But okay, cool cool cool. He's like wait a minute I can hear you right now. Yes. Okay. Hello. Are you doing? So we are back in Jurassic World alive Because we've done something that well normally you can't do but you know, we're in this game now We're in the system. So I was just check make sure we're all recording. We're all good. Yes I actually have the new apex unlocked now. We made a video on this guy Oh, I haven't just unlocked it just a video, of course I sort of did the like a beta build for this game or like tested the beta build and in that Everything was maxed up, but you could only face off against bots now. We are rank I think 160 in the world something like that. So we're like top 200 I'm not expecting to say that for too long, especially after today's episode But what I want to do is just throw this in my team and just see what kind of Stuff they can like dish out because it is the only dinosaur or flying reptile in the game That has the ability to force your opponent to swap out now because this game is so like the meta is very like Swapping swap out and depending on what that is was in it can really change your outcome It'll be interesting to see whether or not if you force them to swap out Then do they get their swapping in attack or anything like that because it does say it nullifies any Negative effect that the opponent comes in to do so if they break a shield does that mean that doesn't happen if they reduce Your speed does that mean that doesn't happen? I'm curious also when an opponent swaps out you get like a shield or an invincibility I think so it'll be very interesting. So you force them to swap out you get a shield invincible and then and then we'll see I don't think you get it right off the bat So I'm on the fence with this guy. I don't know whether or not it's gonna be good But today's definitely gonna be a tester. I'm not gonna chuck any boosts on it just yet because Just a lock it did we don't know if it's any good because it is a merciless alert I think yeah the alert squall this is what forces your opponent to switch out I think unless they've changed it Lowest automatic swap. Yeah, so it's automatic swap But the only difference is when your friend you heal But the thing is you can do it straight away. Actually. There's no there's no delay. Oh, that's interesting All right, so if you get hit straight away thing is there's no priority for I don't know robbing wing Yeah, this is it. So when the opponent swatches. Oh 100% chance to dodge and you get a shield for 75% oh Very good now it could be stunned again if it does get stunned It's one of those like feels bad moments. It has reduced damage, which is great No bleed cannot be swap prevented swap a decrease complete. So, you know, it's got pretty much everything you want I mean the render thing could be a nuisance for it But most things now don't have rend so maybe we'll see something come back in if this thing's used a lot Just to try and counter it. I don't know. I'm kind of interested But also one thing I do want to just attempt while we're here is of course Try and get a 20 on the comps or raptor fusion because if we get a 20 we can get a level 25 Of course we don't the brilliant Yeah, well that is that well that's just ruined everything So what should we switch this out for pretty much everything is kind of good here Maybe except for an closer looks and to be fair Anklos looks as utility is the fact that you swap in and then you hopefully You're able to do something with a counter, but Possibly you could bench it for the terror to force something to swap out because normally It's the bear that comes in right to counter anklos looks But the bear needs like two or three turns to do what it needs to do So if you've got the terror saw you come in and you just like make it swap out It can't set up and it can't do its thing I don't know. It's definitely gonna have lots of utility that frickin eagle man Oh, I'm never gonna forget that live stream. It absolutely decimated me, but yeah, we'll definitely give this a shot We'll see how far we can get Will we six thousand more or 86? Well, we'll see we'll see I will not waste any more time and we'll just get into the battle Shall we haha? We are already in two new blushers. Yes. I love this. It looks great So, oh, oh, do we do we put it in first because I feel like it in that way It's gonna be like a set up kind of dinosaur. That's gonna be in right so Or do we save it for the end? I think we save it Should we start with the we'll start with a regular, you know the imperitus sutures. It's a good all-rounder Let's see I'm very interested to see how this goes. Oh Hydro boa interesting don't think that's really good against me But you know, we'll see we'll see oh goes for a slippery alert. Haha. Okay Could I could I mean what's the best play here? Oh, we don't get through his block I think we kind of did yeah, we did we did get through the block. Oh, well, that's not so bad Is it all he did was get his critical chance up We do have a chance to stun him and if we do Should we just try it? I mean although we haven't taken any damage just yet So I kind of still want to keep him slowed down, but I may as well just go for a big it.  You know what he's gonna do He's gonna go for the precise and then next to and he'll try and go for the bleed But we should still have priority. So we're still good Yeah, man, I had to bench my hydrobowl because it all I suppose it was 80% chance wasn't it was definitely going to get it. Oh, oh, oh, it's even did Hydrobowl not not the best I think it's in the best situation at the moment and But you know, it still has its utility depending I suppose how you use it as always with everything in life Oh and I close looks that's really it. Oh my god. I think we're just gonna get oh is it and I oh Alberta's finer coming in is it oh a power top. Oh a paratops a paratops probably and he just wanted to get off that counter And now the paratops can definitely kill me Right so this would be interesting as a paratops now do we put in a Valkyrie whatever and then just force it to switch out. Oh Well, does he have a move apart from if it's revenge It targets all opponent so we don't want that in I think yeah, we may as well just do this one I don't know if we're faster. Oh, we are that's That's not the best but saying that I'll go for this just to make sure we can kind of lock him in just for a little bit longer He might be immune to it though even oh, he's not brilliant although saying that he's probably gonna heal You're gonna heal. Of course you're going to heal So we got to punish this he's not gonna kill