Welcome again. My name is Maurizio Berti and I'm from Italy, as you may see from my name. And I've been in the migration business for some time now, since 2004 maybe, first with OpenOffice and now lately with LiberalOffice. But I work for another company now, I'm working for this VNS company here. And but today I'm not speaking about migration because, you know, something new, finally. And this is a project and I was the project manager, the technical person who was on the project.  And but of course they're not here. I'm going to speak about a little bit of the project, how it was conceived and what happened, and also about the technical part and show you hopefully a demo. So a little bit of background. So what's AAC? Of course we're talking about a software that's SimHelper and later I'm going to tell you what it does. But first you need to know what's AAC. This is an acronym, of course, my sound might look a bit obscure. I'm going to try to explain what it is. I'm not an expert, of course, I'm a developer. And AAC is a way of communication and includes a lot of communication that's different from the speech. So if you communicate by speech, there are other types of communication to communicate, for example thoughts, ideas, emotions, wants, needs and so on. And these are for example gestures, facial expressions, pictures, drawings, writings and so on. And this thing here is used with people with learning disabilities, disabled persons with handicaps to different levels and so on to let them learn, to let them express, and to let them in certain cases have a life. So but today we're going to focus on pictures and symbols because that's what SimHelper, again food, is about. So this is just an example of a typical symbol layout. The grid here it's because it's a screenshot, so this is something to tell. That has nothing to do with SimHelper. I'm just clarifying this because the thing here, the square outline has a very important role in what SimHelper does. And this is not, of course, a screenshot from the software. So every symbol there's a symbol and above the symbol there's the meaning of the symbol, actually that's the word of a specific language. Okay, here that is English to let you all understand what's up over the symbol, but of course we work with Italian. These symbols, for example, to give you an idea of an application, you can put them on something like this and this is called a communicator. And you can, for example, you can build libraries of symbol, split them into categories and for example you can have the action categories like go, eat, you can have the buildings categories like school, for example, hospital and so on. And everything, and if you give this to, for example, a child who has disabilities, you can let him use this to communicate. So you can just tap the symbols and build a phrase, build a sentence and push a button and the thing here reads the sentence. So we can communicate with you and the other way around, because he understands the symbols, of course he has undergone proper training, I mean somebody has explained, had explained to him how the meaning of everything and so on, but he can like go home, for example, push the go and push home, sorry, you can ask him questions or communicate via this thing here, because you can just build a sentence and show him. So it's done. But again, there's one more application that is books, that is what we are here for today. This is Italian, of course, books, they have a name they call in books, can ask me why, I didn't, I just like the name. And so the name is in books and you, what happens, you just take a sentence, you paste it to software, commercial software. And yeah, after some editing, because the skills here of the operator of this kind of software is that it transform the text from the original version to a version that can be translated to symbols, then you push the button and then the symbol version of the sentence comes out. And above there you have the translation, of course, at the center of our garden, it's Italian. And what happens is that the program, there are many, commercial again, proprietary, and they just output a document, maybe it might be a PNG, a JPG, a PDF file with all the text on the page. I'll show you an example in a minute. Okay, so from here where we go, we go here. Somebody, I mean, somebody, doctors and so on, found out that if you have a square outline around the symbols, the child understands better the relation between the symbol and the word above it. So this square outline plays a very important role in learning for this child, disabled child. Because what happens, when you read the book to the child, you just point that the name of this thing is called, is modeling. And you just read like at the center of our garden. So the child gets the relation between what you point, what you're saying, what the symbol is, and what the word is. So if after a long time and after using this type of symbols, the child begins to forget about the symbol, of course, and also learn how things are written. And he can read the actual books. So this thing is also used with foreign people, foreign and foreign languages. Because if you're foreign, like I am here, and I've seen Danish signs, I've been seeing for three, four days. So I could use this to understand, to learn Danish, but I won't. Again, this is the case. So you, and this is, this has been experimented and it has had good results. So problem is that there's no commercial software and you, that does this outline. And it was just the outline. Yep. That's the whole problem, the outline. What a problem. Yeah. But it is, you know what, because this is the problem, if you have to translate these phrases, okay, but if you have to translate more in peace, might be a problem if you do it by hand. It's a matter of time. So before CMLPR in Italy, people, people meaning technicians and people who translated the books did, they literally draw through the, this outline by hand, like with the ruler and the pen, or with, of course, with screenshots and they extracted the images from the PDF or the PNG file. And so they needed a way to automate this thing here. So that is, that's what the project about. And so the idea is not mine. There's a person, the name is Luca Errani, who's not here, I was on phone with him yesterday. And he's involved in this project, like all other parents of the child's are. And he, he was one who defies this logo here for Simpelper. This is actually the, the symbol for help. Okay. And so now we're getting a little bit more technical. So it began in 2012, like a common point Python script. So it just extracted the images from a PNG file. And the first contributor was Paul Mantovani, who is somebody who is being active in the open office part of the project. Then he left the project and he pointed Luca Errani to me. So I took over for the management of the product. And we are now here. We have a user interface, graphical user interface. We have an exit, an executable package to install it. And other features that I'm going to show you. Between there, there's also the current partner thing that went well, of course. So what are the things that we have to take into account? And I learned them, most of them, from Luca and from all the group. Those things are, what are the features of this program? Because the users are not have no technical background at all. And when I say at all, I mean it. I mean, it's the librarian who's doing this translation.  I mean, people who have no idea what a Python script or even a program more or less is or how it's built. So it had to be automated. Of course, we cannot ask them to run a common line script as it was in the first version. Easy, very easy installation, like one click. And maybe a couple of yes, yes, yes, yes. I mean, remember that we are all, we all have technical backgrounds, of course, but it's users we're dealing with. And and they're granting this software to be widespread and so to be, to have a great diffusion. So we have to support PDF as an input format, because PNG was not sufficient. And PDF you can, so if you support a multiple page PDF, we could translate books, literally, simple and fixed steps. So like with a wizard to get to the end, because in the first release was not very really understandable, but for some users. And in the end, we wanted editing capability, because editing meaning I get, I would like to get a document with images for it, and to place the images in different positions. That is, for example, an ODG or an ODP document of LibreOffice. So a little bit of how it happened quickly. Python script 2012. And so again, as I told you before, I met Luca Rani. And he told me his evil plan for this thing. And I jumped in because I really liked it. I volunteered on this project again. And then we got to a point where we had in mind our the first release and 14 we got an extra package, a minimal user interface, I'm going to show you in a slide later. And the final script. We also had an OIC state package, but it was like run the comment. I mean, just one one one one one one one item in that in the end. But yeah, we had problems and we got to the point where there we needed funds to bring the product to just to bring the project to the end. And so it's there somewhere there like April a little bit before. So it was March, maybe 2014, where when Luca Rani thought of this crowdfunding thing, and so it put on the page, it did all the dirty work. And finally, in a couple of months, he raised actually could raise the figures later, but it's like a five case five five, five thousand euros, which for something like this is quite, quite good. And of course, it helped us bring this project to the end. After the success of crowdfunding, we finally we released the bugfish version. That is important because the second, sorry, the first item drawing press check. This thing runs only on draw and press because it has capabilities of placing the images and so graphical capabilities. The problem is here, if you ran this on writer, you got an error, like object non defined or something like that. And that was the because we did we give support, free support to the users. That was the first support request. Nothing is working, because I get an error.  