The following is a presentation of TFNN The Trader's Edge with Steve Rhodes at 1-877-927-6648 or internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER> The Trader's Edge Now Steve Rhodes. Good morning folks. Welcome to the May 17th. The wonderful Wednesday edition of today's Trader's Edge show. I'm your host, Steve. Perseverance Rhodes, who absolutely knows that each of us should always be pioneers of our future versus prisoners of our past. I hope everyone out there is having a great day. Let's make sure we have an extraordinary one and the easiest way to do that is to always remember that life is happening for us, not to us. That's right. When you and I make that one little two-by-four shift, it means we can find a gift. In every set of circumstance that has been tossed out, sorry, was looking at something that got sidetracked there. I thought maybe we were having the same issue we had with the microphone, but we don't. So that's a good thing. In any event, folks, look, I would love to hear from you. So give us a call at<PHONE_NUMBER>. If you can't call him, but you've got a question, then send me an email. Now send that up early because sometimes these Internet service providers, it takes a while to get to me. Send that up to Steve at TFN.com. It's the subject heading just to make it easier for me to differentiate your email from all the junk that I get. Just put radio show question. And of course, if you're inside our Tiger's Den, like Mr. John did, you can send me any kind of message, private or public. So let's go ahead and get this show started on wonderful Wednesday. Of course, this is Tiger, Financial News Network. I'm Steve Rhodes. Welcome to the show. We got a sea of green out there. You've got all the U.S. industries that we track trading to the upside. Dow's up 129. S&P 15. NASDAQ 47. All those up about four tenths percent. Eight tenths for the Russell. That's 15 points. One of three tenths for the Summars. That's 40 points out there. One percent, nine tenths percent for the Trannies. 124 points. Leading the charge, dollar-wise, the upside. You've got service now. 19 bucks, 4% lamb research, 14 bucks, two and a half percent. Broadcom, 11 bucks. One and seven tenths percent. Keysight technology, 11 bucks, 7% out there. United Rentals, 11 bucks, the upside, 3% move. To the downside, it's Madrigal Pharmaceuticals, off nearly 12 bucks. That's 4% move. Agilisys, down 9 bucks, or 11% world wrestling, entertainment, down 7%, nearly eight bucks. Everest Real Estate Group, down 650. Renaissance Holding, down about 6 bucks, a 3% move. So we've got movers and we've got shakers out there. So let's do this here. Let's first start and take a look at where we at with regard to market breadth. So let's take a look at our four primary time frames. The Daily, Weekly, the 240 and the 60. This is the S&P 500. So even though you've got a nice little rally going inside the S&P 500, expect it to be very choppy because all four of these speed dials are in the negative. And in fact, if you take a look at a 60-minute time frame chart, you have 47 instruments trading above profile and 335 trading below. Wow! Now you want to see, this is, we're going to see the exact opposite. I don't know if we're going to see it, the exact opposite. But let's take a look at the NDX100. What do we have? Wow! So that's really wild. I did not expect this. So you are negative market breadth for the NASDAQ 100 and the S&P for all four time frames out here. We're going to go take those intraday charts, see if we can find any kind of topping patterns out there. So you got market breadth negative with the price move up. It says be careful for a trap door. At least that's what it says to Stevie. So let's go put up a chart of the, well I'm interested in NASDAQ because that certainly is leading the charge out here. So let's take, whoops, that wasn't the set of charts I wanted. Give me a moment, we'll get there and then we'll change over. It's right here. Okay. So let's go change over to the A panel set of charts that I've got out here. White background charts and see if we can figure anything out with regard to the NQ. Let's start just simply with the shortest timeframe. Let's go lower right all the way to upper left. Someone just expand this out. What do we see? So all we see here is basically a consolidation. We see a consolidation. We're up towards the top of the consolidation. No, other than that, no signal. So no pattern that I've got. Let's try the 15 minute try. I doubt we're going to see anything more here. Well, we do have actually a Rosemont Dominicator bottom. And with price above profile and its oscillator and change line, this suggests that it wants to get back and test that TD9 count high. However, it's inside that swing point. As long as it remains above 13, 532.50, or just above that right now, the nods would favor going at least testing that swing high, because of that bottom signal that we have. If we look at a 30 minute timeframe chart, let's expand this out as well. Nothing new here. We do know that it's TD9 count top hell. But again, you just see that consolidation that's unfolding, whether it's in the smaller timeframes or the larger timeframes. On a 60 minute chart, we don't have anything here other than price trading into the sell zone. The sell zone is about where it's at right now, 13, 529 up to 13, 554. The two hour chart has a wave seven top out there, and price is consolidating with inside its profile. That would say if you want to sell, the target might be that 13, 554 area to put on some kind of a short position. The 240 minute chart has a TD9 count top. Now, if that high gets taken out, that means a close above it on a four hour timeframe, the next four hour timeframe bar closed at 2pm. You need to see a close above 13, 554, 50. If we get that, that's a signal that you've got further rally to go out here. On the five hour timeframe chart, it has a sell the D point pattern, a close above that TD9 count top on the 240 would accomplish the same thing. And then finally, we're left with the daily timeframe. And then the daily timeframe, we're likely going to go ahead and negate its roads with the mitigator top. That form, we had that little bear sash candle back here on May 12. So that sets up the resistance as the high of that candle. The high of that candle is 13, 494, 25. Now, even if that gets taken out, we're trading above that right now, you can see that yesterday was bar number eight. Yesterday was also bar number seven of a potential wave seven top out there. But of course, if you get one tick above yesterday's high, that continues to extend. This is going to become bar number nine, as long as price closes above the close of bar number five, that close was 13, 446, 50. So even though you could lose one topping signal, you would have another that would replace it. Now the TD9 count top would not really complete until tomorrow. It'll be confirmed, could be confirmed today, but we'll not complete until tomorrow out there. So what does this say to us? It says we really have the top in place. There's no reason for the NQ that the NQ needs to take out that TD9 count top. It's basically like well, so here's the issues. So let's take a look at the issues out here really would be the semiconductor index. So let's go try to take a look at that. I wish I had has market data for that. I don't. I'd have to manually do that. That would be a take a while to do. So we're not doing that. I think it'll take a while. But let's take a look at the SMH. So here you can see inside the SMHs. Yesterday, they completed the one to one A to B equals CD. I think we looked at that during the show. But what we didn't know was at day's end that we were going to see a bearish shooting star candle. Now that should have confirmed a Gartley cell pattern. I don't know where today's close will be. But if today's close is in fact below yesterday's high and yesterday's high is 127.42, then that pattern still remains in effect. Whereas if it closed above 127.42 or whatever the number was that negates that signal and says we move higher. It's only daily pattern out there is still the A to B equal CD to the upside. And that would say it would need another bearish reversal candidate to confirm a top. If you were to ask me, where is the SMH headed to? Assuming it closed above yesterday's high, the inch would be 130.25. That's the top of its weekly profile. Boy, these markets are confusing. Negative market breadth across the board inside the S&P and the NDX100. 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At TFNN, all our newsletters come with a 30-day money back guarantee, so you have absolutely nothing to worry about. Visit TFNN.com and try Mastering Probability 30 days risk-free today. TFNN, educating investors. Welcome back, folks.  