Hi, my name is Liam Rowe, currency trader and trading coach at Trading180.com. Welcome to this week's supply and demand for us in gold, fundamental and technical analysis for the week starting the 17th of September. So, getting into this week's news and so it says this is from TradingEconomics.com. The financial landscape will be heavily influenced by the Federal Reserve's interest rate decision on Wednesday. Additionally, in this United States, all eyes will be on the release of the S&P Global PMI figures. That's important for GDP and whether the economy is contracting or holding up better than expected. Further, more central banks in the United Kingdom, Japan and Switzerland will be deliberating on their monetary policy direction. So, pretty much they are going to be announcing whether they'll be hiking, holding or cutting the expectation for the United Kingdom is that they're going to hike rates. Japan is going to be holding rates and Switzerland, apparently, it's going to be a hike, but I don't think they will, but it could do. But there's reasons why they might not in terms of they've reached their 2% inflation target and GDP also contracted last week as well. So, they may not hike, but the consensus is that they probably might one more time. And they will be deliberating, yes, on their monetary policy direction. Investors will also close in monetary inflation rates in the UK, Canada and Japan along with flash services and manufacturing PMI data for Germany, the UK, the Euro area, Japan and Australia. So, plenty of additional news to come out and that should create some volatility this weekend. If you are interested in joining the Forest Mentor in Discord group that I run, it opens on the 4th of October. So, go to Trading180.com if you want to find out more and if you want to learn about fundamental analysis, stop hunts, supply and demand, capture pain relief and pretty much be mentored by me, then go to Trading180.com to find out a bit more information. Now, going on to the charts and some more fundamentals and technicals. I guess on the dollar index and the dollar has been pretty much rallying to the upside last week. I was looking for, say I was, but expecting maybe a price to pull back a little bit further as to some confluence for a buy opportunity. But prices didn't pull back, but it created another higher high higher low. And so the next demand zone, if you are looking for any kind of confluence on with the dollar and the dollar index is going to be right around here. So, any kind of pullback from this zone, from prices where we are, if prices pull back into that area there and you want to also look for some long trades, long dollar trades as well in that area on a currency pair that you're interested in trading, then that is pretty much what you're looking for in terms of confluence. I think that's nice also as well if you do get a pullback into any of these zones as well. Now, my bias is actually long dollars, been long dollars for a little bit. And although the Federal Reserve are expected to hold in September, there was talk about a hike in November. And of course that is data dependent. And also as well, higher for longer rates is supporting the US dollar. So, here this week or last week we had US Core CPI picks up keeping another Fed hike in play this year. So underlying inflation quickened for the first time in six months. Overall consumer prices jumped in August on higher gas costs. So, it says here underlying US inflation ran at a faster than expected monthly pace in August, leaving the door open for additional interest rate hikes from the Federal Reserve. And so, obviously a central bank's mandate is to get inflation down to the 2% target. And if inflation is moving away from that 2% target and moving higher, then increases the chances of a central bank looking to hike. So, when looking at the dollar, the higher for longer narrative or, you know, the potential for a rate hike in November is probably likely to support the dollar for now. So, pretty much any pullbacks to these demand zones is where you're looking, well, I'm looking anyway at for complements in terms of buying the dollar. So, DXY for me is a buy, the dollar is always a buy. Dollar yen and the Federal Reserve holding in again in September, of course as we know, but the Bank of Japan also have their interest rate decision this week and the expectation is actually for a holding rates, right? But what we've been talking about over the last few weeks and months is that the higher prices go on this dollar yen is the more that the Bank of Japan is likely to intervene because pretty much the yen is really undervalued or cheap. And the Bank of Japan don't really want the yen to devalue that much. And last year, when we did have the intervention, we had it twice. It was once around the 143s, 144 area. And then we had one at the 152s is when, you know, the last one was. And so we get into that intervention zone. And so we had Ueda, who is the Bank of Japan governor, come out and pretty much he made a statement last week Sunday, which the market determined as being a bit hawkish as he's been very dovish. But the headline is that Bank of Japan watches bring forward rate hike forecast on Ueda's remarks. And so Bank of Japan watches move forward their forecast for an end to negative interest rates after Governor Kazua Ueda touched on the possibility of an interview published over the weekend. So all 46 economists surveyed by Bloomberg over the past weeks said Bank of Japan will stand pat on policy next week. Next week's board meeting with half expecting authorities to abandon the sub zero rate by the end of June. So there's the potential for an end in interest rates or negative interest rates or at least yield curve control potentially this year, depending on how high inflation and how sticky inflation is this year. The data has to support that narrative. It says here that there's a chance of an early policy shift. Mr Hiroshi Namioka, Chief Strategist at TD Asset Management Co. Every policy meeting has become live since Ueda took the helm. So my bias is to buy the yen. I understand the risks involved in buying the end at the moment, because fundamentally, and from a central bank perspective, there's such thing as the carry trade where traders will buy the lower yielding currency, borrow it, and invest in a higher yielding currency. So at the moment, the yen is the lowest yielding currency at negative interest rates. And so that pretty much is a way that obviously investors can make money in buying and investing in other currencies like higher yielding currencies, like the dollar, and basically make the difference between the two interest rates. But if that starts to come to an end where the central bank are on a hiking cycle, the bank of Japan, then or potentially looking, then traders are going to position themselves really to start to buy the yen. So I'm looking to buy the yen. It's going to be tricky against the dollar, but the yen against some other currencies I am looking at. But if you get up to these 1, 4, 8, 1, 4, 9s, expect some sort of intervention to take place, which could push the dollar yen in all currencies pretty much maybe down to these 1, 4, 3s, 1, 4, 2s in the short term. So that's where I am on the dollar yen. Dollar Swiss got a long bias on this. And so the Swiss National Bank, they say one more hike is expected, the consensus, but I don't know whether they're going to hike. I don't think they