Hello my name is Jackie and welcome back to my channel. If you're new here I'm an aspiring fiction author who is currently attempting to plot out two different book ideas using three different plotting methods and this is attempt three. So in this video I'm going to be walking you through my attempt to use the Story Clockwork book to plot my two ideas. Now if you are new to the Story Clockwork book this was something that was actually recommended by one of my subscribers Dawn and it is a workbook that is designed to help you map out book ideas or screenplay ideas. I think it was originally designed with screenplays in mind however books and screenplays are both about telling stories so I think there's no issue in using it for a book as well. Now unlike all of the other plotting methods I've tried which have been based on a book such as Save the Cat or Story Engineering this is a workbook which means there isn't a lot of content in the book itself it's predominantly templates and pages that you can fill out to flesh out your ideas. So the way it's structured is on the inside of the first cover there is a general story structure which shows a circle aka a story clock and the key events that should happen. Now these key events are very similar to Save the Cat if you've done that in the past so they include your opening image normalcy normalcy being disrupted a herald or messenger rational approach to the challenge and failure acceptance of the call to adventure and departure and so on through to the end of the story. After that the rest of the book is purely templates you can use so each project is given four pages on the first page you list your title and the date you start working on it there's empty space for brainstorming you can list your characters and themes then the next page is the story clock so this is a circle which has been divided into segments and each of those segments should be a scene like the ones listed in the general story structure. After that there's another two page spread for each project which includes information like the premise the medium of your story the characteristics of your story similar stories available resources you have to develop said story and challenges you expect to encounter. I haven't started this yet but my initial impressions are that it looks like a lot of fun I'm looking forward to getting stuck into something that's a workbook rather than having to read through some writers or editors essays on his thoughts on fiction writing and what makes good stories I'm craving something practical so that looks like fun. Having said that not having a lot of background in here can be a downside and it can make it difficult to figure out how to get started so I also looked at the plot devices blog plot devices are the people who put together the story clock workbook and in their blog they've actually taken apart a number of tv shows and films and created story clocks for them so if like me you're coming into this new method and you're not really sure where to start because it is a workbook there is a lack of context I recommend going to check out the blog because they've already broken down things like back to the future the Incredibles the pilot of stranger things signs and so on so if you go through that and find a couple of stories that you're already familiar with and see how the story clock works for those stories I find that is a really good foundation for moving forward when it comes to the method itself beyond simply organizing your scenes in a circle rather than in a list the main benefit of this approach seems to be figuring out the symmetry of your story and by that I mean which events over here correspond with events over here and over here and so on and when I see that in the blog it's really interesting to see how other creators create this symmetry so one example might be something is introduced in the first 25 percent of the story and in the third 25 percent of the story that theme comes up again so it's really good before shattering the other thing that they talk about when it comes to using this to develop your own ideas is that you can use the idea of symmetry to fill in gaps so if you complete your story clock with all of your initial ideas and you notice there are a few sections of the clock that are empty then you can draw a parallel line to another part of the clock and see okay what's mentioned there and can I foreshadow it here in some way or can I replicate it or create a parallel event and I think that's going to be really fun to play with because I haven't had the opportunity to look at a story in that way before so I'm going to attempt to complete the story clock for both of my books and then I'll check in and let you know how I went I've now attempted to do story clocks for both Dreamspy and reciprocal stalking and the way I went about it was rather than going straight to the clock diagram first I got a bit of paper and I listed the different scenes that are mentioned on the inside of the cover so these are the general story structure scenes so things like opening an inch normal scene normalcy disrupted heralds rational approach and failure and so on and I did a list of those scenes down one side of the page and then tried to think of equivalent scenes in each of my books for them for Dreamspy that went fairly well I think because it's a you know traditional action adventure journey type of story so the events and scenes I'd already thought of for that book naturally lined up with the recommended story structure for reciprocal stalking it was a little bit difficult because the plot is not like one of those general stories so it came up with a couple of points but it wasn't really helpful to do that extra step then I took that list of scenes and I went to the clock diagram and filled it in as best I could for each of the books and then I looked at the scenes I'd already thought of from doing story grid and the snowflake method and I put them into the diagram and I think that starting with this story clock process at the very beginning of the plotting and outlining process might be a little bit difficult if you don't already have quite a few scene ideas however because this is the third method I've attempted this time round it was really helpful to have a lot to start with so you can see if you look at my completed story clocks they already have quite a bit of information in them even though I've only been looking at this for maybe 20 minutes it hasn't been a long process what I'm really liking about this is the idea of symmetry so the idea that if you have a spare spot somewhere in the clock then you can draw a line to another part of the clock so either diagonally opposite or parallel and see what's there and see if you can come up with a reflective scene or a symmetrical scene I guess so if a point is introduced in your climax and if you do a line down and you see there's an empty space