Next question is from lean queen What are some good qualities or red flags to look for in a nutritionist? Have you guys ever worked with a client who worked with a nutritionist? That was just Terrible. Yeah, you saw what they did. You're like, wow, I can't it's cold like food pyramid. Oh, I actually had pretty good experiences with nutritionist I haven't had to I'm trying to think of a bad. I had one bad one Most of them are pretty good. Most of them. I think come from a behavioral Point I think that's a good. Those are the good ones. That's how you know, you have a good one, right? When they're when they're they're looking at Addressing the behaviors around your eating versus just breaking down I guess someone just breaks down what your body needs Macro and calorie wise and they prescribe a diet just based off of that That's a red flag that they're probably nothing good versus having a conversation around your eating patterns the things you like You don't like and you know digging into why you eat these foods or why you gravitate to these Certain things or why you tend to binge on the like someone who's trying to talk to you about that versus just breaking down Nutritionally what your body needs? I that's your sign. You're with a good one. I'm 100% agree with you I in the and they're a lot different now than they were 20 years ago 20 years ago They didn't talk about Food intolerances. It was just allergies or no allergies. So someone had intolerance to gluten It was like, you know, it wasn't something they even considered It was less about the behavior and more about the you know Look at your calories and eat these foods and here's your meal plan type of deal But now I'm seeing a lot more of the behavior stuff. So I think they're pretty good.   Not just, you know calories macros and that kind of stuff and do they not consider things like food intolerances digestion? You know, how your stool is your heartburn that kind of stuff Those would be some of the red flags. Yeah, are they not working into your lifestyle either like so like trying to present you with Items and things that are just not even something you would even go out and buy like it's I've had good nutritionists Where they actually like go shopping with them and they try and make it so it's not too far away from what they would normally eat with Their families and all it's just you know a bit tighter. It's a bit like more whole foods based It's a little more of healthier options for them to pick and and keep incorporating So I just like when they work with the person's behavior versus like just trying to give them a plan and being super rigid about it Hey, if you enjoyed that clip you can find the full episode here or you can find other clips over here and be sure to subscribe


All right, everybody, and welcome to another OpenShift Commons Hour and Briefing, streaming live on Twitch and in BlueJeans as well. And today we have a two-parter. We're going to hear from Kirsten Newcomer, who is part of the OpenShift product management team, and one of my favorite security people on why DevSecOps is critical for containers in Kubernetes. Coming off a great blog post, which you should all read on dark reading. I think that's what it's called, a dark reading blog. We'll post the link to that as well. And then we have Keith Basil, who is going to talk about some of the things you can do to automate some of the compliance in OpenShift afterwards. So it's two-parters, and we'll have some live Q&A at the end. And so hang out with us for an hour or so, or see how long this goes. And first off, I'm going to let Kirsten kick it off with a short talk on why DevSecOps, did I just say that? DevSecOps is critical for containers in Kubernetes. It definitely is. So anyway, let's go for the day. There we go. Take it away from me, Kirsten. All right. All right. Happy to talk to everybody today. So, and let's see. There we go. So, as folks know, right, I'm just going to do a little bit of lead up here, but right today's world, everybody needs to work to differentiate from everyone else. And a key element of differentiation is being able to deliver whatever innovations you have been working on as fast as possible to ensure that you are addressing your customer's goals and kind of getting ahead of the competition. And so really with changes in technologies that have been emerging for, you know, probably over 5 years now and have really started to become widely adopted containers, Kubernetes, microservices and DevOps all really help to ensure that you can deliver that innovation more quickly. So, hopefully by now folks are pretty familiar with containers and how they make it easier to deliver applications faster, right? You get to package all of the system dependencies that go with your application in that container image. That means that as you move from dev to test to production, there are fewer configuration changes if any to be made that config is those system dependencies are all in the container image. Anytime you deploy, you're deploying from that immutable container image. So, you have also a simpler lighter way to deploy your application and portability across what environment. So, you can if you choose to deploy on-prem or in public cloud, you can still use that container image wherever you're deploying. And Kubernetes makes it easier to manage those containerized applications, right? You need a platform that helps you scale, that provides resiliency and built-in high availability for your applications. And container orchestration platforms really require some additional things, networking and routing, persistent data storage. All of these are capabilities that Kubernetes provides. And really, while we saw, you know, three or four years ago, we saw a wide variety of container orchestrations out there, orchestration tools out there in the market. Today, really, we see primarily Kubernetes. We know it's one. So DevOps, so we've talked about containers for applications, making it easier and faster to deliver Kubernetes, making it easier to manage your containerized applications. The declarative nature of Kubernetes ensures that if an instance of your containerized app goes down, another one is automatically spun up. But in addition, DevOps is really a necessary part because agility can't succeed in silos, right? So we're talking about an environment here that involves all of these people down at the bottom of this slide, right?  Because you may be deploying in the cloud, you've got your cloud admin as well as the sys admin to think about. And of course your ops team has to think about all of these elements all the way through. So DevOps is about getting things out the door to end users quickly and reliably. And DevOps is about doing that quickly and reliably and securely. And the reason that DevOps matters so much for containers and Kubernetes is because containers and Kubernetes are both an opportunity to improve security and a challenge to the traditional approaches to application and platform security. So this content is actually based on a YouTube presentation that was done by OpenShift users, as you can see back in 2017. But this group was particularly committed to, as their chief of cyber defense put it, to improving security with containers. He really felt that this was a huge opportunity for them to change how they addressed the security of both the applications that they're deploying and the platforms they're deploying to. And they did that by genuinely adopting this DevOps model. So their chief of cyber defense, the head of the app dev team and the head of the operations team got together. They sat down in a room. They determined what were the key use cases that they needed to meet as they were embarking on this container journey. And they came to agreement not just on those use cases, but also on how they were going to meet those use cases. One of the things that was key here because DevOps is not just about technology. It's also about people. So actually two things were key. One is that this group at the upper level of the organization decided that this was an important opportunity and decided to work together to figure out how they were going to make this happen and empower their teams to make it happen. And one of the other big different big, big and important changes here was that all three teams decided they needed to learn from each other. They needed to understand more about what mattered to each of the different groups, each of the different silos, what used to be silos. And in particular, the security team determined that they needed to understand more about development tools and how developers did their work. And this wound up in a situation where now security has shifted left in their organization. More of the security tools are deployed in the CICD pipeline. The security team is alerted early on if there is an issue and can, as is stated here, can break builds if they wish. And really all that means is they can say, hey, this build can't go any further until you fix that particular security issue. And that's a benefit both to Dev and Ops, not just the security team. I mean, as a developer, who wants to hear right at the end as you're ready to deploy your application that there's a late breaking vulnerability that you didn't know about that your security team found. And now you have to rebuild and redeploy and that delays your release. And Ops doesn't want to deal with that either. They need to know right now we have OS libraries embedded in those containerized applications in that container image. And so sometimes the updates that need to be made are being made in that OS layer, which is the traditional responsibility of the Ops teams. So again, all of these teams need to collaborate together to have an effective agile and quick release process that also provides the security enterprises require. So let's kind of take a bit of the deeper dive. So containers do change the application security model, right? And you know, this is the workloads are becoming more short lived, more ephemeral, right? So when you were deploying monolithic apps to a physical machine, kind of everybody knew, you know, what was the IP address of the host that the app was deployed to. Then when we moved to virtualization, you still had a lot of that same information. Now you have VMs to configure, not just the apps.  They are intended to be spun up and run for as long as necessary. And then with the addition of Kubernetes to the containers environment, right? If a container instance, even without Kubernetes, if a container instance dies, you would just deploy a new instance from the container image. Kubernetes just makes that easier and more automated. And so those changes mean that we need to think differently about our pipeline. We need to add even more automation into our application CI CD pipeline. Because containerized images again require those those OS dependencies to be built into the container image, you're always going to be using some external content in your containerized application. You want to assess that content as early as possible as soon as you bring it down into your environment. That's one of the key reasons for using a private registry to manage images. You want to think about what security gates you need to put into your CI CD process. Are you willing to have certain, you know, critical vulnerabilities break the build as our as our friends did mentioned earlier. How are you going to manage application secrets in a container world? What do you what's the runtime security posture that you need to think about. And one of the key differences that really drives the move to a DevSecOps model for building your container images is that you should never patch a running container in place.  