Does this work? Yeah. Oh, there we go. Great. So thank you very much. Thanks to the organizers more generally and actually before we get Started, I just want to highlight a few excellent people that Dan and I have been working with in and around the IETF So there are the other authors of the BLS signatures and hash to curve drafts And there are plenty of people who have given very careful and very useful feedback And if I've forgotten anyone, I'm very sorry. Thank you too. So let's start We've seen this a couple times, but maybe We'll think about it one more time. Why are we standardizing things? So one obvious thing is well, we want to be able to interoperate So if I tell you I'm going to be using HmaxShot256 and I send you a Mac tag You're going to be able to you know understand what it means and verify it And this means that we want to be sort of detail-oriented and precise about you know, how things are specified But that feels almost Like a like a bother like a cost whereas maybe we should be thinking about this in terms of an opportunity Like we can do careful thinking up front and we can make sure that things are secure and efficient So that you know there aren't these problems later So let's think about a specific example just to see the kind of thinking that maybe we want to do and why maybe those things tend to get missed so let's think about the invalid curve attack So this was described at Crypto 2000, Beelmeier and Muller And so here's some cartoon protocol, right? I'm going to send you an elliptic curve point and you're going to take your secret scaler Multiply it by the curve point and send me back the result But the problem is your software was badly written and it doesn't bother to check that the point is on the curve So the result is that I can sneak a lower-order point to you and you will send me back the the your Essentially your scaler mod some small value and then since discrete log is easy mod small values I'll be able to figure out your points. So if we interact in a you know a dozen times. It's game over. I have your your secret so this actually happens for real and things like blind signatures OPRFs and Actually even in key exchanges we can get something very close to this and so the question is something like okay Why why is this happening? Well, there are a couple things that come to mind So first when we think about protocols in general, we tend to think like you know in a crypto paper We think about mathematical objects, right? I told you I'm sending you an elliptic curve point But in some sense that doesn't make any sense right what I'm really going to send you is a string of bytes And then you have to interpret that as a point on a curve, right? And that interpretation is prone to error. Why? Well, we have some in some sense Ambient knowledge right all around us there are these attacks and we know that they're there But we ignore them because look there's only so much room in the background section of the paper, right? So you don't write it down every attack you just say of course well There are other attacks, okay, but when we actually write a standard We need to sort of distill that ambient knowledge into concrete statements on the page like check this point this sort of thing Okay, so this is Again, maybe this feels like a bother But actually maybe what we should call it is polite crypto with apologies to Dijkstra so the idea is something like let's this look if I can spend an hour and Make sure that you know you don't have to you know read the standard ten times and maybe go off to ten other documents Or maybe I save you from writing bad software. That's definitely a worthwhile trade-off Okay, and in some sense we should regard that as like a statement of like an optimistic statement, right? Like of course a hundred people are going to read this document or maybe even a thousand right and so of course It's worthwhile to spend an hour on this, right? So let's let's be polite in our standards, okay? And okay, so finally one maybe one more reason maybe this only applies to me to standardize things is We have to be pragmatic about it and look I have a tendency I'm writing software Oh, there's a little knob that I could add a little dial that I could add that would give us You know 2% more efficiency in this case Well, the problem is every one of these knobs has a correct setting that gives us 2% more efficiency And then it has a hundred incorrect settings that gives us you know sort of a hundred percent overhead, right? The users don't want that they want a sort of a reasonable set of defaults and And you know make some decisions for them So this is a good thing in the sense that you have to make decisions But it's a bad thing and that you have to make the right ones, okay? So that's enough philosophy So let's talk a little bit about what it is to standardize crypto with the ITF and then at the end I'll give you maybe last half. I'll give you sort of specific Information about what we're doing with BLS signatures and has to curve and things like this, okay? So the ITF is sort of this fascinating organization And I say this sort of as an outsider. It's almost like a It's like a testament to the power of almost constrained chaos and that's a loving statement Like if you go to an ITF meeting, there's something like very impressive about it There's a lot of work going on there people that were excited and there's just a lot of people who are very good at what they do So the unofficial motto that they have kind of reflects this Anyone can go to an ITF meeting and you don't have to be a member anything You just go you show up and you shout into the microphone because you've got a problem and maybe they listen to you But maybe they don't because not everyone has to agree. It's only rough consensus and the running code part Maybe we can interpret it a bit broadly. I mean something like this Look, the stuff is made to be used. So it's our responsibility to make it usable Okay, so how about crypto? Well the CFRG is sort of the research group within the ITF Whose job is to sort of consult on security matters and also to standardize kind of new crypto And since what we're here to talk about today is advanced crypto I'm gonna ignore like the other routes that you might take to standardizing crypto So for example, the TLS working group doesn't fall under the CFRG. They do their own thing But but you know, that's sort of more that's not the advanced stuff. So we're gonna ignore that So the standards that the CFRG publishes. Well, they're not actually standards. They're called informational RFCs RFC is request for commentary RFC 793 is TCP. So like lots of things are RFC RFCs and informational ones aren't standards per se but things like TLS can incorporate informational RFCs Into, you know, the documents. So for example, the curve 25419 RFC is incorporated into TLS 1.3 It's an official thing even though it's only an informational RFC So, you know, don't don't be disheartened. You should write informational RFCs And finally a lot of the business in the CFRG is transacted on the mailing list You know, if you have fond memories of like the the news group PsyCrypt from 25 years ago Then this will be very familiar except probably they're a bit more polite on the CFRG mailing list Than they were on PsyCrypt So it's a good first step to, you know, jump on in and sort of acculturate yourself on the mailing list and get an idea of How things are going. Okay. So what is it like to write a draft? Well, the official process is documented in an RFC and For research groups like the CFRG basically there are four steps written in the official document prepare a draft review it a few times and then publish it and so like really the CFRG is responsible for the technical content The IRTF is sort of there to make sure that competent implementers who aren't Experts in the area can parse the document the IESG is there to make sure you're not stepping on any toes So for example, if you really want to you know, standardize a new kind of DNS The CFRG isn't the right place for that And so the IESG is going to tell you no and then finally the RFC editor is doing copy editing They do an excellent job, but they're very hard or very overworked. So nice to them, please Okay, that's the official view of the world But it all of the work that you will do if you write a standard is hidden in step one So let's zoom in a little bit So the first thing that you should do if you're going to standardize something at the IETF is Make sure you should be standardizing something at the IETF in particular Like identify some people who actually want to use the thing that you want to standardize and talk to them about it also talk to the CFRG chairs maybe other people in the CFRG and Kind of get an idea look there's a consensus that we need this thing and that we should be the we should be writing down a standard for it So once you've got that idea in in your head, then it's time to write an individual draft So this is like the first draft of the standard And you know, it's not going to be perfect. That's okay It can have to do spread all over the place totally fine The idea is to give people a notion of what it's going to eventually look like So that now people on the CFRG and you know your users that you've identified can give you feedback like well What we really need is this other functionality that's not covered here. That's the kind of feedback you want Once you've gotten to the point where oh, I should mention before I continue When you write an rfc the the official format is this horrific xml thing you don't want to write that by hand It's it's a total nightmare. Um the the workflow probably will feel a little primitive if you're coming from tech You know, it's getting better nowadays you can use markdown and sort of automatically transform things There there's a github workflow I totally recommend that because it's really nice to be able to get you know feedback from people via issues and pull requests and this sort of thing Okay, so now we have an individual draft people are basically okay with it So it's time to call for adoption So now the CFRG says yes This is a thing that we're going to work on sort of as a group and at this point It becomes a working document in the CFRG and people on the mailing list are going to you know volunteer to read your document To give you feedback that sort of thing. Okay, so now at this point This is where you're really going to get the get the document in shape. So you're going to edit it You're going to implement most likely a reference implementation of it And probably you'll go to at least one ietf meeting and give a presentation. They're short five or ten minutes There's a lot of interaction people come up to the microphone.  