The rehearsal concept allows us to build the team before we actually go ahead and execute the event. As an American service member, this exercise specifically ensures our interoperability with both our partners and our allies throughout the region. The importance of the rehearsal of concept is to identify friction points in our plan and synchronize the execution. I think this rock drill is a great example of how quickly you could bring together a team from across multiple countries, multiple services, and come together and execute a challenging event.


Sure with an e-bike you can pedal it around and sweat less than on your regular bike, but what's inside of it? Let's find out how these machines speed up your roll Have you ever wondered what kind of witchcraft and hocus-pocus makes your e-bike work so well? There are essentially five components that the clever science people have managed to wedge into these small machines That all work together to propel you. Let's start with the motor and this bike It's in the rear hub, which is probably the most common placement and is a good balance between affordability and efficiency There are also bikes with mid-drive motors between the cranks Maybe the best for steep hill climbing and front wheel hubs which have a different pulling kind of feel to them It can spin on a bit due to their being less weight on the front wheel While this bike has a 250 watt motor which is at the lighter end of the spectrum because it's a lighter bike Up to around a thousand watt motors are available on bikes designed to carry much more cargo now This is my favorite bit Torx Sensor This is the magic gizmo that increases the power input as it senses you pedaling harder without the need for any on-off buttons or Throttles none of this would work without a power source Some batteries like this one are tucked away in the frame itself Other bikes have a detachable battery meaning you can charge it wherever you want But you don't get quite the clean lines you get when the battery is internal Some but not all e-bikes have what's called regenerative braking meaning when you apply the brake gently the energy produced by the Electric motor induced braking gets fed back into the battery This extra recharge can extend your range significantly depending on how hilly your ride is or how many stop lights you stop for This nifty little thing the controller is tucked away in here It is essentially the brainstem of the bike ensuring all the electrical components and sensors work together This unit controls other technology like automatic lights and wireless connectivity changing riding modes and interfacing with apps on your cell phone There's also a fob which can activate the bike via the controller's proximity sensor Lastly, it's not a great idea to put a whole bunch of power and weight on a regular bike frame That's not really designed for it That's why good quality e-bikes like this one have a frame that's been designed specifically for these electrical components with Weight and increased speed taken into account for more bike tips and tricks from pure cycles TV. Click the link to subscribe


All right cyber traders welcome on back here this Thursday March 7th great to see all of our students and members I'd like just joining us back here You got Kathleen got Louise and all of our students members inside our live trading room And of course if you're just joining us back on social media Facebook live linked in Twitter YouTube the works as always at cyber trading You will pop up on the lower left momentarily But if you're not followed or subscribed to any of our social media streams just yet a Stream every weekday Monday to Friday morning or afternoon So just make sure to follow us right there at cyber trading you and with that We'll tell you what I got the hot tag from Fausto just to the phase 3 class this afternoon I knew that I was be me teaching that one there at least so I'm looking forward to it and with that I mean Rivian we're gonna start off with here. It's up over 10% right now pushing back up here for the meantime and You know this stock it's not to say that we were like totally expecting it guaranteeing it No, we were hoping for it and certainly this ended up delivering no pun intended because we ended up seeing some news come out with Rivian and you know with their EV launch their EV delivery Expectations that actually was expected from pre-market this morning We have made that known in like the pre-market chat inside our trading room at a 30 saying you know Hey at some point today I think they're gonna come out like some news really into it, but much like yourself. I have a thousand different things going on I'm not waiting all day for Rivian, right? So I really ended up just kind of following the levels on on my chart I'll go over that more when I teach the phase 3 class, but long story short this trade moving back up for us right now and Let's just say it's been a great trade from the 1135 level so We're gonna see if this can hold up going into the close Rivian RIVN and with that What we'll just do really quickly is go from top to bottom now and see what we could add back to our watch list now at The stage Brian saying CLSK trying to take out the iceberg at 18 Last I saw was at 17. So wow this had pushed up pretty nicely going into the early to mid-afternoon as well You know hey, I told you had a thousand different things going on one of that one of those things included actually going for a nice run outside So actually went for a run I came back and you see the chat if you're Brian Kathleen Bill Brad any of our students there You could just see the chat from like 130. I'm like what the hell happened on Rivian there, right? Jeez, so I actually missed out on CLSK You know this one ended up making a push without me at least from 17 bucks is a broke hire And you're looking pretty good, right looking pretty good up over 8% at the highs You know that type of trade easily I can put on our watch list These crypto miners never never make a Continuated push into the close and trust me I know that one day I will be wrong like definitively wrong not just like broken new high I mean, you know made like a dollar to dollar push up that big giant run that you want So was saying such you know ended up seeing this begin to make a little push earlier today the CLSK trade at least You know right now getting a chat from Fausta right there absolutely and with that you know CLSK I'll put on our list, but Mara is not looking nearly as good, you know, otherwise like coin base Let me take a look at that trade right there It's like barely break even Fausta has been doing good on the swing trade on that I believe NVO obviously from earlier today this one more on the swing side had some news come out early this morning In pre-market in a relation to their weight loss drug phase one trial news And you know this one's not looking as good now as a day trade, but as a swing trade been great, too You know it hey right now What we'll do is go right from top to bottom and see what we could put on our list here, you know the crypto stocks I'll come back to that CLSK if I really need to Brian, but you know, I hope it continues one day I will be wrong and from 3 to 4 p.m. We'll see all those crypto stocks just blast higher and I will be happy to be wrong, but I've been teased like 2000 straight days in a row so avoid it at least for now Lyt from top to bottom we go and you know to begin a lot of stocks are gonna look like this You got the old Christmas tree pattern here right to a smaller degree the IMRN trade just making that pattern pretty much right now Ran up beautifully just earlier, but looks like that run is you know done for right now if not in total So yeah, I'm gonna pass on IMRN here to big spread. No real necessity for it BRE a You know hey Chuck ended up doing pretty good on this trade earlier just you know this morning I can be a quick second. You got faster chatting here. I'm doing the meeting right now lol All right, so with that said hey BRE a ended up making a little push just before pushed above to I You know what the spread could open up on this trade It looks pretty tight right now, but I feel like you got 10,000 shares here at 213 You got you know 11,000 shares at 220 All right, so I'll add it to our list Scott looking pretty good I'm getting a bit sidetracked my apologies. So with that yep looking good. I'll add BRE a Keep it moving here MNMD a little pop up just before but that's pretty much it there grom Okay, keep it moving Try and stay focused on the scanner here when I'm doing the meeting, you know Keep going through CEO. This was a disaster. This trade was a complete dud and it's not surprising It's not like we were expecting it to be the the best trade of all time. It popped up early in pre-market It was trending down after so no much like I teach in phase two more of the intermediate class Just what's the trend of the stock leading into the open? It's not up So with that this thing only continued to to dive off after right and trend is your friend grts Ooh not looking terrible a little slow A little slow this trade is but easy on the eyes in terms of the order book It looks like it has good tier size. It is a gap fill Stock is a gap fill here. So there's a chance on this trade. I'll put it, you know on our list probably not near the top But he'll be on there There was another trade. I also had there as well, right? I thought rich I said before there's a stock I think was a kpti kptn. It was like more of like a level one or two stock. I said You know what let me just try and search through that really quick here as well Yeah, it was this trade here kpti up 15 plus percent or nearly it just shook down now But this stock had good order book. It still has a good order book Rivian's pumping Rivian's pumping back up There we go. All right. So at least to get back to the kpti to get back to the grtx trade to go through I This one here. I don't like the shake down a little rude there.  