Welcome to another Tick Mill Weekly Market Outlook for week commencing 20th of September with me, Patrick Munley. The back-end of last week markets seemingly returned to long-dollar positions, as markets looked to gain some concern on the potential combination of monetary tightening at a time when the Delta variant spread looks likely to hinder economic recovery. Some local stories have emerged, G10FX currencies have partly shifted away from the usual risk off-trades, China-U.S. relations are also back in focus as Biden and China's President Xi spoke of the firm for the first time since February. As we enter the Fed's blackout period ahead of 22nd of September FOMC announcement, all focus in the week ahead will be on the U.S. August CPI numbers, with economists looking for slowdown from 5.4% to 5.3% in headline inflation. Recent Fed communications have not diverged from the view that inflationary pressures have a trend of certain nature. So even in the event of another rise in inflation, I doubt the Fed rate expectations and by extension the dollar will be particularly impacted. Markets have likely acknowledged that the disappointing jobs figures with the most crucial piece of data before the Fed meeting and other releases in the week ahead including industrial production, retail sales and University of Michigan sentiment may also have limited impact. Clients think that markets may take a wait-and-see approach ahead of the very busy 20-24 September period in terms of central bank activity, so some stabilisation sentiment may be on the cards after investors appear to have already priced in a certain degree of pessimism in the back-end of last week. From a technical perspective, the dollar index extended up through the monthly pivot at 92.72. Now at a retesting the 93.20 area, as any pullback now is supported into the 92.85 so we look for a further extension up into the target area of 93.72 to 94.19. This is going to be a key test for the dollar as this will be a technical area that bears will look to research short positions and try and take the dollar lower. If however we fail to find significant resistance there, then I'd look for the dollar to extend up to test here from 94.70 zone. At this stage, only a loss of the trend line support in our community at the 92 level would suggest that the dollar has topped and that we are going to explore lower prices. Moving to the Eurozone, September ECB meeting marked a small win for Hawks as policy makers finally caught up with the reality and modestly reduced the pace of asset purchases. That was however largely priced in by the market and the Euro failed to see any material benefit. After all, the overall policy stance of ECB remains firmly on the dovish side and markets are reasonably reluctant to see last week's move as the first step in the sustained policy normalization and there are no clear data drivers really in the Eurozone the week ahead and it's all focused really for the Euro. This week is going to be the dollar counterpart on the 22nd of September. So from a technical perspective, the Euro broke down through the monthly pivots at the 17.90 handle. Now look for a test of monthly range support down to 16.73 but whilst any bounces are now contained by the monthly pivot I'm actually looking for price to extend down into the major equality objective at 1.1628 and the projected descending trend channel support coming in at 1.1580. That's going to be a key test for the Euro and from there we could see a more meaningful relief rally getting us back up into the trend channel resistance at 1.18. At this stage only a loss of this 1.1580 support would be of significant concern and then we would be looking for an extension lower down to challenge at 1.1430 as the next downside objective. In the UK the pound was little touched after some softer than expected growth data out last week and also saw quite contained impact from BOE Governor Andrew Bailey's cautiously optimistic comments earlier last week. However as we get closer to the BOE's policy announcement on the 23rd of September selling sensitivity to domestic data drivers may increase. Even more so as this week's calendar includes pretty high frequency data suspect that jobs figures on Tuesday will be a more important release compared to CPI numbers on Wednesday as a bounce higher in August inflation will be mostly due to base effects and a short-term CPI swings are playing a secondary role in driving BOE's decisions compared to the longer-term projections. Later in the week we'll also see retail sales in focus. From a technical perspective Sterling is testing this support zone at 1.3720. We lose that area then we look for a test down into the 1.3680 but ultimately whilst any balances are contained by the month we cover here at 1.3770 actually look for an extension lower down to test the key 1.36 support zone where we could see a more meaningful balance. At this stage only a loss of the monthly projected range support at 1.3550 would be a significant bearish development and open up an equality objective down at 1.3330. It's the next downside objective for Sterling. The drop in 10-year U.S. year yields back to the 1.28 level amid generally grim market sentiment into the close on Friday saw the dollar yen fall below the 1.10 handle but hopes of a more relaxed U.S.-China relationship saw those yields tick back up and the yen shed some of its more recent gains. Any improvements on this topic should continue to hit the yen harder than the dollar. Rate strategists see the balance of risks skewed for a continuation in the 10-year yield into next week with a chance for it to retest the 1.37 monthly highs. Accordingly that should be supported for the dollar yen. From a technical perspective we look for in terms of sorry the data out next week in terms of Japan is pretty limited PPI machine orders and trade numbers and they're likely to have less of an impact again more focus is going to be on the FMC on Friday. So from a technical perspective the dollar yen held that support zone. Long positions warranted from there. We're now up into the pivot cluster of the high volume lows here at this 1.10 handle. We really need to get up into test a bit descending trend line resistance coming up 1.1030. If we can get through there then we look for a move up into monthly range resistance projected at 1.1130 and then any pullbacks that hold the 1.1020 zone of support should set the stage for a move higher to test projected ascending trend line resistance coming at 1.1240. Finally down under in Australia the RBA delivered what could be considered as dovish tapering last week while the bank went ahead with plans to reduce asset purchases to four billion Australian dollars per week and extended the no tapering horizon saying the current pace of purchases will be kept unchanged until February 2022 despite the initial spike in the Aussie the currency then fell in the session and closed the week actually as the one of the weakest performers in the G10 space. An improvement in market sentiment around the US-China relationship has provided provide some help to the overexposed centipede and is surely a factor that may ease pressure on the currency as we head into this week at the same time iron ore has been unable to continue its recovery this week and a remain of the few really that the more sell-offs in the commodities space are very material really at risk to the Aussie on the data side Australia's jobs data will be closely watched as they will provide an important gauge of how the how much economic drag has been generated by the spread of the Delta variant in the country here worse than expected data may push markets to price in another delay in the RBA's policy normalization plans and offset any benefit from a potential stabilization in risk sentiment next week. It will also be worth monitoring RBA Governor Philip Lowe speaks on Tuesday from a technical perspective the Aussie dollar closed week on Friday with the general market also in risk sentiment very very weak into the closed so any support that we find now on pullbacks into the one sorry 73 70 area should see another round of selling ultimately looking for at least a test of monthly range sports 71 50 and then into the prior lows here at 71 at this stage really only a close above the descending trend line resistance coming at 74 20 would suggest that we could be exploring higher prices and that concludes the weekly market outlook for week commencing the 20th of September as always traders plan to trade trade the plan and most importantly manage your risk until next time thanks very much


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This is TFNN, the Tiger Financial News Network. News Update. Hi everyone, Basel Chapman here. This is the 9am Tiger Financial News Network Market Update. The Dow futures are up, they're down 142. The S&P futures are down 31. The QQQ is down, down 4. We're looking at a market that's already been under duress. Every rally has failed the last couple of days. We'll see what happens today. I have a scenario that I think has a chance of working out. We don't know yet. We'll see what happens today. But in the meantime, looking at the dollar, the dollar's screened to the upside. It is now at an all-time high. Well, this is a high that is at least a few years. I could go back further. Let me just go back. In 2017, the high was 103.82. We're now at 104.44. We're breaking this U shape. It's called the double U shape pattern. We're in the third up move to the new high. This is something because if you look at gold, gold right now is trading down a little bit, as I looked at it earlier on. Let me get that back. There it is. Gold is trading down 10 at 18.42. Gosh, when you think of where the dollar is, gold has held up really well. But look at this weekly chart. I'll talk about it when I'm about to do. Tommy O'Brien showed the, this is the market kickoff at nine, sitting in for him and then I'll do my show at 10. Look at this up channel of the weekly chart. We've just gone under it. So far, we're above it. That's going to be key. I'll talk about that when we return. We're talking about crude oil holding very well, even though it's down $1.21 today at 104.50. It's up in that middle range. This is going to be important to monitor. And as we were looking at bonds a couple of days ago, thinking that it made some kind of a low. We're now at 185 after being down on Wednesday Thursday on Monday. It was down at 112.62. So these are all very important. Now I'll be talking about the VIX index, the volatility index when I return. But this is the preamble to the pre market opening at 9.30 with 9 a.m. just off the 9 a.m. And we'll be back in a moment. Hope you can stay. Should be great programming all day today. Got Larry Pizzevento at 11 and thinkorswim, Kevin Hinks at noon. And then Steve, Dave and Tom Bradford up. Have a great day. Thank you.


