Well, good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening. Whatever you're listening. This is Davisville on KDRT LP 95.7 FM in Davis, California We live at KDRT.org online. I'm Bill Buchanan, and I thank you for tuning in Well, many public statues are being defaced torn down or removed this summer and names taken off of buildings as More of America comes to terms with the ingrained racism in the country that oppresses African Americans Statues of Confederate war heroes or slaveholders are particular targets But this fight over symbols is not new nor is it external to Davis This town has had conflicts over the years over symbols like the statue to Gandhi in Central Park and Overnaming a street for Edward Teller who helped invent a hydrogen bomb Melissa M. Bender is a senior lecturer in the University Writing Program and associate director of writing across the curriculum At UC Davis and she co-edited a book that came out in 2019 titled Contested Commemoration in US History Diverging Public Interpretations with her co-editor Clara Sluzak The book has 11 essays by different authors on how we remember contested events in America and the subject is timely to say the least Melissa, thank you for spending time with us today Thank you for having me Bill. I'm happy to be here So in your you you didn't write the essays, but you you wrote an introduction and in the introduction you write that Struggles to control national narratives through acts of commemoration Reveal as much about the anxieties of the present as they do about the historical events or figures to be memorialized You know You're saying in effect that these disputes are about us the people alive today and that really is the main reason they matter, isn't it? It is absolutely. I think that it's clear, especially with what's going on right now with many of the monuments being removed or defaced or Taking down during protests. Just how much we have emotionally invested In the present in these statues and memorials that represent the past You know your introduction has two other points that I want to mention because I think they add real clarity to this larger question One is a comment from Mitch Landrieu who was then the mayor of New Orleans and he was talking about a dispute they had there He said the disputes are also about who's in charge. Can you elaborate on that? Sure? So one of the things that Mitch Landrieu was referring to when he said that was the fact that the Confederate monuments that he was working to take down in New Orleans at the time which was 2017 had not been erected immediately after the civil war but at points when The white majority of New Orleans at that time wanted to reinforce racial supremacy So during the era just after reconstruction when there was a revival of the Ku Klux Klan and then later During the civil rights era. So he was saying that these monuments were constructed to Reinforce racial hierarchy and to remind people who was in charge. So efforts to reinforce white power at that time and so then in Discussing taking them down the point is to say basically a different view different people perhaps But a different view is what's in charge. That's why the statues would come down now Exactly. Yes, and I think I've got his name right. You also cite Seth Bruggeman Historian who says Commemoration dwells almost entirely in feeling And I took that to mean that when we're talking about this We need to address the feelings evoked and not treat these disputes as if they were sort of a dispassionate factual calculation Correct. Yes. I think you know the conversation that's going on about taking monuments down today seems to Ignore that fact and there's a lot of conversation in Certain groups in the populace about the fact that our history is going to be lost If we take down the monuments and that's certainly not the case and nobody's going to forget who Robert E. V Was if we take down every single statue of him throughout the United States he'll still be written about in history books, but the Sense that we're losing something by taking down some of those monuments has to do with people's Emotional relationship with that point in the past that they want to continue to commemorate and their sense that they're losing something Personally that their history or their heritage rather I use the word heritage in that history and that instance is going to be lost if we lose the statues You know you raise an interesting point there the difference between the words heritage and history could you explain on that a bit? Sure, I think that History is an effort and we're talking about the discipline of history is an effort to draw a narrative around the facts of the past that presents the truth of the past but Interpreted by a particular historian and we can never lose sight of the fact that It's always through a historian's perspective that we're getting that history, but heritage I think is a sense on the part of particular groups of a kind of personal ownership of Particular part of the past and Feeling that we have a connection to That moment or that era that is more than just the impersonal facts of what happened so the the book is written as and it reads as you know as an academic textbook and so This is for students right the point of the book is to analyze and present ideas and arguments and then to discuss them in the class Absolutely. Yes. Do you know that it's a fairly recent book? Has it been used much yet for that purpose if you had feedback about that from anybody? I've had feedback from a few instructors and actually in Europe Who are teaching in American Studies programs who have found that it's very useful for their students to? Get a grip on why I mean I think from those professors Perspectives, they're trying to give their students a sense of what's happening in the United States right now By helping them understand our connection to these controversial moments in the past and that the students have responded very well one of the strengths of the book I think is that you have 11 different topics in there and there's really a lot of Priority to it. I mean we've talked so far about statues and I've talked about street name, but it's far larger right One of the essays is about movies with an antebellum theme made during Barack Obama's presidency One is about to the homes destroyed to create Shenandoah National Park in the eastern United States Another's on the depiction of female US veterans of the Vietnam War both at the memorial Vietnam War Memorial in Washington But also in literature and the fate of a house in Chicago where the chairman and a member of the Black Panthers So we're killed during gunfire with police in 1969 You know this variety shows that the question of what to remember and forget It's really always with us. Isn't it? I mean sometimes maybe we notice it more, but it's always there It is I think that with regard to the variety of approaches in the book It was something that Clara and I really made an effort I think including these different approaches and If you read the book as a whole I think that one of the senses that you get is as you said Bill That this is all around us And that often as we're working our way through our everyday lives We move past these places or these sites or these other commemorative efforts without really seeing them as points of commemoration and so the book is bringing those moments out for the reader and those occasions out for the reader to see the very very different ways that we commemorate the past and I'm thinking in particular of one chapter in the book that analyzes the lyrics of Woody Guthrie and Pete Seager songs and how those