Nigeria's external reserves fell by $1.4 billion. The reserves, which stood at $35.25 billion as of April's extent, fell to $34.23 billion as of May 31 and $33.85 billion as of June 15. Speaking under the client and external reserves at the recent Monetary Policy Committee meeting, the CBN governor, Gaudwin Amy-Fellay, said these reflect sales to the foreign exchange market and third-party payments. In March, the reserves lost $178 million after dropping from $34.99 billion as of March 1 to $34.82 billion as of March 31. Meanwhile, the Naira fell to $500 against the parallel market on Wednesday from $495 billion last week.


But I've never talked with like outspoken atheists before, are you? Yes, I am very much an outspoken atheist. The funny thing is, I'm actually a former Young Earth creationist. Okay, whoa! It was in 2000... What's your name? Robert. Robert, Robert. Robert, nice to meet you. Nice to meet you, too. No, go for it. Sweet, sweet, sweet. My name's Ty. Robert. Robert, I have a hobby where I set up a table like this in like open areas and invite people to talk about whatever they want to talk about. A lot of times I get religious people. Well, in fact, most of the time I get religious people. And they'll try to talk to me about the religion, tell me on the concept. We'll talk about the foundation of why they believe that and why the time we return like to the top layer, they're a lot less confident as a result. My thing is, I never get a chance to talk with open atheists. I've talked with people who are like spiritual, you say they're Christian, but don't follow any of the attendance of the Bible, who aren't comfortable with the A word. But I've never talked with like outspoken atheists before, are you? Yes, I am very much an outspoken atheist. Funny thing is, I was, I'm actually a former Young Earth creationist. Okay, whoa! It was in 2000. What's your name? Robert. Robert, Robert. Robert, nice to meet you. Nice to meet you, too. Nice to meet you, too. Nice to meet you, too. Do you mind if I record? No, go for it. Sweet, sweet, sweet. All right. Former Young Earth creationist. Yes, sir. All right, talk to me. Yeah. In 2000, I was actually studying to become a fundamental Baptist creature. Okay. And I had, in the previous years, 1990, 1999, I was actually introduced to Young Earth creationism. And I was like, this is fascinating. And I wanted that to be the reason I gave under 1 Peter 315. Christians are committed to that verse to give a reason for the hope that you have. Well, I started getting more and more into creationism, but I'd been studying astronomy since before I could walk. And so when I got to certain creationist claims in the field of astronomy, I was immediately able to pick out some things they were saying that even, probably the age of eight, I could identify were just wrong, where they were confusing different astronomical concepts. Could you give me an example? Yes, absolutely. The one that made me start questioning the whole thing was there's a Young Earth creationist creature by the name of Kent Hovind. And he, in one of his video presentations, he confuses Big Bang Theory with star formation. They're actually two completely different things. And the textbook slide, the textbook picture that he's quoting is actually describing star formation. And he's saying, no, this is Big Bang. Everything started swirling. It was Big Bang. Sure. And so I actually wrote him a letter saying, hey, I can recognize the mistake you're making here. I agree with you on everything else, but this one thing that you're saying is wrong. This is something you might want to correct. Right. And I wish I'd kept the letter, because he wrote me a letter back saying, repeating his mistake. Good morning. And so this, okay, this is not right. So I decided to actually study, dig into what the mainstream scientists were saying a little more versus what the creationists were saying. And it turns out that more often than not, creationists were not accurately representing the ideas they were opposed to. Layout today. So I... Strong ending, basically. A strong end argument. Yes, exactly. So I dug a little bit deeper into creationism. And when I informed my Baptist college classmates of this saying, hey, they're making these obvious mistakes, I really don't know if we should be listening to some of these people. I was chastised and I was told that I was going to be forced to sign a statement stating that I accepted Young Earth creationism. Wow. So I just said, you know, I'm sorry, you're asking me to lie. I can't do that. And I walked away. So how long ago was this? 2003. So I didn't know what to do next. So you know what? I'm actually going to sit down now and read the Bible. From cover to cover. I'm going to sit down and read the Bible cover to cover. And what I found instead of all the things that have been preached from the pulpit all those years was a book that advocated genocide, slavery, murder. And I think I was maybe a quarter of the way through the First Testament when I wrote the Old Testament. Sorry. When I realized, you know what? I can't make myself believe this. So I set out to find my own path. And I've tried to live my life since then by a phrase that I think is pagan in origin. I could be wrong. If it harm none, do what they will. And that's how I arrived here today. How did you get to the atheist label? It seemed to me, since I no longer believed in a God, it seemed the most accurate label for me. Theism being a belief in a God, the prefix A, meaning none. So no belief in a God. Do you believe that no gods exist? I would say that those are actually two different claims. I have yet to see evidence of a God existing. But I'm certainly open to the idea. Okay, okay. How confident are you that a God exists right now from like a scale from 0 to 100 percent? I'm certainly on the lower end. I would say maybe around 1 to 2 percent. The problem is the religions I've seen so far that preach this idea. I've not seen where their claims can stand up. If I'm presented evidence, I will certainly change my mind. But there are certain things like gay rights, where if there is an all-loving God, he's going to understand why I set time aside to try to protect these people. Okay. Sounds like the position of I'm waiting for better evidence to change my mind. I'm not absolutely shut to everything. Yes. I'm open-minded, but I haven't done the evidence I need to convince you that it's true. I'll wait for it to happen. And until then, don't forget your sunscreen. Until then, I'm at a low end of the scale. I think that's completely reasonable to be at. I'm wondering, there are fias who watch my YouTube channel and they'll probably want to wonder, or probably wonder, actively, where do you get your morals from?  Well, that's actually a... Which way if we talk about that? No, not at all. Sweet. That's actually a...  No, not at all. It kind of goes back to that phrase, if it harms none, do what they will. There's going to come a... I've had to rely on a lot of people over the course of my life to help me out at different times. So if I go out... So if I go out to rape, murder, and have my own way with people, there's a chance... There's a very good chance, I don't know, I hope so, that it's going to come back to affect me negatively. And so I don't want that negative influence to be one in anyone else's life either. So a little respect will go a long way. Would you say if a harm's none, do what by will is your foundational outlook of what determines what's a good thing from bad things? I would say so. Okay, I'm going to try to play with that a little bit. I don't really have anything set up, but in the event of say you were able to... Say there's a millionaire, he's got like a ducktail's bat of coins he's dipping in, he will not notice if 10 coins are missing from that lab. You can take those 10 coins and it won't harm anybody. Would you be able to do that without any... I wouldn't be able to. Why? What's the harm that's been caused? It's not mine. I also have a... I don't have a lot of debt. I don't have a whole lot of credit cards. I have had things offered to me, different loans, things like that. If I didn't earn it, I don't want it. Okay. And so that's why my car is kind of a piece of junk. I could have taken out a pretty good size loan, gotten that. I would rather just save my money and do the best I can with that. It sounds like the system that you presented before where if it doesn't cause harm, do it. It does not take into account this integrity that you're