The following is a presentation of TFNN. The Trader's Edge with Steve Rhodes. Call now toll free at 1-877-927-6648 or internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER>. The Trader's Edge. Now Steve Rhodes. Good morning folks, welcome to the September 7th. The wonderful Wednesday edition of today's Trader's Edge show. I'm your host, Steve, Perseverance Rhodes, who absolutely knows that each of us should always be pioneers of our future versus prisoners of our past. Hope everyone out there is having a great day. Hey, let's make sure we have an extraordinary one. And the easiest way to do that is to always remember that life is happening for us. Not to us. That's right. When you and I make that one little two-by-four shift, it means we can find the gift in every set of circumstance that life is going to toss at us. Now today you and I, we're going to go check on the circumstance of these markets. We'll go figure out what those bulls and bears, what those buyers and sellers are communicating to you and I at just past 11 o'clock in the morning. I do want you to know I am absolutely grateful for your presence here, but more important than that. And that's this. During this next 53 minutes, I'm here to serve you. So feel free to give us a call at<PHONE_NUMBER>. If you can't call in, we've got you covered there, too. Go ahead and send me an email. Send that to Steve at tfn.com. And if you'd be kind enough in that subject, you can put radio show question. Of course, inside our Tiger's Dead Will Eddie. In every ping, we'll do. So let's go ahead and get this show started on a wonderful Wednesday. Of course, this is Tiger. Financial News Network. I'm Steve Rhodes. Welcome to the show right now. I got a little bit of a mixed bag that makes really only coming from the Dow transport. It's up 101 points. Otherwise, all of the U.S. indices trading to the upside. Dow's up 202. S&P 28. Nasdaq 188. Russell's up 12. Semi-Zerp 12. Gold is up 11. Silver's up 29 cents. As we crude, it's back $3.11. Trade at 83. 76. Natural gas up 27 cents at 787. 30-year treasure up 19 ticks. She's printed out at 133.19. Lead the charge. Dollar wise to the upside. You've got solar ads. SEDG up 19 bucks. Nearly 7%. Booking holding 17 bucks. 1%. Regenerative pharmaceuticals up 2.7. 15 bucks. Enphase energy, a big move here. 4% to the upside. Up nearly 12 bucks. O'Reilly Automotive up a buck. I'm sorry. O'Reilly Automotive is up nearly 11 bucks. 1.5% to the upside. To the downside, it's that shipping company.  SIA. Down 9 bucks or 4%. Old Dominion up 6 bucks or 2%. FedEx down 6 bucks, 3%. Avis is down 5 bucks, 3%. Wiley, John and Sons is down 13%. 6 bucks. Corrin ferries off about 5 bucks. So we've got some movers and of course we've got some shakers. So where do we want to begin our day out here? I'll tell you where we're going to begin. We just simply we've got a bit of a rally going on. We'll go take a look at the Yes Minute and the NQ. But first let's go see what's going on with regard to market breadth out here for the S&P and for the NASDAQ. We'll just take a look at our speed dials out here. We'll see that each of them are set to red. That means that there are more instruments trading below the bottom of the profile for those time frames versus those trading above. As an example, here is a 60-minute time frame. On a 60-minute time frame we've got a total of 33 instruments trading above profile, 46 trading below. In order for this rally to get any kind of real legs out here, we need to see a bullish crossover on that time frame. If we take a look at the S&P 500, I mean, I guess we're going to see the same thing. Oh, we are not seeing the same thing. Interesting. So now let's open up the 60-minute time frame for the ES Mini for the S&P 500. And as we speak right, it's right now, right this very second, 10 a.m. on the 11 a.m. Of course it is 11-10. But right now we have 204 instruments trading above the top of their 60-minute profile, 181 below the bottom. Now, the last time we had a crossover was to the downside that was at, specifically it looks like September 2nd around 3 p.m. in the afternoon. So there is some possibilities as long as this stays in this formation, meaning more instruments above the top of their profile versus below the bottom, there is some potential for a further rally inside the ES Mini. So let's go try to figure out where that will head to actually one other thing out here. Just from a shorter term time frame, I do have my 30-minute TAS market profile to open. So let's go take a look at that. Let's pull that over here. The question is, is this still in bullish formation? And here we've got the NDX 100. The answer is yes. 56 trading above, three below. That's a positive for sure. If we take a look at the S&P 500, the S&P 500 records show, let's take some moment here to update, 296 instruments above. And 17 below. So yeah, this is a positive development today at 11.11 a.m. for the equity future contracts out there, specifically the ES Mini. So now let's go take a look at the ES Mini out here. We'll switch screens. We'll take a look at our eight-pan or one of our eight-pan screens out there. And immediately we'll see, if you take a look on the left-hand side, the daily, you can see the A to B equal CD to the downside. That was completed and confirmed on September 1st. Why was it completed and confirmed? Because that was a bullish reversal candle. That pattern still remains in effect, even though yesterday that low was tested, it was rejected when price closed above that low. What is that low? Excellent question. It is 39... 390350 out there. Closed below that would negate the pattern altogether. It also has a TD9 count bottom. Its oscillator and change line has also changed colors. What does that tell us? That tells us that price and that oscillator and change line are destined to meet with each other. Right now, that oscillator and change line is printed at the 4042 level. I don't expect that's the level where we're printing at when price tests that area. If we then go to the right, we take a look at the five-hour timeframe chart. This has a roadsman to indicator bottom. This shows us the next key resistance level where the sellers are hiding is at 3951. If I look at the 240-minute timeframe chart, it's got the sellers at 3947. So we have 47 to 51. If we look at the 120-minute timeframe chart, its sellers are sitting at 3956. 3956 for the 60-minute timeframe chart. We took a look at that market breadth out there. That's where price is likely headed to. Now we can see the A to B pattern of this form. Let's go ahead and draw that in here. A to B and we will draw in the C to D momentarily, simply just by copying and pasting that actual line to the SC point. And now what we can see is price is above the one-to-one price projection level. This suggests now if we take a look at price here on the 60-minute timeframe chart, what you will see is price on the left-hand side. I've maintained that exact same angle. Price on the left-hand side, that's the strong side of the C to D leg. Suggesting that this would do more than a one-to-one A to B equal CD. Well, that's what it's doing right now. So where's this next price target? 395650 is where sellers are potentially sitting. So it's very likely that price is going to hit here. Well, if we take a look at the 30-minute chart, you'll see that same A to B equal CD pattern. No topping pattern in place. Of course, you do know that if there was a bearish reversal candle that did form, that would identify the top for that timeframe, and then you'd be looking and searching for support to figure out where price might pull back to. The 15-minute timeframe says, I don't want to be a... to destroy your party and turn it into a pity party, but it does. It is forming bar number nine, which we'll complete in about 54 seconds out here. Remember, it can be the following bar number nine that can make the high of that pattern out there. So this suggests that by 1130, we should see some type of short-term top. Now, there's really two options here. One would be we get a short-term top. If we get that, the price should pull back to support. The first support level that is open out here is the 3930 level, or 3946. That'd be a good move to the downside. Is that likely to happen? Well, we've got that nice positive market prep out there, but that is still the game plan. However, if at 1145, price is trading above the high of this pattern, that pattern will get negated, tells we're headed higher, that higher, I would say, it's likely that 395650 level. Steve Rhodes with TFNN will be right back. 