The following is a presentation of TFNN The Trader's Edge with Steve Rhodes, toll-free at 1-877-927-6648, or internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER>. The Trader's Edge. Now, Steve Rhodes. Good afternoon, folks. Welcome to the May 24th, otherwise known as the Terrific Tuesday. In addition to today's Trader's Edge show, I'm your host, Stevie Perseverance, Rhodes, who absolutely knows that each of us should always be pioneers of our future versus prisoners of our past. Hope you've been out there having a great day. 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. We do not make that one little two-by-four shift. Well, which we can find a gift in every set of circumstance that life is going to toss at us. Now, today you and I, and 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 just past one o'clock in the afternoon. I do want you to know I'm absolutely grateful for your presence here. But more important than that, and that's this. During this 60 minutes, I'm here to serve you. So feel free to pick up that phone. Dial on in<PHONE_NUMBER>. And if you can't dial in, hey, we've got you covered there, too. You can always send me an email. Send it early. Please send it to Steve at tfnn.com inside the subject. If you would be kind enough to put radio show question, and of course, our Tiger is dead waiting in every ping we'll do. So let's go ahead and get this show started on terrific Tuesday. Of course, this is Tiger. Financial News Network. I'm Steve Rhodes. Welcome to Let's Show, a sea of red out there. All the U.S. Indices that we track trading the downside. Dows off 320 points. That's 1%. S&P 78 on nearly 2%. 3% for the Nasdaq 100 to 379 points. Dowses off about 2.6% or 47 points. Nearly 3% for the semis. That's 83 points to the downside. 2.5% for the transports. Gold's trading out at 1864. That's up 9.10 or 16 points. Silver's up 1.5% or 32 cents. Trade out at 22.05. Light's recruiters up a buck. Natural gas is up a penny. And the 30-year treasury is up nearly 2 points. Trade out at 1.4208. Lead to charge. Dollar-wise to the upside is auto zone. Trade out at 1862. That's up 57 bucks or 3% or rather the automotive. Joining in on the party up nearly 4% or 22 bucks. America's Car Mart is up 25%. And Insulate Corporation's up 12 bucks or 6%. To the downside it is Google. 149 bucks. Nearly 7%. Amazon, 91 bucks. 4% booking holdings. 80 bucks. 4% Mercado Libre. 69 bucks or 90%. Tesla's off 40 bucks. So we've got some movers. Boy, do we have some shakers. But let's begin by taking a look at the play-by-play and go look at the equity future contracts. Let's change our windows. We'll go to our multi-panel set of timeframes out here. And really as we take a look at the EES mini, I'm looking for, was there any bottoms that formed early this morning? The two timeframes that pop up or the three timeframes, I should say that pop up on our four timeframes that pop up on our screen.  I'll figure out those four timeframes. The five minute, the 10 minute, the 15 minute. So that's your ultra short-term. And then you've got the two-hour timeframe chart. And that's one that we're going to focus in on. And that was a TD9 count. So what we have here inside of the EES mini, the first bottom on the 200, on the two-hour chart here. Give me a moment. That took place on May the 13th, May the 12th, May the 12th. May the 12th, as we came into the close, you had a nice big old bullish engulfing candle confirming a rose mint and indicator bottom. Price moves higher. So we get a move down below that prior low out there. So there goes your potential theory of higher lows, higher highs, because that's not what took place. But yesterday, coming into the close, not yesterday, May the 20th, you get another rose mint and indicator signal. So the question is, is that low going to get taken out? Again, just as it did last time. I don't know the entrance to that, but what I do know is that we did get a TD9 count bottom. And that says that by 2 p.m., we will have a completed TD9 count. You can get a lower low during this session. We've got 50 minutes to go. Anything can happen. But bar number nine did complete with a bullish hammer candle. And so let's assume at this stage here that the TD9 count bottom is in. That did send price up higher towards its oscillator and chains on which is red. And that has been rejected. So what you do know, what I know, is that line is going to be a key level of resistance on any move higher. Currently, that's printed at 39.18. Then another resistance level above that. That's the two-hour timeframe chart that we're looking at would take us to 39.52. Likewise, if I can say likewise, I just did. If the low of today gets taken out, that is the low of that bullish hammer candle right now. And that's at 38.72. That would suggest strong momentum to move to the downside. That would suggest going back and testing the lows from the 20th, maybe taking them out. We don't have that just yet. So we want to watch this. Does this take hold? Does this start getting above resistance levels because it's below support areas, the bottom of its current profile, 39.14 on the oscillator and chains line. I don't know the answer to that. We just have to wait and see. As we look at the shorter intraday charts out there for some signals, that would be that 5, 10, 15-minute chart out here. What I don't have is really any kind of a bottoming signal. I don't have a topping signal necessarily either, but I don't have a bottoming signal there. And that suggests we could see price move back here. So what else can I share with you on the ES mini? Not much. At least not that I can see. Price is below that daily red oscillator and chains line. We've only had a couple of sessions. This is now the third session since the beginning of the month where price has been above that. Those have just simply been one hit wonders. So if price can close above 39.23 or so, that's the daily oscillator and chains line. That would be a positive. Otherwise, just expect some of the same, same old, same old. Now let's go take a look at the NQ. The NQ getting hammered out here down 3%. So as we speak, let's go see what kind of signals we might be able to find here. I believe it is a two-hour timeframe chart that also formed a TD9 count. Let's wait for this thing here to populate and just make sure. Let's also pull this back just a tad. Come on, populate, populate, populate. Come on, the folks are waiting here. Let's go ahead and pop. There we go. So now we've got a TD9 count. Not a hammer candle, by the way. It doesn't have to be a hammer candle. It just was on the ES mini. Let's expand out the two-hour timeframe chart here for the NQ. So what we basically have here is you have that nice Roadsman Dementicator bottom that formed on the F20. Today is the 24th. The price has basically been consolidating with inside that profile ever since. So if I were to ask you, what's the key level of support, you would say, well, that's easy, Stevo. It's going to be the low of that Roadsman Dementicator signal. And that would be at the 11, 491, 25 level. And where's the resistance? Well, you've got really two resistance areas. The first one, because we have a TD9 count, bottom that has formed, would be the TD9 count threshold resistance. And that would be at 11, 918. And the next level of resistance above that would be 12, 096. I would say it would be the close of a 12, 096. That would say to Peter, okay, maybe the chop-chop-fizz-fizz is over with, or at least you get a run up to the 12, 546 area out here. But right now what we're doing is we're watching support. You've got really two levels of support. 