The following is a presentation of TFNN The Trader's Edge with Steve Rhodes All now toll-free at 1-877-927-6648 or internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER> The Trader's Edge Now Steve Rhodes Good morning folks welcome to the May 11th the terrific Thursday edition of today's Trader's Edge show I'm your host D.B. Perseverance Rhodes who absolutely knows that each of us should always be pioneers of our future versus prisoners of our past Hope everyone out there is having a great day and let's make sure we have an extraordinary one of the easiest way to do that Is to always remember that life is happening for us not to us That's right when you and I make that one little two-by-four shift It means we can find the gift in every set of circumstance that life is going to toss at us No today you and I we're going to go check on the circumstance of these markets We'll go figure out what those bowls and bears what those buyers and sellers are communicating to you and I At just past 11 o'clock in the morning. I want you to know I'm absolutely grateful for your presence here But even more important than that and that's this during this next 53 minutes I'm here to serve you so feel free to pick up that phone You can dial on an<PHONE_NUMBER> and if you got a question, but you can't dial in you can always send me an email Send that off to steve at tfn.com and inside the subject heading. Please put radio show question Now if you're inside our tiger's den, well then any and every ping will do So let's go ahead and get this show started on terrific Thursday. Of course, this is tiger financial news network I'm steve roads Welcome to the show right now. We've got a bit of a mixed bag out there The mix is coming from the nasdaq 100 which is very strong indices out here It's up 16 points about one tenth percent the other u.s. Indices trading to the downside the dow is up 273 eight tenths Four tenths for the s and p are 14 points a little over 1 percent for the russell That's 19 points some eyes down one three tenths. That's 40 points out there. Trendy's up 120 about eight tenths Gold is down six tenths for percent or 12 bucks four percent for silver That's a dollar six lights recruit off 90 cents. She trade out at 71 64 Natural gas up a nickel the 30-year charge. We're putting out 131 19. That's up 29 ticks now leading the charge Dollar wise the upside you've got stairs plc up at 1940 and tegris is up at that is up 12 60 black rocks up 11 bucks Copa holdings up eight shockwave medical up eight to the downside is micro strategy of 22 bucks monolithic power down 16 As the holding stand aligned technology nine Perkin elmer is down nine bucks while disney is down at eight bucks We got some movers and we've got some shakers, but let's first begin by just trying to understand Hey, what's going on from a market press standpoint? So let's pull over those market breadth data statistics out here Let's begin by taking a look at the nasdaq 100 nasdaq 100 We had a choppy market the 60 minute has switched to a bearish crossover just slightly 32 above 41 below on the 240 minute time frame we have a bullish crossover 31 above 30 below On the daily time frame where are we at out here the daily? So we're kind of at a draw right there on the 240 the daily is 28 on above 24 below And the weekly is a little bit of a bear So we've got a mixed bag here with inside the nasdaq 100 it's 26 above 29 below for the weekly time frame So expect what this says the nasdaq is a leader out here And it doesn't have its uh blank together out there, right? So we've got a little combination of some bearish some bullish on This out here So I would say choppy markets now if we look at the s and p 500 We might have a more clear picture and the answer is son of a gun. We do not So again, here we go with the choppy conditions 60 minute time frame is bullish What I mean by that there's 157 above 135 below if we take a look at the four hour time frame We've got 141 above 133 below and the daily now we start to slip into the bearishness 111 above 157 below and finally on the weekly time frame We've got 111 above and 172 below So this is what's leading to these choppy markets also the spot politics being below It's 50 day expense moving average. That's also leading to the choppy markets one last Bit of information from a market breast standpoint We do have the 30 minute market breath and we take a look at the s and p right now It is bullish. You've got 150 above 142 below. Let's take a look at the NASDAQ out there. Now, this will help us when we go take a look at the equity future contracts You've got 30 above and 33 below So again, we've got these choppy market conditions on top of all the consolidating patterns that we have out here So we've got a two-way market now. Let's go take a look at well here. Let's put up this chart First here. We've got you'll get you can see the sideways Consolidations and the Dow you can see trading between rising and descending trend line resistance in a case of the NQ You can see that price clearly closed above resistance yesterday both the top of its profile The swing point that generated roads meant to indicator signal from May the first And so therefore this is suggesting as far as a pattern is concerned The only pattern that I can see out here is the a to b equal cd pattern And that would give us a price projection of about 14,000 and three nothing broken in the es many just a consolidation Nothing broken inside the russell just a consolidation and nothing broken inside the dow just trading between again trend line support And trend line resistance now. Let's go switch on. Let's take a look at the new york stock exchange where we at the advanced client Also, they're still below zero. This tells us that the sellers are the ones that are in control Yeah, we come over here. We take a look at spotball utility exit is still well below It's 50 day exponential moving average and that says buyers are the one that are in control So we've got these different messages out here So we don't have synergy and that means we don't have a market that's going to move in one in one direction Or the other so now let's go switch over and take a look at the equity future Contracts look at this multi time frame charts and try to get a feel for whoops. That's not it Me if I'm trying to get a feel for what the um For what the intraday charts are communicating to see if we can find some kind of patterns out here So momentarily switch over to the proper Background chart. Here's the es mini. So we don't have to talk about the daily time frame Well, we know about a five hour chart is you basically have a consolidation between 41 32 and 41 63 Those are its profiles new profiles formed on the 240 minute chart supported 41 18 resistance 41 67 um They're trading below profile and 120 minute time frame chart So that would say if the support level of 41 18 fails Meaning we get a close blow it on a four hour time frame chart Then that would open up the door for 40 76 on a 60 minute time frame prices found support at where it broke out at That was at 41 20 20 41 24 50 I like tom's expression if you can't bust them to the downside It tries to bust them to the upside Where would be the bust them to the upside on a 60 minute time frame chart? That would be 41 49 or thereabouts We see a td nine count bottom on the 30 minute chart I did Make everybody inside the den aware of that made about 15 minutes 20 minutes before the show started So or maybe it was a little bit longer than that so that they could make their plans And I didn't just show them the es mini we had three of the four equity future contracts Which i'll share with you that we're forming those td nine count bottoms now typically when you get that td nine count bottom Odds favored significant odds favor price makes its way back to the oscillator and change them Whether it's a top or it's a bottom a signal out there. So in this case here that that would take us up towards the 41 44 level No patterns on the uh 15 minute the 10 minutes got a rose meant to mitigate her Bottom and the price can stay above the top of its daily profile the top of its daily profile is 41 34 We'd be looking at a move to about the 41 52 areas So remember the es mini on a 30 minute basis its market breadth was bullish And on a 60 minute basis its market breadth was bullish So what this tells us is price really ought to make that run towards the 41 44 41 46 41 49 area steve rollage with tfn We're going to take a look at google for hector gsm for dan crude oil and gold for seagull kosher I'd love to hear from you as well 87792766 for either steve at tfn dot com Currencies commodities and bond markets are as important as ever right now with how they're driving the volatility in equity markets across the globe Which is why it's a great time to try out teddy keg stats tiger forex report Teddy keg stat breaks down the forex markets every monday using his 30 plus years of experience as a trading veteran of futures forex stocks and options Teddy releases his weekly tiger forex report every monday morning with coverage of all the major currency pairs Including the dollar index the euro dollar pound dollar dollar swiss Dollar yen as well as many more and he also has weekly coverage of the crude oil market and the 30 year t bonds As they both influence forex markets tremendously when you sign up for the tiger forex report You also gain instant access to teddy's 60 minute webinar archive He just hosted forex strategies and fundamentals What is behind the tiger forex report for all the details and to start your 30 day tiger forex report subscription today Visit the front page of tfnn.com tfnn educating investors You might think that if you want to be successful at trading in the stock market You're going to need a crystal ball after all it's impossible to predict the future, right? 