This is pure a PELCA with Michael PELCA only on the blitz radio network And we've got Jonathan on the line and I'll get you Jonathan promise, but I Want to take I want to talk a little bit about Trump's speech from last night about Afghanistan as an illustration for some of the things we've been talking about because I Thought that the speech was the best speech I've ever heard Trump give on the one hand and yet an example of Why this country is heading in the wrong direction and why? We are losing the war on on Islamic terrorism Why the jihadis are winning why we have no strategy completely unfocused. It's disintegrated. It's borderline dishonest is Is the kind of the kind of assessment we heard yesterday about Afghanistan, so we were told yesterday that Afghanistan is getting is getting worse There are more terror organizations in Afghanistan now than they were Maybe ever There's more hostility towards the United States and and from groups in Afghanistan and in Pakistan than ever before in spite of the fact that we've been fighting a war there for 16 years the longest war in American history and That the solution for all this the solution for victory is We're not gonna tell you we're not gonna leave We're not gonna leave Afghanistan that's for sure and we're not gonna tell you what the solution is because that strategy and its secret And we're not gonna we're gonna tell you how we're gonna we heard a lot about victory. We're gonna win Bush said we're gonna win. I mean Obama kind of said we were gonna win Retreat with honor, you know get out of there with honor after we crushed the enemy never happened Why do we think it's gonna happen now and nowhere in the speech yesterday with the real fundamental questions asked the speech yesterday was completely rambling in the sense that What is the issue? What is what is at stake here? I'm an individualist, right?  Why are they so many of them over there? Why are they more now than they were before in spite of the fact that America's been fighting this war for 16 years Who funds this? Where does the money come from? Who inspires this? Is it the Afghan government is the problem in Afghanistan? Is that where they're generating the money? I mean some of it is because they they make money off of drugs, but is that it is that what's funding it? Why don't we just firebomb all of their you know puppy fields? Can't be just that because they get money from other sources. What are those other sources? What is the threat? Where does it really come from? I mean, that's a reason to approach. Let's look at reality That's examined the facts and let's come to conclusions based on those facts We didn't get any of that. We got vague promises about this time. We're gonna win Trust me, which is a you know, he didn't actually say it, but that was implied throughout the speech Which is a typical Trump line trust me. I'm not gonna give you details on how I'm gonna get there. Just trust me wishes over facts You know just just You know, what do we actually have to do now? There were some good things in the speech I'll admit there was a hint non explicit that we might change our rules of engagement. That would be good I'm all for that There were hints that that we're actually gonna do the things necessary to win. I'm all for that. That's good But I have argued From 9-11 till today that the war isn't in Afghanistan Afghanistan is the middle of nowhere These people wouldn't have the money the resources and the ideas to fight if not for whom If not for the country's really behind these terrorists really behind The ideology of jihadism that is killing westerners all over the world. I Mean we first have to face the facts face reality Ask the questions about who these people really are and when you do that When you examine when you look at the evidence when you do the research and Trump has a lot more information that I have a Lot more information than I have Then what you discover is that these people are funded By the Saudis and by the Iranians They're inspired by the Saudis and the Iranians Pakistan is Plays a huge role here and who who supports Pakistan who funds all those schools and madrasas and Mosques in Pakistan where these people get radicalized Well, if you're Shiite It's Iran if you're Sunni It's Saudi Arabia How can you give a talk a speech like the president did yesterday about winning the war in Afghanistan? while ignoring the two Elephants in the room the two countries that support all The terrorist activities all these organizations that are now live in Afghanistan How can you do without recognizing and identifying those countries? But exactly the opposite. This is you know completely ignore. This is left and right are doing this, right? We're gonna evade we're gonna pretend. This isn't a problem. Why cuz we're friends with the Saudis Friends with people who want to kill us really that's that's a great friendship You should try that at a personal level sometime. I'm not friends with people who hate me I'm not friends with people who who go every Friday and say death to Iran death to Iran But in the mosques in Saudi Arabia and in Iran they preach death to America regularly These are not our friends these are enemies and Yet we pretend because we prefer pretense Over honesty over reality over facts over rationally assessing this situation We've been taught not to offend anybody well unless you're Afghan and Afghanistan is significant But God forbid you should you should offend the Saudis Saudis important So there's no honest discussion about these topics and the president was not honest with the American people yesterday He was not honest With the soldiers right in front of him Who he is going to send over there to fight for what what interest these United States have in in in Afghanistan really To destroy terrorists who might attack the u.s. In the future if you want to do that Afghanistan is not the place to start. How about wiping out ISIS to begin with How about Stopping the Saudis and the Iranians from funding these groups and supporting these groups and giving them intelligence and make and promoting this ideology The fact is today that Sunni Shi'a doesn't matter the Iranians are all over Afghanistan They're the ones supporting the Taliban Does the American president mention that no No recognition of who the enemy actually is No willingness to face the actual facts of reality This is where This is where we have to be honest, but we also have to be thoughtful. We have to figure it out And We can't evade we can't evade the facts of reality That's what leadership is about leadership is about facing the facts integrating them communicating them and Laying out a plan to deal with them and we got none of that none of that Yesterday from Trump's speech now. It was the most adult speech. I've seen him give I'll give him that But it still was empty Was