Okay, in this video, I'm going to go through my top five penny stocks for up to 50x. One of these is a 50x one, potentially in the long term. Others have got potential to run up as well, quite a lot as well. So we'll go through some of these and what I've got for you in this list. I've got to say I'm not a financial advisor. I am a business teacher in my daily life, but I'm by no means an expert on the stock market. I'm going to get right into this top five list that I've got for you and if you appreciate that direct approach of getting right into it, then do leave the video a like. It's very much appreciated.  So thank you everybody for all the support. So let's go into this. So first of all, the one that we've got today is called SG Blocks, ticker symbol, SGBX. Now who are they? So they are a premier innovator and designer of some of the world's most iconic container based structures. So what they're able to do is they're able to set up basically mini versions of it, for example, the Starbucks, the work with Starbucks created some Starbucks versions of these. They can create these mini versions of them and basically they can do them in record time. They can build them really fast, right? They can cost less money for them to build them. It's more efficient for them to build them this way. So it's an interesting kind of company here in terms of what they're doing there, in terms of building these units and I think that it's got a lot of potential really. So if you think about it, companies are going to want to have brick and mortar stores, but they want to do it in a way that's incredibly cheap. And this is one of the solutions is through SG Blocks, ticker symbol SGBX, through doing it this way, right? So this one's got a lot of potential. I think it's got potential to run up. It has run up, okay?  So it's at $5.85 USD and you can see the run up right here from the 10th of December, all the way from $3.50 up to $5.85. What I would say is I put it on your watch list, wait for a bit of a dip and then start buying in increments. What do we always say on the channel? We say we don't buy our full position straight away. We buy in increments, small amounts so we can average in our price at a decent level and we're not putting all our money in at the peak potentially. We're buying increments, okay, $5.85. What does the analyst say? Well the analyst actually has this at $9 within the next 12 months. So the analyst is saying that this has got a lot of potential to run up to $9. I think this potentially could go further than that actually. It's got a lot of potential at $5.85. If you were to consider this as a long-term hold, I would say maybe this is an okay price for it, right? But if you want the best price, obviously always keep it on your watch list, keep an eye on it and set a strategy, set a price target in where you want to get into this. The next one I've got for you is Transenterix, okay, which is ticker symbol TRXC. This is one that I think has actually got a 50X potential long-term. Why do I think this? It's involved in the robotics industry. It's involved in producing a product for surgeons, right? Go check my last video, I think it was a video before that, right? I talk about this in massive depth, okay? Massive depth. And we go through a lot of the information for this as to why I think this is a good stock in the long term and is going to run up massively. Again, you can always swing trade it, right? So the strategic intent, what do they say? So they believe in digitizing the interface between the surgeon and the patient to increase control and reduce surgical variability for improved patient outcomes. It is a robotics player, it's an AI player. It's involved in artificial intelligence. It's involved in robotics. It's got this really good product. Look at my previous video if you could check that out more about it. At the minute, it's at 088, okay? I would say if you can get this, again, a little bit of a dip, then it's best to average in, right? But I do think that this player is certainly going to be worth more than this price in the future. So it's maybe worth getting into this. I think that in the short term, this has got the potential to double or triple. And in the long term, I think it's got a massive potential. Okay. The next one I've got here is Corporate Universe. Now, what are they? Who are they? So they are a publicly traded company seeking to grow a diversified portfolio of companies with a strong asset base and solid cash flow. Corporate Universe acts as a strategic partner offering financial and managerial support. Our team has decades of experience in all aspects of business development in both domestic and international markets. And also, they're acquiring something called ZAC Go, which is massive. Okay, I've made a video in this in the past. If you want to see the in-depth analysis of that, go check that one out. But I just want to put this one on your radar. Take a symbol, C-O-U-V. It currently sat at 0.37. It did have a run up towards nearly zero, well, just over 0.5, right? And it has dipped a little bit. This, I mean, if this stock was a roller coaster in Disney, it would be the biggest roller coaster, right? This one is like this. So what I would say is put it on your watch list. And if you see it get down to this 0.2, 0.25 level, I would say it's a buying opportunity. I would even say maybe at 0.3, okay? Because I think that this has got potential to run up 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 times its current price point at the minute. I think it's got a potential to reach over a dollar as well. It depends how the acquisitions go for the companies, essentially. But that's the ticker symbol, C-O-U-V. Get that on your watch list. Before I move on to the next ones that I've got for you today, I've got to say thanks for the continued support. It's been fantastic what you've been able to achieve for this channel by always liking it and subscribing to the channel and turning on notifications. The channel's been growing massively. We're getting loads of views and subscribers. So I do appreciate everyone's support on the channel. And if you continue to like the videos, I will continue to make them. And that sounds like a fair deal. And really, honestly, it has helped out the channel a lot. You're typing penny stocks. I'm in the close top 10 videos, right? So people are clicking on my videos all the time that are new to the channel. You've never seen this bloat before. And they're clicking on the channel and they're discovering what we've got here. So thank you for everybody who's liking the subscribers. The long-term subscribers that have been here, I'll say long-term for the past two weeks, week maybe, I'll consider you a long-term subscriber by now because the channel's only five weeks or something like that old when in terms of stock market videos. So the next one I've got for you, so continue to like obviously. The next one I've got for you here is Light in the Box. So okay, this one is L-I-T-B, right? So what are they? They're a Chinese e-commerce company and they sell products, okay? Similar, it's kind of a very good company. Think about AliExpress, but more for consumer side. So Light in the Box, L-I-T-B and they do Chinese goods. The revenue is actually quite good, okay? The revenue, if you look into it, the revenue's really good. So look into this one, put it on your radar. What's their current price point? Well, they're at $2.33. There's one analyst that has a price target of $3 on this one, okay? So this one's got room to move and again, based upon the revenue and the continued growth of the revenue, I think there's got a lot of potential and for a penny stop that PE ratio seems not too bad, right? It's not too bad. So that's one I would have a look at, okay? Have a look, keep at this. This is a stock that's going to grow. It's going to multiply its revenue massively over the coming years. With that, it will impact its share price there, but even in the coming quarters, right? You know, they can impact the revenue. The next one is Galaxy Next Generation. I think this has got 20X potential very easily. We've always talked about this stock already. Galaxy Next Generation, they produce touch pads, touch screens, they've got wall mounts, they've got visual lights, internal systems for schools. There also can be selling into businesses that are doing training events and all that sort of stuff as well. And you know, people have been saying this stock's going to go to the moon. It's going to rock it. I would say it's going to go to a Galaxy five hour away. I'm joking. You've got to have a little bit of fun having you on the stock market. But I do think honestly, this has got a great potential. Look into the fundamentals of the company. They've just got rid of all the debt. They've just increased their revenue a lot. They're continuing to get contracts out. They've just released a new product called Visual Alert. This is one to have on your radar. Again, anything below 0.0 or 30 is a buying opportunity. It did actually run up earlier today, a bit further than that. And then it came down again. It seems to happen every day. It's a penny stock. So like I say, it's always up and down, but just averaging your price, get your price at a good level to limit your downside and maximize your upside. Again, I'm not a financial advisor. You can decide what you want to do. And I've got another bonus here. I've got a bonus stock, but it isn't a penny stock obviously, right? Fiverr International, right? This stock I think is just a really good one to just have on your portfolio long term. I think just year on year, month on month, this is just going to continue to run up healthily. This isn't going to be a 5x stock of the next two weeks. You're not going to 5x your money in a couple of weeks on this stock. But what you can say is that this stock is going to constantly build up over time. You can see this kind of healthy growth here. So I would consider this stock. If you can get this stock anywhere below 210, okay, that is a healthy thing to get the price to get out. It was on a bit of a dip in previous days actually, and I built out my position on that. But again, you can even buy it now. If you're holding this long term, I think even at that price, if you're holding it long term, it's got a lot of potential, right? So again, remember not to just have your penny stocks, have some of these other stocks that are solid companies that are also going to grow over time. Now my thought of the day, my thought of the day is, read, okay, maybe that's just my teacher who's kind of speak talking, right? It's really important to, it's good to consume videos, right? It's good to do that. But I think it's really important to read. So whether that's reading stock market videos, business reading stock market, reading stock market books, readings, you know, business books, whatever it is in that sense. Read, I think it's really important to read. So for example, currently reading this one, innovation entrepreneurship is quite an old one. Continue to read, okay, it's one of those things. It may sound boring, it may not sound amazing, but it's one of these areas where, you know, the more you expand your business knowledge, the more you expand your knowledge, the better decisions that you'll be making, okay? So consider that. So thank you for watching. I appreciate everybody for all your support, it really does help me out. And I do mean that, so thank you very much. And I will have everybody have a good day and I will see everybody in the next video.