You've said I want three instances of those of that web front end part of my application running one of the instances dies and Kubernetes is going to deploy a new instance of that from a container image. If you patched that running instance that patches lost. So you always need to rebuild and redeploy to address any security issues or any other type of bug of course. So that just means you need to think again about more automation and there's some opportunities here. So you want to look at what security tooling can you build into can you integrate into your IDE environment. So for example, you might want to use code ready workspaces which is a hosted IDE that allows you to kind of gives visibility to everyone across the team. About the codes you're working on as you're working on it and it means that you don't need to download any code to a local laptop right. You can ensure that the code is secured in one place because it is an IDE as a SAS offering. You can use solutions like sneak which do early on in the IDE provide dependency analysis. And so if there is a known issue in one of the pieces of the code that you're using it'll let you know what some of those other dependencies are say you need to do an update. You absolutely need to be investing in automated unit testing. Oftentimes for organizations who are, you know, moving existing applications to containerized apps, automated testing is one of the biggest stumbling blocks. So, so sometimes when you're starting out you want to start with a green field app, but unit testing is usually easier to add than some of the more complex testing that you might do down the road. But you also want to add in things like sonar cube or covariate for code quality some of those code quality issues can actually be security concerns. And then you want to think about security scanners like Aqua security clear which is available to you with red hat quay twist lock now known as Prisma cloud. And you want to take advantage of things that may be available to you in a platform like OpenShift forced to image which makes it easy for your developers to work with the latest image from red hat and image streams and combination always making sure that you're pulling down the latest base image with those OS dependencies and built in pipelines that help you automate rebuild and redeploy.  And so in addition to the built in security capabilities that come with a platform like OpenShift, there are partners out there who provide additional security capabilities as need that can enhance what you've got available. You can work with companies like Aqua for Aqua and twist lock again Prisma cloud for additional runtime security cyber arc for secrets management cystig for deeper data collection and analysis. And that's really kind of on the application side of things. So the dev side. As we step into production that is again more the upside. But as we continue to think about ops. Let's take a look more about Kubernetes at Kubernetes itself right so back in May of 2019 the CNC and CNCF released open source security audit that they had commissioned of Kubernetes itself and there's a link here to one of the four pieces of collateral. That was released and the overall conclusion of the audit. Is that Kubernetes is a large system with significant complexity. And so again, some of that complexity comes from the declarative nature of this the system that it has many different parts and each of those parts has declarative config data. So it's not the fact that it's declarative. It's more that there are many different parts with many different configurations. It's a dynamic system. Things are changing regularly as new applications are deployed new solutions added to the cluster. It's automated and it is an API managed platform and there are organizations who are not used to the level of automation that. Kubernetes leverages and the benefits of it and and to get the real benefits of that automation you need security solutions that know how to work with this platform in a much more automated way. Kubernetes requires an SDN. Some of the traditional network security tools don't work well with SDNs right application configs and deployments are managed in new ways. Whereas an application deployed to a VM again, you know kind of that might be in place for for months or even longer applications deployed on Kubernetes are going to change as needed as something happens. You need to scale up. You tell it you need to go from three instances to five. I've now got five instances and I don't know where on my cluster those are deployed locations change as needed. And containers themselves are opaque to many existing security tools as as well as in general the way. Kubernetes works for example there are a lot of. You know certificate management solutions that aren't used to working that that aren't used to being managed in an automated fashion teams might be used to asking for a certificate for their application that they're planning to deploy from the team that owns the CA. And it may take a couple of weeks to get that set of certs for their app where they need a new VM and it may take, you know, a week to a month to get a new VM for their application. Kubernetes once that cluster is deployed and up and running. You're in a position to just go. So again collaboration understanding what all the goals are of the different teams and how to ensure that those teams are met. Really that those goals are met really requires a highly automated set of solutions to complement your Kubernetes and container deployment to ensure. So you need security automation, not just application and application platform automation. Kind of already been saying this right so doing Kubernetes right for the enterprise involves a lot of different things.  You need to manage identity and access. You need to think about adding monitoring for the platform as well as for applications. There are going to be cases where you need persisted storage. You need to think about managing north south traffic for the cluster ingress and egress. You need to think about effective management of the SDN and the east west traffic. You need to think about potentially how are you going to manage charge back if you're running in the public cloud. How are you going to harden the platform. What certifications do you need disaster recovery and how are you going to manage patching and upgrades to all of the different components that make up. Not just Kubernetes, not just your custom applications, but all of the additional things you add to Kubernetes to make it enterprise ready your logging stack your monitoring stack. Your security tooling that you add. So, in addition to kind of all of that we so kind of as a high level way of summing that up right we need to think about host security runtime security identity and access management are back. Project namespaces so Kubernetes has the concept of namespaces if you choose to take advantage of those to have a multi tenant cluster. You want to be thinking about how you're going to work with that network isolation. All of these things that we've touched on with the addition of secrets management for the cluster itself. And so one of the ways we've tackled that with open shift for is we've taken advantage of a new object type available to the Kubernetes ecosystem which is Kubernetes containers Kubernetes operators. And that has allowed us an open shift for to use Kubernetes to manage and secure Kubernetes right so we are and we have delivered open shift for on rel core West, which is a containerized container optimized operating system, which is also managed with an operator the machine config operator. So this allows us to deploy an opinionated Kubernetes cluster full stack deployment from the OS, all the way up through the Kubernetes layer, including audit and logging, including monitoring and metrics, and including the CI CD tooling that developers might want to take advantage of. Of course, you know with Kubernetes you can use your own CI CD tooling outside of a cube cluster, or you can run that inside of a cube cluster. This also has changed how we manage patching the full stack that we deliver with open shift. So we are now able to provide patches to the host OS layer the Kubernetes layer, all of the other components of open shift, including the SDN the monitoring the logging in a rolling fashion through one interface. We test everything together we deliver everything together we patch things through the same interface. And the operators that are used to manage each of these components in open shift. Apply those patches in a way that enable a rolling update across the cluster in particular for the host OS the machine config operator ensures that again we're taking the approach of managing the host as an element of Kubernetes. So if there's an update at the host OS layer open shift will notice it will mark a node as being ready for upgrade it will move all of the workloads off that node and on to a node that's content going to stay in service. The OS update will be applied this host will be rebooted put back in service and open shift will move on to the next real core OS node. So we're doing zero application downtime upgrades for well bathing apps. On this on this Kubernetes environment open shift managed with Kubernetes operators. So DevSecOps at work. So when you think about DevSecOps for your teams. How can you get started if this is not something you're already doing. So just like the group that we mentioned early that I mentioned earlier in this deck. You really kind of first of all you need to identify your key stakeholders and what your business objectives are. And ideally you do this with executive sponsorship that's one of the most effective thing effective ways to move forward. And of course you also need technical leadership and you need those technical leaders to be willing kind of to step outside of their silos their boxes and learn from each other. It's great to start with a pilot project we find that that is the most effective way. And kind of define initial processes tools and then you know kind of identify your initial timeline measure progress but just like with any agile process you need to be prepared to iterate. And learn from what from your mistakes. And as part of this again because it's not just about tools it's also about people. Think about the cultural elements right so here are some of the key things that that you really your team really needs to embrace as part of DevOps or DevSecOps culture. You want to push responsibility down into the team as far as you can. You want to incent people to take responsibility and incent them to experiment and not be afraid of failure to work with each other in a respectful fashion to find ways to trust each other and learn from each other and keep the communication open. And one of our customers Shipple Amsterdam Amsterdam airport achieved a 50% reduction in application development time through adopting dev dev ops approach. This you know kind of the bullets here are a little bit not just about their dev ops elements right they use the development pipeline and option open shift they use source to image, but also some of the application tooling that they used as well. We've run thousands of containers and mission critical workloads on open shift today and we have other customer numbers that are even even higher than this. So, just kind of to sum it up dev sec op models model is really an extension of the dev ops model dev ops was always intended to include security, but in many places that sort of got lost along the way. As you look at any existing dev ops teams you're working with today. Say, look, take a look. Have they added enough security capabilities into their CIA into the CI CD pipeline. How are you automating security out the operations and how are you iterating. How are you adapting as you learn from the changing landscape and as you take on new types of application technologies. So, I'm sure and if folks would like we have teams out there that we would you know customers or or if you have an example that you would like to share with us we would love to hear your experience in moving into dev ops and the dev sec ops journey. That's what I had for you today. Diane back to you. Thanks. And that was that was great. It's a wonderful introduction to all the concepts behind dev sec ops, as well as the importance of it for the Kubernetes and the whole cloud landscape folks so really thrilled to do that. I put in the chat a link and I'll post it again at in on the Twitch stream as well to the dev sec ops dig. I said it right this time, but the other one would probably get more traction. And so, if you're interested in this topic, please join us. We're going to start kicking off some regularly occurring conversations around dev sec ops with Kirsten newcomer and our co chair as well. John Willis from the office of global transformation. I love that title. And so please do join us there if you can and when we'll send you an invite to the kickoff meetings for that. That's a wonderful way to be part of the conversation as well. If you just simply join OpenShift Commons, we will give you put you on the newsletter and get you announcements of all the other sigs and other briefings and other twitchy things that are happening to. So.


