Everybody Matt here for late in sports cards ripping 2023 tops for steam baseball hobby eight box full case break number 31 pick your team We have Aaron K angels a's Red Sox Adam e pirates Andrew s Giants Brian L Rangers Brian D Astros Christian L Nationals Edward P Phillies White Sox George s Guardians Rays Howard Z Blue J's Jeffrey H Orioles Jim B Cardinals Jonathan H Dodgers Jonathan L Braves Yankees Kevin W Cubs Kevin G Padres Nate K twins Reds Nick C D backs Ryan W Brewers Rylan P Rocky Scott F Royals Tony T Mariners Travis s Tigers Tyler a Marlins and Wang s Mets here we go. Good luck everybody If I get through this one quickly and the next one quickly I'll be able to give forest a little bit of time to get set up before he has to go live With evening group breaks grab your spots up for those 5 p.m. Start time here we go So we're behind schedule Hadley rookie refractor and Juan Soto blue to 75 There's a codice Senga and oh snap Harper Super do a lot of let's see one Thanks dear to pull on I Was a Dylan's here now Partay and Stowers rookie refractor Riley green Jim tome. Oh did it nice Tony Gwyn refractor and Framber Valdez blue to 75 Melvin Gorman fresh faces rookie. Do you saw that she pulled up Yeah, we've on Soto rookie refractor and Jim tome Somebody's just asking who got the Giants nice.  There's Pirates Cal Mitchell rookie and Orioles rookie Otto Kyle Stowers And says Rangers Josh young rookie blue to 75 nice color match for the Rangers There's a miggy all-star and Astros rookie Otto Cori Lee Gold 50 Albert Pujols Rookie refractor and Chris Bryant blue 75 Josh young rookie in Osnap, Acunia Let's see if we can keep our Mariano Street Two straight breaks Mariano redemption There's a Harper and Mariano speaking of Mariano And there was an Acunia patch out of the five in the last one now In Smith jigma rookie refractor and Freddie Freeman blue 75 Anthony Bulp a rookie and must take a Yoshida fresh faces Scherzer and Pudge Mostaki Yoshida rookie Reggie one gone and Connor Joe purple to 99 and swings of summer mookie bets Sosa Shane McClanahan and Reds around the diamond game use Jersey auto Barry Larkin You go Reds Francisco Alvarez Rookie Figaro Bobby wit fresh faces This is orange 25 Cattel Marte D-backs Spencer Strider fresh faces Otto Braves You go Atlanta braze a bit on a roll here last couple breaks. There's Trevino Mark Grace blue 75 Cubs color match Angels rookie Otto leave on Soto and Brandon Crawford base Travis Swaggerty refractor and torque blue Griffey David VR rookie refractor Miguel Vargas rookie refractor Aaron judge Torte and Garrett Hill rookie purple to 99 Helsley and Josh Young fresh faces rookie blackman and Nolan Gorman rookie refractor Hunter Brown Alvarez and Goldschmidt Vaughn Grissom rookie refractor and Joe Musgrove orange all start That's the 25 The second superbeat Yeah, probably next box, right Oswald Parazza should be anyway Jayrod refractor and blue jays around the diamond game use Jersey Otto Jose Berrios Minecraft and oh snap judge manual class a pink to 15 Guardians all start Angels rookie Otto pristine 1099 live on Soto Xander base William Contreras blue 75 Twins Otto Byron Buxton from Minnesota and Cal Mitchell rookie pristine Bryce Harper refractor and Mariano Vlad and Parazza and Smith Jigba rookie refractor and Ryan Howard orange to 25 nice Howard Sosa Scherzer and Pudge Jayrod first Jordan Walker rookie Aaron judge Kowski rookie refractor and Willie McCovey blue 75 Francisco Alvarez rookie What day? Louise Castillo and cubs around the diamond game use Jersey Otto Nico Horner Cubs on the board. Oh snap Mookie and Riley Green purple That is to 99 nice rookie purple for the Tigers Frank Thomas Jermaine Palacios rookie Otto Tigers George Springer Blue Jays JT Romito blue to 75 Phillies and D-backs rookie Otto pristine to 99 Buddy Kennedy a lot of Buddy Kennedy today. There's a Paul Blackburn base and Ryan Halsey all-star blue 75 Cardinals the ground and McCutcheon golden 50. Thanks Dylan. There's Michael Harris rookie Show you Tanya. Oh snap Pell rookie refractor Buxton. Thank you von Grissom rookie fresh faces G and Josh young that's rookie purple refractor to 99 Rangers 11 of 99 Ortiz and Maurer Michael Harris This is Chipper Jones going going gone. That is orange at 25 Braves I Think that's the second one of those we've seen I don't remember if they're in the same or both in this break He and Dan's be gold 50 Cubs, but I sang a fresh faces Carlos Stanton and Astros around the diamond game use Jersey Otto gold the 50 Jeremy Pena There you go. Nice hit Houston. Oh snap. Mookie rookie orange to 25 Max Castillo Royals and Cubs rookie Otto gold 50 Caleb Killian Orange to 25 not gold nice one Cubs Brandon Crawford Max Scherzer that is Red one of five Mets Nice low-numbered Scherzer for the Mets and Cardinals rookie Otto Jordan Walker Congrats, St. Louis last spot mojo there for the Cardinals Ian Hap alien fingers Brett Beatty Musgrove Willie Mays purple in 99 84 of 99 bait and trout Hoffman and Tyler Freeman rookie refractor trout Vaughn Grissom fresh faces rookie Otto gold 50 Braves Shoya Tommy Jim Rio and Ricky Henderson blue 75 Christopher Morel fresh faces Tom Siever and Braves around the diamond game used Bat Relic Otto pristine to 99 John Smoltz Nice one Atlanta and Mookie. Oh snap Francisco Alvarez rookie refractor in Riley Greene rookie purple to 99 They were Toran Thompson tommy Braves fresh faces Otto Spencer Strider Cubs rookie Caleb Killian that one's Between the mag there. It's Red Sox rookie blue 75 Brambello or Bayo Cardinals rookie Otto Zach Thompson Go St. Louis Oswaldo Cabrera rookie for the Yanks and this is Freddie Freeman all-star pink to 15 Nice low-numbered Freddie Freeman, right and Danesby Swanson. That is orange to 25 Lee rookie Edgar and going going gone gold Aaron Judge 39 of 50 Salvi going going gone Alec Manoa This is Joey Vado that is popular demand game used Jersey Otto you go Reds nice Vado relic Otto Adley fresh faces rookie address rookie refractor and Jonah Bride rookie blue 75 Masaki Yoshida Yoshida The O snaps I thought they were one and six packs Yellow chin Ramirez Shwerver and poohol's real and Anthony Volpe rookie purple to 99 Nice win Yankees on Soto Parazza Gerrick and poohol's Sosa and a rod it's Red Sox rookie Otto Tristan Casas There you go. Nice one Boston Salvador Perez base and Austin Riley blue 75 Pirates rookie Otto Cannon Smith and Jigba Brandon Woodruff base and Raphael Devers gold 50 the Red Sox Kershaw and Leo Pagaro rookie refractor Bobby Witt. Let's see a strong finish here for Valdez and Starly Marta orange to 25 Nice Mets color match Corbin Carroll rookie and Hank One day rookie refractor in Xander Michael Harris rookie and Schwerber purple Your downs Nolan Gorman Christy Matheson and redemption that is Tigers around the diamond autograph relic rookie Riley Green You go nice one Detroit Gorman Grissom Oh Snap Bryce Harper Larkin Anthony Volpe. That is rookie gold 9 of 50 Yankees Congrats Yanks Ozzie and Chipper Think thanks, Northeast. Appreciate it. This is Astros Christine Otto to 99 Jordan Alvarez It's a Cedric Mullins base Freddy Freeman blue Tigers rookie Otto Kerry Carpenter Jacob DeGram and Chipper Jones gold to 50. All right. You just a minute here. We'll do a recap and an Anthony Volpe rookie gold 50 Yankees Relic autos. These are all game. Excuse me game use Joey Vado Reds Braves to 99 John Smoltz Astros to 50 Jeremy Pena Cubs Nico Horner Reds Berry Larkin Blue Jays Jose Berrios twins to 99 Luis Haria's and then we had a pristine personal endorsements autograph to 50 Wade Boggs chicken man autos we had Tigers rookie Kerry Carpenter Tigers rookie Relic Otto Riley Green Pirates rookie can Smith and Jigba Red Sox rookie Tristan Casas Cardinals rookie Zach Thompson Braves fresh faces Spencer Strider Cardinals rookie Jordan Walker Orioles rookie Kyle Stowers Astros rookie Corey Lee Angels rookie LeBon Soto twins Byron Buxton Braves fresh faces Spencer Strider Devax to 99 rookie Buddy Kennedy Astros to 99 Jordan Alvarez Tigers rookie Jermaine Palacios Angels to 99 rookie LeBon Soto and Cubs rookie Orange to 25 Caleb Killian That'll do it for the break. Thank you everybody number 32 is closing us out next


The following is a presentation of TFNN. The following is a presentation of TFNN. Welcome to the Christmas Eve edition of TFNN and happy holidays to everybody around the world, wherever holiday you go through. But Merry Christmas to most of the people here in the United States and across the world. First chart we looked at, of course, is the German DAX. It is closed today. And if you'll see the second chart, which is the FTSE, it's closed to half a day. And so it's almost closed right now as we go. Boys and girls, you know, I've been doing this business for a long time and I've brought you a lot of different information. Some of it good, some of it bad, but, you know, it's all based on technical analysis. That's all I can tell you. There's no fundamentals involved, but I'll tell you one thing. Something is happening up there in the North Pole because the elves are acting a little bit differently. Let me post you something here to take a look at these figures, folks. I was so shocked today that I, and I'm not shocked at all, but this really shocked me. Let's take a look at the open interest figures as we look at these from the Chicago Mercantile yesterday. You'll notice the E-mini-Russia futures. Okay, you'll see that the actual open interest is 486,000 and it dropped 78,000. That's 20, almost 20% in one day. Look at the DAO E-mini futures. Okay, you see 103,000 dropped 20% a day. Folks, that's a big percentage. That's a very big percentage. Well, let's go to the big daddy rabbit and see what it did. We're going to take a look at the S&P 500 DAO and also we're going to look at the NASDAQ. So we're going to come up here, post these in here. We were all ready to take a look at. Yeah, they must be filling in stockings. Okay, here is the E-mini futures for the NASDAQ. What did they drop? 20%. 55,000. Take a look at this one, baby. Look at this, the E-mini futures. You see that OMG? That means, look at this, 63,000 contracts went down. When open interest goes down and prices goes up, that's short covering, folks. The people are leaving the restaurant. Pay attention to that or maybe not. I don't care. Maybe it's wrong. All I know is this has to be checked and I'm going to be checking it this morning. Just as soon as we finish the show here, I'm going to call the Merc to make sure those figures are correct. And I'll check them again tonight. But if those figures are correct, boys and girls, pay very close attention to your long positions because with this big of drop in open interest, that means that there's not many buyers left. I'm sure the market's still going up and they should be going up because open interest goes higher. And it's bullish, yes, but this is not the case. That's 600... Slow down, Larry. Let's move on to something else. I will finish the sentence. That 636,000 open interest was five times bigger than any open interest crease we've had since this whole thing started. 