Iceslippery is one of the more interesting questions I think we get often times and on a basic level it really comes down to friction. So when we're walking on a carpet or a wood floor we have a pretty good contact but for some reason when we're on ice we just don't get that same level of grip basically and that causes us to slip and it causes our cars to slip and so we fall down and it's one of the more slippery substances out there. The reason ice is slippery is not because it's frozen and solid like you would think of as an ice cube but that there's a really fine layer of water sitting on top of the ice and that is acting kind of like a lubricant and it causes you to slide over that layer of ice which the frozen part is not the slippery part of it.


And now to our interview segment. I'm now being joined by the President of the Association of Small Business Owners in Nigeria, Asbon, Femi, and Bershula to look at the state of Assamese, its survival amid the macroeconomic challenges that ease the devil in most businesses in the country. Thanks for joining me, Femi. Femi, can you come over with me? All right, it is indeed our pleasure. Let's just start by this report that we hear that small businesses fold up due primarily to lack of basic financial literacy. You have been at Asbon for quite some time and how true is this? And what has Asbon, or what can be done, particularly about that? I didn't get your question right. Please can you take that question? I was talking about some SMEs actually died in Nigeria as a result of financial or lack of basic financial literacy. Is this true? If it is true, what can be done? Or what has Asbon done about it? Well, it's unfortunate that even in this 21st century, financial literacy is still a challenge to nano, micro, and small business owners. Quite a number of us have not yet come to the reality of the day by embracing financial literacy. And that's why you will discover that many of us have challenges when this new cash policy, cashless policy was introduced. It was difficult for quite a number of SMEs to migrate immediately from the cash-dependent economy to cash-less economy. And then for us as an association, we take it as one of our strategic duties to ensure that we have businesses of scale, especially when it comes to financial literacy. Some of the things we do is that we engage them in training and retraining. We keep letting them know that there's no way they can survive into this business world without embracing financial literacy. And we're happy that quite a lot of organizations are also supporting us in ensuring that we are able to train our TV members into becoming financial districts and also engaging themselves in some sort of banking, trading and businesses. They have migrated now, quite a number of our members have migrated now from the unbanked sector to become customers of different banks. And this has helped their businesses. We also ensure that over time, we help them to navigate their businesses in a way of providing soft landing for those items, those gadgets, those digital issues that may be relevant to their businesses. One of such is that we are ready for them to be able to have accounting software that they can access for free for the first one year without payments. And we believe that after the first one year, they will be able to have funds to not begin to pay for each of their items. With accounting software, it helps them to do their monthly and yearly auditing without the need of an auditor. It helps them to automatically file their tax returns and then much more. It also does the PR and the HR that the company needs from time to time. And this has also eased their business. We also make sure that we get them point of sales machines, POS machines at no cost. And with this, it helps them to make their businesses seamless. And we make sure to do that and their businesses are registered because it takes a registered business to be able to engage with the banks. So we make sure they have their businesses registered. Those who cannot afford to register their businesses at immediate, we support them with some kind of funding while they pay back on an instrumental basis. This is one of the many things we do to migrate them from being financially literate to become financially literate. That's a very good one, FM. But let's look at what I started to show in my intro. I talked about them how most small businesses in Nigeria are not insured. According to the LCCI, just about 0.5% of SMEs are insured in Nigeria compared to what we have globally, which is 54%. As important as insurance is to SMEs, I know we've had issues over the past few years with COVID-19 and other issues that actually affected the global economy. What would have thought that SMEs would have gotten some sort of a buffer if they were insured? So is it like Asbon, or is it that Asbon is actually opposed to insurance or somewhere I read that you said that insurance has failed small businesses. Can you expatiate, please? Well, over time, Nigerians in general and business owners, particularly micro and small business owners in particular, are vast insurance. And this is because over a period of time, we have subscribed to insurance and when it is time for claims, the claims did not either come or are delayed or did not come in a way or in a quantity that we expected it to be. And that has actually discouraged a lot of small business owners from embracing insurance. And one of the reason that we have highlighted with the other time is because the awareness is not even there now. How many Nigerians, how many SMEs are actually aware of the benefits of insurance? In other claims where we have 70, 80% of the populace embracing insurance, we have less than 10% here in Nigeria because the awareness is not done enough. And I think this is a time that insurance companies need to wake up to do more awareness that they have been doing before. We also discovered that one of the issue that we face as business owners is that many of the policies are too expensive. They are not affordable to us. To some, the documentation is just too lengthy. Many of the members are not too good in reading lengthy documents and some of them are awarded in such a way that it's only lawyers that can understand them. So I think it is time for insurance companies to begin to break this down to see how they can ward them in a way that a common man on the street can understand. Do them in a less seamless way such that within one or two pages we're able to get what we want and sign up if you are interested in insurance and target it to the specific needs of the SMEs. We have different needs at different sectors. The particular need of an SME who is into that great sector is different from the person that is in the ICT sector or perhaps in the trading sector. We need insurance that can be targeted to our needs such that it's to be able to meet what we want and that will help us to be able to appreciate insurance the most. All right, let me very quickly, we have to wrap up. But I need to get two questions just before we go. So you just have to be very prompt to respond. Firstly, I want to talk about countries and tax system. Over time, most businesses, even the average Nigerian complains about double taxation or multiple taxation as it were. And very quickly, how would you say the impact of regulation specifically in the tax system in Nigeria has affected them small businesses? The tax system in Nigeria still needs much to be desired because we are faced with so many taxes. Many of them are multiple taxes. Many of them are just coming from the blues and I think it is time to advise governments to one, make sure that taxes are harmonized. We have harmonized taxes and also those taxes should be made public.  So whether that person comes demanding for different kind of taxes, are we able to say no, this is not right. Today we have taxes from federal government, local government, state government and many of them are multiplicated. In today's business, we have seen some of the business owners contracted with over 100 different taxes. That is killing and so it's not happy business. Government needs to do more about harmonizing taxes. Yeah, as we round off with you now, Femi, let's talk about something that's equally important. You know, recently, the National Bureau of Statistics, MBS reported that Nigeria's inflation rate rose to 22.04, which is 2.04% in March. In clear terms, how has it affected small businesses in Nigeria? You have 30 seconds to answer that, Femi. It has made a lot of small businesses close shop. I can tell you that quite a number of business owners have closed shop. Well over 20% of businesses has folded up because of the high inflation we have experienced, particularly from the COVID-19 year to this particular time. It makes it impossible for us to upgrade. First is that it has depleted the purchasing power of the consumers. So the consumers can no longer buy as they used to be. For those who are buying up to 40, 30 product, a quantity of a particular product, can no longer buy even half of that particular quantity. And for us also who are the business owners, we are challenged with the issue of our raw materials. Inflation has eaten our capital. If you need to get, for example, 50 KG of a particular raw material before, you need that same phone you need two years ago to now get about 15 or 20 KG of that same quantity. And what does this imply? It implies that we need to begin to now halt our overhead. And that means that we have to check some weights. One of such weights is reducing our substance, which is also increasing our employment. And this is not good enough. We are hopeful that in the new government that is coming on board, they will walk around the clock to check, make inflation so that the economy can grow. If the small business owners are able to grow their businesses and upscale, the economy itself will grow. Maybe to do more of exports, we'll be able to also compete more globally and it will be better for us because we end up in reducing the joblessness. Thank you so much, Femi. We do appreciate the time and all of the inputs that you have brought to the show this morning. Femi Egbeshwila is the president of Aspwn. He's the association of small business owners in Nigeria. Thank you so much. We do appreciate your time. All right, we'll move on next. Thank you once again for having me. All right.


