The Eagle has landed. I say again. The Eagle has landed. But where exactly did it land you ask? That's right boys and girls. The Maryland Army National Guard showcased a static display of a UH-60 Black Hawk for Navy junior ROTC cadets a road at Huntington High School. The cadets were so excited to see the aircraft that they even decided to break out their best helicopter TikTok dance moves as a token of their appreciation. I mean, I don't know how somebody could come here and watch this show with the helicopter and be like, no, I don't want to go to the military. I think it's 100% English. It's a really great experience so far. Just being able to speak with the people and look at the helicopter, it might be more enjoyable in the military. In addition to the cadets interacting with the Black Hawk, soldiers in the Maryland Army National Guard spoke to the cadets about their military occupational specialties and their personal experiences within the organization. People hear things from all different sources nowadays, whether it's their friends, whether it's social media, whether it's the news and it's tough to figure out what's real and what's fake and so when you can actually talk to somebody eyeball to eyeball and get the real story of what it's like, then I think that's so much more beneficial than reading it in a brochure or hearing about it on a TV station or in social media. As the day started to wind down, the event was capped off with swag bag giveaways and pizza for all. Luckily for the cadets, Staff Sergeant Gareth Ainsworth, a drill sergeant and recruiter with the Maryland Army National Guard, was there to help them burn off the calories that they just consumed. As the UH-60 Black Hawk departed for its next destination, the cadets looked on, hopefully knowing that the sky is the limit. Reporting for the Maryland Army National Guard at Huntingtown High School in Huntingtown, Maryland, I'm Staff Sergeant Chas Kibbler.


Educating investors. The following is a presentation of TFNN. The Trader's Edge with Steve Rhodes. Toll free at 1-877-927-6648. Or internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER>. The Trader's Edge. Now, Steve Rhodes. Good afternoon, folks. Welcome to the July 18th, the magical Monday edition of today's Trader's Edge show. I'm your host, D.B. Perseverance Rhodes, who absolutely knows that each of us should always be pioneers of our future versus prisoners of our past. Hope everyone out there's having a great day. Hey, let's make sure we have an extraordinary one of the easiest way to do that is to always remember that life is happening for us, not to us. That's right. When you and I make that one little two-by-four shift, it means we can find the gift in every set of circumstance that life is going to toss at us. Now, today, you and I, we're going to check on the circumstance of these markets. We'll go figure out what those bulls and bears, what those buyers and sellers are communicating to you and I at just past one o'clock in the afternoon. I do want to know I'm absolutely grateful for your presence here. But more important than that, and that's this. During this next 16 minutes, I'm here to serve you. So feel free to pick up that phone. You can dial on at 877-927-664 if you can't tell, and we've got you covered there, too. You can always let those fingers do the walking. That means go ahead and send me an email. Send it to Steve at tfn.com. And inside that subject heading, if you would be kind enough to put a radio show question. Of course, inside our Tiger's Den. Well, any and every ping will do. So let's go ahead and get this show started on magical Monday. Of course, this is Tiger. Financial News Network, I'm Steve Rhodes. Welcome to the show. Right now we got all the US indices trading to the upside. Now it's up 82 points, about a quarter percent, half a percent for the S&P or 21 points, a little over 1% for the NASDAQ 100, 133 points there, one and a quarter percent for the Russell, 22 points there, one and six-tenths percent for the Semais, 43 points there. The Trendies are up one and six-tenths as well. That's 209 points to the upside. You've got the Spotify logistics is up 40 cents, but still trading well below its 50-day exponents moving average. That's still positive for the S&P 500. Gold's up six bucks, Silver's up 24 cents, lights recrudes up 418. Natural gas's up 41 cents today is going to become bar number eight of a TD9 count with regard to natural gas. That does suggest that there could be a top of the foreign between today and Wednesday. 30 treasures off one point and six-thirty seconds trading out at 138.27. Lead the charge dollar-wise the upside. You've got the booking holdings, 77 bucks, four and a half percent. Chipotle, a 47 bucks, three and six-tenths percent. Tesla, 26 bucks, three and a half percent. Mercado, Libre, three and a half percent plus at 25 points to the upside. To the downside, it's Gorilla Technology Group of 13 bucks, 35 percent. Regeneron Pharmaceuticals off 2 percent or 12 bucks. Thermo Fisher, scientific up one and six percent, 1.6 percent, that's nearly nine dollars. Sea Genes off nearly nine dollars or five percent. So we've got plenty to look at. Of course, I want to look at what you want to look at, but let's go ahead and begin by taking a look at the general markets out here. So let's start with, let's see where my screen was. Let's start with just understanding market print. Let's focus in on the ES mini or the S&P 500. Is that all right with everybody? I see everybody shaking their hands, saying yes. So let's switch over and take a look at what's going on there. Now here, we're taking a look at our TAS market profile breadth. We've got our four different speed dials up right now. 60 minute, 240 daily and the weekly. And we can see that the only one that is in a bearish setting is the weekly timeframe. So let's just start with the weekly. We'll get that up on our screen here. Now when I say bearish setting or whatever terminology I used out there, what I'm referring to is the number of instruments that are trading above the top of a weekly profile versus those trading below the bottom of weekly profile. Right now it's the bottoms that have the advantage. That puts us into a bearish crossover. And that says that to continue to expect this a choppy market that we are in. You have 49 instruments trading above the top of the daily, up top of the weekly profile, whereas you've got 216 trading below the bottom. Now the weekly is the one that is the real thorn in the side of the bulls, the daily is not. The daily had a bullish crossover, 279 instruments. I apologize, 149 instruments above the top and 74 below the bottom. We take a look at the 240 minute timeframe chart. That is more bullish, 261 above the top, 557 below the bottom. What comes as a 60 minute timeframe chart out here? You've got 281 above the top, 50 below the bottom out there. So we've got that for you. Why don't I, let me see if I get this up here pretty quickly, because I know I see some folks are short and the S&P 500 specifically. And so what I was going to try to do what I am gonna do, I'm not gonna try to do it. I don't try to do anything. Either do it or you don't do it. You know what I mean?  Let's look at the 30 minute timeframe, just kind of to, not kind of, to assist you with what, with regard to what the markets are doing here, the S&P 500 that is. So in the case of the 30 minute timeframe, you can see you are still in a pretty decent bearish crossover. What that means is you have 246 instruments trading below their 30 minute profile and 54 trained above the top. So we wanna go take a look at the multi timeframe charts here for the S&P 500, try to give some guidance for where there might be some support levels. Now, let's switch over to our white background charts out here, and the white background charts will have some real good intraday time periods, but the ones that we wanna really expose focus on will be the 60 minutes. So the interesting thing about the 60 minute timeframe chart, as we open this up, what we can see here is you got to wave number seven, that was letter G. That was the high that was put in. There's also a cell, the D point, A to B, B to C, C to D all the way up here. That took place at about six o'clock this morning. And now what we have is prices trading below the bottom of its profile. So ordinarily I would say to you that the targets of the downside would be 3850, but knowing that the 60 minute timeframe has a bullish crossover in place out there, we're not gonna say that because I don't, I think that would be somewhat disingenuous. Now, it's not that it's impossible, but positive market breath says something to think about. Now, we saw the 30 minute timeframe chart did not have positive market breath. It had negative market breath. So for the ES mini, let's go ahead and