empty. I you know, I want to see I want to see a president actually identify the enemy. I want to see a president outline a strategy for winning 16 years since 9 11 and we still have troops all over the world We have troops hunting, you know in 120 countries. What do we what do we have them there for? What are we sending troops to Afghanistan to do? To win what does victory look like? He never said that all I want. What does victory look like? He never said what victory looked like. He actually suggested that we might negotiate with the Taliban one day How do you win it when you negotiate with the enemy? The only thing I know Of of war is you win when you destroy the enemy When you bring them to their knees when they reject their ideology It's how we won world war two. That's why the japanese are friends today and the germans are friends because they rejected the ideology Because they were crushed defeated Are we doing that in afghanistan? Do we plan to do that in afghanistan? No, if we're not going to do that in afghanistan Bring the troops home. Why should one more american die? In that godforsaken place If we're not going to win If we're not going to protect americans If we're not defend america if we're gonna negotiate with the Taliban and hand it over in the end to them anyway Uh All right I get angry. What can I do? All right, um, you're listening to uh, you're on brook. This is the uh Michael back a pelka show and uh, we'll be back right after these message You're listening to pure opelka with michael pelka on the blaze radio network Okay, so the first thing we want from a president from a leadership from people who Claim to be pro-american is the fact Is looking at the world and actually telling us what's actually going on who the enemy Really is it needs to be identified? and then second is We need leaders who are committed to protecting us And I I like the fact this is one of the things I liked about the speech yesterday I like the fact that donald trump said we are not Going to be do nation building We're not Going to fight wars for the sake of other people But then why are we staying in afghanistan? What is the criteria for victory? Are we Investing there are we going to cut economic support afghanistan and pakistan and in many other countries that are not our friends Are we going to actually commit to american interest you see but you see Nobody even even trump who is considered, you know, america first nobody can actually be today america first We live in a world dominated by a particular moral code A moral code of altruism a moral code of self sacrifice a moral code that says that you must live for others You must live for the protection of others for the defense of others for the for the sake of their the other people's will be And as a country we believe that it's our job many people believe To protect others to defend others that we can't and we can't be too harsh on others Oh when we bomb them we have to we have to send the food packages at the same time That's a reference to bush bombing afghanistan and dropping food packages with them You can't be self-assertive you can't stand up for yourself But what we need today is self-assertiveness We need to be able to say america first with everything that that means And that means we will do whatever is necessary to defend america and in afghanist if Being in afghanistan is required to defend america then we will stay in afghanistan But this is what we'll do we'll crush the enemy. We will destroy them. We will kill them everywhere we find them We will stop worrying about Collateral damage and we will protect our own people and we will defend this country and crush its enemies That is what i'd like To hear from a president. All right now. I'm gonna skip some callers Because logan is actually the only one who wants to talk about afghanistan right now I'll get you to skyler and jonathan later, but hi logan. You're in the um Pure pelka show who with you ron brook What's up? Hey, so I just wanted to make the point that I think that staying in afghanistan is actually counterproductive to protecting americans because For a couple reasons one. It's a huge waste of money and american lives Say a lot more american lives are lost By being over there than to just withdraw second thing is that most of the terrorist attacks since 9 11 are from American citizens who are radicalized because of our foreign policy And I think that over the last 50 or 60 years most of this jihadism is a reactionary movement To a failed foreign policy not just by america, but by many western nations Yeah, so so i'm gonna agree and disagree with you mainly disagree um I agree with you that that afghanistan is particularly the way we're fighting the war over the 2000 americans have died over there almost as many as 9 11 and a trillion dollars one Trillion dollars imagine what you could do with a trillion dollars Have been Spent over there and I'd say wasted over there because we're worse off now in terms of the state of afghanistan In terms of a threat to the united states than we were just after 9 11 We could have gone in there crushed al-qaeda crushed the taliban and left That would have been perfect. That would have been ideal What I reject though logan completely and I think it's a historical and a factual Is the idea that people are radicalized because what we're doing in the middle east. This is just not true People are radicalized because they've adopted an ideology. They've adopted a religion. They've adopted a set of beliefs That has no place for america in it has no place for individualism in it has no place for capitalism in it Has no place for secularism. Isn't it has no place For for for couples dancing in public in it It's an ideology that hates Freedom that hates human beings and it seeks to destroy them And this ideology do you mean islam it's rooted in islam now I don't claim to speak for islam. So i'm not saying all muslims hold this ideology But it's a version of islam that holds these ideas and people have adopted these ideas and then what they see Is a weakness in the west. They truly believe they can win They truly believe they can lose their knees now the claim is we interfere in their countries now. That's nonsense That's complete and out of garbage Uh, if anything we have helped the arab world out Tremendously we have supported them over and over again throughout history our found policy Is bad and it supports terrorism only in the sense that it is weak only in a sense that We don't actually advocate for what we believe in we're only in the sense that we don't actually stand up for ourselves It's our weakness that that promotes jihadism It's our appeasement of them that promotes their violence It's not our intervention in their lands now again I'm not for having troops in all these places around the world the troops should