songs commemorate the labor movement in ways That may have been otherwise lost Because they weren't getting a lot of attention at the moment or in buying historians And also the chapter in the book that deals with high school yearbooks during the Japanese internment during World War two and how those Japanese those high school yearbooks show us the absence of Japanese students who had you know one year been present in the yearbook and the next year they were gone and So you know these different ways of commemorating the past that are Representing a book and provide the readers with a really strong sense of all the different ways that these things come up And the yearbooks in particular as a reference to California's history These are California yearbooks you're talking about during the internment of Japanese Americans during World War two That they were seen as a security threat To the country We were at war with Japan. Yes Um Overall, what do you want people to take from your book? Do you want them to see the variety of all this? Do you want them to think about this in new ways? Do you want them to reach certain conclusions? I? would like readers to after reading the book think more consciously of Whose voices and Whose experiences are represented in our commemoration efforts throughout the United States Whose stories get told? What aspects of our history get glossed over or sanitized by some of our commemoration efforts and to Become just have greater awareness when they're in the presence of a commemoration Of any sort to think through those questions. I have a very personal connection to the idea that that brought this book forward and that has to do with my own personal history about Learning about Japanese internment myself I grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and at that at the time that I was in high school I Don't think that we were anybody was teaching about the Japanese American internment Maybe it was the time period that I was in high school Maybe it was because I wasn't on the West Coast But we didn't learn about it in our high school classes and I didn't really know anything about it until I was late in my university years and I went to Washington, DC and saw a exhibit about it at the National History Museum and It was a huge shock to me that this had happened One and two That I was that age and I had never heard about it that I was an adult and I didn't know about this really important and traumatic experience in our nation's history and I think it was that it's early experience that drew me to the topic of this book Which is how we commemorate the more traumatic or egregious moments of our past or how we cover those things over So that's a good point here. I think is There's lots of things to commemorate I mean some would be totally uncontroversial or or even in our own times I mean, I was thinking about this we were not in really a statute building age all that much It's more names on buildings But one exception to that in my own lifetime has been to Martin Luther King There have been quite a few things named for him But but your point is if I understand correctly is it's the difficult commemorations Maybe that we really need to pay attention to because we don't hear about them otherwise perhaps or Maybe they have more to teach us as we try to grapple with our own identity as a country, right? Who are we and what do we value? Yes You know, I think it's interesting for me because my co-editor is German and I think about how Germany has Handled commemorating the Holocaust in many very public and visible ways including marking houses where Jewish citizens were taken from their home and taken into concentration camps It's really hard to go anywhere in Germany without being reminded of the Holocaust in some very public ways We haven't as a nation done that To as great of an extent with issues of slavery or with Native American genocide Among a number of other things it's possible to Move through large spaces without seeing any way of marking those Traumas of our past. So in that way, I think the US is quite different than some of our nations and how they have handled it We are talking with Melissa Bender She is a senior lecturer in the university writing program at UC Davis and co-edited a book that came out in 2019 Contested commemoration in US history. I'm Bill Buchanan, and this is Davisville on KDRT So one of the questions of course is what do you what do you do with the statue? What do you do particularly if it's in a gray area? And I got this from your book as well that the choice for a community deciding what to do doesn't have to be either or For the example in New York City a panel established by Mayor Bill de Blasio Supported keeping a statue of Christopher Columbus, who is a controversial figure because of for a variety of reasons but while adding also a monument to indigenous people and So that was New York City working out at least at that time how they wanted to to balance all that and I wondered is you know is this tactically basically saying that sometimes And of course we're all pluralistic communities Is this the way the community's pluralistic will to present balance and context rather than simply remove? This is one tactic to approach it. I suppose right Right and I think the issue of the Columbus statue in New York City Maybe something that needs to be updated since the time that the book was written I'm not sure what they've decided to do about that now in light of what has been happening throughout the US with the removal of Columbus statues and other places But yes, there are a number of different ways that Communities can handle these issues. There's the counterbalancing efforts as you see in that example that you were Just citing from the book I think in your leans when Mitch Landry was taking down statues of Confederate heroes That his goal at that point was not to destroy the statues But to house them in a museum at some point where they could be explained or contextualized in some way Although at the time that he took them down. They were just being warehoused. So I'm not sure how far along they've gotten with that so it really seems that the local communities need to Decide on their own how to handle it, you know, I read there was a statue in Tennessee to a Confederate general who The statue is on private land But it's so tall that it can be seen from highways all around and The community voted to put in hedges high enough That it would block the view of the statue from the highway I mean, that's another you know a different kind of way of dealing with these issues. Yeah, lots of ways in I Looted at the start of the hour. I mentioned that Davis has had some questions like this the Edward Teller dispute Davis resolved by deciding not to name a street for him The city deliberated about the Gandhi statue, but has kept it. It's still there in Central Park So there are ways to work through this and the hedges one I hadn't heard of but The way that's kind of classic American ingenuity But you know memorials rely on a consensus and a simplicity that might not currently exist And so I wonder if ours really is an age for memorials or if ours is more of an age where You put a lot of things out there and maybe you encourage people to read widely or or research widely But you don't so much create these points in places unless there's just real clarity that eludes us right now in lots of areas I agree. I think that I mean, I think the idea of a monument itself is Ostensibly to be a unifying symbol for a community or a way of saying this is what represents us this is a part of our past that we can all Agree upon as