us in one hit and we may as well Just do this because we're gonna get a lot of health back He's gonna do his biggest hit. I'm assuming because he didn't cover his priority and then he'll probably go for his He'll after this move Because that's a lot of damage, but it's even if he does have Alberta. Oh, we could actually Yes, if he does have Alberta, but I think he's just gonna either go for priority heal now Or he's just gonna switch out. Okay switching out into an and close looks Okay Doesn't get the stud. Oh, if he did get the stud cut you a magic. Well, anyway, here comes the ferocious We still I know I'm saying we will do that. I'm nervous about putting in we'll put it if we get it I'll put it in first next time just maybe to good open. It's a wild card You never know so we may as well just go for the big here and just get even more devour and that puts us in A good position for something else now. What could he have? Oh? Oh, we just want his paratops. Oh, okay I'm about to get a lot of Oh I didn't I Get a you Right next time I'll put it in first. I'm sorry. I didn't realize who's gonna be that easy. All right, then do we get it? Is the question? Oh, it's like a once it wants. Okay. I said we're gonna start open with it Let's go If I'd probably lost the last one if I open with it, I don't know. Yeah, it is you get to see it witness it Oh another hydropower. Is this the same person as before? Oh, that would be interesting. Oh, we're actually quick it 128 so we can force it to swap out now Now he does have a priority. So do I go for that? I don't know I'm just gonna go for it. Yeah. Oh you go. Bye I mean the thing is nobody's faced up against us.  Right. Let's have a look now.  Oh Okay, cool Yes, it does right, but I still have that that's interesting. I guess the bleed is the best thing I could do any console That's the lethality of this is that because I forced it to switch He's now locked in if he has an ability like that Now if you had a full team of things that you know stunned or you know did damage when they swapped then Maybe this would be quite dangerous To do and but I don't think there's that many people gonna be running this that it's gonna be a problem But you never know you never know right So we have our shield now, which is great and he can't really do much If we survive two more turns, which is not gonna happen because we're definitely gonna die That'd be really good Because then we can heal and force them to swap out. Okay. I mean this is a level 30 bear It's all got boosts on it. And yeah, I mean if we had we put like help on we would have survived another turn there So Right, so we don't want the bear to survive We may as well just switch in the top again at this to make sure that he can't get out and we'll go for a priority move as well I don't think he has anything. So yeah, so against the bear forcing it to switch in Okay, I mean that's you know the counterfeiting and close looks which is probably gonna be in a lot of people's teams So that's okay. It wasn't too bad against that. Oh god the revenge is to have a like on the revenge highest damage Revenge lowest revenge highest And that's it. Okay, so this should be good. I mean we'll see Maybe I've got this for over Ah I swear I didn't see that but oh no there was target all opponents sweet cool So it does still have its instant ferocious revenge So we got to be wary of this We may as well go for our bass Just because he's definitely probably gonna go for it. Maybe we shouldn't have done that Hmm, maybe we shouldn't have it depends what he does here He didn't go for it interesting interesting Well we swapped prevented him. Is this a max damage? Oh god Yeah, we're definitely dead We don't get to They reduce his attack at all here and he's now just gonna do like 7000 my my best case scenario is that I somehow survive with the dealer I guess Now did I lose this one because we tried something with the the terrace or maybe I also did Well, I did a bad play with something else But I mean maybe we're in with a shot.  Oh actually Because if hydro bow comes in Interesting And oh Finally good God off two games though three games there. I should say we finally get it again now Do we put it in first? Would we try to be tactical about it? Let's try to be tactical about it so if we plan dialogue Iris whisker scenario it is a Ankylosol looks and at that point I'm oh So we're putting ref actually we're putting ref first. I'm pretty even if it's like an intertourist. Oh, wow Would you look at that?  Oh Okay, we're getting all of them. So so so so so we kind of we've done what we wonder you do the big damage You can't swap out and then like 3,000 worth of damage comes through on the bleed Now now now now what could we do here? What could we do here? Oh very Very interesting like you know what this is probably one of the only times that rexie's not too much of a bad option This is probably gonna go for hostile glow Um Because he's just swapped in so he didn't get a doing attack, but that counter is it's deadly We want to keep keep the referendum up to a certain point where it can't you know be killed We'll slow this down Which makes sure that it can't go for its priority next turn without us going for our party So once it does this damage, it's done. It can't do anything else. It can't switch out. That's it And then it'll take the bleed and I'm pretty sure we're gonna do more damage than that. Oh, maybe we're not actually Um, yeah, we're gonna have to go for this.  Hey, you might even get the stone actually I know never put in rexie unless it's a closer, but at this point I'm I don't know. I'm kind of wanting to just fiddle around with this team We'll get the opponent to a point where maybe the the Valkyrie can work. I want to see it used correctly Right so now we got this guy Oh Now he's probably gonna go for his I mean he could go for his heel and probably count to kill me So with that in mind, let's just go. Let's go for us. I mean a deal. Oh, right. He has to get the deal I guess what what's the most looking at? He's probably gonna go for his heel. He even did. That's amazing. Oh Prediction there we go. Should we go for that? I think we should go for us cleanse ourself of the He's gonna hit us and we're gonna count it back and then we could probably kill him I think this order. It's like it literally like chess at this point. It's like if you move that I move that It's like if I do that move he does that move. Okay, cool Right, so now we're gonna be quicker But it's whether or not we want to Look at that He could cleanse himself. I suppose And then he'd be quicker. So, you know what? No, no, I'm gonna I'm gonna go for this I'm gonna cleanse myself And do that he's he may even cleanse himself. Oh, he's not. Oh, okay. Okay. It's gonna make sure I'm still faster Now he should have both of his priorities sort of back and now we can go for a big hit It depends what he does here Oh He's gonna go for a priority he might do if he does that means next time. Oh, okay.  