They say Valentine's Day is the one day that we demonstrate our love or we men demonstrate our love At least here in the United States, but as my sweetheart said to me the other day Valentine's Day should be every day. Remember that? Yes So what we're gonna talk about today is how men demonstrate their love in Relationship and I definitely want to differentiate between the early stages of dating versus those more seasoned Relationships because there is a big difference, right? Well, I would think so I mean, I feel like we're seasoned already Yeah, well what I mean is there's the early stage of dating where there's lust and limerence when and you've had the Experiences where guys have come on strong and they've disappeared, right? Well, you wait. Let me backtrack. You've never had a guy disappear. I'm sorry But certainly, you know that many of my followers have that happen No, and and I have had guys disappear, but But there's a difference in the early stages versus when it becomes a seasoned relationship How love how how well first off how a man shows up at how it feels to you a woman, right? Well for me, I Don't get attached very very quickly to anybody so So it's very different. Yeah, I you know, I appreciate any kind gestures and you know chocolates or you know chocolate strawberries could dive. I wish they were still around But those to sell You have to go to Belgium because they don't have them here anymore, but anyhow Yeah, you you appreciate the gestures, but you know to feel like the genuine affection and not just Treating Valentine's Day like the Hallmark holiday that it is for many people. Yeah You know, we're really talking about love in general and so differentiating you said something a moment ago I wanted to expand upon you don't get attached Quickly no, I never did and what's the benefit of that? Taking my time to really explore who this person is before I Invest myself into it. Yeah, but well, let's go deeper on what the benefit is though because if you think about it When you you connect with someone for the first time you feel the electricity you feel the excitement You can get attached to a person that may not be right for you And you know what it's happened that I've felt that attraction Okay, and then I sleep on it the next day. I'm like, yeah, this guy's not right for me Okay, but ultimately and this is something I stress upon for my clientele It's kind of something that's talked about in the book why men love bitches And let me just say well the title might be offensive to some people and I don't love everything about the book What I think bit stands for babe in total control of herself. Yes That's what I always say what I appreciate about you is you have this capacity to remain in your sovereignty In other words, you don't give your power away to a man So even if the early stages he might be love bombing he might be overly excited You kind of take it with a grain of salt or at least you did before you met me Of course, okay, I'm just getting here. So does I mean does that feel true for you? No, it does feel true. I don't I Just took my time. I just took my time in it Just because somebody is incredibly attractive and they're you know throwing themselves at you Doesn't mean that they're a good person and I was always looking for a really good human being Well, you know, it's something interesting about you and again I'm a dating a relationship coach and what I teach my clientele I've said to you you just naturally did so many of the things I teach in my private coaching So you didn't need my coaching. In fact, you wouldn't even probably sought out my coaching because you kind of innately Kind of kept your distance. You didn't get not when I say kept your distance You didn't get attached overly attached to someone but more importantly You kind of kept your as I said a moment ago your sovereignty your power. In fact, even in our relationship I've never I've not once seen you give your power away meaning make the other person's happiness So extreme that you're You're not how do I say this your happiness is dependent upon them. Does that make sense? Yeah, that makes sense. But you know not giving my power away was not It was more about I'm just not gonna expose my heart to just anybody so why would I what I do that I you know I just I needed to make sure that they were the right type of person for me But you know the refrigerator guy that I told you about oh, yeah, they were for oh the guy Yeah, yeah, yeah, so tell the story really quickly. It's a quick story So it's a guy that I met and then I realized that I knew him from the town where I read my kids and stuff And I knew of him and I had met him But you know, I thought okay, what the heck I'll have breakfast with them And then he asked me out to dinner we got to dinner and then then he wanted me to go to this Like this bar in in that town and it's you know, it's a very It's like a really affluent town and So they had remodeled this and and then I realized as we were walking in all he wanted to do was parade around in there With me and and I thought This isn't I'm like let's just sit at the bar and so we sat at the bar and somebody sent us a drink We ended up going to somebody else's table and I actually had a really nice time The next day I was babysitting my grandchildren I was busy, you know little kids You you just can't be on the phone or checking my phone Whatever and and I got a message that I didn't respond to and when I was driving home I look at my messages and I call them. He's like well, you didn't even respond to the message. I said Well, what was it? And he says you made the refrigerator like my pictures were all over his refrigerator and you had only one date or two days Well breakfast and then dinner. So okay, so meet and greet and then a date And he was supposed to he wanted to cook dinner because it was this great cook and it was that night That I said, yeah, this isn't gonna work for me. It's just I it just felt wrong He this guy was not the type of man that I wanted to be so there were other reasons to okay I'm sorry cut you off But I was gonna say that totally leans into what we're gonna talk about today because the way a man Genuinely shows his love when he actually cares is gonna operate differently when that guy is in that state of Excitement or infatuation or maybe I say lust or limerence because when it's lust base We're just driven by sex and when it's limerence base. It's often times and over in infatuation based on an insecurity so all right, so our Relationship happened rather quickly Right well it started rather slowly. Oh Yeah, that's right We talked in the phone for over a year before we actually met but I'm saying once we met it actually it Progressed rather quickly now that was partly because we had distance involved in the way We arranged it was we spent a lot of time together during the first two months Because you we both have flexibility in our schedules What I'm gonna lean in today is When a man genuinely shows he's really into you when a man genuinely shows that he's really in love with you I'm gonna ask you a question because we've talked about this before. What is the common feeling you experience? Pretty early on in our relationship. I Felt very safe. Okay, I feel I felt very safe to you know, just to expose my Just my life history. Yeah, and we unpacked it all We'll talk about that later. I was actually thinking of when something else you shared with me actually it was just even yesterday It's felt calm. I know safety is a reflection of calm But I feel like or you to let me let you do the talking here. What does calm feel like? I mean, obviously it feels safe, but can you describe in a little bit more of how you so You know when you feel your heart is calm you feel this sense of peace and contentment. Yeah, and And you don't you know, you can't tell on a first date or a meet and greet Right away, but as you get to know someone and you start feeling that that's when I have you know opened up So I'm gonna you haven't you don't know my notes on what I wrote today Okay, so I always spring this honor at the last minute folks and let me just say this forever when I watch is I know some people think I'm forcing her to be on here. Is that true? No, do you actually enjoy doing this? I do Even though I'm kind of exposing you to the general public so to speak. Yeah, I do and I'm very private about a lot of things So at first I was I didn't want to do this But you know the first time we did it I had a lot of fun and you know, thank you for everybody. That was very Welcoming and we got some really positive feedback. Yeah. Yeah We did some negative. Yeah, we got some negative stuff, but which I'm gonna talk about in a second because Coming back to That feeling of calm that feeling of safety that feeling of peace What I'm about to share in for the topic of this conversation is those three things that a man does To Demet to put you in that state and the first thing I'm gonna talk about today the number one for the first one is when a man is vulnerable and Do you remember when I shared with you a very private thing about me?  Do you remember what I'm talking about? I do I have that feel when I shared that with you. Well, it was without giving the specifics something very deep and private and You know for another woman, it may have been a deal-breaker but you know I asked them the questions I needed to know and then that was it and But I really appreciated that he trusted me enough to tell me something that he had never shared with anybody else so Well, so that was really one of the first ways I demonstrated My safety my trust with you, which was the precursor to actually falling in love with you In fact the fact that you accepted something very personal to me and without judgment Allowed me to even go deeper into what I'm about to share next and the number two thing men do When they are deeply in love is that they're protective Yes Now let me just say this Protectiveness could feel like controlling am I right? Yes, okay. Do you want to elaborate? No, well in the beginning, you know in the beginning When when the protectiveness You know came into play. I was like, oh wait a minute. Okay. Is this What is it and you know because I think Can be can received or come across as controlling behavior But one of the you know women talk about men or excuse me in general Scientists and people talk about men or provider and protectors so it's almost innate in us the challenge is differentiating between controlling behavior and genuine care and I suspect It was because even though I was protected you felt safe Yes, I felt safe You know, it was it was just the adjustment of any relationship as well and you know, I've been independent for so long and And then I'm being asked questions about The flights and my stuff and it's like oh, yeah I'm like text me when you get home text me when you're in the air text me This is when she was flying over. I'm very protective and nervous too. So But you just said something You know as a relationship progresses.  