The market open was really not too hot You had a couple trades here and there that moved later on the clsk obviously rivian. Thank god that flipped me around but You know, this was not really an easy morning So you don't really want to just try and shoot for the stars or be too trigger happy altogether heading into the afternoon Now this trade was also more of a level one or two stock and you know what I kind of like it here It's building a bit of a higher or low perhaps You know maybe around the top just off a 210 to 12 as well But now I'm going to put this on our list rigetti The stock is more of like a quantum computing stack IO and q pushed up nicely for us earlier today too You had a tiny bounce from the vwap on this trade, but otherwise came back down pretty quick and You know this trade here. I'll pass on but actually that r gti I kind of like All right, so You know folks for brad from michael for chuck for all of our students in chat right now Just let me know if there's any other stocks you'd want me to look at just on the way up Take a look on on the loser side here And ei stock dropped off pretty nicely earlier here and not really looking too good on the order books You know, typically you don't find too much on the loser side in the afternoons I mean just skim through pretty quick It's easy to do you know unless the stock's down a lot percentage wise not going to really focus on it Really is a dead cap ounce and unless if the stock is easy to borrow it's going to be tough to try and get shares to short c i e n Shortable al t down big as so michael called that out earlier today one of our students You know you got the whole market moving up right now, right? So I just know that because inverse chip etf s o xs is down this must mean that s o xl Yeah, it's a little flat now, but it's been up. It's up and staying up right now I could slip this on our main watch list all together just kind of focused around like the larger cap companies navidia amd Of course continuing to push all-time highs navidia is amd getting right back up to its own smci still right there is a swing We talked about coinbase just before moving with bitcoin This thing is a little too wacky for my liking right now, and I don't say that just because of the move up and down I say that because of the order book so It's gonna be a no from me All right, I think that's just about it folks really I mean I'll tell you we got a decent list You know I'll put that s o xl on our watch list that chip etf actually and that's symbolizing like navidia That's symbolizing amd. So if you trade those you know and then definitely stick with those there All right So I think that's pretty much all I got inside our live trading room and then just on chat on youtube or facebook live linkedin etc Hey, a couple things really quick just folks. Hey, uh, just if you have any questions feel free to shoot me over a quick email I ran through my inbox last night got back to everybody and now keep the questions coming in Josh at ct trading.com is my handle any questions you have in regards to our streams any of our You know call outs that we make day to day and any of our watch lists Feel free to shoot me over a quick email personally Otherwise if you're interested in taking the next step joining us inside our live trading room Just scan that qr code as I always say at least if you're fancy with your phone fancy with your camera If you're not hey There's always another option You could just go right down to the link the hyperlink on the bottom of the stream right there ctu.co forward slash trial take you to a small landing page right there Join us for a weeklong trial to our live trading room and then otherwise for all our students right right there already with us And you know those students know what to look for in these trades at least I look forward to seeing a lot of us coming up in the phase three class again over gold platinum and diamond students Got the hot tech from fowlstone. I'll be teaching that class coming up this afternoon. I always have the um How do I say this I I'm losing track of my my thoughts right now Um, I I'm always grateful to uh, you know teach that class nevertheless from fowlstone So with that said I look forward to talking to everybody


Hello, everyone. Picture yourself in 1995, we are looking at IPv4, running out of space, everybody's panicking, we don't know what we're going to do. This is what we're going to talk about today, so stick with us, we'll be right back. Hey, John, how you doing today? Good. Hey, yeah, let's talk about IPv6. IPv6? It would be getting married by now, I think. That's right. I was going to say, I was going to make the joke that if you bought a cat, if you had a cat when IPv6 was launched, the cat would be dead, but apparently it's not inclusive for cat lovers to, for me to make that joke, now that I just did anyway, so. Hey, I'm a dog lover. Cooper's hanging out and is kind of over there because he'd be in the pest today. I can hear my two upstairs that are winding at the door, so my wife must be around somewhere. Yeah. But IPv6, why are we still talking about this? We're still talking about it because what we're going to talk about today is Azure AD is going to start natively accepting authentication requests over IPv6 traffic. Why is there any IPv6 traffic? Today there hasn't been, but now starting later this month and into next month, we're going to be enabling IPv6 support across the board in Azure AD. Good times because IPv4 address space, as we know, has basically been depleted at this point, so it's a big borrower steal to get a new address. Actually, last conference I was at, we had a conversation. It was a networking thing, and I asked somebody if they were adopting IPv6 or if they were doing anything with it, and they said, why? Because everything they do, whether it's in the cloud in Azure or AWS or any other cloud, is all private IP spaces. They said, we'll never run out of that because we've reused the same addresses or classes across our environments, and there's no point for us to do that. Your private spaces, yes, but with our new work from everywhere, work from anywhere, remote worker space, and those great things that we have, mobile devices, our insert favorite brand name of phone here, a lot of those now support IPv6, and those mobile operators are using that space for those devices. So, we need to really start thinking about that and using those public IPs to our advantage. Okay, no, that makes sense. You know what? I had not thought about the proliferation of mispronounced that, but the growth of the mobile market, especially IoT is also still growing, and those all require IP addresses. So, I had not thought of that, but you're correct.  My ISPs actually provide a IPv6 address and a block for personal use. So, the home lab where I do my testing in has IPv6 support enabled, and so I can actually see IPv6 traffic coming from my home network. Okay. One thing about IPv6, you mentioned Azure AD. I seem to recall getting an email about actions I needed to take. Was that in the same relation? Yes. So, about mid-February timeframe, we sent an email, and I think I have it up on my screen here, if we can show that. We sent an email talking about IPv6 coming to Azure AD, and we want to make sure that customers add your publicly available IPv6 ranges to your named locations before we flip the switch to start turning this on. Okay. You'll have to tell me what is that location, that trusted location, what is that about, and where does that come from? Yep. So, we have this concept of named locations in Azure Active Directory. Those named locations get used in several areas. So, you can add a named location to a conditional access policy, and either allow or block traffic to or from that endpoint, and then it also gets used to enhance detections in tools like identity protection. When traffic is coming from a known trusted location that's defined by that network location, it can lower the risk score associated with that sign in. And so, I can show you exactly where we would go and configure that and where that's set up. Okay. So, this is my test tenant, and we'll go into security, and we can go to named locations. Okay. Do you want to maximize this? Yep. Let me maximize that. Sorry about that. No worries. So, we're in named locations here, and this is my trusted location for IPv6 that I've been testing with. Okay. So, that is if you're a company and you have branch offices or a warehouse somewhere where somebody's connecting to your main office for inventory control or anything like that, but you know that that place is safe, so you name it and define it as a trusted location. Yeah. You can define locations and not mark them trusted. Okay. So, I know this IP address, or I can say I know this IP address, and I want to add a level of confidence to it by marking it trusted. So, that would be, yes, Contoso's headquarters. They know that every bit of traffic flowing out from this IP address is one of their headquarters public IP addresses. Okay. And they want to mark that as such. And then what's great is now I can combine this with a policy in conditional access and say for this policy, I'm testing with a specific user. Yep. Any cloud application that falls in the condition of any network location except my trusted networks. So, this is a very restrictive policy that says anyone accessing any cloud app from any network is going to be blocked unless that network location is marked as trusted. Okay. So, that's something you would set for your most critical system. I only ever want my accounting people to access the accounting application from Contoso's headquarters network location. Perfect. And if they're coming from outside of that, they're going to be blocked. So, the one thing to make sure of when you're doing that is to exclude anything like your emergency access accounts, your break glass accounts to get back in because if you lock yourself out, that is a really painful process in order to get on the phone with support, prove that you have access to that tenant and get them to help you get back in. It is a very painful process. You do not want to go through that. That is the worst thing to paint yourself into a corner. Yes. Do not ever try to paint yourself into this corner. I think I'd done that once on stage doing a demo and I blocked the accounts that I was using for my demo. I did it one time and called the PG and they were like, don't you have any other accounts that can get in? And I managed to find one account that I was able to get in with and fix the policy and change it and was able to get myself back into my test environment. It was not a fun day. I got laughed at for a little bit from the PMs. All right. So, now that we have this policy, how does somebody make sure that it's working? Yeah. All right. So, we can go to our sign-in logs and see that traffic flowing in from a network location. So, if I go back in, I can go to my sign-in logs in Azure AD and I can look for specific traffic patterns. Is this something while we're waiting to this to refresh? Is this something that Sentinel also kind of pitches in or gets the data from? Yes. If you're exporting your logs to log analytics or