representative of our community, but unfortunately in many instances That decision about what gets memorialized in that way Hasn't included a diversity of voices or a diversity of opinions and in some instances as We discussed when we were talking about Mitch Landry earlier those choices of creating a unifying For the community were deliberately exclusive right deliberate deliberately exclusionary Yeah, and ultimately I guess that's really what we're engaged with these days is we're saying look There are more voices in this country, you know, our ideal is pluralism our ideal is everybody And if we really mean that then that has to be reflected in our public places as well Absolutely, I mean that's sort of a it's a dispassionate way of describing it, but but I think that's the heart of it Of course, it's not just the United States. It's doing this as I was researching for this show I came across an essay by Julian Bagini who was an author and this was in the Times literary Supplement dealing with a statue that was torn down in England of someone who had profited I think also from the slave trade and His essay suggests that statues be evaluated partly on why the person is celebrated And so in other words in this country, though, there was a statue of you Ulysses S. Grant that was torn down in San Francisco Mm-hmm, and Ulysses S. Grant was a president and he also led the Union army that defeated the Confederacy He did own a slave for a year or so on the eve of the Civil War if I understand the history correctly that was given I hate using that word Whatever word you want to use By his in-laws, I think and then he set the man free eventually But the point is that Grant then if the statue is up there It's probably not because of that it's because he led the army. He led the Union army in the war and he was president It's a way of looking at something that's not just either or it's not just all of this person. We're celebrating you question none of it Versus no this one thing Particularly that maybe it wasn't all that unusual in his time disqualifies any commemoration I don't have an answer for that But I thought that was an interesting way to kind of evaluate it to sort of look at it and say we'll keep this one This one will put in a museum. I would imagine though, of course, there's something to be on the pale I can't imagine anyone wanting a picture of a statue of Hitler Anywhere, right? Yeah, right? What do you think of that approach? the idea of sort of evaluate why you're commemorating and Not just all the details of the person's life. I agree with you on that. I think that that seems like a very logical and measured approach to this question of which memorials we Keep in place and which we move or which we try to contextualize in some other way and I think in addition to Thinking about Why Somebody has been being memorialized in this way. We also want to think about What Keeping that memorial in place now says about us today and Thinking about the legacy that we're going to leave for people in the future when they look back I mean, this is a moment that historians are going to write it out because of So much is changing once and I think over 180 monuments have come down just since the George Floyd murder throughout the United States some by protesters taking them down and some by local group saying we want to take this down ourselves with the sanction of government and I think that People are going to look back at this moment and Make judgments about us about which choices we made about things that came down And so we need to think about that too. What is it? What does it say about us in this moment? And that's part of the complexity of interpretation, isn't it? I mean, how much do you want to interpret a historical figure in their era? versus now Because something that could have been very let's say progressive a hundred years ago now someone could look at and go Don't don't like that and yet we all live in our eras and Right who knows what's coming ahead, but it will almost certainly make this era look strange Whether it's by technology or attitudes or whatever it may be Right and historians live in their error as well are limited by The world view that we have at the present when they're interpreting the past You know as we discussed I've worked in the press over the years one of the things that you get as a journalist is people will say the media this the media that and My answer often was to say read widely. Don't if you feel it's monolithic go beyond the monolith Of course, there's this problems when things scatter too because in to some degree then Where do you find an accepted basis for truth? If if you or at least the truth is you can get to it But the point is I think it's something similar here. It says read widely look widely you'll get a better sense of the issues that way and Memorials in a way are like mainstream media used to be here's this one thing this one place this one square and It's meaning to represent something Larger perhaps then we will out help and that's just part of the change But it gets down to the individuals. How do you deal with it? And so read widely look widely put it in context So have you decided how you'd respawn resolve these displays of memorials? I think that The best approach is at a local level for communities to come together and make decisions about how to handle I don't think that I can say there's one correct way to do this But certainly that community effort needs to include all the voices in that community about how they want to represent that represent themselves through their public commemorations and That should happen and it's very democratic fashion through conversation You know, I I recently read about a family who They are descendants of a confederate general and there is a statue to him in Virginia and They had in previous decades, you know paid to have the statue kept up and They've recently come to the conclusion that they actually want to ask their local government to take it down and One of the things that happened that that led to this change in their attitude toward the statue was that they met and became acquainted with the black descendants the African-American descendants of this confederate general and you know They and they got together and started having conversations and So, you know, the African-American and the white side of the family came together over the monument made a decision together And I think that that may happen in other places as well Well, we're we're running we've hit the end of the show, so I'll need to end it there But that's a good story to end it on so thank you, Melissa for having me go We've been talking with Melissa Bender lecture at the UC Davis and Co-editor of a new book on public commemorations. I'm Bill Buchanan. This is Davisville. Thank you for listening