So what was our first but what fix, actually, it's not a fixed but check. And now we have, of course, we have a message more friendly that says, please run it and press or draw. And that saves a lot of time. Because, of course, in that case, they're not asking us for help, but they know what to do. A few more things. So it left an image folder. So the user where lights not working because I have images that I don't know what to do with them. So just put in something to remove it. And, of course, we have problems with special characters because in Italy, you know, we have the accents on the on the on the walls. And so in some cases, not all of them, it had problems. And so we got an error. And the final version, finally, this year, July 15, we got to a version of the user interface that we liked. Actually, I'm a wizard now, we can set lay out parameters like the thickness of the of the frame, the other frame. And for example, the spacing and other things and margins and so on. And again, another thing, we give process and feedback, meaning there's the bar, the green bar or below that moves. And so the user has an idea of that that something is happening. Another problem because nothing is happening. There's something that has something wrong with my property with the same offer that was another of our problems. Because in certain cases, it took a long time if you had PDF with many pages. So it's not working because but now that something moves, you get an idea what's happening. So how how it's built like this. Now, so we got a PDF input parameters like size of fire spacing that I told you through an XT. So there's a dial up. And you have, of course, you're going to see this in minutes. Then you press run. The extension passes everything to the Python script that who which sorry, extract the images and passes them back to the OXC. And the OXC places them on the type of document you select, you have selected. So odg or odp. Again, it was not right because they have increased everything capabilities and they're better at placing images and managing outlines. It's basically you choose the document from here. I mean, if you run this on on on on impress, it's going to be an impressed document to get as out. Yes, some specs, then we get to the real thing to give you an idea of where is of course, he runs also on open office. But now it has begun, we have we've gone focusing only on the graph. And because it started, of course, as open and Windows XP, this the seven and eight, eight, eight, what one, this is what we support, the graph is and we need go script to be installed for the conversion from PDF image. And then with the package with the similar per package, we also install convert by magic magic convert to convert the PNGs. Sorry, yes, to make another conversion. And the pillow library Python to handle images to actually extract them and cut them from the PNG. So this was the first session the April for 2014. So that's why and this was fine to to to to give you to to to to show this these Windows. So the first one is selected the size of the symbol. Second is page orientation because it couldn't detect the page orientation from the program. Now, of course, we're doing that. And you should match that. I mean, if that of course, if it was portrait, and you pushed horizontal, that's landscape, because you had problems because you were going to put symbols where there was no page. So that's why I'm saying, I was saying before, so fixed steps, very clear for the users. And the last thing is give it give me the file, of course. So let's see the real thing.  I've seen quite a few last days. Yes, got a wet machine because it's Windows. See if it starts. For who wasn't here at the beginning, I brought chocolates for you to thank you. Okay, so you've already got them. Thank you for being here. So I forgot to show you something in the document where we're we're starting from, which is here. So the output of the program looks something like this. We say, so this is a PDF. This is the PDF we're going to work on. And every person, whatever is the disability has the right fundamental right to influence the bicommunication. I didn't prepare this. I'm translating the condition of his existence. Okay, this is a kind of manifesto for the AAC community and so on. So we're going to work on this. This I'm going to show you. The error, the writer error. I'm very proud of it. No, really, it says that it saves us a lot of time. So this is Simmelper.  So if I made errors. Run Simmelper, of course. And here we are on writer. And there you get a message. You need to run Simmelper from the press. So draw. Okay. Otherwise, in the beginning, you got the other message. It was a constant kind of unknown error for the user. So we just switch to draw, for example. And then we can do that. Hopefully, again, run Simmelper. And this is the wizard. So it's kind of a little bit different from the one I showed you before. So here you have, we just get, we just, sorry, it looks like, yeah, it looks a lot like. So this is the file. And of course, you can decide where to put again, this was a new thing in this version. You can decide where to put symbols, place them, just go here, you have the margins and the orientation detection, as I told you before. And of course, and in press, for example, the default margin is zero.  So we keep the margins. And here you have the page layout options, again, symbol size, thickness, spacing and line spacing. And here, again, for users, page size and a calculation of how many symbols, how many rows you can place into, with those parameters, it's, of course, it's computer real time. For example, if you go, I think that's something decreased. I couldn't see that, but yeah. So let's do this because it's better to place all the symbols with three. Yeah. So now we're done and hopefully it works. Now we say create, create. So this should be, you see here, okay, this is converged.  Yes, you see here, this is kind of the columns. And then it's kind of the rows and to detect the symbols and just tells you what he's doing. It takes a little time, of course, for a small file like this one. Yeah, there you go. For a small size like this one, and it's a movie, it doesn't work. Sorry. And okay, so this is what I was talking about. And yeah, this is basically what it does look. So this is what, of course. And there are reasons for that to have such a rose. I mean, his ability, for example, the third line is left alone. Yes, there's a reason for a placing of a symbol because the real skill here, how you format the text. So you form the lines. I have no idea. Of course, I'm just, I'm no AAC expert. And I know there's a reason for everything like for the commas and so on. For example, you, if you saw this, we don't support punctuation right now. So that's a possible improvement for the future. And odd sized symbols like not really square or rectangular, but this is a good help. I mean, if you, okay, it takes time, but if you let it run in some ways, it's going to do, it's going to put a square outline in one piece, as I told you before.  So back to the presentation, I've got a few slides. Sorry. So a couple of slides, four slides, I'm done. So this is the group behind it. This, of course, is my company, the company for which I work. All those are, for example, the third one is the volunteer association. This is with the L-System in Ramila, Romania. The first one is kind of not a volunteer association. It's like kind of like emergency, but a lot smaller, to give you an idea. It's an organization and all volunteers and people are hired to do the work, just in social business. And the second one is with Policini from Milano, that is a teaching hospital, big in Milano. And Luca Rani was, of course, from the first plan, the man behind it, the evil genius. So numbers, to give you numbers, I told you before, we don't know the users because, of course, it's been downloaded, so they didn't take care of counting the downloads. But it's actually 300 subscribers and we think that it matches more or less the number of users. And at least from the bail I'm getting for the free support, I think that we have for how many users. And this is the average donation, excluding, of course, 500 euros of donors. If you want to try this, this is where you can find it. The first one, of course, the first two are the talented downloads. If you want to have, if you want to get the English version just write to me and just pack it and ship it to you. Everything is GPL, by the way. And what now? This is almost not the last one. We have two more slides to go. What we would like to do is to implement now. So as I told you, non-square symbols, meaning punctuation like, or for example, small words like odd, that's smaller and has no standard size. And again, we would like to support Linux and macOS X. You know what? One question we got several times is why don't you support Word and Office? Really? Is it working Word now? And again, punctuation as I said before, we would like to have more row and page editing functions, like put this row symbols in the other page, split the rows and so on, because it's difficult to just insert an online break or something like that. We'd like to do some help, some video help. You might have seen in the sponsors, that's the other company we're involved with. We're doing those kind of things. So we'd like to use that, to do some video help, always again free from them. And localization. If somebody's interested in this, please contact me. So in other languages, if somebody knows that somebody could use this, we're free to help, we're free to collaborate. And I'm done.  And I asked him, how should I conclude? You should conclude like this, meaning that at this time, the actual vendor of the commercial program that's doing the translation in symbols, they're thinking about implementing the square thing. From one side, and on the other side, we helped people really needing this thing to save a lot of time by automating the process of creating squares around those symbols. And finally, Ocarani told me, yes, in the end we had a lot of fun. That's true again. So I have to thank him probably for dragging me into this. So this is it. Thank you. I think you have no questions, right? I had one. The library is with the icons. It's not free. Not free. But they're working on that. I mean, they're working on that. There are a couple, three, four, like one big project is in Barcelona, for example, and they're working on building programs, translator programs with free icons. Of course, this software works with everything. I mean, as long as it gets a PDF in input. Yes, but what if the PDF contains vectorial images? I have no idea. I have no idea. You can try. I have no idea. I mean, yeah, do you think that there is this possibility that I have made some PDF with vectorial images? But since before undergoing the translation, the PDF gets converted to an image. Anyway, by convert. So I think it will be, yeah. The point is that we focused on a software, the name is Simrider, that writes the symbol, and it works. That's enough. But then, yes, it's a market leader. Thank you. Thank you.