And so it's kind of nice to go At some point you're going to say look, this is it.  So the irtf, etc. Okay, so how long does all this take? Well Um an example is the curve two five of a nine rfc, which took about a year end to end So from the first individual draft that got uploaded to rfc editor releasing the document was you know I don't know within 30 days of one year And there were in that time there were about 12 drafts Most of them were small edits, but you know, there was sort of a bunch of editing process going on And if you look in the data tracker dot ietf.org they give you sort of all the information about the history of documents And so what's interesting here is um irtf and iesg Basically takes zero time and the reason for this is they're They don't just happen sort of in series Everyone is sort of paying attention to documents as they go through the process And so you'll already have gotten some feedback from you know, for example, if you're trying to standardize dns under the cfrg The rfc editor queue unfortunately, it takes a little while that's because like I said, they're a little overworked But you know, they do very high quality work. So work with them So the drafts that we're working on BLS and hash to curve BLS has been in progress for about six months Hash to curve is more like a year and a half We'll see why I think a little bit later But the the high level reason is Hash to curve is more like a toolbox than a than a protocol and the result is you know, we get pulled in a lot of different directions Okay, so I want to jump into these two standards But first there's one more maybe slightly unpleasant thing to talk about and that's patents So you might guess that there's an rfc for that and there is And here's the idea if you're gonna if you're gonna standardize something with the itf And you own a patent on it or your employer does then you must disclose that If you know of a patent, but you don't own it Still it would be nice if you disclosed it though. You're not formally required to And so once once any kind of intellectual property issues have been identified The cfrg chairs and the itf administration will go to the company that owns the patents And they'll say hey, can you please promise that anyone who implements the standard will you know have some fair reasonable and non-discriminatory terms Under which they'll be licensed The problem with this. I mean that's that's great But there is this issue that i'm nothing like a patent lawyer But my understanding is that the words fair reasonable and non-discriminatory can be interpreted very broadly And so understandably there's a lot of you know trepidation when something that's patented gets standardized And as a result basically the itf security area that's not the cfrg That's things like the tls working group and the ipsec working group They have essentially a policy that they won't Require anyone to implement things that are encumbered by royalties So if I have to pay a royalty to implement this thing it will at best be optional There are other ways that even if it's patented maybe it's okay So reasonable and non-discriminatory with zero licensing ran z That's okay Even better is if the owner sort of says we promise we won't patent But really from everyone's perspective in terms of standardizing The the best ones are the ones that don't have any patents associated. So in short If you want your work to be used It probably it's best not to patent it Because people will be nervous and you know rightfully so even if right now everyone is happy with the You know with the way that the patents are being treated, you know in five years They can get sold to somebody who will act very differently Okay, so Let's take a deeper look at the specific stuff that we've been working on with bls signatures and hash to curve And i'm just going to sort of review the technical content But then along the way sort of point out little things where you know The stuff that you write in section two differs from the stuff that you write in The standard, okay, so um the bls signatures draft Is you know it's one document and it needs pairing friendly curves So it's going to rely on a separate document that that defines pairing friendly curves And that's also currently being worked on Um, it also relies on hashing to curves So it depends on that document and in fact hash to curve defines hashes to pairing friendly curves So it depends on pairing friendly curves And then there are a few other documents that I think right now don't actually depend on hash to curve But at some point in the near future may Depend so you end up we ended up with these sort of interesting dependency graphs This is I would say not unusual it's frequently the case that Documents depend heavily on other rfcs and that's kind of a good thing It means you're going to be interacting a lot with those people And it means that you don't have to you know write down everything that that your protocol needs because probably it's already been standardized somewhere else Okay, so topologically sorting we'll start with pairing friendly curves and go from there So just very generally as a reminder so pairing friendly curve defines Sort of two groups g1 and g2 both of the same prime order q that are subgroups of some elliptic curves And we'll say that we are generators p1p2 and then there's a third group the target group of prime order q as well And of course there's the pairing operation So the idea is it's a bilinear map from g1 cross g2 to gt And you know very intuitively what's going on is the bilinear map multiplies the exponents of its arguments So as we'll see this is very useful So this is you know sort of the background section version of it But let's think about what else do we need to write down if we're actually going to make a standard for this Well, presumably one thing that we want is we again, we don't want to be talking about mathematical objects We want to be talking about bytes on the wire eventually So we probably need to define serialization and deserialization And you'll notice that the pairing operation it takes points in the subgroups not points on the curve generally So probably we have to tell people look if there's a fast way to do a subgroup check You're going to have to do subgroup checks So we may as well standardize the ones that are good or fast or at least point you to them, right? and probably Maybe this surprisingly we want to probably put test vectors in the document And you might say well look it would be even better if we just had a reference implementation And that's true and probably you should have a reference implementation But the reason to put a test vector is well If I just I mean just imagine you print out the document and you start writing code And at some point you want to test whether your code is correct It's nice that you can sort of type in a you know a few hundred hex digits And then make sure that your code actually does the right thing No, probably you have to do some spell checking first Okay, so that's enough preparing friendly curves. Let's think about hashing to curves So the way that we're going to define it in the document is in terms of three primitives I think you can see that this will kind of fall out nicely So first we're going to need some family of hash functions from arbitrary strings to field elements And we're going to model them as random oracles Second we're going to need some deterministic map from field elements to points on a curve And there's been a lot of work on this And in fact Dan and I have a paper appearing at chess next week That makes hashing to lots of curves including pairing friendly curves a bit faster So in particular we can basically match the cost of alligator Like one square root in the field for almost any curve Okay, so So that's mapped to curve And of course for any curve with non unity cofactor We're going to want to hash into the prime order subgroup So probably we want to talk about how to clear the cofactor And obviously there's a naive way to do it But it turns out that pairing friendly curves tend to have very big cofactors And so in a lot of cases we want to have some exploit some endomorphism or something like this In order to make the cofactor clearing faster Okay, so there's all of that Now the question is how do we put all this together And there are some very beautiful results from Briar et al And Farshay et al that show basically for all the maps that I've listed here Evaluating the map twice on independent inputs and summing the result Is indifferential from a random oracle assuming that the hash to field is modeled as a random oracle Okay, so This is again sort of background section I'm not going to belabor this point about oh we need to specify this thing and this thing But I want to point out something that actually took a surprising amount of thought So here's the thing Like I said earlier this is kind of more like a toolbox than a protocol, right? So what we want to do is give people who are actually building protocols on top of hash to curve Some you know some dials that they can turn So for example a lot of people are going to want to say well my You know my hash function is