Thanks, Michael. G'day, Moodlers. Thanks for swinging by. Going to share with you a few ideas, as Michael said, about helping to improve learner engagement and motivation in your online courses. Don't panic. We're not going to turn your Moodle course into a game. It's nothing that sinister. But rather, we're going to borrow some principles from gaming and perhaps see what the end result might bring us. So, research group Gartner predicted that by 2015, around 50% of organizations that manage innovative processes will gamify those processes. Okay, so that time has come and gone and their predictions, in fact, did come to a reality. Gaming is very much ubiquitous these days. It's everywhere. It permeates not only life and business, but it's finding its way into education as well. It's influencing human behaviour. So, I guess to illustrate that, perhaps a quick show of hands. Think, perhaps, if you're a member of a loyalty rewards program, stick your hand up so that could be you know, a virgin velocity, let's say, it could be Qantas frequent flyer, fly buys. If you own a credit card or a department store card, and you know, you rack up points and then you can trade those in. It looked as though I'd say three quarters of hands went up. Thank you. So, you know, I guess that in itself would say that we've been gamified. By business it's not a bad thing, but it's just a matter of fact. So, look, to illustrate that point a little further and to share with you some context I'll tell you a bit about my journey to be here at the moot. Like a lot of you, perhaps you came from interstate. I had to jump on a plane from sunny Queensland and, you know, my preferred Carries Virgin. I'm a member, proud member of their velocity rewards program. So, the game is very simple. You know, you fly with them, you earn points every time you fly, achieve a higher status, earn benefits, things like free lounge access, priority baggage, check in, even seating at the front of the plane. So, that's the name of their game. Current status. I'm a gold member. I've sort of been elevated from silver, so I was quite chuffed with that when I sort of got the email notification. Now, I'm aiming for higher things. You know, I sort of want to try and get to platinum. Apparently, the benefits are better still. So, I'm motivated and rewarded and I guess velocity and virgin have sort of tapped into that idea of influencing consumer and human behaviour. Okay. You may or may not be able to see my points balances around about half a half a million points. Richard Branson assures me that will earn me a return trip to the moon. So, we'll see how we go. I think it's time for me to cash in some of these points. So, you get your plane ticket. Optionally, you could hire a car if need be. So, you can even earn more points. Alternatively, you could redeem points that you've amassed already and instead of spending money, use your points to hire that car. You may have noticed billboards on the motorways and around town, much the same thing again.  You know, you can fill up your hire car or your vehicle and earn points. And down the track those points can be redeemed for prizes and things. So, picture this. I've checked in at the airport, straight through the security gates on the way to the lounge as you do when you're a proud Gold member. And just out of the corner, I noticed McDonald's is running a promotion. I saw them in the food court there and I've got no interest in hamburgers. But they're ad-court my eye. You know, they're playing this monopoly game. So, you can win instantly. You download the app and the odds are pretty good at winning one in five. You could find out more. I'm not quite sure with the slogan, the eat, learn and play, but what's the connection between eating and playing and learning? But perhaps McDonald's is onto something. Gamification and action. Another quick show of hands. This has changed your gears now. We'll get to Moodle very soon. Who's used or who's played Pokemon Go? Okay, it's around about 50% of us. Look for the uninitiated. It's a global phenomenon where it has been. Around about three-quarters of a billion downloads in the past 12 months or so. Apple says it was its most downloaded app for 2016. Generating for the makers of the app in the vicinity of $1.2 billion. So, it's a pretty big deal. When it was released, the app was released initially. It crashed servers and very much brought the internet to its knees. Again, what is it if you haven't used it? And we've sort of got three screen or mobile screenshots side by side there. It's not a single capture. It's a mobile app. It uses what's known as augmented reality. And the aim of the game is very simple. You catch all the creatures. It's location-based. Meaning, well, specific creatures are situated in specific locations and if you want to be good at the game, it pays to move around. In the Netherlands authorities at The Hague they took the game developers, Niantic, to court to ban these small virtual creatures. Gamers have been frequenting this poker stop. It's pretty much a landmark that's mapped by the game and the gamers were congregating this small coastal town in the Netherlands. Locals were complaining that the gamers were damaging these protected sand dunes. So, it found its way, I guess, into the courts. In Tanzania, I was there very recently. Well, I spotted a bunch of creatures as well in the wild. These weren't the virtual type. They were real ones. And as you do, when you're traveling to a place like Tanzania, you make the mandatory visit to a Masai village. They're the best known of about 100 indigenous tribes in the area. And I didn't know that. I thought they were one of a kind. So, I'd say kudos to their marketing department. So, it was hot. It was dry. It was dusty. Imagine this. We're in the middle of nowhere. I pull out my mobile phone. I'm speaking to this chap and we start playing Pokemon Go. So, he was engaged. He was engrossed. He was in the moment.  