Greg first been here with coach Paul Kent Benny great to see I didn't get to see a free game So I know I mean you must have been doing something really important. Yeah, just I guess it's just a little late to the stadium I don't know But uh, hey, great. Yeah, I want to first actually point out the obvious, right? 11 goals Scoroni tonight can't be can't be happy about that. I think they're I'm just I'm just I'm just kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. So look you that's not you would say something I Would but no obviously great team effort very unselfish across just give me you know What do you think about the team tonight's performance? Well, you know, I think that we haven't played probably our best the last few games But we've gotten by with it and I thought today we came out really Really focus on how to win games in April and May making all the little plays like the ball on offense was really moving around and playing Without Mitch today because he's a little banged up, you know, we just were able to and it didn't matter who scored You know, so it was awesome to see us play that way and then the defense doing such a great job in 8 and 24 Really talented and 99 on their end and then mark did a great job bailing them out And then you know one was on the face-off guys were excellent today and just getting better So I really like her the attitude we came in with it was awesome And so we need to continue to do that and I think Steven Sachs a pretty good team You know, they're six and seven now I know that but they got some really talented guys and they play really hard and I like the way they play So it just wasn't their night. Yeah, I agree and besides Shane Ford who will talk talk about a little bit Yeah, yeah, I was I was pretty pumped to see guys like Ryan Coleman get hot someone who maybe you know It's a little you know been a little bit off earlier in the season, but now he's you know, what three four and three tonight So like Ryan's just you know, he's just so many things for us You know, he plays midfield usually when Mitch is alright, but Mitch couldn't goes we played attack and you know He does so many things when he's really focused He's one of the best players in the country and Ryan's has been up and down a little bit He knows that but I thought tonight he was outstanding, you know just but we just have to continue to build work around Ryan continue to work around Shane and you know And you have seven eight and and and twelve playing that way They're really tough to guard and then you know cam chips in and then you know the sideboard You know, he does his thing and and all the mitties, you know doing a really smart and we play those three freshman mitties I've just played so much for us this year and they played again a great tonight But our defensive mitties Eddie and and I thought that Ryan Coleman was excellent tonight and Mark was great in the goal So it means just great seeing everybody play together. Yeah, I agree. I agree. It was a full-team effort Going into conference play obviously, right? We're getting deep into it We want to play our best across at the end of the season So what do you see? What are you gonna pull from this game to help moving forward? I think he's got to play the attention the detail we played today I thought they did a great job recognizing when went the zone man to man I thought they handled their pressure really well, and we're gonna see that, you know We're gonna see teams pressure especially when you play York. They're gonna pressure out and play When you play Widener they're gonna do that So we have to handle that pressure and continue to grow and grow So, you know my biggest word of these guys this week was growth and urgency We got to can grow as a team you got to show some urgency in our play and today the urgency we showed today Every possession was great and especially at the end we're taking our time Joining the time down making them come out at us getting penalties and making them come to us I thought it was great maturity and what we're trying to do and then we go over those situations and practice all the Time 15 minutes down six up to you know minute to go up one You know go through all those situations in order to win games But we can keep maintaining our focus and keep getting better and not let our Individual You know individual goals getting the way of the team goals. We're gonna be pretty good. Yeah, and then last question I mean, do you think that like my energy in the booth had anything to do with the team's energy on the field? Putting up 21 goals tonight.  You know Greg story about Greg go talk about Greg here a little bit Greg story about Greg one time in practice We're trying to run a play every time he got to me shot it and I go Greg We're trying to run the play he goes. What do you want me not to shoot it? I'm wide open I got to shoot the ball. I go Greg. We're just trying to run the play I was scoring but but I'd also like to add that that I would he would have pulled my my line out after the first Quarter and a game like this. So so not against a good team Okay, if it's against some other teams, maybe Awesome, thank you coach


Mexican President-elect Enrique Peña Nieto was in Washington this week to meet with President Obama. This is a traditional getting together of two heads of state on the eve of the Mexico's president taking office. The bilateral relationship is going very well in terms of how the two governments are dealing with each other on a range of issues that include economic issues, kind of the continuing evolution of NAFTA, and also the all-consuming drug war issues, the security situation, which entails Plan Merida, which is American support for Mexico's effort to take on the cartels. The war against the cartels was really launched by the outgoing president, Felipe Calderón, six years ago. It's claimed more than 60,000 lives. It has really wreaked havoc in Mexico. And it's something that the American government has expressed solidarity with Mexico on. President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton have said all the right things in terms of we share responsibility in this problem. And if you go to Mexico and you talk to people there, there is a tremendous amount of wariness with this conflict and a sense that why are we Mexicans continuing to die so as to prevent drugs from getting to American consumers? I do think, though, that the new government will reset its priorities and it might not see its mission as eradicating the drug trade for all time, but rather eradicate some of the more spectacular violence associated with the drug trade. A greater challenge beyond the specifics of policy and how the two governments engage I think has to do with how we think of Mexico. And by we, I mean the American public, the American media elites, business leaders. I think we need to have a reset on how Mexico is understood in this country because I think there's a glaring disconnect between the reality and the perception. There was a poll last week conducted by YouGov and The National Journal and others and it showed that only 14% of American surveyed considered Mexico a good neighbor or a good partner. I think it's a good time for Washington to engage Mexico on a broader agenda than simply the security one. And the most promising issue before both governments is that of energy. Mexico has a nationalized state-owned oil enterprise, BMX, which needs foreign capital for investment. And politically, this has always been a third rail in Mexican politics. The PRI itself, when it ruled Mexico in the 1930s, nationalized the oil industry and it remains much more closed off than even some other state-owned enterprises like in Brazil or Venezuela that allow some of the foreign majors to come in under a concession to help with the exploration of the resources. In Mexico's case, oil output has declined about 25% in the last decade because they haven't had the capital to reinvest in the business because Mexico's central budget relies heavily on BMX for about 40%. So something has to give here, there's a real moment of opportunity and the PRI coming back in the form of Peña Nieto offers this opportunity to revisit this constitutional prohibition in Mexico to allowing any private foreign entities to partner up with the Mexican state to drill for oil. And this, I think, is a real moment where we can double down on the North American self-sufficiency. Obviously, this is a boom time for finding energy sources even within the United States but certainly Mexico can be part of the long-term solution to our energy needs.


