The following is a presentation of TFNN. Trade what you see with Larry Pezzavento. Call now toll free at 1-877-927-6648 or internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER>. Now Larry Pezzavento. Okay, looking good, Billy Ray feeling good, look. Lewis, with a little bit of luck, we've got Shane Smollion in the house today. Shane, are you there? Can you hear me, Larry? Yes, sir, you're coming in just fine, my friend, just fine. Anyway, I was telling the folks in the beginning of the show about these stelems that we've looked at and how I got interested in astrology and you want to show us what you're looking at because I see things coming into early January that are... I just haven't seen anything like this in about 15 years. I don't know if I'm right or not, but why don't you show the folks what you're looking at today and we'll make some sense out of it, okay? Absolutely. So, happy holidays to everybody, happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas to everybody. I know we're a little bit early, but we're in the holiday spirit here, so we'll get started. Now, just to refresh people's memories here, we had been talking about the geomagnetic storms before. So, there's three topics today that I'll get a little bit into. The geomagnetic storms is one that we've talked about, so if we have some time, what I'll do is I'll come back to that. Essentially, this is a relatively new phenomenon. It's not astrology-based, it's based upon these coronal mass discharges from the sun and how they affect the markets. So, this is a relatively new tool and we've been talking about this and there's a seasonal pattern of these geomagnetic storms and they tend to follow the seasonal pattern of the S&P in an inverted fashion. So, if we have more time, we'll come back to this towards the end, but this is important to talk about because in recent years, the last few years I've really taken a study of this and I've tried to really understand how these things work on the short term and on the long term. And I do find, for the most part, they're pretty good. We've had a few misses here in the last month where we had some of these storms and the market did not go down, but for the most part they have been behaving as these are more negative influences on the market. And so, the reason I bring this up is that what the stelems are is they're a positive influence on the market. So, sometimes you have things like the Bradley which can go positive or negative. So, this geomagnetic activity is mainly just negative. So, it does affect the moods of people on earth. It's been documented and this research was done by the Federal Reserve of Atlanta. And so, these negative effects actually run opposite of the Dow Jones. So, the Dow Jones runs opposite of these storms. So, you can see that as the storm activity rises, the markets tend to go down and then as the storm activity falls, the markets tend to go up. And then, my storms go up in late summer, early fall, markets fall. And then we're entering a period now of much more favorable activity for the markets from the standpoint of geomagnetic storms. So, I just wanted to refresh everybody's memory about that. And we're going to start out here with this Bradley barometer. So, this is going to fall under S&P forecast models. And when I talk about the solar storms, it's not really a forecast model because it's kind of just like we get a heads up that a storm is coming a couple of days ahead of time. Like we get some warning kind of like a hurricane is coming. But, you know, it's not really a forecast model because I can't forecast out months at a time like you can with other models. So, when I talk about a forecasting model, I'm talking about predictive ability across months into the future. And so, that's where we start with the Bradley barometer here. So, give me one second. Okay. So, Bradley barometer background. Let's talk about this. So, what is the Bradley barometer? Bradley barometer is, sorry, it's a little interruption. Bradley barometer, and I put barometer with an S, okay? Because you've heard of the Bradley barometer for years. There was just one Bradley barometer. And what this does is this measures the effects of transits on financial markets. So, when we just talked about the solar storms, we were basically talking about just negative influences based upon these releases of the sun. What this is, this actually measures interactions of the planets as they make angles with each other. And so, traditional astrology has for centuries and thousands and thousands of years ascribed positive or negative values to these aspects, right? So, typically conjunctions are generally positive unless it's typically involving Saturn. Some people think Mars is negative, but typically conjunctions are positive and then you have favorable angles. You have sextiles, you have trines, you have squares, and you have oppositions. And so, depending on the type of angle that these make with the market, the idea is that if it's a hard angle, the traditional astrologers believe that the market should view that as negative. And if it's a favorable angle, the market should view that as favorable. And the reason why this was tested on the markets is because the markets are, it's a pool of many, many participants, especially equity markets. So, you're talking about a large group of people that are affected by the psychology and the social mood and the emotions, right? So, the markets are very emotional. And so, the idea is that these transits affect what happens with... What's happening up there is what's happening down here. So, originally, Donald Bradley looked at different aspects of this. He looked at long-term aspects. He looked at middle-term aspects. The long-term aspects are the outer planets. He looked at the inner planets. He looked at declination of how high they go up or below the horizon, which is related to where they are longitudinally. But it's just a way that he threw this in there. He also had the X factor, which he threw in there. Now, the idea was that these harmonious transits, they tended to... They would correspond when the market was positive. That's the idea behind it. And then when there was a hard transit, when we talk about squares, oppositions, probably semi-squares, 135 angles, these would be hard transits for the market. And so that's the idea. And so it's best for equities because, like I said, it's a broad base of participants. Now, this model, as you know, and you know with Arch Crawford, he used this for years. It worked very well all the way through the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, even all the way up through 2009. But right around 2000, the financial crisis of 2008, things changed because the Fed started with quantitative easing. And I noticed that this particular indicator would stop working while the Fed was doing quantitative easing. I did a whole series on this about how... And I went back and tracked the Bradley every time the Fed was doing QE and when they weren't doing QE, that it stops working and then it starts working. It stops working and then it starts working. So when there's less artificial influences in the market, it tends to reflect the mood of the people. And again, we see this with the geomagnetic storms too. The geomagnetic storms, you know, this is documented. I mean, just like I said, documented by the Fed, documented by psychologists, that it does affect the moods of people on Earth when these geomagnetic storms move across Earth. 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Yeah, so we started out talking about the solar storms, how those are mainly negative effects. Bradley Boromber can go either way, and then we talked about the fact that these are affected by the Federal Reserve, and so during non-QE periods, like we're in right now, they tend to work much better. Now, the Bradley. Thanks to our friend Alfie LaVoy and Air Software, we can optimize this for specific markets. And so why is that important? We can optimize specific transits and plans that affect a specific market. Okay, so I can do a Bradley for the gold. I can do a Bradley for the S&P. I can do a Bradley for the 10-year. I can do a Bradley for natural gas. I can do a Bradley for corn, et cetera, et cetera. So I can go on and on with this. This optimized Bradley, it's more accurate, and it has less inversion, which is good. Now, the original Bradley traditionally was just for equities, because it's just the general mood of the people, and typically equity markets are the general mood of the people. So 1946, when he brought that out, by the way, folks, 1946. I mean, it was incredible. He did all this without computers by hand. And of course, this is before we had such interventions that we see now, like with the central banks, and it was a different time. So it definitely reflected more the moods of the people. Now, the Bradley Baramers, this optimized Bradley, works well both in sample and out of sample. And what I want to just explain is here, since we do have plenty of time, I'm going to go into this little lecture here for everybody to kind of try to explain how this works. So there's two types of an optimization. There's what's called the in-sample portion, and essentially this is a back test. And the out of sample is how