He got distracted when my wife came to. He actually offered to trade me his 100 cows from a beautiful wife. Well, he said, actually, the going rate was 10 goats. So, he was being overly generous. And as you could imagine, I politely declined. I said, no deal. But it did get me thinking. I thought, well, had I been gamified by the head of sales? Okay. So, what are your thoughts? What you see now with the app if you're uninitiated? And for those, perhaps half of us who have used it, what makes an app like this a game so successful? Any thoughts? You can shout them out. Remind us notifications. Yes? It's addictive. Okay. That's a very good point. Everybody else is doing it. So, it's sort of, it's in vogue. It's trendy. It plays on nostalgia. Good one. Any others? Reputation. And it's competitive. Absolutely. Gratification. Thank you very much. So, a lot of people think the answers to life and happiness is in that handheld distraction device. It's quite curious. And that's it. I agree completely with everything you said there. A few other thoughts that come to mind. Why is it so successful? It's engaging. It's fun. It's motivating its users. And it rewards them. Even if in a tokenistic virtual digital sense. Say it again. It's as easy to use. It's intuitive. Yeah, this is true. You download the app. It's on your phone. You launch it. And away you go. And you take it with you. So, that notion of mobility. Okay. Let's change it up now. We're getting to Moodle very soon, I promise. What if our students felt the same way about their learning? What about apps such as Pokemon Go? How might that impact education? Well, there's a problem. We know ideally that training shouldn't gaze the learner. But the reality is oftentimes different. Learning experiences may be mandatory. Too easy or too difficult. Boring. Unrewarding. Or irrelevant to the learner at that point in time. So, in fact, there may be a disconnect between the ideals of online education and the actual learner experience. So, is there a way in which we can make learning fun, rewarding, motivating, and all those things that we mentioned there just before? Perhaps a solution lies in gamification. So, just quickly by definition, it's the act of the or gamification is the act of the art of applying game-based principles to improve non-game things. So, that it could include, as we illustrated before, business life and so too education. Here's a quick rundown. And again, it's by no means an exhaustive list of game or gaming principles. But, you know, if you did a quick scan of the relevant literature, there are some common, you know, some common tenets that do come up. And perhaps we can borrow some of these principles to enhance learning as online educators. So, I'll run through a couple of them very quickly and we'll see them then in the context of Moodle and how that relates to you. So, the notion of flow in a game, if you've ever played a game, you know, it's that notion of being not too bored, not too challenged, you're kind of in that Goldilocks zone or that sweet spot where you're really focused on the task at hand. So, we've got to really get our educators in that sweet spot as well. The idea of resilience is being able to build a positive or a balance of positive and negative emotions just in gamers but in our learners. So, they can't always be winners. They need to sometimes bounce back from a loss. With respect to progression, it's all about, you know, this idea of a continual sense of progression.  So, we ought to do that in our online education as well. Oftentimes, we as educators are good motivators. Can we use extrinsic or external motivation to build intrinsic or internal motivation within our learners? I'll leave the last two. You can see those and hopefully they are fairly self-explanatory. We'll see them in action in a minute. We've been moody. So, perhaps here's a formula. Three steps. We've just identified some potential gaming principles that we could borrow from. Let's supply them to learning design within our Moodle courses and then we as the educators, we can facilitate the learning experience. Okay. The good news is this, and I'll give this as the seven, I guess, easy ways or tips or ideas to consider.  And you may in fact be using them already. So, some of what I'll share with you here could be just reaffirmation that you're having a go, you're trying to engage and motivate your learners and that's excellent. So, avatars is a big thing. It's your persona, it's your online identity. In many games, it's the first thing you need to consider. You choose your character and perhaps an outfit, a hairdo, a weapon of choice, those kind of things. So, it's how the gamer or in our context, it's how the learner relates to their experience in an online environment. You can see here, you could go to your profile page within Moodle, upload a picture of yourself via your user profile. You know, it could be a selfie, perhaps some people are more comfortable uploading a picture of their pet or their favourite sporting team, whatever is appropriate. Not just for us, I think it's also important that our students or our users, our learners are doing this. The idea is that we'll help personalise the learning and promote a sense of ownership in that experience. And let's face it, you know, we're starting to blend our learning. We're not all 100% traditional face-to-face educators anymore. There could be an online component. So, that's where the avatar comes into its own. Groups, groups promote this sense of belonging, belonging to a team and oftentimes that motivates our learners. You can see a group is a course centric concept. You can go in, if you've got a bunch of students, you can manually add them to respective groups. They can be randomly allocated. You could apply, I guess, clusters of groups or groupings and then outside a course in a category or a site-wide context as things you may be familiar with such as cohorts. The same applies. You can put people into teams in different contexts within your Moodle and also apply an avatar or an image to that group or grouping or cohort.  