Hey everybody, welcome back today to Retro Tech and I have a special treat for you I'm going to be covering a brand-new monitor today And I'm also going to tease you with this wonderfully large Sony PVM 2950Q That did show up to the shop this week to be serviced So that could be a little teaser on one of the things that will be coming up in the next quarter on Retro Tech will be going through and servicing this and making it nice and clean and ready for the person who belong to But today again, we're going to be getting into a brand-new monitor completely the opposite of the 2950 It is a BVM-D series a nine inch monitor So one of the tiny little guys I just wanted to before I get started into the main video I wanted to show you just some of the interesting things about this particular monitor now there's a picture of it down here and That's the BVM-D9H5U that's the one we're looking at today I wanted to show you this it actually had a lithium ion battery pack now I've not seen one of these battery packs But there definitely is a battery pack for this monitor in case you ever do come across one That means you could use it fully in the field without any kind of power needs Now some of the other important statistics on this monitor first off It does have a high-resolution tube that is nine inches and when it's in four by three mode It does have a TV line count of 450 TV lines I will tell you that it's extra sharp because of the BVM and the power that the BVM has now if you do squish your TV screen down to 16 by 9 On this monitor it will limit your TV lines to 340 and you will want to pay attention to which Which one of these D series or any really BVM that you get you want to make sure you know the exact model You're looking at so that you know what you need because a lot of these did have a la carte monitors meaning that there were just sometimes we just get a monitor with no additional inputs or accessories and You could end up needing an additional Input card which they showed up here I'm sorry interface to input with the monitor like your handheld control unit 11 R or your 10 R Control unit either one of those so that's just a little bit of information on the monitor now This is the specific monitor. I received in the mail and it was shipped here to me From an eBay sale and this was a patreon member He actually bought it had it shipped directly to me from the eBay seller, which was from California And so this was just me unboxing it it did come in this wonderful High-quality professional flight box that I wanted to show with Some accessories in it and then this front compartment did have the actual Mask it had both the 16 by 9 and the 4 by 3 mass so on the back here is a picture of this power supply unit that could be exchanged for a Battery pack and then it came with the HD STI Control card or input card and the BKM 129 X I'm gonna go ahead and test it for RGB and you will notice that you do not need Terminators on this particular BVM now this BVM did have a couple dings in the case and Overall, I still felt like it was in pretty solid condition. There were some other things I'm gonna show you in a second that will need to be repaired Primarily on the bezel now it does have this 16 by 9 mask on currently So one of the first things we're gonna do in a second is change that over to the 4 by 3 mask but here's a good shot of one of the issues specifically right here on this bezel and The power button and all the other buttons. Thankfully we're functioning and we're not damaged but this section was extremely loose and Definitely there was some kind of issue going on here and you could tell it was like that for a while But there's a lot of controls on this unit So it's very handy to have in case you have this and other BVMs that you need to a controller unit for this can Be used for that so There's a way to get this bezel off and switch these masks around it's very simple There's four screws two on each side and then you take the screws out pull the bezel off comes off really nice and easy You can get behind here. Let me move myself out of the picture a little bit and come behind here and clean up your tube nicely and you know get a lot of that smudge off there and things like that because You want to clean around there and then just slip the other bezel right back on or other mask I'm sorry the 4 by 3 mask which just looks I mean that that really made it look a thousand times better Everything on there with that 4 by 3 mask to be honest So I'm going to show you just a quick alignment check. There is an alignment menu directly in the monitor on this BVM once you get in there and you press menu There's just an alignment setting and this will let you do a quick Alignment adjustment for vertical size vertical center Horizontal size horizontal center and then even pin cushion settings You can adjust those in this quick menu in case you need to make an adjustment on the fly a lot of times You would move these monitors around and just the movement and then setting them up somewhere else You did get a lot of different magnetism and Based on what environment had been moved to so you would need to do quick calibration changes and Especially if you're going to use this for 240p Which I think a lot of people still are You're going to have shifts and those ROMs and those programs that's going to shift on the Orientation so you can go in there. It's really nice to be able to use that now What I'm going into right here is the main sub menu and it's very difficult to see while I've got this checkerboard pattern I apologize for that but to get into that You know you have to go down to the maintenance menu part of the system configuration menu right off the main menu So it's a main menu system configuration menu and then you'll see maintenance And that's how you get in and you can get into the master controls and change a lot more settings in there Lots of settings you can change And there is a generic password for that and that is four ones So it's one one one one enter and that'll get you into that menu nine times out of ten so that's Just a quick look and a quick way to get you kind of set on your geometry But it's always good to go in there and use the controls in the service menu to directly get everything adjusted But that's a quick look so it looks pretty good. So the big concern though is still going to be the bezel getting that fixed and still going to get inside the monitor and it definitely does need some cleaning and Just some overall checking of the condition inside the model. So there's a lot of metal piled and on top of each other boards in here and It's actually quite interesting because this BVM does the the flyback actually goes in to the side of the monitor It doesn't go in the top This is the top of the monitor it goes in down at the side right over here Where I'm actually laying it down on its side right in behind the input cards And so that was a little bit unusual for a nine inch usually they still come in at the tops and most of the time on Other eight inch older nine older eight inch nine inch models of PVMs So it's an interesting look inside the next thing. I really want to do though is I want to get the Bezzle button whatever you want to call it down here. I want to get that off because Something's obviously snapped inside of it and it needs to be fixed And this is a great opportunity for me to show you some of the plastics repair that I've been working on over the last three months and We'll also fix up this other end right here where it's really loose So thankfully it's pretty easy to get this button off Let me pull myself and move myself a little bit over out of the way But she just got four screws two on each side holding it in and then you can pull the That's and it's perfectly safe to move this around like this one is turned off But then you could pull it out and then there's just five or six little connection points that are all Individual they're not You know, you don't have to worry that there's not like one that can fit in a different spot so you just unplug all those and then you got your button board here and the button board It's I could see what has happened Especially back behind these power button one that's really loose the actual plastic has snapped in here I'll show you that and then this other side has taken a hit where the the U-shaped bolt has actually gotten a little bit loose and then it took a Ja a jarring hit and it bent the screws a little bit So we'll pull them out and straighten those up. That'd be pretty easy But the big fix is these little things. Let me go back and show you those just quickly they This is a timeless video, but these are Have both had cleanly snapped off and we're still inside there On the screws the screws actually go through those are guide holes on the back of the plastic inside this button housing So we're going to first get everything out all the little hardware will be taken out and removed You'll notice I did struggle a little bit with these screws on the side because again, they were bent So they'll need to be straightened out But again getting all that hardware out first and then we want to get the circuit boards out But here's a quick look you can see in there This side still has the the little tabs in place and when I flip it around the other side You can claim plainly see right there in the middle where the tabs are actually missing And this is a look from the other side of the view so you can see where the U-bolts would actually hit and sit on those on one side. They were actually halfway through So while I've got it apart, of course, I'm going to clean the plastic really well and everything else inside of it I'm going to use brushes nice to old toothbrush as well as an old paint brush that I've never used for painting of course, but It's good enough to wipe out the crevices and the little dust and dirt that builds up on the inside of these Buttonboards and you're not going to do any damage with that So definitely you want to make my surface nice and clean for the next step in this big repair Now I do want you to you know if you do have something where you have a Repair that involves plastic consider this stuff. This is JB weld I was able to get into my local hardware store and it's the most powerful stuff that they had but it does come out Gray so it works great on all these old electronics like Sony but that the process is mixing that two-part epoxy together and Then just using something to apply a little bit of it to one side of the cleanly broken pieces of plastic and then I'm just gonna take some tweezers and reset it and Do that on both of those ends and try to get it as centered as possible Make sure there's a nice bond layer around the entire Part there and then I did the same thing with the second one and You'll see that once I got both of them set I took an old capacitor with the long leg and then I actually took some extra epoxy and kind of built up a little bit of a side wall along the Things and to just just move them around make sure they're at a good spot come back and check them a couple times but the real half, you know thing happens 12 hours later when you come back and everything has hardened and So this was a completely successful repair and the new bond is Exceedingly high it's it's generally higher than the rest of the plastic So the more likely other parts of this plastic would break before that repaired part did so there you have it We have the buttons just reassembled really easy to put that back together and put those screws back in there And this thing really came out well looks brand new You'd never know that it had any problems before both sides were easily fixed up the other side again Just had to have the screws bent and put together but this was the side that was loose and had the epoxy repair and that's just a Really easy way to save some of these plastics if you have something break and say shipping or Maybe you drop or have an impact on some of the plastic parts If you can keep all the pieces together, and it's a clean enough break then you can actually repair it quite well with that JV weld So the next step is to of course reassemble the button To the main monitor and do some more testing and so I'm gonna pull myself out of the way as I finish up the remainder of our Time together today, and we'll talk some more about this monitor and kind of You know my final thoughts on it because it's not the perfect monitor now. You'll notice it looks incredibly Sharp and it is a beautiful picture and one of the really cool features.  