Sentinel, you could search through and query those logs for traffic patterns. So, we'll look for IP addresses that include, and this is really easy for IPv6 traffic. They all have colons in them. So, if I just look for IP addresses, contain a colon. This will now filter my logs. And, of course, today while I'm doing a demo, the sign-in logs are going to go a little slow. All right. There we go. So, I can look and I can see, yes, I have traffic flowing through this IPv6 endpoint. And if I click on one of these entries, I can go to conditional access. I can see my test policy. Okay. And under location, it says not matched, which is what I expect, because this is a trusted location and has been excluded. And there's the public IP that was seen coming from my device. And so, it allowed that traffic to flow. Okay. If I came from a network location that was not part of that, I would get a green matched and that traffic would have been blocked. And so, I don't have an IPv6 version of that, but I can show you a IPv4 block from here. And I had matched on this traffic. And because that traffic was matched, it blocked. Okay. That's very cool. Very cool. And it's like we sent the email and I seemed to recall when you showed it on screen that this has to be done before March 31st. So, that's coming up. Yes. So, what's going to happen on April 1st? So, on April 1st, on April Fool's Day, or thereabouts, you'll start seeing IPv6 traffic show up in your sign-in logs. So, we're asking customers to go in and update those named locations before that point in time. We want you to do that because if you have a restrictive policy set that says block anything but my trusted network locations, after we turn on IPv6 traffic, you may end up with a block on your users. So, we want your users to continue to be able to access their resources. We don't want you to have a flood of tickets come in for IPv6 traffic and your users being blocked after they've been able to access resources without any problem. So, we have an article that we've published here that talks about IPv6 support in Azure Active Directory. You can get there through aka.ms slash azuread IPv6. Okay. I'll put that in the show notes below. All right. And this goes over the basics of what's changing, when it's going to happen, what we want customers to do, and then how they can actually test like I just showed in their own environments. So, you can create what's called an NRPT rule and point that to other DNS servers so that you will get IPv6 endpoints for login.microsoftonline.com. Okay. Once we turn on IPv6 support, we want everyone to remove those NRPT rules because if we update DNS settings on our side, those older servers may not see that as we roll through servers. So, we want to make sure that everybody has the most up-to-date information. So, you can go through, you can test here. And this actually talks about how to find those addresses in your sign-in logs. And if you're using log analytics, a query that you can use in log analytics to look for those IPv6 addresses. Yeah. And we're doing this at the end of our 1st of April. So, we're cutting it a little close and hopefully this will be published hopefully a couple of weeks before that we get to that deadline. But that has nothing to do with like virtual network or your workload within Azure starting to use IPv6, correct? Nope. This is separate from your Azure virtual networks. So, this is specifically Azure AD endpoints. This is the authentication stack. This is making sure that your users can get into the resources that are protected with Azure AD. Okay. And so, I guess we'll have to have another episode where we cover IPv6 within virtual network and within your workloads. But this is strictly for authentication. I think your buddy Michael Vendor might be equipped to have a conversation about that networking side of things. That's the point. That's the plan. Anything else that we need to really kind of grasp at in regards to IPv6? No. We just really want people to take this seriously and take a look. Go do an audit of your network locations. Make sure you update them, keep them up to date. Mark things as trusted as needed and check your conditional access rules. Make sure that you've got your policies set up accordingly. Something that just popped into my head. In this day and age with the amount of people that we have working from home and working remotely, if you said that your ISP is giving you IPv6, that means that there's probably any number of IPv6 or ISPs that are providing IPv6 IP address for their endpoints. Yes. Absolutely. You may already be in a situation where a significant amount of your staff is coming in over those addresses. So, they may currently have an IPv6 address, but Azure AD is not seeing that today. So, Azure AD will see it starting at the end of the month. On the end of the month. But so, if we haven't updated that at that point, all these people. So, you can use those queries that you showed earlier to identify whether or not you already have a lot of staff that are coming over IPv6 and then make the change. Yes. If need be, you can then go in and add locations as you require. Okay. Perfect. Well, John, this was short and sweet, but super impactful, hopefully.  And so, I thank you very much for taking the time and to tell us all about this. And we're going to put some information about all your Azure AD documentation and networking into the show notes. Yep, aka.ms slash Azure AD IPv6. And if somebody wants to follow you on, oh, I see it right there on the screen, at Buckeye JFlow. Buckeye JFlow on Twitter and Instagram if you want to see some dog pictures. Oh, that's right. Doggy, we can never have too many doggy pictures. Yep. All right. I am Pierre Romain or at Wired Connect. And thank you for taking time to view this content. Again, make sure to go update your information for Azure AD. And we'll see you in the next episode. Cheers. Thanks. Bye.


The benefits of reading far outweighs the benefits of not reading. Every educational institution in the world makes use of books. Books are perhaps the most potent educational medium ever invented. Students who don't follow in class can read up and develop new ideas as well as comprehend way better than they appear.  According to OEDB.org, as we like to have the emotional and mental chatter found in the real world, we enjoy deep reading that allows us to feel what the characters in the story feel. And this, in turn, makes us more empathetic to people in real life, becoming more aware to the lives of others. In today's video, I'm going to share with you 15 benefits of reading. You can subscribe to this channel for more awesome videos such as this one. 1. Reading Makes You Smart When you read, you acquire a lot of information and that makes you smart. While red people can sustain a conversation in different fields of study, people also like to associate with people who share same interests, so this can make you more sociable and acceptable. 2. Reading Books Helps You Read Fast This is perhaps the most important benefit of reading. People who read often can read fast. Reading fast has unlimited benefits. You can read exam questions and comprehend faster. You can read your textbook faster. You can memorize things faster. Anyone who starts reading from a young age sets himself up for success in later years. Every employer without exception will prefer someone who reads and comprehends really fast to someone just getting the hang of it. Who will they tell to read the 100-page agreement they want to enter into with another company? Who will read the reports from other divisions and harmonize it across all divisions working on the project? The faster you can read, the better for you. Imagine spending an hour reading 20 pages of material. How many hours would you need to read a 150-page report then? 3. Reading Improves You of Vocabulary When you read, you encounter new words. People who know the most words are usually readers. The fun part is that you don't just learn new words, you learn contextual usage and differences in discipline. This will help you interact better with people from different places because you understand how they talk to each other from similar characters in books you have read. According to Lifehack blog, being articulate and well spoken is of great help in any profession and knowing that you can speak to higher ups with self-confidence can be an enormous boost to your self-esteem. You could even aid in your career as those who are well read, well spoken and knowledgeable on a variety of topics tend to get promotions more quickly and more often than those with smaller vocabularies and lack of awareness of literature, scientific breakthroughs and global events. The more you read, the wider your vocabulary. Also, according to Healthline, researchers have found that students who read books regularly beginning at a young age gradually develop large vocabularies and vocabulary size can influence many areas of your life, from scores and standardized tests to college admissions and job opportunities. 4. Reading makes you more empathetic. According to Healthline, research has shown that people who read literary fiction, stories that explore the inner lives of characters, show a heightened ability to understand the feelings and beliefs of others. Researchers call this ability the theory of mind, a set of skills essential for building, navigating and maintaining social relationships. People who read literary fiction usually have a lot of empathy. They see the world differently and try to play their part in making it a better place. Literary fiction and poetry with strong tragic themes usually show people the cruelty of the world and the hopelessness of some characters. Over time, readers start to place themselves on the shoes of the characters. Once they do that, they would start rethinking their standards and visibly start trying to lead a better life. This is why fiction was, and is still so rampant. It has the innate power to transform society. 5. Reading novels reduces stress. Reading a book that is entirely unrelated to work when you come back from work can be a huge stress reliever. You should try it. 6. Reading stimulates the brain. Did you know that your brain increases its activities when you pick up a book? According to Lifehack blog, studies have shown that staying mentally stimulated can slow the process of or possibly even prevent Alzheimer's and dementia since skipping your brain active and engaged prevents it from losing power. If you had an opportunity to do something now that will prevent some brain disease in the future, wouldn't you take it? It wouldn't hurt to open a book. Maybe it's time you took a break from your phone. All the notifications may not allow you to think clearly, but when you read a book, you enter into the world of the writer. You may be lost in there for several hours until you are finished. 