Chapter 76 of Phineas Finn. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Recording by Paradise Camouflage. Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollup. Chapter 76. Conclusion. We are told that it is a bitter moment with the Lord Mayor when he leaves the mansion house and becomes once more Alderman Jones of number 75 Bucklersby. Lord Chancellors going out of office have a great foal though they take pensions with them for their consolation. And the President of the United States when he leaves the glory of the White House and once more becomes a simple citizen must feel the change severely. But our hero Phineas Finn as he turned his back upon the scene of his many successes and prepared himself for permanent residence in his own country was I think in a worse plight than any of the reduced divinities to whom I have alluded. They at any rate had known that their fall would come. He like Icarus had flown up towards the sun hoping that his wings of wax would bear him steadily aloft among the gods. Seeing that his wings were wings of wax we must acknowledge that they were very good but the celestial lights had been too strong for them. And now having lived for five years with lords and countesses with ministers and orators with beautiful women and men of fashion he must start again in a little lodging in Dublin and hope that the attorneys of that litigious city might be good to him. On his journey home he made but one resolution. He would make the change or attempt to make it with manly strength. During his last month in London he had allowed himself to be sad, depressed and melancholy. There should be an end of all that now. Nobody at home should see that he was depressed and Mary, his own Mary, should at any rate have no cause to think that her love and his own engagement had ever been the cause to him of depression. Did he not value her love more than anything in the world? A thousand times he told himself that he did. She was there in the old house of Killaloe to greet him. Her engagement was an affair known to all the county and she had no idea that would become her to be coy in her love.  Oh Phineas, I am so proud of you and I think you are so right and I am so glad you have done it. Again he covered her face with kisses. Could he ever have had such satisfaction as this? Had he allowed Madame Goose's hand to remain in his? On the first night of his arrival he sat for an hour downstairs with his father talking over his plans. He felt he could not but feel that he was not the hero now that he had been when he was last at Killaloe, when he had come thither with a cabinet minister under his wing and yet his father did his best to prevent the growth of any such feeling. The old doctor was not quite as well off as he had been when Phineas first started with his high hopes for London. Since that day he had abandoned his profession and was now living on the fruits of his life's labour. For the last two years he had been absolved from the necessity of providing an income for his son and had probably allowed himself to feel that no such demand upon him would again be made. Now however it was necessary that he should do so.  There would then be 400 a year left for the wants of the family at home. Phineas swore that he could fight his battle on 150 and they ended the argument by splitting the difference. He had been paying exactly the same sum of money for the rooms he had just left in London but then when he left those rooms his income had been 2,000 a year. Tenant ride was a very fine thing but could it be worth such a fall as this? And about dear Mary? said the father. I hope it may not be very long said Phineas. I've not spoken to her about it but your mother says that Mrs. Flood Jones is very adverse to long engagement. What can I do? She would not wish me to marry her daughter with no other income than allowance made by you.  That if they let Flood Burry you might take a small house in Dublin. Remember Phineas, I'm not proposing it myself. Then Phineas bethought himself that he was not even yet so low in the world that he needs to submit himself to terms dictated to him by Mrs. Flood Jones. I'm glad that you do not propose it sir. Why so Phineas? Because I should have been obliged to propose the plan even if it had come from you. Mother-in-laws are never a comfort in the house. I never tried it myself said the doctor and I will never try it. I'm quite sure that Mary does not expect any such thing and that she is willing to wait. If I can shorten the term of waiting by hard work I will do so. The decision to which Phineas had come on this matter was probably made known to Mrs. Flood Jones after some mild fashion by old Mrs. Finn. Nothing more was said to Phineas about a joint household but he was quite able to perceive from the manner of the lady towards him that his proposed mother-in-law wished him to understand that he was treating her daughter very badly. What did it signify? None of them knew the story of Madame Gusto and of course none of them would know it. None of them would ever hear how well he had behaved to his little Mary. But Mary did know it all before he left her to go up to London. The two lovers allowed themselves or were allowed by their elders one week of exquisite bliss together and during this week Phineas told her I think everything. He told her everything as far as he could do so without seeming to boast of his own successes. How is a man not to tell such tales when he has on his arm close to him a girl who tells him her little everything of life and only asks for his confidence in return and then his secrets are so precious to her and so sacred that he feels as sure of her fidelity as though she were a very goddess of faith and trust and the temptation to tell is so great for all that he has to tell she loves him the better and still the better. A man desires to win a virgin heart and is happy to know or at least to believe that he has won it. With a woman every former rival is an added victim to the wheels of the triumphant chariot in which she is sitting. All these, has he known and loved curling sweets from each of them but now he has come to me and I am the sweetest of them all. And so Mary was taught to believe of Laura and of Violet and of Madame Gauchelot that though they had charms to please his lover had never been so charmed as he was now while she was hanging to his breast and I think that she was right in her belief during those lovely summer evening walks along the shores of Loch Derck Phineas was as happy as he had ever been at any moment of his life. I shall never be impatient, never! she said to him on the last evening all I want is that you should write to me I shall want more than that Mary then you must come down and see me when you do come they will be happy days for me but of course we cannot be married for the next twenty years say forty Mary I will say anything that you like you will know what I mean just as well and Phineas I must tell you one thing though it makes me sad to think of it and will make me sad to speak of it I will not have you sad on our last night Mary I must say it I am beginning to understand how much you have given up for me I have given up nothing for you if I had not been a killer low when Mr. Monk was there and if we had not had not, oh dear if I had not loved you so very much you might have remained in London and that lady would have been your wife never said Phineas, stoutly would she not? she must not be your wife now Phineas I am not going to pretend that I will give you up that is unkind Mary oh well you may say what you please if that is unkind I am unkind it would kill me to lose you had he done right? how could there be a doubt about it how could there be a question about it which of them had loved him or was capable of loving him as Mary loved him what girl was ever so sweet so gracious, so angelic as his own Mary he swore to her that he was prouder of winning her than of anything he had ever done in all his life and that of all the treasures that had ever come in his way she was the most precious she went to bed that night the happiest girl in all Connacht although when she parted from him she understood that she was not to see him again till Christmas Eve but she did see him again before the summer was over and the manner of their meeting was in this wise immediately after the passing of that scrambled Irish reform bill Parliament as the reader knows was dissolved this was in the early days of