will. And even if they do, I think they're definitely at the end of their hiking cycle. That most central banks are, to be fair. So yeah, any pullbacks, we're waiting for a pullback to get involved in this on this currency. So any pullbacks into probably my preferred zone would be down at the 8850s, somewhere around here to get long. Of course, you can look for long trades. Here's a bit on the expensive side for me, but I think any pullbacks into this zone here or down into the 8770s, I think is going to be a really nice buy in those demand zones. Dollar CAD and the dollar CAD, the Canadian dollar, in fact, I think is likely to strengthen at least in the short term. And I'm not looking to buy the Canadian dollar against the US dollar, something cheaper that maybe the Euro CAD or even the CAD Swiss. So yeah, I think any pullbacks could be buying opportunities. But for me, I'm not really looking to trade this pair. I think there are better pairs to buy the Canadian dollar against and also as well by the US dollar against. So if you do, but if you do want to get long, I think that is a really nice zone to get long. And if you are looking at short trades, I think this supply zone right here is okay as well. Let me just change that to supply. And yeah, so any pullbacks into this zone, I think a decent, especially up at the 137, the absolute highs, I think is all right. Many traders will recognize that who is in the group as a CPR zone, matter of fact, up at these highs. So decent trading opportunities on that dollar CAD. But fundamentally, I'm not really keen on it looking for bigger divergences. New Zealand dollar, US dollar, yeah, the par for these resistances can still continues to be to the downside. We didn't get quite a pullback into the into this supply zone, but I did get in on a bit of a stop hunt around this area on an intraday trade, which is now profitable. So if I do get another pullback up into these zones, for me, I'm just looking for short trades. There could be a decent pullback, of course, on the dollar in the US dollar simply because of the announcement on Wednesday, if, you know, Jerome Powell is maybe a bit dovish, then all the market interprets him as being a bit dovish or the data doesn't support, you know, further rate hikes, then we could see the dollar start to sell off a little bit. But I think that's just really it's going to be short lived. I think there's going to be definitely pullbacks into these zones right here is what I'm looking for. So there and then there as well in these these supply zone areas, we've got some support and resistance. Looking at the pound dollar and I now am short, I've been short on looking for shorts in the pound dollar over the past week. But I think a pullback into this supply zone is going to be nice. Yes, the Bank of England are expected to hike one more time, but the tide is turning, right? So Bank of England turning glumia on UK outlook brings rate pours into view. So central bank watches see a change in tone since last summer investors anticipate just one more hike next week in the cycle. So as the UK UK's economic outlook gets cloutier, Bank of England policy makers are suddenly speaking more clearly about the choice before them. And so Andrew Bailey, who is the governor of the Bank of England, was quite dovish last week in times of his assessment on interest rates and inflation. And so I think that the and also as well there was there was GDP came out, which was worse than expected as well. So I really should have brought up that news article one second one sec. Right, here it is. So sharp decline in UK economy in July revives recession risk. And so there was wet weather and strikes held back activity across services figures added darkening mood for the second half of the year. And so when you have and I was going to talk about this when I got to the euro, but I guess I can talk about it with the pound because it's the same kind of scenario. But I think the I think Europe is probably in a worse position when you have rate hike. So many of you this week, who would have got long on the euro based on a rate hike, probably left scratching your head and thinking, why is it that they hiked rates, but prices went to the downside? Now, after this video, I'm going to post or there's going to be a video from a private mentoring group, and I have my private mentoring groups on every Wednesday. And I'm going to talk about in that video why rate hikes aren't always appreciative of a currency. And so the reason why the euro went down and why the pound is probably could be likely to go, you know, depreciating deep value as well is that a is because you have a stagflation face, right? So stagflation. So what is stagflation? Right? Stag. And I'm not going to write up basically the inflation stagflation and stagflation is when you have a growing economy, but sorry, a growing inflation, right? So rising inflation or sticky inflation, and you have a shrinking economy. Yeah. And so that environment doesn't bode well for central banks. In fact, it can be very negative for for a currency. So that's one thing and B as well is that the rate hike is more than likely priced in already, right? So when looking at, you know, buying the room and sell the fact, a lot of traders will wait until the day. So they will say, Oh, yeah, you know what, I'll wait until, you know, the day that they release the rate hike, but that's already been priced into the market. And so when I say priced in, I mean that the the market typically has a bit of an auction or a range where they think the value will be of a currency. By the time the news is released, right? Because everyone's got a different different expectation or value. And so it doesn't mean that because, you know, by the time we get down here, that's basically meaning that that's what is priced in is going to be that at that level and stay at that level. It just means that the overall value of the pound that the market is, you know, thinking that it's it's worth an exchange rate is likely to be priced in in terms of a range in terms of an auction. And so the pound might basically fall. Yeah. But you what you're what you're probably likely to see is not necessarily against the dollar because it depends but against some other currencies, where instead of price advice, it might fall a bit more. But then it will eventually establish some sort of auction, right? And then some sort of range. And so I think that that's pretty much where the the current pound is priced into the market. So yep, I think for me, any pullbacks into a zone in the in the for the supply, that supply zone is for me a buying opportunity. And I say a buying opportunity for the dollars or a shorting opportunity on this pair, because I think that the market is really fearing that the US, sorry, the UK economy can't really or in a sticky situation with stagflation. And I do think that we're going to see the pound not necessarily sell off massively. Don't know where it would be massively. And there are forecasts for actually maybe 120s, 119s over the medium to short term or by the end of the year. But I do think that any pullbacks and any positive price action or appreciative price action on the pound is likely to be short lived. So if you're going to come up to here or come up to here, and if it does, then I'm going to look for some some short trades on the on the pound dollar pound yen. Again, I do think there is some sort of intervention potentially. And