Home Depot's 93-year-old billionaire co-founder Bernard Marcus has some thoughts about American workers and I'm sure that you'll be not very surprised to learn that what he has to say isn't just vapid and wrong, but it's also downright infuriating, so you've been warned.  Mr. Marcus, who has an estimated net worth of $8.9 billion said in the interview that socialism was now why nobody works, nobody gives a damn, just give it to me, send me money, I don't want to work, I'm too lazy, I'm too fat, I'm too stupid," he told the Financial Times.   But I love how he's living in this alternate reality where the woke people took over the world and they installed socialism. I mean, I wasn't aware that we won, did you hear the news comrades? We have socialism, we have achieved socialism in the United States, and now because we have socialism, we can choose to not work and just collect a check from the government. I don't know if you got the memo, but he's telling us that now they lost and we won.  But basically, when he says, just give it to me, send me money, I don't want to work, that's literally what he did, right? He may have co-founded Home Depot, but that company would be nothing without its workers. So while he just barked orders at them, he collected money while his workers did everything. His workers were being exploited while his wealth continued to grow and grow and grow.  Now, I'm sure you'll be surprised also to learn that this billionaire has a strong affinity for capitalism. And I want to read what he has to say, because what he says here, it really gives us some insight into how twisted his mentality is. He says, Capitalism is the basis of Home Depot. Millions of people have earned this success and had success, Mr. Marcus told The Financial Times in an interview published on Thursday. I'm talking manufacturers, vendors and distributors and people who work for us who have been able to enrich themselves by the journey of Home Depot. That's the success. That's why capitalism works, except capitalism works for people like you, but not your workers who have not been able to enrich themselves. He's actually claiming that Home Depot's employees haven't enriched themselves because they work at Home Depot. Okay, well, we can actually look this stuff up. So let's look at how Home Depot has treated the executives compared to just rank and file employees. Bernie Marcus is worth an estimated $8.8 billion, although the independent claimed $8.9 billion. Still, he's worth billions of dollars. Home Depot's current CEO, Edward Decker, is worth an estimated $49 million. But let's look at the employees. So if you're a cashier at Home Depot, you'll be making an average of $13 per hour or $27,000 per year. That is, if you're lucky enough to achieve 40 hours per week. Now, merchandisers and sales associates make an average of $14.06 and $14.86 per hour or $29,031,000 nearly respectively. And these are estimates, by the way, warehouse associates only fare a little bit better at Home Depot, making over $33,000 per year. But senior management does do pretty well at $137,000 on average per year. But a majority of Home Depot employees believe that they're not paid fairly because they're not. With 46% of more than 1,000 people believing that they're not paid fairly.  It's enriched you and CEOs and executives and shareholders, but it has not enriched workers. To a lesser extent, it has enriched management, but still that pales in the comparison to the amount of money that the CEOs have been able to make from these corporations. And I say corporations more broadly speaking, because Home Depot isn't an exception to the rule. It is the rule. Lots of these multinational corporations exploit their employees and expect them to be perfectly happy working full time and still not being able to pay the bills. See, I don't know why Bernard Marcus came to this conclusion. I mean, aside from ignorance, but I'm assuming like he walked through a Home Depot and goes through these stores and he sees these really unhappy, sad people who are working there and he thinks, wow, it must be because they'd rather not work because they're lazy and they don't want to do anything. But in actuality, it's because they're being exploited. They're not lazy. And when you look at the Economic Policy Institute's policy pay gap, they dismantle this notion that workers are lazy. Workers are more productive than they have ever been, but their wages aren't rising with productivity and the gap has continued to widen since this trend began in the 1980s. But yet he incorrectly claims that workers aren't as productive and they're lazy and that laziness can be attributed to socialism that we've obviously achieved here in the United States in the year 2023. But no, we don't have socialism. And even if he hates socialism, I at least expect you to have like a somewhat coherent definition of it, especially if you are this much of a simp for capitalism. Wouldn't you know the main alternative to capitalism? But no, it's because he's ignorant, so he doesn't have to learn these things. But socialism is when workers own the means of production, when workplace democracy has been achieved. And given that corporations like Home Depot are still run as if they're authoritarian regimes by tyrannical executives is evidence that we have not yet achieved socialism. I mean, these corporations, if you think about it, aren't any different than these authoritarian countries that are resource rich, where you have a dictator that just like keeps all of the profits from oil, for example, and doesn't share that wealth with the population. The same is true for these corporations, where they exploit their employees and they don't give them back the money that they make for the company. So there is an alternative to capitalism. And yes, that is workplace democracy. That is socialism. So I want to share a video from Professor Richard Wolf where he explains this alternative. And then when we come back, I have a couple of examples of how that would work and what that would look like in practice that I'll share with you. We would like enterprises to be governed not only by the workers who work there. In other words, we're focused on democratizing the workplace. And step one is stopping a small and accountable minority capitalist way from running enterprises and giving that over to the democracy of all those who work there. But that's only step one. Step two is to make enterprises also accountable and responsible to the communities in which they exist and the customers whom they serve. And there has to be a way to make the decision making democratic first in terms of the workers who work there and who in the most immediate and total sense depend on that enterprise, but also also the community where the enterprise is located, which is affected by its decisions, and the customers who are likewise affected by its decisions. So we tend to move in the direction of a kind of co-determination, if you like, co-decision making in which a particularly important place because of their important dependence on these decisions is given to the workers. But there has to be representation, voting authority veto power, if you like, on the part of the communities and the customers, because they too are stakeholders in what a good democratic economic system would work like. So it's a process of moving democratically away from the autocracy of capitalism inside enterprises, opening it up first to the workers and then step two to the communities where they're located and the customers whom they serve. Beautifully put, now the reason why this system is preferable and why more and more people want a socialist system is because capitalism isn't benefiting them. So let's say, for example, a corporation makes $10 billion in profit in a year. Rather than just having the executives unilaterally choose what to do with that extra money, oftentimes they buy back their own stocks, you can have workers collectively vote on what to do with that money and it can benefit everyone as opposed to shareholders or executives. Workers can choose to instead increase pay for everyone across the board or increase benefits. But the difference is a democratic decision is being made in this system. Whereas with capitalism, you don't get to choose what your company does.  