here. So I'm going to talk about, mainly about instanton fluorohomology. So going back to somehow, you know, there are all kinds of different fluorohomologies. And Peter Cronheimer and I sort of started off working on instanton fluorohomology. And the way life seems to go sometimes you find that it's a good idea to look at what you did a long time ago and think about it again. There's some interesting fresh things that seem to happen. So instanton fluorohomology. So the setting is that we're going to look at a three-manifold. So usually it'll be closed and oriented. We're going to pick a principal bundle over the three-manifold. Usually we'll just take G to be either SU2 or SO3. And in fact, for the moment, let's think about the case of SU2. So there's an interesting function, functional on the space of connections. Recall, so for an SU2 bundle, P is necessarily trivial. And so we can think of a connection as the same thing as one form with values in the algebra of SU2. So maybe we'll call that one form little a. And the function that we're going to look at is the Chern-Simons function. So the Chern-Simons of little a. I'm going to write it in two different ways. It's the integral from 0 to 1 of minus the trace of FATDT, where AT is just this kind of silly path that goes from the trivial connection, the one coming from our trivialization to the connection a. Writing it like this, it connects it to the original definition of the Chern-Simons function. The Chern-Simons function was originally introduced by Chern and Simons. And as you hopefully all know, you know Chern-Vay theory. So if you have a connection, you get a connection and a homogeneous polynomial on the Lie algebra of the corresponding structure group, then you can get a characteristic class. Of course the homology class doesn't depend on the particular choice of connection. And Chern and Simons looked for a canonical expression for the primitive of the difference. And in this form, that's how they wrote it down originally. That's how you see it easily as the primitive of, so it comes from the trace of FA, yjFA. That gives you this expression. But another way of writing it, sorry, then we integrate this over y. So we want to get a number. And another way of writing it is the trace of a times da plus one-third a, racket yj. So here my notation is a tiny bit sloppy. Here I'm going to think of these, the connection forms in this case as matrix valued one forms. And then here I mean matrix multiplication and wedge product. Here I mean using the bracket and the wedge product. So that's how the formulas work. And yeah, you should never trust my conventions. Probably. And in the notes there's a half. But for the purposes of the lecture, there's no half. Now a nice reason for writing it this way is that you see what the first variation is with respect to the connection. So if I look at d by ds of churned simons of a plus sb at s equals 0, using the first formula you can easily check that's got this expression. And here you see something rather remarkable. The critical points, so stationary points for the first variation, that's if and only if the curvature of a is 0, i.e. a is flat. So critical points are flat connections. Now of course the churned simons function has a large symmetry group, the gauge group, which in this case we can think of as maps from my three manifold into su2. And g acts on a by this formula. And it nearly preserves the churned simons functional, except that it picks up some factor of the degree of the gauge transformation. In this case it's a map from a three manifold to su2, which is the three sphere. There's a degree. And this difference picks up a multiple of the degree. So alpha is probably something like 4 pi squared or 8 pi squared, depending on whether I put that half there or not. Anyway, all right. So in particular churned simons descends to a function which I'll still give the same name to from space of connections mod gauge to the circle r times alpha z. Now, so this is what we would like to do Morse theory for. So Floor's amazing contribution was explained how to do Morse theory for churned simons. Now, anyway, so for this lecture we're not going to do too much with that except I just want to explore this a little bit and get some feeling for what this is supposed to tell us about three manifolds. All right. So let's look at some examples to begin with. So, well, it's always good to write down the trivial example if y is s3, then there's only one flat connection up to the G action. Oh yeah, sorry, I forgot to say something important. Need some little bit of notation here. So we're looking at this critical set. So critical set of churned simons, that's flat connections mod gauge and it's important to understand that that can be identified with representations row of the fundamental group into the structure group mod conjugation. Now, you have to be a tiny bit careful with this equivalence. So in the case of SU2 this is fine. So because there's only one principal SU2 bundle up to isomorphism. There may be more than one principal bundle up to isomorphism and then you'd have to, if you pick up your principal bundle, then you have to check that your representation gives rise to the same principal bundle. So if you have, so you note that if you have a, if you have a row, then you can look at the universal cover of your 3-manifold times G divided by pi1 via row. So that's by deck transformations and by row. That's a G bundle over y, which is, has a natural flat connection coming from this product connection. And this bundle doesn't have to be trivial in general. So anyway, that's a story. And I want to observe that there's already something a little bit interesting going on in the simplest possible case. It's our next simplest possible case. Suppose y is LPQ, a lens space. So pi1 of y, of course, is Z mod PZ. And you can use this construction, well, so, you know, representations, so representation from Z mod PZ to SU2, that's just given by picking a generator here and sending it to some pth root of unity. But of course, this lens space, I mean, there's another parameter Q in, in its definition. And you can check that while the space of representations, sorry, I need a notation here. So this is the representations of y into G. And if G is obvious, I'll just call it R of y. So here the representation space is easy to figure out. It's just these, here's up to conjugacy or representations of this form, but you get to switch these guys. So if P is, if P is odd, they're P minus 1 over 2 such representations. The interesting thing is that, so the representation space itself doesn't notice Q, but we have this churned simons function, which you can compute for these representations. And even the image of churned simons on the flat connections notices, notices the lens space. So, so, so actually, let's say omega is 2 pi, let's say omega n is this guy, then you can check that churned simons mod pi squared on the corresponding rho n is n squared R over P mod 1. I've gotten rid of the, made alpha essentially be 1 here, where R is an inverse of Q mod P. So, so to say, you know, although the representation spaces are the same as you vary Q, but fix P, the churned simons behavior of the churned simons function is already interesting. Some other examples that will be important as we try and develop the story a bit. So let's think for a second about tori. So if I look at, say, representation of fundamental group of n torus into SU2, that's just, so rho is specified by choosing choice of n commuting elements in SU2.  Up to conjugate, so I can simultaneously diagonalize, diagonalize them, but that's still not given me a unique representative. I can simultaneously, I can switch these factors. So the representation space of the n torus into SU2, I can identify with S1 to the n mod Z2. And there's a very, you know, here we're sort of exploiting the fact that SU2 is simply connected for non-simply connected groups. It's a, there's a very rich and interesting story which Greg could tell you everything about. It's, it was only one, one case of that that's going to be important for us, which is the case again of SU, SO3. Let's look first, well actually, let me say one, one, let me digress one second here. So, so if I have a representation or a connection, but let's think about it from the point of view of representations, a representation into G, then I can ask what is its stabilizer under conjugation. So, and it's an easy exercise to see that what that is, it's the kind of, essentially by definition, the commutant of the image of rho. Now the groups that can be commutants of other groups in a lead group that's an interesting story there for SU2, so for SU2 it's, there's a rather simple list, it's either the trivial element, a circle subgroup, or the whole group. For SO3 there's an interest, it's a richer story, you can have the identity, you can have Z2, this is the non-trivial generator, you can have Z2 times Z2, which we'll call the Klein four group, you can have SO2, you can have O2, or you can have SO3. So, this for example is matrices of the form 2 by 2 matrix A and it's determinant. And you notice this picture exhibits a nice feature, this kind of graph is self-dual, if you have a look at a representation, look at what its image is, then its commutant is the guy over here. So the stuff that commutes with this is a Z2, which is this Z2. These guys are their own commutants, and these guys are commutants of each other. So, that tells you that there's another, you know, so if we're looking at representations of the fundamental group of say the two torus for the moment into SO3, one possibility is that they're already the ones we saw coming from SU2 where their image is in SO2 subgroup. Another possibility, however, is that they lie in here. So, there's a representation K4 from pi1 of the two torus into K4 sitting inside SO3 and its stabilizer is K4. Now, to explain some of the other things that we're going to do, let's stare at this example a tiny bit more, take another point of view on it, so SU2 of this example. So, what do I want to say? So, of course, what we're going to do is we're going to look at the punctured torus, make a point P, of course pi1 of T2 minus P is a free group, but this, if I pick generators, pick my base point, pick a generator X and another generator Y, then