Natural resources are long-term assets that consist of timber, iron ore, oil, and minerals. Sometimes they're called wasting assets because they are physically used up over time. Because of this, natural resources rarely have residual value. Common characteristics include that they are physically extracted rather than used in production, and they are replaced only by an act of nature. You've learned that plant assets are depreciated as their values are used up over time. Natural resources are depleted as their values are used up during extraction. Thus, depletion is the process of allocating the cost of a long-term natural resource asset to expense over its useful life. Normally, depletion expense is debited and the natural resource asset is credited when depletion is recorded. At the end of the video, I'll show you an alternative way to record this journal entry. When calculating depletion, we use a method you should already be familiar with, the units of production method. The formula for units of production is the asset cost minus the residual value divided by the useful life in total units. This gives us a depletion rate per unit. Then we take the depletion rate per unit and multiply it by the actual units extracted for the period. That result equals the amount of annual depletion expense that we would record in our adjusting journal entry. So let's look at an example. On January 1, the English beat purchases the rights to extract 1,000 pounds of gold from a goldmine. The cost of the rights to the gold is $1 million. So the journal entry to record the purchase of the rights to the gold is a debit to goldmine reserve and a credit to cash for $1 million. Using the units of production method, let's calculate the amount of depletion expense, assuming 200 pounds of gold was extracted in the first year. Then we will present natural resources assets book value at the end of the year. The formula is cost minus residual value divided by the useful life in terms of units. So the cost of $1 million divided by 1,000 pounds of gold gives us a depletion rate of $1,000 per pound. So for every pound of gold extracted, $1,000 of depletion expense will be recorded. If the actual gold extraction in year one was 200 pounds, then the amount of depletion expense is $200,000. We get this by multiplying the 200 actual pounds times the depletion rate of $1,000 per pound. We can record the adjusting journal entry by debiting depletion expense and crediting goldmine reserve for $200,000. Alternatively, some companies might use an accumulated depletion account rather than crediting the natural resource asset directly. This isn't necessary like it is with plant assets, since the natural resource asset will be gone once it's fully depleted. But some companies and some textbooks might choose to do this, so it's best to be aware. Finally, the book value of the goldmine reserve in this example is the cost of $1 million minus the accumulated depletion of $200,000 equals net book value of $800,000.


I wanted to show you this new top that I refashioned, and some tips and tricks for how you can make one for yourself. I will tell you more about the top, the fabric I used, and what I'll do for my next version. But first, be sure to like this video so other people will see it, subscribe, and click the bell. Videos highlighting my makes and sowing pattern reviews go up every Monday. I already have dozens for you to watch. If you're looking for a little binge, check out the playlist in the top right hand corner of your screen. It opens in a new tab so you won't lose your place here.  I am Lindsay. I sew all my own clothes, and I'm so glad you found me. Be sure to introduce yourself in the comments section below so I can give you a formal welcome. Alright, back to my make. This was one of the works in progress projects that I finished last month, highlighted briefly in my monthly makes video. But here is the TikTok, where I documented kind of how it came together. And welcome to day six of my unfinished project challenge, where I am trying to sew an unfinished project every single day. I've written them all down on these little postcards, and I'm drawing one at random to help me decide what to make, because decision fatigue is real. Alright, today's project, red silk refashion. This one should be good. Let me go grab it. Alright, so this is a 100% silk Maggie London dress that I found at Goodwill. It's very long, as you can see, and so I have a lot of fabric to work with. The reason why I'm not just wearing this as is, is because this is just not my style. Like I just don't wear fancy dresses like this. I just had to put it on to see what we were working with here. It's obviously like too big in some places, the straps are too big, the bodice is way too big. But then when we get down here to my hips, it's too fitted because I'm a pair. So as much as I want to keep this as a dress, I feel like we're going to be better off if I make it into a skirt, or even should I just add a waist seam, and then we'll have a look like this and then I can fix the straps. Would I wear that with a jean jacket and sneakers and make it a little more casual? I think so. Okay. You guys are not ready. Look how cute. Look how cute it turned out. I absolutely love it. And surprise bonus part is that it's actually two pieces. So I can wear the top with like jeans or pants or whatever, and then I can wear the skirt with like just a plain white tank top and make it casual. Or I can wear them together and have a cute little dress. I'm so excited about this one, easily the best make of the week. So I'm really glad I took it because it was a lot to do. It took quite a while. So I'm glad that we did it. Come back tomorrow where we'll do this all over again. I did not use a pattern for this make since it was a refashion, but I did find a good pattern dupe if you're wanting to make one for yourself. Check out McCall's 8199. Once you get past how it fits the model, you can see the design lines are very similar to mine. The only difference is that the skirt portion is gathered to the bust cups, making it like a little bit more of a relaxed kind of vibe. If fitting that one makes you nervous or you don't like the gathers, check out McCall's 7958. This one does not have the gathered center front of the cups, but the skirt portion fits the same.  Of course you could also buy both of these patterns and do a pattern mashup with the bodice from 8199 and the skirt from 7958 up to you. Regardless of the pattern you choose, fit is critical with sweetheart bustier type designs like this one. I think the reason why mine is so flattering is because it just fits so well. Be sure to grab my Fast Fit Workbook to help you make a garment that fits better the first time. It will help you figure out which size to make and any basic alterations you need right out of the gate. Then you can make a muslin and decide on any final tweaks. It is available on my website insidethehem.com and I have linked it for you in the description box. The fabric is another star of this show here. It is 100% silk and a bit on the weightier side. It makes me think it's some kind of shantung or maybe maybe a twill. I looked everywhere to see if this fabric was for sale by the yard and could not find it. But that doesn't mean that you can't make your own version. When I'm looking for silk I always head to New York designer fabrics. They almost exclusively sell silk meaning they know good quality, they have a ton of variety. Head to their shantung section and find the color you love. I think this style of top would be beautiful in a solid color for the holidays. So you saw on the TikTok that I also made a skirt with this fabric. I'm going to model that and show it to you as well just not in this video. You'll have to come back next week to see how it looks all done up and styled how I would wear it right now. In the meantime, check out last week's Make It Monday video. It is a raincoat I made from a seam work pattern. I've linked it here in the in slate. Again, check the description box for links to all of the products I mentioned in this video, including my fast fit workbook and the two patterns I mentioned, as well as New York designer fabrics. I hope you're inspired by this make and venture out to make a silk bustier top for yourself. Thank you so much for watching and I will see you all very soon. Bye.


This course is going to be on option Greeks. Once we've covered this course on the Greeks, it's all practical trading using analysis and simulation from this point onwards. Although the Greeks may be the last, they're definitely not the least. In fact, you'll realize that everything you've learned about options so far can be encapsulated into the four Greeks that we'll be studying in this course. We've been studying four factors that affect options pricing so far. The first is the price of the underlying stock. The second is the selection of certain strike prices in relation to the current price of the underlying stock. Then we looked at implied volatility and time decay. While it was great to study these variables individually, we must now accept that things are going to be a little bit more challenging than that. All of these factors are constantly in motion. So we have two challenges. The first one is to understand precisely how each of these factors affect option pricing. And the second challenge is to assess the impact when all four of these factors are at play at the same time. The second part is much more challenging because all of these factors are constantly at play when options are priced every second and every minute in the markets. So in this course, we're going to quantify all these variables. So we have to tackle the first challenge first. Understand how these variables are quantified and how they affect an option's position by themselves individually. For challenge number two, which is to understand their collective impact, we have to wait and go to the real trading environment. There are four main Greeks representing the four major factors that affect option pricing. They are Delta, Gamma, Vega and Theta. We'll also look at the Greeks in the context of the moneyness of an option.