That's I think he's killed it. Yes, he's done it. Okay. Okay, right, right, right, right now Now what do we do? Oh? This is interesting.  That's what I'm gonna do.  Yes predicted that And now we got we have to go for our priority, which means that he can't do anything to us at this point That's all oh, I wish there's something that my my tyrannodon could do to this But there really isn't so now he's he still is gonna do no damage to me Although he will be quicker. He's probably gonna go for his biggest hit at this point and now he's left with either healing or Going with a oh, I don't know. Let's see.  So finally I will him down Oh Like So close and then next turn he can go for his regular which he probably will do now I mean we may I may as well Look, there's no kind of strategy when you have a T-Lo on your team. It's like I go for the hill and I'll win Honestly, and it goes the speed increase and now he's faster and at this point I think we've fought off rexie and you know what I've had enough of this. How about What we do oh Oh at this point. I think I might be able to finish him if he He's gonna have to swap out he's gonna have to swap out. Okay. Okay. You know what? Yes, and there's the win but he's probably gonna swap out because that's his that's his winning card is do You know he knows how Hold on. Please. Oh, I got the crit anyway. I don't think I needed that. I don't think I needed that But there it is right. Let's see. Let's see Completely avoid the ball because I don't really know what to do with it right, okay, I Think we just swap to this thing Because I think it comes in with a shield and he's gonna do a big or swab in ferocity as well And then if he doesn't have damage I can force him out and also heal Wait, hold on. I thought I got a shield on the swapping. Oh, well, there we go I bet it's like with your threaten, then you get it. Oh my god. Oh There's too many things going on this game. It's too complicated. All right, come on Have we got it again? Please tell me we got it again We got it again. Oh two flocks this time and paradise. It's just a good one to stop So so far what we've discovered is at the moment with no boost. It's a great way to throw the game. It's brilliant Because that would be other matches Like a boat like out of the two of the three times I've had this the start has been hydro boa against it Which is very interesting. Um, oh, I mean I'll go for this And then I guess I go for a priority heal He's got to be faster. So it doesn't even matter if he goes for his priority He probably won't he'll probably go for his um Oh, no, I'll be faster. Ha ha Okay, I feel like we had this matchup last time. Did we not in the last game hydro boa against the imperator sutures and I think I also went through a shield as well. That's very interesting Um, and then I guess we could go for this or should we go for this? We might have a chance of stunning them and then we also reduce Uh, like was it the attack decrease for us? So I think yeah, we'll go for this We didn't get lucky with stun can't swap out. That's fine Unless we go we went for the impact So I would have done a big chunk of damage to him Very interesting. Okay Well, there's 1,640 damage over time 1,700 and now he's got a 4200 and I don't think I'm gonna outspeed him. Yes. He's so yeah, there we go. Well done. Well done. Well done I think I for someone who isn't he didn't go for his fabled banks on the second turn Don't know why he didn't do that. It would have been a perfect opportunity for him Small brain plays on that part, but also turned out to be big brain plays So, um, I think the only thing we can do is go for The compi maybe this guy has nothing, you know to counter Um, we may as well go for a priority. I don't know if he's still got his dodge up. He does have his dodge up I don't know if we go through dodge Well either way, I don't think we did a max damage. We got a crit there into 2000. So Maybe yes. I think we we did I have no idea I think we did get through there. Okay. Oh here comes the ref Oh very interesting Now at this point, he's definitely quicker. Do we fodder off one of them? Or Do we go for this play the one he did not expect? Oh my god Of course here it comes Super destruction. I think I've immune to bleed That's where this thing shines completely immune to bleed And because I swapped in robbing wing. Yeah, there it is. Oh, it's a Oh, it's the passive when I get hit. I get it. Okay Uh, so I got 20 speed boost and now I'm quicker. Oh, I can force him to swap out And then I get some help back Okay Hey Maybe this could work. We get a lot of help for what we are and we force get out of here. Okay Let's see total immunity, but not really because if something comes in and it's going to smash a shield It's going to smash a shield But let's see what other dinosaur did he have in and anklos looks interesting He could get a stun Doesn't I was going to say you never know and now with this now that I've locked him into this I don't think he has anything that targets everything Uh, what about targets remove cloak dodge increase? Okay, so with that in mind Uh, let's go for this thing. Yes. We will get out of there very fairly sharpish And then you'll do a hit um I mean we could do hop and mark. I think We want to do something that doesn't do any damage to him really here Do we have hop and mark of our uh, uh, uh, no Yes, we're we're dead if I went for the tarp again at this Could have been in with a chance Um now do I get a dodge or I do get a dodge I'm pretty sure rampage and run removes dodge Uh targets Uh removes cloak.  