be home We should go only where American lives and property is in danger of Is one that we should we should when we go we should crush the enemy and come home But to blame the radicalization in the muslim world and american intervention is complete garbage If you read these slumists, they don't blame it out. You know, it's not about america It's about returning to what they view as tru slum I'm not going to argue with it. They're right about tru slum or not That's their issue but That's the essence of what's going on here. It's it's it's not a backlash It is them finding An ideology that they believe in and fighting for it and it's our weakness It's our not being willing to stand for what we believe for our ideas and it's not our willing It's it's a lack of willingness and our part To crush them militarily We appease them an appeasement 10 only supports the evil it supports Evil and strength five four listening to the acapella show. We'll be right back one All right, this is your aunt ruk filling in for michael felker and Be here through thursday and we just talked about afghanistan and the war and and and let me just Let me just say something about uh, logon the last caller and about this idea that you know muslims Or the islamic world hates us because of what we do And they're just desponding and they blow themselves up because we committed the injustice And they're just just responding to that they're radicalized because of our actions That is a prevalent view and and it's a prevalent view that applies not just To muslims it is this view That the primary motivation of people is we're kind of these like billiard boards balls You hit us in one direction and you know, you you one ball hits the other ball We go another it's certain the level of determinism um But think about it. I mean we've intervened in latin america in probably inappropriate ways and we don't even Have any latin americans blowing themselves up killing americans. We certainly intervened in europe both in world war one and world war two Um, I I think world war one inappropriately world war two appropriately given that You know, they they declared war on us the nazis did um But we don't have suicide bombers.  We we went to the whole war 100 years ago in the philippines I think I I think A stupid war or what we should have never got involved in Under the belief that americans back then had that we were supposed to establish some kind of empire And they're no philippinos blowing themselves up to kill americans No, I mean people are now motivated by you do something and they just respond ping pong balls or something Or billiard balls or whatever people are motivated by ideas The founding fathers in this country were not just motivated by the bad stuff the king advocated for the the taxes the founding fathers will were motivated by a belief Based on reason in ideas that were revolutionary at the time the idea of the sanctity of the individual The idea that each individual was capable of taking care of their own life Because they were capable of thinking of using their mind of being reason of using their reason They they they had ideas and then they acted on those ideas and they they fought for those ideas And yeah, the momentary stimulus Was a king in england doing offensive things But they would have found ultimately an excuse to do this the founders did because they wanted to establish a new country on the basis of a new idea The islamists have an old idea An idea that god talks to them An idea that they are gods messengers And when people have that idea Whether it's christians jews or muslims they often become violent And you can't reason with them you can't reason with them because what are you gonna say? No god didn't say that They're convinced There's no fact in reality that you can point to that says god didn't say that You can't point to the scripture because scripture is completely contradictory all scriptures are contradictory you can find whatever you want in scripture That's just the nature of it. I mean I I I uh I grew up in uh in in a jewish uh background right Where every sentence of the old testament had 50 different interpretations depending on which rabbi you talk to Indeed 50 rabbis usually would interpret every sentence 52 different ways So what's the right way? How do we know what's the basis of knowledge? We can't ask god himself directly So who gets to decide it's not based on facts of reality Whenever Whenever truth is achieved through revelation that you can't discuss it you can't argue it You can't debate it reason is out discussion is out debate is out So all you're left with is force I can't convince you i'm right About the truth of islam so the only thing I can do Is force you to submit to islam that's all that You know that view permits it's all you can do So it leads to violence But it's the ideas in this case the religion which is a set of ideas that drive people That drive people to commit the horrors that they commit To fight america. It's not anything we did. It's what they believe Now there are lots of people out there in the world including in the western world searching for meaning in life By the way, a lot of the terrorists in europe and in the u.s. Will convert con people who converted to islam Radicalized by the religion and then became terrorists They were seeking something were seeking a set of ideas to guide their life and one of the great tragedies Is that the west today? Doesn't advocate for alternative ideas Doesn't advocate For for for for reason for individualism for meaningful life through the embrace of philosophy Of a good philosophy of a reality based philosophy what we have to offer people Is is the leftist postmodern nihilism? Where everything goes there's no reality you just make it up as you go along and anything you believe can be okay Which by the way also leads to violence. We'll talk about that tomorrow when we talk about american campuses and uh You know and and on the right kind of a pragmatism Or an alternative religion which is not an answer Which is not a solution convert to christianity instead of islam Or become a pragmatist. There's still no principle still no real ideas. Just do whatever works Well, what works is blowing myself up because I'm trying to achieve 72 virgins or whatever. I'm trying to achieve a khalifat Instead we what we need in this country what the west needs desperately what europe needs what american needs Is fighters for an enlightenment Is is to rediscover the ideas that animated the founding fathers Rediscover the passion for reason for science and for individualism and individual rights And until we discover and and and and how those can bring meaning to one's life The founders got it when it came to meeting in life. They put it in the declaration of independence In a sense the meaning of life is the pursuit of happiness