as the pound is no longer the currency that is looking like an absolute buy, delete that demands. And I do think that there should be a bit of a pullback back into one of these zones. And I'm looking for a short trade, hopefully, the way of the Bank of Japan is a bit more hawkish. And if he is, then this should want to sell off either at this area here, or you're looking at pullback up into that zone there, and then to the downside. So that's where I'm thinking I want to get short on this currency pair. The euro dollar. So again, a lot of traders would have gone long euro dollars this week in the group. In fact, in fact, I'll just find the group comment that I made before the announcement. So here we have a comment that I made at 112 before the announcement. And I'll just kind of zoom in on this, make this a bit bigger. This is in the discord group. And I said, Hi, everyone, I think the euro is an elusive situation. Even if they hike today, it seemed like the consensus is that the rally will be short lived short lived as a subjective term. But ultimately, the euro isn't a buy medium to long term. The key for any sustained rally is the speed is if the speech is hawkish. And if the market believes the ECB is hawkishness, have a look at the scenario chart to get an idea of what could play out. And also, if what is likely to happen 109 seems to be the peak for an EU rally. So pretty much a lot of banks were talking about the the euro basically maybe rallying on a on a on a rate hike. But either way, you know, my bias was regardless to get short. And, you know, the main reason was because, you know, we could pretty much see that the euro wasn't doing wasn't doing great in terms of their economy. I've been saying it for the past few weeks, maybe about a month or so. And it says here that the euro one of the art causes is that the euro is set for record run of losses as ECB seen done raising rates. So currency falls for a ninth week as markets price no more hikes, hedge funds turned bearish while analysts lower forecasts. And so it says here that traders have been ditching the euro over the past two months on bets. The ECB will struggle to tighten monetary policy further amid signs of a worsening economy. That view got a boost this week when President Christine Lagarde delivered a 10th hike and signaled that the peak in rates had been reached. So pretty much the narrative now is changing from interest rate hikes to now if the the economy can avoid a recession. Also as well, I think it was last week, the euro economy was downgraded. I think the quarter on quarter growth was downgraded. And it's basically barely flat lined. And so the euro at the moment is not doing well. And that's the reason why you're seeing this move to the downside. And whereas the US in fact has been surprising to the upside when everyone thought that the dollar was in the US economy was going to go into a recession, they've actually been like I said, the labor's been robust and the data has showed been quite positive. So I think for me any pullbacks into any one of these supply zones is going to be the where I'm looking at taking some trades. So any pullbacks into that area there or that area above there. So the 107s, 107s, 50s out to the 108s is going to be a really nice area to look for some short trades. So again, just like the pound, the the ECB economy is struggling. The hike had been priced in also as well. With so many people going long as well here, right in that candlestick there, low trades went long. There was lots of liquidity to the downside, right? And basically that's what happened. A lot of traders got taken out going long and maybe are caught in their position. So a really good trade idea and I call this a new CPR is when traders are caught going the wrong side of the market, any pullbacks into this zone I think are going to be really, really nice for a short trade. So anywhere from this, it's 10721 up to probably this 10740 area I think is going to be very, very, very nice for a short trade. And it's basically where I'm looking to get involved in that trade. Of course, this is not any kind of a financial advice, but yeah, just telling you what I'm doing on that one. Euro yen, I'm looking at the same kind of trade on the Euro yen. This demand zone is holding up. There's a bit of a stop hunt here below that area. But I do think if the Euro being a bit more dovish and holding rates, expected to hold rates, and the Japanese yen potentially looking to hike rates by the end of the year, my bias is to the short side now. So I do think I want to get short. And if I'm getting short, it'd be somewhere around here. It's going to be the first area on a supply and demand zone perspective that I'm looking for. If you do want to get long, you could look for longs right now, but you know, pretty look for any fresher zone of demand as this level has been touched several times and is likely to potentially break. But again, it does depend upon what happens with the Bank of Japan's statement and whether they're a bit more hawkish. If they remain dovish, then you're probably likely to see prices move a bit more to the upside. EC Euro pounds, not looking to take this pair. Both currencies are pretty much in the same boat, although I do think that the pound has the slight edge. So moving, if you are looking to take a trade and prices move up to these areas here, I think that's decent. Don't know why you'd want to buy the Euro against the pound to be fair, but that's where we are. I think rather buy the pound, which basically means to short this currency pair up into these areas if you get the opportunity. But again, I'm not looking to take that pair of tools, not really on my list. Aussie dollar, I think the Aussie dollar is still continuing to be a sell. I do think that this is slightly, obviously expensive, but I think any pullbacks up into this zone here, I think it's going to be really nice and even further higher would be a better shorting opportunity to get long on the US dollar. What will support the Australian dollar? I think the Australian dollar did have some decent news this week, but and China came out. There was some decent news out of China as well. And I think that is what's really going to help the Australian dollar to be a buy if China starts to grow. But I want to see a bit more consistent data out of China for me to want to buy the Australian dollar. And even then I'm not really going to buy it against the US dollar. It'll be probably against another currency, a weaker currency than the dollar. So if you do want to be a buyer of the Australian dollar, you're looking at a pullback down into either that zone there or that kind of longer term demand zone down into the 63 round numbers somewhere around there. And finally, gold and so gold did rally a bit on Friday. But again, as I said, I think said it from last week and a week before that with the dollar strengthening prices are more likely to come to the downside. If you believe that the dollar was going to be the buy, still not convinced by this. I think possibly actually, if obviously the dollar comes out and there is a dollar bit of a dollar pullback, then in fact, gold could rally a little bit. But I think once the dollar starts to get its strength back, then I think we probably might head down to the 1890s. But again, that depends upon how hawkish the Federal Reserve are and what they say on the expectation of the dollar and the inflation and data. Because