The following is a presentation of TFNN, the Tiger Technician Hour with your host, Basil Chapman. Call now. Call free at 1-877-927-6648. Good morning, everyone. On this Thursday, the 28th of February, last trading day of the month, we'll be looking at the monthly charts. Let me just show you this briefly. We've got the one minute e-mini June contract. We've got the one minute e-mini June contract. Made a peak D. It's on to pull back just a little bit. It's 5312. It's a leg E in the 5-minute chart and a leg E in the 10-minute chart. And in all cases, the 9-period moving average is over the 14. So, I just want to mention that just because every once in a while I get people asking me exactly what the notations are. So, what I want you to do right now, since it's the end of the month, and I think it's quite appropriate to just go through all the different charts that are really important as we are to six hours, just less than six hours away from the close of March. So, the Dow monthly chart has a leg C. In the Chapmanian methodology, I'll just show you this briefly for those of you new to my work. In the Chapmanian methodology, try to identify the lowest low bar. Count each successively higher peak alphabetize them. A, B, C, D, E, F, G. So, there's never an H. So, there are seven higher peaks. Most importantly, it's that fourth highest peak at peak D. Up a case on the way up, low a case on the way down. Then uppercase D, where other things can happen. That's where you can get a much sharper pullback. That's where you can have a Chapmanian instant restart within three bars. If it makes a new high, you start to count it E-A, F-B, G-C. And invariably, G-C's go to D's. Well, what was it? I thought I'd show you one this morning, which seemed appropriate. And let me just, let me see. Oh, yes. I think it was RIG. R-I-G. RIG is Trans Ocean Limited Offshore Drilling Oil. So, it did everything we were looking for. It made this cup formation. It wasn't, I have cup formations that are really different to the usual cup formations. In the sense that I don't have to go to the high, that on the left side I go to other highs. And I cheat them as the next level up that would be of importance. So I used this one at about 590. And a pullback to the 440s, and it starts moving up. Had a Chapmanian inside wedge target resistance line. Had a left side, right side price time match, which was lopsided, because the low was much later on. So I'd be using this as an example. And I should mention we are actually long in the 580s, 5.80s. And it's trading now at 634. I just mentioned that. Most importantly, I wanted to show you, at that peak D, with the technical so strong, I had an instant restart because look, 1, 2, 3, bars later it broke to the upside. So that meant the next peak was an E slash A, then an F slash B, then I typed in a G slash C. It also made exactly to what we were looking at, the inside wedge target repellent line kept using that as resistance. And it held nicely. And then it broke above and went to this G slash C. And today just popped up and made a D at 6.43. And it probably is going to pull back a little bit now, because the second D is always where you've got to be a little careful. But yeah, that's nice. But interesting enough, I want to also show you the wave from one time sequence to another. And look at this, that entire move up from the low of, let me just type that in there. I think on the 20th of February, so this is a month, right? 20th of February at 4.45, 4.45 on 220, 24. Look what happened. It had a very nice move up with, this is now eight peaks, this is the ninth. So you go one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. This is the eighth leg. It isn't a peak yet until there's a lower high bar. And this is still only an A in the weekly chart. So this is saying to me that something's going on. The monthly chart still needs a lot of work. Yeah, the nine-period moving average did pull back sharply, but never went pink in the monthly chart. And it's still green. And usually what happens, if it survives a big move down like this, you've got quite a bit more upside to go. But in the weekly chart, you haven't yet had the nine-period moving average cross positive. So it's a work in progress, but it's sharply over the 200-period moving average. The magnus turned up. The stochastic is running at 53%. It's not great, but it's running. Unbalanced volume has been very strong. That means volume has been coming in. So this is only an A. Would it go to a B and then a C? Because the obligation of a Chapman-Wave buy signal that gets upgraded to a buy mode is to go from a trough that starts peak A and B to all the way to a D, at least a D. So if that's the case, and we haven't got confirmation yet because we haven't got the nine-period moving average crossing positive in the weekly chart, this is an A. Then it goes all the way to peak A. Next week maybe it doesn't make a new high. Then the next week it does, and then it becomes a leg B. It doesn't go all the way for another five or six weeks, every week making a new peak and goes to a D. I don't know, but all I'm saying is that this is looking quite good. And it's the oil service sector, and we've seen crude oil moving very steadily to the upside. It hasn't broken out yet. It hasn't broken out. It's acting very well. Let's get this, yeah, there's already a very quick from the low that was made back in November of 2023. Let me check where it is. Week of the 15th at 67.22, the continuous contract goes peak A, peak B, peak C, and another, within a couple of bars it makes a new peak. And that just says, you've got to be a little careful because you might have some kind of a pullback because of the speed of the higher highs. But actually the price going to a D, look how beautiful that trough in early 2022, somewhere around May, went from the 64s all the way to the 94s. That's a move to D. This is a very quick one, peak A, peak B, peak C, peak D. And yet it hasn't really gone far. So that just says to me, crude oil is steadily moving higher. If you look at the weekly chart, until it breaks to a new recovery high, it gets into the 98s. That's a long way to go. This is just a really a bounce. So putting the two together, crude oil is going higher, steadily. Therefore, the all-server stocks, X on mobile, X on mobile, right there. There we go, X on mobile trading up $0.38 and $0.1538. I haven't even updated this. This isn't because that's an instant restart. Didn't even put that in, isn't that silly? I always do that. Instant restart, this could still go to a D and therefore this is E slash A, F slash B and then a G slash C. And I've made this like a chapaway methodology rule that when you get an instant restart that takes you to a G slash C, almost always, not every time, but almost always, it goes to a D and you've got to be careful. So here we are, we're in D, in X on mobile and this is only a leg D up in the weekly chart. The monthly chart is quite nice as well. I'll be back. We'll be right back. If you're looking for potential trading setups in the stock market, then Rocket Equities & Options Report is a newsletter you should try. Tommy O'Brien delivers options and equity trades when the markets present them using a combination of fundamentals and technicals. Sign up for Rocket Equities & Options Report today with a 30-day money-back guarantee so you have nothing to risk. For all the details and to start your subscription today, visit the front page of TFNN.com, TFNN Educating Investors. 