It's very crisp and clear The only real issue with it is a sink. It's it's notoriously bad for dropping sink Where that is not normally the case with the other D series larger D series for some reason this nine-inch one has continuously had problems with sink but You'll have to you know do some more research on that if you're having sink issues because people may have had Solutions using some kind of extra on sinking device or other kind of sink devices But do plan on having some sink issues. That's kind of what prevents this D9 From being the perfect bench test monitor because otherwise you would enjoy this monitor much more if it didn't have the sink issues Simply because it does things like go all the way from 240p up to 1080i and you can do all that from one BKM 129x Input card and the last thing I want to go through is a calibration check this is post calibration after I've gone through and Run the checks and run the calibrations from the service menu Everything looks pretty good. There is one last thing on here You'll notice sometimes you'll get a purity problem with these smaller monitors And I found that that was fixed by changing the actual direction That the monitor was pointing it's always good to check your linearity too But yeah, just the fact that you know, whatever direction the monitor was pointing in and direction You know in relative to north could actually affect The purity on my screen and it did quite a bunch So just take that into consideration with these monitors if you show I have a or you do have a problem With purity in one of the corners It could possibly be simply because the monitor is getting a lot of outside Magnetism affecting that corner of the screen that does happen. So again, here's one last look at this nice little beauty And then I've got a little you know I'm gonna show you look some close-up footage here first But then I've got a slideshow because I had to pack this thing back up and it's going all the way over to France And so I'm interested to see how that goes Because I've never shipped one of these overseas Now it is just a nine-inch and normally I probably wouldn't consider shipping a larger one overseas But these nine inches, you know, could be safe one last thing to mention this a Card here is extremely Loud and noisy when it's plugged in this HD SDI card So if you want to take your power supply or your power cords out turn the monitor off You can remove this card safely and just leave it out If you're not going to use it and you'll get rid of the fan noise that comes with it because that's a problem with these bigger HD SDI cards as they make a big noise from the fans and it's really annoying So the last thing I want to show you is this button feature or the not the button but the battery feature So yeah, this power supply just pops right out of this slot by pushing this eject button here And then slides back into place I imagine if I had a lithium-iron ion battery pack, I could just slip a new one in place And I'm sure that if somebody is smarter than me Could design a nice little battery to fit in here You know with modern technology, you know be a lot smaller and probably make it on the go or it could even possibly redesign a power supply for something smaller, but that's an overview of the Sony BVM D9 H5U and I think we've gone over just about everything a fully loaded Monitor and I think that again if you're looking for a bench monitor, I would not recommend this monitor I don't think it's really the perfect monitor for that But again, it's it's still pretty. I mean it's still pretty good It's got a nice high-resolution Picture and it looks better than any other smaller monitor. I've ever messed with but here again I almost forgot here's a slideshow picture of the pictures of my packing So I actually added extra foam and packing on The monitor itself and everything as much as I could squeeze in there to try to add extra packing that I actually taped the box up to make sure that It would make it there safely because again all the way to France So we'll have to see how that goes. So last thing I want to say is anybody who stayed along this long thank you again for watching and Know that we're gonna do some great things coming up and next couple months first off This month at the end of this month is actually the two-year anniversary for RetroTech and man What that what a wonderful two years it's been. I want to say thank you to everybody in the audience You'll definitely be here more for me coming on that I've got a lot of crazy great monitors in the shop just right now I've got an amazing set of d24 monitors as well as this 2950 Q So we're gonna get to use some we're gonna get to work on some of the best monitors available And I'll give you a behind-the-scenes look at not just the monitors and what makes them so great but also how to Maintain one if you were lucky enough to own one. So thanks again everybody for watching I hope you have a great weekend and I'll see you guys next time with some more retro content


Good evening and welcome to another episode of unlock the door radio with your host Michael cross with you see white TV productions Tonight we are going to have a very special guest We've had him on before and that's Sam Votman who is an expert on Narcissism and psychopathic and as you know those people who visited my website at Michael cross net I Deal with that quite a bit and tonight we get a chance to hear from a leading expert in the field. Hello, Sam Hello, Mike. Thank you for having me yet again. I Just want to start off before we get into the telltale signs What's the difference between a psychopath and a narcissist? That's an excellent question and there are quite a few authorities in the field who believe that their distinctions are distinctions of They are quantitative rather than qualitative. In other words, they they regard a psychopath as an exaggerated narcissist Well, that's partly true. They both lie on a spectrum of lack of empathy. So lack of empathy characterizes both But psychopaths are also usually Sadistic they take they take pleasure in inflicting pain on other people Some of them even find the infliction of pain funny So that's one difference. Second difference is that narcissists are capable of controlling their impulses and delaying gratification They are long-term planners They are capable of implementing career plans and career path Climbing the corporate ladder and so on and so forth. So we find narcissists in many positions of power and authority in Politics and show business in the corporate world Psychopaths on the other hand are unable to control their impulses and usually unable to delay gratification And that's why they are over rep over represented in the prison population among criminals another thing is that Narcissists are more capable of Establishing maintaining preserving and nurturing interpersonal relationships Even though they do it for very selfish reasons They want to extract narcissistic supply from their nearest and dearest But they still are capable of maintaining these relationships Psychopaths are usually not capable of maintaining any long-term relationships. They are they they go for the mark They hit the person for money or for sex or for other benefits and then they vanish and Finally both the psychopath and the narcissists are in a way antisocial in other words They disregard society its conventions social cues social treaties. They are poor Authority But the psychopath carries this disdain to the extreme Psychopath is likely to be scheming calculated ruthless Callous and very often career criminal Narcissists are more Act in more socially acceptable ways So you narcissists are usually pillars of the community They are chief executive officers They they become presidents and prime ministers while psychopaths end up being bosses of crime families or Something similar corn artists So these are subtle distinctions admittedly and I also think that they are the Distinctions of quantity rather than quality, but sometimes quantity counts Okay, so I guess what a lot of people would like to know is How can you tell what are some of the telltale signs of a 10 telltale signs that you might be either dating? Let's just specifically say a narcissist You might have one as a husband or wife or Maybe a member of your family or a close friend. What are the signs that should alert people? Well, first let's dispel an important myth There is a myth that narcissists being the great actors that they are Narcissists are possessed of thespian skills. They are great at putting on a facade They're great at acting. They're great, you know, and that's all true So there is this myth that because they are these great actors. It's impossible to tell That someone is a narcissist until well into the relationship And that is not true at all both narcissists and psychopaths a meat subtle, but totally discernible signs warning signs red alerts that Should put you on guard even on a first encounter And so there I would say there are well, there are you know dozens of these but the important ones are these Alloplastic defenses the tendency to blame every mistake every failure every mishap every misfortune on other people on the world at large The inability to assume personal responsibility to admit to false and to miscalculations to these people keep blaming other people They blame the cab driver the waiter the weather the government the universe the CIA and you So alloplastic defenses The second thing second tell tale sign and you know these are the plastic defenses are expressed on the first encounter on the first date The first time you meet a narcissist or a psychopath He's likely to rant and rave on how hostile and stupid the world is on how Evil my malicious and calculating his boss is on how How his wife doesn't understand him and so on so forth so putting the blame on other people is Something that emerges on a first encounter second thing is hypersensitivity or What we call in psychological parlance hyper vigilance The narcissists and the psychopath they are hypersensitive they pick up fights They feel constantly splited injured insulted they ran Incessantly they treat weak people animals disabled people sick people children They treat them impatiently and cruelly they express negative or aggressive emotions towards the weak the poor the needy the sentimental the disabled so You can see this disdain and this contempt. It can't be hidden very effectively No matter how talented you are as an actor at the end of the day the narcissists outs The true figure the true personality outs. It's there And if you are alert enough if you are vigilant if you are attuned and if of course if you are equipped with the right information You will be able to spot a narcissist or a psychopath on the first date second thing the third thing is third sign is eagerness The narcissist and the psychopath are always eager So they push you the if you date the narcissist He pushes you to marry him on the first or second date. He's planning to have children with you on this on the third date He immediately casts you in the role of the love of his life. He presses you for exclusivity instant intimacy sex and And he's jealous is jealous from the second or third meeting if you glance at another person then you know is all over you So this eagerness this insane intensity is typical of narcissists and and psychopath The narcissists and psychopath do not respect boundaries