I'm sorry, Russell's up 18, Nasdaq is up 73. We'll take a look at the Charter for High Grade Copper. We're looking at the July contract. This is a question from inside the Tiger's Den from our man, John, or otherwise goes by Z. And the question is specifically, what level must be exceeded to confirm a new rally? So, John, I have to answer the question this way. First, if we take a look at the monthly timeframe chart, and I realize we've just been way through the month out here, but price was trading above it, closed above it for four consecutive months. And now we have price, and that was a bearish structured monthly profile. And so price has pulled back into the level. The exact level would be 3.6559. The actual low has been 3.6525. If this is just a countertrend move to the downside, that's where it would find support. So that's a suggestion to me that the rally has already begun. Now, the weekly chart says, well, I'm not so sure, but the week is not over. Last week, it did close below the bottom of its weekly profile. So the first number of the piece of your puzzle is going to be, can price get back above the top of the bottom of that profile? And that level is 3.7872. If we get that, that combined with the monthly chart out there, that would then say to me, okay, we already have a bottom. Now, in the daily timeframe, yesterday, the daily timeframe, well, really, it was a couple of days ago, it closed below its breakout level of 3.7445. There's an A to B equal CD to the downside. We can see that. If you can't see that, folks, let me just go ahead, I'll draw it in here. We'll just simply use a line chart. We'll go from A to B. So let me draw this in here. So it's our TD9 count top out here, all the way down to wave number seven. I'm just simply going to go ahead and move that chart over here, or that line over there, and I'll pull the chart. So we can see that we're already, so what it's doing today, and that is the daily timeframe chart for high-grade copper, is it may, I don't know what it will look like at day's end, but this is confirming a Gartley buy pattern. Why? Because at the completion of the one-to-one level, we're talking about almost like an exact completion of the one-to-one, we now have a bullish engulfing candle. What I don't know is whether this will be a bullish candle at day's end. But, John, as we speak right now at 11.20, if this were the end of the contract time period for the day, I would say you already have the confirmation of the bottom. That didn't answer the question that you had, which level must be exceeded to confirm a new rally out here. So in the case of the daily timeframe chart, this is where you really, this is a piece of the puzzle out here, and price is below that red oscillator change. So that's the first level price got to get above 3.7732. You get above that. Well, now it's got to deal with daily profile levels. No idea how to get through. Remember, the monthly was a barestructured profile. The daily is a bullish structured profile. What's that mean, Stevie? That means unless a new profile form between now and then, then being what price would get up there, that's where a counter trend move would end to the upside, and that would be at $3.87. I think that's too early to call at this stage here. But so again, just to step you through the process with regard to high-grade copper, the monthly chart has pulled back to exactly where a counter trend rally would find support. The weekly chart has closed below the bottom of its weekly profile, and that could be saying lower price, but if it can get back inside its profile, then it would be a false breakdown move. And to do that, it needs to get back above 3.7872 by the close of Friday. The daily at this stage here is confirming a Gartley buy pattern. If I take a look at the other intraday charts out here, I would say the 60-minute timeframe chart is showing us a resistance level, and that's its TD9 count breakdown level at 3.7755. So if you get a close above that, that would be another positive out there. So perfect, John. You got it. You got the information. That was the best way that I could give you the answer to your question. And what that's going to then do now is that's going to lead us into another question. So one of the questions that we've got out here came in from Hector. And Hector wants to take a look at southern copper. Now, I have not taken a look at his question, but since we just took a look at the copper charts, let's go see what southern copper is doing. And let's actually go ahead and, yeah, let me go ahead and read his question. I can come back to that right there in a minute. I think I put it right here. So let me pull up his actual email question so I can at least try to answer that. And it goes like this, as southern copper, where would you draw an A to B equals CD down and possibly by the D point setup? Thanks, and have a great day. Okay. So first with regard to southern copper, I can see that it has already completed a by the D point pattern. So his first question or the only question is where would I draw the A to B equals CD pattern? So let's draw on the A point. That's going to be here. I'll give you the date. Give me a moment. We'll get back up there. The A point that I've got out here was from April 19th. That led to a swing point low B point at April 27th. That then I'm going to go ahead and just simply copy that line. So let's do a little cut, paste and assemble. Everybody here can become a CPA. And now when we take a look at this, you can see that this has more than done the one to one A to B equals CD. Once we get to that area, we look for bullish reversal candles. Turns out, even though we had this gap to the downside on May 11, and then we had a little small body candle right at the bottom of the body of the prior candle out there. And then we had this move to the upside that gave us our three river evening or morning star pattern. What that does is that sets up your support level at 6882. So it's has completed the D point with that bullish reversal candle. Now we have a price that is trading with inside its profile out here. That profile runs from a bottom of 6992, a center of 6992. And that level was tested this morning. That is your buy area, 6992. Now I don't know whether the price will get back there or not. It's still below the top of its profile, which is at 7102. If you close above 7102, price should then target 7372. At the same time that Southern Copper is generating a buy the D point, a Gartley buy pattern on a weekly basis, prices, testing support at the bottom of the weekly profile. On a monthly basis, prices pulled back to test that green oscillator and change line. A green oscillator and change line is exactly where you would expect a retracement, even though this is a large retracement, a retracement to find support. So your question was not, is it a buy today? But the answer to that question is absolutely. And then we just put that together with Copper and the charts that we saw there. So you've got everything set up here, both inside of Copper, as well as inside of Southern Copper. So let's just say a great thanks to both Mr. Z and the Tigers Den and Hector, who was thinking the same kind of thing out there for helping each of you to identify two potential trades out there. And it's only 11.25 in the morning. Boy, is that a beautiful thing or what? Okay. So let's move on to our next request out here. Next request coming from Roger. He wanted to take a look at a more detailed review of that Dow Equity Future contract. So let's get back here. That wasn't it. Let's see if we get back to the day trading. There we go. So here we've got the Dow Equity Future contract. So we can get down to a, the question is, as I look at this, what do I see? What do you see? What is out here to assist us with regard to the way that the Dow is trading? So on a daily timeframe, just simply open up the charts here, you know, you've really got, I keep expanding this consolidation pattern out here. Your support level. So just simply using candlestick, this is not pattern recognition or anything along those. You've got a Bolshevik Golfy candle here that says the low of the candles added in golf becomes support. 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The four-hour chart has a confirmed rogement to indicator bottom. It has resist at 33-284. 