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Uh, the resistance level inside the nq This is a resistance level to be looking at this say 30 minute A very structured profiles between 13447 and 13465 up there. So that's your resistance zone So let's go take a look at one of our first requests this one coming in from hector Hector and patty and they want to take a look at google So let's get over to those charts here. Give me a moment. Let me turn it off for this 30 minute Set of charts free up a little bit of resources and then let's get over to the google charts And then let's actually read the question From hector. So the question go up. Let's get to the right set of charts The hector goes like the hector the question goes like this Hope you're feeling better. I am so hector. I had that just woke up and had a this a couple days ago folks had a little Touch of um vertigo the kind where when I sat in front of my screen to do the newsletter Which I did for a while and all the flashing numbers and everything like that I could say this was going Really so so I just shut it down And recovered fairly decently. It's one of the fastest recoveries I've had From the vertigo. So maybe it's from eating all the cat food That I am and losing all the weight. So uh, so I am and thanks for even asking google How do you configure an a to b equal cd up on the weekly time frame or use the rectangle Box breakout for a price projection. So great question out here So the the a to b equal cd For the weekly that I would use I would start with my a point being down here at the november 4th The low that was down at about the 83 45 Excuse me. Sorry about that Could be another one Okay, so far so good So that's our a point that takes us up to the high that was formed out here on february 3rd Then it makes retracement looks like about a point seven eight six retracement Into a low from the week that began or from the week that ended february 24 So this is on the weekly basis. This is made the one to one a to b equal cd Now a question might be well stevo Can you just take the b point over here to the where it's got letter d part of the chaplain wave Can you do that? And then uh, and then this would become your a to b equal cd a much large one So that b point for example on the weekly has volume of 97 million so far for the week. We've done 117 So hector i'd say that you can now what we'll do is i'll go switch over to my black background chart Since it's going to give us a more accurate number But here on that weekly base when you take a look at a to b equal cd if this is the one that's in play Then what we'd be looking at because that's probably a point three eight two or less If it's less than a point three eight two then it's really not the right a to b equal cd pattern But if it is let's assume it's very close to point three or two retracement I would say price would at least target the 132 94 level which I really think is your question But you're looking for a price projection and even before we deal with that The real price projection or really the question is where is the next resistance level? Where is the next battle? Where do those sellers lie at? Well, that question can be answered by take a look at the monthly set of profiles and that number is One nineteen eighty. We're above the daily profiles. We're above the weekly profiles So then we default to the next time frame and that's the monthly time frame So one nineteen eighty is a real number that you want to pay attention to if price can get through that Then that could be signalling to move up to 132 152 and if you look at the daily time frame chart There's no topping the signal whatsoever. There is an a to b equal cd, but let's go switch over to those black background charts Let's provide Hector and patty with the accurate a to b equal cd price projection levels out here So let's get back to our three time frames and here on the daily time frame Really think the daily time frame will take into account that a to b equal cd that we looked at on the weekly chart So here hector what we can see is that this has a one to one price ratio was up 30 percent retracement So it is less than point three a two It is less than point three a two and the interesting thing is I've got two sets of profile levels inside of Inside of google so the one that I gave on the white background was at 1980 And the one of the black background that you can see here is a 125 87 So just a one to one a to b equal cd has a price projection of 120 407 We've got the volume that b point on this a to b equal cd had volume of about 34 million shares We took it out yesterday with 47 47. You're already 30 today so even though Not a point three a two retracement We'll still use that as a price target level But I say the real price target is going to be between 1980 and 125 87 out there hector So I don't really think we have to worry about the a to b equal cd patterns knowing that we've got this profile information So I hope that helps you and patty. Thanks much for taking the time to write in and have a Thirsty Thursday that was for hector next question. We're going to switch back to those white background charts So just give me a moment to do that. We want to take a gsm.  Okay, so I'm glad that I did that Let me turn off this a to b equal cd So dan's question is or could be the first of all is I think just to take a look at it But dan now that we are taking a look at gsm and it isn't the high of the day What it's about to do is take on that trend line resistance So I assume that you've drawn that trend line in there as far as that price point today Where would that get us to about the 467 ish area right around there? So prices headed into a descending trend line You can see on the weekly base all kinds of trend line resistance that it's running into So if it can clear through this congestion area, then what this ought to do is run up to the 507 level Now 507 has been on a closing base have been a real key thorn in fair globe side Because that has been tested now for three months in a row. You know what they do say It's not the third time. That's the charm in stock trading. It's the fourth It's the fourth charm. It's the fourth charm Yeah Typically if you try to bust up the first three times, you don't make it through but on the fourth time You do so maybe that's what it's going to do. Nonetheless, dano It's 507 is the number to be watching now. Let's go to those white background charts See if there's any additional information that we can glean from it Where are we in in that with regard to td. Well, you got 452 That was a td nine count breakdown area. So that looks pretty good But still you've got to deal with that trend line You don't have to but price is going to need to so it looks to me like this wants to make a run for that 507 area again the bottom of that monthly profile And if you can get a close above that and preferably quite frankly a close above its oscillator and chain line That's currently printed at about 514 if you're to get a close above that that would be a real nice bullish outcome So your next resistance level is at 507 uh area and you've got three days up in a row on gsm Let's pull this back take a quick peek at the consecutive days higher closer Three days to the upside out here. Typically you get one of this had some seven and eight days So this has had some some fairly decent moves, but the typical moves are two to four days to the upside This is day number three as you approach a TD nine count breakdown area at 470. Is that right? What was that? Let me see here Huh No, I don't know what that 470 is off the top of my head So I'm going to have to come back and take a look at that chart out there But I don't see any kind of a topping signal on the 30 minute time frame Even though we're up towards resistance potential areas. I don't see any kind of a top here So gsm should continue to move higher and head towards that 507 ish mark out there Let's go to the next request. This one coming in from uh seagull He's going to want to take a look at uh light sweet crude So we'll get those charts up on our screen. 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You got the dow down 250 s and p's off 12 nasik one hundred up 33 points right now That's about a quarter percent move to the upside. Let's go take a look at lights We crude this for seagull inside the tiger's den. We take a look at lights We crude i'll get that up here momentarily. I don't in the 30 minute time frame You've got a td9 count bottom. That's going to be your upper right hand panel chart Now what price is doing right now seagull? I don't know what your time frame was that you were looking at But I just want to give you the play by play out here So you can see the nice td9 count bottom and price initially finding resource remember how I've shared with you You make that td9 count you're typically going to get to the oscillator and change on whether it's the top or A bottom here. You can see how that played out on the 30 minute time frame got right up there It rejected that level it is trading with inside a profile right now But if it can clear that 71 79 ish area you ought to make a move up to 73 21 So just trading into resistance. That's that oscillator and change line on the a daily time frame You know price pulled back to the td9 count breakout level 6702 ran right into resistance at its oscillator and change line So if it cannot get above that what it might want to do from a downside standpoint to get to 67 93 Now the cool thing about the td9 count under 30 minute time frame It's not going to get to 67 93 unless it takes out that bottoming pattern So that's the cool thing about it. So you know that you should have strong support at that low that low is 70 63 The price closes below that and you're wondering where is it likely headed to that answer would be 67 93 At least that's the answer that steve would provide to you at least at this stage of the game out there Is there anything else that we can find here in lights? We include it does have support at the bottom of its profile out there in the monthly time frame So that's good I see an a to b equal cd pattern on the 60 minute time frame That's being confirmed as we speak right now, but there's still 28 minutes left in this session So it could end up not being a bullish reversal candle But that will then suggest to move up to 72 30 So based upon the patterns that we're seeing out here seagull. It looks to me like intraday You know, you've got the lightspeed crew that has at least a short term bottom should make its way towards that 72 29 73 21 level So hope that provided you with the information you were looking for you also wanted to look at goldilocks So let's go switch over to those charts here as we pull up the gold charts gold consolidating Um, it has been in a consolidation for a bit of time out here That consolidation is basically from about the level to the downside right around the 1965 level And to the upside it's right around the 20 63 area So that sets up our sideways