ultimately, traders are coming out of gold based on bond yields being basically giving you a 4.5% return. And also as well for holding the dollar, you're getting a return where it's gold, you're not really getting any kind of return. And so with that, although gold does act as a safe haven, I think in the short term anyway, maybe some gold bugs are going to be a little bit disappointed. But ultimately, gold is always a long-term play as it acts as a hedge against inflation. And so gold is pretty much just going to end up going higher and higher eventually, especially as we head into the economic cycle where countries are going into a recession. So recessions pretty much mean risk off, which then means more buying of gold. So let's see. But I think in the short term, I think with the dollar still being a buy, gold could potentially suffer. But if you are looking to buy gold, pretty much any pullbacks into demand zones are where you're looking for buys. So anyway, there, or I think the 1886 area is going to be quite nice as well as a buy there. Anyways, guys, hope you have a great trading week. Don't forget, I've got another video after this for you to watch. Hope you're going to have a great trading week and take care. There's no supportive data for me to want to get long on the New Zealand dollar, but there was something interesting here. And they said the main surprise though is though from a policy perspective was that the RBNZ has signalled that it plan to maintain tight policy for longer as it becomes more evident that the economy is already in recession to help ensure that inflation falls back to target. The RBNZ expected economy to continue contracting. And despite the weak growth outlook, the RBNZ updated its forecast from last week signaling and sorry, last week signaled a higher risk of one more rate hike. And that rate cuts aren't likely for about 18 months. So there is a bit of a bit of a light at the end of the tunnel. But when it comes to rate hikes, typically, typically, we say that rate hikes should appreciate a currency. But if they are in a recession, rate hikes will contract the economy even more. So although, so the market has to decide whether you know, they want to buy the New Zealand dollar in the face of the economy going into a deeper recession. And so if the market is looking at it like, okay, well, you know, it could be, they could go into a recession, but they'd like to come out of it sooner. If they hike rates and get inflation down, then the mark then then then a rate hike may appreciate the currency ever so slightly, or maybe a bit more than, you know, we expect. But if the market is more focused on, in fact, the economy and and the fact that it's negative for the economy, and it will make the economy go into a deeper and longer recession, in fact rate hikes in that environment may not be so supportive. Yeah, it might actually be a negative. So it doesn't mean that because you hear that they're going to hike rates that automatically you want to be a buyer, right? It doesn't mean that. In fact, again, as we know, I've just explained, it can be actually negative. So if you do, if we do see a rate hike on a New Zealand dollar, don't just automatically start to buy that New Zealand dollar because it could mean, you know, you could see a short term pop up, but the market is more focused on the recession side of things and it could drive the New Zealand dollar down. Sunny says, Swiss is a mystery. I avoid it. Yeah, by the way, I got short on the New Zealand, the New Zealand, sorry, the Swiss Yen, and it was really good. It's been a really good trade so far. New Zealand just don't want to cut early to ensure interest rates work through the economy. Their inflation is still high. Yeah. So they're in a very difficult position, Sunny, a very, very, very difficult position because they've got high inflation, but they're in a recession. So it's like the central bank, in fact, is in a very, very, very difficult position. So even if you wanted to buy the New Zealand dollar based off of interest rate hikes, it's a very difficult buy because the fact that they're in a recession. Do you know what I mean? So I personally would not, I'm not even thinking about buying the New Zealand dollar.  So the recent sharp drop in the Kiwi has attracted the attention of Arbien Zed's chief economist, Paul Conway, who stated that they will be mindful of the depreciation going forward. He said that recent depreciation effects of reduction in interest rate differentiations and risk aversion. The New Zealand dollar has underperformed this month alongside other commodity related currencies. There's been more focus on the loss of growth momentum in China. Arbien Zed chief economist Conway stated that if there was a more significant slowdown in China than the Arbien Zed expects, hurting exports and growth, we could lower the OCR sooner than we have signalled. Lower the OCR meaning we actually could cut sooner than they have signalled. Overall, the development should reinforce the Kiwi's recent bearish trend. It should reinforce it. So that for me, if you're looking at buying or selling the New Zealand dollar, there's no way on earth I'm putting my money to buy the New Zealand dollar. That just can't happen. So there's that. There's also some other news there. So that's with the New Zealand dollar done.


that we're gonna do an identity demonstration using the APIs as well as I'm gonna show you data sites and how they work and we're gonna show you some of the manual processes that you would follow if you wanted to create a link to a test. So I've logged into our dashboard here. If you're an ID Tech customer, you'd be familiar with this dashboard. I'm actually in the view of ID Tech test. This is a brand new demo account that we set up. So I don't have any ID Tech results listed here in this view. Over here, you'll see that I have a verify tab and on that verify tab, I have three things that I can do. I can go create a test link. I can see test links that I've created that haven't been run and I can see test results. If I go into the test results, I'll get a list of tests that we have run within this account, most of which we've run during the Connect conference today. But I'm gonna spend a little bit of time on the create test link. So Ben mentioned that you can do many of the steps relative to generating a test and sending a link to someone manually and that's what we're gonna do right now. So I'm gonna click on create test link and you get the simple screen here that Ben showed earlier, we can come in and I'll just type in Frank as an examinee name. These other fields aren't required, but just for the sake of the demo, I will type in an ID. And then down here, I can choose from some existing tests that I have associated with this account. So if I click on the dropdown here, you'll see the test. So I have some tests in Spanish that we showed earlier today and some tests in English. Just for the purposes of this demo, I'm going to click on the short demo test that deals with illegal drug use. So this would be like a pre-employment test that you'd give to law enforcement. And I'm just gonna select that and say submit. So what it's done is it's generated a link that I can send to someone and if they click on it, it will prompt them to download the app and run the test. You'll notice that I have three options here after I've created a link. Right from here, I could start the test. Now, if I clicked on