Good morning, John. In 1969, Neil Diamond dropped what would become un-American classic, his hit, Sweet Caroline. And the only reason that is important to this video is because after he sings the name of the song, Sweet Caroline, these horns come in. And for some mysterious and complicated reason, it has become an American tradition to, at that point of the song, go, Bop, bop, bop! And then after this line... Your time never seems so good. You go, so good, so good, so good!  It is extremely unlikely that you will not hear these improvised editions. Why am I talking about this? Well, John, back in 2017, when you and I went on tour, we hatched an extraordinarily precarious plan based on this phenomenon. I would play on my guitar, Sweet Caroline, and then we would instruct the audience to, during the part where you would normally do the bop-bop-bos, to remain perfectly silent. This is a treacherous thing. This is like riding your mountain bike on the side of a cliff. Because you have just given everyone in the theater the power to make this not happen, and everyone has to agree, everyone, that it should happen. And because we are raised in this society and we expect the bop-bop-bos in that moment, the absence is a presence. It's like a kind of silence that is louder than any other kind of silence I have ever experienced. Which is why, when it worked, it was really wonderful, and it did work about 75% of the time. The other 25% of the time, someone would do it. Now, occasionally, this was an honest mistake. Someone had been bop-bop-bying their whole life. It was hard to not bop-bop-bop. They accidentally bop-bop-bop, or just bop-odd, which was adorable. Like, in those cases, we tried again, and if it worked, it worked. But in some cases, somebody was like, bop-bop-bop, and then we tried again, and they did it again. And in that case, you just stopped doing it. And the first time that happened, John, I remember us having a conversation backstage, like, maybe we shouldn't do that bit anymore, because when it didn't work, it felt pretty bad. We decided to keep doing it in part because it felt so good when it worked, but also because I think of how instructive it is when it doesn't work, because there's a bunch of lessons you can take from this. The first and easiest lesson to take is that, look, we're humans, and if you give everyone the power to ruin something, someone will. And that's kind of a bummer. But ultimately, it's true. You can't get around it. But here's another lesson that it took me a long time of thinking about this to get to. In the situations where there were 500 people in the room who didn't go bop-bop-bop, the people in the room had a dramatically different experience than the people in the rooms where 499 people didn't go bop-bop-bop. Just totally different sets of learnings from those two experiences, the people who only had it one or the other way, which is everybody except for me and John, just had such different moments. But in both of those situations, mathematically, the experiences were basically identical. Either 500 people not making any noise or 499 people not making any noise. That's the same, right? But it is interpreted entirely differently. Regardless of the fact that mathematically everyone in those rooms had functionally the same experience, they did not walk away with their brains thinking the same thing. It's just impossible to feel like 500 people stayed silent when only 499 did. But that's not evidence that 499 people didn't do something together. They did. It's evidence that my brain can't interpret reality correctly. But I don't think those two lessons are the only ones you can take from this. So I'd be curious to hear other people's takes as well in the comments. John, I'll see you on Tuesday. Touching me. Touching you. It's so good. The air of life seems so good.


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She picked these up at an auction. I believe it was an online auction and it was just a Mixed a lot of I believe Lenin's and stuff her cost of goods was about a dollar Absolutely crazy this sold for one thousand seven hundred and twenty five dollars. Hey fellow buddies. Thanks for watching Amazing right all right, let's get started Hey fellow buddies, thanks for watching all right I've got 50 unexpected Bolo's coming your way items that you can hopefully find when you're outsourcing at a state sales garage sales thrift stores You name it wherever you source Hopefully you can find these items and pick them up and sell them for big money Some of these are gonna surprise you so these are items that I have posted in my Bolo buddies Facebook group If you are not in that group, there is a link down below definitely go join I'm also on Instagram, but on Facebook I look for active auctions that are getting lots of bids because lots of bids means lots of interest which typically means Big money, so I post them in the group and then we can all watch them together, but sometimes Oftentimes I post it and it's already big money, and then I forget to go back and see what it sold for So I have created Videos to show you what those items end up selling for it's a great way to learn I've got a whole series on this so go check out some of those other videos If you have not watched one of these before and we're gonna get started and you will see what I mean Just crazy what these items are selling for all right the first item is these buttons and This one is not like a super big money Bolo, but Nonetheless, these are buttons and you can pick up buttons all the time, but they are not all created equal some of these are made out of Bakelite and lusite and different plastics that are collectible And this is a a really nice lot So they could have parted these out. It would have been long tail and a lot of work, but They decided to just sell them I mean maybe a crafters buying this even a reseller that likes to part out buttons could be picking this up because there's a lot of really neat Buttons in this lot sold for a hundred and eleven dollars and eleven cents plus shipping The next item are these vintage Boy Scouts of America patch lot and wow wow wow these must be something special Um, how would you guys have sold these would you have sold them? Individually or in a lot like this seller did Uh sold for ten thousand seven hundred and sixty seven dollars Absolutely crazy, right? um I don't know let's see what they started the auction at sometimes I like to go in and check that out There were 30 unique bidders and if you look at the feedback of the people bidding These people have feedback. It's not like it says zero and there's only two people bidding against each other Now did the person know that they had a big money bolo? They started the auction at seven dollars and ninety nine cents So either they knew and they knew it was going to go crazy or they just did not know um But yeah 30 unique bidders on that ten thousand seven hundred and sixty seven dollars Here is another one. This one sold for four thousand seven hundred and thirty five dollars and fifty nine cents I think this was the same seller, but again just Lauded them up and let it ride just absolutely crazy, right? Right, the next item is this vintage western germany Shopper around the world ten wind up toy and this only ended up going for sixty dollars, but still pretty cool bolo there Um 217 bids on that one and the buyer paid shipping So ten toys in general, I would always look them up if you can get them cheap just pick them up somebody's gonna want it All right, this is another one that's kind of like Has me scratching my head when I listed it. Um, so ash kash bagash Especially the vest back which a vest back is see that little triangle on the back That's what you're looking for These were trending a few years ago big time some of them were going for hundreds of dollars They are not trending like they used to be but they can still Still fetch a decent profit. So this is a lot of a hundred and thirty five and Some of this stuff not much value in it, but some of the vest backs they can like these two are pretty good um But two thousand two hundred and twenty five dollars that seems like A crazy amount of money to me. Um, I feel like they overpaid, but I could be completely wrong Let me know what you guys think in the comments Vintage nintendo nes game boxes. These are the original boxes and inserts. I don't think the games are here you guys You can see here the boxes Sold for six hundred and two dollars crazy, right and I picked up some Games at a garage sale and I did a whole video on it and I got home And they were just the boxes and I was so bummed out and I ended up selling those boxes for big money I think they were pokemon if I remember correctly Uh, this is a rare vintage new old stock my little pony G1 daisy sweet blue perfume And this one was sold by yard sales and dreams if you haven't checked out her youtube channel, definitely go check her out This sold for two hundred and fifty five dollars plus shipping And she has a video where she shows the countdown and all of these bids start coming in right at the end It was a