11, 551 is the bottom of the profile, but it's really low of that Roadsman Dementicator signal at the 11, 491 area that you would be watching. If we look to the other timeframes for other signals out here, what do we have? Not much. What I mean by not much is other than the TD9 count on the 120-minute time frame chart, I really don't have much more to report. So now let's go take a look at the Dow. In the case of the Dow, is it below yesterday's low? Is it below, is it traded below yesterday's low? I'm looking at the Dow equity future contract here. And the answer is it has not, and that's got to make you say, hmm, something to think about. Steve Roads with TFNN. We'll be right back. This is Australia's largest undeveloped gold project. We are talking a world-class gold project in a tier one mining district. 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John, if we take a look at the monthly chart, let's just go through the different timeframes. Monthly chart is very bullish. What I mean by that is we do not have any kind of bearish signal out here. On the weekly timeframe, you are forming bar number eight potentially out here. You do have a Rhodes momentum indicator signal, but no bearish reversal candle with price above. It's weekly green oscillator and change line, which is 1198. Conditions are bullish there. In the case of the daily timeframe chart, it did top with both a TD9 count pattern and a Rhodes momentum indicator signal. And right now, price is pulling back to test a level of support. This is a key area out here. This is a 12, 23, 40. If price closes below that, then the next level of support would be 1179. And then below that, John would be 1123. If we take a look at the 195-minute timeframe chart, it top with a TD9 count pattern, but you also have a TD9 count bottom. In fact, as I look at all of these intraday charts, the two that have a bottoming signal would be the 30-minute. It has a valid TD9 count bottom, as does the 195-minute chart. So those lows are going to be really important. Why? Because if price closes below those levels, that tells us about a strong momentum to move to the downside. The 195-minute target would be 1168 to the downside. The 30-minute chart would be at 1192 to the downside. That's not the pattern that is in play right now, but it is something to keep an eye on, because that's what the message would be should price take out those lows. Now, with regard to resistance on those two timeframes, the 30-minute chart would be a 1244 or there about, 1245. That's its oscillator and change line. And it would be about 1295 or so. We'll call it really 1309 for the 195-minute timeframe chart. So that's what I see when I take a look at the July contract for the Kansas City weight. John, let's take a look at December corn out here. So we got ZC, we got December 22. This is going to take just a moment to populate. Folks, you already know this on a yearly basis. Price is well above last year's high. So we take a look at wheat, we take a look at corn, we take a look at everything. It's a big move to the upside out there. We're letting this populate. Well, this is populating. Let me go see if I can find cattle. Also, I'm going to get those at least going on my black background charts here. So if you give me a moment, that live cattle out here. Okay, so we got that populate. So now we've got the corn contract. So John, let's just do the same exact thing. We'll start with the monthly timeframe. You can see there was a TD9 count top out here. That was back in February of 22. There wasn't even really a hiccup price above that. Strong momentum move to the upside suggests higher price. The weekly chart is a bit congested out here. This has a, looks like a TD9 count top. Let me see here for December. It has a TD9 count and roge momentum indicator top. And price is testing support. The ultimate level of support here is 705.60. If price were to close below that, then what we would look at, that's a bullish structure profile. Then you'd be looking at a potential move to 627. So right now you've got the confirmed top. Price consolidating with insight, it's profile. What's the daily tell us? Daily tells us that price is trading below the bottom of its daily profile. Don't know if that will hold. It's 728.75. But if price does close below that today and or tomorrow, we go back and we at least test the lows. You would presume from May the 9th that if price gets below that level, which is 703.75, that can start your move to 653. You can see you've got some bottoming signals that are present, not confirmed on the 195 minute chart. It would need a bullish reversal candle. The 130 would need the same. So too for the 65. Those could confirm roge momentum indicator bottom signals. The 30 minute has got a TD9 count pattern, 15 minute. It's got nothing. So what's this tell us? Well, because you've got a nice TD9 count bottom, it's confirmed on 30 minute basis. John, if there's a close below this morning's low, that tells you we had lower. Otherwise on a continued rally from here, price should go and make its way up to the 725.58 level. Let me see if I can get. So the June contract is still the active contract, I believe for cattle. So let me see if we can get this to populate on these white background charts out here. And if not, we'll go take a look at the, we'll take a look at the black background chart, but we can get more information from these charts. So let's just give it. Oh, you want to take a look at August. Okay. Sorry about that. So give me a moment here. See if we can populate this here. It's going to take just a second. So sorry about that.  And if you hang out with me long enough, you'll, you'll experience those from time to time. So August of 2022. Let's go ahead and let the cattle. Now what I can tell you is cattle on a daily basis. John, while this is populating, it is trading in between profiles. So your daily level of sport would be the 132, 39 area and 135, 75 would be your level of resistance here. Come on, populate, populate. So we can show John this area. There we go. There we go. So we've got the, that's just still got to finish. Just give it a second to complete here. So I don't have a, I have, okay, perfect. So the daily timeframe, and I know I should go like at the monthly here, but there's nothing on the monthly for me to share with you. The weekly, is there anything here for me to share with you? Let me open up the chart. It's got a Rosamund Dominicator top. Price could be targeting 127, 17. That's what the weekly chart, but before that happens, you have a buy the D point pattern on the daily timeframe. That's what I was really noticing. So there's tops of the TD9 count. Let's go ahead and draw the A to B line from that high down to the swing point low. That was from May the 2nd. Now what I'm going to do is I'm not even going to copy that. I'm just simply going to take this as we've got A to B, move that to the C to D. There you go.  Now John, what the issue is here for a live cattle is price needs to overcome that red oscillator and change line, which it has been below for quite some time. So we tried to do that earlier in the day. That level, by the way, that OUL level reads at 13283. So you have your confirmed bottoming signal. What you really want to do is at least get the momentum side of this trade to give you the go ahead. We don't have that as we speak just yet. If you did get that go ahead, then you're looking at potential resistance. The next resistance level of the upside 13365 and 13575 above that. Now that's coming from the daily timeframe charts. Let's see if there's any other signals out here worth noting. 130-minute nice roads meant to be indicator bottom out there. The same for the 30-minute chart. 