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Folks, we've got the Dow Up 251 S&P 34, NASDAQ 109, just a little housekeeping here. I am off tomorrow and Friday. We'll be back with you on Monday and then off on the following Thursday and Friday as well. So let's get to some of the questions that have come in. We've got one inside the Tiger's Den. This is from Jimmy, I believe. Let's take a look at DocuSign. I believe Jimmy is looking to take a long position here in DocuSign. Well, Jimmy, if we take a look at the daily timeframe chart, we do not have such a signal. It doesn't mean it won't bounce or anything, but if you're asking, do we have a bottom pattern inside of DocuSign on a daily timeframe, the answer would be emphatically, we do not. Why do I say that? Well, there was a TD9 count bottom that formed out here on the trading day of August 29th. That led to basically a one-day rally out there. That was it. And that pattern was taken out last Friday, September the 1st out there. And there's no other bottoming pattern in a daily timeframe that is present at the moment. Not even an A to B equal CD that I could put in here. The weekly shows that price is trading below pretty much everything. Certainly it's profiles, it's prior lows out there. So this is looking like it wants to head lower. If you were to ask me, head lower to where? Well, the monthly chart is potentially going to take out its TD9 count bottom as well. That suggests 49.52, but if 49.52 doesn't hold, this thing maybe gets all the way back to its November 2018 low and perhaps below that as well. So the only way to take some kind of trade here, at least based upon the daily, weekly, and monthly signals, I know you want to go along, is to do some very short inter-day trading out here. And even in that case, on the 30-minute timeframe chart, I don't necessarily show that. I see a little consolidation with 54.89 being the level to where resistance is at on the 30-minute timeframe. So do I see the patterns necessary, required for you to take a long position out here? I don't see it, Jimmy, but that doesn't mean that I can't do that. It's just the patterns that I use. Don't support that thought processes out there. So I do hope that helps you out with regard to DocuSign. Thanks much for the question. Raul writes, what's levels on EES mini? I'm glad I covered yesterday. So we really kind of covered that. Raul, we were taking a look at the EES mini in that opening segment. So I don't want to repeat myself. We've got a bunch of questions out here. So we'll go through that. And if we have time, I'm happy to come back and take a look at that as well for you. So let's go on to our next question out here. Next question coming from David H. And David wants to take a look at N-phase. That has a nice rally going on. It's up $9.60. ENPH is the ticker symbol. This will take a moment or two to populate. Let's read David's question. It says, hey, Steve, yesterday you looked at N-phase for me. Yeah. With today's price action going beyond $3.0888 to $3.11, is there a fib level I could use for a possible high tomorrow on Friday? You've got the $2.85 calls. So the first thing is that you've hit resistance. So right now you've got this, or you've got a couple of different resistance areas. But right now you've got just using the trading day of August 8th, which was that nice bearish and gulping candle out there. Not that it necessarily confirmed a pattern. Maybe there was native B equals CDD upside. I would say there likely was. And that's your real resistance area. Now that resistance level is up at the $3.0888. So yeah, you've spiked above it. You've gotten back all the way back. That was probably your opportunity to sell into that position out there. We'll take a look at volume. I'll do that off the screen out here. It'll be a little bit easier for me to do that. ENPH, I believe yesterday when we looked at it, price was pushing into a swing point with lighter volume. It was volume of 4 million shares pushing into that swing that had 4.2. Today you're at 3 million shares. So you are pushing that swing point with some volume. So it does suggest that price should at least go tag that $3.0888 area. You specifically were asking for, and you can see you've got the resistance on the weekly timeframe as well. But you were asking, I want to answer your question. So we're going to switch panels here. We're going to go to my black background screens because you were asking for a Fibonacci expansion price target. So let me give you that. Give me a moment here. We'll go to the daily timeframe. I'll just expand out the daily timeframe. And the way that I'll do that out here is just simply take an expansion of its last set of swing points out here. If you give me a moment, we will change so that I've got that tool coming up on my screen. There we go Fibonacci expansion. So that's going to be from that high, that trading day of August the 8th, all the way down to the low that was formed out here on September the 1st. So the 1 to 1.272 expansion area is up at 319 level. Above that is 332.66 out here. Your calls expire on Friday. Man, let me look at the 30 minute chart and see what kind of signals were out there. I know you'd like to squeeze every dollar that you can out of this trade. You're up at resistance. You tested resistance. You rejected resistance even with volume, right? Hasn't pushed it over. So on a 30 minute timeframe chart, I don't really have much to suggest that you sell here. You had that nice big wide-ranging bar, but it does look like price is going to pull back to the 297, to the 299 area out there. So I hope that that does help you out, David. And best of luck to you, whatever decision it is you decide to go with out there. Let's go to the next question. This one coming in from Hector and Patty. And Hector wants to take a look at, I believe X on mobile.  XOM. It takes just a moment to populate these black background charts out here. And let's read the question. Happy, weird, wall-y, wacky Wednesday. Back at you, my friend. X on mobile. September 1st had a low of 9229. So let me first, as we're reading the question, let me get rid of this. Let me just clear the screen out here. So Hector is talking about September 1. Let's get to September 1. Okay, right here. So he's taking a look at that swing point. It goes like this. XOM, September 1st had a low of 9229. It stays low. Stop and bounce that 9232. The SOK. Is this a red flag for positive clue for a bounce out of here? Well, price is still trading with inside that swing point. So that is a swing point out here from September 1. And that runs anywhere from the 9229 to 9506 level. So as long as price is inside there, you know, it's possible. Yeah, you know, you get down by one tick. Yeah, it is. But we'd really like to see whatever other patterns might be in there to take a look at. Because you see, that is also what happens, Hector, if today price closes below 9229. So price closed below 9229. That has volume of 16.4 million. We've been trading for two hours. We're already at 5.6 million. Six million times three. We get us to 18. So we're at similar type volume, maybe even more out here. And so your price is still trading inside that swing point. I don't believe it's giving us a definitive answer because the price closes below 9229. Then all of a sudden you have an A to B equal CD to the downside out there to take a look at. So that's one thing to consider. Let's go switch over to the white background screens out here. But I think we answered the question as to, I hope we answered that question, but let's go like at the white background screen and see what else we can find out here. So what we know about Exxon Mobil is that it is trading below the bottom of its daily profile. It's trading below its oscillator and chains line. Those are not bullish conditions as we speak. They could be neutral conditions, but they're not bullish conditions. If we look at a weekly time frame chart out here, price is back inside its weekly profile. The week is not over, and price may close back above 9506. But if it closed below A9506, Hector and Patty, it suggests to pull back to about the 8980 level again. The monthly time frame still has that TD9 count top, but price above profiles and its screen oscillator and chains line. So it's not the clearest of signals, but on the daily time frame, I don't believe we have the signal that says, yeah, price is going to take off from here. Steve Rhodes with TFNN, we'll be right back. If you want to take advantage of this sector, now is the time to subscribe to my Gold Report. 