really cool video All right, this one comes from the nurse flipper another youtube channel And she picked these up at an auction I believe it was an online auction and it was just a mixed lot of I believe linens and stuff Her cost of goods was about a dollar Absolutely crazy this sold for one thousand seven hundred and twenty five dollars And she had another one. I think the other one went for a little bit less, but it was still a lot of money And it's a antique vintage chinese silk embroidered dragon roundel queen Kangui period. I don't know what any of that means, but I think she figured it out with google lens, so I don't know It's definitely a weird Piece like I I don't know if I would have looked twice at it So good for her for looking it up and getting it listed This is a vintage 1978 original kenner star wars blue snaggle tooth toy This guy sold for three hundred and sixty five dollars and uh buyer paid shipping This is a do mine Me in i'm not sure if i'm pronouncing that right doll by kathy cruz And it says body 1925 Look at it What do you guys think and it's got a video? One thousand four hundred and seventy four dollars for this How crazy is that? Let me know would you have bought the baby or walked right by it? All right, this is a vintage qvc boyd's mini peaker bear may may berry flower um I did a video on boyd's bears that go for big money and some of them are trending I think they're still trending because this one is sold for 125 dollars, but I haven't researched lately But definitely go check out that video so you know what to look for um And double check search them and make sure that they're still trending but Some of them can go for big money and it's the certain minis, but it's not all of them So check out that video to uh get some ideas or just search. You can search solds too All right, pokemon tcg first edition Moltres fossil rare This card sold for 77 dollars plus shipping. So it's a pokemon card The next item is this vintage 1983 crystal barbie and kin never removed from box. That's what nrfb means sealed sparkle and shine head to toe These sold for 255 dollars plus shipping the pink boxes are Typically from the 80s and the 90s Uh, they are starting to increase in value some so definitely look them up Not all are going to be big money bolos, but Sometimes you get a nice surprise like this one Vintage golden age comics covers only in some coverless pages 616 dollars and 67 cents and these are not in great condition. So That is just almost unbelievable, right? Wow This is a rare vintage canyon group. Um, it's a chenille Think i'm saying that right moon and stars robe How cool is that? And i know that the blankets that are chenille can also do pretty good But it's canyon group sold for 250 plus shipping Okay, here is a huge vintage costume jewelry lot a lot of times if i see stuff like this and Um, it's going for a decent price, but still looks like it has reseller Potential i'll post it in the group and kind of put some feelers out and You guys can kind of put your opinions in the comments and research it and see if it's worth buying This one ended up selling for 465 dollars plus shipping, but it does say sign trifor trifari mone Coro, so they picked out some of the brand names that they knew would draw people to the listing 1984 a novel by george orwell hardcover 1949 vintage sold for 177 dollars and 50 cents And the buyer paid shipping The next item is 120 vintage postcards again surprise. This one did not go for more Um, some really nice graphics on some of these Now did the seller put some of the best ones on the top? Maybe Who knows but 174 Pretty decent price some postcards can go for big money Um, you just like the vintage halloween are really really great Uh, but it depends on the graphic The next item are these set of five vintage kenner 1973. Um I think there are they slot cars? SSP racers and rip tea handles. Oh no They're uh, you must they're like the rip tea handles where you pull them. I think Wow Those must be really collectible This is what they look like on the bottom 1100 101 dollars and 80 cents plus shipping The next item is this beetles 1964 vintage talc powder canister How fun is that really really great condition? It also looks like It almost looks like a reproduction. It's in such good condition, but it's sold for $370 plus shipping The next item is this vintage marks ab I can never say this word abominable Abominable snowman, you know who he is. He's a yeti battery operated toy from the 1960s Uh need some refurbish refurbishing it says So for $630 plus shipping check him out How cool is that anyone ever seen one of those before? dark side destroyer superpowers collection And or no, it's not dark side. It's dark seed. Huh Thought that was a typo up here in the title, but it's actually that's how it's spelled out No clue what this is. So for $207 and 50 cents plus shipping looks like it's new old stock Pretty cool This is a vintage ideal jingle toddler thumbelina And she sold for $202 and 50 cents and it is a pull string toy and it looks like it still works made in japan Campfire marshmallows. All right, you guys I just um, well it didn't just but I recently did a video on the top three Vintage tens to be on the lookout for so definitely go check out that out one of them is definitely going to be like What? Uh, yeah, it's interesting But anyway campfire marshmallows these it's a vintage 10 a marshmallow 10 Now there can be reproductions and I talk about that more in the video. So definitely go check out the video Marshmallows is one of the ones to be on the lookout for this one sold for $130 plus shipping Now this one was actually sold by the crazy lamp lady in her youtube channel. You should definitely go check it out It's it's fantastic. She's amazing. But um She does buy things and then she auctions them on ebay. I want to say she starts them here. I'll tell you I was gonna say four dollars and 50 cents, but it's four dollars. I could not remember but this is a really cool. Um Um piece here It is a vintage set handblown art glass rainbow ridge swirl I don't even know how to say that word bar wear decanter, but it's really really beautiful She finds like the most amazing stuff at thrift stores, but she does a lot of thrift with me videos So definitely go check her out The next item is this vintage mcdonald's setmaker mare mac cheese plaque resin 3d wall sign $1,030 this guy sold for How crazy is that? all right Moving on vintage photo lot from 1952 kentucky waterfront boat um, so these are pictures from You know a certain area and a certain time period and somebody was looking for it Typically these items are going to be long tail. It's going to take the right buyer that is looking for this item But this seller did have an advantage here because it looks like all of the information was on the back These sold for 152 50 plus shipping The next item are these vintage 1980s bell charms. How cool are these necklaces? From the 1980s my charm collection sold for 152 50 plus shipping. I actually feel like this could have gone for a lot more um number one, there's a ton of charms And it's got the original little attack thing that you attach them to it's awesome Super cool. Bolo right there The next item are these vintage alice in wonderland hardcover books. These ended up selling for $296 plus shipping so Very very cool. It looks like they're just all alice in wonderland. Uh, just a collection of old books pretty cool a state finder is the um eBay store so Very very neat The next item um is this shriner glass brooch And what I want to show you here is that this sold for $1,575 on auction I will say that this brand of broaches I keep seeing them over and over and over and they are a big money bolo for sure But when you look at a sold and it says relisted this item I clicked on that and it sold again, but it only sold for 710 and I say only because the first auction was what over a thousand 1500 actually and then they relisted and it sold for 710 which is still amazing but You know half of what the original auction went for so definitely do your research when you're researching uh comps and solds The next item is this vintage japan lady head vase some of these can go for crazy money This one sold for $190 and 50 cents plus shipping Goosebumps Goosebumps if you can pick them up cheap definitely a good idea if you can get the whole set These can definitely be a bolo. You don't want to overpay for them But if you can pick them up cheap this set sold for 182 50 And it looks like number 57 and 60 are included and maybe those are harder to find uh books Which will also drive the price up My pet monster this is 1986 Here he is. He's got the handcuffs And he sold for 755 plus shipping I feel like this is is this one different or is there different styles of my pet monster Huh Or maybe it's just the the lighting I was thinking it was more of a different shade All right. So here is a custom Furby and they did not put custom in the title, but I'm sure pretty sure this is one of the ones that was custom made Let me look here. Yes custom one-of-a-kind furby. So people are buying furbies and they are