It's about your life It's about the pursuit of your happiness It's about you succeeding in life you making the most of your own life. That's all the meaning you need We don't advocate for that. We don't teach that. We don't we don't teach people to think we don't teach reason and rationality We undercut those Left and right all over the place and as a consequence we get people radicalized by a set of alternative ideas called islam And you know a particular form of islam call it totalitarian islam talk call it jihadism whatever And they're willing to blow themselves up for those ideas people are shaped by ideas People are motivated by ideas And if we're gonna win this war and this is the most important thing that trump did not mention And on the contrary he undercut it if we're gonna win this war We have to offer an alternative set of ideas We have to argue about what it is we're fighting for are we just fighting for america because we're blind patriots Or are we fighting For a set of ideas freedom individualism Self-reliance in the most meaningful sense of the world Self-realization the pursuit of happiness And until we're willing to name the ideas that we're fighting for we cannot win And and what the president should have said yesterday is yeah, we're not going to bring you to democracy We're not going to try to change your cultures But by the way if you want to have a good culture if you want to have a good country if you want to live the good life Then adopt Enlightenment values then adopt the ideas of the enlightenment the ideas of individualism the ideas of freedom All right, you're listening to your own book fill in for mike Opelka and we'll be right back after these messages Pure opelka with mike opelka on the blaze radio network All right, you're listening to your own book filling in for mike opelka and uh We're about to wrap up the show. I've got a couple of callers. Let me just say this Bad ideas evil ideas Only successful in the world when the good are silent When good ideas are silent When we do not stand up For the ideas of life liberty in the pursuit of happiness for individual rights For for for the individual for reason Then bad ideas will dominate And that's that's happening overseas With the radicalization of so many of these muslims who attack us and it's happening in a universities With the alt left and now the alt right Embracing evil ideas But it's the default. It's the default of the of the good of identifying the good ideas and advocating for them and shouting them and Well, not really shouting them Talking about them explaining them educating That vacuum left by the good ideas is filled by evil and that's what we're experiencing in the world today The the the the success of evil because of the silence of the good and the site and the good has been silent Because is it is adopted? America's adopted bad ideas. We'll talk a lot more about that tomorrow I want to talk about the state of american universities tomorrow Uh, why they are the hub for for many of these bad ideas Why much of the state of the culture we live in today is a consequence of those bad ideas And and what is it?  All right We have also let me just mention this while i'm talking about tomorrow. We've also got a guest tomorrow Alex Epstein who's going to talk to us about our gore's latest movie We're going to talk in the context of all these ideas How uh climate change Is part of this attack On the founding principles of this country the the advocates for for climate change. I'll go on the rest of them Anti the foundational ideas of this country and and why that is and how that works and well Alex's is great on this. So Alex will be here at 11 a.m. Pacific time Tomorrow. All right, uh, let's take uh, jonathan. You're in the iran book show. Sorry to keep you waiting so long Um, hi, i'll hitler.  I mean Really? This is what people think is what entertaining.    Uh, now you're doing god's work Uh, I cannot wait to hear alex from the show tomorrow Uh, I actually just wanted to call and uh, get you hopefully To spill the beans on any more up and coming future alex epstein intellectuals coming out of ari Going through the other industries and exposing these postmodern ideologies, you know that that are Conceived over there the subsidized hellhole of academia sure What's going on over there at ari? We got any more alex epstein's don walken's gonna be Going around challenging Well, as you know, I think you know don watkins my co-author on Uh, free market revolution and equal is unfair and on a new book that's coming out next month, which I'll talk about Um tomorrow or thursday Don has gone over and joined alex, uh at the center for industrial progress And he will be fighting the good fight, uh with alex and i'm sure yeah I mean we've got we've got elan jono. We've got uh, steve simpson We've got um, adam axel. We've got others at the institute, uh, and we're bringing in more and uh We're training more in this battle and this war will continue As we continue to advocate for good ideas and um Let me just say let me just end with uh with this. We've got we've got less than two minutes. Thanks. Thanks for the call Uh, I appreciate it. This is a ideological battle I started with the importance of ideas and i'll end with the importance of ideas Ideas shape the world In a sense and we'll talk about this maybe tomorrow or thursday It's greek philosophy that we're still debating the ideas brought up by greek philosophy We're still debating The the mall the moral ideas that have been around for for hundreds thousands of years It is these ideas that shape ultimately people's behavior and certainly shape the culture And shape history and if we're gonna Defeat evil. We're gonna have to come up with good ideas The ideas I adopted Because i think they're true and it inspired me with the ideas of iron rand as expressed in atlas shrug And for those of you haven't read atlas shrugged. I encourage you to do so for those of you have read it again and uh Think about it. Think about it. The best advice I can give you all 10 is to think All right, you mean listening to your own book show. We'll be back tomorrow And those three Two one Clear. Sorry. I got tripped up on my numbers there. It's radio network All right, thanks a lot. I guess I'll talk to you tomorrow. Sure thing. Thanks