Okay Could you charge my phone? Thank you Right so automatic swap you can't do it and now Now It depends because he's got he's got another creature in right Should we see what his other creature is because it won't be breath. It'll be something else. Let's see Our survey says I don't think I can get any more health, but do I get a speed boost? I mean it looks like I get a speed boost probably threatened again to the this game It's too convoluted. There's too many too much text and the icons make no difference It might be a speed increase for a friend. It might not be We'll force it now. What was this other dinosaur? Oh, I can I can fish for something good to go up against, you know And it is anglos lux is still above. Oh, of course Of course Oh, but that's good. We still have this I suppose Um, it's really not though. It's not good at all What do you do? What I mean, the only thing I'm thinking is if you just boost the health Out of the imperator. That's not the imperator the the tarant on because you're not going to deal much damage Are you and you don't get a counter off? I mean you just you just heal I don't know what to do with it. It's like it just has a gimmick and at the moment There's no way to really take advantage of the gimmick But we'll do one more and see maybe putting in first is where you want to do it You know, just swap out the setup that they try and do will we get it again? Yes, and let's put it in first because sorry to get it out the way Hey, I might have faced up against this guy before I remember like who who normally has the the thagamizer of a stegoso for a for a thing, but hey, uh, okay now What what sucks about this Is that he's going to go for his part right and he's going to take me to below half health and when he does that I'm not going to be able to get my healing back. Oh Oh Oh Oh, this is going to be interesting I like how no one's emoted for this.  I'm in a terrible position Brilliant. What can I do and he's locked in. Yeah, you thought you were What can I do? I mean, I guess I could cleanse. I got cleanse Okay, he really doesn't know what to just kill me, mate. Just get it over with. He doesn't realize that I'm terrible Uh, but okay. Cool. Cool. Cool. He's like wait a minute.  Like what what can I do? Uh, he's probably he's locked in for this turn and then he can do something else Uh, if I was him, I'd put he's probably just going to go for his biggest hit actually um Which I hope he doesn't Oh Oh, well Well, there's the game Wow, it is just terrible. It is it is. Oh What can you do? What can you do with this thing? The most useless apex they've ever put in the game. Brilliant. You're a round of applause for it. Brilliant. Brilliant. Brilliant. Um I mean, I know he's got imperative suits just put that I mean I could have guessed that he would have had You know, there's only so many dinosaurs that people have in the top team. Um So with that in mind actually, you know what? Yeah, I mean, I guess now that But that could have used with anything if I was referee referee would have went for that first anyway Um, so at this point, I may as well just Just go for it He might want to switch out and just I mean actually no He'll probably be locked in because he's not immune to it. So yeah, okay. We'll do that and then we'll go for I mean, we can't even heal at this point and that doesn't target all dinos does it Uh, I mean he did get a crit And that's the problem with these guys like if it was the regular compi, I'd be able to heal now. Um Maybe we just need level 30 compi saw the tarbakan at this hybrid saw the comps or raptor hybrid Let's just go for compi. I've got normal compi, but nearly Uh, so we now know he has the croc. Um, and what else does he have? So he can lock me in All right, I'm trying I'm really trying to get the most out of the advantage of knowing what he had Uh, but he just switches it next anyway So is there any is there an even advantage of it? I don't think so.  He just did he just throw the game This is because he was so thrown by the valkyrie. He didn't know what to do Was he hoping you wouldn't be locked down? That's interesting. Okay It's you you the man, you know what you're doing Now does this guy have anything that hits all targets?  So I'm just I'm just locked into just going for two of these I'm gonna get the other one as well. I suppose Uh, because I'll still be faster of him. There's no way that he can uh get other target highest damage. Okay And at this point I could go oh, maybe I can heal but I can't do that because I've got to die if I do that So It's still got a mystery thing that I don't know. I don't know what is um, but yeah at this Oh, I didn't even get the crit today Didn't even get the crit what were the if threatened 66 percent. Oh, I actually have a dodge at this point I might survive this unless it goes for no, uh, okay Yeah, I had to do that. Okay now Now what you're gonna you worry now. Do I go for the I you know what is the last game? Should we go for valkyrie? Let's go for valkyrie I've just thrown at night because he can he can do more than four. Oh, maybe not Can valkyrie do it? Oh, I might be able to if I can cleanse myself Oh, he swaps. What does he have? Let's go. Let's go watch you have Can it can it get through dodge and a shield? probably Oh god at devour Actually, you know what it it did pretty decenty against this thing um And I do speed up, but I don't oh, oh i'm faster I'm faster, but it doesn't matter because he's got the freaking thingy, doesn't he?  Wait, why didn't you do that?    Am I really gonna waste things on it when it might not be usable? Until somebody actually shows me a good tactic for it Then we'll probably come back to it and I'll admit that I was I was stupid But anyway guys, if you enjoyed this video leave a like and until next time when we won't be using valkyrie I'll see you later. Oh, bye. Bye


Hi, everyone, this is Mitch Schneider, chief strategist of MarketGauge.com. It is the end of the trading day, June 12th in the U.S. And we're going to have a look at some of the futures in anticipation of a pretty heavy duty week in terms of ECHO stats. Starting in the morning, we're all already trading and we're waking up to the CPI numbers, PPI numbers, and then, of course, we've got the good old FOMC. We also have retail sales this week. And in terms of the overall macro of the U.S. market, people are talking about the bull market in the spiders. And, of course, a 20% up is some measurement that some use, not necessarily us. And we still have issues, of course, with the retail sector, the transportation sector doing better, but still not necessarily as lofty as what we're seeing in tech, for sure. And then, of course, we also have the small cap. So, and I think that something you have to keep in your mind is a backdrop. Will these numbers get those inside sectors going? But let's take a look at gold. So this is the futures contract of August now. So we've rolled over. And it's so clear that this 1950 is just hugely supportive at this point. And depending on what kind of chart you look at, some people actually talked about a head and shoulders top. You don't see it so much and that's why I love the futures market. You're not seeing it so much here. What you're really basically seeing is the