55,000 was the largest before. Now, this is 636. That's not... And that's a decrease, not an increase. The other one was an increase. This is a decrease. I don't know how the figure can be right, actually. That's the way I look at it, but we'll see. All right. We're going to have Norm Winsky on at the break here in about 15 minutes to let him finish his show because we're in the middle of Hanukkah and we're also starting Christmas. So all that's really good. Let's take a quick look here at the gold because we've been talking about that for quite a bit. Let's hope I put this gold up here. Where did I put it? Please put the gold up here. Must be the Christmas holidays. I think this is it. There we go. Let's get up here because I wanted to show you that we were waiting for this gold. We got almost to the exact price. Get this up here of 1,500. You'll see that's the... The ABCD entered at 1,496. We had a high of 1,497. So we should have a little bit of a correction here in the gold market. Now, we've broken out above the highs of December. We had a high in December, 1,490. December 12th, 1,492. And today's was 1,496. And guess what? We are up almost exactly 34... In fact, we're up $34. Exactly. Almost 1,499 was a $34 harmonic trading. Tom is not trading all during the holidays. And so we'll see. Okay. We'll take a look at it. Okay. Well, you know, folks, I don't know the answer to the open interest figure, but you're going to find out the answer to the open interest figure. It's going to be very, very interesting. I've never seen numbers that big. I remember the numbers were really big when gold was at 1932 in August of 2011. We were in Hong Kong. I was being interviewed by the Eastern Edition of the Wall Street Journal. And I was saying this is probably going to be a pretty big high in the gold. And we said somewhere above 1900 and 1932 was a little above that. But this is an ungodly number, folks. And you're not going to see it anywhere unless you follow open interest. I mean, most technicians don't even pay any attention to it. The only reason I do is when markets are making new highs or new lows, I want to see if there's new buyers or new sellers coming in here. Peter Brandt makes a living off these numbers. So, you know, his service is quite expensive, but I'm sure he'll be talking about it. But most others won't. Those of you who have information on that, I would be nice to hear you posted into TFNN, because I think it would be very, very important. Regarding the silver, if you look at your silver charts very closely, you'll see that the silver made a beautiful number up there. It was the silver number. Take a look. I know Mr. Z will be looking at that. But what's the silver? Because the silver made a exact 382 retracement of the high when we hit that number last night at 1771 and a half. So that might be interesting. I don't know. But let's pay sort of close attention to it because it could be very, very interesting. Now, there's one other chart that I want to focus here for us. And that is comes from our good friend Jim Bardlioni over at the 50 Partners. Hold on, get this up here. And we'll take a look at it. And we'll be able to see you right, Gator. That's a good quote. All right. This is going back to October of 74. That was the first bottom. Remember, in 1974, we had a double bottom one in October. That was the end of the crash. December was a retest of that low. The Dow was right around 500, I recall. We had gone from 1,070 down to 500. And from that level, we have gone to 28,000. So that was a major low. That was the one that really, when we started looking at astrology, it told me that we have something really important. But as Jim points out here, we're up here at this ABCD number. But look how you're getting a decrease in the relative strength. You see that tells you that there's something, not right, that thing should be going up really strongly. And it's not, but that's neither here nor there. Anyway, just bringing that chart to your attention and reminding you of those lows in October and December, that was the big crash, October crash of 1974 that allowed me to begin studying the markets through the eyes of Harold McKinley-Garley. And I didn't resurface again for about a year. And it was a big help to me. But like everything else, it's just the probabilities. That's all we're basing things on. Hopefully, we're going to have Norm Winsky on at the break here when we come up. And then when we get back, I wanted to go over some fang stocks to show you what I'm seeing and then one other piece of information about what's coming in the future for technology. Global financial markets such as stocks, ETFs, commodity futures, and forex. 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We even have new pricing in six months and yearly options. Check out the new TFNN.com now and experience all the upgrades. TFNN.com Educating Investors. 8-7-3-7-6-1-8 Okay, we're back folks and we've got Norm Winske on the line. We had some technical problems yesterday and so Norm, why don't you continue on what you're looking at and we'll go from there and a happy holidays to you and a happy Hanukkah and a merry Christmas to you and your family. Thank you. Happy holidays to you Larry and all the folks out there and the Tiger Den and TFNN listeners, you know. So anyway, because we got interrupted I hope you don't mind, but I'm going to start over again so if anybody was on the video or YouTube or whatever, they got the whole enchilada, you know. So anyway, we got three types of planetary. I'm doing this based on planetary cycles. We have three categories of planetary activity. We have geocentric that's from the point of view of the earth. Heliocentric from the point of view of the sun. And then we also look at for the U.S. financials. Your U.S. stocks, T bonds and U.S. dollar. Also look at what we call the natal chart, U.S. natal chart based on where the planets were on July the 4th 1776 and compare where the planets are now to those planets. I know it sounds crazy, but guess what? It works very well. All right, so we have the you might want to take a screenshot of the charts I'm going to review now the cycles and charts are going to review based on the top of the page one here. And we first we're going to look at I have the charts in alphabetical order and so we have the full moon there and so we're going to round up our usual suspects financials, greens precious metals and stocks and we have a big cluster of U.S. aspects U.S. planetary activity and then down here we have a very important chart, which is the Jupiter 120 to Uranus which occurred both by geocentric on the 13th and then this is just after all this happened just after I was on your show last on the 10th of December other than a brief appearance yesterday show with the where we had the problems right so anyway and we're reviewing these and this is relevant to what just happened because we had the heliocentric version of Jupiter 120 to Uranus over this past weekend so we'll be looking at those markets too sort of a two prong thing on that cycle. So there we go and then we had another big thing with the to the U.S. chart. All right let's go look at the markets now cattle you might guess if you know your signs of zodiac and there's something called Taurus the bull and you might guess that that has something to do with cattle then you'd be right so Jupiter was in Capricorn Uranus is in Taurus the bull and so we want to look for a change in training cattle we have a two prong thing here I did not update did not have time to update these charts last night I'm on a deadline now and so I had to we're going to just do this like we were going to do it yesterday cattle made a top right there bingo bingo on the 13th with the geocentric Jupiter train Uranus and we came down into the weekend this past weekend and it should be making a low now it should have been making a low yesterday if it did not then if it doesn't turn today then it's probably forget about it you know but it should have been making probably a low here in the last day or so coffee is Capricorn and here's I just showed you interesting study yesterday I'll apologize if there's any repetition for anybody and I showed how when the heliocentric Jupiter that only this only occurs every 11 and a half years when in the Capricorn back on the 18th of October that was one day off of the low and we used the low price of the day the Jupiter went in Capricorn not the low price low low price was till the day before that the price that occurred on the day that Jupiter went in the Capricorn that was 9605 on your March contract and then we look at when geocentric Jupiter went in the Capricorn on the elite on the second or on the going to use the third which was the next day because it was mostly it was late in the day and look at that high and where we were looking for a turn it did not turn they're accelerated but if we take the dirt between the high there on the second of the third of December and the low on the 18th of October you get 28.7 take 1.618 times that I believe you get within 3 cents of the high on the 3 little pennies not big pennies so the high was 142.45 your calculation I think comes out to 142.48 so that's pretty good so there we go so very very close on using the this goes back to one of my principles is that the key times give you the key prices so we can combine Fibonacci with the astro stuff to give you a very nice accurate projection there on the high price right and this was there the Jupiter trying Uranus and Jupiter is in Capricorn so anything with the dealing with Jupiter in Capricorn it might be is a possible change in trend for coffee moving on ahead here now we got copper here's another Jupiter Uranus market because the copper is has this ruling planet and there we made a top there on the 13th with the first geocentric Jupiter 120 Uranus and then we had a retest over here and so I think we're probably should have made a top here over the weekend or on Monday you know with the Jupiter Uranus aspect here's corn now we're going to look at the moon for the grains and look at that right on the full moon bingo bingo if you bought the opening there on the moon was the night of the 11th and if they bought the next day's opening you've been buying very very close to the low and then I think you would have been a happy camper here's cotton that comes under Taurus like the cattle and didn't do only marginally profitable there if you sold there you would