Nicki Minaj gets emotional while revealing how Cardi be her her. In Nicki Minaj's first interview of the year, she caught up with Zayn Lu on his Beats 1 radio show. Shoutout to Cardi, Ms Banks, Malibu Mahj, Kash Dal, Asian Dal, and the other girls out there that show me love, she began the interview saying, according to BET.com. They're doing their thing. But the award-winning rapper soon broke into tears when talking about how Cardi bad-mouthed her. This came after Nicki was happy to let Cardi feature with her on the Migos single, Motor Sport. Despite this, rumors came out that Nicki was blindsided by Cardi's feature on the track. Cardi B then complained about Nicki on Capitol Extra in November, saying that Nicki altered her verse on the track before it came out, without Cardi hearing it. Well, when I heard the track, her verse wasn't finished, Cardi B said. Or it's not the verse that's on there right now. And Quavo told me that to get on the song, and I just felt like it's a perfect opportunity for me to be on a track that's big like them. In the interview, Nicki speaks on how she felt disappointed by Cardi's complaints. When I first came in the game, if a female of that stature had done a feature with me on it, I would only be singing their praises and say thank you, Nicki said. The only thing with Cardi that really hurt my feelings was the first interview she did when Motor Sport came out. It really hurt me. She looked so aggravated and angry. I felt ambushed. She then went on to ask Quavo to clear the record on Twitter and defend her side but according to her, Quavo refused saying that he would if she was his girl. It hurt my feelings to know that people would watch me be slaughtered and not one person will step in to say the truth. They'll allow people to run with the lie because it's entertaining to make Nicki seem like a bad guy. It's sad, Nicki said. According to Time, Nicki seems to be back for good. She recently blessed fans two new singles, Barbie Ting's and Chun Lee, off her upcoming album. Nicki went quiet on social media for four months, with fans launching campaigns to find her.


Let's begin to think about how God has made himself knowable and yet incomprehensible. Okay, so God has humbled himself so that he would allow us to be able to know truths about him. With how great God is above us and beyond us and in every way, shape and form. Right, that in his knowledge, in his power, in his majesty, the fact that we could actually, as little insects that we are, be able to know anything about God is an amazing idea. God has humbled himself to reveal himself to us and that is a great, great blessing. There's a Sismic Theologian, Bhavink, who said that God can be apprehended, God cannot be comprehended. There is a knowledge, there is no comprehension of God. And so what he's saying there is we can know things about God, but we can't know everything about him. He's beyond our comprehension ultimately. But he has humbled himself so that we can know some very important things about him. And he reveals these things from the things he's made and most importantly from his word. Give me some ideas of some things about God that we cannot fully understand, that are incomprehensible. Okay, the fact that he's always been there. We talked about that last week with his eternality, that just makes your mind kind of tripped, right? I think Corey and I were talking about that last week, right? The idea of God always being there and he's the only thing that has always been there. So we have trouble because everything we've known, seen, tasted, touched, all of our experiences. That thing has had a beginning. You know, the iPhone, it had a beginning. Not too long ago. The Bible had a beginning. Noel had a beginning. But God does not. So what's something else that's difficult or impossible to understand about God? Jack? Okay, the trinity. Yeah, how does the trinity work together? There's no comparison. God doesn't bring a comparison from nature, from anything he's made. So we can say, you see the trinity? It's just like all analogies break down. Okay, what else? Ben? So it's not like God's power is not like energy that's used or unused. His power is the battery that never dies, right? His power is incomprehensible. Sergio? Yes, his omnipresence. There is something about that we can understand. Perhaps like Bob Ink, we can't understand all of it. How is that all at work? Right? Okay, so what are some things?  Yes, I had that on my list. Very good. He's reading my notes again. Yes, the understanding of Christ as 100% God and 100% man, both at the same time. And he's not a divided person. He's not a quasi-superman. He's not a half of him human nature, half of him God nature. He's not some sort of morphing of the two. That it's not any of those things is makes the mind trip. It boggles the mind. You can't understand how he's fully God and fully man. If you think you understand that perfectly, then I would say study that issue some more and you'll come across more problems with that and like that it is beyond your understanding. Okay, so another one is how sovereignty and responsibility go together. That's something about God and the way he works, that both of those truths go hand in hand and we don't quite know how they work together. Okay, so God has revealed things about himself. Let's look at Psalm 145. We'll read some portions of that. Let's see how the Psalm communicates both of these ideas. Okay, Raquel, would you read verses one to three of Psalm 145? Okay, so from this section, what is there that we can know about God? What does he reveal about himself here? Those three verses. Yes, that he's great. That's great that he is great. Ben? Yes, he's a king. He's a ruler. He is the ultimate authority. What else? Yes, he's worthy of praise. Yes and amen. Okay, so then now would be what is something that we cannot know. That he's unsearchable. That he is beyond our understanding. That even though he's aspects that he's revealed about himself is greater than we can fully comprehend. Okay, so he goes on to reveal himself and this Psalm as one who has his kind and in verses three to ten about how he has wonderful works and verses 11 to 13 about his kingdom and verses 14 to 20 his kindness and then the conclusion is he is worthy of our praise. So I'm just pointing out a Psalm to you that has both of these ideas. How God's understanding about him is unsearchable and yet he has revealed himself and has made himself knowable. Have you ever had somebody who communicated the idea of well, if there's a heaven, I really wouldn't want to go there because I think it would be boring. Have you heard that before? Often from a teenager, right? Maybe you thought that way as a teenager. Well, the unsearchable nature of God makes it so that we being bored in heaven is the farthest thing that will ever come in your mind when you're in heaven because of the very nature of God that you will be there for eternity and you will not, he is unsearchable. It's inexhaustible. You won't get bored of knowing God. It will always be new every morning. It's like a sunrise. Whether you watch sunrises or sunsets, you know, different people watch the different, some people watch the sunsets, some people watch the sunrise, whether you're early rise or you're up late. How is it that each sunrise is never the same? How is it that each snowflake is never the same? God is one who you will never be able to get to the bottom of who he is and how wonderful and unsearchable he is. He's written a finite book, right? And that finite book in its riches is unsearchable. We could study this book for all your life and isn't it frustrating how you're like, I'll get to know like this much of a sliver really well and then I realize, okay, in this sliver that I thought I knew really well, I knew this part so much more than the other parts, even this part, I don't know like I could and I should. Truly, this taste of God that we have in His word shows how unsearchable and wonderful he is. Okay, so his unsearchable nature or that he's incomprehensible shows us the glories of heaven. What about how he is knowable? Have you ever had anyone to tell you? Usually after talking to them about sin, judgment, often at the end of evangelism conversations, I'll have someone say this to me, say, well, when you get to heaven, you'll see that a lot of what you knew about God to be wrong. When you get there, you may be surprised to see me, but I'll be there even though I don't follow Christ, you'll be surprised to see me. Or there'll be a lot more people there who thought there would be, just wait and see. Has anyone ever told you that? Well, the comprehensibility of what God has revealed about himself helps us to know that there are definitive things he has revealed about himself. And that you cannot contradict those because he has humbled himself, he has revealed himself in his extreme arrogance to say, it's going to be this way, just wait and see, it's going to be this way, even though it's not what his word says, I know it to be true. That's contradicting his comprehensibility or his knowability, what he has revealed. So it's a wonderful thing that God has made himself known and yet he is beyond our understanding. He deserves worship for that. Let's think about his communicable attributes. How is he like us? If you look on your outline, we can read some scriptures together about some of those. Let's go ahead and make some assignments. Say, Keith, would you read 1 John 4, 7 to 11? And Josh, would you read Zephaniah? We are going to stand by for that. We're not probably going to read the whole 18 verses, but I'll sign. You're going to get Zephaniah 1. And then the second Keith, would you take Luke 36 to 50? And then Jesse, would you take Isaiah 6? So what we're looking for is attributes of God that are communicable. In other words, we can share that attribute We can do the same. When God sets the example, we can participate and do the same, have the same attribute with us. That's what the communicable attribute means. Okay, so 1 John 4, 7 to 11, and we're looking for the attribute that's revealed there. Okay, so it should be pretty clear by repetition. This is not a class for geniuses, right?  