there that's where you can first introduce and foreshadow that point now what I like about this approach is that it acts as a brainstorming tool which the other plotting approaches I've used this time round so story grid and snowflake method haven't really had with the snowflake method and the story grid it was really about listing scenes in and in case of the snowflake method listing those scenes in more and more detail and there was nothing there to say whether there was anything missing or how well distributed those scenes were when I look at my completed story clocks I can see that both of my stories have quite a bit in the first quarter and a decent amount in the fourth quarter of the book where everything gets wrapped up in the second and third quarter so let's say parts two and three they're both a bit sparse and I didn't know that when I was doing the story grid and snowflake methods because I just had a list of scene it wasn't clear where in the book they would fall so first this method has helped me identify holes in my existing plot and second by using this symmetry method so drawing dotted lines from the gaps to content I already have is a good starting point for brainstorming what could go there the other thing that's been really interesting is because my act two or parts two or three were so sparse there were a few events I had there and I wasn't sure where they should be situated because there was so much space so being able to draw dotted lines between the stuff that was already in part one and part four has been helpful for locating those things so for instance in the reciprocal stalking book there's a moment when the main character arrives at one of the apartments where she has a captive stored I guess and the captive is killed herself and that moment helped me figure out where the first potentially the only murder I'm not sure if I'll put another one in there but where the first murder of the book should go so you've got death and then this second death in a symmetrical location so from here I'm going to be doing a little bit more brainstorming around those gaps to see what can go where and I'll also be looking at the next couple of pages of the workbook because every project has four pages one page is for general brainstorming then you have the story clock then the next pages you can cover things like the premise of the book similar stories available resources for developing it and challenges you expect to experience so I will check back in once I've tried that it's now been about what five hours since I last jumped on the camera I took a couple of hours to go for lunch and let things marinate for a bit and then came back to the story clock workbook what I realized for both of my stories was that they needed something else to flesh out parts two and three and that could either be a B story or another antagonist or another person within the overall antagonistic group if you like now in terms of B stories I struggle with these because I don't like the idea of adding stuff just for the sake of having more stuff like I think it should tie into the main story if it can so I focused more on the antagonist side of things so with reciprocal stalking one of the antagonists is the girl's existing boyfriend and I thought I could have another one in there who's a friend I am a bit worried about it becoming a bit too much like you by Carolyn Kepnes however I think there's enough in there that it will be different so my story clock is now looking pretty comprehensive and I feel like I have a pretty solid outline for a book here I have a far longer list of scenes than I had before NaNoWriMo last year when I started working on my last project so feeling really good about that in terms of the next two pages of the workbook which cover the premise medium characteristics similar stories playlist available resources and challenges I didn't find this helpful for Dreamspy it was interesting to do for a reciprocal stalking so for Dreamspy I have premise I wrote an 11 year old girl I'm thinking she might be 14 or 16 we'll see but this girl is a courier for a secret agency in her dreams medium is book genre is action and fiction characteristics halfway between light and dark halfway between simple and complex halfway between small and epic on the scale of casual to formal it's casual cheap to expensive scale in the middle and niche to broad it's at the broad end similar stories the only one I could really think of was the archived by V.E. Schwab not because that's similar tonally but because the character is around a similar age similar stage in life it's also a similar dynamic between the secret world that the main character works in that no one else knows about and the real world and the fact that the secret world is real it's not a fantasy or delusion or dream or anything it's just the rest of the world doesn't know about it other than that like playlist and available resources and challenges didn't really seem that useful so I skipped them for reciprocal stalking this one the premise Cessaly becomes obsessed with wanting to possess Cara only to discover that Cara shares the same drive for control so the medium again is a book obviously genres drama and romance characteristics on the dark side of light to dark on the complex side of simple to complex scale is small rather than epic halfway between casual and formal halfway between cheap and expensive and more towards the niche side rather than the broad side now this one I had a few similar stories that came up one as you which I've mentioned before also I had into the darkest corner which is another stalkery type one that's more of a similar story from the idea of how a relationship can go downhill and how something that seems good at the beginning with someone who maybe is a little controlling or possessive can turn into something abusive now I don't expect this to go down the same path to that extent but I'm trying to get more books that deal with those power dynamics because I haven't written anything like that before another one is Berlin syndrome so this one is similar in the sense that someone discovers there's this girl he likes and he can keep her trapped and isn't it wonderful that she's waiting at home for him every time he goes home so that is something that's interesting because you can see again from the beginning where it's like oh he went on the state with this nice guy he seemed really great and oh whoops he accidentally locked me in the apartment this time and then it turns into no he's actually not letting me out and this is um not good then the other similar story I had was gone girl which isn't that similar in terms of plot but I think it's similar in terms of there are two unreliable narrators and you're not sure what the truth is between them I think when I originally thought of this idea as well I wanted there to be a big midpoint shift I don't think that's going to happen now just