this from my computer, it would tell me that I'm on a computer instead of on a mobile device. If I had actually done this from a browser on my cell phone in preparation for proctoring a test, I could click on start test and it would recognize them on my phone. It would launch the verify app and it would start the test. I could also copy it. So if I copied the link to the test, I could then go paste it in to maybe a texting app from my computer where I send the link to you. And the third option is to email the link. So if I click on that, it just launches my default email application that I have on this computer and this is the link that you see. So if I were to send that to you, you could click on it and take it. So this would be one way that you could do a demo. Russ will show you a way you can do a demo right on your phone here at the end. If I wanted to send you a link to take a numbers test, I could email the link to you and go through this process that you see here and you could take the numbers test. Okay, so that's, let me just say okay here. You'll notice that I'm in the view of test links that I've created that haven't been run. And you'll see here, there's Frank and the ID that I typed in, the name of the test. You can see the time at which I created it. And I could come back here and copy the link or access this page from my cell phone and click start test and take it from here. Okay, let me just go quickly show you data sites now. Once again, click on the create test link and type in a different name here just to keep you separate. And in this case, I am going to select a test that I have that has those variables, the squiggly brackets in it that indicate, this is a string that needs to be replaced with something. Well, let's choose this short demo identity validation data sites test.  So it looks at the test and it recognizes that I have a field, a variable field called first name and last name and eye color. And it just goes through the test and it looks at the questions. So these are questions here that mention the person's name, whatever the variable is that I'm typing in here. So once again, this is a manual process. You could run an identity verification test from here where you dynamically, you create the test with these variables in it and you get this automatically to where I can come in here and say, well, the person I want to test is has a first name of John and the last name is Jones. Okay, actually before I do that, I've typed in John here and I can click on this plus sign that Ben was talking about. Notice how it filled in every occurrence where I have a variable field called first name. So here and here got filled in. What's to the same for the last name? We're going to type in Jones here and I'm going to hit the plus sign and you'll watch. You'll see it filled it in there and there and the last field that I have is eye color and I'm just going to type in blue, get the plus sign and you'll see that blue has been filled in. So now if I click submit, we'll generate the link and just as I showed you before, I can start it. If I'd done this from my phone, I can copy it and text it to you, I can email it. But the idea is that if you go back to this list and see the test links that I have created, there's the one I created and it's ready to go and it will inject where it says, my eyes are blue.  It will say is your name Megan and go from there. Okay, so let's jump now to an actual site. This is a site that we've constructed. So it's on the web and our goal is to make this available to you that you can use as a sandbox if you're going to develop your own implementation that's very similar, maybe run your own demos. And we've created two demos with the APIs that have automated this process of creating a link and sending the link out. So the first one I'm going to do is this employment screening test. And the idea here is that someone goes to your website, they fill out the job application and you want to automatically send them a link that they can click on and take a test. You're not using any variables. It is a standard test that everyone gets and asks the same questions, but you want to easily send it to them. So the way this works is I'm going to act as if I were Russ and Russ is applying for a back-end services or back-end server developer position that this company has posted on their website. So he comes in here and he fills out the fields, he types in his first and last name, puts his email address in and his phone number and we've made this international aware. So I'll put a plus sign in there so it knows it's a US based number. Got Russ put in his address here and he could drag and drop his resume over. So he's gone to the website, filled out the application. And that's it. It's using the API to say when Russ clicks apply, automatically text to this number, the verify link and automatically send him an email. It actually does both. So I'm going to click apply. Notice up here just for brief second, it's creating the test and the test has been created. So I'm going to stop sharing now. Okay. Okay. I will go to my messaging app. There's a link there that's new. When I click on it, hopefully you can see that. It asked me to load the app which I'll do. Oh, sorry. I do this every time. Open. It opens the app, it downloads the test and it did it so fast. It's even hard to see. It opened the app and it downloaded the test contents to my phone. The next step, I am presented with the ULA agreement, the end user license agreement, which I know all of you do as I do. We read it about this fast anytime it's presented. The next is a consent form. If you're a polygraph examiner, I detect service provider, you probably use consent forms. It's actually a best practice. Get the examinee to agree that it's voluntary to take the test and a few other things. So we present that. Oops. I have to read that one. The next screen is a message indicating and we use the flashlight of the phone during the test. One of the reasons for that is to eliminate darker colored eyes and to eliminate a room if it's dark. So we give a notice here that some people are light sensitive and if that's the case, be aware. I'm just going to admit or accept that I'm aware. It did a little quick check right there. It was very fast. You didn't notice it. It checked to ensure that my volume is up. Yep, it's up. That I have enough processing power or disk memory, I should say, and battery life. You have to have at least 20%. We don't want the test to drop during because of battery. This screen here says, turn on, do not disturb. It's a good idea to not get interrupted with a phone call while you're testing because that could stop the test. And if you stop a test in between or in the middle, well, anytime during the test, you'll have to start over because that will nullify the test. We won't know where you stopped, what was going on. So I accept or I confirm that I turned on, do not disturb. The next is to start the test. And guess what I did, Todd? This test is based on the idea that a deceptive person will have a difficult time answering the question. I'm in proctor mode. So deceptive people answer too slowly. Other deceptive people make lots of mistakes. Well, what would you suggest? I'll make too many mistakes. You will fail the test. If you do not hear a tone after you answer and you hear a time limit expired, speak up, or you will fail the test, you will now take the truth verification test to begin, say