and do not respect privacy So they are unlikely. They are very likely actually to ignore your wishes You wish to choose from the menu. He does it for you. You wish to select a movie. He has already booked the tickets You wish to he never confronts you. He disrespects your boundaries He treats you as an object an instrument of gratification. He materializes on your doorstep unexpectedly He calls you he doesn't he never calls you prior to dropping by he goes through your personal belongings He he texts and phones you multiply almost like stalking, you know So this this lack of respect for your privacy for your boundaries for your wishes for your needs is very is a telltale sign Narcissists and psychopaths are very controlling and very compulsive So he insists that you ride in his car or he insists that that he should drive not you He holds he holds on to the car keys the money the theta tickets your bag He disapproves if you go away for too long too long, you know by his own lights He interrogates you when you return. Where have you been? What have you done? He? Tries to limit your ability to meet other people including friends and family. So he tries to isolate you He insists on a dress code. He wants you to dress the way he thinks you should Etc. Etc. So he's a control freak control freakery and Compositiveness are prime signs of narcissism and psychopathy and Narcissists and psychopaths are patronizing and condescending They criticize very often they make snide comments and remarks they emphasize your For tiniest minute is false. They devalue you and other people But at the same time as they devalue you at the same time as they harshly and cruelly criticize you They also exaggerate your talents and your traits and your skills So they move like a pendulum between Idealization, you know seeing you as the brightest the most perfect the love of his life and so on on the one hand and devaluation criticizing everything you do you can never be right, you know So this pendulum movement between idealization and devaluation this cycle is very very typical of Narcissists and when the narcissist devalues and especially the psychopath when they devalue the very Violent and aggressive. They don't devalue, you know by just the Harris the ridicule they call your names They do it in public usually they devaluation and Idealization mean that the narcissist never sees you for who you really are When he idealizes you He is interacting with an object which is in his imagination because you are not ideal and When they devalues you he is equally interacting with an object and avatar in his imagination Because you are not that bad.   I don't want to say multiple personality But sometimes it strikes it strikes the interlocutor sometimes it strikes the observer as though Narcissism psychopaths have two personalities if not more it's really like some kind of Dissociation dissociative identity disorder and in my work I suggest that pathological narcissism is a form of Dissociating dissociative identity disorder that it is a form of what used to be called multiple personality and you can't you know Why people don't notice these signs? Immediately because they don't want to On the dating scene people are usually desperate They have been looking Casting the net for so long. They've been alone for so long They haven't had sex for so many years. They haven't had companionship for decades So they tend to overlook they tend to deny ignore and suppress Any information which may lead them to the inevitable conclusion that they are dating a very mentally sick person They try to to I they are actually idealize They idealize as the narcissists and psychopaths idealize them They idealize the narcissists and psychopaths. So they find all kind of excuses, you know in deep inside is a nice man He had a difficult childhood. If I give him love, he will change. He promised to change He loves me a lot.  They're over 30 They have and then it seems like in today's society Then the psychopath and the narcissist has a very happy hunting ground for potential victims No, absolutely. The dating scene is flooded with the flooded with them. The dating scene online and offline is a negative filter it filters out the more balanced healthy individuals these usually find the mate via Third parties via word of mouth via recommendations. They They are well integrated into the social fabric. They have their own social networks and through these They find the appropriate mate Narcissists and psychopaths are hunters. They are predators and so The the dating scene is a filter through which only or mostly narcissists and psychopaths You know emerge and you are absolutely right Okay, now I have heard I have heard a lot of people who've been in relationships with Psychopaths and at least psychopaths. I don't know about narcissists, but I've read where a lot of them They feel that the experience itself when they were in the relationship. The sex was fantastic They may have lived a repressed lifestyle and all of a sudden this person is showing them an entirely new world Getting them to go beyond their preset boundaries And so in the relationship itself, it's it's something that a lot of people get a real adrenaline Push from do you find that to be the case? I Find that there is a class of human being class of persons women and men, especially women who are attracted to To spouses or to mates or to intimate partners As a form of an adventure They the they regard their life as kind of black and white movie and here is this guy injecting it with the with Technicolor and with the excitement and with an adrenaline rush repeated adrenaline rushes and with the unexpected and With a final zone and they so this propensity to gravitate Towards the risky towards the slightly frightening towards the exciting Is there but again, it's a filter a small minority of people are like that and Had they not paired up with the narcissists and the psychopath They would have ended up racing cars or climbing mountains or providing aid to ebola patients or what have you? this is the need the need to Constantly experience life on the edge and the narcissists and psychopath is a short cut Dating the narcissists and living with the psychopath pairing up with them teaming up Establishing a couple with them is a short cut towards achieving this The the constant doses of adrenaline that these junkies need their adrenaline junkies So yes, if you talk to these people they would say that the relationship with the psychopath and the narcissists Has been harrowing that they have been abused and so on so forth But it was a very fascinating Interesting period and now they feel dead inside because nothing is happening now. They're dating a stable healthy guy and It it's boring. It's boring. It's black and white. It's predictable and They're dying they feel like they're dying slowly incrementally, but it's it's death Creeping up on them and they go out then they they break up the relationship and they go up go out seeking The next dose seeking the pusher Known as narcissists or psychopath, but these are highly specific people as I just told you These some of them date narcissists and psychopaths other others climb mountains or race cars and others end up being drug addicts So it's a highly specific profile. I would not generalize Uh Can a narcissist or a psychopath actually be a good marriage partner though? I mean in some cases depending on if they're raised in a very committed family situation Can they in turn? Be committed to their partner Absolutely In one of the chapters of my book malignant self-love narcissism revisited I discuss the phenomenon of stable narcissists most narcissists actually have an island of stability in their lives and So there is this island of stability Surrounded by an ocean of instability So for example, some narcissists are committed To a career path Within a specific company or corporation So they climb the corporate led the very patiently they invest in their work. They're they're Alcoholics actually they and you know 30 years later. They are the chief executive officers of the company They started working in the company when they were 19 at the age of 50. They are the chief executive officers So this is an example of stability There they have an island of stability, which is their workplace Politicians are the same they start at an early age and 30 years later. They are senators and governors and presidents and this requires commitment investment long-term planning and stability of character and of performance and So all narcissism or the vast majority of narcissists have an island of stability now the island of stability could well be the family a Narcissist could be very committed to his intimate partner and to his children throughout Decades long relationship. He can have a very stable marriage never divorce never cheat be dedicated father and loving or Simulated loving husband and so on so forth and this could go on for 30 or 40 or 50 years But then the same narcissists will be unstable In all other areas of his life So he would change jobs very frequently. He would embark on hair-brain skins He would lose his money would go bankrupt 10 times He would relocate and dislocate and move from city to city from town to town from state to state and so on so forth So the island of stability is usually compensated for by instability in all other areas of life You could the narcissists could be stable in his family life and totally unstable in his work working life or he can be stable in his working life and Get married divorced and remarried seven times so Yes, the answer to your question is yes, but it highly depends on where the narcissist establishes his island of stability Mm-hmm. Okay. Now this sounds controversial, but can can a person spot narcissism and psychopathic in my children No, absolutely not To start with narcissism healthy narcissism is The cynical known of personal growth and development between the years zero and six This Freud called its primary narcissism Narcissism is therefore very important for the establishment of a sense of self-worth the emergence of self-esteem and The acquisition of self-confidence in the formative years which are zero to six Then between the age of six and thirteen or six and twelve prior let's say until early adolescence including early adolescence Narcissism is very important as a way to individuate and separate the adolescent Learns to separate himself from his parents or from his caregivers To individuate to become an individual by way of contra-distinction And in order to do that, that's a very frightening and harrowing task You know throughout your life as a toddler then as a child You have learned to merge into fuse with your parents your parents are the most important figures in your life They are the caregivers. They are the providers without without whom you might as well be dead And I mean literally not figuratively So dependence on the parents Merging with the parents securing their love is the paramount task of The toddler and the child and then in early adolescence. There's a seismic seismic break In early adolescence the child the hitherto child should learn to disengage to detach To create a full full time It's the equivalent of an earthquake. That's why I call it a seismic break in he should learn to become his own person and To disengage from the parental influence and the parental presence To do that The adolescent needs to be narcissistic Narcissism is a very important tool in separation and Individuation in early adolescence. So it will be totally meaningless to diagnose pathological narcissism until the age of 13 14 maybe 15 because The narcissistic behaviors and traits which are very typical of adolescence very typical of toddlers and young children are actually healthy Not so with psychopathy psychopathy can be Or the precursors to be precise the precursors that the antecedents of psychopathy can be diagnosed at an early age Actually, there is a diagnosis in the diagnostic and