because of what I've come up with through all these plotting processes but originally I wanted there to be a big midpoint shift which is also what happens in gong girl for playlist basically everything by placebo I think that sort of darkish tone as well as the momentum of the songs is going to be like that's going to define the beat of the book available resources I skipped just because I think that this is more relevant for doing a film than doing a book because they list things like person place thing tool skill which all seem to be more relevant for films challenges my main challenge with this one as I mentioned in my last video is that I don't think I'm a good enough writer to pull this off however I'd really like to try I am very intrigued by the idea so that brings me to the end of the story clock process all in all I really enjoyed it it was nice to have something that I could actually complete in a day as opposed to the last two methods which took me a good six weeks from beginning to end I think it was more because one I was a bit burnt out and two I didn't like the methods than this method being easier but still this is definitely a point in its favor I think it would have been a lot harder if I hadn't already done any work on these books so as a standalone method I don't think it would work so well I think it works well as part of a larger process so if you already have an idea you've already done some brainstorming you already know some of the key scenes or beats you want to hit then this can really help you figure out where those beats fit in a book where the gaps are and how to fill those gaps by playing on the symmetry within the story I also think it'll be really useful for revisions so Don who recommended this to me actually said she uses it as a revision tool for her books so when I'm ready to revise powerless in a couple of months I'm actually going to map it out using the story clock and see basically how balanced the story is and whether I can play on the symmetry a little bit more whether there are any obvious gaps that need filling and so on finally I think this is a really useful tool for learning from other books I already mentioned earlier in the video that plot devices has a blog and one of the things they've done on the blog is pull apart various films and TV shows to see how their story clocks look so one there are those ready-made examples that you can learn off but two you can also use the clocks in the book to map out other stories that you're keen to learn from and in fact one of the things I did was I don't know how well you can see that but I mapped out you by Caroline Kepnes because it is one of the similar stories for this book just to see where everything happens and how much symmetry there was so I think it'll be really interesting to try that with a few more not books I want to plagiarise but books I'd like to emulate or learn from and finally the other thing that's good about this method is even though I went out and bought the workbook in order to do it you don't need the workbook in order to follow this method you can go to the plot devices blog and learn about the method you can find a blank page and draw a circle on it like this and you can map out your story to see how it works and how you can incorporate symmetry and where the gaps are and so on so all in all I really liked this method and I will definitely be using it again in the future ideally I want to fill up this whole workbook with different projects now over to you have you used the story clock to either plot or outline or revise some of your projects and if you did how did you find it what worked for you and what didn't and have you found any hacks that made it a bit easier so for me that was already having scenes mapped out beforehand perhaps you've found something else that works for you so if you have please put it in the comments below because I'm really keen to learn more and more about the writing and outlining and revising process other than that if you like this video please give me a like and a subscribe and hit the notification bell and I will see you in the next few days with a new one. 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Hey everyone, Lee Lowell here, smartoptionseller.com. Hey, today is Sunday, April 10th, 2022. Welcome back. It's good to be back. I've been gone for the last couple of weekends. Took some time off, spring break with the family. Rest it up, ready to go. This is the Sunday edition of our Saturday synopsis here. And what do we do? We look at charts. That's what we do. I've been doing this for a while now. I've been in the business, the options trading business, for 30 years now, a little over 30 years now. And looking at charts has been my main source of how I get into and out of my trades. This is what I do for our newsletters. I teach people how to sell put options, sell put options spreads, and we use the charts to help us gauge when it's time to jump into a bullish type of trade, which is what selling put options and selling put options spreads is all about. So that's what we do. So we look at the charts. Indexes, we look at individual stocks. We look at the moving averages. We look at other indicators that we have. We look at support and resistance levels. And we try to gauge when it's best to get in and get out. So what we do is we look at charts and I show you what I'm seeing, what's been happening over the last few weeks and what we see maybe coming down the road. So let's just jump right in. And we typically start with the SPY however you wanna say it. This is the Exchange Traded Fund for the S&P 500. Trades just like a stock. I like to look at the S&P 500 because I believe it gives me the broadest measure of how the market is doing as a whole. We look at the S&P 500, the NASAC, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average. But I tend to default more to the S&P 500 and we use the SPY as our gauge. And so what you're seeing here on the chart, on the screen for those newcomers here, this is the charts that I look at, the type of charts I look at. This is, I mainly default to a daily chart which shows the trading activity for one full day. So each line on the chart, each one vertical line is one day's worth of trading, the high and the low and the open and the close. I don't use candlesticks because that's just not what I do. Not to say that it's bad, but I've always learned to trade with the open, high, low bar charts, not candlesticks. And I have three moving averages. I have a 20-day, a 50-day, and a 200-day, all simple. These are very widely followed moving averages so they tend to become self-fulfilling prophecies. It's just how it works. And down here I have the RSI. It's a 14-day RSI which is an overbought, oversold indicator. Just trying to, just tells me when things get a little overheated or a little, you know, oversold doesn't mean that the turn is gonna happen right