bringing out. Would this be something that... Would you have added additional things to this rule that you have? Does one write things from one of the things beyond just the rule itself? Like personal integrity, personal property, and you don't want to violate that? Perhaps like transgressions against goodwill, things like that? Or it seems like this rule that you have is more complex than just the one that you state. Yeah, and I totally get that. And I'll find out your stance. It's more just a generalization. Okay. I'll find my stance on women's reproduction. There... I think a good example of an exception to that rule I think might be the concept of war. Okay. If in World War II, I think it's a great example of that. You had a... I hope it'll be okay. It looks like it's holding up. Yeah. We had one over here blow over earlier. Yeah, that was ours. I think a great example of a possible exception to that rule might be in World War II. Okay. And you had an empire, the Germany, going out trying to conquer all the lands around it, doing unspeakable things to those people that they... Yeah, that would be that. Unspeakable things to the people that they conquered. And I have to... I have to hope in my mind that the one... that the one person killed in an active war might have saved a thousand more lives. Okay. That the sacrifice of harm in others was worth it to avoid more harm in the future. Correct. And I'm just playing through some scenarios in my head. Yeah. What would you say then is, if you could give more time to elaborate on it, is the actual moral that you're following? Or set a moral set you're following? What's the system that you're using to determine good things for bad things, if it isn't just that single rule? Do as less harm as possible. Do as less harm as possible? Do as little harm as possible. Okay. Oh, how about this? Because I know... I would consider that like a negative system because you're talking about the things that you shouldn't do, rather than the things that you should do. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I see that. The ones that just avoid doing bad things. Just me personally. I see that. Though I wouldn't force only do good things, like obviously if I was going to start making laws, I'd be like, hey, I'd work on a computer then. But as far as codes for actions that you should do, do you have a system for that? And maybe I can throw one at you and you can take mine? Yeah, I can do that. Would you like to hear mine? Go for it. I value good will. Take morality throughout the window. Take morals throughout the window. What I really care about is good will. And good will is a series of rules that we develop as like a social contract. I like living more than dying. I like being healthy more than being sick. Yeah.  Something that we've all in this society, in this localized area, or like as a human race agreed on fundamentally, as valuable to all of us. And we can make laws that either support those rules, good will, or don't. And so like if we prefer not to be killed, rather than being killed. Right. We should make a law that says don't murder people because that seems to support good will. And so what I would say is my value is the system of working with people to come up with a set of what are inherently arbitrary rules, but coming up with objective rules to support these things that we value as a social contract. And then once we have that, we can compare our objective reasons to support good will against other groups and see who has the better system. So if we come up with rules that says don't murder anyone and people over on that side of the table say, well, we'll murder whoever we want.  So there's like ways of measuring who has the best system. And what I'm looking for is the best system that supports good will. And it's like a work in progress. What do you think about that? I can certainly see where that's coming from. I don't know if I would set a group of people aside to say to preferably just go on murder murder. Yeah, I wouldn't want that either. I don't think they'd live this one. Yeah. I think when you look at a courtroom setting, the grief shown from the families, you certainly cause a lot of us on there. They're never going to get to see their child again. Absolutely.  They may have been gunned down in a classroom or if we'd had a law set aside to prevent that person from having purchased a firearm or whatever weapon was used, that life might have been saved. That might have been a personal inconvenience for that person for whatever reason. Yes. But personal inconvenience is a price I'm willing to pay. I would even say your rule of do as less harm as possible would be part of the good will that I'm talking about. And I would just throw some extra things in there too. Yeah. Or it's like I have to write to my own kidneys. I could give them up to people that I should have to write to my own personal property. If someone needs an abortion, they should be able to have that. If someone's gay, they should be able to get married. But this is a big list of just arbitrary things. Say, hey, social contract, we agree that this is important. Do I say now? Social contract, we just agree that this is important. Yes. And we don't need a God knowing what's on there. No, not at all. Okay, that's more or less it. Okay, all right. Thank you so much for the chat. I appreciate it. Thank you. I really enjoy the chat. Thank you. Take on your character. Go for it, go for it. Okay, thank you.


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The following is a presentation of TFNN. Trade what you see with Larry Pezzavento. Call now toll free at 1-877-927-6648 or internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER>. Now Larry Pezzavento. Okay, looking good Billy Ray feeling good Lewis. Well, we've got some action going folks. I mean, I'm hoping that Tom's doing a great job as he always does doing his live program. But my goodness, you certainly got a lot of volatility going on for sure. I posted a chart of the NASDAQ. This is where the problem started. As you can see here that 382 retracement that we that we were looking at right in here. We stopped rallied up. We had those lower tops and that was it. That's basically it. I fact is this will be my last day for a while folks. I need a break badly and I'm taking it. We're going to see volatility like we've never seen before. Here's what I think is going on folks. I showed you the NASDAQ but the one that we were following the most closely of course was the E-mini S&P. And I tried to reinforce to everybody yesterday when I was on the show that this number that we were looking at here at 4050, the 382 retracement, you'll see that we finally made it. Remember now we made it here in the NASDAQ but then we came down and made a newer one. And I mentioned when we go below that folks. Oh dear, be very, very careful because that means that the whole operation has changed. And I'll give you my two cents worth and all it's related to is numbers folks. That's all it really is. Okay, now the first one we're going to look at here is we'll start out. I think we'll start out with Apple. And the reason why we'll start out with Apple is because it's pretty indicative of everything that's going on in the market. So here's where we are. We'll get this up here. And this looks just like the S&P folks. Just looks like the Dow Jones. You know, they all look alike. And this is Apple. And I think this is the real key here that we want to watch because there's the ABCD right at the exact 382. But the problem is folks, you see this little three week rally here. That was an exact 382. And that was one of the reasons why we were saying be very, very careful in here because these markets have a tendency to when they turn and their bearish look out. And this is certainly one of those times. So we'll be watching it with the fine tooth comb here very, very closely. Now you'll see here that we had the first 382 retracement was right here.  This was the 10 day high. And now we're down here at below 138 already. That's really a bad sign folks. We go below here folks. That's trouble in River City. And I might have to come back and get involved with this a little bit. But frankly, there's so much coming that I don't even want to worry about folks. Just to give an example today, we've had an $80 swing in gold. We've had a $7,000 swing in Treasury bonds. I mean, these are monster swings.  