orthogonal to your hash function, right? So we need to give them some way of doing domain separation And the the clear easy way to do that is in the hash to field function So but here's the thing Okay, let's think defensively for a second Protocol x is going to you know read the document carefully and they're going to specify a domain separation tag in just the right way And life is going to be good protocol z. Well, they're in a rush They didn't quite get things all right and the result is that now their domain separation tag Let's say is broken So here's the question Can we write the document in such a way that even if protocol z breaks things for themselves? They won't ruin life for protocol x, right? So this is you know the obvious approaches to this are maybe not going to give us that assurance But we want to have that sort of paranoid sort of defensive attitude like not everyone is going to read the document and implement it Correctly. Let's make sure that it doesn't break for the people who did Okay, so the details get a little tedious. I won't talk about them anymore, but the high level message is maybe be paranoid a little bit Okay, and finally The topo sort has led us to bls signatures So just a quick reminder a public key is a point in one of the groups Let's say the public key is in g2 And the secret is the discrete log of the public key to the base point And so to sign a message we're going to hash the message into the opposite group from the public key So in this case, we're going to hash it into g1 and then we're going to you know raise it to the You know to the secret exponent value And then verification checks that the pairing of what the hash of the message with the public key Is equal to the pairing of the signature with the base point and at least maybe I can convince you that it that you know, it's it's correct Security is another question. We'll leave that to the paper But okay in this theory in this theme of pointing out practical issues So here's one I've written down key gen as a randomized algorithm Which is totally fine if we're just specifying it But it's pretty bad if we're talking about you know if we're talking about it again in section two That's fine But in document it's probably not so fine because I don't want to have to tell you for example How to build a random number generator? So maybe instead what I should do is make key gen deterministic and have it take in some randomness And then I specify to you well it needs to be 32 bytes and please make it high quality and see this other document for You know for details on that And then uh, you know and again this issue we don't want to talk about points We want to talk about strings of bytes So probably we have to rewrite this interface in terms of serialized strings of bytes De-serialize the string of bytes make sure that it's on the curve make sure that it's in the correct subgroup this sort of thing Okay, but the real reason that people are thinking today about standardizing BLS signatures is because they're aggregatable Um, and so here's the idea so to aggregate signatures And we we can sort of you know squash all the points together into one point So we take the let's say the product of all the signatures give me a point to g1 And that's the aggregated signature and then there are kind of two things that I can do with that First I can check a multi signature. So that is you know, many public keys all signing the same message And that's that's kind of fast what I can do there is I can aggregate all the public keys together and then Use the verification equation And the other approach is is maybe we can think about as a batch signature So in this case we have one aggregated signature But we have a bunch of different messages and public keys paired together And we want to check that sort of the the aggregated signature corresponds to all of the message public key pairs And there well, it's a little more expensive because now I have to do sort of n pairing operations rather than n point additions But um, so it still saves us kind of a factor of two in in terms of computation over the naive approach And also it squashes the signature down Okay, but so um, here's a question. Is this secure? And uh, no, I'll give you a yeah, no So there's this nice idea called a rogue key attack So let's let's imagine that alice has some public key and bob has some public key And then mallory comes along and and creates a public key that's specifically designed to allow him to Forge signatures that look like they're from alice bob and mallory Okay, so in particular he's going to engineer his key so that it kind of cancels out alices and bob's key And then um, if we go back to the the multi-signature verification Equation what we see is look as long as mallory can sort of cancel out alices and bob's keys Then he can forge a multi-signature for any message. Okay, so how do we defend against this? Well, there are kind of four Four ways of doing it in the literature One is that we can we we require all messages to be uh unique The downside there is well, we can't do a multi-signature verification anymore So verification gets a little maybe a little slower because we can only sort of get the batch improvement Another approach is message augmentation. So here we just prepend the public key to the message before signing Which essentially you can think about that as ensuring uniqueness, but once again, we lose the multi-signature thing One way one way that we can keep the multi signatures is using what are called proofs of possession So here we ask the the Everyone who generates a public key to also prove that they know the secret corresponding to it how well they just sign their public key And intuitively what what's going on is now if you've engineered a key to cancel out someone else's key Well, unless you've broken their key, you can't you don't know the secret corresponding to your own claimed key So now this is a little complicated right because it means you have to generate proofs of possession And I have to verify them But the the signatures are deterministic so you only have to generate the proof of possession once And obviously I can sort of cash my decisions right if I've checked your key before I don't have to check it again And finally, there's sort of the most recent Work in this area is Using sort of a random linear combination of the keys and the signatures And the idea here is you know, even if the messages are the same We can sort of orthogonalize the signatures to make sure that there's none of this sort of rogue key issue So this ends up requiring a sort of a multi-exponentiation to do the aggregation, which is maybe a little bit of a disadvantage But but the advantages that we sort of recover without proofs of possession We recover sort of the sort of only one pairing in order to check a signature So in the standard right now We're going to standardize it seems like we're going to standardize the first three of these and you might say Wait a second that doesn't make any sense because look message augmentation already gives you unique messages Why do you need to have the unique messages one and the message augmentation one? And the answer is again because we're being paranoid. So here's the here's the worry Somebody is going to look at the standard and say Message augmentation seems like a problem proof of possession seems like a problem. Okay. Here's what I'm going to do I'm just going to pretend that I'm using proof of possession, but I'm not actually going to generate any proofs of possession Okay, so what we don't want is for somebody who is honestly and correctly using proofs of possession To get confused and interpret those signatures as actual correct proof of possession signatures So we have a sort of a domain separation between the unique message and the proof of possession case and actually Among all three and that way at least we build a fire firewall between the people who sort of maybe May or may not do things right and the people who really we hope are doing things right Okay, so I think I'm running out of time. So let's briefly recap. So I've hit this over and over again, but it's worthwhile to think about making things hard to break But also it's worthwhile to assume that people will break them anyway. So maybe build in some extra firewalls here and there Implement implement your stuff If other people are going to implement your standard Probably you should be your own first customer because certainly if you can't understand it then they won't either So it's nice to implement and give people at least a reference implementation And what I've sort of become What I've sort of realized more and more as I've interacted with with folks is Any decision that you make is going to make someone unhappy, right? Somebody's going to want that last 3% of performance or somebody's going to say you're crazy. There's a much better way of writing this down You can't take it personally, but certainly you can take their feedback and say thank you for the parts of it That are useful and finally, I hope I've convinced you that maybe the itf is kind of a pretty cool place to standardize your crypto And I'm happy to take more To take questions now or to talk about that more offline