then and there, it's just more of a warning. So I keep it pretty simple. Three moving averages, the RSI, and basically I draw these other patterns. We have channels, we have triangle congestion patterns, we have bear flags, bull flags, head and shoulders patterns. These are all things that you could learn if you wanna become a technical analysis trader. Technical analysis is what's called looking at the charts. Fundamental analysis on stocks is when you look at all the underlying data, the sales, the earnings, the revenue, dividends, PE ratios, all that stuff. That's the fundamental data. So I tend to default more to being a technical analyst. I like to look at the charts, although it is good to know the fundamental underlying fundamental data. If a company is not producing profits, then the stock chart is not going to go up. All right, you need to have a company, if you're in for the long term like I am, you wanna have a company or you wanna follow companies that have increasing sales, increasing revenues, increasing profits, that will dictate which way the stock chart is going to move. Over time, you can have the greatest potential of a company, but if they don't start producing profits after a while, people are gonna sour on it and the stock chart's gonna go down. So we tend to focus on companies that are more mature, older, good dividend payers, been around a long time, keep pumping out good profits and if you follow companies like that, you will be rewarded. So what we do in our newsletter is that we sell puts and we sell put option spreads. So we like to look for bullish types of stocks, whether they're currently moving higher or if they're on a pullback and they're about to make another leg higher. So we look for signs that tell us when a stock's going to move up. So but let's just look at the general market because individual stocks can also tend to follow the market as a whole. There's lots of big money, hedge funds, regular funds, institutions, endowment funds that buy the indexes as a whole. And if there's a lot of demand for the indexes, that means the stocks within those indexes have to move up as well. So we like to follow or like to look at the general market as a gauge to tell us individual stocks should follow as well. All right, so let's take a look. Let's see where the S&P 500 has been. It's been a few weeks since I was last here. Let me look at the date. I think the 19th of March was the last time I was here. So that was right around this date here, right around here, okay. So right under the 50 day moving average. So let's see where we've been since then. Last time we were here was right around here. The market had made a nice power move higher, popped out of the downtrending channel that I've been talking about. So I draw these channel lines. It's a good visual to just tell you which way the market is moving. Okay, you can see the blue lines here that I've drawn. We've got this nice uptrend, got a little pullback. And then the market's been in this nice uptrend as well till we got to January 1st of 2022. Then the market hit this couple of month downtrend. And the way to tell whether a market or an individual stock is making a move in a different direction is when it breaks out of whatever trending channel it's currently in. So we had this downtrending channel and as you can see here, the market S&P 500 popped out of it, was able to pop above the 20 day, was able to pop above the 50 day, and was able to pop above the 200 day moving average. That's a very powerful move when a stocker index could power above all three moving averages like that. That's pretty powerful. So it had this nice couple of week rise right here, this good vertical move. And then in the last couple of weeks we've had this other little pullback. But it's pulled back to the moving averages. You'll find if you watch stocks for a while the moving averages really become like a magnet to whichever way, whether a stock's moving up or down, it can pause right near the moving averages. That's just how they work. And then the market decides which way it wants to move next. Now, so I think since we've been in uptrend, we had this nice power move higher. This is, I believe, a little bit of a pullback within this new uptrend. I'm bullish, I'm pretty optimistic about the market as a whole in the long run because I know the market goes up over time. No matter what the news out there is, no matter what the headlines are, the market finds a way to go higher over time because the market is still made up of companies that keep making products that keep producing profits. So the stock prices have to go up over time. No matter what narrative out there is, we have the Russia slash Ukraine war happening right now, we have inflation, we have rising interest rates here in the US, but yet the market will find a way higher over time. In the very short run, it's gonna react to these news items. So depending on what type of trader you are will dictate what types of trades you take. I'm in for the long haul. So I build up my retirement portfolio for the long term because I know the market will go up over time, but we're talking about shorter term here. So where the market is right now, we've had this nice little power move higher, little pullback, but you can see we've got the 50 day and 20 day moving averages kind of converging on each other. Got the blue line here, which is the 20 day, this, I'm sorry, we've got, this is the 200 day. You got the 200 day and the 20 day right on top of each other. Here's the 50 day right here. So the S&P 500 kind of finished last week, Friday. That was the 18th, right? What day am I talking about here? I'm sorry, April 8th, I've still a little lost with what date is April 8th, Friday. The market finished right converging the 20 day and 200 day moving averages. So I'd like to see it hold here for next week and I'd like to see it embark on this next leg higher. I'm bullish. I think the market is gonna be going up for the rest of the year. Within little pullbacks, you were always gonna have pullbacks but I think overall, I think we're gonna be headed for all time new highs again, probably in the next couple months. But for right now, we have to contend with what's happening here. So you have the 20 day and 200 day moving averages sort of as a magnet and we wanna see the market hold here and move higher next week. Sure, there's always a chance that it could pullback but I don't really see that happening. We have these news items out there are becoming a little old right now. I mean, everyone's sort of been able to react to these news items and I think the market is looking beyond that, looking past that. I think that's why we've been able to have such a power move higher, get a little pullback to draw people in and then I think we're gonna go. I mean, that's just me. Of course, that could be wrong, but I think that we're just taking a little pause here and then