over the 20th century and to what extent do you think internationalism is ever possible within a social democratic party particularly the Labour Party in this country? I mean increasingly I think it's vital that I can't imagine what kind of program you would have social democratic or otherwise that isn't internationalist because of the nature of both globalization generally a neoliberal globalization in particular and the problem with most social democratic responses to this moment has been the uncritical embrace of the free movement of capital and the very limited engagement with the free movement of people so there's a range of ways in which you can have transactions and have capital controls and a range of things that you can do about capital that everybody just threw their hands up and said what are we going to do and they've got computers now on the one hand and then on the other hand when it came to people what they did was build bigger and bigger walls employ more guards Tony Blair stood in Dover and what you had was a kind of constant reiteration of the muscular border another question please yes I think our pro director would like to ask a question so I thought it would be really interesting to hear more about the role that borders play in that economic system because the issue isn't that capital doesn't want flexible labor it wants flexible labor with limited rights it wants cheap labor and labor becomes cheap when people feel insecure when they're desperate for jobs and when they don't have social rights and I guess that's the problem of getting to your vision of utopia we're not just looking at a system that's created by racism or by social forms of exclusion but one that's really premised on economic success yeah I think economics really shapes a narrative in race ethnicity, religion just describes a protagonist within that narrative at any given moment but in a sense to kind of combine some of the question that the young man asked with yours is that if you do have laws against capital dumping so that people can't have predatory people can't say right we're going to go to island because they have no minimum wage or whatever we're going to go here because labor is weak and that's the kind of thing that we can do that is possible instead of what you have is a kind of race to the bottom in which everybody ends up competing with whoever the least secure group of people are in the world and then blaming them for it and that's not acceptable and what we've had in Britain and I think why immigration has become the kind of issue that it has in Britain is because for too long we pursued a low productivity, no wage low skilled economy and then we're surprised when the kind of people who want to come to Britain and work are a significant proportion of them have low skills so that's the kind of economy we have and that's not inevitable we could do something about that but the skill in the racism is diverting people's attention from the economic to the ethnic, religion or racial and kind of saying well that must be them they must be they have they are the reason why your library is closing down they are the reason why you can't get a place in school and diverting our attention from the broader economic framework and I think that's a good question now Felix at the back there please thank you I was wondering if you could say something about the place of a political system in your utopia how do you imagine the places where political deliberations and decisions are taking place is it a layered system from the local to the global how does it work I mean in my utopia as much anything that can be devolved would be devolved and there would be there would be a range of things that you can't devolve but that the things that are more local are more accessible are more kind of meaningful when I've done work in Scotland and you can really see how the size of Scotland and the accessibility of its parliamentarians and so for example Scotland has been incredibly successful in tackling knife crime and the reason one of the reasons that they've been successful I believe is because there were the political unit was small enough that people could pick up the phone to someone and say why don't we do this and so we could move at a pace that I think England or Britain couldn't so I think wherever it's possible to devolve power we should not at least because as time goes on within nation states regional variations becomes so vast that London could really have more in common with I don't know New York or Berlin or something than it could with Shropshire then all the more reason for Shropshire not to be taking too many orders from London so that's that would be my visual for it I think Catherine in the front here has a question here Professor, who is that? Since the 1970s Britain has become so much more multicultural society and yet since Brexit attacks on the Muslim and Jewish population have increased so what I find difficult to understand is that how people with whom one has lived for decades also in connection with the Windrush generation suddenly seen as others Sadly it wasn't that sudden I think I mean we I would say that we were not doing as well as we thought we were I was deluded and I didn't think I didn't think Britain was fantastic, had solved it was but I thought that we were further ahead in terms of educating the general populace that we were further ahead than we were and it seems that many of the gains that we made were fragile much more fragile certainly than I believed but I think that many others I think there are others who have been shocked not by the fact of it but by the scale of it the nature in which people now feel emboldened to say certain things that it wouldn't have surprised me if they had thought it but what surprises me is that they are bold enough to say it one of the things that I found really intriguing and clarifying in the wake of Brexit was the the ease with which people moved from the xenophobic to the racist and the Islamophobic there was no suggestion that women wearing hijabs were in any way involved in the debate about Europe as it was understood of Polish Romanian Bulgarian that's what that debate was ostensibly about and yet you didn't have to scratch the surface very hard after the vote to see that the the xenophobia against a certain kind of other slid very easily from language to religion and race and that for a while and I don't think this will be true forever the Poles and the Romanians and the Bulgarians were black people that they had become racialized now they were that's obviously talking about black as a political color not as an actual color but they were the audible other and if people heard them speak in the street they were vulnerable they didn't know whether they should speak their own language maybe in some areas they still they still don't in a couple of cases people were killed when they were heard to be speaking a different language and but I think that that canary was always in the mind if we look at how UKIP had been doing in the years prior that it had always it had always been there but this gathered a lease of life yes the lady at the white top there please I was just wondering in your idea of utopia do you envisage there being one global currency if it was a real utopia I would envisage there just being no money just no money just stuff you know what I can't that's not money isn't in my utopia in my head when I the trouble with there being one kind of money is that money needs to be regulated I'm not a big fan of the euro absolutely no democracy within the institution that governs that currency and if someone's going to part of my mortgage I want to be able to get my hands on them or at least be able to remove them wherever there's power it should be accountable and there is a severe lack of accountability in the European Central Bank and so to have a global currency you would have to have a global organisation that could work that currency and that seems like a tall order to me gentlemen in the front here please I think it's fair to say that SOAS is a university with a strong activist tradition so just following up on the question from the back there about sort of political solutions and ways forward what kind of role do you see activism in moving towards your utopia every role that kind of mind is the king the