Yes, and welcome back with Y254, the touchline barado kumu here, and our next set of guests is BMX riders, a group of BMX riders who are known as Ninjas Clan. We're here to talk about them, remember that this is an Olympic sport, Kenya has never been to the Olympics, especially in this particular discipline, but of course the group here might be the pioneer group that might be taking Kenya to their first ever Olympic in this particular sport. Welcome on set to have Joel Onyango on my immediate right, and of course Samuel Bogua on my father's left. Kennedy. Kennedy Kamal, that's on the left, father left, then of course Samuel Bogua and the man in the mavin, easily I can identify that. And that's Benjamin Brachal and of course Joel, Santeni Sana, Ninjas Clan, right? So when did you form this particular club and what informed your decision to pick on BMX? I mean, we've all been riders for a very long time, we've all been riders ever since childhood, but we came together around 2010, so we've been around for a decade or so. Our interest of learning new tricks, riding bikes together has kept us going throughout the years. The adrenaline, everything that comes together perfectly. And adrenaline, Rachal is like some sort of highness, right? Yes, some sort of highness, excitement, a mix of very, very, very different emotions. Sometimes you might feel like you can even listen to the air as it passes, you just mute the whole world, you're listening to how your heart is beating when you're in the moment, so it's like a pause. It's a mix of different emotions that you always end up chasing because it's addictive. When was the day that you picked it up and you felt like this is it? Okay, I rode my bike from, I was a kid, but I started BMX from 2020, during the COVID pandemic. And from there, I found the adrenaline was different, so I felt like other sports like football, basketball, they were not doing it for me. So I picked up the bike and I've never looked back. Kennedy, was BMX the first slavo you had, you were in some other sports before? I've always preferred cycling to other sports, to conventional sports, like Sama said. But around 2019, I figured I'd just buy a BMX just to cruise around, just run errands, but that was the beginning of it all for me because from then, I learned about the ninjas clan, that's when I joined the group, and then the rest is history from there. So how it involves stunts and your main goal is to get to the Olympics? Hopefully. How has the journey begun? The journey is somewhat challenging, but we're managing. As of right now, our immediate goal is to create awareness, let the people know that the sport is here, the sport is here to stay actually. And if we be the first pioneers to bring it to the mainstream, well and good, we've taken measures, we're currently underway and registering our sport. And hopefully, we do more exhibitions just to create a mass appeal and to popularize it amongst the youth because kids already know what it is. So it's just a matter of you old folks catching on. But you know it's a different form of riding, normal from what you expect from what you see. So when you talk about getting in maybe younger people, you have to do something that relates to them, maybe they just see this as a bike, but now what do you do to bring them along? So normally we have events and what brings us together, music is a universal language. So the music that we listen to, most of the time also BMX is an extension of hip-hop as well. So if you are hip-hop fan already, you will find that this is easy for you, you can easily relate with us guys. There's people who listen to rock music because as you can see Joel is very tall, I'm very tall and our bikes, our frames, all of them are not so big. Ya, that's why I'm getting that. So you can see it's sort of like a rebellious act for a tall person to be handling or mishandling sometimes as people tell us these small bikes. And that's all about it. As music brings us together, so we hold exhibitions, we partner with several people like Skateboarding Society of Kenya, sometimes we do exhibitions with them. We bring music that brings us together and that's how we get to meet other people as well. Asamu, how important is it to understand the beginning of the origin of BMX freestyle riding with music and how important is that? How does it fuse with the culture? BMX with music is like, it just flows because when you ride in the bike and listen to your music, the feeling is different. The bikes, it gets you there. If I can add to what Sam is saying, BMX right now currently, I feel like it's a mixture or a combination of sports and art. A wise man, we all know, maybe you don't know him, but a wise man said, he coined his own phrase, it says mix of sports and art, so he called it SPART. SPART, right? A wise man is Anthony from the SSK Skateboarding Society of Kenya. So it's a perfect blend where we try to fuse sports and urban culture together to bring it to the limelight, to popularize it with the youth. By extension, we just bring entertainment along to mix the two, which is so easy because now it's easy to put out the music, just with speakers blaring and you doing your thing, then people come in and asking what's happening here. That should be easy, right? Yeah, it's just like when you listen to some sounds and you dance, like how people dance to gangaton, ama piano. With your bike, it's the same thing, or hip hop. Yeah, it's the same thing, you just express yourself. When you look at an obstacle, for example in Kenya, we have so many potholes. People look at them as a disgrace to the country, but as we look at them as sports, we call them, this is a sport. This is somewhere I can do something like, I want to jump over it. I want to jump over it, that's my expression. That's my way of looking at it differently. That's my way of looking at stairs as, oh, what if I could jump over it? What if I could jump over all these stairs? What can I do over all these things? And that's just expressing yourself with your bike. So it's all art. It's all art. Poetry, emotion. Poetry, emotion. And of course Rachan is mentioning maybe what entails BMX freestyle, right? Maybe you can add? This is more like a personal expression of your creativity as an individual because as we are, everyone has their own individual style of riding. There's a specific way to ride. There's a specific Racha ride. There's a way that I ride. So it's more like an expression of each and every person's creativity. Of course. So going over what we are seeing right now, over these ketramps, is that one of the many stamps? Yeah, exactly. What does it involve? So what you're seeing on your screens right now is what we usually practice. It's called Changiliya Skatepark which is open to the public as well. That's in Kangemi? That's in Kangemi. Yes. Yes. Lorecho Kangemi around that area. But if you look at it on Google Maps, you can search up Tum Changiliyam Toto. Yeah, because it's usually... It's a famous children's home. Yeah, exactly. It's usually attached to the children's home there. And the only ones who have it. Yeah. Currently that's the biggest skatepark in Eastern Central Africa. We have it in Kenya. And we are fortunate enough. So we get to practice there and we get to share our skill there. Once you get there, we can train you. We get together, have meetups there, train ourselves, expand on the culture basically. And it's a good place to mentor other people upcoming, you see. Like you've said, it's a children's home. So that's one of the initiatives they've taken is to induct it in the school curriculum. It not only builds them physically. It also keeps them aware and sharp when it comes to decision making skills through the spotting activity that's involved. So soon you'll see ninjas in schools, you know. We're trying to induct that into the school system as well. Inject new life and a new perspective of seeing things. Yeah, ninjas is synonymous with the movies from Asia, right? Yeah, exactly. In this case, what do you do with the bikes? I mean, ninjas, the name was coined from, you know, we have different professions. And the only time we could get to ride was at night. So the ninjas clan, we usually rode at night. And, you know... But it's a sleep. I mean, when you're going home, we're coming out. So people could actually see us and be like, Naniwa mpita? Niniwa fanyika? I said, mawani ninja we are. So that's how the name coined. And you all came from the same neighborhood? Well, we have representation all over. Maybe our cha can speak upon that. Yeah, just as you said. We have guys from Dusty South Crew. Let's go. And also how they express themselves here. Very different. We have guys from Dawn Home. We have guys from Pangani, KU, Rueru. Some guys even from Mombasa. Big up. Kisumu. Kisumu as well. Eldoret and Nakuru. So every town, if we consider biking as a brotherhood, every time we ride our bikes and you see another person with a bike, there's always that respect that comes naturally. Even if you don't say hi to them, we just respect them by virtue of them being on top of a bike. So the brotherhood is very big and that's why we are able to meet with a person for the first time maybe in Nakuru. This year we had guys come from Uganda, all the way from Uganda. We are planning to go to Tanzania too just to meet with other guys who ride bikes. Yes. And of course maybe somebody can answer this and anyone else can take it too, add one or two of his view. With the sport being in the Olympics, what kind of opportunity does it present to the Kenya youth? Okay, as of now, I think there is one sport for an African rider in the Olympics for the freestyle BMX but we want in the future to have more sports because we want to have more people ride at the Olympics from Africa. The skill level has to rise. The skill level has to rise, the exposure. And also get more people riding bikes. How do you get more people riding bikes? You guys are ninjas. They can't come through like ninjas again because you open the way, right? So what we do is we normally encourage people if you are in a certain area and you know someone who rides, link up with them from time to time, you can do tricks or whatever and then if there is like the overall meet and greets that we have, then you guys can all come together.  