Thanks for checking out this movie review video This is for the 2019 film yummy and it is a shutter original and it hits shutter on Thursday June 25th when I'm putting this video up It's a little bit before it comes out because I do get screeners from shutter for their original and exclusive films So thank you very much shutter. Anyway, I actually I'm just gonna say up front Well, first of all no spoilers for this sense when I'm putting this up It hasn't come out yet. Although if you if you watch this when you've already seen the film It'll still make sense It'll actually make more sense because I say a few things kind of cryptic for the people who have seen it and then see this But this is a zombie film. I'll just say it straight out if you've seen the trailer, you know that it's not a spoiler at all It's actually in their kind of synopsis of it Which I am gonna do a small synopsis, but um I'm usually not big into zombie films and I go into zombie films kind of rolling my eyes because I think they're very overdone I usually don't like them a whole lot. They just feel overdone I feel like I've seen everything but that said I will say I recommend this For zombie and non zombie fans because there's a lot of Interesting and new stuff in there and it has a comedic aspect to it that I really really dig It's there's not a ton of comedy It's not like a horror comedy But there are some good comedic moments that for the most part all land and that's kind of hard to do Especially in horror films, but let's talk a little bit about this directed by Lars Demisou Demisou, sorry. I'm sure I butchered that name. This was this individuals first feature-length film There's a lot of that that ends up happening with these shutter originals Written by Demisou and Eveline Hagenbeek Who she actually had done a lot of TV shows in Belgium? I assume because this is a Belgian film and I'm actually assuming that Shutter's doing a bunch of originals that are in other countries because in a lot of other countries you can get State funding for films So Shutter probably doesn't have to give them as much money because they can also get a bunch of money to make the film in their country from Their state from the state from their country. So that's just a theory. So anyway, here's the small synopsis of it A young couple travels to a shady Eastern European hospital for plastic surgery The young woman wants a breast reduction her mother comes along for yet another facelift Wandering through an abandoned ward the boyfriend stumbles upon a young woman gagged and strapped to an operating table and I cut it off there because there's more to the synopsis, but I just I didn't want to go much further on it but it is a zombie film so you can you know, you can figure things out and that's not ruining a whole lot because First of all if you've seen the trailer you already know that second of all There's a lot of stuff that pops up. That's new that's surprising with this. That's Good, it's a good film. So they actually one of the things I love with films They waste pretty much no time setting a really good atmosphere. It's this kind of scary creepy dark atmosphere Tense from the beginning which I really really like and then something Boom like happens within the first like minute of the film and I love that I love those kind of attention grabs and then they you know Do the title of the film and then they go to a more slower pace where you're gonna meet the Establishing characters you're gonna get a little bit of backstory on them. You're gonna kind of work things back up I love that it's like to grab attention and then slow it down a little bit So it does that and it does it well. I dig it and the characters for the most part are really interesting in this and they do develop to a degree not all of them, but a decent amount of them kind of develop and There are some characters that you kind of like you don't know how to feel about the characters But then there are things that eventually form an opinion for you and some of them very very strongly Which I enjoy about this When they get to the hospital, they actually switch from speaking Belgian to speaking English So that's kind of helpful for people who aren't big into Reading subtitles because in the beginning it's subtitles and then it switches to English when they get to the hospital And that's probably after about 10 minutes or so so it doesn't take long But there are a few more subtitled moments within the hospital, but it's very very it's sparse. It's very very sparse The main plot gets moved along But it doesn't seem realistic like how it gets moved along doesn't seem that realistic You know I said in the beginning of the synopsis like the boyfriend's walking around the ward and he finds this girl strapped strapped down and gagged How he got got there Doesn't seem realistic at all to me now that said, you know You you kind of recognize that in the film and you're just like this doesn't feel realistic And then you just kind of get wrapped up in what's actually going on. So it doesn't end up being a big deal, but it is a kind of Plot hole in a sense, I guess because they set this in reality They set it in the real present world So it should feel kind of realistic and that doesn't feel real very realistic there there are also a few other small things that don't feel all that realistic with like what some people do or what some people say but It's minor They did something with a character pretty early that I really did not see coming But also there there's an aspect of what they do with that character That I also didn't see coming. So it's like they do something with the character I didn't see it coming then they do something else with the character. I also did not see that coming so it was kind of like a double fake-out type thing and I liked it. I love that type of surprise stuff It's you know, I don't want to go through a film and just be like, oh, this is what's gonna happen Yep, it happened now. This is gonna happen. Yep, it happened And this film did a good job of that where you really don't know where they're taking it Like you know what type of film it is and you know overall what's gonna happen in a sense But you don't know the details of okay, they're gonna go here They're gonna do this they keep it pretty fresh and you're guessing and that's a nice thing about it and Part of what helps with that I think is the fact that the audience and the characters don't know the layout of where they are the hospital is a really good setting Not just because it's a kind of creepy place But also it's really big and you never really know what the setup of a hospital is It's not one of those things where it's like oh, we're in someone's house Like we know what the setup of people's houses are usually like there's a living room. There's a dining room There's a kitchen, you know what I mean like hospitals like you know some things are gonna have but you don't know the full setup So it's a very adventurous feel as they go through and you don't know how many rooms there are You don't know how much they have to go through in order to get out. You don't know what they're gonna run into What's a dead-end? What's not so I like that aspect of it There's a lot more possibility and you really don't know what you're dealing with and the characters don't for the most part Know what they're dealing with either and so you're kind of experiencing that along with them Which I think works for kind of keeping the tension up and the creep factor with just the way it looks There's a pretty crazy comedic portion involving the male anatomy in this that I Laughed at I thought it was I thought it was really well done. I thought it was very funny. It's absurd It's over the top, but it was done well from a comedic standpoint So I was fine with it like it didn't seem realistic, but you can forgive it like Outright just because of how funny and interesting it is. I didn't see that coming I didn't think they would go that bold in that and that crazy over the top, but it worked. It was it was a good time There's a scene of something non-human being re-animated in this and it only happens once So I was a little bit let down, but it looks really good It looked awesome, and I got really hopeful when it happened because I was just like, oh man That looks so good. That's so cool. And if we go down this path, it could be even better It didn't it kind of stopped there, but I you know, I enjoyed seeing that little aspect I'm gonna assume it stopped there because of budgetary reasons But if you know they want to make another movie maybe go down that particular path and make an entire movie with that That'd be awesome There are some real comedic moments. Yeah, like I already talked about There's something they try to solve the problem There's something they do to try and solve a problem that I've actually never seen in a in a film like this before So it's fresh and it's new and it's interesting But it doesn't feel realistic This is another one of those moments of like it doesn't feel realistic what they're doing like maybe that they kind of give It a go and say well, maybe we can do this is like a last-ditch effort or you know, we're so desperate Let's do this I that's kind of believable, but the There there are aspects of it just trust me that it just doesn't seem realistic It doesn't seem believable and I was like I think maybe we should move on because they also spent a lot of time on it And I'm like There's a kill in this that's symbolic that I really liked and it's kind of like a letting go of Pascars and present insecurities and I like when those types of things happen, you know, it's not just a straight-up horror film There's a lot of you know, good subtext to it and some nice metaphors and there's a killing that is kind of metaphorical That I really do like in this and symbolic like I said There's a pretty crazy moment toward the end involving something one character has to do to save another Once again one of those moments. I was did not see coming. I wasn't really prepared for it And I was just like oh wow, okay. They they did that that's But it's good. They did I'm saying they did that in like a good way. It was I wasn't expecting it. They went there. I I like that they went there There's some stuff in this that the audience knows but not the characters You know gets revealed about one or two characters and just they know about it And then the audience knows about it and then other people don't and I think that ends up really Mattering in the story and it has a lot of impact because of how they pull that off So I really like that aspect of it and that speaks to really good script writing It just it works very very well