have been a little bit of money over the next several days that's it not all these are perfect you know believe it or not Larry and here's gold had a spike high there you would have had trouble though unless you got real lucky to sell the sell the top there you probably would have sold the opening and that was also marginally possibly marginally profitable on the gold by the way notice goals been moving up here and I'll be talking about this in a few moments but we do have a new moon solar eclipse coming the night of the 25th into the 26 early wee hours and so you'll be looking for your precious metals and greens and financials to possibly make a turn at that time OJ has been dancing to the moon nicely lately and there you go you got a nice stop there for the OJ Billy Ray asked me to include the OJ on this presentation Larry Billy Ray Valentine you know here's silver you're moving up it did not the gold was marginally profitable maybe and this is definitely a loser so I gave that a red arrow green arrows are good red arrows bad here's soybeans made a nice pull back into the moon and if you bought there you would have been a happy camper here's Martin the wheat was even better look at that nice decline into the moon and you would have been buying right on the low there if you bought on the moon back on the night early morning of the 12th alright moving on ahead here here's your stock market we had the moon there actually a couple things going on there for the overnight between the 11th and the 12th that worked well we got into over here though the market just kept going higher didn't care about the plants and so they had all these red arrows here for misses but the bonds were beautiful they kind of made up for the stocks I guess we're taking a break so alright Norm Wenske you're right Norm we got to pay a few bills my friend alright see you soon<PHONE_NUMBER><PHONE_NUMBER><PHONE_NUMBER><PHONE_NUMBER><PHONE_NUMBER><PHONE_NUMBER> this segment is brought to you by thinkorswim for more information just click the thinkorswim banner on the front page of TFNN.com ok we're back folks and we have Norm Wenske on the line Norm honestly you want to continue yes sir thank you we haveは Winske on the line dorm you want to continue? Yes sir thank you. So we left off with a T-bond sir as you can see the T-bonds were nearly perfect we rallied into the full moon had a nice decline and I had another signal based on the US natal chart the T-bonds that's one of the factors for the T-bonds the US natal chart made a low there and we popped up I had a big cluster there on the over the weekend of the 13th for one two three four different things and that was a nice little top there and that worked very well the dollar not so good so so so on the dollar we made a full moon low there on the dollar and also there on we had a signal there for the night of the 12th and then I had a big cluster there for the weekend of the 13th and that was we kind of missed the train there the train kind of pulled out of the station for a low and so that didn't work out so there we go all right now I'm going to show you my planetary index is kind of my version of the Bradley model and I do weeks in advance of the month here this is for the summer started on Monday the second running through this week at the end of this week you're going to show you this and there you go I put major planetary events on there like your full moon there's your solar eclipse coming up here in a couple of days or two and mercury zero latitude is another big thing for me and you can see here I drew this blue line ahead of the month and for the whole month and so far track it pretty well on this model we had two models that are tracking well and the other one was the next one where I allow for inversions which often occur when the plants either goes direct retrograde or when I'm planning against the zero latitude so you see the red arrow there for a possible inversion and looking for a possible top here on Monday and so far I think the highest though we only had a half about a half a day one day trading past that but we get a possible top do here on yesterday you know right so though you'll see if this thing turns down or not you know right like it would be in line with your open interest analysis there Larry okay all right I do that again I do this a couple weeks ahead of the month you know I was doing it this blue line back in November so I think I think it's pretty amazing and not because of me I just add up the numbers you know all right here's my practical model this requires no advanced mathematics it's very simple everything I do is grade school level or I couldn't do it I take the price action for January extrapolated out for the year and believe that's the blue bars and believe look at that it's working out pretty well nicely for the S&P says we're should be making a top here right it right it right in the you know just right around this time right now they for a little bit of a pullback into the end of the year last few days of the year all right there we go here's looking ahead here's looking here's looking at you Larry all right we got the way this is oh yeah the over the weekend here well Friday we leave Thursday I guess that was Thursday and Mercury South latitude I just covered that on the planetary index watch for a possible turn within one trading day that might have spilled over into Monday corn oat soybeans stocks and wheat and then we have a thing to the U.S. natal chart for the U.S. stocks T bonds and dollar for into into Friday this past Friday and then over the weekend we had again the heliocentric Jupiter 120 Uranus and that's going to be cattle copper cotton oats and stocks watch for change in trend those markets and then again we also had heliocentric that's from the point of view of the Sun Mars entering Scorpio that's a change in trend for your cocoa stocks stocks T bonds and then coming up here after the close of today we have a yeah we have the solar eclipse in Capricorn Capricorn we were going for round before any kind of new moon that's what a solar eclipse the special type of new moon round up the usual suspects financials greens precious metals stocks and coffee and because it's in Capricorn we got to run a special on coffee here's two markets I didn't cover in the review so look ahead these charts were all done Sunday night didn't have time to update them last night so you'll have to go look and see how they're doing as of yesterday on the close but the cocoa was coming down down down and so we had a that was on our list here for yeah there we go because the heliocentric Mars went into Scorpio over the weekend could be making a low here on the cocoa and the hogs were going up up up so look for a possible top as of yesterday for the hogs there's a T bonds also a Scorpio related market and so they're kind of in the middle here I'm not thrilled it was based on Sunday nights price action unless they came down sharply on Monday and to make a low I'm not thrilled about I don't like to do the middle it's a Newton's law you know for every action opposite equal reaction if a market goes sideways you're not gonna can't expect much of a reaction all right so here's how you can get a hold of me and get free letters free classes and free coaching everything that's all all potentially free if you just contact me here I am norm winsky and sunny from Naples Florida to 395943939 there's my email it's a long one might want to copy and paste that or something and there's my Skype and winsky and WIN SKI underscore digit one and want to wish everybody a happy holidays happy new year and we got a huge I've been working on January Larry and we got some huge fireworks coming up in the first part of January so hopefully you'll like to have me back on and I'll tell you all about that in the head of the right around the next the moon which is going to be a lunar eclipse in all area that's that that the stock market that does not like as I've said many times a lunar stock market does not like lunar eclipses so usually we get a big correction right around a lunar eclipse you know what day is that norm that's going to be on the 10th okay two days after Elvis's birthday listen thanks for joining us and I don't know whether be able to have you on every day next month but we're certainly going to have you on in early January how's that that sounds great if you can have me on just a head of the moon there I'll be happy and happy to share what I have we got huge stuff I want to spoil the spoil the party there by giving away the what we have but it's it's huge we're I guarantee I promise it's huge not just we've got a whole big thing going on there you know okay all right thanks for having me back and have a happy holidays and everybody take care have a great happy new year you know you turn or we'll look forward to having you on in January and I'll be around here working away this week so day or not day or not day or not you can contact me day or night okay all right take care everybody thanks a lot have a great day all right you bet thank you norm winsky of astro trend naples florida and he does have some really great dates and of course he's talking about january and january sometimes can be exciting just like all other months that end in vows wise ours eyes are owes they're all pretty busy but january sometimes really have some big things happening of course so well being the month of capricorn also the birthdate of billy ray valentine all right folks let's move on here we got a break coming up here for a second when we get back I want to cover the the thanks docs and I'll make another couple of quick comments about that open interest number and whether it's any good or not eight seven seven nine two seven six six four gray if you're in the cd market and looking for a secure investment the tiger first mortgage program may work for you the security for these first mortgages are building lots in the tax opportunity zone in st. 