That also spreads the word about the sport as well. So you can add on all the opportunities that you just presented to the youth being an Olympic sport? For one, I don't think there is any other Olympic sport apart from BMX, B-boying and skateboarding. And B-boying is going dead with this year now. Part of really who we are. Like I was saying, I don't think there is any sport that you may be judged upon creativity and personal style apart of those that I've mentioned. So for one, you can already see the aspect of creativity that is heavily involved or deep rooted in what we do. Apart from creativity, there's also the job opportunities that will come up exactly. And besides that, I feel like if we are able to nurture these talents, we're going to be able to avoid or rather be part of the community in that people have something to do, have something to associate. It can give you a sense of identity. We will be able to offer mentorship, program shapes through the opportunities that a biker knows that gives us from time to time in there. So yeah, it's a promising sport in the Olympics and we look forward to bring it to the general public and we're ready to take it to the next level. Yeah, and the search for the identity is all that maybe propels people to even do what I just said, rebellious stuff like picking on a bike or hip beginning in the park and all that. But now, how do you keep up the progression of this sport let's say in terms of bike models and all the changes that come? That's a very good question because with the internet, we're able to see what's happening in the community elsewhere in the parts of the world. And like Ken said, coming together, he may have a different bike model than I do and I'll ask him where he got it. That networking between friends, that comorality. It really helps in keeping up with the sport. Racha? Yes, also just to take you guys back, I feel another opportunity that BMX being in the Olympics presents is just being heroes. We need heroes that people can look up to just to go through life because life is very hard. We get so happy when we're riding bikes and you do something where you express yourself and then a kid is running after you. We've had instances where a child was just running around the estate, they go grab their bikes, they follow us wherever we're going and that shows you that they just need the inspiration to keep going. So it presents also an opportunity to, if one day they'll hear we are Olympians, we call ourselves Olympians, they have something that they can look forward to even in this life. They'd say, I want to be like Joel, I want to do something like that. Just like Kevin Kiptoom, whatever he has done, or whatever he did, sorry, whatever he did, whatever he's accomplished is because he was looking up to some people who already set the pace before him. So I believe that if we go to the Olympics, we'd have a good chance to also just be heroes to the next generation. And when you say, in my mind I'm like, that's the dream of Ninja clan. Yeah, ultimately, ultimately. We know we'll open the doors for a lot of guys, but we're also very aware that whatever we do, we're just setting the pace for the next generation of the next kids who are going to even set the bar high. Yeah, and when what you're doing is attracting like attention from young people, kids, let's say, that brings happiness. How does that make you feel, because you make that person lighter? It's usually a feeling of joy because you imagine this child just saw you just, maybe like hop over a pothole or a bump or a bump into a pavement and you see the excitement on their faces and it kind of makes you feel like, wow, that's actually very interesting to that kid. So even you find that, just like Venza said, you find like even the kids also want to try what we do on their bikes. And as it's majorly about adrenaline and maybe when you're fit, right? Do you feel like you're pressured with time to meet your goals and your dreams? Yeah, there's a lot of pressure. You know there's a lot of pressure and currently we don't have opportunities where we can make money off of riding bikes. So there's a lot of pressure to just also stick to this practice and this discipline of striving to be better than you were last year because we also try to build up our skills but yo, the pockets are hurting. The pockets are crying. So that means that since you're the pioneer people, it means that you have to get this on the map and also make your ways of making money. Yes, because there's a lot of opportunities. Pats are very expensive. To get parts, they are very expensive locally. We don't have any shop at the moment that sells this stuff locally or in Africa. We have to ship them. We have to be taxed when they are here and it's a small part. But you know that part, you know making money from riding bikes. Yes. So it's a struggle to have a balance. Okay. Seeing other people doing these things. In your mind you're like, I'd like to do this thing and you must take on the struggles even if the parts are expensive. You just try your best to get them whatever it takes because it's the sport that you want. Ken has a phrase that usually tells us where you can start where you are. So a number of competitions, apart from going over the skate ramps, where else? Our sport is not only constricted to the skate park. We actually do street jams where we organise events where we just meet up as riders and ride to various destinations and locations and spots. So you can see us across the road riding. You can say hi to us. We're friends with people. Tell us to do a trick. You can come to your school because it's something we've been wanting to do to interact with the school system. I'm sure the CBC supports this. Exactly. It's a learning club. We're still experimenting here and there but definitely we can't go wrong with BMX. So as far as going on to a number of competitions that you have locally, who do you look out for in the continent, a country that maybe hasn't established BMX freestyle riders and you're also coping that calendar here? I feel like South Africa has a good scene. South Africa has a good scene. Nigeria as well. Path of Tanzania. East and Central Africa we have Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya. The scene is popping. North Africa we have a scene there. So it spread out differently across Africa and it's interesting to see it's gaining momentum at a quick pace. So the obstacles apart from expensive parts of the bike. Challenges you mean? Yes. The most common challenge to play any athlete would be injuries. Getting over that mentally first of all then recovering physically is always a challenge because the obstacle won't change.  The stair rail will still be the same but mentally you have to overcome that fear. You have to get down the stair, you have to jump down it. You have to send it. You have to send it. It's just like a scene in a movie. To most guys out here they'll see us do something like that wow actually saw that on TV somewhere. So it's something that to them they can't fathom that it can actually be physically down. So when they see it it's like wow it's very amazing to them.  Yes. Right? How else do you make sure that... But we also save riders. When you say save riders what do you mean? You're pulling stands all over extreme sport. Yes, safety gear. We wear helmet, nipad, anko pad. Anything to keep us from not getting injured easily. Because the sport demands that you look for an obstacle and you conquer it. That's our daily life. When we look at an obstacle you look at how you're going to conquer it. We have spots that we have gone to for more than two years.  It beats you up. How long can you go? How long is the ramp? A skate park? Okay. How long is it? How many feet? Six feet? How can you go? He can clear it. You can jump like this height, the height of the bar from the floor. It depends on how the transfer is taking you. And the speed. And the technique of the rider what must be possessed. The rider must have skills like bike control. You need bike control. When in the air, you need the bike so you have to hold it and go down with it here and land it here in short. Those are physical aspects of it. Sting feet. It keeps us fit as you can tell. We are all sort of fit. Nice one. Anyone who wants to join, how can he find you the Ninja clan? I think the best way to join us would be via social media. Track us down on Instagram and YouTube. Ninjas underscore clan. You can shoot us a DM. Tell us where you are at. We will definitely respond to you guys. Next coming event? We are actually organizing an exhibition event which will be at Shangalia skate park. The dates are yet to be released. So once that's done, follow us on social media and you will keep up with whatever upcoming events. Yes indeed. Thank you so much Lachan and everybody, Samuel and Kennedy for gracing touchland today and wish you all the best. We the craziest one can pull a stunters. We end up this way. Yes we wind up. He's closest to the microphone. He's holding the microphone. Nice one. Yes, Kennedy. Stop it. Let it just like a light trick. We are here. Let's start where you are. You know. Send it. And the director is saying you do one of the stunts. It's called Willy. What's that? Yes. Thank you so much. Joel for gracing the interview. Thank you so much. We come back with the fund zone. I'll be joined by Teres Wajaki in a short while. This is the touch line. Don't go too far.


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Hello, and welcome to the channel. So 48 days ago, I started my herb garden here in my I-Dew hydroponic system here. So this is very similar to what's commonly known as the arrow garden, where you fill up the container with nutrient water. You start some seeds in these little pods here, and then you have a light that comes on. This one is, I believe, on a schedule of 16 hours on, eight hours off. So I just wanted to show you what a great growth we have going here. Like I said, it's been 48 days. I've been probably harvesting herbs off of this for the past month already, just coming and taking little clips. When I'm cooking, I have oregano, thyme, basil, two oregano plants, two thyme plants, and then this is a garlic chive. So I just wanted to show you my little system that I have going here. This is my no-power required herb dryer that I purchased off of Amazon. It's a cute little small mesh dryer here that I am just going to start putting some of my herbs in. Because one of the things that I find when you grow in these systems, you get so much herb so fast, it's hard to keep up to using them fresh, and I want to be able to preserve them. I like to take all my herbs and just make a nice Italian blend that you can use in your cooking, dry it out. So that's what we're going to do today. I'm just going to start harvesting a little bit of each of these, and you simply can just set them in here, kind of lay them out so that they get lots of airflow and let them dry naturally. That way you're not worrying about running a dehydrator, or you know filling it up all the time, and you can just kind of pick these as as they grow, you don't have to wait until you have a large supply of these to run the dehydrator, and it's a great little system. Time has grown really well here. I'm just going to chop it back as well. So basically that is all that you need to do, and the nutrient water level goes down fairly fast now that these are growing because they, you know, they got lots of roots, as you can see. So about once a week, I just top it up with full-strength nutrient water, and they just keep growing and growing. So I will keep this herb garden going as long as I can. I know I will be probably growing herbs outdoors in my garden just because it's nice to have those fresh garden herbs out from outdoors, and they help with controlling bugs in your vegetable garden, so they're a good companion to have out in the garden as well. So as you can see, there are several levels here that you can, you know, if you want to keep your herbs separated, so if you just want to keep your basil so you can store it separately. I'm just putting everything in one together. I'll maybe spread it out so it's got a little more air. So then when I'm just ready to make them into an herb blend, I can just throw them into my my bullet and buzz them up, and I got some nice herbs for my spice cupboard. You can, of course, wash your herbs and pat dry them before you put them in here. I just don't think that they're getting that dirty down here in my basement.  