33-284 is going to be your key resistance level. If price can close above that, we should see a further rally. The two-hour timeframe chart has a rogement to indicator bottom. It's trading into its barest structured profile with the resistance level being at the 33-283 mark. So, that's why 33-284 is going to be your key area to watch and observe today. The 60-minute timeframe chart, which had a TD9 count bottom, went ahead and formed a Gartley buy pattern. That Gartley buy pattern took price back to profile support and also turn chains on support. The move lower is done. If it can close above 33-233, it suggests it wants to move higher. The 30-minute chart also confirmed a sell the D-point pattern. Price found support at the bottom of its boiler structured profile. So, its work to the downside is done. Should continue to move higher. Higher to where? Well, we still got to deal with that 33-284. But if 33-284 can get taken out, then it heads up to the 33-372 mark out there. If I look at the 15-minute timeframe chart, even though it's got a roadsman to indicator signal, it's been triggered, no bearish candles or anything. So, it's just a potential for a little shower out there. I don't see anything on the 10-minute chart. So, overall, what the Dow Equity Future contracts are signaling to us right now, Roger, is that price wants to move higher. We don't know whether it can take out 33-284, but if it does wants to even move higher. And the odd thing is, and I'm not saying take a long trade, in fact, if anything, I would say this is a good moment to sit on the sidelines and watch what unfolds here because I just checked that market breadth again. And for the S&P and for the Nasdaq 100, it is bearish for all four timeframes out there. It's not that the market can't rally and that those can't shift. It's just really unusual out there. So, it's kind of like expecting something to come out of thin air out here to go ahead and send the market slower. But I've got to read the charts the way that I read the charts. And so, we just did that. And I hope that provided you with the information you were looking for on the Dow equity future contract. Let's get to the next question coming in from Jim Belaya wants to take a look at the XLU. So, let's see if we get that. That wasn't it. Let's see if we can find that XLU, the utility sector out there. Now, I don't know what the question was. I apologize. I didn't write it down. I don't know if there was a specific question. I'm going to take a look at it. But here's what we do know about the XLU. It's going to go target 65.59. Why do you say that, Stevie? Well, for a couple of reasons. The first reason though is it's been below the bottom of its daily profile. This is now session number three. And that becomes the area where it broke out from. So, that is the next level of support. On a weekly timeframe, price is trading below the center of its profile at 66.76. So, that says, okay, it wants to continue to move lower. 65.59 is the next price target level. On a weekly basis, the price target level will be 64.06. That would be the bottom of its weekly profile. And on a monthly timeframe, you have price above the top of its profile, but below its oscillator and change line. So, based upon the signals we see on the daily and the weekly, this says that it wants to pull back further. And this level of support would be 65.57, the top of its profile. So, what we've got with regard to target areas for the utility sector is going to be 65.57, 64.06, and 65.59 out there. Now, on a 30-minute timeframe, if we go take a look at it, just see what's going on intraday, we don't have any kind of a bottom signal. Not just, shall I take that back? Do I take it back? Do I want to take it back? No, I don't want to take it back. We do have a potential for a TD9 count pattern to form. But price must spike below 66.16 between now at 11.34, 8.12, 30. By one o'clock, we have to have a spike below that. Then you could potentially get a TD9 count bottom on the 30-minute timeframe. That would say expect a little bit of a rally out there. So, that's what I see when we take a look at the XLU. Lastly, how many days to the downside? Three consecutive days to the downside is what today's low may form. If we take a look back here, even during the very bearish of times, it mostly, when it got to a three-day consecutive move lower, it at least got a one-day move higher if not two or three days higher out there. I do believe over the long haul, that's where the XLU is headed. But I would say to expect or anticipate a likely bounce tomorrow or the next day out there. Hope that helped you out. Jumbilaya, thanks so much for the request. We had ELO inside the Tiger's Den. Wanted to take a look at KRE, the banking sector out there. So, we take a look at KRE out here. What KRE has done other than get trashed, it confirmed a roachment to indicator bottom, and it did that on May the 5th. It did that by generating a gap to the upside. That became its bullish reversal candle. Now, today, you've got a bear, a bull separating candle, another bullish candle to confirm that roachment to indicator bottom. So, what I would say ELO is odd's favor.  And resistance, the first level of resistance is 4047. The second level of resistance is 4132. Now, short of a new profile forming, what you can see here, ELO, is that is a bullish structured profile. The price has been below for several days out here. A counter-trend move. If this is all this is inside of the retail banking sector, it would find resistance at 4132. Not that it couldn't find it in 4047, which it can, but 4132 would be the end. If you see a close on a daily basis, about 4132, says this is more than a counter-trend move. Could it be more than a counter-trend move? Absolutely positively, yes. Why, Stevie? Well, if you look at the weekly chart, you have a TD9 count bottom. That's been confirmed. That says what price wants to do is move up to 4192. And 4192 is its oscillator and change line. So, KRE should continue to move higher. Look at that monthly chart. What does it do? It gets all the way back to where price broke out from 3517. Folks, learn the TD9 count system out there. It's an easy one. And, you know, depending on the timeframe, you know, intraday, it's not going to be so easy to calculate yourself. But on a daily chart for whatever positions you have in your portfolio, you should just understand where they're at. And you should do it for multiple time frames out. They're a real easy pattern. I teach it to you. Subscribe to Mastery of Probability. If you do for 20 and 80, it doesn't cost you anything out there. So, KRE definitely is a bottom candidate out here. So, I do hope that that helps you out, ELO. And thanks much for the request. The next question coming in from Tim, who wants to take a look at On Semiconductor. So, let's actually get to the question that came in by email. So, let me see if we can answer it. It says, looking for a long position when the opportunity rises, looking at the daily, weekly, and monthly out here. So, you have, oh, this is not on. This is SCCO. Let me see if I've got on done here. There we go. We got on. And, you know, the problem with this is, only way for me to give you an entry price is to tell you to plug your nose, jump into the deep end of the pool. And I'm not really a big fan of that. What price is doing, it has a swing point out here from February 20, February 9. That swing point did volume of 9.1 million shares. So far today, you're moving into with 4.2. You're moving to that swing point with volume. That high should get tested. The high of that swing point was 87.55. You're at 85.89. Now, I don't have any kind of a topping pattern in play out here. I'd hesitate to throw in an A to B equal C. Let me just, I'm like, other charts here. Let me just look real quickly. Just, well, I'll tell you what, we're going to a break right now. Let me just review ON on Semiconductor as we're in that break. See if we can come up with an A to B equal C to your nut.  Steve Roach with TFNM. We'll be right back. You might think that if you want to be successful at trading in the stock market, you're going to need a crystal ball. After all, it's impossible to predict the future, right? Like any endeavor in life, before you decide it's impossible, get some advice from the experts. You might find that it's not so impossible after all. 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The only thing you can do out here, Tim, is you've got to look for some type of intraday pattern. Here we take a look at the 30-minute timeframe chart. You can see back here you had a nice TD9 count bottom pattern. That was at about one o'clock in the afternoon on May the night. That was really the last real good entry area into it. You could have perhaps taken something at 10 o'clock this morning, but you would have needed to have known where the breakout level was, 8171 TD9 count, as well as profile levels, which was a slightly bullish structured profile. So, short of that, I just think you've got to go down to a short-term timeframe chart and see if you can find a pattern out of retracement, and then you can go ahead and jump on in. Now, from a day's consecutive standpoint to the upside with regard to on, this is going to become day number six out here. And is it getting along in the tooth? It probably is. So, odds favor that you get some type of pullback, I'd say over the next 48 to 72 trading hours out there, trading the days, I should say. So, that's what I would look at when you take a look at on Semiconductor. So, thanks so much for the request out there. Let's go to our next request. I believe the next request that I've got, I don't think I have anything else inside the Tiger's Den, but if I do hold on, let me see here, we just make sure I don't want to... I don't think that I do, but if there was something and I didn't get to it, please let me know. We do have a couple that have come in by email. So, let's get to those. The first one by Joe. And Joe wants to take a look at Tilray. T-L-R-Y is a ticker symbol out here. So, let's get that