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So we've got to see the night period over the 14, the weekly chart is still very strong. We haven't even taken out the up channel support line. The stochastic started to pull back, but still at 85%. The MACD is still good. Let's go to the daily chart. Just aren't you see some weakness in some of the indicators, but that nine is still, look at this. I'm going to move you over to this chart right here. This is the, is it now? Look, there's a little double top forming. The unbalanced volume is starting to weaken. That's just a hint to say you've got to be a little careful, but look at this. The nine is still, I moved to that chart. It's easier to see. The nine is still way over the 14. So I'm suspecting that until you get to about the 38,600 level, you're not going to see that green nine period moving average turned down. So this is what I call a work in progress. And as I say, for a long-term, we've got our long-term positions not touching them. Just on a very short term, we did go to a small short position. And that was wrong. I typed that in by mistake because there was a question in the den about IONQ, which is IONIC, I believe. So this is trading at 6.70 out of 14 cents. And the question was, what would happen to get it really going to the upside strongly? Yes, it's forming a little cluster formation right here. Let me just go to the actual chart itself for the daily, weekly monthly IONQ. And the nine period moving average is still very weak. I see that it has to get above a 10-point, yeah, I think 45. I said 10.45 in the next week at any point. And then it has to hold in that area for at least two days. And then I think you can start to tackle this already ugly candle of the 11th of March, which is 10.77 high, 9.77 low. But at this point, I think it's just a work in progress. The 200-period moving average is under it for the last four weeks. Weekly chart, the nine is way under the four. There's a lot of work to be done. And 10.31 is the 200-period moving average thing. So unless it's news-related, that's different altogether. Because if IONX is able to type in the wrong thing, IONQ is a symbol. Unless it's able to do that. But most importantly, it's been holding the lines of support. And that's great. OK, let me get on with this because this is going to be, for me, very important. So that's the Dow. The S&P has fractionally stopped underneath the all-time high of 52.61.10. The high today is 52.55. At any point, you can get a sudden flurry of buying. But I think yesterday did it all. And right now we need to see what happens going into next week. Now, a lot of people are talking about some kind of a pullback in the areas that were the strongest. For me, Microsoft has been a really good clue. Microsoft is trading down 86 cents at 420.54. It went to a peak. Do you remember the obligation in the channel wave methodology is to get you from a buy signal to a buy mode to at least a peak D. And this is where it is. And that's kind of important. It's a leg C, probably a peak C today in the weekly chart. That doesn't say you can't pull back. Even to the 380 level. It's at 420. I'm just giving you a scenario. That's all. What I am saying is that there was a little pattern that I call the Chapman Wave stall take formation. Because it isn't very faithful to that, I'm just going to take it out and say, you know what? Not really. It's more of a consolidation with the falling acts with lower highs and lower lows and turns around and makes a new high. So that's a peak C. I'm expecting at least a D to come. There's a chance that I spoke about this in my webinar Tuesday a week ago, and I also spoke about it here in the show saying there is a chance that because of the incredible strength of the weekly charts that we actually go to a D in the various indices before a major sell-off. So in between we can have some pretty sharp scary sell-offs, but 4%, maybe 5%, 6%. But bigger than 10% or 12%. I don't think it's in the cause just yet maybe. We have to wait. So let me go back to the S&P because this is a very important session we have today. The leg C that's formed in the weekly chart is just so strong. When you see a move, it almost looks like a fence on the way up a mountain. And obviously each low has a higher low and each higher has a higher high because you want each edge bar to be the same length. It doesn't have to be because this is a chart. This is human nature. This is the price movement of the S&P in the weekly basis. But it says to me with a stochastic in 19% in the weekly chart, the magnitude is very strong. The nine period way over the 14 and the prices way over the nine, oh, it's going to take at least a move into the 48, 4910 area 4900 to see that green nine period moving average to a negative. So that's really positive. And it's already a leg D in the weekly chart. So maybe we do get a pullback next week, but maybe it's just mild and then we get a D. But I don't want to foretell anything. What I do want to say is that we've got a potential double top. There is no peak, but I'm just going to anticipate that if there is a peak Monday or Tuesday, using this vertical line where we test to see, you test to see the unbalanced volume made a peak and came down. The stochastic is still, it's lower than it was at that peak at 5261.10, seven sessions ago, six sessions ago. And this one here has a major peak. And I'm just putting this in anticipation. It says that the MACD is not as good as it was. Stochastic is good, but not as good as it was. It's actually under 80%. Unbalanced volume is much weaker. The relative strength over there, right here, this is the relative strength, is weaker than it was. So all of that says, you've got to be a little careful. But that nine period, my indicator of last resort says, no, no, no. This is still holding very well. 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So let me just go through this guy. Leg D in the dollar. The dollar weekly chart is just stuck in a trading range. It won't do anything until it gets to 100 if it can. 150.78, somewhere in that range, says, aha, breaking out. Now you're making higher highs and higher lows. So far, you're making higher lows, not making higher highs. And so you break above the level. This is the dollar index, the high of the week of the four, a 16th of Feb of 104.98. But it's not fading. It's just in that range. Just let me go through the gold again. Gold is in trying for Leg D into the 22.49 area. And it's at 22.28 right now. It's holding very well. Look how it's walking the nine-period moving average. And the weekly chart is holding very nicely. So I'm not ignoring that. What I wanted to say is that the GDX finally did get to its D yesterday, having a little higher high today, up 32 cents, at 31.29. And so far, there's nothing to suggest. Although Sycastics is 65%, on-balance volume is good, not overboard. Leg D is good. Relative strength is running nicely. Price is nicely over the nine. The nine's over the 14. Briefly chart finally has broken that inside-track repellent zone. So I'm looking at this and I'm saying, I want to, we were in a gold stock. We got stopped out of the gold stock. It's a very, very small loss. I was kind of upset about that. And it was underperforming. And then all of a sudden it started to perform. And that's just telling me, if gold is going to move much higher, then this is very early in the game. I needed to see, I wanted to see how gold and silver did together. So silver today is up a little bit, 0.008, not very much, at 24.76. It's lagging badly. So if this is just a gold story, then you're kind of vulnerable to seeing some of the gold stocks move very nicely and others just not do anything, stall. So I wanted a little time. So in that regard, I like the action of gold very much. It's kind of a mystery why just as one area is moving, is it geopolitical? Has it got to do with the Middle East? It usually does. I don't know if this is the case right now. But yes, gold is acting well. And it has finally, the GDX, stuck its head above for the very first time in weeks and weeks and weeks above this downtrend line. There's a Chapman Wave inside track repellent line. And the technicals are starting to prove. And as we speak, the 9-period moving average, we've started to wait until 4 o'clock today, but the 9-period moving average has crossed L. That's the first time it's done that in a while. And that just says to