30-minute chart forms a TD9 count top and pulls back to support. So if price is going to head lower because we've got that nice TD9 count top out here and price pulling back to test that oscillator and change line after changing color and after forming the top, right now if price can hold this, that is a buy signal for the 30-minute timeframe. So that's in essence what you're kind of looking for on the short term to see some type of signal here that that just holds support, holds support and then takes off from here. And should price take off from here, that level of resistance would be on a 30-minute base to be 13397. If you clear that, then you're looking pretty good out there. Is there anything else here to take a look at on live cattle? I don't see anything. So John, I hope that helps you out and sorry that you weren't able to get through on the call line out there. I think we've got some other requests. So let me go back and take a look at those, see if I can get this here. Who asked me? Many of you are welcome, John. No August you put in there. Somebody was asking me for something. Darn it. What was it? Was it Zoom? Somebody asked me for Zoom. My apologies. It's hard for me to... Yeah, I think it was Zim. Zim is what it was. So now let's... I'll tell you my perfect, perfect time for a break. I remember we looked at Zim yesterday. Didn't we see on Zim? That thing looked like it wanted to head higher. That's my recollection. Let's go get the charge up on the screen. When we come back to this break, we'll go figure out what Zim is doing. So you wrote the TMP. If you want to take advantage of this sector, now is the time to subscribe to my Gold Report. 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Top's out here on a monthly basis. It gets up to that $600 level. That tops with the TD9 count top. And now what we've got is a TD9 count bottom that's going to complete this month. That's going to be a month of $65.81. So you're going to have that confirmed monthly TD9 count. That looks pretty nice.  So certainly the monthly and weekly are trying to form a bottom in the daily already has. The daily formed a rogement and indicator bottom on May the 13th when price gap to the upside. A gap to the upside is your friend that is a bullish reversal signal out there. Now price is just consolidating $85.09 to $100.25 after that huge run-up to the upside and then move back to the downside which is really what a damaged stock looks like. You probably just have a consolidation at this stage moving sideways in between that zone of $85.09 to $100.25. I could be wrong on that. And if I am going to be wrong on that, what we're going to see is price clear and close above $96.17. $96.17 is the top of its $195-minute profile. It's near the breakdown levels or near the breakdown levels of the $130 and the $65-minute chart. So that's your real significant resistance zone out there, Dan. If price can get above that, well then maybe we take a look at the move to the $125 level and above that, then you've got a change in trend with all those bottoming signals out there for both the monthly and the weekly timeframe. So hope that provides you with the information that you were looking for inside of Zoom. $92.85 the upside? Well, the $95.10 certainly in $95.83. Those are levels that have been hit so far and those are the TD9 count breakdown areas. So hope that helps you out. Nancy wanted to take a look at Apple so AAPL is a ticker. So I'm just going to take a moment here for this to populate. And I believe that Nancy is looking for Apple as to where it should go from here for the rest of the day. Oh, you know, oh man you're not asking for anything, are you? For the rest of the day? Okay, well, when this populates out here we'll see what the 15 minute chart and the 30 minute chart communicate to us. Maybe I need to go down even lower. But let's just see what these things telling. So Nancy, what you got yesterday on the daily timeframe was a confirmed by the D point pattern. But what we can see here, I'm just simply going to expand this out. So as we expand this out, we can see that what Price did was ran right to where it should have, which was that red oscillator and change line. So first things first upside potential would be that oscillator and change line. That would be 142. Am I saying that's where Price is headed to? No, I am not. But what I can say to the downside, the likely Price target would be the bottom of its new profile, bullish in structure below the prior profile so Apple is not out of the woods by any stretch of the imagination. But 136.04 would be your downside Price target. Now let's go see what the intraday charts here are communicating to us. Not much. Not much. Not much, not much, not much. Hmm. You know, and I appreciate it. I wish I could give you what it's going to do the rest of the day and I don't think if I go find out what's going on on a five minute basis or a 10 minute basis, then I'm going to get a whole lot more information out here. So what can we do? What can we say? Let me see. I've got a different screen open. You don't see it. I'm just going to see if there's some other profile levels. So if you give me a moment for that, and then we'll go ahead and switch over. Okay. So let me switch over. Here's what we're going to do for fancy Nancy out here who's really asking for a lot quite frankly which is, you know, where's Price going for the next couple of hours here inside of Apple. So I mean to do that I'd have to really look at a number of different things. None of which I can really do in just a couple minute time frame and make everybody happy. So did I I didn't even get the right screen. Change windows, get to the black screen. So here's what we're going to do Nancy. We're going to go to this black background screen here where I can easily just change the time intervals and we can take a look at what's going on. So at this stage here prices below profiles on a five minute basis. When you're below that you're below support where my price is 10 to. I just simply have to go to the swing point which has not been tested and that took place this on a five minute base at 10 15. So that's between the level of 137 33 up to 137 90. The volume there was 1.4 million shares. You'd like to see price pull back on the lighter volume out there. That's the five minute chart. So that five minute chart says it still needs to get down there and test that swing point. I don't know what will happen Nancy when price test that swing point should it test that swing point. Let's go ahead and go to the last favorite time frame. That would be the 10 minute chart out here. And on a 10 minute basis. You can see that the rally ran right into resistance. The bottom of that. Daily profile. Old support being. In this case here new resistance in that profile form above price that was a bearish message for Apple. So this is suggesting that price should test. It's already doing it. So it's doing it right now. That's testing. Let's go draw a line across here. So I give you that price real easily. And we're looking at the high of that swing point was at one thirty eight twenty five now. The volume on that on a 10 minute basis names was two point nine million shares. You tested it with one million. Then one point one million. And this bar here which is going to complete in five minutes. You already have six hundred thousand shares about one point two. So you are testing this swing point on lighter volume. The point's not reacting your upside resistance level. I would ask you what do you think it is. You would absolutely tell me one forty nine. So the five minute the ten minute chart they're just suggesting to us a price going to go test that swing point in case the ten minute it's already done on lighter volume. But we haven't seen much movement there. And on the fifteen minute we're below profile so there's nothing else that I can provide to you to assist you with what the Apple's going to do during the day out there. So I do hope that that helps you out and thanks so much for the question. Although and I just gave you the really the question. So I do hope that helps you out. Let's go to our next question. This one coming in from Mike P. and Mike went long and video. So let's go take a look at the Nvidia charts out here and B. D. A. and let's go over to my well as long from the black screens