arc of justice is long but tends towards progress but it doesn't bend by itself none of this stuff happens by itself and when we think of the things that we do have we have them because we fought for them it's a constant frustration to me and it's been intriguing this whole windrushing has been very intriguing to me on a number of levels because it coincided with the 50th anniversary of the Enoch Powell speech and 25 years since in Lawrence's murder and a whole lot of other things that there is this belief that British tolerance and fair play is a product of our genius we're just decent bloody people that's the truth of it how could we not be when the fact is that all of this stuff has been fought for and that if it hadn't been fought for and because it's been fought for it could be lost and we have to keep on fighting but also that there were people who resisted it so this notion that the Windrush generation are now this benighted generation somewhere around the kind of Queen Marmel Mother Teresa is a kind of fabulous national treasure well if only that had been true at the time and that is they've suffered a huge amount of racism and it was activism that's got us to this point and what is truly fascinating about this moment is that people can keep in their heads these two things on the one hand here's a group of old black immigrants who paid their taxes contributed to the country made the country better all of these things which are readily accepted even by the Daily Mail and then on the other hand here's this other group of immigrants who are taking things away lowering our wages making everything worse ruining the country how can that be? how can you keep those two things in your head at the same time and it's activism that we don't know what the future holds but we do know that if we don't fight for our version of it that it won't exist and so activism is the key and if you go to the states at the moment and you speak to most of the liberals I've spoken to while reporting they're all doing things now that they didn't do even two years ago because they feel they were asleep at the wheel and that they let this happen and bad things happen when good people stay at home so go vote yes lady in the center here please in the very brightly designed t-shirt do you think a world of our borders would also abolish a class system? sadly not no it's a good question and I would like that too that would be a different talk though no what you'd be doing is opening not just the thing that's often not said about when it comes to immigration is that with a few exceptions if you happen to come from a country that's been banned for whatever reason rich people can travel anywhere in the world and western people can travel anywhere in the world which is why it's a difficult concept for western people because we have open borders just not for them and so there is a class issue here which is that poor people can't travel poor people are not allowed to travel and that's accepted that's what when he says I wouldn't let my dad in well no because he's poor we don't want poor people no more and that's said and it's accepted and if we look once again at these windrush stories they're working class people wealthier people could get a lawyer on the case or would have engaged with the system at some other point because because they wanted to travel or some of these are people who and it's a key point this that when confronted people thought there was no consequence to me denying you your benefits denying you your job denying you your healthcare what are you going to do you're an old black man that is all part of the mindset that makes this particular group vulnerable so I do think that it's it's a class issue but I don't think you get rid of class by by opening the borders yes in the centre here the gentleman in the grey jacket please hi thanks for a very stimulating conversation but up till now the discussion has all been about presuming the flow has been from the rest of the world to Europe and of course migration and immigration takes place all over the world by poor people Colombia has just closed its borders to Venezuela because of the mass immigration fleeing that dreadful economy but I just wondered how you imagine a world without borders the effect on the rest of the world not just on Europe well a lot of the rest of the world often does have quite poor as borders if you look at where the lion share of refugees and asylum seekers are they it's not that those countries don't have borders but that they are relatively they don't have places like the jungle in Calais that's not the problem and my experience of people moving around some parts of the world like if you're in the Caribbean and you want to go from one Caribbean country to the other that is fairly easy it's much more difficult if you want to go from Zimbabwe for example or a poor African country to South Africa but then South Africa I would kind of consider to be a bit more like Britain in that in that regard so wherever one would have open borders there would be the challenge of how do you cope how do you cope with this flow of how do you cope with this flow of people but if you have people fleeing tyranny then there is international law that you go and let them in that's law and then the problem there would be do you have the international capacity to actually engage with that tyranny which of course we don't but I think that's a different question we look at Syria or Afghanistan or places where people are legitimately fleeing awful things we have a structure within UNHCR within the UN but we have a structure that most powerful countries don't really respect and if more powerful countries were doing their bit then there would be a bigger distribution of those people who are fleeing those things but actually I think in an awful lot of the word the borders are less definite and more understood to be arbitrary not least because the people who live within them didn't actually draw them and so the kind of movement between various bits of West African countries I think is quite is quite fluid so I think it very much depends on where you mean and it very much depends on why people are moving but if we have the kind of international structures if we have the kind of international enforcement of the international policies and policies and structures that exist we could most of the world could cope with this okay we've got time for I think one more question and I think I want to keep this as gender equal as possible so can we have a lady here please hi thank you so much for your talk talking about arbitrary borders obviously you can think about borders within a nation state as well as around and dividing between other nation states I was just wondering about how you feel we can reconcile the border that seems to have been drawn between London and most of the rest of the UK or south north within the UK and how you see that kind of developing the future and what solutions you see we could work towards I mean it's been I was in America for 12 years and I only came back three years ago and I was quite shocked just by what London had become in terms of price inequality stress this might be partly my personal story I didn't have kids when I left so I might be stressed about prices because I've got kids but I don't think that's all it is Britain is horribly imbalanced and that's you don't have to spend 10 minutes in this E if you've been anywhere else in the country to kind of understand that I do think and some of this came from the work I was doing on knife crime that regional government in this country would be a really good thing that the conversation just as an example the conversation that we're having about knife crime that we should be having about knife crime in London is very very different to the one that they should be having in Wolverhampton in the West Midlands which is very different again than the one that they were having in Scotland and that it would really help to break that conversation up not least because the national conversation we're having is dishonest and is mostly kind of disfigured by a kind of overwhelming concentration on London and then London the other problem is that London becomes not just a place but a metaphor and the metaphor is misleading because it is assumed that London means rich and powerful