Welcome to Toffy TV, it is the Everton News Daily. Frank Llanpard has done his press conference ahead of tomorrow's game against Leeds United. He didn't look too upbeat to be honest in his press conference, certainly a change in the meaning from last Friday ahead of his first game at Gouldersham Park. Maybe the seriousness of the situation has hit him after obviously the Newcastle result and the injury situation. He revealed that Jere Mina will be out for up to eight to ten weeks. He's done his thigh and it's a really bad injury, serious injury, which straight away they recognized it was a serious one. It's going to mean Jere Mina misses a big chunk of this season. If he does get back, we'll only be back for the last month of the season. So it's a devastating blow to Everton in obviously trying to win games to get us up that table. He was asked where he only just found out because he looked a little bit shell-chocked, but he said no. He'd known from Tuesday and Wednesday the situation. It leaves a massive issue for Evan because obviously we don't have Ben Goffrey for around three to four weeks as well. So it leaves Evan with only two senior centre backs and Jared Branthwaite, who has obviously only played a handful of games. So a lot to think about from the manager now. He's obviously started playing three at the back. He's probably going to have to change that now. There's no Michael Lenkle tomorrow either. He's got Covid, so there's no natural left back. So lots to think about for the manager for this game. You know, you add that to No Grey as well. No DeMarie Grey for this game. Got a minor hip injury, which is going to see him miss this game. Probably be back next week for Southampton, but that's another blow. There's obviously no Decore, no Tom Davis. He did say Fabian Delph has improved and hopefully he should be back in a couple of weeks, but he's saying he's someone who can't be counted on for evidence. So he's come into obviously a very sticky situation in terms of where we are in the league, but obviously injury-wise it just really doesn't get any better. He did say we've got Dominic Arvalun. He was available for Wednesday, he was on the bench and obviously be available for this game. So I can imagine he'll start the game tomorrow and have Richard Allison around him. Whether Richard Allison drops into DeMarie Grey's role or plays up front with him or whatever.  Dominic Arvalun's just got to take that now hasn't he's got to go forward with that and play for the rest of the season, be our main striker and get us the goals that get Everton away from where we are in the league. So hopefully Dominic Arvalun will be saying tomorrow to start the game. And hopefully we just come up with some kind of system that will allow us to start winning games of football, whatever that is, that's up to Frank Llanparg to fix now really isn't it? And hopefully that starts tomorrow. So devastating blow, no yet amenable. I suppose we probably all felt like he was going to be out for a month or so anyway. But for him to be out for the majority of the season is a major, major blow. So Everton going to have to figure that out pretty soon. And the players who play whether it be Michael Keane or Mason Hulgate, whatever they're going to have to really step up their performances now. It's not ideal but it is the way it is. Lots of Everton groups, fan groups and the club themselves getting involved in trying to make Everton's atmosphere as good as it possibly can be tomorrow. There's something that came out of the game from Tuesday Night Street away, the atmosphere at St James's Park. And a lot of fans have been calling for, you know, to bring flags and banners and whatever it else is tomorrow. Everton and Everton sponsor Carlin of lowering the prices of the ale for the game tomorrow. I think people certainly early does. Maybe it might help if it was in Carlin. But to try and get people to come into the ground daily. I'm not saying they're trying to get people to drink more. I think they're just trying to get people to come into the ground daily and start creating an atmosphere ahead of this game. They're trying to make it as hostile as they possibly can for the lead players and obviously push the Everton plays on as much as we can. I think there is a big responsibility on the fans for this game and all home games this season of trying to make the atmosphere as good as it possibly can be to help Everton get points. I think we've all seen how fragile some of these players are and really need our help and I think that starts tomorrow by making the atmosphere as good as it can be. Last weekend's Brentford St and the second half I thought it was fantastic and I think that has to happen again tomorrow and for every game now going forward to the end of the season making it as good as we possibly can and even if it just puts pressure on the opposition and makes them scared to be at Gooderson Park and play against Everton, that's all we can do I think now as fans that's moving forward and show Frank Lampard that what Gooderson Park is like and can be like and we want it to be like that every single weekend. He's got a taste of it last week but let's hope that continues tomorrow and not get on the players backs if the opposition score against us or whatever, we've just got to stick with them that's all we can do now as fans and take that forward and create some positivity within the ground and as I say, do our part, that's all we can do now that's all we can do now. Hopefully tomorrow we get a positive result make sure to check out our match preview on the start of the 11 show to see what our thoughts are for this game and just hopefully be positive and hopefully tomorrow after the game get positive videos and talk about a good victory that gets Everton going and gets this season going a little bit Hopefully fingers crossed make sure you give this video a like, subscribe if you haven't already and if you want more great videos join us over on page and thanks for watching see you later


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So that gives you a flavor of where I'm coming from. And now let's jump into the charts and start do something a little bit different start this week. So the charts I'm going to share with you are provided by CityFX, their technical team, and there's some interesting observations here and we're really looking, you know, on the much higher times. You can see on the screen represents each candle represents a year is worth of data. What we've got here are basically yearly candlesticks. Now, obviously, you're not going to necessarily be focused on trading the candlesticks. But it's important to have an understanding or certainly be aware of where we are from a much, much bigger perspective because that can help inform your trading as as we go into into the new year. And certainly an interesting observation from City is that we're sitting on this yearly trend line that's that's held now on three occasions. And we're actually about to post an outside reversal a bullish outside reversal year in the euro dollar. And I note that in under similar circumstances if you look back here in 1985 that that outside reversal candle was actually the low for for a number of years and led to a move higher over 105% in in the euro dollar. And so, currently we're trading a little bit higher than the one 2140 on here the this