Customizing them but from what I understand if you put custom Or customized furby in the title it can get taken down because once you customize it is no longer a furby and That was mentioned in one of my videos. That's what somebody said. I have not verified that but it sure does make sense because I mean, it's technically still a furby, but I don't know. Let me know what you guys think about that I am curious. It is pretty cool how they did that. Who knows how they I mean It's it's pretty cool. It's amazing, right? If you don't know what a furby is go look it up, you'll be amazed vintage lot of 11 chiropractic green books Palmer $872 for these Chiropractic books. Are you kidding? That's amazing. Look at that. Look at those old photos. That is pretty cool Wow Wow $872 plus shipping The next item is this kurt adler flying monkey ornament with tags from the wizard of oz This sold for $203.50 plus shipping The next item is this excellent rare vintage ready-cut cigar pipe tobacco tin This is a tin sold for $2033 plus shipping The next item is this vintage 1969 talking Barbie doll. She sold for $472 and 99 cents She is the Titan red hair Barbie, she's got the eyelashes and the bendable legs New old stock there never removed from box All right, this one I've been seeing When I look and research Soldes or active auctions. I see a lot of this seller Getting high bids on her jewelry She does a really nice job of I'm saying she but I I guess it could be a he A really great job of displaying the jewelry and showing pictures and she gets pretty good prices for her lots now Could she have sold it for more parting it out? Yeah, absolutely Um, is this a great reseller lot? I mean it looks like it but Who who really knows for sure until you get those items in front of you? But she sold this for $281 plus shipping and it's 6.3 pounds, but her photos are fantastic Vintage tonka orange state highway department hydraulic land rover pressed steel toy sold for $900 plus shipping The next item is this cyrus clark vintage designer fabric and this comes from bolo buddies member lola's trunk treasures She shared this with me. She also shared another one. I think I show it also But yeah, vintage fabric can definitely be a bolo. This one is um cyrus clark So you can see how it's marked here on the side you definitely want to include that information And clear photos of the material Not long ago did a video on the top five fabrics vintage fabrics to be on the lookout for So check out that video. This is a vintage hubbly cast iron motorcycle. It sold for $493 plus shipping Is it hubbly or hoopley? I'm not sure but Pretty cool item surprised again. There's not more photos This is a vintage marvel wolverine omega red mega print t-shirt comic image Never worn new out of packaging Check it out Wow $1,025 plus shipping And as you can see right here Great seller $1,025 plus shipping Sold feedback left what I did is I went into the seller's feedback I put in marvel and I looked for this price And there it is. It was a good solid transaction Yep, very cool The next item is this vintage superman watch from the 1950s. This guy sold for $455 And the buyer paid shipping and you can see right here It's got the original receipt and everything with it. Super cool The next item is this very rare challenge grade red head hen mason decoy duck They don't even have duck in the title and it's over $2,935 plus shipping The next item is that other Excuse me That other fabric I was telling you about this one only went for $65, but it's that same brand cyrus clark Oshkosh bagosh vest back. I talked about these earlier in the video So here is an example of one that went for big money. This sold for $162 and 50 cents plus shipping And we have this vintage. It's an american barn star Amish quilt. It's beautiful and it sold for $368 plus shipping. Is that a stain right there? It says no stains no rips, but that sure looks like a mark to me You guys see that the pink? Maybe it's just the light I don't know $368 plus shipping A state lot over 100 vintage fountain ballpoint pens and pencils some 14k tip Check it out vintage advertising guys $685 plus shipping on that one The next item is this vintage feed sack quilt grandmother's flower garden hand quilted beautiful sold for $440 And the buyer paid shipping All right, you guys that was 50 big money Unexpected bolo's items to be on the lookout for items you can hopefully buy low and sell high Hopefully you can find them. Thank you guys so much for being here. 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Here's the reason you don't feel on fire for God. Actually, I don't really know. Who knows why you feel a certain way today and another way tomorrow, you can't really control how you feel, but you can control how you respond to those emotions. You see, many people experience this kind of dry season where they don't feel on fire for God or maybe they feel like God is distant, but when they take that feeling in as truth, they begin to grow distant from God. But my encouragement to you is regardless of how you're feeling right now, your mission is to follow Christ, to trust in His promises, to honor Him. Think about Jesus' core disciples when He was on earth. Yeah, they got discouraged. Yeah, they doubted. Yeah, they had questions. Yeah, they didn't always feel super excited about following Jesus, but they did it anyway. Why? Because they trusted Him. They put their faith in Him.  So today, ask God to give you the strength and conviction to continue to follow Him even when you don't feel like it.


First, let me apologize for my voice. I had had a strain on my voice for the past two days, but I was so determined to be here today that I said, even if I could only whisper, I would come here and attend this event. And I'll let you know the reason. Last year, the EFCC chairman, while sharing one of his very many ideas on anti-corruption strategies with me, told me about the plan for integrity clubs in schools across the nation. And I told him my own journey in advocacy for integrity in Nigeria. Now, in 1995, I co-founded an organization called Integrity, and it has now morphed into an organization called Convention for Business Integrity, and it's here in Abuja. But that was 1995. I co-founded it with Mr. Sojiya Pampa. And one of the programs of that organization was the establishment of integrity clubs in schools. That was in 1995, but we never quite achieved it. This is why I feel such a deep commitment and attachment to this project. And I'm particularly pleased that I'm able to witness the launch of the operations manual for integrity and zero tolerance, for integrity and zero tolerance clubs in our schools. I'm happy that with the dynamism of the EFCC chairman and his team, they are able to realize a dream that some of us had so many years ago, but somehow were not able to achieve. I think it's a vital step in finally achieving the milestone in building a future against the disaster of corruption. And I want you to take note of those words, the disaster of corruption. And the conceptualization of the manual deserves commendation. And the establishment of the clubs in schools is also timely. Because the truth is that perhaps the greatest challenge that we face today as a nation and as a people is how to safeguard our young people and the coming generations from the ethical crisis and confusion that is confronting our nation. The false notion, and I describe it as an ethical crisis and confusion, because there is confusion about what exactly corruption means and how it plays out in the lives of people and the nation. There's a false notion that we can get away and get ahead by cheating or stealing, whether in public or private life. And I want you to take note that I say that it's a false notion. The error of thinking that there will be no consequence for defrauding others, whether it is your employers or whether it is government or whether it is cheating in an exam. It's an error to think that there will be no consequence. The reason why many people believe these false notions is that there seems to be many in our society whose wealth cannot be explained and many even amongst young people who live by defrauding others. So we hear of the Yahoo Yahoo explosion. Several have been convicted by the AFCC on several locations, several of these individuals. And many people who say that young people today rarely find role models amongst professionals or even amongst public servants who are able to explain how they made their wealth. These are all symptoms of the crisis that we're experiencing. Let me say why it is an error to think that corruption pays. It's a mistake because many societies in the world were like us where we are today. There's nothing peculiar about Nigeria or peculiar about Nigeria's corruption. We like to sound as if there's something about us, but there's nothing peculiar. Many, many societies have been where we were. They were extremely corrupt, cheating in examinations, public servants stealing resources, extorting from people. You want to get a passport, you have to go and hire a consultant. You want to get a