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They're now on 46 points. That was up to 236 S&P, up 34 points out there. Let's go to our next question. Next question coming in from Brent in Martinez, California. Brent wants to take a look at the seasonal patterns out of the seasonal charts. If you give me a moment, we'll change screens out here. We'll do the black background screen. We'll pull over our charts from the folks over at Seasonix. If you like seasonal charts, folks, I'm telling you, these things are great the way they have this laid out. Let me show you. Let me actually just go right back from the beginning out here for you just to actually change things up. Now, we'll just simply go take a look at the patterns here for the dowel. We'll start with the dowel. I guess I didn't really change it the way I wanted to. Does that change it? There we go. We've got the dowel. That's what we're looking at here. It gives you a number of different selections with regard to timeframes, maximum being 125 years. Now, we can put in a customized time frame if we want, or we can select the years that we want to take a look at out there. It gives you a nice thing. If we take a look at the 125-year program, here's what the seasonal pattern looks like. In fact, we'll put where today's date is at. From a typical seasonal structure, we typically see over the last 125 years a top come in right around now. Let's call it Friday out here. September 8th, September 9th. That's what the normal seasonal pattern. We're also in the midterm election seasonal cycle. Let's go ahead and just simply click on our midterm elections. It takes, that gives us all. You can see all the years that it's using for those midterms. Here, in a midterm election cycle, this too suggests that the dowel will top tomorrow or Friday, and then move lower into the end of September, September 30th to be specific out here. That's what the patterns for the dowel look like. Let's go to the patterns are different for each of the indices out here. If we take a look, for example, the S&P 500, we can do that same thing. Now, you've got today's date. Let's clear this thing out. Here's the 72-year normal seasonal cycle, which in the S&P 500 kind of says we sort of had sideways until about the middle of September, and then move lower, move higher. We don't get to that real bottom until the end of October out there. That's what that says. However, if we take a look at its midterm cycles, now, in this case here, we're using the total amount of data that we have that gives us fewer midterm cycles and obviously the dow did out there. Here you can see this too shows some kind of short-term top. Then they move down into maybe the following week in September, and then you move higher and then lower again into the early part of October out there. If we take a look at the NDX100, just to give us kind of a, if we round it out here, it's a NASDAQ 100. Let's do the same thing. Let's put in the maximum number of years. Let's go ahead and put in its mid. Here you can see, on a traditional basis, we just typically don't move a lot to the upside or to the downside out there inside the NDX100, but let's put that midterm cycle in and that says when the NDX100 should really take a move to the downside, doesn't occur until about the end of September out there, and then you've got that final push from a seasonal standpoint into the lows. The question Brent also had was, how are these things lining up with regard to perhaps patterns inside the market? At least that's the way that I took it. And to a certain extent, they really aren't necessarily. What I mean by that is, what do I mean by that? Let's go take a look at the actual cash indices out here. I think I've got those. Yeah, I do. We're going to change screens here. So we'll go from the black screen to the white background charts. Those are from Ninja Trader out here. Those are the two applications I use, our e-signal Ninja Trader. And here, in the case of the Dow, just an example, the Dow chart suggests that we should start heading lower tomorrow, the Dow chart, up a left hand corner, it negated its TD9 count pattern. It did that by closing below that pattern, which was 31, 219, 75, and it did that yesterday. However, if you get a bullish reversal candle, right now you've got a bull sash candle today, Brent, then all of a sudden, the buy the D point pattern comes into play out there. And that would suggest to move up to its oscillator and change line 32, 135. That really seems like that's what this market wants to do. Regardless of what we just took a look at on the seasonal side, the S&P 500 still retains its TD9 count and buy the D point pattern. Also, there are changing colors in the Dow, the S&P, the NASDAQ out there, all of those suggest when you have valid bottoming patterns that price will go target those levels. So if you get a bullish reversal candle today, Brent, for the Dow, it'll have a valid bottom out there and price should make its move towards that 32, 133 level. On the S&P, it's 40, 40 or so. The NASDAQ 100 it still has its no, I take it back. It does not, it needs today the NDX100, we need a bullish reversal candle to confirm a buy the D point pattern. So Friday negated its TD9 count bottom. There was no buy the D point bottom out there because we did not get a bullish reversal candle. If we do get that today and currently it's a bull sash as well, then that would suggest a target of 12, 152. The Russell 2000, yesterday negated its buy the D point pattern. But remember we had a conversation that was Hector and I believe that had a conversation he wanted to load up on the IWM. I said, don't do that so fast because why? Because even though there was a nice bullish hammer candle last Thursday, there was also a gap to the downside. And so we didn't really know was it the bulls that were telling us a story or the bears that were telling the story. And when we colored in that distance, the gap distance out there, that hammer candle was longer retained hammer status. Price closed below it yesterday. Today is going to become, is it, let me see here, that low 1786. Today's low. No. So in order, so if you get a bullish reversal candle today, you got a piercing candle, that would confirm a buy the D point pattern. If you don't get that today, tomorrow or Friday could form a TD9 count bottom. Today's going to be partner break but it has not taken out the low. So far the low of the pattern is out today. However, that's not the case inside the NQ. The NQ did take out its lows from yesterday and therefore it has triggered bar number eight. The semis out there, Brent, they still have a buy the D point pattern. Their hammer candle that formed four trading sessions ago is still intact out there. Today, I know the transports are weakened to see out