and connected in the kind of national conversation you London metropolitan types and so on and so forth when actually a huge amount of London is none of those things kind of some of the most poor least connected people that you'll find in the country and so the way that London dominates the conversation the national conversation is not just bad for the country it's actually really bad for London so the more this speaks to the other question about politics the more regional governments and city-wide governments want politics that we can have I think the better now you don't want to build up layer upon layer upon layer of bureaucracy but increasingly as I was saying earlier it does feel like the northeast is having a conversation that might maybe I'm just making stuff up but it might be closer the northeast might be having a conversation that's closer to Slovenia whereas London's having a conversation that's more going to be closely tied to Madrid or Paris or something and that they should be allowed to have those conversations and at the moment they're not really Ladies and gentlemen we've had a very stimulating discussion and I'm afraid it's time to wind up we've been talking mostly about Utopia from a British perspective in a way we've enclosed ourselves but when you look at Gary's writings his columns he has always approached things not only from the perspective here but from international situations I think that some of his articles written on the American situation have become legendary and I've seen friends who talk about them all the time this interrogation of the terrible othernessing that's going on in the United States for instance and appreciated by friends in South Africa because precisely they're trying to emerge from exactly that kind of situation of apartheid where people were officially othered and there was nothing that they could do about it we're facing a worldwide problem a global problem which very few public intellectuals in this country are prepared to grapple with one of the hugely honorable exceptions is Gary but I think that he raises all kinds of major questions which are touched upon in your question for instance about an activist community so as is a very activist community it's one of the most diverse universities in Europe and it certainly has the most diverse faculty in all of Europe and we keep wondering what is it that we fail to do by way of contributing new ideas to exactly these problems so it's a responsibility that comes to left and right the implicit I think question that is left hanging in the air from Gary's talk and from many of his columns is there a global failure of the left in general to come up with new imaginative and vibrant practical ideas to move towards utopia to move away from dystopia ladies and gentlemen we have very few public intellectuals in this country in any case very few that right with the elegance and the articulate expression of provocative ideas as Gary does reading his columns in the Guardian is always a source of immense pleasure to myself and I'm sure to many of you he's taken time out of his very busy schedule to talk to us tonight and I'm sure we're going to beg for him to come back to encourage him to come back why don't we thank him in a rousing fashion


Good morning, respected teachers, myself, Dr. Dhruv Indosi, second year resident at GCS Medical College, guided by Dr. Nikunj Desai, professor at GCS Medical College. So my topic is the role of a professor in predicting fatal outcome in pregnancy induced hypertension. Introduction. Hypertensive disorder is one of the most common complications that affect the human pregnancy. It is one of the leading causes of the material and fatal morbidity and mortality. Cardopathy techniques have provided repetitive, non-invasive, more dynamic monitoring in pregnancy. Also, it is more sensitive and detected early fatal compromise and aids in the guiding and making the decisions regarding the appropriate timing of the delivery. My aims and objective is to evaluate the role of color Doppler in predicting the fatal outcome in the case of the pregnancy induced hypertension in second trimester. Role of uterine, umbilical, MCA, arteries, velocity matter for early recognition of the high risk pregnancies. An analysis of the abnormal velocity waveforms of umbilical, uterine, MCA, and ductus venosis in second trimester of the pregnancy to predict the fatal outcome. I have taken 50 patients for the second at 60 patients with hypertension in second trimester of the pregnancy and at the radiology department. The criteria for the abnormal indices, the abnormal uterine entry, we can see there is a persistent diastolic notch every 22 weeks, elevated PI. RI is greater than 0.58 and SD ratio is greater than 2.6. Now abnormal umbilical. For umbilical, decreased absent or reversed diastolic flow, elevated PI, RI or SD ratio, abnormal umbilical. Now, criteria from abnormal MCA. For MCA, in early stages of the fetal hypoxia, we can see there is an increase in MCA PSP. In compromised state, decreased PI. In severe cases, PI tends to be raised, reflects the development of the brain edema. And in absent and reversal flow, there is an omniacin. In abnormal ductus venosis, in early stages, we can see that it decreased A wave. And in the later, there is absent completely or reversed A wave. So the first case is a 27 year old female gravita 2 with history of hypertension, previous pregnancy at 24 weeks of this station comes toward the ULZ. We can see there is a persistent diastolic notch in the uterine artery. But the umbilical and MCA is normal, normal umbilical PI RI and normal MCA. The second case, 23 year old female primate gravita at the 26th week of gestation with complaint of hypertension. BP is 160 by 100 mmHg. The umbilical PI is raised, it's about 2.05. However, the MCA's, MCA PI is normal. So, it's suggestive of the utroplacental insufficiency. The third case is 25 year old secondary gravita at 28 weeks of gestation with a complaint of decreased perception of fetal movement. Her BP is 180 by 105 mmHg. We can see there is abnormal umbilical PI. It's upon 2.35 and abnormal MCA PI also. It's about 1.34. And on ductus venosis, we can see it is completely normal. So, it is due to brain spanning effect. The blood from the whole body goes to the brain. So, the ductus venosis is completely normal. On the fourth case, that is a 26 year old third gravita at 25 weeks of gestation with severe hypertension. Her BP is 210 by 110 and decreased fetal movement. On umbilical, we can see there is a reversal of the umbilical flow. And on the MCA, it is also abnormal MCA. On ductus venosis, we can see there is a reversal of AVV. So, it's indicated the need of immediate intervention. Observation on age distribution and inferiority. 75% of the patient belong to 21 to 20 age group and maximum patients 48% were primary fetal. Distribution cases on the basis of the Doppler indices. The uterine and umbilical indices were found to abnormal in the most of the patients where are going to ductus venosis was largely normal. The main is umbilical and uterine artery. On the fetal outcome, with the normal Dopplers on the umbilical MCA and the uterine, we can see there is a normal fetal outcome in 85% of the cases. However, if any of the indices is abnormal, any of the one, it is approximately 61% abnormal outcome for the fetus. The result, the sensitivity sensitivity of the umbilical is on a higher side about 86%. And however, the specificity of MCA and ductus venosis is higher. The sensitivity of umbilical artery indices is higher for the prediction of the abnormal fetal outcome. The specificity of MCA and ductus venosis is higher for the prediction of the abnormal fetal outcome. This is uterine, this umbilical, it is higher. And in the specificity, we can see that ductus venosis MCA is on a higher side. The conclusion, the Doppler artery is very sensitive index for the fetal well-being and gumptomize in PIH. Average gestation age for the delivery in the patient with the abnormal indices was 34 weeks and the patient with the normal Doppler indices has the full term normal delivery. Why is fetal seen in absent reversed or diastolic flow in umbilical artery? Epson reversed PI over MCA and in a reversal of A wave or absent A wave of ductus venosis. So, here my topic is over. Thank you for listening.