driver's license, you must pay a bribe. All manner of things. Shop assistant working in a shop must steal the inventory of the shop owner. All of these things are not new. They are all the features of a society that begins by believing that it is possible for individuals to enrich themselves by deceit, and then everything will be all right. But very soon, societies, they suddenly discover that it's not possible, that eventually the society will collapse, that eventually, even those who are stealing the resources of society would have to be accountable, would have to be accountable for it. What these societies did was to take an all of society approach to fighting corruption and fighting dishonesty. And this is why this particular exercise, these integrity clubs, are very important. I'll come to that in a moment. The other fact is that many who think, and in those societies, many people thought, we'll get away with this corruption. They're often surprised that the long arm of the law, sometimes very, very slow, eventually will catch up with the criminal. There is no time bar or statute of limitation against the commission of a crime. A man who steals this year can be arrested in 10 years' time for his crimes. So when you steal, you cannot sleep with both eyes closed. Every knock at the door will get you worried. I remember a young lady in a university in the southwest of Nigeria. She was in year five of a medical degree program. When it was discovered that she had used a false certificate for entering the university, the university had done an audit and discovered so many. But this particular lady was very pathetic because she had passed the exams all the way to year five. And it was discovered that she had used a false certificate. The decision that had to be taken, of course, is that she had to begin afresh. She could no longer, despite the five years she had spent, it could not stand. Even if she had received a degree, if fundamentally the basis for that degree is wrong, that's the end of it. And one day it will be discovered, which is why I think that it is important for us to realize that integrity pays and we must let young people, and all of you young people, must understand that. The recognition that honesty, trustworthiness are crucial individual and collective attributes for successful people and communities is fundamental. Every corrupt act is not just a crime, it's a crime against society, it's not just something that helps an individual, it's a crime against society. And every one of us must realize that every time we permit somebody around us to commit a crime and get away with it, eventually it catches up with all of us as a society. I'll tell you a very quick story. I was a student in England in 1981, at that time I was doing postgraduate work in the United Kingdom, and at that time all you needed to do was, I mean well it was difficult, let me just cut a long story short, difficult to send your money abroad for your fees, you had to go through a long process, central bank, et cetera, et cetera. Anyway, in the university where I was, I couldn't pay my fees in a particular term because my fees had not come from Nigeria, it was taking a long time. So I went to a counselor in the university and asked what help I could get, because I had to defer the fees and all of that, and the counselor said, why don't I just go to the bank? I said, bank? Can I go to the bank? I said, I should go to the bank and ask for a loan. I said, but I don't have any money. How can I go to, I don't have any collateral. How do I go to the bank? I said, no, I should go up there and ask. So I went to the bank, the not-west bank then in England, and as I went to this bank I saw a lady across the counter, and I explained my situation to her. I was expecting my check. This was a bank where I had an account, and I explained to her that I was expecting my check. I didn't know when it could be up to six weeks or seven weeks. I wasn't sure. She looked at the ledger, my ledger, I saw that I had a little money, maybe about a hundred pounds or something. And she said, okay, how much do you need? I said, 600 pounds. And she went, I was still standing at the counter, and brought the 600 pounds with a note paper which I signed to say that when my check came, it'll come to the bank. So I took away 600 pounds across the counter. I did not sit down anywhere. I did not beg. I just simply explained, and that was 1981. By 1984, of course, when my check came, I paid back. By 1984, it was impossible for a Nigerian to open a bank account in most banks in England. By 1984, I'm not saying borrow money. I'm saying open a bank account. As soon as they see your green passport, say no, no, no, no, no, no. Can't open a bank account here. Why? Because many students and many had used credit cards in those, in the banks where they had their accounts. When they were going home, they would buy cars, buy fridges, buy all sorts of things, but their credit cards hadn't disappeared, and they would never pay back. It was a Nigerian thing. Many people knew that it was going on. Of course, nobody said anything. Nobody checked. So it was impossible. Years after, it was still very difficult for Nigerians to open accounts. See, other countries, nationals, opened accounts, they didn't mind. But when they saw your passport, they said, no, no, no, we don't. So whatever, and I'm not talking about loans, so at a point, it was possible for you to borrow money across the counter. In another few years, you can't even open an account. So whatever act of corruption a person does, whatever act of dishonesty, it always has an impact on the future for others, even in the present for other people. It's not just about yourself. Today, when you hear yahoo, yahoo, yahoo, people say, ah, you know, there are people who even justify it. You read some people who just say, oh, yes, it's because they don't have money. Oh, it's because they are poor. That's why they are yahoo, yahoo. No, that's not true. There are many, many poor people all over, young people all over the world in different countries. The difference is consequence. If you know that you'll be caught and dealt with, you will not do it. And you must also recognize that it destroys the reputation of your country. And that reputation is important because you want to go abroad to study. You want to do business abroad. You want to do business with people. If the only thing people have ever heard is that ah, these people are four or nine. They do four or nine. They do yahoo. If that's the only reputation that there is, then you're in trouble. So I want to say to the young people here in particular that you represent the army that must fight corruption, not because somebody has preached to you or because it seems like a nice thing to do. No, because your future depends on it. The reputation of your country is all that you will have in the next few years. You want to do business. Whatever you want to do, you want to go abroad. Whatever it is that reputation.  They are doing you great evil. And you must ensure that you join the army to fight corruption, to fight dishonesty, because it simply is dangerous, not just for you, but for the entire society and for the future. Every public officer who steals, robs the Nigerian society of funds for health care, for education, et cetera. Every time a public officer steals money, whether the mine is from your tribe or from your village or not, because people excuse stealing when it comes from their own part of the world. They say, oh, it's OK. After all, it's my brother, it's my sister. But never forget that everybody, every public officer who steals resources makes it more difficult for you to access good education, to access good health care, good roads, and all of that. Because public money is not for private pockets. It is meant for the public good. It's meant for public infrastructure. So everybody who is pocketing public resources does harm to our country and does harm to the future and to all of the young people in our country. So integrity clubs must become policemen against corruption and wrongdoing. Whether it is a member of government or a shop assistant with your friend or in your own class, you must fight against cheating, because cheating destroys not just individuals, it destroys societies. And ultimately, it will affect you whether you realize it now or not. So let me again commend the visionary chairman of the FCC, Mr. Abdul Rashid Bauer, for this great initiative. And also for realizing that we must develop an anti-corruption army. That army is waiting in our schools. And that we must teach them that corruption is the worst destroyer of destinies and people. And that they must fight it as one fights a mortal enemy in a war. So I want to thank you all. But I want to ensure, I want you to ensure that individually and collectively, let us support this effort. And I'm so happy that we have chosen a school, not the ICC, and I think I join others in commending the FCC chairman for choosing a school, not ICC or Transcore Hilton, because this is truly where that war must begin. Thank you all very much.