here. Well the white one is popular and B. D. A. whoops let's try that again. I guess I did OK. So I did it right now Mike. Looks to be testing support. That is the bottom of its list. That levels one sixty fifty. You really prefer not to see price close below that level out there for closing below that. You know it may just go down to test the swing point from last Friday was last Friday no may twelve that was not last Friday may go down and test that swing point that's in the one sixty one. I'm sorry one fifty five sixty seven level seventy one million shares so you're pulling back with lighter volume you are trading in a support out there that's on the daily time frame the market. I really like to get lower down to one forty nine forty nine or so to complete the A to B equal CD pattern and then form some type of bullish reversal candle. And then it might be off to the race of the upside by generating a by the D point. We just don't have that as we speak right now in the monthly charts as I want lower price and the lower price that it wants to get to its rate of one sixty one thirty seven is one thirty four fifty nine. So the only way that's going to happen is we're going to go down to the bottom of that candle for may twelve out there. Of course you are long so let's go look at our white background screens out here I don't know what your time frame is for being long. Let's go see if there's any kind of short term signals to assist Michael P out with. You went long at BD one sixty one earnings are out tomorrow. Okay. So what else can we I mean you can see where some of the one thirty four fifty nine. Comes from Mike that's a really nice road here the the dailies got a nice roads meant to indicator bottom so that's helpful so that really tells you that a price that goes below that age wealth level it's current to the downside but right now you just got a consolidation with inside that daily profile that range out there again to the upside is one eighty nine fifty into the downside is that one sixty fifty see roads with T.F.N. will be back in just a few. 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to end that you know Mike as I look at the intraday charts out here everything trying to form a bottom so there's definitely the intraday and the daily are really attempting to form that bottom you're in at a good price out here I would just simply watch the the profile low as well as that swing point that swing point again had volume of 71 million shares you're in it right now with 37 million shares so you'd like to see that volume stay light there but you got to you know earnings coming out tomorrow I wish I had better signals on the weekly and the monthly for you and I just don't have those so thanks right in and I do hope that helps you out we've got a request from my Brent in Martinez California Brent wants to take look at natural gas out there which basically folks that you could look at your UNG chart and but it's natural gas and it's the July contract that we're looking at what I don't know inside UNG if it's only July that is that makes up that count makes up that ETF or is it July in some other month out there but as we take a look at the July contract the monthly looks more bueno no bot topping signal at all should continue to move higher the weekly chart it's negating as we speak right now this week it is negating a TD nine count top out there and that would suggest a strong move to the upside it is really the daily out of your Brent that's the chart time frame that you want to be concerned with why prices making its way back to roads with the indicator top so we know there's resistance there that's at 905 you are going to complete bar number eight today this says you could complete a TD nine count pattern or could yet you could form a TD nine count pattern tomorrow and complete it on Thursday that requires tomorrow that the natural gas contract for July close above eight dollars and forty cents if it does that the TD nine count top whether it's today tomorrow or the next day's high that I don't know but you would have that topping signal back where price also found resistance and form that roads meant to mitigate a signal now the cool thing here is you don't have to exit the trade or anything because prices above the daily oscillator and change line which is green the daily top of its profile out there so it really gives you a neutral signal and then wait to see if in fact the TD nine count pattern takes hold the green oscillator and change line if you got that then I would likely jettison that position but longer term monthly and weekly are saying looks good it's just the daily that saying it might want to go ahead and put buyers into a little bit of a time out now what I will do is just switch over to the black background charts for you and take a look at the UNG it'll take too long here to populate and so on the UNG see if there's any kind of signal there worthwhile for us really I'm just going to look at the volume as prices coming into that swing point area that we're looking at on the daily time frame in the volume on the daily time frame that's interesting I look at the UNG that's why so back on that high of May 5th is that the actual high here there was May 6th was the actual high May 5th out here that had a volume of 9.5 million shares you traded up into a yesterday with light volume 7 million and today you're at 4 million shares out there now in the case of the UNG it has tested that swing point high and it has rejected it but is that enough I would wait for the underlying instrument natural gas back out to the natural gas contract here because we didn't look at those intraday time periods so we should do that and as supposed to be just talk about it and then have you guys wonder what that I'm talking about we'll go right to those charts 30 minute Rosemont and indicator top has led to a consolidation with inside its profile no damage done same for the 60 minute the 120 minutes Rosemont and indicator top and price with inside its profile but just slightly trading really on its oscillator and change line out there so not a clear signal but if price does close below that level you could be looking to move back the 50 area nothing for the 240 nothing for the 5-hour time frame chart so I would prepare for a TD9 count topping pattern to form between today and Thursday hey Brett thanks so much for writing in let me just make sure I get your question could you give your analysis UNG I can see an A to B equal CD pattern on the weekly for the UNG without an expansion the C to D leg so what Brent is looking at here so let's go back to simply so I could address what he pointed out to us and share that with you as well he's looking at an A to B equal CD pattern he said inside of UNG specifically from the weekly time frame but again what we know is the UNG it's really about the current components that are with inside that contract that are going to be the driver but the A to B pattern I'd use December 28th is my A point the B point out here is the high from October 4th the C point looks like it was a low on December 20th we're in the so it made the one to one A to B equal CD pattern creates a bearish engulfing candle on a trading day out here Brent of April 18 you're now above that level and you're at the 1.272 expansion area so it's negated a prior sell the D point pattern so that looks bulge but still we've got to pay attention to that daily natural gas TD9 count in my opinion so thanks so much for writing in always good to hear if you move that was Brent in Martinez, California no other questions um I'll take that back we've got a question here from JT in New York JT says which of these two shipping companies would you buy Nordic American takers are GNK so I don't know the answer to that question but let's go take a look at both of them and see if either of them suggest that we should buy them let's begin