did it actually do into the future? Like when you stopped testing it, how did it do? Was it good? Was it bad? Now, here's something where people get tripped up a lot. Back tests are usually meaningless, and they simply model noise. So anybody can do a back test and come up with a beautiful looking model. It's very high profit factor ratio. All these sharp ratios, all these perfect numbers, and then it goes into the future, and the model usually just dies. So this isn't a video about designing trading systems, but the idea is that typically, when you optimize something in the past, if you have a model that you optimize, let's say this is the past, and it looks almost perfect in the past, usually the better it looks in the past, the quicker it dies into the future. So this is really a big mystery for a lot of people because they focus on statistics and correlations and t-test and z-scores and all these different ways, high square, all these different ways they can say, oh my God, it's statistically significant, statistically significant, and then they go into the future and it just dies. What you'll find is that, ironically, a lot of times when you optimize systems, the less smooth it is, the more you have a little bit of waviness in the system, it tends to keep going into the future because you don't model all of that noise. And again, this is not about back-testing. We get into all this with the Fed use and the Polar R-square, but what's interesting about the optimized Bradley is, is that the end sample continues to the out-of-sample, and so that provides a very strong evidence of this predictive ability. So I'm going to show you some graphs here and we've showed it before, but I'm going more in depth today about how we did a back-test, right? We did an end-sample and then we stopped it in June and it kept going. And so Larry, the graph that you're showing people, this graph stopped in June, okay? It stopped in June, so it kept forecasting out into the future using this optimized Bradley. So this is kind of where we are, and I just want everybody to understand the sequence of how we got to what we're talking about here. So this is the optimized Bradley here. So let me explain to everybody what this is. So the black line that we have here, this is the S&P, and this is just the S&P as it's moving through time. You can see this little thin line here. This is the S&P here, just kind of meandering around here. You can see it stops right here because this is where we stopped the back-test. So everything from this point backwards here is what's called a back-test, right? So I don't ever assume that these things work because especially on Alfi software, I don't have the ability to do advanced, you know, walk-forward optimizations, which test into the future. But this particular model is unique because it tends to continue going. So this portion here, this is what we would call the future, or this is the out-of-sample. So this is the out-of-sample. And so this is actually, how did it actually do? Like, did it work? Did it not work?  I mean, we're six months past this point. Did it work or did it not work? And so what I'm going to show you here in this yellow box is this is the actual portion where it was into the future. It stopped, it was predicting into the future. And so I labeled these one, two, three, four, and five here. And I corresponded it on the graph here with the S&P here. This graph into here when this came down. So this was one here, two here. This two should be a little bit over here, but this is one, two, three, four, five, and you can see the S&P came down. It should have been a little bit further here, but it came one, two, three, four, five here. And now, and this was, I think this was two shows ago. I predicted this. This was when I was on the show and I said, okay, now it's predicting that this is going to go up. And this is when I gave you, this is when I shared this information with you about this. And by the way, for the listeners, I have to thank Larry for this because he calls me and asks me, he says, hey, what's going on with the Bradley? What about the Optimized Bradley? And he actually got me thinking about steeliums. I never even really thought about that. So Larry's, you know, when he contacts me about this information, he kind of, he really stimulates me to kind of look, look in that direction. So, so I shared the graph with him and say, here's what it says. It's supposed to rally here based upon this model. And you can see here from October is predicting this forecast and this was what predicted. And so what it actually did here, if you go one slide forward here, you can actually see that the market did, it did bottom right at that point there in late October as this model predicts here. And it did, it did head higher according to this model. Now, this is not the only model that I look at, but this particular model has been working very well. And I think it has, it's a large part, it's a large part due to the fact that the Fed is tightening and we don't have these constant interventions like we normally see where it just causes the market to keep rising and rising. So that's one example here. I have a closer example here. This is a closer zoom here where I labeled these, these, you know, I zoomed it in so you can see even more here, but you can see on this graph, label A here corresponds to the graph here. This was a low, the label B here is the high here. The label C here is a low, label D here is the high. And then of course at E it predicted this rally and that's exactly what happens. So yeah, I haven't touched this graph since June. This is the exact forecast from June. I typically like to let these things run about six months. So I'm probably going to be re-optimizing this in the next month or so just to see how it continues into the future. But usually it's pretty close. And so I think that just demonstrates how powerful the Bradley is and how powerful, if you do this right and you're careful with it and you make sure to check and make sure that this is actually forecasting out of sample and you're not just looking at a back test. I think it can be very powerful. So this is what I have to do and I call the eye test out of sample because I don't have the software. I have other software that I use for my other systems. But this particular system, sometimes it's okay to do that. You can just look at a system and just say, hey, does it work? Does it keep going out? Does it keep going out? I call that a dipstick test. Like when you run a dipstick test in science is when you just do a quick test to see if something's positive or negative like a COVID test or something, right? It's a dipstick test. So what I do a lot of times on these, this is a term that I use. I call it the dipstick test. I run it and then I let it go out for six months to see how did it work. And this one is pretty good. So that's the background on that Bradley. So I just wanted to kind of go through that to give everybody an update. And we do run that with our S&P service and we also have gold in a 10 year as I've also shared with Larry too. We've got to pay a few bills here, my friend. I've taught him everything he knows, folks. This is all second nature to me. I give up. The Gold Report. As a precious metal, gold is still king. 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You sent me all these charts over and over again and I really couldn't make sense of it because I was so used to looking at the transits between the plans. But I realized, hey, and I think Arch knew about this for sure. He talked about this tight steelium back in 1987. He used to talk about this in his newsletters. But planetary steeliums happen when planets line up in a conjunction. This is a longitudinal conjunction when they're basically crowded in one space in the sky. So this is not transits. This is not the angles that they make with each other. I guess you could say they're making a zero-degree angle with each other. But it's more about are they crowded together and working together? So the conjunction can be wide or tight. And the planets are working together in a conjunction. So if you think about vector mechanics, if you have two vectors pointing in the same direction, they add up almost in a linear fashion. They're completely working together. You can think about it in physics like the dot product. It's like you're taking two vectors and you're turning it into a scalar and you're finding out how much of one projects onto the other. That's kind of like a conjunction. These planets, they tend to be positive. So when they line up. Now, I created a planetary steelium index in none other than Alfie Levois software. This is the market trader titanium I have, right? So I make this index because I took what you were sending me, Larry, and I thought about it and I said, well, damn, I was looking at these steel lamps. This happened to me a couple of years ago. I saw these steel lamps and I said, man, why is the market hanging up here? I don't see any transits. I don't see anything. The transits weren't really that big, but they were all packed together. So I said, well, let me let me see what I can do here. So I created this index. It measures how tight the steel limbs are. And so there's ways in Alfie software. You can write all