Okay, so then now tell me how is that love manifested? How is it revealed specifically in the text? What makes it loving? What has he done? Give me details. Okay, he sends his son to die. Did he have to do that? Did he have to take the initiative to do that? So since he didn't have to do that, that shows his love that he doesn't have to act in that way, but it's out of his very nature that he does. That he's the one who takes the initiative. Give me another detail. He's immersed in grace. How is that shown in the verses? Okay, so he's manifested, and that's in verse 9. This is how the love God was manifested toward us, or shown to us, that he sent his son. So he humbles himself. There's another aspect of his love that he doesn't bring us up to heaven and show us a vision of heaven from his throne and how he's a Savior. Instead, he becomes one of us. He humbles himself. Keith? Yes, how is that shown in the verses? That we didn't show any love towards him? Very good, very good. So he's the one who acts. It's made very clear. We're not the one who's loving God first. Clyde? Yes, so now Clyde's bringing us ahead to the application here, then we need to be like God, and that's what the text says. Love of God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. We ought to think of others and take the initiative in that. We ought to humble ourselves to pursue the love for one another. It ought to be costly to us to love one another. It was costly to God. Do you see how these are, God's attributes worked out that should be in us? Okay, next text. Zephaniah, let's turn there. You can find the Zephaniah because it's connected closely with the other Z, Zechariah. It's like HZ, HZ. Habakkuk, Zephaniah. Haggai, Zechariah. Okay, oh yes, Tom's giving us the page numbers. Thanks. So obvious. Okay, let's look and we're going to read verses 14 to 18 of chapter one. So what is revealed about God here? Yes, God will judge sin. How is that judgment described? Give me some details. It's bitter. What else? Yes, see, even mighty men will cry out. Okay, it's imminent. It's near. That's the first line. What else? Sergio? Okay, so I'm going to be a great distress, great devastation, Oliver. Yes, a lot of blood shed. Blood poured out like dust. It's like blood will be as common as the dirt. Yes, all of man's plans fail. Okay, so then think about the importance of understanding multiple attributes of God and not highlighting one over the other. Okay, we talked about great love and now great here great wrath. It's impossible to understand either one of those things apart from the other. How was wrath in the last text? In 1 John 4. Anybody notice that? How was it there? Propitiation of wrath satisfying sacrifice. And then there is love. So you cannot understand love, love of God, it's revealed by him satisfying his wrath. That's what he sent his son for. Okay, then how is love revealed in Zephaniah? I'll give you a little cheat because I didn't really cover that in the reading. Let's read chapter 3 verses 14 to 17. Ralphie, would you read those verses? 14, 17. So here's one of the most beautiful pictures of the love of God. That he rejoices over his people with singing. How often do you read about God singing a song? You want to be wonderful to hear that? God sing a song? There's a special for you, right? And it's a song about his love. That understanding of that love would not be understood without his wrath. His wrath being satisfied from being saved from his wrath. You would not understand how he's taken away your judgments in verse 15. Both of these things must be together. Okay, let's think of another attribute of God in Luke 7, 36 to 50. I'm trying to give you a variety of texts. Psalms and epistles, prophets. Now here's the Gospel. Luke 7 verses 36 to 50. A little reminder if you're in the cry room or you're at home listening online, you'll need to be following along with your Bible and reading it since we have people reading here without a mic. Okay, go ahead, brother. So tell me of some attributes of God that are revealed there. His forgiveness. So he's acting in forgiveness. So what does that tell us about his character if he acts in forgiveness? Yeah, his mercy. So his mercy, his loving kindness, tender heartedness. He has compassion towards even the most miserable and pitiable of his creatures. What else is revealed there, Sergio? His forgiveness. And that forgiveness shows us his grace, his unmerited favor, his willingness to treat his creatures not according to their own merit and worth, but according to his abundant kindness and overflowing generosity. What else? Mercy, grace, Ben? Yeah, so he discerns Simon, right? And he brings a just message to Simon, right? Yes. Think about what Brian's point about patience. Who is he more patient with? Simon or the woman who is a prostitute? Or with you that you get to read into this story? Think about his patience not only with Simon, not only with the woman, but then with you that you are in with the dinner beholding it and seeing this story. He has patience with all of us, doesn't he? It shows his willingness to bear and suffer long with our weaknesses and wrongs of his creatures. His mercy, grace and patience is revealed in his names of God and in the nature of God. It's revealed in the biblical events.  Imagine if, you know, there's a lot of bad laws being put in by our president now. Disrespect him, just be truthful. And influences for abortion, killing babies or homosexuality. And imagine if he doesn't have an eight-year term, but imagine if he has a 50-year term. A 50-year term. How bad will it get after each decade, right? And then imagine the mercy and patience of God that after 50 years of giving worse, God saves the president. That's the story of Manasseh. What patience of God that you, that when you go to heaven, you'll see Manasseh there. That is an example of patience, decade after decade. A Christian killer, Saul, turned into Paul. What an example of patience. Rahab, a harlot, a whore, a prostitute, then becomes a great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandmother of Jesus. The prodigal son, a picture of God's patience. Blind Barnamaeus, the patience of God, kindness of God. It should teach us to be humble, to be willing to bear with one another, to employ this with our enemies like the way the Lord does. Okay, more about God. We want to hear more about God. Let's hear Isaiah 6. We'll read Isaiah 6. I believe verses 1 to 8 should suffice. So, Wilson, tell us an attribute of God that you see there in that text. He has to pardon forgiveness of God. Zaviel, what's something that you see there in that text? Amen. The holiness of God. You know, it's often been said it's the only attribute that he, that's proclaimed three times of him. Okay, so then tell me, what is the holiness of God? Tell me an aspect of it. We'll gather together. Jerome. So an important attribute of holiness that Jerome is bringing out is the otherness of God. He is completely separate and different. We're not on the same scale. We're not close to him. We're not, he is completely other. So an analogy that I've said before about that is, okay, so if you compare this chair, we'll take a wide one, and we compare it with Noel. Okay. Which has more value? The chair or Noel? Somebody loves Noel. Okay, so we got the chair, we got Noel, and we'll take the pen that he's, you know, he likes to tuck a pen in his button-down shirts, right? A creature of habit or Noel. So we got the pen, we got the chair, and so which is the pen, is the pen closer to the chair or closer to Noel in its essence of being? We can go closer to the chair. Okay, now let's add another aspect into it, God. We have God. What are we closer to? Are we closer to the chair or are we closer to God in the essence of our being? We're closer to the chair. We're closer to the chair. We're closer to the pen. And what I'm doing by this analogy is saying by categories, God is not even in the same area. He is not, he is completely other. We're closer to a pen, we're closer to a rock, we're closer to waste, we're closer to an insect, we're closer to whatever image would humble you. We're closer to that than we are to God. An angel is closer to those things than it is to God. It's why the angels say, Holy, Holy, Holy is God. So in the idea of holiness, the very important key is that he is not like us, he is other.  And it's also key in the idea of holiness is the purity of God. That's, so since he has an otherness and a purity that is nothing like we can comprehend, then the Word of God calls us to be holy amazingly. Tell me a scripture, do you remember scripture? Certainly with a group this big we can remember some. Tell me, okay, 1 Peter, what does it say brother? It's because of his holiness that we need to conduct ourselves in holiness. Yes, Leviticus 11, that's where 1 Peter is getting it from. Old Testament, New Testament. It's, the idea remains the same. That we are to live holy lives because of his very character. His, how does it work in Isaiah's mind? He sees he must be holy right? Like in the sermon, the Sunday sermon, when we know God, then we know ourselves and then we will know how to live rightly. That connectedness, you see that happen to Isaiah here very clearly don't you? Where he knows God and then what does he know about himself? A man of unclean lips, in the midst of people of unclean lips. I mean who's got the cleanest mouth in Israel, right? It's going to be Isaiah. He's preaching the Word of God and what does he say about his own mouth? That he's unclean, he's undone. And he says judgment on himself. So then he knows how to live rightly out of that, right? When the Lord cleanses him, he'll say, this Lord says, who shall I send and who will go for us? And he says here I am, send me. He knows how to live rightly then from that, right? True wisdom. Okay, so we've seen so far that God has made himself knowable to us and yet he's incomprehensible. We've seen that God has attributes that we need to share in. Love, justice, mercy, kindness, holiness. How is God not like us? Let's look at Psalm 139. There's attributes about God that we cannot copy. We cannot participate in or follow his example. He is beyond us. Okay, so Guru, would you read verses 1 to 6 of Psalm 139? And we're looking for an attribute of God here. So what's the preeminent attribute? What's the attribute, Jack?  You see the verbs there? You've searched me, known me in verse 1, verse 2.   He knows all your times. He understands what you've done. He understands your thought. He understands your path. He understands all your ways. Yes, he does. He doesn't know us much better than we know ourselves. Okay, let's read verses 7 to 12. Nikita, would you read those verses? So Breanna, what's a key attribute here? In verses 7 to 12. Yes, his omnipresence.  