So I think that's just a slick little thing. I purchased it on Amazon. I'll put the link in the description box below so you can check it out on Amazon. I think it was 20 bucks. I'll have to, I'll put that in the description. I can't remember right now how much it cost, but pretty cheap. So things are getting pretty busy down here in my growing space. I'm starting to get a lot of things started that will be going outdoors into the outdoor garden. So I thought I'd give you a little tour kind of of what's growing so far, what my plans are. I've got a few failures here and there that aren't working out so good, but I'll just turn the camera around and we'll take a little tour here. So I'm going to start with my petunias and pansies that I, it's probably been, God, it's got to be close to a month, three weeks since I started these. And I didn't get really great germination overall. As you can see, I have 72 cells here, but what I'm going to plan on doing is get this in some good light and start picking away at some of these little clusters of petunias, thinning them out and then just filling in these empty cells that nothing germinated in. I don't think you can even see this under a camera, but one of the things that I was trying to grow was black petunias and I planted 10 seeds here and only three have come up and they are super, super tiny. Not sure if you're going to be able to see it, but I'm really hoping that they are going to grow and I'll at least get three plants out of this package that cost me, I think, five bucks or something for these 10 seeds, but for whatever reason, they're not growing as fast as the other petunias, but overall not too bad. These are all pansies and again, not the best germination, but I can spread some of these around. They're not really sure why, but this variety of petunias that I planted, these are white petunias, maybe just a little bit different strand than what I planted below, but they sprouted and are taking off really well. I just got them in this plastic container. It's one of those rotisserie chicken containers, but they are doing really well. Eventually I will probably have to thin them out, but for now they can stay in this container. Over here is a little bit of a failed project. I had rosemary and lavender seeds stratifying in the fridge for a good month. I had them in a wet paper towel for, like I say, about a month, and then I planted them up here in about three weeks and I'm just finally getting some lavender sprouting here, but not very good germination and no sign of any rosemary at all. Not sure why, but rosemary has been a real challenge for me this year to get going. So I'll give that rosemary maybe another few days, but it's taking up valuable space under the lights and probably will be tossing this into the compost pile and using this container in space for something else.  I've been just rooting them in water and repotting them. I've got several of these potted coleuses all over my house. Some are upstairs in with my plants upstairs. Some are here in the window. Some are over there by my arrow garden just taking in some of that light from the arrow garden. So hopefully I will have a good supply of these when it comes time to putting them out into my flower beds and pots. So on this level here I got my onions, which I've been growing probably for a good month now. I've been bottom watering them. About once a week I fertilize them with a very diluted soluble fertilizer in my watering can just to give them a little extra food, but they seem to be doing okay. This here is another 72 cell tray of flowers that I have going. As you can see this has been very successful and I'm not sure what I'm going to do with all these. I need to have a plan of how I'm going to repot these and you know up pot them into more pots. It's going to be a big job, but I have really good success here. So these are snap dragons, another variety of coleus, some corals colored snap dragons, portulaca, elissum. I'm not sure why some of this elissum looks so much bigger and different than these, but they all came out of the same packet. Then I got two rows of lobelia and one row of dianthus. So I had really good germination success with these flowers and hopefully probably in the next month I'll have to do some transplanting and move these out to my garage windows. Down on this shelf I have some grasses planted and these are the ones that I did a video on just a couple weeks ago. That was the foxtail millet that I acquired from a planter in the city that I just took a chunk of one of the heads off of. I'm not seeing any sprouting action at all. So I'm not sure if that's going to work out or not, but I'm stuck in a few more of the seedlings into the dirt again just today. So we're going to give it another couple weeks and see if we can get any success with that grass. And I also have two more grasses planted here I'm very excited about. So these were three seeds that I acquired at a seed exchange in the city a couple weeks ago and these are native prairie grasses. One is called a blue grama grass and one is called a little blue stem. So I just planted these up now and hopefully these will be something that will go into my flower bed this spring. The last thing that's under my lights here that is also taking a long time to germinate is impatience. So these were seeds that I you know I've had for a couple years. I wasn't sure if they maybe weren't very good seeds, but today I see I am finally getting a little bit of germination with the impatience and there are a variety of colors. So hopefully we get a lot more going here in this container. So this is what's going on in the grow tent right now. As far as my crack key hydroponics I still have a nice container of lettuces going here. I have aruvula and romaine and some leafy greens. I just harvested a bunch about a day or two ago and so far it keeps growing back. So I will keep that going as long as I can. And then in the far corner over here is another crack key tomato. Kind of get pushed back to the corner but it is starting to as you can see it's got some tomatoes there that are just starting to turn color. So might have a ripe tomato in a week or so. So I'm starting to make space in my grow tent to do some of my seed starting and these are all my peppers, sweet peppers that I planted up about a week ago. I think it's been about seven or eight days starting to see a couple of them pop through the surface. Got a little bit of issue with maybe too moist and getting a little bit of green kind of mold on the top of my soil here, but I do see more seedlings popping through the soil. I've started another seedling here that I'm going to be setting up in crack key for this cucumber so it'll go in a container of nutrient water and I'll let it grow up the sides here of my tent and we'll hopefully have some cucumbers in another four to six weeks. This is my sweet potatoes that I started from slips. I bought the sweet potatoes at the grocery store. There were a purple purple variety and so far they're doing well here in the grow room and probably my plan is because they're taking up some space here that I will move them maybe upstairs into a sunny window until it's warm enough to put them outside but for now they have room in the grow tent. And I started a whole bunch of native flowers in winter sowing jugs and because I had so many seeds left I thought I might as well see if I can get some going indoors. So I got some galardia, some blue flax, bergamot, yarrow, and some cone flower. Most have started sprouting now except for the yarrow. I just planted that a couple days ago but I thought you know I got room, got the containers. These can go in a sunny window in the garage in the next month or so. So next on my to-do list is to get my tomatoes going and I'm trying to narrow it down to I got nine varieties here I want to plant. See if I can narrow that down maybe. I'm going to be using the solo cup method. A special technique that I'd like to use and I will be making a video and probably sharing it next week. So don't forget to subscribe, leave a comment, hit that like button so you don't miss out on future videos coming to the channel. Thanks for watching and happy gardening.


What's up guys? This is Alex from xTrade's back to you with another weekly trade ideas list and You know this week. I'm sorry last week. We you know, we had a pretty uneventful week in the market Pretty much traded in a range on the indexes and we didn't really see Any big moves or anything like that? Which I mean we kind of expected looking at the seasonality was only averaging like a point three percent return on the SPX S&P so We kind of to pay more attention to individual names last week and we did have a pretty good watch list, so Make sure you turn this week go review last week get some educational value out of it and Just let me know if you need help with anything and before we start to go in here Just please like comment and subscribe to our YouTube channel here on xTrade's We're trying to get our stuff to hit the algorithm or it'd mean the world to us so Let's go ahead and get into our first setup here This is PanW For Palo Alto Networks, so this is a pretty clear setup. I would say for shorts We're looking at puts on this. You got test number one test number two. This is a test three rejection Well, we also have a gap Ideally, as you see with my other gap plays usually looking for it to fill It would close up and then probably curl up about there. So that's just something to watch for puts We'll be accidentally get Just something to watch for puts As usual, you're gonna want to see it open up Monday Within the downtrend showing clear signals of selling just like last week. See you saw last week We had, you know setups that were good for calls and puts Assuming one confirmation, you know, I was able to give you the confirmation to go ahead and take puts Yeah, so you do have a clear rejection right here just make sure it opens up, you know, within the downtrend look for, you know Follow-through selling around the open and you should get a nice little gap fill of time Option contracts you're gonna be looking, you know at the money Something with at least seven days out Swing trading we're looking at, you know, minimal 30 days expiration something like that And that'll give you time to, you know, maybe get this gap filled We get to be careful because it didn't beat earnings here Looks like the revenue barely beat by a slim margin here compared to the estimate But they did beat on EPS pretty good. So Didn't really look too much into their earnings report this time But it's just something to take note of that, you know, this this is a gap up from earnings So that could be, you know, a positive outlook If it did decide to break out it'll give you a good Call trade to the upside you just have to look out for this 176 But right now it's not really the focus Until it breaks out, you know same with last week setups They were all within the downtrend So, you know, you were mainly looking for puts at first with the exception of calls if it breaks out So, yeah, just a way for confirmation as usual. It's all trading is just waiting waiting and learning and Making sure you get that confirmation Next we're going to Boeing. So this is a pretty clear bull flag set up Trading over your both your 250 moving averages made it up to this Resistance right here all the way from August it looks like broke out a little bit made new resistance But this one Well, let me go back here. Okay, you do have a little Rally-based rally demand zone May add that in real quick And you can see it reacted perfectly perfectly to it.  I set an alert at the upper trend line.  