reversal and the follow through testing the support. So I think that makes it pretty simple for tomorrow. In our momentum indicators, the momentum has gone down, of course, with the price, but it's still not necessarily as weak as it could be. And if it gets much weaker and the price gets much lower, then I would even start looking more for a mean reversion. But for right now, just looking strictly at these numbers here, we can see if I just blow this up a little bit and I like to use closing prices very often, that 1980 level is really your resistance. We wake up tomorrow and CPI is a surprise and inflation looks like it's going to come back, which personally I think it will, but not just yet. Then 1980 will be the number. If it gets through that, I would certainly be a buyer of gold looking maybe for a 10 to $20 pop. On the reverse, if it comes in under, let's say this 1970 level tomorrow, we've closed just about around there, then I would be looking not only for 1960, a $10 drop, but possibly, especially if CPI is showing a cooling inflation, then under 1950, I think we could probably see whatever longs are left in the gold market at these levels right now sell into it. And then of course, we would take a look at our next area of support, which would be closer to 1900. Personally, we are flat gold. We are flat miners. When I say personally, I mean us at market gauge. And I am always looking for a free entry at this point, but at right now, I think being aside, except for scouting is probably the smartest thing to do. Let's move over to the oil market because that also took a very weak turn today, but will that sustain? So we're looking here at the July contract of WTI oil. And once again, we had talked a lot about this 50 day moving average and how we haven't been able to get through. And clearly that is the situation right here. And we broke down under pretty good support under that $70 a barrel level just today with Goldman Sachs doing a downgrade. I don't really care very much about analysts downgrades or upgrades because I believe that they're looking at very different type of parameters than I'm looking at because I'm looking mainly at fundamentals and of supply demand number one, and number two of what the technical analysis is. So it's pretty clear in terms of technical analysis. If you go back to these levels back here, which was in March, and you compare it to the two lows that we just had here and here, then that kind of tells you that the $67 barrel is important. And once again, from a pure technical standpoint, if CPI comes in weaker and this perfects the oil market negatively, borcellos come in and we break down under $67 a barrel, of course, then we'll be back looking pretty quickly at that 64. If 64 does not break down and it holds and stops to turn back, then that's a good solid bottom. But for now, 67 is gonna be my pivotal area. To the downside, $70 a barrel if things look different to the upside. Longer term projection on oil is I wouldn't get too complacent on the negative oil, not just pick a geopolitics, but we're having some supply chain issues really basically on both sides of the border here in the US and of course in Canada. And the other thing too is with all this demand coming back in the transportation sector, cruise lines for example, rally a tremendous amount today about 15%, the more demand and the more comfortable people are feeling about rates may have peaked, inflation may have peaked, then the more that we will start to see a demand in the oil market. So again, 67 pivotal, 70 over bullish, under 67 we're looking at 64. Let's move now down to the next area of course which is another X factor and that would be the dollar and the dollar pairs. So we've talked about the dollar, this is the continuous contract of the dollar. At that 104.20, if you recall, we said above was bullish, below was bearish. And so we have actually seen a little bit of selling coming in based on that 104.20 level not being able to clear. And again, that's why I like closing levels sometimes they're very important. You can see that 104.21. Now, well let's continue to use that. We can even lower it a little bit, we can say 104. Dollar gets back through 104 for whatever reason whether it's the Fed doesn't pause and decides to raise rates or we have more hawkish talk coming out of Europe as Lagarde actually sounded a little more dovish today or whatever reason it is. Right now what we're seeing is 104 is going to be my new pivotal number and over 104 we're going to have a stronger dollar. And we'll still have to be taking a look at that 200 day moving average up here at around 105.40 to 105.50. However, we mentioned 103 as the next goal to the downside and we haven't gotten there yet. So 103 is going to be an area that we'll look at for support if it continues to decline. And of course, if it continues to decline under 103 for whatever reason, then we would have to be looking not only at the 50 day moving average at 102.50, but then we're going to start to look at some of these other areas that we really formed a base from in April and early May and that's between 101 and 102. So it's good for you to look at the weekly videos that I do because there's a consistency in that I'm picking up from levels the week before and looking at levels this week. And like I said, 104.20 would be one. Maybe we can lower it to 104. And then under these current levels here at 103.50, we're going to be looking at around that 103 next. And now let's take a look at some of the pairs to the dollar, particularly looking at the euro and the yen. So remember that when we're looking at these charts, these pair currency charts, the one instrument that it starts was the one that we're comparing to the other instrument. So in this case, this is measuring how the euro is doing versus the dollar. And of course, with the recent dollar strength, the euro broke down underneath this 50-day moving average. Remember the 50 is the thin line, the 200 is the thicker line, but it's popped back a little bit. So again, we're in some kind of an interesting trading range and it's really pretty tight. I would say under 1.07 negative, that would be negative for the euro, stronger for the dollar, above 108 positive, positive for the euro, negative for the dollar. And then we can start looking at what happens here at the 50-day moving average, which, since it's broken down from with this little bit of a bear flag, has not been able to get through. From a little bit of a longer-term perspective here, we had so many tops up here at around this 111. I would think that at this point now with so