these logical operators and add things up. And, you know, as I figured out, okay, I'm going to put these together and figure out when this custom indicator is going to predict these steel limbs because it's kind of hard on a chart. You kind of have to flip through and flip through and flip through and see whether they're together. But this is a custom indicator, like I said, that I wrote and it's by the orb of the tightness. And so the higher the orb, the higher the peak in the graph. Okay, so sorry, the tighter the orb, I should have said tighter. Tighter just means an orb, just for those of you who are familiar, it's just how close the plants are. So if they're very, very close, we say the orb is within one degree, two degrees, three degrees. And so we measure this. So this is an example of what the planetary steel limb index looks like. This is from 2000. And like I said, I wrote this custom so it doesn't exist in his software. I just have it in my file here, but it's 2000 here, this is 2010, and this is 2020. So you can see they do happen relatively frequently. And you can see they're not all the same strength, the same peak, but when you do see these very sharp peaks, you do tend to get positive effects. And they can last for months and months at a time. You can see down here in the two, I think this was about nine, eight, seven, six. 2006, this is right where the market was making a high. 2006 into here. And then this was the financial crisis here. I'll talk, if we get to that, I'll talk about that. But these tend to show up where the markets are making big highs. And the wider the orb is, usually the more planets that are involved with this. So that's it on a big scale. They tend to be positive events and the higher the peak in the index, the tighter and stronger the steeling is. Now, here's the thing about this. I've been studying these. And so they're a little bit different than transits because these are generally just positive events, right? So there can be delays after a steelium leaves. So a steelium can show up at a market high. And then like in 1987, right before the crash, there was a big steelium that summer. And then slowly it's like the air's coming out of the balloon when the steelium leaves. So steeliums can occur at market highs or they can occur at market lows. In other words, if the market is going down, like in 2009, the great recession, these steelium show up right at the bottom. In other words, it's kind of like a backstop against the market where it stops it from going down at that point. So this is just some observations I've made, but much more research needs to be done because I just created this index. So let's go back and start studying all this. But each indicator has its own peculiar behaviors and whatnot. So we're going to go back in time here. I'm going to give you a brief history of the steeliums on the Dow Jones Industrial Index. So I did a webinar last Saturday on this on part one. So we're probably just going to cover some of what we talked about in part one. And then this Saturday, it's going to be 10 o'clock, not 8 o'clock, 10 o'clock. I'm going to continue this webinar. So if you want to show up and go into more in depth about this, we can talk more on Saturday. So the webinar is free to attend. It's free to show up. It's on YouTube. And you can chat your questions. And so just to kind of put that out here, if I don't cover enough today, we will go more into depth of this on Saturday at 10 o'clock. So the steelium, the first one we're going to look at is May the 4th, 1890. So this is Dow Jones. We got more data on Dow Jones. We go back. And some people like to splice together different markets from Great Britain and all, you know, they try to do all the Elliott way people do that. They splice this debt, you know, the South Sea bubble and all stuff. I don't really do that. I'm just focusing on the Dow Jones right here. But I'm sure if you had enough financial information, you could go back and find these correlations too. We're going to start just with the Dow. And so what I have here is this is a typical chart of the planets. And what you can see here is that you have a tight, you have a tight steelium here on these planets. So when it's with the steelium is down here, you can see these are the plants. The steelium down here. So you have Venus, you have Neptune, Mercury and Pluto. Okay. So this is your steelium right here. And what's going to happen here is that this is the sun here, right? So the sun moves always in direct motion one degree a day. There's no retrograde motion. It's going to move across this steelium, right? And so what I have, what I have found, okay, with these steeliums is that when the sun moves across the steelium, it tends to trigger this. This tends to be the peak of the event. So you have a steelium of planets and the sun moves across and that's the peak. Okay. So that's just something that I've observed. I've been studying this. That's what happens. Okay. So what does this actually look like in terms of the planetary steelium index?  So it may look like, you know, like, what is all this stuff? What are these symbols? These are just the way that we represent the different planets. If I go here on the graph, this is what it looks like. So this is the planetary steelium index here. This is 1890. We're going way back. And like I said, the markets tended to follow the stuff much better back then. We just didn't have the type of intervention that we have now. But you can see here that there's this peak here. It comes up at peaks here, right? It comes down and then there's another peak here in the steelium index. And like I said, when this goes away, what happens a lot of times is the market tends to almost have like a slow deflating balloon effect, but eventually it does tend to kind of fall down here. So hope springs eternal. I know a lot of market technicians talk about market tops as being very diffuse and broad. But this really exemplifies that because it's mainly just positive effects.  So it does affect these markets in a positive way. And there's some pretty dramatic examples that I'm going to keep going through here. But this stuff shows up, by the way, in market crashes. It shows up at market peaks. Just like the planetary speed index is another one, Larry, that I've talked about with you. That's another index I've developed. That one shows up, too, in market crashes and market peaks. So this stuff is just a big clock. And this stuff is always kind of working together. 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Yeah, well, I made a phone call to you. That's the inspiration. Well, no, I mean, to be completely honest, I mean, look, to the audience, to the guests out there, Larry always asked me for these charts. He said, send me the chart of this date or you just give me some random date. And I would look at the chart. I'm like, what is he looking at? And I would send him the chart. And I realized that Larry was seeing these steel lamps. Like Larry, you spotted these like in the March and every time you would ask me for the, you know, you say this matches this date and you were looking at the steel lamps. And to be honest with you, I never even considered this as a market indicator. So I always, you know, what I try to do if subscribers or people ask me questions or give suggestions, I always try to research that because I think, you know, especially my subscribers, I don't mean to brag on my subscribers, but they usually ask really good questions and they're very knowledgeable. I just answered the whole, a whole explanation is weakened on the market update video about this Chicago financial conditions index and how that, you know, what did that mean in terms of the Fed? So, you know, I always look when someone asks me a question, I always try to take that information and run with it and try to see if I can expand upon it. So this is an example of that. So anyway, I digress there. This is, so this is 1891. Now we're not even to the 1900s yet, man. This is like, we're way back in time, right? But you can see here, here's our steelium here. This is in September. So this is 9, 12, 1891. And you can see here, this is our steelium here. And then this is the sun moving across. So again, one of the things I've noticed, and it just, it's just for whatever reason, you have to have the steelium and the sun has to show up in that picture. Okay. And we call this in the uranium astrology, we call this a planetary picture. Okay. The sun is really important because it represents things that you can see. It usually represents things that happen on earth. In other words, people can see this stuff happening. It's not happening behind the scenes like a Pluto Neptune or a moon aspect or something like that. It's visible. So this is what this one looks like. This one's pretty stunning actually. This is coming to 1891. This is the early summer here. So you can see the Dow Jones here is kind of just moving down, but it has these little rises here.  