June and before the end of July the new members were again assembled in Westminster this session late in summer was very terrible but it was not very long and then it was essentially necessary there was something of the year's business which must yet be done and the country would require to know who were to be the ministers of the government it is not needed that the reader should be troubled any further with the strategy of one political leader or another or that more should be said of Mr Monk and his tenant right the House of Commons had offended Mr Gresham by voting in a majority against him and Mr Gresham had punished the House of Commons by subjecting it to the expense and usance of a new election all this is constitutional and rational enough to Englishmen though it may be unintelligible to strangers the upshot on the present occasion was that the ministers remained in their places and that Mr Monk's bill though it had received the substantial honour of a second reading passed away for the present to the limbo of abortive legislation all this would not concern us at all not our poor hero much were it not that the great men with whom he had been for two years so pleasant a colleague remembered him with something of affectionate regret whether it began with Mr Gresham or with Lord Cantrip I will not say or whether Mr Monk though now a political enemy may have said a word that brought about the good deed be that as it may just before the summer session was brought to a close Phineas received the following letter from Lord Cantrip Downing Street August the first 1860 something my dear Mr Finn Mr Gresham has been talking to me and we both think that possibly a permanent government appointment may be acceptable to you we have no doubt that should this be the case your services would be very valuable to the country there is a vacancy for a poor law inspector at present in Ireland whose residence I believe should be in Cork the salary is a thousand a year should the appointment suit you Mr Gresham will be most happy to nominate you to the office let me have a line at your early convenience believe me most sincerely yours Cantrip he received the letter one morning in Dublin and within three hours he was on his route to Killlow of course he would accept the appointment but he would not even do that without telling Mary of his new prospect of course he would accept the appointment though he had been as yet barely two months in Dublin though he had hardly been long enough settled to his work to have hoped to be able to see in which way there might be a vis to open leading to success still he had fancied that he had seen that success was impossible he didn't know how to begin and men were afraid of him thinking that he was unsteady, arrogant and prone to failure he had not seen his way to the possibility of a guinea a thousand a year said Mary flood Jones opening her eyes wide with wonder at the golden future before them there is nothing very great for a perpetuity said Phineas oh Phineas surely a thousand a year will be very nice it'll be certain said Phineas and then we can be married tomorrow but I have been making up my mind to wait ever so long said Mary then your mind must be unmade said Phineas what was the nature of the reply to Lord Cantrip the reader may imagine and thus we will leave our hero and inspector of poor houses in the county of Cork end of Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollup recording by Andy from Inveraunan M-E-L-Y-S dot W-S


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In the world of the S&P's, let's take a look at it. Well, it's been one straight shot, folks. And I don't think that's going to end until we get a little blow off here. So the bottom line is that we are at right now 455. We hit 456. 462 is the number. That's the A to B equals C to D. Now that's a one to one. But I suspect the way this is set up right now, this is set up pretty good that you can come in here Friday morning. Now we're closed Friday. This is the only time that the markets open and that we do close so everyone can have a great long weekend. Markets open from 9.30 to 1. I suspect you're going to see a run. They're going to run this thing. The top of the range here and the spies 459. So they'll run at the 459. 459 is going to be easy. I mean, we're at 454 right now. We hit 456.  That's how this thing is looking. We take this and we put it back a little bit further. And what you're going to see here is that as we get up to that level, now this is where it's going to get really interesting because what we very well can have is a very large ABC structure up. Now watch this. Look at how this is set up, man. I get this on a monthly right now. And on a monthly 1.3, you're going to be able to do it, man. We'll see how this shakes out. There's enough volume that's in here that you could take that out.  The cool thing is that you're going to know when we get up there, number one, can you take it out? Number two, do you have the volume on the monthly? And if you have the volume on the monthly folks, once ABCs start happening in the marketplace, they can basically trend and trend for a bit. And if that's what we get, the bottom line is that that's where we're going. Microsoft, bottom line, you got the AI, Sam Alton is back. And the big seed again. And you can see Microsoft, Microsoft's also in an ABC structure up. Took out the B point, took it out with volume. Microsoft, no doubt, is the big winner in this. The battle's probably just starting, but the bottom line, Microsoft's the big winner. And when you take a look at Microsoft, that wants 412, and right now you're at 377. Nvidia, let's go take a look at Nvidia, the bottom line. Nvidia come out with numbers last night. Nvidia's trading down $11. Monster numbers, man. I mean, look at this thing. I brought this up yesterday, though, that the context of the acceleration up, you can see it's going to slow a bit. First quarter of this year, it took in $7 billion. Second quarter, $13 billion. Third quarter yesterday, $18 billion. Next one's only $19.5 billion. That being said, guess what? At $18.1 billion, which they took in, that is more than they took in in the full year of 2021. So you are talking monster numbers that just, you can just actually keep going at that level and that's about, it's very profitable. Let's put it that way. What we do have here is that you have a high, let me just see if this thing can go and test it. So you get, yeah, it did. So what you're going to have here is this.  