And that's where you've got to really just look at gold here today folks. And believe me, this was, hold on one second. We'll get this up here to take a look at. By the way, our guest today is Shane Smollion, wolftrader.com. Look at that. There's your ABCD on the gold to the downside. You can see the beautiful garly that we had up here to sell it at 58. You know, it had 30 bucks in it. Look, it went all the way back and made the 61% retracement of the whole move from back at 1910. I mean, this is volatility in spades. And we have a caller from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Again, it's Keith. Keith, how are you? I'm good, Larry. Thanks for taking the call. What can I do for you, my friend? Well, I'm wondering the target you have on Monday for the big event, if you will. Yeah. Do these cycles in New Zealand, Bert, have you seen that happen? Oh, yeah, they're going to be a high or low. And since we're coming down so sharply, this will most probably be some type of a low. We've got a big lunar cycle. Hey, we've got Shane Smollion on at the break. He'll answer all these questions for you. Okay. But, you know, whether they'll do it or not.  That's what I use. I know the astrology is great. I've looked at it. You know, I have to have smart people like Shane and Tim Bost and Norm Winsky and others that come on and show us what they're doing. But, you know, I look at what I have to do with the patterns as far as ABCD. That leads me to the promised land. And believe me, I don't fall for any of the factors. If you remember two years ago, they were telling us that interest rates were going to go to zero. Zero interest rates. You were going to have to pay them for holding the money. These folks are sitting there. They're not doing too good right now. You know? Yeah. That's why I can't listen to the news when they try to feed me that stuff. Because I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I wait till that knife hits the ground before I pick it up. I'll tell you that. Well, you're too modest. Well, it's just my modesty is my middle name. Not really. Can I ask you another one? Sure, please. My work is showing the cues getting down an AB equal CD down to 260. Yeah. Are you kind of on board with that, too? Oh, we take out the lows of May 20th easily. We can easily make that. That's not a hard number to make. Because, you know, this has been the weakest markets of all. It couldn't even make a 382 retracement on this last rally. We did it in the Dow. We did it in the S&P. But the NASDAQ was not able to do it. And that's telling you that it was still weak. And so that's it. The key this week is we've had these lower tops all week long after hitting the 382 retracement. You know, exactly in the S&P, exactly in the Dow. And it just kept rolling it over. And once we went below 4060, they turned out the lights. And, you know, we're trying 160 handles in two days. And that's the real key to what we're looking at, you know? Got it. Well, hopefully we can get some fear in this market. Well, it's the fears there. The next one I'm going to let you go now. But I'm going to post you what I was looking at today. Because, you know, one of the things that we teach here. Stay with me. Keith, you're right here. So we'll just do this together. And we'll get this up here to take a quick look at it. This is the E-mini S&P on a two-minute chart. And you're going to be able to see here right after the report. We had the big break. Now, the first thing we say after a big break is look for a 3-8-2 retracement. Bada bing, there was a first one. Bada bing, there was a third one. Drum roll. Can you give me a drum roll, Keith? I've got one more to show you. That's the one. I love it. Only in America can you do stuff like this. Okay. And not only to get, and not even get paid for it. That's the best part of it. Let's get up here to take a look at it. Now, here it is, the third time, folks. The third time that it's hit 3-8-2. That last number, folks, was 39-23. Now, as long as we don't get above 39-23, we're heading lower. But if we should happen to pop above 39-23, that's the possibility that we might be getting our first rally. And we'll have to see, you know, what the market's going to be doing. It's 39-08 now, so it's got quite a ways to go before 39-23. But that's given you the indications that we're in big trouble in some of these markets. When you see the bond market, which is the godmother of all safety, he's moving $7,000.  Are you kidding me? I mean, this is a bond market. It's supposed to be safe. Hey, Keith, thanks for calling in, buddy. We'll talk to you soon, okay? Thank you, Larry. Appreciate it. Bye-bye.<PHONE_NUMBER>. In a time of glooming inflation, where you're purchasing powers eroded, there's no better place to protect your harder and money than in gold. 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Visit tfnn.com and try Mastering Probability 30 Days Risk-Free Today. tfnn Educating Investors internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER> Okay, folks, I posted the chart of the natural gas showing also the 382 retracement and not when it works pretty good. But I did want to show you, this is the cash S&P. The high we made this past week was exactly at the 382 level, and we have a caller on the line, Greg from New Hampshire. What can we do for you, my friend? Hello, Greg, are you there? I think I've lost a connection if I'm not mistaken.  Well, maybe he'll call back. But anyway, this 382 retracement, what's so important about this, folks, is that if we break that, oh, dear heaven, that is such a terrible negative thing. And, you know, we're not very far away. We're less than 100 handles away in the S&P. The old low was 3810. We got down to 3906. I don't know where we're going to close. We close really badly today, and we live in the 1,200 points in the Dow Jones. For God's sakes, don't be short over the weekend because there could be something really, really negative out there. I don't know what it would be. Now, there's also the possibility that Putin might send up a white flag. The odds of that happening are, as the Chance Brothers coming over this last horizon there, slim and none, but I don't think that's going to happen. But there's going to be great opportunities, even interday today. Look at this. I mean, just look at these 382 retracements that they're out. I mean, they've just been lining up just really nicely. The only one that didn't work, of course, was this last one in gold. You know, we had a really nice move down of well over $3,000 in the gold contract. And then it went back and made a 61% retracement over the whole range, folks. That's $100 moves in gold in one day. They don't do that very easily. I mean, give me a break. I mean, that's really wild volatility. So we've got to be able to, you know, worry about it. We've got Pedro from Park City. Peter, how are you? I'm doing great, Larry. You're definitely going to be missed over the next few weeks. Yeah, yeah. I wonder, like, my overall bigger picture on this is, you've often said that .382 moves in bear markets are typical within bear markets. And the 382s have been trading great. Yes. I see it. We've come down from 4808 to 3807, so 1,000 points. We've bounced the .382 basically to 4,200. And it looks to me like we're setting up, you know, maybe over the next month or two, at least, for 3,200 or even an extension of that when you do, you know, since you've only retraced .382, maybe a 1.272 or 1.618. And I just wondered what your thoughts were on that. I agree with you. 100% Peter, the reason why that is so important, we had Stan Harley on at the beginning of the week and he talked about Walt Bresser's work, which is high translation. In other words, the market peaks early in a cycle. So if you have a 382 that only happens in 10 days and it should have taken three weeks and then it breaks that, that's high translation to the left and that is extremely bearish. All it needs to do is to break below that low and that's going to be, that's when you're going to see the Dow moving. We will see a move in the Dow here sometime between now and the 4th of July of 2,000 points in one day. The reason why that's the number we've seen 1,100 several times, you multiply that times your one point, excuse me, 1,900 times just, let me get the numbers right. You multiply 1.618 times the largest move in the Dow so far, which is 1,200. That gets you to 2,000 points down in the Dow. So we'll see that sometime between now and the 4th of July. That's only, you know, two and a half weeks. So we'll see that, but we're going to great, great opportunities are coming no matter what happens. We're going to have tremendous rallies. Yeah, no, again, thank you for all you do.  