slide deck is about a week old I think but the observation still valid and certainly we want to see where we close because if we close at or above current levels and this is just giving credence to this this outside reversal and and could be the start of quite a significant trend move in terms of the euro. And obviously the inverse to the euro is the dollar index and on the screen you can see the dollar index going back to 1971 here, and you know the cycles. The dollar has a tendency to trade in, and certainly in terms of secular bear markets in the dollar which, you know, it's conceivable that we are entering one that these bear markets have a tendency, or certainly historically, have have a seven year increments. So we could be in the first year, it's feasible of a seven year cycle in terms of a down draft with respect to the dollar index. Also notes here on the year of this is the yearly chart again, we're getting a big outside reversal candle in the dollar index, and we've got the stochastic rolling over as well and looking like it's going to negatively diverge. So this again adding weight to the idea that that we could see a roll over here in terms of in terms of the dollar dollar index so closing at or what again this when they took this screenshot this is we're training in 1974 training below 90 now, in terms of the dollar index so again adding weight to this idea that we could be in for a decent like lower here in terms of the dollar index. Next chart is the Bloomberg Asian dollar index so it's the dollar versus basket vision currencies. And again, you get the picture here getting a big bullish outside reversal candle. And you can see the last time we have one of those in the late noughties. This led to further upswing in terms of Asian currencies versus the dollar. And now is a chart of the Australian dollar. And you can see for the pin bar aficionados amongst us that we're putting in a pretty decent candle there in terms of in terms of the odds are actually trading a bit higher now, just coming off the 70. We have 76 now in terms of the Australian dollar. And what we can read in terms of the this price action is, as they know here that there's the possibility now of of an extension through 2021 25 and then 8950. So we can chart some women in terms of targets but there is the potential that we are entering now a bullish phase in terms of terms of the Australian dollar. And this is underpinned by the Australian dollars counter or favorite proxy really for Australian dollar strength and that's the copper market. So we have a lot of conservation here and the similarities in terms of price action where copper printed its lows in the late 90s early noughties and big run up we got you can see the similarities in terms of the price action here so if copper is going to take off. If we're going to see a bullish extension in terms of copper, then we can expect that to take these commodity currencies with it so the Aussie and the Kiwi would would be benefiting from from such a move. The next chart is Bitcoin and the implications of this chart are as they say here relatively straightforward. If we, we've taken out these price now we're trading all new all time highs in terms of Bitcoin, and you can see, even in a basic fashion that that if we trade just within the channel here that the scope for for Bitcoin to elevating value quite significantly. This is, this is a, an instrument that I've only restarted tracking this year with the, what once we've got the institutional involvement in terms of the options market futures and options trading on the CME that added another level of liquidity to to Bitcoin. And so it's trading in a far more technical fashion now, but certainly we can see the scope here with a breakout to trade into the top side of that channel. So that's one to keep an eye on. And, and here we have the S&P 500. And we're going to post a bullish outside year on a close above the 3248 trading above there at the moment, and you can see the implications of these, these bullish outside times of the S&P where we can see quite a quite a decent extension higher and even if we just look at the basic channel here, we can be trading up towards 7500 in the coming years so again watch where we close come the 31st but it's it's looking pretty bullish outside reversal, which should then see prices extend into next year. Last but not least, the NASDAQ breaking out and you can see on the screen here, the implications of the NASDAQ breaking out where we could actually see a decent run higher in terms of, in terms of tech obviously this year. With respect to COVID we have seen money pour into the tech market in terms of this work from home thesis, and obviously tech has benefited significantly from that. But there could now be a meaningful rotation higher in terms of the technical setup as well here, as, as you can see on the screen. So those are just some charts to keep in mind, you can, you can look at these through the recording which should be posted to the TITMO blog later and screenshot these to have as reference. So, in terms of where we stand let's check in with a few of these charts, key charts, the dollar index sitting right at the S3 and this internal trendline. So we're watching, see if we can hold here in around current levels. If we fail to hold the S3 and the trendline, then look for a move to test the equal legs so and I say equal legs what I mean is that we have an equality objective versus this structure, which would see us trade down into this 8742, sorry 8742 area. Well, the thesis I'm working with at the moment is that we could hold we hold here at the S3 January seasonally a very strong period for the dollar. And if we can hold these in around current levels, I think we could see a call back back into the 92 area for making that run for the 87. However, we can't hold the current support the 8975 area and watch for a test of 8742. We've got the euro dollar, obviously the inverse of dollar index sitting right at its yearly R3, 122.49 straight into that area, and we have the trendline just above coming in at 123 so I'm keeping a very close eye on those levels. The next minutes can hold the 8970. I expect a potential for a bit of a pullback here in terms of the euro dollar, and not, not suggesting that we're going to see anything sizable here but certainly we can get a retest of the 120 from above. And then that could be an opportunity to, to look to engage on the long side, targeting the quality objective for the euro at 12860 sterling. Obviously we're, we're seeing some benefit from the, the Brexit news music is, it's pretty positive at the moment, and I've been looking for a move into 137 initially any pullbacks then into to hold the 134 135, because what we have with sterling in terms of an equity objective versus this structure would be a target of 147. And if we