They even control your speech. They control what you can say, how you express yourself with your clothing. They can choose whether or not you're allowed to have tattoos, what types of hairstyles you have. These are tyrannical organizations, but yet we don't view corporations as authoritarian or democratic in the same way that we view countries as authoritarian and democratic. And I think that we need to view them that way because we're at these corporations, these jobs, our employers, for the majority of the days of our lives. So we should at least have more of a say over what they do, what decisions they make. We should be able to, if we live in a community, say that a particular oil company can't frack in our backyard and poison our water because these are decisions that are being made by executives that have no stake in the communities that they're exploiting. So if we had democratic control of these corporations, you can imagine how things would be a little bit different. I don't believe in utopia, so it wouldn't be the end all be all, but it would be much better than the current system where we just have corporations as dictatorships. I mean, why do you think so many corporations like Starbucks and Amazon are against unionization? It's because this employer employee relationship is inherently exploitative. And when workers collectively bargain, they have more leverage and the nature of that relationship changes. So these corporations, they function more effectively for themselves in the current state if they're able to just unilaterally make decisions about what the company does with the wealth that their workers produce. But when workers get a say, that's when things change. And that's what they're afraid of. That's why they're so afraid of socialism. But ironically, as I stated earlier, individuals like Bernie Marcus don't realize that people wouldn't be interested in socialism in the first place if they weren't so damn greedy, but they have had to have it all. Every penny that they could extract from their employees, any way that they could cut corners, cut benefits, they did it all because they were so greedy, leaving people desperate.  They're exploited. And they're tired of the exploitation. And that's why they're currently dissatisfied. But people like Bernie Marcus don't realize that because they live in a bubble. And if capitalism was so beneficial to them, then why change it? Why would you not fight to maintain the status quo that made you grotesquely wealthy? So that's what we're seeing here. But just the fact that he's so worried about socialism is a really good sign. And this is why we have to educate our co-workers, our peers about workplace democracy and the importance of socialism. Because the current system isn't just unsustainable for workers. It's unsustainable for the planet and the quicker that we move on from capitalism, the better off humanity will be.


There must have been some magic in that old top hat they found because when they placed it on his head he began to dance around. Frosty the Snowman began as a song recorded by Gene Autry in 1950. Hot off his hit Root Off the Red Nose Reindeer from the previous year, Autry searched for a new seasonal hit. In came Walter Jack Rollins and Steve Nelson. It was originally released on the B side of Autry's record when Santa Claus gets your letter, later the same year through Columbia Records. It became an international hit and a permanent part of many family's Christmas celebrations. Though it's generally considered a Christmas song, the original lyrics actually make no mention of the holiday. In 1969, production studio Rankin Bass released the animated TV special on CBS television. The cast for the Christmas special includes Jackie Vernon as Frosty, Jimmy Durant as the narrator, June Faray as Karen, Susan Davidson as Karen in the later airings, Greg Thomas as Karen's friend, Billy DeWolf as Professor Henkel, and Paul Fries as the traffic cop, ticket man, and Santa Claus. The special story follows a group of schoolchildren who built a snowman called Frosty and placed a magic hat on his head. This makes the snowman come to life with enchanted power, but after noticing the high temperature and fearing that he will melt, Frosty along with a young girl named Karen and a rabbit named Hocus Pocus must go to the North Pole to be safe from melting. TV Guide ranked the special number nine on its 10 best holiday specials list. In 1989 and 1993, Family Home Entertainment released the special on VHS as part of the Christmas Classic series and paired it with the Little Drummer Boy on Laserdisc in 1992. It came to DVD in 2002, 2004, and 2007, followed by a Blu-ray release by Gaim Vivendi Entertainment in 2010. Sequels to the Christmas special include Frosty's Winter Wonderland from 1976 with Jack Vernon reprising the role of Frosty and Andy Griffith serving as the narrator, as well as Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July from 1979. Frosty returns in 1992 which featured John Goodman as the voice of Frosty and Jonathan Winters as the narrator. And finally, The Legend of Frosty the Snowman from 2005, which was a straight to video release by Classic Media where Bill Fagerbach was cast to voice Frosty and Bert Reynolds features as the narrator. The film holds only loose continuity with the rank and bass special from 1969. In it, Professor Hinkel is reformed and has a grandson by the name of Tommy who's the cartoon's protagonist. Now you may be wondering why Rank and Bass didn't do the most recent follow-up. You see, the production company closed production on March 4th 1987. The pre-1974 Rank and Bass Library was purchased by Universal Pictures via DreamWorks Animation and Warner Brothers purchased the rights to all media produced by Rank and Bass after 1974. In Frosty's Winter Wonderland, Frosty is given a wife named Crystal who is voiced by Shelley Winters and in Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July is revealed Frosty and Crystal are parents. In 1998, the story of Frosty inspired the Michael Keaton film Jack Frost which tells the story of a neglectful dad who dies but comes back to life as a snowman in his son's front yard. This of course should not be confused with the slasher film of the same name which came out a year earlier. In this 1997 cult classic a truck carrying serial killer Jack Frost to his execution crashes into a genetics truck which causes the genetic material to cover Jack which mutates his body fusing it together with the snow on the ground. Jack is presumed dead and his body melts away however he returns as a killer snowman and takes revenge on the sheriff who finally caught him. I hope everyone enjoyed this video. I also hope you have a safe and happy holiday season and a merry Christmas. If you enjoyed that video make sure you hit the subscribe button right there so you stay up to date on all things geek culture. Also go ahead and check out one of these two playlists on the side for more videos just like the one you just watched. I'm Shannon for Comic NTV the only place on YouTube where all geek culture collides. Take care Geeks.


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If there's one thing that brings our divided nation together, it's our hatred of junk fees. Junk fees are extra charges. You don't know you're paying until you get the bill. They hide the true cost when you buy a good or service, so it's impossible to comparison shop. For example, say I want to travel to go see my favorite musician, Dolly Parton, play at Nashville's Grand Ole Opry. When I book my plane ticket, I have to fork up extra cash to bring luggage or change my flight. My grandkids are more into Blippi than Dolly, so they won't be traveling with me. Otherwise, I might have to pay a fee just to sit with them. I need a rental car once I land, so I'll be stuck paying an extra fee to pick up the car at the airport. And another fee they never told me about to cover the rental company's costs for disposing old tires. Seriously? When I pay my hotel bill, the price is way higher than I thought I'd pay when I booked the room to cover Wi-Fi, pool access, a gym, state and local taxes, and other special fees. Before I get to the show, I better look at my checking account balance if I want to buy a record. Even if I see that I have enough money to make a purchase, the timing of other charges hitting my account could result in me getting slapped with a surprise overdraft fee. It's a simple mistake, but could make a $20 record end up costing $50. Oh, and don't forget the concert tickets themselves. Major ticket sellers like Ticketmaster tack on fees to attend shows, which can drive up the final ticket price as much as 78% higher than what I was told the initial price was. It's all bait and switch. You thought you could afford to see Dolly Parton, but it turns out it's going to take a lot more than working nine to five. Corporations often label these types of charges convenience fees or service fees, probably because they conveniently serve to pad their bottom lines. Costing Americans at least $29 billion a year we didn't expect to pay. This is a huge problem spanning many different industries, not just the ones I'd encounter on my trip. But there is good news. President Biden has urged Congress to draw up legislation to prevent these outrageous fees. We're tired of being played for suckers past the Junk Free Prevention Act, so companies stop ripping us off. It turns out one of the few things as popular as Dolly Parton is tackling junk fees. It's time for Congress to act.  Let me know in the comments.