This is a Bitcoin maximalist. Believing that if you destroy Bitcoin and some other shitcoin is going to rise to the top is delusional. And this is a Bitcoin realist. There's things that other currencies can do that Bitcoin can't. He's been trading for most of his life. If you think trading is easy, that's the fastest way you will actually get wrecked. While he's been huddling since the early days of Bitcoin. I called the 20k Christmas when the price was 4k. I headed Block Show in Singapore for the ultimate crypto showdown. Tone is a terrible trader. I continue to defend Bitcoin against scammy projects trying to overtake Bitcoin. You're watching one of them written on the shirt right there. Everything he just said is false. This is a coin telegraph crypto duel. Hi everyone, I'm Giovanni and today we are here at Block Show with Don Vaze and Richard Hart. The rules of the duel are number one. Participants have one minute to reply. Number two, at the end of the duel, you choose the winner. And number three, there are no other rules. So grab some popcorn because things are about to get spicy. Pound one, Bitcoin price analysis. What's your reading of the current situation in the Bitcoin market? I couldn't really explain the big run up to 14,000 in hindsight. I underestimated how little exodus out of shitcoins it takes to really pump the price of Bitcoin because it's so illiquid on the exchanges. And for the time being, the exodus out of shitcoin has slowed down and therefore the price of Bitcoin is correcting back down. I haven't seen any new mainstream people entering the space and you need new mainstream adoption to rise the price of Bitcoin. I still remain skeptical that the bear market is over. The low might be in, but I still think there is some more downside to go this year. Do you also think that the shitcoins were responsible for that? Here's what happens. You used to be able to do technical analysis, you could draw trend lines, you could buy the Golden 5200 daily, move up. But the game has changed. There's FA, which is fundamental analysis. There's TA, which is technical analysis. And now we've got CA, which is China analysis. On the daily death cross, 52,200 cross, we pumped 40% up on President Xi's good blockchain news. The Asian market responds to news instantly because they are engaged in a way that the West is not. In the West, when President Trump tweets, he said bad things about Bitcoin and Tim Mnuchin, the head of Treasury Department said that it was a national security issue that they don't like blockchain. And I expected the price to move down. Instead, the price went up 10%. And then the next day it moved down with a delay of lag because the traders in the United States aren't engaged in the same way that Asian traders are. So now if you do price analysis like Tone does and you don't have your ear to the ground in Asia, you're unqualified. Anything to add? I've always been a believer in technical analysis. I don't believe the average person has the resources nor the ability to do fundamental analysis.  As an average trader, you use technical analysis just because I wasn't able to do a great job in timing the $3,000 low for the big run-up to $14,000. It doesn't mean that technical analysis failed. If I paid more attention, if I was trading and not traveling the world, I'm pretty sure I would have done a better job. I still think if you're going to be a retail trader, the only chance you have is to be a good technical analyst. Do you know how easy it is to press buy when the president of China tweets everyone that he loves the blockchain? It's the easiest thing in the world. Do you know how easy it is to buy when you see that the Asian markets are limit up 10% on any stock that even loosely involves the word blockchain? It was the easiest long in the history of longs. Any fundamental now, China analysis is the only thing that matters when real retail people have earned enough money to get back into the market in the West and start to play until they get rekt. Listen, everyone that's trying to make money, you're going to lose money trading, okay? For sure. The reason that you go to Vegas and those giant buildings are built is because it's built on losers.  You do not have any advantage over anyone else in the market. Tone Vays sells an indicator on his website for $800 called the TD indicator. He sells an indicator called TD because it was invented by a guy named Tom DeMark. He doesn't pay Tom DeMark. If you want to learn trading, maybe you should learn it from the guy that he's trying to impersonate and actually license a Tom DeMark product or go to his seminars. Anything to add? Sure. If you think trading is easy, that's the fastest way you will actually get rekt. The TD indicator, I made a couple of changes and basically what you're paying for is you can do it yourself. You can do it for free. The code is public. The math is public, I should say. What you're basically paying for is the code that I programmed for TradingView. And you can either code it yourself at TradingView. You can use free versions. They're all out there. I announce it. Hey, you can use a free version. I can vouch for the accuracy of the math in the free versions. And all you're paying for is the effort that it took me to code up the math that is publicly available. Richard, you said that you were a Bitcoin maximalist and then you moved to a Bitcoin realist position. Can you explain us the meaning of that? It's real simple. Everyone, I got into Bitcoin in 2011 as a minor.  I invested very heavily in 30. I helped make the 30 top back in 2011. I didn't own a bag of Ethereum. The only reason I came out publicly, I was already coming out publicly to try and prove the world with self-help videos, long before Bitcoin was invented. I wanted to make an impact in the world. And then I saw that my Bitcoin investment that I had a lot of money in was being overtaken by Ethereum. And I thought, well, I don't own any Ethereum. And it's funny.  So both Tony and I have defended Bitcoin against attackers inside and out.  And there's things that other currencies can do that Bitcoin can't. Ethereum's transactions are more secure than Bitcoin's transactions. Bitcoin's had two inflation bugs where anyone could print as many free coins as they want. One of them was just recently caught by Bitcoin Cash Developer and disclosed honorably. Don, can you defend Bitcoin? I continue to defend Bitcoin against scammy projects trying to overtake Bitcoin. You're watching one of them written on the shirt right there of Richard Hart. We're going to talk about it in a bit. Let's have a hack. So I think you have to do that. If you think Ethereum is more secure than Ethereum's transactions are more secure than Bitcoin, that is just beyond laughable to me. And it's really, really hilarious. How many inflation bugs does Ethereum have? Zero. How many inflation bugs does Bitcoin have? Two. They printed 6 billion extra Bitcoin and had to roll the chain back, right?   And if they could roll back the chain again, they would for Gavin Wood, who's got hundreds of millions of dollars locked up in parity and the parity multi-sig hacks, which is his fault because he missed to use the blockchain and wrote back code, and the polka dot hack, but they're not rolling it back for him. The most inside possible guy that could possibly be rolled back for. I would see more likely Binance releasing their private keys publicly and seeing miners fight over that 50 million stolen from them. Then I would see something bad happen on Ethereum. Round three. Limits of Bitcoin. Richard said that Bitcoin is one of the fastest appreciating asset in the human history. And that's actually the only valuable thing about Bitcoin. There is nothing else about Bitcoin which is useful. Tone, I guess you don't agree. No, of course not. Bitcoin is the only product that is the only cryptocurrency, the only blockchain out there that is actually decentralized, that is actually secure. The amount of mining that goes into it, the amount of code review under developers, they are coding it. And yes, occasionally there will be bugs found and those bugs will be fixed. There is absolutely zero. No one can actually exploit those bugs.  If the value of Bitcoin goes to zero, anything decentralized in a crypto space immediately dies because then there's actually people with value in Bitcoin that will never invest in any other cryptocurrency. The whole idea of store of value would be gone. You can exploit Litecoin, you can exploit Ethereum because you always have Bitcoin to exit into. It doesn't work the same going backwards. You can't exit through a shitcoin. Everything he just said is false. He took an argument that works for why miners attack the network less because then all their mining equipment be worth less. Then he extended it to a place that 100% does not work. If you're criminal and you don't have any money, you have the opportunity to steal a shitload of money, you're going to steal that money. Just like we've seen, exchanges get hacked over and over and over again and then they sell that money that they stole and the system still works after they stole it, that everyone's still happy to keep sending their money to the same exchange. Nothing that he said is accurate. If you steal the money and you hack the money, then people are still going to use Bitcoin. That has absolutely nothing to do with what I said. The reason why people want to steal Bitcoin is because the protocol is sound and Bitcoin remains valuable. There is actually incentive, some incentive to 51% attack shitcoins. We've seen Verge 51% attack. We've seen Ethereum Classic 51% attack. Eventually Litecoin will be 51% attack as their hash rate continues to go down, B-cash. It would be 51% attack if it wasn't too centralized in order to create checkpoints to basically for them to do whatever they want with the code. The thing is, you can't really exploit Bitcoin code anymore. Might have done it back in 2010 with that initial inflation bug because Bitcoin was really irrelevant at the time. But now you wouldn't do it because you destroyed value. You won't be able to profit from that. Anything to add?  