Hey guys, it's Jen from iCrateCrafts and in today's video tutorial I'm going to show you how to create these beautiful etched wine glasses. All you need is a few things, wine glasses, armor etch, vinyl stencil, transfer tape, and a foam brush. Now let's get started. I love creating anything handmade and especially creating personalized gifts. So today I'll be sharing with you how you can customize long stemmed wine glasses using armor etch in two different ways. I found these images on Google and cleaned them up here in design space. You can use any kind of wording, shapes, animals, anything, the possibilities are endless. I chose to use these hummingbirds and fireflies since I have tons of these all over the place out here in the country. So the first thing you want to do is just find something on Google or purchase something on Etsy. I just found these for free and just cleaned it up in design space myself. So the first thing you're going to want to do is just take your design and figure out how large you're going to want them. So for my particular wine glasses, I'm going to make different sizes of each. So I'm going to do a cup that has or a wine glass that has just dragonflies on it. So I have these three dragonflies here. I think the first one I'm going to do is I'm going to make it a little bit larger for the first one and then kind of go in separate with these little ones here and just kind of make them smaller in size.  And then maybe come in and use a few of these ones too to fill in this smaller spot. So that's the first thing you need to figure out is what you want to do and what size you want them. So I kind of have a rough estimate of how big I want my stuff. Instead, normally I would just select them all and attach it. But this time I'm going to be using and cutting them out in individual pieces and putting them onto my cup for the first one. So I'm just going to kind of play around and figure out what kind of size I want and then just work with the next one. But again, with these is kind of fun. You just cut out whatever you think you might need and then you can always cut out more if you need more. But I'm trying to think of how many I'm going to need for the whole cup. So I'm just going to take this. I'm actually going to select all three of these and then hit the duplicate button up here. And then that's just going to give me three of the same ones I just had. Now I can work with these ones and make them a little bit smaller. I think actually this one I'm going to leave the same. So I'll have one on each side of the cup. And then these guys all just make a little bit smaller. And I don't have to rotate these because when you take it off your mat, it'll be rotated anyways. You can put it any way that you want it. But I think what I'm going to do is actually make a couple more of these. So with the selected, I'm just going to hit duplicate. And I'm going to move this over really quick, kind of get a feel for what it's going to look like. So I'm imagining this is the front of my cup. So kind of placing them where I want them and just kind of turn it. Like I said, you don't have to turn it. No, I'm just kind of turning to see what it would look like. I think I'll make another one of this. So just again, hit the duplicate button and kind of go from there. I mean, I think I'll make a few more of these just because I want to have different placements of these. So the fun part of it is just cutting it out, weeding them and then seeing where you want to put it on your cup. So I'm just going to do the same for these. Just kind of make a few. I don't like it when they're exactly the same. I mean, you can do it however you want to do it. But I think that's the fun part of homemade is you can do it any way that you want. You can make it bigger. You can make a smaller or whatever. So for now, these two sections are done. I am done with the dragon flies. You can always come back and make more if you need more. But I'm going to leave this for now.  So now I want to work with the hummingbird. So I found this one. I thought it was really cute. My daughter thinks that this one looks more like Hawaiian flower, but I liked how it looked. This one is really detailed. So I noticed that if you make it smaller, it'll be really hard to cut out or it'll be really hard to weed out, I should say. So I'm not going to use that one. And then I found these two separate, but I'm actually going to put them together and work with it as one. And I think on one of the cups, I'm just going to make just this, but I need to make it a little bit bigger. So that will just fit on the front of my cup. You can take your mat and you can stretch it around your cup if that helps you to kind of get a visual on how big you want it. But I think I'm just going to leave this the way that it is. And I'm just going to duplicate it so I can have at least two of the same cups. I do sell a lot of my items at a store locally. So I think when I sell it, I'll sell them two at a time. So these are already detached from each other, so it will cut out just as it looks. It'll be away from each other, which I'm okay with because when you're using this and you're putting vinyl onto a cup, it's rather hard getting around the curved surface of it. So I'm going to just leave them detached from each other. And this one I think I'll work on another time. So instead of me deleting these two and getting rid of them, I'm just going to actually change the color. So I'm just going to grab this one because there's only one and then change it to a purple color. And then I'll grab that one and change it to the same thing. And these ones, it doesn't matter what color they are because it's whatever color you choose to use. You can use vinyl from the dollar store, which doesn't really work for me that well. I don't have a problem of using my vinyl to put it on the cups. It sticks better and I know I have more of a chance of it not seeping through anything. So I'm going to cut this out as it looks. I'll show you really quick. I'm going to click the make it button and then it's going to bring the colors up here. So here's the first one. So one thing I really want to tell you about or I can't express enough is when you're cutting out anything to use for etching. I like to give myself a little border around each side. So let's say I cut this out and I have just the flower here.  So I always put a little bit of a space in between that I when it cuts out, I can cut out a little extra piece on each side. So that's what I'm going to do here. I'm going to leave this one. I'm not even going to worry about cutting this one out. I'm just going to work with the black one. So I will cut these pieces out and I will show you the next step. So I was able to cut out these and I started weeding them. You can see them here. These ones I did the reverse weed, which I'm pulling out the image itself. And then these ones I'm pulling back just the regular vinyl. But one thing with these is the first flower that I did, it did not cut out right. It was so hard to weed and it was not coming up properly. So I went back in Google and I found this rose and I cleaned it up and I put it in design space. So I did have to switch that. And then also, unfortunately, my dragonfly did not work either. The little tiny holes on here were connected. So I just had to peel the whole thing off, which is okay. So I have three different fireflies here. I have this one and then this little guy. So yeah, so unfortunately, but you know, everything works out for the way it should. Okay, so I have these all weeded out. The last one I have to do is this other hummingbird. But one thing I did want to show you really quick. I do mention it on every video because I absolutely love it and I love giving people tips and tricks. But this light up table that I have is amazing. I love this thing. I got it from Amazon. I'm not sure if they sell the cricket brand anymore, but any kind of light up are amazing. I love them. I'll show you really quick. It's dark here. It'd be really hard to see these colors through it. Even if you're using white, it's still hard to weed through. So I finished doing these. Even with these little tiny pieces here, I was able to see those in on my night on the light here. So I have everything weeded out. So the next thing I need to do is take my cup and I will show you one that's done already. So I did this one. It looks like a mess, right? I put all my vinyl on here and I pushed really hard and I got all the little air bubbles out. But here is one that I did not do yet, which I will have to do next. But the first thing you want to do before you etch or put any vinyl on is just take some alcohol and take some paper towel and clean your glass really well. You do not want to have any marks or little smudges or anything on here. You want to have it completely clean. So I'm going to take my glass. I'm going to clean it. And then I'm just going to take my stickers and put them all over here, just like I did this one for the first one. And then the second one is going to be a little different. The reverse weed one is like this, where I took the image out. And then the other one is going to be, I'm just going to put these on here and actually do the opposite with this one and fill in everything with the armor etch, leaving just the stencil itself. So when I peel it up, everything will be etched except for the image itself. So I wanted to show you two different ways on how to do this. But like I said, I did this one already. So the next thing I need to do is clean this one and then just put my stencils where I want it. But before I go ahead and etch it, another thing you need to do is put some tape around the inside of your cup and then also at the bottom here if you don't want it to be etched, which I do not. So I'm going to go ahead and put some tape in the inside and put some tape down here. And then I will put my stencils on and then I will show you what that looks like and then the process of putting the armor etch on. Alright, so I just want to show you this really quick. I did this one. I did the rose and the hummingbird. I think it turned out really cute. So I'm just going to show you really quick. I did clean my cups with some alcohol and this paper towel. You want to make sure it's dry before you go any further and use it. So I'm just going to show you quick.  