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20 years from now and the consensus was everything will be electronically embedded into a chip like if when you're ready to make a deposit you touch your left ear lobe and on your skin will pop up your balance when your last deposits were checking your bank account as you go right off of your body and that'll be the start with the ears of course and then it'll move to other parts but it'll be able to tell everyone where you are what you're doing how you're feeling what you're eating and where you're living so if you think big brother hasn't arrived then he will certainly be arrived then at that point instead of now so that's what we have looking forward to the future i don't know if that's a good thing or not but maybe it is technically but fortunately i will not have to worry about that i'll leave that to the young people in the room to see whether that's going to be the case the big thing that i'm worrying about now is i'm looking at that open interest figure in the s&p folks if you really like to do this yourself defy human nature and do the work yourself call the chicago mercantile exchange today probably won't find many people working because the day before christmas but i will have that answer for us when we come back on the air the day after christmas i will definitely have a correct answer for you if that open interest is correct if that open interest is correct folks i will happily say that we're within days of the end of this bull market and i don't know if i'll ever see another high like this one before but if these interest open interest figures are correct the buyers it's trouble it's troublesome folks all you have to do is go back and see how major tops were made look what happened to the bonds folks do you remember where we were back in september and everybody was talking about zero interest rates and the bonds were going crazy and they were trading at 169 they're 155 now folks are down 15 handles and that was a big tip off there was the open interest and the bonds was dropping but not like this not like this folks this is this is this is a number that it should be on the news i mean but you know because it's technical it probably doesn't you know mean very much but anyway anyway that's what i'm taking an eye on is looking at some of these things let's take a quick look at where we are here with the silver because we're because we're really approaching something really big in the silver market let's get it up here may or may or may not mean anything it you know this is the thing is we have to do the things here to see what's going on here the markets close at one o'clock today so there's only three more hours of trading but you'll notice here the 1776 believe it or not that's the actual number of the 382 retracement in the silver so watch the silver because if we close above 1776 in the silver and above 1500 in the the gold that's going to be signed of a pretty significant pattern completion and also potential breakout so we really knew we really have to watch that okay now let's take a quick look at the fang stocks because i think they're important to look at we'll do them one at a time this will be quick folks we don't have to worry too much here's the big daddy rabbit in the group this is apple and you'll be able to see here we have the the volume on this move here these last five days and apple has been something off the charts it's just huge huge number of shares up there 20 million shares or something like that some ridiculous some ridiculous number for apple if you'll notice here we have a potential a double top here in mr zucker bird's facebook you'll see that's almost a double top from where we were back in july and the next one we want to take a quick look at here is the amazon which is the the the weak sister of the whole group here let's get it up so you can take a look at it and you think this would be the busiest time of the year for amazon and yet you can see that we're almost at a there's a head and shoulders pattern too that has just formed here folks you can see the 238 to create creations and now we're at lower right hand shoulder this is a this is could be quite negative to amazon if it starts to break anything below 1700 who sets up a 200 point drop in amazon so whether that's going to be uh see what's going on i don't know the answer to those folks question i don't you know folks someone asked me about the politics involved look i don't know anything about politics never have never had a interest to it but we have somebody on this program as our guest and that's bill syrupy bill marion you know cycles research and he looks at trump's chart his astrological chart and he didn't think there's any way that he's going to be leaving office soon he might be leaving office in november but he didn't think he's going to be impeached if he has he probably would be like uh clinton impeached but still in office you'll notice that we have a big a bcd completion at the 1.27 we've been at the 1.27 expansion folks for two weeks in google all during this big rise in stocks so the fang stocks have certainly slowed down with the exception of the uh of the apple which moved in and this other one which is the uh we'll take a look here at the uh netflix and you'll see netflix is setting exactly at the 61 percent retrace within one dollar and so all of those are saying yes there might be a little bit of technical indication that they might be ready to uh rolling over whether that happens or not you know remains to be seen we don't know whether that's going to be correct or not so that's the main thing we're talking about tim boss just got an inflection time today at uh 12 21 that'll be in a it'll be quite a while three hours from now so watch it uh with a probability of 51 percent closing higher so that is what we call a coin toss and uh that's as good as anything else because you can make money off of coin tosses especially if you have a double headed coin that's the real key now we have to look at one other one that i think is relatively important and that is the banking index uh we get this information from some of our friends out there in the valley let's get this up here to take a quick look at it here's the banking index you notice we completed the abcd up here we've been here for seven days in this 113 114 level that's a you know big abcd and so whether that's going to be popping through to the upside i don't know what you would think given the fact that interest rates have started to go higher instead of lower the banks we've been making more money not less but that's not what's happening right now the market is moving in the direction of uh higher but it's been installed here now for seven days it's just been a few stocks has been running this thing and uh they have been running it relatively well so we'll pay close attention folks i hate to be uh uh talking about a broken record but there's only one thing that we need to watch right now and that's the open interest in these stock indices because if this is correct and if this is correct then look out let me just give you an example of what well never mind let's get over here and talk a little bit about the bit because the bit has held the bitcoin we've held a major low here in bitcoin that was just a tad that low we made down there at 6400 was just a tad below the 61 percent retracement of the whole move and if you looked at it on a logarithmic scale it was a 38 percent retracement off of 19 thousands so very important low there at 6400 in bitcoin we're trading uh quite a bit above that right now so we need to watch it very closely people say that it's not really about cryptocurrencies it's about blockchain and when you hear the stuff like what the government wants to do looking over our shoulder with you know all these things with these dna testing places and stuff boy that they're really going to do everything you're going to get away with they're going to get give them 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Welcome back to the Breakfast in Plastivia Africa. We'll take you through the pages of our national dailies as off the press, and that's what we call it. G.D. Johnson is on standby to join the conversation. It's good to have you G.D. Johnson. Good morning. Good morning, Mercy, and good morning to Kofi and good morning to all of you who has all over the world. It's a wonderful Friday. That's all right. Let's take a look at the daily independent and start off reading the board caption. Nobody should be allowed to raise army of thugs. Buhari is quoted and recounts his Kaduna near death experience in 2014, and that's right underneath the board caption. Away from the board caption. 2023, ex-governor, Senators, back, Ashiwaju Akmat Tanumbu's presidential bid. You also have reps probe 178,459 missing police firearms from Ammari. Interesting. Governor Tom Sainz amended anti-open grazing law. It's also another caption and daily independent and just before we move away. Neck yet to decide and fuel pump price and subsidy removal. APC North East lawmakers back North Central colleagues on Bello's presidential bid. May on right costs for 2023 presidency. And this is some of the headlines on the daily independent. We move on to the initial newspaper with these headlines. Neck, patrol subsidy can't continue beyond June. And that's talking about the National Economic Council putting of the decision to increase, consider a report to increase the pump price of petrol by June to 302 narrow. It also has these sub headlines decision on pump price belongs to NNPC. No going back on January 27 protest says NLC. Interesting times and we hope for the best. All of the punch of the nation is for Bello to Tinibu. You can take Ligas Feeds to Abuja. You can take Ligas Feeds to Abuja. Naja Governor backs APC forward. Ex-Governor visits IBB. Another one. Thanks for linking me to your success, Buhari tells El Rufai. Thanks for linking me to your success, Buhari tells El Rufai. Some missing arms that were said to belong to the Nigeria Police Force. Alright, let's check out the leadership news paper this morning. Governors move to Aved Plan protest of a fuel price hike. And to meet Labour, Neck takes position in June. NLC vows to go on with protests. Says it's Labour Communication too. Abdul Salami, Baba Ahmed, one of hardship and inflation. Away from that, you also have IBB's blessing to run. Bola Tinibu is quoted on that. It reminds us of yesterday's conversation where the headlines is ex-governors, I mean Senators, Generals, Determining the Presidency for 2023. Well, you also have this. El Rufai has transformed Kaduna with projects. That's what the President is quoted to say. Reps to probe 178,459 missing police arms. And like North Central, North East legislators, and thus Yahya Bello for President. This is some of the headlines on the leadership news paper this morning. Next up, we have the punch in this paper with the bold headline, Abdul Salami work as one FG as Neck decides subsidy removal June. It's still talking about the National Economic Council that by the Vice President including the 36 Governors. It also has the following kickers. Petrol price hike will push more Nigerians deeper into poverty in 2021's ex-head of state. Life already difficult for Nigerians. Don't increase fuel pump price. Sanu tells FG. And there is a six-month provision for fuel subsidy. We'll take a position after that. Council, that's the National Economic Council. At the top of the front page of the punch in this paper, this Friday for hacker refinery projects, 3.96 billion liters petrol annually, aviation fuel report. It's interesting. I hope that will leave the pages of a report to actuality. Reps order probe of allegedly missing 178,459 police firearms. Wow, that's a lot. Electoral act faces delay at National Assembly. Harmonization yet to start. Senator accuses Baja Bia Miller of hidden agenda speaker fumes. That's worth reading. It's on page eight of the punch newspaper. Other headlines. 