here. They're down by 53 points right now. They are going to form bar number eight of a TD9 count. They could also form a bullish hammer candle today. That would confirm a buy the D point pattern right now. It's a hammer candle, but I don't know what it is going to be at four o'clock. It could be much different than it is at 1136. But nonetheless, you could get bar number eight of a TD9 count. That could be generated a Bob signal. The NASDAQ composite needs a bullish reversal candle to confirm a buy the D point pattern. And the New York Stock Exchange still retains its buy the D point pattern and suggests that price should move up to 15031. So Brent, I hope that helped answer your questions out there with regard to seasonal charts and how the current market fits that model. And again, I don't believe that it does out here because of all the bottoming signals. And it looks like price really should get up to the oscillator and change lines. That's one reason we've got that nice bullish crossover that we saw in the 60 minute time frame charts for the NQ and the ES many of those could hold throughout the day. That's a positive out here. If we take a look at the advanced decline chart, it's a positive reading. This is for Peter in Park City. I don't know if Peter's on the side of the den with us, but Peter loves to take a look at this chart here. As we take a look at it, you can see that it's trying to work off an extreme. And I do mean extreme oversold condition. It was down below minus 250 out there. And so this needs to work that condition up by getting up towards that zero level out there. So you've got an oversold condition that's in place and just going dependent upon the days close out there. Will this rally that's in effect right now, will it hold and will it generate some additional bottoming patterns out here, like by the D point for some of the indices that do not have bottoming signals out there. So we'll get back to our questions here as soon as we get back from this break. Looks like we have one here from Steve, he's going to have to get a move on it cause has a question. Wanda has a question I would stab two. Oh no, Muck has a question. He wants to take a look at Apple. Rossi wants to take a look at NVIDIA. We'll take a look at all four of those instruments as soon as we get back to this break. You might think that if you want to be successful at trading in the stock market, you're going to need a crystal ball. After all, it's impossible to predict the future, right? Like any endeavor in life, before you decide it's impossible, get some advice from the experts. 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Short of that, Apple wants to go target its breakout level of $152.16. The closes below that, then we're likely headed lower and lower to where, well, the next level of support would be at about $149.91. And that's really coming from the center of its monthly profile out there. The target for Apple is about $152.16. If I look at a 30-minute timeframe chart out here, just looking for any kind of bottom signal or any message out here, just don't have anything. So Apple doesn't appear to be the stock. That's going to be the one that's going to save the day, although I do believe they have an event going on today. So that could certainly change things. What you'd be looking for on the daily timeframe for Apple is a bullish reversal candle at day's end to confirm a buy the D-point pattern. Otherwise, $152.16 is absolutely game out there. So I hope that helps you out, Muck, with regard to our analysis for Apple. Rossi wants to take a look at NVIDIA. NVIDIA is a ticker symbol. So let's get that populated on our screen out here. And I apologize, I just wrote down the symbols. Hopefully just a review is going to provide you with the information that you're looking for out here. And so as we take a look at NVIDIA, trade out at $135.56 right now as we get this populated. What do we have? Do we have any kind of a bottom? We do not. So the daily timeframe is still suggesting lower price. The question is lower price to where? Well, it's really not the daily that's giving us the lower price target. We've got to move all the way over to the monthly. And where NVIDIA broke out was at $134.59. We're trading at $135.40. So that level has been tested. This is going to become bar number 8 of a TD9 count. Bar number 9 still has to complete. And in order for bar number 9 to complete, we need to close below the close of bar number 5. That close at $151.59. So even if we were hanging our hat on a TD9 count bottom to form out here, you're not going to get much movement on a monthly basis. If that's the pattern that's going to complete. On a weekly basis, what do we have out here for signals? Well, I do see a wave number 7 pattern that took place last week. If we have a higher load this week, that is a bottoming signal. Otherwise, we get a lower low. The pattern continues for one more week out here. So this suggests that price could move up to $157.39. I don't think there'd be a conservative effort until we see some type of bottom signal on the daily timeframe. Now back to the daily. The daily is going to have a TD9 count bottom, but the low so far is on bar number 5. It doesn't qualify for our potential bottom signal. You've got to get a spike below that level. What is that level, Steve? That level is $132.70. It doesn't have to close below it. It has to spike below it. Does that today, tomorrow, or Friday? Then NVIDIA would generate a TD9 count bottom signal. It suggests to move up to a Saucen and Changeline in the 151 area. So again, NVIDIA, no bottom signal today. We could get one by Friday out there, and price is holding the support level of $134.59. Hope that helps y'all. Rossi, thanks so much for the request. The next question, Kendra from Cause, wants to take a look at Occidental Petroleum. As we pull up the charts for Oxy, he also wanted to take a look at UNG. So for UNG, what we'll actually do is go take a look at the natural gas contract out there. And I will get that set up in advance. There we go. So now we take a look at Occidental Petroleum. What's Occidental Petroleum doing well? Looks like it's forming an A to B equal CD to the downside today. So what I need to do is actually go back and take a look at the volume out there. That's three timeframes, O, X, Y. So you can see it's taking out that swing point from a couple of trading sessions ago. And that swing point, oh, hold on, hold your horse. It was taken out yesterday. So that swing point at 21 million shares yesterday was 21 million shares to the downside. Today you're already at 10. So yeah, there's an A to B equal CD to the downside inside of Occidental Petroleum as we speak. Here's the A to B point out there. I'll just simply copy that. Actually, I won't even copy it. I'm just going to move that over. There's your B to C. Your C to D leg. That gives a price projection to 6154 level out there. The weekly timeframe shows a price with inside its daily profile. It's also in a change line. 6279 is a target. 