And you'll see what I mean when it when you watch a movie or you'll know what I mean if you've already watched it There's plenty of the ugliness of people that's captured in this which you know at this point We kind of assume that that's gonna be in zombie films That was kind of popularized with the walking dead the comics and then the show like the ugliness of humanity prior to that it was more about You know the the Zombies versus the people and you know, I know you could definitely I'm sure some people are thinking this you could argue Well, you know, Georgia Romero and the living dead does show a good amount of the ugliness of humanity But after he did it it got more to like a base Zombies of just humans versus zombies and that's kind of it And then it became popular again that that aspect of it with the walking dead pretty much so you assume that but it's done well in this and If he feels a little fresh to be honest Good impactful ending to this film and impactful in a few different ways I mean, you'll know what I mean if you've seen it and you'll know what I mean when you see it Good impact in the end. It felt like the story Actually mattered and that's one of the things that bothers me about a lot of horror films is when the ending comes and it feels like The film didn't really matter that much. There wasn't an impact There wasn't a payoff at the end so much, but this does a good job The music in this is awesome. I love the music in this not just the composition of it But the way they match it up with scenes Really well done There's a dynamic of the older of an older person the girl's mother wanting to be younger and more attractive Looking and the younger girl wanting to take away from her natural physical form to be less attractive to people So I thought that's a really cool kind of dynamic to have in This film and you see it play out in a few different ways within it. So I like it. It's a nice like dichotomy there There's also a point of society stressing not to do surgical things if it decreases your physical Appearance but being totally encouraging with saying hey, you should definitely enhance your physical appearance So this kind of makes that interesting point of this double standard of if you're gonna use plastic surgery to make yourself look more Physically beautiful good job, but if you're gonna use it to take away from anything and you know what I mean in the film when you watch it Then people, you know kind of wag their finger at that and and it gets said a lot in this film like why are you doing this? Why would you do that? So it's it's a it's an interesting point and it kind of gets to the whole You know society stressing too much about the physical appearance and not enough about who you are as a person your personality your you know You're insides basically There's a drive to make the masses happier in this film by making them more physically beautiful Kind of like I was talking about but there's a point made that it only really serves to make Humanity more hideous and more destructive in a way And I think you know a lot of that's done with the zombie concept and you'll see kind of how that plays out So I like how they kind of pair those things together So for that reason the kind of plastic surgery at the hospital makes a lot of sense with the zombie aspect to it Yeah, and they just mesh those things well together and it fits within the story. So this is a good film I did not expect to like it this much. So I was very pleasantly surprised So with the possibility of five stars with half stars in play, I'm gonna give it a very solid four star rating I would say check this out. This is one of the good quite good shudder original films There are a lot of shudder originals on there and some of them are Some of them are actually like real garbage But then there's some real good ones like this one and and I always look forward to the films like this So definitely check it out Yummy good job. Oh, and by the way the the title of yummy I think it's kind of like a dual meaning of yummy as in zombies find the humans yummy to eat But yummy from the standpoint of you know, it's another way to say that you look physically good You look yummy. So I think it's kind of like a double entendre. It's a play on that So, yeah, but anyway, put some comments down here. 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Today, I have the pleasure of speaking with Don from Avalon Advanced Materials. How are you today? I'm fine. Thanks. Don, you've just put out your East Kemptville Tinsight PEA results. Okay, that's exciting to me. This is a former producer and is an advanced stage project. Can you tell us what these PEA results meant for us as investors? Basically, Tracy, they're confirming that it is an economic proposition for us. While at small scale, the whole approach has been to do something innovative there in terms of how we can approach this brownfield site with a model for addressing the long-term environmental liability there, remediating that, fully rehabilitating the site, while extracting value out of the waste materials that were left behind on the site. So we needed to show that that could be done economically. So effectively, the PEA results confirm that. It won't make a lot of money, but it would be a really good, interesting new model for how one can apply innovative thinking and new technology to these brownfield sites that are tend to be treated as perpetual liabilities as opportunities for entrepreneurs to extract value out of these sites. Okay, well, that sounds very exciting to me, and the industry has always acknowledged you for being a leader in sustainability in this type of forward thinking. You also have an advanced stage project in Canora, Ontario, lithium. Can you tell us how that project's proceeding? That's coming along slowly. As you know, with the lithium business, it's all about finding where to position yourself in the marketplace with the type of resource you have. Resource is a different one with different mineralogy than many of the resources that are being looked at now to serve the battery industry. And as you recall, historically we looked at it primarily as an opportunity to produce an industrial mineral product for especially glass and ceramic products. And that's still a pretty big market out there that is an opportunity for us to serve, especially now that lithium is becoming more scarce for the glass makers out there. Now the battery industries come along with a huge appetite, gobbling up a lot of the available supply. So the resources ideally suited that with this high purity lithium mineral petalite. And so we are now looking at that as a sort of near term development opportunity. Get into production, produce the industrial mineral product, which is much lower capex and trying to make the battery material. Establish an operating profitable business, and then build on that by expanding as you see the opportunities to further serve some of the growing markets going forward. We think that's a much more conservative and less risky way to get started in the lithium business and position yourself with the stage development model and open to different possibilities on how to serve the markets. Well, speaking of serving the markets, you're an esteemed colleague and respected leader in the critical material and battery material sector, the technology metals as we like to call them. Can you tell us how you see this market proceeding this fall? Well, I know there's a bit of a buzz happening, of course, with your three advanced stage projects. This would put and position Avalon shareholders right at the forefront. Can you talk to us a little bit about this? Well, it's exciting times in this space as you're observing. You're seeing more and more new demand for these formally obscure commodities that because of new technology creating that demand. That's a trend that we saw a long time ago. We were a bit early, 20 years ago. We first started with our lithium project, but it's sure starting to catch today and you're seeing it on numerous fronts where new technology is creating this demand. So we're actually seeing possibilities now with all of our projects to bring new supply to the market and we're blessed with resources that give us exposure to a broad range, about half of the ones that are on that USGS critical minerals list are in our portfolio somewhere. So we have lots of possibilities to bring that new supply to the market as the demand increases. And so for those of you out there who may be new to the critical material space, this is definitely one of our leading industry experts. And can you quickly give us an overview of Avalon's advanced material projects? Just so they understand. I mean, there's quite a list of critical materials that you have, Don. Yeah. So I guess we're best known for Natchalacho Rare Earths project that kind of got us on a lot of radar screens seven, eight years ago during the Rare Earth bubble. But that project actually has quite a few other technology metals in the resource, zirconium, tantalum, niobium, beryllium. There's even lithium up there too that's never been fully quantified. So we've got lots of possibilities there for that resource. And then there's our separation wrap is lithium project, which is also enriched in rubidium, a little bit of tantalum there too. We have another similar project called Lillipad Lakes that has lithium, tantalum, and cesium. And then our other advanced project is our East Kempful project where it's past producing tin mine, but also has possibilities to produce the rare element indium as a byproduct there as well. So we've got quite a few things on the go and we're always on the lookout for other new opportunities out there. Well, we are seeing an increase in interest in the critical materials. So we're going to want to have you regularly, Don, especially when your Canora PEA results come out here in the next month or so. Thank you for joining us today. My pleasure.