consolidation inside of goldilocks now You can see this rogment to indicator top on the daily time frame. I'll just expand out the chart there You can see also wave number seven So you got two topping signals But price continues to find support at the top of that daily profile and that number Which is a real important number to continue to observe is 2019 If price closes below that it gets back inside the profile And then it likely goes to target the support level between 1986 and 1996 But that is not the pattern right now the pattern right now is a top with a sideways move It can't bust through any kind of levels of support that's strong when we take a look at goldilocks out there Now let's take a look at some of the other time frame charts. See if there's any other signals out here So what pops out at you Not much So I don't have really a great uh intraday set of signals out here To tell us what gold's intent is if I look at a 30 minute time frame chart I see that price has made its way back to a swing point. It didn't get all the way down there I don't believe let's take a look at that the high would have been 2016 50 And the low out here is 2016 70 missed it by that much um So I don't have much out here to to provide you with regard to a goldilocks what it's doing on the uh On the intraday time period what I can't share with you though is that the u.s. Dollar index Um, uh did hit resistance and it's starting to back off which was the top of its profile consolidation So perhaps that may be the signal a signal It's only signal that I could really find for you with regard to gold at this stage So if that helps you out roge had a question roger the tigers They want to take a look at ticker symbol rf. So let me close out the gold here Probably should close out lights we crude Let's free up a little bit of Source there we go resources and let's get over and take a look at this rf RF industries. Let me see uh get over to the charts. It's regions financial It's not our industries, but it's regions financial. So let's see what this bank is doing. How well it's holding up Where did stevie put that? There no Not there. Let's try the spot Yep, there we go. So we take a look at regions financial We can see the scare day scare week out here Which takes us back into that session of march 13th on the volume there 41 million shares Give me an idea First time down here. We did 24 million shares today so far. We're at 3.6 million shares. So that's a big nut you know Tom would sit here and he would tell us with certainty That that low is going to get tested because that's a high volume low out there Now what we are doing right now rogers. We're testing support, which is the bottom of its profile It's actually trading at 1593 in the bottom of the profiles at 1593 I know my chart here in the white background says 1580, but uh Just there's just a delay on this type of a symbol out there But if price does close below that profile Well, it's trading into a swing point that did volume of 24 million and again today. You're at 4.2 I don't care how we cut it or slice it here. It's pulling back with light volume But you're below profile. You're below weekly profile. You're below monthly profile. So i'm sticking with tom I'm saying this is going to test. This has got to test that high volume low That's from march 13th and that's down at the 13 94 level out there And that's what I see when I take a look at regions financial So I do hope that that helps you out roger and thanks so much for taking the time to write in Peter Peter from park city. He's wanted. He wants to go hunting for the euro So let's see if we can help him out here see what that is doing out here So I know the euro has got an a to b equal cd to the upside But it's struggling or it has been struggling. So let's take a look at what it really is doing out here The first thing that we see Is that let's pull up the week or the monthly time frame chart So the euro which looked like last month it was getting ready to get back inside this trend line This month it's saying, you know, maybe not so fast out there So peter one of the things that I would do on my long-term chart like steve has done here Is I'd go ahead and draw those trend lines in and just see how price is reacting Because if it can get back inside there without a topping pattern, it should continue to move higher So that's what the big but right now that's not the message the message that we have Is that last month may have been a false breakout If we look at the weekly time frame chart So the weekly time frame chart shows us what it shows us this shooting star Which is a sell the d-point pattern this is from the week of february 3rd That that is your strong resistance level peter and that's at 1.1033 So we need to close above that in order to suggest that it wants to get up to 117 Now you've got a wave number seven pattern that confirmed two weeks ago And what price is doing it's testing this green oscillator and changeline So we've got the top in place out here. Let's count the second top that wave number seven Now price can hold this green oscillator and changeline on a weekly basis, which is currently printed at 1.089 That would be a bullish outcome. You would still have a neutral signal because of a top But a key level of support would have held out there now quick peek at the daily time frame What do you got here? Well, just like we have with the u.s. Dollar You've got a good old-fashioned consolidation pattern And like hector had said to us earlier if you break through this consolidation pattern Well, then we would have a measured move equal to or greater than that consolidation So right now you've got the dollar up at the top of resistance or its consolidation And the euro at the bottom of its consolidation everything here making sense. So hope that helps you out peter Uh gift's called<PHONE_NUMBER> or send me an email steve at tfnn.com great back You might think that if you want to be successful at trading in the stock market You're going to need a crystal ball after all it's impossible to predict the future, right? 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If you trade china a shares now may be time to take a closer look trade chau or chad Directions daily csi 300 china a share bull and bear etf's china a shares in either direction Visit direction investments.com today an investor should consider the investment objectives risks charges and expenses of the direction shares carefully before investing The prospectus and summary prospectus contain this and other information about direction shares to obtain a prospectus or summary prospectus Please contact direction shares at eight six six four seven six seven five two three The prospectus or summary prospectus should be read carefully before investing an investment in the funds is subject to risk Including the possible loss of principal the funds are designed to be utilized only by sophisticated investors such as traders and active investors distributor four side fund services llc This program is brought to you by vista gold traded on the nyse american and tsx under the symbol vgz Folks you got the a dow down 240 right now sbs off 11 asdeck 100 I'm 31 points. Russell is off 17. That's about 1 to the down side. We're taking the charts here for n That is on semiconductor And this is for tim m and tim would like to take a long position inside of on semiconductor So tim a couple of different things out here first just so you know On a monthly basis prices trading with inside its profile and found resistance at the top of that profile at 8103 Support is down at the 58 19 level and another era sport at 71 and a quarter on a weekly basis you are trading with inside its profile levels That's from 73 58 to 84 76 So you haven't been able to break out you're trading with inside profiles You are you do not have a topping signal on the daily time frame So where is the buy point? There will be a couple of them The first one right now would be at 77 91 That's the green us that are in change. I know that number is going to change by penny or two But if price pulls back there and holds that level that would be a entry area If price closes below that then it's likely to run back to the 7506 or 72 66 area Knowing that we have weekly profiles support at 73 58 So I'd say 73 58 if we get a close below 77 92 It would really be it would go like this below 77 92 you'd look at 7506 and then 73 58 now Another possibility if we look at the intraday charts out here the intraday charts This is a 30 minute time frame chart. We see a nice roadsman to mitigate our top We see a td9 cal bottom. We see price trading bullying between breakout support That's it either 77 33 or 77 48 and breakdown resistance up at the 80 96 level out there So this would say that in those ranges 77 33 77 48 or a couple pennies above that That could be an entry point area for you as well And that is for on semiconductor finally with regard to on which I like the shoes on semiconductor shoes No, those are the roger federer shoes out there They actually are really comfortable for walking in in any event if we take a look at on This will be day number one or could be day day number one to the downside We can see the last two retracements here have been two bar moves And we can see several two bar moves a couple of four bar moves out there So this is what I would say if you're looking for an entry area I'd say tomorrow would be the day to be looking for that based upon the potential of getting a two bar knee jerk reaction Move to the downside inside of on semiconductor. So hope that helps you out tim Thanks much for taking the time to write in macgabi inside the tiger's den let's take a look at ticker symbol cprx So let's see if we can find that this is having a terrible day out there. Sorry about that macgabi cprx And his question is buy sell or hold So we take a look at this instrument here is pulling back volume today so far about 3.4 million shares And it's going into that breakout Which was uh from january 23rd and that breakout did volume of 18 million shares So even though you're pulling back you're still pulling back in this breakout with lighter volume That's kind of interesting out there. I think that didn't show up. There we go 3 million What the sam hack I know it's not 3 million. Oh cprx. No cprx Yeah, the volume on that trading day january 23rd.  