Activity tracking, that reinforces the notion of or the gaming principle of progression and I reckon flow as well.  So games are very good at promoting that sense of flow and progression and we can do much the same in our Moodle courses. Conditional access. So it's all about rules and access. So the learner must follow the defined rules, the rules that we define as educators and they gain access or they unlock new learning material in the course. So in this example here, you know, it's a case of the learner first needing to read perhaps a web page resource and having done that, it will unlock the discussion forum where they can introduce themselves. We'll be familiar with quizzes. There's also a quiz results block. It's not there typically by default but you can add that. It's very trivial. That will give you, as you see there, a leaderboard sort of situation in your course and it does introduce a competitive element and the idea there I guess the gaming principle that would tap into is resilience. Again, we can't all be winners. Sometimes we've got to accept that we're losers. I guess if you were Brenda in this situation on that particular leaderboard, you know, you'd be feeling pretty good about yourself. Gary by comparison, he may be feeling that he's got to lift his game. Course completion status. This ties in very nicely with activity tracking and that sense of progression and flow and goal setting. So once we've enabled activity tracking and we've got a learning sequence, you would add the course completion status block and configure that. That's quite a quick and easy thing to do. So the idea there would be that it has a clear indication of where they are in a course and what they need to do to complete the course. So they're no longer in learning limbo, I would call it before activity tracking and course completion tracking came along. That was often times the case in Moodle. Teachers and learners really didn't know who was where and where the finish line was at. And lastly badges. So for the uninitiated a badge is like a digital reward. In this case the little avatar you can see there. So you can earn badges for completing things like activities in a course or completing a course or even simple things like updating your user profile. So administrators, teachers can enable and configure these things. It's all about, I guess badges is about status, power and rewards and again these things are very motivating to learners often times. So the idea here being we can or the learners retain the badges and they can display them in various places. So the user profiles typically in this case they can display them on what's known as the Mozilla backpack. They're our friends that brought us the Firefox browser. Not much involved to configure your Moodle site if you're an administrator and have it connect and push badges to the backpack. And then from there users can show off their badges on third party sites and services like Facebook, LinkedIn and elsewhere. Naturally it's what's the big deal with a badge? Well it's all about showing evidence that you've acquired skills and knowledge in a digital sense potentially. It could help the learners land a job, earn a promotion and of course show off to their peers. Just quickly then, so that was all sort of I guess the core and built features within Moodle and some of them just really the tip of the iceberg. A couple things in about Mozilla that might be of interest to you. A few plugins so these are third party. They're not maintained or managed by HQ and I suppose the caveat would be use them at your peril and they're not necessarily compatible with your version of Moodle. So give it due diligence. Progress Bar is much loved it's a block there, it hooks in very nicely with activity tracking. It's perhaps more visual than what you would see otherwise. So you know you've got the colour coding there indicating what has or hasn't been completed and the status for the end user. So now that promotes this notion of progression and flow. Leveling up. So very simply we gain experience points and we level up within a course. So you know we attach these points to activities.  So that should be motivating. It's all about power, access and rewarding our learners.  You can see there you know you earn 15 experience points when a condition or conditions are true. So introduce yourself in a discussion forum and you know you post. And then for you know not just the teacher but the learner potentially. Again another ladder or leaderboard. So again it's this idea of status and resilience. Okay stash. Now if you've been on Adrian's presentation here yesterday it was a goodie. This is all about completing the activity and earning digital or virtual objects. So they could be whatever you want. I mean examples typically things like coins, crowns, swords. If you've got a more adult audience you might have to use your creativity a bit more. But the aim of the game is you accumulate or stash a fine number of objects and that unlocks access to future learning in the course. Okay that's the short of the long. Again it's all about access, power and reward for the learners. Key gaming principles. So this is kind of the configuration page for the educator. So the user requires a defined object in their stash or objects and