Item █ SCP-548 Object Class █ Euclid Special Containment Procedures SCP-548 is to be kept at 20°C in a 50cm x 50cm terrarium. The enclosures will be composed of modified borosilicate glass with high thermal shock resistance, or if other materials not rendered brittle by sudden temperature changes are greater than 50°C. In the event that SCP-548 makes an active attempt to grind through the terrarium walls, the enclosures will be flooded immediately with 500ml liquid nitrogen and the subject removed temporarily to a reinforced steel terrarium. Subjects will be fed mice once every 4 days. SCP-548 should not be handled except as needed for testing. Handlers must be at least cursorily familiar with tarantula behavior and wear heavily insulated gloves, should subject display any aggressive behavior, cease handling promptly. If bitten, personnel should be treated immediately for hypothermia and frostbite. Active and treaserastic warming with heated fluids is indicated for severe bites. Description SCP-548 is a female cobalt tarantula with a body about 7cm in length and legs roughly 11cm. Its venom undergoes a highly endothermic reaction on contact with living tissue. A single bite injecting less than 0.5ml venom causes an average temperature drop of 38°C in the affected area. One bite is sufficient to cause localized frostbite in a human and may even be lethal should the venom reach the central circulatory system. Victims smaller than SCP-548 are frequently frozen solid. SCP-548's feeding structures are normal for a spider of its species except for the maxillae, which are extremely hard and serrated. It feeds by delivering a venomous bite, then dragging the prey to a safe place while it cools. While secluded, it proceeds to grind the prey's still frozen tissue into edible fragments. This feeding style requires unusual mouthpart strength. Addendum SCP-548, like most haplot-palmouthed species, usually avoids contact with humans. If cornered, however, it quickly turns aggressive attempting to bite and perceive the attacker before fleeing. The object may be frozen solid with no apparent ill effects.  Further research is required to ascertain the mechanism of its resistance and an attribute of suitability for long-term storage.


Morning, it's my honor and privilege to be here at the exchange for media pitch BFSI marketing summit and awards It's my special pleasure to Welcome our keynote speaker Tall business leader and entrepreneur in a very compassionate individual and leader mr. We were the nathan who's the mdnc of idfc first bank and in a very short span of four and a half years. He's built his bank To a level where he's on his way to build a truly world-class bank as he keeps saying please give mr Wadden a big round of applause I'm primarily here at this event for him because I live in Delhi And I'd like to be at all e4m events, but I'm not able to be it. I Want to keep it short. I want to keep to his time 11 20 years to speak I just want to say that as I was preparing for today's Session with him and what I'd say in the morning I thought of two things one today is the world mental health day And I think to achieve anything in life having a cheerful disposition and Being at peace with your thoughts and accepting world life and World as it is is key. India is a very large country 1.4 5 billion people It is also the most Depressed country. Sorry, I have to say because we are large numbers So numbers would be so I just want to say that I was with a very important political leader who Is the governor of a state and he's a friend of mine and I was with him on Sunday And he said some to me something to me which over the last nine days has been resonating with me and he said he met Morari Bapu sir and I'd say it in Hindi because that's how it carries impact He said Morari. He said if you're talking about Hindu Dham and Sanatan and you know the ethos of India And he said Morari Bapu said to me that the His guiding motto in life is Ki hum ya swikar ne aayai sudhar ne nahi aayai. He said accept things as you are and Once you accept them you will be mentally at peace it sounds very simple second thing I wanted to talk to you about was the fact that India is growing, we know from all statistics that India is the fastest growing economy in the world and the digital economy is also growing, the digital public infrastructure that has been built in the last 8, 10 years has really seen that the bottom of the pyramid gets integrated into the digital economy. With the integration of the bottom of the pyramid in the digital economy, the BFSI segment is growing. In future, there would be no distinction between what is a bank, what we've known traditionally as a bank, what is a financial services organization, and what are NIO banks or fintechs, as we call them. I think in future all these lines will blur. Just to give you a data point, Mr. Vedanathan in every speech he does, his theme is how India's retail penetration is still very low and as it grows, which it is growing, the financial services will grow. My friend Mr. Kakkad is there. I called him last night for data and I'm going to use the data that you shared with me. The money in FDs and savings and current accounts in India is currently rupees 181 trillion and India's total GDP in 2122 was 234 trillion. So out of the 234 trillion Mr. Vedanathan, 181 trillion is locked in savings and current accounts, FDs. So really India is a, so there is a segue for life insurance and mutual fund companies to kind of dip into that. So I think also if you look at state-wise bank deposits, you know, there are certain states that do much better than others. I also want to say that traditionally you've all grown up thinking that real estate gives fantastic returns, but data shows us that equities buy for the best return on investment. Even gold has given better returns than real estate's data, right? So I just want to say that from a banking BFSI standpoint, I think the next decade would be a huge decade and also a study conducted in Canada by CIRANO, a network of researchers on the value of long-term financial advice revealed that investors who engage with a financial advisor or any form of advice for 4 to 6 years reported almost a 60% increase on their wealth over and above unadvised investors. So the BFSI segment, again, I don't want to go into the equity market, we'll stick to BFSI, but today there are financial influencers who don't have several license, you know, who are in some way moving the market. So be careful about that. Use advisors that are bona fide and who have high integrity. I just want to say that this is an exchange for media BFSI summit. Mr. Wehdenathan was asking me what is a forum, so I told him an exchange for media while for the last 23 years we've been reporting on marketing, advertising, media, communication. We are now segmenting, sub-segmenting. And that's why BFSI, which is such a big segment of business is growing. We're also lucky to have Mr. Wehdenathan speak to us because in a very short span of time he's built a bank with very solid fundamentals and I don't invest in stock market but my wife does. A year back I called her because I met some people, not Mr. Wehdenathan in Bombay and they said buy IDFC bank and whatever little I know of the bank and I know of Mr. Wehdenathan because the leader does have a huge role to play in the organization, especially in a sensitive and a very important sector like banking where you're dealing with other people's money. So I just want to say that we look forward to a day of deliberations. In the evening we also have the first edition of the E4MF BFSI marketing awards. The awards were decided by Ajuri. I want to end by saying the two things are very important. I came last night because I wanted to catch up on my sleep and I got a little delayed in between a call of friends. Mother was scammed of some money. She ended up depositing 45 lakhs in a phishing account and I called Mr. Wehdenathan to find out more information on that and how we can help her. But I want to say that the most important pillar for mental health is good quality sleep. If you sleep well, you'll eat well, you'll think well, you'll be kinder to yourself and you'll be kinder to others. So whatever you do I know you're pursuing your dreams, you're pursuing your passion, sleep for eight, nine hours. I think you'll do well in every part of your life. I think I read this book many, many years back by Matthew Walker called Why We Sleep and I read it about ten days back again. I can tell you why food, nutrition and movement which is exercise are very integral to heart and to the health of the body. The most important fundamental pillar is sleep. So don't compromise on your sleep. You will be kinder to yourself and to everyone while you pursue your dreams. All the best and we look forward to a day of engaging conversations on the BFSI sector and the trends in marketing and communication in the BFSI marketing domain. Thank you, God bless you.