51,392 workers change pension companies. Move 190.62 billion naira. Quite some money in that sector, you would say. Reps order probe of contract kickback. Sixth torsion by MDA officials. That's amazing. And it's one to watch. It's on page 21 of the punch newspaper. Buhari recalls Kaduna. Recalls Kaduna bombing experience. L5 demands 7 billion naira reimbursement. So no surprises that he invited the president to come commission. So he could tell him directly, give me my money. Okay. INC. Yoruba group seek to join CNG suit on Biafran agitation. LASMA provides a probes. Officers attack on commercial bus. Female passengers are injured. And U-transformed legers do same for Nigeria. Niger state governor tells Tinnable. All right. Let's have G.D. Johnson share his thoughts on the issue. It's good to have you join us once again.  Okay. So G.D. Johnson, let's start off with the big one. It's dominating all of the papers. And this is Reps probe 1,780, I beg your pardon. 478,459 missing please fire arms from the Amur. This is on the daily independent, but it's made the rounds on all of the papers this morning. It's business as usual. Don't get excited. It's business as usual. What has been the head product of Honorable Minister of the Mike? The probe of Honorable Minister of the Mike. At every cycle they start a drama, a distracting drama to distract us from the reality of what is going on. We just hear the beginning of the probe. We don't see the end of the probe. That's just my take on it. How will that happen? And then they will start the probe without inviting people to come and answer questions. With respect to missing fire arms. And then we talk about the security challenges which we have. It should raise the flag for everybody. It shouldn't even be timing in carrying out this investigation. But like typical proofs we have had in the past in this country. Coming from the National Assembly. Well, don't let me be too pessimistic, but as far as I'm concerned, we just hear about the beginning of the probe. We don't see anything out of it. There won't be any prosecution. There won't be anything. Nothing has happened to the NDDC probe. It's a National Spotlight. It created cliches and commonplace statements for people. And when people want to go to Honorable Minister of the Mike, we have not seen anything out of it. So this one, hopefully we'll see something positive out of it. Because the media is facing a country with the issue of security challenges. kidnapping, banditry, terrorism. And if fire arms that are meant to secrete lights of Nigeria are missing, how is it missing? Through which channel is it missing? In order to civilize clients, the inspector general of the police will have been gone. All of the people that are in charge will have been gone. At least they will have an excuse first, why the probe is going on. But they can't have the probe. People have not been asked to step aside, why the probe is going on, so that the process cannot be corrupted. And we are just seeing it on the bridge of these people. God will help Nigeria and God will help the rest of the members. Quite a very pessimistic position on this, Mr. Johnson. But I'm sure what's on the mind also of people out there watching this morning is that 178,000 arms, weapons, that's a lot. I mean, how does such an amount of weapons go missing from the Nigeria police force? For me, you are alarmed. Still when you are alarmed is when I'm alarmed. But the people involved are alarmed. At the beach, as shocked as you are. And I throw it back to you. Let's assume that you are given the power of the state to manage the state for 24 hours or 48 hours. And you make this discovery. What do you think will happen? How are you going to react? Now, see, when this report came out, see the way the report was released, there is no, people are not shocked or rattled in night places with respect to the disappearance of firearms. It's a criminal. In fact, those that are involved will be tried for sedition. Are they trying to plan to subvert elected authority? Are they planning to subvert government? What did they use the firearms for? So these are the issues that actually agitates the bans of an avid Niger. But these are the issues that should be of concern, not only to the prayer. In fact, there should have been a joint committee to look into this matter so that they can quickly disperse this issue and urge people to answer questions. But you see, what will happen with the proof? I don't want to lose my sanity because of proof that has no end. Okay, let's just stay with the daily independent news report. Please refer another interesting is the fact that NEC is yet to decide on fuel pump price and subsidy removal. Now, look, it's a matter of double-speak. NEC said NNPC has the right to fix the prices. And here, in that same news report, you see the rider. Now, at the same time, NEC is saying that they are yet to decide and that, you know what, this present fuel subsidy cannot sustain us beyond June 20. The question is, who is subsidizing? And where is the subsidy coming from? Because from my teenage years to my hard-earned home, all I've heard from government is subsidy removal until we go to the stage behind when this present administration assured us that they are going to leave the prices to market forces, that they are not going to be paying subsidy and the rest of it. And now they came back again to tell us that we have to remove the subsidy. And you actually said this question. Does it require rocket science for us to fix our refinery? Does it require rocket science? Now, it's only in Nigeria that you are fluctuating at every year or every other year that you are fluctuating prices for a petroleum product. It's only in Nigeria that we import products that God has naturally endowed us with. Now, it shows our crude thinking. What was crude oil? Now, because we can't think, we don't have the thinking for cutting to transform this crude oil into petroleum products. Diesel, kerosene and the rest of it. And we have to import that crude back to export the crude and import finished petroleum, since we are crude and those that are innovated in their thinking. So they would dictate the price. They dictate the price with which they buy our crude and they dictate the price in which they sell the refined products back to us. And you begin to wonder, what has it taken since the advent of democratic governance? Any child that is given back to will be 23 years old. Now, 20 years is the age of responsibility. Now, if after 23 years, leadership at the state level, at the federal level, across party divide, PDP, PCA, CNAD, APP, CNC and the rest of them have not been able to come out with a comprehensive policy to deal with the foreign exchange and the furniture and the major product that we use to sustain our economy that we have to depend on foreign competition of products that God has naturally endowed us with. He tells you something is wrong with our polity, something is wrong with our public administrator and something is wrong with those that are partying themselves to be a political leader of 2023. Okay, so but we still have an issue on the table and the issue of that the president has not directed, the president did not direct the removal of subsidy. So that's on the one hand, and on the other hand, you also have the discrepancy, the Minister for Culture saying, oh, they're going to probe all of that.  Well, he said it's national economic council. If the president doesn't require presidential directive, does the president have the power to single-handedly call for removal of subsidy? Well, there are provisions in the 2022 budget by 2022 budget for payment of subsidy because no single payment can be made by anybody except it is approved by the National Assembly. So are there provisions for payment of subsidy in 2021 budget? Are there provisions for in 2020 budget? Are there provisions for it in 2019 budget? So these are questions that will be accessed. Now, if you are going to pay till June and the budget has been signed into law, and that means that if there are provisions for it for the payment to be made till June, why were there the provisions for it from June to December? So these are basic questions that we need to ask. However, the more you look, the less you see and the more confused you become. When you begin to look at how we manage our national assets and how we manage our economy, you can see we want to put out economy. And as a result of not managing that we want to put out economy because everything centers around them, around petroleum products, centers around crude oil. And since we don't know how to manage our put out economy, we manage the crude oil in a good way. So our economy is good. Inflation is left rather than center. The price of goods are skyrocketing. And people can't make ends meet. And even governments are not fulfilling in its obligation. People are carving the real deliverables of democracy. So I just don't know what to say because the more you look at this matter, the more you confuse what is really wrong in the sector, what is really wrong in the sector. Why can't we get it right? If small neighboring countries that don't have petroleum products can have refineries and they have a stable price for their petroleum products, why can't we have ours? Since we are not able to manage that, and that's why we have seen that Naira has engaged in the free fall. You see that the value of our currency, the value of our currency is so inconsistent that the inconsistent inconsistency that has characterized the exchange value of Naira is a reflection of our mismanagement of the natural resources that we build our economy on we have not been able to manage. Mr. Johnson, before we move on to the next headline, Labour is still insisting it will go ahead with its proposed strike on this fuel subsidy removal. Are they still in existence? The Treaty of Congress is considering whether to go ahead. During the last forum I said they would meet with Labour to try and iron things out. What do you think should happen going forward? Can we even afford another strike? Are they still in existence? You recall when Adas O'Shamale was the Labour leader at the infantile stage of this democracy, we went on strike in 2002, in 2003, removal of fuel subsidy in 2004. Now when it became the governor, it changed its position. As I'm concerned, it's not