start. Start, start. Yeah, you gotta get in the right spot, Russ. You're not in the right spot. Regarding the use of illegal drugs, I am innocent. True. On the topic of committing violent crimes, I am clean. True. As to having ties to terrorist groups, I am responsible. False. Concerning the use of illegal drugs, I am guilty. False. On the topic of having ties to terrorists, I am innocent. True. With regard to committing a violent crime, I am guilty. False. Concerning the issue of having terrorist ties, I am guilty. False. Test completed. At that moment, the test data is processed, the measurements from my eyes and other things. It's processing that, uploading, yes? Yeah, so I just mentioned, Russ forgot to flip his phone back from proctor mode to solo mode under normal circumstances because he filled out a job application and we're sending him a link to take a test for the first time. It would have forced him to go through that tutorial that I showed in my presentation at the beginning. He had shown a demo in proctor mode. The demo in proctor mode assumes that there is a proctor and it lets the proctor see whether, in this case, Russ's face is in the right position. It doesn't tell Russ to put the phone in the right position because it's presumed that you have a proctor. There are cues on the phone that show you whether you need to move the phone up or down and so forth. Usually, you'd have it in a selfie stick to do that. So anyway, you got to see a proctor mode demonstration on the next test. We'll, between now and then, we'll have Russ flip his phone back to solo mode so that you can see how that works. After the data was processed and uploaded, I get a message that says, thank you, back to home. And when you do that, you're back. Okay, so I'm going to click on my demo drop down here and choose our identity verification site. And this looks similar to the job employment site. The difference is this demo assumes this is a government site and it wants you as an individual to provide some information from which they are going to try to confirm your identity before they grant you access to the site. And so I'm going to follow the same process that I did before, just assume that I am Russ accessing this site. I'm going to put in my information as Russ. You'll notice that there are a couple of different fields here. So you do have a phone number and that's required to, this is Russ's cell phone number where I'm going to text this to him. It's now prompting for some PII like his date of birth. We're not making this a required field, but one of the fields that is required and that's pertinent to the test is eye color. So this is one of those data site fields that are variable fields. And I'm going to type in green. Russ has green eyes, that would show up on his driver's license if he had to submit a copy of that. And when he gets to the test, just pay attention to what it's asking. That's going to ask him specifically, are you Russ Warner? And some of the questions are going to ask if his eyes are green. So with this, let's go ahead and click submit. Again, creating the test here and the test has been created. So I'm going to stop sharing and Russ should immediately get a text. Takes five seconds for the text to come through. Boom, there it is. There it is. I'm going to accept the new test. And load the app. It loads very quickly, download the test. I'm not going to explain accepting the ULA again or the consent form again. After I go through these first few logistical paperwork types of things, soon the tutorial will begin. This test monitors your eyes to determine truthfulness. Follow these instructions for best results. Take the test indoors and avoid direct light sources such as windows, TVs and computer screens which can affect test results. Take the test in a quiet place without interruption. Sit comfortably and rest your elbow on a table. You need to hold your phone steady for about five minutes. Listen to instructions and answer verbally. Do not use earbuds or headphones. When instructed, remove eyeglasses. Contacts are okay. Reading is not required. When instructed, flip the phone upside down with the back camera at the bottom facing you. Position the middle of the phone level with your eyes. Hold the phone about a phone length away. You will be alerted if the phone's out of position. Don't cover the camera with your hand or fingers. The phone's light will be enabled during the test. Do not look directly at it. Look halfway up the phone ride above the camera. The tutorial is finished. Remember that is the experience the self-administered person will get. It says on this button start practice test which I will allow. The light came on. This is what we have to do. One, you have participated in selling a stolen identity. Two, if your legal name is Russ Warner. And three, whether your natural eye color is green. You will now take the practice test to begin. Say start. Start. Remove any eyeglasses now. Flip the phone upside down with the back camera at the bottom and facing you. Once the phone is in the correct position, the practice test will begin. Move the phone closer to your face. Move the phone closer to your face. You are in position. The practice test will now begin. Remember to answer verbally. Regarding cell phones, I can see one right now. True. In regard to large screen TVs, I am looking at one right now. False. You have finished the practice test. To begin the actual test, say start. Start. This test is based on the idea that a deceptive person will have a difficult time answering the questions quickly and accurately. Some deceptive people answer too slowly. Other deceptive people make lots of mistakes. So if you take too long to answer or make too many mistakes, you will fail the test. If you do not hear a tone after you answer and you hear a time limit expired, speak up, or you will fail the test, you will now take the truth verification test to begin. Say start. Start. Start. No face detected. Move the phone into position. Move the phone closer to your face. In terms of my legal name, it is Russ Warner. True. On the topic of the natural color of my eyes, it is green. True. As dishelling stolen identities in the past, I am responsible. False. About my legal name, it is not Russ Warner. False. On the topic of selling a stolen identity, I am innocent. True. Concerning the natural color of my eyes, it is not green. False. Concerning the sale of stolen identities, I am guilty. False. Test completed. You can look at the screen now. However, do not close the app until the test is uploaded. Same process is occurring. The measurements are uploaded to the server. Sorry, process first uploaded to the server. That's happening now. When it finishes, I will get the little message that says thank you. And I'll turn the time.  