loop that just goes around P is the commutator. Let's call this loop gamma. Gamma is equal to, depending on how I chose things, is the commutator. Now, what I can look for instead, instead of SO3 representations, I can look for representations rho of pi1 of the punctured torus to SU2, but with the property that rho of gamma is minus the identity. If you think about it, SU2 mod plus or minus the identity is isomorphic to SO3. So, this is picking up some kind of SO3 representations, but if I set, so let me call this R0 of T2 minus R0 of T2 and P SU2, that's this set of representations, SU2 acts by conjugacy still and now acts by consciously, but it turns out it acts freely. In fact, here an example of, so we had this rho K4, there's a, I'm going to call it rho H from pi1 of T2 minus P to SU2, which sends X to the quaternion I, Y to the quaternion J, and then you can check that part of the commutators of these guys is minus one, gives you an element here and exercises, see that this is, this is the unique rep up to conjugacy. So, just to say, you know, if we were looking at this, at these representations into SO3, there's a very nice interesting representation with image decline four group, that's great, but it has non-trivial stabilizer, which is a bit annoying, but if I look at it from this point of view, kind of look at it, try to look at it as an SU2 gadget, but with a bit of a singularity, it gets much better, yes. Rho sub H for quaternions, Y goes to J, so these are the quaternions I and J. So remember that SU2 is the same as SP1, it's the three-sphere, I can think it was the three-sphere in the unit quaternions, and you know, so anyway, just, so let me introduce another bit of notation then. So, let's set R of T2P mod SU2, that's, sorry, R0, that's just R of T2P, and the exercise is that this is a point, is a unique guy like that with trivial stabilizer. Okay, and another exercise for you, so we can, well, it'll be useful to generalize this, so a little higher level view of what we did, we took an SU2 bundle, sorry, we took it really an SO3 bundle, and we tried to lift it to an SU2 bundle, we failed at one point in this case. And, but in doing so, we can still study representations successfully, and what that point represents is the second Stiefel-Whitney class of that SO3 bundle. So, we can generalize this picture in a way that turns out to be useful for technical reasons, I mean, for trying to make some of the gadgets that we're going to construct into functors. It turns out to be useful to generalize this picture to three manifold, so we're going to look at SO3 bundles, but we're always going to look at them, try to think of them as SU2 bundles, and the way we do it is we pick a particular representative of W2, a curve, so we choose gamma in Y3, a closed curve, it might be null homologous, and consider, well, first R0 of Y and gamma, that's representations rho of pi1 of Y to SU2, so that rho of, sorry, rho of mu is minus the identity, and here I need a picture to explain what I mean. So, the generalization of the picture we had of the torus is, well, let's imagine our three manifold, something like the three torus, we take some curve gamma, maybe it's interesting, maybe not, whatever, this is gamma, and we pick our base point, and what mu is, is some kind of meridional curve, any meridional curve, so these are, okay, and then I can also set this to be the quotient space. Anyway, so it need not be free in general, yeah, but it makes it a little freer. That's close, consider, okay, all right, and yeah, lovely, good, yeah, right, then the next exercise is that R of T2 times S1, point times S1, so the three torus, and I just take the product of the previous picture with the circle, this is now two points, I mean, the sort of elementary exercise to make sure you understand the definitions. So, I'm going to give you some, a little bit richer family of examples, which are beautiful computation due to Fintichel and Stern, so these are ciphered fibrous spaces, so remember, so we're going to just look at the kind of basic example, examples of rescorne examples, so on the one hand that's the link of the singularity z to the p, z1 to the pq, z2 to the q, z3 to the r equals zero, intersected with the five sphere, so it is, there's S5 v6, that's this zero set here, and the sigma pqr is here. So, it turns out that if pq and r are pairwise and co-prime, then,


Good morning. It's our last day in New York, our fourth and final. And we had this master plan about how we were going to get up, bring early, and get to Metro Textiles, one of our favorite places, right whenever they opened. And this is what we found. Womp, womp. They are closed. He's not here yet. I don't even know if the hours that we saw online are accurate anymore, but we're so close that we can't get in. We really don't have a ton of time today either because we have to be uptown for the Downton Abbey exhibit by 10.30. And we're meeting Amber's family. Their train gets in at 9.30, so we might just end up going sitting in a coffee shop. We've got about going to a trim store, but Pacific doesn't open until 8.30. That's about 20 minutes from now. So I don't know what we're gonna do. We had a whole plan. It does say in case of emergency, please call. Does this qualify as an emergency? I don't know. I feel like it's for the best.  True. No more fabric. Maybe it's a sign. So we'll let you know what we end up doing, but we may not be going to Metro this year, which would be the first year ever we have at home. Well, we can, but first year ever we haven't shopped. Stay tuned. Going back to the hotel, checking out, carrying all of our luggage down. There's a lot of it and it's very heavy. I'm probably gonna have to check my bag because I've added a bag since we've gotten here. And then we went to Pacific trimming where I found some colored, multi-colored tassel trim. It's really cute. And I got some buttons to match my Jessica dress, that green linen. So now we're headed to Penn Station to head uptown to go to the Downton Abbey. Downton Abbey is just some space with the Downton Abbey for the fresh hour. I can only take video out here though. So this is really all you're going to get to see. I'll try and take some pictures inside in my hand. We'll see. But we're from, so it's already super cool. Super cool. And they're gonna let me video in here. So I'll be able to take you with me. These are million dollar sandals. Well, a reproduction of the million dollar sandals. These are all colonial buckles that were excavated from Washington Heights.  And they found all of these in the ground. Here's some fun platforms. Bath clogs. What do they call it? Bath clogs. Bath. So your feet don't get wet? Bath clogs so that your feet don't get wet from the Ottoman Empire time. Food washes. Very sexy. These are from a farewell performance called the ballerina name. Tether Watts. Look how like worn down they get. I know they have to replace them like daily but I didn't know they got that worn down. So these are Cinderella from Broadway from 2002. But Stuart Whiteson designed these. They're very sparkly and beautiful. Oh sorry, 2013. It was one year old. These are spectator pumps signed by the Yankees. Any Yankees fans out there? That's kind of cool. These belong to Ginger Rogers. Madonna sandals. Salvatore Ferragamo. They were in the olden times. These were designed for Sophia Lauren originally. And they are handmade needle point lace. These are peep toe spectators. The woman these were made for married a king. American born divorced lady who married a king. Like Meghan Markle. And she is wearing them. Okay, who has seen kinky boots? These are the boots from the original Broadway production worn by Billy Porter. Look how big they are because obviously they are for a man. So they are like very big boots. Oh, totally. What number is this? No, they're not number. No, they are one. Yeah, it's like etched on the side. I'll take eight. I like number eight. What? Number eight. Okay. Top right. But like a rocky look. Do you see how metal that middle part is? Yeah. Like somebody's foot could be that. I feel like one of my toes though would just come right out the side. Probably. 1932. These were made by Connie Sheikry. Oh, Connie. I bet the dyeing process back then was cumbersome as well. Yeah, I think it would just conform to your arch. Talking about these shoes here that have this like elasticy thing that obviously changes shape whenever you step your foot inside them. But these are all from the mid 50s and 70s platforms. These are all from the early 1900s. Yeah, like these are pretty modern slingback. They are from 1964, but designed by Stuart Weitzman. These are, oh, not Stuart, Seymour. That must have been his father. Also Seymour Watson or Weitzman. And then look at these cool ones. These are from 1964. Leather and rhinestone. Then we have mid-century Christian Dior. Actually, those are probably pretty valuable today. 