by taking a look at Nordic American takers now Nordic American takers is going to take just a few oh actually you're still on the black charts let me go pull those up by the white background charts here populate Nordic American takers as you can see right now gapping down this morning trading below support which is 28 cents that's the bottom of this daily profile trading below its weekly profile trading with inside the monthly profile so that's what I know at this stage of the game your question is which one should you buy let me just quickly see what does these charts for GNK look like out here that is a well GNK looks better I can already tell you that because price and the daily basis of consulting with inside its daily profile not trading below the bottom it's trading slightly above the top of its weekly profile and it's trading above the top of its monthly profile so simply profile wise out there JT the chart that looks better is Genco shipping let's go back and take a look at now that I've got the white background charts for Nordic American takers up on our screen let's go see if there is something on those charts that provide us with some assistance and as we take a look at the daily timeframe out here which was trading below the bottom of that daily profile I don't have anything out here to really assist us price to get back to 188 so I don't see a buy signal don't see something on the 195 minute chart I don't see any kind of buy signals for any time frame for Nordic American tanker and a price close of low support today and tomorrow we're probably looking to move back to the one 88 level so that that chart we we'd like it if it formed some type of bottom signal I just don't see it at this stage or at least during that you know 30 seconds that full 30 seconds that I gave it but I didn't see anything and I think if you would seen something somebody in the den you would not 2x4 across my head and said wait Stevo wait a minute you're not looking at everything now we're going to let this thing populate this is going to populate with that Genco shipping trading company and here we're looking the signals we're looking at here for JT is do we have some kind of top that's for me do I have a TD nine count road's meant to mitigate a signal do we have anything now this week price gapped up triggered a road's meant to mitigate a signal but that just requires a bullish reverse reversal candle to confirm the pattern we're trading above the top of the weekly profile so price may continue higher now the daily shows why we're resistances that and that's that roads meant to mitigate a signal that formed out here with the bearish engulfing can on April 20 and price in essence is trading into that now that was on the daily time frame for G&K the volume up at that high was 1.4 million you're moving into a 1.04 million right now so looks like that high at least wants to get tested but if you get a close-up of that high that high is 26 bucks even Steven G&K is likely off to the races see roads with TFN we'll be back in just a few sharpening your skills as an investor is like getting better at playing a musical 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Live from San Francisco, celebrating 10 years of high-tech coverage, it's theCUBE. Covering VMworld 2019. Brought to you by VMware and its ecosystem partners. It is 10 years and going strong for theCUBE coverage here at VMworld, VMworld 2019. We were here 10 years back and looking forward to the next 10 or more. We're at Moscone Center North San Francisco, theCUBE with Dave Vellante, John Walls. We're joined now by Tom Barsi, who's the Senior Vice President of Business Development at Carbon Black and Tom, kind of a quiet couple of weeks for you, not much really going on in all seriousness. Just a little bit. Yeah, I mean, big purchase VMware, I'm sure you're aware, picking up Carbon Black, making that announcement official this week. You were at the center of that discussion, so if you would kind of give us a little behind-the-scenes peek behind the curtain of how those talks developed and really maybe back to your relationship with VMware to begin with, because this goes back for a while. So needless to say, a super exciting week and a culmination of a lot of work amongst an army of people to get us to where we are. And obviously the announcement last week around the acquisition of Carbon Black was huge, but I think the announcement this week, in terms of going into more detail that Sanjay and Pat went into in terms of combining the best-of-breed infrastructure management with our best-of-breed, cloud-native, modern security platform with analytics, combine that together. I think there is really an opportunity to transform the industry. And candidly, we've been working with VMware for well over two years. So two years ago, VMworld, we announced an exclusive partnership with VMware. We integrated with VMware's newly announced app defense product, which is really around securing cloud workloads. And obviously they're in a unique position to secure workloads because of where they sit, leveraging the infrastructure and knowing what's good and what should be running within those workloads. So they've leveraged that and build app defense. And for the first time, we built that integration, exclusive integration, and for the first time, a security operation center has been able to have visibility into the hypervisor. So that's where we started to see the potential and the opportunity. And it also gave us an opportunity to really start to work closely with the VMware team, understand their culture, understand their community, understand their leadership, their commitment to winning, understanding their commitment to really sort of transforming security. And it just became, we dated and it became just obvious that there was so much synergy between our leadership and theirs and so much synergy in terms of our vision of securing the world, making them safe from cyber attacks. And so it just made so much sense. So in Pat's words, sure, it de-risked the acquisition over a period of time, but it also allowed us to really work closely together, know what we're getting into, and really getting super excited. So I can tell you that the response from our employees has been overwhelming, and then the response here at VMworld has been just amazing in terms of the traffic and partners and customers and all that. I asked Pat Gelsinger five years ago on theCUBE, is security broken? And he said, yeah, it's broken. And I was like, well, what are you going to do about it? He said, stay tuned. Well, I've been tuned. I did an analysis and this may, well, first of all, Patrick is going to take over as a run VMware's cloud security business. So when Pat has stated, Patrick Morley, CEO of Carbon Black, and Pat Gelsinger has said, we want to be the cloud security company. Okay, so I love when he lays down aspirations like that. Now, this may not be fair to you because- We've been in the security. Well, but there's a portfolio there you may not be as familiar with, but I'll ask you anyway, because you're going to have to become familiar with it soon. So I did an analysis of the Carbon Black acquisition, obviously app defense was in there, but if you look at the VMware security portfolio, NSX has a micro segmentation use case. Yeah, obviously AirWatch with, you know- Workspace One. Computing with Workspace One. Absolutely. Cloud Corio, E8, security bracket, Intrinsic is another tuck in acquisition that VMware did. So wow, they're building up this portfolio. Can you help us understand how that's shaping out and where Carbon Black fits? Yeah, absolutely. So let's talk about first the opportunity here. The opportunity is to leverage the infrastructure management and security portfolio that VMware has, and then sprinkling the Carbon Black capabilities across that infrastructure. So, you know, embedding it in NSX