7. Reading improves your memory. This is one of the most significant benefits of reading. When you read, you improve your memory significantly. Reading expands your thinking and exposes you to new information. The more information you consume, the better you can retain them. People who read a lot tend to have a lot of information stored up. It is as though every time you read something new, you are practicing how to retain information better. According to Lifehack, when you read a book, you have to remember an assortment of characters, their backgrounds, ambitions, history and nuances, as well as the various arcs and subplots that weave their way through every story. That's a fair bit to remember. But brains are marvelous things and can remember these things with relative ease. 8.  Have you ever read a murder mystery novel and grappled with the true identity of the killer up until the end?  The more murder and mystery novels you read, the better at predicting them you become. I personally can predict a lot of Sidney Sheldon's plots these days. How about you? Start reading today. Your future self will thank you later. 9. Reading helps you improve your focus and concentration. In today's internet world, paying attention is more difficult than it sounds. If you want to pay attention, read a book offline. People who read tend to stay offline to avoid distractions.  Silence the noise. Social media will not help you achieve your dreams. It will only show you people who have achieved theirs and make you depressed. 10. Better writing skills. This is a natural consequence of reading a lot, just as people who eat a lot tend to get fat. People who read a lot tend to write. Note that not all readers write, but when they do write, they write way better than people who don't read. 11. Free entertainment. When you are on a train heading to another city, instead of sitting quiet, you can read. Reading is a form of entertainment. You can read romance novels. You can read adventures, historical fiction, and even poetry. It can be incredibly soothing when you have had a long day. Some people are looking forward to reading all through the day. It's the only time they can escape from work. 12. Better communication skills. People who read a lot have better communication skills than people who don't read frequently. Imagine a 24 year old who had read Shakespeare's entire collection and more and a 50 year old who reads just one book a year. Who do you think will be more eloquent? People who read have a vast vocabulary to play with. This is something that people who don't read can't have. If you want to be eloquent, read 13. Books can motivate you. Some books have inspired people to action. Books can show you new angles to a problem and change your mind about subjects. They can also push you to achieve your goals. Those types of books are called self-help books. Try reading the one applicable to your situation. Some books can help you plan better. Some books will help with goal setting and execution. Or even books that teach you how to invest and manage your finances. It is ultimately left to you to decide what you want to do with it. 14. Books stimulate creativity. Books are the treasure trove of ideas for creative people. 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What's over everybody Jason for Jasper's case race calm 2022 tops of innovative baseball just sold out This is a one-box break pick your teams number 21 And I guess this is the last box of the case was hearing nothing crazy pulled in the first two So let's see what number three has hiding in here and then Carl got the last I don't know how many teams a lot of them So there you go. Thank you. Good luck to everybody else, of course And again, this box felt a little heavier. All right, so let's see what we got here guys I think this I think this Dodger game sad podger's game. I might be delayed. It's like pouring over there right now Maybe I was just confused maybe Not confused me, but maybe I just thought there was a heavier, but maybe just only one frame I thought it was felt heavier though. All right, here we go Pull hosts to 35 to start us off for the angels mark Matt Chapman to 50. That's for Oakland going to chat, right? Darrell strawberry two of ten Nice definitive ink there with a little piece of the lumber That's New York Mets going to Carl. Oh, look at this do autograph coming up Philly's Reese Hoskins and JT Real Muto four out of 35 That bat slam by Reese Hoskins was So so cool to see Harry with the Phillies a couple more guys. We got Raphael Devers. That's another framed For the Boston Red Sox there and it's going to Carl 15 out of 30 two more to go Or three more to go. Sorry Josh Lowe That is for the Raise to 50 and nothing crazy man. What's going on here? We have a Jaren Duran. That's another one there for Boston. That's a beautiful signature actually That's another rookie there Boston going to Carl Wow, I guess nothing super crazy out of this case guys man, maybe we've just gotten lucky with other cases ending off with a Hideki Matsui for the Yankees going to Nicholas and 24 to 25 Oh very surprised, especially if the first two weren't the craziest right here All right guys. Well, hey, it's just the way it goes guys unfortunately Some cases are definitely much better than others So there you go folks. That was the break Don't have any more of this But of course our baseball section is still pretty stacked. So I think tomorrow with Joe It's gonna be pretty nice to get some more breaks in So of course we still have like the archives. We still have the double header We still have the chrome jumble fanatics baseballs and then NT and absolute. So you have some more baseball in tomorrow guys So appreciate it guys. Jasper's case breaks.com


The following is a presentation of TFNN. The Traders Edge with Steve Rhodes. Toll free at 1-877-927-6648 or internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER>. The Traders Edge. Now, Steve Rhodes. Good afternoon from TFNN. Welcome to the May Day, the May 1st. The wonderful Wednesday edition of today's Traders Edge Show. I'm your host, Steve. Perseverance Rhodes, who absolutely knows that each of us should always be pioneers of our future versus prisoners of our past. Hope everyone out there is having a great day. Let's have an extraordinary one. And of course, the easiest way to do that is to always remember that life, life is happening for us. Not to us. That's right. We knew when I make that one little two-by-four shift. It means we can find the gift in every set of circumstance. That life is going to toss at us. Today, you and I, we're going to go check on the circumstance of these markets. We're going to go figure out what the bowls and the bears, what those buyers and sellers are communicating to you. And I just passed one o'clock in the afternoon. I want you to know that I'm absolutely grateful for your presence here. But most importantly, I'm here to serve you. So feel free to pick up that phone. You can dial on in right now,<PHONE_NUMBER>. Kent Allen, we've got you covered. You can always send me an email, Steve, at tfnn.com. If you would be so kind to put a radio show question in the subject, heading, of course, in our Tigers Denny Ping will do. So let's go ahead and get this show started on wonderful Wednesday. Of course, this is Tiger Financial News Network. I'm Steve Rhodes. Welcome to Lush Show. Right now we've got a flat market, and that's really to be, I would say expected anticipated with the Fed releasing their decision, whatever decision that might be at 2 o'clock with testimony or Q&A period coming afterwards around 2.30. So really what the interpretation of what the markets are doing, and we'll go through the charts. But quite frankly, and I don't say this normally, but quite frankly right now between one and two, it's pretty much useless. It's really going to be about the end of day. So we'll take a look at what the end of day numbers might be. That way, whether you're listening live or listening to an archive version on Tiger TV, you'll be able to have some data points to go ahead and take a look at how the market has responded and how it is that you can interpret its message. So I don't want to get too caught up in the short-term timeframe charts right now or any of the equity charts, really metals or bonds or anything, because things are potentially going to change out there. But nonetheless, right now we've got the Dow up 11 points. The S&P is flat, saw 42 cents. NASDAQ 100 being powered by Apple, which is up 13 bucks. So the NDX 100 is up 42. Of course, the Dow, a lot of points to the upside in the Dow as a result of Apple being up 13 bucks. I'm going to guess 70, 75 points, something like that. I'm going to have a conversion system out here. You've got the Wilshire 5000. That's off 11 bucks. Trendy's off 1%. They're down 109 points out here. Spot volatility index. Now that's one thing that you and I are going to take a look at today, especially with regard to where it finishes. Now it's up 27 cents. That's 2% trading at 13.39. Getting awfully close, flirting with that 50-day exponential moving average line out there. And if we take a look at what's moving to the upside, you've got Rogers Corp. That's 25, 55. Timothy Planned, not sure what that is. But it's up 2,409%. Must be an IPO. That's heck of a day out there. You've got L3 technologies up 15. Strategic education, I'm going to guess what ED stands for. It could stand for something else, but we're going to go with the education. Of course, it could be strategic. Ah, we won't touch that. But it's up 9% out there. To the downside, Google of 23, MGP ingredients has some bad ingredients today down 23% or 20 bucks. Google's up, I said there are 17. Micro strategy down 6.5% or 9 bucks in chain. So where do we want to begin? Where do we want to begin? Let's begin here. The spot volatility next. Perhaps the one tool that you'll be able to utilize to get a feel for what the message of the market is has come four o'clock today. And so here what we have on this chart, the top panel of this chart is the S&P 500. So we're looking at the SP cash in the seat. We're looking at the spot volatility index. That's at the bottom. Now, one of the things that you identified rightfully so at the beginning of the week on Monday, you had noticed this