the market should move higher in the next week. That's the way I'm seeing it. So let's look at the NASDAQ, which has been a little weaker than the S&P 500 because the NASDAQ holds these really Momo stocks that could move up and down a lot during the day. A lot of people pile on just because of what they hear and see and read and chat rooms. So you got a little bit more speculative stocks in the NASDAQ. So those moves are a little bit bigger. So it's not as strong showing at least to me like the S&P 500 is. So you had the power move higher, it had the pullback. So right here as well, this one's sitting on the 20 day moving average and the 50 day moving average. You'll see that these, the markets will find these points and it acts just like a magnet. I'd like to see the NASDAQ power higher because once that gets going, then it brings everything else into the fold. That just gives the S&P 500 more ammunition to move higher as well. We like all the indexes to go higher, but the NASDAQ's been a little rough of late as we know. So we'd like to see the 20 day and the 50 day hold here and then move up higher next week. The Q1 earnings, quarter one earnings are in the books at the end of March, the first three months of the year are in the books. So earnings announcements are gonna be coming out, I think starting this week, usually around the second week of that fourth month after the first three months, then you get, so the middle of April, earnings are gonna start to come out in droves. So we'll get to see how that first quarter of the year of 2022 was for a lot of companies. It was all within this downtrend. So if companies can start beating the estimates, I think it's just gonna give the market more power to move higher. So we'll see. So keep an eye on if you have stocks, keep an eye on their earnings dates. But I'm optimistic. NASDAQ still looks a little weak, but it may bounce, it may bounce right here. Let's look at the Dow, we can use the Diamonds, DIA, that's the exchange-traded fund for the Dow Jones. Still kind of stuck in this range. The moves aren't as big as the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ. So it's just, the Dow's got the old, old, stalwart companies in there. There's only 30 of them. So the index itself is not hugely diversified like the S&P 500, but a lot of people still consider the market, the Dow Jones. But for now, it's not really doing too much. So that's the Dow. And what else can we talk about? I like to look at the futures market because the futures trade almost 24 hours a day and we want to take a look at those. Give me a quick second here. All right, so we wanna look at the futures here. E-Mini, S&P 500 futures and E-Mini NASDAQ futures. They trade almost 24 hours a day. So let's look at the NASDAQ futures. As you can see, looks similar to the triple Qs. You can see Friday, April 8th, finished right on the 50-day moving average here. Let's blow it up a little bit more. So here's the 50-day moving average and that's where we close for the day. That's the NASDAQ and we can look at the E-Mini, S&P 500, same thing, a little bit stronger and it's holding above. This, here's the 200-day moving average right here and here's the 20-day, the blue line. So those, once again, are converging just like the SPY. So it's holding right on those two levels. I'd like to see the market move up higher at this point. Some could say this is sort of a bull flag here. Bull flag is when you get a nice move up and you get this downward sloping pennant and then it jumps again. So I'm more bullish on the S&P 500. I'd like to see that for next week. Let's take a look at some individual stocks as we typically do. But first, we're gonna look at the, because I've been getting some questions about this, we're gonna look at Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway fund. And the way that it's been moving and I've been talking about this 33-page report that I wrote about a specific strategy that takes advantage of Warren Buffett's fund. So we're gonna look at the Berkshire Hathaway class B shares. Now, for those of you that don't know, Berkshire Hathaway has two shares of classes. They have the class A shares and the class B shares. Class B shares trading right around $353. We'll look at the class A shares which is the most expensive stock on any exchange around the world. And when I hit enter, you're gonna see what the price is for those of you that don't know. The class A shares trade at a whopping $529,000 U.S. per share, $529,000. So a touch out of the range for most of us to buy shares in that. So that's why they created the class B shares which is, as I just showed you, $353, which is a little bit more available to I say most people if they wanna buy one share, it's $353. So we concentrate on the class B shares. As you can see, Warren Buffett's been doing a great job with his funds and he's been actually buying back a lot of his own stock. Companies buy their own stock when they feel really confident about their company. Now, Warren Buffett, he buys shares in many, many different companies. That's what makes up his fund. But recently he's been buying up his own stock because it's just doing so well and it gives him an opportunity to just buy more companies as a whole that he holds on to. So anyway, it's been going up compared to the S&P 500. Look at the SPY. You can see it's been having a little bit of trouble of late but Warren Buffett's company has been doing pretty well, hitting all time new highs again. And so what I've been talking about is on our website, smartopsandseller.com. I wrote this report. It's not free. It's a small amount of money just because I put a lot of effort into it. The secret to buying Warren Buffett for pennies on the dollar, it describes a certain option trading strategy that you can use to take advantage of piggybacking Warren Buffett with his actual trades but putting a lot less of your own money on the line but yet having a tremendous potential for huge returns. So people have been asking me about this. I don't really advertise it.  I don't really put it out there so much. But anyway, that's the Warren Buffett thing. That's the Berkshire Hathaway. People ask me about getting into the Berkshire Hathaway fund. And so Warren Buffett does a great job with that. All right, let's move on. Let's talk about stocks that we typically talk about here. We talk about more of the popular names. So let's just jump right in. We're gonna talk about AMD because I always talk about AMD full disclosure. I am long shares of AMD. I wanna see this thing go higher. So it's not a recommendation here, just telling you what I do. I have bought shares of AMD. And as you can see, we have this massive, massive support line right around the $100 level. And I've been accumulating some shares within that range. I had some more orders in right at the hundred level on Friday did not get filled. But we'll see. It has come down to this hundred dollar level many, many, many times and it's been rebuffed each time. But if it breaks, if it breaks through 100, it can drop pretty quickly to whatever the next support area is. We don't know what that support area is. But if it bounces, it's gonna bounce hard, especially if the general market goes up as well.  