pull that open. Now, in the case of the ES mini, it also on a 30 minute timeframe, form wave number seven, that was up here at the top. It was also a cell, the D point pattern. And price right now, as we came on the air at one o'clock, did close below the bottom of its bullish structure, 30 minute profile, 3888 is the number to watch out there. If price remains below that as we come into 130, then this is going to suggest that you could see a move to the 3870 area. 3870 is the TD nine count breakout level. You've got wave number four, that's letter D. So it always says be cautious out here, only be cautious, as Maslow likes to say, rightfully so, that sometimes you get something different that happens after wave number four out there. You and I, we like taking a look at that seventh wave out there at letter G, that often identifies tops and bottoms. Does it always? No, but when it's present, you pay attention to it. So here on the 30 minute timeframe chart says you could get down to the 3870, we're 3886 out there, but knowing that that 60 minute market breadth has that bullish crossover, fairly good market breadth out there, good idea as the folks in the den are, continue to move your stop to the downside and protect some of those profits. Now, we look at the other charts here for the ESMini. If we look at the five hour timeframe chart, the bar that's currently present will close in 46 minutes at 2 p.m. Looks like that is going to confirm a TD9 count top. Now, you can get a TD9 count top, our number eight so far is the high of that pattern. Write a TD9 count breakdown resistance of 3,975 cents out there. We take a look at where this is suggesting prices target. That would be, it's awesome to change some. Currently trading at 30 p.m. would be profitable. Gotta take things one step at a time, get back to the straight, we'll show you some of those other steps. Sooner. Steve Rolls with TFNN, good luck. Plumbing inflation, we are purchasing powers eroded, there's no better place to protect your harder and money than in gold. This the gold's flagship asset is the Monk Todd Gold Project in the Northern Territory of Australia. This is Australia's largest undeveloped gold project. We are talking a world-class gold project in the T1 mining district. 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In the case of the 240 was the bar following bar number nine. Both of them have ascender and change lines, which have changed colors. Now, typically when you get a top or a bottom and you have that in play out there, that's when we start to see price pullback to that area. Now it could be a rising line with price pulling back, but right now the price targets are in the 3850, 3855 level out there. And I would say if we look at, okay now as we go from those larger timeframes down to the smaller one, if we look at a 10 minute chart, price in essence right now is set to break out level of 3884 and a quarter. Portraying just below that. If that gives in a 10 minute bar, we've got one minute, less than a minute here for that to occur out there, then that says the next target becomes the next lower level or higher level up 15 minute, 3879. If 3879 cracks, then the 30 minute chart, which has a sell the D point pattern, we're bringing it to play 3870. If we get that below 3870, then we'd be looking at that 3855 area below that, then the 3849. So it's one step at a time. And what you wanna do as kind of your laboratory experiment is watch how price deals with each of those areas out there. And of course, for their specific timeframe. So it was a 10 minute again at 3884. The 15 minute was at 3879. The 30 minute was at 3870. And then the asset and change lines, you've got those for the multiple timeframes out there. So that's what's going on inside the ES mini. Now, not surprising that we're seeing the markets pull back. The daily timeframe, which did close above the top of its profile on Friday, in this trade above the top of that profile, you can see where we've got this just simply bearish candlestick formation. Those become resistance levels. In fact, we've got two different evening star candle formations out there. So that already set up that 3922 to 3950 was your resistance zone because of those candle formations out there. But it was the intraday charts to sell the D point patterns. That the subscribers and I took a look at earlier this morning saying, hey, I know we've got a nice rally out here, but we've also got topping signals in these intraday charts out there. And they have most certainly taken hold. And it does look like they want to take hold for a little bit longer out there. But remember, the other thing to remember out here is we do have this positive market breadth for those three of the four primary timeframe, 6240 and the daily out there. So that's the ES mini. Let's do this here because I don't want to get behind on the request out here. We can always come back and take a look at the markets. We can go take a look at the NQ next. But right now let's go to one of our first questions or let's go to our first question out here. This one coming in from Tim M. And what Tim wants to do is take a look at two different ticker symbols. The first one is Apple. So Tim writes that he says, I hope your week was great. It was, how could it not be great with all that open championship, British open championship golf that was on. I intended on golfing yesterday morning, trying to sneak out early, but God had a different thought in mind. And that was to pour like cats and dogs over here on the beach and a little bit of thunder and lightning. And that said, okay, no golf. Just watch golf on television. But anyway, let's get back to the question from Tim. And he says, can you please take a look at NVIDIA, daily and weekly, looking to take long position when the setup is right. Also, time permitting his Apple about to complete a TD9 count than the daily question mark was concerned along there as well, but I could hear Stevie and Lee course saying that so fast. That's correct. Thanks for all you do. So in the case of Apple, Tim, what I'm not showing here is the A to B equals CD pattern that's on the way. I'll just draw the A to B line and here we'll just move the A to B line over to the C point out here. And so you'll see you've got a, whoops, you'll see you've got an A to B equals CD pattern that is underway. Price exceeded the one to one level out there. And so the next bearish reversal candle that would show up would set up the currently sell pattern out there. We don't have that right now. Price is trading above the top of its profile. The next area where it may target is the prior highs out here. Those prior highs, what we'll do is we'll switch over and take a look at what's going on from a volume perspective. But the June 1st high out there is at the 151.74. That would become the price target. I'm not suggesting that you get in on this trade here right now, especially knowing that you've got a confirmed A to B equals CD. And I suspect that we have light volume today. In fact, right now I've got my other chart. I can just tell you off-screen, you're at 32 million shares as we speak. We've been trading for four, I think 10 to 11, yeah, four hours. I like that math that I'm able to do. So let me get that going. I'm gonna see what the straight line linear math looks like. So you've done 32 million shares. Says that today's volume is about 52. So the swing point that is trading into Tim is from June the 1st. We already mentioned that. That had 74 million shares. You're moving into 52 million shares out there. Yeah, so it doesn't look like it wants to bust it out. In fact, did price test the top of that swing point? That's interesting. 