rising bottoms pattern in the spot volatility index. And what I mean by that, I'm referring to, I'm starting with the day here. You correctly picked out April 12th as the so-called low on a closing basis in the spot fix index. That was at 1201. He danced to the next real low out here. Well, that was on April 18th on a closing basis, 1209. Now, at the same time that that was going on, what we had was we had price rising inside the S&P 500. It's very easy to see the rising price direction in the S&P 500. That's the top panel of the screen. It's a little bit, it takes a little bit more work to identify that you had a rising bottom pattern. But you did it out there because on the trading session of April 23rd, 1228 was a number. So slightly rising and then really rising since then. But you see the slightly rising and really rising since then with the S&P 500 going north out here, you can look at my screen and see those other green aligned divergences in the S&P 500 and the spot volatility index. It always has meaning. It is always a signal as to something to come. That something is some type of retracement. Now, the pattern can get negated. We haven't had that some type of retracement that I've been able to see out here. So the pattern is still in effect. Now, when this pattern really gets rockin' and or rolling this case here, this is telling us a retracement. It gets beyond retracement when you see the spot volatility and it's closed over its 50-day exponential moving average. Now, that number as we speak right now is 1415. Again, we're trading at 1342. It changes by the second out here by the tick. But watch 1415 at the end of the day. Now, right now, it's just a warning signal. I have learned over time you can't trade off this. You have to be able to use other patterns and tools in order to be able to trade off of this. So you're going to want to watch this because it's going to help. If the spot volatility index closes below the 50-day exponential moving average, it's going to tell you that, hey, the market is not... There's still plenty of liquidity. I'd rather just use it like this. You and I, at least during this 1 to 2 p.m. show, we never refer to this as the X gauge out there. And the reason that we don't is because it's useless to refer to it that way. There's no trading strategy or anything that you and I can do to interpret what the market is doing out here. So what we can do is we can use that. We can also take a look at... We can look at the S&P 500, but I choose at this stage here to look at the ES mini. And we're going to take a look at the ES mini and we're going to take a look at the patterns that are out here. Now, one of the things that you're going to notice right now as we speak of 114, we don't have a bearish reversal signal out here. But who cares? This is a daily chart. That means that we need to see when the contract closes later this afternoon what type of candle we have. But here's what we know. We know inside the ES mini prices moving higher, doing a less relative energy. How do we know that? Because my system automatically draws that out there because it's one of the single best tools that any of us could use for any time frame, any instrument that we trade out there. It helps us to identify tops. Right now it's just a potential top. But the ES mini is also singing in the key of G. That's wave number seven. You know, that's that wave where during the ballgame you get up and you sing. So sing during this break and I'll be right back. The Taz Profile Scanner is the most revolutionary piece of trading software that you will ever try. Wouldn't you like to approach the markets with confidence? As you begin your trading day, it's likely that you'll be faced with lots of decisions. In order to make the best decision, the first thing you'll need is a strategy that will help you minimize your risks. Whether we're in a bull or bear market, a good strategy is to have the tools needed to help you scan and analyze the markets before you trade. 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Price has made it beyond the one-to-one level. That was $29.29. Here along the way, if you're watching us on Tiger TV, there was never a bearish reversal candle. You see that whole A to B equal CD thing. You can go ahead and sell the D-point or buy the D-point if you want, but you'll get crushed over the long haul if that becomes your pattern. What you need to do is you need to make sure that the market will go ahead and communicate to you when the pattern is complete. That doesn't mean that things can't get turned around, but what you want to do is you want to... Our role, my role here is to interpret the charts and tell you what buyers and sellers are doing. It is as simple as that. It is really not to inflect my opinions. What I give you as far as information out here is here's the pattern we're looking at, here's what we're looking for, and then here's what action you could consider taking. Remember, this is a daily timeframe chart. A daily timeframe chart may or may not really impact any trading decisions for that. You have for your longer-term accounts out there. For those, you might want to look at the weekly but let's just focus on the daily timeframe chart out here. What needs to happen? What really needs to happen at the end of the day in order for the many folks that want to just get bearish out here. Look, I don't care what you want to get bearish from bullish. Just the interpretation of the chart itself. You need to see some type of bearish reversal candle at day's end. You can get a bearish in golf and you can get several different candles out here. I just want you to know right now we don't have it, but if you were to get one, along with a close above the spot volatility, exponential moving average, then the next thing that you would be looking for or anticipating is a final level of support. Inside the ESMini, that's why we're taking a look at the equity futures contract. Well, it's quite a ways down. You would have to make a decision before price gets there. Here is the June contract for the ESMini. These are the daily profiles that are out here. What you will notice, what you should notice and take a look at this and you'll look at all other contracts, what you should notice is all pullbacks or retracements out here have found support where they should have. In other words, all retracements and people might have thought that was the end of the world, that was the end of the rally, the end of the countertrend rally. Well, as we know, that's wrong. That is not a correct assessment. The only way that's going to happen, as you will see on this move up here, is if price closes underneath the bottom of a daily profile. These are hidden, they're not hidden and now they're on your screen and you can at least take down the numbers here. But if you take a look at the first real pullback and test of support, it took place on the dates of February 7th and February the 8th out here. It's really the role of price to always come back and test support and then to communicate to you and I, hey, if that support holds then the trend has not changed out there. For whatever the time period is, here we're using a daily time fearing. If we take a look at the trading day to look like it was curtains out there because there was a bearish reversal candle on March the 4th, that was a key reversal session out there. That could have been the end of it. That's why I'm going through this, so I don't want you to be able to correctly assess and interpret the market out here and what it's doing and that should have been the end of it. But you see, when it's so called the end of it, in this case here the end of the move higher when a bearish signal shows up on the screen all it means is that price is going to go back or should go back and test support. It's not until we see the results of that test of support that we can really draw a conclusion.  Here's the rectangle right there. So that's what we're talking about and you can see that price is pulled back to that level. Yeah, interday can get underneath it but it's always going to be about the end of the day. If you use a daily chart it's about the end of the day. We saw several times out here where we saw tests of support. March 25th was one of them. You saw two days later in the 27th you saw it on the 28th. Price always closed back above the bottom of that profile. You can see right now that price is trading above the top of the profile and so hence, I don't know why I use the word hence but if we do get a bearish reversal candle on the EES today the real key is going to be will price take out 28, 94, 50 because that is the bottom of the profile. We're above the top right now support. Level 1 support is 29, 29. Level 2 support is 29,09. You're getting rid of the ticks that are out there and then level 3 or the final level the key level quite frankly the most important level is the bottom of that profile and that's 28, 94. The bearish reversal signal today and you've decided or maybe you are in a short position what you want to be able to watch is what happens as price gets to 28, 94. I have no new profiles that are forming at least not yet not as of 123 in the afternoon and so I think that the what we've just covered here we just took a look at the spot volatility index the rising bottoms pattern that it is the rising price pattern that it has it can extend itself for a long period of time out there so there are clues, there are just clues of potential now what we have to really see is what buyers and sellers are going to do with the information and then it becomes easy for you and I to make a logical decision out there at least be able to anticipate where price might head to now we have a question that came in so I just wanted to go ahead and make sure that we completely covered that area and didn't leave you there but we've got a question that's coming here from Art now it wants to take a look at the unleaded gas or the ETF UGA so let's go ahead and put UGA out here what I'm not certain of is what just the question is what's the outlook so again let's look at the charts out here so what do we know about the ETF and what you and I are also going to do is we're going to go take a look at the gasoline futures contract but if we take a look at the patterns that are out here here one of the things that you can see is prices moving higher doing less relative energy out there and it was doing that into the trading session oops sorry it was doing that into the trading session of the date is April 23rd but as price was making that move and it was a gap to the