me, all right, that's good. Now you can start to consider gold as, if that's the case, and if we only pull back next week in the GDX gold miners to, I want to see the gold miners leave. And that's a really difficult, in the all-time high area. But if, and the GLD, let me just show you this for a moment, GLD has just gone to a leg E in the daily, E in the weekly, and only a C in the monthly. So this is all very positive action. So let me put to this EURUSD, the Euro-dollar currency pair, starting to fail a little bit here. It's on the 200-period moving average. The USDJPY, which is the YEN, has gone to a leg D, maybe a PGD today. Almost at the all-time high. This of course shows weakness in the YEN, because it's so strong, but in relation to the dollar. Now, 151.60 was the last high. That was the high back in 2023. But in 2022, it had a 151.94 high. Yesterday's high was 150. Wow, 151.97. How these things come within pennies after years sometimes. I just find it, that's why we love the market. It's just such a fascinating creature. So the YEN, if it starts to break to the upside, goes to 153.80 to 154.20 and closes there on a weekly basis, that's a significant breakout so far. Did I say it was a new high? No, it missed the high by three cents. So this is still a peak C. Technically, it's in a buy mode, but to really confirm that it's going to go to a D, it needs to push over 151. Oh, no, it just has to go over 151.60. Yeah, this is good. That's a C, but to really impart tremendous strength, it needs to go to 152. That'll be very good. Meantime, the support is between 150 and 149. That's near-term support. Major support is in the 148. So what I want to do, that's that, that, that, that. This is go to high grade copper, high grade copper right now is stalling. It's a 3.99. Had a good rally and now it's stalling. If you look at the monthly chart, eh, just stuck. If you look at the weekly chart, it's in a buy mode making high highs and high lows, but it keeps having long and fairly sharp pullbacks after making the peak and that's kind of what's happening here. Let me go back to the crude oil. Crude oil is holding very well. If crude oil is able to get into that 84 area next week, I think that's going to be something that the market respects and says, uh-oh, let's see what happens. So that takes us to the IYT, which is the transportation index. Just failed to make a new all-time high. 71, I didn't put that in. I should type it in. 71.16 was 18. Was the all-time high on the 8th of March. The last high was 71.11. And that makes it either a peak C1, C2 in the weekly chart, but it really looks like it's got enough strength to pop even higher and a leg D in the month. Look at this. Same thing. Unbelievable. It makes an all-time high back in May of 2021 at 70.60 and what it just hit 71.18. And that's after what? That is after May of 2021. We are now in about to go into April of 2022. I mean, 2024. Is that not amazing? And it's already been down to the 47 area and it's come back. The beautiful cut formation with the chap. Oh, this is a perfect chap. There's your, there's your, I'm just talking about this for a moment. Here's your plumb line. And I love when this happens. The plumb line right there. That's the low. The low is the low itself. And I never even put this in. I thought I had it. I think I should read you this at some point. And there's your chap. We've inside track repellent zone. Keep going above it and it comes back down. And now it's gone above it and it's holding above it. Oh, isn't that interesting? So that is, that's a good sign for the economy. All right. Talk about the economy. Let's do this. I want you to look at the IWM because these are the small caps. Small caps have been lagging. Now they're breaking out. Leg B in the monthly chart. That makes this whole area of 200 to 195. Major support. Major, major, major support. The weekly chart and the 9p moving averages positive. The MacD is running. It's not great, but it's running with a nice wide aperture. That's the castings at 81%. The weekly chart has just made a leg E and the daily chart has made a new, I'm going to call this a G slash V. And very positive. So I want to talk about this. Why did we not grab the IWM much earlier on the system to be afraid about that in a moment? That was a trap. And now it's got 24. That's a good bureau. Hi, folks. This is Tom O'Brien. It's the 22nd anniversary of the Gold Report. Can you believe it? We've taken 22 trips around the sun together and we have many more to come. This year alone, the Gold Report has returned over 50%. And I want you to come along for the ride. I provide in-depth analysis of the gold market as a whole in addition to providing outlooks on individual mining equities. For a limited time, you can save 35% off the monthly price for as long as you subscribe. 35% savings will be applied to the current monthly price and it will stay with your subscription forever. 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Yep, this is a new leg B to the upside. Monthly chart is looking good. Yeah, MRO. And then a question came in about Bitcoins. I'll go to Bitcoin right now. I want to talk about the IWM. I'll talk about it in a moment. So Bitcoin is trading at 72,120. So far, walking the line period, moving average, had an all-time high of 74,415. That was a G-STAS-C. We haven't yet made a new high. But in the meantime, it is a doji leg F, a peak F in the weekly chart. But I'm calling this a C in the monthly chart, which says it should go to a higher high. If it goes above 74,415 any time in April, that extends the weekly chart to a G-STAS-C. Because this is an instant restart. I don't want to talk about the flat-based restart potential. I'll talk about it. I'll have to do a little work on the weekend. But this is a leg C and an extended leg C in the monthly chart. If it doesn't do that all of April, then it's making a peak C. But so far, all the technicals are very strong. Now, let's go back. So the IWM, I like very much because I believe there's going to be a rotation. Microsoft is telling me that the Mag7, or whatever number it is, are starting to stall. And there's a really good chance that if we have this digestive, let's say 4%, 5%, 6%, if there is a correction coming up, there's a chance that other areas take up the slack. And that's what I'm looking at. And I think the IWM will be in that category. Leg E in the weekly chart right now could even be an instant restart, right? That would be incredibly exciting. But I just needed to wait a little bit because I re-stepped into something else. Let me show you something. The XLF, the financials, have been very strong. 4170, this is a spider fund, select financials. 4170 was the high in January of 2022. It plummets down to 2959. And then it comes back to where? To where we are right now at 4203 was the high today. 