for network to endpoint visibility and control, embedding it in Workspace One, which we've already done, embedding it with integrating with app defense, which we've already done. The ability to do agent lists within vSphere, super, super powerful. Post-close will be working on things like that. So, basically by integrating across that portfolio, you really have the ability to transform the entire security space. And I'll talk about that in a second. But what that means is, basically by embedding security across that infrastructure management and eliminating a lot of the complexity and the overhead and the bloat, you're coming up with basically intrinsic security. And what, you know, the best thing from a human perspective to increase your immune system, you know, is, staying healthy is boosting your immune system. And the best way, reason we're doing this, the best, best way to secure an enterprise is to integrate, embed security into the actual infrastructure and take the benefits of infrastructure management with security combined and eliminate all that complexity. So, let's talk just a second about being broken. It's hard from a security guy coming in saying the industry's broken. I will tell you that. But the truth is, it needs to be transformed. There's just no question about it. So, let's talk about just from an endpoint perspective and then we'll get into the whole opportunity to extend that capability. But you look at the endpoint, from an enterprise customer perspective, it's well documented that, you know, legacy AV was built 20 years ago and not built for the modern attack vector. So, it's well documented. Yes, customers still have legacy AV. It's not, you know, it's 35% effective. So, what have customers done? They've gone and deployed EDR, End Point Detection and Response, which is what Carbon Black Historically has been a market leader, hands down market leader in this space, in terms of adding EDR, yet another sensor. Then you want to have the ability to say, look, we got workloads and there's another sensor for that. Then you want to talk about, hey, vulnerabilities are coming out and we want to be able to query across the fleet to understand what vulnerabilities are in your environment. Tainium like, right? There's a sensor for that. So, you know, about two and a half years ago, our customers came back to us and said, look, we love you guys, what you guys are doing, but there's too many sensors on the endpoint bloating and slowing my systems and my security team's getting fatigued with all these point tools. They said, we need an integrated approach. In comes the Carbon Black Cloud. And that's where we have the ability to integrate multiple services. NG, Next Gen Antivirus, EDR, LiveOps, the ability to query across. We've integrated AppD for Cloud Workload. All those are shipping today. All those services on a single soft lightweight sensor and a modern cloud native SaaS back in with analytics. So it's just super powerful. And so now you're consolidating on that. You're getting more efficient. You're limiting overhead. And you're making the security operations team that much more effective. Now, imagine taking that approach to the broken network and workload and et cetera and extending that capability across the entire infrastructure. And that really is what we're talking about in terms of teaming with VMware, embedding our security capabilities across the infrastructure, across the NSX, into vSphere, into work AppD, into workspace one, which we're already doing. And again, eliminating a lot of that bloat and making our customers more secure and much more efficient. So there's another dimension to this acquisition which I like, which is your SaaS business. So I think it's about 38% of your revenue. I call it roughly 40% of your revenue, but growing very, very rapidly. Probably growing at 70% a year. Exactly. VMware has said that this acquisition, along with Pivotal is going to add a billion dollars in basically mostly are all subscription revenue next year, three billion in year two. And it's going to be in a creative and cashflow positive acquisition in by year two. So all very VMware executes well, generally on acquisitions. And so notwithstanding some weird stuff in the economy that they usually hit their targets. You know, they tend to be conservative. So I really liked that. That's clearly the direction you're moving. The other thing about this, a lot of people on Wall Street said, wow, this may be overpaid for the stock but I want to get your opinion because you're out competing every day. And CrowdStrike is obviously the comparison they use. Okay, this is a company that has a $16, $17 billion valuation. Your valuation was 2.7 billion. You look at CrowdStrike's post IPO stock chart, it looks like a bathtub. You know, it kind of goes like this like this and then goes like that because people start to realize, wow, this asset actually has, you know, a lot of intrinsic value, no pun intended. So in comparing CrowdStrike with Carbon Black in terms of feature, functure, capabilities, you know, execution, ethos, technology, is there really that much of a difference? 16 billion at 2.7 billion? You know, I can't really comment on CrowdStrike's market cap. Obviously I respect them as a competitor. Don't have to like them but I respect them as a competitor, no question. In terms of the function and the capability, you're all competing with them every day. In terms of the functionality, look, we have significantly closed the gap and adding Cloud Workload capability with AppD, adding the query capability with LiveOps and extending that capability. So from a feature functionality, look at VMware as technology driven, they kick tires and they do their diligence on technology, that's the strength of VMware. So they look deep and what they came away with was we have a super competitive platform. You're seeing it in our wins at our growth rate, you're seeing it with our wins and large customers that I can't really name. So from a feature functionality perspective, we're at par in many ways, we think we're better. And now, if you look at where this market's going, look, CrowdStrike's going to be a great point product solution for Endpoint. But we believe, and they're going to do phenomenally well, but we believe there's an opportunity here to, again, to integrate infrastructure management that VMware has in our security capability and deliver an end-to-end platform and truly transform across the entire infrastructure of an enterprise. So that's really where we see the opportunity and the opportunity for growth. And then when you want to look at our growth rate, I mean, to your point, VMware does an incredible, incredible job and you start to talk about the reach of VMware and then you talk about the reach of Dell EMC and it's super exciting. Yeah, the VMware brain trust is very capable, both from a strategy standpoint and a technical, very strong engineering culture. And you saw this with AirWatch. So AirWatch, when VMware acquired AirWatch, VMware was struggling in what was then the VDI business and AirWatch wasn't number one in the marketplace, but VMware now crushes Citrix in that space. People are making similar analogies with regard to Carbon Black. Do you think that's fair?  