then that unlocks or gives them access to a given activity. Okay. And then a report might look something like this. Is anyone here using stash? Of course you are. And I've got your email as well so we can talk later. Thank you. Okay this is an oldie but a goodie. I see badge is the 21st century equivalent of this certificate but this is quite okay as well. It's all about power and status and rewarding our learners when they achieve a desired outcome from our training and from their learning. Okay so this is quite a tidy plugin. Okay wrapping things up. I think it's important we swim between the flags. There's at least a few red flags I came across so I sort of did a little bit of a meta analysis of some gamification studies. It's a real buzz phrase in the education space we know at the minute. And look from what I understand context of education some of the research indicates that gamification is a good thing and it may improve engagement and motivation engagement and motivation. Let me say that again. However there's no clear evidence and no clear link that this results to better learning outcomes so I hate to disappoint you but that's what I saw in the meta analysis. So my thought would be this if your online learners aren't fully engaged in the learning experience at the very least gamification may be worth a go. So simple formula as we said before apply the gaming principles facilitate the learning and perhaps observe the outcomes and importantly report back to the Moodle community because we'd be all really interested to see how it gets along. So a quick bit of food for thought. Confucius he was a great Chinese thinker social philosopher back in about 500 BC he said tell me and I forget show me and I remember let me do and I understand and I reckon he was on the right track. This whole idea that engagement is king or queen and what he was saying I thought learners need to be active not passive participants in their education. So to that end what Confucius was saying is a pretty good fit for the idea of gamification. That is about it. I'm mindful of time and interesting stuff. Thank you Chad.


$50,000. This morning, Bitcoin went over $50,000 for the first time since May 15th. We hit a high of about $50,500 and currently we're consolidating within that price range. But what's been catching even more headlines over the weekend is some of these outcoins that have been going nuts. You can see here Cardano over the last seven days is up 36%. Binance Coin has been making a comeback back at $500 up 17% over the last seven days. And let's not forget Solana, which is up over 300% from its bottom. So today we're going to do things a little bit different. Apart from the analysis on Bitcoin, we're going to look at a few of our favorite outcoins. So let's not waste any more time and dive right into today's analysis. Hey, what's up Jay here and welcome to Bitcoin Daily bringing you guys the best tips, tutorials, and ideas to help you guys become profitable and successful investors. The goal of this channel is to empower you guys, the community with the knowledge and resources to take your wealth to that next level. So if you guys enjoy this video, don't forget to smash the like button on it. If you guys are new to the channel, make sure to subscribe and turn on the notification bell. So let's go ahead and dive into today's video. So the first thing that we will notice here is that the fear and greed index is all the way up to 79 and is now in extreme greed. So you'll notice this is the highest that we've been in three months since before May, right? And if we go to the yearly, this is the highest that we've been since right before the drop. Last time that we were at 79 was around April 15th, April 19th. So remember that that is mostly overall market sentiment. That means that the market is very bullish right now. People are buying people are starting to fomo in euphoria is starting to set in as well again. And then what happens with those things is that people begin to over leverage positions with margin and that's why then we could have potentially big drops if there's any type of fraud because people get over leveraged, they get careless and reckless with their trades and they end up blowing up their accounts. So guys, make sure to continue to practice proper risk management in any trades that you're currently taking from here on out and take profits. That's so important guys, take profits. Make sure that you're setting up a cash position in case that there's any other corrections, any other pullbacks, you want to be taking profits as the prices go up, always and building up that cash position here at Bitcoin Daily. We like to keep around 10 to 15% of our portfolio in cash ready and prepared for, you know, when that when there's a pullback or any corrections or anything like that, we have money on the side ready to jump in. Alright, so looking at the Bitcoin weekly chart here, you can see that we've had one, two, three, four, five green candles in a row and currently we are working on this six green candle here. We have reached the top of this trading range. Remember, we told you guys that once we broke above 42, the next top of the trading range was going to be between 48 to $50,000. Guess what guys, we broke above 42 and we are now at the top of that trading range. Now we do have to break above here to get into this next trading range, which is up here, right? Now this next trading range goes from 52, basically around 52,000 up to the previous all time high. So if we break above this, basically we have a shot at setting up a new all time high here. So that's going to be very big for us to break. So to get into this trading range, we basically need to get above 50. We got to stay there and get above 52, I would say as well. And