4203, that is 33 cents of the all-time high over three years ago. So January 22 to January 24, sorry, two years ago. I mean, that really is quite something, isn't it? In this cup formation. That said to me that if we're looking at the IWM, the Russell 2000, if there is a digestive phase, because I consider it really important that you have the financials, the transports, and the Dow all close to making highs at the same time to confirm that the economy is doing well right at this time. That could change in another month. However, look at this, the KRE, which is the regional, this is the equivalent to the S&P regional banking ETF, KRE trading at 50.17 up 15 cents. That's the equivalent to the Russell 2000 and the XLF. Because if you look at IYC, sorry, IWC, that's the Russell, there we go, this is the Russell 1000, sorry, this is the microcap ETF. Look at that, that's lagging, but now it's turned the corner. Monthly chart is in the leg B, the technicals are starting to improve. The weekly is in D, look, you have this peak D and then it goes to now leg E. Could even be an instant restart, it's within three weeks, three bars I should say. And you've got A, is this now a B? Because after G you can't get an H. So is this going to be a B at 121.00? A round number high right now, just above the 120.97 high that was made on the 8th of March. If that's the case, then there's a chance that you're seeing the smaller caps and now I want to also include the regionals because if you look at IYC, I, Y, B, I, oh man, IYC, IY, oh IWM, IWM, IWM, so it goes IWM, IWC and IWB. There we go, finally got it right. IWB breaking out to all-time highs, this is the Russell 1000 ETF. So as I'm looking at this, I'm saying if we get a rotation, that whole relationship, let me go through this again, you've got leadership in the IWB, that's the 1000, you've got IWC, IWC, that's the microcaps, not participating like in the same way, all-time highs, these are at lows, and the IWM is starting to play catch up. Will the catch up be a real hot dog? Will it really keep moving very nicely? And I'm suspecting yes, so that says to me, look at the XLF as a leadership, just off its high that was made all-time high, it's at 42.03, did it not do it today? I think it missed it so far by, yeah 42.04, so it's 2 cents off it, making it an all-time high, and then the KRE. So my choice right now has been to go with the KRE, that's the regionals, and the IWM I will do in layers for subscribers, because if you get the regional banks, which is just a completely different thing to the money center banks, this is mom and pop stores, not really mom and pop, you took big bucks, even regionals can be very huge capitalization. But I'm just saying, if there's a negative, also in the IWM, I'm looking at the very small cap oil stocks, I'm looking at the small cap bank stocks. So these are two areas in the coming two months that I think are going to be very important as tells on the general market for 2024. So just to go back once again, because that was a question that came up again about the Bitcoin, Bitcoin is looking really good. I was anticipating that there'd be a bit of a pullback, maybe an arch formation to make a degeneration, only if there isn't a new recovery high above this leg B, and this B could extend. But right now, if I said that if it goes to 72,300, there's a real good chance it's going to test to maybe break the 74,000, 450 level, it's doing really well. Question came in about IWO, IWO, and IWO is, oh, this is the I shares Russell 2000. Okay, so that's IWO. Let me write that down. I always forget, I always do the notation and then I forget what it is. This is the RUT 1000. It's also a thousand, right? Oh, this is the 2000. So that's the 2000. And it looks like the IWM. I don't know why they have these two different, but what's the difference? I shares Russell 2000. I don't know. One might have four, I don't know. All I know is that it's acting well, and it's going through a period of week in charge. Yeah, both of them are starting to improve a lot. Good. I'll be back in a moment. All right, so I'm going to have to get this down, down, down, six SMBs up, five. Are you ready to take charge of your financial future? TFNN is your gateway to the world of trading and investing. 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It's got an egg, D in the monthly chart. Financial services, services, I think, immigration processing centers. Yeah, this is doing nicely. It's got key support in the 1360s to 1320 area. Yeah, good. I wanted to do this real quickly because my DBA, this is the DBA, Cultural Fund has done so well. Look, wheat is not doing all that great. Soybean is not doing that great. It's doing okay, but not great. Corn is not doing great. But wait a minute, look at CC. And I think this is getting real close to at least a short term top. This is trading at 9,072 down 71. This is cocoa continuous contract. It's getting ready for some kind of a, a little bit of a digestive phase. Let's say it's at a peak D. It looks exactly like this DBA. I wonder why the DBA was doing so fantastically when the grains were not. So with that said, what I want to say most important is that when you get a big cell signal, you've got to have the futures down huge and the Dow and the, and the NDX down huge early in the morning, and then there's a rally that's attempted and it closes at the low of the day and the next day, overnight is terrible and then it tries to rally. We don't have that. We haven't had that for a long time. So until we get that, I don't see a major, major sell-off. I do see consolidation taking place and it'll be just a consolidation if you get the rotation that I'm anticipating and rotation is really important. So with that said, I'm going to say I'm handing you over to Steve Rhodes. Should be great programming today, of course. And I have a wonderful Good Friday and a long weekend and I will see you on Monday. Isn't that nice? I actually finished right on time. Didn't speak right through the music. And I'm just going to hand you over to Steve and listen to the market closest. I gave you the parameters. I think we're getting close to at least a rotational correction. You could see some areas hold and some areas be. I didn't get the SMHs. SMHs are there.


Welcome to the platform special interest group the 5th of November 2020. Let's take a look at the agenda. And work to there. So topics open action items. Adopt open JDK for Docker on Debian retirement plan for Debbie and stretch nine in our Docker images. Status report on power PC 64 agent access status report on work on Windows server LTSC 2019 Docker images. Status report on Oracle cloud by me as your credit offer status report is another platform topic and proposing a new meeting time anything else that you'd like to propose. Okay, let's go ahead. So, I still have the action to open the Jenkins enhancement proposal for Docker operating system support. I've run through a script that looks for inconsistencies and outdated dependencies in our images, and this that includes the Jenkins controller, the various forms of agents including SSH agent and Docker inbound agent. And I was impressed at how relatively few astonishing inconsistencies I found I was expecting to find many many because they're relatively independently maintained. One of the things that I did see is we're still using JDK 80242 242 on the image that is probably the most used image, and that JDK is now quite out of date, it should be 272. And I think that means that it's probably open JDK, not adopt open JDK. And so that's a change but that change will naturally come as we switch to from Debbie and nine to deviant 10 for the LTS image because the deviant 10 based image is already using JDK 80242. So that one inconsistency I found will resolve itself as we make the transition away from Debbie and nine. Any question on the that topic. So Alex's action items will leave open. I did want to share that the install plugins.sh script. The work with dependencies and has to have every single plugin listed is now now has a much better replacement included in the Docker image, and our install guide actually uses the new version. So this right here, this run line here installs all the plugins needed to run Jenkins Blue Ocean with a single command line and one single argument. It makes it look so much better and the tutorial and the install guide feels better because of it. So thanks to to Tim Jacome for integrating that and Alex for getting it included in the Docker image. The tutorials also do the same thing they use that nice simple one line command to install the entire blue ocean. The next topic was a blog post on plugin installation manager and update center. Sorry, I haven't done you have done that yet. That's let me just put that as a to do for me. It'll stay as an action. I hope to get to that before our next meeting. It won't be this week, but I hope before this before we meet again in two weeks. And then Jim Crowley had the action item for refinements on parallelization and multi art support. And that is in progress based on conversations in the