statistical manual. It's called conduct disorder Conduct disorder is psychopathy for children Children psychopaths are diagnosed with conduct disorder and oppositional defined disorder So there are children who torture animals and find it very delectable pleasurable and funny They they despise and abhor authority. And so they are very defined to the point of destructiveness They are destructive destructive of objects of relationships They are their behavior is criminalized and antisocial They tend to hang out in gangs to commit crimes petty crimes some of them are very violent and they take out their violence on siblings and Neighbors and so on. So we have the telltale signs of psychopathy in early even in early childhood and the reason is The psychopathy is more and more considered to be a disorder of the brain Similar to depression or to schizophrenia schizophrenia paranoia These used to be thought of as mental health problems, but today we know that depression mood disorders schizophrenia paranoia and Probably psychopathy are the outcomes of biochemical imbalances in the brain and Therefore they can safely be diagnosed at an early age because brain biochemistry is almost fully determined by year 9 or 10 of life Not so with narcissism narcissism is a highly complex phenomenon Which involves? probably some biochemical Manifestations in the brain involves probably Some genetic Background this probably an array of genes which is responsible for the development of narcissism I don't doubt that and I don't doubt that it manifests in the brain in highly specific ways, but Narcissism also includes a whole Panoply of behaviors and traits that put together create such a complex construct That it cannot be reduced to any specific biochemical in the brain or to any specific gene or group of genes And this is why it's not safe. It's impossible actually to diagnose narcissistic personality disorder in anyone younger than 13 14 and I would say 15 Okay, interesting now your early mention I have to bring this up again, but I heard a couple of your interviews here one on Israeli radio He brought up something about politicians and You seem to indicate that you believe that Obama displays a lot of narcissistic traits Yes in July 2008 Before he became president of the United States He was at the time a senator He caught my eye. I was roving as is my habits on YouTube and Suddenly I saw this video of a young black politician You know gesturing and talking and so on I said my god, this guy has the body language of a narcissist, you know, who is this guy and I Started watching videos featuring Barack Obama again very important to realize that When I started studying the guy in 2006 There was not a hint that he would be the president of the United States I did not study him because he became president of the United States I published the article suggesting that he is a narcissist before he became president of the United States and and so I Gradually I ended up watching hundreds of hours of Barack Obama. He fascinated me for a variety of reasons, but I was able to discern analytically Several features which are usually typical of narcissists for instance pronoun density First person pronoun density the use of I my myself and mine in speeches I Notice that his pronoun density is very high. He uses the words I my myself mine Very frequently very often Mind you not more often than the typical politician 50 times more often then a normal person and That tells you a lot about politicians in general. Yes, and so that was a sign another sign was his body language He's Hortie, you know superior The vision thing body language that was also telltale sign then there were other issues his chaotic childhoods It's usually an excellent predictor of the emergence of personality disorders his childhood was in Undescribably indescribably unstable and chaotic, you know, he was thrown from parent to parent to grandmother to He crisscrossed cultures and societies well before the age of 10 and Diometrically diametrically opposed cultures in society.  I don't want to go into this whole long rigmarole But I analyzed these hundreds of hours of videos and I've reached a conclusion that he might be and I framed my initial article Very carefully. I said Barack Obama Narcissist or merely narcissistic? I I came I suggested that he might be a narcissist and that was in the first article was published in July 2008 and Created a firestorm When he became president long afterwards a year later the article was rediscovered and Created a firestorm among conservative talk show hosts and you know inevitably the Republican Party and it's been its more radical base Red states and so on so forth Okay, if If he were indeed narcissistic We see a lot of things going on right now in the world in regards to Russia That it seems that it there's not a real agenda not a real plan Is it because if he was narcissistic that perhaps he feels slighted by Putin for Like a year ago Putin was considered that on the front of the world stage and had Who served him in regards to Syria and some of these other issues? I Don't think it is either safe or recommended to apply a specific mental health pathology and to apply a mental health pathology to specific geopolitical situations because the number of considerations and the complexity of arguments which go into the formation of a policy especially in a country as bureaucratic as complex as hyperstructured as the United States The number of arguments and considerations that go into the feed feed into the decision-making machine These usually overshadow any specific pathology in the decision-maker Barack Obama Maybe the ultimate decision-maker, but he's definitely not the only decision-maker and he's definitely not even the most decisive important decision-maker The United States has a system of checks and balances Which far which goes far beyond Congress and and the executive branch and so on there are lobbies There are industries. There are you know, there's a million the most the most Amazing empire that the world had ever seen dwarfing anything that came before it so to to imply that that the policy towards Russia for instance or China or North Korea or whatever is The embodiment of Barack Obama's pathology would be a bit childish. I would say and And unsafe however What is happening between Barack Obama for instance in Congress? He is an expression of Barack Obama's personality and any pathology. He may possess his inability to collaborate his Conflictive and confrontative nature is a propensity for confrontation He's endless posturing as a victim He's putting the blame on others constantly and consistently Including for the recent defeat in the elections In the bi-elections. Yes So all these things are typical of narcissistic pathology and I have actually predicted his behavior in in in detail in Interviews that I've granted as early as 2009 That's five years ago. I've been able to predict his behavior is current behavior Five years ago, and it's not because I'm such a genius or endowed with divine powers But it's simply because the unfolding and expression of the narcissistic pathology is Immutable, it's always the same. It's very easy to predict the self-destruction the self-defeating and the other destruction that narcissistic pathologies bring in their wake So Barack Obama's relationship with Congress with his own nation with himself These things are within Barack Obama's exclusive power and where Barack Obama is the exclusive decision-maker His pathology manifests a hundred percent of the time and a hundred percent accurately So his relationship with Congress coming back full circle his relationship with Congress Could have been and has been predicted years ago He is driving the United States towards a constitutional crisis predicated not on some kind of a constitutional deep thinking or Not on some brinkmanship that has to do with his wish to reformulate or reframe the United States or none of this he is driving the United States towards a constitutional crisis because of his personality Because he has ideas of reference in other words he regards himself as the bot and the victim of unjust treatment ridicule and abuse Because he is never to blame or is never responsible for anything. Everyone else is to blame Congress is to blame his party is to blame everyone else is to blame. He is always right. He's never wrong I don't know if you notice that you can't show me a second a single mayor culpa of Barack Obama Single case where he says I have been wrong. I have done something wrong after the elections a few months ago Instead of saying, you know, I screwed up I'm the least popular president in the history of the United States and there must be a reason for that I have done things wrongly instead of that. He said he blamed Congress He said the people send us a message about the dysfunctioning of Congress. It was Congress that the people had punished not him not his party so All these things are very indicative of deep-set narcissistic pathology, and I'm sorry and frightened to say That the end is nigh and very predictable Barack Obama is going to drive the United States domestically, I Don't think you should concentrate on Russia Iraq Italy or Germany these are not the main issues the main issue is what Barack Obama is doing to the United States within the United States How he is owing to his very sick personality Dismantling the structures that the founding fathers put wisely and safely in place. How he's dismantling these Just in order to satisfy his vindictive urge for self-gratification and self-trustification This is something narcissists are incapable of controlling These are impulses that are stronger than they are the need to uphold the false self The grandiose self-image the inflated self-perception the belief that they are always right and they would sacrifice Anything to prove that including their own country nation and ultimately as You know we've seen in other case other cases of other leaders Ultimately, they would even sacrifice themselves Wow, well, that's certainly a That sounds like it could be a real roller coaster for the next two years. Hello, Mike. I can't hear. Oh It sounds like I haven't heard the last sentence. I'm afraid Huh? Okay, hear me now. I haven't heard the last sentence. Yes, I can hear you know, okay It sounds like that the United States then is in for a real roller coaster of a ride for the next two years Sure is Wow, okay. Well, you know, we're coming up to the end of our time now Where can people find more information about your books and and your website and these sorts of things? Uh before with your permission before I I respond to this last generous question I would like to quote a giant a towering giant of person of the field of personality disorders Theodore millen He wrote in his in his book personality disorders in modern life He wrote this When the egocentricity lack of empathy and sense of superiority of the narcissist Cross-fertilized with the impulsivity deceitfulness and criminal tendencies of the antisocial The result is a psychopath an individual who seeks the gratification of selfish impulses Through any means without empathy and without remorse these two sentences Summarize a universal knowledge about narcissists and psychopaths. I'm the author of malignant self-love Narcissism revisited and my website is HTTP Narcissistic hyphen abuse dot-com Backslash and that's it. You can simply search my name Google my name Sam Sam Vaknin V aka and I am or Google malignant self-love I will come up Excellent, I'll put some links there to some of your work as well when this goes up on YouTube Well, thank you kindly and don't forget to send me the YouTube file so that I can upload it to my own channel Absolutely, absolutely. Well that We're coming up to the very end here. Thank you for your time Sam and thank you for having me and happy new year to everyone Yes, stay away from narcissists Yes, and also any of that might be in my listening audience and all Anyway, thank you and take care everyone