much talk of bricks, this would definitely be worthwhile keeping an eye on and seeing if indeed the euro does start to get stronger through that 1.08 and onward from there. Well, the bar chart system is not allowing me to look at the yen as the lead. Instead, we have to look now at the dollar versus the yen. So again, we're talking about a reverse, what the dollar is going to do versus the yen. And we've talked a lot about that 140 level in that if the dollar gets through that 140, then that would be more negative for the yen. And at the same token, of course, if we get down underneath, particularly this 200-day moving average, but even starting at around 138, then we know that the yen is going to get stronger versus the dollar. So at this point, we're still so stuck in the middle. And if I take that same ability to look at a bunch of closing prices, where we've had a lot of congestion, it's really just shy of that 140 level, really looking more like at 139.67. So let's call that our nearest term pivotal point, 139.67. If you want to trade the pairs and the dollar gets through that, obviously that would be negative for the yen. And of course, if we cannot get through that 139.67, then most likely it means that the dollar will decline back to those 103 levels we just talked about, and that would be more bullish for the yen. And the final thing I want to show you is since there's such an important USDA report coming out this week, is corn futures, particularly as we've been looking at them over the last couple of weeks. And this here is what you're looking at is the dry conditions for US corn, because on Thursday, there will be a drought report. Now this is extremely important in that you can see that 45% of the corn production in the US is located in drought areas. And so this is obviously always a wild card when it comes to crops, but I think it's a good lead in for us to be taking a look at the actual corn futures chart. Okay, so we've been looking at this July corn chart and we talked about that it had to clear the 50. It certainly did last week. It's been up and down around the 50, so it hasn't exactly really gotten any follow-through until today. So that tells me now that this is looking more like a bit of an inverted head and shoulders bottom. And if we're looking at some kind of a measurement, if we take, let's say, rounding off from 550 to $650 move, that projects, based on what we're seeing today, the potential of this to get up to 645 or 650. And certainly that drought report can really be the catalyst that puts it up there. So for right now, if you're interested in trading corn futures, again, if we take a look at levels where there's been congestion based on a closing basis, we're looking at around 607, 607.50. But since we broke out of that today, let's move that up just a little bit now and say that as long as this holds somewhere around 615, you can be a very low-risk buyer at that 615 level or around the 615 level. And if it continues to get through the highs of today, which would be closer to 623 in change, then I would think that it would be a good long position with some potential selling coming in as we get closer to the 640 or the 650 level. On the flip side, if we fail these levels today, then I would be wanting to see a breakdown underneath that 607 level. And then underneath that 607, then I would consider this to be a bit of a failure and most likely move back down to 580. So basically that's it. The market is really, really hanging in the balance in terms of the futures market while the equities continue to be supreme. But on the other hand, there are factors to be looking at around the country, starting with the Canadian fires affecting supply chain, what's happening here with potential strikes on the west coast, the collapse of I-95 on the east coast, which is a major north to south highway. And then of course, drought areas that we're seeing. And then on top of that, obviously the ongoing geopolitical situations we have with social unrest throughout the world with always the possibility of Russia poking its head out or China poking its head out. And that's what makes these futures markets so good. They are dollar related to a degree, but they also right now show the delicate situation that we have with supply chain. Okay, that's it for now. Thanks so much for watching. You all have a great day. I'll see you next week. Bye.


Sometimes we need a border on an element that is not just a simple solid color like maybe it has two different colors in it or it has a gradient in it or it even has some sort of fancy pattern going on with it and we're going to see how we can do all of those things in this video. Hello my friend and friends, thank you so much for coming to join me once again and if you're new here my name is Kevin and here at my channel I help you fall madly deeply in love with CSS and we're going to be doing that today by looking at border images which for me are definitely a blast from the past. If you don't know about the old days of web development we actually use these to make like buttons with rounded corners and stuff before border radius existed and I guess I'm showing my age a little bit there but we can still use border image for some really useful and fun things as well instead of having to sort of hack solutions like that. So if we dive in here is a pretty simple example we're going to start with sort of breaking things down in a really simple way. So I have these dibs here we just have three of them that are all this border image that has an h3 and a paragraph in them and what we're going to do is I have this image that I've already created and I want to use this and we're going to look at why use it like I could just set this as a background image because look I left an empty space in the middle and everything for it but there's downsides to that as you might have discovered if you've tried doing this before. Let's start by doing a border on here so we're going to say border and we're going to make it pretty big 40 pixels I'm going to say solid and it's already white and the reason it is white is because if you don't declare a color on a border it will just take your current text color so that is there and it's working nicely but obviously we want to get that image in there and to be able to do that we're going to come in with border image and you can actually see there's a lot of border image properties including border image width if you use the border shorthand and you set the 40 pixels and a solid there you don't actually need to use the border image width you can just leave that and you do