header chat. Thanks to Jim for his work there. We're literally in the morning now his time in the US where he's based in upstate New York. Next topic adopt open JDK for Docker on Debian. I believe has been merged. So, since it's been merged, I think we're good to go. So let's just note that as done needs test and confirmation. Next topic was. Let me just mention that Gareth in terms of adopt. Retirement plan for Debian stretch nine in our Docker images. So what this, this really means is that we've got Debian nine that is the base of our Docker images for the LPS image. And Debian nine in early 2021 will be unsupported. So we're going to start a Debian nine. Then means that we need to get off Debian nine. So my proposal would be that we announced that we will switch the LTS tag from using using Debian nine to using Debian 10. As of December when we released two dot 263.1 is the LTS. We're supposed to send a send that proposal to the Jenkins dev developers list and prepare a blog post. I don't know that I don't think that most users will see that as a as a significant change. Our slim image is already using Debian 10. And doesn't show an awful lot of changes and even if there are changes our users will need to adapt Debian nine is going off support. All right, next topic was power PC 64 le agent access proud, proud and grateful that Alex and Raphael of IBM were a Alex from Broadcom and Raphael of IBM were able to get our connection to the power PC 64 le agent restored So you can now use the PC 64 le on your CI dot Jenkins IO jobs. We had several jobs that have used it in the past and we'll continue broadening those nice fast machine. Great way to check platform portability. You want to report on Windows Server 2019 progress. Certainly. Actually, I've just lost power again. So if I disappear, that's, that's why. So we have made pretty good progress with the 2019 LTSC hosts that are being built for AWS and Azure and they seem to be running successfully. There's probably the property probably have got some places where we haven't updated those yet. So I'll do a pass of those to make sure that they're running in all environments later on. The adopt open JDK repository has been forked. So that we can add 2019 LTSC images under the Jenkins for eval organization for a period of time until the pull request can be merged and they can be officially supported by adopt open JDK Those images appear to be building correctly and are being published into the Jenkins for eval Docker hub repo. I've got a few I've still have a few issues with some of the tags that I'm hoping to resolve today. And then there is a catch up. And then there's a PR to add the 2019 LTSC based builds for the Jenkins Docker images. As soon as I've got the tags sorted. That's excellent. Okay, so, so the Jenkins for eval base image. I still think that is ingenious. So the, the pull request to adopt open JDK in hopes that they will eventually provide us a standard image. Windows based that then automatically upgrades to new versions of JDK every time they release a new version is really attractive and in the interim you're using that image definition as the base image. That's great. Yeah, we'll have to see how that goes with the updates that they publish. There may be another job that we need to run to keep that in sync. And is this a place where I haven't looked at depend about as a way to manage these updates. I know we have a 242 in one location. Is there is that is that something that depend about can help us manage or not really possibly say I actually think if the community kind of want to build images on another version of windows to say they want to lock to 2004 or something like that, or maybe even 20 h2. Then it should be possible to use depend about to stay to keep it up to date. From the, the actual official Jenkins releases. That's not something we've tried, but I think we can do that with you can do that with a multi stage build dependable will update images in that way. So, yeah, I think I think that is an option. There's something we should document and blog about, I think, because it's it's I'm sure there's going to be someone asking on how to do that so was it may not be something that we, we want to officially support. We should be able to provide guidance on how to do it. Okay, okay, so that would allow someone who says who I must have 20 h2 to say today. Okay, if you must have 20 h2 you'll need to build your own image and here's how you do it. And if you use this dependable technique. It will keep you up to date as a result. Yeah. Excellent. Anything else, Gareth. Yes, I think that's everything on there. I'll, I'll, I'll provide a link to the Jenkins Docker image PR, but I'll do that. I haven't actually created the PR yet so have it locally. Great. Excellent. Thank you. It's exceptional. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Next topic then Oracle cloud. Oracle has asked us to express their interest in helping the Jenkins project and getting more involved. Unfortunately, I've dropped the ball on this one been busy on other things. One of their of the Oracle team asked just yesterday for a second time hey Mark, how's your experiment going with Oracle container instances, and I haven't started that so Mark, I should start the experiment probably this weekend and share the results with Oracle and with others. Yet no if I'll blog about it, it'll depend on the results if they're positive. I'll likely blog about it just because hey the experience is worthwhile to share. Next topic, Azure credit offer. So, what the background on this is that we currently pay about $10,000 a month to Microsoft for the Azure services and hardware that we use. And our Microsoft customer success manager asked us hey would you like to apply for this credit offer that gives credit to where they causes. And so we submitted our application, and we hope that they will give some offsetting donation to reduce the costs that are currently played paid by the continuous delivery foundation for our Azure infrastructure. We've provided some will provide some additional detail to them hope that that application process goes through and hope to hear within the next two to four weeks, whether or not we were accepted.  I propose that I'll send out a survey to ask the typical participants, what time they would like to meet instead in hopes of getting more participation in this session so that we can give each other status reports. This time doesn't work for me personally, and I would like to avoid being up at 430 in the morning just so that I can start a meeting this early. But if anything else that I should be that we should be discussing today. No, I don't think so. All right, let's call this meeting done then thanks very much. And see you.


I think this is one of the biggest challenges that young people and parents face today. What is going on in this higher education space specifically? How do we start to change course if we're now raising kids who are about to start college? It's not where you go to college that matters. It's what you do in college, which we can get into, but you all know this. And it's basically, it comes down to college is really valuable when you are meeting new people, you're building social capital, you're building your network of people who can provide opportunities and resources, and you're building your human capital, you're experiencing new things where you're building new skills. And the really sad part is that college still, if you go in with the idea of building relationships and building human capital, it can be wildly, wildly valuable. But because young people have never been taught that they're going to college, they're not building relationships, they're not taking advantage of all their resources, and they're graduating with a degree they don't want with a whole bunch of debt, and they're saying it's not worth it. So it's fundamentally comes back to not teaching people how to decide how to navigate college.