1960s. Look at these long sandals. That's from Enzo Aroma. That's the maker. Keep-toe platform shoes from 1972. Also very modern with an ankle strap. And these are Italian pumps from the 70s. These are from the late 50s. Super cool. I'd wear those today. These are 1956. How old are they? Cool mesh. Look how big. 1972. Stuart Weitzman. And some Ysaint Laurent with a cute bow. 1967. Adorable. So this next part is exploring how, like, what influenced the design of shoes. And so we have some architecture influence. And you can see how different buildings might be represented in these heels. Look at those. Right? Can you see the building architecture in all of them? It's very cool. These are inspired by the Chrysler building in New York City. Super cool, right? Let me show you the back. Or the side. So fun. These are all film inspired shoes. Or they were worn in movies. So we've got these old movies. I don't know. Rita Hayworth. Maybe they were designed for film. Allowed Hollywood costume designers to dodge the restrictive production code. Biblical temptresses and Roman imprises defied the code's prohibition against semi-nudity and inspired a fashion for gold and silver sandals. European inspiration. So there's a really fun story behind these. See how the backs are elasticated. So it was a husband and wife team. This is Beth Levine. She was the designer and her husband was the salesman. But they thought that their shoes would sell better if they had a man's name in them. So they're all marked with Herbert Levine. And she bought the patent to that elasticized back to help keep them on the back of your heels for six months. But they got so popular that the guy who originally owned the patent took it back to sell it to other shoemakers so they don't get credited with it. But you see that in shoes today. So that's cool. Here are some more of her designs. Herbert Levine. So last year Stuart Weitzman and the New York Historical Society sponsored a design competition for high school students in the Tri-State area. Students submitted shoe designs in one of two categories. Socially conscious fashion and material innovation. And these are the winning designs in each category. So there's actually a tie for socially conscious fashion. This one number one. And this one number two. And then this is the winner for material innovation. That's amazing. That was really cool. It's at the New York Historical Society. If you're in the area I'm going to come check it out. Quite a collection there if I do say so myself. I kind of hoped it would be more like modern vintage rather than 18th vintage but it was still cool. Good history lesson and a peek into the future of shoe design as well. So there's an exhibit here for like remembering Bill Cunningham that we might go see. He's the famous fashion photographer. So I'll let you know if I can film down there or not. We're at the Bill Cunningham exhibition now. It's really sweet. They have a lot of his like artifacts I guess. And they have like some of his articles. And then this really sweet video that was made. And then like some of the hats that he had designed earlier in his career too. It's not very big in here but it's nice. Sad, sad. The city is in our rear view mirror. This is the coastline train which I can't say that I've ever taken this one before. Really well it's not so much pretty but it was pretty back there. Anyways so yeah we're headed to the airport. Our trip is over. We didn't do anything after the museum. We just got back to our hotel, got our stuff and got to the trekking station. We didn't miss anything there but we were just just remissing over our trip and what we're going to do different next year. And acknowledging all of the things that we learned from last year. So it's like a little bit every time. You learn a little bit more. Got a couple new stores this year. That was good. Found our way around a little bit better this year. That was good. I stayed a little bit longer this year. Met some friends. So it was a very very full filling trip but I think we're both ready to be back home, be clean, get the filth of the city off of us and start planning our projects. I'm home. Look who's happy to see me. Supposedly sunny buns. Anyways here I am guys. I am tired. The flying was fine. It was just getting to the airport. That was exhausting.  So I had a lot of luggage and the suitcase it had all my fabric in it minus three pieces I think and guess how much it weighed. It was a little more than 30 pounds. Woops but it's really it's all really good stuff and I'm all and I'm really excited to sew it up Amber and I were already talking about our plans what we're going to get to first and all of that. So I know you guys will see all of that here very soon but I just wanted to wrap up this year's vlog series, daily vlog series by asking you guys if you have any questions for me about New York City specifically the garment district and shopping for fabric there any questions at all leave them in the comments down below or on the DM me on any of my social media. I'll compile them all and do another video or maybe like a live Facebook live or Instagram live or whatever and try and answer some of them so that you guys can maybe try and figure out a way to get to the garment district yourself but it was a lot of fun and I just really needed a shower and then a bath and then sleep and then food probably um but thanks for following along it's been so much fun reading all of your comments and I'm glad you enjoyed coming along with me. So I will see you guys next time. Bye!


Live from Boston, Massachusetts, it's theCUBE at the HP Vertica Big Data Conference 2014. Brought to you by HP. With your hosts, John Furrier and Dave Vellante. Okay, welcome back everyone. We are here live in Boston, Massachusetts. This is theCUBE, our flagship program. We go out to the events, extract the signal of the noise. I'm John Furrier, the founder, co-founder of SiliconANGLE Media with Dave Vellante, co-founder of SiliconANGLE Media. Next guest is Chris Selland, VP of BizDev with HP Vertica and VP of Marketing. Welcome back. Thanks. It's great to be here again. We've got a quick segment here. I know you're really super busy. You put on the event, great show, packed house. We just did a little cube thing up on stage. A lot of interesting conversations. Certainly yesterday was a great cube day. United States Postal Service really to me, like I said on stage, the poster child for, you know, the modernization in play for across all sectors and other things. But the attendance here has been, it's not a vendor fest. It's really like last year's theme. You have really big players here, good players, technologists, practitioners, really making the change. So what's your thoughts, give us an update on what your impressions are, what you've learned past two days and what's different from last year? Yeah, well again, you know, we have, we have all, most of our ecosystem partners here. We have a very broad ecosystem across BI visualization, data transformation, ETL, CDC, and of course Hadoop. But at the same time, this is not about the technologies about the customer. So we've got our customers on the cube, we've got our customers on stage, you know, talking to each other about what they're doing and how they're being successful. And also, you know, in some cases where they stub their toe, because that's what this event is really all about. We hold it here in Boston so that our engineers can get together with our customers and really talk about these things and have, you know, open honest conversations. So this is a different kind of event for sure. But you know, it's been great. I think clearly one of the things that's evolved over the past 12 months has been the adoption of Hadoop. And we talked about the, you know, our ecosystem, the fact that we're working with Clouder, we're working with MapR, and of course the fact that two weeks ago or I guess two and a half weeks ago, we announced that we were making a strategic investment in Hortonworks as well.  Not all of them, but a lot of them, you know, indicates we're still at a very early stage. So early innings, early stage, a lot of excitement, a lot of interest in Vertica plus Hadoop. That's kind of what I've heard so far. So I want to clarify the whole Hortonworks and this is, we've got some feedback and we talked to some folks out there and we've been following Vertica and you guys, it's pretty clear we've known when you guys have done great ecosystem, you had great partnerships. So, you know, that's well documented. But if you look at HP's commitment to open source, this seems to be a bigger issue for HP. The commitment to open source at the cloud level has certainly changed the face of HP because they were also running in the cloud business to now a player with OpenStack and you've had a huge history with Red Hat as a company. So is there other forces at play besides the big data team that with Martin Fink getting involved in this? What's your take on that? Well, there's no denying that customer enthusiasm because as I said on stage this morning, we're all about doing a story for the customer and adapting to the environment that the customer is in and where the customer wants to go and there's a huge amount of interest in open source. But at the same time, there's also a real desire for enterprise class performance. You know, I keep saying big data and I keep hearing big data is at this crossing the chasm moment where it's not just about the technology anymore. And so, you know, performance really starts to matter. You heard it this morning that, well, wow, you know, we really needed to look at Vertica because, you know, we're dealing with all this data, performance matters, business users don't want to hear about Hadoop or Spark or Shark or any other alphabet soup or even about Vertica. They just want answers and they want performance. We heard somebody from the audience, a woman from Singapore asked the integration question. And you could tell, so there was frustration, right? I'm a business person, this stuff is so complicated. You know, when is it all going to come together? It sort of sets up the, I mean, it doesn't happen overnight. We know this, but it sets up the ecosystem question. So is that the answer is the ecosystem, you know, with HP's leadership, the answer to bringing things together and doing that integration? Well, you know, what I heard her saying was, she was hearing a lot of buzzwords and acronyms and wondering if that was going to slow down and the short answer is, I doubt it. The way, you know, those of us who are in marketing and those of us who are in research, like you guys, you know, we're in sort of the acronym and buzzword production business, but at the same time, and this is why my answer was, go talk to your peers. You know, what's working and what do you use what for? I think that's really the thing that is really kind of being recognized and acknowledged is why the ecosystem is so important. It's, you know, there's different tools for different types of jobs. And as I was saying in my one answer, you know, I was referencing, I think it was a Gartner event, I was at not long ago. There was sort of a session that was all about Hadoop and all about big data at low cost, was all about price. And then there was another one about in memory technology and performance and speed. And so there was one session talking about price and one session talking about performance. But nobody's talking really about where there's not enough conversation about price and performance and the fact that there's different use cases, different types of data, different, you know, different value. And so we really got to look at the whole thing. And that's what, and we got to look at putting technologies together and using different vendors and different technologies. I give you a lot of credit because you're bold thinker. And by saying ask your peers is a very risky proposition. You know, I just saw the tweet come up and said, hey, that's really aggressive. But in reality, that is the new normal. That's how people are finding out information with social networks. Go ask your peers. That's a risk for most people. Most companies, they don't ask your peers. Talk to our marketing department. What made you come there? I mean, was it rationale? Was it like realization, your experience? What made you go that route? Well, I will tell you, and this is going to sound like marketing spin, but I am being completely honest. In my 20 plus years as a technology marketing, BizDev, exec, one of the great things about Vertica is it's the happiest customer brace I've ever dealt with. A hundred percent? No, I don't think anybody gets a hundred.  