like National Labour Congress. I don't know. What's the level of involvement and engagement in issues that affect... Jilly Johnson, I hope you can hear us. Apologies for that network activity issue. But if you can hear me, Jilly Johnson. Can you hear me, Jilly Johnson, please? I can hear you loud and clear, Kofi. Let's go straight to the punch newspaper. There is a little... It's given us a little position on the front page, but it seems to be important. The House of Reps again embarking on another probe. This time, they've ordered a probe of contract kickbacks and extortion by ministries, departments, and agencies, officials, MDE officials. This should be some good and chairing news. What do you say? I can't hear you. Can you take it again? The House of Representatives has ordered a probe of contract kickbacks and extortion by officials of ministry, departments, and agencies. Is this something that should be chairing news to Nigerians? They're engaging in a wild goose chase. I did not involve this. You see, it's a termiting. We call it kickback in Nigeria. They call it N-Max in America. They call it N-Max in America. So part of what happens with state contract, the House of Reps, we had this law that, to be as you can see, it was called the Adam Tew process, where we have, I can't recall the art specifically, but there was this art that, okay, public procurement art that talks about the process that should be in place before contracts are what we stick to those principles. The House of Reps and the Senate passed it and I think of as an administration signing it to law and then I do administration, do we stick to that? Do we still use that in content, award and monitoring in Nigeria? So as far as I'm concerned, they are approving this because they want to call the attention of particular ministries or agencies of government they're interested in. I'm sorry, I sincerely apologize for having a pessimistic view concerning proof because if you have to document the number of proofs that we have heard in Nigeria and then you see the one that eventually have outcome, I'm not sure we get up to 5% of outcomes from the proofs we have ever heard in this country. Since I was young and now that I'm old, I have never seen the input of proof that we have in Nigeria. Gede Johnson, it's alright. Let's also check out the leadership news report on this one. You have Nas speaking to the Electoral Empire, INEC saying tackle operational challenges before 2023 elections. Now the National Assembly should provide the framework that will guide the INEC in doing this job with different types of bottlenecks until pressure was exerted on them by the Nigerian public for them to allow INEC to do its basic constitutional provision. Now, they should not be directing that to INEC. They should look within the frameworks of the existing law. What can we do to help you? Not giving directive to INEC. What they should do is to have a collaboration and have a joint understanding and look at okay INEC, these are the things that we have observed and what have you observed and let us come together and reason and how we can strengthen our democratic institution. Do we directly perceive their military regime or they have executive authority to do that? It's like they don't know what should be their role and they are misplacing what should be their responsibility and placing that on INEC. They should work together with INEC strengthening our electoral act in such a way that it would give INEC the power to conduct the election. For example, the power to control the police who came during election giving directive shouldn't come from the inspector or general police. That power should be given to the INEC chairman. That's my view. The power to control the security apparatus when it comes to the election, directives when it comes to mobilization and providing security for critical infrastructure of democratic society because the critical infrastructure of democratic society is the election. It's the election. Who controls the security apparatus? Who deploys them? Who gives them directives? That which you have... Excuse me. That which you have within the framework of our laws so that we take it away from the political class and we take it away from the political appointees and you give that power to INEC and then see whether we will not continue the regime and see whether we will not deal with the issue of violence that we have when it comes to electoral issues. What difference would you make if you have INEC calling the shots or controlling the security architecture during the election days or the period of election? You need to see the way security and details are withdrawn and mobilized to other areas. Didn't you see what the president said in card 9, one of the pages of newspaper that nobody should have to be allowed to have army of talks and is coming from the retired general of the Nigerian army and presently the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the president is saying that nobody should be allowed to have a army of talks. Now that statement coming from the president in Canada recalling how he almost lost his life in 2016 is instructive in this manner for you to know that there are forces. I was sharing this with my students yesterday and I asked them, the president said in one of the interviews he granted to a national TV station that if we need the successor the successor will be eliminated. I said, oh, does it mean that there are forces that are more powerful than institutions that we have in the States? So as far as this issue concerning election because it's the pathway to public governance the control of it should be with whoever is controlling that election which should suspend the authority of governors of president that time and give it to INEC and the appointment of INEC should be taken away from the executive and should be taken to the judiciary whereby if we be the judiciary that will be responsible for the appointment discipline of all electoral officials across the nation and not making INEC a certain executive body in the 1999 constitution as amended. Thank you very much Mr. Johnson. Permit me to take you back to the punch newspaper. I've tried to bring a little bit of chair to you but you seem not to be taking some of the things that are being said by the authorities especially the legislature and the executive but maybe this headline would chair you up a bit. You give us your thoughts on the perceived or expected removal of petrol subsidy and the confusion regarding that and you made a point to say, you know what why don't we have our refineries working that is the first thing that should be worked on. Well on the front page of the punch newspaper this headline, you know, it speaks to that Port Hackett refinery projects 3.96 billion liters of petrol annually aviation fuel and I just will read a few lines from that for you. It says the Port Hackett refining company currently under rehabilitation will supply 11 million liters Mr. Johnson, 11 million liters of premium motor spirit, what we know as petrol to the domestic market, the latest report put together by the firm has stated this means the company is expected to produce about 3.96 billion liters of petrol annually. That's not the end. The Punch also reports that it also stated in that report that the facility would produce enough aviation turbine kerosene also known as aviation fuel or Jet A1 a development that would make Nigeria a hub for the commodity in West Africa. Come on Mr. Johnson this should make you happier and more optimistic. When of us was the president, we have turned around to us, that was the term that was used for the Port Hackett refinery, the Cardinal refineries who are refineries. In my hard-earned life I have experienced different types of government with different types of policy. Over the first subsidy removal, I lost almost 18 months in Unilag as a young child protesting and when government comes of it's expected to, it's expected to when expectations are not met after made promises, your spirit is tamponed. Now, what we need to ask is that what is stopping river state for example the South-South states in coming together to have a refinery what's stopping the South-West states in coming together to have a refinery if a private individual could try to site one in a bed then how much does it cost? Then how many years? After almost 23 years a quarter of a century all you need to take away from 23 years 25 years is 3 years 23 years of democracy, a quarter of a century a quarter of a century with consistent democratic governance at the state level and federal level and we have not been able to do that. I don't have any hope in this present crop of political class it's a hopeless situation and they will just come to the pages of newspaper and try to deceive us and play on our intelligence because they want to remove the subsidy now after they remove the subsidy they will still go back to business as usual. But the question that would always come up is that why don't we have our refineries I mean the existing ones functional and producing at the capacity that they should because it is providing for some people in that sector people are making money out of this out of this existing arrangement people are making money out of this existing arrangement you have yourself and we call ourselves the giant of Africa we should be giant in everything we should be and this is the main trust of our economy it's a monoproduct economy it's a monoproduct economy and our crude oil is one of the best in the world now why can't we have refineries in Nigeria produce to meet local demands as well as export to other neighboring countries and hand money on it but it is easier for people to make money from this it's clear we don't need any rocket science we don't need any rocket science people are on long trips we don't need we seen many partners being set to be investigated by the 7th,the 8th,the 9th assembly nothing has come out of it as a young person I told you about removal of self wealth subsidy I lost 18 months in Uni I don't know how many years of my adult life life that have lost as a result of protest over fuel hike or not that we stay at home and still is we are still in a cycle you know what someone said for us to do the same thing the same way the same manner I expect to get a different result is the beginning of insanity you ask yourself this question after almost a quarter of a century of democratic governors not a single refinery is working not a new one has been established the existing one have not been refurbished and I've not been put in place Mr. Johnson it's a it's a quite a very very very serious and sensitive matter and you seem still not to be convinced about the prospects of having a refinery's work but the the rehabilitation and I know they did not they avoided the word turn around maintenance this time they went for the word rehabilitation it started just in 2021 maybe we should give them some time to see what comes out of it but we'll have you here again we'll have you here again you see you see in three less time yeah all right sir thank you very much thank you very much for a time Jerry Johnson has been a guest on off the press I look at the headlines from the pages of the National Daily Caesar chief lecturer at the Nigerian Institute of Journalism thank you Mr. Johnson for a time we have more head and I see on the breakfast this morning and of course we're going to be telling you what happened today in history shortly after that we head straight to our very first major conversation we'll be right back please stay tuned