Here it is january 23rd. So it's this candle right here That's the one that's got the 18 million shares. You're still trading inside it that low has not been tested. You're trading below profile You're asking buy sell or hold I don't know where you're at with your entry price what I can share with you This price has found support so far at the bottom of the weekly profile. So macgabi that number is 1432 That's the number to really be paying attention to if you were to see a close below that now on a weekly basis as an example There's two swings that's trading in two run from one from the week of march 17th 14 million shares there You are at 8 million shares so far today. So looks like lighter volume And then on the weekly time frame, you've got this candle from january 27 34 million shares You're definitely uh pulling back on lighter volume But if you did close below 1432, I would have to say that 1249 it would be open would be a game But it could also be the test of these swing points out there Um, don't know on a monthly time frame. It says 1413 is an area to watch So you go from 1432 to 1413 to then trigger those moves lower either to test those swing lows Or to test the breakout level at 1249 coming from the weekly time frame on a intraday basis out here an intraday basis So that first move to the downside must be in earnings was 1.3 million shares The last 30 minutes was 400 000 shares before that was 750 Before that 400 000 shares I don't have anything on a 30 minute time frame that gives you any kind of a hope So this says there's no reason to buy you ask buy seller hold Um, the hold piece you're pulling back with light volume I don't know where you're at what kind of pain where you've got your stop set things of that sort So you've got to do that assessment But you understand where price is likely I headed to or when like price might head lower Based upon busting through some of these key levels of support that you and I have already taken a look at that have held So watch 1413 watch 1432 if those things fail, then we're likely headed lower for cprx I hope that helps you out and it says um no buying But you might want to hold and as far as selling I'd hold off until we see closes below those levels out there So just adjust your stops. So I do hope that helps you out The next question was from alan the great who wants to take a look at boil Which i'll put up right here right now alan I didn't get a chance to put that up ahead of time But to give you you specifically asked about intraday And quite frankly you and I we don't really care about the intraday signals inside of a boil Meaning here if I put over a 30 minute time frame chart because that's not going to tell you and I a whole hill of a lot of beans out here What's going to tell us a whole hill a lot of beans is the actual contract So right now boil if you're long boil it is the june contract inside of natural gas that makes up the entirety of it Or at least it did as of yesterday Um So let's go take a look at natural gas and let's give you a better information out here So first with regard to natural gas you've got a potential rogeman Dementicator bottom pattern that would be triggered today if we get that bullish reversal candle and currently you've got a piercing Candle price is trading above the top of its daily profile What natural gas wants to do is move higher and that means at least go target $2 and 42 cents So therefore boil will also move higher if I take a look at a five hour time frame chart out here What do I have not much just a consolidation with inside profile the same thing on the 240 on the 120 minute chart We got a td9 count bottom that has been the bottom So that would say you'd want to be watching that low for further signals low of being 216 And price closed below that then what we should do is see natural gas head lower But here what we've got is a td9 count bottom It is now taking price to its breakdown resistance level of $2 and 25 cents So if the daily chart is going to get us to 242 We know that that td9 count breakdown level has to fail So your next very key ingredient your next very key level to be watching is going to be $2 and 25 cents on the june contract For natural gas if price clears that boil continues to add higher price doesn't clear that it hasn't been able to bust them up Doesn't mean it busted all the way down, but it just says hey We're still in this consolidation on the five hour and the four hour time frame charts out there I don't see any other kind of signals topping or otherwise So that's what I see when I take a look those intraday charts there Ellen the great for natural gas, which is really what you should be looking at if you trade ung or Boyle Steve Rhodes would tm plan would be back to take a look at the ym the dow interday charts to close out the show For roger inside the tiger's den If you're looking for potential trading setups in the stock market then rocket equities and options report is a newsletter You should try tom ylbrian delivers options and equity trades when the markets present them using a combination of fundamentals and technicals sign up for rocket equities and options report today with a 30 day money back guarantee So you have nothing to risk for all 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future contract You now have a td9 count top that pattern is going to complete as we go off the air So if this is controlling the movement here that says we should see a pullback towards the 33 273 level But I wouldn't make that move just right away I'd be watching to see because this td9 count bottom for the dow equity future contract roger It's targeting at 33 393 level when we went through those 30 minute charts a half an hour ago 45 minutes ago That's what we were looking at so that's likely to happen It probably was able to close them up 33 393 will obviously this a 10 minute td9 count will fail And that would suggest we moved to 33 661 Those the only two time frames that have got the signals out here On a daily basis, you know, you have pulled back into a swing point from back on may the fourth But you're still inside that swing point So it's not really releasing a whole lot of information It's going to be the 10 and the 30 minute time frame charts that you want to really focus in on If we take a little what's going on on a daily time frame, it looks like this could be day number four Of a consecutive move lower out there last time we had that well, we had one big move To the upside out there that was on may the fifth It typically don't get much beyond four consecutive days to the downside You did add one additional day back on march the 13th out here But um, so this says that the dow equity future contract should bottom today Or worst case tomorrow out there So that's what I see we take look at those intraday charts roge I hope that that helps you out and everybody as well I want to thank you so much for taking the time to send me those requests out there Whether it was hector by phone or inside the tiger's den I want everybody to have a terrific thursday out there sat p. 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on the behalf of Shashikant Sharma, myself RJ Banderi is presenting from Sakthi sir. Okay, please go ahead. So, there are 10 problems. So, I will go one by one and what exactly we have to do for that problem and what will be the requirement and what we will be expecting from the students or participants. Okay, let us take first one, mapping of natural resources or a manmade features. So, basically, we have to map the natural resources like agriculture area or forest area, water bodies or manmade features like built-up area, so any manmade constructions. So, that kind of resources can be mapped. So, to map these features, what will be the requirement? We need remote sensing data like list 4 data or list 3 data. So, this type of data will be required and one has to learn how to interpret the imagery. So, we have to interpret the imagery and we have to extract the information from the imagery. So, we have to work out what type of tone or texture or color will be the reflecting means resembling the particular features. So, identification of the features on the imagery. So, it requires the skill to interpret the imagery as well as some ground knowledge also is required. And after knowing all these things, we have to do the automatic extraction of the features. So, for that computer-based image processing also is required. And all this type of input data will be available on the bo1. So, one can take this type of problem and work out the flowchart for it and one by one step can be executed. And finally, come out as a map, thematic map. Thematic means it represents particular subjects. So, come out with some particular subject to map or a thematic map. So, that will be the output. And if you see second problem, so that is change detection based on Awebs or List3 data sets. So, what type of change detection? Any, suppose a forest area, what was the before? Then this date. So, two type of database we have to take and interpret both the data sets, whether visually or digitally. And then overlay to both the data set and come out with the change. So, one has to work out all the steps and flowcharts and execute it one by one and come out with the change map. Change map as well as change statistics. Okay. Then third one is LULC, land use land cover change with hotspots using land use land cover maps available from the bo1. So, we have on the bo1 to 50,000 scale as well as 50,000 scale data sets. One can directly download this readymade data set, use it and come out with change. Particular change wherever hotspots means dynamic changing area. Means some significant change should be observed. So, that change map one has to prepare as a output and come out with the statistic how much change is there. Then fourth problem, flood mapping. So, we observed that in India at many places flooding is happening in every monsoon season like in Bihar, Kosi river, Bramputra. So, at many places we observe the flood. So, we have to map the flood for that we have to consider pre and post season data sets. So, post pre monsoon just you observe that what will be the normal condition and then post monsoon how much area is inundated. So, that area will maps we have to prepare means one has to prepare and come out with the statistic how much area is gone under the inundation. Then state wise healthcare indicators maps. So, this type of database one has to take from the health department