Can you go to heaven and get away from him? Can you get in the darkness? And can he not see you? Okay, now what about in verses 13 to 18? And Clyde, would you read those verses? So here we see the power of God. The power of God manifested in how he skillfully makes us. We see how he's the one who can do this work. He's the one who has ordained, not just our being, that we would exist but in our very days. This is in his power he has made you and in his power he has ordained your days. So our God has a power that is beyond all others. He has a presence that is everywhere. He has a knowledge that is incomprehensible beyond us. Think about how Christ knew that, what the disciples are thinking before he gets there. He reads their thoughts. How he reads Simon the Pharisees' thoughts. Think about how Christ is present with us when he tells us the Great Commission and lo, I'm with you always, even to the ends of the earth. Think about how Christ is the one who has manifested his power over demons, over nature, over death itself. Christ is the very image and perfect representation of God to us in all knowing, in every place, in his power. So God has revealed himself in his varying ways. Another key attribute of the way God has revealed himself is his decrees and providence. His decrees and providence. So let's turn to Isaiah 41. So in this day today we're understanding about who God is. It should give us a wisdom to understand ourselves and apply and then understanding of how to live rightly. So providence is when God is continually involved with all created things in such a way that he keeps them existing and maintaining the properties which he created them. He cooperates with created things in every action directing their distinctive properties to cause them to act as they do and he directs them to fulfill his purposes. There is not an atom gone astray. Nothing happens by accident. God rules and reigns over it all and he does good in everything that he does. His decrees are his eternal plans where he has before the creation of the world he's determined to bring about everything that happens and he does perfect and he's holy in it all. That's a mind boggler. That's the word for the day. When you have a class about God it should blow your mind. The fact that God can be holy and ordained the world is an insane thing. That's how he's able to give prophecy and no one else it does because it's not a forecast of where it will reign and what not. Seeing ahead what happens. No, it's in ordaining. It's something that he has planned that will come to pass. There's not a question about it when he gives a prophecy. It's as sure as if it already happened. We just get the benefit of seeing that it already has happened in the occurrence of events. In Isaiah 41 we see God himself reveal the test for who the real God is. We're going to read Brenda Davidson. You read Isaiah 41, 21 to 29. Go ahead and verse 29. Ricardo, what is the attribute? What's the test here that shows who's the real God? What's the test here that God brings forth to show who the real God is? He doesn't take pleasure in idols but what's the difference that he shows between the idols and him? Jesse? He raises up Cyrus. Look at verse 26. Who has declared from the beginning that we may know. Sometimes we may say he's righteous. Who's the one who does that? God. Do you understand what's happening in the text? Verse 21, he says present your case. Let's see. We're going to court. What's your case for who the real God is? Here's the case, verse 22. Let him bring forth and show us what will happen. Here's the test. Tell me the future. Tell me the future in detail. Hundreds of years in advance. What's going to happen? That we may know and we consider. See the verse 23. Show us the things that are to come hereafter. That we may know that what? That you are God's. Okay. And we do this with Islam, right? Tell us where's your prophecies, Islam? Buddha? A Chinese guy in the Chinese restaurant, right? What do you got to say? What do you got to say about the future? No fortune cookies, right? There's no real prophecies in those. Where's the case? Tell me the case. Where's the real God? Indeed, verse 24. Okay. He listened. And what does Isaiah hear? Crickets. Crickets. So verse 24, what's the summary? Indeed, your work is nothing. And he who chooses you is an abomination. Okay. So here's how you know the test for the real God. So anyone who can see this test fail, if you still choose Buddha, if you still choose a Muhammad, you become an abomination to God. So in contrast, verse 25, he tells a prophecy in detail, and it turns out with Cyrus, the coming king. He's like, just to show off, here's a prophecy. And then back to the case, he's like, see verse 26, I'm the winner. Who's declared it from the beginning that we may know? In the former times that we may see. He's righteous. There's nobody who shows. There's nobody who declares. There's nobody who hears but me.  Now, when we read a prophecy, everybody likes that. You know, everybody who's in Christianity, they like that. Yes. God tells the future. The majority, everyone. Now the problem is, when you get to think about that in detail, that if God ordains all things, that calamity, like Amos tells us, calamity, the storm comes to a city. Does it come to a city apart from the work of God? Okay, so there are no Katrina's that happen apart from God, ordaining them. So the question is, think of all the evil that has happened in the world, the Holocaust, the immorality, children being killed, abused. Think about all the evil that happens. We have a problem here. If God decrees, how is there still evil? How is there still evil? There's insufficient answers to that.  Well, it's Adam and Eve's fault. Well, even the child can answer and say, well, then why did God allow it? Why did God allow it that they could get the fruit? Why did he even give them access to it? Why did he even make that tree? Insufficient answer. Well, somebody will say, evil must exist for good to exist. That's why God's allowed evil. Insufficient answer. In heaven, there's not going to be any evil there. Well, free will. God gives us free will. Well, God's the one who even gave free will. So if he's since he's gave it, he knows what everybody's going to do with it, even if there was free will. So that ruins that. Insufficient answer. Well, God will one day deal with evil. Yes, that's true. He will one day deal with evil. But why did he allow it in the first place? Insufficient answer. What's the real answer? Habakkuk tells us, and we'll hear it in the call to worship. Habakkuk tells us that it is, God knows better, and he ultimately brings it about to good. He ultimately has allowed evil for a time to bring about a greater good. He is the surgeon that uses the scalpel that you cannot use. He does what you cannot do. He has an ultimate good purpose in allowing history to unfold the way it has, because he is a greater good that we cannot comprehend. He does what you can't do. He allows evil for a time. And yet he is good in his purposes. He is an ultimate good. In that you can't see. You have to trust him for that. You have to have faith in that. To close real quick, there's a young lady who was attracted to a particular guy, and this guy started to spend time with her. He was a godly guy, and he fulfilled all her greatest dreams. They were getting time together, getting to know each other, enjoying each other, laughing, and then he invited her out to lunch. And she thought, this is it. This is the time where he will ask me to court him.  All that stuff. It took a long time. Long, long, long time. And she shows up, and he says, I just want you to know. I just want to be friends. And then she goes home driving back in her car. You know, the tears come down with the makeup, during the makeup. And she thinks, not so much about him, but she thinks about God. God, why did you allow this to happen? You allowed this to happen just so it would hurt me. And what happens is, in the drive home, she basically has to decide, is God good in what he did? She's like, I know it's trivial. I know that it's, people are dying. But this hurt me. This hurt me. And God, you allowed it. How are you good in that? In the drive home, she knows it's sin. She knows what she's thinking about God as evil. And she decides, I'm not going to, I'm going to keep on driving until I'm repentant. What is the scripture I should be thinking about? And she thinks, the Lord gives and the Lord takes away. Blessed be the name of the Lord. Job could learn and trust God, that God is doing a greater good. Can't I, in this lesser situation? That's the faith. The faith that trusts God, that he has an ultimate good in mind. That does not come by experience, or by knowledge on your own. It comes when God reveals himself and gives you saving faith. Where you trust the goodness and the character of God. Yes, Debbie? Yes, amen. That's the perfect way to close. Yes, what we meant for evil, God meant for good. That's his faithfulness. Let's close in prayer. Dear Lord, we worship you. And we know you are good. We know you're good. And you have a great good in mind. I think of the testimony with the guy Richie was evangelizing in the accident that he was in. And what I pray that you would bring about a greater good of salvation. And from that car accident. And so Lord, we trust you. And we look forward to when you will return. Amen.


This is TFNN, The Tiger, Financial News Network Update. Good morning everybody, I'm Tamio Bryan, coming to you live from TFNN 10 a.m. Eastern Time on Friday morning, and we've got a market chopping around, folks. We're coming up to a critical area just basically right where we were on the open. We inch above that area in the S&Ps, up to 39.64, and yeah, we're down by 13 points right now. 1,100, clawing back some of the losses, you're only negative by 27. The Dow, our man Basel Chapman's been talking about it, man, you got the Nasdaq 100, actually the strongest. Let's do it again today. Okay, pay attention, because this is the deal right now until it changes. Nasdaq 100 is the strongest. S&P is a little bit weaker than that, off 4-tenths percent.  It's been playing out this way for a week or two for obvious factors to some degree, right? You've got regional banks. Some of those hitting the Russell, hitting the Dow, some of the banks in there, more so than of course the tech stocks and the Nasdaq 100, S&P, etc., but nonetheless it's continuing to play out. Bitcoin right now, negative 2% still holding up relatively well at about 28,000. Goal contract sells off a bit. We're going to jump over to the dollar index in a moment. You got the note and bond sell off too. Look at this, man. There is just action everywhere in this market, man. The 10-year, what is going on, right, and I say that is just amazing. This was since I was on the air, folks. The 10-year just traded from 116.30 to 116.06. What does that put the 10-year yield at? 3.37% right now, 3.365 monstrous moves. Almost illustrates what I was saying with the VIX at the end of the program, right? VIX sitting exactly at 24. That's priced in 1.5% moves every one out of three days. That would be 60 points in the S&P. Folks, we got 60 points everywhere in this chart. Almost every day we're getting it, let alone every one out of three days, right? You just traded from 4,000 down to 39.40. Yesterday, you traded down 90 points. The day before that, you traded down 100 points at one point. Remarkable to say the least. All right, folks. So, Basil is out today. I'm going to do a show. Why not? We got enough going on. We'll be back in the next hour. We're going to be coming up, and then we'll have Steve Rhodes's replay. Then we got our fast market program. Then we have Larry Pezzavento, and then we have my dad, Tom O'Brien. It's an important day, man. We're going to see where we go. S&Ps might be struggling on that price point of about 39.65. We're back at 39.61. We got some news to go over as well. Stay tuned, folks. We'll be right back for the hour.