You're gonna be waiting for it to break out If it can indeed A lot of times you'll see it like break out. It'll back test the line before trying to go a little bit higher So it's not just gonna go straight up all the time. It's just something to keep in mind but Yeah, if we zoom out a little bit here too on the weekly It will be going straight into You know a downtrend line So when it breaks out you do have to keep your target pretty tight Because you have no idea what's going to do when it does decide to get to the line So it breaks out you could look for it to reject about here So you'd be looking at like a day trade on this like something quick because you already do you have an extension right here? You know big buy imbalance Eventually that probably will fail. It doesn't always have to Just something to keep in mind. I mean if we measure out this move here Let's see what the bottom all the way to the top was 48.21% so just a monster move. I mean you just got to be careful, but Technical analysis why this is holding a structure so you wait for it to break out and that's it So looking at calls on this Personally you could maybe look at puts if it does reject the downtrend line I just wouldn't want to step in front of this structure because you do have the pole you have this Maybe I could double top up here or something, but you know, you just got to be careful with that I'm very strong Dow name. I'm guessing, you know, this is playing a big role and You know the Dow coming up pretty heavy kind of carrying the market and I'm carrying all the weight on its shoulders It's only down like a couple percent year-to-date compared to tech and other stuff. I mean, it's really nice Yeah, nice name here. I'm just wait for that flag break out It's a pan W you're looking at Rejection you're looking for puts maybe Boeing you're gonna be looking at calls on the breakout if it you know confirms Apple we got right here. We got test number one test number two test number three You'll be looking for rejection. So another put set up maybe Calls you can maybe look at but it's unconfirmed same thing, you know with pan W You're gonna see it open up within the downtrend And then maybe run back down to this little pivot right here What is that 146? So probably run down like 146 or something before trying to curl up about there Calls, I mean you could obviously take if it gaps up over the line You can run all the way back up to this major supply right here So I'm gonna be looking at calls and put some of this just because Apple's a very resilient name. It kind of does carry the market And you know, it's it's not always smart to short it but it is a good short when it's time You can see that it's got 200 EMA resistance right here. It is over the 50 EMA though 50 did cross the 200 back here, which is actually technically a death cross So bear signal, but you can see right when it crossed over made a bottom and now we're making a downtrend structure. So This is test number. I'm sorry. This is actually test number four right here. So you got test one test two That's test three right here on this candle. Now we're at test four. Yeah, 200 EMA acting as resistance You have a positive back to ease you do have that going against you if you take puts You do have the RSI trading trading above 40 so that could be given another positive momentum signal But um, yeah, so just make sure you have confirmation. You want to opening up within the downtrend Monday? If you're a boy, you want to see opening up outside and you do want to see a confirmed daily candle close By the end of the day indicating that the breakout has been confirmed So yeah, this is um This is pretty much a double setup So do well you're going to be looking for either calls or puts this way for that confirmation You know, I made it pretty clear what you're going to be looking for. So Next So this is tesla. This is actually probably one of my Favorite counter trend setups we have here today um I really like buying against the trend um, the premiums pay really well and you're getting them cheaper. So You'll notice when I watch this there are a lot of counter trend stuff and you know, they do pretty good We had a counter trend adobe and crm the other week and I mean, they just totally rocketed. They're amazing So it's just about knowing at the right spot to do it um And you know, you usually want to wait, you know, I feel like fridays Friday's close is a really good time to Start looking at stocks, you know over the weekend because you do See if it, you know closed on friday above a support level if it's holding good if um, you're seeing bid support And both defending the area and you do have that on tesla here So you can maybe see a run back up to this little Uh resistance about 198. Um, you can probably round it up to like 200 bucks or something even Yeah, this could be a really nice counter trend setup for calls Monday, you're gonna want to see it open up over the support obviously before you take anything and um The good thing about counter trend is that you're getting it so low your stop loss can be, you know The risk to reward is great because you keep your stop loss under the under the low, right? So like slightly under 177 and you're you know, you could have a target all the way up to the 192 100 so great risk to reward And um, if you do have to stop out as or it's probably going to be really tight anyways Because you're buying all the way down here. You're keeping a stop loss slightly under the low and that's that so Yeah, I really like this for calls I'm gonna be looking for upside and um I wouldn't take puts on this personally Um, until you know, I got under 177 or something. So that's maybe something you could look at I honestly wouldn't I don't like shorting it low. Is that really shorted a pop or you know, open a open puts at supplies resistance something like that something counter trend just because I mean It's just risky because you know, you do have that people are eager to buy the dip right now We've been dipping all year. So and um the seasonality this week. It's nothing too bearish So you do want to be careful about what you are shorting Um, you want it to be at a trend line or something with good risk to reward not not at lows It's just not the area to short in my opinion um, you can I worked a lot for 2022 but Um, you do always have that bounce risk, you know at the end of the day But yeah tesla Only thing that the bulls do have going against them is this little four-hour MACD cross to the downside. Um Otherwise on the daily, I mean if we zoom in It's already in that but you can see it's trying to curl up.  So that's actually considered a bullish divergence You could do the same thing with rsi um And MACDs also kind of give that signal to and other escalators. So just something to keep in mind Um, I don't think it's a good area to short at the moment Your best area would have been at, you know, 200 bucks, you know, at this previous support See I looking at calls on tesla stop loss obviously below, you know Maybe a little bit further like 175 or something if you want to give it a little more room affirm So I really like this one. Um, you see it just got plastered on friday. I mean down 7.4 percent This has always been a really volatile name. So um You have to know when to trade it and I feel like it's giving really good counter trend trades all year Um, you can see when you know when it starts selling hard, you do get these violent pops Back to the, you know, 50 moving average or you know, eventually it does have a little mean regression. So But this right here We find the tool So let me turn this magnet off. All right. So you do have a drop base rally So the drop base rally demand um Sequence goes it goes with the drop creates a base rally super hard comes back down And you enter on the first test and um, it gives really good You know, uh risk to reward and what it does, um All right, I'm sorry. What you can look for is a run back up to maybe 164 74 116 something like that um You do want to see a confirmation of It holding demand obviously Um, which is pretty likely unless you get a pretty violent gap down If it does open up inside demand, you still have a pretty good chance to know start running back up because you're still within the general vicinity Um, it would obviously be invalid if it broke through demand It'd probably break through come back up test before trying to go lower, you know, something like that You know stocks do the same thing to the upside to break out pull back then go higher It's just all about structures and waiting to see if something holds. So, yeah Really like this drop base rally demand Look for it to hold up and we'll be looking at calls on this Um, Tesla we're gonna be looking at calls apple. You do have a case for both sides Right now, um, it's at the downturn. So you're probably gonna be looking at puts unless it gaps over the line BA you're gonna be looking for the flag breakout wait for confirmation set an alert at the upper line pan w You're gonna see it open up within the downtrend line Maybe look at puts on that and um calls if it does want to break out But right now, you know, it does have that strong rejection at test three. So All right, so next let's go into the indexes So over the indexes and we'll also Go over the seasonality on the s&p So last week pulled into the 61.8 percent retracement on es the s&p Um clear line of resistance. We had iwm our list last week for puts Um, they're these both of these names es and rty, which is also spy or iwm. It's the same thing Um, they pulled into 61.8. They had 200 ema resistance Um, so clear line of resistance and you can see it it's rejected a couple times But right now it's just making a structure. So we didn't do jack last week. We just stayed in this range One could argue, you know, we're like forming a Little flag or something, you know what I mean? um Obviously unconfirmed, but You know, that is something to look for these structures and just because I can't get over a level doesn't ever mean That you know, it's just going to reject straight up, you know It could trade like this for a little bit before trying to go higher Or a trade like this a little bit before trying to go lower But um, you can see reform nice demand down here I would say this is going to be tested eventually But um right now we don't really have any clear signals. It's not breaking under this previous resistance right here or the 50 fibonacci Um, if it didn't get under get under that it would have to this 50 ema and also this demand. So No clear setup on this at the moment. Um I did take some spy calls. So at towards the close I took a pretty small position Based on the seasonality. We do have a nice structure forming So I'm speculating on the fact that you know, this this range can turn into a little bit more, but um, we'll have to see Let's see. Let's um add this magnet back on we do have this little trend line forming So you got test one test two test three Um, it could come back down eventually and you know, just ride this way back up But yeah, nothing too specific just make sure um, you know, 39 hundreds are holding at a minimum and um You know in order to go higher We will have to get over this 200 ema and also this, you know pivot at like, you know, 4050 Um, and that will run into supply And also that downtrend line recovered last week. So Yep, no specific setup on this. Just look out for the structure Maybe wait for confirmation Let's go ahead and get in the seasonality too. We'll go into we'll go into this nq next All right. So this is the s and p. Um, this is the spx you can see This is the last 72 years Um, for each midterm you're put into one chart And um, I mean, it's just been flowing great all year. So we cover, you know, we cover this specific timeline And you can see we're averaging a 0.27 percent return to the upside for 21st Through the 25th. There's our trading week Um, so maybe don't go crazy with the spy shorts or anything like that Um, also keep an eye on the vixen dollar, you know, make sure volatility is in your favor first before, you know Trying to call a top or anything like that Um, maybe stick to individual names that do have a little more volatility for shorts, you