or that sites and then healthcare map indicators even can find out and prepare the healthcare maps. So, there is not much remote sensing data sets roles. Then sixth one is locust infestations, stubble burning, low lying area mapping, zoom cultivation. So, we observed that at many places there is a locust attacks and in particularly in Punjab you can find out stubble burning means residue crop residue to burn it for next cropping to clear this residue for next cropping season. So, to find out this type of area one has to take that seasonal images and interpret that those area particularly and find out how much area is under stubble burning. Then low lying area particularly where in monsoon season it goes under flooding means water gets accumulated in the low lying area. So, for this type of study you can use the DEM and find out slope so that you can find out low lying area. And in case of zoom cultivation particularly this type of phenomena observed in the northeast area in hilly area particularly. So, in the northeast area what happens every year or for a particular season people used to burn the forest area and clear some patches for that agriculture practices. So, this type of practices is happening in northeast area. So, for that you have to study the images wherever this forest patches are gone means vanishing and those area one has to map and over period of time they take one or two crop or a one or two year they do the practices and then they left over those area for natural regeneration. So, this type of phenomena we have to interpret from the imageries and bring out with the map and how much this zoom cultivation area is gone under the agriculture area under the cultivation. Then in case of transportation networks linear networks mapping. So, for this higher resolution imagery is required particularly Cartoset kind of the imageries. So, that imageries can be used and linear features can be abstracted either visually or digitally and drainage map in case of drainage map it is of course it is of some at some level it is observed on the image. But DEM is the pattern you can directly derive these images from the DEM Cartoset DEM then land degradation maps. So, this is actually a map of a digitification area or a land which is undergoing under degradation. So, some processes one has to interpret on the imageries and bring out the land degradation map whether it is degraded or under good condition like one example water erosion then wind erosion vegetation degradation. See you can observe okay previously it was a good area good green area and then now some vegetation is going under degradation. So, this kind of land degradation maps can be prepared and come out with the final outputs of the map and area statistic. Then health infrastructure population age group etc for vaccination. So, this kind of data can be available from this NIC national informatics center means tabular information what much role of remorse sensing. And then 10th one is detection of change in water bodies reservoir and wetlands. So, for this two time frame databases required and you can map a generate map of two time frame database integrate it and come out with the changes whether water bodies shrinking or it is expanding or whether reservoir number of reservoirs are increased or a wetland area is increased. So, this kind of studies can be done and come out with the wetland changes map or water body changes map. So, this final map can be done and 11th is a means can be taken your own topic. So, these are about the topics of the map at home. Okay, that is all from the oversight. Are there any questions we can take some if there is any questions from the YouTube. Yes, one question was is to be allowing all this data even after the completion of this event like map at home will that data be available for them to use. Yeah, in general, on that one website, a lot of data is available free of cost every time. But here, in some special cases, we will be taking permission. So, suppose if you require some high resolution data or anything, we will try to take permission, but it will be available only for map at home participants only, because all, I mean, general rules, whatever things are available that we cannot make it for, I mean, indefinite. Okay, so thank you. Shivana, just add that in the comment. Okay, like, okay, yeah, we'll hold on till then. And then one question which came is how to download the data. I think Shivana, you should reply to that saying there will be a live demo for one problem statement. I think that is just tell them that on the webinar, I think it is the third event demonstration of an example by Mr. Nellay Mishant. Okay, just tell them that we will show you how to download it one, and you can use that to use information to download other data using ISRO resources, like the resources we have. Yes, okay. Each for each platform that given us videos, right, MOSDAQ, Vedas, et cetera, and how to download above and Vedas, MOSDAQ, there is YouTube links. So just as them to go to that, we won't be making, tell them clearly, we won't be making just videos for this event. Yes, sir. There will be a separate session by Arul for downloading the data, how to download data from Bhuvan, because largest number of data is available on Bhuvan. So that people have to understand very thoroughly. Okay, sir. Because there was a question about list 3 or 4, I think, and demonstration, et cetera. So yeah, after Mr. Arul's presentation, just tell them that there will be a live demo using QGIS, how to download this data and do a one problem statement. I think that will help them a lot. Okay, sir. I could be added as a comment. Shivannan, just add that as a comment. That same question comes also. Okay, sir.


As Nigeria joins the rest of the world to commemorate the International Youth Day, the Lagos State Government says that to continue to empower young people to be self-reliant and achieve their entrepreneurial dreams, the State Employment Trust Fund gave this assurance at a skills acquisition expert in collaboration with a German corporation, Justin Alcaneitas Osmoop. The International Youth Day is observed on August 12 every year to draw attention to a given set of cultural and legal issues surrounding the youths. Here in Lagos, the State Government believes that youthful energies should be channeled to productive ventures. Taiye Tukarimo is with the Lagos State Employment Trust Fund. She hints that the State Government has trained over 23,000 individuals in various skills, and these beneficiaries are now employers of labour. We are very much concerned about Lagos residents and businesses, so we decided to celebrate our beneficiaries as part of the support we give to them for International Youth Day. So today we have our beneficiaries at different sports within the mall, showcasing their products, what they've gotten loans from us to be able to start up their businesses and all of that. So we're just celebrating them so they can get access to markets, because we also have the LSDF Marketplace, which is one of the activities that we do. So we're giving them access to markets so they can have some form of experience with their customers, they can grow their businesses, they can meet with their target audience, and of course expand their business. When they do this, they are able to create jobs, they are able to also grow their businesses and make more money and also expand, which is one of the things we do at Lagos State Employment Trust. So we're concerned about creating job opportunities and supporting entrepreneurs and Lagos business residents. The theme of International Youth Day 2022 is intergenerational solidarity, creating a world for all ages. Now, some Nigerian youth are not optimistic about what the future holds. However, Deloache O'Lanion says there is a need to move from looking for white-collar jobs to self-employment. What we are trying to push and what we're trying to raise a voice on to make everybody know is that white-collar jobs are reducing by the day, right? We need to then look a lot more into taking application education, embrace it as an alternative to the white-collar input and all that kind of employment. So the beneficiaries who are now entrepreneurs share their stories. Even before I left secondary school, I've always wanted to be a free person that would always have a time to decide on. So and later when I began to like, okay, what can I do? Who do I want to become in life that started this Ashoké business? And even now Ashoké has really, really gone to another level. There are other ways we can wear Ashoké. There are other designs we can use to wear Ashoké. So with that, the world is evolving economically, globally. You need to do something to evolve also in your business. It has really exposed us to what is happening globally and then, you know, coming out time to time to showcase ourselves. Like December, we are at Iqoi and like that, we've been moving around. So it makes people know us and know that we can actually do something meaningful with our leather products that we have in Nigeria. The International Youth Day celebration encourages young people around the world to organize activities to raise awareness about the situation of youths in their countries. Justine Akadone, Plus TV News, Lagos. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