Oh, works out of the box. Sorry for being the last talk today I'm yours from Winkle I Work for a tech finance for over 10 years today is a special day for me because I just turned 34 I have no pictures of my hobbies because I have no time. I have four sons also So I have to make fun at work, which I'm Gladly to present today What I find it is a 40 year old what you now would call a fintech company. It's a Dutch company. We operate the globally We're helping over 14 trillion euros and assets in making financial investment decisions We serve our customers globally with a lot of number crunching Workloads and for the past two years I've been responsible for our cloud native Transformation as a company and since I have a background in HPC myself. I really liked Okay, I will a freeze I Really liked onboarding our HPC workloads and Last year I was in Valencia to for inspiration. I'm very excited to share as a speaker now our journey so far so a bit of context We decided to do managed overdue it yourself, so that's why it managed Kubernetes We have different flavors, of course in the context of this talk. It's about managed open shift in both AWS and then Azure So the decommissioning of our on-prem data signers was a fact Big challenge to to move our HPC operations to this managed communities environments Next that it need to be managed We wanted also to to perform well at least at par as our bare metal who wanted to scale Not only up but also down our workloads are very peaky in the financial industry Beginning of the quarter end of the year These are moments that our clients needs thousands of CPUs and the rest of the time They don't need it and they don't want to pay for it. Also Concurrency a lot of talks today are about scheduling Yeah, we try to get rid of the scheduling problem as a whole we want a hassle free Multitenancy I will explain that later Vendor independence is also very important. Although we use managed Kubernetes We don't want to manage to marry a hyperscaler also We don't want to attach ourselves to one of specific Kubernetes distribution So we want a Kubernetes native solutions to run our APC operations on So high over how does it look like? What's under the new on the road which hyperscaler you use we don't we don't care We want Kubernetes and on top of that we selected Like Lego bricks we assembled our framework with very very battle tested open source projects Prometheus Keda key native and as a queuing system. We use the open source active that queue So these are all packaged in YAMLOS so how to configure them for our framework is few hundred lines of YAMLOS We we package them with customized Argo CD ready in a repository I'll share later on top of that We also template it how you should define your jobs and your and your tasks These are just 300 lines of C sharp. So that's truly our contribution. It's really about how The interface with the rest under the hood It isn't dot-net, but you can easily do it in Python as well So this is very lean setup and Our context is so in in our parts. It can be thousands lines of Python That's it's running, but we also have fat parts like six hundred thousand lines of C sharp in one container It's all one process per container context So how does it look like? so from left to right our users interact via rest API, which is keen which is Provisioned by key native. It's it's serverless. It's the HTTP traffic triggers awakes the API The API is responsible for putting a job on the job queue Kata sees the job coming in the queue and and creates his Kata skill job and That's nice that it's in the queue because if somehow the job is killed or Terminated as long as it's not acknowledged on the queue it will reboot the job. So it's very resilient in nature The job is responsible for putting tasks on the queue which allows us also to do a DAC workloads If tasks are put on the queue Kata knows how many pulse it wants To compute and these tasks runners are actually very stupid things. They just fetch from the queue execute Acknowledge the task and repeat Until the queue is empty So we have a termination of x seconds for after the queue is empty Then these tasks runners will terminate themselves and scale back to zero in fact All elements here in the picture scale to zero even the the queuing mechanism and this is not only nice for cost perspective But also very nice in in tenancy in a multi-tenancy context. I can make a namespace per user I can make a namespace per application Um So so far Scaling pots But a big question is if we can school pot's skating pots is easy But how in a managed context does the infrastructure skills along? So in cubanese contacts the cloud controller managers responsible for this and depends a bit on the hyperscaler of its implementation but Some managed cubanese Providers have machine sets no pulse. They all have different names for it but in essence VMs are provisions automatically based on pending pending pulse and By means of tolerations and tains We can provision many flavors of machine set with GPUs without GPUs Intel AMD different Memory architectures and also these machine sets scale back to zero, which is very interesting feature So how does it work in practice? So this is nice in theory. So how does it work in practice? So this is kind of the conclusion on on on these question. Does this Elasticity promise of a cloud that can you monetize on that in HPC contacts? So these are empirical results, but we were able to spin up 1500 CPUs within 20 seconds up of the 20 minutes up and back to zero We also were able to do this in spot instances on Azure Which is nice because there's 20 minutes of 1500 CPUs only cost us six euros, which is insanely cheap It's kills to zero which is nice Although I have to say if you use these open source project you want operators to be there Which have controllers so you pay the price of them Note provisioning is an interesting topic because it really relies on how fast your hyperscaler can provision these VMs And we tested both on Azure and AWS. It's roughly four minutes for a note to come up Regardless the VM family and regardless the hour of the day We thought okay, maybe in business hours is slower, but it's not the case. It's it's a bit volatile though In order for this to work You need a very good machine set or no pool implementation depends a bit on hyperscaler How mature these are? Regarding downsides. Yeah, these managed Kubernetes clusters come also with guardrails So sometimes they have a limited maximum amount of notes. You can hit at a certain point and also with Azure We we perceive that sometimes we got we we ask for certain VM type and under the hood We get different hardware newer generation hardware and that leads to to unexpected results I know in a view of West DC. This is more tightly coupled So to conclude Where can you learn more? So we run this stuff in production With our products We extracted kind of the bare minimum put it in into github. I have a student now That's working on a slurm interface like this rest API part You want to talk with the slurm language to it and see how you can upload your workload there We want to track carbon footprint in the in the Workloads we We run and furthermore another colleague of my Recorded the demo where you see this in in real life skating from zero machines too many. That's the youtube qr code Thank you all for listening Hope you have a good conference


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Loud and clear, Columbia. I guess you noticed the SPEC-224 message with a cumulative quantity down arrows and cabin and active extension T is high. Columbia, for Mike, we're looking at the 224 message. Can you tell me which camera you're at? I'll float over and show you the piece that was on the end of that connector. That would be TVC-1, Don. We're getting a view on the ground, but it is a little out of focus. Thomas has been busy with the activation of the... Copy that, Don. It looks like the next activity in the timeline is your lunch, so you can go ahead and go to lunch. And when you come back, Kimberly will be on. We start here today and we're looking forward to at least 15 more days of this science activities up here. Thanks again. And talk to you tomorrow. Copy. That's the last activity until LIF. Space lab for SAM1. I got some good news for you.  So I grabbed it and removed it and I'll put it into the lost screw bag, which we'll have on board here. We're pleased to hear that. Thanks a lot, Greg. Yeah, Don. That's a negative on the performance of IFMO-4. Okay, I'll press it on to B.14. Okay, and I'll go ahead and tell you also that the timeline has been counted and that no GSU bottle exchange is required. This is the space lab. I've removed the HRM flight back up, board and placed it into the HRM interface, zip lock, temp stop back. This is mission control, Houston. In this view from the space lab module on board Columbia, payload commander Janice Voss at the far end of the space lab module and payload specialist, Greg Lynn Terrace at the forward end are continuing to support scientific investigations on board. Activity is going very smoothly in the first few hours of the STS-94 mission. There is a wide variety of scientific investigation taking place as part of this microgravity science laboratory mission. And this view from the space lab module actually is one of the technologies being used on board. It features a system referred to as HIPAC for highly packed television. It does allow researchers on the ground at the payload operations control center in Huntsville, Alabama to simultaneously view up to six different experiments. Space lab Huntsville, no response required. Just want to let you know we're changing these from TVC1 to TVC2. Okay, Don. And you can also hit the Acknowledge, the ACK push button. Okay, Don, we copy. We think this wraps up this operation. We believe that the sports cooling will take about two hours before we can get down to touch temperature. And at that time, we'll do a gas exchange and continue on with another sample. Okay, copy that. We'll not require bottle change. Some wheels, number 61, and a C-Box West connector is the one we'll use, and that is the nominal one. So, we're good to go when we get there. Thank you.