The ground is hard and unforgiving and it's usually the last place you want to be in the fight and if things don't go in your favor then it's going to be. However that being said sometimes it's unavoidable so today we're going to talk about self-defense at the ground level. There's a well-known expression going around that says most fights will go to the ground but all fights start on your feet. Now while there are of course exceptions to this it's a pretty good generality to how fights and conflicts usually start. Most of the time it does start in a standing position. Today we're going to talk about why the ground is most dangerous place, how to practice for it, how to avoid going to the ground if possible, what to do if you find yourself down there and for added measure we're going to take a look at roles, when it is appropriate to do so and when it is not. So as to look at why the ground is the most dangerous place first let's look about how you might have wound up there. Did you fall, trip or were you taken down? If that's the case well most of the time the ground is hard it could be a parking lot you know concrete asphalt sidewalk you could be inside of a club inside of a restaurant where the floor is harder even on grass and on the beach if you fall the wrong way it's not always forgiving it's hard and it hurts and you can sustain a lot of injuries just from being taken down in itself. It's also very limiting you know immediately you've lost a lot of the advantages that you have standing up such as you know you've got your footwork you can close and gain distance you can evade you know you can punch you can kick all that has pretty much gone on the ground while you can still do some punches and kicks you're extremely limited at what you can do and perhaps you're even pressed up against something or pressed down to the ground so right away a lot of options get taken off the table. You have to be worried about do they have friends there's not a whole lot you could do to defend against multiple people on the ground then you have your environmental hazards like we talked about the surfaces is it asphalt is it is a gravel so something that's going to tear you up are you going to sustain injury just from rolling in itself are you in a parking lot or on a road you have to worry about traffic and cars these are all real concerns and realistic scenarios if you are to engage in ground fighting in the real world you know tournaments and competitions in the classroom setting rolling is one thing but in a real struggle you do not want to be down there any longer than you have to be it could be the difference of life or death so all you bjj guys just keep that in mind you might be an exceptional grappler and i know a lot of you guys are bjj is a fantastic art but don't automatically take the fight to the ground because that's what you know or because you feel you're gonna have the advantage down there there is so much at risk you know i sparred guys in the past you know we had a lot of bjj guys come in and we had a mixture of students and i was sparring one guy and the match started and he just dropped onto the floor onto his back and was ready for his guard and i'm like what are you doing he goes we'll get my guard and i said no stand up he goes well i could get my guard and i said if you want me in your guard you have to put me there i'm not gonna go down and play his game for him and so if you are a grappler don't just drop to the ground don't just expect to take it to the ground and automatically win the fight there are dangers involved so with that i would recommend definitely learning some sort of a stand-up art you know grappling is awesome and you're gonna you're gonna do some damage on the ground but maybe learn some boxing moitai karate whatever floats your boat learn some good stand-up arts too because don't forget in a real life fight on the ground punches kicks bites all that stuff is allowed elbows and if you haven't trained for it practice it you might end up being at the disadvantage now for those of you who are not grapplers do not discount those who are anyone who's got grappling experience and is good at it we'll tear you up if you don't know what to expect i've seen far too many practitioners discount or blow off grappling because it's not their thing or oh we don't need to learn how to do that because we have x y z technique no the best defense against grappling is to understand grappling okay so how do you practice for ground fighting well the obvious answer there is practicing ground fighting you know learn your takedowns learn grappling do roll in and class the other thing too is i place a lot of importance on this is be sure to learn the break fall properly most schools will teach this first it's just a common sense safety method but it's extremely important to learn how to fall properly because the last thing you want to do is get hurt in the class while learning how not to get hurt there are also some supplemental benefits to learning how to break fall properly one is better body coordination you know it's one thing to learn you know how to punch and kick and strike on your feet but when you add rolls or flips and falls into it and you learn how to coordinate your body in the air you start to get a better sense of what your body can do and a little bit more awareness in your spatial setting so that's a definite benefit also too is it might you know take away your fear of falling my first judo class jiu-jitsu class i'm not a small guy i stepped on the mat i was this was my introductory class by the end of the night he had us doing break falls by jumping in the air flipping and doing a break fall my first response was you expect me to do that today but by the end of the class i was doing it because i had he showed me how to properly do it so that apprehension of going down and i know there's a lot of big guys who don't want to fall because for all the reasons we talked about how hard the ground is and there's a risk of injury but learning to do it properly takes away some of that fear so you get your coordination and also to you develop some great habits you never know when it's going to save you in real life you know if you just happen to fall down just the habit of lifting your head up and making sure you don't smack it on the floor look at basketball for example watch a basketball game on tv and you can see that almost every time when those players say fall backwards what do they do they lift their head up they tuck their chin to the chest and they they might not slap the ground they might not kick out but you can kind of see the way they fall on the slide they kind of disperse the energy but they lift that head up that habit alone could save your butt more than you can realize okay so now the next step is well how do you avoid going to the ground well we got the first and obvious answer is try to avoid a conflict try to avoid a fight if possible if you can diffuse the situation that is the best case scenario if you cannot well then you're going to have to understand some techniques and some tactics and how to avoid going to the ground once again i'll repeat the best way to learn how to defend against grappling is to understand grappling if you have not take a grappling class learn to take downs learn how they work understand how they operate with the openings and what the weaknesses are so that way if you are up against somebody who knows how to grapple is going for a takedown you know in your mind what not to give them or how to close off openings try to take away some of their advantages so understand how the takedowns work to begin with secondly there are a lot of martial arts that will teach defensive techniques against takedowns and that's great kemple has a lot of techniques a lot of schools have it if you have those don't just practice in the air get the technique comfortable to the point where you understand it and then practice that technique on someone who knows how to grapple and see if it works and if it doesn't work make the adjustments that you need to do make sure it works on a partner in the classroom setting before you try it in real life on the street with someone that you don't know and you haven't tried to see if it even works my next recommendation is to work on quick recoveries if you get to the ground find ways to get right back up to your feet as quickly as possible and on that note one of my favorite tactics is to front roll or back roll rolling i think definitely has its place in self-defense but only if you use it appropriately i do not recommend rolling to be fancy i do not recommend rolling to be on the offensive to attack we see it too many times in movies where you know someone just make because it looks good on camera the actor or the star will go into some cool roles and fancy roles and close some distance in the real world you are becoming extremely vulnerable you are now on the ground while they're standing your back is towards them your limbs are engaged in the role you are at a complete disadvantage