Now fortunately, we can go back and check like I just showed you on that graph. And you can see here, this was the actual big peak here in this one here. It goes all the way up into, this is the September the 12th date. It comes down. And like I said, it's kind of like at the air coming out of a balloon. It's not always a sudden crash down, but it does tend to fall down and eventually it just tends to kind of deflate after that aspect. So it's kind of like, like I said, it's just mainly just positive. So it's unique in that way. Like I said, it really can be positive or negative. And the solar storms are just negative. So for whatever reason, that's just how they manifest in the psyche. So I got another one here. This is November 23rd, 1895. We're getting closer to the turn of the century here. This one's pretty dramatic. And this was a very tight steelium. Okay. So I talked about this. I'm not going to get into 12th harmonic too much here, but I did talk about this fact that this one was really tight. You can see how tight these orbs are into here. And the sun had just moved across this. You can see the sun is in Sagittarius here. In other words, it moves in this direction across. And so there were other planets too at the same degree of this one. Okay. So we're looking anywhere between 12th to 16, 20 degrees somewhere in there. This is relatively tight into here, but there's other plants also in here at these orbs into here. Okay. So I think this one was in particular, this one was very strong because on the 12th harmonic, which is a whole nother thing we're not going to get into, it matched by degree too. So in other words, we had a steelium here on this conjunction on the first harmonic, and then also it touched on those other angles. That should have been a much tighter steelium. And when we look at the actual chart here, you can see that one actually had a more profound effect on the market falling tighter. So when we have those really, really, really tight steeliums, and 1987 was a really tight one, we tend to get big, big market highs. And this is one thing I want to point out here too, that this, you can see here, there was this jog up here in the early year it matches the steelium rise here. And these steeliums can be backstops, like I said, they can just like, in other words, the market wants to go down here, right? And for whatever reason, there's supply and demand balances, equilibrium going on here, but the steelium comes along and it kind of provides this as a backstop. In other words, it wants to go down, but the steelium's just kind of making it go sideways. So this is where market technicians come into play and we look at these things and we say, well, that's a negative divergence because it should have been going higher type of a thing. And so when the steelium actually leaves here, you can actually see that the market plunges pretty quickly here. And notice there's a little bit of a bump here at the low and that shows up too, by the way, a lot of times. You'll see that at the actual low. You'll actually see like a little rise, we saw that in 2009, we saw that during COVID. During COVID in 2020, there was a big spike in the planetary steelium index right at the low, I mean, right at the low. So the one thing I would tell people is we have to take the context of the market into effect here. In other words, just because we see a steelium doesn't mean that the market's going to rally to some peak high, but what it does mean if the market is rallying and there is a steelium, there's a good chance that it's going to mark some type of a high or some type of a turning point. And if it is falling when that steelium comes, it's a very good chance that that's going to mark some type of a low, a very substantial low in the market like we saw in 2009. So we're getting closer to 1900 here, man. If you guys want to see the rest of this, like I said, Saturday at 10 a.m., we're starting a little bit later this week. We usually start at 8. 10 a.m. Eastern, they go to wolftrader.com. It's the YouTube channel. I have a YouTube channel, Wolf Trader Futures. You can look it up. But it's free, free. I mean, you just show up, we just chat. It's kind of like very open-ended on Saturdays. And this stuff, as you can see, it takes a while to get through. So 1899, this is right at your Thanksgiving. You can see here, here's another very tight steelium here. And again, what I like about these steelium index is I can actually go to the chart and see this visually. It's very easy to see. And you can see there's a very tight steelium into here. And so you can see these planets are here too. And so the sun is moving across once again, it's moving across this whole steelium into here. So eventually when it gets across there, that's going to be the peak of the steelium. And so this particular one here, you can see the graph. This one was very dramatic. It actually at the peak of the steelium here, you can see this is the peak of the steelium here. This is this November 26th. That was the graph I just showed you. You can see in this particular case, the market did decline in lockstep with that steelium going down. So there are cases where it does go down instantaneously with the steelium. But what I've seen most of the time, there is a little bit of a lag in there before the market starts to decline. So that's the basic idea. Does anybody have any questions on this right now where we're talking about this? I don't see any questions in here, but folks, I know this seems like a Greek mythology to you as it does to me, but it does work. And it's all related to numbers. And all we're trying to do is match these patterns up with some of these things. And, you know, they're so spectacular sometime, especially when they line up with the patterns like we had on October the 28th. And why that's so important is that's such a big one that if that breaks by some stretch of the imagination, that tells you that this thing is lopsided, and you better look out below. Hey, Shane, we've got to leave now, but stay with us for the break. And I want to hear more about this YouTube thing you're having on Saturday at 10 o'clock Eastern time. Correct? Absolutely, yep. And you remind me of that, right, Saturday morning? I'll remind you, yep. Okay, thank you very much. We'll be right back, folks. Shane Smollion, roasttrader.com. Ho, ho, ho! It's December, Tigers. That means festivities, decorating, spending time with friends and family, and the TFNN Tiger Dollar Holiday Sale. Don't miss your chance to receive a 20, 30, or even a 40% bonus when you purchase Tiger Dollars. Once you apply your Tiger Dollars to your account, you will be able to use them for any TFNN product purchase instead of your credit card. Visit the front page of TFNN.com today to purchase your Tiger Dollars. Don't miss your chance to receive up to a 40% bonus on your Tiger Dollar purchase this holiday season. 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It just looks like a real cluster of stuff coming in here in early January and he'll be covering that. Tell the folks how they can go to that YouTube and what's involved. Because I've not done these before. So I'm flying blind. So tell the folks how they do that. Well, Larry, I try to keep things simple, which is I don't have all of these registrations and, you know, you got to click here and send this. I just, you know, just show up. Look, you go to YouTube here. It's WolfTrader Futures. I try to do a different topic each week, you know. We have a chat and people can just ask questions in chat and it's kind of a very open-ended. And so we do that usually at 8 o'clock. But this particular week is at 10 because my daughter is taking the ACT. So I have to take her to take her exams. So just pushing it out a couple hours. But at 10 o'clock, I try to start it early because we have people from Europe and Japan and all different places come in. So I try to make a time where people can come in. So usually it's at 8. And we also do a Zoom session on Sunday where we talk about our live auto trading. But the Saturday one is really the one that's just more open-ended. And you guys can just, you know, you can just show up. And if you need to contact me, it's Shane at WolfTraderFutures.com. And if you have any questions, I'll do my best to answer it. I'm pretty busy, but I do try to get back to everybody. It might take me a day or two, but I will try to get back with you. So that's how you can join us on Saturday. Larry, I found a picture. You ready for a picture? Yes, sir. Can I share a picture with you? Yes, please. Do you remember this? Oh, my gosh. That's you and I in arch. Yeah, we were. I think this was Firebirds. Yeah, it was Firebirds. That's exactly where it was. Yes. That's a long time ago. My gosh, 10 years ago. More than 10. So I'm surrounded by the two godfathers here. In case people don't realize, this is Larry here. He's a godfather of Gartley trading and pattern recognition and trading. This is Arch Crawford, who originally studied the Bradley Barometer. So this is who I was talking about before when I said Arch Crawford is the Bradley Barometer. Hey, folks, we'll see you tomorrow, folks. May God bless.