need to have the solid on there as well or the image won't show up so border 40 pixel solid and then the first one we're going to go with is the source right here to say well what's the source of the image and this is just like anything else or like setting an image for anything else in CSS where we use the URL function and in here you just write the name of the path which for me is gold blue border dot jpeg which will bring it in because I haven't done anything fancy and oh my goodness that does not look how I expected it to and this is where things get a little bit weird with border images uh in how it works by default where it's just setting it on all four corners and the reason for this is it doesn't know how you want to use the border image and we sort of have to give it some extra information and that's what some of these other properties are for so the next one we're going to do is our border image slice and the border image slice is an interesting one because it's actually we're going to slice up our image I'm going to look at sort of how we can do it but then some tools that can help you with it so let's try doing a 40 and just hitting save and my image is sort of coming in look at that what's happening here and if I change this to a 10 that it's well now I have like a different pattern going on which kind of looks interesting actually or you try 100 and we have something else going on and to explain this I think it's much easier to do it visually and the border image generator here from Mozilla is actually a pretty good tool for this and I'm just going to move it to take up more of the screen here and you can do it with their default images you can play with these or you can actually upload your own image so I'm going to upload mine because I think that's going to be easier to understand what's going on with our own code all right so here is the image and what the slice is doing is it's controlling where these lines are pretty much and what you generally want to do if you have this type of like pattern anything going on is isolate a corner so what I'm going to do is let's just drag it sort of to where that the end is right here and I'll just do this quickly it seems to be on a 50 so let's just do 50 for all of these and you'll notice while I'm doing this it's actually showing me a preview the preview you can move around to try and play with it just to get it where you want and what this is doing is it's actually showing me what I want my slice to be so border image slice here and I think I'm just going to do 40 for all of them for now just for the like demo purposes so let's just move that back in and let's try putting 40 here and seeing what happens and you can see look at it's filling up or maybe 48 actually would be better let's try 48 I mucked up my bottom a little bit but it's fine so what's happening here is it's putting in that background image and it's taking each one of these corner bits that I sliced and it's locking those corners into that space so the corners are always locked the corners will never change what will change is these middle bits that are able to stretch and pull a little bit and I think to highlight that what we'll do is we'll actually eliminate one of these we'll just comment it out and see how it sort of stretched that top bit across now so if we now actually if I change the screen size let's do this with the dev tools so if I open the dev tools and then I just go to responsive mode and let's on dock this so they're not in the way and then we can actually see that like the top bit is stretching and and filling but the corners are really locked in and like here like this looks really ugly up and down whereas across here is looking okay and the corners are looking fine so it really depends on like how the layout is it's stretching pulling it's kind of awkward a little bit but we can improve on this and that doesn't have to be the behavior that we're actually getting so one way we can change what that behavior is is to do a border image repeat and this isn't to the repeat that you would think of where we have the default is actually repeat if you leave repeat nothing much will change here but one that I find really useful is round and what round is going to do is it should show us more see if we look at the top bit here notice how it's repeating the background that like pattern here for we have four of whatever this shape is and then once it starts running out of room for that and it's getting too squished it's actually changing how that pattern is repeating itself and then it's changing it again oh it won't actually okay so it's repeating and repeating then we're running into this world like here it actually looks pretty good because it's the right shape so what we can actually do for that is change here also how things are working a little bit so I'm going to actually change my number here to like an 80 instead just to show you a little bit of I think it just looks a little bit nicer overall and how it's repeating now I have a problem with my my blue coming through we're going to fix that problem in a second because it's using part of that you can see that it just sort of it's repeating itself but because it's 80 and it's changed my slice number on there basically let's go look at what that's doing is it's actually doing an 80 this way but it also means the corners are a little bit bigger and they're coming down more this way and that way so my corner sections are bigger and the background piece that has to repeat is not as big as it used to be this section here is much smaller than it was so because that section is smaller it actually repeats a little bit better um and it's able to shrink down and grow everything a little bit better so it looks a little bit less ugly now I mentioned there's the ugly thing with the background color here now of course I could just do this on a transparent background and then not worry about that but another thing we can do with the slice is we can add a fill here so if I do a fill it's actually going to take the color that's in the middle here and use that as a background color or background image as well so if you had a pattern that was coming here it would use that as the background image for the middle space and the fill keyword can go anywhere because right now I'm using 80 but as you see here I can actually do different sizes and I can you know I can control this in any way I really want to do and so you can have separate properties for each one of your border image slices and you just repeat the values so here I could do something like you know 40 80 120 and 200 if I