I know that it's difficult to Bring up something to a man because there's a fear the man might run away Well, it's uncomfortable to bring up some things. Yeah, it's just uncomfortable Nobody wants to put yourself. You don't want to put yourself in a position where Where they might say something that is just and this is all gonna blow up when it was a minute thing in your mind But to a to the man it may be a really big issue. Yeah, so, okay Now you're currently reading my book by the way She hasn't finished it yet folks But the book is called what the heck a self love anyway a journey of personal development self up in spiritual work And by the way, there's a link below to get a copy of my book Why bring it up is chapter 9 says when you get to it says if it's sincere and from the heart You can't say or do the wrong thing when you're with the right person So what I feel is though you feel safe enough to speak from your heart and Because the way I've demonstrated those little moments. You're not fearful. I'm gonna run away No, I'm not here. I you know, I've always been very authentic and expressing overly authentic I'm giving but by the way the book I Feel like when I'm reading it, it's like it's like hearing you with your coaching calls. Is it really? Yeah Okay, so it Yeah, he's a very good coach. What is it? Where is it? Where's the there it is? That's where you contact him to By the way, I think what she's trying to say trust the lake here to schedule a free discovery call with me to see I'm working with the coaches right here. Thank you so much, sweetheart. So protectiveness I think folks when you've experienced a man who genuinely is protective not and again you have to differentiate between Caring for your safety versus trying to control you in the in their light. There's a big difference Ultimately as you said earlier everything. I'm sharing today You will feel a sense of calm. You'll feel a sense of safety. You'll feel a sense of peace That's how you know when a man genuinely loves you because the third thing is all boils down to his actions Because while a man can express, you know, the words I love you right deeply love you Ultimately is through those actions and in particularly in the early stage of dating. It's about being intentional What I mean to say here is He's continually Reinforcing the desire to explore and grow the relationship and I think you felt that with me Yes, well by the time I was here. Yeah, we already knew that. Yeah. Yeah, I'm saying you've been in other Short-lived relationships where men weren't intentional. They weren't progressing the relationship even though they were good guys You know and you know some of the men were acts of service another one that they weren't Demonstrating a consistent desire to grow the relationship right because there are men that I had a Man one in particular that I had a relationship with great great guy I I couldn't find anything really wrong with him So I wanted to give it a chance and he it was all about acts of service You know, I moved and put it my TV and you know, it's stuff like that He was very giving in that way but when you would talk about feelings and where this would go and Oh, oh wait. No, you know, I'm not ready to talk about that. I need to take it really slow And so that's where it's like, well, I'm not going to take myself off the market for somebody that That doesn't even want to talk about it It's like he it was just a no-go subject And and you can't do that if you're trying to if you really want to build a relationship This is why you know, you know Folks we binge watch some reality TV although now you got or you got me hooked on this show called the good doctor I mean, it's on Hulu folks and now I'm addicted to this show Well, I just like the character, but it's just late night TV to fall asleep But what I coming back to reality TV one of the premises that I actually What's the word I'm looking analyze is that in many of these cases whether it's married at first sight Love is blind some of these other shows even the bachelor. You're thrown in the pressure cooker very quickly And what I actually Believe that there's some value to that when I mean to say is you're you're really Concentrating on building a relationship in a very short period of time I think today's dating process is such a long drawn-out process that you can either miss red flags Or you get attached to the wrong person and only to find out you've invested months If not years with a person that's never going to materialize and I'm like like what we did We jumped in the pressure cooker and now we live together, you know, and I feel as though there's some value to that because They often say you don't really know someone until you live with them or at least go on a vacation and We just went on vacation for two and a half weeks By the way folks, we just did the Panama Canal cruise and for the record. This was organ or we were This got organized for us through a singles organization called singles cruise And I'm actually looking at some other organizations while the majority of people were in relationship Because it's a lot of elderly people couples have been married a long time There were a lot of singles out there So folks for those of you single looking in love check out singles in paradise check out singles cruises There's gonna be a couple other organizations. I'm gonna recommend one of the things Norwegian cruise line has these solo cabins that are for Single people and and they're you know, you don't have to pay like more money because you don't it's double occupancy And those are for single solo travelers And then they have events and they have they also have a lounge They have a singles lounge where they connect with other people and they so there are things that you could do where you could meet Meet people especially like the European cruises. There are More age-appropriate people and for the record this doesn't have to be expensive on your budget There are there are some cruises that are less than a thousand dollars for what four or five or six days No for seven days for seven days and that includes food and you know, so check it out We'll talk about that more because I want to endorse Organizations that are promoting singles to getting together because here's the thing Folks that makes me almost crying away. I I am ridiculously happy with our relationship. I didn't even know that this was possible Quite frankly. I didn't have it in my marriage. I didn't have what we have in our relationship That sense of comfort that sense of ease that sense of I can just be myself with somebody and I feel like you feel the same and so And you know, I'm a junkie for love and it's because I want everybody to experience what I'm feeling and I hope you feel the same I do and spending 15 days 24-7.  We had a great time So we went to my home for where I was born. I was born in Cartagena, Colombia Great place. Oh my god amazing historical and and Got together with some relatives on a beach a week And then we went to watch the sunset with another cousin By the way, I talked to some of those relatives who were single and they're not they're frustrated with dating So I'm gonna work on that with them So just to recap and then we're gonna take questions in a moment Just to recap when a guy genuinely deeply loves you He's gonna show it through his vulnerability his authenticity as transparency with you He's gonna show it by being protective but more importantly his actions will be consistent And it'll be intentional about wanting to grow a relationship with you So those are the three things that we're gonna talk about today. I just want to add something to that to the Number two the being protective. Yeah, it's very easy For somebody that's been independent like a lot of us have been to think This guy's gonna try and tell me what to do. And this is you know, and when you start just calming yourself and listening to what they're really saying is look I I Care and I want to make sure that you're there safe They you know that you have a full tank of gas or you know, you're whatever I think We as women we have to give them a chance because Everybody is trying to stay away for those from those controlling types Yeah, you know, it's a shame that in some cases when I read the comments from those of you Many of you have been hurt so Significantly that I think it's affected your ability to appreciate good men and as I shared in a video yesterday the mantra That I invite everyone to have and I believe you naturally attracted this is it's raining good men It's raining good man instead. It's raining men. You know, it's raining good man It's raining good men. In other words that mantra Rather than focusing on the bad apples focus on those that actually and there are good guys out there You you're perfect example of a woman who pretty much always met good men. You met a couple jerks in there well, but but I had like The only relationships I've had have been with really great people. Yeah, and I'm still friends with them and I you know, I have You know to spawn memories of them. It's and that's I think That goes to say Yeah, there are good men out there and you give them a chance and just because a relationship ends and doesn't work out It doesn't mean that you you can't be friends and if it's a good guy Yeah, don't be that way and I'm not seeing friends that you're talking every week You know, they're they're on your Facebook and you know, you check in every one's all for a birthday or holiday That sort of thing or they just had a grandchild or something like that. Yeah, okay Well, I think it's time to take questions from the group Above if you're open to it Folks if you're new to my channel if you have a question write the word question and post the question there after Or you can use the little dollar sign Posted there you can purchase a super sticker super chat all the monies from the super sticker super chat Post to a scholarship fund in the name of my son Connor. I'll say that's a picture of him right there That's my son who passed away Four and a half years ago now and his honor. I've started a scholarship fund to donate to causes like a Personal development causes that are near and dear to me. So let's see what we have in the Q&A board I Bump bump bump bump bump bump bump. I'm just gonna go back a little ways Oh, we Jin says I love the good doctor for the show the good doctor. Yes, it's on Hulu. I'm addicted to it see Crystal says in a relationship. I'm in a he's the relationship. I'm in a great He's a great man. However, he openly admits he has had a hard time expressing his feelings But his actions shows me he loves me You know, I want to touch upon that because One of the the book the five. Where is it? Oh, I have it over here Folks, if you're not familiar with what's called the five love languages right here Okay The five love languages if you're not familiar to all the books I recommend is listed below the five love languages are words of affirmation or if you're a Leo It's called words of adoration physical touch quality time access service and gifts and what this means is Most people have a predominant or several high love languages In other words, they might be one or two or three in Marie's case. It's all five So and for men they oftentimes use acts of service what that means is they'll put up there your TV for you They will put the car plate change the tires change the tires on your car You know, that's how they show love and for some men. It's incredibly difficult to express themselves Everybody I want someone to write this in the chat box I want you all to go on YouTube late later and type in the mask we live in the mask We live in it's a trailer for a documentary and in this trailer really illustrates why men often times are very stoic because as little boys we were conditioned You know, we talked about this. We were conditioned to stuff our feelings to be a man means not to show our feelings So I know for myself I felt that way and it took a woman a woman before I met you to really help open me up To be expressive. I always say a man reaches his heart through a woman. So lead by example, and so my best friend who I can honestly say is not that expressive with his feelings even though He's a he's a great guy and he's an acts of service type of person in quality time His girlfriend just kept expressing her feelings his previous girlfriend and that got him to open up so Ladies you can lead by example to get a guy to open up any thoughts on that I You're the most expressive guy I've ever She'll even say I'm the chicken the relationship because of that But in a good way, right? All right, so I hope I you didn't have a question, but I just