I think my first one I placed a little bit too far down. So this one I'm just going to put up a little bit further and you got to remember this is a curved surface. So it's going to be a little bit harder to work your vinyl on. But since this is a reverse weed, it's going to be a little bit easier for me to be able to just pick it up and move it if I need to. So I'm just using my fingers and pushing as I'm pulling the transfer tape so I don't get any bubbles in there. And then once you get it on really well, you just carefully pull back the transfer tape leaving your vinyl behind. If it comes up with it, just use your fingers and pull it back down. But the main part I wanted to show you with this is once it's down, you just want to use your fingers and make sure that your vinyl is down really well because you don't want anything going underneath that vinyl when you're putting your etching cream on. So this one turned out really well. So the next part I'm going to do is just use the hummingbird. I'm going to use the same piece of transfer tape. I'm just going to use my scraper to get it on really well. Pull it off and then just put him close to it. And this one's a little bit easier because it has a little bit of a curve in it. And then peel back once you think you have it down. And then one thing I like to do before I go ahead and put the etching cream on is now that my finger marks are all over it, I'm just going to go lightly over this and clean it again with the alcohol. And then I'm going to, like I said, I'm going to take some tape. I have electrical tape. I love using electrical tape. In a previous video I was showing you how to make glasses, glitter glasses. So I used electrical tape and it does really awesome. It does really good job holding and sealing things. But you don't want to get your armor etch on the inside of where you drink.  That's why I love using armor etch instead of the vinyl. You can put it in the dishwasher. It will never come off. It won't harm you once it's already etched in because all it's doing is etching into your glass. It will not harm you at all. It's not dangerous or anything. So these two are finished. I'm just going to use the tape, go around the top here and then also at the bottom. And then I'm just going to finish my other one to look like this. So this is one way to do it where you just fill in the spots where you want your armor etch to go. And then this one, it's going to be everywhere, is going to have armor etch. And the only thing you're going to see that's not frosted out is your design. So I'm excited to do this. I've never done it this way before. So it's going to be kind of fun to see how it goes. All right guys, here is the fun part. I have my armor etch that I bought from Hobby Lobby for $22.99 with a 40% off coupon. But I just found out that this is actually cheaper on Amazon. I will leave the link below in case you're interested. I just have it on a plate. I have my cups all done. I just put my dragonflies all over these cups. And then I have my other one. I have the tape around the inside of the top part and then also at the bottom so I don't get it because this one is going to be going all over the glass. So let's get started. The first thing it says to put gloves on. I will be honest with you, I never use gloves for this. I'm using a half of a foam brush. My daughter used my last one so I had to cut off the top. So unfortunately I only have a little bit left to use of this one. But I'm just going to dip it in here and carefully just go over the spot that's open on the vinyl here. Making sure you don't miss any spots because you won't have an etch there. But this is why I like to put a little bit of an extra space around each side so that when you're etching this you don't have to be careful. You don't have to be too careful with getting it on the edges. So that's why I give it a little bit of extra space on each side. But then this is all you do. Really carefully put it on here. And wherever you put your armor etch it is going to go. Even if you accidentally do it for a second and you wipe it off. Unfortunately it's still going to show through. And you also have to watch out for like running if you put too much on. I like to put a lot on. I like to really dab it on here. But if you do you have to make sure that it's not running and going off of your cup or off of your vinyl. Which unfortunately has happened to me a few times. But I like to put a lot on because I don't really waste this because after I'm done after the 10 minutes is up I like to take it off with my foam brush and put it back into the container. Whoops. So here I see I'm over. So I'm just going to move my vinyl up a little bit. Just get this last little guy here. And then I just look over everything carefully to make sure I'm not missing anywhere or anywhere that I can put it on any thicker. But I do like to put this on thick. So there's the first one. And then I'm going to show you this next one of doing it all over. So I did go ahead and clean this again. So I'm not going to smudge it up. But I did push down the vinyl really hard to make sure there's no spots that are pulling up or any bubbles or anything. So this one's a little bit different. I've never done it this way before. But I'm kind of excited. So I'm just going to take my armor edge and go over the whole thing. Making sure I get all at the top. And it's harder with this foam brush because unfortunately she used my last one. She likes to paint. So she used it.  So I'm going to go on pretty thick with this. And this is why I like taping the inside of it so you don't go on the inside of it. But I'm going on pretty thick. And then I'm just going to go over it in a straight line to make sure it's all nice and even. I think it was a good idea that I put the tape in here because then you won't get any on the inside of it. So now I'm just going over it again. I'm just going to kind of pull as I go. Making sure I got every little spot on here. You can kind of tell where you have it or you don't. Again, I like to go nice and thick on this. So I will just finish this with the other two. And then after the 10 minutes is up, I will go back on here and I will take all this extra off and I'll just put it back in my bottle for next time. I like to reuse everything that I can. So instead of putting this down the sink, I'll just take it all off and put whatever I can back in the container. But I will show you what this looks like after the 10 minutes is up. But again, please make sure that you get everywhere and double check before you put it down and then really go over your designs. But I'll finish this up. I'll show you what it looks like after it's done and after I take off the extra and then I'll show you how to wash it off. But again, it is highly recommended to use gloves but I've been very careful not to get any on my fingers or my clothes. So there's this one. It is all done. This is the inside. This is why I like the tape there because nothing is going on the inside of it. But I'm just going to let this sit. You can also do the bottom if you want it. I suppose you can tape it off here again and kind of put it down there where you have like a little line here. Or you could just not even do the tape at all and just do the whole stem. But I just chose just to do the top part so that's how that's going to be. So I'm going to finish up with these other ones that I have really quick for about 15 minutes. There's this one here. Again, it's recommended to wear gloves but I just don't. So I'm just going to take it under some warm water and then just rub it off. Here it is. It's all finished. When it dries, it'll definitely show up a lot better.  So once it dries, it will definitely show up a lot better. But I'm going to finish these. I'm going to remove all the excess before I take off the vinyl. So that's what I'm just doing.  So here's the next one. These are the butterflies or the dragonflies. As you can see, it doesn't show up very well but once it dries, it'll really come through. So let's finish these up and then I'll show you what they look like after they dried. Oh my gosh guys, I really love how these turned out. They really buzzed, lit, and hammered. I purchased these SVG files from Etsy. I hope you enjoyed this video tutorial and I hope you create your own personalized wine glasses. Please make sure to hit that subscribe button if you haven't already and give me a big thumbs up and leave a comment below. I love reading comments from all of you. Happy crafting everyone!