Yeah, let's go take a look at the reports while you get set up to do the next part. All right. And let's go back into our dashboard. As I mentioned, there is a place to create links, to see what links have been created and see test results. So let's go to our test results. And you'll see the first test that we ran. This was our short demo test dealing with illegal drug use. You can see what time it was run. You can see the score. Because this is a demo where we're only asking two questions about each of the topics in the test, it is hardcoded to score a 99 since it's a demo. But let's go ahead and open it up. And we'll see the report. You'll notice that Russ moved the phone away from his face to move it closer to the camera and the microphone so that you could hear it. You'll notice that on that second test, the identity verification test, it wouldn't continue because it wasn't detecting his face. We randomly capture four photos during the different times, random times during the course of the exam. The first photo was snapped when Russ had moved the phone back closer to the camera where it wasn't on his face. And so we don't get a picture of him taking the test here. So you can see it was real. We get an indication of whether he was credible or deceptive. We can see the number of unexpected answers, 0%. No, 33% here. So I don't know, Russ, did you answer intentionally one of those opposite the way we expect? Must have. Either that or maybe it didn't understand what he said. But maybe that is the unrecognized answer here. But anyway, you see the outcomes. So that's the employment test. Let's go look at, come back in here, go back to the test results. And now you can see that it has scored and processed on the server the identity validation test that uses the data sites. In the test, you should have heard it say, is your name Russ Warner or are you Russ Warner? Are your eyes green? And if we go into this here, once again, he wasn't holding the phone in the right position, so we don't get a picture in the first screen. And this is using data sites where the data is data that the customer doesn't want us to see, the PII, that the customer doesn't want us to see. So when I come down here and look at the report, you'll notice that all we see is something in the preamble that says that you're going to be asked if your legal name is first name, last name. So this is something we don't see. It's something that is being served up from a question server, and it requires you the implementer where you don't want this information shared with us to compile that together. Now, this is a demo, so we're showing you the photos that normally would go back to the question server as well. But you can see the flexibility in being able to not let us see certain things and completely automate the process. So with that, we're going to switch now. Russ has accessed the team's meeting from his mobile phone. He's going to share his screen on his mobile phone so that you can see him operating. OK, I'm going to show two things, right? The gear and the test status. Yep. In the upper right corner of the screen, you see a gear. It's a settings icon. If I click on it, the menu pops up and indicates that I'm currently running in solo mode. A few moments ago when I ran the test, I was in proctor mode. Here you can change this, but this is just like an about message. It tells you the solo mode you're in that you're in solo mode, your version and build number. If I click on the word build number seven times, a new menu appears where I can switch my phone to proctor mode in the event I want to run multiple tests on others. I can also skip the tutorial in the event I'm a proctor and I've already explained this information to someone. I can even skip the practice test if that's important or needed in this case. You'll notice at the bottom of the page, anything else caught on these items before I go to the demo? Just some people that ask about the flashlight on the iPhones, we can actually control the brightness of the flashlight. Unfortunately, the lowest setting that Apple allows us to apply programmatically is 25% of the light. On Android phones, Google has not given access through an API to change the brightness of the flashlight. So one of the things you might do is if you're using this in proctor mode, you could turn the flashlight off. That's the last option in that list. And then you could attach a nice small soft light just below the phone on the selfie stick so that you're still illuminating the eyes and reducing the likelihood of getting reflections in the eyes. But by default, that flashlight is turned on in solo mode. It's something that you can't control unless you knew how to get in here and turn it off. Technically, you could do that. But you're at the risk of us not being able to get good data. If you take the test in an environment where the lighting is bad, get lots of reflection or whatever else. The last thing here that Russ is showing is this option to take a demo test. If you click on that, it will run a standardized demo test as if we had sent you a link. It's run completely self-contained on the phone. So if you say, well, I wanna see the report after. There is no report because it is literally just launching. It's an actual test, but it's self-contained on the phone. And it will give you the ability to see how it works, see where you need to position the phone and experience it from end to end. So you can play with that yourself. If you've downloaded the app already from the App Store, then as Russ mentioned, you get into this menu by tapping the build number seven times in succession fairly quickly, and then that will pop up. The method of doing that is actually a very common method on Android phones in situations where you wanna make more advanced features available, but you don't want those readily available to the lay user. You can go tap the build number seven times on other Android apps, especially, and it will open this up. So it's not that we're trying to hide it, it's just that for the typical user that you're gonna send a link to, they wouldn't know that, they wouldn't see it or easily stumble across it. Okay, next. In the upper left corner of the screen, you see three dots, basically. Oh, before I do that, I want to go back to my text message, go back to text message and copy the last link. Let's copy it and go back to the app. So let's assume that you're a proctor and you've scheduled 10 people to be tested today. When I go into this menu or the screen, we call it the test status screen, I'm going to click the add test from clipboard blue button at the top. And because I just copied something in the clipboard and I'm allowing it, what essentially happens is the test that I just ran, which I finished and it actually shows you right here. First of all, the six digit number, I believe are the last six digits of that extremely long test link. Status is finished, it tells you the date and time. I could make notes for myself. Now, you could go through. Hey Russ, the other approach is you could log in to the dashboard from your phone. So through a web browser, you log into the dashboard and you go create a link manually like I did. And remember I mentioned that there are three options. One is to email it, another is to copy it and then the last one was to run it. You could actually run the test right after you create the link if you do it from your phone. And then you could cancel, you could, after it starts to run, you could cancel out of it. And it would show up canceled in this list here or that it downloaded but was never run. That would be the status. And then you could come back and run it or you could copy it from the dashboard kind of like Rustis did in terms of copying a valid link from the text message. And you could put it in here and as Russ did he put in Russ test.  Put in some identifier with it.  You could have it resume prior to the ULA being accepted. And still let them accept the ULA and accept the consent form and so forth and take the test in proctor mode. We do appreciate your time and attention everyone. Of course, if you have questions after the fact and you don't know where to send them, send any emails to infoatconveris.com. Again, grateful for your time and attention. If you go to our website, you'll find much more information on verify. Just start on the homepage and you'll see it immediately. Anything else, Todd? No. Okay, then we will bid you adieu for another 12 months. Thanks everybody.