up. He says, can you please look at Tilray for a buy to go along? Also, if you have time, can you please look at Natural Gas for a long position? Absolutely, we'll take a look at both of those. So, we take a look at Tilray out here. What do we see? What do we see? Let's pull this back on the daily timeframe. So, with Tilray dead, was it formed a nice rogement to indicator bottom? And it does that back here on April 27th, when price gaps up. And then, where does it run into resistance? The resistance that it ran into out here was the top of its weekly profile. And that number is up at 274. So, you really need to see two consecutive close above 274 to suggest that this might be looking at a change in trend and signal out here. So, for an entry position inside of Tilray, right now price today is pulling back and hasn't even tested it yet. Let's see what's going on on a 30-minute chart out here. So, on a 30-minute timeframe chart for Tilray, you have a rogement to indicator bottom. That formed at 10.30 this morning. Price is above its profile, closed above it at that 11.30 timeframe. What Tilray should do, at least right now, is get up to 245. If it can close above 245, it becomes a candidate for a bottom out here, not because of a daily timeframe pattern. We already have that, but price is pulled back and pulling back into an area that could be supported. Now, the real preference would be to retest that swing point from April 26th that had volume of 10.4 million shares. That was tested here with 7.1 million shares back on the trading day of May 2nd. Volume-wise today inside of Tilray is only about 3 million shares. So, if you're looking, here's where I would say it, to take your buy would be at 226. That would at least be a test of that swing point. If you get a test of that swing point on light volume, that would be good. You can see the bottom of the weekly profile is 223, so that's really where the combination of all that comes from. So, that's what I see. We take a look at Tilray out there. So, I hope that helps you out, Joe. You wanted to also take a look at natural gas. So, to take a look at natural gas right now, now we're going to roll over into the July contract here, Shirley. Let me just pull up the natural gas June charts. Give me a moment here. If you would, you don't have a choice. Oh, it's the Euro. Mike wanted me to look at the Euro. We're going to do that next. Thank you. I just didn't put it in here Euro for Mike. Okay. So, now as we pull up the Gold contract, gee, Stevie, that was when I was looking at. We wanted to pull up the natural gas contract. Sorry about that. When I get to take a look at the Gold contract, but that's not what I was asked for. So, let me get to natural gas. There we go. NG. Now, these charts will populate. You're asking if natural gas is a buy. Are you looking at the future contract? Are you looking at UNG? You know, what are you looking at? And the answer is going to be, yeah, it's a buy. It's got a Rosemont to indicator bottom. Price is just simply consolidating with inside its daily profile out there. Will it get more of a pullback out here? You know, because it did find resistance to the top of its profile yesterday and the top of its profile today perhaps. So, it is a buy and we had a confirmed Rosemont to indicator bottom on the daily. We have a confirmed TD nine count on the weekly. It looks like we might get a close above that oscillator and change line, which is about 226. If we get that on Friday, we have a change in trend to signal with battles up top when it comes to natural gas. Now, conservatively, the buy would be at about $2.20 cents out there. That is the asset and change on on the daily timeframe. What will we get down there? And what I don't have is any kind of signals on any kind of interday timeframe to suggest that that is the likely outcome there, Joe. But if you're asking has natural gas bottom, the answer is it has both on the daily and the weekly. And that's what that's all that we need out there. So, let's go to the next question coming in from Hector. Oh, no, I'm sorry. We're going to go take a look at the Euro. We will get to Hector's question, but let me close out this chart here. Let me just close out the gold ones to just freeze up some space. Give me a moment. We'll do that. Then we'll get right over to the Euro for Mike. Mike in the Florence, previous of Sarasota and a few other places. So, we've got our traveling or traveling like, which is a wonderful thing. So, now let's take a look at the Euro charts. So, on the indication of the Euro, the Euro on a monthly basis says that that move, which looked like it had regained its trend line was a false, was a false indication. We're back below that trend line. So, I saw you said something about trend line. I don't know if it was for that long-term timeframe right now. On a weekly basis, price has a seventh wave move top. That is letter G. You can see that out there. That's a very small portion of the Chapman wave. And now price is below its Ossetian chain line. So, the further retracement is likely. So, that's the weekly chart. Daily timeframe chart shows that price is broken through its consolidation. Price is testing profile support out here. Although, I don't really use, we're not going to use profiles. So, we can't say that. You are in bar number seven out here. So, you could get a daily TD9 count bottom between tomorrow, Thursday and Tuesday of next week. So, Mike, we need to be on to look out for that as a potential pattern out there. So, I don't see any other kind of bottom signal. Don't really see an A to B equal CD to the downside. I do see a 60-minute TD9 count bottom. But that's about it. And price right now bouncing right up into where a countertrend move on a 60-minute basis would stall. So, that says, if you can't get a close above 1.086, you're likely to head up to 1.0867, CD9 count breakdown level. So, hope that helped you out, Mike. If there's additional information I need, please let me know. 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When you subscribe, you'll get a weekly report from veteran day trader Larry Pezzavento on stocks you need to pay attention to, and you can trust Larry's analysis. After all, he's got 45 years experience as a day trader. Larry will also provide daily charts, videos, and data on the key markets that he's tracking. Expect notifications from Larry on market movement you need to act on at any time. First-time subscribers also get a 30-day money-back guarantee. If you're not satisfied, let us know and you'll get a full refund within 30 days of signing up. Subscribe to the Fibonacci 24-7 newsletter today. TFNN.com, educating investors.  Apparently I pulled one of those Stevie tricks out there, talking about one thing, showing something else. So my apology for that out there. We've got two requests out here to at least take a look at, maybe three if I can get to platinum. Hexon Mobile, Hector wants to take a look at Hexon Mobile. What do we have here? You've got an A to B equal CD to the downside. So the B point, which is from the trading day of May 4th, the volume of 17 million shares, that was passed with 17 million shares. So you've got an A to B equal CD to the downside out here. You do have support at 102.34. That's on the weekly timeframe. So the weekly's got to confirm rogment of indicator bottom. The daily A to B equal CD to the downside will come to fruition if we get a close below 102.34. Now reality is it would really need to close below the support level on the weekly timeframe, which would be 9802. And that's based upon that candlestick support level out there. So there is an A to B equal CD to the downside. You are trading below the monthly center of its barest structured profile. So it says 84.58 could even be game out here. But right now I would be watching 102.34 for additional clues out there. So I hope that helps you out, Hector. Bob in Spokane wanted to take a look at ENBX out here. So let's pull that up, see if we can figure out what this is. ENBX is trading at about $12.60, $12.62 to be specifically. This is NOVIX Corp. So what do we have out here? Right now I'd have to say you've got a weekly TD9 count top that took price back to support, the bullish structured profile area. So the move to the downside, the top is done, the move to the downside basically should be over out here. And I've just got a good old fashion consolidation within that profile level. So the consolidation we'd say runs from about $870 up to $14.73 out there. There's really not much else for me to report on to yet with regard to ENBX out there. Well, I guess the last thing I could share with you is look at the 30-minute timeframe. Well, the daily's got $12.75 as a resistance point. The 30 minutes got $12.83, TD9 count breakdown resistance area out there. So I do hope that that helped you out. That was for Bob in Spokane. And that is the end of the show out here. So folks, thanks much for joining me. Have a wonderful Wednesday. I'll look forward to speaking with you again on a terrific Thursday. Take care. Be safe out there.