5378 is another one. On the monthly timeframe, TD9 on top. Price with inside the profile could be suggested to pull back to about the 5484 level. So with regard to Occidental Petroleum, it's got an A confirmed A to B equal CD to the downside. And I don't have anything that shows me that that's not going to come to fruition at this moment in time. So I hope that helps you out. Oh, you also want to take a look at UNG. So let's go switch the screens out here. Let's go to our black panel screen where we can take a look. Momentarily, we'll be able to take a look at it. I still have Occidental Petroleum up here. Let's go take a look at natural gas. So we take a look at natural gas. Take a look at the current contract out here, which is October. So here in October, what you'll see is there is a... So this formed a TD9 count top, I believe the natural gas or TD9 count top out there. It was a bar falling by on August 23rd. And yesterday price closed with a wide-ranging bar below the bottom of this profile. But there is a new weekly profile that's attempting to form, and that support level is 787. If a price closed below 787, this is going to continue to head lower to where. That's a great question out there. So let's pull up this chart. Let's also do natural gas 10-22 on a set of white background charts out here. So here, the headed lower to where. Okay, so this is not using my advanced Doppler tool that showed that new profile level. So, you know, ordinarily I'd say 745. And 745 is still a target. I don't know if that profile is going to confirm until Sunday evening. But what I was looking for here is actually, and this I've got to know on the white background charts, the next level of support for natural gas for the October contract. Now with regard to the UNG, I don't know which contracts are inside there. Odd's favor, we just got there October and November, is likely. But you've got to go take a look at that. But if we take a look at the October contract there for natural gas, it is going to go target $7.70. That's a TD9 count breakout level for its daily timeframe. Now today is going to be bar number six. Maybe by the end of the week, you've got a TD9 count pattern that would be confirmed on Monday out there. But right now it looks like natural gas wants to have lower. Around $7.70 would be the price target to the downside. Peter, I'll show that to you in a moment if we can. So that's a chair of Oxy and UNG. Let's do the last one out here. Last request so far is to take a look at Goldilocks. So let me get those charts here fired up. Give me a second. Gold. There we go. And this is for Wanda. Wanda inside the... Was that the target? No, that was by email. A request out there. It was just simply if we could take a look at Gold. So I believe Gold confirmed a roachment to indicator bottom a couple of days ago for its daily timeframe. Let's get that chart. You can clearly see that. Had that nice bullish piercing candle. So Wanda, the real key level of resistance for Gold while these charts are populated. But you can see it on the daily timeframe. And that is its oscillator and change on that little red line. We're going to expand out the daily timeframe chart for you. So you'll be able to see this. Let's actually clean up the chart just a tad. So you've got a nice roachment to indicator bottom. Got that nice piercing candle. But you just have prices consolidating with inside that new daily profile there between 1707 and 1762. Well, Gold really needs to do one. It's close above 731. If they could close above 1731 then Gold will go ahead to 1762 out there. You can see if there's anything else out here for Wanda. Goldy loss. Not much that I see. You can take a look at that five hour timeframe cheating night out top. The price close above that high. 1737 is soft to the races. Right back. Vista Gold owns and operates the largest undeveloped Gold project in Australia. The Mount Todd Gold project. Vista Gold just completed their feasibility study resulting in a 7 million ounce Gold reserve. Vista Gold has all major permits approved and has retained CIBC Capital Market Assistance in evaluating alternatives and in completing an accretive transaction. Vista Gold trades on the NYSE American and TSX under the ticker symbol VGC. 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You can see we're still along the strong side of the A to B equals CD on the 60-minute, chart that tells us about doing more than a one-to-one. We know at $39.56.50 is where we've got resistance both on the 60-minute, the 120-minute chart out there. The new profile level on the five-hour timeframe is up at the $39.52-ish level out there. So the real battle is going to be at $39.56. If price can close above that white-shark, then what we should see out there is a further rally. And that rally, again, should target a minimum, should target its red oscillator and change line on the daily timeframe that's currently printed at $40.43. So that's what's going on there. Let's take a quick peek at one of my black background charts out here. This one is always fun because we can start with a blank chart and then decorate it. When I say decorate it, what I mean is levels of support and resistance, whether they are diagonal or horizontal. So let's first take a look at the let's Stevie work here. Let's first take a look at the smaller rising price channel. And we can see here inside the dial, just simply pull this back a tad out there. How price this week is a test this weekly chart that we're taking a look at. So price has held that level of support. Well, in addition to that rising price channel, we have a descending channel with inside that rising price channel. So this is held. If we're going to bounce, where are we going to bounce into? Well, I would say we would bounce into the trend line up there, you know, in around the 32,000 area. And then we don't just stop there because what we have is we've got our larger rising price channel out there. Just to finish it off, we've got our horizontal trading range boundary lines out there. Folks, stay tuned for a great program. And again, I am off tomorrow and Friday. So I will see you on Marvel this Monday. Have a great couple of days, a great weekend, and we'll see


Franz Vestrade, you work in the European Commission in the Director General for Health and Food Safety. When did you first hear the word Codex? Well, the first time I heard about Codex was in 1996. Then I came to the European Commission and I started to work on aflatoxins and then it was the first time that I also heard about Codex and the Codex Committee on Contaminants and Food Additives. And where does your passion for Codex work come from? Well, this passion from Codex comes of course, it's part of my work because indeed we are working on standards and we also have to take into account what happens at international level but it is also important to see how indeed on the discussions how the different viewpoints can then be consigned into one single Codex standard which is applicable worldwide. What are the major milestones that you recall from your career in Codex? Well, I think I have my best memories and most intensive discussions are on the aflatoxin standards in tree nuts where when indeed we started off at the beginning with very divergent views, European Union with the strict levels and a lot of other member countries in Codex with indeed higher levels because of the reasons of why they could not produce with lower levels and so on and through indeed a few years of very intensive discussions in Codex and outside Codex but with the member countries we came to a standard on which even the EU could indeed agree upon. So that was indeed I think an important milestone. I would say that when indeed the issue is brought up here in Codex of course it brings also awareness in these countries and also indeed even if indeed the standards we are setting here in Codex are sometimes less strict than the EU. I think they are very important for public health worldwide because it brings awareness amongst the producers worldwide and they are also looking into applying good practice to bring the levels as much as down as possible taken into account their production conditions and it is indeed of benefit for all consumers all over the world. What was the most challenging piece of work that you've been involved in in Codex? To come to consensus on several issues I think we had several points where we had discussions for instance also on the code of practice for dioxins and PCBs where indeed we had a lot of experience within the EU with our comprehensive legislation but I think there also we had quite lengthy discussions on coming to a code of practice at the end where everyone could agree upon it. What working Codex would you really like to see finished? I think the urgency is still I think we work a lot on codes of practices but I think we should also a bit more work on indeed real maximum levels real standards