upside it was doing it with less energy and when you do with less energy it's never the first time that's the problem it's always the following high and how it is made it doesn't want to make a high not you but a chart it doesn't want to make a high by doing a less route of energy now it can come back and it can resolve that but during that time period during that time period if you get some type of bearish reversal signal what that's telling you is you've got some type of short term top in place and you got that bearish reversal signal on April 27th when you saw a gap to the downside we've seen here over the past couple of days we've seen this before it's a resistance level these two little blue dash lines out here as well as Stevie's green line the oscillator and change line by the way that price point is 3311 we're trading at 3247 so right now what this is telling us UGN a daily basis is that there's a top but just like we looked at for the EES mini the rules are the same you see what you and I look at instrument wise we're agnostic to see what the outlook is for unleaded gas gas lean futures out here and where does price need to close below in order to change its trend now this almost is like we're looking at the EES mini chart out here prices above the top of its daily profile that's at 2.03 the key level of support if this is a change in trend art that number 1.9858 take it out to full decimal points out there that's the level you would watch for to make a determination where there's really a change in trend in UGA Steve Rhodes with TFNN over right back I'm certain you are or strive to be one of the best of the best at everything you do in life it's the most common trait that we tigers and tigers share if you're looking to become the best of the best when it comes to managing your money let me teach you to do what most wealth managers tell you can't be done which is how to time the markets I'm Steve Rhodes, author of Mastering Probability and for the last 12 months Timer Digest has been tracking my newsletter signals which have earned me the ranking as their number one market timer in the nation for the S&P 500 for the last 12, 6 and 3 months Timer Digest also ranks me as the number one market timer for gold as well the fact is markets can be timed and I'll teach you the exact set of tools that I use that has transformed me into one of the best at what I do sign up for Mastering Probability today by clicking on the newsletter tab on the homepage of 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contract for silver trading out at 14.74 and what you're gonna notice on the screen you're gonna notice both the daily and the weekly profiles and so what you can see here is that the silver is pulling back to 14 the bottom of its weekly profiles 14.66 out here now I'm also gonna put up my synthetic contract which may identify different profiles and that's not what the intent of confusing you but we've had a recent rollover in the contract for silver and the data on the left hand side is very limited out here and so if you use limited data you know it's less reliable for being able to turn out information so instead of doing that what I can do is I can come over here and for this I've got a more of a synthetic or composite contract you'll notice here when I open up this chart we go back as far as we want and now I've got all kinds of data that I can use to be able to analyze what's going on inside the market now luckily for us at this stage here the weekly profile comes out to be the same and that's at 14.66 so at this stage here we can see the A to B equal CD to the downside it does not look like it's completed let's try to get that price projection I'm referring to the A point that I'm gonna use here would be the swing from October 20th and I'm gonna use my B point I'm gonna use the March 7th level and for my C point I'm gonna be using March 21st we can see the 1 to 1 A to B equals CD pattern would give you a price projection of 14.42 14.07 is the 1.272 so how will we know if price wants to get down there well if you see it close below 14.66 PDG pretty darn good chance what we're gonna see is a move in one of these to one of these A to B equals CD points now at the 14.42 ish area really between the 1 and the 1.272 you get down into the lows from November of 2018 out there so you know can we totally make it into right now support a sell so that much we know even though it looks like there's a breakdown and there is a breakdown from the daily timeframe chart and we've got to we've got a close that is certainly well below that area no bullish signal of any sort that I can see in looking at this chart but that's what's going on with silver different than if we take a look at gold let's go take a look at the June contract here for gold this off a buck seventy twelve eighty four is the number if we take a look at profiles here the key level for gold is going to be the bottom which is twelve seventy seven twenty now you'll notice at this point and this point meaning one thirty three in the afternoon the bar has turned orange it is trying to form new profiles out here but really we won't know whether that's going to occur until tonight early in the morning but it's but it's trying to there's no information that you and I can use from this what we can do is we can we can say that if price closed under twelve seventy seven twenty then support will have been broken it will be clear in fact support on a database has been broken ever since the March the first level the question is do we have some type of bottom pattern that's in place so from the A to B equal CD side out here the a point B point C point C point by the way was March twenty fifth you'll see the one to one completion is a twelve sixty two one one point two seventy two is twelve forty three by the way if silver is about that silver but if gold makes that move to the downside and right now I don't have any reason to believe that it will right it's trading above support but if it were then it would be setting up a nice or potentially setting up a nice Gartley by pattern and one of these price projection areas out here so we'll what's there to do look right now with regard to silver it's holding support happens to be the weekly profile in the case of gold it's holding support it happens to be the daily time frame time frame profile and so that's what's going on the precious metals area but what we can also do is we can go take this and we can try to assess what's going on inside of the GDX so let's go take a look at the GDX and the GDX right now is trading out of twenty dollars and sixty four cents what do we know about the GDX at one thirty five well we know that if the GDX closes under twenty eighty four twenty eighty four is a bullish structured profile so this is all going to be about the end of the day and that what that means in the bullish structured profile is this this is nothing more than a football game and it's easy for me to take a look at this is a football game in the football game where you have two opponents with buyers and sellers is what I'm going to call the teams and we know where buyers are lined up in fact that buyers in the bullish structured box that's the A team this is all the first stringers of buyers in the GDX are between the price level of twenty eighty four and twenty one oh one and that should hold and if price closes below that and you're long the mining sector hopefully you can find some other bottoming pattern that is a trend to stay in there now this is just a daily time frame if price were to close below twenty eighty four what you and I would do is go look to the weekly time frame to see where its profile is so let's just do that real quickly well that happens be twenty fifty seven so what we can say here between twenty eighty four okay support has been broken on a daily basis intraday where has it fallen to it's fallen to support of the weekly profile again twenty fifty seven the low so far today in twenty fifty six so just like you and I can reach a conclusion about gold and silver that they've held support we're going to use the daily in the weekly time frames to help us assist with that so too has the GDX but if we see a close blow twenty fifty seven so we'll change that number from twenty eighty four to twenty fifty seven well you should have a really good reason I mean a really good reason to be longlining now if you are a risk individual and you want to try to get into something before the Fed announces it well then now is the time for the GDX or gold or silver that have held support and you close those trades out if they break support come days end out here I am not suggesting that but as we take a look at the role of just understanding where support is when support breaks where is price going to go and let's take a look at where else is it that price would go to decide the GDX well let's go take a look at its A to B equal CD pattern let's go ahead and you know what we do here so for me because here's the one a point that somebody could use and that would be the trading session February twenty but see how price came all the way back up that swing point on March twenty six not really an A to B equal CD if anything it would be a consolidation pattern that was out there which we could do so for the A to B equal CD pattern out here for the daily time frame for the GDX I would be using the March twenty six level as my A point and I would use the low of April fourth and I would use the high of April 10th and what we can see here is prices right now below the one point two seven two area and that would say it's next target 2036 or it could be a one to two A to B equal CD to the downside and that would be nineteen seventy five now volume today sixteen million shares the swing point that it is dealing with this recent one had volume of about forty eight million shares so you've got light volume here's how we're going to sum it up prices at support period end of story even though it's broken on the daily we'll go with the weekly here but if there's a close below twenty fifty seven the GDX well probably silver and gold are trading below support as well Steve Rhodes with TFNN will be right if you're in the CD market and looking for a secure investment the Tiger first mortgage program may work for you the security for these first mortgages are building lots in the tax opportunity zone in St. Petersburg Florida the tax act of twenty eighteen set up tax free 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Go to TFNN.com and hit watch Tiger TV. That's TFNN.com and hit watch Tiger TV for the latest market information. Welcome