151.74, today's high is 151.57.0. Hasn't tested it and rejected it just yet, but you do have a lighter volume. So no reason to get in. Now, if you did get a top out here, one of the first places you'd look at for a potential entry point into Apple would be about the 14382 level. That's the current daily oscillator and change line. What else do we have out here? So you still like that TD9 count bottom on the weekly, price trading above the top of its weekly oscillator and change line out there. All that looks pretty good. It's the volume aspect that is a bit concerning. Volume and price. If price can catapult that 151.74 level, then it may be off to the races to the upside with price wanting to target the 163 to 167 level out there. But I would just sit tight. And it looks like we should at least get some type of correction. Maybe it's just tomorrow. That's really a one day correction out there, but I would sit tight and I would watch the 147.55 level. That's the top of its daily profile out there. And I just shared with you the metrics on the volume, so we don't need to do that. You also wanted to look at NVIDIA, NBDA. NVIDIA is home of the Pelosi's out there. You gotta love that, don't you? I mean, goodness gracious out here. What a political system we have. Let's get NVIDIA up on our screen out here. Let me get this going on the white background charts. So NVIDIA I can share with you here. It's gonna pop up shortly. His price is trading above the top of its daily profile and it's setting up also an A to B equal CD pattern. This is confirmed with volume. So the swing point that NVIDIA is taking out was the swing point out here from July the 8th. That July 8th swing point had volume of 46 million. You're already doing 42 million shares out here. So you're gonna have a confirmed A to B equal CD to the upside. Now I'm just gonna do this on my other set of charts out here and I'll give you where those price projection levels are. Not that price is gonna hit them exactly but we're already above the one to one. The one to one was at the 164.47 level. One to 1.272, 169.86 almost nearly where today's high took us to and above that 176.72 would be the 1.618 A to B equal CD to the upside. Now, Tim, the time to have entered really NVIDIA would have been on the trading day way back here when it formed that roadsman to indicator bottom on July the 5th. When it formed that bullish and golfing candle out there. Now price is likely to run into resistance and that's at the weekly red oscillator and change line. So that level that price would need to cross above. So I wouldn't have you selling resistance or buying resistance I should say. And you've got another A to B equal CD pattern. Oh, by the way, on Apple, you would ask me there was no TD9 account to be paying attention to out there. So we do not have that as a account to worry about. You don't have that to worry about in NVIDIA as well. So we can see that prices test at the bottom of its weekly profile. The weekly profile bottom of that box at 167.66. And it's also running into resistance or it's about to run into resistance at the 169.61 low, that's at red oscillator and change line. And the monthly chart says, hey, I still have some work to do to the downside. I'd really like to tag 134.59 out there. So I think it's too late to chase this but on a pullback it could be looking at maybe about 150.38 in NVIDIA. If we were to get that zeroed with GFNN with great time. If you wanna take advantage of this sector now is the time to subscribe to my Gold Report. The Gold Report is a comprehensive look at the metal sector as well as the markets that move gold which is the currency and bond markets. New subscribers get a 30 day money back guarantee so you have nothing to lose. Every Monday morning I publish the Gold Report with coverage of gold, silver, bonds, DXAU, HUI, GDX as well as more than 30 different mining equities. To see for yourself the types of profitable trades that are recommended within the Gold Report, sign up now by visiting TFNN.com. Don't miss out on the next great gold trade. Sign up today. 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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. This segment is brought to you by Think or Swim. For more information, just click the Think or Swim banner on the front page of tfnn.com. Welcome back, folks. Let's move on to our second question out here. That's the only thing we've got in the queue and this one is from Les J. Les writes in A-Steve, happy Monday. Back at you, happy Monday to you. If you get time, well, we've got the time we're making it right now. Can you look at a buy for Costco? I am looking to buy Costco long if I get a pullback. Yeah, long if you get a pullback, that makes sense. So if we take a look at Costco, now not shown on the white background screen here is the A to B equal CD, but you can visually see that and what you'll see here, I'll just draw on the A to B line and move that over to C that we are at the one-to-one level as we speak right now. Now, look, I'm not suggesting that you sell Costco even though it's at the one-to-one price level. The reason is, look, 60% of the time, I'm taking this from all the work that Larry Pesvento did many years ago, decades ago, so I don't know if it's changed, but the work that he did several decades ago suggests that 60% of instruments that form A to B equal CD patterns will stop at about the one-to-one level. And the other 40% will go on and do something else. Well, for me, I can flip a coin to do heads or tails and get a 60-40 out there. So that's not really a terrific set of odds out here to go ahead and sell the D point. In fact, that's what led me to trying to figure out, well, how can we figure out when to sell the D point? And what I determined out there in studying all kinds of A to B equal CD patterns was wait for the bearish reversal candle. That's one of those. In this case here in A to B equal CD to the upside. There's several others, we're not gonna go through them now, but they are shared on my archived workshops that subscribers get to listen to. But you are at the one-to-one area out here, and that does say then what you wanna do less is look for some type of bearish reversal candles and suggest a retracement or a pullback or a top. In this case here, you've got the oscillator change on, which has also changed colors and you have a profile that price closed above a couple of days ago on Thursday at 505.55 and the oscillator change on is 497.39. So on a pullback out there, and I agree with you, it should be on a pullback, those would be the areas to look at. Of course, we'd wanna go down to a short-term timeframe chart, see if there's some kind of bottom signal that forms as price is pulling back to those levels. That would be ideal. You also have the weekly timeframe and prices dealing with its resistance level where the sellers are located. The top of that profile, that's up at the 528.11 area. Is there anything else out here that I can share with you? I wish there were, but there's not.  So let's thanks for taking the time to write in. Very much appreciated. And let me just check here, make sure. Nope, no more questions that have come in via email. Nothing that I see inside of the tiger stand out there. So what do we wanna do next? I think what we do next is let's go back and take a look at the, from a daily standpoint, or what's going on general market-wise. Oh, I've got a call, hold on a second here. Hold on a second here. Let's go out to Brent in Martinez, California. Brent, thanks for calling, thanks for holding. Nice to hear your voice in a moment. I'm doing great, Steve, how are you? I'm doing very well. Thanks for the call. Sorry for the hold, didn't realize that you were on the line. Ticker symbol SLX, the steel ETF out there. I believe that's what you're calling about. Tell the folks what you're doing, how I can best help you. Well, I was debating whether to just have you look at individual stocks or just do this basket of them because it just seemed like there was a fair amount of them. We looked at them before and I went with Rio because it had completed its pattern. But then there were some others that hadn't done that. And I think over that period of time, since we last spoke, that did happen with, oh, like Valiant, there's I think even Cliff and some of those. So I don't know what's gonna make the most sense to look at but I just gave you that one to look at. Well, let's do both. Let's do this. Let's first take a look at SLX and then we'll go flip over to my white background charts and take a look at Rio Tinto. How's that sound? Sounds good. Perfect, okay. So we take a look at that SLX out there. What was it? Was it an A to B equal CD completion that got you into this area? Or what was the pattern you were looking at? That is, yeah, that's what I was primarily looking at. Okay, perfect. So we take a look at SLX. This has a nice big hammer candle, not big, but it's a hammer candle that formed on July 5th, folks. And you can visually see how that confirmed the buy the D point pattern out there. And now what Price is doing today, Brent, it's taking on its countertrend rally resistance level. And that's at 48.86. The reason that we come up with that is because we can see here that this is a boiler structured profile. Price closed below the low of that for more than two sessions. And therefore the studies show that if it's just a counter trend move where Price will find resistance, is at that center line. That center line is at 48.86 and Price train at 48.47. So that's what it's doing. You'd like to see it close about 48.86. Where is that close that you'd like to see it? I don't know, but somewhere above that level that then would suggest a move up to the 50.85 area. On a weekly timeframe chart here, I don't see, I see the A to B equals CD pattern, but I don't see anything else and Price is well below the bottom of its profile out there and on the monthly timeframe chart, Price is below the bottom of the