Welcome to simulation. I'm your host Alan Sokian We're still on site for our second partnership with the transformative technology conference We're so pumped to be here We are now going to be talking about augmented mental health We have George left the radio joining us on the show. Hi, George. Hello, Alan. Good. Thank you very much for having me here We're so pumped for this conversation George. Your work is incredible with my feel. We're gonna dive deep into that Taking the suffering out of mental health so so pumped about talking about that as Before we jump in there's just so much to talk about regarding Spirituality and feelings of oneness that we talked to all of our guests about are we really all one? I Think that we are in an emotional level Definitely, we are in a spiritual level like but From a mental health some point that we see it we can see how much our emotions affect our surroundings the the people around us our loved ones and That's just a manifestation of like being in a united world so What we see from an emotional health some point is our actions our behaviors not only affect us as individuals But our families our loved ones our friends and ultimately the world, right? So that's that's for us the the living proof Of oneness as you said interesting so the interconnectedness between all of us at the deepest levels of our psyche regarding emotions and just development psychological development and Just the way that the butterfly effects work and all the chaos theory that happens There's just too profound of a level of interconnectedness in that sense So then that's where the oneness it lies really for for you I would say the oneness like for me it starts from the interconnection of the body and the and the spirit and The emotional self and the physical self and we see this again going back to To what science tells us you see individuals that suffer from chronic conditions such as diabetes or cardiovascular disorders actually Improving significantly when they take care of their mental health for us. This is a proof That actually our emotional self with our physical self are very highly interconnected And I think from that standpoint That's the first level of connection. The second level is how what we do actually affects lives of others and On an emotional level and physical level, of course Yeah Yeah, this is such a profound one is that the more that you heal your mental health state the more that your physical health Heals and health as we know is number one for your moment-to-moment You know number one feelings of interconnectedness feelings of health Just the most paramount absolutely How about feelings of on this topic, which is the question is do you think that our Disconnection from the feelings of interconnectedness are the root of all of the problems we have? Well, I don't like to generalize In terms of like like there's no one reason for the problems that we have However, definitely the fact that we don't pay attention to our mental and emotional health And we only take care of our physical health I think that this Affects the way that we live the stress that we have in our daily lives We live in an anxiety economy as I was reading in an article a few days ago an anxiety economy Exactly, and you see all the behaviors that we have in our lives are affected by by actually not taking good care of our Inner emotional health. So for me absolutely this plays a critical role of course in addition with Physical health and and other well-being activities that we can do but definitely The emotional self and and mental health is of primary importance And then you decided, you know, you all your answers to all of these questions that you've been answering so far have been Emotional well-being oriented all of your answers are regarding that I mean it does seem like even though you said that it's it's hard to just generalize a route But really this idea of emotional spiritual well-being And interconnectedness is in fact kind of in the answer I want now you went off and decided to build a solution using technology, which is kind of interesting Okay, so now teach us about what was this moment for you that you were like, aha I want to go and take on this project and build this and then what exactly is the my feel? So a few years ago I was I was a management consultant. I was with McKinsey in New York. I was working between 80 and 100 hours per week So it was pretty hectic and one of the things that I was not doing was paying attention to my emotional and mental health actually was not paying attention to anything other than work at the time and one one day after a long and Difficult project. I woke up and I just could not breathe and this was the manifestation of like not taking care of my emotional self to my physical health My gosh, and you just woke up and I couldn't breathe. Yeah, couldn't inhale. I was I had trouble to inhale Yeah, it was it was like I had to be trouble to inhale and actually it was a panic attack This is what it was like at the beginning. I didn't know that so I went to my To my physician and he told me we're fine. All everything's good. I would just give back to the your 80 to 100 hours He said you're fine physically, but you need to to visit the psychotherapist. So I visit the therapist shortly after We started having a few discussions for a few weeks and then the panic attacks went away And but what stayed was the realization that? We don't receive any support for our mental health that was one and also that when you When you receive psychotherapy or any type of mental health support, there is no objective data. There is no technology involved Like when I was having this panic attack, I didn't know that it was a panic attack So like all so that was the inspiration behind starting our company My co-founder also had a stir bus who is a PhD in biomedical engineering Yeah, he's really the brains of the company and what we are doing was doing his PhD at the time and He was working on how we can use data from different sensors in order to Identify human emotions or other insights so far for for healthcare. Yes So those two came together, I would say both both our experiences because he had struggled with With anxiety as well our personal experiences struggling with With our mental health plus his subject matter expertise made us start this company with the mission of taking the suffering out of mental health. Yes and Making everyone in the world living joyful and fulfilling lives Yes, and so going back to what we are doing. We are developing We're bringing objective data to the field of mental health for the very first time We're developing a sensor that can recognize your emotions throughout the day We can tell if you're stressed if you're angry if you're happy if you're sad and then by using this data point And cognitive behavioral therapy we help individuals that suffer from anxiety depression stress To improve their mental well-being and emotional well-being. This is a very complicated thing Okay, of course it requires a Co-founder in biomedical engineering PhD that is has been studying this but now the big question is What biometrics are you taking in? How do you parse those for some sort of signal and then what sort of cognitive behavioral therapeutic intervention? Do you deliver after gaining this profile of this person? How often are you taking these data samples type of stuff? So to start from the from from the latter. We we have an end-to-end holistic solution for depression anxiety and stress and burnout That involves our technology which is doing the remote patient monitoring and someone else in other medical fields We would call it We have the mobile application through which we deliver real-time proactive interventions To to improve the mental well-being of an individual We have a licensed therapist in our program who is getting those data and they can one Intervening real-time as well as use this data to improve the effectiveness of their psychotherapy sessions And then we have an educational psycho educational Curriculum through which individuals and participants in our program develop lasting coping skills for for mental health So that's like that's our offering. We are offering our program through health plans employers and life insurers and in the way that In drug and now at the moment. We're already active here in California and in Europe as well We will be expanding soon enough Going what what a way to get to scale fast is to go through health plans if you can book a big 10,000 person company on board That's a big deal and it can it can really help with the emotional Well-being as well as eradicating suffering. Yeah, and I hope you were going here But I do still want to ask the actual biometrics that you are measuring. Yeah, this is very tough stuff to figure out Absolutely. Absolutely. So we have We have more sensors than almost anywhere up in the market right now We're not really wearable device, but because it looks like a wearable device We call it a wearable. We have publicly market. What sensors you have on the device? So we have a galvanic skin response sensor one more time on a galvanic skin response galvanic skin response electrodermal activity activity Like from the heart it's from the skin so I'm missing but from but from heart to skin electrical activity So we are monitoring the response of the autonomic nervous system to different stimuli So what happens when you you experience an emotional state? There are physical sensations that That come together with the emotion that you felt right so probably you're feeling your heart pumping faster when you're angry or You feel sweating when you are stressed all those are indicators that are telling