We've got a well established platform. It's been on the market for seven, eight years. So I'm very confident. And I think I know Colin will tell you the same thing. As a matter of fact, when we have unhappy customers, very typically what we do is we point them at other customers because, you know, we want them to learn from each other because you're exactly right. That's what they do. They talk to each other. They're going to do that anyway. So, you know, that's really how to get answers because if you listen to the marketing analyst, the buzzword machine, that's not going to get you very far down the path to success. That'll just make you confused. But so, let me push that a little bit because I agree, the Vertica customers are very happy. We've been impressed over the last two years with how happy. And my interpretation is a big part of the reason is they understand how to use Vertica. And they aim it at the right use cases and they nail it. And you guys have helped them do that. Having said that, you're now starting to build out the platform. It's not just the column store anymore. So what I heard from the woman from Singapore is, okay, great, I can talk to my peers, but I want HP to stand up and say, we're going to lead this integration. We're going to spend the money on R&D. We are going to actually make this happen as the leader of that ecosystem. Is that something that you can, you know, promise in quotes to your customers? Yes, that's exactly what we're going to do. And you know, it's a one step at a time thing, right? So there's a lot going on. There's a lot to filter through. And ultimately it starts with, and you'll hear this right from the very top at HP. You'll hear this in just about every speech. I think every speech I've ever heard Meg give. It's all about doing the right thing for the customer and the rest will follow. But yeah, leading the industry, that's absolutely what we're doing. That's absolutely what we're taking steps to. That's what this investment was about. That's what the stuff that we're going to be talking about, you know, not just in the past, but going forward. And that's what we want again. We want to show it like real through our customers, through the success of our customers. When our customers succeed, we succeed. But yes, that's exactly what we're doing. Chris, final word. I want to ask your ecosystem customers two pivot points. I want to add a third one in, get your take on it. Obviously developers and DevOps is coming across our radar as a huge affinity towards your business market right now. It's the Ferrari we called yesterday, but certainly you got entry level, you got Haven. That's targeting clearly the DevOps and or cloud developers. What is the developer update? Are you guys succeeding there? Are you going to have a focus there? What's the deal? Yeah, I think we're gaining mind share very rapidly.   Developers are customers. That's who our customers are. And the business executives, those developers serve, whether they're in-house developers or external ecosystem partners, the SIs, the resellers, and we've got a very, that part of our ecosystem is very active here as well. Would you say there's a hybrid conference right now in developers and customers? So I'm seeing kind of a mix in the audience. You certainly have. Yeah, but a lot of them are the same people, but yes. Yes, so I mean, because developers are customers, but yes, absolutely. So what do you think about the phrase born in big data, do you buy that rationale, that there's a cultural shift, and if the developers are the customer, that would seem to validate that trend? Yes, as long as the developers are recognizing that it's not just about the technology, it's about delivering solutions to the business, and it's about not just delivering solutions, but delivering performance to the business to answer the questions that it's not just the CIO, it's the CMO, it's the COO, it's the CFO, who most of those audience, I mean, if you say Hadoop, they'll say God bless you, right, as I often joke, but that's not a slam, but it's just that they don't talk the language of technology, we might say the same thing if you say Vertica, right, but they just know that they want answers, they need answers, and again, that's where some of our partners and things like BI and visualization, if you kind of walk around the ecosystem, who are, pictures those 1,000 words, right, who cannot just tell the story, but show the story and show the answers to the business execs, so that's absolutely the case. Chris Allen, VP Marketing and BizDev here at HP Vertica Live at the HP Vertica Conference, congratulations, just want to say a very successful conference, and I just highlight for the folks out there, it's not the biggest conference you're hearing about in terms of pomp and circumstance, they don't bring in the big U2 rock band to entertain and distract people, it's really the real deal, and the content is phenomenal, and an era of social media, which we have great touch with, people are, they want the content, they want the relationship, so great event, really big success, and it's awesome to be here. You've mentioned U2 enough, I think I'm gonna have to give Bono a call and see if he's available next year. People actually talk that tweet, they're like, oh yeah, U2's coming, I know, I know, sorry, thanks for that, John. Script your game there, but we'd love you, great to be here, we'll be right back with our next guest after this short break.


He cannot go drag racing with us tonight and when is that even a thing we do? Because he fell three stories out of a window. He is not getting out of his bed for a long time. I gotta call you back. Hey, okay, so how you feeling? Really good. That just can't be possible. Yeah, it's amazing what a good night's sleep can do. So you remember last night how you said I'm gonna win this one, didn't elaborate and then fell out of a window three stories down onto concrete? Oh, yeah. Yeah. How are you doing anything? I mean anything other than screaming in pain right now? Years of practice. You broke your spine. Yeah, there's just nothing a solid eight hours can't fix. The doctor? Okay. Said you're never gonna walk again. Just needed a good nap. You cannot just sleep off catastrophic injuries. That was exactly my point in the D&D game yesterday, but you threw a fit because I wouldn't let you recover all your HP from a long rest after a fight with an ancient gold dragon.  I didn't say that. Well, I remember hearing it. Sounds like a you problem.  Yes, I was right all along. So one, none of that explains how you possibly recovered from full body fractures overnight and two, if you did magically heal yourself with a eight hour long rest, that just proves my point, not yours. Damn it. I never win anything. How are you alive? Some days, I feel like there has to be a better course of life than just walking around with 80 quarters in each of my pockets. Well, there is. You can actually unload those quarters on patreon.com slash doormonster donate to a great group of guys who are just trying to make funny content and also get yourself some exclusive content yourself. Wow. Okay, but then what do I use to weigh down my pockets? Leaves? Leaves. Give us your quarters. Switch to leaves.


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the steel's there which Alex brought around on his own because all steel should be that big but these are all the damaged bricks around it so we've actually replaced so we're going back as far as we can, as deep as we can. I've gone right back to the end of the old original house. It's not a different video though. Good happy Friday morning, Friday, bacon, buttery and latte devoured, 25 past dates, 7th of July. This time last year me and Alex were in Manchester Airport waiting for our flight to Paris to go into the Disneyland Paris opening event for a Captain's magazine. We press, good fun wasn't it, apart from being ill. Yeah so we're back to now, back to the now. We're just clearing this prep up so we've got room to work, then door's coming out. To do this to do, we've opted for the saws all rather than the grinder because it's a bit dusty and we don't upset the neighbours again with the grinder. Obviously that's all to do. We've got, we're going to put two planks up with the two accros to take all the joists and knock a big hole out though, basically. The steel's there, which Alex brought around on his own because all steel should be that big. Look at it, beautiful. Plenty strong enough to take the floor joists. Yeah, we're all set up. So yeah, so the door out, to this out, brick work up, block work up. We're going to cut the cavity out as well if there is a cavity there because obviously there's no door there anymore. Lintel's all done, I just need to pack up the joists with a bit of slate so we can take the accros out and that's all finished, complete. Lintel's all complete from yesterday. Lintel tray vents. See the tray up there? There's the tray, cavity tray and there's no insulation going in anywhere because the whole house isn't insulated so it's all clear for them to get to lower the insulation after, should they choose to. So let's get this shite moved and crack on. There you go. That same, that piece of work is the cavity closure, the rest of it is just shitting the cavity. There's still a bit of a tower here. So you can see that tower is running external to it, internal to external. I don't think it's going to fit on those. I've given you a tower as a bank floor covered in snips as well. There's another big snip in there. So what we always do is we take out as much crap as we can reach and then we'll probably be able to get at that bit when we take this out.  