In this presentation, we will set up subcustomer and projects. The subcustomers and projects will help us to track the restricted items. So when we have restricted income, we could further break that down into their components with the use of these tools, the subcustomers and projects. Let's get into it with Intuit's QuickBooks Online. Here we are in our not for profit company dashboard. We're going to start off by going over to our Excel worksheet. Let's see what our objective will be in the Excel worksheet. We're currently in the third tab, third tab in the Excel worksheet. We're looking at this journal entry where we will have a pledge. So we're considering someone pledging us money. If they pledge us money, it's similar to an invoice as opposed to a sales receipt type of form that's going to drive this item. And we're going to be increasing the receivable. The other side going to contributions, which is like an income account. However, the income account, we're going to say is restricted here. So it's going to be a restricted item. So therefore, when I think about this in terms of a trial balance, I'm going to label that with two different names, restricted or an unrestricted or without donor restrictions and with donor restrictions. And so we have to label it in that format. However, when we see it on basically the income statement or the statement of activities, then we can break that out with two columns, that being two columns without restrictions and with restrictions. That's what we're going to do in QuickBooks Online with the class features. Now, we might further want to break this item out the restricted items out so we can track those restricted items in more detail if we have more than one of them and we can use a different function for that. And that was going to be the projects and the class tracking. So let's think about how we can do that with projects and class tracking. So I'm going to go back on over to QuickBooks here. So we'll go back over to QuickBooks. Now, first, we got to consider some terminology here because these terminologies can get a little bit confusing. When we're on QuickBooks desktop, we had something called jobs and so if I go over to the sales tab, I'm going to go to the sales tab. The jobs are typically you can think of them as as as they're called here kind of sub customers and they're often used for a job costing type of system or longer projects. So longer projects or jobs, which used to be called jobs, which would be set up basically as a sub customer. And then when they moved it over to QuickBooks Online, they changed the term from jobs to basically sub customers. So now we have sub customers, which are basically equivalent to jobs on QuickBooks desktop. And then we also have this new feature called projects, which is a little bit more detailed, a little bit more flexibility within the tracking within the projects. Okay, so how could we use this work? We're going to use this to help us track our information for the restricted items. So what I'm going to do then is I'm going to create first a customer. I'm going to create a customer that's just simply going to be called it's just simply going to be called restricted items for the time restriction that we're going to be dealing with first. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to say I need a new customer on go back up top. I'll say new customer and I'm just going to make the new customer a restricted and I'm going to say time. So it's more like a category than a customer that I'm using here. So restricted time and then the other customers that have pledges, I'm going to make them sub customers of this restricted time category. So I'm going to say save and here we are with our detailed data. I'm going to go back to the customers up top. So I'm going to I'm going to click on the customers up top and then if we scroll down, we've got our customer information that the two customers here and then we have this category of customers in essence, which is going to be the restricted items. Now, if we imagine someone that's going to pledge money and it's going to go under this restricted item, I'll just have a test item here so we can see it as a test. What I'm going to do is I'm going to go up top and we'll say I want a new customer and we can do this as we create like an invoice and we'll see this in the future and I'll just say this is a test. So this is test customer tab tab and then the key is that I'm going to put this as a sub customer. So I want to make this a sub customer and I'm going to always make it the sub customer of the restricted time area because anytime there's a pledge by definition under the system we're using that's going to be restricted restricted by time. So I'm going to make it a sub customer under that category. Then it's important to go over here. We don't want to bill with the parent because I'm not in a job cause system. We would bill it with the parent company, but that's not what we're using this function for. We want to bill it bill this customer. So we want to build this actual customer here. So the customer that we set up we're still going to bill that customer, but we're going to be able to run reports then with this sub customer function. So then if I was to save this, if we save this item, here it is. Now let's go back to the customers tab. I'm going to go back to the customers tab up top and scroll down and here's what we have then we have the restricted item and then this would be the test customer, the test customer now being a sub customer of the restricted category. Now the next thing I want to do is add some further functionality by going to the projects, which is the new kind of the new thing within QuickBooks online, which which adds some more reports that we can use with the projects and I'm going to go back on down and I'm going to say I want to start a project here and I'm going to do the same thing here.  So I'm pulling over that customer into the project and we're going to set up the project in a similar fashion. So I'm going to go ahead and say save and this will allow us to run, you know, different reports for the project reports and we'll take a look at that. So here's are going to be our project information. So you can go through the little next tab to look at their projects feature and see how the projects work so you can go through here to consider the projects and then I'll close this back out. But in essence, we're going to have the income that's going in and the income going out to the restricted items so we'll be able to track this information basically separately within the projects which is going to be important because that that'll help us to track the restricted items. Notice it set up kind of like a job cost system where you have the in progress up top. So these are going to be in progress which will typically be the case with the restricted items. I would typically use these but you could toggle through these and use these to help us to format the reports as we go income in