thought I responded at crystal So thank you. I noticed that Pamela has a question here Hey Pamela question finally met the man. I've been texting for almost two months. Yay I want to hear all about it later. We feel excited for the future He start he texted later that he forgot to take a selfie of us, which I thought mmm thoughts Hmm well, okay, so Coming back to I'm the chicken the relationship on our first date wasn't either one who handed the camera to the To the waitress or it was a waiter when a waitress and said will you take a picture of us? Yes, so I kind of like memorializing moments more than you do oh I don't mean to throw you under the bus No, it's just You know what it's just different things at different times like when I first Met you I didn't know this was gonna turn into anything. That's a good point. So so like I Just didn't think of that. Okay Well, I knew the minute I met you or the second time I met you Anyway going back to Pamela most likely he just wanted to memorialize your meeting together because it meant something to him and Use it whether it's handing the camera to a waiter or waitress or or taking a selfie. That's my thoughts on that one Would you you know is there any other reason why he might I didn't quite understand the question to be honest Okay, I'll just repeat it again. He texted later that he forgot to take a selfie of us, which I thought mmm thoughts So they'd been speaking for a while. He asked to take he said he texted later saying I forgot to take one My feeling is he just wanted to memorialize it. Do you have any other thoughts on that? Well, I mean I'm reading it that they've been texting for almost two months. Have they met? Did they just finally met? Oh, oh, you finally met the man I've been talking to does that make sense Okay, let's keep going Oh Judy writes question Jonathan Jonathan since you have been in your new relationship.  If so when hmm, I guess I'm gonna throw myself under the bus, you know, I will say that I I Prior to meeting you I was in a relationship where I was very anxious my anxious attachment came out I feel as though that relationship healed me That What's happened now is I'm more of a secure Attacher with a default and the anxiousness is really a reflection of feeling like If I do something wrong, you'll abandon me. That's where it comes up for me Like if I say something or do something You'll leave me and my abandonment fears come up and that's all related to my childhood Or my mother had kind of temporarily abandoned me and that triggers me So I have that in our relationship I don't think it's it's been maybe slightly on the surface, but not Overwhelming me. Have you ever noticed me to be anxious? Um, I okay. I feel like I'm a calming force for you Hmm Yeah, you very much are a calming force. In fact, what I appreciate most about you and Marie for the audience is that you have Your very it's the word I keep thinking of is you're chill You know, you are chill. You're like chill chick. Oh my god. And by the way, we'll be in a crisis situation where the airline There's an issue. Oh my god. It's just happened when we're flying back from Miami and I send them to go get coffee No, no, no Here's what happened in all fairness The uh ticketing agent at american which we have to give her props I wish we had her number right now because I'd like to tell her boss She turned to me and says you go get a cup of coffee. She and I will figure this all out Because she could tell I was getting anxious now. That wasn't anxious about the relationship But I have a this comes back to my father who used to get very anxious when he couldn't be in control of situations Okay, and so this is where it stems from and again, Marie is a very calming force. She's very chill So I I think because of that I don't my anxious attachment doesn't over doesn't come out to the point where it actually creates any Havoc and no, it it hasn't um In that situation it was it was actually kind of comfortable But that was about because it was the the ticket agent that that said Dude, you need to go get some coffee But but i'm differentiating between, you know, like that situation in our relationship. No, our relationship is is not like that I You know, I think i'm I am chill, but you know, I think i'm chill with you too Except for airlines. It's a prayer and other things. So, okay. I hope judy. I answered your question Uh kassandra says question. Do you think men that insist on not shaving facial hair are being lazy? Or you only think or they're only thinking of themselves Well I can answer that All right, I like to hear your thoughts on that one Okay um Yeah, I have three kids three boys and Right now two of them have a lot of facial hair One of them it looks great on him and then you shaved it off and it's like what did you do that for? It looked great, right? but I am not somebody that likes The scruff.  I get a rash.  I I agree like for me. It's like I get like It's it's almost like rug or yeah, yeah face so so yeah, I I don't know Okay. Well, anyways, I think he's being selfish. That's my two cents on that one. All right. Thank you for your question Cassandra Ruth quit writes in Uh question and x keeps saying say you his queen and you his king. I think he's trying to manipulate but Me and my sister in law disagree. What do you what is your opinion in the past? He used women and former drug user So this is kind of reminds me of the comment you made about the guy in the refrigerator, you know when a person Again, if it's not a season relationship and they're using language or doing things that are probably outside of the timing of something like because I've called you my goddess before so And but you didn't do that Way in the beginning. No. No. No, I mean When it felt appropriate for me. I used the terminology might love it and uh, it it's just is a way to I know you Thought it had to do with the movie the departed Like the dearly departed. No, but beloved is just a way of me sharing saying I don't like saying the word girlfriend You know, I don't like the word partner You know, but I wanted to demonstrate that you are special to me. So Uh, so to use that type of term of endearment king or queen Um, I think in a season relationship that might be endearing, but I certainly in the beginning I think it might be overwhelmed. No, and if he's an x she said it. It's an x doing that. Oh, I thought he was an x drug user Everything about it doesn't sound good. You know, he has a past of using women former. I don't know. It's hard to say so even in In dating apps and stuff when when you meet someone and they're and they're writing to you and then they They write hey my baby doll and and how's my sexy thing doing and right away? That was a block delete. Yeah, because that's the kind of person I was looking for So part of relationships. Okay Is being able to read the other person? We talked about this, you know, even this morning we talked about because yesterday you weren't feeling well and I I I know I might not have read it 100 but I certainly wasn't I felt like I wanted to give you enough space to just Be in your space to chill So reading your partner is an important thing and if that's something uncomfortable for you And it doesn't resonate with you then I would speak up and share your feelings on it. Okay All right, uh, let's see See What does it mean? Oh, here we go Um, this is from my private group called midlife love mastery. And by the way, there's a link below to join the group So one of my group members asked what does it mean when a man that I've only seen twice tells me his job hourly income Oh, this is an interesting you want to tackle that one I have no idea. I have no idea how to answer that because What is he trying to accomplish by doing that so soon in the relationship? So do you remember on the cruise the guy that was talking about what you spent on his Sweet his next suite was going to be 31 thousand dollars But but then we'd run into him and he'd be telling everybody else the same the same thing So why do you think guys do that? Well, I mean it could go either way is it because he's trying to say I don't make all that much or because Hey, I got it together and I'm making a lot of money. Okay. I just think it's it's too soon To talk about that unless you're really talking A serious relationship and you need to talk finances. So okay. Good point. So that was an interesting take so Maybe there is a reason he's sharing it to give you an idea that he may not have the kind of Income or wealth to support two people Okay, I'm just throwing that out there or it's a way to be braggadocious about how successfully is I think if it's the if it's the If it's the former You know on some level You'd want to know where a person stands financially sooner rather than later Because money ends up being the second most common reason why people get divorced the issues related to money So on some level that might not be a bad move to share that it might feel uncomfortable But it depends on where the relationship is too Well, or I don't know maybe not not where the relationship is in What is intention in sharing it? Okay. Now that's a good point. So Because I believe if it's material to the relationship, it's good to know things sooner rather later For example if someone had herpes You'd probably want to know about it before you have sex and not the at the moment having sex or after having sex as an example Or the person has a severe medical condition. You know, I think that's if it's material to the relationship So was he sharing it because he was wanted he wanted you to know his status Or was it braggadocious which it's hard to tell from what you shared But those are my two thoughts on that You kind of concur. Yeah, okay All right. All right. Let's keep swimming here Right Cassandra says Steve Harvey says he is the king and his wife is the queen all the time, you know for some people That's their languaging again. I'm differentiating the early stages versus someone who's in a seasoned relationship. They're married Well, this case it was an act. Well, they're married. Yeah, Steve Harvey. So um, let's see Um, here's one. We just says yes reading your partner is not something lots of men are very good at You know, most humans aren't good at that. I think one of the real challenges in in human pair bonding is that Most of us weren't trained at being in relationship.  I had to learn how to drive a car, right? We had to take a driver's proficiency test. Any two people can jump in the bed together and start a relationship and Most of us probably don't have the skillsets the human behavior skillsets To really navigate relationships and it's one of the reasons why I habitually share book I share book after book after book after book to help educate people and And when I said earlier lead by example Um, I really quickly and I want to give you a chance to jump in I had a client today who just started working with me a few months or about or early Last year so it's been a couple months now and she's in a relationship And she's done everything I recommend is she's recommended reading the book a dates with him She shared the dating vows and he he sent a message to her saying I want to talk to your dating coach And thank him because you made my he made I made his job easier Because these were things he didn't know most guys as I say are rather clueless when it comes to relationships So, you know, you have a choice you can assume most men have direction or you can guide them along the way Am I making sense? Yeah, you're making sense. I'm just wondering what this generation is going to be like I don't know. I'm thinking of my grandson. It was just the most thoughtful sweetest thing and I just hope that he stays that way. He's very communicative and Well, I think it's going to be interesting to see for those of us who are baby boomers or gen x Um, remember the video we watched about the woman who said how You know gen x screwed it up for this generation because they're all pampered children that gets a participation award For going to the bathroom the right side up and I'm making that up or whatever, you know So it's going to be interesting the younger generation how they're going to view relationships.  