Well, I wanted to just grab you for a couple of minutes, James, just to talk about your experience, because I think it's quite unique. And we've been working with students for over a decade now, helping them secure their career in finance. Now, there has been one other. So you're the only second ex-professional footballer to move into finance. And that's quite a unique journey. So talk to me a bit about it, give me a bit of background about your footballing career, and then why and how you wanted to move in finance. Yeah, so I've balanced football and academia throughout my career in both. And really, in terms of finance, when I took economics for A level during college, sort of my first feelings towards the markets and that kind of stuff, I think having the background with my dad having sort of worked in finance as well, he's had roles within the market. So he had a kind of better understanding of it. And I suppose was able to guide me once I said that this is something I'd like to balance alongside football. So I mean, in terms of going back to the start, really, it was, I had faced that kind of decision that a lot of young pros have to make at 16 in terms of do you sort of leave school and go full time with football, or do you continue your education? There wasn't really an opportunity it seemed to do both, yet I spoke to, my parents were really helpful with the whole idea and helped me approach the football club and the college in order to kind of recognize that both parties could benefit from someone who was able to balance both. And the club thankfully allowed me to take some time away to go to college to do the exams, to meet my tutors and stuff like that. And likewise, the college allowed me to sit my exams almost as a sort of external student but come back to the college to take my exams there. And then kind of worked through both. And then having achieved A-levels, I went and played football then for the next four or five years before returning to university and joined Loughborough University and took a business economics and finance degree and continued to do the same really. I was still, I went over to the Premier League in Ireland and was playing over there whilst at Loughborough University. So similar to my A-levels really, I was used to spending a lot of time on my own studying after training each day and kind of completing both. And then graduated this summer and obviously enrolled in the Amplify training. What a story, fantastic story. I'm definitely one of sort of juggling and multitasking but I think it's what I like about your story. It's a bit of realism as well. During the program you said to me, the thing about professional football is really is just a very, very top echelon that make it a full-time career that people read about. And actually then for still super talented players, it's just a sensible thing to have other options. And you were always interested in finance as well. So I mean, as I sort of briefly touched on, I think that probably comes from my background, from my dad, he was involved in finance. And so I suppose when I thought, started thinking about careers to balance alongside football and where my academics could take me, he was helpful at pointing me towards, you might like this. And then really the catalyst for me was the Amplify summer internship. I mean, I took part in a sales and trading sort of simulation insight day at Loughborough University. And I met Eddie there and he talked about the sort of the summer internship. And I looked into it and thought, well, this would be a fantastic investment for my future in terms of if nothing else, just figuring out what I liked, what I didn't like and kind of give me an idea. And actually it almost sounds silly, but I think one of the best things about it is, I learned things that I didn't know I needed to learn. And I would have had no idea what exactly makes someone successful, starting off applying for jobs and looking for a role in finance had I not enrolled on that internship. And I think that definitely the catalyst for understanding exactly where I wanted to go. Well, so you didn't know what you didn't need to know was the... Exactly, that was probably the biggest takeaway from the internship. And I think it's sort of a definite, I know when we'd spoken, you said one of the things that you noticed is sort of people leaving the Amplify course are better positioned than other candidates going into interviews and those processes. And it's one thing kind of hearing it from the Amplify team and thinking, right, I am learning bits here, but then when you do start the process, I did feel like actually I was more comfortable approaching questions. I was able to actually understand things. I was reading easier and follow the markets easier because I had that sort of experience and was taught the things that I needed to know. Now, it's one of those things that actually a lot of students don't know is about the role that you've gone on to secure, which is super, I'm really, really happy for you, by the way. So obviously we've got connections there with Morgan Stanley and specifically the co-head of the whole Prime Brokerage Division for EMEA who actually now, that was Will Smith, did he speak? Were you in the program that he spoke at? Were you in that intake where he... Yes, I was, yeah, yes, that was definitely, you know, I traced back the kind of the sort of affiliation I've built up with Morgan Stanley through this process from that moment, really. And actually, following that, you know, as I did my application for Prime Brokerage, I connected with him on LinkedIn and kind of gave him a few updates on my application and he wished me the best and then congratulated me once I secured the role, so it was fantastic. But I think that, you know, initial webinar, very, very fortunate to speak to him and he was able to provide that kind of overview of the whole Prime Brokerage Division and explain how central it was to Morgan Stanley and how they kind of, the way he described it, was pulling together all the different aspects of the firm to meet the client's needs. And I think that was the first time I really considered the role, liked the idea, liked what he had to say and particularly started me on the path of building this affiliation with Morgan Stanley. And I think what's interesting to touch on is he spoke a lot about the culture and the environment and I know that when you're doing interviews and when you're speaking to people with firms, it can seem a bit cliche to ask those questions and hear their feedback. But what was interesting is someone else on the course asked him the question about why he'd spent so long at Morgan Stanley and he mentioned that. And then the experience that I've had with everyone that I've spoken through to through the process. So initially, you put me in touch with Joseph Jackson, another guy who was on Amplifier now on the asset backed securities desk at Morgan Stanley. He was so accommodating and really, really helpful in terms of guiding me towards my application. And then from there, I was quite proactive in terms of speaking with other people. So Charlie Amesbury in particular is in prime brokerage and he's an ex-professional rugby player and again, I had a conversation with him. So that kind of relationship that I've built with other people and I'm not going to say name, dropping everyone that I've spoken to, but the point is that that initial statement that Will Smith made about why he stayed at the firm for so long actually has really started to resonate with me as I've gone through the application process and everybody I've spoken to, whether it's people I've reached out to to help me or whether it's people that have interviewed me, I've got that feeling from all of them. And it just means that I'm excited to get into the building to meet these people face to face. Oh, it's fantastic to hear. And I think also part of that with bringing in the co-head of prime brokerage into the summer program, you can actually deeply get to find out what is prime brokerage all about, how, as you described it, bringing in the different parts of the firm and right at the peak, I think one of the things he was saying is, serving the client, no matter what, that's it. That's the priority, delivering that ultra, if you like, unique and tailored fit product. I think for that to run to, I think lots of students out there don't really understand prime brokerage and the difference between that and trading or market making or sales trading or broking.  Yeah, well, I mean, obviously I'm delighted, really, really excited. But... Oh, God, here's another one, hold on.  