so i do not recommend using a roll as an offensive tactic just to show off that is putting yourself in a lot of danger i think that rolls have some great value in terms of recovery and getting back to your feet quickly i myself personally have used them many many many times i've used them you know 20 years ago in sparring even up to today i still utilize them i've had instances where i was you know young and stupid and trying fancy techniques and i tripped over my opponent backwards but i'll use the roll to get right back into my feet before they could advance on me and even when someone gets the better of me and is able to pull off a takedown technique i usually get back up as fast as i can because i don't want to be on the ground because i know i am more advantageous on my feet than on the ground and sometimes if you're lucky even if you're trying to recover from a fall you can leave them with a parting gift i also use a roll one time in real life um several years ago we um my friends and i went on the paintball trip you know it's a scenario game so we were all decked out in gear i had my helmet on i had a vest on i was carrying a two-handed paintball gun you know i had pods on me you know i was loaded down and i was walking in my boots and we're getting off the field well the ground was uneven and i actually stumbled and i started stumbling forward and i couldn't recover my balance and i knew it was going down and without even thinking about it i just kind of jumped forward went into a four roll and got right back up to my feet to the point where people around me were like whoa that was a nice recovery i didn't even think about it i had done it so many times at that point that it was just natural if i hadn't done that then i would have totally face planted possibly breaking my marker or doing some sort of injury because it was a hard rocky ground and just because that was ingrained in me that defensive that break which is basically a breakfall it was there when i needed it i didn't have to think about it so i think rolls are fantastic if they are used in the appropriate situations so if you do find yourself underground the ground fighting is going to happen you couldn't avoid it you weren't able to recover from it you're underground in the ground fight at this point in time if this is a real fight do whatever you have to do to get out of the situation and then includes biting ripping tearing elbows grabbing you know hammer fist whatever you have kick punch use your entire body get damaged in get out and get to your feet as fast as you possibly can now if you are a grappler this is not the time to experiment this is not the time to show off this is the time to get the job done do your damage and get back up on your feet as quickly as possible you know get back up before his buddies arrive or if you are experienced and there are witnesses that said you know when cops show up and they tell the cops that you're down there for 10 minutes bending this guy into a pretzel that's going to put some liability on you no in a real situation if you're a grappler get down there do your job and get back up as fast as possible if you are not a grappler then do everything in your power use every weapon at your disposal to get away from them do your damage and get back on your feet whether it's rolling away or being able to pull away creating some distance get back on your feet do not play their game because if you are not a grappler and they are they're likely going to win that game and keep in mind most of the time tapping out is not going to work in real life they have no obligation to release you so do not count on that tapping if you get caught in a submission so my best advice to you out there is the best defense against grappling is to learn grappling understand how it works understand where the vulnerabilities are understand what opening is not to give them understand how the takedowns work even if you don't want to learn a whole new curriculum at least learn escapes and reversals just so you have at least some understanding of what to expect i've seen too many people brush it off with scoff at it and regret it later so i now have a question for all you grapplers out there you know we do this channel to try to be a resource for everybody to share ideas you know let's make each other better let's let's kind of cross train with each other and just give tips so for those of you who are willing to share what is some advice that you can offer to help people avoid being taken to the ground you know what are some things that they can look out for whether maybe some techniques they can practice on their own what are ways that they can learn to avoid getting taken to the ground so i'm curious to know any insight that you're all willing to share with us guys thank you so much for watching i hope that today's video was at least some sort of a help or awareness i see it's far too common there's a lot of people who want to discount grappling because they don't like it or it's one of those things where it's out of sight out of mind sort of thing i think it's greatly important to have the awareness and become a well-rounded fighter even if it's not your forte or something you enjoy training it definitely is a benefit to understand it so once again thank you guys so much for watching please share all your thoughts below in the comments be sure to like and subscribe this video and we'll see you next week


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Welcome to Lush show right now the DAWA 51 points 26605 is print S&P down about six points 2927 so we've got kind of a mixed market here because you got the Russell to the upside Really flat one point not flat when we take a look at the semis They're up 1% or 16 buck gruny's transports are three quarters of a percent or 81 points out there spot volatility except 7% trading out at 1316 gold is up six. I'm sorry gold is up nearly five bucks over up 12 pennies 12 pennies lead the charge dollar wise the upside it is dominoes pizza up 17 bucks a little over 6% Silicon laboratories up 13 bucks S&P is up 13 bucks Burlington stores 13 to the downside is i Robot 6 million shares 21% and 27 buck gruny's to the downside right now trade out at 103 North Rick Gummett Northrop Grumman down about 13 bucks a little over 4% Mercado Libre off 12 in chains That's two and a half percent. Of course I want to look at what you want to look at and what you wanted to look at Peter the tiger's den wanted me to just kind of give an overview specifically with regard to the gold contract and Utilizing the Fibonacci expansions and contractions So we're just kind of saying hey as I look at this chart We just start with a blank naked chart out there, you know, what would I be looking for? And so the first thing with regard to contractions are really pretty easy now When we're looking at a contraction, but actually let's let's talk about yeah, let me do that Let's talk about contractions and we go to expansions real quickly So when when I take a look at expansion or your contractions I'm trying to go from a swing point low to a swing point high So if we really take a look at the current gold contract I would start from the lowest swing point which is back here in the trading day of August the 16th And then I would go from there up to the high and the high that we're using here was the high from February 20th 1356 by the way that low was 1189 30 and what we would see let me just move this data box right over here The contraction now is on the right-hand side. So we're picking out this swing points We're we're kind of like reading lower left to upper right out here And what we can see what the gold contract did if we were using these as the swing points And we really should Peter use these as the as the larger swing points in this Subset of data that we have out here. This would say that price found Support at about the point 3 a to retracement a little way that I look at retracements and or expansions Is I just think of myself as getting on an elevator any hop on the elevator out there with multiple people and the point 3 a To level is the first floor and at that point 3 a to level that is where some people some traders Will go ahead and get off others may get on now the first move down to that level was a prior swing point out here That was down in the January 24th level. I am against but but it's just I'm speaking on behalf of myself I am against just using Fibonacci numbers as places to go ahead and place your trade out there and here's the here's the example Let me just delete this large one So by the way with regard to this this would say since gold right now is trading below the point 3 a to retracement It's next target level will be 1253 Now the quick can use other swing points out here So I can use the next one maybe that I would go to from a contraction standpoint Maybe it would be right here. Is this wrong when I say right here? I'm referring to 1113 that low all the way up to The high and you'll see that we're at the point 618 area So yeah, it's made