from our studios in the heart of Silicon Valley, Palo Alto, California, this is a CUBE Conversation. Hello and welcome to the CUBE studios in Palo Alto, California for another CUBE Conversation where we go in-depth with thought leaders driving innovation across the tech industry. I'm your host, Peter Burris. Anybody that's read any Wikibon research or been a part of any conversation with anybody here at Silicon Angle knows we're big believers in the notion of digital business and digital business transformation. Simply put, the difference between a business and a digital business is the role that data plays in a digital business. Digital businesses use data to change their value propositions, better manage and get greater visibility and utilization of their assets and ultimately drive new types of customer experience. That places an enormous burden on the technologies, the digital technologies that have historically been associated with IT, but now are becoming more deeply embedded within the business. And that digital business transformation is catalyzing a whole derivative set of other transformations, including, for example, technology, data center, security, et cetera. It's a big topic and to start to parse it and make some sense of it, we're joined by two great guests today. Michael Siegel is the area vice president of strategic alliances at Netscout Systems and Eric Smith is a senior product line manager of Netscout Systems. Gentlemen, welcome to theCUBE. Pleasure to be here, Pete. Thank you. Michael, let's get going on, give us a quick update on Netscout Systems. Yeah, so maybe just a quick introduction of what Netscout actually does. So Netscout assures service performance and security for the largest enterprises and service providers in the world. And the way we accomplish it is through what we refer to as offering visibility without borders. Now this visibility without borders provides actionable intelligence that enables very quickly and efficiently to enterprises and service providers assure their service performance and security, understand discover problems, root cause and solution. So it overall reduces their mean time to repair and it's being used to assure that digital transformation and other transformation initiatives are executed effectively by the IT organization. All right, so let's jump into this notion of transformation. Now I know that you and I have spent a couple different, on a couple of different occasions, talked about the idea of digital business transformation. How does digital business, or does digital business transformation mean to Netscout and some of the other derivative transformations that are associated with it? Right, so as you described very, very concisely in your introduction, the business transformation is about enabling the business through digital services and data to differentiate itself from competition very, very effectively. Now one of the aspects of this digital transformation is that now more than ever before, the CIOs are taking a very active role in this transformation because obviously information technology is responsible for digital services and processing and analyzing data, right? So with that in mind, the CIOs now need to support the business aspects of agility, right? So if your business agility involves introducing new services very quickly and efficiently, the IT organization need to support that. And at the same time, they also need to assure that the employee productivity and end user experience is maintained at the highest levels possible. So this is exactly where Netscout comes in and we support the IT organization by providing this visibility without border to assure that employee productivity and end user experience is maintained and any issues are resolved very quickly and efficiently. Especially customer experience, that's increasingly the most important end users that any digital business has to deal with. I want to, at this point in time, Eric, I want to bring you into the conversation. When we talk about this notion of greater visibility, greater security over digital assets and the role that the CIO is playing, that also suggests that there's a new class of roles for architects, for people who have historically been associated more with running the networks, running the systems. How is their role changing and how is that part of the whole concept of data center transformation? Right, so the guys that have typically been in what you might consider network operations types of roles, their roles are evolving as well as the entire organization does. So as Michael mentioned beforehand, no longer is the digital business wholly and solely confined to an IT department that is working just with their employees. They're now part of the business. They're not just the cost center anymore. They're actually an asset to the business and they are supporting lines of business. So the folks that have traditionally had these roles of just maintain the network, maintain the applications are having to become experts in other aspects. So as certain applications disaggregate or potentially move out partially into the cloud, they kind of become cloud architects as well. And whether it's a public cloud or a private cloud, they have to understand those relationships and they have to understand what happens when you spread your network out beyond your traditional data center border. So let's build on that because that suggests that the ultimate solution for how we move forward has to accommodate greater visibility end to end across resources, not only do we have traditionally controlled and therefore could decide how much visibility we had if the tooling was right, but also resources that are outside of our direct purview. How is that work as we think about building this end to end visibility to improve our overall, the overall productivity and capability, as you said, the productivity and end user experience of the systems we're deploying? Yeah, so maybe we can start with the end in mind and what I mean by that is what you just described as end user productivity and user experience. So how do we measure it, right? So in order to measure it, what we need to look is the visibility at the service level. And what I mean by visibility at the service level is actually looking not just at one specific component that is associated with the service, such as application, it's one component. However, application is running on a network. You have service enablers, for example, to authenticate, to do accounting, to do DNS resolution. So you need to look at all of these components of a service and be able to effectively provide visibility across all of them. Now, the other aspect of this visibility, as you mentioned end to end, which is excellent observation as well, because you're looking at the data center, which is still very strategic assets. Your crown jewels are still going to be in the data center. Some of the data will remain there, but now you're expanding to the edge, maybe collows, maybe micro data centers in the collows. Then you move workloads, migrate them to public clouds, it can be IAS. You have more SaaS providers that provide you with different services. So this aspect of end to end really evolves into geographically dispersed, very complex and highly scalable architecture. Yeah, we like to say that the cloud is not an architecture, it's not a strategy for centralizing resources. Rather, it's a strategy for greater distributing resources, allowing data to be where it needs to be to perform the function or where it gets captured, allowing the service to be able to go to the data to be able to perform the work that needs to be conducted from a digital business standpoint. That suggests that even though a customer, let's call it the end user and the end user experience, may get a richer set of capabilities, but the way that by which that work is being performed gets increasingly complex. And part of it, it sounds like, that it's that complexity that has to be administered and monitored so that you can, so that you don't increase the time required to understand the nature of a problem or understand the nature of a fix. Have I got that right? You got it absolutely right. And I would add to this that the complexity that you described is being further magnified by the fact that you lose control to some extent as you mentioned before, right? Or it becomes, let's put it this way, it becomes a contracting challenge as opposed to command and control prompt challenge. Now the CIO can't tell, you know, Mike, go fix it. The CIO has to get in the phone with a public cloud provider and say, our service level says, and that's a different type of an interaction. Right, and usually the service provider would say the problem is not on my side, it's on your side. So the traditional finger pointing in war rooms now is being expanded across multiple service providers and you need to be able to very effectively and quickly identify, this is the root cause, this is why it's your fault, service provider, it's not our fault, please go and fix it. So let's dig into that if we can, Eric. This notion of having greater visibility so that you are in a better position to actually identify the characteristics of the problem and where the responsibilities lie, how is that working? So in the past or when digital transformation started, it's initial rise, it wasn't. And what was happening is as you both have alluded to a moment ago, I can no longer call Mike and Susie downstairs and say, you know, voicemail is not working, our, you know, things are just not working.  What's happening now is that data is leaving your data center. It may be going through something like a colo, which is aggregating the data and then sending it on to your partner that is providing these services. So what you have to have is a way to regain that visibility into those last mile segments, if you will, so that as you work with your partners, whether it's the colo or the in software provider, that you can say, look, I can see things from here, I can see things to there. And here's where it goes south. And this is the problem, help me fix it. And so as you said a moment ago, you cannot let your mean time to resolution expand simply because you're engaging in these digital transformation activities. You need to remain at least as good as it did before and hopefully better. Well, you have to be better because your business is becoming more dependent on your digital business capabilities and increasingly it's becoming a business. So let me again dig a little bit more deeper technically into that. A lot of companies are attempting to essentially provide a summary view of that data that's moving around a network, moving across these different centers and locations, edge, colo, et cetera. What is the right way to do it? What constitutes real truth when we talk about how these systems are going to work? So NetScout believes and I think, you know, most people wouldn't argue with this that when you can actually see the packet data that goes across the network, you know what elements are talking to which ones and you can see that and you can build metrics and you can build views upon that. That is very high fidelity data and you absolutely know what's going on. We like to call it the single source of truth. So as things come from the deep part of the data center, whether it's a virtualized server farm all the way through the core of the network in your service and neighbors like Michael mentioned, all the way through the colos and out into an IAS or SaaS type of environment, if you're seeing what's actually being on the wire and who's talking to whom, you know what's going on and you can quickly triage and identify what the problem is so that you can solve it. Now, is that something that increasingly architects or administrators are exploiting as they use these new classes of tools to gain that visibility into how the different services are working together and also is that becoming a feature of how SLAs and contracts are being written so that we can short circuit the finger pointing with our service providers? Yeah, so there's kind of like you said, two parts of that. The first is I think a lot of the traditional IT operations folks as you mentioned earlier are learning new