which are really important for the international trade of course codes of practices are the starting point good practices but indeed if you come with and I see that also within the European Union if indeed you have in combination with codes of practices then also maximum levels that this does encourage and indeed also a bit obliged to indeed apply that all operators in the food and the production chain apply the code of practice. We've heard here in this meeting about new protein sources and what do you see as the challenges for the future for this committee? Well I think we have to be very vigilant and because indeed we get all these new novel food sources on which indeed we while they are the nutritional profile is known because that's the reason why they are brought forward as new sources for food but of which indeed there are new technologies for producing them for which we do not necessarily know what kind of contaminants they can contain and I think we have to be very vigilant and also ensure that indeed once we identify a potential issue that we really bring this forward and that we tackle this from in the beginning because the point is that if we detected too late maybe then this trend of these new food is then stopped because then people say oh but there is this big risk and we have to be proactive trying to recognize the risk and to deal with the risk. Franz, thank you very much for taking the time to talk to us today. Thank you.


We explain how to prevent unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. This is Lena and her boyfriend, Kamal. They have just fallen in love and they want to sleep with each other for the first time. Of course, they know about the risk of pregnancy, but they consider themselves way too young to have a child. Because of that, talking about contraception before their first time is important. They already know of the contraceptive pill, the coil, and condoms, but this information is too basic. How does birth control actually work and which method is the safest? These questions are answered by a gynecologist. In order for a woman to get pregnant, her body releases an egg cell from her ovaries. It moves into the womb where it waits for a sperm cell to fertilize it. If the egg cell is fertilized, the concentration of the feminine sex hormone estrogen increases in the blood. Among other things, this messenger has the task of informing the body of the pregnancy. If a woman is on the pill, the dose of estrogen raises her hormone level. The body believes that it's pregnant and stops the production of new egg cells. No egg cells, no pregnancy. But there are also contraceptives that work without hormones. They prevent a pregnancy by stopping the sperm on its way to the egg cell. Condoms, copper coils, and the diaphragm work in this way. You can check the safety of a method through the Pearl Index, which calculates the annual number of pregnancies per hundred women. The safer a method, the lower the value. Top of the list is the pill. With less than one pregnancy per year, when using a condom, the risk of getting pregnant is slightly higher. However, it is the only contraceptive that protects against sexually transmitted infections. For example, the immunodeficiency disease HIV. Now, Lena and Kamal know the score. Speaking about scoring, Kamal's friend Jonas is a real lady's man. A lot of girls like him. That's why Kamal slips him a few condoms. As always, safety first.


I'm going to stand right here and I'm going to let the final final part out. I'm going to stand here. Hi, welcome all thanks. I'm so glad to see you. I'm glad to see you. Hi. Welcome to the residence. Hi. Hi. I know you're going to come to the fan club. Hi. I know you're going to come to the fan club. Hi. I'm glad to see you. Good day. You're back. That's wonderful. Thank you. That's great to see you. Thank you. You were the one who showed us. You were the one who showed us. You were the one who showed us. Thank you. I feel like wow. Here you go. That's great. I know we'll be going out there to meet all of the rest. Has anyone told you how you were picked, why you were in here for little advance? Well, that was because for some of you it was letters and wires. And for those of you that are people who are watching and monitoring television and some of the things that you said when you got off the plane when you arrived home. I wish we could have had the opportunity to do it all up, but time won't permit that. But we'll all go over there. And present also, if you haven't been told, we'll be 40 in uniform who tenaged from the four services that participated in the Cranada Rescue Mission. General Vesse, chief of staff. I think you'd all like to know that they only had about 48 hours. Top sequence of the plan, a maneuver of that size. And I remember how warm my heart was when we sat there in the situation room and the general was up with pointer at the map. And his first line was to minimize if we can't eliminate totally casualties. And then pointed to the first priorities, which happened to be two campuses of St. George's University, and the necessity of immediately securing those the minimum of risk to all concerned. I'm so proud of all of them in uniform and for what they did and so proud of all of you the way you have responded. And just... And what you said to all the people. Well, it's been a great... I think it's been a... I'm not supposed to be talking here. You just finished cleaning up my desk. But I think it's been a great boost to the American people in a real shot of patriotism. I think it's wonderful and I thank you very much. ...of the United States and Mrs. Reagan. Thank you very much. Thank you. Please. Thank you. Thank you. Please. Please be seated. Well, Secretary Weinberger, General Vessey, and all of you students and all of the men and women who are here in uniform. I'm so glad to meet you and to be able to say it officially, welcome home. I can't tell you when I've been so happy and I might add relieved to have such guests here in the South Lawn. So a very warm and grateful welcome to you all and welcome to the ambassadors and other special guests who are here. And let me tell you how this little get-together came about. I'm actually playing matchmaker today. You students sent me so many moving telegrams of appreciation about the military fellows who rescued you. I thought it might be nice if you had the chance to tell them yourselves. So here in this more peaceful setting are representatives of all the four units that participated and were there with you on Grenada. In letter after letter, you spoke of your deep respect for those who risked their lives and in some circumstances gave their lives so that you'd be safe. A great many of you said you believed you'd be dead or held hostage today if it weren't for the courageous men whose business it is to be courageous. Our soldiers, sailors, marines, and airmen. I wish I could give every military person who participated in the Grenada rescue copies of your telegrams and letters.  