Now, along with that, we have Nvidia, which is another chip stock that gets a lot of action, very popular as well, is looking kind of weak.  It's now below all the moving averages here. Here's where it closed on Friday, April 8th. Closed practically on the lows. You can see a little teeny dash mark on the right side of the bar. That means where it closed for the day. The closing price is very important because it can tell you what people are thinking, where they left off at the end of the day. And when it closes on the low, that means people weren't feeling very optimistic about the stock, at least on that day. And it has fallen below the moving averages. So if Nvidia is weak, that might mean that AMD could fall in sympathy. But if they both can jump, then they're both gonna power higher. And so I really wanna see AMD hold the $100 level here and move higher. So that's what I've been watching. Let's look at Apple. Now, you can see a lot of these things that I've drawn. Here's what's called a congestion pattern. Here's the channel, the W pattern. All these things, you can learn about these things. You just go online, do a Google search on chart patterns, and you'll come up with lots of different websites and you'll see things that look like what I'm drawing as well. And these are just things that help you gauge which way the market might move. Now, Apple had been in this downtrending channel and it was able to power through it, which is good having the slight pullback like the general market. But once again, you can see it's fallen right on or close the low of the day for Apple on Friday was right at the 20-day moving average. You can see right here where it connects with the moving average. If everything goes well next week, Apple will pop off the 20-day moving average and start its next leg higher. We try to use these moving averages and just general market direction to try to gauge which way the stock is going to go. More likely than not, all things going right, Apple should pop here, should pop off the moving average. But if everything's really weak, it can go down and maybe connect with the edge of the downtrending channel here. So maybe around, I don't know, $162, $163. But if it can pop here, it could be on its way to $180 or higher, all right? Let's look at Tesla. And these are things we look for in our newsletters. We look for stocks that are getting ready to pop higher and that gives us the green light to get into new trades. Now, Tesla I've always said, it's a beast. For me, it's hard to gauge with normal technical analysis where the stock wants to go because there's so many people that love the stock that they'll just keep buying it up regardless. And so I don't, for me, we don't really make many trades with Tesla because it's very erratic. But you can see it was in this downtrending channel for a while, popped out of it, which is good. So the best guess I can make is that you've got this 20 day moving average, upsloping 20 day moving average. So that's a good sign. You can see the moving averages are sloping upwards which gives you the meaning that the stock is more bullish than bearish. When the moving averages are sloping upwards versus sloping downwards, that means the stock is currently in an uptrend and should stay in that uptrend unless something really major happens with the company. So the next stop, if Tesla does come off a little, we'll be right at the 20 day moving average here just under $1,000 a share. But if it does that and the rest of the market goes higher then Tesla should power up again. And they wanna shoot for this all-time high right here which is maybe $1,230 or so. So that's with Tesla. Let's look at some other stocks. Amazon, we look at the biggies because this is what most people follow.  So kind of like a W pattern, you can kinda make out the W pattern which is typically a bullish pattern. Was trying to get through the moving average here. Did for a day, but then it came back down but here it settled right on the 50 day moving average here. Could be bullish for next week. Everything needs to go up and it'll go up as well. Let's see, what other stocks? We look at Netflix, we look at the biggies. Netflix, this one's interesting. We've got this support right around $350 for Netflix. It could be showing a reverse head and shoulders pattern. If you know what that is, you got a shoulder here. Just pretend someone's standing upside down. You got a shoulder ahead and a potential other shoulder forming here. If it could find support at 350 and create this, not through it, a couple days down here, it'll look like the reverse head and shoulders. That's typically a very bullish pattern and if it could hold here and the rest of the market goes up, Netflix could possibly start its journey on the next leg higher. So keep an eye on Netflix. We'll look at Facebook because Facebook sort of had the big drop like Netflix on earnings. Here's a big air pocket, big gap down. Facebook sort of has this more of a V shape recovery here. What I liked and I showed this earlier, price action moving down, prices are moving down, but yet the RSI is moving up, which is a signal that the selling has really slowed down and that the selling is losing steam. If the price action is still moving lower but yet the RSI is moving up, that's called bullish divergence. And you can see right here pretty much Facebook started to go higher. It's trading right around. It's moving average, here's the 50 day, here's the 20 day. They're trying to converge here. So Facebook could find some support. We'll see. I don't really trade Facebook much. So I don't really have too much of an opinion on that. Let's look at Shopify. People asked me about Shopify. We've looked at it before. This is Shopify. It's an online website type of online. You can sell products. You can use Shopify to create a website and sell products. Been in this massive, really hard downtrend. Went from $1,700 a share all the way down to $500 a share. Big, big move. Where is it now? It started up a little, moving up off the lows, but got knocked back down. Looks kind of weak to me here. Finished on the lows on Friday. You can see the dash mark closed right on the lows. So Shopify, still looking a little weak. I wouldn't get into it here if someone is holding a gun to my head. I'd say it's still moving lower. Let's take a look at some other stocks that could be worthy. Let's see. Nike, okay. So let's talk about Disney and Nike. These stalwarts that I like to talk about. Disney, 130 is my level. I have orders in to buy more shares at 130. On Thursday, it ticked down to 130.02. So I missed my buy by two cents per share. Still have the orders in to buy 130. There's the support. Also, triple bottom potential, reverse head and shoulders pattern. So these are more bullish patterns that you'll see on lows. Triple bottom support that it can't bust through potential reverse head and shoulders pattern. So I'd like to see Disney move on its way back up. Disney's a company that's gonna be around just celebrated 50 years, 1972 to 2022, 50 years, they got big celebrations going on. Gonna be around for another 50 years. I'm pretty sure about that. It's just a matter of time before Disney starts to go back up. Disclosure, I'm long Disney shares. Nike, same thing, a stalwart of a company, best known brand on the planet. It's coming down, it's been coming down. We sold some put spreads on Nike because I'm hoping that we found a bottom here.  