Oh, I see, one second. Oh, this is going to get interesting. So even on the weekly, you got to do some math behind this thing because of the fact, yeah, it's still never going to do it. So you're going to have a test of a high with light of all and rejection of a higher price. That's what you're going to have. And it's probably just going to spin it into a consolidation for a longer period of time. That's how that thing looks. Now the thing that's intriguing, of course, is that that being said, meaning that you do have NVIDIA down, well, guess what? It didn't affect the NDEX 100. Well, of course it affected it price-wise for a bit. But the bottom line is that it's still going higher. You took out your swing point, you're over the swing point in a monster way right now. And then if we take a look at the NDEX, the way this thing is set up, the next stop is the highs, man. That's how this is set up. And what has happened, just as I've brought up many times here, because of the loss retracement, folks, was a very small retracement in the context of how we went higher. It's a .382 retracement in the NDEX 100, as well as the spy, that is saying that you can have an ABC structure in the way up beyond belief. And in fact, it doesn't seem like, you know, we only did a .382, and that's because this has been going on for a year and a half, okay? So the first get-go was a .618 on the way down. You did the level up, you did a .382, but that's just showing that the market actually is building more strength as it's going higher. Let's go to the oil market and take a look at the oil market. So the oil market out here, this has been jumpy in a munched away. We take a look at oil out here today. Oil got down a price point of 73, right now you're at 76. We got 364,000 contracts. Now that's a lot of contract volume that's banging out here. Yeah, it definitely is. Let's just see this intraday here for a second. So intraday, it made it all the way back. That being said, your building cost is a lower price. That's how this day, baby, set up. Our phone number is<PHONE_NUMBER>. Give us a call, folks, we'll be coming right back. We have the Dow. The Dow industry is right now trading at buck 70. That is a couple of 67 S&Ps at 14. We'll come right back. Currencies, commodities, and bond markets are as important as ever right now with how they're driving the volatility in equity markets across the globe, which is why it's a great time to try out Teddy Kestat's Tiger Forex report. Teddy Kestat breaks down the forex markets every Monday using his 30-plus years of experience as a trading veteran of futures, forex, stocks, and options. 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Toll-free at 1-877-927-6648. Internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER>. Welcome back, folks, to Dow. Dow Industries up 1.75, NASDAQ up 69, S&Ps up 15 and a half. Let's go inside the Dow Industries and take a look at what's moving point-wise the Dow Industries. Okay, so point-wise we have is this, is that you got Microsoft putting 33 positive points, United Health 28, Home Depot 25, Goldman 21. Taken away from it, the only one out there is Caterpillar. Well, not the only one, but minus 22, you got Walmart minus eight, you got Merck minus five. We go into some of the higher volume equities out here and the volume's not gonna be high out here. You got Apple, Apple's got up 83 cents, you got Verizon, Verizon's flat. You got Walmart, basically down a couple bucks. Disney's up 47 cents. So, let's talk about, I wanna talk about Friday.  And so, if in fact that happens, I'm just gonna give you a scenario of how it basically starts. What normally would happen is this, is that, you know, of course you have, the future's gonna be trading, right? You'll see the future's up a bit. But when it starts trending, right, so when it ended up happening, when you started a good trend market, particularly which we've been in a trending moment to bonk it right now. So what tends to happen is this, you have bulls and bears as you not always do, right? Bottom line, you know, I don't blame the bears for like, are you kidding me? I mean, you've been listening to me long enough, man. I'm shocked so many times it's insane. Now this time, yeah, I've been long, okay? But the bottom line is that I understand both parts of it. So what tends to happen is that there's disbelief in the context that you can actually keep moving higher. So now let's go to Friday morning. So if I'm right in the context, what you're gonna see is this. You're gonna see the future's up a bit first. Then market opens, right? And little by little, so the way this shakes out, and this is how it can sustain itself also, right? Is that you start getting buying coming in and you'll see the whole screen light up green. I mean, I'm talking about everything, okay? And then by about 10.30, quarter of 11, that's when the whole freaking world understands that, oh my God, this is just gonna run. Now, something that is in the mix here that was not in the mix as much is the machines.  So the machines themselves are gonna be basically pushing, pushing, pushing until they don't push it anymore. Well, bottom line, we'll see how it shakes out, but that's my take on how this is gonna go. And as you get closer to the one o'clock, it'll accelerate even more. That's how this thing shook out. Now, what did happen, okay? So there's that one. Now, I'll give you some of the bearish deals for the context of the following Monday. Because so what did happen there is that the market took off like a rocket ship. And I mean everything, it was one of the most unbelievable things I've ever seen. And then Monday, guess what? You did open down dramatically. Now that being said, you're only down for two days and came all the way back again. But if that's what we get, if you are setting things up, just keep that in mind also. In particular, if in fact you hit your ABC targets, you know, that's gonna be helpful in the context that okay, you know, we made the run, is that what's gonna happen, we're gonna pull back. Now that's on a shorter term basis. On the longer term basis, my take is that this run's gonna be out here. And the reason is that, let me show you this for a second, this is where this gets really interesting. And I see this happen a lot. You see that the top headline, the top headline on Bloomberg, is US yields climb amid unraveling of the dovish fed bets. Well, that's not real, man.  Cause I wanna show you. I mean, who are we kidding? If we go to the 10 year, yields are not going up, man. You go to the 10 year, you down three ticks, okay? That hasn't moved. You go to the 30 year and the 30 year is up. Meaning, you know, up on price, down on yield. So you're really always gonna be careful and there you go, six, six ticks. So, you know, I haven't flashed over to Bloomberg yet on that article, but that's the number one article.  You know, you can look at that news for sure. You can glue your eyes to the aspect, okay, where's the 10 year trading? Where's the 30 year trading? And in the bigger context, when we go over to the 10 and the 30, you know, bottom line, the mortgage rate folks, this was the fastest the mortgage rate came down in years, meaning that the 30 year mortgage. Now, it should because the 10 year came down a half a point. So the mortgage rate came down a half a point. That's how it goes. You know, bottom line is that we get back to, you know, three and a half on the 10 year.  And I suspect we're gonna get there pretty quick. Why? Because we have the market itself. There's so much cash out here that the market itself is dictating where the rates are going. And, you know, when we're at zero rates, the same thing, they've raised them up before the Fed raised them up. And this particular case, they're pushing them down before the Fed's pushing them down. And that's the dog and the tail and that whole ball of wax. And then on top of that, it's about this dollar. You know, because as rates get lower, it'll put more weakness inside the dollar. The weakness inside the dollar, what does it do? Well, bottom line, what it opens up immediately is it opens up the world buying more American goods. You know, so there's always good and bad things, but the bottom line is that with the weak of the dollar, guess what? Then our goods are less expensive, competitively worldwide. That goes up. What does that mean? That means companies make more money. What does that mean? 