Welcome to Monet Café. Come on into the studio with me and learn my five tips for impressionistic painting. Hello artist and welcome to Monet Café. In today's pastel painting tutorial I'll be sharing with you my five tips for painting with an impressionistic style. One of the most common questions I get on this channel is how do I loosen up? I want to paint more impressionistically or with a painterly style and if that's you you've come to the right video. I'm gonna break it down for you in this lesson with these five tips as I paint and I think you're gonna be on the road to painting with impressionism. So I had a lot of fun creating this painting and I think you're gonna learn a lot. So get ready, get yourself a cup of coffee or tea and get ready to join the painting and learning fun. Here we go. My inspiration was this beautiful reference image from unsplash.com that looks like it's from Scotland with beautiful cliffs, flowers and sea. Let's first begin by talking about my products. For the surface I'm going to be using a surface that I really like. It's called Art Spectrum Color Fix Pastel Paper. I like this rainbow pack because you get so many colors. I think I used rose gray for this painting. The pastels that I used is a set of 120 half sticks of Schmincke pastels. Now they do not offer this set anymore and as I always say use what you have. I know if you're a beginner pastel artist you're probably like I was when I started. I didn't have much so I found a really neat way to arrange my pastels in a palette with an appetizer tray. I simply sort them by color and value according to the color wheel. So you're learning a little bit about color theory as well and I put my neutrals in the middle. It works really great. I use this just as a way to tidy up the pastels that I've used for previous paintings. I've placed my pastel paper on my surface just bordering it with some masking tape slash artist tape whatever you have and also too to get this sketch accurate I put this in Photoshop and just made some divisions in quadrants. It really helps you to sketch things out more easily and get it accurate. So if you're a patron of mine on my Patreon page I will be providing a copy of that image for you. I'm using a pencil to sketch. It's pretty light so I'm gonna speed this up. You can't see it that well anyway but you'll see how I just make some lines. I don't get my ruler out but I make some quadrants and I'm using the image just to kind of get things in place and it really is amazing how much easier it is when you divide things up this way. Also I chose this kind of rose gray color because the scene had this like Irish foggy mood to it and I thought it would make a nice base to begin the painting. And now I'll take you through what I'm calling impressionism tip number one which is loose beginnings. This is a great way to start a painting that will help you to achieve an impressionistic style. Now let me show you the product that I used. Keep in mind you can always substitute other products for the stage. Watercolor would even work quite well. Or pastels blended. These are the Neo Color 2 water soluble wax pastels. They look like coloring crayons right? And these are the colors that I chose. I wanted to keep things a little on the cooler side for the underpainting and these literally explode with color when you add water. So watch this magic happen. I'm using this blue for my lightest value. Anything in the image that is lighter. I really just think of values especially when doing a loose underpainting like this in about four values. Something light, something dark, and one or two middle values. Now one of the questions I get so often is how do you choose these colors? I mean look at the reference image. It's it's not really these colors although if you really examine it you can see those distant cliffs. They really are kind of blue. So why did I put pink down on the sides of the cliff? Well I want some color contrast and when I put the water down on this you're gonna see that I have colors that are going to be compliments opposite on the color wheel to some of the colors that I see in the scene. In other words like green. A compliment opposite on the color wheel is going to be orange, red, pink. It's gonna be something warm. And I will often choose very golden colors for an underpainting when creating most landscapes with green. However because this scene felt very foggy and it just felt like it might be a misty rainy day I decided to go a little bit cooler in color temperature for my underpainting. So rather than a red or orangey color I went more with pink and magenta colors and it really did make a end result that felt cooler. And as I said before if you're using a water-friendly surface you could substitute this with watercolor. If you're not using a water-friendly surface you could simply lay down some pastels and blend them to get a soft beginning. And here's where it gets fun. I'm just using a watercolor brush again whatever you have and some water. And I think you're gonna see this is pretty fun. I keep paper towels handy just to control the amount of water. You can see that blue. Wow it just it's like magic it just changes right before your eyes. And as I work here I'm gonna describe to you why. Why am I doing this? Well I like at the point of this video love impressionistic style art. And I feel that this is one of the best kickstart ways to have a painting that's gonna really feel more like impressionism. And these loose beginnings do a few things for you. First of all it's exactly what it says. It's loose. That's one of the qualities about impressionistic painting. And so you kind of just get in the right mood to begin with. And also it allows you to get the majority of the surface covered and create a mood. Like I said this often happens by your choice of underpainting colors. So I think you can see here that it's really starting to feel dreamy. I mean I really sometimes I just love the underpaintings. And I often like using a water based underpainting because it gives you that drippy dreamy quality. You notice I'm using a decent amount of water and it just starts to really blend the colors blend into each other. And things don't feel so segmented. So it becomes this palette of color that's melding into each other. So it's a great way to start an impressionistic painting. And when I finish this up I'm simply going to let it dry. And it is ready to receive pastels. Before we move on to the pastel portion though I'd like to do a subscriber spotlight. This lesson subscriber spotlight is on Hennette Smith on a recent video. She said, Dear Susan, I always wanted to start doing some art. I am 74 years old and due to my work never had the opportunity to begin. I have bad arthritis but decided this is the time to start better now than later. Amen to that. I saw your work and decided to follow your classes. Thanks for your wonderful work. We live in the beautiful countryside on the southern tip of South Africa. God bless. Oh, I've heard it is so beautiful there. And you will have a palette of beauty to paint from.  And on that note, if you've been watching and enjoying my videos or just this video and you haven't subscribed yet, please click that subscribe button and go ahead and click that thumbs up like button. It really helps this video to get shared on YouTube. And now it's time to add pastel to this dreamy beginning, which leads me to my second tip for creating impressionistic style artwork, which is to exaggerate color. Now for this painting, I stayed somewhat what's called local color. I stayed pretty close to the colors that are in the scene, but I definitely exaggerate them. And you don't always have to do this for impressionistic painting, but I find that's part of the fun. I started with the sky and I chose a pastel that was a little bit lavender to layer gently over the blue that I had put down as the underpainting. Now I know the sky is a little lighter than what I had had down. So I just glaze over a little bit of a lighter blue color and it is very textural at this point. This particular surface is pretty textural. I noticed with the color fix art spectrum that some of the different colors have different textures. And I will smooth the sky out and a little while you'll see me do that with just a little packing peanut.  And I use it to soften the sky. Now when it comes to exaggerating or getting creative with color, I find that that can be something that is a bit of a challenge for many new artists. I often get the question like how did you know to choose that color and how do you know if it'll work? And I basically have my own simple formula that is really just artistic principles that I've kind of reconfigured to how I see it working. And if you're a patron of mine, I'm going to provide you these two graphic elements to help you in understanding that. I'll go into more of this on the Patreon version. If you would like to get that extra content or some of the hundreds of other videos I have on my Patreon page, you can become a patron for only $5 a month. And you get to join my Patreon family. We share. I get to see your work and it's a lot of fun. Before continuing with pastel application, I wanted to go ahead and get in just a little idea of this lighthouse that was on the hill. For me, it was a really great while very small compositional element that just added to the scene. Again, I felt like this was in Scotland or somewhere and a lighthouse is just emblematic of that type of scenery. And I've found that when you have things in the distance or structures like this in the distance, less is more, which leads me to my third tip for creating impressionistic paintings. Less is indeed more. And often we, especially when we're beginner artists, we think we have to have everything in the painting. So it is really a great idea to break down before you even begin to paint an idea of what really attracted me to the scene in the first place. Often I find, especially when you're first starting out as a painter, that we have too many focal elements and it leaves the viewer a bit confused as to where to look. It just gets too much for the viewer to focus on. So when we can identify our focal points early and make one of them the main focal point and everything else should feel like a supporting character in this painting, my main focal point was going to be the foreground flowers, just like a lead in that had a lot of color and energy pulling the viewer into the painting. And then my secondary and third focal areas were going to be that water, the area in the middle, and also where the viewer could meander around and finally exit through the painting, perhaps at the lighthouse or in the sky. So break it down if you can. Find the things that you feel are important for your viewer and for yourself, what you liked in the image. And the concept of less is more is not just to do with your focal point strategy, but also to do with the amount of detail and stroke work that you make. I find that when I was first beginning painting, I overpainted. I overlayered. I did too much. I still do sometimes. And I find that less is more principle works also for the element of not overworking our paintings with respect to how much we actually paint on the surface. Less is more can also be, we don't need to cover up all of that beautiful underpainting. We can leave bits of it peeking through. And I hope at this point you can see how that loose beginning tip number one of that underpainting is really making such a beautiful impact