I just finished on Basilisk Station, which is book one of approximately 17, or 37, I don't actually know how many there are, in the Honor Harrington series, and I thought it was pretty good. This is the introduction song. It's not very good, but it's not too long. Now, I do genuinely like this book. I'd like to make that clear, but when I say it's pretty good, keep in mind I'm kind of grading it on a curve. Because this is military sci-fi, and that is really just all about the battles, okay? It's about looking at cool weapons and cool spaceships and looking at people, use them in really neat, innovative ways to win and just to be badass, okay? That's what it's about. It's not really about anything deeper for the most part, and you go into it kind of expecting that, yeah, there aren't going to really be any good characters or anything, but whatever. It's neat. It has cool battles and all that. So that's what it set out to do, and I think it did that pretty well, even though it only really has one big battle at the end. But other than that, there were a lot of little issues that did drag this down for me. So basically, the plot of this book is that there is a woman whose name is Honor Harrington, which is kind of a dumb name, because one, just someone being named Honor is dumb, and two, there's an alliteration, but it doesn't sound the same, even though it looks like it should. It's dumb, but it bothered me, but anyways, Honor Harrington is just a captain in a space navy, and she gets reassigned to this sort of backwards, out in the middle of nowhere post, and while she's there, her superior officer takes off and leaves just specifically to screw her over, and then while she's there, she decides to do the best she can with what she's got, and other more sinister plans are afoot, and that's really it. You know, it's not much of a spoiler to say that there are sinister plans afoot and that there are bad guys working against her, and then at the end there's some sort of big epic battle which she wins. That's not really a spoiler because, one, there's more books after this, so obviously the main character isn't going to die at the beginning, but two, Honor Harrington is kind of like a perfect Superman figure, and I don't think that's necessarily bad, like people, if they were being uncharitable, they might say she's a Mary Sue, but honestly that term has been extremely overused in the past couple of years, like she's not a Mary Sue, she's more of like a James Bond or Dirk Pitt type character, where she's just hyper-competent, she's good at everything she does, she's super smart, she's way smarter than just about everyone she goes up against, she's way smarter than most of her friends, and she's not even like a jerk or anything, you know, she's not even, she's very reasonable, I was about to say she's kind, but no, she's not a nice person, but she is very reasonable, she never lashes out or gets angry at people when they don't deserve it, she never belittles them or puts them down, she's just, yeah, she's a very competent commander, and you know, she doesn't have a lot of depth to her character, but if you're able to get into that sort of archetype, which is fairly common in military sci-fi actually, then yeah, you should be fine, you should enjoy this. Other than that, the only character that made any sort of impact on me was Commander McKeon, who was Honor Harrington's second in command, and I did kind of like his development because at first he really doesn't like her, but then he grows to respect her, and it's not done in such a way where it's like, er, I hate her just for some arbitrary reason, and then he slowly, because she's just so awesome, he opens up to her, like he realizes that he himself was being an asshole, and through, over time, he gets better, and he realizes, you know what, she deserves better than that, and so, yeah, I liked his development, other than that, I couldn't tell you a single character's name, even, because, like, and that kind of ties into my next issue, which is, the way it's written just isn't that great, like, none of the characters talk any different from one another, none of them really get descriptions of what they look like, and in fact, the majority of this, there's very little description of what the setting looks like, and the only character that really gets a physical description is Honor Harrington herself, and so, yeah, like, none of the characters, I couldn't really picture them in my heads, I didn't really think about what kind of personality they had, all I can remember is, oh yeah, there's that guy who did this thing at this point, which is a big deal, and then, like I said, the actual writing is just, it's not that good, like, there's a lot of points where it just introduces it and says, Tim walked down the hallway, he was the commander of this base, and then, like, that's all we get for Tim, you know, we have a couple of scenes with him being a commander, and, you know, he might be smart, he might be dumb, he might be good or evil, but that's all we get with him, just a couple of scenes, and so, yeah, the character cast isn't that great, and the exposition in this is just, guys, it's awful. Okay, I mean, I'm used to once in a while reading sci-fi, where you get, like, a page-long description of how this technology works or how that technology works. In this, we get multiple, several page-long descriptions of how technology works, which is not done in a very interesting way, and I always read it and just think, like, okay, that doesn't really affect the plot, though, and it probably would have been better if you just made something simpler, or if you just simplified the explanation, so we wouldn't have to sit here through this this whole time, and then there's multiple page-long info-dumps about the history of places, like the history of Manticore, which is where Honor Harrington is from and where her navy is from, that gets, like, a four or five page history exposition dump right in the middle of everything, and honestly, that part was actually pretty good, but it's still very clunky, and then there are huge sections of characters where they're having conversations, and one of them will just go on for a giant-ass paragraph about, here's the situation here, and then a brief question from another character, and then several giant-ass paragraphs, and there'll be entire chapters where that goes on like that, and so a lot of the characters are just there for exposition, which is, ugh, no, no, it's not good, it's not good. The worst offender in this regard, though, has got to be the one near the end where they just suddenly decide to explain how hyperspace works and how all the physics of ships going faster than light works, and, look, if you're gonna do that, do it near the beginning, otherwise don't do it at all, okay, because this happens, like, right at the beginning of the climactic battle, we have to spend, I think, around five or five and a half pages just learning how this shit works, and I still couldn't really tell you how it works, because it's just, it's really irrelevant. It's just a ship is chasing another ship. Cool, that's all we really need to know, and that really took me out of the last battle, but once I got back into the last battle, that was definitely the best part of this book, okay? Like, that's what military sci-fi is for, okay? It's just people using cool tactics and strategies to defeat their opponents. That's what I'm here for, and I assume that if this sounds interesting to you, that's what you're here for as well. So, again, like, just the fact that the book did that so well, because it really did. Like, some of the political maneuvering and the espionage-type stuff that comes before this, or where the characters are investigating what's really going on, that's pretty cool, too, and seeing it come to a head was neat, but at the end of the day, like, that big battle is what we were here for. And while I do wish there had been a couple more throughout this, like, you know, one or two smaller ones before, just so we could get a better feel for how the combat in this world works, and just so we could have something else to read about, because, again, like, that's what we're here for. We're here to read about these battles. If that was there, that would have been great, but if not, well, whatever, it's not the end of the world. So, overall, I'm still saying that this is a pretty good book just because it did that well. One thing I do have to talk about, though, and something that just really irks me a lot in this book, was the conflict between the two main nations. Like I said, Honor Harrington is part of the Kingdom of Manticore's Navy, and their primary antagonist in this book is the People's Republic of Haven. Now, it's made clear really, really early on, like, literally the first sentence of the book, that Haven is a dictatorship, okay? They make it clear that the President can do whatever he wants, and that it's a hereditary position, so it's basically just a monarchy. And it's made clear throughout this that the citizens of Manticore, including Harrington herself, look down on them for that. They view them as a dictatorship, which rightfully so, and they kind of sneer at them for it, thinking, oh, these tin-pot military men are coming in and trying to take over. Okay, that's fine. Manticore is a kingdom, though. That is literally a monarchy. Okay, it's a constitutional monarchy, certainly. Like, there is an elected legislature, but there's also plenty of other nobility, like Dukes and Earls, and it's made clear throughout this book that they have special rights and privileges, and that even though Honor Harrington is a very hyper-competent commander, she has not gotten promoted as much as she deserves, because she doesn't have the connections that she needs. She doesn't know any Earls and Dukes or anybody that can help her out in her career. So, okay, Manticore is also seeming a lot like a dictatorship, especially when, like I said, the history of the nation is really, really interesting, but it's made clear in that that they specifically set up a monarchy in order to keep out the voices of the people. Like in order to keep out the will of the majority of the people, they just set this up this way. So, it just seems very hypocritical. And also the main system that they're fighting over is the Medusin system, and, okay, the Manticoreans have already come in and taken over, and Haven wants to take it for themselves. But here's the thing, Haven is, again, portrayed as the bad guy for being this imperialist power that wants to come and take over, but at the same time there were already people living in the Medusa system when Manticore came and took it over, and they're also being imperialist, and they're also bad guys that are just there for the sake of greed. So, it just really bothered me. Like, this whole thing just reeked of hypocrisy, and I don't know, like that more than anything is what really, really took me out of this book and really, really annoyed me, because, like I said, I was grading this whole thing on a curve, and if you're just here looking for cool space battles, or really cool space battle, then, yeah, you'll probably enjoy this, but you do have to go through a lot to get there, and just the rank hypocrisy of the characters and the lack of personality that they had, that really did grade on me. So, if this isn't something that interests you, then definitely stay far away from it. But if it is something that interests you, even knowing all that, then go right ahead, you'll probably love it. Thanks again to Christopher Hawkins, Joseph Pendergraft, and all the other patrons whose names you see here. Couldn't do this without you guys, you guys are the best. Please comment, subscribe, like. 