Let's look at the long-term chart here. Let me look at the monthly, let me just secondly move myself here, the monthly chart. So Nike's just been going up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, having a pullback here. Here's the 50-day moving average. Right around $109 a share, it's at 128 right now. I don't really wanna see it fall that far. But Nike's a company that's gonna be around a long time too. So we got Nike, Disney. We're gonna look at Walmart. Also on long shares of Walmart was getting long at 135. I showed you for a long time. It's got this support right near 135. Dip below it a little bit and then look at it power higher. Walmart is a solid company. A solid company, all time new highs. Let's just double check that. Yep, you can see right here. All time new high for Walmart. So that one's working out pretty good and it finally blew through this wide channel that had been in. So that's Walmart. What other companies can we really... So let's look at the healthcare stocks. I mean, everyone needs healthcare.  Healthcare, I've always been bullish on healthcare. Let me move myself back down here a little bit. And we'll quickly look at that. Eli Lilly on the highs. Bristol Myers on the highs. Pfizer, and you can see Bristol Myers. If you see the yellow or green, whatever you call that is that means it's a new high for the year. Or maybe even an all time new high. So we got Lilly. Eli Lilly, Bristol Myers, Pfizer. Now Pfizer, this could be interesting. This could be ready to blow. This could be ready to blow higher. Got a little bit of a resistance right around here. Let's draw this line. Let me start this over. Right around here, you can see this has been resistance. If it can get through there, if it can get through there, it's on its way to move along with its peers and go higher. So if it can get above, let me see what level this is, right where the blue line is. Right around high 55, just under $56. If it can get through $56, it'll probably work its way to 60 and maybe take on its highs up here. So keep an eye on Pfizer. I like Pfizer. I might have to look at that for a trade in our newsletters for this week. But it also depends on when the earnings are. We don't wanna hold trades over earnings, especially if the earnings are coming up within the next few weeks. Merck, look at this. All these stocks are moving higher. Johnson and Johnson. Now if you wanna play all these stocks in one shot, you have the XLV. Here's the fund, the healthcare fund that holds all the healthcare companies. And so you can just see it's been powering higher. We played this a few times before. When it bounces off the moving averages, so the XLV, if you like healthcare, this is how you can get them all in one shot. All right, let's take a look at a couple more and then we'll call it a day. PayPal is something we're also in as well. We sold some put options. One, it's been on the lows, hoping that it's gonna rally. Sitting right on the 50 day and 20 day are converging. I wanna see PayPal go higher. I'm big on the online payment sector. Costco also just a beast keeps going up. McDonald's still looking good. Above the moving averages, Pepsi. Pepsi's had this nice run. Look at this nice, beautiful up channel right here. Good for Pepsi. Twitter. A lot of people have been talking about Twitter lately. Let's talk about Twitter real quick. The news this week was that Elon Musk came on the board of directors for Twitter, started saying that he's bought a big stake in Twitter so that you can see the gap up here. The power move higher created this air pocket. Popped above the 200 day moving average. The downsloping 200 day moving average, which means the stock has been in a downtrend and it's pulled back a little. Is Elon Musk buying a big stake and getting on the board? The real reason that Twitter should be going up, it's gonna depend on how Twitter does earnings wise in the long run. These short moves like this are driven by headlines. So Twitter popped, pulled back. Is it gonna pull back more to where it was trading prior? Who knows at this point? But the cat's out of the bag about Musk. Maybe it'll pull back again. That should be long-term support if it pulls back here. And then maybe it'll continue on higher for the foreseeable future. Let's see what else we got. We looked at Facebook. Yeah, I think that's about it. I think that's about it. We always, well yes, we like Coca-Cola. I think it hit all time new highs. Let's take a look at the monthly. Let's take a look at the monthly. Yep, Coca-Cola all time new highs. You wanna talk about a stalwart and a great dividend paying company. I'm not making recommendations here, but if you're looking for a stock to hold forever, you really can't beat Coca-Cola. Just like those companies that have been around forever, great products, they keep selling their products. Coca-Cola, great dividend payer. That's something you might wanna consider. All right, I think that's it. Let's just look back the SPY real quick, S&P 500. Where are we converging on the 200 day and 20 day right here? I'd like to see it hold. 