you that an emotional stimulus just happened So through skin conductivity heart rate monitoring skin temperature monitoring We can identify biomarkers That help us classify what you're experiencing right then and there Skin electrical activity skin temperature and then heart rate variability It's a variety of biomarkers from from those sensors So it's not only the variability but other and it's all on the wrist and it's able to measure all the way and then this is so Ridiculous years. You're actually building in a sense of this big catalog or library of emotional states related to skin temperature skin Electricity and heart rate. Sure heart data. It's so it's at the beginning. There are four five main categories is the is joy if joy calm sadness and Distress as well as the more as the state of stress so we have five Categories emotional categories that we recognize a joy calm Sadness distress Wrangler basically and then we have the emotion of stress and stress Okay, so we have those five categories and based on those we trigger different interventions Going back to like how do you trigger interventions even for joy or calm? Yes? Yeah, like to get them more joy and more calm exactly those are some of the most effective ones Because those are the moments that help you at your time of need So when you have a joyful moment because you did something that you really enjoy it We can use that later on at a time that you are stressed and provide you a reminder of this positive moment that you had and then what kind of a Biometric profile are you reading out that shows you that I'm angry and then what is like your intervention or if I'm stressed You want to what is your intervention? So it's a personalized algorithms we're using At the first level we're performing time series analysis of the data in order to identify The areas the moments that you that have significant emotional information That's one of the most difficult things in what we're doing So when we see your data when actually you felt an emotion and when not So that's the first level of course It's very important to take the noise out of those signals very difficult as well Yeah, we have a team of 12 data scientists half of them are post PhD Working on this for the past three and a half years. So it's difficult problem to crack So the first level is taking the noise out of the signals the second identifying where we have the appropriate and important emotional information and then classifying this This moment in one of the different categories that that we monitor so basically the out of the three signals three basic signals that we monitor skin conductivity Skin temperature and heart rate we extract over 200 Proprietary indicators that we correlate with specific emotions, but this is a very personalized model 200 proprietary Indicators and then those will tell you about their emotional models and and this is personalized to the individual It's also then even a step further personalized. Exactly. It's different. So the response your response to stress or sadness is different There are some commonalities That and that's why we do have a pre-trained model, but when we actually Apply our model to you. We personalize it to make it much more accurate and right now We have accuracy close to 90% Both in the lab and outside of the lab Which is most importantly, it's not about How we are able to recognize the emotion the important thing is actually by recognizing the emotional state of the person We help the individual take action about Close-loop feedback happening at the same time stamp a year and it's a via like a notification that they're getting on the device Yes, that's correct. Have you guys have you guys went into thinking about other forms of of triggering people into? awakening to The good old shocks or any of the other crazy There's someone that was actually doing the shocks and yeah, there's all different types of look. Yeah, that's what it is Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think they pitched on Shark Tank. I think they did.  My phone's always on silent, you know, so how do I use it if I'm like that? So what we have seen to be most effective for our users is not to send a lot of notifications But identifying the important moments within their day three to five moments no more than those that are important for them to take action on and We say three to five because you know if I tell you every five minutes how you feel It doesn't mean anything to you, right? But if I select the important moments the ones that actually You have to do some work on in order to improve that's that's what makes a difference So not a lot of notifications, but what we see is that people take a Great action on those notifications. So 80% of the notifications that we give to the user lead to an action So our users actually interact with their mobile phones with our application close to 40 times per week And they're performing 15 mental health actions as we call them per week so those actions are either mood journaling breathing exercises meditations or Different exercises that have been assigned to them by the psychotherapist. So they're very engaged. They really and The differentiator is that is the data point is because we can tell you when you are stressed And you know this feeling never never goes away. So like I remember the first when we had like our first prototypes I was meditating one day and I Finished my meditation and then I receive a vibration in my wristband the slide vibration, which means that You had an emotional moment and I go back and I see that while I was meditating I had a moment of pure calmness And this is so powerful like this interconnection this Moment that you understand that your technology actually understood how you feel this doesn't go away. Yeah, that's that's very profound I like that one it also kind of reminds me of you know strategies that are being used with muse and so many other of the Neurotex Biotechs that are now available where it is just an immediate closed-loop feedback Are you hearing the birds chirp or getting the vibration or all these types of things where you know that you achieved a state of Interconnectedness of one unity of oneness, whatever I also want to ask you this question because you pointed out. I think it's very important to talk about There's so there's actually an entire suite of of psychotherapists that are at in within the my feel Ecosystem and then they themselves are reading out the emotional states and they They work with the deployment of these personalized either mood journals or meditations or Exercising or all these different types of and you're correct. Yeah, so basically we we're offering our program as an alternative to Traditional psychotherapy for depression or anxiety so the the program includes weekly sessions with our psychotherapists a Usual our sessions are shorter than the usual the typical 60 minutes because of the data that our psychotherapists have Interesting video or in person video video So they are doing because they know how the person felt during the week So you walk in the appointment and your therapist goes Okay, what happened on Tuesday? So much yeah, so you use you start right away with a very focused discussion Exactly that actually makes the session much more effective and this is what we write into the car accident or the breakup or whatever happened job Career change yet. Exactly. And also the other thing is that our psychotherapists are able to help at the time of crisis So Remember my example that I woke up and I could not breathe. This was a panic attack. I didn't know at the time But if I was wearing a field device This would tell me that we see that you're very stressed Let's do something about it. And if the feeling or this stressor didn't go away Actually, it would notify my psychotherapist and then my therapist would text me and tell me George I say that you are really stressed today Do you want to talk? So we have proactive intervention from the side of the psychotherapist It's so what we're doing is basically something that in every other medical field is considered to be a fact But in mental health doesn't exist until now combining objective data with human interventions and interventions through the Technology in order to optimize the outcomes of of users and so far the outcomes that we see are really really encouraging So we see improvements for populations that suffer from mild or moderate anxiety or depression within three to four months improvements that move those people from suffering from moderate depression to being healthy within four months with no drugs No pharmacotherapy just by Atturing to our program and this is the most important thing and hearing what these people say Hearing how these people actually Talk about their field wristband as a guardian angel. This is the the most satisfying thing for us Yeah, that's huge. Yeah having the People that are using the service call this like a guardian angel When your interventions are also so few like you said three or five a day It's just concentrated on the most profound times for you to reach out to them It kind of gives them like a like the three or five peak emotional moments of your day Catalog it's also very unique like that to be able to like visualize this data and itself