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Yesterday we heard, be perfected as your Heavenly Father is perfect. It was a call to holiness. Today we have a continuation of that theme, a call to holiness, and it's looking at what do we do and how do we do. We heard in the first reading God loves a cheerful giver. We heard you are being enriched in every way for all generosity, which through us produces Thanksgiving to God. Many years ago, God taught me a couple of lessons that he wanted me to appropriate in my life if I'm going to experience the call to holiness in a deeper way, if I'm going to live the call to holiness in a deeper way. The first thing he taught me was, do you really love me? And I said, Lord, yeah, I do love you. I felt like Peter. Yeah, I love you. And he says, when's the last time you told me you love me? Well, I mean, you know I love you. No, no. When's the last time you told me you love me? And I said, Lord, I really don't remember. And he says, that's right. I want you to tell me, not that I hear it, but I want you to hear yourself say to me, Lord, I love you. I really love you. Because when you say this frequently during the day, then you're going to act out of that attitude. You're going to act out of that commitment and conviction of your heart. And you're going to do those things that you do during the day consciously out of love. Which is what St. Paul says, whatever you do and word or deed, do it out of love of Jesus Christ, giving thanks to the Father in him. And so I've learned over the years that if I can live that in my daily life, it really colors my day and my actions. And so I've learned that I could be walking, I could be driving, I could be waiting for an appointment, I could be doing something. I'll just say, Jesus, you know I love you. I really love you, Jesus. I don't care anything back, but that's not important. It's not important that I hear anything back, but that I say that in my heart. And I mean it in my heart.   He says, no, I want your attitude to be joyful. And so I want you to get up in the morning and the first thing I want you to say is, I love you. And the second thing I want you to say, it's going to be a great day. It's going to be a great day. And when people ask you, how do you feel? You say, tremendous, fantastic. Because people are not going to believe that you're fantastic. Because you're not supposed to be fantastic in the eyes of the world. You're supposed to be a fine green. But I want you to be fantastic. And I want you to think that way about yourself. And when anybody asks you how you're doing, how's your day? From your heart, not just say the words, I'm fantastic. Today's a great day. And that has helped me to sort of order my day. Am I not perfect?  Well, do they ever? Do I sometimes lose my cool? I do. Do people push my buttons? They do. And I have to come back to that reality. No, I choose to love and I choose to be fantastic. And that why I say that to you because over over the years, people say, how can you be so joyful? You know, as a bishop, how can you be so joyful? And I said, it's a choice. I choose to be joyful in spite of the responsibilities of the office, in spite of the situation that it's in the church today and the world today. I'm going to be talking to the seminaries this afternoon and I've asked them to write questions for me to answer. And one of the questions I'm going to answer again this afternoon, but I want to just give it to you today. He says, what do I do to become a bishop? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Don't want to become a bishop. If it's the call of God, you accept it, but you don't want to become a bishop, not in today's world, not with a situation that bishops have to face in today's world. It's exactly the same thing with a priest. A lot of people wonder why you want to be a priest. In today's world, it doesn't look like a location you should answer, but we know why we accepted the call. And so how do we apply that to our readings today? Well, to grow in holiness is to act in love with generosity and Thanksgiving. And so the three things that Jesus talks about today in the Gospel, almsgiving, prayer and fasting, are not something that are things to do to get holy. They're neutral of themselves in a sense, but it's how we do these things which enable us to grow in holiness. Jesus points out in the Gospel that people are doing what they're doing to please others, to be noticed by others, to be looked upon favorably by others. And he says, if that's why we're doing what we're doing, then we have our reward. But he's saying, I want you to do it from another attitude. I want you to do it because you want to please the Father. That nothing else is important in your life. That you know that you know that you know that the Father loves you beyond measure.   And that's what love does, as Saint Therese says, love is repaid by love alone. There's no other way to respond to love except love. And each of us has been loved by God in a way that we can never, never, never begin to repay Him, but it's looking for, do you love me in return? Not that I need your love. You need to love me. Because it's in your love for me that you're going to grow in relationship to me. It is in your love for me that you're going to come into deeper intimacy with me. It's in your love for me that you will become the man that I've called you to be. And so what is our attitude when we pray or fast or give alms? What is our attitude when we talk to people? What is our attitude when people call us when we are busy about many things? What is our attitude? Is that God calling me at that moment to deal with this person at this moment? What does God want me to do? To say I'm too important and I don't have time for you? To say that I'll see you another time because this is more important than you? What does God want me to say? He wants me to say what you did to the least you did to me. And this is person at this time and this situation is Christ to me. And Christ is saying, do you love me? Will you take your time generously give to me of yourself? For I need you at this moment to minister to me. And so whether it is almsgiving, fasting, or prayer, what do we do? Why do we do it? What is our attitude? Do it in love. Do it generously and do it in thanksgiving.


OpenQA is a system that's primarily based on computer vision. What it's really good at is it takes a screenshot of a machine that's running, and it has a little picture, and you basically tell it, look on the screen anywhere for this picture of, for example, a button. If you find this picture, or this little snippet somewhere in the screen, move the mouse over there, click on it, and you create your test cases based off of that. And consequently, a lot of the information that comes out of it is visual. Yes, there is some text that comes out of it, but it's primarily in the forms of screenshots, and it also produces videos of the entire run.


Yeah, so Charles, we're going to be shooting the 10 essential segments where you're pretty much going to be talking about the things that usually have on you, the things you can bring with you, like for example, in the plane. On the plane. On the plane, yeah. Okay. Hey guys, this is Charles of French for FQ, and here are the 10 essentials that I always bring with me on the plane.  My phone. Obviously, I cannot text anyone on the plane with this, but I can look through my photos and such.  It's not even mine. Oh wait. It is mine. My headphones. People are stressed on the plane, and I can get that, but some good noise-canceling headphones can really help.  Your flight is canceled. You're not getting paid for this interview? See? Relaxing. Listening to music can also help you relax and feel better. Next is a small toy that helps me feel less stress. Some people have like, I don't know, fidget spinners or stress balls. For me, it's a gun. It's a toy gun. It's a toy gun. Not real. I like to play with toys. A real gun will not be allowed on a plane, but this is allowed. What do you use it for? Ah. Give me the control of the plane. Ah, I see, I see. Okay. That's one game among others. A rope. You never know when you need to- climb something. I also carry a small piece for more down-to-earth situations. As in under-the-earth situations. Bear it in mind. A phone charger in case you forget the rope. Focus. A ski mask. Because you never know when you'll have to wear these guys. Some weirdos also say you can ski with this, but don't be weird. An instant ginger and honey tea packet. They don't allow you to bring a bottle on the plane, but they can provide hot water.  My passport. You can't really travel without it. This way they can make sure it's really you. Next. My other passport. Next. Another passport. Next. Another passport. This way they can make sure it's really you. A fake beard. I like to seem mature. It does look believable. People tend to listen more. Please, give me the control of the plane. See? Nothing.  See? Control. And finally, a broken watch. Stopped at my lucky time. 9-11. And here we are. Ten essentials. Thank you, FQ. Don't forget to always FQ yourself. Find quality yourself. If you guys enjoyed this video, please don't forget to put a thumbs up and also to subscribe. You can watch another video here. You can watch the behind the scenes here and the bloopers. And then here you can subscribe. Like, right in the center. Right in my heart. That's when you can subscribe.


Good afternoon everyone this is Melissa Arma with the stockswush.com and welcome. Happy Memorial Day. I'm here today with Pam. Pam is a new trader. She's thinking about the market. She's been interested in the market. She's been following some things on Facebook and Pam came to visit today and Pam has some questions and so welcome Pam. Thank you Melissa. My first question is I'm a new follower, new to your stockroom and I noticed that on Facebook you mentioned about a certain stock that did well that people were saying we're not going to do well and you wrote that you predicted it but then since I had not seen previous posts I wanted to know what did you predict because I think maybe that should have just maybe been re-explained in a blurb. So what was your prediction? I see what you're saying. Okay well first of all I know you know I talk about this trading strategy but you really know what a gap is. Like I know you her grand talking about it.  I was predicting the gap. Do you know what a gap is? Not completely. I think I have an idea but not a full grasp of the concept. I think that the day that you were talking about was okay this is a chart of Netflix. This is what it is. These are just candlesticks and these candlesticks here depict price action that the stock traded on the day. The red ones mean the price went lower in the day and the green ones mean the price went up on the day. So I predicted that Netflix would gap up. It had an earnings announcement. This was here on 416. The earnings happened at night.  This is what I do every day. The stock closed at 475.46 on the night of April 15th and then it had earnings and in the next morning the stock price opened at 532. So that is what a gap is. That's just it gapped up. So this is what I'm looking to analyze in the morning when I get up. So Netflix gapped up. Now I like the shorts. I like things to gap down but in this case it gapped up. I predicted this to gap up. So let's just say you had a hundred shares of this. I'm breaking it down to try to break it down for you. It closed at 475. It opened the next day at 532. So if you had a hundred shares of that it moved up $50 in price.  