roles. So to some degrees it is new for them and I don't know that everybody has started to make use of those tools yet but that's part of what our story is to them is that we can provide those tools to you so that you can continue to isolate and solve these problems. And I'm sorry, what was the second part of your question? Well, the second part is how does that translate into contracting? Does that knowledge about where things actually work inform a contracting process to reduce the amount of finger pointing which by the way is a major transaction cost and a major barrier to getting things done quickly. Absolutely and so since you have this high fidelity data at every step of the way and you can see what's happening you can prove to your partners where the problem lies. If I find it on my side of it, okay, no harm, no foul, I'll go fix it and move on with my life but with that data, with that high fidelity data and being able to see all the transactions and all the applications and all the communications that happens in the end through the network between me and my partner I can show them that they are outside of their SLA and so to your point it should shorten the time between the finger pointing because I have good data that says this is the problem. You can't dispute that and so they're much more inclined to work with you in a hopefully in a very good way to fix the problem. So that brings us back to the CIO and I want to close with you on this, Michael. That's got to make a CIO happier who is today facing a lot of business change and is trying to provide a lot, you said agility, I'll use the word an increasing array of business and strategy options based on digital technology ensuring that they have greater certainty in the nature of the services, the provider of the services and the service levels of the services has got to be an essential feature of their decision-making toolkit as they provide business with different ranges of options, right? Absolutely correct. So in fact, the high fidelity data is so critical in order to accomplish this, right? So in order for the CIO to be able to demonstrate to the CEO and other key executives that his objectives are met, the KPIs for that are along the lines of your efficiency, your service delivery capabilities and being able to monitor everything in real time. So the high fidelity data, I just want to elaborate a little bit more on what it means because that's the difference between having this key performance indicators that are relevant for the CIO and relevant also for other key stakeholders and having something that is best guess and maybe, you know, maybe it's going to help. So high fidelity data, the way that NetScout defines it, has several components. First of all, because it's based on traffic or packet data or wire data, it means that we continuously monitor the data, continuously analyze it and it's the single source of truth because there's consistency in the terms of what data is being exchanged. So the more visibility you get into the data that's being exchanged between different workloads, the more intelligence you can glean from it. The other aspect is that it's really we mentioned the service level and if you think of packet data, it's all layers two through seven, right? So you have the data link layer, you have the network, you have the transport, you have the session, you have application, we can heuristically identify any application and provide you with error codes. And in context, say, you know, the load and latency and error codes give you the overall picture. So this altogether constitutes very high fidelity data. And at the end of the day, if the CIO wants to accelerate the digital transformation with confidence, this is the kind of high fidelity data that you need in order to assure that your key performance indicators as CIO are being maintained. This is the as is truth. Exactly. All right. Michael Siegel, Eric Smith, I want to thank you both for being on theCUBE. Thank you for having me. Thank you very much, Peter, for having us. And thanks for joining us for another CUBE conversation. I'm Peter Burris, see you next time. So we got to be pretty quick.


My name is David Patton. When I started photography, I wanted to make art. I wanted to be a landscape photographer. But with a family to feed and bills to pay, I decided it would be better to be a working photographer than a starving artist. So I took a job as a photojournalist. 25 years and thousands of assignments later, it was time to go back to my first love. It was time to follow my passion. Come along on my journey to become the best black in my photographer I can be. Whether it be film or digital, I will be sharing what I learned through my successes and my failures, in hopes to inspire and educate. This is my journey. This is Bright in the Edge. Welcome. Today I'm out photographing a couple of covered bridges. I'm visiting a couple I've never seen before. I'm out here just to try to wrap up a covered bridge zine I've been working on, on and off for a while. And I really just need a couple more shots I think to have enough for a zine. And they didn't realize there was a couple that were in a neighboring county that were really pretty close to where I live. So today I'm out here checking them out. I'm currently shooting this one with 24. When I first got here I was shooting with the 20. And right now the front element is pretty wet. So I'm switching over to an older 24 that I've had for a while. I'm using my Nikon F5 and Ilford Delta 100. Of course now the sun's a little bit too harsh. There's plenty of clouds so probably more rain coming. For the rest of the year I have my goal is to finish two zines and this covered bridge zine will be one. And then I've got another project I'm planning for this summer. And I'd like to have it done by fall. That second zine I thought it might be kind of fun to do a making of a zine, do a series. So from the shooting of the content to the some of the layout, some of the editing. From basically the process from the beginning to the end. So my next zine will be after this covered bridge. So my next zine will be on a area, a park that's really not too far from my house. I wanted to do a place that wasn't too far away that I could visit quite a bit. I wanted to put a deadline on it. I want to have it done within a certain amount of time. So I figured well let's make it a summer project. And at the end of the summer I'll hopefully have a zine show for it. I'll print it sometime in the fall. The making of the zine project will all be shot on black and white film. It'll all be made with 35mm. I want to have all new fresh images for this project. Well I was hoping for some clouds to roll by here. I don't think I'm going to get that. These are pretty basic bridges. They're lovely, they're nice. But they're not in a setting that is all that photogenic. So I probably won't get more than one or two shots from filming these cover bridges out here. But I think I'm pretty close and that's probably all I need. Did I show you my new little gadget here? I picked up an L bracket for this F5. When I bought the F5 I knew that it was going to be pretty heavy. So I knew that if I wanted to shoot anything vertical this was going to be pretty valuable. Because tilting my pan till head up like that, there's a lot of weight. It'll definitely slide. This is really my heaviest camera. Most of my other cameras are fine without this bracket. Now for this camera, it's time to get with the program. So this is my new, I can't remember what brand it is, it wasn't cheap. I was actually a little surprised I could find one to fit this camera. This will actually fit my Nikon D810 as well. I should have had one these a long time ago. But this will be a pretty valuable piece of kit right here. While I'm at it, I might as well just end this video right here. Like I said, it's going to be a short one. I'll show you a few shots of these bridges. So until next time, thanks for coming along for the ride. Hold on David, not so fast. You still have a couple frames left. Well, I've still got a couple shots left on that roll. So I'm out here at the lake before the water, before it's full. They're in the process of filling this lake.  In about a week it'll be all the way up to here and it'll look a lot different. Right now we've got some weather blowing in. Of course. I hate to waste even a couple shots if I can help it. So Nori and I are going to see if we can find something here in the last couple hours of the day. I need to find some cover. Hopefully this rain will blow over. Get under this tree. It's hailing right now. We're under a tree but it's not a real thick tree. Probably should find something real more substantial. Why is it really coming down out there? No, this wasn't such a great idea. This is nature photography in the Pacific Northwest. I know, it's not easy this crazy. Springtime kind of brings us volatile weather. I knew this was a possibility. I got to shake it off. There you go girl. You don't seem to care. But once this blows over, maybe we can find a photograph. I have the F5. I'm not too worried about it. But it's still, I don't want to get wetter than I need to. It's an old camera. Well that's sad. Well, that's unfortunate. A couple of years ago I came out here and photographed this stump. It had a little tree growing in it. And some mania decided to light the stump on fire. Killed the tree. I don't know why people have to be so destructive. There's really no reason to light that on fire. Just being assholes. Looks like they laid a couple of these stumps on fire. That's too bad. I was looking forward to watching that tree try to make living on that stump. If I had that photograph handy, I'll put it on here. I was kind of hoping to photograph it in this inclement weather. I thought I might document the life of that little tree. But as you can see, that's not going to happen now. Well, after about an hour being pummeled by weather and looking around, not really finding much, I finally come across something that speaks to me. I just love the form, the shape. I've been waiting for the light and the light is here. I'll be right back. Things happen quickly out here. The light came and it went. I don't know if that light can make that much of a difference, but I do like the texture it was bringing out in the shadows. We'll see. I'm reaching the 20mm. Trying to get some of the sky in. It's fairly interesting today. I wouldn't mind it. I think the sky's got a lot of drama. I think it'll add to this shot a little drama to it. I don't have one more frame, so I either have to load up another roll or make my last shot here, and I'm running out of time, so I'm probably going to make this my last shot of the day. I'm not going to have a whole lot of photos in this video, but this is actually going to be a bonus anyway. Even if I have two frames left, I'd still like to go out and see if I can find something to fill those two frames. I like how this speaks to time. It's just a really good way to illustrate time in a kind of a creature-like way. These things map how the water has eroded all the dirt underneath the roots. It kind of reminds me of little creatures. I don't know why I'm a sucker for these things. I'm going to probably get one more frame on this. I might drop down a little lower. I'm not exactly sure if I like a higher angle on this or even lower angle. I picked one that just felt natural. Now I'm going to try either a lower or high angle and we'll see which one is best. Well, I'm going to only have one frame left, so it's either going to be higher or low, and then we'll be done. That's the shot. Last frame. Hopefully one of those two will work. I was trying to... There's a line at the back of the lake. I was trying to keep the stump the top of the stump from encroaching into that line. That's been a little anal, I know. But sometimes the little details make a difference. Nor and I snuck off, so we probably should get back. I don't think... I'm pretty sure my wife doesn't know we're out here. I just had to get those two frames exposed. I just couldn't let it... You just can't leave it. Every frame has potential, you know? So this time, we're really ending the video. Until next time, thanks for coming along for the ride.