back, folks. So we've got a request here to go take a look at the Apple. The question is where does it look like Apple is headed to? So we begin by taking a look at first, where's Apple trading daily, weekly, monthly? Is it above our resistance levels? And for this case here for resistance levels, what you and I are using are the daily, weekly and monthly profiles. In fact, we've even got the quarterly profiles out here on the very right hand screen. So today with price getting above along a close above 20848, it's taken out its daily resistance, a brand new profile that formed a couple of days ago. That was a 20848 on the weekly. The trading well above the top of resistance. That was 176.71. And last month, the month of April, today's May day out here, price closed over the top of that profile as well. And that was 19786. So at this stage here, everything looks bullish when we take a look at Apple. Now, Apple does have some resistance out here and that resistance level was established by a gap to the downside. So let's go take a look and see if price has tested that and it hasn't yet. So 216.81, the other level would be the bottom of the gap or would be the high of the candle session from November 2nd. So that's what we saw the gap to the downside. That's 213.65 or 213.90. So what Apple is doing is it's trading into resistance. By the way, from a volume standpoint, that moved to the downside was 91 million shares. We're 42 million shares right now. It's kind of neck and neck. It's pretty close to a similar type of volume. So I don't know what it's going to be light or not, but price is trading right now into a potential resistance area. What happens if price closes above 213.65 and hasn't tested 216.81? Well, odds favor, doesn't guarantee, excuse me, odds favor that price is going to go test the 216.81. What happens if over the coming days price closes above 216.81? Well, then that window, that gap to the downside, that natural resistance level, will it fail to act as resistance? If anything, old resistance could be or should come, should become new support out there. So what Apple is doing, Jim, is it's trading right into a resistance point. This would not be where one would go ahead and add to a position out here. If we take a look at what Apple is also doing, so the move higher today has been with less route of energy. When I say less route of energy, I'm referring back to the energy level that it had in place on April 24th when it had created a nice little shooting star candle out there. Now, there's no bearish reversal candle, anything along those lines. It's just a warning signal as we speak. There's no levels of support that have been broken out here, but it is something to keep our eye on over the coming days with regard to candle configuration. Now, when Apple pulled back all the way down here, by the way, on January 3rd, when it formed its bottom, it generated that rose momentum indicator pattern out there. That's why we pay attention to both of the top and the bottom.  We want to buy bottoms and buy tops, and so we want to use different patterns to assist us in identifying those types of markers on a chart so that we can see the change in psychology of the market. Now, in addition to moving back to that level on January 3rd, what Apple was also doing, it was testing a support level. That support level was its Tom DeMark set up trend line. That's that red solid line. I can't tell you why this works. I can. The reason why it works is because what this TD set up nine count system does is identifies a breakout because it just simply says, you know what, in order to have the energy on a weekly basis, that monthly basis, this is a monthly chart out here, to have nine consecutive months where the close on a monthly basis is above the close of a bar of four bars earlier takes a lot of energy to do. And when it does that, it tells you where the breakout was on a gap to the upside to the downside tells you where the breakout or breakdown was and price can often pull back. That's why gaps get filled. All it really means is prices pulling back to a breakdown or a breakout area. In this case here, this is the breakout area and price pulled right down into it. And so that combined with what was going on in the daily timeframe chart was was was really a great buying signal. If you were following Apple and you were utilizing these different tools that you and I use here between one and two o'clock in the afternoon. Now prices able to close above to 1681 gym. Then what we would be targeting is the TD ST resistance line. Now I've switched from the monthly to a weekly because there wasn't a resistance line on the monthly chart out here. But there were nine consecutive closes during that time period where the close was lower than the close four bars earlier. So what this does is if price can clear the resistance right, it's coming back to a level where it broke down. If that breakdown fails because bulls are able to close above that, then what that signals to you is that price should go test and get up to that other resistance level the breakdown level on a weekly basis. And that price point I'm trying to give it to you. There we go. It is 224 23. So we take a look at the weekly timeframe charts. We take a look at the daily timeframe charts. We take a look at the monthly timeframe charts for Apple pushing into a resistance area. That doesn't mean that it's going to fall apart here. But I would say it's not where you would be adding. I also would not be selling the position. If I held it, you would want to wait until you got a close below the daily profile. 196 just like we looked at with regard to gasoline, gasoline futures contract. We use the ETF and the reason that we use both of them is because the ETF is going to take its message from the actual physical underlying instrument. Now I don't know with inside that ETF which contracts it is that is inside there. So you'd want to go take a look at that. But we just simply use the current active contract for gasoline futures to make a decision about whether there was a change in trend on the ETF. And in this case here for Apple, we would say a close below the daily profile would be that signal to that is 199 06. So hope that helps you. Let me see if there's any other requests as we have about two minutes left in this segment, then we've got the two minute wrap. So no other requests that have come in. You know, we looked at the ES mini and just kind of keep some perspective here. And so we have potential topping patterns in place. We just don't have the actual signal and confirmation out there the daily reversal candle. If we take a look at the end queue, we take a look at Apple out here, we can see that price is moving higher to a less relative energy. It's got that potential top that's out there. It's already formed a top by creating that TD set up nine count where the high came in the day following that and it happens to be a bearish reversal candle. So I would tell you close above that says a guess what that pattern failed. It hasn't failed just yet. So this has topping signals, whether it's today or not, but it has topping signals in it. If we take a look at the Dow, look at the Dow equity futures contract, what has it done? Well, it generated a three drive to a top signal back about two, four, five days ago, a price today rejecting Stevie's red line thus far as well as that pattern. So that topping pattern is still in play out here. That's why today's close is going to be so important at least being able to assist you with what the markets intentions are. And if we take a look at the Russell 2000 to finish out the last few seconds of this segment here, what do we see? We see the consolidation. We can see prices not broken above the consolidation. We can see that prices moving higher doing less route of energy. And yesterday was a dark cloud cover candle. All of this suggests that the Russell 2000 wants to continue the consolidation and go ahead and pull back. But we won't reach that conclusion until later this afternoon. 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The first is the question was, what's my take on the Nasdaq Composite sawing right here around the 81 33 level we're trading 81 20 right now. And so I have a monthly timeframe chart for the Nasdaq composite on my screen. You'll see a bunch of horizontal lines out here. These are the monthly horizontal trading range of boundary lines. Now that's a tool is a system that was the best of my knowledge created by Bud Rolfs. I took that application and automated it and it's a different system than what he uses and you'll see some numbers along the side out here. And it's these numbers along the side that really generate for us what those horizontal trading range is are. And the largest number of either opens or closes occurred between the price points of 20 90 and 15 89 all the way down here at the bottom. Once you have that gap, so to speak that price differential, all you have to do is just add that number to it and that identifies levels of support or resistance. So price in the Nasdaq composite has stalled where it should have because of something that took place all the way back on maybe about well this is based upon all the data that I have from 1996 going forward. And so it prices stalled where it should have stalled. So eighty one oh five is actually that monthly horizontal trading range number. Yes. Price has tested the eighty one thirty three and it's rejected. It's made a hundred percent move of a move. But it's a normal natural place to stall. I don't know if price is going to jettison over this or not. But it's at a place where it should have stalled anyways. Now look on a monthly basis, a close above eighty one oh five says eighty six oh six is the next number that's out there. So I can't interpret anything more than prices stalled where it should have. And now we have to wait on the daily chart for reversal signals and things of that sort. The last question was, Hey, Stevo, Qualcomm is going to be out with earnings after the bell. What's my take? Like you've got resistance at eighty eight sixty three. That's a daily profile. I wouldn't be shorting it. It's got, you know, huge signs of strength out here. But I wouldn't be going along either. Why? You've got a TD set up nine count pattern in the daily time frame. You've got a TD set up nine count pattern in the weekly time frame. Watch the level of eighty two thirty one and seventy two eighty three. If there's a pullback, you're looking at seventy two eighty three. Folks, have a great Wednesday. I'll see you tomorrow.