Yeah, I've obviously been very, very close to this relationship and I've been sort of the number one fan and cheerleader of this partnership because I just believe in my soul that it's going to be transformative. It really is. So to that point, I think, and I've talked about it internally what they've done with NICERU, what they've done with AirWatch, now Workspace One, and the ability to take a business from either no revenues or a couple hundred million and take it into two billion, I absolutely believe that we will see the same, it's going to take a lot of work, but we're going to see the same trajectory. I mean, they're maniacally focused on, if there are gaps, they're going to resource it in terms of product gaps or anything to accelerate the roadmap to allow us to win and then you're going to talk about the triple acceleration with VMware and EM Dell EMC. So to answer, along with an answer to say, I truly, truly believe that we can take our position as number two and really be number one. And transformative in a significant way, a significant word to use. What's that in product going to be then that makes you look at it from this visionary standpoint and think, yeah, this is a perfect marriage. This is a fantastic opportunity, because you're not, you're selling hard. Yeah, well, it's a platform, really. Look, it's a platform and at the end of the day, what we're focused on here is customers. We're talking about, how do we protect our customers? And the best way to protect those customers is to embed the capability. When we did many years back with Carbon Black, we exposed our data and many of our partners that sometimes we compete with, whether it be Palo Alto or Cisco or FireEye or a number of other players, because customers demand the end-to-end visibility from network to endpoint. And can you imagine the kind of telemetry when you integrate Carbon Black in our modern cloud and platform and our analytics and the ability to pull data from the hypervisor, the ability to pull data from NSX, the ability to pull data from workspace one into a common console and then understand exactly what's happening from an attack perspective. And then let's talk about, okay, so now you have this visibility, this 360 degree view of what's happening in your network. And now you want to talk about the ability to orchestrate and remediate, like solve the problem. Well, historically, it's been the security operation center over here and you got IT over there. And there's been this friction because the SecOps guys are saying, take it down, take the server down, there's a problem. And the IT ops guys are saying, hey, I got runtime, I got to keep it up. So now you have the opportunity, again, to leverage that management to identify a threat and then the ability to just seamlessly leverage VMware's infrastructure management tools to instantly remediate and orchestrate a problem without the conflict with IT and security operations. So we actually see an opportunity to eliminate that friction and create collaboration between those two. Yeah, and security is broken. It is a do-over. And we talked to SecOps teams and they'll tell you, yeah, we're fighting every day where bombs are dropping. We have to succeed every day. The bad guy only has to succeed once. And so yeah, they bring in all these tools and a lot of times they don't work together and it's just, they have a very hard time trying to figure out, okay, what do we prioritize on? And obviously analytics is helping that, but you see the stats after you get infiltrated, it takes whatever, 300 days, 250 days to even identify that you've been infiltrated and it's just a very complex environment. So the do-over is a platform that gives you end visibility and doesn't force you to learn different point tools and has a comprehensive view of your infrastructure. That's right. And I also want to point out, it doesn't mean that we're going to create this platform that's closed. A lot of competitors like to build closed platforms and go into end. And Carbon Black has always been API-driven, open. And the whole point of this openness is to we collect this powerful endpoint data and we want to expose that data across the infrastructure. So we're exposing it to the network security guys, whether it be Vectra or Palo Alto Networks or FireEye Mandiant, depending on who it is. We're exposing the data to Splunk and IBM Q-Radar and IBM Resilient. And we're going to continue to do that. We're going to leverage this platform and all this powerful telemetry and we're going to continue to have this open platform and continue to work across the industry to make sure it's not just our platform, this end-to-end, but it's just across the ecosystem. Well, it's something always, VMware's always been strong. If there's heterogeneity, they help balance the scorecard. So, yeah. It's been a, well, that'd be an understatement to say, it's been an exciting week for you. It's been a great two years, it sounds like. And we wish you success. Not only this week, but you know, on down the road, like you said, a lot of hard work is still ahead of you. Absolutely. So congratulations on 10 years. I look forward to being here in year 20. All right. That's awesome. That's what Michael said. We'll be right back, we'll be right back. Just a bit, taking a break here on theCUBE. We're at VMworld 2019, Moscone Center, San Francisco.


And now for our final highlight of the Complication. Dr. William Bill Logan, a new fellow, is an Ole Max little facial surgeon from Asheville, North Carolina. In his U.S. Army service, during the United States Operation Iraqi Freedom, Dr. Logan was assigned to the 28th Combat Support Hospital in the Green Zone in Baghdad, and later to the third Medcom, where he served as theater consultant for other dental officers and other Maxwell facial surgeons stationed in Iraq. His knowledge and expertise aided in the treatment of numerous military servicemen and women with injuries to the head and neck areas. He saved the lives of many people. Dr. Logan's service exemplifies excellence, ethics, professionalism, and leadership in a more unique way than most of us ever have. Welcome, Dr. Logan. So, I must start by offering a viewer discretion. I noticed there were several children in here. This talk will contain some imagery of the harsh reality of war, and if that's something you don't want to see, you may, I will not be offended if you leave or if you avert your eyes. Thank you, Dr. Lamb. Thank you. I am honored and humbled to stand before such an impressive group of people that represent the best of the best in dentistry. I would like to recognize the Board of Regents and my fellow inductees, whether an active, retired, or lifetime fellow, each and every one of us bring a unique qualification to the college. I'd also like to recognize my sponsor, Dr. Brad Morgan, from Canton, North Carolina. We have been colleagues and friends for over 15 years. As a matter of fact, he actually had me give an hour and a half version of this talk to the Carolina section of the college just before COVID in March of 2020, right before the entire world shut down. I promise to not be that winded today, but I can't speak as to the status of the world next week. When asked to give this address, being a new inductee, my first thought was that this must be some sort of morbid hazing ritual. But what it did force me to do was to do some research on the institution in which we are now fellows. What I found was nothing short of impressive. When we look at the American College of Dentistry, we see a membership of over 7,000 fellows representing all the specialties of dentistry. This group represents only 3.5% of all dentists in the country. As the recent American College of Dentistry newsletter stated, this is not elitism, where it is elite to have fellowship be nothing more than joining a club, but rather it is a commitment to do the work of the mission. Legacy is also very strong within the college. In that very same newsletter, I found out that there was yet another Dr. Lam who had once led the college. It is because of men like Dr. Lam and his father that allow such institutions to thrive. The college goes back over 100 years and is led by a very clear vision and mission. This vision is advancing excellence, ethics, professionalism, and leadership. As was stated, I used to be in the US Army. Being part of the American military puts you, believe it or not, in even a smaller company of people in relation to overall population. For less than one half of 1% of the population