They're the first person to do the hack. They can open shorts before they do the hack and then they can make money on their shorts and on the money that they just stole. Further? They can't. You can't make money on a short. If you short, let's say, Litecoin you can do it with Litecoin. If you short Bitcoin, your rewards are in the form of Bitcoin. So if you short Bitcoin... The f***ing CME is cash-settled and you can sell cash-settled CME. Not everything is f***ing BitMEX. Not everything settles in Fiat. Not everything settles in the shitcoin or in liquid crypto, right? The founder of XRP was the richest guy in the world. Now he's not. Why? Because he had illiquity, right? The CME is not running out of money. You can short as much on the CME as you could possibly want and there's other cash-settled futures products like BACT, which is releasing options soon even. You can also do Qantas and trade in another coin that didn't get hacked. So I could... Everything he's saying is false. Sure. You can short as CME. They're starting to get a little bit of volume. Everyone always trades in the crypto space. And if you destroy Bitcoin, great. You just prevented me from wasting my next five years. I can move on to another profession. The point is believing that if you destroy Bitcoin and some other shitcoin is going to rise to the top is delusional. Tone is a terrible trader. He called the Bitcoin top at 7000 and it went to 20,000. He has a good excuse for it, right? The easiest long in the entire world when President Xi said nice things about crypto, he missed because instead of trading and making money which he pretends to be good at, he's teaching people, selling them a copy of Tom DeMarc's indicator that he did barely anything to for $800 on his website. It's really $850, but I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt. He sells you dinner with him for $250 because he can't make enough money trading to be able to eat dinner with you for free, okay?  And by the way, he tells you you can't use it safely unless you get my education. And all he's going to tell you is to do is wait for the next candle to wait for confirmation because that's what Tom DeMarc says in his book, all right? He's a terrible trader. He has a terrible, if you counter trade him you're going to make more money.  He says shitcoins suck, right?  But that doesn't mean he's good at trading. It doesn't mean you should give him money. You don't have to give me money. I don't scam people. I offer services. And if you want to pay for them, you pay for them. If you don't want to pay for them, you don't have to pay for them. At least I'm not printing fake money and giving it away and getting rich on the back end of it. Round four is Richard Hart launching a shitcoin. Richard you are about to launch your own cryptocurrency this month which is Hex which is, as far as I understand, is a certificate exactly a certificate of deposit on the blockchain which can be used to earn interest. So, you define Hex, Richard's upcoming project a shitcoin. So, why do you think it's a shitcoin? He created an F&R.  He gets to make a lot of money on the back end because he's probably holding the majority of it. Can you defend it? So, while Tone pretends to be able to produce price and pretends to be good at things so that he charges you for them I charge you for nothing I offer better price calls than he does and I offer better performance than he does and I don't delete my calls he may not either so just go and look them up historically I called the 20k Christmas when the price was 4k I called short at 19k you can go verify this he was wrecked the entire way okay now about giving people money you can give him money on your credit card on your PayPal on your bitcoin anyway because he's broken he needs your money I don't need your money I retired in 2003 I give you free price calls free trat now free tokens free self help books you can't pay me money you don't know my bitcoin address you can't pay me credit card I don't have any shopping cart where you could possibly pay me so to be called a scammer by this guy that will do anything he can to make money when I do everything for free as a retired serial entrepreneur is absurd to me now while he talks about crypto and pretends he knows what it's about I'm actually building it I'm actually designing it when I first got into bitcoin and I mined it for free and that's why I went all in on it after I got it for free now the only people that are getting freemium on boarding is Ravencoin and Ethereum and Monero because you can mine it for free and next Don, any replies? if he had any money left he wouldn't be printing money right so my guess is he went broke a little while ago probably due to terrible trading and now he has resorted to printing his own money and promoting it so you can get rich on the money that he's printing what I do is I travel the world and I teach people how to trade if you don't want to pay to learn how to trade you can learn it for free that's all it is can you imagine the tragedy of paying him to learn how to lose all your money when you could lose all your money on your own naturally I give better price calls than him for free period furthermore bitcoin cannot do time locked interest you can lock your coins in bitcoin you receive no rewards if you want to replace the CD which has 7.2 trillion dollars in the United States and China someone has to build it I built it it's open source I give it for free to bitcoin holders we have two security audits from two different companies and one economics audit and one of the auditors is tied for top best auditor in the world for Solidity contracts this guy cost plays and talks about crypto but when someone actually tries to make the world a better place and tries to give you something for free and try and let you buy something that could go very high when bitcoin's already 10,000 you're buying my bags I bought for 30 the people who get rich in bitcoin are three people shills who make money selling you stuff with no risk people that enable the shills margin trading places of which I told you my link earlier right and cocan founders don't really don't think that this new cryptocurrency can help bitcoin so apparently Richard's solution to the financial problems is in bitcoin it's more free perpetual interest at what? 7% a year 10% a year are you at bit connect rates of 1% a day yet when are you going to do that when are you going to offer people 1% interest a day bitcoin miners get paid to push the price down because that's the security model every single bitcoin that exists the 18 million coins that exist now nobody that did anything honorable or ethical was given those coins the developers were not given those coins the people that marketed were not those coins were people that sold them on market to pollute the environment by buying electricity now that's necessary because that's the security model but I can get the same security for pennies on ethereum without paying a million dollars an hour to miners that then use that money to attack that network with a fake bitcoin and try to convince people to buy a fake bitcoin which is what bitmain did having a free currency that doesn't overpay miners and is based on staking so we're a proof of work hybrid our inflation but our transactions are proof of work because that's the only thing that's safe so you really think that proof of work is failable it is an extremely expensive and reliable and trustful thing it's the best thing that we have but it is terrible and it's terrible for the environment I hope we find something better we don't have anything better yet so we do use proof of work for our transactions here's the important point if you want the world to be a better place you have to remove you have to replace he did not build such a system and bitcoin didn't build such a system or would have more than the 2.8 million users total that have a thousand dollars in a wallet that is absolutely pitiful adoption and the only way you're going to get more adoption is if someone has the margin to advertise into the public to onboard new users like the Ponzi schemes are doing the Ponzi schemes have referral programs the Ponzi schemes print you interest and we're doing the same thing now he thinks will be high inflation the inflation is only 3.69% which is lower than bitcoin has ever been furthermore there's no externalities paying miners all of our inflation only goes to the stakers so if you're an average length, average size staker there's no inflation to you because you're the one getting all the coins so we are built to do everything bitcoin does better than it ever did can you guys please like loop the part on the coin telegraph video over and over when Richard said Ponzi schemes give you free interest and we give you free interest just loop that over and over and over and over nice suggestion who else gets free interest bitcoin inflates higher than 3.8% every single year since it's ever existed is a free dividend to people who pollute the environment so bitcoin pays interest not to people that invest in bitcoin but to people that send money to weird countries to make silicone to burn electricity to pollute the environment that's who actually makes all the bitcoin every bitcoin went through one of their hands first and I used to do it I used to mine full blocks on my own 50 block reward with no pull out of 5970 GPU and now I got in for free and then all in and now no one else can get in for free you guys all have to buy my bags that I got for 30 for 10,000 sorry guys round five what is China's influence on bitcoin China embracing blockchain technology what do you think guys is it a good thing for bitcoin or a bad thing this China dealing with blockchain can actually impose a kind of authoritarian turn to the whole environment of blockchain and cryptocurrency it's really irrelevant for bitcoin bitcoin will continue to grow and people will continue to adopt it it's really irrelevant to me what China thinks a blockchain is or isn't one of the reasons why less people use bitcoin today is because of people like Richard Hart promoting Ethereum all over the place and all the shit coins I thought he started doing his own I don't own any Ethereum I've never owned more than $100 of Ethereum in my entire life I've never owned any XRP in my entire life I was a bitcoin maximalist forever but then when you decide you want anonymity you can't do it in bitcoin when you decide you want to replace the CD you can't do it