Which is good. And that's what you trade in every day on what you predict. What you feel like the gap is going to be between day over like overnight or hour by hour. This is actually just an extra thing I started doing with the room to be honest with you. I really just do this for so with the predictions. Okay. I'm looking I just wait till it does it till I actually get in the tree. Okay. But the predictions I'm making for the gap itself which is not what I teach in the class but is what I do in the live trading room is something that people in the trading room are taking advantage of because my predictions have been good. So they're saying ooh and then like a guy in the room did this and it worked and he made money and I didn't do it. Now the day of I'm looking to do this but I'm saying he just said I think Melissa's predictions is going to turn out to be true and it did and he made money. And so then the next day it gapped up again. The next day it gapped up and then it ran low was 530. It ran up to 568. So that's a $38 run. So again if you would have just waited until the day of bought a hundred shares right then the next day that little green this one went up still it went up to 575 and that would have been your overnight you could you could have carried in here. Yeah but but but the amazing thing is and I don't know if this is one of the posts that was on Facebook or not is that I mean Pam we didn't know me then but I predicted this gap up to happen here in 2013 and I didn't I didn't take it. I did not take this as an overnight. Netflix was in a downtrend all of 2011-2012. Because it wasn't as strong as it is now. No. Once it changed it added to its portfolio of original programming. I mean because Netflix was like a joke. It was like the DVD home get the movies. But the minute really I didn't know that. Netflix was at one point. I think like the little engine that could it was you order movies online you know on your your DVR right and that was it. And then all of a sudden whoever the genius is that maybe need to Google that that came in and said original programming is where we're gonna go and then all of a sudden when was that when did I I'm thinking probably like two years and that's what all of a sudden they decided to say okay we're doing original programming. People are gonna have memberships and now instead of having to wait week like how we do on HBO show you're gonna get the whole season with your membership. I don't I don't have it but I know a lot of people do. So Orange is the new black Kevin Spacey who everybody loves. There's another one I think Ray Donovan. But now they'll do they'll film the series when they're like okay June 1st such and such will be available. You're getting all 13 episodes or 15 episodes. People like that. And people like that. Yeah. And you now have more people moving to that. Like I love Chelsea Handler. She left E. She's gonna be doing her talk show on Netflix. I don't know how that's gonna work because she was a daily nightly live show. Maybe that will still be her format on Netflix. Interesting. But now to have a membership. Now you're not just getting movies. Now you're getting original program. Yeah. And TV programs. I'm sure it's E. I'm sure that I'm not that too. And that was the upswing. And now and then they're winning awards like at the Emmys and the you know daytime Emmys in the night time. So that just adds to to see that's what's so interesting because again I don't follow any of that. But I will tell you that if you traded that would help you get conviction to buy Netflix. Okay. I don't even know any of the things that you said. Okay. But if you knew what I knew about the gaps and the price of Netflix rising in the matter that it has and you knew the other stuff that you're talking about right now. Which I did not. Okay. I have no idea. All I care about is the price of tea in China. That's all I'm looking at. I'm analyzing the price. It's strictly like numbers, numbers, numbers, numbers, numbers. You know me. I'm all in my head about that stuff. I don't even look at any of the stuff you're saying but I'm saying for you that would help you get conviction that to take it and hold it.  That's my prediction for the target for Netflix. It closed Friday at 62150. It's gonna have a more than $100 run for the end of the calendar year. The market's bullish. This stock could hit up over $1,000 if they don't. And it'd probably pay too to see one new program and it's gonna be released because then the stock will go up again. Well if you want to track that. I mean I just don't even have time to look at that stuff. No. But it'd be interesting. I'll look up and see what and then kind of give you those numbers and see if things do core. I mean it obviously does. But yeah that's interesting. But I'm telling you that's what's so amazing about this. So I think that was the one you were talking about. I just probably you know I think I did it in a video maybe I had on YouTube. I didn't have it on a post where I predicted what it would do. But this one here you know this is what I talk. So your daily thing is when you go online in the morning. Yes. You see whatever you trade in. Do you do it hour by hour or you do it overnight? No. I'm doing it live in the second. Sometimes I'm in something and out of it in five minutes. Really? Like literally. So you put money on something and then take it away. Yes. Like that. Yes. Like okay. Yeah. Like sell. Sell. Okay. Yeah. And what makes you change. Like what makes you. Let me go here and look at. I guess. Go ahead. Buy and sell so quickly. Like because I'm thinking you're doing it overnight. Like you're buying buying buying and selling selling and then overnight you see but if you're doing it. I'm a day trader. You're talking about things like investing a long term which is fine. You could do that. Well even as a day trader. How do you know what to pop in and out of quickly and how long to stay in something. Because of the gap. Because I have a system that rates the gaps. Okay. And that gap rating system tells me if it rates 20 points or more for the 26-point rating system that it's gonna work. And that's how I hone it down. That's how I narrow it down to the 1. Good question. Otherwise you wouldn't because there's a trillion things in the market. Right. Because I'm thinking if I went on and said okay I went for money in the target. Yeah. And targeting it up.  You wouldn't know unless it was gapping and I'm not doing it unless it's gapping. But here just example this is just a recent day. I can't go all the way back to the day that happened. But this was just the 15th of May. The stock had a bullish gap. It just gapped up. But like on this day here again it's 9.40 in the morning. It was around 6.01-ish. Okay. 10.15. If you took it this is just you know 30 minutes here. It ran up to 6.10. So if you took 100 shares you would have made a thousand bucks and you just get quick out. So you make your money and that's an hour later and then you're out. I mean you could have held this actually that all went all the way up to 6.15. And that was till 10.45. But still I'm not in this stuff all day. And you know I'm done. I don't do anything in the afternoon. So you it's just like your quick money in and out. That's exactly. And so it's basically like you have a formula but it's basically kind of like hoping it goes. No I'm not hoping the formula tells me that it is good for a watch. I still have to wait till 9.30. The market opens at 9.30 Eastern time right here. This is a one minute chart. I'm not doing anything until it opens and it sets up because sometimes they open and they fail. And then they call they do what's called like a reverse wash. And that's something where I said up that's it. It's off. Don't do it. And we didn't risk any money and then I don't lose and I don't make any money on it. And I can't do it but I wait. Okay. But I'm not doing anything till after 9.30. But most of the time this which is why my system works they do set up and then I do them and then quickly get out. Because you're the longer you're in something the longer your risk. Okay. So long money's tied up like if you okay. I used to. Pam works for and and I'll be and I'll be. Okay. So well let's pretend you had a problem. Okay. That's something you're in for years and years and years and years and years. Which I did with Viacom. I did. Yeah. Yeah. So this is not the same as that. No I get that. Yeah. Right. Because that's a little time but say if I took what about like if I had a thousand dollars today and I went into like I said okay I'm going to say all right here I am putting my money into like Target at 10 o'clock. You keep talking about Target. I'm going to say Target. Because I feel like. Okay. You love Target. They tell you to use what you know. Why would you use. Okay. Okay. All right. Or whatever. It could be Macy. It could be whoever. Okay. It doesn't matter. Let's look at it. But I'm just saying as a company I'm entering at 10 o'clock. I'm like okay they're high. I'm putting my money like buying X amount of shares. Yes. At what point do I know to jump out. You're looking for the Target. You would learn to know the Target on the day. You would say this is the Target for Target. Okay. Okay. Target for Netflix so you know to get out and you're also looking for specific time of the day. Okay. Because there's times in the day where the market kind of just goes sideways and doesn't do anything and you want to be out before that action happens because if you're up in the train it could go against you and you could be up and then give it back and you don't want that to happen. Okay. Your goal as a day trader is to make the money and be done with it and get on with your day. It's less of more kind of thing. You're kind of like me. We're very, very workaholics and so this is not that way. This is why I struggle with this when I first started trading. Because I was a workaholic and I trade and trade and trade like a crazy person at 4 o'clock and I'd end up making money, losing it, making it, losing it, making it, losing it and then paying for commissions. This is not like that. You do it. You go in.  Literally. Okay. And you take as much as you can, as quick as you can and then you're done. And then you're not at risk for that long so it's good. So when you say you take as much as you can, you're buying or you're selling? Right. I'd short but it's the same concept, selling. Here. This is the one that I did the other day. But let's talk about Target because you're in love with Target. I just do them as a big company. Hey, this looks good. Let me just look at the bigger picture here. It could be Home Depot. Target is actually an enough trend. Target's a good buy. Target's a good buy and the market is bullish and this is absolutely fine. This is not as strong as Netflix but it is very strong. Prior high of this was $83.98. Look, so Target's continuing higher. This isn't an ideal place to buy Target if you were a new person but I want to show you this here. Do you see it gapped up? This looks just like the Netflix here. Very, very similar. This happened back in November of 2014. Look at that run. Low is $69.86. High is $73. Should the stock ran up more than $3 in the day? Again, I can't go back on a one-minute chart to see this but I can tell you right now 80% of that bar was probably made before 11 o'clock in the morning. Okay. So you're saying, right, because it's open up. I go in, I buy whatever. Now I'm going to say, okay, I'm in it for an hour. I don't want to risk anymore. Am I selling or am I just getting out? You're buying it and then you're selling it. So you're buying it first. You're in it as a buy and you're selling it to exit the position and then the money is yours. You're just a temporary. It's a temporary. So when I'm selling it, who's buying it from me? That's the way though. But that's the market. There's always somebody against you in the trade. It's like that Wall Street movie in Gordon Gecko says there's always a winner, always a loser. It's a zero-sum game. Every time I make money in the market, I'm taking that money from someone else and that's why you have to know what to do. Because somebody on this day was trying to short this thing, which was a bad idea, but people, not me. I'm telling you something now that is incorrect. But sometimes people will look at a gap like this from the prior days close, which was at 67.51 and say, oh, it gapped up and opened at 71. They'll think it's going to come in and go lower and they'll short it.  