a point 618 retracement of that But what what would tell you and I'd use this as just a kind of a speaking to myself out here What would tell me that using that swing point meaning November 13th is the right thing to do versus using August 16th Then there's if somebody knows the answer to that call in please and tell me it's again It's just another swing point. You're trying to understand, you know, where's this contraction? Taking you know looking at if we just use for example point six when I take a look at this Nice move certainly off of the August lows out here in 2018 making higher highs lower Higher lows higher highs out there And so as this was making a top you wouldn't have known it if you were having a natural Byorder in at the point 618 retracement what I'm referring to is the low on February 14th to the high out here on February 20th that was at 1328 Clearly, you know, that didn't stop it yet at the point 618 retracement level on the trading day of February 27th Probably stopped there stopped right there. So Again, what I like now, let's take a look at expansions. How do I look at expansions out here really the same Kind of way I'm going from lower left to upper right out here So if I want to take look at different expansions between swing points, let's just take a look at things right now Let's take and so what I'm referring to is I'm going to come from let me get my expansion tool out here Here's my Fibonacci expansion I'm going to use from lower left Out here on march 7th, and I move this all the way up here to the high on february I apologize march the 25th and we can see that price as at about the 1.272 expansion level So 1.272 should we buy we can show 1.272 and we already showed you 1.618 retracement level Well, I don't know if you if you don't hold this level you go down to 1260 In the Fibonacci expansion area What we don't do what I don't do is I don't go from and I'm not saying anybody was doing this I don't I wouldn't use expansions by going from let's say this low out here on april 4th and then to Going backwards right so You know coming coming back. Let's say to that swing point out here on march 25th That's just that is not the proper use of trying to identify expansions You're always going from an expansion, you know a swing point low such as even in this case here Here's another expansion that we can use and that would be using this swing point from april 4th To the high out here on april 10th and there you can see you're at about the 1.6 1 or yesterday it was at about the 1.618 expansion So how do we use these? How do we put all this together with some type of some type of trading strategy? And let's discuss that when we come back from this break steve roge with tf and m The taz profile scanner is the most revolutionary piece of trading software that you will ever try Wouldn't you like to approach the markets with confidence as you begin your trading day? 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That was our 53 s and p is off about five. We're taking a look at gold the first segment We were taking a look at the Fibonacci Contractions and expansions out there and when I started when I started learning technical analysis You need to understand in 2006. I would look at a chart I couldn't tell you what the sam heck that it meant out there now It's my palette now It's my artwork with regard to the patterns and the tools that we place on there And one of the first things that I learned peter everybody else was uh, uh, Fibonacci volume as well because obviously I got uh Into a began my technical analysis journey by attending a master trader course with tom all those years ago and And one of the great tools out there if you Is on the Ensign windows software and it has something I believe is called pese vento patterns I think that was the tool if it's not that it's there's there's a way to just automatically turn on And e-signals got something similar I couldn't find it where it just simply does all of the contractions and expansions between various swing points that are out there and And so sometimes you get these Contractions and expansions between swing points that all converge at one area But what I found is that I found that it's a it's a great tool and guideline to understand What's going on between swing points, but it's not to be all to end all Which is why I started looking elsewhere because my I was losing more than I was winning I'm like, yeah, there's got to be something else here to understand Uh when to use it or how to integrate it into my other systems out here Of course that took me to the a to b equal cd pattern out here. So here's the here's one. We took a look there's because There's more than one a to b equal cd that's going on inside of the gold contract right now But this is the larger one and the larger one like we looked at retracements To overlook it would be basically pretty silly now. We use these as guidelines out here But still this says that prisa is headed towards 1262. Yesterday got down to a low of 1267. Okay, five bucks $1,300 instrument may be close enough. What is this? Pattern need in order to generate some type of completion Well, one of the things that it's going to need is going to need a bullish reversal candle Because price will just simply continue moving lower Until the buyers show up. So even on the a to b equal cd pattern Only 60 percent of the time are you going to get a one to one a to b equal cd? You'll notice when I draw my a to b equal cd patterns out there You see the expansions you see 1.272 or 1.618 or the 2.0 level because we don't know we never know Um, which a level price is going to target and again, we use these as guidelines And my experience has been wait until the bulls show up And that is what led to japanese candlestick chart because looking at a blank chart like this If you do nothing about japanese candlestick charting, you would know where the bullish reversal candle is now today's Is a bullish reversal candle So it is a candidate for gold Forming a bottom now if I just simply put an automated tool that I have out here Um, and this shows me the typical bullish or bearish reversal Signals that I look for you'll see that today is a bear sash candle. So you've got the a to b equal cd That is showing up and so uh, peter, you know, you Whichever swing points it might be that you would use Um, you know, here is at least a suggestion that there is going to be a bounce the question is it a bounce or is it a bottom out there and So what else do we want to see to suggest that? Okay, maybe it is it is more of a bottom Well, you and I are fortunate enough to go ahead and have our task market profiles And those identify key levels of support or resistance So when we put this on the chart and just trying to put as little as as we need to on a chart to help us identify What you can see is right now price the gold contract is trading back above The bottom of that profile that formed two days ago So two days ago it formed price held yesterday was a close below In fact, the bottom of the profile 12 77 20 was resistance your 12 78 50. I don't know what the end of the day Uh close is going to look like what I can say Is if it price closes below 12 77 20 It would be dangerous To take that trade. In fact, it'd be looking more likely for price to go ahead and move lower So that would be one of the things that I would be looking for peter with regard to the Potential a to b equal cd to the downside in some type of bullish reversal candle I would really want to see price close above 12 77 20 now if gold does that Closes above the closing where it is right now It's going to negate the td setup nine count the td setup nine count requires today a close below 12 76 80 Now my concern about The way that gold is trading right now is the mere fact that one price is below steve's red line That's a 12 82 70 You'd like to see now it can be in progression today could be the bullish reversal signal Forget about the td setup could close above the bottom of the box out there But then what you want to see is you want to see price close above steve's red line That's a 12 82 80. Well for goodness sakes if the top of the box is 12 85 50 You might as well wait for a close above that for your confirmation if this is a bottom That's really not going to be an issue out there versus it's just just a little bit of a countertrend rally that is going on As we speak so we we don't ever know But what I can say is you will increase your odds of buying the d-point of an a to b equal cd pattern When you at least get a bullish reversal signal you will improve your odds even more if you can understand where the market profiles are You'll understand you'll improve your odds even more if you understand where the oscillator or change line is That's steve's green and red line out there. So I know that was kind of a long winded answer I didn't have anything really in the queue and Asked by someone in the den if one person has a question Others have that question too. So in summary has gold made a bottom If it forms a bullish