wanted to it's going to muck everything up it doesn't work with this image and it's even mucking up my background a little bit because of that but it gives you an idea that you can put different values and that fill keyword can either go at the end here or I could take the fill and I should be able to I think put it at the start and it should work fine just don't put it right in the middle because then it sort of breaks things and the property doesn't work anymore so I'm going to take the fill off of there and let's put the fill back here and let's just put this back down over to an 80 and it does take setting up an image and getting the image a decent image that you can use to be able to do this type of thing and there's you know just looking at border images and stuff like that you should be able to get things that repeat themselves and actually work out pretty well and you might just have to play with where your slices are to get things to line up so the repeating behavior of it actually looks good and you're not getting breaks in really strange places but that's not all we can do we can do stuff with gradients as well because gradients are a type of background image so this is where I think some of the more today use cases come in so if we come here and I do a we'll do the same thing we're going to do a border let's just do 10 pixels solid but instead of doing it on all sides because we could do that I could just say border top and by specifying that I only have a border on the top then I can have a gradient only on the top um so let's add a little bit of space there so when you a padding block start of 10 pixels and actually if I'm doing block start here I think border also takes logical properties so we'll add that there perfect um you know so you can just control your your one right there um but now what I could do is I can come in with my background image source and I can say it's a linear gradient and let's just put this on a separate line so we don't have to worry too much and let's just do a red blue and hit save of course it's not background image source it's border border image source sorry but you'll notice I don't actually have anything and you're going well I put it why isn't it showing up and even though we're doing it with a gradient you still need to have your border image slice for this to work and I'm just going to put a one and you can see it has actually come in now the problem is because my gradient by default is up to down it looks like it's solid red so let's just come here and do a whoops and do a 90 degrees so it turns it left to right you can see there's my gradient and you know what let's not do that on all the sides let's just do border on all the sides and do my padding on all the sides and there you go or I guess then we don't need 98 degrees we could do like a 45 degrees uh you can get sort of a border that's going around and as you could actually come here and change your slice number um and you might find that it's going to impact how things look um if I had the fill on here it would actually look really weird let's throw the fill so you can see it creates this really kind of awkward thing um with bigger numbers I'm not actually sure how it works with gradients with the fill I just put one and it tends to work um so that's my method um but let's go back a little bit let's actually we'll copy this one so we can work a little faster um and we're gonna do one small tweak on this one which is let's go back to the inline start actually for these two um our block start I should say block start but instead of having it go like this where it's an actual gradient let's change this over to 90 degrees so it is left to right and then what we could actually do on this and we're going to extend this out so we can see the code is after the red and after the blue these are the gradient stops and this is the updated syntax um the older syntax was a little bit harder to put gradient stops in but now it's nice and easy so the red goes to 50 percent the blue is basically starting at 50 percent um and it creates a solid line and then maybe you know let's do this at like five um or three you might have a design or something that needs sort of this two colored line for something I've seen stuff like that come up and it looks like it would be really hard to do but luckily it's not that bad it's actually kind of easy um with with that you can do it with pseudo elements and other stuff but with a border it works perfect and there we go and another fun effect that we could do with this with gradients is taking advantage of transparency so let's do a border let's do our border on my inline start as well as a border uh block start so it's on the left and the top and for each one of those we'll just say that for now we'll do 10 pixels solid and so we get it on both of those and we'll add the padding there as well padding inline uh we'll just speed this up with doing it on all sides and so we get a bit of space there and then what we could do is instead of using a linear gradient we could come in with a radial gradient so let's do border uh image source and a radial gradient and the reason I want to do a radial gradient is even though we're only placing the uh the border on these two right here it's if we come into this radial gradient let's just turn formatting off for now so it stops formatting my code we're going to do for this one a circle at top left so it's going to be a radial gradient as a circle starting at the top left right here and because it's a circle at the top left we're going to break this up there we go uh we're going to go from lime green to trans transparent and of course it just takes up the corner because hopefully you remember that we need to have a border image slice throw a one on there and cool right now part of the problem is the transparent's not really kicking in where I want it to so let's come in here and say that like 50% is where the transparent's at uh and there you go you get this sort of like interesting border effect and maybe 10's a bit big here let's do like a three or four and you sort of get this interesting effect definitely not something you'd use on every single side of yours but it could come in handy in the right situation and if you'd like to know more about gradients and the types of things you can do with stops and radial gradients and other linear gradients and all the fun things you can do with them I do have a video right here for your viewing pleasure and with that I would like to thank my enablers of awesome Jan, Johnny, Kyle, Mr. 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