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Good morning. Welcome to CMC Markets on Friday the 3rd of November and this quick look ahead at the week beginning the 6th of November with me, Michael Houston. We've seen quite a turnaround this week. Big gains in equity markets over the last three to four days. Coming off the back of six weeks of losses for the DAX, two weeks of losses for FTSE and the S&P 500. Oil is down looking like it's going to finish lower for the second week in a row and yields are tumbling and it looks like yields could also fall for the second week in a row. But ultimately what really has changed? The economic outlook continues to look difficult. Certainly the earnings announcements that we've seen thus far this week have warned about that but I think the problem with low expectations is if you set them low enough it's quite easy to beat them and even though European markets saw their best one-day session in three weeks on Thursday with the DAX closing at a two-week high, tumbling yields, the expectation, central banks are pretty much done when it comes to hiking rates. We obviously saw the Federal Reserve earlier this week, heat rates on hold. There wasn't really too much of a surprise to that. Powell certainly wants to keep his options open when it comes to the prospect of another rate hike. Certainly there is room for another rate hike in December on the basis of their dot plots for 2023. I think a lot will depend on the data that we've seen or that we're going to see over the course of the next few weeks. But certainly based on the data that we've seen this week, particularly around manufacturing, the US economy is certainly showing signs of weakness but it's been showing signs of weakness for the past 12 months. So nothing new there when it comes to manufacturing ISMs, PMIs and what have you. It's not just a US problem, it's a global problem. Manufacturing has been struggling for a while. It's services where you're seeing some of the significant areas of growth and that was certainly borne out in the GDP numbers that we saw out of the US in October. 4.9% annualized gain in third quarter GDP for the US. We've got UK third quarter GDP out in the coming week. We'll be lucky if we even get close to that. I think we'll be lucky if the economy even grows and obviously that's a big data item out for the week ahead. We had the Bank of England this week. No surprises there again. Rates kept unchanged. There was a 6-3 split in the rate vote. Three members of the NPC voted for a rate rise. All external members, Catherine Mann, Megan Green and Jonathan Haskell. So there is still concern about elevated inflation levels. Certainly the Bank of England seems to think that the wage growth number out of the UK is probably a little bit on the high side. It's been around about 7.8% for the last three months. They estimate it that it's closer to 7%. Whether it is or it isn't, inflation still remains very high and obviously we've got the latest October inflation report due in just over two weeks time and that's likely to see another big fall or a big slowdown in headline inflation as the October energy price cap from last year drops out of the equation or the calculations and consequently I think that it's very unlikely that we will see another rate hike from the Bank of England. And really now what markets are starting to price is the prospect of okay higher for longer but when's the first rate cut coming? And in the case of the ECB I'm a little bit puzzled by the fact that the markets seem to think that the ECB's got another rate hike in it. I mean I'm sorry but I just I just can't get behind that at all and yet the euro continues to outperform. If anything the European economy and the German economy is in a worse state than the UK economy so please don't tell me that the ECB's got another rate hike in it because I think if they wanted to kill the economy even more than they already have that's exactly what they will do. So at some point in the first half of next year I think we'll see the ECB start to cut rates. The only concern that I have that the Fed might not be done is if US economic data continues to remain resilient. Obviously we've got the payrolls report later today. Weekly jobless claims still coming in around 210, 217,000. Yesterday ADP was weak but ADP was also weak the prior month and non-farm payrolls came in at 336,000. The whisper number today is around about 185. We'll see whether or not that actually gets anywhere close to what estimates are for it. Ultimately non-farm payrolls have beaten every single month this year so I'm not convinced that November will be any different. Given the fact that we've had Amazon say they're going to be taking on another 250,000 staff between now and the year end in terms of seasonal hiring. So you would think that the US labor market is likely to remain fairly resilient so there is an outside chance that the Fed could go again. Personally I don't think it's likely but it's certainly not as cut and dried as say for example the Bank of England and the ECB. I think they're done and really it's a question of when does the first rate cut come? Consequently as a result of this week's central bank meetings the fact that what's going on in the Middle East looks contained for the moment that's reflected in the declines that we've seen in oil prices over the last couple of weeks. Obviously that could still flare up that is the elephant in the room and that could really uphand all central bank inflation expectations when it comes to energy prices. But certainly if we look at what's happened over the course of the past few days we were well over to a bounce if I'm honest. We were approaching some really key support levels on say for example the Dax and the FTSE 100 and we've seen a very decent rebound again from the low 7,200, 7,250 area and we're heading back but it's important to understand as with any downtrend you're always going to get reaction you're always going to get reactions off the support levels and that's exactly what we're getting today. So we're going to see a fairly decent rebound we've come off three months of declines for equity markets and consequently particularly the Dax and the S&P and it's about time that we saw a little bit of a rebound because as with any weakness or strength it's very it's very unusual for it to be in a straight line so we're getting a fairly decent rebound here. We could head back to around 7,400, 7,500 certainly if yields continue to fall that the way that they have been that is certainly going to be a case in point if we look at the US 10 year in the last two weeks we've gone from 5% to 4.65 so we've seen a significant decline and in the course of the past couple of days we've seen a 25 basis point drop in yields so that gives you an indication as to what the market is thinking when it comes to the outlook for rates going forward obviously that's very short term but it also ties in with the rally that we've seen in equity markets as shown on this footsie chart similar sort of story on the Dax seen a fairly decent reaction off these lows down here retested the March lows we've rebounded we can see the extent of the rebound but look still in a downtrend so we're still making lower lows and unless or until we break above this blue trend line the 50 day moving average then really what we're looking to do here is still remain in the downtrend that we've been in since August late July early August we go and look at the S&P 500 it's pretty much a similar sort of story again we've seen a really strong rebound off these lows at around about 4,100 we're trading around 4,300 we've obviously got the 50 day moving average here which could act as a bit of a cap obviously these highs back in October are also likely to be important as well as this trend line through the highs from here so again we're making lower lows and until such times as we take out these peaks here then we could see we will probably continue to see a similar sort of story play out when it comes to buying the dips because there's an awful lot of data now between now and the end of the year which could shift sentiment and ultimately that's really what we're all about in terms of being sentiment driven at the moment Nasdaq 100 bounced off the 200 day moving average is back and now back above this key support level here 14,340 so that's likely to be a fairly decent area of support we've again we've got the 50 day moving average on the Nasdaq and we've got the resistance from the highs back in July so again still in the downtrend still lower lows still lower highs until such times that pattern is changes in any way then really that's the way as a trader you have to play it you have to play the trend in place at the time and the trend in place for the moment is very much a downtrend and until that cycle is broken that's that's that's the mindset that you need to think of think of in terms of Euro dollar still in that range really 107 105 and I think you can really sort of throw a blanket over that but again as with everything else we've talked about you know July to the lows in October lower highs lower lows so we really need to see a break of this 107 40 area and sustained to retest the 200 day moving average to break the cycle of that particular trend it's the same thing on the cable as well it's amazing actually how different these are now cable does look as if it could be on the cusp of a breakout but this is really messy here it's very difficult to articulate for an aggressive move higher in cable simply because we're not seeing it in Euro dollar and generally these two do tend to move in tandem unless you see a big euro sterling move so just because you're seeing the potential for a breakout in cable doesn't necessarily mean that we will get one if anything it's probably worth drawing a line through these lows through here perhaps for evidence of a little bit of a support line and perhaps this is a little bit of a triangle through here the problem with that is it's so far into the apex now that it's almost irrelevant it looks like that we're trading in a range between 120 and 123 and this triangle is probably just going to basically peter out into nothing euro sterling similar sort of story here though we are continuing to trend higher on euro sterling so there is a risk that if we break above 87 40 in a meaningful fashion then we could held back to 87 90 88 so that I think is a fairly key resistance level on the euro sterling if we can sustain that move if we break below here then we could retest the lows back at only 620 back in october so keep an eye on that again higher highs higher lows higher highs there dolly in I mean I've basically got dolly in massively wrong this year and that's just one of those things I thought the Bank of Japan will be slightly more aggressive in terms of its tightening it's not it's basically procrastinating and obviously we've not been helped by the fact that us yields have remained fairly strong we haven't seen a significant weakness there so again with dolly in there's a bit of a cap from the highs of last year 151 95 152 so we're still in an uptrend there unless we take out this 148 75 147 85 148 area and then start to slip slip back into the Ichimoku clouds here but for the time being dolly in remains very much by the dips but I just I'm not comfortable buying it but that's essentially where we are when it comes to dolly in I don't know why I closed that so let's quickly just reopen that normal watch lists there so this is the coming week so what have we what have we got coming up well and I think the bigger question is obviously we've talked about it a little bit you know can these gains be sustained well yes they can but they can only be sustained in the short to medium term in the context of the downtrend that they are in and I think that's the important thing because ultimately over the course of the past few days nothing much has really changed