reversal candle today and closes above the bottom of that profile 1277 20 it may have and if it closes above the top 12 85 50 then it probably has out there So hope that helps you out. Let's go to our next question out here This is from jay in the den and jay wants to take a look at the russell 2000 jay. Is it okay if I just pull over The russell 2000 equity futures contract I would prefer to do that and if you give me your thumbs up. Well, okay, cool I'm going to anyways at this stage here just because I've got the patterns drawn in or it makes it a little bit easier But what you were trying to identify was a level of resistance And uh, and yes, so this box here This uh black rectangular box was drawn in weeks ago And what we can see today jay is that price hit the top of that box. That's the That is the consolidation And thus far has rejected it now. I don't know what today's candle session is going to be at 125 It's a doji. I mean today's price where it's trading right now is where the open was remember for stevie Dojis dojis in my window have a ton of meaning at resistance It's kind of interesting meeting along the way halfway markers Somebody go measure the percentage that a doji is a halfway marker and you'll be like, uh, okay That was just kind of interesting fodder out there. But in this case here Just simply asking what do I think about the russell 2000 It is at resistance and the question you and I have is Hey Is it gonna bust out there? In other words, if you were wanting to short the russell 2000 now is the time to do it You get a close above the consolidation. You're out But this is your reward risk. 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I said hey if you wanted to go short Well now would be the time because your your risk is Well, first you're always risking or you should risk or well like 1% you're you're working capital And uh, you're free working capital and then but but by 1% It's it's really understanding stop management position sizing and so forth I don't want to I got too many questions to go into to that at this point But I didn't say go short. I just said if you were going to I could totally get that by taking a look at That consolidation pattern now with regard to where Because there was a daily time frame chart we were looking at where might price find support Well j hit the nail on the head there would be 1577 which is the top of the daily box out here This is the june contract that I have up on my screen j It shows 1607 40 as the top of the weekly a box out there I think that's a pretty good real resistance So and even on a breakout of that consolidation pattern we looked at So I would in order to go long a breakout of the consolidation I would need to see a close above the 1607 to 40 level as opposed to just where that top of the box was it Basically 1600 now that's a different view than if I use my Compositor synthetic version of the contract here in the right hand panel You'll see the weekly profiles are all the way down at the bottom. Which one is right? They're both right out here And we can just simply use the high from the trading day of february 25th at 1607 and just say it price has got to close above that high in order for a breakout to occur So the interesting thing and uh The folks that have sent in I'll make sure I get to your request James Hector and Lee But the interesting thing About the indices out here is we're at a we're a really interesting point out here On the daily time frame charts. What do I mean by that is if we take a look at the nasdaq composite? Yesterday was day nine of the td setup today was a slightly higher high Which would mean if tomorrow it's a higher high Then this pattern is is not a topping pattern But we don't know that till tomorrow, but right now there is a potential topping pattern in place for the very strong nasdaq composite I'm just going to go through this one by one. So you already know with russell 2000 We know that has a potential topping pattern if we take a look at the semis nice and strong Where are they at they're in wave number seven? That's letter number g on my screen Today looks like it's going to be day number eight of the setup and day number eight can be a high Of course continued highs tomorrow could give us day number nine of that td setup as well as extend leg g But the semizer at a point in time where there could be a top that is forming out here Just using the tools you and I use we can see the transports They are also in wave number seven and this is the day after the td setup nine count. So today could be a high When I say high, I'm not referring to like a like a major high. Although you don't necessarily always know If we take a look at the spot volatility next you're going to see Well below it's 50 day exponential moving average of 14 37 So below that just has a high in a retracement or a pullback Or what have you if you take a look at the wilshire 5000 and so these are all the main Core you went well indices out you have stock indices where we at were wave number seven letter g Inside the wilshire 5000 potentially so that is topping formation worth worth paying attention to The new york stock exchange see see all you folks that send me all that hate mail and say God stevie's never a bear Hey take a look at the new york stock exchange from two different swing points We are at wave number seven out here let alone this little blue Dashline that price not been able to get above and to me that's a breakout level So you saw the new york stock exchange two If we take a look at the ndx 100. Well, what is it going to complete today? Day number nine of the td set up nine count now tomorrow could be a higher high But it's close to that stage where there could be some type of pullback or retracement or even a top even a top that could take us into September october, but I know you heard it here first So that is a possibility take a look back at the russell 2000 back at your ranch here j Just letter f so we're only in wave number six But you and I know we've got that consolidation pattern that's working And so because of the consolidation pattern trading the consolidation you bust out of the highs out there that could be a topping pattern If you take a look at the dow jones industrial as well Price is moving higher doing less relative energy today could be day eight Day eight can be that high as well So this is within topping signals when the dow jones back in february made a high It was what the set up nine count when it made a low in march It was with the set up nine count Always worth paying attention to do they all work? No look at the ones back here in the january time frame Just lots of momentum. So when they don't work it also provides you with pretty cool information Nonetheless, right now the dow jones industrials shows potential topping signals something that you and I are not going to ignore out here And I don't want to be a broken record, but normally it's not this it could it be this easy Right, isn't that the question? But all the euphoria and everything else that's out there and we just took a look at uh, uh, two Look two four two two four six eight Now nine nine nine all of them I don't make this stuff up showing potential topping signals down the s and p 500 It's not there So that's the that's the interesting thing the s and p 500 leg number six letter f Uh, we would take until today's wednesday would take till friday to give you that seventh waiver g No td set up nine count out here or anything So the s and p is the only one that is saying hey not so fast So what that means Is that what we have to do is we have to at least go take a look at the equity futures contract? What could override the s and p cash industry? Well for me, it would be the s and p futures contract So if we go take a look at the futures contract Well, we can see that wave number seven letter g that was passed yesterday So that doesn't exist. So in the s and p futures contract out here There's also nothing that shows a topping signal just yet Look at a few days. We'll have a pretty good idea This is not the place where I would be adding to an index position Just because of all those patterns that are out there So j you kind of led me down a path unintentionally, but we wanted to talk about that anyways Just to kind of get a feel for overall. What are the messages of the markets and the indices? out here So let's go to one Our email questions the first one coming in from jj James writes in he said oh Okay, hi steve. What do you think of socks so xx and the smh would appreciate your analysis So that's really going to be what we just looked at Let's go back to it. You were really talking about the etf. I prefer to use the indices which we're going to Because I have you on email and you can't argue with me. I can win that battle Actually, I want to give you what you want, but here's the deal. Here's what I think I would not be adding to a position today You're in wave number seven We pay attention to that letter out there The day is going to be the eight count of that time to mark set up eight count a top If this pattern that pattern were to come into fruition, you know could take a place on a friday meaning that till monday Hey, it looks bullish. Don't get me wrong It's bullish Okay, but that like that's like driving between here in naples and back which i'll do as soon as the show is over And not using My uh, you know my ways system or my map system. I would never do that. I could be stuck in alligator alley for days Don't want that If you're in the cd market and looking for a secure investment The tiger first mortgage program may work for you The security for these first mortgages are building lots in the tax opportunity zone in st. 