Thank you very much Well, I've the first slide actually you can see a bequat antenna and Yeah, you can see the scale It's actually quite large Because we are testing Wi-Fi mesh networking in Berlin into 62 centimeter band Who understands wave length? Please raise your arms Okay, well, it's quite quite a good audience excellent Well in front you can see one of the prototypes that I've built But let's go into politics first What you can see here on the slides shows the 2.4 gigahertz band It's a trash band or a garbage band as they call it We have three non-overlapping channels if we use Wi-Fi according to the 802.11 B standard, which is now a legacy But because We had so many devices that were following the US regulations of the FCC Actually many administrators of their networks. They only use channels 1 to 11 Because that then FCC gear can be switched to channel 13, which is legal in Europe under the ETSI But these days that's a proposal I want to make before we start if you Happen to configure a wireless network in a 2.4 gigahertz band. You should use channel 1 channel 5 Channel 9 and channel 13 Because these are channels that don't overlap if you a turn if you use a 22 to 11 n or g so Thank you. Thank you because this way we can have 33 percent More benefit that we can all share. I think that's a decent proposal to make But even though we have all these limitations and all these legacies It's a very important infrastructure that we use every day Like any reasonable media use today. It doesn't work with either ethernet or Wi-Fi You can only have frugal use at least in Germany where wireless broadband is very expensive and always capped Yeah without Wi-Fi, we would be I don't know where we would be and these days The big mobile operators they do something they call offloading For example, if you're a customer in Germany and you're subscribed to a German tennis com you have a DSL line You might actually experience that there is an open access point called telecom Which is used in use by telecom users. They're sharing your internet bandwidth Luckily, you get more than you pay for so in order to cater for that and By using this unlicensed band that is already overcrowded the EU has estimated that is that is mobile offloading saves 84 Billion euros each year. That's the figure for 2015, which is of course an estimation But something has happened You might have noticed that television in Europe and in many other countries is digital now Here I have a picture. I took that from the new American Foundation. They're talking about spectral efficiency in the in the EU we have we used to have the analog PAL Television color standard which uses eight megahertz wide channels these days thanks to the spectral efficiency that has increased I'm because we have Digitalized the television and we all paid for that because we had to replace our receivers We can accommodate six channels in one PAL channel. So in eight megahertz of bandwidth. We can accommodate Six television channels or four television channels in a couple of radio channels so a large Share of the spectrum has not been in use for a couple of years What you can see here in this slide the dark gray areas There is Four bands here in the US marked as used for broadcast television Actually, the situation in Europe is there is free because we don't have this gap where it says wireless medical telemetry at least not to my knowledge and So today we only need one sixth of the bandwidth to have the same amount of programs So we can reuse that for something that fits better into our time Instead of simple broadcast what I've just shown you our is the spectrum the whole spectrum below 1 gigahertz and This spectrum has very interesting properties if we look at the very high frequency spectrum VHF and UHF The wave length is in DC meters And wave length it matters. That's why I have this slide with this big wave What will happen if this big really big wave hits the surfer? Not much. I guess it's mildly affected But what happens if a wave of the size of a glass of water Hits the surfer. Well, the wave is cancelled out mostly and the same effect we have in radio physics If you have a wave that is several meters long and it hits an object of this size, it's not affected much If a wavelength of this size is hit or is hitting an oil tanker For example, then it's cancelled out or reflected or broken so if we have longer wavelength We can communicate better in case there are objects That are smaller than the wave length Unfortunately in the 2.4 gigahertz band our wavelength is only 12 centimeters and in the 5 gigahertz band It's even 5 centimeters. So very tiny. So any object which is sizable in relationship to the wavelength is an obstacle that Breaks the wave front. I have to explain that a little maybe to some of you Wave length it's the length of the wave that it travels through space While it goes through one cycle Here on the slide There is a wave that cycles Twice in one second. So the wavelength is 150,000 kilometers give or take because in the vacuum and In-air electromagnetic waves Travel at light speed, which is 300,000 kilometers per second Well, our waves that we use for Wi-Fi day go 2.4 billion cycles per second So they only travel 12 centimeters while they go through a full circle and hence we have the wavelength I hope this is quite a clear explanation Well, maybe I shouldn't dive too much into that electromagnetic waves have an electric and a magnetic field and As they travel through space at the speed of light. Well, all those free Properties are shown in this little slide but Let's not get confused by radio physics now at the first place The consequences that our experiment in Berlin uses 62 second centimeter long waves means that also our Antennas tend to be quite large In order to show it I have a little Demonstration here This is a 2.4 gigahertz only directional dipole antenna from a D-link access point It looks very tiny That's because this antenna doesn't contain much air because these days Longer seems to be better So the manufacturers they have longer antennas, but basically there's just air inside if you're lucky The radiating part is a little bit higher in the plastic So it's a little bit higher about the above the access point So maybe you have a little bit better propagation properties On the other hand, this is now omni for the 62 centimeter band that we use for our tests in Berlin so Quite a difference. I must say Here in the picture you see a eight element Co-linear dipole antenna that in theory gives a gain of 8 dbi I'm not sure if that actually is accurate, but it works pretty well So we have a resource That is now unused at least at the moment to a large part but unfortunately this resource is quickly auctioned off and Again, I have to say unfortunately this happened already for two large parts of the band in Germany on the upper in the upper graph You can see the spectrum that was auctioned first in 2010 to the big mobile telephone operators telephonica telecom and Vodafone and At a very high price they paid billions of euros for that and our politicians were celebrating that they generated so much revenue for the state but That's a really silly claim to make because Probably we're going to try to use this services So we will repay them for the investment that they made and they want a quick return of their investment So we have to pay for that. It's like an extra tax. We pay on wireless broadband and the lower picture is the auction that just happened in In June 19th For five billion euros it was auctioned off to the three big mobile operators in Germany for a considerable amount of time so Are we now all laughing all the way to the bank in Germany? Well, if we are bright no We are not going to do that even though Yeah, some people think we are like sheep and Tell us really silly things Yeah, just if you're if you're not from Germany, you're probably not that much interested in those figures I'm not going to read it to you, but just to give you a quick overview. What has been paid for? So what is wrong with that? Now only commercial providers they get access to that resource It's privatized But it used to be public if you consider Analog television broadcast a public good and we're promised that the market would handle would handle our demands but as we have seen in All those community networks There is a big gap between the promise and reality and it's very expensive if you're a user so I Have a different proposal to make But that's not only me. That's also several others. We're actually Submitted the paper to the EU Commission suggesting that we should all have a Dedicated license exempt Wi-Fi band in the UFH range for everyone Even the mobile operators They can also do their mobile offloading there Because it's free and open can be used by everyone. They can use it as well and they don't have to pay for So we would all win there is already TV white space communication going on Using a Wi-Fi like protocol or a substandard of Wi-Fi But it deals with databases Before your device is allowed to go online. It has to request a database So in order to get online you need internet to get started first and The problem is in many areas the database will simply tell you that you are not allowed to use that device So actually the situation in the United States is that people fake The geographic location of their TV white space devices in order to use them illegally The FCC is now demanding that or has proposed that the devices must have GPS built-in So the user is no longer able to fake the geolocation They say since the devices cost $1,000 each The GPS doesn't add much to the cost Of course thousand dollar Sounds a little expensive to me, but the devices that are on the market are mostly prototypes and They're mostly software-defined radios because no manufacturer is making a chip dedicated for that band yet And since the situation is very unclear. I don't know when it actually will come to us Another problem with this use that TV white space devices share a resource is That you could actually disturb the reception of other people that try to watch digital television or analog television for that matter and If this proposal would be successful and we got at least a couple of megahertz We would at least keep something of that private resource for the public. So There is not much on the market and it's very pricey and Since I like to eat my own dog food. I decided to build prototypes for that band You can see the very first batch in this picture. I did it in a way by Frequency converting. It's something that many hams are using for example when the 13 centimeter band was Introduced into a ham radio people used so-called transverters to use their existing gear from the 70 centimeter band or from any