income out and then the profit. It'll also track the transactions here that will be assigned to it time tracking if we're assigning time to it and then the project reports project profitability time cost employer and an unbuilt time. So I'm going to go back to the first tab also note that once we have this set up then if we go to the reports down below, I'm going to go to the reports on the left hand side. We can then take a look at the project reports. For example, we can open the profit and loss. If we open up a standard profit and loss report. I'm going to close up the hamburger hold down control scroll up just a little bit so we could see this a bit more clearly and then scroll up top then in the total column. I can change the drop down here from totals and we could go down to we've seen classes before and now we can take a look at it by customer. So if we take a look at it by customer, we'll see that breakout now we haven't added anything to the projects at this point in time, but that's another way that we could sort these reports. Notice this is another way you can also go to this profit and loss and hit the drop down and go to the classes and that and then run that report and then you can have the same basically report that we find it's this report is also in there. It's profit and loss by class, but you can generate the profit and loss by class in the same fashion from the standard income statement with this drop down. So now next time we're going to continue and we're going to upload or we're going to make a form an invoice and notice once we say new and invoice for example when someone has a pledge then we'll set up the invoice and we can create the new customer here as we go and and we'll set up the customer as we go and we can apply that customer to make them basically a subcustomer of the restricted item just like we did with this test item right here by just saying add new customer. So we'll take a look at that next time. Let's get out of here. That's it for now. Let's get out of here.


Hey, happy Saturday, everybody. How's everyone doing? Today is Saturday, November 28, 2020. I'm Lee Lowell from smartoptionseller.com. Hey, listen, I've been getting lots of questions this week about people wanting to know how I find the stocks that I trade options on. Like what's my process? Where do I get these stocks from? So today I'm going to give you a great website. We're gonna talk about this great website. It's got a free version and a paid version where you can basically type in any kind of phrase that you want for finding stocks based on volume, technical analysis, Bollinger bands, MACD crossovers, moving average, anything that you like, you can type in a phrase and this website will find the stocks for you and then you can go on your way and you can trade the options on them. So let's jump right in and take a look at this website that we are going to show you how to find these stocks. This website is called stockfetcher.com. Stockfetcher.com is a great website to help you get started to curate your watch list and I'm also gonna show you two other websites as well and I've talked about these in the past but I figured I might as well give those to you as well. Everything's free so this is a good way to get started, no money that you have to put up. So let's talk about stockfetcher.com. What is stockfetcher.com? Stockfetcher.com is one of these websites where you can actually type in a phrase of a scenario that you think will help you find stocks. Now what you can do with stockfetcher is first of all, I mean there's a lot here, I can't go everything but I'm gonna give you just the finer points here. It gives you examples and it shows you how to type in phrases for things that you want to use to look for stocks. So this is the homepage right here and what you'll find is they give quick examples right here. This is a moving average 13 day crossing above the 50 day moving average, it's a bullish crossover and it'll show you in the free version five stocks that are making this type of pattern and you can click this down arrow and it will give you other examples based on Bollinger Bands and you got Bollinger Band Contraction, Expansion, MACD if you want, it's got MACD Bearish Cross. Let's take a look at a MACD Bearish Cross. So here's your MACD Bearish Cross and here's the five stocks that are making that specific pattern, right? So and it gives you this how does it work and it tells you some things that you can do and it's got a great user guide, you can just type in anything that you want and let's scroll down a little bit here and I can move myself over here a little bit and it'll give you all these filters that you can use to create any kind of phrase that you want based on, you know, the Bollinger Bands, the, let's see, Historical Volatility Fibonacci Numbers. What else? You got Standard Deviations, got all these things that you can use to build your watch list. Now let's scroll back up here and, you know, on the right-hand side, you can, here's their help guide over here but let's just jump in. Along the top here is where you probably want to go. Now you click on the examples and if you want, let's say, let's look at a MACD bullish crossover and a MACD is just a technical indicator that you can use and when you click on the MACD bullish crossover it will show you in this filter preview the exact language that you can use to start creating your watch list. Now for their version of a MACD bullish crossover they're saying show stocks were the MACD fast line and here's the numbers they use in the fast line, this 12269, crossed above the MACD slow line and they have, and here's some other technical numbers that they use and they want you, and they also draw a 50-day moving average and a 20-day moving average on that chart as well and down here they will show you the five top stocks that matches those parameters. Now if you want to get the paid version you can see the other 144 results from that specific search, right? So you can do things, you can create new filters, you can save your filters and I think just for the paid version you can save any filter that you want and you can save it and you can come back to it later at another time, you can create your own watch list. So this is a great site, you can use the free version to get you started and if you want to use some more bells and whistles then you pay for it. I don't know how much it is, I just use a free version from time to time. So let's just take a look at some other examples and how you do it. Now let's just say, let's go up to this new 52-week high and you can see here's the preview. Now you could change this, okay? When you click on it it'll bring up the actual window where you can actually change the wording. Now you can say I want to draw the 100-day moving average and compare that to the 200-day or have the 200-day on there as well. You click fetch stocks and then it's going to bring up these five top stocks right here down at the bottom and if you want the other 561 