in bitcoin when you decide you want interesting game theory to reward people for doing awesome and honorable things you cannot do it in bitcoin because they only inflate to pay people to f**king pollute the environment that's the only people to pay if you can actually pay the developers to make some improvements you know the last improvement you got bitcoin? two years ago you got segwit which we lied and cheated and steal and I was part of the lying and cheating and stealing to get segwit to get lightning which by the way had critical vulnerabilities and lost people's money which only has 50% more bitcoin in it than wrapped bitcoin with bitcoin as a counterparty on Ethereum people really want stablecoins and you can't get one of bitcoin with that counterparty Dona you're not worried about environmental impact no not at all I'm not it's I mean what what advantage to the world do playing video games brings and like nothing think about how much electricity is wasted every year by people playing video games and compared that to bitcoin mining it would absolutely dwarf it so Ethereum the founders of Ethereum have already admitted that it's an unscalable platform and for stablecoins on top of bitcoin tether has already moved over to the liquid sidechain so I have no idea what Richard's talking about once again everything Dona's saying is wrong okay the majority of tether volume trading is done on ERC20 tokens they used to do it on Omni which used to be on bitcoin but it sucked so bad because it was slow and expensive that they moved the majority of tether trading onto ERC20 tokens which believe it or not hex is also an ERC20 token as TRX was as BNB was as like there's four or five billion dollar companies that are ERC20 tokens right so if you don't think China is important you must be crazy if you don't understand how wasteful bitcoin is and you want it to secure all the world's value the energy burnt has to be proportional to the value to defend it so if you're promoting bitcoin trying to make it take over trillions of dollars of value from the world you've got to burn trillions of dollars of saying that right now it uses less than video games doesn't make any sense because you want it to be big and you want it to burn more electricity furthermore those guys in Ethereum Ethereum's got something called optimistic rollups right now using ZK Starks which could 100x a throughput on the chain because the Ethereum developers now are smarter than bitcoin developers bitcoin developers did two or three good things recently Schnorr signatures go ahead I can imagine a future world where everybody's using bitcoin the pollution will grow accordingly, you know bitcoin can actually scale try to download an Ethereum node good luck with that no one needs a full node no one runs a full node in bitcoin let me tell you about Tone Tone thinks he's smart right Tone thinks he's smart because he runs a full node do you know what kind of full node he runs ones where you double click the EXE and he uses the default settings and when you use the default settings you're just a bitch to the guy that set the default he doesn't compile the source code he doesn't verify that it doesn't have hacks in it if he did we could blame him for those inflation bugs that he didn't catch but he thinks he's smart he doesn't have a nine mining node if you run a nine mining node and the network decides the mining network decides to do something else like stop removing the happening and pay themselves whatever they want he could create his own fork that no one's on and if no one likes his fork they could 51% attack his fork now the UASP the no 2x guys threaten the network and put a gun to the network's head to get segwit and I was part of that and I supported it but in the end the miners are the actual network and if you're not mining you're a bitch yeah the miners lost I was users like myself that won with our non-mining nodes deciding what Bitcoin really is and no I have my we're building a server right now to run all my websites and that's going to be a full node by someone that really understands the system and better than me but it will be a node controlled by me round six effects of the Bitcoin halving next year there will be the Bitcoin halving so what's the outcome of this halving according to you we will see a spiking price or you're not so optimistic about it do you think it's already priced in what do you think so I think that we had a 20k top at the end of 2017 and we've only gone up to 14k in a Ponzi scheme which means we're not front running it it's not over-bought we don't have high premiums anywhere we've got choppy sideways volatility with a lot of news inputs so I think that the reduction in the future supply will drive the price up because I don't think that we're over-bought at this point I think if you believe in supply and demand and you believe the demand is static or increasing then reducing the supply hitting the market is obviously going to influence the price upwards so I'm bullish on Bitcoin and especially because of China now China will say something bad about Bitcoin and it will push the price again and they always do this so be ready for it they're going to say blockchain not Bitcoin and they're going to say something very bad about Bitcoin it's just a question of how long they wait do you agree I'm a technical analyst right now to me Bitcoin has been on a downtrend since the $14,000 top this summer until it proves to me that it's ready to tackle new highs past $14,000 I'm going to remain bearish in the environment I am looking for another low not as low as $3,000 but probably something lower than $7000 if it doesn't come before the having then the $7,200 low is in I let the price prove it to me right now I am looking for a low around the $5,000 $6,000 area before the having and then finally the bull market for me could begin if not if we stagnate here in the $8,000-$9,000 range going into the having then I'll be a bull above $10,000 whenever it starts moving in that direction round 7 year end price predictions one more question for you guys so I'm going to ask you what's your price prediction for the end of the year and then at the end of the year we're going to check who among you got closer to that prediction $11,000 $7,500 to $8,000 $8,000 directly out of my ass I would have absolutely no certainty in this number but I'm more bullish than bearish and it wouldn't be making a new high so I'm okay with the middle ground of chopping around $11,000 seems fine listen don't trade you're going to lose all your money if you're forced to and you can't take my good advice go to RichardHeart.win and smash that buy and sell button as many times as you can and rack up all the fees you can but you really shouldn't trade I'm more bearish than bullish at the moment for the year end I'm more bearish than bullish but trading isn't about the best prediction trading is about risk management setting the right stop losses and having good money management that's what will keep you alive and trading no, total bullshit total lie every single guy that wants to sell you on this idea that he can predict what's going to happen which if he really could he wouldn't be wasting his time out here he'd be on a fucking island somewhere if you think that risk management can make up for bad trades you're 100% wrong because all your stops will get hit if you think a stop loss will save you your stops will be run and you'll be chopped up 50 fucking times until you're finally out of the game you will not make up for bad trading with stop losses you will not make up for bad trading with cash management and let me tell you more about cash management than he'll ever tell you, okay go ahead and google the what's the dude's name theoretically, mathematically proven if you bet 100% of your stack when you're 100% of certain 50% of your stack when you're 50% certain and 30% of your stack when you're 30% certain if you match your bet size to your certainty size it's proven game theoretically the best cash management that exists he doesn't even teach you that shit everyone that pretends to teach you something appeals to cash management or risk management but really it just means you predicted the price properly it's a joke it's a euphemism all right Tony do you have one last comment yeah betting 100% of your stack when you're 100% certain is the fastest way to get wrecked and never trade again good luck with that strategy that was a great discussion guys so Tom Vase and Richard Hart, thanks a lot for being with us, thank you guys for watching and put your comments below deciding who won today's crypto duel Tom Vase or Richard Hart


Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA the Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. It is Monday, happy Monday. We're gonna do our usual Monday market outlook video. Talk about stuff we could be seeing this week in FIFA Ultimate Team. SBCs, objectives, new cards and packs. Of course, we have the shapeshifters promo that is going on right now. We've got man of the match cards that are in packs. We've got prime icon moments that are like the best thing to trade with at the moment in my opinion. They've been great to trade with. And tons of other things going on with like Champions League stuff and road to the final stuff this week that I wanna talk about. I think honestly as we get into this that the road to the final content this week and the road to the final market movements are going to be the things that you guys wanna focus in on the most. Hopefully we have some good content relating to Champions League, like Champions League, Marquis matchups maybe or whatever. But I think these cards are honestly gonna be the biggest thing that you guys wanna pay attention to this week because there's some big games this week. We have City, we have Real Madrid playing each other. If we take a look at the schedule, we've got Chelsea and Bayern, Napoli, Barcelona, Lyon, Juventus and then Real Madrid and Man City. Big time games that are gonna make a lot of cards in the road to the final sets move. So be very careful with these. And we're gonna talk about some movements that I think you could see with these cards. A lot of these cards are lower right now. Why are these cards lower? Well in my video yesterday I talked about how the market is just kind of