And so while it doesn't have to be a romantic relationship I'm I talk about this in my book the importance of building a tribe Like you're like your your cousin in cartagena You know, she's got a tribe of friends and it's that tribe that helps sustain us in those In those tough times and I just rambled right there.  No, but no, but he kept the family until so my kids now For the most part have tried to do that and And you know, the grandparents are involved all the cut all the ants You know, I'm stepping side. Yeah all the ants everybody Contributes to the babysitting and what they need So and why I'm I'm harping on this folks is that if you don't have a relationship That's okay But I definitely want to encourage you to build your tribe because it's your own individual community That's going to help Sustain us as we get older and for those of us who go to the doctor now on an occasional basis You know, we're going to need all the help we can get so that's just and it's not just okay So it's not just building a tribe of family You can you know family doesn't have to be blood. No, no, I didn't mean it that way. I mean friends Like my my cousin in Colombia, she's got this huge group And they they get together once a month. They celebrate everybody's birthdays and stuff And you know, I was kind of jealous when I was in Colombia a few months back because I thought gosh I wish we had that I I could have that in the states But everybody's so distanced here. Yeah, that's true Like I have family all over the place We now just need to move them all here All right folks, I got off on a tangent there. So let me keep going. Nicole says here Social skills alone is some something a lot of people do not have You know interesting watching this show The Good Doctor Here's a brilliant guy a brilliant surgeon who is autistic and you know as burgers if you will in other words has no social skills And what's interesting about him is he speaks his mind, you know, he's not afraid to have He doesn't have a filter.   You're gonna die if we don't do this But the point is I think You know for those who don't have a condition like as burgers or autism You know, again, I I do believe most of us haven't really been trained and so in the show His the elder the the older gentleman is training him on Social skills. I mean he's being intentional about it You know most the time growing up our our our perception of social skills is like a slap on the hand Johnny don't do that or Marie don't do that. In other words, we were told what not to do But not how to really socialize with people from a heart-centered place first really quickly I'm gonna grab a book that I want to recommend here Where is it? The book is called the book is called I hear you okay The surprisingly simple skills of extraordinary relationships And I just want to give an example of something I shared this the other day in a video Bear with me one second. Oops. Let me find something Everybody be patient with me. No, no, I wanted Okay, so here's an example the difference between sympathy and empathy I'm sorry. You're not feeling well that sympathy Empathy is ug the flu The flu is no fun at all, you know In other words, empathy is actually feeling the person's feelings sympathy is just expressing You know that you know the sorrow around something so this book provides so many great examples And then there's one in particular I'm looking for it's the difference between Validating feelings and Unvalidating feelings. Oh, give me a second. I know I'm taking so long everyone But it's I know I read it the other day. I should bookmark it Anyway, validating statements and unvalidating statements as an example oftentimes in our communication We don't mean to dismiss a person's feelings, but our language does that by default So I recommend checking out this book. I can't find the example and I can't think of one off the top of my head Oh, well a good example would be your deodorant doesn't work too well versus wow, you stink really bad Okay, yeah, I've talked about that, but you shared I think but there was a way to do it You have a great way of expressing yourself without making the other person feel bad So you do that innately and most of us have to learn it through a book. So that's my recommendation Uh, all right Okay, robin asked what are what are the I'm here, but late. What are the three things? I'm going to share it really quickly when a man is deeply loves you. He'll do these three things He will be vulnerable with you because he trusts you he'll be vulnerable authentic and transparent Number two, he'll be protective of you not in a controlling way. He cares about your safety and number three He'll do it through his actions So it's not just expressing he loves you, but he'll do it through his actions consistently throughout the relationship All right, folks Anna says happy valentine's day to you both You know, this is a great place to wrap up today because I want to go make us dinner To enjoy valentine's together. Did I get you anything? No Wait What did I get? No, I got flowers But we agreed that you know We did this cruise and it was for valentine's as well and christmas and for the next couple birthdays too No, i'm just kidding. Well, you said to me and I quote every day is valentine's day with you I did so I did say that and and that's how I feel as well So folks for those who uh got to this point happy valentine's day to you all I hope you all have a wonderful day and treat every day with love in your heart, so I'm gonna wrap up with giving you one of my big jonathan bear hugs You're gonna give me a hug. Okay. All right. Thank you Happy valentine's day everyone. Bye. Bye now. Oh, I want to say thanks to uh, Wanda and robin and sherry and nicole and weijin And anna and chris breezy brown robin casandra valentina Margaret everyone. Thanks so much. Have a wonderful fantastic evening. Take care. Bye. Bye


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Hi, my name is Leon Rowe, currency trader and trading coach at Trading180.com and welcome to this week's supply and demand forex and gold fundamental and technical analysis for the week starting the 14th of February, Valentine's Day. If you are celebrating Valentine's Day, I hope you have a good one with your significant other. And don't forget to like, subscribe and share with your fellow colleagues. If you find the content that I provide useful, really, what separates Trading180's approach to probably the vast majority of other trading analysis is that we actually do combine fundamental and technical analysis to really make the best trading decisions. And just quickly before I get into the analysis, if you're new, don't really understand fundamental analysis or there are many misconceptions about fundamental analysis. What you're ultimately doing, what we're ultimately doing is trying to measure currencies exchange rate by studying and comparing economic business cycles, so GDP, interest rates and inflation cycles. Those are the main three components as to what drives currency value. So what we're doing is I guess the misconception quickly is that you're going to go to something, a news aggregate site like Forex Factory and then look to see if something is up or down.  Or that news came out worse than expected, that's a sell. If trading was that easy, we'd all be multi-trillionaires. But obviously it's not. What fundamental analysis really is, is understanding divergences, divergences in monetary policy, divergences in things like GDP and growth. Because if there's a country, for example, that is increasing or growing, is in the expansion or the boom phase of the economic cycle, and there's another country that is, for example, going into the contraction, recession, bust or slump phase of the economic cycle, the business cycle, then what do you want to do? Do you want to be a buyer of growth? Of course you do and you want to be a seller of contraction. That's what you want. You want to buy and you want to sell in the same way that if you've got a country or central bank that is hiking rates and a country, a central bank that is cutting rates or quantitative easing, where do you want to be? You want to be in the central bank that is hiking rates or is in the hiking rate cycle and not in the country or the central bank that is going to be cutting interest rates or going into QE. So it's about finding divergences, as many divergences as to what makes a country and the currency strong or weak and that is what is known as fundamental analysis, not the typically banded around forex factory economic data that traders generally cite as fundamental analysis. Anyways, getting on to this week's week ahead before we get into the technicals. The Federal Reserve, European Central Bank and Reserve Bank of Australia will be releasing policy meeting minutes while central banks in Indonesia, Turkey meet to set interest rates. This is always going to be very important. The policy meetings are basically just forward guidance. So the central banks are going to be talking about what their policies are going forward and what they're looking at, what they're concerned with, etc. Flash PMIs for the US, UK, Eurozone, Japan, Australia will give an insight about the state of the global economy. Again, economics GDP. Other important releases include US retail sales and industrial output, Canada and UK inflation data. That would be quite important and retail trade Japan in Eurozone, fourth quarter GDP. So the Eurozone is the one that I'm really focused on at the moment. I think the Eurozone may be a bit of a sell if the GDP comes out as a miss and negative and potential double dip recession and Australia employment figures. So that's also important. So we've got a busy, very busy week this week. Investors will also be monitoring any signs of progress on the US fiscal stimulus. And we'll get into some US fundamentals, the major fundamentals, as well as we look at price charts. So we're going to start off as we always do on the Dow Jones dollar index. And the Dow Jones dollar index is a measure of dollar strength against the basket of currencies like the Euro, the yen and the pound. And we just use the dollar index to keep an eye on it just to, again, measure as confluence really to understand that if, for example, we've come down into a bit of a demand zone here, and we could be seeing a bit more upside. Technically, then what we want to do is go to dollar crosses and look for buy trades with this technical level as confluence. So we're always driven really by the fundamentals. Fundamentals are really the things that kind of determine whether we should be buying or selling. And if we look at some of the positive news that's been coming out with the US as of late charting the global economy, US growth forecasts upgraded. So economists are ratcheting up their projections for US growth this year as Congress moves closer to another large financial support package while the recovery in much of Europe is expected to be more moderate. There you go, some divergence there. As the growth in Europe is supposed to be moderate, whereas the economy in the US has been upgraded. So there's divergence there. There's divergence. Again, US major upgrade, US outlook brightens on expectations for trillion plus more in fiscal relief. So the projection at the fiscal stimulus is going to help would be 4.9 percent GDP growth, would be strongest since 1984. Wouldn't that be some positive sentiment? And again, you've got unemployment potentially going down as well. And employment