results you can compare the plans. Now if you want to narrow down your results you actually probably want to put in more parameters up at the top here and also I just want to show you when you click on the chart it'll bring up another window so you can look at the chart in full, okay? So that is a great thing to have for here. Let me just resize this down a little bit. Give me a second, okay so there we go. Let's close that window and let me bring this down a little here. So you can pull up the charts. Now I have one that I've saved in the past and I have it on saved in a Word document so I'm just going to copy and paste my parameters here and I'm going to go back to Stockfeature and what you can do is you can just get rid of this whole thing and I'm going to paste in my filter. So now I've got this filter that I've created I've just randomly thrown some numbers in here and I want to see stocks where the exponential 50-day moving average has crossed above the exponential 100-day moving average in the last three days and the stock price closes above $25 a share and the average 30-day volume is above a million shares and the stock closing price is above its 200-day moving average for the last three days in a row. So when I click on fetch stocks it's going to give me the five top stocks that meet those parameters that I've just typed in. So you've got Nordstrom, United Airlines we've got this Brazilian ETF, Boeing and Simon Property Group which is a real estate investment trust, they're REIT as they're called. So once again you can click on the stock here or actually I can go and now compare it to the stock charted platform that I use. We're going to look at Nordstrom which is JWN and see how it compares. Now on my charts I have different parameters. I have my 20-day, 50-day and 200-day moving averages that I use and I have the RSI down at the bottom. Let me move myself over here a little bit. So we have Nordstrom which definitely has made a nice bullish move and I just want to say that the filters that I just put into stockfetcher is a very bullish type of indicator or technical things that I'm looking at. So I'm looking at for bullish stocks and you can see obviously Nordstrom has had a very bullish move here. So let's go back to stockfetcher and see that this is a very bullish type of filter that I'm using here and United Airlines, let's take a look at United Airlines, how it looks on my charts here. So United Airlines has definitely been making a move higher. It's crossed above a 50-day, 20-day and 200-day on my charts and it's also made a very bullish move on the stockfetcher parameters as well. So this is a great free site to get you started on curating your list because when you trade options you have to know how to find the stocks first because otherwise you have nothing to trade the options on. So the key, number one key item here is you have to find stocks to trade on. So how do you do that? Well, stockfetcher.com will allow you to come up with any scenario that you want that will give you stocks to look at and then you can potentially filter them out even further and narrow it down. Now this filter that I just put up above only has 25 results and I've got the top five here. So there's only 20 other results that meet my very strict stringent bullish requirement. So the more lines that you put in here the more parameters that you want the stocks to meet the smaller the group of stocks it will pump out for you. So that may mean that those results are truly what you're looking for. So stockfetcher.com, it's a great way to find stocks to get yourself started to curating lists and they got their free plans and the paid plans. I don't know how much it costs because I just use the free plans every once in a while. You get your top five stocks. I think right off the bat you're doing pretty good to be able to find some stocks. So there you go, there's your great website right here stockfetcher.com, take a look around. You got all these things up here you can look at they've got their help files they can tell you exactly what phrases to type in when you want to look for certain stocks making certain price patterns. So that's the number one side. The other sites that I've talked about in the past to help you create your watch list is the dividend achievers site. The dividend achievers list I should say.  If you have Excel, you can download this spreadsheet I already have it open on the next page I'll show you but the dividend champions these are the highest of highest quality stocks. These are dividend champions they're called. These are some of the best of the best dividend paying stocks and they've ranked them based on how many years companies have raised their dividends in a row. That's what they do to signify a champion stock is that they had to have raised their dividend payout every year for at least 25 years in a row. That's a dividend king. I mean I'm sorry dividend aristocrat that's what we call them dividend aristocrats and a dividend king as we like to call them are stocks that have raised their dividends at least 50 years in a row. And let's pull up the Excel spreadsheet here. Now if you're looking at me down here in the corner you may I may look a little different because I'm standing up today I'm trying something new I'm instead of sitting I'm standing all the time better for circulation. So you know I can see me standing up here but anyway let's talk about the spreadsheet. This is the dividend achievers spreadsheet now or they call them champions dividend aristocrats whatever you want to call them. These are companies that have raised their dividends at least 25 years in a row. And if you look in the number of years column you'll see how many years in a row these stocks have raised their dividends. 25 years is the cutoff to be called a dividend aristocrat. And a dividend king is any stock that has raised their dividends 50 years in a row. That's quality right there that's cream of the crop. So you can filter out this list this Excel list to find some stocks for yourself. These are great dividend paying companies very stable companies. So you go down the list and in this top list which is at least 25 years in a row there's how many there's about 143 companies.  