And then the losers, which were the people were thinking it was going to fill this gap space, you're taking money from them. You're not actually, you're creating profit for yourself when you trade, but you got to be right because you're taking the money from somebody else. And that's why most people lose in the market because the people that win make boatloads of money. And the people that lose lose, of which there's just a lot of losers, because they really don't learn what to do. But conceptually, you understand this and you don't know a thing about the stock market, but you're getting it. No, it's so funny because even though I didn't see all of Wall Street, one of my favorite movies is Trading Places. Oh my God, that's an old one too. And at the end, I keep saying, I try to pay attention. Like at the end, I'm like, why are they buying high? I thought you'd want to buy low. And then all of a sudden, if you remember, then they go, when it leads to a certain point, then they're like, sell, sell. And everybody's buying it. And I guess for me, I'm saying, wouldn't you rather buy low and sell high? Well, I mean, it depends what you're doing here. Well, it was orange juice in that case. Oh, okay. I forgot. But it was orange juice. Yeah, and it's every time I watch it, I try to pay attention because even though it's like a funny movie, they have to portray that part correctly. So they go in and they're going to buy high. That's a short though. And they always watch it. And then all of a sudden, they have a certain number, I mean, because they got the stock report. Right. And then they know at that point, people are thinking, it's not going to happen. And then they're selling, but then the Duke's guy had the wrong report. So he's buying up all the stock and they're trying to get to him and tell him, don't buy anymore. And he's trying to buy up all the stock at the lower price. And then he bankrupts the Duke's because. That's right. Yeah. And that was just like, and I always try to pay attention to that part. You never saw the Wall Street movie. Not completely. Not completely. Yeah. But that was like. Then you didn't see two either. No. No. Oh my gosh. We'll have to rent one of those. We'll have to get them on Netflix. Make them some coin. Right. All right. Well, let's go over the short concept because what you're talking about now is the short concept, which is what I prefer to do. But I will tell you that many, many people understand buying the concept of buying more than shorting. Okay. Like buying Netflix or Target. But what I like to do. Okay. In short. So this is one from last week. This is Marvell. The stock open at 1406 low in the day was 1305. So the stock dropped a dollar in the day. You wouldn't have made any money if you bought this. You would have made money shorting it. So I shorted it. So I was betting that the stock price would go down. Okay. And it did go down. And I was right. This is a gap too. It doesn't look exactly the same as Netflix. It dropped. Yes. But also the space is not large. It doesn't matter. But I want to point out the stock closed the night before at 1437. And the price it opened at gapped because it opened at a price of 1406. So it opened 31 pennies under the close from four o'clock to 930. And you just do this in the day and you're out. And you do it. But you would have lost money though. If you had bought it. But I shorted it. So therefore you would have made money if you shorted it. Okay. Let's go look at a smaller chart. No, no, no. I mean I guess what I'm talking about is shorted it means. Like shorting it means. Just buy. Like when you go and buy it. Well you're not buying it. You're barring it from the broker wherever you have your account. Okay. And you're saying Mr. Broker I'm betting that the stock is going lower. Give me these shares right now. Quick, quick, quick. Right. I want a hundred shares, a thousand shares. Okay. I got to have them. Give them to me. I'm betting that the stock price is going lower. Okay. So I'm selling it or shorting it. Okay. People don't understand the concept of selling when you don't own something. But as a trader you can basically sell or short something without actually owning it. That is a trading. So I get that. You're saying. Yes. Okay. Buy the shares. And then I'm saying. You're selling it first then buying it. You're selling it high and buying it low. Just like you just explained. That's what they were talking about I think in that movie. Although it's been so many years since I saw it. They were trying to get that guy to lose money. But the one guy was trying to make it. It's the concept of making money on something that's losing price. Right. Right. Yeah. Okay. Because you're betting it's going to go lower. And I will tell you one thing and this is good for you to know from whenever you set up your 401k again. Most stocks do actually go down in price over time. With the very few exceptions. Companies that people love. Apple. Netflix. Target. Whatever. But in general most stocks do decline in price. Right. Which is a misnomer thinking that most things go up. That's not true. Right. And I know it's like up and down. Because then when I first started buying a comp. Yeah. I chose like a basic plan. And then I was like no I want to have a handle on what's going on. Right. And I had to pay attention and pick my own little companies and stuff like that. I did pretty well. But it's like unfortunately being out of work. Well I mean it doesn't matter because I think you missed all of that period when everything kind of fell off the planet. Because I was like 2008, 2009 when everything was falling. Because if you stayed with it you would just be recouping that back up again now. I don't know when you cashed out at it. Well I cashed out of it. Yeah. I was already out of it like 2000 and when I lost my job 2008. Okay. Well then you missed the downturn. Right. Yeah it was. It's just I had my own downturn so all my money went whoosh. And so now I do want to start up again but I want to wait until my salary goes a little higher. But literally like here's the market right now and I'm just going to talk about the general overall market. If you find if you get into anything in a 401k we have a nice basket of stocks where they they pick usually like these baskets and they put them right. Right. Because they do right. Yeah. That's what they do. You don't want to pick your own. Yes.  Yeah. They're going to move higher. The market's going to rally the rest of 2015 it's going to rally into 2016. If even if you contributed the bare bare minimum that they would you would make you would you would this is a good time for you to get into your 401k and hold it. Okay. Because I'm telling you the market is going to make a jimungous new move higher which is unexpected but I'm telling you I'm predicting it. I'm predicting this year this is going to happen. So whatever they were willing to match try to do it because they don't match. Oh they don't match. Like Viacom matched MLB doesn't match because they say because they give you a pension plan they don't want to match it. Okay. So if you contribute something that's just whatever you contribute. Right. Is that how it works? Exactly. Whatever percentage you choose that's what you choose. And what did you have at the last place? The maximum of five percent. They would match the whole thing? They'd match up to five. Wow. And so I was like okay after you're after a year or if you were an employee it was like after so many months or after a thousand hours as a temp and since I came in as a temp after my thousand hours I went into it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But yeah with MLB it's like you can join whenever it's just they don't match because they don't give you a pension plan. I think a lot of companies probably changed their requirements for that when everything happened. Yeah, yeah. Same thing with health insurance and all the things that have happened. Yeah really we lucked out. They're paying for health insurance. Really? They do. That is fantastic. That's like wow. And I said you know what can't complain for not matching. No, that's really expensive. They're paying for it. Yeah. And because even at Viacom I had to pay but I always you know wanted to plan where I chose my own doctor. Oh yeah okay. So it's like it's Blue Cross Blue Shield. That's good. It's okay. I prefer United Health Care but you know my doctor. The only one of my doctors isn't on there so I need to find another. Well that's great if they pay for that. They do. They do. Exactly. That right there is like a poof. Yeah. A weight off. Yeah. Yeah. Well this is the overall general market here that you can just see it's rallying. It's been rallying and people are saying the rally is going to end but I'm predicting that it's going to continue. You'll see this again on my Facebook post where I'll predict it to continue. But this is something where you know if you wanted to get involved and hold overnight which I'm not saying that you should do but I'm saying if you wanted to get involved in holding stocks overnight for longer term moves whether it isn't a 401k or just a trade that you take for like a swing or a trade it is a good idea to be bullish in something overnight as long as it's a good buy or a strong stock. Target was one. Netflix is another one. That would be good. But that's not what I do again. I do the things where I'm quick, quick out. Just a couple hours or minutes and you're in it. It literally could be a few minutes like going back to the one from Friday and you have to be on your game when you're doing this which is fine. And would you trade till about noon? No. I mean I run the room till 11. I'm out of things usually by 10, 15, 10, 30. I mean sometimes I'm out of something in five minutes. That's the best in an ideal world. You don't do multiple ones. Do you? Usually I do one thing a day or I might do two trades in one thing or I might do two trades, one trade in two different things but that's even rare. I mean because it's really you only need one thing. You have to focus on one thing at a time. Like see this here, this happened and set up here like right at 9.33ish. You see this? Boom. The price dropped. So if you shorted this here like around 14.10 it just went and it just collapsed and it moved 60 cents literally in 10, 12 minutes. So let's just say you had a thousand shares of this here and you got the 60 cent drop. You would have made 600 bucks in 10 minutes. That's it. Your day is up. Also you want to drop, you still would have made money. Because I'm shorting. Now tell me, see you're having trouble with the concept. I want to explain it to you. I need you to be able to explain this better. Help me understand what you're thinking. I guess because I think for me I'm thinking that if I'm why am I why am I making money on something I'm losing money on? Or why would I buy something that's losing money? You're not buying it. You are barring the shares from the broker. Okay so then what's the balance between buying and borrowing? Well when you buy it you are saying I'm going to buy it and I'm betting it goes up and I'm buying it but I'm still giving it back to them before 4 o'clock. So it's really still you're barring it. Because you don't have the full price of the cost. Like for example in Netflix it's $600 a share. You would need $600 to buy one share. And you would need to buy 100 shares, 60 grand. Right. You don't have 60 grand in your account. The broker doesn't care. The broker is just letting you temporarily borrow it in your flat by 4 with what's called leverage. Okay. So the concept of shorting though is again you don't need the cost of the stock at $14.10 but if you did this is a cheaper one. It would be $14.10 per share. Okay. Or if you wanted a thousand shares it would be $14 grand. But you'd be borrowing it temporarily from the broker but you're borrowing it and you're betting it to go lower so you are shorting it or selling it. Let's use the concept of selling because you understand selling. You don't understand shorting. So I'm going to say selling. You're selling it. You're selling it without owning it. Okay. Which is a trading concept. Tell me if you get that. I get the concept of selling it without owning it. Okay. But I guess I figure that if it's something that I'm borrowing on. Yeah. Why would I even borrow it if it's going to go into the draw? Because you're going to make money. But it's going to draw. Yes. You're going