just look at the last leg up here this was the post Brexit. And we can see that we have an symmetry swing target at 138 40 so pay attention to how we trade in that area. If we do extend and we get the Brexit deal. I think we are setting up somewhat here for a by the rumor sell the fact type trade. So we're looking at this 138 139 area to a narrow we can see a pullback. But like I say, whilst we then hold 135. We really want to be thinking about tests of 140 143 as the, as the next upside objective in terms of sterling. So let's jump on to the daily timeframes here now. And just take a look at the technical setups as I see them developing. I think we're in the process. Well we'll see if we can hold this. This is an area of completing this five wave cycle. If, if we don't, if there is no support there then you know that what I'm looking at is that 87 40. You can see we've actually now but this would be trading very technically in terms of a channel as well. We can watch the 87 20 287 40 area, if we can't defend these current, these current levels in terms of the dollar index. And like I said with your own really paying close attention to this 123 area. I believe I think that this is likely going to be an area where we see some profit taking. And like I say looking for a pullback then back into this, this 120 area as support sterling charts. So, like I say what 138 139 the trend channel resistance doesn't come in at the moment until 141 so if in lower liquidity next week less less participants in the market and we do get a deal at the last minute here, then we could see you know prices extend in a more erratic fashion that I'd be expecting the channel to hold we've got a bunch of these instruments are all trading within pretty well defined channels now. And I'm looking for looking for a pullback in terms of the Aussie here, we're just looking for that 77 cents level that's an equality objective versus this wave one, measured from our way for low so much how we trade at 77 in terms of the Aussie and then if we do, if we do see a spike higher 78 30s where the trend channel resistance comes in at the moment. Kiwi. We've traded through the equality objective in terms of the wave wave one quality measure for the Kiwi. I'm looking for a test of 72 on the upside here to see a pullback what you'll note with a bunch of these instruments is we're seeing some pretty significant divergence and like I say, these obviously really from from tomorrow onwards through to the beginning of January, the liquidity in these markets is going to be pretty dire. And so we can see moves get a little bit erratic like we saw around the turn of the year in 2018. So be very careful if you're if you're in these markets over the next couple of weeks. Because with the liquidity issues, we can, we can see some pretty erratic moves. The S&P 500. This one is just shy of the long term target I've been looking at this 3731 area. Now US stimulus is likely going to or they're going to try and pass something in the in the Congress. And I think we could be setting up for a bit of a by the rumors sell the fact that scenario where they cast the stimulus bill, and we, we see a bit of pullback in terms of equity so watch how we trade at this 3730 area. Now, again, if we extend through there, then the, the next upside objective is going to be the ascending trend line resistance which doesn't come in just shy of 4,000. 300 handles higher in terms of in terms of the S&P gold. Nice pattern setting up here in terms of golden corrected move into this trend line resistance at the 1950. Pay attention to how price responds they can be looking on the intradate time frames for our time frame see if we get reversal patterns there in terms of gold for a pullback. And then we'll see if buyers are actually going to step in here if we've completed the correction here so looking at ABC. So, if we, if we take out this trend line resistance we don't see any supply in the markets in around those levels, then we can expect gold to be breaking out through the 1968 area and this will be the initial first wave, obviously of a much more significant move in terms of gold. So really want to see how we trade at the trend line resistance, because we could have another leg to the downside here in terms of being a more complex corrective pattern. But at the moment, really pay attention to that that trend line resistance in terms of trades that I'm looking at the moment the one I'm looking at is this cad yen, looking for a move down to test this trend line resistance well as bearish rejection, the VWAP rolled over candle so looking for a break down through the lows here 1890 to see if we can get a move to test 8050. And what we've got obviously is this potential double top scenario here versus this prior high. And like I say you can see we've got some nice momentum divergence so price could see a more meaningful pullback we'll have to see how we trade at the trend line in terms of the cad yen. So with respect to the charts it's short but sweet today. Obviously we're heading into the holiday period, and I for one will be far less engaged in the markets over the next two weeks and will be coming back ready to ready to go for first webinar, first time session will be on Thursday, the 7th of January. Are there any questions really won't likely take a look at the charts open to taking requests I can see we've got Charlie the footsie. Let's have a look at the footsie. This again. Here we go. So again, with the footsie you're kind of in that same scenario with respect to sterling really. If we get say you know if there is a Brexit deal announced, then we can expect prices to to extend higher. So if we in terms of a measured move the next technical targets on a versus this prior swing would be 6800 the 127 extension of this of this prior swing. And through there, you could, you can actually be starting to think about the quality objective, which comes in at 72 41. So you want to see how we trade. Again, a deal, a Brexit deal announced, then you're going to see prices elevate. And you've got some technical targets to look out there the 127 extension of that prior swing then the 161 extension and the equality legs, the equal leg objective coming in at 71 62 and 72 40. If, if we don't get a Brexit deal, then you could be thinking in terms of this as a wedge and a failure. Would see us, see us pretty quickly trading back at 62 46 and then back into these prior highs and thinking in terms of 60 39 61 23. Does that make sense Charlie. Yeah, I'll, I'll take a look at that Charlie and come back to you tomorrow. Any other questions. Okay, if there aren't any questions, I will wrap this up here and thanks very much for joining these sessions this year and I look forward to working with you all in the in the new year. And I wish you all a happy holidays. Thanks very much.