is also a nice indicator as to what the economy is doing. High employment means or low unemployment means the economy is doing really well. In the recession, you've got very high unemployment. So you're getting divergences potentially there between the US or the US growth. And we've also got, not just the economists saying it, but HSBC are talking about, or the headline is HSB forecast limited US dollar weakness in 2021. So dollar weakness, that's been the trade for the past six months. And some of the traders in my private group have done very well. We've been short the US dollar since last year, August ever since Jackson Hole. And if you want to go back to my YouTube channels around that time, you'll see my fundamental analysis talking about the Jackson Hole and why we were getting short based off of the federal inflation average target FA or federal average inflation target theme. So we were getting short and you've seen obviously with the dollar index, you've seen basically what's happened since last year, August, right? We've just been on this downtrend anyways. And that's driven by the fundamentals, not any kind of Elliot wave or pin bar or a level of resistance, right? But it says in this article very interesting, but it says, but if anything HSBC says that the increased spending being sought by Joe Biden could in fact help the US economy outperform the rest of the world, which is dollar positive outcome. So there are also there's a theme coming in with regards to potential dollar strength, not saying it's going to happen this week. Nobody knows the exact timing of it, but there is a trade there to be had. Now, looking at the, actually, we'll get on to that a bit later. So we've got dollar positive news coming out this week. So with that being said, potential for a dollar buy, if you start to see obviously positive price action supporting that, then what you want to do is go to the dollar crosses and look for some buy trades on there. If you're looking still for sell trades, because I am probably in the medium to long term, you know, more bearish on the dollar, then looking for short trades really or confluences at supply. That nice supply zone there would be decent for a potential short trade. Moving on to the dollar yen and the dollar yen reacted this week off of this supply zone. So you had nice reaction there. Bit of a pullback. You've had one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, you know, bullish closes into a level. Whenever you see something like that into a level, that's not sustainable when you pretty much were seeing a bit of a pullback right there. So if there was an opportunity to get short, if you were, if you thought that the Japanese yen was the currency to buy. For me, we're in, we've got more risk on sentiment being driven by the vaccine rollout. So in that situation, the Japanese yen is not really a buy in a risk off situation. So risk off, yeah, where there's a lot of uncertainty and fear the Japanese yen will generally tend to strengthen, but in a risk on environment, yeah, it's usually higher yielding currencies like the dollar, like commodity currencies that will do, you know, do better. So we risk on sentiment in the market. Yes, we've got a rare and a risk off environment, but the market is more focused on what's happening or what may potentially happen in the next few months, you know, three to six months rather than what's going on now. And with the vaccine rollout, you've, you've, you're in really kind of risk on sentiment mode, hence the reason why you're seeing a weakening yen and a stronger or one of the reasons anyway, stronger potential potentially dollar who knows what's going to happen to price in the short term. But if this continues, then you can pretty much, you know, probabilities that the US will be the currency to buy in this exchange rate. This will look like an absolute bargain. So with that being said, where do we get, you know, if you want to get long, you've really got to look for proof of value surprises to really kind of come up a bit higher, wait for a pullback into that demand zone and then look for any kind of long trades. If you're looking, you know, if prices do come down a bit further, then this is just seen as a potential bargain because if prices do come down to this 1037 free zone then and we do still have risk on, then it means that the financial institutions were definitely buying for cheaper and then looking for, you know, take profit on some potential upside in the demand zone. If we do have, you know, some risk off sentiment come into the market, then this area here is going to be the area to look for sell trades. This 10540 level to the downside, if you think that the Japanese yen should strengthen over the US dollar and again, probably more being driven by risk off sentiment as well. When you're looking at selling the Japanese yen or buying the Japanese yen, I should say at supply, look for, you know, there to be some sort of risk off narrative as well. So if the stock market starts to, you know, sell off commodity, start to sell off as well and there are, you know, real fears in the media, then that's when you look for kind of, you know, short trades, looking for short trades, you know, generally when we're overall in a risk or we've got risk on sentiment, isn't necessarily the best thing to do. So that's where we are with the dollar yen, dollar Swiss prices nearly touched the that supply zone, but didn't quite do it this week. But what we do have is a bit more supply here, put some supply right there one second, put that there supply and again, same thing, same analysis. If you're looking to be, you know, buy the dollar again, we just didn't quite come down into that demand zone. But if we do get a decent pullback into that demand zone, that'd be nice for a buy trade. If you're looking at sell trades, then you're looking at again, anything within that zone. This is proof of value proof that there is supply here. But again, the question is why you want to be a buyer of the Swiss franc in a risk, the risk on sentiment with global growth. The Swiss franc for me, there's been a lot of money printing, a lot of intervention, the Swiss national bank, the SMB actually want a devalued currency, they want a weaker currency.  So I think potentially the dollar is a decent buy against the Swiss franc, again, not financial advice, just basically what I'm looking at. If I get any kind of pullbacks, then that's going to be really nice, a really nice buying opportunity, looking at the dollar CAD, dollar CAD, again, commodity currencies doing well. I think the dollar CAD may have limited downside. And if you are looking to be a buyer of the Canadian dollar against the US dollar, you really want to wait for some sort of pullback, right, into, you know, you don't want to be a buyer at, at, at heights, right, or you don't want to be shorting at the low. So where we are now, we've made a lower low. So there's another supply zone there. So if you're looking for any kind of short trades and buying the Canadian dollar, that's going to be the first area to me. That's not necessarily the best area though, because we've touched that area a few times, I would say probably up at the highs, it's 129130 area is what I'm looking for. If I was looking to get short from a long trade perspective, I think this zone is really nice for a potential upside. But again, understanding where the Canadian dollar is in comparison to the US dollar, I think there are a lot more easier trades out there than just buying the dollar against the Canadian dollar. Moving on to the New Zealand dollar, US dollar. And again, we've, after this massive uptrend, we're now starting to see a range. And so from a buying perspective, you think that the New Zealand dollar should continue to strengthen against the US dollar, you probably want to wait for prices to come down to this, probably 0.71, 3 level. If you're looking for any kind of sell trades and you think the dollar may actually get stronger against New Zealand dollar and New Zealand dollar might weaken, then you're looking at this nice area of supply up top. Fundamentally, I'm not really too keen on this currency pair. Again, there are easier trades, there are bigger divergences than trading the US dollar versus the New Zealand dollar, both currencies potentially New Zealand dollars, you know, quite a strong currency and a risk on environment. And so if the US dollar is going to strengthen, you really want to start to look for currencies, the easier trade is looking for currencies, where you're getting a stronger divergence. Whereas if you've got two strong currencies trading against each other, what are you going to get? You're going to get sideways markets, right? If you get divergences, you're probably going to have a trend to the upside or a trend to the downside. That's pretty much how it works. Anyways, those are the areas to look for pound dollar, pound dollar, really kind of messy chart at the moment, but we do have some fresh demand right there. I'm going to delete this area here. I am quite interested in this 135 level, if you can come back down to here, we didn't do it. But this demand zone, I do like it as proof of value. We've seen massive upside, what's that? Maybe around about from the low 135 to 138, about 300 pips to the upside. So this is obviously seen as a bargain. So if you do get a pullback into this zone, I think this area here is decent. Also as well, combining some support and resistance within that zone, I think there is definitely something there. Second, so you've got again, resistance, resistance, bit of support there, and then you've got some recent support there. So decent for a potential buy trade within this area here. There are projections for the actual pound dollar exchange rate to actually go up to the 142s. So any kind of pullbacks would actually be really nice, lots of pips to the upside if that does continue. And talking about the pound matter of fact, from a divergence perspective, the UK economy surged in December, capping worst year since 1709. So the fourth quarter gains avert immediate risk of another recession. So the UK economy grew at double the pace expected in the fourth quarter, capping a year that delivered the worst slump since 1709. So positive news out of the UK and growth again. So you're thinking about, alright, do you want to be a buyer of the dollar or a buyer of the pound, where's the divergence there? They're both pretty much growing. So if you understand, again, being driven more fundamentally than technically, what you really should do if anything in the short term is probably ignore the pound dollar because it's less clear where the divergence is. You've got two strong currencies going up against each other, potentially two growing currencies. So when it comes to GDP. So with that being said, you can probably expect, again, more choppy price action potentially, potentially who knows. But we could see obviously a bit more of an uptrend. The UK is leading the way when it comes to the vaccine rollout. So they are actually seen surprisingly as the country or the economy that may want to actually get themselves out of a recession sooner rather than later. But the US is definitely catching up and if not may surpass. So a bit of a difficult one fundamentally. But technically, I do like that for a buy for a sell trade. I would wait for probably proof of value. So I'd wait for really supply to really come into the market and then look for any kind of pullback into that supply zone before getting short. So moving on to the euro dollar and again in contrast with, for example, the pound and the US, the euro zone, I should say, says economic recovery delayed vaccine rollout crucial. So Euro area GDP grow forecast 2021 cut to 3.8 from 4.2. And again, if we go back to what we were talking about with the US charting the