yes the geopolitical concerns have died down a bit they are still there they are still a clear and present danger to the global supply chains the costs of oil and gas and what have you because you've got still got Ukraine and you still got the Middle East and then you've got the backdrop of a slowing global economy the economic data is not great the US numbers do appear to be showing fairly decent amounts of resilience but how long can that continue you know and I think that's the big question that we really need to ask ourselves going forward if we look at Brent Crude we can see from this chart here that yes we're seeing lower highs but we're also seeing higher lows so we are getting what I would call a consolidation between these peaks here and these lows here and we've seen a fairly decent rebound we are no longer we are now starting to become a little bit oversold and as I say there's fairly decent support in and around $84 a barrel and we're currently around about $88 a barrel on Brent Crude so we need to keep an eye on that and gold is starting to show a little bit of softness in the short to medium term we've seen a little bit of a pull back there obviously I think the fact that the geopolitical risk premium has subsided a little bit and we could see a drift back to 1960 in the short to medium term it is looking a little bit overboard and the 2000 area is always going to be a fairly psychological resistance level hence why we've seen a little bit of a pullback and a little bit of profit taking over the course of the past few days and also you've got to bear in mind that season seasonality it won't be long now before people start to talk about that tired old cliche of a center rally and you'll hear Bloomberg CNBC all the business channels talking about it to my mind it's a complete lot of old nonsense but ultimately it's a narrative that people like to run with what does it mean in the wider scheme of things not that much as we head into the end of the year with you know equity markets have remained fairly resilient it would be unlikely or unusual for equity markets to have two bad years in a row so there is an element of the moment I think that people want to hope for the best and at the moment what we're seeing is an awful lot of chop and we're likely to see an awful lot of chop between now and the end of the year so we're not hopefully we're not going to fall off a cliff I think geopolitics could play a significant part in that but ultimately we're not going to make new record highs at least not yet so as we look ahead to the week ahead for me that there's it's a slightly lighter week this week this week has been really heavy on on economic numbers obviously apple it's disappointed slightly on its China China China revenues is China sales we've seen BP and Shell mixed fortunes there the bank banking banking earnings are now behind us as well so it's really about what sort of pre-Christmas period are we going to have as we head towards year end and we're going to continue with third quarter GDP for the UK next Friday the UK economy is likely to slow sharply in the second half of this year the bank of England has made it clear that it's not in any rush to cut rates anytime soon and it wants to keep them higher for longer in the first quarter the UK economy grew by 0.1% and then 0.2% in Q2 Q3 yeah we're we're going to struggle to even get close to that we could see stagnation 0% or even a modest contraction of minus 0.1% given the weakness that we've seen in retail sales numbers since July as well as other areas of the economy individual monthly GDP numbers have struggled to claw back the 0.6% contraction that we saw in July we saw a 0.2% rebound in August and and we've got a similar 0.2 expansion forecast for September we also have September data for industrial and manufacturing production this coming Friday the 10th of November and that is likely and both of which have been negative for July and August so we're not going to get a lift there construction has also looked a little bit on the weak side so I think if we do get 0% I think that'll be a result based on the data that we've seen thus far although it is the first iteration of Q3 GDP so looking at the Australian dollar because there is an outside chance that we might see another rate hike from the Aussie dollar the expectation is that the RBA will probably keep rates on hold that we saw a slight overshoot in the recent inflation numbers and that prompted a little bit of short covering in the Aussie dollar on an expectation that we might see the RBA do one more 25 basis point rate hike from 4.1% to 4.35% certainly I think Australian dollar remains very tied to the fortunes of the Chinese economy we've got China trade for October next week that's been weak on both imports and exports for quite some time now and I'm not expecting to see an improvement there for China trade imports for these for the 7th of November are expected to see a decline of around about 6.3% and a similar decline in exports as well for October we've also got CPI and PPI out of China I think that's two days later and again we're seeing signs of deflation or disinflation there so you've got this disinflation reimpulse spreading out from the Chinese economy that will and is already starting to manifest itself in the PPI numbers which generally tend to lead CPI numbers in the UK US and the euro area so that's 65 level 65 level on Aussie dollar is a very key resistance level going forward in the wake of any RBA decision which is due on the Tuesday I've got services PMIs coming out on the 6th of November European services PMIs they're likely to remain remain weak in France and Germany services activity were solidly in contraction territory at 46.4 and 48 respectively in September Spain and Italy are also expected to remain lackluster although they are much more resilient around about 50.5 and 49.9 in September so it'll be interesting to see whether or not we see a slowdown in those numbers on the earnings fronts slightly slightly quite a week coming up we've got UK retail with marks and expenses who've had a really strong year to date their turnaround plan finally appears to be paying dividends not so sure about their Christmas video I have to say but ultimately I'm also not frothing at the mouth about it either however there is a fairly decent area of support all the way through here is this the makings of a potential head and shoulders left shoulder here head potential right shoulder here so I'll be very interested to see whether or not the first half numbers managed to meet the expectations the markets clearly have got or started to price in so let's just stick a line through that there we go so around about 210p there on the mark suspense of share price that's going to be a fairly key support level when they report their first half numbers on the 8th of November we've also got itv been hit hard by drops in advertising revenue if we zoom out there we can see that it's not been particularly interesting they have been diversifying their business model in recent months investing in small businesses like plant-based food brand this pain relief brand brand flaring pet care company pip pat and I suppose if you boost the profiles of these small brands by allowing them to advertise on itvx to grow their turnover the hope is that the people who use these brands will obviously start turning their their eyeballs to itv content I'm not totally convinced about that but you know each to their own itv studios continues to do well and is likely to be the key area of growth in that particular side of the business but as we can see from the share price pretty uninspiring we've also got the first numbers from arm holdings post IPO it's been fairly fairly uninteresting the performance of the share price for arm holdings and in the first quarter of this year it showed a 65.5 million dollar loss total next total net sales declined to 10.8 percent in the quarter ended the ending the 30th of June with most of the fall being down to a 19.3 percent fall in royalty revenues now arm generates a lot of its revenues from licensing its intellectual property and the slowdown in mobile phone and other electronic device sales impacted this revenues in the most recent so hopefully a pickup in phone demand will help offset that in the second quarter q2 revenues are expected to rise from 675 million that we saw in q1 to 749 million in q2 with royalty revenues forecast to account for 449 million dollars of that total so that's arm holdings looking a little bit overbought but again you know that's not to say that we can't head back higher towards those peaks of earlier in september october last but not least we've got disney and obviously disney plus revenues it's not been doing particularly well it's been shedding subscribers hand over fist over the course of the past two or three quarters unlike netflix which has continued to go from strength to strength disney's been putting up its prices also brought out an ad supported version and recently as early as this week to basically bought out the remaining part of hulu from comcast that it didn't already own for eight and a half billion dollars i'm not really sure what they're thinking there because hulu can only be seen in the u.s the u.s content market is at saturation point and with the best will in the world we're never going to make that eight and a half million dollars back in terms of revenues given the tight margins in the industry so looking at the lows here fairly decent support in and around this 78 dollars which has managed to contain the weakness that's thus far that we've seen so far this year i think it'll be very interesting in disney's q4 numbers as to whether or not it can start to draw a line under its loss of subscribers and start start start growing its revenues again q4 revenues are expected to come in at 21.42 billion dollars which is almost which is 900 million dollars lower than it was in q3 obviously the park's business is winding down so you're not going to get as much as much turnover there and we're expected to see profits of 72 cents a share so that is it for this week ladies and gentlemen suffice to say obviously i don't know what the non-farm payrolls numbers are for later today a weak set of numbers there could well keep the move higher alive in equity markets but if we get a strong number we could see yields pop higher and markets start to track lower after the gains of the last three or four days so that's it for this week thank you very much for listening this is michael houston talking to you from cnc markets thank you