profile there as well. Let me, let me do, yeah, let me switch to one, I want to do one thing here if I can and that is just look at a daily timeframe chart for SLX out here. So I'm going to just put this up on my chart. I just, as opposed to going to a multi timeframe or something, which takes a little bit more time to upload. So I just want to take a look at this. You also had that nice roads with the indicator bottom, Price is above its oscillator and change line. So that's good. I guess I want to look at this now on the weekly for you too. Just to see, I'm just curious as to where Price is in relationship to anything on the weekly timeframe, such as the oscillator and change line. And here I'm going to pull this over just the weekly chart. And so I don't really have a bottoming pattern out here on the weekly timeframe, Brent. So just sharing that with you, that doesn't mean it hasn't bottomed. It just means I don't have one of my bottoming signals out there as we speak. So any questions about XLX before we go take a look at Rio? No, I appreciate that. That's what I was looking for. Thank you. Okay. So let's go switch over, take a look. Let's go to my white background charts here. Momentarily, we'll take a look at Rio Tinto and just see what it is doing, what it's trading into. We've got the white background charts. Now let's switch to the right screen. And now we've got our daily, weekly and monthly timeframe. So in the case of Rio, Tinto on what we have today, what we had on Friday was from a daily perspective was a wave number seven bottom. That was letter G. Today's gap to the upside. I see a lot of gaps. So I think this is a currency thing, but that's confirming the Roadsman Dementicator bottom. In the case of Rio, whereas SLX had that bearish structure, bullish structured daily profile, we don't have that same kind of pattern inside of Rio. So the general sector, watch that level because you'd really like to see price close above the center of that profile. In the case of Rio Tinto, its level of resistance is gonna be 58-59 Brent. And that is the bottom of its daily profile. If price can get inside there, then it's suggesting to you and I that it should make a move to 60-30 or 61-16. Any questions about the daily timeframe chart? No, I kind of got dropped there for a bit, even I came back to all this, I can listen to it in an archive, but I got most of it. Okay, well, the important thing was 58-59. And that's the bottom of its daily profile. So price can get above that, then you should be able to see a move to 60-30, 61-16. On the weekly timeframe, much like in the case of the sector itself, the ETF, I don't have a bottoming signal here, nor do I have one on the monthly timeframe out there. So it's very possible that this is more of a trade than a longer term investment, at least at this stage of the game. But Brent, I hear music in my ears. If you'd be kind enough to hold on through this break, I want to make sure that I've answered all your questions or any new ones that you might have. This is Steve Rhodes with TFNN. We'll be right back with Brent in Martinez, California. TFNN has been your trusted source of analysis for bonds, metals, stocks, commodities, and options for years. And we are happy to announce that we are bringing that same caliber of analysis for the Forex market. Teddy Keckstad has 30-plus years of experience in Forex trading, commodity risk management, Forex hedging, volatility, and so much more. 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Brent, any questions about what we reviewed, what I reviewed out there? Is there something maybe that I'm missing on the weekly or monthly chart that maybe you've taken a look at that I should reconsider? No, I think that's it, Steve. I'm just taking a shot here with the main of what the AB equals CD pattern, and I have a pretty tight stop. So either works or doesn't. Normally, I don't give it a lot of leeway, you know, just see how it plays out. And like I said, most of what I've been doing lately has been, of course, more on the trade than being something longer term, but it just depends on the trade. Sure, sure. So what I did during the break here, I know that one of their primary raw material products is copper, in the case of Rio Tinto. And so the chart that I've got up on my screen right now is our correlation chart. Now, this is correlating. The top panel is Rio Tinto. The center panel is high grade copper, just a continuous contract. And the bottom panel shows a five day correlation. When there's a positive directional correlation, bars will be above zero. And when there's an inverse correlation, bars will be below zero. So you can see this is really heavily correlated to the direction of high grade copper. Any questions about this chart? No, thank you for providing that. So now we're going to go switch back and to make a determination whether that, you know, we should be concerned about the weekly or what have you. I'm just kind of curious, what is it that copper? What the doctor is telling us. Now, in the case of doctor copper out here, and I've got that up on our screen right now, I just put up the continuous contract here. I should have put in the September contract, but in the case of copper, what do we have? I shoot. So I thought this morning when I looked at the September contract, there was actually a rogement indicator bottom pattern that was in play out here. I don't see that right now out here for copper, but I was really more curious, quite frankly, Brent about the weekly and the monthly time frames to see what they show out here. And if you could get a bullish reversal candle this week. So let's assume that you're able to stay in this trade out there, even with your tight stop. If you could get a nice bullish reversal candle on the weekly, then you'd at least get a buy the D point pattern, which by the way, it had up until Friday towards the end of the late of the session, but Friday copper closed below the bottom of the prior week's low, which was a bullish hammer candle out there. But, you know, it's got some life right now. So I pay attention to copper as well, just simply because of that heavy correlation. Did I change screens out there? Yeah, okay, I did change screens. So any questions about that, Brent? No, thank you so much. I was gonna let you know, it's an era, I know you spent some time when I was able to be lucky enough to be down on Pacific Grove last week and this whole beautiful area and nice to be down there again. Yes, absolutely, absolutely. Well, you live in a beautiful area. Yeah, I'm very fortunate. I know I am, it's being such a great place. I have everything close.  Go to the ocean, it's close. I mean, everything's nearby, so I'm lucky to have that. Yep, that's the way it's supposed to be. Hey, Brent, always good to hear from you. Thanks for the call, much appreciated. And best of luck to you on that Rio Tinto trade. All right, thank you so much. Steve, you have yourself a great day and a great week. I'm sure I'll be able to talk to you soon. Sounds great, thanks for calling. Let's go to our next up. We don't have a question. I thought I might've had a question that came in by email, we don't. So I think we were gonna go take a look at how I was gonna go move over to our, to the NQ. That's right, we're gonna go take a look at the NQ, kind of do what we did with the S&P 500. So let's take a look at the NQ. And at the NQ, I think it's perhaps a more important industry for you and I to track where I'm at, I'm on the white background chart. So what the, I'm gonna switch back for a moment to the black background. I'll show you the levels to really be paying attention. I think it's 12, 197 off the top of my head. But we're going to make sure of that here for you momentarily. We get back here, it's gonna be right here. So it's this right hand, so I'm just gonna simply expand it out. So here is the daily timeframe for the NQ, which got up to a high today of 12, 186, 50. And it's 12, 197, that is the bottom of that profile. And that's a level that has acted as resistance two other times. Is a third time a charm or is a third time a resistance level? And it's a slightly lower high than it was the prior one. And the prior one was a slightly lower high, the one before that. So what this says to Stevie is be careful out here. Definitely says be careful because price had gotten up to resistance. Now, is that be careful supported by the intraday charts out here inside of the NQ. So let's go take a look at it. It's five-hour timeframe has a confirmed TD9 count top. And that says that price here should pull back to 11,977. That's the area for you to watch, you're 12,040 right now. If price were to close below that, then you'd be looking at 11,916 as a price target. The 240-minute chart also has a TD9 count, no, it does not. 240-minute chart does not have a TD9 count top. So it's the five-hour chart that you pay attention to out here. There most certainly is a sell the D-point pattern that has formed and is forming right now on the two-hour timeframe chart. That's suggested you could see the NQ pull back to the 11,740 area out here. The next downside price target. So the 30-minute chart has a sell the D-point has wave number seven, did that take it? No, it has a wave number seven pattern out there. And price right now is taken out as key level of sport. That key level of sport is 12,043. That's the area to watch. We have about 12 minutes left in the current bar that it's forming and a price closes below that. And you can see on the 15-minute price is cruising below it's 12,043 level out there. That was a breakout area. So prices below those breakout zones don't know where it's gonna end at 2 p.m. But if it is below 12,043, then the 60-minute timeframe chart which has a confirmed rogement indicator top suggests looking at 11,957. Okay, Stevie, you just gave everybody a ton of numbers out there. All right, let's circle back here. The levels to be watching, the levels to be watching are 12,043. The close below that is gonna suggest that price gets down to 11,977. And the price gets below 11,977. 