So never leave your shitting if it's there. And then just get the door out, take the cavity out this side same as this on both sides. So always the same whenever you're breaking the door up, always have the cavity cut running right through. And when they come, you're doing away with the damp and the cold bridge spots. And then I should imagine we'll get the insulation blown in eventually. We can be so keen on the insulation right now. So that gives it a clear run when we do that. 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I've gone right back to the end of the old dirigent house. So it's all clear. So that's ready for me to go and the saws all get these two out and that's going to get this mess out.  It's solid concrete that I can't reach it. Do you know where to get that out if they're taking the wall down and we have to stop somewhere? So we spent a good two hours on that. There were solid concrete came from in a bloody cavity. God knows. Yeah, look at that and that's just from one brick hole they stuck out. So I don't know what they did when they built this house. They must have used it as a skip. Yeah. Yeah, I just wanted to show you that. But other than that, that hole's ready for patching, that brick's ready. Dad's got his mortar now. So while he's focusing on that, we got a little setup for me over there. So I'm ready to stitch drill the... There you are. Just put the camera in there so the concrete is gone there. That's where the concrete starts there. Right, you may be flipped on your side here. Let's see what happens. It's two o'clock. Ten to two update. We had a late dinner. We're wasted. We've just, well, not wasted. We've lost a good two hours trying to get this cavity cleaned. That was late night there and we never managed to get it all done, which is an absolute shame but we've done our best, which we always do. A lot of people don't even bother doing that. They just break over it. While we had the holes, we took the opportunity to clean out. I think we've got four Gorilla tubs out at least, out of the cavity around here, which is a joke. And when we took all this up around the doorway, it was all damp. There was a piece of timber in the cavity that was wet and all this was sand, it was all wet. And then the rest was debris in the cavity. So once we're done, it's going to be all nice and clean. And just a window. So you can see where the window is now. You won't see the frogs and the windows in because the window will be up to there. So you'll just see that front edge. And I think we need to take the block weight back a touch. Yeah. But then, yeah, we'll do that later or tomorrow. And then there's a block weight to go in. I think that's it. Alex has done the stitch there on that side. He's used a 60mm bit so he can see daylight through a good style. And he was doing, to keep the dust down, he was using the Hoover as he was drilling, which is a cracking idea. And we've nailed a bit of dushy as well to kind of juice the block around there. Yeah, stop it going to the other side. Which I think it worked. Yeah, good. You couldn't see as much in the air. Yeah, because we haven't got enough dushy to cover the living room up. So I'm halfway through pointing this up and Alex is just getting himself set up there. He's going to get me a bucket of water and then we're going to go back on. And once I'm done with that he's going to help me prep up the aqua rows and then I'll try and get some blocks out. Yes. Make a start. See some daylight. This is going to be the template. Here we go. A good bit of progress. I bet that's your event there. Yeah. But here we go. I'll take you to the front to look at the bricks properly, but you can see where the window is going to be now. Yeah, I've got a board up here. Yeah. I think a piece of 3B2 either side and a piece of 3B2 there. 3B2 then I cut the boards to fit and nail it. What boards? The boards are brought. I don't know you brought any. Again, I'll take you to the front and there's my progress. The blocks are absolutely horrible to break because they don't break. They just chip off or just grab your bit and don't give it back. So we're going to bring the heavy firepower tomorrow. Maybe a sledgehammer too. But here's dad's progress from this side. Yeah, looks quite nice. It's my first time seeing this too. And then here's this bit where seven bricks short because obviously there was a few breakages up there and then we had to take more out of here than we originally thought. So we're going to Warrington tomorrow morning and hope that you just go and have them. What's the button that someone's going to need a 2000 break tomorrow? Yeah, it's better to just go where we know not trying to around all day. Yeah, so you'll probably join us for the journey to Warrington tomorrow. So we'll catch you in the van. Good Saturday morning from the driveway. We're off for an adventure today aren't we? All right, no, we've got to play away from it. We're off to, it used to be called Leak Oncrete, but then it's bought by Hughes Gray, so now it's just a Hughes Gray branch. But it used to be like the brick specialist place for the whole of the Northwest. Then on needed bricks, that's where they went to. And they still have quite a big great yard. And it's the only place we can get all of these. Ibstock tradesmen, buff multis. Popular brick, but no one stocks them. The only other place is where we got them from, which is the brick store in Wiggin, which closed earlier on this Friday and don't open at the weekend. So instead of us waiting until Monday to finish this job, we're just going to nip to Hughes Gray now while the traffic's nice and light. It's actually in Warrington, which is about half hour trek. And then pick up the bricks, finish, I just finished the patching. Alex is going to carry on with that wall. I'm going to finish the block work. And then we're going to get this wall out and get these stills in. Sorry, this steel. This little baby steel. So, right, let's head to Warrington. Biggest and best place to come for bricks. They're generally by discontinued loads as well. So they have a lot of stuff you can't get all of everywhere else. So let's go and get our bricks loaded up. We've got to press play. There we are. Set the camera up and everything. Got the shot and missed the shot. Let's get back. There you go. Catty Brooke tradesmen. Tradesmen buff. Should have copied the London buff. Inferiority break. Half the price. Half the price by the quality. Right, let's get back. We've got one sugar. But we've got no space. We've got no space. Grab the camera and we'll film driving help. That's where you get spares. Do you feel me? Just film it for real. Have your phone. So we've got plenty to do. So let's get cracking. Once I've done that, it boots on and on we go. Right, we're set up. Tools ready. We've, I've got that part set up. Dad has kindly got the dust sheet set up for me on the other side. Mixers in. We may need more sand to find out. But so we've just got that many blocks to do. Ten. Ten blocks. Well, nine brick. Then slow to demolition. A lot of pads. Yeah. It's 10 o'clock so we're having a quick break. We'll set up the strong fat. Yeah. So we'll catch up to break. Probably after 11 now.  We're well behind. We should have already been done within an hour. We've just got to roll with the punch and get on with it. So I've just finished this and finished on it. That. Remember it's probably just four bricks on top of each other. But these are all the damaged bricks around it. So we've actually replaced one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, fifteen bricks have been replaced. And we put one down there as well. So that was a lot of work something to talk about. A million times better. I mean the brickwork on the house is not nice. The brickwork on the extension is not nice. So at least our bit's tidy. But yeah, we're all finished out here. I've put that extra batten on top just to seal the top. I think it's two weeks before the window's ready. So that's all secure. We just screwed a couple of pieces of 3B2 either side. One in there with the joiners and then just nailed them into position. So yeah, I'm finished here. It's all cleaned up. I'm going to go inside now. A lot of work done, which is about six blocks, eight blocks to do, while Alex is brushing down that wall. And then the only thing left to do around here is take that door for the skip. Yes, to the skip. That's where the customer wants it to go. I'll show you why. Well, there's a hinge broke off it for starters. And look at the state of it. Who do you want to buy that and clean it up and reuse it? With a knack of dog flap in the panel. The door's knackered. It's well past it's seized by date. So yeah, it's going in the skip. So there you go. Finished article. As always, a lot more work than it looks. Oh, brick a door up, puddle into it, a bit of wash. It's never that straight forward.  Well, I've just gone to stop the camera. It wasn't going. So sorry about that. I missed that. So brickwork complete inside and outside. Just need to tidy up a little room in this area. And then I'm going back there to help Alex. Alex one, rain zero. I am nice and dry. So it can rain all at once. I'm just going to do the outro out here. So there's the window. The new lintel brought out to the new window height. Let's do that again. New lintel there to match the new window length. All break up a nice brick match. There's the finish result of that little awful patch with the bricks we picked up this morning. God, that does not feel like it was this morning. That feels like the other day now, was it hell? For now, I'll just say thank you all very much for watching. If you enjoyed, be sure to give us thumbs up. And if you're new to the channel, you want to see more, be sure to subscribe and tap on that bell. That way you'll always know when notified. That's always a massive help. We greatly appreciate the support. Very much appreciated. This has been bricklaying with Steve and a very dry Alex, rainproof. And we will see you in the next one.


Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebrakes.com coming at you with 2019-2020 hit parade, the rookies prison basketball, five box half case random team break number one, 30 spots, everyone gets 30 teams or everyone gets a random team, remember New Orleans stuff will go to New Orleans, Charlotte will go to Charlotte, if there's any old school cards in here. Big thanks to all these folks for getting into the action and all the teams right here thanks to all the teams, let's roll it, let's randomize it, protecting themselves, let's randomize it five times right here, one, two, three, four, and fifth and final time, after five times Brenton down to one, two and a three five times for the teams, one, two, three, four, and five, after five times Hornets down to nuggets, alright so Brenton with the Hornets, Chad with the Spurs, Daniel with the Heat, Jason with the Warriors, Ryan H with the Rockets, TJ with the Timberwolves, Kyle with the Cavs, Brenton with the Suns, Chris with the Thunder, Corey with the Pacers, Brian with the Gris, Juan with the Sixers, Edwin with the Blazers, Daniel Christian with the Bulls, Eastwood with the Wizards, Michael with the Hawks, Tony with the Clippers, Chris with the Lakers, EA with the Bucks, Joseph with the Nets, Brian with the Mavs, EA with the Pistons, TJ with the Magic, EA with the Raptors, Eastwood with the Kings, Drew with the Jazz, Eastwood with the Pelicans, Brenton with the Celtics, Michael with the Knicks, and Juan with the Nuggets, alright so let's sort by column B and it's a half case break so I think there's ten boxes in here, alright I think case 8 out of 10 and let's pop this open let's see which half we're gonna do from the top over here, too many hits packed in there so five bucks on the left side five on the right side we'll roll the die we'll go one two three for the left side four five six for the right side and it's gonna go six one two three four five six and we will save these for break number two will be for the next random team any trades looks like no trades I don't think we have any more SPA Spiro and Montgomery Club members I'm not sure what the Montgomery was special special tops club yeah so I don't know if we got any of that Bowman Sapphire I don't know if we're in the Montgomery club alright looks like no trades up Callum so we'll TWC trade window close let's print let's rip and if for whatever reason they're in there for every if they're in their college gear there we go if they're in their college gear or some sort of non-pro uniform like a team USA uniform or something like that if I guess how would we approach that so we go by the check we'll go by the checklist whatever that set is there's no checklist then we'll use our non-pro uniform rule so we'll go to the team they played for the longest if they're retired or the acting they're currently on if they're active alright you can kind of peek on the top camera right there can you tell by the picture who that is it's Deandre Aiden trying to figure out a way to cover this up but I couldn't show you the grade and not code PSA 10 nice Gemmin 10 Deandre Aiden rookie card very nice appropriate for a set called the rookies that'll be for Brenton and the Suns and share your hits if you want to that's alright there's there's a little teaser right there and that small window any guesses I can tell who it is I looked at the card to it's John Moran nice PSA 9 prison basketball that goes to Brian and the Grizzlies all right this is a BGS grade right here can you tell by the picture there it's a little bit harder to tell yeah we've got more in the store Joe Ellis we got the second half in the store kind of a lot how much was this is this low risk 45 bucks is not that bad to chase graded cards five five cards in there we'll see all right it's a BGS 9 5 no autograph at Donovan Mitchell some good value there green Donovan Mitchell from Prism centering is a nine edges corners and surface all in 9 5 yeah I kind of thought Tatum at first to this this is this is a good test of your knowledge of the the stance of players like this there's silhouette who do we have here who I think people should be familiar with this silhouette and that small little camera over there any guesses mm-hmm that's not a Lucas stance yeah EA's got it Trey young it's a Gemini ten Trey young rookie or Trey young nice that'll be for Michael Hughes and the Hawks right Joe Ellis like auto correct made him say Luca instead of Trey stupid auto correct right and the last one here second half is in the store folks if you want to run this back I'll show you have some time to do it tonight another PSA I don't know what the grade is just yet but I have a guess Vincent gets in Lonzo so is EA that that was my guess to it is Lonzo nice PSA 10 we got Lonzo ball fast break disco parallel nice I feel like he's gotten a little boost in value because now he's with nice with a Zion now but that'll go to the Lakers and that'll be for Chris Lombardo that's it quick little easy break chasing some graded cards big thanks everybody here for getting in second half is in the store on jazzy's case breaks calm I'm Joe I'll see you next time bye bye


Hey everyone, Lee Lowell here going for another round of our Saturday synopsis today is Saturday March 19 2022 We look at the charts here in the Saturday synopsis. That's what we do technical analysis I'm trying to show you some of the stuff that I've learned over the last 30 years. I'm a technical analyst I look at the charts chart reading. That's what I do that helps me get into and out of my trades I do that for our newsletters So as we do every Saturday, let's just jump right into the charts and see what's been happening in the market and and see What may be coming forward? We always look at the SPY, which is the spy or the the exchange traded fund for the S&P 500 that gives us the best overall view of the market as a whole So what's happened this week? This was actually a pretty big week And I'm actually pretty excited about the price action that we saw this week good stuff happening bullishly wise I'm a bull In our newsletters, we take both positions So we're really glad with what we saw this week big news out there this week was the the US Federal Reserve They had that they finally announced that they're going to raise interest rates for the first time since the end of March of end of 2018 quarter basis point. So, you know 25 basis points is what they did quarter of a point. I should say So a quarter of a point is what what they're raising most people expected that and I think because of the The high inflation that we're seeing here at least in the US the Federal Reserve had to react They had to do something and raising interest rates is their best tool for taming inflation now It's not going to tame inflation overnight. That's certainly not going to happen a 25 point rise is not going to Automatically make everything cheaper It's a gradual thing if they if they shock the market by by raising It just rates by a point or more that would have been kind of rough the markets would not have liked that so this was this was Wily expected they're gonna have measured Increases over time. They plan to have at least six or seven. I think in the next year maybe more So we're expecting it. We know it's coming and they're gonna be in increments each time So there is inflation the news out there is still the Russia Ukraine conflict bad thing out there We don't like what's happening, but we're the market is sort of getting used to that that that news flow They know the invasion is happening as horrible as that invasion is The market is an ever-optimistic place The market is still made up of companies that are creating products and creating profits. They're not a lot of exposure In that Russia Ukraine area for a lot of these US companies, so market participants Look out to the future and know that things are going to be brighter in the days ahead But we still are caught up in these these very short-term news items But that's not the way you have to look at the market is it looks forward. So we have to play that game So what happened this week? Well, let's look at let's look at the market action the price action Remember price action is what the the the market is doing. It's showing you where it wants to go So since the 1st of January the market's been in this downtrend and the way that we look at our charts Is that we watch the price action? We see which way the market is moving and we draw these trend lines and these channels to help us Visually see where the market is going and one thing I've learned over my my 30 years in this business is that the market Doesn't care about your own opinion if you think the market's going to go should go lower Because all this bad stuff is happening in the world the market will always prove you wrong in the long run because the market moves The way the market does and it moves on fundamentals of the of these underlying companies and if companies are profitable The stock market has to go up But yes in the short term we're bombarded by these news items and things that are happening But but the market doesn't care what your opinion is it'll always prove you wrong at some point So I've learned over the years is that I'm not going to trade the market based on my opinion I'm going to trade the market based on what the what the market is showing me Which way the market wants to go up or down and then I base my trading decisions on that So for you know a long period of time the market was going up and we draw these these lines to show us the channel And since January the market's been in this downtrend You can see I have the upper leg here the lower leg here by these blue lines at least on my chart They're blue and so the market's been in this downtrend so bullish positions. We're not our our Play at this moment because why be bullish when the market is showing you it wants to go down And so until the market has another turn meaning higher that's when we'll get into our trade. So the market's either going up going sideways or going down and So for the last January February half of March the market's been going down But very recently what we've been seeing is we made the tide may be turning at this point Now this is the SPY so you can see I just drew this line right here showing you we may sort of Be starting a new uptrend when you start to have higher lows on the chart That's when you can start to possibly draw your uptrending channel What do I mean by that? Well each one of these bars is one day's worth of trading This is the daily bar chart for the SPY So each day is one day's worth of trading and I have my three moving averages of 20 day 50 day and 200 day moving Average those are widely followed by a lot of people So higher lows mean each each bar is one day's worth of trading So the bottom of the bar is the low of the day and when you start to have the lows of each bar starting to move in this upward fashion then you can Possibly feel or see that maybe a new leg or new direction change is happening So I just drew this this uptrending line right here Because I've been and I connect the lows the recent lows so possibly a new leg upward could be starting The other good thing we liked is that so with this new uptrend it created this triangle here this congestion pattern It's called so when the market starts to move in a tighter Tighter fashion It's gonna blow out one way or the other either to the upside or the downside of a congestion pattern There's a triangle called congestion pattern. So the mark will either move down or up So what we're seeing is the last few days since the Fed the Federal Reserve made that announcement about interest rates We had this huge jump in the market this week so Friday Thursday Wednesday. So basically Wednesday Thursday Friday We had this nice massive move even on Tuesday We finished near the highs of the day. No, I know it's kind of hard to see but This was right here This bar was Tuesday which ended near the high of the day and then Wednesday Thursday Friday So we had this nice blast higher. What I really like about this move is that What I've been saying prior is that in order for me to get excited about the next leg higher The market need to show the price action Moving outside and above this downtrending channel. So we got this blue line right here, which was enclosing the down move You can see right here. Let me open it up a little more this price action right here