A lot of people, men, women, I think men may be more guilty of it than women think it's just a twinge. Oh, I just, you know, it'll go away and I'll go home and I'll rub some, you know, been gay on it tonight when I get home and I'll rest and it'll be better by the morning, you know. Or some guys will go, you know, two or three days because it's the macho type thing to do. Oh yeah, I hurt my back, but yeah, it's okay. It's not a big deal. Well it is a big deal if it turns out to be a big deal and you didn't tell anybody when it happened and where it happened and how it happened and get care from somebody at that point in time because the longer you wait the more difficult it is to prove that whatever is wrong with you now was a result of something that happened five days ago, ten days ago, maybe two weeks ago that you didn't think was going to be a big deal at the time, but now it is. So the lesson is if you get hurt on the job, let somebody know, tell them and tell them they're supposed to write it up because they're supposed to. That's their burden. That's their obligation. If you tell them that you got hurt, they're supposed to make notation of that so that they have evidence that, you know, it did happen and you reported it. People are reluctant to do that. They are just reluctant to do it and I understand for any number of reasons they're afraid, you know, to lose favor of their employer, afraid to look like a wimp or something like that. You know, they just don't want to do it. So I see all the time where people say, well, you know, I got hurt last Thursday but I didn't tell anybody about it until the following Monday because I just thought it would get better. I just thought I would rest over the weekend and it would get better. And unfortunately, then the question becomes, well, did you get hurt back last Thursday at work or did you get hurt out of water skiing on Saturday when you weren't at work and then you came into work on Monday and said, oh, by the way, I hurt my back last Thursday. That's when the issues start to arise. You can avoid those if you would just man up and tell them, hey, I hurt myself. I hurt myself. I didn't mean to but I did and it hurts. So anyway, that's the bottom line. You need to report it. You need to report it and make sure you report it to somebody that matters. I mean, you tell Joe your best friend, that's fine. That's somebody but Joe, your best friend, isn't necessarily going to carry a lot of weight when the time comes to say, well, you're his best friend, right? Well, yeah. What would you say? Oh, no. He lied to me. He didn't really get hurt at work. You need to report it to a supervisor, foreman, manager, whoever your boss is. You need to report it to them.


So we're here with CardBerry and who are you? Right, the company CardBerry has been founded in Russia and currently based in Moscow and it represents a unit card all embracing all the all the other plastic card that you don't have to carry anymore. Is it NFC? NFC will be soon available within the next two quarters of the card here. So what are we looking at here? We're kind of looking at a device that combines two functions. The first one is a card reader that you can easily scan your any of the loyalty cards and it will generate a QR code. All of them? Yes. It generates a QR code? What do you do with the QR code? The QR code is scanned with a smartphone in order to be uploaded into a nav. So all these cards, they're normal cards and then they get in here? Right. All these cards they go to a map. So can we see the all here? Does it scan the card too or you take a picture of it? Right, just you take a picture, visualize the card and you use the card reader in order to get the digital data into it. All right. So is this shipping available? Right, we literally started shipping. Not shipping yet? Yes, we literally started shipping within Russia two weeks ago and the shipment within the US will be ready within one month or two. How much it costs? The cost of the complete package is around $100. If you buy, if you want any extra, which is usually the case for all the families, it's going at half price. And you plan to do with the display? Yes. Where? It's going to be released with the display, with the technology and microchip technology is also considered. All right and scanner? Scanner or still take a picture of every card and put in the


yesterday Cole talked about how he's feeling when he took questions from the media. I'm feeling good, ready to go and very much looking forward to it. Are you at all concerned about how you'll hold up throughout the course of the outing where your stamina will be at? No, I don't think so. I don't think we'll push the limits by any means because the recovery will be important. But I'm ready to pitch. How much were you able to throw and able to do when you were shut down? Yeah, I play catch with Amy on Saturday and then I start throwing with Jordan on Sunday. So I've been throwing for a while. We'll take the next question from Sweeney Marty. Hi Garrett, how are you doing? Sorry, I'm late on the trigger finger there. There's certain points of the season where obviously injuries happen, you can't control what's happening, and you guys have been hit with both injuries in the COVID situation. Going forward here, have you and your teammates talked about things that maybe you can do differently in light of all the COVID activity you guys have had since the all-star break to try to manage that best you can? If I had an idea of what behavior I did or how I got it, I would certainly advocate for an adjustment, but I have no idea where I got it. I guess maybe, I have no idea how to avoid that, and then I guess maybe from the injury standpoint, it's the stretch run, so you just got to push through some things.