serve, only 0.45%. I was pleased to learn that an organization that has existed for over 248 years, the Army, shares some of the same values and goals as the 100 and now three-year-old American College of Dentistry. I first joined the Army in 1988. Four days after graduating high school, I found myself at Fort Benning, Georgia at the Army Infantry School for Basic Training. When you join the Army, one of the first things you expect to memorize, live, and learn are the Army values. There are seven of them and they spell the acronym Leadership, leaving out some of the vowels, L-D-R-S-H-I-P. It stands for loyalty, which is bearing true faith and allegiance by devoting yourself to something or someone. Duty, fulfilling your obligation. This can be achieved either at the individual or the team level. Respect, treat people as they should be treated. Selfless service, putting the welfare of others before your own. Honor, this is a matter of carrying out, acting, and living the values in which you hold. Integrity, do what is right, legally and morally. Personal courage, facing head-on your fears, dangers, and adversities. Jaco Willink is a retired Navy SEAL officer and co-author of the New York Times bestselling book Extreme Ownership. Recommend we all read it. I bought it for all my partners. Jaco now runs a very successful podcast as well as leadership consulting firm called Echelon Front. He offers five tips for achieving effective leadership through the lens of military institutions. Listen, listening to input and feedback from team members will ultimately improve leadership performance. Build strong relationships, gain trust, care for, and respect one another. In my short time here, I already see this as an incredible asset of the American College of Dennis. Practice discipline for discipline equals freedom. Strike a balance, pay attention, and make adjustments to be aware of staying balanced, work versus life. Take ownership as a leader when things may go wrong. Own it and fix it. To help illustrate these values and vision of the American College, I would like to introduce you to a few patients that I treated in Iraq while being deployed with the 28th Combat Support Hospital. This is where you may wanna invert your eyes. Oh, oh, okay. To July 2007, Sergeant Dan Powers was on patrol in Sotter City as a squad leader with the 118 Military Police Company, Fort Bragg, Airborne.  Quick thinking and cool heads prevailed. His team drove him directly to the 28th cache in the green zone. As I was walking back from dinner one evening, I saw two medics come running out, screaming that I needed to get into the ER to see what awaited. After a quick triage, which included asking if I could take a few pictures, which he responded to, a brief discussion was had as to what should be done as I decided to order a CT and see where the knife was resting. After reviewing the imagery, it was decided that he would be better served in the hands of a neurosurgeon, which we didn't have at the cache, which meant a helicopter ride up to Balad, Iraq, which was about 30 miles north. Interesting fact about that image on the left, that picture has been on the cover of the Army Times, has been on CNN, Fox News, Good Morning America, and even on a Discovery Channel show called Impaled. There was a great concern that even a small movement could be devastating. So we put a styrofoam coffee cup over the handle of the blade and made a Kerlex turbine and strapped him to the gurney for the flight to Balad. Once in Balad, the neurosurgeon performed an elective neck cut down, lassoed the carotid, just in case there would be bleeding. Before creating a bone flap and lifting the brain to expose the knife. Upon removal, as expected, profuse bleeding ensued. Sergeant Powers lost two liters of blood, or 40% of his total blood volume. The site was packed off, hemostasis was obtained, and Sergeant Powers was induced into a chemical coma for transport on what we call the flying ICU, which is a C-17 globetrotter, normally meant for over 300 personnel. The globetrotter took him back to Bethesda, Maryland. It was here less than 24 hours from the battlefield that a vascular neurosurgeon with the help of interventional radiology was able to embolize the offending vessels. After a four day stay, Sergeant Powers could begin his recovery and rehab. It was reported that his first words were, I'm back in the best place I can possibly be in the United States of America. That spot always gets me. Five months later, having redeployed to Fort Bragg, I happened to recognize a name on the hygienist schedule. Sure enough, when I went to her operatory, there was a patient with a dent in the side of his head. I was reunited with Sergeant Powers and got to hear firsthand his adventure after leaving me in the green zone. Another aside, the reason he had a dent in his head is because they left the bone flap in Iraq. And so usually the technique would be to put it in the belly in the subcutaneous area and it would travel with him but they forgot to do that. Therefore, he had to return to Bethesda where they used CT medical modeling and made him an acrylic noggin. So, two years later, Sergeant Powers redeployed with his unit to Afghanistan. Okay, a second case, and this is hard to see but let's see it. This is Sadomo and this is an ethical dilemma. Sadomo was an Iraqi civilian that got caught in the crossfires of war. He sustained obvious massive injuries to his lower jaw. What was unique about this was that it was caused by friendly fire, by US forces. And so therefore, Sadomo was considered a VIP and we were gonna do what we had to do to reconstruct his jaw in theater which was not the norm for the Iraqi population. An Iraqi hospital attempted treatment but ultimately left him to his own recovery. This is him after he came to me after 10 days he came depleted and on death's door. We plated his fractures and attempted closure of his already compromised wounds. I'm gonna get past that one. Unfortunately, his wound broke open and developed what we call a, for lack of a better term, spit fistula. This was two months later after I had done the initial closure, they were given explicit instructions on how to remove the sutures and do everything else but it just didn't happen. So it was known around the hospital that there was an ENT surgeon who had just finished a reconstructive fellowship. He was working at headquarters near the airport. I was able to telephonically consult with him and a second surgery was planned for little Sedoma. In the middle of war-torn Baghdad we performed a pectoralis flap to help reconstruct his lower jaw with, yeah we'll get past that one too. With follow-up just days before I redeployed he was doing fine. He became the darling of the hospital. You can see his X right here, I believe this is the resiliency of children. That to me appears that he's already forming a bone bridge across his defect and I hope he did well for I had to leave. I use these cases to illustrate the teamwork and the echelons of care that were required to take care of these single patients. From buddies on the battlefield, to the medics, to the oral surgeon, to the neurosurgeon, to the nurse, to the interventional radiologists, Army, Air Force, Marines, Navy, there was a common goal and that was to treat these patients with a level of excellence, ethics, professionalism and leadership. So when we travel back to our offices next week whether we practice in academics, federal service or private practice, I hope we can use these cases as an illustration or perhaps inspiration to treat every patient following the American College of Dennis vision. Keep in mind that the things we may find to be mundane and what we least expect will need to be accomplished, what may matter most to our patients. Please do all you can to be ready for it. It's been an honor and privilege to speak with you on this occasion. Thank you.