these two days Thursday and Friday Moved outside and above the downtrending channel. So it's coming out here. What I really liked is that it? Now finished here's Friday yesterday March 18th the little dash on the right side of the bar was where it closed for the day So it closed above this downtrending 50-day moving average right here This is the 50-day moving average and it closed above it. So we have our site set on here's the 200-day moving average right here Didn't get to it, but it got very close to Hitting the 200-day moving average now. There's two ways we can look at this number one Yes, this was a nice bullish move But in order for it to be really really confirmed we need to see it get above the 200-day moving average So we needed to get above about $445 on the SPY or SPY and and stay up there for a couple days to for me to really say okay The bear mark this bear move has ended and we're getting ready and we're entered a new bull phase So this 200-day moving average is is critical for next week right here. So around $445 we needed to get above there, but this was very constructive getting outside This downtrending channel was the first step. There's a very constructive now We needed to get above this 200-day moving average otherwise if it doesn't This is big resistance right here big resistance There's a chance it could fall back get knocked back down and possibly come back to the Upper leg of the downtrending channel, which would you know be in the around 430 level so you we have to watch this very closely it either gets through it or it gets knocked back down and now let's look at the the e-mini the e-mini futures for The S&P 500 because the futures trade a little bit longer they trade almost 24 hours a day So I want to show you this should look very similar to the SPY So here's the e-mini S&P 500 futures. This is the the June contract, which is the new front month contract So you can see it looks very similar since around January 1st coming down here's the the trend line But just like the SPY it has broken outside and above this downtrending line. The good thing here is that on on the Futures it has moved above the 50-day moving average, which is this line coming down here I know it's kind of hard to see sometimes I've got these few lines, but you can see it closed above This downtrending 50-day moving average so the futures which have longer hours gives it more time to trade So the here we got it jumped above the 50-day moving average whereas on the spy It actually I'm sorry. Let me backtrack it these the SPY has moved above the 50-day moving average I'm talking about the 200-day moving average. So let's go back to the e-mini futures Sorry about the confusion there so Here's the 200-day moving average and It has moved above it So that's a good sign for the futures the futures have a little bit more action So we're we're right on that cusp there of the market Starting this new leg higher the futures have moved above all three moving averages the 20-day The 50-day and the 200-day and it closed you can see a little dash mark right here So it's closed above all the moving averages. That's very telling on the SPY going back one more time Sorry for all this back and forth the SPY one more time. It hasn't gotten above its 200-day moving average But it's very close. So next week's very telling whether it's going to get knocked back down or it's going to continue the drive higher I'd like to see the drive higher continue. Let's look at the NASDAQ We'll look at the triple cues first Also, you can see the downtrending channel we've been in since early in the year and Just yesterday so Friday March 18th It has moved outside of the downtrending channel. You can see the price action right here Thursday and Friday We're big but look where it it tagged. Here's the downtrending 50-day moving average right where my arrow is It tagged it close right on that mark You can see right at the intersection of the downtrending 50-day moving average This is not a coincidence people these this is how price action occurs The moving averages and these and these channels will draw It's like a magnet because because a lot of people are looking at these same levels So the price action just it's not coincidence that it that it tags these or you know finds the You know connection it makes with these these moving averages. I can't tell you, you know, this is just how it happens This is how it works and so you can see the cues came right upon the 50-day moving average And here's the 200 day up here the NASDAQ has gotten hit a lot harder So it's got a ways to go until it meets the 200-day moving average But getting outside of the channel getting outside of the the downtrending channel and coming into contact with the 50-day moving average Is very important and just like the SPY We need to see whether it's going to get knocked back down Or it's gonna drive higher and then head towards its own 200-day moving average. So next week is very critical There's a lot of bears out there. There's a lot of people think there's no way this market could go up There's too much bad stuff going on out there in the world How could the market go up and as I said the market doesn't care what you think the markets Is going to do what it does and it's better to just follow the price action instead of trying to to will the market to bend to your opinion It won't work. It won't work at least enough times. It won't work So we're watching we're watching the price action I'd like to see the triple cues get through the the downtrending 50-day moving average Let's look at the NASDAQ futures. Just like we looked at the e-mini S&P 500 futures. Here's the NASDAQ futures And it looks very similar. So we had the you can see my long long blue line here, which was the downtrending channel So Thursday and Friday we got outside of that and just like the triple cues Made contact right here with the downtrending 50-day moving average So we're we're watching where this is we're at a critical point here. We don't want to see it get knocked back down We want to see a drive higher Will it drive higher it all depends on The news flow if there's some good news that comes out are Russia and Ukraine over the weekend that maybe they've got a ceasefire They've come to some agreement this market will drive higher if that lingers on if the war that war slash conflict lingers on for a bit then We may have some tentative sideways action here because people who are bearish are not going to give up so quickly and So we'll see what happens. I'm watching next week's critical I want to see a drive higher and we hope that that happens. All right, so that's that for the indexes. Let's take a look at the Let's look at some individual stock All right, let's take a look here. Let's see what we got. Let's take a look. We we look at the Most popular stocks because that's what everyone seems to be interested in so I give my opinion on what I think these stocks are doing Let's take a look at apple Start with apple And we'll go from there Open this up a little so you can see apple has sort of been in this downtrending channel Just looking at the direction you can see and if you want to use some visuals You can always draw yourself some trend lines. You kind of draw you kind of It's not an exact science. You connect some tops You connect some bottoms and it gives you just a visual of which way the price action is going Okay, so obviously we're in this bit of a downtrending channel Overall though the market apple is moving higher So it's in an upward trajectory But it has these you know downtrends to to contend with over time But what we like here is that here's the 200 day moving average down here apple Briefly traded below it But jump back above it with the rest of the market So apple had a pretty good week started on the lows right around 150 and started to move higher And it just under 164 dollars a share. So we like the way apple looks here What's going to decide which way apple goes is how it moves once it connects Here's the 50 day moving average here and obviously the downtrending channel So what we want to see is it keep going higher Blast outside and above the channel and the 50 day moving average get out up here somewhere And then keep driving higher We know apple is a great company over the long run. It's going to keep going higher It's just how it contends with this this channel at the moment same with all the other stocks and the indexes themselves It's all about where the price action is in conjunction to the moving averages and and in the channel lines That's how that's how prices react Okay, so we want to see it get blast higher if it can get above 170 Here's 170 if you just kind of scroll across I'll make it a little bit easier for you 170 if it can get above 170 then we're off to the races all time new highs again um, let's take a quick look at the At Warren Buffett. I mentioned Warren Buffett last week in his Berkshire Hathaway And I had shown a report that I wrote. It's on my website. I'll show that to you again We had some interest this week. So where is my Berkshire Hathaway? Okay, so down here Thing is here's here's Berkshire Hathaway when I have these bright numbers in my screens here That means it's made a new high for the year and let's click on Berkshire Hathaway and see what happened So once again, yes Uh, Warren Buffett does it again all time new highs for his Berkshire Hathaway fund. Just look at this nice trajectory compared to the SPY which is having trouble You know, it's been in this downtrend But but Warren Buffett has just been killing it been nailing it and his his share price has been going up So that's a great thing for for owners of Berkshire Hathaway. What I do want to show you once again on my website Um, we I have this report that I wrote If you're interested in in piggybacking Warren Buffett for you know, a lot cheaper than buying Buying the fund I wrote this report go to our website smart options seller calm Click on the more link the more heading here and go to shop and it will bring up my report that I wrote The secret to buying Warren Buffett for pennies on the dollars. It's an options trading strategy That you may enjoy reading about and it's a great way and you can do it on any stock But you know, we chose Warren Buffett because he's one of the greatest traders of all time And if you want to tag along with him this options trading strategy can help you do that. All right, so let's go back to The chart so Warren Buffett doing well. We looked at apple. Let's look at tesla Tesla is always an ever popular stock now very interesting here We can see tesla has been caught in this downtrend Just like the rest of the market just like most other stocks But what we like here is that here is the 200 day moving average right here And it had been spending some time above and below it and just this week. It was able to pop back above it pop Outside of the downtrending channel. You can see right here Here's friday's trading this one day right here has made its way outside of the downtrending channel and once again Also just tagged its 50 day moving average. Here's the 50 day moving average a very important moving average tagged it right there so Tesla is at a critical juncture as well for next week. Will it Continue to power above the 50 day moving average And assert itself or will it get knocked back down? These are this week is going to be very telling this coming week is going to be very telling for a lot of stocks That are making their way outside of the downtrending channel and making their way above 50 day moving averages So keep an eye on tesla Could be a big week for tesla amazon Also had a pretty big week too It was here around $2,700 and now it's above $3,200 so big move this week for for amazon But it just kind of puts itself back into this long Long sideways channel that it's had that has been in forever You can kind of see the w pattern here if you if you envision a w Which is usually a bullish pattern It's not an exact w, but you can see it sort of looks like a w that is a More of a bullish pattern. We can draw the resistance line right around here So you kind of want if you're bullish on amazon you want to get it above this new W resistance line once it gets above here Then it has this moving average to contend with And if it can get above that it we'd like to see it move higher But but amazon's been caught in this thing for a long time RSI on its way up not