So this week's lab we were looking at microscopic things, very small things, and so we talked about, and we had some problems that dealt with converting units, converting from something familiar like a meter to something maybe unfamiliar like a micrometer or a nanometer, which really when we were looking at the cool cells or the microscopic structures, we were looking at things that were the size of micrometers or micrometers. So there were some problems in the lab that dealt with converting between different units, and that process is called dimensional analysis. And for some reason it's tricky for students, but really it's not that tricky. So if you are having math phobia and hyperventilating, because you're about to do some math, stop, because it isn't crazy. So dimensional analysis is all about converting units. And the fact is those of us in the United States, we use some very strange units. We do not use the metric system. The metric system is logical and makes sense. And we use like whatever our English system is that's rather odd and sometimes doesn't make as much sense. But in the sciences, we always use the metric system. So being able to think through the conversions between the English system and the metric system, that's really helpful. And being able to think through big things and small things is also a really helpful place to be comfortable converting units. So I think I already said it's not crazy. So deep breath, converting units requires just one thing. It requires something called a conversion factor. And depending on what units you want to convert, that's going to determine what conversion factor you're going to use. All conversion factors, there's like jillions of them. So anything that you wanted to convert, you can do it if you have a conversion factor between the two things and all of them present two equal amounts. Did you follow what I just said? So I'm going to give you an example of a conversion factor and it is a factor that will tell you how many centimeters are in an inch. This conversion factor says one inch is equal to 2.54 centimeters. This, I don't know why, but I like putting my conversion factors in boxes so that you can visualize, like this is a thing, this is a tool. Conversion factors, okay, think about this for a second. What is that actually equal to? One inch and divided by 2.54 centimeters, do you agree that like actually, those are exactly the same length and therefore a conversion factor equals one. If you divide an inch by 2.54 centimeters, you've divided an inch by an inch because they're equal. So your answer is one. All conversion factors, they're not really fractions. They're ways of writing the number one. That's cool, that's easy. Because we can write a conversion factor, it just equals one, a conversion, this conversion factor can be written in another way. You can also write it 2.54 centimeters over one inch. Here's another like version flavor of the exact same conversion factor. The one that you're going to want to use, I will show you the strategy that you need to decide which one you want to use. But know that if, and most of the time people don't put your conversion factors in this form for you, but they'll put it like this. They'll say, hey man, one inch is equal to 2.54 centimeters. That's a conversion factor. I like to draw them like this because they're more helpful that way. Any time you see anything like this, if you've got an equal amount here, then you can turn that into a conversion factor. All right, shall we try a problem? Okay, I'm going to show you how we do this. You are going to tell me how many centimeters are in 10 inches. This is just a problem. Okay? When you set up your conversion, you're given a number that's a known number. Okay, so you are given 10 inches. And then you're going to multiply 10 inches by a conversion factor. The question is, I have, dude, two conversion factors right here. It's actually one conversion factor in two different flavors. And I know that one's going to work for me, right? Because I've got inches and I want to get to centimeters. Look, this is a direct shot. I've got inches, it's going to get me to centimeters. Fantastic. But you might be wondering, which one do you use? Here's the fact. This is why I set up my conversion factors this way. If you have inches and you want to convert to something else, you've got to get rid of the inches. The inches, do you agree that this is actually like putting it over one? So the inches are on top, they're in the numerator. So if you want to get rid of them, how are you going to get rid of an inch? How are you going to get rid of those units? You've got to put it on the bottom because then what happens? They cancel out and that's actually equal to one. But what is that, you can't just say, oh, I want inches on the bottom. We do have a conversion factor that'll take us to centimeters and now you figure out which one of these is it, this one? No, because that has inches on the top and centimeters on the bottom. This one, 2.54 centimeters is equal to one inch. Now here's the cool part. You're done because look, I canceled out my inches and now the only units that are left are centimeters. That's what I wanted to get into anyway. That's where I wanted to go. Now you just do the math straight across. This one's super easy because all I have to do is multiply 10 by 2.54 and that means I'm going to get 25.4 centimeters. Sometimes you have to multiply the numbers on the bottom and do a division problem, no problem. In this case it's easy, one times one is one and one divided by 25.4, 25.4. No, I said that wrong. 25.4 divided by one is 25.4, which is that problem right there, which means what's your answer? 25.4, okay, you good? The key to doing this is making sure that you have conversion factors that work for you, that you understand an equal part to an equal part. If you think about this, if one inch is 2.54 centimeters it makes sense that you're going to have in 10 inches more centimeters than you had inches, right? So it makes sense, 25.4 is the number that makes sense. Let me give you another one. What if I said I had 10 centimeters and I wanted to know how many inches that is? Do you see how I just made a totally different problem? So don't be confused, this was problem number one. Now I'm going to rock problem number two. Is this time, can I set it up the same way? Let's look, 10 centimeters, I know I'm going to divide it, or I know I'm going to deal with a conversion factor, okay? But what unit has to be on the bottom of my conversion factor so I can cancel out my centimeters? I have to have centimeters on the bottom, which conversion factor am I going to use? So this one, 2.54 centimeters is equal to one inch. Now you might be like, ah, it looks different. But it doesn't really. Remember this was over one, or what we start with is over one, 10 times one. We canceled out our centimeters so now we have the units that we want inches. 10 times one is what? 10, I like those math problems. 10 inches divided by one times 2.54, which is 2.54. Now, if I were amazing, I would totally be like boo, and I would tell you what that was. And I'm not amazing, I bet it's around four, right? Something around there. And you can get, grab your calculator and do the math, 10 divided by 2.54, and then you're going to get a number here and that's going to be the number of inches. I sort of feel like I should finish it for you, but I kind of want to keep going. Are you good? All right, so what's the only thing you need to convert between units? You're going to need conversion factors, that's it. And here's what I can tell you in Wendy Land. I will always give you conversion factors that you need. If you are in chemistry land, so I'm just going to throw this out there for you two home dogs who might find this helpful. If you're converting between things on the periodic table, all you'll need is a periodic table to convert between grams and moles and things of that nature in chemistry land.  Okay, I want to show you something. Let me, let's see, what was it? I thought I, oh, there. This is why I'm doing this video because, look, these are conversion factors and they look weird, don't they? Where it says one millimeter is equal to 0.001 meters or 10, one times 10 to the negative three meters or 1,000th of a meter. That's all, that's giving you information that you can use to build a conversion factor. And so I'm going to just, I want to make it a little easier because look at our prefixes there. We've got a meter and then we get small. We go millies, micros and nanos. And that's like how we're not really getting, not getting smaller than that. Millies, micros and nanos. So let's go and I'll show you the conversion factors that, what that actually was telling you. I think it's easier to think one meter is equal to one times 10 to the third millimeters. This is my milli. You could also, now that means that my conversion factor is going to look like this, one meter over one times 10 to the third millimeters or one times 10 to the third millimeters over one meter. Or I want you to, no, I'm not going to do it as an or. I'm going to do it as, there's another way we could say this. We could actually say one millimeter is equal to how many meters?  