He wasn't just giving a biography, the whole of Augustine's confessions always was, even in the biographical part, about what the universe is, what a human being is, why or how we are made in the image of God. I mean the sheer brilliance is astonishing. It's deeply moving because he's a sinner, so are we. He was not in control of the story of his life. Well, we're not either. We hardly even know what it means to be dwelling inside a story, but this is the story authored by God, not by ourselves.


NVIDIA is going to be super damn important for Monday for investors, mostly investors because traders, we trade both sides of the market. But if NVIDIA fails to lose the 20-day moving, a 10-day moving average here, we can get a measured move here. Welcome to Access to Trader, the number one community for those who are committed to taking control of their trading in order to achieve success, profitability, and longevity. Thank you for joining us. Here's Dan Shapiro to help you find your edge, master your process, and own your future. Hey guys, good morning everybody. Welcome to another edition of the AccessToTrader.com weekend update show. Hope everybody is doing well. Hope everybody is having an absolutely phenomenal weekend. Hope everybody is having fun. Enjoying themselves is more important. Continuing to smile. Continue to smile. That's what life is all about and staying healthy. For all you guys who are brand new to the channel, welcome. Thank you very much for tuning in. If you aren't new, please be kind and share, like. Most important, subscribe. Subscribe to the channel. We do this Monday through Wednesday and again on the weekends to kind of give you an unbiased tour of what we believe is going to happen next on a day-by-day, case-by-case, trade-by-trade study of the stock markets. Hopefully everybody is doing well. Again, welcome aboard. So let's talk about it. So if you look at the indexes for the week, you're not going to get a lot of sense of how the market played out. You have the Dow down 1.7%. You have the S&P and NASDAQ down 1.4% for the week, which is again not a bad thing whatsoever because, again, we've had this just absolutely tremendous run of the markets. We got the back test that we've been calling for for about three, four days now just because, again, we needed the stock prices to reset, to kind of get their deep breaths back, to kind of get the composure back, to get their C-lives back, and then start taking out higher prices. Here's the little kicker. Sometimes what we think is going to happen next sometimes doesn't happen. And this is where we adjust as traders. You adjust as investors. You make contingency plans and see what potentially could happen next if your thesis doesn't start playing out. That's a very, very important thing to have the super ability to adapt on a day-to-day basis, especially if you are an aggressive intraday trader. And what I like, what we did see was for the first three, four days, we pulled in very, very nicely. By Thursday, if you guys remember, we had a nice turnaround. We had a really nice turnaround, and we claimed back the 10-day moving average on the Qs, and we got rejected right back at the top of the level. But the good part was, coming into Friday's session, was that majority of stocks closed at the top of the range because they mirrored the NASDAQ 100. If you look at Thursday's session, you can see here, we talked about even on the video on Thursday, that the bulls needed to reclaim back this 366.30s level to start moving higher. For the SPY, for the SPY, you kind of had the same thing, right? The SPY needed to reclaim this 437 level. But the problem is the market, and this is what we talked about, the market is the greatest reality show that's not on television. It doesn't have to do anything that you wanted to do, or you think it's going to do it again. This is where we adapt as traders. And the one thing that I did like, again, like I mentioned, we did get the back test. What I didn't like going into this new week coming up on Monday is we rejected it on the 5-day moving average, closing at the top of the range on Thursday. And let me show you guys exactly what I'm talking about. So, let's start off with the Qs, right? Here's the Qs. We talked about Thursday night that we needed to reclaim 366. We did not do so. If you look and start looking at the individual stocks that we started talking about, right? Microsoft mirrored the NASDAQ 100, got rejected off the 5-day moving average on Thursday, did not, right? Did not take out, did not reclaim the 5-day moving average. A name like Apple, right? A name like Apple started building very, very strong, never sold off, but didn't really quite price improve on Friday's session. Amazon continues to be very, very strong, right?  But the point is, again, they kind of stole that at the top of the channels. But if you look at the biggest high flyers, what really drove the NASDAQ 100 this, this in the last couple of weeks, you have NVIDIA, right? You have NVIDIA and you have Tesla.  But in this point of reference, you kind of want to pay attention to these two symbols because not only do they get their sell-off, right? Do they get their 3-4-day sell-off, they didn't price improve all week. And that's a very, very important thing. And sometimes, you know, we talk about the gravity trade and we call it a great, absolutely great pivot on Tesla on Wednesday, on Friday, excuse me, on Thursday. And on Friday, we caught another one to the downside as well. But they're going to use Tesla as a case point. They both failed to reclaim the 5D moving average while putting in an inside day. That's not a good thing, right? That's absolutely not a good thing. Just from the case-by-case, you know, nobody's talking about two, three years down the line, two, three weeks down the line, just from the case-by-case basis kind of leading into the next day. And when you have an engulfing candle, you know, engulfing candle to reclaim the 10-day moving average, and the next day does not price improve and puts in a middle candle, you know, forcing it pretty much an inside day, then you have a realistic possibility of a potential, you know, potential further pullback in those shares. So for Tesla, for example, I, you know, I'm watching, I always watch Tesla both ways. I don't have a bias on Tesla. Matter of fact, I trade both stocks both ways. But here's makes a very interesting scenario on Tesla. Number one, we know the market didn't price, price improve back over the 5-day moving average, neither the Tesla. We know Tesla had a lower back test and a lot of names, especially did not recover on Friday sessions. We know that, especially down another $8. The question is on Tesla, what happens next? So I'm definitely watching both sides of the metrics. That's the whole point of having an inside day. If they could reclaim back the 5-day moving average, then yeah, I do believe we can get back to those recent 277 highs. But here's the point of reference that we have to pay attention to. And based on how the market reacts on Monday, we have a very, very clear channel here on the bottom. Everybody see that, guys? You have the previous June lows on the 5-day moving average, and you have last week's lows are kind of mirroring each other. That's why you kind of see this little quote-unquote baby double bottom that was put in on Thursday session. But here's the deal. If they can't reclaim the 5-day moving average and they do start violating back this June lows, right? The test of twice, then yeah, I mean, look how much room you have. You have literally another roughly around 20 points down to the downside. There's a lot of value on Tesla going into this week on both sides.  