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So we're taking a look at the summaries. We're just going to complete this here for uh james And uh james the other pattern that we can see that's in play here Is the a to b equal cd pattern priced along the uh c to d leg pretty much uh following the The same level of strength as was on that a to b leg out there 16 17 is the 1 to 1 this may extend further I did not say if you're long to sell I said if you're long to be aware Of the mere fact that there are topping patterns that are in play There is no bearish reversal candle or anything here Uh, so you you just I just what I said was I would not be adding to a position here Inside the semis looks great and looks strong When the bears show up a reversal candle shows up, that's when you'll know that the bears are here to try to Tell you that they're going to show up at 16 17 81 in the old days when I first started technical analysis I would have told you that And and of course, you know, uh In today I I look in the mirror and say god Oh But look, you just know what you know, right? That's what that's the coolest thing about what it is you and I do You want to stay young? Try to master these markets All right, looking at the patterns that are out there.  Let's go. Uh, let's try to get to the next question out here, which is about snap This one coming in from hector. So let me get over to my three time frame charts. We'll go and read hector's question Let me change that on um, let me change this uh My workspace so I can get to another set of tools out here And uh, sorry that I didn't have that set up, but hey, so be it so we take a look at snap crack Ah, that's the wrong ticker symbol. That's an ap Ah darn it Sorry about that folks. I usually uh, I'm smoother than this. All right, so let's go read hector's question Uh, the andals are talking snap down today. What does stevo's tea leaves say about snaps outlook for the next few months? I think it's going to 1455. What are your thoughts? So 1450 1455. Okay So you're looking for snap to continue moving higher out here. So here's the issue with snap today Hector now and this is going to be you're going to know if you're right Or not right real quickly out here And what do I mean by that is if we take a look at snap and we just simply utilize our task market profiles And we go back into that december 20 So it did form the bottom snap crackle and pop on uh, december 21st out here One of the things you'll notice out here hector is that price has held the bottom of the daily profiles And so I would say a change in trend and those andals would be correct If you see snap closed below 1109 otherwise today was a buying opportunity As it was when price was testing the bottom of the box on march 20th Or when price was testing the bottom of a box on march the 7th out there Testing support or when bought when price was testing in essence the bottom of the box on january 16th and the 17th out here The bottoms of those boxes were buying areas is today It is at this stage unless we see something else that says, uh, she's Maybe not okay. Let's go take a look and see if we can find uh, geez maybe not but right now Hector what's the coolest thing about this whether today tomorrow as long as this daily profile is out here If you see a close below 1109 then you'll change your mind about 1455. I'm cool with 1455 Because there's no reason to change your mind Just yet if we take a look at the weekly profile, it's going to make us say, uh, geez Okay, because price today. It's a brand new weekly profile was hit It's bullish sort of bullish instruction will go bullish to neutral but 12 28 Was the top of its box its resistance so far 12 29 the top of the daily box that's resistance Okay, so now we really you really is you may be in snap need to be watching that 1109 area There's no profile for the monthly time frame out here if we take a look at snap Uh, and what we can see out here is price was moving higher doing a less route of energy on april the 9th and on april the 12th you got a bearish reversal candle That's so this is saying there could be a significant top now on this chart the significant top would come as a result of a close below the march 29th session the low which is 10 58 out there yeah 10 58 is the number so that's another place to be looking but this says okay I can see what you're asking me as an analyst. I would say all right We got to be careful here because of the topping signals that are present price and below steve's green line And it's rejected the top of both a daily and a weekly profile But hold your horses the proof in the pudding would be a close below 1109 That's really all that I see out here when I take a look at the daily time frame daily and weekly charts I won't put the other ones up on my screen right now because it's not going to Provide us with any other useful information. So thanks for writing in. I hope that helps you out And have a great day LB Lee writes in oh, we've got some others that have come in too. He says I'm in Gbtc. Let's go take a look at Gbtc. I think that's the bitcoin trust out here Grayscale bitcoin trust is the rally over should I hold on for more? Um, it's the rally over Let's look at this. So here's what you know right now Um I'm going to change to my other system to gbtc From a daily weekly profile standpoint prices pulled back below the top of that box 709 You'd love to see price close over 709 today, but doesn't Price could easily pull back to 650 even 572. I'm not in that camp just yet But the 650 certainly would be a game as well as 618. That's the top of the weekly box But otherwise it looks it looks pretty good so far. Let's look at the daily time frame chart out here And uh, Lee see if there's anything to be concerned about well Just happens to be when bitcoin made its high out here, which was on april 11th It was what that tommy to mark set up nine count now prices pulled back to test db's green line That's what it's doing today as we speak closing below that Would also say a further retracement. You're staying as the rally over Remember pulling back to support Is not does not mean the rally is over it may mean you don't want to stomach it But support here is going to be 572 as a level out there So I don't know you said you're in a 550 You know That's pretty good gains. I'm not saying sell but I am saying you've got a topping signal out here And then price yesterday I got up but didn't get over and didn't close over that session You know, what's that telling you? um If I do wave counts just for the heck of it out here now made the bottom way that should But that road's momentum indicator back in february Oh, and so then yesterday But just that slightly higher hide that it made was wave number seven. That's letter g How's that happen out here? So just be careful. You're in Have a stop. Where should your stop be? Look the average true range on this, uh, uh, Etf is 48 cents So your stop ought to be 48 cents times 1.272 or 1.618 I'd prefer the 1.618 level because anything that trades On an expansion. Here's another place peter where we can use the expansion of fibonacci Would say maybe there's something more serious going on especially now. You've got a td setup nine count. You've got wave number seven Just be cautious just have a stop just have a rolling stop in place Steve roads with tf and n Be right back. 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Okay, so what do you need in order to suggest that this is a bottom? Well, she's since it's gone up and tested the top of that box at 136 A close above that would be nice. That would be a suggestion now as we come down and we take a look at the Weekly and the monthly time frame the weekly says, you know, I got to be careful No bullish reversal signal here and you're below the bottom of the profile But the monthly says hey, I went ahead and tested support That was the white solid line there at a buck 25 out here So I would say michael if you're in it or you're looking to get in it you get a close above 136 I think you're on to something so yes yesterday was a bullish in golfing Candle folks. Thanks so much for being here. Stay tuned your favorite polar bear david white. He's up next tom o bryan back from china Back from asia I'll be with you.  He should be here from three to five I'll be back with you tomorrow at one o'clock. Have a great Wednesday. Take care