Okay. Hello. Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening. We are live streaming here with the sales training for Security 101. This is going to be part one. We're going to focus on a market and competitive overview. And then a week from today we will be doing part two with a focus on the sales plays and roles and key messages and a little bit more tactical. Okay. So I'd like to remind you that this is live streaming so we can take Q&A. You can put it in the chat window in either YouTube or Google Hangouts. And John Jeremiah is on to help me make sure that I don't overlook any questions and probably also help me make sure I save plenty of time for Q&A at the end. So I'm going to be using the agenda that was in the meeting notice to go through this. And if you'd like to follow along all of the links to all of the content, all of the links are there, most of which comes directly from our handbook. So I apologize if I'm a little bit not so smooth. This is my first time to do a presentation where I don't use slides and I'm using the handbook. So hopefully everybody can follow along. So we're going to start with that application security landscape. Now you can find this here on this page that is under the competitive section. We've got a market overview. I don't want to read all of this to you, but I do want to make a couple of key points here because I think that the context is really important in the context for change. Traditionally, application security has been kind of small potatoes in the overall security pie, right? Security started out with focusing on the perimeter and whether that was network security and work endpoint security and using multiple layers for defense in depth to keep the bad guys out. It's really evolved to a much more proactive and predictive method and application security has taken on a much greater importance. And some of this has to do with the move towards cloud computing with major attacks that have been in the news that everyone sees. So they're top of mind. The GDPR is another one where this is a requirement not only for European companies but for companies outside of the EU that have data about EU citizens. So they need to make sure that their software vendors adequately secure the private information. So there's this heightened sense of how can I do that? Well, applications are a key way that that data gets compromised. So application security just becomes more and more important. There's a great 451 article that talks about the rise of open source code and how just one little piece of code that is vulnerable gets multiplied a thousand fold out there in the wild and how that can become very pervasive. And then DevOps. So DevOps velocity really requires a different approach to security. Historically, security has been something that was done at the end. So you code, you do all of your other kinds of testing, your unit performance, all that kind of testing you get at the end, you do your security testing and someone would review the results and decide if the vulnerabilities that were found were critical and needed to stop movement to production and you go back and do the remediation. That just doesn't work in a DevOps environment. When you are moving things to production, you know, monthly, weekly, daily, hourly like we do, there's just not time to hold up production. Which brings me to a point that, well, before I get to that point, the DevOps can be hard to integrate security in it when it's done as a standalone siloed process and tool. So if you find, if your customers find themselves having to either let the vulnerabilities move to production and hope that they get fixed or stop production, you know, stop a move to production, which is going to hurt your business velocity, you know, these are the trade-offs that your customers are making. And with GitLab having security testing built into the entire DevOps process makes it possible for you to not have to make some of those choices. So you can test on every commit and merge request. You can test without spending a fortune to do that. If you took some of the application security, the siloed solutions that are out there today, they're very expensive. They charge either by line of code or by developer. There's a bunch of different models but the more things that you test, the more it's going to cost. That's not the case here in terms of it's built in. If you're using GitLab, then you get the, with GitLab Ultimate, you get the security testing. Our security paradigm is a good page to share as well with your customers. This is really our point of view. I think Fabio and Philippe worked on this. And it really talks about how we believe that security just needs to be built in, baked in, and it shouldn't hold up the build. And so when you think about that, it does mean for the security individuals that they need to be able to come back after the fact and keep an eye on what vulnerabilities are found and look at it from their viewpoint. And that's where the security dashboard comes in that just launched with 11-1. So let's see, I'm going to just kind of go back to the agenda on where we are for just a minute. We're going to focus on the competitive landscape. And then we're going to talk about kind of an overall value proposition that I think is important to use and then we'll go to Q&A. So from a competitive standpoint, this is the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Security Testing. And what you'll see on here is these vendors that are the leaders, they've been around for a very long time. They have very mature products. They are typically point products. I mean, MicroFocus has Fortify and they also have several other products as does IBM. And of course, they can solve more problems than AppScan and Fortify can, but they're going to have to sell you more and more pieces to do that. So the ones that you also may run into quite a bit would be Black Duck, Sonar Cube, Sonotype, some of those guys that tend to be a little bit more narrowly focused. So because we acquired gymnasium and got into dependency scanning, that's kind of the reason why you see Black Duck, Sonotype, White Source, these guys as your competition because they are primarily competitive for dependency scanning. But you got to remember, we have SAS, DAS, Container Scanning and License Management. So all of that within the purview of our security capabilities. So it's really multi-dimensional in terms of who the competitors are, but I hope that this chart which is on the handbook will help you understand kind of where we fit and where the different competitors fit. Let me just make sure I didn't miss. Yeah, so when we talk about the value proposition, it's important to distinguish the difference between this siloed approach that the other vendors have of being a point solution for individual pieces versus GitLab's end-to-end. We are end-to-end not only with security, but we're end-to-end for the entire DevOps tool chain. So that integration is really where the value comes. So we may not have some feature functionality that one of the more expensive guys do. We're working on that. We'll get there eventually. But that is kind of a side benefit to having security built into your DevOps processes. So we'll talk some more next week when we get into the sales plays and who to talk to and what they care about. But this page here will show you, here's a summary of what we have. And this is sort of a teaser for the benefit to each of the different roles. So the developer, they don't have to stop what they're doing and go look at another tool. They're in their native environment and so they don't have that context switching issue. When they run a merge request, they can drill down immediately and see what the issues are and either log an issue to fix it later or fix it right away. For the security pro, now that we have the security dashboard, you can look across merge requests and see all of the different issues that need to be resolved and weigh in on that and be more collaborative with the development team. In addition, a lot of times the security professionals end up spending so much of their time just maintaining tools. And if you're using GitLab and it's part of the process and part of the one single application, you don't have to manage and maintain all of those other integrations. So it frees them up to do what they really need to be doing and want to be doing which is focusing on security vulnerabilities. And for the C-suite, they typically are juggling the level of security versus how much it costs and business agility. And that tends to be a three-legged stool and one or the other typically has to give. That doesn't necessarily have to be the case though because one application was security built in. You save on licensing costs. There's an ROI efficiency, I was going to say slide, but it's a web page that you can look at that does a comparison on if you can replace some of those tools. I think we'll talk about who that message is best for. And you can scan all of your applications. One of the big trade-offs that companies have to make with the more expensive siloed application security tools is they can't afford to test every application. That's part of it. And within the application, they can't afford to test incremental improvements. So the fact that you can test with every merge request really, really has a value there in terms of shifting left and helping people find those vulnerabilities earlier. Which I want to remind everybody there is a security deck. And next week we'll go over a lot more of the resources. But there is a security deck out there that goes into the products that we have and has some demos and gets a little bit more into how we solve the problems. But again, kind of food for thought, save that for next week. And I think I'm at 15 minutes here and I want to make sure that I reserve plenty of time for Q&A. So let's jump over to questions. Let's see. Simon Williams, have