crashing in general. How people are kind of falling off the game a little bit, just at least this weekend. The promos are just okay. Shape shifters is a cool idea but it's just, it's not good enough with the supplementary content. And I think that's why you're seeing some of this stuff drop in price a little bit. Just people are becoming less interested in the game and there's more new cards that they can use instead of these that are currently out in the game. So that's why you're seeing some of these cards drop. But these cards are gonna be springing back into action this week. Just like the Sancho from last week. Look at Jaden Sancho from last week. He's 250,000 coins right now, which is actually down a little bit from where he was. But take a look at what his card has done since the week last week. On Monday he was 173 game time on Tuesday, Wednesday. He was 190. He got the upgrade and has continued climbing since because he got an upgrade, right? And he got a pretty significant boost. So this week we have a lot of cards in the line for upgrades. We've got Militao. We've got Mahrez. We've got Allen, DiBala. We've got Kante. And plenty of the Europa League cards as well because obviously the Europa League is being played this week too. So we have like aggregate games with Rangers. Up 3-2 on Braga. We've got Sporting that's up 3-1. Roma of course, a lot of you guys wanna know about Juan Jesus. They're up 1-0 on Ghent. So a lot of these games also have massive implications for what is upcoming this week in terms of row to the final and Europa League row to the final upgrade. So I really want you guys to watch these cards this week and we're gonna talk more about these prices and fluctuations that we saw with some of the cards that moved last week, like Hugo Yoriz. This card moved a ton last week in the panic selling after the game to where he is now. He was 100 in like 1520K after Spurs lost. Now he's back up to 160. I wanna talk about that later this week as we get closer in because there's gonna be some market movements with these cards since they're so rare and so desirable since they're still live items that we're gonna wanna look at based on which cards in the Champions League games. Champions League game only for these just because of how they're structuring with the first leg. Like right now we're only in the first leg game for Champions League. Europa League is one section behind or one stage behind. So we'll talk about that later in the week but these cards move a ton and they're gonna be very profitable this week if you get in on the right ones at the right time. Let's talk about the current promo that is going on though with the shape shifters. I'm kinda watching these cards right now I'm recording this right after squad battle rewards and we are seeing some dropping prices on the market for some of these cards. David Louise is currently 1.05, 1.06 mil on the market and he has dropped like over 100K today. Some of these guys have dropped a decent amount with squad battle rewards. That's just supply coming onto the market. This happens every single week, right? This has happened almost every week with these promo cards as they drop like this because there's just not a lot of other times of supply especially on the weekends for these. So like right now Atal is 440, wow he's still dropping 440K for this Atal card. He was like 460, 470, 480 for most of the day and just keeps dropping because a lot of the packs were opened with squad battle rewards. Now are these cards gonna rise back up this week? Is this their low point? No, they should be getting lower as the week goes on. They should get hit with weak and weak rewards supply because we still have a second set of these cards to come out. Now of course this first set is really, really good set. I think based on what it could be we've got a lot of decent player names in here. We've got a lot of cool position changes and cool upgrades. Mahrez 330K, like center attack in mid. Mahrez is dope. That's gonna be a card that a lot of people try out and use. He fits the meta, short, five star skills, a good weak foot, good agility, good balance. So that's gonna be a card that a lot of people are gonna try out. The Marcello of course, the Lucas is not bad. The Ronaldo Sanchez, the Mbabu, like there's a decent squad of cards in it but there's also a second set coming so that's just something to keep in mind and to be aware of. And then of course I wanna talk about Man of the Matches as well. We'll talk about these maybe later on during the week. Some of these cards, there's only really one of these Man of the Matches that I would be really considering buying as a quote unquote investment out of packs. And that would be probably Holland. I think he's like 260K at the moment. And the reason why I'm interested in him is because he's just really freaking low, right? He's got a lot of special cards but he's down to 250,000 coins. I would wait to see what happens. He's still in packs for another couple of days so all it takes is one pack supply SBC that's tradable at 6pm UK and that kind of card drops down more in price because of the pack supply. So we'll be looking at that later on this week as a possible investment. What else could we see this week? Well, I would expect to see at least another one objective player and I would expect to see more SBCs as well. Believe it or not, I know it doesn't seem like we've gotten good SBCs which we really haven't. Today's Kimmick SBC I think is a W in my opinion. I would like to see him get a dynamic image. I'm assuming he will. But this card is 200,000 coins. What they did is they position changed him to CDM and they gave him different work rates. He has a high, high work rate for this game. That makes him perfect for a box-a-box center midfielder or a CDM which his card stats suit him perfectly for or even for a writeback. You could probably play him in game a writeback if you wanted to. Really solid looking card and a pretty nice stat boost. If you're running a Bundesliga squad 200K for this CDM, for this center mid, I think this is gonna carry you for the rest of the game, honestly. If you do this SBC, I don't blame you at all. Especially with fodder being so cheap as it is already. This SBC is only like 200K or a little under and you get tradable packs back.  Mikotarian still isn't bad to me. So hopefully we continue to get good value SBCs this week. I would expect the possibility for upgrade packs to be coming on today, actually Monday. I feel like upgrade packs could be coming if they're gonna come out. EA's been kinda doing them on Monday, I think, for every promo that we've gotten so far. So I would expect today to see some form or variation of upgrade packs if you wanna try to pack yourself one of these new cards in this set. Which I do think, I hope they put up the 81 plus upgrade because I would be interested in hitting a few of those. Because if you think about it, a Marcella would fit into my team very nicely. A Dava Louise, I already have the flashback, but I would take the 91 Dava Louise. Any of these guys, honestly, would love to try to pack one. A couple of them, a Ben Yetter would be nice. And a tall Super Sub, of course, the Messi, the Lucas. I really want that Lucas card. So shape shifters this week. Again, if you're wanting to buy these for your team, probably Thursdays are buy time for them. We're gonna have to watch and see what happens on Thursday and Friday with these cards. Because a lot of times for the other promos, if the second team isn't very good, the first team rises out of packs and it goes up Friday night after that second team comes. So that's gonna be something to monitor, something to watch out for as well. Something we also have coming in this next week is the possibility for a pretty big time team of the week. And I'm gonna show you guys right now. This is a team of the week prediction and a prediction only on Twitter by BrokerFoot, is his name. Messi could get in team of the week and he's not shown here, but Messi, I think, should get in team of the week for his four goal performance that he had this weekend. I know he's already in the shape shifters promo, but they've done this before where they give that card a team of the week item. The shape shifters card is in packs until it goes out of packs on Friday. Then the inform comes in packs after that. I hope that they do that with Messi. But other than that, this team of the week doesn't look bad. Obamian, Arquinos is okay. Nabri is cool. Bruno Fernandez, nice. Telez could get another inform. Alonso Tersteghan, so there's some names in here that could be a solid team of the week, especially with the possibility of Messi coming out this week. And I guess other things that could come out this week start to maybe think, you know, they're putting out some, I hate to say solid SBCs, but the player selection for these has been good so far besides Olaza. If we get one or two more of these shape shifters SBCs, I do have a hunch. I don't know who it's gonna be, but it seems like a Fabinho would be perfect for this. A Fabinho center back card. And this is just, somebody mentioned it in my Twitch chat tonight, and I really got to thinking about it, and I agree with it, right? Fabinho center back card. He has an inform, he has a team of the year nominee. Fabinho doesn't have that many other special cards in this game. Those are the only two basically, and the UCL. Give this guy a center back position change. He had a center back inform last year in foot 19. That would be an SBC if they price it correctly that a lot of people would be interested in.  He's gonna have over 80 passing. He's gonna have over 80 dribbling, high 80s defense, mid to high 80s physical, medium, high work rates already. They don't need to change that. Just basically boost his base pace, and then boost his passing and dribbling a little bit, and then maybe give him like a little bit of a boost on defense as well. This could be a center back card that a lot of people would go out and do if they make it a good price, and that could be a big time position swap or change SBC that we could get. Also, a lot of people keep mentioning a Kyle Walker goalkeeper card. I would love it. I would absolutely love it if they gave this guy a goalkeeper position change. Do I think it's gonna happen?  