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The following is a presentation of TFNN, the Tiger Technician Hour with your host, Basil Chapman. Call now. Call free at 1-877-927-6648. Everyone, Basil Chapman, this is the Tiger Technicians Hour and we've got a lot to discuss and I'm going to go through them based on the Chapman's methodology. What I'll be looking at here is that the Dow had made a leg E230, whoops did I, I didn't update that, let me just do that right now, made a move to 33,006, was it 51, let me just double check, oh no it was 3336, if I remember correctly, no that was the close, yes. Now the price at the high was 33,651, so this is absolutely fascinating to me. This is normally over all the years for those of you who've been listening to me, Basil the Chapman wave, when we get to a leg D, I start becoming quite cautious, it can go to an EF and even a G, but this is where the yellow light shows and I'm ready to start an inverse short. I have not done that yet, what we have done is we've taken another little bit off of our long position, I think today's little bit off was about a 9% gain, single one-to-one on the diamonds, and here's the reasoning. You see that we've gone to a leg F in the Chapman wave, let me just do this because now we've got so many people listening to various shows here at TFNN, such a big increase in listenership and certainly a lot more people are now starting to use or are aware of the Chapman wave methodology, it's only been 20 years here at TFNN but it takes a little time sometimes. I try to identify the lowest low bar and then it goes peak A, B, C, D, E, F and G, 7 higher peaks but it's at the 4th highest peak that other things can happen. Well we've gotten to the 4th highest peak, a little dojo candle underneath the 200 period moving average, spent a lot of time on that in my webinar on Wednesday, the webinar that I did on Wednesday was not for a particular day or month or year, it was the Chapman wave methodology, so that all the techniques that you can come to, there were a lot of people that said to me, oh I can't make it, or I've had COVID or whatever it is, I just can't concentrate long enough, I want to do it but I'm going to do it when I get a chance to because it's archived, you can go over it 100 times, whatever you want. So I see to them, I'm making it, this is going to be out, we won't just do some trade positions to show, but that's not the issue, the issue was I wanted, I announced it as a Chapman wave methodology and that's what we did. So one of the things we spent a lot of time on, you can see it right here on these three charts, daily, weekly, monthly, are the patterns, the patterns that repeat over and over and over again in every single chart and every single site, fractals, why because it's human emotion, remember the stock market is a cumulative emotional price point in time, that's all it is, and when people say, oh but you got the computers, even that is generated by human beings, eventually even with artificial intelligence, it is still promulgated on the premise of observations mostly based on observations in the market by people that are actually programming. So what we're looking at here is that straight up, straight down, one pattern, a cup formation or an arch formation or two other patterns, so they're just three patterns, either up or down, cup formation up, go down and then back up, an arch formation down and then up and then back down again, or mix straight down and then you make a little arch and if that arch takes out the left side low, it can become what we call a dreaded H because you can go very sharp, you're lower, usually it fails at either the first or second peak and then takes out the left side, and on the right side it's the exact opposite in a reverse Y pattern. Alright, so within that context what are we looking at? We're looking at, right here, a pattern that I discuss, the narrow rectangle and the wide rectangle. The narrow rectangle is where you get a price, it goes up to a certain point and then sharply comes down and then starts to make higher highs and basically higher lows, but mostly higher highs in a stair step manner and it works its way back to just under, right on or just above the previous high, that was 33,272 and at that peak D, the doji candle stopped dead and then it pulled back but instead of the chamois instant restart that says within three days, if there's a new high, you can have an instant restart which could take you to a whole new buy mode of another four peaks higher, this didn't take out that left side high, it took one, two, three, the fourth candle did it, not the third, so therefore it could do the same thing but that's not the principle. The principle is it must be within three bars to be an instant restart. So now we've got a peak E pulls back and yesterday we made a leg F but look, the magnees strongest, the cascades at 87%, the unbalanced volume in this particular chart, when I close it up like this, you'll see that the blue unbalanced volume is becoming overbought and I usually use it on a close-up basis, so this is starting to become overbought. So why did I not immediately say, okay, we're going to take profits in our diamonds and we're going to switch to the DOG one to one short, it's because I'm not ready, look, when you're doing time frames, you look at all things, well, the 200-period moving average which was tremendous resistance back in April the 21st when it went to 35,492 before that huge move down to 29,653, well, we're above that now for three sessions, well, even today if it closes below 30,000, 163, the 200-period moving average, it's still been above for the third session. That is a good sign at this particular point. It's also heads up to say, hey, it keeps fading like many of the others of the indices, so just be a little careful, so that's why we gained, took a little bit off, just a tad means this is a small part of our core position, and we've done it a couple of times. But wait a minute, this is the third week, even if it closes below 32,300 today, which is almost impossible, and this is just a horrible, horrible set of news. Most probably it has to be not even economic news, just bad news. We're above that for the third week. Well, before we were there above the trendline, the Chapman Insight Track resistance level for four sessions, but we close horribly lower. This is the third time and it's pretty good. So that says, for the first time, the Magdy, look at this, the Magdy deflated lower before, now look at the differential is way above the slow moving average, 26-period moving average, red, and the histogram is very strong. The stochastic is really moving strongly high, it's up at 60%. The on-balance volume is just flat, that's a negative. But we're within fractions of the, for the first time, the 9-period crossing over the 14-period of the weekly child of the Dow. And look at the monthly, we're about to tackle for the very first time in the sequence, look, three bars, and that's a high. Now we've got one, two, three, four bars, and it's testing this high, it's almost a symmetry there. If any time in August to September, we could actually hit 33,000, or maybe 800, 900, you're out of that trend line for the first time. So that's why I'm saying, I didn't want to get too carried away to suddenly go short of everything, I'd rather take some profits and see what happens. And you can see exactly the same thing in the S&P, this is for dinner, potential chap rate is to restart. So this could be F slash C, so F slash B, and the weekly child is out of its, out of the system. I'll be back in a moment, PuzzleChap and Dazzle Pondrinity. 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So what you're looking at is within the context of the S&P, this is the third session above the 200-period moving average. Now, you see this peak D here with the tiny doji is called the silent doji in the Chapman methodology. It's hinting that you could have a little bit of weakness there. Well, we were weak for another day. And then the third session, it breaks above the high of peak D, goes to leg E, and then pulls back but doesn't even take out the left side low that made that peak D trough. So this rally, the mag D is good. The 9 is way above the 14. The undone volume is completely different to the doubt. It's very weak, but the stochastic is flat at 88%. What is my rule of thumb? Over 80% and holding especially close to 90% is what you want to see. So far, the upside still remains intact. And I wouldn't be surprised if there are a couple of days next week where we just pop modestly. I think this 200-period moving average is going to be a magnet. We're going to be tossing around that in August, the rest of August for at least next week, messing around between that 4187 200-period moving average as support, maybe even resistance if it goes below. And we might make a G or with an alternate count and then even make another D. But I don't think it's going that much higher. That's the way I'm looking at it right now because of the magnet of the 200-period. Look at the QQQ, something completely different. Why? Because as you peak D and there's a chance of an instant restart, so it goes E-A, remember that's the rule of thumb with an instant restart. If it's still very strong you just continue the alphabet and then you have the chance of an alternate count. It's not saying oh my God it can go up and it can go down. No, it's saying it's going up but I need to be aware that you could run out of letters when you get to G because there's never an H. So now you are. You're at G and that says there could be one more pop either today or if it's today and it goes above 330.36 that extends leg G slash C. But if it's on Monday or Tuesday then all of a sudden you've got yourself a D just above the 200-period moving average. All the things I've been talking about for weeks and weeks, how that was a magnet, how there was this beautiful cup formation, how there was this rectangle that could take you above it. Everything that we've spoken about based on that I mean what an example for Chapman Way methodology and even here you've got the chance of a Chapman Way instant restart and that just says that this whole area of 327 where we're at right now with the 200-period moving average no matter how high we go over the next maybe week or two this 200-period moving average has to at some point either become a propellant zone or a magnet because it pulls back the price and if it goes under it it says great now you know that you're either going to reverse very sharply and pull away the further you pull away like a 318 317 that's 14-period moving average supporting the QQQ but at this particular stage it just looks a little tired fantastic action but it looks a little tired it's getting to the 330.29 high that was our target our second target because we've been long via the 300-percent long positions we've taken some off took a little bit today for a 40 percent gain in that position for on the 4th of May at 330.29 it pulled back to 69 on the 16th of June ran up and it's almost like a price beautiful price moved to the right side number of bars on the left to the right and