11,957 would be the number to be looking for as a target. So now we summarize that to three numbers that you wanna pay attention to when you're watching the NQ out there. So where else does that leave us? I don't know that I can provide you with much more information than that. Other than, I guess the information would be, good question out there, was what's going on with regard to the market breadth for the NDX100? So let's go take a look at that. Good question, whoever asked that. It was like coming in through my ear out here. And right now you've got that. So this is the interesting thing. If we take a look at the weekly timeframe chart, daily 240, 60, all still with positive market breadth out here. Here's the weekly chart and 10 instruments trading above the top, 21 instruments trading below the bottom. Again, here is the thorn in the side of the NASDAQ100 out here. And that's why we're seeing some of this pullback. I would think that's why. Well, plus price hitting that resistance level or very close to that resistance level. 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That's TFNN.com and hit Watch Tiger TV. Welcome back, folks, so this morning or this afternoon we covered Apple for one of our viewers out there. I think it might have been Tim that had that request in and since then we've seen a little bit of a sell-off in Apple.  Right now you do have a bearish and golfing candle and if you do get that bearish and golfing candle that says you'd wanna watch 147.55 and then about 143.52. On the weekly chart, price finally got above that red oscillator and change line and that was a resistance level and now it may become support and that's 148.02. We've been down to a low of 148.09. So I'd say the real level to watch here is 147.55. If you get a close below that, that then is gonna signal that price should move back to the daily oscillator and change line and that's at the 143.50 level out there. So Tim, that's the area to be watching and observing while you go take a look at the intraday charts to see if there's any kind of a bottom pattern that is forming there. As far as anything else of a significance out here, nothing that I see, well, let me see here, there might be a request from SNP. It is, can we take a look at EQT? So that's how we're gonna finish out the show. Sorry that I overlooked that. EQT is gonna pop up here momentarily. Make sure we're on the right screen. We are, let's see what this is doing.  EQT, it's taking so long. What is taking so long? There we go. So we take a look at EQT out here. You're gonna become bar number six today. Friday was a, no, Friday's not helping us. So you got bar number six. You're above the top of the profile and A to B equals CD pattern on the upside. Looks like it wants to continue moving higher. A various reversal candle would confirm A cell, the D point pattern. You aren't moving into a prior swing point. That's a swing point out here. SNP from June the 29th. Quickly, let's see if I can figure out volumize what it's doing. Moving into that swing point, which has volume of 10 million shares. You're doing it, you're only at 3.2 as we speak. So you're moving into a swing point with light volume. Nonetheless, you can take that level out. Next target to the upside, the price you take out that swing would be 40.94. But a bare reversal candle would be A cell, the D point. Folks, stay tuned. Your favorite polar bear is up next. I'll see you tomorrow on Terrific Tuesday. Have an agonist magical honey.


This is a month of Salam and Salat and Salam are in front of the meeting. It's not just that we're sending prayers. There's a prayer being in the Prophet's Salam. It's Salam. It's a greeting meeting to the Prophet's Salam. So the maqam, the da'as, the wajjal, the reesa, Salat upon him, Salam upon him, Salam upon him, Salam upon him. Allah raises his rank. And when it's the angels, they are exonerating. They're exalting him, Salam upon him. And the believers, they're making du'a for him, Salam upon him, Salam upon him. That's the difference between them all. Exactly those meetings are. When we send Salam on him, Salam upon him, Salam upon him. It is du'a for him, Salam upon him. He's the greatest promise of Allah, Salam upon him. And it's also from our maqam, from our perspective. When we are sending Salam upon him, Salam upon him, Salam upon him. We are making a covenant with him. We are making him a promise that he is going to have Salam and go to Salat in us. That we're not going to contravene his commandments, Salam upon him, Salam. You know, Imam al-Sha'rani, Imam al-Sha'rani, Allah says, He lists out about 400 or 400-500 points that we have made in general covenant with the Prophet, Salam upon him, by mailing the fact that we are Muslims. Every time we make Salam upon him, Salam upon him, Salam upon him, we can even refer those covenants with him, Salam upon him, Salam upon him.' That we don't contravene his Shariah. That we have the love for him. When we have love for him, Salam upon him, Salam upon him, don't we have the love for him, Salam upon him, Salam upon him? And therefore... There is no action we can do except that there's a great enjoyed in line with the Sunda, the time, Salam upon him, Salam upon him. This is from the S always, Salam upon him, Salam upon him. Whether it was an action of Ibadah, Mu'adah, that when there was an action of peace, whether it was an action of war, he had some guidance towards Allah the Almighty and said that the previous prophets didn't come with that. And the Hijrah, the Hijrah from our perspective is not over. That the Sahab Allah the Almighty made Hijrah from Makkah to Medina. But the Hijrah from Makkah, the Hijrah from Allah the Almighty. The Hijrah from Allah the Almighty. And Imam Al-Awli says that there are seven Hijrahs, right? The seven different types of Hijrahs, the 11 different types of Hijrahs. And one of those Hijrahs is making Hijrah, emigration, abandoning those actions that are displeasing to him so Allah says, displeasing to our Lord. So this is among the Salawat. So when we do that Salawat, we remember this covenant that we made with him so Allah the Almighty. To abandon to make Hijrah, that which is displeasing to him so Allah the Almighty. That when we arrive at him so Allah the Almighty. And take drink from his hand insha Allah the Almighty. There are a lot of people who drink from his hands so Allah the Almighty. That we are people who are known to be the muhajiri. From that, from the things of our nafs which is not appropriate. Right? Those things that he so Allah the Almighty is with and his Lord so Allah the Almighty is with. He was not pleased with. Our Lord was not pleased with. I remember he mentioned the tree. Then he walked into Allah the Almighty. He said, He was walking on lights that had no feet. And we have feet. So we have a higher responsibility. There is more responsibility of us to uphold that covenant. Because that tree that had no feet would uphold its covenant with him so Allah the Almighty. But we have more responsibility to uphold that. So that whatever it is, that this month we should make it a month that we should look. What is one thing that I could remove? What is one prohibition that I could remove from my life? That I have engaged too much in this prohibition.  So that I am someone who engages in that covenant with him so Allah the Almighty. That was true to my covenant. Then what is one action that I could implement that allows me to affirm that covenant that I have with him so Allah the Almighty. I don't want to walk the pizza house any longer. Peace be upon you all.