overbought not oversold So it has some more room to move to the upside I next week's going to be a very telling week for a lot of these stocks. Let's look at amd I look at amd every week because I'm Disclosure I'm long amd bullish amd. I like amd It didn't move as much this week as most of the other stocks Which was a little bit confusing for me not concerning but confusing considered a lot of these other stocks had big moves this week amd didn't have the biggest move $100 still seems to be The support area For amd comes down to 100 and people buy it up Um, I don't like this law. I'm gonna take away this trend line I don't remember when I drew that but I don't like the way that one looks Let me move remove this one and we're going to put in a new a hundred hundred dollar $100 support line Right around here or so Right hundred dollars That's where it seems to find support rallied a little bit got up to 113 finished over 113 yesterday friday Um, I'd like to see it start to blast above these Moving averages. Here's the 50 day coming down here It's it's here's the 200 day so a kind of it's at the tip of the 200 day moving average That that might act as resistance for a period of time until it could blast its way higher So amd not as strong as some of the other stocks I would have liked amd to get at least above its this 50 day moving average this week, but it didn't So it may take amd a little bit longer to get its mojo back But I'm hoping that a hundred dollars is going to be the bottom line here That'll hold support all the time and then then eventually it should move higher But for now amd's got a little bit more work to do than some of these other stocks. So let's keep an eye on amd Let's look at disney and wal-mart Disney also support right around 130. I've been telling you I'm a buyer at 130. That's where the support has been disney moved up close around 140 this week so You know got ten dollars worth of gain for me so far You know as far as disney goes. I needed to see it keep going. You can see Here's the 20 day moving averages blue line. So it came in contact with the 20 day moving average Got the 50 day lurking above also. So so disney's got some work to do as well You got the 200 day lurking up here. So disney is well below all these moving averages It's got some work to do certainly. It's got some work to do Hoping that's the support at 130 will remain But it's it's got a lot to To work through getting through these moving averages. So disney's not going to be powering higher massively anytime soon I don't think because there's people that are waiting up here probably to sell their shares That's what some people do. So disney's You know, I'm still bullish in the long run, but but it should it'll probably take a little bit longer For them to get going again. I'll walmart What do I see on walmart? Lots of lines and triangles and congestion patterns So walmart is sort of just kind of stuck in this pattern here in this sideways channel Not really going anywhere. If you're a bull on on walmart like I am Okay, well at least we're getting dividend payments and not getting a lot of price appreciation But you get the dividends 135 still remains the support here And you know, I'm a buyer around 135 and it's around 145 now So, um, you know walmart's just doing its sideways action for now I'm hoping that eventually you can get above this 152 and a half range at some point in time We'll have to we'll have to wait for that. Let's see what other stocks we have Let's go through the lists here that are worthy looking at. All right, so let's look at netflix. We'll look at netflix. We'll look at paypal Netflix I had the 350 level drawn some support in the last week or so But you can see it it fell through it for a couple days, but it has now powered back up So maybe 350 is the floor here for netflix still has a lot of work to do it had gotten hit pretty hard um Don't know how quickly it'll it'll bounce back up, but you have this 50 day moving average lurking above here And so that might be the next target for netflix if we start in this new long-term bull trend netflix will obviously go higher but but a lot of damage has been done here on netflix So it's going to take a little while to gain the trust of of traders that want to buy this thing up So netflix still kind of hanging around the lows I don't have anything on it, but you know 350 could be the support for netflix. We'll look at facebook too because that Similar to netflix a lot of damage had been done Maybe floor around you know 185 dollars here finished at 216 for the week So it had a good run just like everything else, but still a lot of damage has been done Facebook's got a lot of work to do to to regain the trust and get all the way back up here So I've got nothing on facebook as far as positions go Um, what else what else is worthy of note? Okay, let's look at paypal. I like paypal. I've been talking about the payment providers paypal and square But but they got hit pretty hard too. I own some paypal my my Buying level is around a hundred and thirty dollars a share or so been buying some on the way down I've got a little making up to do to get back to break even But I think we may have found a bottom here on paypal Had a pretty good week. It was under a hundred dollars a share Powered higher, but just like facebook and netflix It's got a lot of work to do. I mean it's come down 300 a share all the way down to a hundred that was that's a big move So it's got some work to do. I'm holding on for the long run because I like the payment sector I'm under my buying level. I'm holding a losing position But I'm holding out for the long run because I think the thing's going to start to move back higher Let's look at square Look not every trade is going to work out right not every trade is going to be a winner But if you have conviction in what the business is and what you think the company will do in the long run Then maybe you stick to your guns. I'm sticking to my guns on paypal square Had was in this down trending channel got hit really hard just like paypal did But you can see the tide is starting to turn. Here's the downtrend now It's moved sideways and starting to move up. So if you want to draw a little bit of a new You can see you can draw connect some of the bottom. So maybe Maybe square is starting to enter a new up trending channel Okay. Whoops get rid of that So keep an eye on square keep an eye on paypal So this could be the beginning of the turning point for the price action You can see it's got a little bit of an upside action here So maybe maybe square is on its way higher Keep an eye on this upper level here. It could get knocked back down if the whole market gets knocked back down next week Square will come back down as well But as long as this starting to move in this upwards fashion Even though it's bouncing down. It's still starting to move higher from the low point. So keep an eye on that Let's see what else we got Um, let's see move mcdonald's had a nice comeback pepsi Let's look at coca cola because i'm a fan of coke as well Great long-term dividend pair coke. You can see just the upwards trajectory the price action has been upwards You know has its fits and starts had this little sell-off here Still above the 200 day moving average. So coke in the long run over years and years and years Is is a quality company to hold on to good dividend paying company You can see just kind of slowly moves higher. So coke not a bad investment for the long run Um twitter starting to get off its lows here. Let's look at twitter Had been in this downtrend starting the sideways action Maybe starting to move up got above the 20 day and 50 day moving averages which are both down here So twitter may be getting getting off the lows trying to find itself a bottom Um, let's see. Let's see. What else we got? Now chlorox i've talked to you about before i had a position chlorox had to sell out because It just wasn't moving in the right direction for me still moving down chlorox getting hit pretty good Colgate as well. Let's look at colgate Look at this. Look at this massive down move. Yes, it had a bad day yesterday Colgate just look at this long down bar You don't like to see that when everything else is going up and you see a stock like this getting hit That's not a good sign. So Colgate you can draw the trend lines Colgate just in this This kind of nasty downtrending channel right here. So Uh, you know nothing on colgate yet Eventually, hopefully Colgate will go back up for right now. The price action is telling you no Don't it's not time to get in on colgate. So use the price action use the channels to give you an idea of what you're looking for um Now we've been looking at in the past some of the commodities because commodities are are back in play these days Where's my crude oil? So here's crude oil This is the crude oil futures market Had this massive move higher in two weeks ago or a week and a half ago The invasion with russia just sent up the price of oil had had this nice pullback as well But you know, maybe finding support at the 20 day moving average. I'm not playing crude oil that that was my first Venture into trading is in the oil markets We don't want to see high gas prices But this is with what's happening in the world with russia. It's it's sending the price of oil higher It's had a nice pullback But so keep an eye on that if you're if you're playing the oil market may found some support here may continue to go up Depending on what happens with russia and ukraine. We've got The soybean market Let's here. Let me pull it up from the screens here Um, here's the soybean market soybean futures still on the highs Maybe finding support at the 20 day moving average. We got wheat futures or wheat futures topped out had a couple limit up moves Week and a half ago or so two weeks ago and now it's pulled back finding support at the 20 day moving average So commodities are still in play You know, I know a lot of people don't don't play them. I just like to keep a watch Let me just see if there's any other stocks. We really want to look at that are worthy of looking at The healthcare stocks got hit a little bit. Let's see merc still kind of Tread and water. Where's my johnson and johnson? Let's look at johnson and johnson real quick Johnson and johnson starting to make its way hard not not too bad Healthcare is always going to be around people people need to take care of their health So the healthcare sector should always be a decent play. All right. I think that's it for now Nothing else of note that I wanted to show you Um, some of the other big players. Here's adobe You these expensive stocks adobe has gotten hit pretty good Hopefully trying to find a bottom here hugging the 20 day moving average envidia You know people ask me about some of these stocks envidia I like the move that envidia had this week has moved back above all three of its moving average Just a couple days ago. It was below all the moving averages now pop back above So envidia could have some strength here. That's why I'd like to see amd move higher That's why I was a little surprised that amd didn't move as much higher this week envidia same sec same sector plays in chip stocks envidia had a good move So i'm hoping amd gets off its butt next week and moves higher Um, but but but but but I think that's I think that's about it. Shopify People asked me about Shopify. We talked about Shopify Shopify got hit real hard too $1,700 a share all the way down to $500 a share But had a pretty massive move yesterday. Look at this one day right here. It's up $122 a share So it's almost made back what it what it lost in this this little move here And in just a couple days it gained it all back almost $300 a share in a couple days So is Shopify done going down? We'll see it's got the 50 day moving average right here to contend with So that watch this area for the next area possible resistance All right getting long here about 35 minutes. Let's Call the Saturday synopsis a day one more time SPY Reiterate what we're looking for next week got the the 200 day moving average right here As possible resistance will it get knocked back down or will it get off Get off its butt and and grind higher next week telling we coming up. All right Let's call it right there quickly.  That's what we do for the most part We sell put options. We sell put option spreads. We take bullish positions. 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