Yeah, rest. See you soon. Yeah. I love you, Peter. Take it easy, buddy. I love Park City. I was there in 1980 when the, oh, I'll move on to the next one. We've got another question coming in here. Thanks, Peter, for calling in. I really appreciate it. Okay, folks, let's get the next one up here that I want to take a quick look at. So you can see I posted this one of the S&P cash, and that tells you if we go below those lows of March 20th, folks, that's really, let's try it again, Larry, May 20th. That's really what's super, super important here. But we were starting out the week. Let's move on to something that I can talk about with a little bit of excitement, and that here is the crude oil contract. We'll get this up here so you can look at it. This is one of the videos that we sent out last night saying there was going to be a really high probability, well, I'm talking about 60%, that this high that we made here, you see that high? That was an exact 78% retracement. 78 was 1, 23, 11. The high that we made last night was 1, 23, 18. We dropped $3,000, $3 a barrel so far down into that, and if you want to have some fun, why don't you put in the old 3-8-2s on the crude oil and see how they held up? Because that little puppy works, folks. It really does. Don't mind sharing it. You know why? Most people don't want to do the work, and I'm okay with that. That's the way it is. That's their right. That's their prerogative. So some people like chocolate cake. Some people like strawberry cake, and some people don't like cake at all. So you've got to decide which of that group you are and trade what you see and not what you think. And if you do that, you're going to be okay. These ABCDs don't work all the time, but they work a heck of a lot more than they fail, and that's the real beauty of it. Look at this week, folks. I mean, just stop and think where we were at the beginning of the week. Let's just get this up here. And this was a real easy... We talked... Well, never mind. Don't make any difference. Okay, here is the picture of this for the week. You'll see we have lower tops all the way through here. Okay? Look where we are now, folks. We're off the page to the downside. You know, once this low was broken, this is when we broke the 40-60, folks. When we broke that in the S&P, that said, you know, we're heading lower. And it did it late in the day yesterday, and it never uptick. You could have sold 40-60 and put a stop at 40-61. You never would have been failed. That's how important that number was. And we've got Greg on the line from New Hampshire. Greg, what can we do for you? Hi, good morning, Larry. I just wanted to say hi, long-time listener, long-term student, and just was looking at gold on a short term if you could take a look at that. Oh, my goodness. Why don't you give me something that's easy? I'll bring this chart up, folks, because this is not an easy chart to look at, but I have was watching that. And it's even higher than this. I'll get this up here so that we can take a look at it. I'll get to where we are here.  And that went from 58 all the way down to 26. That was a $3,200 move. And then, you know, I hope somebody put their stops in to make something. But look what it did. It's moved over $100 an ounce today, Greg, between down 20, up 20, down 20, and up 50. I mean, that's a huge up 40. I mean, that's a $100 move in gold in one day. We have taken out the highs that we made way back here at the 1150. We've been up to, I think, 63. Now, 1863 or 64. Boy, that's a toughie. Look at that strength of that bar. I mean, that's, whether that's a major bottom or not, I don't know. You know, I've always said that, you know, I liked long gold and long silver, but I thought we'd get down a lot lower in the gold, but with action like this. And I got to respect that, partner. Well, thank you very much, Larry. Hey, thank you. Thanks for being in support, too. I really appreciate it, Greg. 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What do you show for today, buddy, with this lack of volatility in the market today? Crazy times, for sure. I just want to set out, Larry, by just thanking you for all that you do. I certainly appreciate what you do, and I think we can see by the callers calling it today that you really have a lot of support there. You've touched a lot of lives, and I think everybody should... I mean, I appreciate just what you do, and I think everybody is very lucky to have you on a daily basis. So enjoy your break, for sure. Am I going to have to send you $20, too? Larry, I haven't listened to you for years, but even before we met, and so I used to listen to you in the car when I was driving and walking. That explains your accidents, anyway. Go ahead, tell us what you're looking at, buddy. We're in the midst of a bear market here, it looks like. So what do you see? Absolutely. So we're going to do a little bit S&P, and then I'm going to go into some more gold, because people have asked. There was actually a question about the gold, and I'm going to address that high-translation topic that you brought up with Stan Harley, too, because that's important. Well, a couple of graphs here. First of all, RK Innovations. We have been tracking the ETFs. We've had this in a cell since February the 10th. So this is something that I like to watch, because I think this is the new technology that leads the NASDAQ. This has just really been ultra-barish, and I think we have more downside on this, for sure. And I had some projections down there below 20, but we're getting a little bit ahead of ourselves there. The biotech sector is still pretty beat up here. This has been in a cell in the Fed use since 225. So those are just two sectors I like to look at. And then the VIX, this is an interesting one. So the VIX is finally starting to get off the bottom here. It has been falling this whole time while the S&P has been falling, which is a very unique situation. So finally, we're getting a little bit of a hookup here in the VIX. Notice here that we are coming into some cycle. These are cycles down here. This is a four to six day. This is a double lunar cycle here. So it looks as if the VIX is going to be rising here for the next few days, at least on the short term. So that's interesting. At some point the VIX has to start rising for this S&P to make some type of a low here. So this is the first chart that I have here. This is an S&P entry day. And I've been calling these the poop slinging rallies. And these are the rallies that they try to get going and then they just collapse. And you can see here that the S&P has been doing very well coming up to these speed lines and dropping back to these speed lines here. So this has been very useful to kind of find these levels of support and resistance here. And this is based upon the Fibonacci retracements. They're just speed lines. They start here and they move through the levels here, the retracement levels. But you can see that we've just been having these horrific retracements that come much quicker. So the thing that people need to realize is the further we get into a bear market, the faster these retrace. And then it's more confirmation that we are in the bear market because in the early stages of the bear market, they get retraced but they're not as strong. But in this case, they retrace even faster. And that's the sign of the dominant trend, which is down. Also, quantitative tightening is beginning. Now officially, this doesn't show up until about the 15th on the treasuries. But I'm showing the signs that it's already happening. And my Fed internals, I've already started to show this. So when we hit on June 1st, this is already happening. For those who don't know what this means, this is the way that the Fed starts to reduce their balance sheet. And there's many ways they can do it. They can do it very slowly. They can do it more aggressively. They can sell out treasuries. They can sell out mortgage-backed securities. But the bottom line is this is devastating for the S&P. And I've been talking to my subscribers about this for a while, that this is the final stage here where you get down to the nerve. And so once these start to roll off, it's going to have a much more profound effect on the selling pressure that's coming. This is a chart here. These are the Fed internals I was talking about. I was already starting to track these declining even before June into here. So this is going to continue to come down as the tightening