And I must say this angered me a little too. It's very easy for some snug know-it-all in a plush protected quarter to say that you were in no danger. I have wondered how many of them would have changed places with you. Some of our fellows didn't make it back. Ted and Jane Stathos wrote me a letter as so many of you did and I'd like to read just one small passage because it says so much. While we waited for the Rangers to evacuate our campus and I hope I'm pronouncing this right at Grand Anse we experienced many chilling and sad moments. The most upsetting of these was the sight of an American helicopter being shot down by enemy fire. There were tears in everyone's eyes as we scanned the ocean water for the sight of any survivors. We knew then how much our lives meant to the brave men fighting for our safety. I wish I could tell you all the acts of heroism that I've been hearing. Sergeant Stephen Trujillo at Ranger is one example. His unit was engaged in an air assault on the California compound which was held by Cuban forces. Sergeant Trujillo was in the first of four helicopters to go into the compound under intense enemy fire. Upon landing, Sergeant Trujillo saw the three other helicopters lose control and crash into one another. Immediately and with complete disregard for his own personal safety he ran across open terrain to the downed aircraft exposing himself to enemy fire, flying shrapnel and possible explosion of the burning helicopters with only the lives of his fallen comrades in mind and while still in the open and exposed to intense automatic and small arms fire Sergeant Trujillo began administering first aid to the critically wounded. Upon arrival of the battalion's physician's assistant Sergeant Trujillo returned to the crashed aircraft several times removing the wounded soldiers, carrying them across terrain to a safer location and administering medical aid. During the entire time he came under automatic and small arms fire. His unselfish actions were instrumental in saving the lives of a platoon leader and several other seriously wounded soldiers and the inspiring thing is that Sergeant Trujillo would have risked his life for each of you as well. From your letters to me I know how deep your gratitude even affection is for these men. Some of you've asked how you can express that respect and affection. Well you've been doing a marvelous job already. Nothing could make those men prouder than the statements you've made to America about their bravery and devotion to a cause larger than themselves. A few years ago it seemed that America forgot what an admirable and essential need there is for a nation to have men and women who would give their lives to protect their fellow citizens. What you saw ten days ago was called patriotism. What those men did for you they would do for any American in trouble. And the way you can best honor those who died in Grenada is to speak out about their courage and commitment as they risk their lives for yours and as so many of you have been doing already. Unbelievably the other day a reporter asked me what was the difference between our invading Grenada and the Soviets invading Afghanistan. The question sort of touched my temperature control. I answered and among the things I said was that there was no comparison between the savage invasion of Afghanistan with its slaughter of innocent men, women and children, civilians and the heroic rescue mission of our young Americans.  The Afghanistan people aren't meeting the soldiers with friendly waves and gifts of flowers and fruit over there. A CBS news poll shows that an overwhelming majority of the Grenadians, 91% are glad the United States came to Grenada. I think that tells a lot about the differences between democracy and totalitarianism. Now I'm not going to take up all the time here but it's good to have both students and servicemen together under more peaceful circumstances.  But thank you for coming. God bless all of you. And now I believe that Gene Joel and Jeff Geller want to say a few words. President, Mrs. Reagan, distinguished members of the military, fellow students it is indeed a great honor to speak to you today. When I first spoke to the press and said that I wanted to thank President Reagan in the military I never dreamed that I'd have a chance to do it personally. I'm here today to say a few words on behalf of the student body of St. George's University School of Medicine. I think that I can speak not only on behalf of the students but also on behalf of all the families of the students in expressing our gratitude to both you, Mr. President and every member of the military that took part in our evacuation. We owe each and every one of you a debt that we can never repay. I can recall the joy and pride that I felt as a ranger first emerged over the hill behind my dormitory. I looked out from my dormitory window and upon hearing that they were Americans I shouted for joy and thought to myself they haven't forgotten us because we're Americans. I think that we were often so caught up in criticizing our government and our military that we lose sight of the admirable qualities that they possess. Two weeks ago I saw those qualities in action. For the American military I have only praise. They acted in a manner that all Americans can be proud of. Prior to this experience I had held liberal political views which were not always sympathetic with the position of the American military. I think a lot of us who don't have a first hand view are often skeptical when we hear that our military is involved in a far away place. We don't always understand why our soldiers are fighting abroad. Well let me say that I have learned a lot from this experience. It is one thing to view an American military operation from afar and quite another to be rescued by one. We are a group of young men and women dedicating to study medicine so that we can save lives. Let us also remember that many lives were lost in saving ours. Let us honor those American men who saved their lives so that someday we can save others. To you President Reagan, I must add a special thank you on behalf of my parents and of all the students' parents. Thank you for bringing us back to the United States. There is truly no place like home. Thank you. I'm very proud and honored to be here today and I believe I represent not only my own class but all of St. George's University School of Medicine. When I say that I am grateful to the U.S. military for their actions they never had so much faith or pride in my country than during the 24 hours I spent under war conditions in Grenada. Probably the most poignant moment for me personally was Tuesday night in the library that we converted into a makeshift medical unit. I thought about the fact that just 24 hours earlier I had been studying here and how abrupt the change was from academics to reality. They brought in a soldier with three bullet wounds in his right arm and chest and the man was in excruciating pain. While I attempted to assist the extremely self-sufficient thoracic surgeon as he inserted a chest catheter for drainage I thought about this man on the table. I'm a total stranger to me and yet an American who was willing to jeopardize his life not only for my personal safety but for the causes of our country. These professional men with their unspoken dedication to the United States and to our standards of freedom and democracy have my great respect. My experience in Grenada, especially in the library medical unit has reaffirmed my personal dedication to medicine and my commitment to complete my education but it has also reaffirmed my faith and respect in the citizens of our country especially those citizens in the military. As a representative of St. George's University School of Medicine I would like to thank President Reagan and the military for their concern for our personal safety and to say that among such company I am proud to be an American. President Reagan and the honorable military and the student body on behalf of the students of St. George's University School of Medicine I would like to present you with this small token of our appreciation for saving our lives the United States military and you President Reagan in appreciation for your prompt action that guaranteed our safe return from Grenada the students of St. George's University School of Medicine. I proudly accept that only as the acceptor in the realization that it goes the men and women in uniform in our armed services. President Reagan on behalf of the students the very grateful students of St. George's University School of Medicine who appreciate both your rescue mission and Grenada and your continued support for all citizens pursuing their American dream we give you a plaque in the shape of the United States for bringing us home to America we thank you. Take your pick on these I'm going to send this to Dan. I think I'll take Secretary Weinberger to die. I have the piece of paper that Secretary Weinberger stood on.