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Hello friends and welcome back to another Pokemon how-to guide my name is Lee also known as Osiris and in today's guide We are gonna be going after and showing you the location of how to get Reggie ice and our previous guide We went through everything that you need to get Reggie rock now We're gonna be doing the same again for Reggie ice although this is a little bit more tricky now if you have your legendary clues that Pione give you earlier on you'll be able to go through these step-by-step So the first one as I say it was Reggie rock now what you needed to do for that one in the guide We went through everything so if you want to see that it'll be linked in the top right hand corner for you guys to go Back today. We're gonna be going after Reggie ice so sunken the side of snorkelyde slopes lies a temple where the giant of Ice sleeps on the temple's door are strange words, so We'll get to the clue in a minute But the first thing what we need to do is actually find a specific Pokemon to open the temple Door now one of the things that we want to be doing is taking advantage of the weather is here because we need to find Weather that has hail storm. So this is frost point field. Okay. It's on our way So we're always starting out at freezing tin in the crown tundra. It's a good kind of locate Or everyone knows where it is and we can go there we go perfect. There is one Okay, there is a bunch of them just to remind you guys you need this Pokemon And you need it to be hailing or snowing for it to actually spawn in in the wild areas Okay, so hopefully it doesn't take us too long to actually catch one I don't really want to attack it because I feel like everything that we use here probably will knock it out So we'll just go for a ball and we'll try and throw an ultra ball at it And hopefully that will be enough to get this cry signal But there are certain things that you need to do. Okay. We're gonna have to attack it And we're back in a minute when I've caught it Okay, we've got ourselves the cryog now If that's how we're pronouncing it, I don't know. Okay, but we have got one. We need to put it in our party Um, if it's gonna allow us to we'll get the pokedex entry Obviously, it is a new pokemon to the crown tundra We want to add to our party and we will swap it in for uh, just really boom there. So Um, there we go and like the next step So we'll get away from this obama snow that's trying to chase us. So we are in this is freezing tin Okay, so you want to be heading out of freezing tin and I'll show you now how to get to the regi ice Temple it is a little bit tricky, but it's not too difficult. It's not as easy as the uh, yeah It's not too tricky. It's a little bit trickier to find Then the regi rock temple, but it's still not too difficult So I'm hopefully hopefully starting off the episode with with getting you to catch the pokemon It's required for this temple is going to be a lot easier and just making you aware of the weathers Uh that you need in effect to get this pokemon. So what you want to do is come past um The ruins and it's up this so it's beside the gravestone, but it's up this Embankment here and what this will do is take you around a route that will lead you So you want to head straight up here and you'll see the snowy caps in the distance and this is this is I exactly where We want to be going. Okay, so I want to just take this round and this will bring us to as the hillside of snow slide slopes so once you reach this area you want to just make your way up the hill um and There will be two buildings kind of ruins There's one and it's the second one which we're approaching now is what you want to be looking out for So this one right here and you want to take a left and kind of go in behind it because you want to follow this path All the way around now It's a bit tricky to see where the actual entrance kind of continues because you can get lost in here quite quickly And you can think okay Well, this isn't going anywhere, but you want to just follow this round Be an opening on the left and this is it here and you want to follow this round And this will bring you to the regi ice temple. So as you can see here we go Um, and what we want to do is look at the message on the door or something is written on the door Walk together with a living crystal of snow. So what we need to do is put Our cryo which I'm assuming I'm assuming at this point That this is the pokemon that we need to have the top of our party And walking around with so here we go. We are walking with it and we'll do this again With a crystal of snow and it is okay. We were right. That's all you need So you need to catch this this cryo no I'll have one in your the start of your party So it's following you around before you come into this regi temple and once you're here Um, it's probably advisable just to save just in case anything goes wrong Or if you want a soft reset I don't know if these are shiny locked or not Um, if they're not then you have a chance to soft reset for them But like I mentioned in the regi rock guide, there is A reminiscence of a previous generation catching these sort of pokemon that is super difficult So make sure you've got the the correct balls and you are prepared to to battle these pokemon now I'm just going to heal up my pokemon. I think because right now we've uh I know we've got regi rock is full of health. I was just thinking I had maybe something from A previous battle, but regi rock will be fine. I would imagine for regi ice And uh, we'll be able to to jump into this one and get regi ice and that's the second one of this saga Nearly done. Uh regi ice. I love I love all the regis. All the regis are great I like honestly their designs are amazing And hopefully the after getting the new regis regi alecki or regi drago will be able to um We'll be able to get regi gigas as well. So we'll see what a stone edge does Oh, not quite enough. Okay, that's good. Um, we managed to survive that dodge that so let's see if we can I did catch my Regi rock and a dive boss. I'm going to continue the trend here. Hopefully I have enough dive balls to get through all the regis I don't know. They're very difficult to catch though to Oh, we nearly got it. Okay. Well, we'll be right back when we do manage to get this regi ice So we finally got regi ice. It didn't take as long as regi rock to get thankfully So we've actually got it in the dive ball there again, which is a brilliant And uh, we'll be able to get that new pokedex entry for it and add it to our party Which is great with the cold air that can reach temperatures as low as minus 328 degrees fahrenheit regi ice instantly freezes any creature that approaches it. It's a badass pokemon We'll add it to our party And then we can move on to regi steel. We'll get rid of you dracovish for the time being and um We can take a look. So you jot it down the current status on the legendary clue two So there we go. We've complete the kind of missing words. Let the first pokemon hold a never changing stone That's the first one And then this one walked together with a living crystal of snow when I took a cry signal from a pokeball And had it walk with me the door opened and I found regi ice amazing Okay, friends. So that wraps up this one as peony gives us a call to Fill us in on what's going on next We'll be back very shortly with our next segment in this little mini series with regi steel So until then do leave a like if you've enjoyed this episode find it helpful Do subscribe to the channel for more sort of content like this and other pokemon content that we cover on the channel And um, leave your comments down below and let me know if you found this guide useful So like I said, we'll be back very shortly with a third segment in this mini series for the regis with a catching Regi steel. So until then friends. Take care of yourselves and bye. Bye