Look at what I did. What do you notice here? The one millimeter is one thousandth of a meter and this is another legit way to do a conversion. I think that math, when you're dealing with negative exponents, it just means that you have a 0.12, oh geez. We started with one, we went one, one, two, three, which means I've got two zeros. I got there, it's all good. That is all that is. It's kind of nicer to look at a thousand. I don't know why that's nicer, but it's a little bit less intimidating. Negative exponents can be a little daunting, but it's the same thing. So it really doesn't matter. You're going to get the same answer whether you use this conversion factor or this conversion factor. And then I'm going to give you another one. One meter is equal to one times ten to the sixth micrometers. So that's my micrometer. And often, micro, it's led by that guy, which is, it's called mu. It's a Greek letter and it kind of looks like a U sometimes, but it actually is a cursive M symbol. And the other one that we have is, and again, you can throw it into all of that format. Any one of those is going to work. One meter is also equal to one times ten to the ninth. Was it picometers? Picometers. Was it pico or was it nano? I feel like it was nanometers. I got to go look. It was nanos. Silly nanos. Pico's must be 12. Look, I'm going to throw that in there just for the heck of it. 12 is picoland, but I'm going to give you the nanos. One times ten to the ninth nanometers. Here's the scoop. On any kind of exam or anything, I'm going to give you the conversion factors. You don't have to memorize any conversion factors. I do expect you to be able to tell me if a millimeter is bigger or smaller than a meter. Micrometers, bigger or smaller than a millimeter and a nanometer. Picometer I just threw in there because I made a mistake. All right, what do you need to know? Oh, I know what I want to show you. I want to show you another one because this is fun. Don't ever forget it. I want to show you this one. This is one that was actually on your lab. This was 1.2 millimeters is equal to how many micrometers. Now, there is in all of our lab material, we don't have a conversion between millimeters and micrometers. You can look at the lab material and you can be like, dude, if a millimeter is, if there's one times 10 to the third, if there's 1,000 millimeters in a meter and there's a million micrometers in a meter, there's actually 1,000 micrometers in a millimeter. You can logic that through but you don't have to. If you're like, huh, what did she just say? You can actually use two conversion factors here. So all I'm going to do is I'm going to take them both two meters. So watch this. I know that one meter, because I just did this, one meter is equal to one times 10 to the third millimeters. Okay? There's my millimeters. I also know that one meter is equal to one times 10 to the sixth micrometers. Now, this is a bit of a longer way to go, but you're going to get the same answer. So watch what happens. Now we're going to lay out our conversion factors. And I know right off the bat that ultimately, I want to get to micrometers over here, but that's not going to get me there. In order to use this conversion, I'm going to have to go to meters first. So look, I've got a conversion factor that I can use to get from millimeters to meters. What goes on the bottom? What format? Nice. It actually goes in this format because millimeters goes on the bottom so I can cancel it out. I've got one times 10 to the three millimeters. That's equal to one meter. Now, I also have a conversion that goes between meters and micrometers. And micrometers is where I want to end up. So now I can say, okay, I know I already canceled out my millimeters, so now my units are in meters. Now I want to cancel meters. I'm going to throw meters on the bottom, right? And that's going to let me cancel it out. And I'm going to throw micrometer on the top because look, I've got a conversion. So what is the format of this puppy? I'm going to have to flip it, right? One meter is equal to one times 10 to the sixth micrometers. And then we do the math. Now, if you remember properly, everything here is a one, right? Everything, we're multiplying by one. We're dividing by one. Everything is a one except we're dealing with exponents. So I can actually take 1.2 times 1 times 1 times 10 to the sixth power, okay? Watch what happens there. It's just 1.2 times 10 to the sixth power, right? I have to multiply everything through the bottom. One times one times one times 10 to the third. One times 10 to the third power. Now dividing exponents really is not scary. Look into my eyeballs. It ain't scary, dog. If you're dividing exponents, you just subtract them. And so one divided by 1.2, I mean 1.2 divided by one is 1.2. 10 to the sixth divided by 10 to the third is 10 to the third. And my units that I'm left over with, the only thing that didn't get canceled out is micrometer. Boom. Look into my eyeballs again. You show your work. Just do it like if it takes longer to think it through, like who cares? That's awesome. It takes as long as you need to write out that whole process. And if we were amazing, we could have given you the fact that 1 times 10 to the third, oh, no, no, no. Here's another convergent factor. So the micrometer is equal to 1 times 10 to the third micrometers. And you could use that conversion factor in place of those two conversion factors. But you can also just throw two conversion factors and they're gonna be just fine. So how do you feel? I don't think it's crazy. I have a present for you. Well, okay, it's not really a present. This guy has a present for you. Who are these people? There's a whole walkthrough on this process of dimensional analysis. And so you can go there to that land and they will show you how to do all those dimensional analysis problems. Woo, woo. How you feeling, dogs? All right, that wasn't so bad, was it? How long do you think it was, like five hours? I don't like it. Okay, bye-bye.


Hi and welcome to the session. Let's work out the following question. The question says determine k so that k plus 2, 4k minus 6 and 3k minus 2 are the three consecutive terms of an AP. So let us see the solution to this question. We see that if k plus 2, 4k minus 6 and 3k minus 2 are three consecutive terms of an AP, then difference of second term and first term should be equal to the difference of third term and the second term. So we will have 4k minus 6 minus k plus 2 should be equal to 3k minus 2 minus 4k minus 6. This implies 4k minus 6 minus k minus 2 is equal to minus k minus 2 plus 6 is plus 4. This implies 3k minus 8 is equal to minus k plus 4. This implies 3k plus k is equal to 4 plus 8. This implies 4k is equal to 12 dividing both the sides by 4 we get k is equal to 3. So our answer to this question is that k is equal to 3. I hope that you understood the solution and enjoyed the session. Have a good day.


Hi. So my name is Valerie Shaskis. My talk is about how popular MMORPG made me a better developer. And yeah, I was initially planning on giving this talk in person. Unfortunately, I contracted COVID, so coming to you live from my Airbnb in Dublin. And I do have a Final Fantasy Shartan. It says, have you heard of the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy 14 with a free trial that you can play all the way up to Heaven's Lord? I wish I could have sworn it to be in person, but it is what it is. That's how things are sometimes. So, a little bit about me. Well, first, a disclaimer. I am not professionally affiliated with Square Enix or Final Fantasy. I do not want to openly reveal my character name just completely. It's a unique name. My real life name is unique name. I do not want to end up so. But if anyone is curious and plays and wants to hang out in game, just let me know during questions and I can send it privately. For anyone who is unfamiliar with Final Fantasy 14 or MMO gaming in general, I will give as much context as I can.  I did have a small giveaway that I can still do if people are interested. I have a little friend with me and if anyone can tell me her name in the breakout sessions, the first person who tells me her name after the talk is done will get to take her home. I'll arrange, I'll disinfect the box and arrange a handoff not at the convention center, but nearby. And yeah, you can take her home. So, yeah, that's my disclaimer. I'm not a Square Enix employee. I'm just somebody who plays the game, enjoys the game and has learned a lot from the game and wants to share that with you all. So, about me, I have 10 years of professional software development. Three of those are in Python. I'm an avid gamer, mostly RPGs, not just games though. I do a lot of Dungeons and Dragons, Pathfinder, a lot of cooperative team building, world building games. My employer is Bendy Works, which is a remote contracting and consulting company. We mostly do rails, but also with some React. We've done GraphQL. We're up at the Python. If anyone needs, is looking for contracting or consulting, I brought me a message after the talk. I'm based in Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States of America. My pronouns are she, her. I'm a cat mom. Currently have three that live with me and three that I'm fostering for when they're ready to go to their homes. And I am neurodivergent. Basically, the term neurodivergent means that you have something different with how your brain works. And it presents, it presents differently for everybody. For me, I am autistic. I have schizoaffective tendencies. It's managed with medication, but in addition to that, I've learned on how that can make me a better developer and how that can, like my experiences and lessons that I've learned can make the world of software development better, just by teaching others and just celebrating our differences. And this is my first conference speaking