on this painting. That pinkish magenta color underneath the blue makes a beautiful color contrast that to me is so much more impactful than if I had just used that blue even on the rose gray. You know, the surface I started out with had a tone, had a color to it. I never liked just working on a white surface. I'll always do an underpainting, but this happened to already have one color. Often I'll use one color to start with, but I felt that this loose underpainting and this beautiful color underneath would really cause some color excitement when I added the blues for the sides of the cliffs. And here you can see I just was blocking in some of the the rock face that has a little more warmth to it. I put down a little darker value brown. Now I wanted that sky to feel more like a sky. It was pretty textural with the color fix. So here I'm just using a little, it's like a piece of styrofoam. It's a packing peanut that you get in your packages to protect them. And the application of the pastels on the color fix surface was a bit too textural. I could see, I liked it, but I really wanted to soften things up. Remember I wanted this to feel a little bit moody, kind of like a cloudy day. And so I'm using this packing peanut just to kind of blend in. This is still almost part of the blocking in stage. And this will lead me to my tip number four to impressionistic painting, which is work the whole. What I mean by that is we're going to try to work the entire painting as a unit, an entity, and not just segment the painting into little individual parts that are just connected like puzzle pieces. With impressionism, it feels harmonious. Elements feel like they just blend and meld into one another.  And I feel the need to stress that these tips that I'm giving are coming from my experience as an artist and the fact that I love the style of impressionism. I have not had formal art training like many artists have. I do have a fine arts degree, but it happens to be in computer graphics. And I still use that all the time with my art career. But these are things that I've learned really just from painting a lot and examining. And so I share that to give you encouragement. If you haven't had any formal art training, yes, it can be done. And that's really a little bit of how Monet Cafe started. I had a hard time finding a lot of education online, especially since I was pretty broke for a period of my life. And so finding free resources and also painting lessons where I didn't have to leave my home. I was a single mom for a while with three boys. And so I thought if I'm learning these things and it took me a long time to find ways to learn to paint, I'm going to share it. So I started recording myself and started sharing what I was learning. And so there's your little backstory of how Monet Cafe started. And here you can see I've added a little bit more detail to the lighthouse. And now that I have back to working the whole, I have almost everything a bit covered with pastel except for that foreground, which I purposely left a lot of that magenta showing through. I will be instructing on that in just a minute. But I did want to go ahead and start working a bit on this rock. And this isn't one of the tips, but I'm just going to give you one of my suggestions is it's going to sound maybe strange. Often when working with something like this, I kind of zone out. I forget about what I'm painting. And I just look at the colors and the shapes and the values. And often if you can try to just paint by those simple principles, rather than, oh, I'm painting a rock. Usually you're going to get it more accurate by that strategy than if you are really focusing on every little crevice and every little detail, which is another tip for impressionistic painting. Like I said, don't paint everything. You know, that's not my focal point, that rock. I did notice, though, that rock. Doesn't it look kind of like a dragon's head? I didn't notice it in the photo that much, but as I was painting it, I was like, oh, yeah, that looks like a dragon asleep on the side of a mountain. That's pretty cool, huh? And now I'd like to talk about tip number five, which is color harmony. Now I'm not going to break out any color theory rules on you. I find sometimes artists can get intimidated by, oh, I have to learn all this color theory. But in general, you do want, with each painting, for those colors to feel harmonious to the scene. That's why I often, I say this so often in my videos, if I have a color in my hand, I will look where I can use it somewhere else in the painting.  So harmonious color is, to me, another great element of that impressionistic style. I mean, if you looked at some of Monet's paintings, it's just like all of the colors just feel like, again, it's kind of like one of my tips, working the whole. Color should feel that way as well, where the entire painting has colors that work well together and kind of bounce off of each other in different places in the painting. For example, what I have chosen in this, with even some of my original underpainting, I didn't pre-choose my colors. I looked at my reference image. I could see it had some beautiful pinks, some beautiful greens that were kind of muted, and the side of the mountain had a little bit of that blue-gray color. So in choosing my underpainting that was a little brighter, bolder in color, those became the colors that I focused on. Now, I can expand a bit from those parameters of the greens, the kind of soft greens, the gray blues, the magenta colors. I can expand a little bit on those with respect to intensity of color and the values that I use as they recede into the distance. But in general, I would say this is a pretty harmonious and simplistic color palette. If you take note of the things, I think you saw the final painting at the beginning of this video, but notice I don't have really any reds or yellows or orangey colors in here. There are some earthy colors in the rocks, especially more in the foreground, because colors do tend to get warmer in the foreground. But I would say my color palette is a bit of a triad. If you look at a color wheel, I've got some blue, some green, and some red violet, and it makes almost a triangle on the color wheel, and they work very nicely together. And also, if you recall early in this lesson, I was talking about that cool mood, and therefore it would make sense that I don't have a lot of warm colors. I mean, even I could have broken out my artistic license and added some flowers in the foreground that were more yellow or more orange, but just to me, it would not work well. So I believe that impressionism is not just something that is the way you make your strokes with loose strokes. It also has to do with color harmony that works throughout the whole painting. And now I'm going to let you continue to watch me work this painting. I'm going to add some music. If you're a patron of mine, there is extra commentary in your version of this video at the end when I add the flowers. But I hope you will keep watching, because once again, you can watch this process. And also, like I said before, you can choose to slow this down if you want to follow along with this video. And also, if you recreate from my lessons, you're always feel free to recreate. But if you share on social media, it's really artist etiquette. If you tag me or mention that you saw it and or mention that you saw it on this Monet Cafe YouTube channel, and you can tag me on Instagram at Susan Jenkins Artist and also on Facebook at The Art of Susan Jenkins. I have all of my contact info always at the end of each video. All right, enjoy to this song that I felt like it was a little bit, I don't know, Celtic. And I will be back at the end with some more announcements. All right, enjoy. I've zoomed in and slowed things down a bit. So you could see a little bit of my strategy with this little area of water. And this is an example of a couple of my tips in action. One is remember less is more. I do want to give this some attention because it is a focal point and strategy to pull the viewer into the painting after meandering through the flowers and the foreground. So I'm giving just a little attention to some of the water that's breaking on these rocks. I've kept the water really right at the base of the rocks, really cool and a little darker in value because they're in shadow, but there's a little bit of this water that's in the sunshine. And so I'm just giving it some very subtle highlights and mark making again to pull the viewer into the painting. When I first decided to start painting seriously many years ago, I think one of my biggest mistakes that kept my paintings from looking impressionistic was too much detail. And now I'm adding a few more of the pinks throughout the painting. And I hope you can see how I have used those colors throughout the painting, the pinks, the blues, the greens. And now I'm pretty much done and I'm going to take this tape off. Now color fix made by Art Spectrum, this particular paper, color fix sanded pastel paper, has a little border, a little white border around the perimeter of the painting. And I wanted to preserve that, so that's why I put the tape all the way around my painting. If you're a patron of mine, you'll be getting a lot of extra goodies and you'll be getting my color notes. I think you can see the general really easy color palette here. Before I show the final, I wanted to let you guys know, in case you haven't seen it already, underneath all of my YouTube videos are links to products. This is my Monet Cafe Art Store and I've started making some t-shirts with some hopeful and encouraging Bible verses and sayings. I have some humorous art themed t-shirts as well and of course Monet Cafe Coffee Cup featuring one of my own paintings, this really neat art bag, and of course Monet Cafe products and t-shirts as well. And here is the final painting. I really hope you learned a lot and I hope my five tips for more impressionistic paintings has really been beneficial to you and I'd really like to start ending my lessons with some hopeful words and this from Isaiah says, but they who wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up on wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint. I pray this lesson was a blessing for you and if it was, go ahead, hit that like button, subscribe to this channel, become a patron if you like and as always, God bless and happy painting.