to make money because you're betting it will draw. So that's why you're not buying it and why you are selling it. It's okay. I didn't know that you could still, that you would want to still get something that was going to draw. Why wouldn't you? Because it's going to draw and you lose money. You're only going to lose money if you own it long. If you're, if you don't own it at all. We'll see that's what I'm saying. I didn't know about all the terms. Yes. It's like either I know you buy it and you hold it over night it's boom. But I didn't know about the. No. You don't own it at all. You don't even know what this is. This is MRVL. This isn't like you're in love with Target. This is just like whatever. Right. You get up in the morning and you see every day I trade something different. I don't even know. Right. What these companies are. What they do. I don't read the reports. I don't follow them. Nothing. I read the gap. Right. And the gap is saying this price is going to drop. Therefore I see an opportunity to make money. So you have this but the average person who goes in how do they look at the gap. Do they have to go every day and look at. Watch the numbers change. They have to go in every day and read the gap. Now I'm going to go back. But this kind of chart is that available to everybody. What do you mean you can. There's free stock charts.com. You can go online and look at these charts. I can send you the link. You can do it yourself tomorrow. And then you can look at and see what. Yes. And just kind of pay attention to see what does. Yes. Whatever. Okay. You need an account at a brokerage place to take the live position. But you could watch charts. I mean charts are available freely anywhere. Anywhere. And then you'll see what happens like minute by minute or. It's live. Yeah. Okay. But anyways here's the gap on this. This gap here at the night before. Right. And then these little lines here are called ticks. It's a share that went off. And then these bars are some people. Okay. So this is happening here before the open. So that means that they was like no positions just flat like. Well this flat but there were some people in here that were making the price go down a little bit. And how do you make it go down? Like they. These people were selling their position or shorting either one. They made it go down from the night before. This isn't a big one down. But it's a little bit down and it was enough for me to rate it. So I rate the gap and I say I can see from the gap that this is going to drop on the day. And it did go to the dream target. The dream target was 13 and went to 1305. This is a massive move. Look at the size of the bar. I mean you don't have to be. You don't have to know anything.  But I'm saying this concept of shorting think of it as selling because of the fact that that will conceptually help you understand how you make the money on it. You don't own it long. Therefore you're not losing if it falls. If you want to make money you got two choices. Well you'd either do nothing which you're not going to make any money or you decide to sell it or short it so that you can make money on the drop. So if you see here let's just say you lived in a world where there was only one stock to trade on Friday and it was this one.   So I can't buy it and make money. What can I do if I short it or sell it I will make money. Therefore that's what I'm going to do. Let's just say you have to make money every day because this is your living and this is what you do and you have to do something. So to do that if you were going to whether you borrow or buy whatever well I'll say as far as borrow how do you if you don't have a broker can you yourself go in and do the borrow. No you have to have a broker. To borrow. You have to have a broker. Okay. You have to have a platform. You don't have to have a broker to buy but you have to have a broker to borrow. No you have to have a broker to buy or sell. But I think it's like E-Trade. That's a broker. That's a broker to buy. Oh but they said that you do it yourself. You do do it yourself. You will learn how to do it yourself.  You do it yourself. Okay. E-Trade would teach you how to do it. They have customer service people. Right. But I'm saying on E-Trade I get that you could buy but on E-Trade you could borrow too. They would be like a tab that says borrow whatever. There would be a tab and you would have to learn how to do it. Most people don't know that that exists. Okay. That's what I'm saying. This is why this is a new concept for you. But on time it is. Right. I'm saying if you went in and had like A, B, C, tab and you would choose. Okay. Same thing with XYZ company and you wanted to buy. Right. Okay. I'm going to buy a hundred shares and it would say would I want to buy a hundred shares or borrow a hundred shares? It would give me that option. Well again let's go back to the selling concept. You're borrowing it to sell. Just make sure you put the sell in there. Buying is buying. Borrowing to sell. It's borrowing to short. But that would be an option. Yes. That would be there to choose. You know how to do it through wherever you had your account. Okay. Yes. Exactly. But it is available but most people don't know that. Okay. They only go buy or sell. Exactly. Okay. Because if you're not a trader you don't know any of this. Right. Then that's why people get traders to know to watch the money. Right. And stock brokers and so on and so forth. Got it. But it's the idea though that also I will tell you most people love the idea of buying. It makes them feel good. That they own something. Yes. Right. But this you're not trying to be in this long term. So the concept of shorting that are selling it temporarily. You should take it or leave it. You're just doing it for the purpose of making the money. Right. Which you are taking for yourself. And therefore what do you care? I mean this thing could actually recover. I'm not saying it's going to. Right. But this could recover tomorrow. It's just the temporary thing on the day it dropped. Right. Okay. Okay. And that's today? No this was Friday. Friday. Whatever it is. Yeah. Morbell. Yeah. That was the one. Toilet paper. But again it's the idea though that you can do that. Okay. You just didn't know you could do that. Right. You have to learn how to do it from pressing the button. But it's like not a big deal. Okay. It's just a different button. Okay. Okay. I got you now. Okay. But it's the idea though that you have to pick the right one. If you don't know that this is a good gap. Right. If you don't know that it's going to drop. Then you wouldn't know to even press that button. So that's what this is what I teach people in the class. And what I do in the trading room. I can pick this one and say woo. You know that's a good one. And I think that's what you see in the post where I'm predicting things are saying. And then you teach people how to pick the good gap. Yes. High or low. Yes. Okay. As opposed to looking at that and going. Well that dropped like $50 a dollar. Why would I choose that? Right. Okay. If you rolled out a bet in the morning and you saw this here around you know $10.30. Right. You could have shorted this and still made money in it. But nine times out of ten what happens is these drops happen very quickly. Right. We see most of the drop happen by $11.30. Right. It reached $13.16 and went $10 more pennies for the rest of the day. It went up and went down. It went up and down. Exactly. So you've got to know what to do to get it quickly in the morning to get the best price to get the biggest move. Because most of the move happens in the morning. Right. If you don't get that or don't know what to watch then you miss your chance to make money.  If you're trying to short this in here you're like you're up, you're down, you're up, you're down. You make ten cents. Right. Like I don't like to do that. And then you're also sweating a bullet for three hours and you make ten cents. Like this is what I want to get. I want it to go you know really really quickly fall off a planet or rally like the Netflix very quickly. So that's what you want to do. Again it's the idea of where you're taking the fixed trade in a certain way. But you have to know what to look for. Which I teach in a classroom. I don't know if you've ever watched. What? Oh God. Living single? Did you ever watch that? That was like a hundred years ago. Yeah. I know I've ever watched episode because Kyle was a broker. I don't remember that episode. I still remember that episode where they all put their money in. Yeah. To have him you know to put in the market to make money. Right. And so when he came home that day they were like how do we do? And he threw a quarter on the table. And they were like that's all we made? He goes because every hour you guys were calling me. Bye. Sell. Bye. Sell. Bye. Sell. He goes so that's what you made. 25 cents. He goes may I make a recommendation for you for the next time? You're like what? And he pulls out a piggy bank. Boom. Right there. That's what you should put your money in. I was crying. I don't remember that one. Yeah that was funny because they like you know they don't show them calling but when he got home that day he threw a quarter or whatever on the table. And they were like what do we make? He's like that's what you made. But see that's the concept of what we were talking about with the Netflix is the idea of the conviction. I have a lot of conviction in what I do. Right. So I know what I'm looking at. I believe in it and I have 100% conviction and I take it and I do it and I know it for the number that I'm out of the number. You have to have conviction otherwise you are. That's what I call wishy-washy. Right. That's how most people are. Right. They are like should I tell them what do I tell them like that in the market. Whether you hold it overnight or even if you're in it for five minutes you can't make any money doing that. That's why you have to really really really really know what you're doing. But if you do and you have the conviction you can do it whether you hold them for overnight or do it very quickly. I just personally like to do it the quick ones. Okay. But you can hold them as well but again you have to have the conviction and this is where people that that episode probably I should Google it on YouTube because I mean that sounds funny because that is how people act. Right. As day traders or long term traders. Right. Exactly how people act. Right. And then they made no money because they kept telling him about it. Or they lost money. They lost them. Well they did. They lost money because at the time they were telling him buy this stuff. You know and when you have it's better than one person but when you have like five people. Oh my gosh. Calling you on the same money. Yeah. Oh my gosh. You know. And that's what stock brokers have to deal with as well when they have clients to do that. I don't know do you have any other questions about this. Yeah. So now it's like maybe when I'm at work tomorrow I'll look for like a. I will send you the link. A link. Yeah. And then I can start paying attention to see. Well you should watch the ones you like. Maybe buy something. Maybe buy something like really cheap that I can get into. Well you should watch the ones you like. At least to kind of learn at least the movement you can watch the charts. Right. You can watch the chart. I can't buy or borrow because it's like well borrow you don't need the money. Right. You know either way you have to have the money in there to borrow it temporarily. Right. For the cost of it. Right. But it's cheaper because you get leverage. I mean you don't need the exact price of it. Because if you needed the exact price of anything to trade anything. Right. Everyone the market would only be available to people that were very wealthy. But the great thing is that the market is available to anyone that wants to learn how to trade it. Right. You know. All right this is Melissa with PAM. Thank you PAM. You're welcome. This is Melissa with the stockswush.com. Happy Memorial Day everyone and have a great evening.