begins. And you can see here, the QT begins here. I know I have many different images here, but the QT is here. I think we're in a full-on crash now on this S&P. And so I can't really see anything changing on this. If anything, they're talking about a possible three-quarter point rate hike now. They brought that on the table all of a sudden. And to be honest with you, it would not surprise me because I've done the charts of the S&P next week. And the S&P next week, if you take a look at this, this is showing all of my signals in here. But on 615, the Planetary Speed Index makes a sell on the S&P here. And that's the Fed meeting. And so I've done the charts. And there's a lot of Uranus activity in there which is unexpected news. And there's a lot of Neptune. It's a confusing time. So whatever happens, people are going to be confused. And there's a possibility of two surprises coming out of that meeting. And I would not be surprised that they went higher. And then they had more hawkish guidance going forward. So it's a tough time right now. And I always tell people, I like to look at the astrology and the cycles. It's great. But the ultimate predictor of this market is going to be what the Fed is doing. The market rises and falls on the Fed and their policy. And right now it's just a very tight, tight policy on the S&P 500. So I just think that this double lunar cycle comes in. And we were talking about that concept of a high translation. And one of the things that this double lunar cycle does is that's what it does. It takes into account that the left or the right translation. This went back into a sell on 6.9. And this is going to stay in a sell for most of the month now, going forward. It came into a buy a couple of days here. We had a couple of good trades into there. But ultimately this is bearish. And we're coming into a time now where it's just, there's just nothing there. I mean, I don't know how else to say it. The S&P has shown no ability to do anything without the Fed since 2009. And now we're in a situation where it's actually, we're tightening and we're getting down into this phase where there's going to start shrinking the balance sheet. So it's going to be a tough road, Larry. I mean, you're picking an interesting time to take off here because I think we could have a lot of action in the next few weeks. Yeah. That reminds me of the, I think it was Scarface where he says, no that was the Godfather. He says, I keep trying to leave and yet they keep trying to pull me back and keep pulling you back, baby. That's right.  But this is, these are the statistics for next week. Tuesday is a strong day. Wouldn't surprise me, you were talking about a possible bounce. It wouldn't surprise me before the Fed meeting. I mean, they don't like to see a crashing market when they speak. And certainly we've seen rallies every time the Fed starts to talk, even Yellen the other day, Jenny Yellen starts talking in the market, mysteriously rally. So wouldn't surprise me to see them try to do some more of these, what I call these poop slinging rallies where they, this false hope comes out of nowhere. But ultimately, when we look at the big picture, we just have to understand the reality of the situation. We cannot just pretend like the Fed is not there. They are there. They do strongly influence the direction of the S&P and it's down right now. So should be an interesting time. And then the day, you know, there's all these reversals that happen the day of the Fed, the day after the Fed. So it should be more volatility coming down the line here for sure. Well, whenever you see a bond market that moves $6,000, $7000 in an hour. So that is total fear because that big market is so much bigger than the stock market. Those are major players out there. Not that the stock people aren't major players, but these guys are swinging big bucks. Oh, absolutely.  When we got into the Memorial Day holiday, what was interesting is they got ahead of, remember, they're trying to get ahead of the quantitative tightening. 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But this is, just went into a buy yesterday and you can see down here at the bottom, there's a couple of these cycles that are coming into peaks here. So here's the double lunar cycle here. Here's the four to six-day cycle here. Both of these are coming into a higher around 617. Now the Fed meeting is going to be on 615 and we know that there's a lot of volatility there. So that's an interesting thing to look at here. So maybe gold tries to get a little bit higher here in the next few days. I'm going to talk about this weekend. There's a seasonal high coming up at the end of the summer. But ultimately, I think gold is in trouble. Now, people have brought up the point that's gold denominated in the pound and other currencies are doing well, which is true because the pound is getting weak and the dollar is getting strong. But ultimately, I think gold is going to have issues. I talked in the last show actually about how I felt that gold was going to be coming down into this 1,100 to 1,000 area in the next, probably the next three years. And so I started looking at different ways. The first way was this divergence. But the second way was looking at the Jupiter cycle, which is a 12-year cycle. So I did this last week. I'll kind of touch on this again about gold. Now, most people think of gold as their old, reliable, friendly dog, like Old Yeller. But is gold Old Yeller or is gold Cujo? And it really depends on the situation. I know that long-term gold continues to rise. But gold can have vicious bear markets that go on for decades. And so we just have to understand this, that gold doesn't have to go up just because there's a crisis. So the Jupiter cycle here is approximately a 12-year cycle. It measures the effect in each zodiac sign. But don't think too much about the zodiac sign. It's really just the position or the degree that it is, like a clock, as it moves around. So it's just a cycle. We can measure major peaks and tropes. And we can also measure divergences. So divergences are very important, Larry, because that gets into that high translation concept. If something is negatively diverging, it's having a high translation and it's actually falling before the cycle peak. So this is an example. This is going back. This is a heliocentric Jupiter cycle going all the way back to the 1920s. Now, this is gold. I bought this data. It's like a monthly data. And it's put it in real terms. But you can see there was a long period here going up to the late 1970s where gold was very, very friendly. But then we had this huge bear market here from 1980 all the way down to 2000. That's almost 20 years. So if your time horizon is 40 or 50 years, then by all means, you know, gold will probably be higher. But we have to understand that, you know, when you're sitting on gold and it's going down for two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight years, that can be very wearing. So I just want to kind of point some of this out. So this is the Jupiter cycle here. I did decade by decade here. This was 1970 to 1980. And you can see here, this is when it's our friend. It's old Yeller. You know, it has a little bit of a pullback here until 76. But for the most part, it's going up. This is also when we, gold was still more linked to currency. I know we started decoupling into this period, but gold was more linked to this. There were still countries associated with it. People still thought of gold in terms of money. So it was much more sensitive to inflation back here. But when we get back, when we get into the 80s, you can see that gold turns into kujo again. Gold starts to have this big decline. Now notice down here with the Jupiter cycle. Actually, let me go back to 1970. You can see here that this gold at the top here actually follows the Jupiter cycle very nicely here. So at the bottom, here's the Jupiter cycle. So here's, this is gold at the top here. And this is the Jupiter cycle down here. So gold has done a very good job of tracing this out. We have about nine of these cycles in. And then during the 1980s here, you can see that gold was falling along with the Jupiter cycle. So it's been following this pretty well. Now there are times when it doesn't always follow this. Of course, it can diverge positively and negatively. But for the most part, when this Jupiter cycle fell, gold fell also. So the Jupiter cycle here has two important peaks that we look at across 12 years. This is the first peak here. This is the