I know a lot of people that watch these don't follow baseball. If you haven't heard, this is the biggest story that's going on. It's brought to you by DraftKings. Fernando Tatis Jr., he is one of the better players going in the major leagues right now. He's so fun to watch. He hits his 10th homer on the season. He ties Mike Trout, who's like the best player ever, to tie him for the most home runs this season. He's going off. He's having fun. He should become one of the big faces in baseball just young and fun. Padres are up by seven runs. That guy beats the shift. Profar, a rude thing to do, beating the shift like that on an infield single when you're up by seven runs. Can't be doing that. Then we're going to walk this batter. Now it's two on. We're going to walk this batter. Now it's bases loaded and Fernando Tatis Jr. steps up to the plate looking delicious again. Ball one in the dirt. What are you going to do? You've got to pitch to him. Ball two in the dirt. He's not chasing. He's got good discipline.  Now it's a 3-0. Now here's where it gets fun. The unwritten rules say you shouldn't be swinging on 3-0, especially if you're up six runs after the sixth inning. They're up seven runs after the sixth inning. It's the eighth inning. Why do the unwritten rules say this? Well, because pitchers historically are huge babies and they masquerade that with toxic masculinity.   Just because he threw three bad pitches in a row that you didn't swing at, that means you now have to let him throw a strike right down the middle.  This is, you know, it makes so much sense because afterwards then the pitcher is going to say, okay, here's another fastball. You can swing at this one. Oh, nope. That's not true. After the fact, the pitcher is then going to try to get you out. Oh, okay. So does the other team, they're just not going to try to come back and win because they're down by so much? So that's why, no, no, no. They're going to do everything they come to stay to come back and win.  He's got feelings. Think about him. Anyway, they said that Tatis missed the sign from the third base coach. And after this 3-0 pitch, he doesn't even look over there. He's not even going to give them the option. He never once looked. There was no sign given because he never looked. If he did look, would they have given him the take sign, the don't swing? Maybe, but he didn't give them the option. So he sees this fastball. It's actually not even like middle-middle. It's kind of outside. He goes out and gets it. He pops it over the wall for his league leading 11th home run. He overtakes Mike Trout, one of the best players ever with the most home runs in baseball. Woodward, the manager of the Rangers. Oh, okay. I see you. Okay. That's how it is. He runs around the bases. He does everything he did the first time, celebrates with his boys, just like he did on the first home run. Same exact routine. Comes back to the dugout.  Interesting. Interesting there. Coming up later on. And here's his manager, Jase Tingler, first-year manager, kind of giving him a look like, hmm, I don't know. I'm not going to celebrate with you about that. I don't know.  This pitcher didn't do this on his own accord. He was told to throw behind Machado by the manager. That's how baseball works.  The umpires get together. They give no warnings. They did suspend the pitcher and Woodward after this because obviously that was intentional. And Woodward's sitting there with his feelings hurt. Then they get out of the inning. Hosmer makes the last out. He runs down the line. He looks at the opposing dugout and says, hey, we'll talk to him. We'll talk to him. And then Hosmer talks to Tatees, who just hit two home runs, just became the kid with the most home runs in all of baseball and look at the face he's making. He's getting a stern talk into. He's being told how wrong he was.  The kid who has the most fun right now on the baseball field just hit a grand slam, has two home runs, leads all of MLB, and he's having zero fun on the bench because he beat, he broke some unwritten rule that nobody cares about. Now, what did Woodward, the manager of the Rangers say after the game? He said this. There's a lot of unwritten rules that are constantly being challenged, I think, in today's game. So I didn't like it personally. You know, when you're up by seven and eighth inning, it's typically not a good time to swing 3-0. That's kind of the way we were all kind of raising the game. But not a good time to swing 3-0. But he also says, you know, that this is when his team came back from being down a lot. He said, we don't quit. We fight. We have quality at bats. We were one hit away from tying the game or winning the game. Can't say enough. So if you want your teams to fight and never quit and have quality at bats and come back from big runs, you also want the other teams to not add runs to their side.  Doesn't make much sense to me.  And then the starting nine crew dug this up.  Good job, Manny. So a lot of hurt feelings. Now, the Padres manager, Jace Tingler, he was with Texas forever. Minor league coordinator, outfield and base running coach, assistant general manager, quality control coach.   So, you know, put on the tag sign and, you know, probably see a strike right there. You should probably see a strike right there, not hit a home run. So he did not have his star players back. His golden goose, the player that's going to make him seem like a good manager. He's a new manager. The only reason he's brought in is to be a players coach, a players guy and he throws his player under the bus. He says, yeah, he probably should have taken a strike there instead of hitting a home run. When in the world should a coach be telling his player, take a strike instead of put more runs on the board for his team? Ridiculous press conference by Jace Tingler makes me so upset. And then Tatees comes to the press conference and he apologizes. I know a lot of rules and this time I was kind of lost on this one. I was, you know, they told me after five, seven, after six, something like that. And, you know, from those experiences you got to learn from it. Probably next time I'll take a pitch. Now that I know from it and, you know, we just got to learn from it and keep looking forward. I know backwards is baseball that this kid hits league leading 11th home run. A grand slam has a fantastic night and he has to sit in front of the media and say, yeah, next time I'll probably just take a strike instead of doing what they pay me to do. What I will be getting a contract to do is kid should be so excited and look at the face he's making in the dugout as he's getting talked to about how he didn't follow the unwritten rule. And, you know, respect the opponent because they may get upset. They're pitching so bad that they're going to be upset if you take advantage of how bad they're pitching.   The good news is, the really good news is so many people tweeted and the mass majority seems to be on the side of, oh, the baseball player who gets paid to hit baseballs should probably try to hit baseballs at all times. That's the good news. The majority of people see the light. Maybe baseball's moving forward. Also, good news is that this puts Fernando Tatis on more people's radar. We want people to know about him, but we don't want them to know him looking like this. We want them to know him smiling, having fun and crushing balls. This one is brought to you by DraftKings. 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So let's take a look at some of the basic properties of logarithms. So it helps to remember what a log is. Suppose log to base a of c is equal to b. Then our definition says that a to power b is equal to c. Now we can evaluate a to power b whether or not b is positive, negative, or zero. But since a must be greater than zero, then a to power b must be positive. And remember, equals means replaceable. If a to power b must be positive, then c must be positive. And so that means that the expression log to base a of c is only defined if c is positive. At least for now. Let's see what else we can determine. Suppose I want to find the log to base a of one. So again, we'll set this up as an equation. Let x be log to base a of one. This transforms into a new equation. a to power x equals one. And let's see if we can solve this. So the thing to remember is that since a to power zero is equal to one for any value of a, we know that x has to be zero. And so this suggests the following theorem. For any base, the log of one is equal to zero. Let's see how log plays with products. Suppose the log to base a of something is equal to c, and the log to base a of something else is equal to d. Can we say anything about the log to base a of the product p times q? Well, definitions are the whole of mathematics, all else is commentary. Think about what it means when we say that the log to base a of p is c, and the log to base a of q is equal to d. Both of these statements translate into exponential expressions. a to power c is equal to p, a to power d is equal to q. Now I'd like to say something about p times q, so let's multiply them together. Notice that I now have a product of exponents, so I can rewrite that product as a to power c plus d. Now I'll hit both sides with a log. And the important thing to remember about logs is that logs are exponents. So the log to base a of p, q is the exponent whatever I need to raise a to to get p, q. In other words, it's going to be c plus d. But wait, equals means replaceable. So I know that c is the same as log to base a of p, and I know that d is the same as log to base a of q. So I can replace them, and this suggests a general result. For any base, the log to base a of p, q is the log to base a of p plus the log to base a of q. Sometimes we say this as the log of a product is the sum of the logs. How about quotients? Again, suppose that the log to base a of p is something, and the log to base a of q is something else. What about the log of the quotient p over q? And once again, definitions are the whole of mathematics, all else is commentary. Because we know the log of base a of p is c, and the log to base a of q is d, we can rewrite these in exponential form. Since I want to know something about the quotient p over q, I can set that down. Since I know something about how to divide exponential expressions, I can simplify. And again, the log is the exponent. So the log to base a of p over q is the exponent c minus d, and equals means replaceable. Every time I see c, I can replace it with log to base a of p. Every time I see d, I can replace it with log to base a of q. And as before, this suggests a general result. Any base, the log to base a of p over q is the log to base a of p minus the log to base a of q. And again, we sometimes state this, the log of a quotient is the difference of the logs. How about powers? Suppose the log to base a of p is c. What about the log to base a of p to the n? So again, you know the definition. If log to base a of p is c, then we can rewrite that in exponential form. Since we want to know something about p to the n, we'll find p to the n. We'll apply our rules of exponents. We'll hit both sides with a log. And we know that c is the same as log to base a of p. And so this gives us a result. For any base, log to base a of p to the n is n times the log to base a of p. You could say that the power comes out front. So let's play around with these rules. Suppose that log of a is 5 and log of b is 3. Let's find the log of 1 over a and the log of square root of b. So again, how you speak influences how you think. And so you might want to speak of this 1 over a as 1 divided by a, which says that it's a quotient. So we might want to bring in our rule for the log of a quotient. So the log of 1 divided by a is log of 1 minus the log of a. But wait, there's more. We have this log of 1. And we know something about the log of 1. For any base, the log of 1 is equal to 0. So we can simplify our expression and we can do some arithmetic. How about the log of the square root of b? So remember a square root is the same as an exponent, 1 half. So this log square root of b is the same as log of b to the power 1 half. But wait, we know how to handle the log of a power, the exponent comes out front. And we know the log of b is equal to 3, so we'll replace that and do some arithmetic. How about the log of, well, frightening horrible mess. But that's okay, we'll take it one step at a time. And again, how you speak influences how you think. So here we have log of a cubed over, no wait, that's divided by b squared c to the fifth. So that's a divided by, so I have the log of a quotient is going to be the difference of the logs. So the first reduction, log numerator minus log denominator. Now let's take a look at these each separately. This is log of a to the third, that's a to power 3. So we use our power rule that exponent comes out front. This other term, this is log of b squared c to the fifth. Wait, no, that's b squared times c to the fifth. This is a product, so we can apply our log of a product rule. And importantly, because we're subtracting this log, we have to make sure that we use parentheses. This is log of b to the second power, so we can use our log of a power. And likewise for our log of c to the fifth. And we know our values of log a, log b, and log c. So we'll substitute those in and do a little bit of arithmetic.