other band in order to shift it to the 13 centimeter band and I'm doing the same the same by using multiplicative mixing. I'm going to explain that to you multiplicative mixing means that you have a local oscillator that generates a frequency. It's a transmitter and An input signal is mixed with the local oscillation signal and the output are mixing products and You can see that in the next slide New frequencies are generated from the input frequencies. I Hope it's it's readable I've made an example with some easy to calculate values F1 is one of the frequencies like the oscillator and F2 is the input signal If they are mixed by multiplicative mixing we get two more signals at the output of the multiplicative mixer We get frequency 1 minus frequency 2 and frequency 1 plus frequency 2 That's a very standard technology. Any modern receiver is Working according to that principle because they all use intermediate frequencies For example, if you have a FM radio and you tune that to one hundred point seven megahertz If you have another receiver and you tune that to 90 megahertz You will receive in close proximity to your radio a blank radio signal That's the local oscillator of your FM radio because the intermediate frequency in FM radios is 10.7 megahertz most Commonly because there's filters exactly for that purpose with the bandwidth that matches FM radio so you could actually Receive transmissions from a receiver, which is funny. So in our example that we use in Berlin We do exactly that. I have the figures here. I have this device Which is a standard Wi-Fi device operating on channel 5. That is 2432 megahertz and I mixed its output signal with 1,950 megahertz and as a result I get frequency 1 minus frequency 2 482 megahertz and an unwanted byproduct which is f1 plus f2 But that's in the high 4 gigahertz range and it is filtered out So that's the block diagram of the prototype on the left-hand side. You see the local oscillator The frequency for up and down conversion has to be the same because the input and output channel Needs to match in the receiving and in the transmission path so there's two mixers one for reception path and transmission path and The output is filtered to remove the unwanted frequencies Then in the transmission path. There's a driver again a filter Which also does impotence impotence matching for the PA yet another filter and the RF switch and then the signal goes to an antenna and in the in the receiving path the RF switch of course has to be switched to the receiving path that is done by a GPIO and Then it's filtered amplified filtered and mixed to the 2.4 gigahertz frequency again And in our case it's 482 megahertz that is present at the antenna The circuit that I have designed is very widely configurable. So you can mix it to almost any frequency that is is Sufficient to carry the modulation of the Wi-Fi signal like you could operate it in the 50 megahertz range for example Which is good Because the FCC has come up with new regulations that new devices are only approved by the FCC If you are unable to install new firmware on it or modify the Wi-Fi driver So you always have to be in their specs, but they cannot stop you from doing mixing Like we do it here. Also the approach of the FCC is very anachronistic because well, you got a software defined radio today that can broadcast anywhere between 50 megahertz and 4 gigahertz and You should do some filtering if you amplify it But then you can go to what if you like and the FCC can do nothing about it. Of course, it's not legal Yeah, but well So the actual implementation The blue board that you see at the bottom. It's a Dragino 2 It's a device made by a guy in Shenzhen in small quantities The name Dragino suggests that it's Something like an Arduino and it's quite hackable because it has GPIOs exposed In principle, you can do what I have done with this device also with other wireless routers But then you have to take care for yourself how to get access to the GPIOs, but here they are exposed Via a pin header. So I just designed the PCB that I could just plug in I have a close up so I can explain a little bit more in detail So on the right-hand side You see two antenna cables. That's why I take the TX and RX signal at 2.4 gigahertz from the Dragino The little black stone below that's the mixer chip Very hard to solder for me in the first place. I had to learn quite a lot And then there is the paths that I have explained at rock diagram. I hope I'm not running out of time the result is Well, that's one of the first samples that I've tested This signal that you see here is 802 to 11 B Sending a massive amount of broadcasts. So they are at basic rate which you can see if you're familiar with the modulation scheme at basic rate and Yeah, that's basically the same signal that comes in at the 2.4 gigahertz band It's not perfectly clean because there is some over swing on the right side But I checked it at the 2.4 gigahertz band. The signal looks quite the same So I'm not making messing it up so much You have seen it on the first slide. That's one of the antennas that we use. That's a directional antenna a B quad It's a very nice antenna very easy to make if you want to make a directional antenna for your existing Wi-Fi equipment I would recommend it This is a little bit larger Obviously because the wavelength is longer and I've added this light because Where we assembled it on the church, you can only see it on the backside this is actually the Zwingli church in Frittesheim and Below in the picture you can see the B quad broadcasting north and Since the wavelength is quite long. I didn't bother shooting through the window Which is already occupied by the 2.4 gigahertz gear. So we go straight through the wooden wall Doesn't change much Also our cable is really easy to handle like the coax doesn't have a lot of attenuation attenuation So you can use the cheap RG 58 if you're into radio design, you know that yeah that then into attenuation gets lower as you have lower frequencies and higher wavelength and the result is if You are radio aware and have some experiments, you know about the Fresnel zone That's just a little example of the Fresnel zone if the in the Fresnel zone you have trees and bushes Then they those uf UHF waves They pass through that quite decently. They will still be attenuated But the any into attenuation is far away from the severe attenuation that you experience in a 2.4 gigahertz band and Far far less than the 5 gigahertz band I think you have experienced that before if you try to connect to a 5 gigahertz network outdoors if there is some bushes You don't get far you get much further at 2.4 gigahertz and At 482 megahertz for example in the UHF band the effect is even greater So the range is even better very very nice to for an environment like here to have a broad coverage at a decent bandwidth Giving the same modulation band with the speed of the wireless Network in the 2.4 in the 482 megahertz band is exactly the same That's my Fresnel zone at home On the Half to the right behind all those trees bushes and metal fence there is the church and The signal gets through it gets attenuated is still a great deal But it's far away from the attenuation at 2.4 gigahertz So I like it a lot and we only have the license to use that for a limited amount of time So I hope you could help me lobby a little for that that we get a part of that spectrum for us all Thank you very much. I hope you enjoyed the talk and I hope we have some time for questions Yeah, you have actually two more minutes left So if you have any questions, please line up at the microphones So we can take them to tap them on the stream and Everybody will hear them Shootout, please To what extent do you feel that the the juxtapination at 482? Given that you're proposing an unlicensed band Which is not only going to contain Wi-Fi It's going to end up containing program making for special events radio mics all sorts of stuff That increase sir. Can you say it again because I couldn't quite understand correctly You were talking about a cordless microphones that operate in UHF band. Yes. I What I was talking about was that at 482 you have less sorry at at 482 megahertz. Yes You have less attenuation So you're going to be able to accommodate less users in a given area Yes That's a that's a good point There is a patch It's called ministerial blues Which regulates the transmit power of Wi-Fi? At the moment our Wi-Fi equipment at 2.4 and 5 gigahertz it always broadcasts at the same power level and By default we all use full power There's only a few people that are aware of that and that are limiting the power that they use so Of course, that's a very good suggestion Because the range of the UHF band is far greater It also means that the cellular structure that we use in order to cater for More bandwidth for more people or more devices in a certain area has to be taken care of So my suggestion and we also suggested it in the paper that we submitted to the EU is that Power regulation is mandatory So for example, if you can have a fine bandwidth to another node If you broadcast at a very low transmit level The device will automatically choose that so in order to reduce the interference that you can have with other networks and I also like the idea to use this frequency for Relatively long-range coverage. So not necessarily for very very high bandwidth For example in our prototypes. We can now use 5 megahertz 10 megahertz 20 megahertz and 40 megahertz wide channels and For example, if we decide to use the 5 megahertz wide channels We can have four channels instead of one like we have by default in Wi-Fi and At 25% of the bandwidth, which I think is a fair deal and another very interesting Property of this frequency band is that the polarization of the wave front It doesn't change so much like for example if you have Wi-Fi and you shoot through a tree Then if your antenna is vertically polarized, you can also receive your signal horizontally Polarized because due to the wave front getting broken in the leaves The the polarization is rotating so you don't have a simple linear polarization and That matters because if you have a straight linear polarized vertical Electromagnetic field and you try to receive that with a horizontal antenna, you will have an attenuation of attenuation of 20 decibels and So therefore you could very nicely separate the different wave fronts From each other even though they are in the same frequency so We can actually decide whether we use vertical or horizontal linear polarization or a circular polarization But of course, that's maybe a little too complicated to explain now and we're running out of time. Yeah, sorry But the time is over. We have to shut you up Okay, sorry about that. It was a great talk.