we got any stats on how much time GitLab would save on remediation of security issues? So time, not so much cost. There's a lot of resources out there that will show by shifting left how much cost can be saved because what happens is if you can remediate early, you don't have to do the rework and retesting. If you remediate late in the game in a traditional security gate, then the developer has to go back and fix it. You've got to retest everything. And that just, your costs go up exponentially. And I'll try to find some of those sources on the cost side. I don't know that I've seen any on the time side, but I really kind of go hand in hand because the cost is an equation of how much developer time is spent going back and doing the remediation and the retesting. Good question. John, do you have any questions from YouTube? No, Cindy, that's it from YouTube so far. We'll see if anybody else has any other questions. Feel free to post the questions in chat on YouTube if you have them. Okay, we'll give a few more minutes. Maybe it was so thorough that there aren't any questions. So in the meantime, Cindy, what are you going to cover next week? I know we're going to have a follow-on session. What are the highlights for next week that you're going to address? Good point. Very good point. So next week, we're going to talk about selling GitLab security. So who's a prospect and who's not? You don't want to waste your time. You don't want to waste your time on someone that's not a prospect and you really don't want to pitch the wrong value proposition to the wrong segment. So we're going to look at the market segments. There's immature security folks and there's very mature security folks and I think that the approach that we take for each of those needs to be a little bit different because their interests are going to be a little bit different. And then when we look at buyers and users, what do they care about? What does the developer care about? What does the security pro care about? And what I'd like to do is flush out the security plays a little bit. In fact, if you want to take a look at this document in advance, I'd really like it to be sort of a community contributed aspect to this. And then we'll cover resources too a little bit. In fact, just to give you a kind of a sneak peek here, I can show out in the documents. There are pages for each of the five security capabilities. SAS, DAS, container security, dependency security and scanning and license management. And what you'll see here are the languages that are supported. This is also summarized in the security deck, but this goes into a little bit more depth. So I hope you find the links in this agenda useful. Do you have any other questions? I guess let me maybe take a stab at a couple of the questions that I get frequently. One of the key questions that I get is how do we compare to pick your favorite poison? How do we compare to an individual point solution? And I just really want to reiterate the point there that it's not about a head to head comparison. It's really about that integration. And that is really, really key because there's no question whether security is part of the process for every piece of code that goes through your software factory. Okay, well, I think we can give some folks back some time and we'll pick up next week. Cindy, I got another question. Paul Duffy asked a question. Is anyone else providing SAS so early in the dev commit process around commits and merges from Paul Duffy? Yes, they are. There are at least two that I can think of that are actually putting the security capabilities into the developer's IDE, typically into Visual Studio. I think there may be a couple other IDEs out there that it's sort of like a spell check capability where as the developer's typing, it will come up and caution them that, hey, this is not a secure method of coding that and even offer remediation advice. That is something that we can aspire to. We don't do that today. But it's also something that is in the more, some of the most costly vendors out there. Okay, Cindy, by the way, I'm taking questions on Slack too. So if people ping me in the sales channel in Slack, I'll take the questions there as well. Oh, nice. Okay, great. So we'll give people a second or two because I think Larry might have had a question or Hayden was typing right now. Give us a second here. And while we're doing that, I can also address another question that came up quite a bit the other day, which is, can we get this as a slide? And so we're working on putting that image into the pitch deck. Oh, and I had a question for everybody else. Should this competitor scope be in the security deck? Drop me a note in Slack if you want. Let me know your thoughts there. Okay, so two questions. Okay. When I put this in the chat as well from Larry, do you see a coexistence strategy with existing tools where devs are empowered to first and security, you know, a security professional then goes second? Yeah, absolutely. In fact, in the resources here at the end, I think Joel has a video where he talks about that. That's really good. I think for the, and this kind of gets into the next weeks, but I think for those enterprises who have already chosen to invest heavily in really sophisticated application security tools. If they use GitLab security as kind of the broad net that's done on every application and every merge request, it's going to save them from, you know, then they can focus their more concerted efforts and costly efforts on the exceptions rather than the rule. Or maybe they make that as, you know, kind of a security audit process as opposed to trying to push that into the developer space. Because one of the things that application security vendors have a really hard time with is getting developers to change their context and use a different tool. It just doesn't work quite frankly. And so it's been kind of this, I don't want to say adversarial, but it's been a difficult relationship between dev and security. And so I think this can be used to really help that. You've got one view, one tool, one source of source of truth that could help with the collaboration between dev and security very early in the life cycle and then continue to use the more expensive, more sophisticated tools later. Cool. So another question from Hayden, what are some of the common objections you might see something like, you know, do you support, you know, certain languages, etc. So languages, scope of language is always one of the early questions that will determine yes or no whether they can work with you right away. That's true for every vendor. I'd like to save some of that for next week when we talk about sales plays and and we can, I'll make a note to make sure that I cover objections there. Because I don't have anything prepared here to point to about objections, but note taken, I will make sure to cover that next week Hayden. Good. Thank you. And I've got another question I think coming in on slap. So Larry wanted a confirmation. So what we are providing, so his understanding then from what you described is, is it, is the value prop then a reducing license fees and we're, or is the value prop about earlier identification or mediation. This is Larry's, Larry's questions kind of building off of the coexistence strategy. I'm feeling my thunder for sales plays. Yes and yes and it depends on the audience. So the, those that haven't made an investment in application security yet. You can focus on the ROI and the fact that they can avoid making that costly investment and get started with us and get it integrated right from the get go with the folks that have already made those investments. The value proposition really is more around that integration. Cool. Another question Simon asked if we have, do we have case studies or even anecdotes where a security issue or breach resulted in a fine or some sort of a penalty from a regulator. I don't have one handy from a compliance standpoint but that will 51 article that I mentioned down here. It's in the resources as well because it's such a good article right here it. Whoops. It really focuses on heart bleed as being like the first major application security breach that that use third party code that had widespread implications and was very, very costly. Compliance is sort of the lowest common denominator. People that are focusing on compliance tend to not be the very mature security shops because so many people that have been compliant have been hacked. It's really it's just the minimum basic thing that you need to be doing but anyone particularly you know financial services health care software companies. They all go way above and beyond compliance so I wouldn't I wouldn't focus on so much on compliance as I would just on on some of the key attacks that are out there and if it would be helpful for you guys I'm happy to put together an updated list. I always kind of felt like it got tiring because everybody uses that but if it would be helpful for you. Let me know drop me a note I'd be happy to do that. All right, looking at slap it can see Larry's typing something I'm going to give him a second or two. Another way to contribute verbally versus through I am not sure this is a productive. Oh, that was Larry asking Hayden good feedback and so yeah we're by the way we're learning as we do this. We should be in the hangout I don't know why people couldn't join the hangout. We were going to do some troubleshooting offline and figure out why you couldn't be in the hangout to do this verbally. That's the intent of this that you join the hangout if you're one of the first 50 participants. We're in the hangout together and as far as I can tell no one is in the hangout. So we're going to have to figure that out. I don't know if anyone's in the hangout. I think there's 33 viewers. Well, those are I think those are viewers in YouTube. I don't think those are viewers in the hangout so I need to figure out what happened. I'm going to do another test hangout later to figure that out. Okay, it could be that other hangout. Well, it's also possible because we are also competing in this time slot with the retrospective from the release. So that might be it. It could be that we're we're sitting on top of that. So either way. Okay, so sorry about that. I was that's why everybody's so quiet. I guess I didn't think this group was quiet. Well, there's there are two live streams going on from get lab right now this one and the and the retrospective. So which could be why we had this conflict. Yep. Okay. Well, thank you all appreciate your participation. And if there's anything like the objections that you would like to see specifically next week, I need to add it's not already in that agenda. Be sure and let me know. Thanks, everyone. Take care. Bye.