first peak here. And then there's a second peak, which is actually three domed peaks like this. It's like a triple high and then it heads lower. So right now in terms of where we are, we're right here. Right on the tip of this next decline, that should take us down to 2024, 2025. I'm going to do another look this weekend at the Saturn cycle. But that's also showing a bear market is coming for gold. If we go into 1990, it's just more kind of more the same. The 1990s was much more devastating for gold. But you can see down here is the Jupiter cycle. And I'm going to fast forward a little bit here because I know we have time constraints. But this is going into. Now we have plenty of time. Okay. So this is going into the. This is the 2000 2010. So this is dealing with this is the Lehman. This is the great recession into here. And you can see here that here's the cycle here. Now notice this was an interesting situation here. This was a situation where the cycle was falling and gold actually diverged away from it. So it has shown the ability to do this. But I talked before about how there was two very big changes in terms of gold. The first one is dealing with the concept of QE. And so this is what happened during QE. So once QE begins as this new, the new norm in terms of monetary policy, it's moving us away from any concept of gold or the Federal Reserve can just print money. That's the first thing. The second thing here is dealing with Bitcoin. So this is the other big change here. So you started to see, I think gold went through two major shifts here. And so gold does run up here into COVID during this crisis a little bit. But ultimately it starts to fail into here. And why does it fail during the highest inflationary period since the 1980s? I think because the role of gold has changed. So this is something that I think has changed what gold is, how we should look at it. Now this is the actual graph here that I wanted to show. This is showing going from where we are now down here. This is gold up here. This is the Jupiter cycle down here. We are just coming into this next leg down on gold. And I think that's going to carry us down into this 2024, 2025 area. And I showed this on the divergence. I think that's going to take us down to probably somewhere between 950 to 1100 on gold. But ultimately, is gold going to be old yellow for us again and just be the old reliable? We can just put our money there and walk away? Or is it going to be Kujo? They come down and terrorize everybody. And everybody's kind of confused about it. I mean, I know it's confused a lot of people. But I think that this is a translation. What Stan is talking about. The fact that why didn't gold go up during the greatest inflation since the 80s? Because it's having an early translation here. In other words, it's diverging negatively. In other words, these were supposed to be cycle peaks here and gold is already falling. So I think this is inflated gold. I think this is as high as it's going to get. And the big test that we're going to see, I'll talk about this on Saturday, we do have a seasonal pattern of gold which gets really strong in July and August. This is like the seasonal pattern. So if gold fails to really rally, this is going to be the big tell here in the next few months. This really needs to start getting strong in the next few months. Or it's going to have problems going forward based upon these cycles and everything that I'm seeing. Wow, this is good stuff. Can you stay with us, please? For another solution here? Absolutely. Shane Smolian, folks, wolftrader.com. We'll be right back. Sharpening your skills as an investor is like getting better at playing a musical instrument. You have to practice, sure. But you also need excellent instruction from experts. At TFNN, you'll get advice and guidance from the authority and technical market analysis. And it's not just dry, tedious text either. 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Absolutely. Go ahead, ask your question to Shane, please. Okay. Hi. Good morning, Mr. Presidento and Shane. Thanks for picking up my call. Just when you talk about, Shane talked about this gold, and I'm thinking that I look at the money chart that's shown by what you call Shane. In fact, it seems that from the money chart, what I call the cup and handle. With that, the target of gold is on the longer term basis, it could reach around 2005 to 2008. I'm not sure whether I'm correct because I'm not what you call expert or I don't understand anything much about the financial astrology. But I'm actually what you call analyzed more based on the technical analysis part. I'm not sure your comment about that, Shane. You're talking about a technical cup and handle breakout pattern? Is that what you're saying? Yes, correct. I'm talking about the technical kind of handle. Is there any conflict between these two? I'm not looking at the technical formation of the chart. I'm looking at the planetary cycles, and I'm starting to look at the fundamentals too. In terms of the cup and handle, I can't comment on that. But what I can say is inflation is 8.6% right now. I think that if it comes, and it's going to come down, but if it comes down to 5% to 6%, I think that's really going to have a negative effect on gold. I think this is inflated gold. I think we're looking at inflated gold. I'm going to talk this weekend about it. So if you want to come to the webinar, I'll take a look at the cup and handle. I'd like to come too. Thank you very much. Thanks for calling in.  May God bless.


ging in some nice deeper greens to some deeper green shadows I think is your biggest opportunity. The other thing that jumps out at me is the metals feel very flat. So like all of their big two-handed blades. So more controlled shading and highlighting of the metal I think would also be a big way to go to get some more visual interest into the overall pieces. But value contrast is going to be your major thing here. Love the color scheme. Think it totally works. The green, the purple and the blue. It's a rockin' scheme for silvin'. So I think that definitely works. Okay, next up. Luke, first attempt at a larger model and basically looking for feedback on the large surface areas does it feel varied enough to be realistic? Is it overdone? Sure. Honestly, I think the answer is yes. I think it sells. I think this is very nice. We've got some good contrast. I think this part of it, there's a couple of pieces that feel a little off. So the top is nice and yellow. This part is sticking out. This should be basically the same yellow, green as this up here and this up here. This is sticking out the exact same as this and would be very exposed to the light. The weathering looks very naturalistic. It looks like a sort of traditional sponge method you kind of applied there, but I think it works very well. Yeah, so I think overall, I don't think you overdid it. I think we just need to work on light placement a little bit and that's basically gonna be our big challenge. The other thing I would say is again, when it comes to the metals like on the back here, again, working in more shadows, more low tones I think would be a strength. Because right now your matte colors kind of have more variance and wonderful tone changes on the planes than the metal does. And that shouldn't be the case. The metal should have much more variance and come to higher highlights and deeper shadows than the matte color. But yeah, so I think if you do another dreadnought, just work on making sure the planes that are all facing that direction have that kind of similar lighting scheme. Cause this is the only part that really jumps out to me as being incorrectly highlighted. So there you go. Okay, next up, Curran, first submission, looking for feedback on tonal variation, how the bruising looks, the rust effects and any general feedback. Sure, so again, much as with the great unclean one I reviewed earlier, I mean, we can see it in the black and white. Too much of this is the same color, right? So we need more high highlights and more controlled shadows. Like a lot of him is just like the top of his head and the top of these little saggy packs and the top of his gut and the top of his legs and the top of his arms, it's all just the same green. We need to stretch that out more and respect the overall volume of the whole miniature more. So like these areas up here should be largely brighter than here than down here, right? The bruising I think works. We need more tonal variation in things like the intestines, the guts, the