engagement. So jumped in the deep end, so to say. So it's been quite a trip. Yeah. So a couple of basic questions. MMO RPG gaming, it stands for massively multiplayer online role playing game. So it's an online gaming system where you make this character and you set them in a world. And this world is populated with other people who have their own characters and other characters that are computer generated that are non player characters or NPCs. And they're technically, right? Lots of different things you can do in an MMO RPG. All of them pretty much have fighting you can do leveling up. You can level up your skills in crafting or gathering your materials. You can make money, buy cool stuff to give to your friends. So lots and lots of interesting things you can get into in gaming. Final Fantasy 14 or XIV is, I believe it's currently the MMO RPG that has the largest player base, most active player base. And it's the MMO RPG that I've been almost exclusively playing since I was introduced by dear friend of mine in 2014. It is an entry into the Final Fantasy series of games, which started, I believe the 80s, and has been having new entries up until there's one actually coming out, I believe next year. And only 14 and 11 are online. And 14 has started out, not so great, but then they brought in a new developer and he gave you a complete overhaul. And with every new add on to the game, it's been gathering more and more steam. And that has led to some interesting challenges as well as successful celebrations. So as a neurodivergent developer, and a lot of what I'm going to talk about is analogy, analogous learning. So for a lot of people, especially those who are neurodivergent, analogous learning helps us essentially relating things to other things that have some similarities. Like with analogies, you find the patterns, you find the similarities that makes things stick. And so if you learn one thing that has some traits, you can learn other things that share a few traits, like learning how like it's, oh, sorry. It's a lot of it is linking interests with lessons. So if there's something you're more excited about, something that you find more interesting, you can learn about that and apply it to something that you're potentially weaker in that you find a bit more dry or harder to learn. If you work and find those similarities, find where they relate. And that's what I've been doing in the Final Fantasy world and in learning how to be a developer. So I'm going to be talking about a little bit about how different lessons I've learned. And if anyone has questions, I know they're supposed to be held towards the end, but I'm going to try to leave plenty of time for questions because I want to hear other stories and other ways that more developers have found themselves and found ways to improve the world, not just as like developing games, but being a gamer who brings certain experiences to the table as a developer. So my first lesson, always be nice. And in my time in the community, there's really, I've learned that if you're nice, if you're just genuinely helpful, take the time, help out new players, you'll get opportunities that you would have never originally come across. And if you just burn bridges, you never know what you could have lost. In the Rails community, there's a term called Minaswan, which Matt, which is the nickname of the lead Ruby developer, Matt is nice. And so we are nice. It's a little acronym there. I, Tug and Chief came up with Yena Swan, which is Yoshi P is nice. And so we are nice, which the leader of the FUN Fancy 14 community because by Yoshi P has, he's, he's a really nice guy. He's expressed like desire for the community to be welcoming, to be open. So sending a good example, always being nice and never really earning your chances for opportunities. And a lot of things I've learned about the game that may not have had many applications to real life, I learned because I was nice to somebody. So they taught me. And it's honestly been a lot of interesting opportunities. Next lesson. This was an interesting one. Sometimes it's better to take a chance and ask for forgiveness rather than permission. So the story behind this one is I was at a convention for Final Fantasy in early 2017, 10 minutes left until Q&A. Okay. I was at a convention in early 2017 where the head of Square Enix was there to just present an award, but that was all he was doing. And I didn't quite realize the significance of him being there. So I went up, when he was kind of walking around the floor, chatted with him for a bit and got his autograph. And apparently that was a huge deal because even the community team in that location wouldn't dare ask him for his autograph. But it was an interesting experience. And actually, the next convention, he was more on the floor, more interacting with the crowd and giving everybody autographs. So I like to think that he, that my being a little audacious might have helped out. So yeah, strengths and weaknesses. Essentially, in my time as a developer, I've learned how to, that I should know what I'm good at and excel in it, but also know what I'm not as good at and get comfortable with it so I can be well-rounded. Basically, what can I do that no one else can and use that as my strength? And what can I learn from others? Like, I'm very good at playing the in-game markets, making money, doing crafting, getting the side stuff. But I'm not as good of a fighter, but you need to do some fighting to advance in the game. So always be nice, keep opportunities open, and learn from the people who are good at fighting and teaching them a little bit about the crafting and gathering aspects of the game doesn't hurt. And then this is probably my most interesting story, the housing crisis. I do want to touch on this before we go to questions, but this will probably be the last lesson I touch on before I'll call it and go to questions. So I want to say it was 2018 where there was an interesting switch to the housing system. Now, lots of MMORPGs, you can make your own house. And Final Fantasy's housing system, the decorating of it, is really intricate. Lots of people want houses. And I play on a rather large server. So housing was at a premium and it is very hard to acquire housing in the game. It's there have been articles written on it. Any player who has tried to get a house in the past year or so can tell you that even on the smaller servers it's been a challenge. So they introduced a housing system where at some point between zero and 24 hours an empty house would come up for sale. And so people who really wanted housing would just spend 24 hours clicking there or click as soon as they saw the house to try and buy it. And I thought this was rather unfair and curious. So myself and a few other people on the larger servers, we noticed that data doesn't lie and something was up. The houses weren't selling at any time from zero to 24 hours. Almost without exception, they were selling from 8 to 14 hours after the house went down. And another thing I learned was, yeah, it held true. We dispensed this information, it actually got known in the community as prime time. And we might have helped out a lot of people by just, hey, you don't have to ruin your risks like this. Wait until it's been 8 hours. There was also, and also if you don't like the data, it still doesn't lie. There was a community that I was helping with that it set up notifications of when we found these houses available so that people would know like, hey, it's been 8 hours up now because we found it 8 hours ago. And I ignored signs and data that I was getting overwhelmed that running this was taking a toll on me, that one of my weaknesses was running communities. And I eventually found out that like, yeah, I need to take a step back from this. And I took a step back from leading that in other communities and then stepped aside that more people who are more qualified to step in and things are doing a lot better. They have changed the housing system, but it's a lot nicer now, which if you know a good luck on your results in 8 minutes. One other thing I want to touch on, this is more about a recent change, but I know we don't have time, is my greatest kind of joys and successes have been finding like product viability. If you want a product, you have to make it something people want. So finding ways to provide a unique community service is really going to help you succeed. Recently, myself and some friends, we well, one of friends had the idea of getting a guide together of different fish in the game. Like any good game, Final Fantasy 14 has fish in. And we ended up making an aquarium and it got popular and more popular because people wanted to see an actual aquarium, lots of them couldn't since COVID. And we kind of worked together, trusted ourselves as a team and we didn't find her even though we had a lot of success, it was very overwhelming. Which leads me to the last lesson, teamwork and delegation. Everything I've learned from the game, I've learned that you need teamwork. When you're going into a fight, you need people in different roles, you need to support each other. And even when you're doing unusual facets of the game, like, hey, let's make an aquarium, you definitely need to support each other, you definitely need to tell each other, hey, go take a break, you're doing too much rest. And it's been an interesting experience, which, yeah, I'm hoping, hopefully I'll meet you guys somewhere in game. And, yeah, I think now would be a good time for questions. Thank you all for your time. Thanks, Valérie.