global economy, the US growth forecast upgraded. So there's a divergence there, right? There's a divergence one potentially being downgraded, the other being upgraded. So the European economy will cover more slowly this year as the coronavirus keeps a tight grip on the region with the outlook resting resting largely on vaccination campaign that has so far stumbled. So yes, everyone is growing and every country is growing, but it's a dog with the least fleas, right? So who's going to grow more than the others? Yeah, where everyone's in a bad situation, but who's the best or the worst? So at the moment, the tide, you can see the shift potentially in turnarounds, I guess, with the dollar and Europe, at least in the potential short term. So if again, fourth quarter GDP for the euro comes out this week, and it comes out, you know, worse than expected, or there's a negative growth, then that is going to be a very nice short trade right there. If it comes out much better than expected and there is growth, then you're probably going to expect prices to go higher. So we are at an inflection point, nobody knows what's going to happen. You know, this is the reason why we manage risk, but looking at, you know, short trades, I think the dollar sentiment, positive dollar sentiment may start to come back in, you know, and this could be a decent shorting opportunity. If not, then you're looking at, again, maybe selling opportunities, maybe into this fresh area of supply, or even at this area, which I think is a really nice zone to get short up here. If you're looking to buy the euro on a pullback, then we do have, in fact, a demand zone here, and you're looking for basically just to pull back into this 120, 30 level before looking at getting long. But again, that's pretty dependent upon what happens with fourth quarter GDP, euro yen, and the euro yen has pretty much come up to this area. We did have supply zone, which reacted there, and then we've got another reaction here. And again, so we're at a decent area to look for short trades if the euro zone economy has been struggling. That would be a really nice trade, regardless of, I guess, the currency has been traded against the Japanese yen. But I do think that the euro should want to sell off with disappointing news. If we're looking at buying the euro, then we've just made some higher highs here. So we've got that area there is the first zone to look for any kind of long trades. If you get a pullback this week, and then there's some positive news around the euro, then that is really nice for a buy trade. The best area for me anyway, would be down if prices can come down to this one, two, five, 40 level around here. That would be a really nice area because that would be the bottom of a range between between a high and the low where prices are contained between. This is obviously seen as expensive. This is seen as an absolute bargain. Why? Because prices went to the upside. And if prices can come back down here, and then the fundamentals are still the same or risk sentiment is still the same, then that is a really nice buy area. So moving on to the Australian dollar, US dollar. And I did get a question regarding why the Australian dollar has been trending higher recently. I can't remember the exact question, but talking about the US economy, looking at the data, it looks like it's obviously better than the Australian economy. First things first, the Australian economy has handled COVID better than lots of other countries, including the US. So the US only now is starting to get a grip on the COVID outbreak, only now. Secondly, you've got the Australian dollar as a commodity currency, meaning that in a risk on sentiment and a risk on the environment, what you've seen in commodities, for example, like copper, iron ore, you've seen massive, massive, massive rally. And that helps also the Australian dollar to grow as well because their commodity currency is linked. So this is the reason why you're seeing this play out as it is. Now what we could see as the US dollar starts to maybe strengthen and starts to look like a strengthening now, this is where we could see a decent, shorting opportunity because so far the dollar has been weak, but now we're seeing some positive economic news potentially come out of the US. Also as well, GDP data for the Australian dollar, the data that you're looking at on something like trading economics is actually third quarter data. Their fourth quarter data actually comes out quite late, whereas the data you're seeing for the US is actually Q4. So with fourth quarter data coming out, there is a bit of a lag between the comparison, but for now you can take advantage of that because there's potential short-term sentiment when it comes to the dollar and this could roll over. But again, there are easier trades out there. Why are you choosing to trade two strong currencies when you should be looking for divergences? Divergences are where the easier money is made. If you're trying to trade a currency that you've got two strong currencies or two weak currencies together, not to say that they're not an opportunity there, but there's less divergences. There's less reason to actually say why one would strengthen or weaken than another. So what you want to do, and everyone calls themselves trend traders, but then they don't know what causes trends. This is what will cause a trend. This is why currencies and bonds and stocks, this is the reason, exactly the reason why they trend because of the fundamentals and the risk sentiment behind it. So again, looking at this, for me, there are easier trades out there. Overall, I think the Australian dollar and the forecast have really kind of called for a stronger Australian dollar in the longer term, medium term, but in a shorter term, you could probably see a bit of a pullback as the sentiment for the US dollar gets stronger. And if that's the case, but you want to be a buyer of the Australian dollar in the medium to long term, this is actually would be considered what a discount, right? You don't want to be a buyer of the Australian dollar at a high. You want to be a buyer of the Australian dollar if you are looking to buy Australian dollar at a low. So that's where you want to look for prices. If prices do come down to those zones. Moving on to the Australian dollar yen and Australian dollar yen. Again, in a risk on, you know, environment or risk with risk on sentiment. I've been saying this and I keep saying it, you're not going to want to buy the Japanese yen, no matter what. There's no technical analysis that's going to stand in the way of fundamentals and the sentiment. And in a risk on environment, yeah, in a risk on environment, the Australian, the Australian dollar will always win hands down, even if you get a couple of days of a pullback here. And even if prices, you know, didn't react to for that supply zone. I'm saying that it couldn't. But the point is that you want to trade with the path of least resistance. The path of least resistance is buying the commodity currency during growth. So many traders who are looking for short trades here simply because there's a supply zone there doesn't, the market doesn't care.  What the market cares about is value. Yeah. And the value is the Australian dollar going higher. Yeah. The Australian dollar is a bargain. So that being said, and I said that last week and I've been saying that for as long as you guys have been watching me do these weekly videos, we can eliminate those bad trades and look for potential pullbacks into demand. Yeah. And if that doesn't work out, then it's fine. You're looking for a deeper pullback because you've got a lot more upside potential. If prices do come back, we're still in a risk on him, you know, environment, the vaccine rollout, the Australian dollar, the economy is booming, commodities are going higher, et cetera, et cetera. That's where the money is. It's not in trying to, you know, trying to just use technical analysis alone. We've got to filter our trades and it might, it might even mean that you got to take less trades, but quality over quantity. This is what, you know, we, we're looking at a trading 180. And finally, gold. So looking at gold and some fundamentals on gold matter of fact, talking about inflation risk is rising and here's how to protect your investment portfolio. So buying gold is just one of the available options if talking of rising prices has you worried. We're still yet to see inflation really kind of hit the market with all this money printing going on and devaluation of currencies and QE and stimulus inflation is pretty much, if we understand again, what should happen is a sure thing. The only thing is, is that when is it going to, you know, come into the market, right? When is it going to, you know, appear? When is in high inflation going to appear? So with, when it comes to looking at gold, if that is a trade idea that you are looking at then gold is still going to be a buy. Yeah. And also as well, gold will stay strong says new crest mining CEO. So these are, you know, the experts, right? They, they, they're the ones that work in the industry. Then they're on Bloomberg.  Yeah. To try and go on Bloomberg and try and say things that aren't true. Yeah. It might happen. Obviously, once in a while, and these guys can be wrong. Yeah. But he's not, if he's going on Bloomberg and expressing his opinion, then it's usually something that he has conviction in, right? He doesn't want to put his name out there. So if he's saying that gold will stay strong, chances are the probabilities are it should stay strong. It may be in the short term, medium term, et cetera. So looking at actually gold and where we are, maybe just looking at pullbacks, yeah, into, you know, lower demand zones will be the play, right? If you don't believe that and you don't believe him, you don't take what he says on board.  But let's see what happens here. I think if gold does come down to this 17, 80, 17, 70 level, I think that is a really, really nice buy because it was a bargain around here. Hence, you saw prices go to the upside. And if prices again start to, you know, if prices do come down to here, that may be seen as a really nice bargain price and prices could, you know, go to the upside. The question I guess I get or will get, or people tend to say as well, if the dollar is going higher, then gold should go lower, not necessarily, not necessarily. There are factors that do drive gold and the dollar in the same, oh, can, I should say, correlations don't always stand 100%. And if inflation starts to come back, then gold will definitely, regardless of what, you know, the US dollar, if the US dollar is going higher, but again, inflation is going towards their 2% target and maybe even beyond that, gold is still going to be a potential buy, yeah, because of again, the devaluation of, of the, of the, of the US dollars. So there are times where you'll have a, and that in fact, I'll do is I'll go to the US dollar, what you'll see over the past, what, since August, if you're looking at August, all right, you've seen pretty much gold do this right? And since, and if you go back to the dollar, yeah, since August, dollar index, yeah, what have we seen since, since August? Yeah, so there are correlations, there are correlations that do, you know, tend to work out over the medium to long term, of course, but in maybe some short term correlations, they can decouple, doesn't mean that you can't have a rising gold and also a rising dollar, because it can happen. So with that being said, that brings us to the end of the analysis. Again, if you enjoyed this, please like, subscribe and share, definitely like, helps YouTube algorithm and gets the quality content out there. Guys, have a great week, have a great day. If you're so direct in Valentine's Day, and take care, speak to you until the next video.