Maybe 15 stocks. So you could start your watch list right there. Okay, so go to dripinvesting.org. One more time dripinvesting.org you can find some stocks to start your watch list. Now the other website that I've talked about is the dogs of the Dow. DogsoftheDow.com is another way to curate a list of potential stocks that you can trade options on. DogsoftheDow is just a list of the 10 highest paying dividend I should say highest yielding dividend stocks of the last one year in a row. So this is a strategy that recalculates the list every year. So it starts on January 1st and then it goes until December 31st and then it recalculates the highest dividend yielding stocks. You get the 10 highest dividend yielding stocks and you can look at all the dogs of the Dow for all the previous years and see which stocks have come up. And for this year, the 2020 dogs of the Dow which is the 10 highest dividend yielding stocks are down here. You've got Dow, ExxonMobil, IBM, Verizon, Chevron, Pfizer, 3M, Walgreen, Cisco, and Coca-Cola. And it will give you the yield. This is a dividend yield and you can see they rank them from highest to lowest. So if you want high dividend yielding stocks compared to their stock price, that's how you find the dividend yield. They will give you the stock price on December 31st, 2019. So we're almost at the end of the one year and the small dogs is what's called the lowest priced stocks out of these 10. Those are called the small dogs. So you can look at potentially trading on the 10 of them or you could trade on the five small dogs. The small dogs are the five stocks of the lowest stock price out of this list. So there's different ways you can use it. So dogs of the Dow, the dividend aristocrats at stockfetcher.com is a great way to start your watch list, to curate your watch list. And then you can find option strategies. Use option strategies on top of these stocks. So there you go. Those are the three great ways to get started on how you can find your watch list. So let's take a look at some of the charts this week. And this is what we call our Saturday synopsis. We look at the charts and see what happened over the last week's worth of trading and what may happen moving ahead. I like to call this my Saturday synopsis. And once again, we always start with the S&P 500. We use the SPY to give us an idea of how the broad market has done over the last week or so and over the last couple of weeks because we always have a look back period. So the SPY 500, how's it been doing? Well, once again, we still have this W pattern which is a very bullish pattern. Let's open this up a little bit, move things down so we can see. We've had the resistance line here at the top of the W pattern that we wanted the market to move above. And in the last couple of weeks, it moved above, moved below, moved above, moved below. And last Friday, we finished below the resistance line here. We said, if you watched my Saturday synopsis from last week, I said that we wanna get back above the resistance line and that's what happened this week. Moved above the resistance line. So here we are, the last couple of days I know it was a short week this week because we had the US Thanksgiving holiday but the last three trading days, right here, you can see each one of these lines is one day's worth of trading stayed above the resistance line, which is a great thing. And we had drawn this little triangle pattern as well and we knew that it would probably break out to one side or the other and it has broken out to the upside. And that is what we want. We like bullishness. We wanna see the market move back up. I'm very bullish at this point. Things are looking really good for this stock market. I mean, they have been looking good but we had this nice congestion period and now things are breaking out to the upside. All time, new highs again. Great thing. I really don't see anything holding this market back. Things are looking good. Coronavirus vaccine is right there around the corner. I think people will start getting it next month, December. First line responders, healthcare workers might be the first ones to get these things. So general population around the world, hopefully by the springtime, we can all get vaccinated. So the market is optimistic, looking ahead to brighter days and all time new highs. At this point, there's really nothing holding this thing back. Here in the United States, the US presidential election is pretty much, it's been decided Joe Biden is gonna be the next president. Donald Trump is sort of relenting a bit here. And so Wall Street likes that. We like things to get settled and keep moving forward. So very bullish here. S&P 500 looks good. Let's take a look at the NASDAQ because it definitely made the move. I think that we were looking for it. Let's take a look at the NASDAQ. Open this up a little bit, move it down a little bit so we can see we've got this ascending triangle right here, up in here. And we were waiting for the NASDAQ to pop above the resistance line. And look at that, Thursday, I'm sorry, Wednesday and Friday. Thursday was a vacation day in the US. Friday, convincingly traded above the resistance line closed above it. So I think Monday, Tuesday, next week, if we can continue to get a couple more closing days above the resistance line, it's just off to the races. I mean, there's really all-time new highs once again. There's really nowhere or anything that's holding it back at this point. People are getting enthused. Wall Street's getting enthused. I can only see this market going up from here, which is a good thing. Let's take a look at the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Same thing, the Dow has been above the resistance line for the last two weeks. Now, good thing. I like it, looking strong. You can even see a little teeny tiny triangle pattern growing right here, little teeny one from just three days worth of trading. It's gonna break out again, I'd say Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, it'll probably keep going to the upside. All-time new highs, all above the resistance, looking good, looking strong. Market looks good here. So I'd say, if you're long, that's a good thing. Let's take a look at some individual stocks as we do. See what's happening in individual stocks. Everyone's favorite right now, of course, is Tesla. Had just, look at this. I mean, there's really nothing else to say. Just an incredible power move. Finally, blasted out of the triangle that we had on this chart for weeks now. We were waiting for this thing to break out when it was announced that it would be included in the S&P 500, which should take effect around the third week of December. There it goes. Just all this energy that was being stored up just powered it higher. Hit six, did it hit 600? What was the high here? The high looked like $598 in change. So almost tagged $600 a share. It just ramped up $150 right here. This is a $150 move. Beautiful blast out of the triangle pattern. So that was a good thing. Anyone who's long, Tesla, you've been doing great. Is it overbought? Can you get in here? I don't know.  You know, of course it could keep going higher, but of course it could drop down. The RSI is getting into a little bit of overbought area. Doesn't mean it's going to reverse and turn lower, just saying it's getting overbought. Sure, it had a nice $150 move. Could it take a pause? Sure, it could take a pause.  