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The 10-year note up 4 ticks, trading $1.1307, the 30-year up 5 at $1.2802, and $king dollar. $king dollar right now trading down 211 ticks, $102.692, the Euro's $109, the yen's $143 and the British pound is at $127 to one U.S. dollar. Our phone number is<PHONE_NUMBER>. Give us a call, folks. I know it's going on in your world. In the world of the S&Ps, let's take a look at it. What do you have? Well, I'm going to get into the future first so you can see where we are intraday here. So intraday, we've had a range out here and the range is getting much smaller, folks. The volatility is going down, you've got summer trade and all of the above. And so the range today has been from $4403 to $4372. Now, that type of range, we've had like five minutes, three or four weeks ago, but you can expect this is going to calm down. It has calmed down. So what we have, however, though, is this. You can see that what has happened is that on the downtrend, 38,000 contracts were done at $4372. As we came back into that, we hit the $4373 and we only did $19,000. So 19 versus that 38 is saying there's no more sellers down there. So now you're dealing with the top end of this. And so the top end of this is this is the last 30 minutes we've been building cars now. You had that big buyer, the big buyer that we actually had. It went from, what was that, 70, that was nine S&P points. And I expect what's going to happen here is that you're going to get another big buyer and you're going to challenge where the downdraft came the first one this morning, which was the, well, it's actually the second one, but it was a big buyer too. It went from 89 to 76. And so that buyer there actually had 46,000 contracts. So you're going to need a little contract volume, but I suspect we're going to go after that buyer. Now that's in the S&P. Now NASDAQ's not set up like that. The NASDAQ is a different animal. So we have what the NASDAQ is that the reason it's a different animal is the NASDAQ did not test its bottom. I always like to see the test at the bottom. You can see that's hanging out there like a sore thumb, man. There's 50, there's 16,000 contracts at the low. When we just did have that sign of strength, we had it with 11,000. So that's not bad, but that 11,000 actually was going into 22. So bottom line, you get divergence out here in a monster way too. Then if we go to the Qs, what you're going to see here is that we're going to have a small ABC down actually on the daily. Because what you have here is that you're breaking the load that was established last Wednesday, last Thursday rather. And we had 47 million shares there and we're at 37 now. So I suspect we're going to do 10. And it's only a small ABC, that's for sure. But the bottom line, there's divergence there. Goal. Let's go to the goal contract. We take a look at the goal contract. What do we have at the goal contract? We have spread out here in the goal contract today of 1931 to 1943. You're laying out at 1933. And we got 141,000 contracts. That's really just a sideways day. Let's pull this up. What has happened with gold folks is that this is the gold equities as well as the contract. It's going into the 10th and the 12th. And that's where we had strength. I'm talking about going back to March. It's coming into those areas with tremendously lighter volume. So if we go, if we look at the GDX, you're going to see what I'm talking about here, all the equities actually, and this is what's pretty amazing actually, is that they've come into these areas and they've rejected lower price. So now the question is, can they get a sign of strength coming off here? If we look at the GDX, it came into 63 million shares and it did 18. You get that, then you just need a sign of strength. Now what does happen in the gold market, I've seen this many times, particularly we started a long time ago, that you could get the rejection of lower price, but then all of a sudden you would just keep going sideways and sideways and it took a long time to get a sign of strength. So we'll see how that shakes out, but I'm bringing that up because that hasn't happened recently, but when you go back 10, 15 years, that used to happen a lot. We go into the Notenbaum market. The Notenbaum 10-year note is up before ticks right now. You got 101 million contracts traded. This is building cause for higher price. We go to the TLT. We take a look at the TLT out here. TLT right now, it reached a high on Friday. It's really taken out this consolidation. We're at 103.290 and anything over 103.63. That's the number. So we're under that little. That's when you're really going to start getting traction. So bottom line, I do expect that we're going to get more traction. And if we go over the dollar, we take a look at the dollar and this is where this is going to get interesting coming into the close because the dollar, bottom line, oh, I see, it's just going up a few ticks as I'm saying that when we started the program was down 206. Now you're dealing with basically 186, but the dollar looks to me that what you're going to see here is that the dollar is not going to be able to hold price. That's how it looks. You know, it was anemic bounce. And if we just take a look at where we are thus far, it did a .382 bounce on Friday and didn't hold price. And then if we take a look at the aspect of where it was from the low to the high back to the low, that did over .618 retracement on the way down. So that was saying that the dollar is weak right now. And, you know, it looks like it's going to have a hard time holding price. If the dollar has a hard time holding price, the dollar backs up. You're going to see the market go higher. 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Hi, good morning and welcome to today's products and focus. So what we're kind of seeing today is a massive sell-off overnight in most global equity markets as the commodities such as oil gold and copper all sold off pretty aggressively yesterday and that put a little bit of Fear back into the market So you can see here very strong bearish and gulfing pattern smashing through almost two levels of support and we're getting quite close to 17361 and we're below that 21 period SMA currently as well obviously we said yesterday that all the technical signals were pointing to a lot of Negative pressure and that pressure has been firmly felt in the US market over nine So jumping on to the UK 100 summer picture more aggressive perhaps 6073 will be the next potential support Smash through both moving averages sell signal obviously very prominent across all these other technical indicators as well so the pressure is on today basically Jumping then on to Japan to do five. It's also had a bit of a reversal Yesterday has almost had a bullish engulfing pattern so far this morning has bounced higher Mainly because they might think that there could be further stimulus measures over in Japan So it's whether the storm slightly better that you got the Germany 30 US 30 and UK 100 on the daily charts all looking fairly ugly actually in the short term All trading towards the bottom end of his range for Japan 25 or in the middle of two ranges 19104 support 20,000 pardon me 87 as potential resistance, so let's move on to dollar yen We have had four days of negativity so people are buying the yen as a safe haven They were yesterday It's not really I actually would have thought that dollar yen would have had a bit more Action in it for it to drop lower with the equity markets tumbling the way that they have yesterday and sell off on commodities But the dollar is this I think there's still like a 70% chance that they're gonna raise rates and December that was the latest stats that I've seen referencing the money markets So I might have thought actually would have been higher than 70% if I'm completely honest But it does give you an idea that is not exactly a hundred percent sure fire done deal yet But this is where we are with that with dollar yen So let's have a look at the commodity market. So West Texas crude trading below 42 dollars That basically means that the next potential support is gonna be down here. Okay, so that's 37 spot 48 That's the tip of this candle here. So we're on the wrong side of 42 dollars basically and what you might expect to happen here If we even look at this from a five minute interval now that we've broken through the level as you might get retracement back up here and then traders will look at this as a Kind of a crossroads. Do you think that West Texas is undervalued and will rebound in which case people use use 42 dollars as a potential? Strategic level. Otherwise, this is just for our tradesmen before we continue our move to the downside And it's all about global demand fears and over supply and blah blah blah about stronger US dollar There's a lot of reasons why West Texas crude is under pressure right now and This candle is particularly negative because it's breaking below the support and it closed at the bottom of his range However, it's not followed through with that much momentum so far this morning So it's by it's by far a done deal. So looking at gold the yellow metals still under pressure but bouncing Beautifully from a technical analysis standpoint from 1,072 Still manage to finish in positive territory But this would normally be a hammer formation which would normally be a reversal signal It's not really a hammer actually now that I think about it because not gone into a green candle So there still is that that issue with with it still be negative and it's