is very unique and And interesting and so if I don't have a health plan I can just sign up on a monthly basis as well We right now we don't have open our program for for direct consumer. However, we will be conducting a large study So we would be welcoming individuals that have already asked us to participate in the program We are really really fortunate to have many people interested in in participating So if you are interested or if anyone of the people that listen to us today are interested We would love to to include them in the program in this study And sign up my field that call exactly so they can go to our website Just send us a note and we will include them in in the study and the study is looking to be conducted like early next year Or something. Yes, that is correct. So we'll be starting in January Yes, and this is going to be of course nothing. This is going to be of course their data fully anonymized No one has access to this data So when I say study don't mean that we're going to take the data and use it in any other way But what we're trying to do is add many more people into our program To actually evaluate the effectiveness of specific interventions and calibrate it to make it as effective as possible So that's why we have opened those studies. So if they go to www.myfield.co They would be able to subscribe to that. Yeah. Yeah Interesting. This seems like something great for anyone to be able to sign up for and then the question also becomes like The price of the hardware is expensive you did you guys actually have to manufacture that yourselves? Yeah Yeah, so you to design that and then manufacture it yourselves. Is it manufactured in China and China? And then Susan it's you know shipped here or Europe or wherever afterward And then the cost of that must be at least several hundred dollars for the we don't charge for the hardware We charge only for the psychotherapy sessions So actually right now if you go to a psychotherapist and the cost of like the out-of-pocket cost could be $200-$300 per hour. So our sessions cost just $50 per session And the goal for us is that we have the health plan pay for those sessions instead of the individual So instead of the individual is paying any money out of pocket in order to be able to provide support as many people as possible We want to have the health plan. The health plan pays my feel then. Exactly. We don't we don't charge for the device So we don't charge anything the end user. So you provide these companies with the devices for their employees and then interesting And then you just get paid by the health plan Wow, very fascinating Just this this question and I must ask because it seems like everything is going in the direction of Measuring a constant stream of our biometrics and then being able to predict pathology or to somehow Rejuvenate me to youthful homeostatic capacity or other thoughts about being some sort of an AI coach based on my unique Blueprint and gifts that I want to bring into the world. Does it totally feel like it's going in this direction? I think that The AI will help us deliver many interventions When we can't have a human delivering those interventions We don't believe in actually taking the the human the psychotherapist the coach out of the loop We still believe that In the relationship in the therapeutical relationship between the therapist and the individual as being a very important factor of improving mental health So we but we believe strongly in amplifying the human in using technology and using data to make the Job of the human much more effective and this is what we're trying to do in our model We we don't want to to take the psychotherapist out of the model Of course, we want to deliver 24 hour support to our to our users through AI But when the psychotherapist is not available to provide this type of support and then the data to the psychotherapist to provide them with The strength with the power to serve more individuals at the same time in in a much better and effective way Okay, and then this next question then right alongside that one is do you think that Humanity is a biological bootloader for digital superintelligence Tell me a little bit more about that. How are you thinking about that? It's an interesting question But I ask the questions here So I can't ask even one I mean the like Like if I understand correctly like you're asking if we are interconnected not only on emotional level But also on a biological level is that is that the question and then is even our Evolutionary purpose is the next order of where we're going is literally making digital superintelligence that We act as a biological bootloader for that digital superintelligence. Yeah. Yeah, I I This is an interesting subject that to be honest a philosophical one. I would say I Think that like Definitely there there are forms that of intelligence that are going to be created in the future That are probably very different from what we have right now Definitely AI will be able to be doing much of The things that we probably don't want to do There are going to be a few ethical Dilemmas in the in the near future about the relationship of AI and and humans if you will I think that I'm not sure if we are going to be the ones that we are going to empower the super Intelligence this digital super intelligence. I envision and I'm hopeful that we're going to be able to to live and coexist together in in a way that would be actually Beneficial to not only to humanity, but to the planet as well. Yeah, and Yes, why I prefer to see that We're gonna have a symbiotic relationship with with AI and and digital and Intelligence and different intelligence forms than the ones that we have today Not that we're going to empower them and then we're we're not gonna be around for that Like I don't like a matrix scenario to happen. I would prefer like a Life where we you know, we are able to use AI so we can focus on the more creative Stuff that the AI is not good at doing All its permutational capacity just out out plays us by leaps and bounds and then why yeah And is this the first yeah, like the first generation of AI or are we AI ourselves? Yeah, it's like it's like a very philosophical discussion interesting one But I think that I have a follow-up true. What is the purpose of this creation? Of our creation you mean of this so great question as well I would say it's From my perspective again, I can only speak for myself is how can we enable collective? Emotional intelligence how we can actually Improve that as individuals and as a society as a unison That that would be like my my interesting you're you're all on like the flowering of consciousness exactly Yeah, this evolutionary process especially at an emotional well-being level collectively flourishing And with the entire interconnectedness of all and not just humans, but all all I love this Last question is what is the most beautiful about this? About this future about this reality about this creation. What is most beautiful? Again most of my answers are Gearing towards like mental and emotional health, but for me it's the the absence of suffering That comes from in many cases not only from physical health issues, but also from our behaviors our mental health But not only the absence of suffering as well as the the existence of vitality and like joy For me it's all about how can we live a life of joy and love and When we are suffering This makes it much harder to do that George thank you so much for coming on the program and that was Extremely extremely enjoyable for me. Thank you. Thanks for all the great work with my feel. Holy cow Thanks everyone for tuning in we greatly appreciate we'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments below in the episode Let us know what you're thinking on all the epic conversation points that we hit check out the link in the bio to myfield.co Also Twitter is your preferred platform Twitter Facebook is good too. Okay, great Go follow those links in the bio below as well. Hopefully you can partake in the January 2020 study as well Go get involved this sounds super exciting super future-oriented eradicating suffering focusing on emotional well-being Check out the links in the bio below to the transformative technology conference as well Check out all those links in the bio below huge shout out to them huge shout out to Brady Springer Thank you very much for co-producing greatly appreciated brother. Thank you. Thank you And also check out the links to simulation in the bio below help us grow Help the artist the entrepreneurs the spiritual leaders the organizations in your communities grow You can find our patreon cryptocurrency paypal links in the bio below You can also find the cool link to design cool merch and get paid all those links are in the bio below Go and build the future everyone manifest your dreams into the world. We love you very much Thank you for tuning in and we will see you soon peace