That would be pretty dope. So if that happens, it happens. I've heard a lot of people mention that. I would be a huge fan if they did that. Be so cool. But I don't know how like a field player would position to like a goalkeeper in game. Don't know if you've ever had that, or in FIFA, that could be really interesting to watch. But it'd be really cool, right? So that's something that we could maybe, maybe see this week. Other things, champions like related. What did we see last week with champions and stuff? I don't know if the SBCs are still there. I doubt they are. But we had champions league. We had like a champions league pack supply SBC. Now they're gone. We got a champions league pack supply SBC and a UCL marky matchup. So again, what they did last week is they took one game from Tuesday and one game from Wednesday. And I would expect them to do that again. So if I had to guess, I would probably pick Chelsea and Bayern for the Tuesday SBC and then Real Madrid Man City for the Wednesday SBC. So you could probably go out on the market right now and check for some Bayern. Let's go Bundesliga. Let's check out Bayern. Actually, Bayern's not gonna be a good one because those are always inflated already. Let's say Chelsea, right? Let's go Chelsea. Let's look at special cards for Chelsea. How much do they go for right now? The UCL rare cards. UCL non-rares and rares for Chelsea. Looks like they're going for basically this card. Basically this card for some of these, which is not bad. If you can get them like Curzuma right there. You know what, I'm gonna buy that. I'm gonna throw it in my club. They might require some of these Champions League rares. They could go up a little bit. Specifically if they require Champions League rare players from the Chelsea team or from the Bayern Munich team or even any players from those teams in general. Even some of the golds might not be a bad shot to look at. And then I think that Manchester City would be almost a shoe in. The Manchester City Real Madrid game this week is a massive, massive game. Massive game. And as you can see, Man City players are already inflated. How much is the question? Maybe right around a thousand coins actually. 1.4K? Looks to be about 1.4K in their all Claudio Bravo's at 1.4K for Manchester City blue card. So that could be something you look into this week. Maybe try to snag a few of these on bid. Of course, if we get a pack supply SBC, that's gonna be a great time to be looking out for something like that to invest in. This week's team of the week, if you wanna buy any of these cards. A lot of times, a team of the week investing is something that we look into like on a Sunday night. But you know, of course, like I mentioned, a pack supply SBC, these guys could get a little bit lower with that. There's not too many of these players in this team of the week that I really like for an out-of-packs investment. Neuer, DiBala, and maybe Pardy and maybe Pepe would be like the end Holstenberg would be kind of the only one that I really, or Klaustermann at Holstenberg. Those would be kind of the only guys that I really rate as an out-of-packs investment as my favorite probably being DiBala or Pepe maybe as like an out-of-packs investment. So just something to keep an eye on those. If you see some pack supply SBCs, that those could be very, very good. And then of course, if you guys are trading this week, if you guys are trying to trade and trying to make some coins this week on foot, what's some stuff that you can be doing? One of my favorite things to do right now in this game and I've been doing it and it's been working very, very well for me is trading with icons and specifically icon moments. Specifically icon moments has been working wonders for me. These are kind of the filters that I set up right here trying to weed out a lot of the cards that are under 700, 800,000 coins and getting a good filter to get to the 59th minute quickly. You just kind of have to mess around with that minimum buy now price. Set the max buy now however many coins you have and the max price goes to 15 million and that's your refresh basically. Every time you back out and search again, you refresh that so you get a new set on the 59th minute. So as you can see, I'm getting to the 59th minute in less than 10 pages maybe. That's pretty quick. This is my favorite type of trading boys, I'm gonna be honest. This is my absolute favorite type of way to trade on foot. I love getting back here to the 59th minute because you never know what you're going to find. That's a pretty good deal for Maradona. Not really viable and flippable but it's good because this guy's usually about like 1.8. He's usually around 1.8 mil but yeah, you can see there's a couple undercuts. A lot of these icons have been dropping a bunch lately. So that's something to keep an eye on this week is these icon moments. People are still trying them out but these cards prices are dropping very heavily especially as we get more and new promo cards that come out. When we get a Marcello card like that that's gonna drop some of the midfielder cards on the icon market because people are gonna sell their icons to maybe go try that Marcello out because that Marcello is a pretty cracked card, right? And that's kind of a high tier player that somebody who can afford an icon like one of these is gonna be able to afford a guy like Marcello. So these prices back here at the 59th are so, so very fun to mess around with. Open bids are working for these cards as well. And as you can see, I have a Crespo here that I flipped. I kind of got lucky with this. I bought this Crespo for 2.195, sold it for 2.349 which is about 36,000 coins profit on that card right there. So as you can tell, I'm pretty liquid, right? And if you're trading right now, if you're looking to make coins right now in this game, I would stay pretty liquid. I would stay liquid, I would do fluctuations. There's plenty of ways to trade in this game right now with just fluctuation trading with getting on the market, looking at past team of the weeks, getting on open bids and just looking at the cards fluctuate. They fluctuate every day because they're rare and they're out of packs. And if it's a card that a lot of people are using and trying out and putting in their teams, you're gonna see that card fluctuate and it's going to be flippable just because of people are gonna be buying that card at different points throughout the day and the card prices change throughout the day. So if you're looking to do some trading with that kind of stuff, hit up the team of the week page on footbin over here, which is basically you go to players drop down, click on team of the weeks, it'll take you here, look through the headliners, right? Start to memorize some of these prices. Like I haven't looked at these cards in a hot minute. This is probably a bad example. Headliners have bought me all these up a lot. I look at these future stars cards more than anything else, but make some mouths a little bit low right now. That's a bit low for him. Emerson was lower earlier. Emerson was 170K earlier. Now he's back to 188. That just shows you that some of these cards that are very desirable, the people want for their teams fluctuate a lot. Hudson Adoy was 283 earlier. Now he's back to over to 300,000 coins. Mullen's 116, that's a situation. This Mullen card fluctuates between two, like 115,000 coins and 125,000 coins a lot. So I'm gonna check this right now if I can get one for like 115K, which I cannot. There is not any there. Footbin is telling me a lie. Come on, Footbin. If you can get this card at like 115, you can sell it for 125 to 127 during the day. I know that's not a lot of profit, but it's the little things like that that when you do them repetitively and you do it over and over, then you do make coins. So that's the kind of stuff you guys should be looking for this week. Investing in stuff, I know that the high-rated are cheap. I know that the high-rated are cheap. Just be careful with these cards because if you're unassigned with these, again, you're relying on EA to drop content and I don't like relying on EA for anything. Price ranges, dropping SBCs, anything. Just do a club stock, put them in your club. Yes, these might be, these are lower right now than when I bought them for my club stock, but that's not making me mad. I'm fine. I know that I had that investment there. They're gonna go up at some point. 86s are gonna be 18 to 20K again at some point. 85s are gonna be 12K again at some point. 87s are gonna be 25K again at some point in the future in this game. So I'm not worried about it. Whenever EA decides to drop SBCs, that middle icon SBC, if it ever comes, I don't know if it's coming. It doesn't look like it honestly is. We'll find out sooner enough if it is or not, but that's the kind of stuff that you guys can be doing this week. If you haven't done a club stock already, some of those cards are very cheap. Trading with the icons is great. Trading with these other cards is great. I should mention one more thing. Renato Sanchez, you saw one on my transfer list. He is my perfect example right now of trading with new promo cards that have chem styles, right? So we're gonna go Renato Sanchez left back, and we're gonna search him with a shadow, all right? This is the filter right here. Shadow card on Renato Sanchez for a left back. As you can see, ooh, this is kind of low right now. 65K for Renato Sanchez for the left back. Usually, I bought one for 57 today. Usually he sells for just over 70K. So if I see this get any lower, I know that Renato Sanchez as a left back with the shadow chem style usually sells at 70K. So if I see one again, lower seven, like lower 60,000 coins, I'm gonna be picking that up. That's a great way to be trading with these new promo cards is because people are trying them out, right? And when people try out the new promo cards, the shape shifters, they wanna use a good chem style on them. So they go apply the hunters, they go apply the shadows, or they try to buy them with that chem style already attached. So look for that point as they trading opportunity this week as well. If you enjoyed this video, smash the thumbs up on it. Comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe to the channel if you're new. It's been Nate, the Foot Accountant. Catch you guys later. Peace out.