it goes to where 330.38 I mean no 3 330.36 seven cents above it took from May to August to come all the way back down in a beautiful cup formation I actually took that away because it was getting a little messy I'll put it back here because I'm visual and I need to see that so from this high I could even go to that high but look at this beautiful cup formation this is the bigger one there's a smaller one within it and there it is so it's done everything it needs to do at this point I think it's going to start slowing down but this is where I'm saying for subscribers this is where we see a rotation from some of the the NASDAQ type stocks that were just hammered that are now going to show some strength on any weakness that when you see maybe a Microsoft source to pull back but you'll get something in the former winning stocks of the month it's just a good zoom for the month we do not have zoom I'm just looking at that yeah zoom's had a big move from 79 up to 124 almost a double and now it's taking a breather it's in leg C so that's a little but it's the same sort of thing because that was helping the NBX 100 and ARKK innovation fund move higher all right let's get back to our story so we did the QQQ and I'll do the IWM and then I'm done because there's a bunch that I want to show you this is now also got Chapman Wave instant restart let me always put a yellow circle around it it could fail but it tells you hey be aware there's another one of those proprietary Chapman Wave techniques that is applicable only to this particular technique I mean nowhere in the world you'll find me I challenge anyone in in the entire world find another technique that takes you to a peak D and if in three bars it goes to a higher high could give you a brand new buy mode to go to another four peaks I mean you know that's the way it is so I'm just saying this is one of the things I found discovered trial and error a very expensive way to find things out but that was way back when I was hand charting and this is what we got so the IWM is actually showing a little bit more strength than some of the others just in the visuals of the chart and that's the Russell 2000 right let's just do this quickly it's a gold gold is okay it's made a peak D how how important is the peak D in the Chapman Wave methodology it's where you raise your foot off the accelerator hover over the brake and say wow anything can happen from yeah it could continue it could stall this is where you that's at moment where the light flashes yellow and you just say caution well you know we're talking about this we're talking about this yesterday in the den we had someone mentioned six six flags I had looked at six flags for a while low and behold what did six flags do it had a peak D it did all these techniques we're talking about it had a peak D high six flags entertainment at about 26 and the next thing maybe earnings came out is downed it it undercuts 20 now it's bouncing back at 22 I saw something else go by this morning which I hadn't looked at for ages and ages and it just coincided it was coincidental to Tommy talking about in the show market kickoff he was talking about water but he was talking about water because of the ecological conditions I've been talking about water for years saying the big thing in the United States someday will be the conflagration between the states because of water you talk about animosity going on right now it'll be nothing when that happens can you imagine because that's your bread and butter right or water most importantly I quickly grabbed a chart that we once had fabulous profits in and for some reason I've just not found that I wanted to put our money back there but it had a fabulous move from just under 11 to just over 12 into the 13 area this is MWA Miller water products um look at this it goes to where a peak D I grabbed it because once I heard Tommy and this is it's a fabulous show the way he puts together all the fundamental stuff and then he and then he puts the numbers together on the earnings of the different companies I love that because it's just something I never do and I just I like hearing it because it's very important okay so Miller had a peak D about a week ago at just over 12 and then it cascaded after that deep it went down from the from the 13 14 level to 11 round number low and now it's trying to bounce how about that for a peak D drop I'll be back in a moment dows down up 100 sbs of 24 if you want to take advantage of this sector now is the time to subscribe to my gold report the gold report is a comprehensive look at the metal sector as well as the markets that move gold which is the currency and bond markets new subscribers get a 30 day money back guarantee so you have nothing to lose every monday morning I published a gold report 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because it's not that important it's only a peak c it might be a c1 the c2 but in the meantime that's what it is you see this is what you want look at the 200 period exponential moving average is down to 14.82 we've traded above it for one two three four five six seven eight nine ten what it's saying is that instead of becoming a magnet it's become a propellant and that the 14.80 is to maybe just a little lower you could go to the the 14 period exponential moving average maybe down at the 14 maybe 14.80 maybe even 14.40 area that should be an at least an attempt to find support and it's the general market really pulls everything down so what i'm anticipating with this particular pattern leg a in the weekly chart is that there's a really good chance that that 10.61 low will hold for a while and that the midpoint in the 13 to 12.80 area that's that fulcrum over there that peak b should become an absolutely key support and to go with that 13.91 is for the very first time it's friday afternoon is coming up in in what four and a half hours and you've got so far l that means long that means that the that the pink 14 49 period moving average is about to move above the 14 period black 14 period moving average that's the first time it's done that since it broke down back in about february march back in the 17 18 area and plummeted down to the 10 10s so now this is the first time that we're getting that kind of action the mac d in the weekly chart is improving the stochastic is improving and i say to myself wait a minute if things are that bad why are we having even if there's a rotational correction this is on the upside i don't want to call it a rotational correction to the upside meaning you're correcting an oversold condition by moving higher um but whatever it is this is this is telling us that within each sector try to find the winners and stay with the winners that's what i've been trying to do just the last two days we've got extremely oversold stocks i would not say extremely i mean they were at lows after making all-time highs um and so we've added them i'm a little worried because we've got a little too many positions now when i get to a certain number it's always it means that you're just about to get to some kind of a consolidation in the general market but i'm treating these as rotational and that they could maybe hold up as some of the others start to pull back that's really what i'm thinking now let's get back to our story and the story is that fort is holding very well the question came in where would you add to fort i'm in it where would i add i didn't say where you're in it but let's just say you're in it in the 13s or maybe even just a tad lower between 12 15 13 i don't know i would do this i'm waiting for this leg d to add to a position right here it means that you're going to if it starts to pull back from 15 almost 16 down to 14 80 that's a big percentage and that's going to mess your percentage up on your core position i would much rather say look i'm in the position is doing really well if it gets away from me on the upside it's not a position that i can complain about it's great except i don't have as much as i want so this is what i'm going to suggest to you you can either split a position right now at 15 96 and say 14 82 this position has two entries one at 14 97 where we are right now knowing that you could pop a little bit but within by tuesday wednesday next week it could be quite a bit lower and then another one down to 14 80 level well 14 18 is only a point but it's a point it's a percent a decent percentage down so that's an add to if it was your starter position i have a completely different thing but you're already in it so this is what i'm saying you could i personally would wait until next week because 50 to 60 points on a 50 to 60 cents on a 16 dollar stock is actually a decent percentage but and i don't know yet if i can even extrapolate in the week you to say wow this single leg a even if we pull back a third should make at least a half of that gain to the upside taking it to the 16 80 17.35 area and then you can start to talk about the left side right side price time match or i don't want to get there just yet and that's a high of 16 57 so there's a lot that we're looking at then you go to 6 17 did i say that correctly that should have been 17 80 i'm suffering that was wrong 17 80 and then 18 25 so you look those are the numbers that i just mentioned earlier on so i i can't go there just yet so i'm saying as an add on i'd split the position right now nibble here and then but i do want to at least split the position that you were going to put on into two parts start here and have one a little load down and if it gets away from on the upside that's great now you got one and a little bit positions that's that's a nice way to look at it so that's the way one way to do it now the big thing is this these single leg a's become i didn't even discuss this on wednesday didn't come up at all a single leg a up failure pattern i did mention when i was talking about the ifill tower that's when it often happens i don't think that's the case with ford i think ford because they can raise prices on the on the cars that they're selling even though they're not selling as many as they want i haven't been to a dealer just lately i had gone a little while ago as an experiment i went and it seems to me that they could ask almost any price they wanted and you either wanted the car in this color or forget it call again in another or put it put your name on the list so they're really in a good position that way but it's much better for them to have a good inventory and be selling knowing that that inventory is there this way they don't know what's going on all right that's enough of thought next question i had was where was it where was it um could i look at oh yes thank you for your analysis there thank you for your analysis the other day in the webinar um i had a laugh because you were talking about the chaplain wave stalk leg formation that it can go one to one to the upside have you looked at the stock you were talking about the other day so the question uh all corresponds on the other side i've got one that said can you look at the xlf well the xlf is the s and p financial uh spider fund i love the fact that it's gone from uh about 30 to right now it's a 3510 it is a fraction away from