All right, I'm all laced up, ready to go for the first impressions of the Altra. Paradigm 4.5, and I have to ask at the beginning question of the day, are you a stability runner, stability running shoe runner, or neutral? This is really, and so just one word down below, stability or neutral? If you want to explain why, that's fair too, but this is important for me to hear and read your comments because I'm guessing a lot of you will be neutral. I also want to know if there's 40% who enjoy stability running shoes, I want to give you an opportunity to share your thoughts on stability running shoes as well moving forward on this YouTube channel. There we go. All right, first impression run in the books, eight miles, about 730 a mile as far as the pace goes, and I never start with fit, but I have to bring it up so I don't forget. My feet are swimming in my true to size, okay? So I should have gone a half size down, Altra, if you didn't know, is very well known for having a very wide toe box because they want your toes to splay and spread out basically what they believe is as natural as possible, which I would say is probably true. I tell you what though, I am swimming in this toe box and not sure I like it at this point as far as that feel. Now the ride was nice and we'll get to more of this in the studio, but just wanted to make that clear.  All right. See you in the studio. All right, everyone. Here we go. First impressions of the Altra Paradigm 4.5, a maximalist road running shoe from Altra, definitely maximalist and I just have to say at the front real quick, I was incorrect. I did go a half size down and it's still too big, therefore I should have gone a full size down. I've never had to do that before, a full size. I don't know what's going on and maybe you could shed some light if you're a Paradigm fan. What's going on here? So fit, fit, fit. Make sure you go to a running shoe store, call Altra, try and get to the bottom of this. I can't believe how big it's running at a half size down for me. Okay. Jumping into a few specs real quick. We're looking at a 30 millimeter stack height all the way from heel to toe. That's quite a bit. That's why it falls into the maximalist category and here's what's crazy. So they have a great, I'm just going to say a great insole inside this shoe. They're calling it a five millimeter sculpted footbed, okay? And I must say that I like a really well made insole. Now it adds a little weight to the shoe. We're going to talk about that in a second, but overall this insole, I don't usually talk about insoles, but this one really jumped out at me. So good work, Altra on the insole here in this Altra Paradigm 4.5. And of course I should mention it's a zero drop. So 30 millimeters in the heel, 30 millimeters in the forefoot for the weight. Men's size nine, 11.2 ounces or 318 grams. Whoa. Whoa. That's a lot everybody for weight. Here it is in my size on your screen, so you can kind of compare it to some other shoes that I've weighed for you. So listen, I didn't necessarily feel the weight on my feet today, but that's quite a bit for a daily road running shoe. Now trail shoes often will fall into that weight class, but for a road shoe that is pretty heavy, but you know my thesis, right? I'm not afraid to train in a heavier shoe. In fact, I sometimes I invite it into the stable of running shoes because when you put on a racing shoe that's really lightweight, your feet and your legs are just going to be so happy because they're like, oh my gosh, I don't have to carry around, you know, 9.3 ounces in my size. So anyway, just keep that in mind as far as weight goes. It is a heavy daily trainer, absolutely. For the Paradigm 4.5's upper, it's feeling, it's a knit upper and it's feeling a little thick and a little warm and today was 97 in Denver. So it was definitely warm and I could feel it today now. I wasn't sweating a ton. I was going about 7.30 pace as I mentioned earlier, but I could foresee this knit upper retaining a little bit of moisture from your sweat or maybe it's drizzling out or whatever the case may be. So that might be something to watch out for if you live in a really, I don't know, if you live on roads that get a lot of water or if you just sweat a lot, you might want to keep that in mind. I could see this knit upper holding water in, which of course would add more weight to the shoe. And for the lockdown for the upper, I wish I could give you more intel, but I can't because my foot is swimming so much inside the shoe, even though I went a half size down. It felt fine, but I think if I would have nailed the sizing a little bit better, I could give you more analysis as far as the lockdown. The knit is definitely, I would say, well, it's not too flexible. Okay. All right. It's not as nimble or as malleable as I thought, but anyway, keep that in mind that I'm just not quite honed in yet on the lockdown feel through the midfoot in the paradigm. And for that 30 millimeter stack height in the midsole, they use this guide rail and then these stability pods right above the outsole to create that stability in the shoe. And I must say pulling it out of the box, I was pretty concerned because it felt pretty stiff and I couldn't do the twist, you know, I'm more of a neutral running shoe guy, as you know. And so I was just, I was pretty concerned, but once I took the shoe out on the road today, and I don't know if it was because it was so hot today, the midsole and the guide rail worked really well. It didn't feel too rigid. Sometimes like, okay, the Brooks Ravenna nines, I tried last year to help with my plantar fasciitis. Bad idea. I took them back. And so those felt, the Ravenna nines felt really rigid to me and I don't usually like that feeling. So I was concerned, but guess what? This guide rail and stability pods, no issue at all with rigidity. For comfort, the overall comfort was there and the ride was nice. It was nice. Like through the gate cycle. It was, it was nice today. I guess I'm not sure about the collar of the shoe. So what wraps around your ankle, it has quite a bit of cushion, but it feels like the cushion is not, is not sewed in tight enough. So it's not quite hugging around my ankle well enough. So anyway, I'm a little concerned about this collar and the, like no major issues, but I'm just going to monitor that a little closer as far as comfort through the collar. And you know how much I love a good, that heel and how it's locked down in the heel counter. So this heel counter is pretty, you can see it there. Like it's just pretty flexible. So got to figure out this collar area a little bit more. I will do that once we get to the 50 mile mark. And for a positive and a negative, here we go. The positive, I think it has to be the fact that it is a stability shoe, but it doesn't really feel like a stability shoe, not too rigid. And since I'm more of a neutral running shoe guy, in fact, almost exclusively, that makes me very, very happy.  Maybe your doctor is telling you you need to work on your ankles, lining up better with your feet. So this might be an option for you if you like the neutral feel. But once again, get into a running shoe store because the negative has to be the fact that it's running so big on me. And maybe I just completely missed the mark, but I did go a half size down. I think I can resolve it with some thicker socks. So I plan on trying some dry max socks that I own to help fill the inner cavity of this paradigm 4.5. But that is my drawback. My negative is that it's just big and I don't want to swim too much while running, you know what I mean? And how will I use the paradigm moving forward? I'm guessing the six to 10 mile easy day shoe or basically a shoe to get some miles in, not a tempo day, definitely not a tempo day. Too heavy for that. Not a long run, but not necessarily an easy day, unlike the Torrens. I love the Ultra Torrens for an easy day. I think because of the weight, you know, on easy days, I just like to be as simple as you don't want to be carrying around too much weight on your legs on an easy day. So I'm guessing six to 10 miles for me on the roads, just getting some miles in at the pace I went at today, like 730 pace. That was I spot on, I think for me for this shoe. And for that price, $150. Oh, my, oh, my Ultra. Okay, I will say this. I think the build quality is there. I think you'll be able to get some good miles out of this. Just look, I'm thinking at least 400, hopefully 500 miles. At $150, I would sure hope so. That's a little pricey Ultra. I'm not sure the market is ready for that price point given the shoe that you're getting, but anyway, that's my thought on the price initially. Again, I'll get you more thoughts soon. And my conclusion on the performance, I must say, I enjoyed the ride. I really did. I will keep running in them. I'll take them to 50 miles and I'll just keep you posted on how they perform. Moving forward, but Ultra, if you're watching somehow, if somebody works at Ultra and you find this video, maybe you could help me out a little bit. Email, call, comment down below what's going on with the sizing of the Paradigm 4.5. I would appreciate it. And I think that does it for today. But I just realized no keyword today, no keyword, cancel that. All right, so question of the day, I already asked it, neutral or stability, stability or neutral, where do you land? And I'm just going to leave it at that. Don't do the keyword because that'll throw off all of the results down below. Oh my goodness, I can't believe I did that. All right, seek beauty, work hard, love each other. See you tomorrow. It's going to be a good day tomorrow, good day tomorrow. Come on back now.