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That being said, bottom line is that you get a lot of these equities that are running and they're running, you know, Wheaton Precious Medal yesterday. And this is how this normally happens too, folks. It's one by one, they start breaking the consolidation and you can see Wheaton broke it and broke it with volume, which is dynamite, man, particularly this week. You can see yesterday broke that whole consolidation. The consolidation we're talking about in Wheaton too goes back, you know, basically six months. So that's a big number. And what Wheaton specifically does, okay, is that they are a silver broker. That's, you know, there's only 33 people work for them. They take in 996 million a year. So you can see with 33 people, how the heck do you do that? Well, the bottom line is that they work almost like a streamer, just a little different twist. What their twist is, is that they will come, finance your mine, silver mine, this is, okay, that's what they're looking for. Again, copper, they've been getting into copper. And then what they're doing, actually, you know what's interesting? No, they're accelerating up, it's actually gold too. Look at this. So yeah, yeah, this is interesting. So actually they're brokering 529 million in gold, 471 in silver, actually it's bigger. Now the difference is that the silver is growing by six percent a year. That's what they're doing. But the bottom line is that then what ends up happening is that then you agree that you are gonna sell all your ore to Wheaton minerals. That's how this baby shakes out. So check it out in the front page of TFNN. You know, there's a lot of equities that are running out here. There's no doubt about it. And you know, we'll see just how far this goes. When I take a look at the gold contract, my take is that we're actually on the way to 2,500. That's how this thing seems to be setting up. You take a look at it. We put this on a longer basis. What you're gonna see there's a very large A to B equal C to D, GC1, that's in place and has been in place for a long period of time. And the way everything is falling into place, put this back here. I'm gonna put it on a 20 year right now so you can really see how this is laid out. You can see that we've consolidated for almost four years. That is power, man. That is real power. Look at this thing. I mean, that is very powerful. And if it's gonna be the aspect of the 2,500, what you do, you're taking it from the lows, the last low that was established out here in 2015, lows to the highs, and then the pullback.  You bring this back. And 2,500 is not the same 2,500 that you were looking at in 2011. When folks with 2,011 say we're going to 2,500, you're already a mind, man. Because of the aspect that we had started at 2,52. Well, 2,52 to 1,100, that's quite a move. And it takes time. It takes a huge amount of time, huge amount of cause, and churning inside of the marketplace. That's the bottom line. That's what it takes in order to get to higher price. Silver, let's go take a look at the silver market because silver, still to this, the SI, let me see this. SI1, I'm doing the volatility in silver is pretty intense. But we pull this up and we take a look at the silver market. Bring this back 15 years too. Yeah, see, this is not as powerful as gold, you know? Just not there. I mean, we went to that $49 mark before. Silver's gonna have a trip just getting to the, basically, yeah, the 30, the 30 level.   There's no two ways about that. And then the key, of course, is that when folks do pile into a very small market and gold is a very golden silver and metals in general folks are a tiny market in comparison to the markets that we deal with every day, meaning, you know, your equity market, your bond market, your commodity market in general, okay? There's not a lot of equities, you know, the aspect of how much ore they can get out of the ground, what has cost them to get out of the ground and what the spread is. So you get one more acceleration inside the gold market, meaning up to this 2200, you are gonna see some of these gold equities go to the moon very quickly. The reason being is that the spread is getting dramatic right now in the context of what it costs them to get out of the ground versus what they're getting in the marketplace, you know? And when that happens, that's when you see the acceleration beyond belief. Like if you look at harmony, we own harmony too. You know, harmony's killing it, man.   You know, you take that, you know, see how many can get to like an 825 pretty easy? Was it 825? Six, seven. Yeah, 825. Yeah.  Let me bring this back actually a little bit more. Yeah, and then you'll catch some flak up there, man. But bottom line, that's a long way from where we are. And in harmony's case, you know, they're banging out millions of ounces of gold. You know, I mean, they're looking for an acceleration from 49 billion this year to 54 billion. Now that's in Randallas, okay? So the bottom line, you have to divide that by 18 and a half when you're taking a look at that. Yeah, we're at 18.8 right now. And what does happen is that, you know, you take a look at the Randallas, so they're paying their expenses in Randallas and they're getting paid in U.S. dollars. Kind of a nice setup, particularly when you're talking about millions of ounces of gold. I'm talking about millions of ounces of gold per quarter also. Dow, Dow Industries, right? They're gonna run this thing, man. There's just no sellers. All the sellers are on vacation, folks. Either that or they're out of business right now. Dow's up 197, Nasdaq's up 73, S&P's up 17. Stay right there folks, come right back. 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This is an amazing story, actually. So, uh, the name of the company is Envia. Now, they manufacture and process biomass fuel. Now, biomass fuel just means wood chips and wood pellets, okay? Of course, the people that use it, they use it for power generation, they use it for industrial customers, okay? And you can see the low for the year is 60 cents, the high for the year is $61, right? If we go into the gross revenues, what you're gonna see, this is just a monster company, okay? Bottom line, this year they're gonna do $1.3 billion. Well, listen to what greed can get you, folks, okay? What this company did was they bought, they, so pitch it, and you see, I remember the first company that I, I actually wasn't in the business then, I was still in the pizza business, but I remember reading in the Wall Street Journal that Procter & Gamble had done a trade. The whole thing was they were talking about, they did a trade in the foreign currency market, and the bottom line, the thing blew up and it cost them, at that time, was probably just millions of dollars, not even hundreds of millions because we were dealing with such smaller numbers. Well, guess what this company did? What this company did, folks, is that they bought, and right at the highs, right? This stock was trading at $90, folks, okay? And what they did, it's not like they didn't have enough pellets themselves, but they felt that they wanted to basically make more money, and so what they did is they bought their competitor, they didn't buy their competitor out, what they did, they bought the supply out, okay? So just a trade, okay? Bottom line, I will buy your supply for the next year, year and a half, okay? And I want to pay you so much money. Well, what ended up happening is that the wood chip business crashed, and this equity went from $90, and we just traded at 60 cents about two weeks ago. Now, this is how bad this is, okay? You talk about a bad trade, this business may go out of, this company may go out of business. They just came out with, you know, the financials, the whole ball of wax saying that it's possible we're gonna go out of business. The thing that's amazing to me is like, are you kidding me? Like, who the heck, number one, said, okay, let's do this trade. Now you can tell by the way that it is actually traded also, is that if you know that the pellets are going down, you know, you and I, we always have stop losses, okay? But you can have a stop loss in the trading business in general. What you have to do, you just have to dump your product. Well, they didn't even dump the product, okay? So now you have a business that's been out there forever. One bad trade, and of course it's a monster, and kaput, you know? It's pretty amazing reading some of these stories. And I'd always, what blows my mind, I'd love to know like how do those executives actually even get to that point? That you can make such a bet and it can go so bad, you know?  