This is the perils of working from home. No, no, no, let's go. It is one of the penalties of working from home in 2020 is definitely a strange year for that. And actually on that point then, how did you find it? Because obviously, you know, how did you find the remote aspect of it? How did you find it being, you know, connected but not physically there? Yeah, well, you know, it's interesting, actually. Particularly the final stage of the Morgan Stanley application process is the assessment centre. And, you know, you were given a case study and had to present and then had three interviews throughout the day. And initially I was thinking, it's a real shame that I'm not getting to go into the office and meet people face to face. And, you know, having heard sort of Joseph's experience of going into the assessment centre and actually kind of building a rapport with people. I thought, that's a shame. I'm an outgoing person. I like meeting people, like talking with people when I thought it would be a disadvantage being remote. But actually, when I was then asked to give feedback at the end of the assessment centre, the feedback again was really, really positive. I think that even though it is remote, this kind of face-to-face interaction actually meant that I did feel I was still able to kind of build that rapport and understand how the interviewer was feeling and sort of portraying myself in the way that I wanted to be portraying. So it was, I thought it was going to be a disadvantage, but actually, you know, it was fine. Although, you know, if you said to me, right, when I start the role next year, I'm going to have to do it from home, then I'd be definitely disappointed about that. And I think for next year with the summer programme and going forward, so you all have to come in as well, we're going to be having periodic, like, day meet-ups. And I'd love you to come along to the next one in 2021, where all the candidates on the current summer analyst programme, I will be invited to come to London for the day, come into the office, connect with each other, connect with people like you. It'd be great if you could share some of your advice with them as well. And then continue on the programme online. I think there's a good hybrid to be had there. For those that can come to London, fantastic. But then it doesn't disadvantage those who, you know, coming to London for all of that time would be super expensive. Yeah, well, in terms of the Ampliflight course over the summer, it worked very smoothly, considering it was all virtual. And I think that my sort of cohort was the first course of the summer, I think. You were the first one. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so, you know, there wasn't really many teething problems, just sort of improved it. There was, you just couldn't see them. We were like, ducked to the ground. Okay, yeah, anything in the background. So each morning before the morning reports, it was just a mayhem, yeah. But no, I mean, from my point of view, it seemed to run very smoothly. And I think the biggest thing for me now, having kind of secured the role, and I'm so excited to start.   I feel very passionate about giving other people those opportunities. And, you know, I kind of briefly put you in touch with Jordan Unsworth at the PFA, and the sort of PFA, the Professional Footballers Association, the union are really, really helpful. I mean, the support that they've given me, and I know other people through a transition from full-time professional football into another career, for me being finance and both, you know, the support in terms of contact with them and financial support in order to give me the opportunity to enroll in the Amplifier course. I feel extremely grateful for that, but also now that I have the chance to kind of look back and reflect on my journey, I think that it was more difficult than it should have been, and there weren't the opportunities there for, you know, young players to balance both education and football. And so, you know, I've actually been speaking with the PFA into 2021, you know, I volunteered sort of my services to help them and come up with some ideas in how to sort of approach this and Jordan's been great. So we've been speaking and we're gonna, you know, hopefully host some webinars and stuff like that next year. And I would like to kind of pass on that information to young boys, young players, boys and girls, in my position and almost tell them, you know, what they don't know and what I was saying. Yeah, absolutely. You know, and I mean, you know, so for example, with Morgan Stanley in particular, I know that the other co-head of European Prime Brokerage with Will Smith is ex-military. And so he has that strong belief in terms of transferable skills from military personnel and sports personnel. And then you see with Charlie Hainsbury and Joe Jackson gone on to be successful within the firm that there are these skills. And although people had said to me, oh, there is lots of transferable skills, it's only once you start going through the application process, you realize actually, you know, having been in these environments and maybe difficult situations that I was more prepared. And so I'd love to go back and tell other young players, actually, you probably have no idea, but, you know, here's opportunities where people actively seek, you know, those with a unique background or professional background.  Here's my route through the Amplify summer internship. And that's how I learned. And I thought that and I would love to do it. I would be super happy, obviously, to continue to help. And I did say to Jordan would be back in touch because we're, I mean, definitely want to sponsor some events, finance, accelerators. Yeah, you need to attend to me on the phone. That's not where we can. And I think you're right. What you said there is it was harder than it should have been. And it's not just you coming from a professional sport background that, you know, finds that timing difficult. We actually have a lot of students join us who are in their second year, who were in their third year and they've missed out on the timing of spring week then, you know, they haven't been able to secure that first internship. And then they feel like they're out the loop a bit because there's such a narrow window. Yeah. And some of our best success stories, which we'll be sharing are those students who are in their second year, third year or post grads who we've been able to connect with roles such as yourself. Yeah. And it's interesting having kind of, you know, one of the things that are taken on board, particularly again from Amplify is to engage more with LinkedIn and network and stuff. And it's interesting to see different people's opinions. I've read some people saying, why are students so obsessed with spring weeks and internships and that kind of stuff? And actually having now gone through the process, I think that's, you know, a terrible thing to say because actually, you know, having graduated this summer, I found that I wasn't eligible for a lot of roles if I had wanted to apply for them because I hadn't done their internship program or their spring week program. Fortunately, you know, I had my site set on Morgan Stanley and was focusing on that application process. But, you know, I did look at other areas. I wasn't naive in terms of, you know, solely all my eggs in one basket. But what I did realize is that, you know, the majority of firms kind of recruit graduates directly from their internships. And if you aren't on internship, you're massively disadvantaged. They might not even consider your graduate application because they're just going to hire from their internship. So, yeah, as you said, you know, people that have gone on through Amplify in their second and third years then secure roles is actually, you know, something they deserve a bit more credit for. It really is, from my understanding, you know, following that traditional route of spring week, maybe they're less important, but even so spring weeks, then the internship and the graduate scheme. And to be quite frank, I didn't even, I'd never even heard of a spring week until I joined the Amplify course because I was solely just balancing football and education. I just wanted to thrive and get my degree as good as it can possibly be, you know, play football at the highest level I can and continue to play well. And the outcome will take care of itself. But actually, it would have been nice along the way to go back, I need to know a little bit more about this. And maybe a spring week or an internship would have helped my course. But, you know, all the well that ends well. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, look, you made it work in the end.  And right from the start, when I knew you came from a professional sport background, I was obviously very interested in the psychology in terms of the resilience, in terms of the focus and the discipline. And it's those types of transferable attributes that the financial industry do desire. But it doesn't just happen, you know, you've got to make it happen yourself. So all of those applications that you sent out, interview practice, questions, you know, I could see your work rate was through the roof trying to make sure you secure that role. So it's a huge cue to us to you. And just fully deserved. So we're over the moon. Ah, well, you know, I really appreciate it. And it's nice because, you know, other people that were on the course, like Renata, who's sort of helping Amplify a bit. It was amazing after I spoke to you. She then reached out to congratulate me. And so it did feel that, yeah, the Amplify team were very pleased and proud. And it's great because I'm delighted to be able to say, you know, I'm a sort of Amplify graduate who's gone on and secured a role because initially when looking at the idea of joining the summer internship, I read some of the stories of people that have gone on to secure roles. And so I feel very proud of the fact that I can join that list. And I think that the thought that yourself and Anthony and Eddie and Piers and everyone who was so helpful through the internship can kind of feel proud of the fact that here's the other one that we've secured a role for. Makes me feel good inside as well. It's nice to. It makes our day. As soon as I got your WhatsApp photos, send to everybody, share to everybody and in a big email as well. And actually that's, you know, I'd say once a week I'm doing that with a great new success story. And it's such a fantastic thing for us to remind the whole team. This is why we do it. Feels good. You know, that's good. If it's feel good all around then feels good. Exactly. I mean, the main thing you have to hope now is that we don't actually go out into the industry and mess it all up for a bit more. Exactly. So yeah, don't do that. Don't do that, please. But listen, thank you so much for joining this chat and giving the feedback. Hugely, hugely useful. No, I'm delighted too. As I said, you know, if I can help out in any other way going forward, please let me know and be delighted too.