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presentation is about the power of leaning into the WordPress block editor and it's a little bit of a personal history it relates to how I got into WordPress and how I feel about the block editor and how my experience in WordPress informs my opinions on the block editor how I feel about it and things like that so we won't be diving into as many technical like specificities but I do have a local site up so I'm probably gonna have time at the end because I talk quickly and if anyone thinks I talk too quickly just say slow down just yell it out slow down I mean could you all yell out slow down okay you might need to use that so let me know but yeah so the reason I wanted to talk about the power of leaning into the WordPress block editor and why I'm optimistic about it and optimistic about the future is because it receives a lot of criticism there's a lot of like negative experiences that that I've had and that others have had with the block editor I don't remember I gotta slow down I don't remember exactly I think it was like a two-star rating on average or something but the plug-in that introduced blocks to us in the WordPress editor have a lot of negative reviews and then it was rolled into the core because change is pretty painful oh yeah oh yeah yeah is that is that a better volume that hope okay cool so for years we had the classic editor and I'm sure has everyone in the room pretty familiar with the classic editor and using that framework and so if you wanted to have a two-column layout you needed to use HTML or maybe a page builder you'd install an Elementor beaver builder divi and it unlocks all the things that you would have needed to do in the editor like creating columns dragging dropping images and creating a more intuitive interface to work with for people who want to have more control over the design who might not necessarily know how to code that even in HTML so along with criticism there are merits to using the editor I have a blog post here from Yoast WP beginner about just some of the merits of creating these layouts some of the things we're talking about the tiny MCE editor is what that classic editor was called where we have like the bold italics HTML but we can't really customize much more in an intuitive way and yeah like the benefits explain pretty technically what the changes are that are coming to the product but on an abstract level I think there's so many more things that are of interest like for developers in the room using a react as a framework for development rather than using like PHP or leaning into PHP as much it is becoming like a big abstract thing in WordPress as end users we might not know what the interface we're working with is coded in but there are some benefits to us as end users from modifying what the editor is built in for example JavaScript or react has some front-end components and things that can be loaded on the front end rather than PHP is going to load everything on the server then send it to your computer so there are some long-term gains that we could get from moving platforms over like that but let's talk a little bit more specifically about the changes from this interface to the block editor interface that we're now all interacting with so when I launch the block editor every six months or so and something changes I'm I have all these questions like what is what is this like what is the group what is the symbol I see this around sometimes like why is there a group grouping these things together you know what is a row how does that differentiate from a group I have all these same questions when I open the interface and it's like totally different like what's that error message and how do I fix it like do I tell my developer about that is something wrong it's like there's a lot of new stuff being thrown at us a lot of new symbols like the styling interface over here that little like half moon not fully sure what it is but that's where the style settings are located and when you first enter this editor if you're familiar with that classic editing experience or launching a page builder it might be a little bit confusing to navigate but when when full site editing came out we now have this as a template for some people in the room may have used 2023 themes like that I know at the company I work for lifter LMS we launched a theme that uses this full site editing framework and for anyone who doesn't know what full site editing is that's where you edit your headers and footers in blocks and also sidebars which are kind of not there sidebars aren't there we just create them as like a 30% layout if you wanted a sidebar so there's new frameworks coming not only for editing the content area of the page but also for editing your head or your footer and other theme elements and that introduces templates as well and if we want a more specific example of how to use any of this at the end I'd be happy to dive into that and this slide illustrates we've had page builders for years this is an example of Divi that's an example of Elementor we're getting more used to using that drag-and-drop framework to add our content to the web and long term it does make it more accessible to enable the block editor in WordPress to allow people who don't necessarily know how to code to be able to have more power over what they create and so I'll dive back into that here in a second but I want to take a quick pause and talk a little bit about my background with WordPress I started working in WordPress with a company called lifter LMS I've been with for about seven years now and I go live talking about WordPress teaching people how to use WordPress multiple times a week and a lot of our users are new to WordPress from the start so we're teaching the block editor we're teaching should they be using Elementor should they be using Divi we're teaching them from the ground up so I I've been very fortunate to have a lot of experience with new WordPress users as well as experienced WordPress users who know what they're looking for and they know you know exactly what they're trying to build and I can diagnose exactly what they need but new users have been really interesting for me to see with the block editor how are new users responding to the editor versus existing users because change is always painful if you got WordPress is it's had the 20th anniversary so if you got involved with WordPress maybe five years in you've had 15 years of experience 10 years of experience with WordPress and now something's totally different it's painful to change it's it's like a really painful experience so what kind of justified that pain should we engage with that pain of learning the new user experience and integrating with full site editing themes or should we use Elementor Divi beaver builder what we've been using for years and just leave the block editor or get extensions to the block editor and so jumping back to 2003 when WordPress was first created this is what the web the web looked like interacting with the internet right our hardware looked totally different and this is what a website might might look like in terms of style design and this website would have had to be made with someone who's computer science expert would have to make something like this in order like using a machine like this in order for us to view what they're thinking on the internet and so in that spirit of democratizing publishing we've come a long way and I think sometimes when there's a new release of WordPress and something changes maybe full site editing we have to learn how to use a new interface to edit our headers and footers it's pretty painful and we're like things are changing too quickly this change hurts I want to resist this change taking a 20-year look back we have actually come a long way thinking back to 2003 this is the type of media that was being published we had news articles from websites that would be built with high-end developers we had magazines were still a big deal newspapers were still in full force and big companies like Disney would be producing movies so this was the media that was being created and by massive companies with highly specialized individuals to be able to publish their contents to the world and so when Matt created WordPress it looked a lot like it does before we switched over to the block editor we had this classic editor tiny mce editor framework and not much had actually changed in that 20-year time span from like 2003 maybe 15 years to 2018 when we introduced the block editor WordPress generally looked the same even though we did have some style upgrades it was the same editing interface to publish content of the web so it was following that blog post framework and so skipping forward to 2016 was my introduction to WordPress I'd worked with it a little bit but this is my serious introduction to WordPress when I started my career and this is what I looked like at the time and this is what WordPress looked like at the time and I feel like I grew up with the WordPress editor for anyone who doesn't know I'm just turned 22 years old so I feel like I grew up with WordPress right WordPress is 20 and I'm 22 so we basically grew up together so I like to think in 2016 is kind of when we're coming into adulthood in some some kind of metaphorical way so this is me at my room at my mom's house reading like a self-help book I try to look cute for Instagram this being like a smart I'm trying to look like a smart kid and and this is WordPress trying to do its best to help people publish content on the internet but the way we go about thinking about what we do is going to change in a big way at this time as I entered my career and WordPress entered the block editing framework so through my job I was creating YouTube video tutorials for people about how to use the editor because there were a lot of questions on Facebook and I would see questions in forums and clients would ask me questions directly so I started creating YouTube content about how to do certain things as I learned them I attended my first word camp word camp Minneapolis with my mom who got me into WordPress she worked at Lyft or LMS and that's how they learned about me and then I started dabbling in WordPress and have come a long way into the company in the ecosystem sense but WordPress was on a similar journey it had the classic editor it longed for something else some kind of change because page builders were overwhelmingly being used by WordPress users so it was