Hello friends. I'm Sanjay Gupta. I welcome you on Sanjay Gupta Tech School. In this video, I'm going to tell you a brief introduction about Singly link list. Before start, if you want to watch more videos related to link list and data structure and algorithm, so you can go to description of this video where you will find link up playlist and you can follow them. So, starting with this introduction, link list is a sequence of data structures which are connected together via links. So, in case of array, we have sequential memory location and we process locations with the help of indexes, but that doesn't happen in case of link list. So, in case of link list, if you want to move from one location to another, so we use links and addresses. So, second point says link list is a sequence of links which contains items. Each link contains a connection to another link. So, link list is the second most used data structure after array. So, similar to array, we can store values in link list as well. So, this is the simple diagram through which you can visualize or you can create an imagination in your mind like how link representation creates in memory. So, this is the head which will be storing the base address of this node. So, in case of link list, we create nodes. So, here in this diagram, you can see three nodes are available. Node one, node two and node three. And each node is internally divided into two parts. First is, first will be storing data, value or item. And second is known as pointer to next node. So, this node will be storing address of another node. So, first node, next pointer will be storing address of second node. Then second node, next pointer will be storing address of third node. Then third node, next pointer will be storing address of fourth node, but fourth node is not available. So, third node, next pointer will be having none. So, this way, whenever you create a memory block, so this node will be created and it will be linked with this link representation. So, in case of link list, we don't allocate memory as a whole. So, whenever we want to store any value, first we create a node structure and then we decide where to insert that node. Either in the beginning or at the end or in the mid of the link list. So, this is the basic representation of link list. Now, we need to discuss some advantages and also disadvantages of the link list. So, first advantages are, so link list is a dynamic data structure which can grow and be grown by allocating and deallocating memory while the program is running. So, we can increase and decrease the values or you can say size or memory of link list. So, if we want to insert any value, we can create a node and we can insert that into link list. If we want to remove any value, then we can delete that location or you can say we can remove that node or memory from the link list so that it can be deallocated. So, this way we can do insertion and deletion operations. So, second point says insertion and deletion of node operations are easily implemented in a link list because in case of array if you want to insert any element. So, we need to shift all other elements like if you want to insert any element at the beginning. So, you need to shift all the elements by one position. But in case of link list, you don't need to do this because you can just manage the addresses and you can easily insert any node or any number without moving all the nodes or values to right inside or left inside. Then third point says dynamic data structures such as tags and use can be implemented in a link list. Then fourth point, there is no need to define an initial size for a link list. So, in case of array, we need to put the initial size or if we allocate array dynamically, then also we need to put initial size by reading value from the user. But in case of link list, we don't need any initial size. If you want to store a value then create a node and then store the value and put that node in the link list. Then next is items can be added or removed from the middle of list. So, this we can do then backtracking is possible in case of two way link list. So, if we have two way link list, in that case we can either move from left to right or we can move right to left. So, backtracking is possible in that case. So, these were the advantages. Now, let me discuss the disadvantages so that you can know like what are the drawbacks of using link list. So, they use memory more than arrays because of the storage inside their pointers. So, to store one value we require two blocks. So, additional amount of memory is required as compared to array. Second point says nodes in a link list must be read in order from the beginning as link list are inherently, sorry, inherently sequential access. So, in case of array, we can directly access a particular index or you can say we can access any location directly but in case of link list you cannot do so because you need to traverse each and every node one by one and then you can access a particular location. So, this is the drawback. Then third point says nodes are stored in continuously or greatly increasing the time required to access individual elements within the list, especially with a CPU cache. So, this is another problem. Then last is difficulties arises in link list when it comes to the worst traversing. For instance, single link lists are cumbersome to navigate backwards and while doubly linked lists or two way linked lists are somewhat easier to read, memory is consumed in allocating space for back pointer. So, there is one advantage with two way or doubly linked lists like we can backtrack but the drawback is we need extra memory to store the back pointer. So, these all are drawbacks of using link list but you need to decide your priority like you can prefer array or you can prefer link list. So, if you don't want to allocate initial memory then you can prefer link list but if you can allocate initial memory or you can visualize like how many blocks you need to allocate. So, in that case you can choose array but you are not sure like how many memory blocks are required and dynamically you want to increase or decrease your memory size so in that case link list will be better to use. So, both have their pros and cons arrays and link list so choose a particular data structure wisely to store your data. So, I hope you understood brief information about link list so watch my next video that is available in the playlist and link is available in the description of this video where I will compare in the lecture like the difference between static array, dynamic array and then link list. So, with the help of board and pen I will be drawing each and everything on the board and you will be visualizing the things like how we created one variable then we create static array then we create dynamic array and then create link list. So, these are step by step modifications or memory allocations I will be explaining you so watch that video too so that you can understand the requirement of link list. So, I hope you understood this brief introduction of link list. Thank you for watching this video.