know, like pan w That I recommended this week to look at You know, just stuff there, you know, you're are getting a nice range um And you know, you can be in and out real quick because you do get that volatility Um, because shorts, I mean, they're still at risk a little bit because they do have the vix under And you have other signals that, you know, we may rally for the rest of the year Especially until we see Jerome Powell Um speak live again, you know, see his opinion on the inflation report that came out Inflation did go down our last cpi report. So just something to keep in mind So yeah 0.27 percent return to the upside And um, yeah Could be a good one. Um, we'll have to see we did average a dip last week. We kind of did get that I mean, we didn't really get any upside or downside. So You could see I mean this little area right here. It kind of did do that. Um word for word It takes up a water real quick So, yeah, I mean you can see it's falling the season now to give it We did have a rally about the same period With the exception for like one week And then it creates the range just like we had this week So maybe we could see it, you know, see that range of flag on es breakout And go a little higher NQ you can see is kind of doing the same thing Um, but it this one is going under the 38.2, which is also, you know, previous resistance es is holding over its previous resistance. So that's where they differ right now um NASDAQ you want to see it holding up this level you want to see it holding up a little bit better, maybe reclaim it And it's also going to have to get over that 50 fib In order to go higher So, yeah, no setup on this right now at the moment. Um, just making a structure You do have a positive MACD our size above 40 So no clear sign like short or anything yet You could argue that since it's going back within resistance, it could make a good short But you also do have the 50 e may right here I'm still holding and you do have a lot of room up to the 200 and you saw what es did um It hit the 200 before, you know finding, you know resistance. So It's a good mean regression price target. Um, the 200 e may If you don't know, that's the 200 day moving average. So Yeah, no clear setup on this either. Uh, pretty much looks the same as es Um, no like, you know clear trend line or anything like that. This is more of like a bottom forming Um, you can see the double bottom It just have to hold this back test and you know, be able to go higher first You want to see it holding previous resistance Rty small make caps We covered this one last week We have we were looking at puts on this Due to the three factor Confluence, which was you got 61.8 Resistance which is usually always a pretty clear resistance area the first time I text test 61.8 Um, that's always a pretty clean short setup. You also have the 200 e may to act as resistance And there was also supply right here. Um, it was a little bit cleaner on iwm But it's a rally based drop supplies And um, so you had those three factors Which gave you good confirmation to take puts either for a day trade Um, maybe a swing trade if you had time on your contracts. Yeah, no clear setup this week. Um, We could see it maybe dipped down just a little bit try to hold up the trend line Head back up to the 61.8. But right now you can see, you know, just making Higher highs and higher lows. So Um, still an uptrend with the argument for it's trading under the 200 e may so technically, you know, the trend Is not set in stone yet. Um, you do want to see all indexes getting back over this, you know, to Give an early sign of, you know, any bull run or anything like that. And you see what happened when it got over this That doesn't always mean if it gets over the 200 that you're going to be straight But, um, it is a good indicator, you know, when financial conditions are a little, you know, a little better than they are right now So, yeah, I don't really see anything clear We're gonna see see it reclaiming. Obviously this previous resistance also cleared this high right here Bears are going to see it, you know, break the trend line and, um Maybe even head to this little demand right here So, yeah Next we'll go into the vix So this is an interesting one. Um The average close the 2022 average close actually dropped from 26 20s Down to 26 14 after multiple closes under the average and brought the average down So we're going to the data real quick Anything like too specific or anything, but Friday's closed. It puts that 23 11 and This week's closes, you know, did bring us down to the 26 14 You can see that it's still trading under the average still trading under our 50 EMA that we added on this data And, um, yeah, I don't think it's really low enough yet to start shorting. Um This is pretty much like the same thing as last week. Um, I'm pretty sure we opened up here Um, I'm sorry, we closed here on Friday and, um Yeah, so we're we closed here this Friday. So really nothing has changed. Um, you want to see Bulls are I'm sorry bears are going to see holding up this 22 64 Um a curl back up head back up to the average bulls You're going to see it really clear this 22 64 level that I couldn't clear last week and head back down to 19s 20s Um, once I guess the 19s 20s, we'd be looking for You know the mean regression back to the 2022 average close because it did get low enough Um, just like when it got up to 35 at mean regressed We want to see it going a little bit lower to mean regress back to the upside Um, that's when we you know, we could get in some cheap shorts and look at puts down here, maybe Uh for the s&p, of course, and you know other market names that are you know, we're going to move with the s&p So, yeah, nothing changed from last week. Look at the same level. The only thing that changed is the 26 14 average close Dx y's with the dollar. Um, this one did change a little bit We were looking for it to fall a little bit more and I said currency traders would probably be looking for it to reverse about here At the 200 EMA, which it exactly did. Um, you can see it's trying to build up a base right here I had a max pt price targeted like 104 103s and I get that from you know, this previous support And um, if we zoom out a little bit the 103s Actually come from this um You can see it's like 102 99 so I just rounded up to 103s, but it is a previous peak very strong peak Back in 2020 actually when covet was just hitting So I was looking for it to come down, you know, maybe as low as that um But at the back of my mind, you know, you know, we always have to consider That it is um holding the 200 EMA the currency traders are going to look, you know to buy the dip You know go along the dollar Um, if it acts as support it confirmed a couple candles that it's holding So currency traders, you know are trying to go along here um maximum I could see it maybe going up to this little previous support and rejecting um That's only if you know The same thing happens this last week, you know, um, we're not seeing any, you know Fud or any fear uncertainty and doubt and you know other scares and volatility um If we do get some scares and volatility we could get over, you know get through it and we'll head back up to this one So, yeah, I just want to, you know, always always track the dollar, you know and realize it, you know Most of the time it's going to inverse the market because it does impact, you know international profits and Corporate entities and stuff like that So, yeah maximum for the downside probably head back to, you know, the 200 EMA maybe try to curl up there But right now it's in a mid-range. It's not at any inflection point So we're going to see it trade a little bit more um before making any, you know Distinctions on what it's going to do exactly So, yeah, I hope you guys enjoyed this video. Um, make sure to like comment and subscribe or xtrade youtube channel Um, let's hope the setups are just as good as last week. We had some good stuff last week. So Um, just remember to always wait for confirmation and realize a couple of these this week You're going to have to wait again. Um, just like, you know last week. So You all have a blessed Sunday. I'm going to go ahead and end this video Go ahead and send it over to our person to get it uploaded and um Get it posted up for you along with the watch list and remember I do post a written report version of this Um, if you want a quick summary, just check the watch list watch list channel and xtrade discord and you'll see it right there All right guys. Love you. Bye


As soon as WikiLeaks had started to publish the State Department cables, this was also the time when Julian was arrested over the Swedish allegations. This all happened within a week. So it all came down at the same time. And then these major media organizations who had partnered with WikiLeaks then turned against Julian. And basically, I think the objective was to try to kill off WikiLeaks because it was a competitor because it had such an important impact and was a newcomer and a threat to the kind of gatekeeper function that we all know. So we have a montage of some MSNBC hosts reacting to Assange. I was wondering if you would roll that, Zach. And then we'd love to get your reaction. I have a follow-up question after that. Many establishment journalists in the U.S. considered Julian Assange to be a criminal whose work doesn't fit in the same category as their own. No journalism here. What we have is an act of espionage. The wholesale dumping of WikiLeaks actually isn't journalism. If you help in the stealing of classified material, nothing about the First Amendment is going to insulate you from charges that you stole, regardless of whether or not you publish it. I mean, you learned that day one in news business school. I find this whole montage very funny because we've actually seen this sort of reiterated, you know, basically from this time all the way up until now. I mean, it's still a thing that people talk about, maybe not with the specific espionage framing. But there is this line drawn between, well, these people are journalists over here, but these other people surely don't qualify. And so therefore, their First Amendment protections ought to be different. How do you feel when you see, you know, MSNBC hosts treating Julian Assange this way, Stella? Well, I mean, it's kind of, it's a bit disappointing because the criticisms that they use are just simply not true. You had Maria Ressa there. She was a CNN presenter and then she's a Nobel Prize winner and has herself faced political prosecution because of her journalism. And it's really disappointing that she says something like WikiLeaks dumping. This is one of the major mis, say, distortions concerning WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks does privilege the publication of archives, but it doesn't just dump. It's, you know, it provides context. It writes up context, it writes up analyses. It has redacted information and states the criteria for redactions and so on. But even so, I mean, all of this is really irrelevant, whether Julian's a journalist or not. The question is, is Julian accused of journalism? And he is. It is the activity that has been criminalized, not whether he falls into a category or not. It's the category of the activity that is being criminalized, receiving, obtaining, and communicating information to the public. Hey, thanks for watching that clip from our new show, Just Asking Questions. You can watch another clip here or the full episode here. New episodes drop every week, so subscribe to Reason TV's YouTube channel to get notified when that happens or to the Just Asking Questions podcast on Apple, Spotify, or any other podcatcher. See you next week.