one second I got to tell myself to slow down and take a drink but page builders were so prevalent that you know we needed to have some kind of way to edit in blocks in the core because this is clearly what the users of our platform want to be doing is editing in blocks editing in a more intuitive way getting their clients into the back end of WordPress and building as their clients may have experienced with maybe like a Wix or a Squarespace integrating these drag and drop builders so drag and drop seemed to be the way of the future and introducing the Gutenberg plugin was very uncomfortable got a lot of negative ratings and then it eventually became part of the core and so it was on a similar journey but it was also a chaotic journey and speaking of chaos with the year 2020 so from 2016 to 2020 I had been creating tutorials doing freelance work and stuff like that as WordPress was evolving and figuring out what it was going to do for the next period of its lifetime and so in those four years I was able to save up enough money to buy a house I had to tear like the house I bought being like 18 was falling apart like you kind of have to take the deal you can get when you buy your first house and you don't have a lot of money so I had to learn how to do a lot of things like ripping out the moldy ceilings and stuff like that a lot of bug fixes for the house and WordPress was undergoing a similar journey where maybe a block editor release would be made and there would be some kind of like error like we saw earlier on a slide like just random error messages that end users would get not know how to solve I was fixing my house at the same time WordPress was kind of fixing itself creating itself an environment in this new block editing expectation for how to build a website in the world I was doing something similar in that way but we were both going through this painful evolution process so the painful evolution for me was just coming into my own in my career and WordPress was coming into its own at the block editor like full site editing was something that was far future of time and now that is among us and will be more prevalent in themes in the next ten years but there's that that period of change that period of development that that WordPress had been going through and the entire time the WordPress ecosystem was asking the question is this change worth it should we be using page builder should we be using block packs or themes that disable it and use the classic editor but I think the philosophy of making things more democratized in publishing is being created through the block editor because for example my aunt Pam works at Ernst and young in New York and they build website small WordPress projects to promote certain things and the block editor makes it more accessible for people who are less tech savvy to create more complex applications in the web more complex user experiences so it's generally democratizing that idea of creating things that other people can see so the power of creating complex layouts is becoming easier for more people and it's a very complicated time of change and it's a very uncomfortable process in that change but when we see companies like White House dot gov word NASA using WordPress we can see that big organizations care about the the ideas and fundamental philosophies of it and of course it powers like 43% of the internet so we have a lot of ideas and data around why generally democratizing publishing is a good thing not just publishing blogs we're moving into publishing web applications using certain plugins to maybe create a store or an online course site or something like that we're creating more complex websites and allowing more people to create more complex websites as a general idea of publishing so that's why I am enthusiastic about the block editor and WordPress and through that process of change WordPress tells a story and there's a lot of like there's a learning curve to that story and it can be painful but as Jason who's here with us made the WordPress wrap Jason Coleman owner of Lifter LMS in 2012 so over 10 years ago was a little bit further in WordPress than me now but inspired me with the idea about what would make the coolest story so even though our journey through life for me or in WordPress may be painful looking back at the story that we're creating and the memories and friends and all that stuff in the meantime is the experience like creating things for the web democratizing publishing even through that this comp like times of change where we have a lot of questions and stuff like that creating that that story is how I find I can stick with complicated change and learning new things and things like that so that's the heartfelt part of the presentation and in addition to that this is what the WordPress media library looks like this hasn't really changed very much since the inception of WordPress but this media library sort of tells my story of coming into WordPress and the people I met and how things have changed from like my mouse this was like my first online course that I made how I learned to use WordPress to eventually making YouTube videos and meeting awesome people and integrating into a company but the WordPress block editor experience integrating into WordPress sort of mirrors my experience integrating into WordPress and my journey growing up so I don't know I feel like like WordPress gen 2 or something but not having a lot of experience with the classic editor but this is like some general high principles high level principles about why I'm optimistic about the editor and I think all of you for giving me a platform to talk about it because usually I talk about it on a very low level day to day I'm answering questions how do I fix this error how do I create this layout how do I do these things but this is why I'm specifically excited for the future in like a bigger way not only from the development frameworks of using JavaScript as a future framework where we might be able to load more stuff on the front end and create more interactive experiences for people to create more things but also from a general we're democratizing publishing and it's working because if my grandma starts using WordPress like I know something's happening to where like it's accessible for her to be able to to do something that used to be only exclusive to companies like Disney or newspapers or general publishing is just becoming more democratized and so I see that kind of in a big way and just wanted to highlight that and this is a group of WordPress people so you all may have already known this and felt this and that's like what the community is about but but yeah so thank you for creating with WordPress I'm open to any questions I've got my my website there magicalmiddleton.com I work at a software company and lifter but yeah I'll pass it around the room for questions and if anyone has specific questions about Gutenberg the block editor don't be afraid to ask those as well but I hope hope it was a cool presentation cool any questions about like none of these any any questions are good like you could say that made no sense who are you what it what is this about but any questions about WordPress block editor Christian the block editor a place where the average person can really make a high-quality website or do you think it's still kind of about that point where it's fun to play with maybe good for a blog but maybe not enough features to really make a good corporate website yeah so like just to rephrase your question the is the block editor a point where an end user could create an effective website maybe without a page builder plug-in or or without having to rely on other tools that's a good question and we still rely on themes so you're gonna have to have some kind of theme and the WordPress core involves 2023 2022 there are some default themes that could be used and I think that creating a complex website still relies a lot on what theme you're using even if we abstract away the page builder where you can create any kind of layout with a block editor assuming you can learn how to use it and all the nesting and all the stuff that goes on with groups and rows and everything if you can wrap your head around that you're still going to be reliant on some kind of theme which is why I think WordPress is moving in that full site editor direction where each theme would use the block editor to edit your header in your footer so that having that understanding of the editor would be all you need to create anything that you want but I think the theme is still important I think the default WordPress themes are perfect for blog sites but what if you want to create a restaurant website or a link tree or an e-commerce store or something more complex something that serves dynamic content a little bit more smoothly they're working that into the full site editor via templates and things like that to be able to create a full full website so I think the theme is still the hang-up so Elementor has things like motion effects it handles things like dynamic content very well Divi as well the similar things but I think that theme is still critical yeah hopefully does that answer thank you yeah so what kind of block sets would you be using what kind of themes would you be using we companies like Astra super popular theme probably most of the people in the room are familiar with the Astra theme they have spectra as like a partner product that they're they've created to integrate into the block world so spectra is one of those block pack examples cadence blocks is one that I use all the time most of the websites I build are like LMS websites they have a lot of dynamic content online courses and memberships and things like that so cadence blocks and spectra are the two that I'm using a lot recently but that's that's the awesome thing is that anyone can create block packs to sort of supplement what theme you're you're choosing so I've heard of maxi blocks has made a big splash MAXI maxi blocks and anyone can create a block pack that's what's really cool is I didn't cover this at all but you can export blocks that you create in a JSON format so if you were to create custom blocks or customize blocks in a way that other people might like you could export that that JSON file and then sell that on your website so now it not only does it democratize publishing it democratizes the ability to help other people publish just one step more because now with my example of my grandma's website if she had