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The times that I didn't get it, it was because I didn't have any self-talk. I wasn't talking to myself through the day about what I want to happen and about what I believed was going to happen. And then being a visionary is simple.  Creating a very strong inner self is so important. I want you to just think about this. Take a pen right now. Take a piece of paper and I want you to write this down. Creating a stronger me. Creating a stronger me. You need to create a stronger you. You do. Not anyone else, not me. It doesn't matter what anyone else says about you. Look, I'm going to ask this, okay? Is your inner voice louder than the outside skeptics? Ask yourself that again. Write that down. Is your inner voice, the way that you talk to yourself, is your inner voice louder than the outside skeptics? Is it? I want you to think about this for a second. Don't lie to yourself.   What do you say? Look, how I break every barrier, how I just crush it, break every boundary. Anything that gets in my way is because I have a very strong inner self and I want to teach that to you. If you want to go to another level, you got to find another gear. Write that down. You ready to grow today? You ready to learn? I'm just getting warmed up. If you don't have that next gear, there is no another level and that another level that's going to come is from the internal belief, the inside you, the person that you probably don't work on a lot. Let me ask you a question. Do you work harder on your job than you do on yourself? Go on. Write that down. How often do you work on yourself? Strengthening your inner self doesn't come from outside circumstances. It doesn't.  Look, it's really simple. People are built up by programs. They're programmed.  I'm going to ask this.  Write that down. Reprogram who you are by right now deciding that the outside stuff that has happened in your life isn't who you are. Look, if you're very successful right now, let me ask you this.  If right now you're dead broken on E and you need to go to the next level and you're just getting in cells, you want to crush it, you're not happy with who you are. You know what you got to do? You got to go inside. You got to have a visionary mindset. Decide who you want to be very, very clearly. Clarity is everything.  Think of who that person is. Think about it for a long time and think about it often. Talk to yourself about how you're going to become that person and that it's already happened and let that manifest in you. Creating my inner self allowed me to break every record selling cars and when I hit two or three hundred grand and everybody else was like, oh my gosh, you're killing it. I was able to continue to scale and go to over seven hundred grand. I want you to think about it. You couldn't do anything as long as you believe you can. Everybody a lot of the times are looking for the next sales tactic, right? The next hack. You know what the hack is? Is that it's you. The only person that's going to change your family's life is you. Let me ask you a question. Would you love to never get caught off guard again? Would you love to inside to know exactly how you are and for me to teach you how you could literally destroy any negative mindset and create the most strongest inner self that would allow you to get every goal you want in life. If you would, what I'd like to invite you to do is join me in my webinar. It's called your next 10 moves. Guys, number one, this is one of the moves, but I go on it really in depth during my webinar where you can understand it, take notes and it comes with the playbook. So you can understand it from A to Z. Also on top of that, I teach you my nine other moves, power moves. I've been doing this for a long time. I train over 1500 dealerships and over 185,000 salespeople. You can play checkers in life like everyone else or you can play chess. I see 15 steps ahead exactly for what's going to happen right now. 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Let's talk about one way to do really straight dog holes in a workbench. I'm finishing up a thing called a pop-up workbench and so I wanted to get dog holes in it and as you can see I've already done that. The whole idea obviously is to get nice straight perpendicular dog holes and get them to be lined up really well. Each of my squares here where I've got cut match fit dovetail grooves is six inches. So it's six inches from the middle of the groove to the middle of the groove. I took some Baltic birch plywood left over from this same build and I wanted to get a jig put together that would allow me to have enough of a guidance hole there to get myself at 90 degrees.  I wanted something that was stable. I wanted something that would help me keep my bit at 90 degrees because when you try to do it freehand you may look good from your perspective this direction and then you don't realize over on this side that you're really angled. So I laminated these three pieces together then I cut them to the length that I wanted. To get them lined up with the match fit dovetail grooves, I just placed it on its side and then I came down with a pencil and I made sure this was lined up right on the edges, made sure it was 90 degrees or parallel here, not at an angle and then I just did a little mark right where the edges of each of these grooves is. I then used a combination square to just continue those marks across the jig. Now I had one, two, three, four lines, pairs of lines that represented the dovetail groove. Took a ruler and I went from corner to corner and drew a line and then drew a line from the other corner and of course where that intersects is the middle and so I did that for each of these five squares. Now I know exactly where my middles are. I then just used a hole punch to punch that so that my drill bit would find that hole, that exact middle. So I have this and I think it was only about $17 or so, a wood owl, wood owl, OWL, made in Japan, smooth three-quarter inch auger bit and what it does is it has a tip on it that's got grooves and when you let the drill do the work by itself, that tip bites into the wood and pulls this auger bit down into the wood and what you want to do when you drill these holes is let the drill work by itself, don't press down on it. By the way, how did I get 90 degree holes in my jig in the first place? Well, obviously it's small enough. I can take that over to my drill press. All right, so you use this drill bit. You've got these nice perpendicular holes because you did them on a drill press. You take your, in this case, the base and I drew lines across. Again, each is square. I did that on the jig, but I did that down here on the base as well. And so that gave me the center and I only needed to do that on the two outside edges because if I, this jig is not flexible, if I get the two outside ones lined up, then I should be good to go for the rest of them because these are lined up. So mark that down below, put this over it, look for that crosshatch down below, get it all lined up perfectly, make sure it's flush here and flush this way and as long as you're very careful going all the way down, you should be able to get some really nice, very straight dog holes instead of trying to measure everything and lay it out properly and then get off somewhere. Worked really well. I was very happy with the process. Because you only went partway through and you just let that drill bit poke out at the bottom, then what do you do to finish off the hole? The whole idea of not pressing the drill and letting this finish the hole is because of tear-out on the bottom. You want to avoid tear-out whenever you can. It would have been cumbersome to try to get a sacrificial piece underneath this whole workbench. What you do then is just let this poke through so then you flip it over and because it's poked through, you see all these holes. Well, then you can take a fast bore bit or another three-quarter inch bit. I like this because this pointed edge goes into that little hole and so now I know I'm right in the center of where I need to be even though I'm coming at it from the other side.  And now it'll poke through and you don't have any tear-out because now you're going the other direction and you're not going to push it all the way through. So that's how you get them drilled nice and straight. The only other thing I do, just a personal preference, is I don't like to leave these all-sharp edges. I like to do a little round over on them, a little camber. And so I use a 1-16th in my little palm router here.  Anyway, that's it for today. Small workshop guy. I hope you find that was helpful and be safe in your workshop.


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Everyone, Basel Chapman here for the Tiger Financial News Network, 11 am update, does up 180 at 35,674, nice two sessions we've had here from the low that was made at 34,715 on Monday and this is really important because we're just getting into this resistance zone that resistance zone goes right to 35,770s, 100 points above this, let's see what happens because if by Monday or Tuesday we're able to actually climb above and the Dow gets above 36,200, that'll be really good action for December because it says we could have the year close towards the high of the year, I mean that's fantastic action. S&P is goneering a little bit of strength, it was weaker than it was stronger, now stronger than the Dow, it's up 31 and 46,80, a very nice move to the upside if it's able to get to the 47,00s by Thursday or Friday as a holiday, by Monday, that'll suggest a good try for the 47,30 high that was made just recently, all-time highs, 47,43, key support is at 46,48, going to the QQQ, it's kind of lagging a little bit, it's still lagging but it's doing nicely, it's up 392, it needs to get to the 398 area by early next week to say, hey, don't forget about me, I was a leader, now I'm kind of struggling, IWM is the Russell talk about struggling, it's now just broken resistance, it's up $1.219 and needs to get to the 222s to say, hey, I'm also trying to participate in this rally, otherwise I'm going to go back to sliding, looking at gold, gold's trying to rally here, it is up $8.1796, it's kind of in a range, it needs to get to the 18, 15, 18, 20 area to say, hey, hey, don't count me out, I'm also participating here, the TLT is going to be very important, that's the bonds, it is up $0.30, it's just stuck, the rates are stuck in a range for now, they haven't really broken up or out, they just, they're holding and that's good, crude oil is holding quite nicely, it's up about $0.50, it's $0.7163, the VIX index, I didn't talk about that in my show, the Tiger Nations hour just a moment ago, plunging down to $1.6219, this is very good action for the market to see the VIX index in the 19s possibly going to the 18s, so I'm going to hand you over to Larry Pesov, enter great programming here all day, check out the front page of TFN, the Tiger Financial Dollars, what a sale it's going on right now, we have a day to go and then we have the holiday break starting on Friday, we're off Friday, so that'll be the Christmas season and of course the best to everyone, we're looking at the Dow holding very nicely, up $171, have a great day, see you tomorrow, Basil Chapman signing off.