the 200 period exponential moving average it hasn't even visited the the close to the xlf has not even visited since it broke down back in april i think around about the 20th 21st april 21st 38.32 plummeted down to 30 point what was that low and 30.37 on the 14th and here it is five points high that's a nice percentage gain to me that was really important so trying to think oh oh stalk leg formation i remember that that was one that we actually own which is bank of america bac bac yes i'd said this is exactly the technique that i talk about chaplain wave stalk leg formation 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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 foresight fund services LLC this program is brought to you by vista gold traded on the nysc american ntsx under the symbol vgz the tiger youtube guardian mentions i l m n uh double top that's alumina ink symbol is i l m for mother and for nancy and it went from a low in the 170 area to peak a peak b peak c peak d and then it just pulls back and makes a quick entry into e at 236 and here it is uh making a low today of 199 big plummet from that peak e top and i wanted to show this i just i used to have this all notated i don't know why i've lost my notation on that it's there somewhere but i don't have it this was making a cup formation almost like an inverted head and shoulders but if you look the stochastic start to fail at that peak d then the mag d has only just is about to turn negative it hasn't yet the on balance volume was weak and the relative strength was fading so that was a clue that as it filled this gap that was back from june uh around about two in the two in the two teams in that area it filled that gap very nicely it um those all it did in fact i'll do this one i'm talking about let me just show you one of the techniques i would have used and let's just imagine i had no idea where it was going i would have said my eye is telling me that i could go from that high to this particular level initially but then my eye from this particular point says is it's still weighed down i have to go to the low and the low here is that actual candle low the doji silent doji catch up wave silent doji candle on the uh on the 13th of july and on the 14th it makes a low of 173 43 and then what i'd normally do remember you don't have to have the rectangle everybody has a trend line you can just take your trend line i i change color you don't have to change color you can make it just a different pattern just go uh new power on you can make that i make it green always but you could make it green you can make it dash line on the right and nothing on the left and i put that in and it says you know what now i use my technique that i discussed on uh wednesday to to find the chapter inside wedge target resistance line well it's a very slow slope i always had my protract in front of me my eye says it's at about 18 percent or something like that 20 percent maybe a little more 24 percent um well that says where would it go so i would do this and i every day i'd extended i say whoa it almost made it to that point um maybe i should have used the initial one that i was talking about right there that was this particular peak right here and see does that join in to the trend line that i'm matching because i need to always i i need if it's not an exact cup low i need to know that i'm doing the correct analysis because it's at this particular point it's autistic but it's always the same principle so then this one is the one that i would have used said maybe that was just too i was a little too aggressive and look what happened it went under it didn't even get there this is the line that i was using so that's how i would draw did it fail yeah but you do your best you can you did your cup formation look everything was matching but it just took too long at two it was too uh it'll be labored to get there so it failed and now it's pulled back so that's a technique that i would use in this particular so it would be just the guidance but i didn't need to use it what i would need to use is this beautiful up channel with the chat wave inside track repellent zone and it got right it repelled right at that zone so here we go next question was where did it go um how about all the v-shape and instant restarts are always the most difficult to understand and make money how do you have confidence and recognize it early enough so that you can take advantage and make a good chunk of money as you know it's always easy to assess historical charts i agree yeah absolutely i agree but look what we've done i mean i don't want to go through that again it's just you know hubris is is really a big part of trading here in the stock market those elves are listening to you when you pack you take your hands to pack yourself take your hands off the wheel to pack yourself on the back that's when you hit the tree so i'm not going to do that i'm just going to say um let's go back to the one that we were looking at which is bank of america went from uh it went from the oval pattern up to a p d and the reason why i liked it is because it had the potential i did have this and then i took it out because i did it was getting a little messy i did i did my homework here and it had everything intact um it had i it's going to get messy again well i'll do it but it had everything that i was looking for in both either the v-shaped pattern remember what you really want is to go to either a higher or low or a particular candle for your left side right side and i'm doing this and i'm saying yeah that's a nice rise this one says to me we could get there soon as i'm not going to use the low the little doji candle low of the 12th of july in bank of america at 2967 i'm going to use this peak right here so this is where it doesn't become there's no way a computer is going to pick that out but my eye picked it out within a split second so that's the difference and that might change over the decades but at this particular point that's still the way i need to do it and uh there it is so i i drew that in and finally enough i had actually drawn a bunch of this in but to explain it i decided to just make it as clean as possible so yes my trend line and that trend line i'm now going to extend i would have taken it to the top of the left side right side price time match to there well lo and behold it's already made the D it's got another two sessions to go to meet that criteria and the criteria is to try to make the target so and so the answer is we have been using it very profitably i mean we're in a 30 this is one that we're in a 32.62 i wanted to get in earlier but i didn't but we're in a 32.62 on the 19th of july and Australia right now 30 it hit today 36 20 so that was Australia right now 35 89 so hey that's a three point it's uh yeah three point gain 10 percent that's not i mean that's pretty good right so uh and it's in a very short period of time so everything's done everything i wanted and i could store a little bit like these good stochastics at 82 percent so that was the answer to your question it's one answer to your question but there could be many other answers and the instant restart you see the whole thing about the instant restart my assessment has been that there probably won't be an instant restart i think we're getting a little tired in the market these big spikes at the upside are really two things a lot of short covering but there are new positions that are coming in am i and it's only a suspicion i have no idea really whether i'm correct my suspicion is that you're seeing buying coming into some of the positions that have just been hammered and that's going to give you a little bit of a cushion i hope that answers the question like i what are you doing for time we're doing okay question came in here if i can find it here um uh a basil you uh yeah basil you you talk about these screamers can you explain what a screamer is that's just my own expression for instance um vldr i had one that came up i have a screen that shows me but i also have my own list these are stocks that are under 10 for the $10 and they have look like they have a good chance of spiraling as we buy it if we get it correctly that day these are trades but they sometimes they stay as positions because we've gone in so nicely what happens is it's in a leg d which is really where you want to be careful but it is so strong and in in a chart formation this is it can really move and like aiv is one that we had that we had on the list and it was so strong all the way up every day i said aiv over how can we well the idea is you should just close your eyes putting the stop and buy it because at some point it will pull back but look at this this is back in the uh sixes is trading at 974 today it's up 5.8 percent and again i didn't get it aiv are you grinding in the market but seeing little to no return or are you a successful trader simply looking to make your job a little easier learn to take the path of least resistance with david white's powerful trading newsletter david white is an accomplished trader whose deep understanding of technology and the markets allows him to consistently find and share winning trades support and resistance define the ranges in which stocks trade by understanding these trading ranges david white is able to find the path of least resistance david white's trading newsletter the path of 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chart i haven't been able to to do anything with it because i've been busy with the show so a pbc this is the 10-minute e-mini i wanted to do on some other things as well but i there was so much to discuss and just to show the part chart patterns that are repeating that's really what we want to do give her about the questions that come in and about answers that we can give that are educational that you can use and we're watching this there's peak d in the uh um 10-minute e-mini let me just put apple for a moment apple uh yeah okay this has gone to a peak uh probably a peak a all right it's stalling this is the cup formation that we always talk about have a look at apple see what happens from the left side to the right side and i'll just put this as a vertical thing we'll look at it maybe monday and see what happened uh here it is yeah it's still quite strong actually it's holding okay it's not nearly as strong as it did when it made that high early this one on the 11th uh that was yesterday but what today's the truck yes yesterday when it went to 100 more close to 171 this is a little bit weaker all right let's get back to our story what are we looking for we're looking for some um kind of choppy action the question came in yesterday i didn't do it about baba having calls on baba you know i would just refrain from these chinese stocks i don't know why um we've got enough that we have to really concentrate on yeah we're not going to another country uh it's just it's real tough so i'm considering that this is just a rotational correction that can make a correction an upside correction there's some of the stocks that have done well so i have to put back a little bit of the ones that have been dragging kind of hold that's the way i'm putting in