Another type of graph that it'll be important to look at are polynomial graphs, or, which is to say, the graph of a polynomial function. And so to understand how to graph a polynomial function, well, then we might take a look at the following. When we graphed linear functions, we started by finding the x and y intercepts. When we graphed quadratic functions, we started by finding the x and y intercepts. So when we graphed polynomial functions, we'll want to do something completely and totally different. We'll start by finding the x and y intercepts. Now, where things change are that for a linear function, the x and y intercepts are enough because this is the graph of a straight line, and I have two points. And once I have two points on the line, I can graph the line. For a quadratic function, things are a little bit more complicated. And for a polynomial function, we have to do even more things after we find the x and y intercepts. But what we want to do is we want to determine the behavior between the intercepts. We'll talk about what that means. We want to determine what's called the end behavior of the polynomial function. And to obtain our graph, we'll do a connect the dots graph that will incorporate all of this work that we've done. We've found the x and y intercepts. We should use it. We've determined the behavior between the intercepts. We should use it. We'll determine the end behavior. We should use that as well. And for aesthetic purposes, this connect the dots graph will have a whole bunch of corners in it. We'd like to round those corners off. How we do that more precisely is something you'll study in calculus. So for now, let's take a look at a graph like y equals this thing. y equals x plus three squared times x plus two to the fifth. And we want to find the x and y intercepts. The x intercepts are going to be the places on the graph where y is equal to zero. So I'll use the equation for the graph. I'll set y equal to zero and solve for x. So here I have zero is right hand side is a product of two things. So I have product equal to zero. So I know that one of the two things is going to be zero. So I know that either x is equal to minus three or x is equal to negative two. And this gives me the x coordinates of the x intercepts. And so I know where they're located. For the y intercepts, I want to find the places on the graph where x is equal to zero. So again, I'll use the equation of the graph. I'll allow x to be zero and solve for y. And I'll evaluate this. That's three to the second, nine, two to the fifth is 32. Product nine by 32, 288. And this gives me the y coordinate of the y intercept. And so I know where the y intercept is located. Now with a polynomial graph, we want to do a little bit more here. So the next thing we might want to do is we want to figure out the intermediate behavior. And that involves figure out what the graph looks like between the x intercepts. So we've already determined where the x intercepts are. And the important question here is whether the graph is above or below the x axis between the intercepts. So we could determine this by looking at the sign of the y values. Remember our graph y equals f of x. Our y values tell us the vertical displacement, y is positive, we're above the axis, if y is negative, we're below the axis. So I know where the intercepts are because I figured those out already. And I want to know what's going on between these two x intercepts. We don't actually need the y intercept for this. What's important is this x intercept here. Now I could pick a test point someplace in between the two x intercepts. But really I only care about the sign of the y value. If the y value is positive, I know I'm going to be above the x axis. If the y value is negative, I know I'll be below the x axis between the intercepts. So rather than worrying about a magnitude, rather than calculating an actual y value, let's focus on the signs. So here's how we can go about this. Here's why it's nice to have these graphed out. If I'm in between negative 3 and negative 2, my first factor here is x plus 3. So I'm at a point here and I add 3. And if I add 3 to my x value, that's going to put me over here someplace. So x plus 3 is going to be a positive number. I'm going to square it. Well, that'll still make it positive. x plus 2, on the other hand, if I'm at a point in this interval, if I add 2, because this point is at negative 2, if I add 2, I don't quite make it to the origin. So that means that x plus 2 will be negative. And because I'm raising it to an odd power, x plus 2 raised to power 5 will also be negative. And that means this product here is going to be the product of a positive number with a negative number. So this product is going to be negative. And this product is equal to, is the same as my y values. So I know my y values will also be negative in this interval. And that means that in this interval, my graph is going to be down here below the x-axis. And I'll make that observation explicit. And to remind us of the fact, I'll go ahead and drop a point there someplace below the x-axis. So I know that I've got to hit this point down here someplace. What about n-behavior? Another important feature of functions is what's called the n-behavior. What happens to the function values as x gets very large, either a very large positive number or a very large negative number? So for the n-behavior of a function, the important question is we want to know the sign and magnitude of the function values when the input values become very large and positive. We say as x goes to plus infinity or as the input values are negative and large. And again, we say as x goes to minus infinity. So here the plus and minus are based on the sign, positive or negative. The infinity symbol is this concept that the values are getting arbitrarily large. So let's say I want to find the n-behavior of our function. And I want to know what happens to our output values, our y-values, as x gets positive and large. So let's take a look at the analysis here. Again, the signs are more important. The magnitudes are kind of relevant, but the signs are really the first thing we want to start with. If x is positive and large, x plus 3 will be a large positive number plus a small positive number. Well, that's just going to be a large positive number. x plus 3 squared will be the square of a large positive number. That's going to be a large positive number as well. x plus 2, that's going to be a large positive number plus a number.  And so that says that this product will be the product of two large positive numbers. When I multiply two large positive numbers together, I get a large positive number. So if x is positive and large, this product will also become positive and large. We also want to look at the other end, what happens if x is negative and large.  But when I square it, it will become a large positive number. x plus 2 will be a large negative number, and if I raise it to the fifth power, well that's a large negative number raised to the fifth power, which is going to be a large negative number.  So as x goes to negative infinity, this quantity is going to become negative and large. And now we could put everything together. So we want to sketch a graph showing our correct end behavior, x and y intercepts, and behavior between the intercepts. So we've already found the x and y intercepts, so we can plot those points. We already know that the graph is below the x axis on this interval between the two x intercepts. We also know that as x gets large and positive, y becomes large and positive. So we want to graph that. So let's see, we have points that are large positive x, that's way over here to the right, large positive y, that's way up here. So I might graph a point up there someplace.  So we'll show this. Again, x is large negative way over here to the left, y is large negative way down here below the x axis. So I'll graph that point. I'll draw my stick figure sketch. I'll connect the dots. And again, it's aesthetically pleasing to round this off to give us a smoother graph. So I'm going to round the corners off a little bit, and my graph is going to end up looking something like that.