Live from Las Vegas, it's theCUBE. Covering VMworld 2017, brought to you by VMware and it's ecosystem partner. Hey, welcome back to day two of VMworld 2017, theCUBE's continuing coverage. I'm Lisa Martin with my co-host Dave Vellante and we have kind of a CUBE mafia going on here. We have Eric Herzog, the sumo of IBM Storage back with us and we also have Steve Keniston, another CUBE alumni, Global Spectrum Software Business Development Executive at IBM, welcome guys. Thank you. Thank you, great to be here. So, lots of stuff going on, IBM Storage Business Health. First question Steve, do you, what's going on there? Tell us about that. What's going on in IBM Storage? Yes. All kinds of great things. I mean, first of all, I think we were walking the show floor just talking about how VMworld used to be a storage show and then it wasn't for a long time. Now you're walking around there, you see all kinds of storage. Now IBM really stepping up its game. We've got two booths we're talking all about. Not just the technology's cognitive, IoT, that sort of thing, but also where do those bits and bytes live? That's your assets. You got to store that information someplace and then you got to protect that information and we're showcasing all kinds of solutions on the show floor, including versus stack and that sort of thing where you make your copies of your data, store your data, reissue your data, protect your data, it's a great show. Go ahead. Please, so I want to get into it, right? I mean, we've watched the evolution, this is our eighth year doing theCUBE at VMworld and doing theCUBE in general, but to see the evolution of this ecosystem and this community, you're right, it was storage world. And part of the reason was, and you know this well, Eric, it was such a problem. You know, and all the APIs that VMware released to really solve that storage problem, Flash obviously has changed the game a little bit, but I want to talk about data protection and generally backup specifically. Steve, you and I have talked over the years about the ascendancy of VMware coincided with a reduction in the physical capacity that was allocated to applications like backup. That was a real problem. So the industry had to re-architect its backup. And the companies like Veeam exploded on the scene, simplicity was the theme. And now we're seeing sort of a similar sea change around cloud. So what's your perspective on that sort of journey and the evolution of data protection and where we are today, especially in the context of cloud? Yeah, I think there's been a couple big trends. I think you talked about it correctly, Dave, from the standpoint of when you think about your data protection capacity being 4X at a minimum, greater than your primary storage capacity, the next thing you start understanding is, now with the growth in data, I need to be able to leverage and use that data. The number one thing, the number one driver to putting data in the cloud is data protection, right? And then it's now, how can I reuse that data that's in the cloud? And you look at things like AWS and that sort of thing, the ability to spin up applications. And now what I need to do is I need to connect to it, the data, to be able to run those applications and if I'm going to do a test development environment, if I'm going to run an analytics reporter, I'm going to do something, I want to connect to my data. So we have solutions that help you promote that data into the cloud, leverage that data and take advantage of that data. And it's just continually growing and continually shifting. So you guys are really leaning into Veeam world this year. You've got a big presence, what's going on there?  You got them doing more storage. What's going on, Eric? Is it just, hey, we're a good partner. Hey, we're not going to let them elbow us out. We're going to be competitive with the Evil Machine Company. What's the dynamic in the VMware ecosystem with you guys? Well, I think the big thing for us is IBM has had a powerful partnership with VMware since day one. Way back when IBM used to have the Intel server division. Everything was worked with VMware, been a VMware partner years and years ago in the server world. As that division transferred away to Lenovo, the storage division became front and center. So all kinds of integration with our all flash arrays, our versus stack, which we do jointly with Cisco and VMware providing a converged infrastructure solution. The products that Steve's team's just brought out, Spectrum Tech Plus installs in 30 minutes. Recovers instantly off of a VM. Can handle multiple VMs. Can recover VMs or files. Can be used to back up hundreds and thousands of virtual machines if that's what you've got in your infrastructure. So the world has gone virtual in cloud. IBM is there with virtual in cloud. You need to move data out to IBM cloud or to Amazon or Azure. Spectrum Tech Plus, Spectrum Scale, Spectrum Virtualize, all members of our software family and the arrays that they ship on all can transparently move data to a cloud, move it back and forth at the blink of an eye. With VMware, you need that same sort of level of integration. We've had it on the array side. We've now brought that out with Spectrum Protect Plus to make sure that backup, in fact, Spectrum Protect Plus is so easily, even me with my master's degree in Chinese history can back up and protect my data in a VMware environment. It's designed to be used by the VMware admin or the app owner, not by the backup guy or the storage admin. Not that they won't love it too, but it's designed for the guys who don't know much about storage. I'll tell you Dave, I saw it. I watched him get a demo and then I watched him turn around and present it. It was impressive. I want to ask you a quick question. Long time partners, IBM and VMware, as you've just said, you're an EMC guy. It's where I first met you. From a marketing and a positioning perspective, what have you guys done in the last year since the combination has completed to continue to differentiate the IBM VMware strengths as now VMware's part of Dell EMC? So I think the key thing is VMware always has been the Switzerland of the storage business. When I was at EMC, we owned 81% of the company and you walked into Palo Alto and Pat Gelsinger who I used to work for at EMC is now the CEO of VMware.  So the good thing is they've always been the Switzerland of the storage industry. IBM because of its old history and the server industry has always had tight integration with them and we've just made sure we've done it. I think the key difference we've done is it's all about the data. CEO, CIO, they hate talking about storage, it's all about the data and that's what we're doing, Spectrum Protect Plus is all about keeping the data safe, protected and as Steve talked about using in the cloud, using real data sets for test and dev for DevOps, that's unique, not everyone's doing that. We're one of the few guys that do that. It's all about the data and you sell the storage as a foundation of that data. Well, I mean IBM's always been good about not selling speeds and feeds but selling at the boardroom level, the C level, I mean your IBM, I mean that's your brand. Having said that, there's a lot of knife fights going on tactically in the business and you guys are knife fighters. I know you both, you both start up guys, you're not afraid to get down and dirty. So Steve, how do you address the skepticism that somebody might have and say, all right, I hear you, this all sounds great but I need simplicity. You guys, you talk simplicity, your Chinese history background but I'm still skeptical. What can you tell me, proof points, share with us to convince us that you really are from a simplicity standpoint competitive with the pack? I think you've seen a pretty big transformation over the last 18 months with some of the stuff that we've done with the software portfolio. So a lot of folks can talk a good game about a software defined strategy. The fact that we put the entire spectrum suite now under one portfolio, now things are starting to really gel and come together. We've done things like interesting Skunkworks project with Spectrum Protect Plus and now we even had business partners in our booth who are backup architects talking about the solution who sell everybody else's solution on the floor saying, I can't believe it, I can't believe this is IBM. They're putting together solutions that are just unbelievably easy to use. They need that and I think you're exactly right Dave. It used to be where you have a lot of technical technicians in the field and people wanted to architect things and put things together. Those days are gone, right? So now what you're finding is the younger generation coming in, they're iPhone type people, they want clicks, simplicity, just want to use it, that sort of thing. We've started to recognize that and we've had to build that into our product. We are a humbler IBM now. We are listening to our business partners. We are asking them, what do we need to be doing to help you be successful in the field? Not just from a product set but also a selling, you know, a selling motion. The spectrum suite, all the products under one thing, now working and interoperating together, the ability to buy them more easily, the ability to leverage them, use them, put it in a sandbox, test it out, not get charged for it. Okay, I like it, now I want to deploy it. We've really made it a lot easier to consume technology in a much easier way, right? Software defined and we're making the products easier to use. How have you been able to achieve that transformation? Is it cultural? Is it somebody came down and said, you thou shalt simplify? I mean you've been there a couple years now. Yeah, so I think the real thing is IBM has brought into the division a bunch of people from outside the division. So Ed Walsh, our general manager who's going to be on shortly, five startups. Steve, five startups. Me, seven startups. Our new VP of offering manager in the solution set, not only NetApp, four startups. Our new VP of North American sales, HDS three startups. So we've brought in a bunch of guys who, A, used to work at the big competition, EMC, NetApp, Hitachi, et cetera. And we've also brought in a bunch of people who are startup guys who are used to turning on a dime, it's all about ease of use, it's all about simplicity, it's all about automation. So between the infusion of this intellectual capital from a number of us who have been outside the company, particularly in the startup world, and the incredible technical depth of IBM's storage teams and our test teams and all the other teams that we leverage, we just sort of pointed them in the direction like, it needs to be installed in 30 minutes. Well guess what, they knew how to do that 30 years ago. They just never did because they were stuck in the IBM silo if you will, and now the big model we have at IBM is outside in, not inside out, outside in. And the engineering teams have responded to that and made things that are easy to use, incredibly automated, work with everyone's gear, not just ours, there's other guys that sell storage software. But other than in the protection space, all the other guys, it only works with EMC or it only works with NetApp or it only works with HP. Our software works with everyone's stuff, including every one of our major competitors, and we're fine with that. So that's come from this infusion and combination of the incredible technical depth in DNA of IBM with a bunch of group of people, about 10 of us, who've all come either A from the big competitors, but also from a bunch of startups. And we've just merged that over the last two years into something that's forged an incredibly powerful, we are now the number one storage software company in the world, and in overall storage, both systems and software, we're number two. So where's that data? Is that IDC data? That's the IDC data. And what do they, when they count that, what are they counting? Are they sort of eliminating any hardware associated with it? Storage systems would be external systems, our all flash arrays, that's all on the system side, software is purely software only. Right, so no appliances, the value of those licenses associated