not it's already negative this morning It's not ball through right away. Obviously a lot of the other technicals are oversold. It's not surprising But we do have a death cross on the moving averages as well. So from a technical perspective and a fundamental basis This is on the pressure question is If we are only if you've only got a 70% chance of Of the federation rates in December based on the money markets What happens if some of the US data starts to disappoint? So gold still is like a coiled spring because it sold off so aggressively over the last, you know month and a half So there is an opportunity there that if 1,072 remains intact and some US data starts to disappoint It could move up. However, if the US data surprises the market can further still and comes out particularly strong That level of 1,072 will be under pressure So finishing up with your dollar and GBP USD So your dollar actually managing to to break back above one spot zero seven eighty six Only to then reverse course and it's on the wrong side of that level right now That's actually a pretty hard one to quantify. So what I'm gonna do and move this across We're gonna put this here make it a bit a bit easier a bit more Historically focused to the most recent price action and you can kind of see maybe where we are one spot zero eight Nineteen is a potential support level on the short term basis and it's bounced off that that level perfectly If you look at it from this perspective, so these are the levels to be aware of so let's look at one spot zero eight Nineteen as a strategic level finishing up with GBP USD and You can see a similar pattern to your dollar If we are if we're gonna redraw the map here Actually, it's not gonna make a big difference because even if we take it from here We're still on the right side. That is kind of interesting though that we had this bounce off Potentially one spot 51 73 is quite useful to try and redraw some of these levels at some point Let me just get rid of some of the market noise from these charts because a lot of these levels are actually no longer Applicable and if we redraw this to here at the moment Yeah, okay, very very interesting. So this is where we are with GBP USD. It looks to be one spot 51 73 is a level to Keep your eye on the moving averages flatten the Mac these flat and the other technicals are neutral What is next for GBP USD is very quick very good question. So let's think about the macroeconomic data So we've got euros on GDP today actually is important very important for macro data especially heading into the weekend Because some trade of all traders shore up their positions or will they take positions to look towards the next week? So GDP coming in at 10 a.m. UK time looking at trade balance data and You've got PPI from The US retail sales and of course the consumer sentiment survey for the University of Michigan So make sure you guys don't miss anything with a red level of impact here is very important So as ever guys keep your eye on the chart forum Make insights part of your layout going forward and join me again on Monday to find out what happened next


an awesome run. It was Grant Setniker and it is my choice that took out the open classic challenge at the 2017 Summer Spectacular. The pair marked a 229. Congratulations to you, Grant. Thank you. Thank you very much. How did it feel the moment that you finished that run? It felt, it felt unreal. I didn't really know, you know, like when you have so much adrenaline going and stuff like that. I knew, I knew it was a good run. I knew I had a lot of, a lot of stops and turns. It was, it was a bit wild at times. I might have been a little kind of out of whack here or there, but that horse just covers it up so well. And you know, I just, she felt like after the first cow that she was really trying hard. And so I, I tried to just not mess it up and let her do it. And luckily she was, she was right there with me and I'm, I'm very, very, very fortunate to have Lloyd and Lloyd Cox and Boyd Rice out front and Chris Johns-Rood and TJ Good are in the corners. And I do this thing when I show that horse where when I walk across the timeline, I go deaf and blind. And I get so nervous on that horse because I know that horse has the ability to mark a big score. And so really the only variable is me. And so I just tried not to mess it up, try not to take, take myself out, take her out of the cutting. And like those TJ and Chris and Boyd, Lloyd and everybody, they just did a great job of coaching me, you know, through the run and giving me encouraging, encouraging, encouraging things and, and telling me to slow down or when to go for it.  It's funny, you know, it's so loud during the run, but it's also one of those things where things kind of slow down and, and get quiet. And it's funny when you're showing you remember weird things and stuff.  And the only thing we talked about or anything we said about that cow is that we hated it and it was crazy. And as I'm cutting it, I'm like, Oh, this is great. You know, way to go. And you know, like any one of those horses tonight could have, could have won the finals, could have marked that score.  Sometimes it bounces away from you and awesome is awesome. So it's just, I think I really think, you know, it's none of those horses or guys. It's no mistake. They made the finals. Everyone's awesome. And like I said, I always consider myself an underdog and I still everywhere I go, like my goal is to just make the finals and kind of when it's your day, it's your day. And I'm just, I'm just really happy to still kind of be competitive amongst those that that type of competition. And well, you've been extremely competitive on this horse. The last time we spoke, you just won the world. And the horse at the time was a four year old, which is very impressive. What do you, what's the magic between you? Do you think? Well, it was a horse of the year, but we hauled for the world. So that was why it was, it was unique, I thought. And you know, the mayor, the mayor felt maybe just a little tired towards the end of the year last year. And what's cool is this is it's her first show back since last year.  And she feels, I don't know, she felt awesome last year too. But maybe maybe we just trust each other more or whatever it is. But she just feels very healthy. And I, you know, in this competition at this level, the way I try to explain it to people is you kind of almost got to put your horse in a bind, meaning like take a risky cut or just put them in a tough spot. And a really, really good horse will will get you out of a bind. And and those are what the great ones do. And she does that all the time for me. And it's like I tell people she listens to me all the way up into the point when I'm wrong. And I just it's it's been it's been really, really fun to have her back. And I'm really fortunate to have I had Holy Cow, Texas, Jimmy Baros, I had both two other horses in the finals that are very nice horses as well. But I just, you know, I guess when it's kind of kind of your day, it's your day. So for those of us who'll probably never ride a horse like that, describe to us what it's like a big stopping powerful horse. You know, it's it's she's one of those horses that it really it's a it's a cool feeling because she has such such a big reach across the cow that a lot of times you kind of stay in the middle of the pin. And she because she goes and stops the cow and just waits and then the cow goes and then she goes and stops it goes and stops it. And it's just kind of one of those one of the I think she's kind of a one cent a million horse. And I'm just so thankful for Constance and J five and chubby Turner founder as a two year old. And they were beaming tonight. Oh, yeah, I'm there.  And and then this year, you know, kind of the deal is if I have some some bad luck in the open or something, then she'll maybe buy a slot and show her. So it's just one of those things that the way I look at it through Constance's eyes is you have like a Ferrari in your garage and you don't drive it. And it's a very selfless thing for her to do. And it's it's awesome.   Yeah, so I'm I'm just I you don't have people like that every day that have that outlook. And as always, we just want what's best for the horse. And she's not going to do anything halfway. And so it's one of those deals where if you're going to show her, she's going to give 110%. So no matter if we just show her a little bit, or it's always going to be, you know, a hard run. And she's Constance knows that. And it's just it's just fun to just to walk down there and have the ability to you know, if you do your job, you have a chance to win. So Grant, tell us what does it feel like to have your first major title here in the Will Rogers? It feels it feels amazing.  And I was just I had this feeling of like, they're the judges, I thought they did a great job as far as placing the runs and stuff. And I thought they I felt like they were just kind of waiting for a big run. And like I said, I cut a cow that nobody told me to cut or that we didn't we all didn't want to cut and it worked out, you know, as as good as everybody wants to think they are. There is a huge element of luck in this deal. And, you know, tomorrow I could do the same thing and that cow could run me over. But I guess for whatever reason, tonight was my night and I I don't even you know, it's it's just a it's just a surreal surreal feeling sorry. And I it hasn't even sunk in yet for sure. You got some celebrating ahead of you to do. Congratulations to your grand. Thank you very much.