Again, the 5 will set it back to, reclaiming the 5 will set it back to the June highs. But this baby channel here that was started on June the 15th and held on Thursday, if it starts losing this bottom channel here, then yeah, we can get and move all the way back down to 237, 234, something to watch for. A name like NVIDIA, right? And here's a couple of point of reference on the video that we have to pay attention to this week as well. So like Tesla and NVIDIA had an absolute phenomenal parabolic run. Everybody knows the story here. They came out earnings. The stock literally went from $398 all the way to $440. That's a big, big move in about a month. But now you can see here it's starting to you know, start putting it, put, start putting a slow, right? A very, very slow exhaustion cycle. And as you can see here, you have four days in a row of lower highs. Here's a high, lower high, lower high, lower high. And this and the reason why this lower high is, is should be, it should be monitored, especially going into Monday or Tuesday session, unlike everything else that had at least a bit of a snapback on Thursday, it really did not. And it didn't take out the previous days high. And you can see here it closed right on the 10 day moving average. So if you ever watched the PS60 workshops or any videos, you kind of know, you kind of know the importance, at least for me, for the 10 day moving average, I call it the birth of the trade. The five days, the shortest term timeframe, the shows who have control of the shortest term. But this is a nice barometer of who may have control to the intermediate, right? So if NVIDIA holds on Monday, the 10 day moving average and starts reclaiming the five, it's all gravy, right? Everything that I'm about to say kind of goes away. But here's the, you know, here's the key takeaways from NVIDIA. It didn't price improve all week has four days in a row of lower highs. It didn't, it failed to reclaim the five day moving average. And again, you can make it, you can even make a case that virtually every single stock did not, but it got sold off after its investors day. And that's a catalyst, right? That is, that separates it more from like a Microsoft to separate some more from the Amazon. It actually has a catalyst that they actually sell. Now here's the key, right? Here's the key. If it can start losing the 10 day moving average, everybody see these guys? If it can start losing the 10 day moving average, that's where the big value is. Because if you look at the bottom of the channel all the way here, and your next measure potential for a back test, you know, you're talking about a 403, 400 areas. So NVIDIA is going to be super damn important for Monday for investors, you know, mostly investors, because traders, you know, we trade both sides of the market. But if, if NVIDIA fails to lose the 20 day moving at 10 day moving average here, we can get a measured move here going into the 20. Another big, big kind of takeaway from the macro level of the market going into this week. Well, the civil unrest, if you guys remember when the whole Ukraine, Russia awards started, the markets were very volatile up and down, up and down, up and down over the weekend. I think I believe it started on Friday. You had, you know, a civil unrest, you had mercenaries trying to get to Moscow. I believe they captured a city on the way to Moscow. You know, Putin is not, is a wild card. You know, he has stockpiles of nuclear weapons. You know, we don't know how this is going to end. And again, the market just doesn't like uncertainty. And if they start talking about more aggressive ways, again, I personally didn't believe the first time I heard Russia was going to invade Ukraine. But here we are, right? So when this guy starts talking about nuclear weapons and stockpiling them and using them, you know, that's a very, very scary situation, you know, you know, and it can spill over like a domino effect very, very quickly. So we have to see how the market reacts to, it has to react to the news as well. So obviously, that's going to play a big case into what we see in names like Tesla, what we see in names like NVIDIA. The one group that is holding up very, very well is the Bitcoin, right? The Bitcoin names, especially names like Mara. Okay, Mara is incredibly, incredibly close to the top of the channel break. Okay, it tested that level and just like everything else towards in the day got sold off. Names like Riot, right? They're starting to look pretty good and getting above the channels. Amazon has definitely stood out over the last three, four days. We've been watching this video, big, heavy accumulation, short term, short term call buying. When the stock was at 27, they were coming for the 30s. When the stock was at 30, they couldn't sell off the stock. They finally sold it back a little bit into the close, but they're coming for the July 40. Something definitely to watch, especially at the market holds. So going into this week, again, very, very specific numbers, guys, we talk specifics, we don't talk random, we don't speak general, we speak very, very specific numbers to the upside. The Qs need to reclaim 366 30s, the five day moving average should go back to recent highs. But here's the bottom of the channel here, guys, and let's write this down. 360, you can see a 360 held on Thursday, 360 held again on Friday. If we start losing the 360 area, expect a further back test. So you guys should be set. Okay, we don't trade in generalities, we don't trade in hypotheticals, we don't trade on anticipation, we trade on very, very specific levels, we don't anticipate, we don't guess, we don't try to be smart, we wait for those levels to be confirmed. And when they do confirm, usually price action follows through. So I'm definitely watching Tesla. I am definitely watching the video on both sides, but especially to the downside, I am definitely watching the Bitcoin names to kind of start waking up again. And it's very, very important to kind of let the market dictate Monday. I think a lot of traders, they wake up on Monday morning, and they're all, you know, gung ho, especially new traders is a new week is a Monday at I'm ready to trade, I love trading and you realize 15 minutes after the open, they're continuously doing the same things over and over again, and they can't get anywhere. Guys, let the market speak to us. Okay, let the market tell us in the first 30, 40 minutes, what's going to happen if there's a trend? Can that trend be sustainable? Can a price improve on that trade on that trend? Is the market going to continue to kind of back test and start losing the ranges we just talked about? These are all things to be determined. But the key is, let the noise die out Monday mornings is very, very important. Let the noise die out, let the market pick a theme, let it pick a trend, and let it confirm on the 10 o'clock channels, and we should get much more clarity. Guys, God bless, hope everybody is having a wonderful life, wonderful summer, hope everybody's healthy, happy and God's help. I will see you all on Monday. Take care, everybody.


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