little pustules. There's a lot more spaces we could pick out and play with colors here, okay? So getting more variation and tone into that stuff I think would be really good. That's just more hue variation, having more interesting colors and having the pustules have more variation and change in their tone. Same with things like around his face, right? Working in more of those pink tones and glazing and softer tones there. I think the rust on the sword could use a little bit more brown and orange. It all feels kind of samey and it's like it's all kind of in the same orange-brown tone. We need some deeper dark browns. We need some brighter bright orange. So we need to vary the rust effect more. One of the things that I am missing is the copper is not weathered at all or at least not that I can see. And I think that is really something letting us down. I guess there's a little bit of minor vertigree in there. Yeah, there you go, okay. So there's a little bit of minor vertigree in there. We need more. This sword is completely rusted through and yet this bell still looks like really new, right? So we need more stippling of darker colors. Like when copper goes to rust, it doesn't just vertigree. It turns darker brown and black and then eventually there's a vertigree to it. You wanna look at stippling and things like that to get some other colors in there and probably much more heavy application of different types of vertigree. Just Google like old copper statues and you'll see what I'm talking about. There's a thousand million of them in the world and they're all rusted out and oxidized out I should say. And they'll give you really what you, kind of a patterning you can look at but it's all just stippling and stabbing with the brush. Okay, next up. Robin Corvus Cabal Warband finally painted and trying to push the contrast. He learned a lot from the big wings guy looking for mostly for hobby journey feedback and so on and so forth. Yeah, I mean overall I think this warband is a success. We've been watching this evolve for quite a while. I think it looks really nice. My honest answer is for a warband I think you came together really well. Where are our areas of improvement if we wanted to look forward? I think it's mainly in things like tonal variation and value contrast on the skin. That's still the flattest area I see. We also wanna work on some of the transitions from the pink to the yellow. Some of those are quite abrupt. The things like the bird wings look really nice but some of the smaller fur areas where you've used it the value change is a little quick. Overall though I feel like you can definitely see the improvement and I think this warband looks absolutely stunning. It's a fantastic Corvus Cabal Warband. You did an absolutely great job Robin. So really, really, really great work. So there you go. And with that, that brings us to the end of the month. So thank you to everybody who submitted fantastic submissions this month. Really appreciate everybody. We need to give a round of applause to everybody who has the bravery to submit here. We're gonna keep trying to push on where I review every figure. These do get rather time consuming and hard to do to sit here and talk for two to three hours at a clip. So, but for now we're gonna keep pushing it. We'll see how the numbers go. We could hit a point where I've got to come to some kind of alternate method for reviewing these because I just can't do a hundred of these or 150 of these or something like that. Be without my brain melting out of my head. But for the most part I think that this was a really great month. So many beautiful pieces. So many brave artists stepping up and doing their first time. We had people who are deep into their hobby journey and early posters and I love it. I love to see that range. So I thank you to everybody who submitted. Thank you to everybody who's making the PMP a great community. Remember the mission statement of the PMP is painters motivating painters. We're here to help, to be positive, to answer questions and to offer positive critiques and feedback and to help. When you see a fellow artist with a question or in need of a help, take a moment out of your day and answer them. You can change the whole trajectory of someone's day with just 10 seconds of posting something quick on Facebook. This is a positive place and we're gonna keep it that way. So thank you very much to everybody for being so wonderful in the hobby for answering questions, for helping out. Remember if you wanna join us on your hobby journey, link is down in the description. But as always, I thank you very much for watching this one and we'll see you next time.


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If I could go back and talk to 12 year old me, I would say this, your heart can be trusted. I know right now that's hard to believe because what you find in your heart terrifies you and sometimes it makes you feel like you are your own worst enemy. But in time you will see that your heart is your friend and that what you find there is your truth that the information it gives you is in fact a gift from God. Child, beloved child, trust your heart.


This video is a buster call. To find out more about how you can get me to do a personalized video on a topic of your choosing, head over to patreon.com slash Grand Line Review and scroll down to the admiral tier. But for now, enjoy the video. Hello and welcome to the Grand Line Review, your source for everything One Piece. Today we are going to be focusing on one of my favorite characters in the series, Roro no Azoro, or more specifically on the phenomenal battles that he has been involved in over the course of the series. As an unapologetic Zoro fanboy, these portions of One Piece never fail to captivate me, so here we are. The criteria for this list is simple as, a fight is defined as an exchange of attacks between two or more individuals, one of which in this case must be Zoro. However, all fights on this list must also be canon due to top secret reasons to do with national security. But with that out of the way, let's begin. Welcome to the top 10 Zoro fights in One Piece. Number 10. Zoro versus Zoro. We are going to commence proceedings in the realm of the sky against a breeder by the name of Ohm. During NL's death game, Zoro became caught in Ohm's or deal of iron, the survival rate of which was 0%. And initially, this was quite a tough match for the Straw Hat swordsmen because he had to contend with the iron traps laid all around the battlefield, as well as Ohm's gigantic fighting dog, Holy. Furthermore, after dealing with those, Zoro had to very quickly adapt to Ohm's Sky Sword, as well as his advanced use of observation Haki, in a time long before the Straw Hats had any comprehension of Haki whatsoever. Although in the end, none of that really mattered, as Zoro simply took Ohm's attack head-on with his 108 pound cannon, negating the Sky Breeder's Strike and proceeding to defeat him in a single slash, which is a classic Zoro motif in battle. Lose during the beginning, lose in the middle, and triumphantly overcome an opponent right at the end. Number 9. Zoro versus Hatchon. Here we have what I would call another type of very typical Zoro fight, whereby he enters the fray heavily wounded and at a statistical disadvantage. In this case, that statistic was the number of swords being used against him, which totaled six, due to Hatchon being a proponent of Rokudoyu. On top of that, Zoro also had the handicap of only possessing one sword and having to improvise by using the blades of Johnny and Yosaku, despite that this match belonged to Zoro from start to finish. Putting his mastery of swordsmanship on full display, but more importantly than that, this conflict reaffirmed Zoro's commitment to becoming the world's greatest swordsman. Plus, this was the first time we got to see Zoro use a Tatsumaki attack, which to this day is one of my absolute favorite moves in the series. And finally, the fight is also very nicely framed by the general atmosphere of the Arlong arc, making Zoro's struggle and victory all the more meaningful. Number 8. Zoro versus Hody Jones. And in another stunning display of pure dominance, we have the short-lived conflict against the primary antagonist of Fishman Island, Hody Jones. Now as the unofficial, but as we all know is true, first mate of the straw hats, from time to time Zoro has the honor of taking on opponents that are generally reserved for Luffy. However, in these cases you don't generally expect Zoro to win, and