with that. Well as our CFO pointed out in the, so if you take a look at our track record in the last, in the beginning of this year, we grew 7% in Q1, one of the only storage companies to grow, certainly of the majors. We grew 8% in Q2, again one of the only storage companies to grow of the major players. And as our CFO pointed out in his call in Q2, over 40% of the division's revenue is stored software, not full systems, just standalone software, particularly with the strength of the suite and all the things we're doing to make it easy to use, install in 30 minutes and have a mastery in Chinese history be able to protect his data and never lose it. So that's what we want to be able to do. Okay, so that's a license model and is it a, is it a, is it a ratable model? Or is it a sort of a perpetual model? What is it? We've got both depending on the solution. We have cloud engagement models. We can consume it in the cloud. We've got some guys who are traditionalists, give me an ELA, you know, enterprise license agreement. Whatever they want, basically. So we, we're the pasta guys. We have the best pasta in the world. Do you want red sauce, white sauce or pesto? Dave, I said that because you're poor Italian, I'm half Italian on my mother's side. I like Italian. So we have the best pasta. Whatever the right sauce is for you, we deliver the best pasta on the planet. In our case, the best storage software on the planet. You heard, you heard Michael up there on stage today. Don't worry about it. He was invoking his best Italian. I have an affinity for that. So, so Steve, this is your second stint at IBM. Ed's second stint. I am very intrigued that Doug Baylog has now moved over, there's a little inside baseball here, but running sales again. Right. So that's unique actually to see, I have a guy who used to run storage, leave, go be the general manager of the power systems division and open power and then come back to drive storage sales. So you're seeing, it's like a little gravity action, guys sort of coming back in. What's going on from your perspective? Well, I think Eric said it best. We've done an outside in, we've been bringing a lot of people in and I think that the development team, and I wanted to bounce off of what Eric had said, was they always knew how to do it. It's just, they needed to see and understand the motivation behind why they wanted to do it or why they needed to do it. And now they're seeing these people come in and talk about in a very caring way, this is how the world is changing and they believe it. And they know how to do it and they're getting excited. So now there's a lot more what people might think, oh, I'm just going to go develop my code and go home and whatever. They're not, they're excited. They want to build new products. They want to make these things interoperate together. They're passionate about hearing from the customer. They're passionate about, tell me what I can do to make it better. And all of those things, when one group hears something that's going on to make something bad, they want to do the same thing, right? So it's really, it's breathing good energy into the storage division, I think. So question for you guys on that front, you talked about Eric, we don't leave his storage anymore, right? The sea levels don't care about that. But you've just talked about two very strong quarters in storage revenue perspective. What's driving that? Or what's dragging that? Is it data protection? What are some of the other business level drivers that are bringing that storage sale along? So for us, it's been a couple of things. So when you look at just the pure product perspective, the growth has been around our all flash arrays. We have a broad portfolio. We have very cost effective stuff. We have stuff for the mainframe, we have super high performance stuff. We have stuff for big data analytic workloads. So again, there isn't one flash. There's a couple startups that started with one flash and that's all they had. We think it's the right flash tool for the right job. It's all about data applications, workloads and use case.  You need a different type of flash for that. We tune everything to that. So flash has been a growth engine for us. The other has been software defined storage. The fact that we sweeted it up, we have the broadest software portfolio in the industry. We have block, we have file, we have object, we have backup, we have archive, we've got management plane, we've got that. And by packaging into a suite, I hate to say we stole it from the old Microsoft office, but we did. And for the end user base, it's up to a 40% discount. I'm old enough to remember the days of the computer store. I think Dave might have gone to a computer store once or twice too. And there it was, Microsoft Office at iLevel for $9.99, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word above it at $4.99. Which would you buy? So we've got the Spectrum suite up to a 40% savings and we let the users use all of the software for free in their dev environments at no charge and it's not a timeout version, it's not a light version. It is a full version of the software. So you could try a full thing out for free and then at the suite level you save up to 40%. What's not to like? And I think I just wanted to compliment that too. I think to also answer the question is, one of the things we've done, so we've talked about development really growing, getting excited and wanting to build things. The other thing that's also happening is at the field level, we've stopped talking speeds and feeds like directly, right? And so it has become this higher level conversation and now IBMers who go and sell things like cognitive and IoT and that sort of thing, they're now wanting to bring us in because we're not talking about the feeds and speeds and screwing up like how they like to sell. We're talking about, Ginny will come out and say, data is your most valuable asset in your company. And we say, okay, I got to store those bits and bytes someplace, right? We provide that mechanism, we provide it in a multitude of different ways and we want to compliment what they're doing. So now when I put presentations together to help the sales field, I talk about storage in a way that is more, how does it help cognitive? How does it help IoT? How does it help test and dev? And by the way, there's a suite, it's storing it, it's using it, it's protecting it, it's all of those things. And now it's complimenting their selling motion. Well, both the passion and the energy coming from both of you is very palpable. So thank you for sticking around, Eric and Steve, for coming back to theCUBE and sharing all the exciting things that are going on at IBM. That energy is definitely electric. So wish you guys the best of luck on the next day or so of the show. And again, thank you for spending some time with us this afternoon. Thanks for having us. Thanks for having us. Absolutely. For my co-host, Dave Vellante, I'm Lisa Martin. You're watching theCUBE's live continuing coverage of the Emerald 2017 day two. Stick around, we'll be right back.


Jilla Congress committee president  straps the fight for India OSSTALK..  hät... �... ὒ᾽ᾳ᾽᾽᾽ᾦ᾽᾵�他是 ὒᾳᾳ᾽᾽᾽᾽᾵, Ὀᾳᾳᾳurposedy wide government and government and and government and the government and the സ്െുച്ു. ലിക്ക്ു ക്പുച്ക്ചലുു. Jagannath Ji, leaders of the UDF, brothers and sisters, friends from the media, I would like to welcome all of you here today. I am Adhaneer Raya, a.k.a Priyankar Raya. I am not talking about names, but I am happy for all of you. My dear brothers and sisters, this meeting is about the eco-sensitive zone, the buffer zone that has been conceptualized. This meeting is about the eco-sensitive zone, the buffer zone that has been conceptualized. This meeting is about the eco-sensitive zone, the buffer zone that has been conceptualized. Before I speak about the buffer zone, the eco-sensitive zone, I want to make one thing quite clear. Before I speak about the buffer zone, I would like to tell you something very special. Both the BJP and the CPM believe in violence. In their ideology, violence is deeply embedded. And they think that by being violent, by threatening, they can shape people's behavior. They both think that by acting violently, they can frighten people. This is a very deep confusion in their mind. Because they lack courage, they think that violence can shape other people's behavior. Because they lack courage, they think that violence can shape other people's behavior. But that is not the case. Because there are many people whose behavior cannot be shaped by violence and threats. But in our country, there are many thousands of people whose behavior cannot be shaped by violence and threats. So the government of India, the Prime Minister thinks that by making me sit in ED for five days, I will change my behavior. The Prime Minister thinks that by making me sit in ED for five days, I will change my behavior. This is a confusion in the mind of the Prime Minister. And the same way, the CPM believes that by breaking my office, I will change my behavior. My behavior is shaped by my affection for the people of my country. It is shaped by the affection for the toiling masses of this country. It can never be shaped by my opponents or enemies. Now let me speak a little bit about the buffer zone. This is a very important issue for the people of Vainar. Last year, when the eco-sensitive zone around Vainar Wildlife Sanctuary was being demarcated, I urged the environment minister to ensure that the concerns of the local communities are addressed. Last year, when the eco-sensitive zone around Vainar was being demarcated, I was informed that the zone around Vainar was being demarcated. I was informed that the zone around Vainar Wildlife Sanctuary was based on the proposal sent by the Kerala Government in 2019. I was informed that the buffer zone was based on the proposal sent by the Kerala Government in 2019. I was informed that the buffer zone was based on the proposal sent by the Kerala Government in 2019. It has been almost one month now and I have not been given any reassurance by the state government regarding concrete steps they have taken. It has been almost one month now and I have not been given any reassurance by the state government regarding concrete steps they have taken. I have also written to the Prime Minister, apprising him of the concerns of the local communities of Vainar. There is absolutely complete clarity in the UDF. We do not want a buffer zone which includes inhabited areas. Let me repeat it again so that it is crystal clear. The UDF does not want inhabited areas to be inside the buffer zone. I do not want the buffer zone to be inside the buffer zone. This has been our position from the very beginning. So the left front, the LDF, the Chief Minister should stop spreading confusion. Breaking my office is not going to make any difference to anything. The ball is firmly in the court of the Chief Minister. He has been elected to look after the interests of the people of Kerala. So he should quickly act in the interests of the people of Vainar. I do not understand why the people of Vainar should suffer because of the actions of the LDF government. I hope the LDF government takes the steps required to solve the issue which has been created by them in the first place. But I am very clear in my mind if the LDF government proceeds with including inhabited areas in the buffer zone. Then the UDF and the Congress party will fight them every inch of the way. We do not believe in violence but we will non-violently resist the LDF government and we will ensure that the interest of the people of Vainar is protected. We will not allow inhabited areas to be part of the buffer zone. I agree that the Chief Minister should be very clear that it is not just the UDF and the Congress party, it is the people of Vainar who are against the decision. Every single person in Vainar will be resisting this action. And I know the people of Vainar, they are not scared of threats and violence and all these type of things. We stopped the three farm laws, Narendra Modi had to take those farm laws back, we will stop this decision over here as well. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much.