Russians advanced up to two kilometers in some areas of front, but this has cost them dearly. Since the 10th of October, Russian troops have advanced 1.5 to two kilometers in some areas of the front in the area of responsibility of the Tavriya Operational Strategic Group. Oleksandr Stupun, spokesperson for the Ukrainian Defence Forces on the Tavriya front, said this. Since the 10th of October, when the enemy became more active it has advanced by 1.5 to two kilometers in some places, but this has cost the Russians dearly. In a little over two months the enemy has lost almost 25,000 people killed and wounded in Donetsk Oblast alone in the area of responsibility of the Tavriya Operational Strategic Group and about 200 tanks and more than 400 other armored vehicles have been destroyed. 80% of this happened on the Avdeevka front, he added. Stupun added that the Russians have the advantage in terms of manpower, so intense fighting continues around the eastern Ukrainian city of Avdeevka as Russian forces advance with high reported losses, while Kiev pivots to a defensive winter strategy and Moscow ramps up its nationwide bombing campaign. Russian forces are currently advancing around the flanks of the settlement, which sits just outside the Russian occupied Donbas city of Donetsk. Russia appears to be trying to close a noose around Avdeevka, bringing the western approach routes to the embattled city under fire control and preventing reinforcements.


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Hi there folks, James Stradinic here with another Bay 46, in fact the final Bay 46 to be filmed at Pertex Stadium as it currently stands. Behind me there's a bit of a media opportunity going on. You can see Wanderer's Brendan Sandler Mitch Nichols posing with the Canada Air League Championship trophy which they'll be hoping to get their hands on in a couple of weeks but standing in their way is Brisbane War this Sunday in the big semi-final. Moments ago I caught up with the two boys to discuss what should have been an exciting game this Sunday against Brisbane. You have managed to earn yourself a start in the last couple of games which you must be very happy about. Is that a testament to your hard work throughout the season and the season's previous? Yeah, I just work hard each and every day on the training pitch and try to make the decision difficult for Popper. It's come to the point where I've been lucky enough to score some goals and at the right time of the year and my fitness is great at this point and it's a fantastic time to be in the starting line up and hopefully contribute to getting us through to a grand final. And this weekend against Brisbane will be the final game here at Pertex as we all know. Surely it'll be a bit of a sweet time for all the players and all the supporters regardless of the result. How good would it be to score the goal to take us further in the competition in front of the home crowd on the final game at Pertex? That's obviously the aim to do that but I mean this stadium's, for us it's been special and we have a lot of great memories here already in only a short time, I think three to four years now so we'll look forward to coming back once it's all redone and I'm sure our fans are going to love the stadium once it's finished and hopefully make some more great memories. We've got plenty of great memories watching you play here as well. Just finally on the subject of goal scoring Mitch Nichols is here as well. We all know that you guys are on the same number of goals. At the moment which one of you is going to break ahead this weekend? I look we're not too worried about who's going to finish top scorer. What the goal is here is to make it to the grand final and we need to do whatever it takes to achieve that. Obviously you must have watched the game between Brisbane and Victory with Brisbane managing to get over the line in the dying minutes. How did their performance make you focus on the game that's come out this weekend? I think they showed that the game's never over and they've gone 1-0 down and scored two goals real quick so they're a great side. They've been there and done that over the years so it's about us being on our game and taking it to them and especially in front of our home fans and not making it easy for them and really just play our game and step up and take it to that grand final. Thomas Broch scored the winner for Raw in the dying minutes. He's only scored two this season, that was his second, but he's been a dangerous man all season. Is there anyone else who got your own in the Brisbane Raw squad? Yeah, Broch has been dangerous for many years and you know, Jamie McClaren obviously he scored all the goals for them so we've got to be aware of that and I think in the last three games he's managed to bag one or two so it's definitely going to be something our defence needs to watch but they're a quality side, they've got experience all over the park and a lot of players that have been to grand finals in one thing so it's definitely not an easy game and we have to be at our maximum on a Sunday. Speaking of Sunday, you've played a lot here at Wonderland throughout the season and you've become a fan favourite because of your wonderful performances this season. What's it like playing in front of the home crowd here? Yeah, it's definitely good. When you used to come here as an opposition player it was exciting but also you could feel them get on top of you and for that to be behind you and then being supporting you it's crazy and I know it's going to be rocking here on Sunday and my mates have been pestering me for tickets and hopefully it's sold out and everyone turns up and it's the last game here so we send that out on a good note and we move on to the grand final. And just before we go we've already asked Santa this, you and Santa both on ten goals coming in with only a couple of games left hopefully. Which one of you is going to break ahead and claim the wonder as Golden Boot? I really couldn't care as long as we went through the grand final and win it so hopefully Santa can finish the job on Sunday for us. That's it for another week of Bay 46. Don't forget that the Wanderers play Brisbane Raw this Sunday in the big semi-final of the A-League. Here goes at 5pm it is here at PerTech Stadium. It's sure to be a sellout but there are still tickets available so please get them while you can. My name is James Trudinick, I'll see you next time.