here he essentially did just that. After deciding to submerge himself in water to take on the boss Fishman, Zoro got the better of Hody in a single slash and threatened to end the entire Fishman Island arc right then and there. However, given that there was still more story to tell, Hody had to step in and tell Zoro to calm down, allowing Hody to cause more terror and eventually go on to be defeated by Luffy. But we will never forget that Zoro did it first. Number 7. Zoro versus 100 Baroque Works Agents. After many of the straw hats had been drawn in by a clever ruse on the island of Whiskey Peak, Zoro proceeded to initiate a kill-bill style takedown of 100 bounty hunters, including prominent Baroque Works members such as Miss Monday and Igaran. This was a very unique battle in the series because it's so rare that we see power displayed through sheer numbers. Usually this group of bounty hunters would be what we'd refer to as fodder villains, but in this case they caused Zoro a ton of trouble and it was far from an easy victory for the swordsmen. I mean a comfortable victory perhaps, but not easy. And what also contributed to this was the fact that this was the first real test for Zoro's new swords at the time, Yubashiri and the Sandaki Tetsu, the latter of which Zoro discovered was a problem child. So it's like purposely putting yourself on a handicap, but that's precisely what makes this battle so entertaining. Seeing Zoro with perfect mastery defeating a bunch of bounty hunters wouldn't be any fun at all, but seeing him doing it whilst trying to maintain control of his own blades is just fascinating and really cool.  All in all, a brilliant Zoro fight. Number 6 Zoro vs. T-Bone Speaking of fights that take place at night, here is another. Although this conflict against T-Bone has an added layer of time limit in order to add further excitement, you see the ever-honourable T-Bone was standing on the tracks of the sea train in order to prevent the straw hats from proceeding to any slubby. And well, that's just not cool T-Bone, not cool at all. In response the straw hats dispatch their resident demon to deal with him and clear the way, resulting in one of the fastest yet extraordinarily memorable fights in the series. It only consisted of a handful of actions, but with this sequence I would like to give huge props to the anime who did this sequence a whole world of justice, taking the utmost of care with every action performed and elevating it into a truly memorable Zoro fight. Number 5 Zoro vs. Kaku Stepping straight off the sea train and into any slubby, we have the first example of a fight on this list that actually pushed Zoro to his limits. As a member of CP9 and as a proponent of four-sword style, Kaku represented a very worthy opponent, demanding everything that Zoro had available to him at the time to overcome. For the most part this fight is brilliantly choreographed, yes even after Kaku turns into a giraffe, which is ridiculous because who would have thought that a giraffe swordsman would look so sleek. But what this conflict really highlights is that Zoro is at his best when he is met blow-for-blow and forced to innovate and evolve himself, which he did rather shockingly in this case by growing two extra heads for extra arms and six extra swords. I, uh, yeah, still don't really know what to make of Ashiro, but it certainly did cap off quite an amazing battle with pure demonic style. Number 4 Zoro vs. Pika In this unique contest, Zoro took on his largest opponent to date, not counting alls I guess, but unlike a lot of Zoro action sequences, this focused a lot more on thought and strategy as opposed to power and endurance. I mean Pika was never really a true threat to Zoro, in fact he was more like a colony of insects, but no matter how many you spray you simply cannot rid your home of them. This fight required Zoro to observe, analyze and counter Pika's abilities and he performed that role to perfection, eventually luring out the stone insect king and defeating him with quite a classic attack actually, 3000 worlds. And that's almost the most satisfying part of this entire engagement. Despite having been shown in the series way back in the Bharati Ayak, 3000 worlds had never been used to defeat an opponent before now, so it was fantastic to see it finally achieve its intended purpose in this brilliant bout. Number 3 Zoro vs. Bartholomew Kuma Here we have what is certainly the most unconventional fight on this list today, as Zoro took it upon himself to confront one of the seven warlords of the sea in a desperate situation after the crew had been devastated by the aforementioned warlords versus shock. And to put it simply, Kuma was not an opponent who Zoro had it in him to defeat at the time. However, that did not stop him from performing a superb Shishisonson that brought on the dramatic revelation that Kuma was in fact a cyborg. However, by far the greatest aspect of this engagement was when Kuma offered a change in terms by absorbing all of Luffy's pain and fatigue and not only did this result in one of the finest Zoro moments of all time in regards to nothing happened, but it showed us as readers and watchers just how disgustingly durable the straw hat swordsman is, pushing him to a limit that we had never seen before or since. Number 2 Zoro vs. Mihawk This fight stands out greatly as the only loss on this list for Zoro, not only a loss actually, but a complete defeat in every way possible and one that was very necessary for Zoro's character going forward. This battle is what gave Zoro, when I suppose the audience, a benchmark for exactly how far he and the rest of the straw hats had to go in order to achieve their dreams. And even though Zoro was dominated the entire way, it was still quite a spectacle to read and watch as this fight gradually becomes less about actually winning and more about Zoro simply proving himself to be a worthy swordsman, which he does by eventually earning Mihawk's respect. And as a reward we get the tiniest of glimpses of what power is like at the very top of this world as Mihawk elects to finish Zoro using his prized blade Hyoru. And I mean just everything about this battle made the world feel so much bigger, which is a fantastic achievement for what is essentially just an action sequence. Furthermore it also really came to define Zoro as a character, vowing never to lose again and carrying a scar that will forever remind us of this encounter. Number one, Zoro versus Daz Bones. Now Daz Bones isn't a particularly important figure in the series, but what he represents to Zoro in this battle is one of the greatest character defining moments in the series. Due to the power of the super super no mi, Zoro as a swordsman was up against a hard counter. Something seemingly impossible to overcome that we as readers and watchers could not help but be compelled to witness Zoro's struggle to push beyond the limits of a regular swordsman. And what a struggle it was. In fact in my opinion this is still Zoro's hardest fought battle to this day, with him being completely decimated for a good 99% of it. But on the brink of death is exactly where Zoro would find his answer, achieving a very enlightened sense of the world around him and as a result the ability to cut or not cut whatever he saw fit. And with this it was over. One strike in this enlightened state was all it took to bring down Daz Bones and it was incredibly satisfying to see after enduring all that had happened to Zoro during the fight. This conflict in general was also one of the most well choreographed in the entire series, featuring stunning imagery that had me hooked from beginning to end. A swordsman up against an insurmountable task and pushing through it regardless. To me this is THE defining Zoro fight. That pretty much does it for the top 10 best Zoro fights in the series. If you enjoyed this video and the content this channel produces in general then please do consider donating to the Grand Line Review Patreon because the support of all of your amazing people is what continues to make this channel possible. Also I've recently launched a Teespring store if you're interested in shirts, hoodies and other miscellaneous items, with proceeds going directly to support the channel as well. And if you'd like to join the fun at any time then please do head over to my Discord server where a wide array of shenanigan retakes place on a daily basis. And finally please do comment with your own favorite Zoro fights. 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