Hey, Bolo buddies. Thanks for watching. Okay. I have a big money Bolo video for you guys 21 come in your way. These are items that I've picked up at thrift stores garage sales state sales Facebook marketplace anywhere I can find a deal and I'm gonna tell you where I got it what I paid for it and what it sold for and these items sold for $35 or more and Actually in this video. I have a big money Bolo that my husband sold So he is a Bolo finder and I'm telling you if he could do this full-time I would have videos upon videos of his solds because He's pretty amazing He's got a really great eye so I can't wait until someday when he retires and we get to go out and source together. So Definitely will be fun. All right, let's get started here. I'm gonna share with you The first Bolo item Screen share is up. Okay. Now this one may surprise you How to train your dragon be wild wilder beast I think is how you say it be wilder beast. Maybe it's be wilder beast What do you guys think put in the comments what be wilder beast or be wilder beast? I Have no clue. Um, anyway, it's from 2014 and it does work.  I ended up selling this for $76.49 and the buyer paid the shipping I picked this up at a garage sale. I think it was two or three dollars The next item is what my husband sold. So He got this at a garage sale if I remember correctly I think he only paid a couple bucks for it and it's got the original box It's not in great condition the box, but it's got the transformer and it had the original sticker sheet Um Because they messaged to me and they're like are the stickers original and my husband's like I think I mean How often do you have like the vintage box and everything and the stickers are like fake? I don't know So we're like, yeah, as far as we know the stickers are original So he had it listed for 174.99. They made him an offer of $100. He had a couple bucks in it So he went ahead and accepted that offer So definitely a very cool find I remember the day he told me about this garage sale and I went and I tried to find it because I love toys And he's like I bought all the good stuff. I'm like, I don't care I want to go look and I could not find it.  I need to go through it But he got a bunch of vintage plush and I think I want to say it was all free So I was like free. That is the garage sale for me. Where is it? But I couldn't find it The next item I sold this one and I picked this up in a box of Transformers that I picked up so I don't have much in it Maybe a buck or two and I sold this for $50 and the buyer paid the shipping. So this is a jet fire Commeter I don't comment or Commodore Giga, I don't know cons Armanda or Armada transformer, man, I messed up about every word in that title. Sorry guys. It's a vintage transformer So for $50 and it does have the additional little vehicle to the side here that I Found out went with it and I was able to dig it out of the box and sell them together So I'm sure that helped The hard part was getting this thing so that I could ship it so that it wasn't getting beat around in the box and making Sounds during shipment and I did figure it out. So it ended up working out just fine The next item I picked up at a garage sale. I ended up selling these for $45 best offer and the buyer paid shipping. I Think I paid three or four bucks a piece for these I I don't know I thought they were gonna do better than they did there were some good comps, but It was a long tail item. So I guess if you can get them cheap, I would say go for it, but Don't overpay for them So Yeah, I mean I definitely made money, but I sat on them a long time. I think I have another one left The next item I sold is this vintage hip yick from 1984 and it did have like a musky odor. So I just disclosed that I Ended up taking a best offer of $40 for this and the buyer paid shipping. I picked this up at a garage sale for $2 The next item I sold is this Bratz Yasmin's room bedroom Play set type deal and it's got the Bratz doll Yasmin. I guess is her name I think I'm saying that right and I picked this up at a garage sale for $3 I went to a garage sale and they had a whole bunch of new old stock items again I said how much do you want for all of it? We made a deal and I had about three bucks in this the buyer paid the shipping and I took a best offer of $70 The next item I sold are these mega blocks John Deere replacement blocks with the mini figures This came from a huge lot of mega blocks that I picked up at a garage sale the John Deere were Bagged separately and I was able to pull some of these bigger pieces just out of the tote and I was like well, I'll just lot them up I have no idea if anything is complete. So I'm just gonna sell them as replacement parts and I probably had about three bucks in this and I sold it for a best offer of $50 the buyer paid shipping The next item I sold is from a You know what this came from that same garage sale I had two big hauls of brand new items this summer But this one did come from the same place as the Bratz So I paid about $3 for this and I sold her for $69 and 69 cents and the buyer paid shipping She is Barbie basics from 2010. She's a black label model muse number five Um denim Asian hard to find new that was my title and yeah, nice little Bolo there So the black label Let's see. I think it says it right down there at the bottom and this is what she looks up Looks like close-up. So definitely be on the lookout for that one. She's a Bolo The next item I sold is this Harry Potter watch I picked this up at a thrift store for two dollars and I took a best offer of 40 the buyer paid the shipping My husband I believe put a new battery in that for me And we made sure that it would light up and did what it was supposed to do and it sure did The next item I sold is this vintage black and decker space maker. I actually auctioned this I think it sold for $39 and the buyer didn't pay which was good for me because I Relisted it at $65 buy it now put it on sale for 55 25 a 15% off sale Somebody bought it for full asking price buyer paid shipping and I picked that up at a garage sale for a four dollars The next item came out of a huge toy mystery box that I picked up at a thrift store It had tons of Barbies in it. I had no idea who this was I ended up figuring out that she has this little baby and it fits inside this belly Which is magnetic and sticks on to her. Let me see if I can find I think I Okay, so the baby goes inside and then it goes on to the Barbie. It's magnetic. How cool is that? No clue never seen it before in my life looked up comps and was pleasantly surprised I ended up taking a best offer of $90 for this and the buyer paid shipping and Yeah, she has on no clothes It's funny because I was watching primetime treasure hunters video the other day And he was showing some Barbies and there was a naked Barbie and he's like And he got like all embarrassed and I'm like this this would probably embarrass him But she didn't have any clothes like what am I supposed to do? I can't dress her. I don't have any clothes All right, the next item I sold is this a bionicle a Lego bionicle And I sold this for fifty five dollars and twenty four cents the buyer paid the shipping This came in a huge box of bionicles that I purchased The next item I sold are these ugly shoes. I picked these up at a garage sale for six dollars I was gonna keep them for myself But I really just I don't like this style of shoe. It's like a winter shoe But they look silly with socks and I'm like, I'm never gonna wear these so I decided to sell them I sold these for forty dollars and the buyer paid shipping The next item I sold is this guess watch. I cannot remember where I got this I don't know if it was at the thrift store or if it was at a garage sale But I sold it for forty dollars and the buyer paid shipping and typically I pay probably a dollar Maybe two for things like this The next item I sold is this vintage Ellsworth AFB snapback trucker hat It's got the three site stripes on the side now One of these sold for like three hundred and sixty dollars I Looked it up and I was so excited But the one that sold was in like mint condition and as you can see mine is not and the foam Right here you can see is deteriorating and It was just it wasn't in great shape So I had it up for auction and I think it sold two or three times and nobody paid So I finally just did another auction and somebody offered me 70 and I went ahead and took it I paid two dollars for this at an estate sale So I put the bill has been rounded and it is not flat as seen I said I did not attempt to shape it like you know like bend it because I was frayed like it could break So I just disclosed all of that it was it was in rough shape. So seventy dollars was great The next item I sold is this brass key 2007 Disney Princess Snow White porcelain doll I got her at a garage sale for two dollars and I sold her for sixty eight dollars plus shipping The next item I sold are these transformer rescue bots dyno bots. I had no clue what these were This was a Facebook marketplace find I was actually buying something else and I'm like what else do you have and I'm like what's your bundle price? Kind of did what I do at garage sales and it ended up working out I probably had about five dollars in this and I took a best. Nope I'm sorry. I sold that for full asking price of sixty three dollars and seventy five cents in the buyer page shipping The next item came out of my bulk buy. I bought it on eBay to sell on eBay. It's a mythos I think is how you pronounce it it This is what it came on and it's like a wolf brooch pin It doesn't really look like a wolf, but it said wolf on the back. So that's what I put I had this at auction and somebody came in and offered me $40 because I had auction or best offer and I went ahead and took that offer I probably have 10 15 cents in this so $40 buyer page shipping and I believe this went internationally The next item I sold is this reindeer and it's kind of got that flocked fur to it I did not test it. So I just put untested it had a battery compartment, but I didn't have the right battery So I'm not even really sure what it does But I picked this up at a garage sale and I had about probably a dollar or two in it And I took a best offer of thirty eight dollars and the buyer page shipping anytime you can find From the reindeer and the snowman. I can't think of what that movie is called Any time you can find those characters definitely pick them up. I have done really really well with those so The next item that sold is one of my favorite sales. I love this sale Okay, so I picked this up at a garage sale. I think it was two dollars It's a vintage artisan made ring doll face with a crown Kind of got that goth costume statement look to it and it's adjustable and it's one of a kind and I definitely want to hear your opinion of this ring down in the comments. I Was like, I'm totally listing this high like this is gonna be a bolo I'm gonna wait for the right buyer and I did and somebody offered me 90 dollars And I went went ahead and took that so they paid the shipping and it was off to its new home So definitely a fun big statement piece So 90 dollars plus shipping The next item I sold are these snowmen. They're LED color-changing lights I did not take it out of the box because it was new so I just left it in there and showed the pictures of the box and that seemed to be Enough and this sold for 55 dollars and 24 cents the buyer paid shipping and that came out of a mystery box So that concludes my big money Bolo video 21 of them, please leave me a comment down below hit that thumbs up and there's gonna be some other videos popping up So check out one of those and if you're not subscribed There should be a little picture of me right here if you click on that that will take you to the subscribe area All right, you guys thanks for watching and I'll see you at the next video