You know, the soft bank deal with we work, and you know, so the way that, what I don't understand about soft bank actually, is people have a very short memory because what had happened is this. I mean, he made his name because he funded Alibaba, okay? Billions and billions of dollars he made, and then he made one of the big trade after that. He made two in a row that made his name, okay? Now that was done 28 years ago, okay? I remember in the 2000 down draft in the NASDAQ, he lost billions of dollars then, and yet he could come back and raise hundreds of billions of dollars and then just blow his brains out, particularly. Because what ended up happening, you read that story about we work, when you read the story about how many companies that he actually gave money to in the Vision Fund, there's hundreds of them, hundreds of them that he gave hundreds of millions of dollars, and now people are questioning it. Now they're questioning the aspect because some of his quotes are really, they're pretty cool actually, but not for investing. His quote on entrepreneurs is that he would look them in the eye, and if they had a certain glisten in their eye, he had a gut feel that they're really gonna do it and make it in a monster way. It's like, wow. So keep that in mind as you're starting businesses, okay? Because if folks like that can do that, each and every one of us could do whatever we wanna do by being a little bit more sane. And this is where this comes in, there's no doubt about it, the arrogance, the arrogance of a couple monster trades can kill you. And I suspect that has to do inside of his texture about the aspect of how much was made in Alibaba. I forget what the other one was. He had a couple big winners, there's no doubt about that. But guess what, I mean, you need more than a couple big winners, okay? And you get the gist of it. We're in a business that is so intriguing because what can happen is that you can get a couple big big winners and it's really about the consistency on a longer-term basis, or there's plenty of people that have got a couple big winners and they pack it right in. I can give you the guy that owns the rays, the guy that owns the rays, the bottom line, young guy, worked for Goldman, bottom line, retired either at 28 or 32, something like that. Smart as a whip, did really well, turned around, put his money into a harder asset, meaning raise, development, all of that. Took his time, took years, okay? The bottom line is that yeah, it's gonna be a huge school now because you get the 85 acres, you get the development, it's one of the biggest developments that's gonna be in the whole United States, right? In St. Pete, actually, right down the street from us, right down the street, we're right in the same vicinity that I build. And that is the way, to me, that you really build the wealth, okay? It just, if you're lucky enough to get the score, take your time, pull back, think it through, think it through with what you can get as a steady longer-term deal and he did it and it's pretty cool. I've been watching him for 20 years now, 15 years and he pulled it off. And my speculation was, you've heard me say this before, he's gonna pull it off anyway because if you can retire at 28 to 32 from a Goldman, you have something special, there's no two ways about that. You have focus, you have discipline, you have common sense, which is really a big deal.  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Hey everyone, welcome to another video lesson from navigation trading calm in this lesson I want to talk about health care stocks. So right now Today is April 17th and a couple days ago United Health Care came out and announced earnings their CEO Made some statements about different politicians pushing to do things that would disrupt the health care industry and cause some issues and so you can see some pretty extreme volatility going on in United Health Care and implied volatility which usually crushes After the earnings announcement has stayed pretty high So United Health Care would be a good candidate to to trade with the high implied volatility But I always like to trade ETFs First and then stocks as kind of a secondary thing if there's nothing to do in ETFs And so if you look at all the health care stocks United Health Care signa etna all different major health care stocks, they're all uh, they're all Taking a little bit of a beating right now And so what I like to do is go to the corresponding ETF In this case it would be x l v Which is the select sector spider trust sbi health care etf And what you can see is the entire health care sector Is moving down and while the price is moving down The implied volatility is popping higher, which is what we like to happen to sell premium Okay, and so what i'm looking at x l v is you know, this is just a statement made by one health care provider ceo As you know from us teaching over and over and over that implied volatility is almost always overstated Fear is almost always overstated in the market And so what we can do to take advantage of that is when we do have what could be an overreaction to a statement Or to a certain issue in this sector Implied volatility popping higher. We want to take advantage of that by selling premium And so like I said, I would prefer to do it in x l v which is an etf more of a broad Sector etf as opposed to one individual stock Because when you trade one individual stock, you do have some additional risk, right? There's different things that could happen just within that one specific company That may be different from the rest of the sector. So In selling premium selling these range bound strategies, we prefer to do etfs if the implied volatility Warns doing so So here's what we'd be looking at in x l v and here's what we did this morning is We put on an iron condor and what we're looking at here Is we sold the 185 put And the 189 call and then we bought the wings to define our risk You could look to do a naked strangle as well It just used a little bit more buying power than we wanted to use for this specific portfolio So we went ahead and defined our risk to trade an iron condor As you can see it's got about a 54 Probability of success if we held it all the way to expiration But in this case we'll be closing this at about 25 to 35 percent of max profit And so that's the that's the way we're trying to take advantage of this Now what we anticipate seeing or what we want to see happen is to price just kind of settle down The market to digest what was said what's being what's going on in the healthcare industry and then implied volatility at that point would also contract And we would benefit from that. So that's the plan And you can follow along to see how we do this was also an alert that was sent out to our pro members If you want to learn more about what's going on and what we're doing at navigation trading Just go to navigation trading dot com and we'll talk to you soon


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