But Tesla, I can't see it collapsing and giving up 20, 30, 40% right now. There just wouldn't be any reason for it. But it's looking strong. But if you have some profits built up, you might as well take some money off the table. You know, you don't like to give back profits, but Tesla looks strong. I mean, people have to start buying it now because it's been included in the S&P 500. So Tesla looking good. What other stocks do we like to look at? We always like to look at Apple. Apple is still consolidating in this triangle that we've drawn. It's starting to store up its energy. You know, the ranges are getting tighter. You know, it starts out wide and then it gets a little bit tighter, tighter, tighter, tighter. So eventually something is going to cause Apple to break out either higher or lower. Obviously we want it to go to the upside because we like a bullish market. Typically when you have a triangle pattern like this, you have to look where it came from, okay? It's coming from the downside moving higher. So that would typically mean it's just storing up energy to move again in the same direction and that should be higher, okay? So that's what's happening. That's what's happening in Apple right now. Let's take a look at Amazon. Amazon has pretty much the same pattern as Apple. It's got the triangle pattern still coiling in here. It has this larger channel, okay? But I focus on the triangle more than the channel. Amazon still has some work to do. It's got a little bit of room to play around in this triangle. So Amazon may stick around this $3,200 level for the time being. Obviously we're coming into Black Friday. We've got holiday sales coming up. I have to believe everyone's buying stuff off of Amazon. Sales are gonna be ridiculous again. It's just waiting for some of those numbers probably to come out to see how well it did. But obviously we want Amazon to go to the upside. So it's got a little more space to coil in here. So it may be a little bit time before Amazon breaks out. What other stocks do we like to take a look at? Google still has been very strong. Bounced right off the 20-day moving average here. On my charts I have the 20-day, 50-day, 200-day moving average. We talked about Google bouncing off the 200-day a long time ago, made the bullish flag pattern and has jumped up, hugging the 20-day moving average line. So Google looks strong too. What else do we have? Microsoft. Microsoft is still kind of meandering around. We can even draw part of the lower channel here if you want. We've got the support line here. Let's draw this in. Connect the bottoms. And so Microsoft is in this channel. I see probably more sideways action for a little period of time. What else do we have? Facebook is another one that we look at. Facebook kind of the same thing. Just meandering around. Possible, possible. We have the uptrending part here. Can't really draw, maybe draw somewhat of a triangle there. So maybe you can use that as a base to see what's happening with Facebook. It's got a little more room to run. I see it moving along with this uptrend right here. So Facebook will probably keep trending to the upside until it hits resistance here. So Facebook maybe got a little bit of bullish action to go bullish sideways action for Facebook. That's what I'm seeing on the charts for Facebook. What are the ones? Zoom is always another big one. People like these stay-at-home stocks. Look at Zoom. And when my chart starts to fill in here, Zoom. Okay, so we have somewhat of a down-trending channel here for Zoom. We can connect some tops, connect some bottoms. It's not perfect. Technical analysis is not black and white. It's not perfect. It all depends on how you see it. So Zoom could sort of be in a down-trend channel. Maybe you've got the 50-day moving average that it's bumping up against. Will it pop through or will the 50-day and the down-trending channel knock it back down? That's yet to be seen. Next couple of days, we'll be very telling where Zoom wants to go. It's either gonna pop above it and start to move back up or the dual resistance of the 50-day and the down-trending line can knock it back down. So these are the things that you have to learn how to do when you're looking at charts. You draw support resistance lines, you look at the moving averages. These things will help you figure out where a stock is going to move next. Peloton, same thing. I drew this the other day. It's got a down-trending channel. Okay, it's got the 20-day and 50-day sort of giving it some resistance here. You've got the down-trending line giving it resistance. It's either gonna break out or it's gonna get knocked back down. So watch this, watch this. Watch Zoom, watch Peloton. Some people who have been in work, Slack technologies got an offer for a buyout from another company and just had this massive $10 move the other day. So if you've been long, Slack, good for you. Slack's, this was just a one-day thing. I don't really have any technical analysis on this one. We always look at AMD as well. AMD is a favorite of ours at the smart auction seller. AMD is great for put-selling. It's been just kind of meandering and when you sell options, that decay just keeps kicking in. That works in an option seller's favor. So we like that. AMD, looking like it wants to keep moving higher, may tick back down a little bit, but it's kind of stuck in this channel. But I like AMD compared to its rival Intel which is still kind of stuck in the doldrums down here. This has had its horrible earnings a while ago and just got knocked down. So it's just kind of meandering down the lows here. So AMD, we are defaulting too. Let's take a look at the VIX to see where that's gone over the last week or so. The VIX, we look at the VIX because that's a volatility indicator. As the market goes up, the VIX goes down. They move inversely to each other. So VIX is starting to hit lows again, lows that it hasn't seen since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. Option prices getting cheaper again, not as cheap as they were, but it's moving down in that right direction. So option prices getting cheap. The fear has gone out of the market. When the VIX goes down, that means there's less fear. People are becoming complacent again, a little bit happier with how things are going. So that's what's happening in the VIX. Okay, so moving on for next week. Let's one more time take a look at the SPY, SP500. Once again, I'm bullish here. I like the way things are looking. I see things going higher. There's really nothing holding this back. The coronavirus is the worst news headline out there at this point in time, but the vaccine is right around the corner. So Wall Street is going to go with the good news. And I see it, I see bullish times ahead. So if you find stocks that you like, that you're bullish on, you could use option strategies. As you know, at the smart option seller, we are big put option sellers. And let's just go to our website. I want to show you once again, if you want to learn about put option selling, download our free put selling basics guide. It's a free, it's a free download. Talks all about put selling. You put your name and email address in here, you get a free copy. Also our services, we have two newsletters, smart option seller newsletter. We sell put options, vertical spread trader. 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