her testimonial blocks formatted in a certain way with like certain color sets and and things like that or maybe a pricing page she could export that block pack and export that page and then deliver that as an asset to somebody else maybe her friend is creating a website or maybe she wants to start a business selling blocks there's more opportunities that are are coming to that base level of WordPress that weren't there before but are there any other block packs that people have found success with any other WordPress block editor integrations that you like I know dynamic content support was a big one that one's not fully integrated yet when you use the full site editor framework there's a block called post content that will take all the content of the post but I'm hoping that the dynamic content where you can take specific fields from the post will become more of a a thing in the future but yeah any other block packs any yeah so you said that most of your experiences in building child things off of other WordPress stands do you have any experience building your own things or your own coding yeah so my integration into WordPress was as like a freelancer offering basic client services like transcription and content entry and stuff like that so that's how I integrated into Lyftr LMS and then I learned WordPress from the front end to the back end and I'm still like in my developer journey like starting to write my own plug and starting to write my own themes so I'm not fully the developer level I just manage sales and success for a software company in Lyftr currently in Lyftr in WordPress called Lyftr LMS but my experience with themes and my favorite full site editing theme right now is either going to be the 2023 theme or Lyftr LMS sky pilot just from our company that's just the one I have the most experience with but even having an experience with a full site editing theme has really changed how I view building websites because I don't think about the theme as much when I'm building a site because I know I can do almost anything within this theme you know theme forest and certain websites have a bunch of themes listed out as to like you know do you want your site to look like this and do this that sort of framework I think is going to break down a little bit as we can do anything with the WordPress core a little bit more themes might become more of like color sets and presets but they would be using frameworks in the block editor I see that more I don't know if that answers your question like perfectly or is there any other like yeah oh yeah so day to day I'm going live with customers on zoom and stream yard and our Facebook groups and stuff helping onboard people into our product and learning WordPress learning how to build core sites that's my day to day so managing support building documentations making youtube videos managing the team things like that yeah go back to the uh five oh yeah absolutely is go block editor so I thought I could put a forward slash in a WordPress page so it was like forward slash go forward slash block editor but it the WordPress core just corrected my permalink to that so it works as go block editor you know so it kind of worked out but that is a tip for anyone who does affiliate marketing is when you structure your links have like some kind of word here so you might have a landing page on your website magicalmiddleton.com forward slash block editor maybe I have an online course about the block editor or something but then if you introduce this sort of sub folder here you can then categorize maybe affiliate links so you could have an affiliate or a maybe a go daddy landing page as to like promoting their hosting or something if you were doing that and like where you're creating affiliate links for hosts and you're recommending on a bunch of pages you would have each of them in a sub folder so then you could have a landing page as well as an affiliate link on the site that was a really nerdy rabbit hole I'm sorry I love diving deep on WordPress a starting resource to learn about the block editor would be using the block editor like opening it on your site and just fidgeting around with it is how I learned that's I'm like kind of a hands-on learner person but if you wanted like a course to help you with that that framework I think watching a full site build tutorial on YouTube I know Christian back there has made some full site build tutorials that Craylor made and at Lyft or LMS we do a lot of tutorials but if you really sit through one of the full tutorials you'll get the framework for how it all works and how it all comes together and that is probably the best way to learn because then you'll see from start to finish how blocks can build an entire site and then from there as you learn about new individual blocks it'll just plug into the frameworks that you already understand yeah yeah learned out WordPress so if you happen to check that out there's new stuff there all the time yeah but I think to really get the block editor you have to see it all come together from scratch so that's why I like the the full tutorial but there's a lot of good stuff coming out yeah oh so that might be a plug-in that adds more blocks so when we open the editor and click that plus button there's like something like 40 blocks like picture columns things like that but if you wanted to unlock like testimonial slider block you might find like a block pack or a plug-in that adds more blocks for you yeah there's not a statistic I have about that on hand as to like how fast the block editor loads versus like the classic editor but the way that the data is structured like I'm just getting into development so I love talking to developers who contribute to core and and build their own products think about things like that on a technical level like loading time and stuff and I think a lot of the thought process for me right now is on interoperability and sending data and downloading my blocks and sending them to other people so I don't have a lot of speed statistics for you but I know like I know high level principles about how loading things in PHP and then sending it to your computer is going to be a little bit slower than just sending you the files and having the files load on the client so it's generally moving towards that framework even though we're still loading everything in PHP right now we'll load PHP load the JavaScript load make sure the PHP is good with everything and then send it to your computer so generally things are moving in a faster direction and I think like you mentioned there are statistics out there about how it's currently faster but I'm not familiar with any off-hand words yeah yeah so uh just so I make sure I'm understanding your question correctly like as a designer what is the the interface like for customization is that kind of yeah so this is a site I'm using with oh no problem yeah I mean it's for me no questions too basic um this is a local site I have spun up let me uh span yeah so or here on the left is where we would click this plus button to get access to all the blocks and if you've worked with a page builder like Elementor Divi before you're familiar that there's some sort of sidebar where you have all your options to select from and there are some deeper level subjects like patterns these would be like pre-made layouts that you could import but as a designer you're probably going to be more interested in building something from scratch so we have like the page title and then all of these blocks we can work with and then if you had a block pack or a plugin that would add more it would be also in this list of like slider beaver builder would instead relaunch this entire editing page in its own interface and so it would be like you're using the block editor here or you're using beaver builder so some plugins like page builders are going to be an entirely different editing interface and then some plugins that are like block packs would just extend what's available right here instead of trying to replace it entirely oh yeah and and this is part of yeah and this is part of the learning experience is like when we're in this interface it's like what's going on what are these symbols and what do they do and so that's where those tutorials are like super helpful to figure out because once you know you kind of know but before you know it's like really confusing to navigate so that's why I like the full site build approach where you can see it come together but uh yeah so this is going to be the general page settings that we're used to like the publish status the url of the page and then this will become important in the future is the template that the page is using this is a feature in WordPress that I've ignored for years the template feature but in full site editing that's a going to be a pretty important thing as to what header and footer are we using and how is this page laid out it's going to be determined by the template and you can build custom templates that's something you couldn't do before is maybe you had blog posts in one category that are supposed to look one way blog posts in another category are supposed to look different like maybe one blog post category has a header that's blue one blog post has a category header that's purple you can now do that in the full site editing framework is sort of make differentiations I hope I didn't lose you there but these are general page settings that we've always had oh block so this is going to be specific settings for the block you're working in so like if I have a heading block little site and then I open the the block settings this is going to be like what color is the text for that block yeah it's it's a lot to to work with but if you watch like a 30 minute one hour tutorial you'll see how people like Christian Taylor and how how we use the editor oh yeah so this is going to be just customizing the post content for this page so you're not changing your theme you're not creating a child theme you're just customizing the content of this specific page so so if you were to change your theme from 2023 to 2024 you wouldn't have to reformat everything because it's all going to be in that full site editor framework you might have some more design options maybe like maybe themes would include block packs or something like that but you wouldn't have to rebuild your site by changing theme yeah I guess thank you everyone so much for coming and listening and if there's any other questions feel free to stick around and ask