that'll pretty much clear out the bottom of this range here and put us on a trajectory to, you know, revisit all these levels over here. So that's between 55,000 all the way up to $60,000. If we can break through that, because remember, we got rejected a lot there last time we were there. If we can break through that, then it's only a matter of time, in my opinion, before we reach this previous all time high at 65,000. And if we reach this previous all time high guys, we're probably going to set a new all time high. Now that new all time high could be anywhere between, I would say probably around 70 to 75,000. You know, who knows at that point, we're still a little bit away from there. It's not something that's going to happen overnight, but it is now back in our trajectory. It is now a scenario again, you know, something that we did not have back when, you know, we were at these prices down here. So zooming into the daily charts, you can see that we're kind of in this ascending channel, right? Where we've been kind of going up to the top of it, we got rejected, we came back down kind of tested the top of that channel there came back to the top of this channel, then, you know, went back down a bit. And now it looks like we're heading back to the top of that channel. So that top of the channel is a right around that $52,000 resistance range. So it kind of falls right in line with where our resistance is. And it is a possibility. So what would it look like if it touched the top of that channel and then dropped back down, it would be something like this where we kind of go up to like around that 52 range. And then, you know, something like this where I would say we would probably be looking at around 50,000 to 48,000 as that pullback support before it then, you know, continues up to probably, you know, somewhere around here, probably around 55,000 if we continue within this channel. Now, remember I know everybody is very, very excited to have 50k again. I'm expecting some consolidation here and potentially a continuation up as long as we can close above that $50,000 level and continue staying above it for the rest of this week here, then potentially be, you know, we are going to eventually get a pullback, you know, maybe around 52,000 back down to 50 back down to 48. Who knows exactly, but it'll be one of those levels. Remember that you're taking profits along the way because we are getting back into that overbought territory. And you know, whenever there's we're an overbought, there's typically some sort of pullback. So make sure you're not being greedy, you're taking profits. And remember that in September, we haven't had a green September month since 2017. Now, so not even last year, last year's bull run in September, it was a red month. So if we look back here at September of 2020, you will see that the market was actually down about 7.5%. If you look at September in 2019, right here, then you will see the market was down 13.5%. So it's just something to keep in mind as we go into September, as we finish off August, you'll see that August last year was a pretty bullish month and July was a very bullish month.  Now this is something that could be possible here. As you see, we had the three down months here that then July were up about 18%. So far in August, we're up about 19%. September could be one of those months where the market's a little bit slow, where we consolidate a little bit, or it could just be very bullish. I'm just going based off of history. The last few years since 2017, we have not had a bullish September. So I want to make sure that you guys are taking profits on these climbs to the upside so that when there is any type of pullbacks or consolidation, where prices might retrace a bit, you're ready with those profits to reinvest them into the market and make those profits, make you more profits.  And the best way that you're going to make money is if you're prepared for either case scenario, and if you're playing the market in both directions. We can see here that Ethereum is finally waking up a bit. Today has been outperforming Bitcoin. You can see that it's up about 2.5% compared to Bitcoin that's up about 0.25%. So right now, we're still kind of in the middle of No Man's Land here. It's kind of what I like to call it, where the price could honestly go in either direction. It has no real direction here. But as long as Bitcoin is bullish, I'm expecting Ethereum to also be bullish here. Now, what we're looking next for Ethereum is a breakout above this 3,500 level. I believe that once we break out above 3,500, we could see a run up like we saw previously up to those previous all-time highs. So that'll be around that. It'll be from 3,500. We could see a run up to around 4,000 till the possibly the all-time high, which is right around $4,400. Now, I'm going to run through a couple of our favorite outcoins here at Bitcoin Daily and just kind of take a look and see where it could possibly be headed. After that, then of course, we're going to talk about some trade setups for this week to hopefully make us awesome profits. So if you guys are enjoying all of this, make sure to smash that like button on this video. It helps us out a ton with the algorithm. And if you're new to the channel, don't forget to subscribe as we're working our way up to 11,000 subscribers. We're almost there guys. We're about 400 away. So let's go ahead and jump in. So the first coin that we're going to take a look at here is Cardano ADA. It's probably the most trending coin the last couple of days. And by the way, it just hit a new all-time high today at $3.02. So a lot of people have been asking us about this coin. So let's go ahead and take a look at why it's been going to the moon for the last few days, right? So the first thing is that Cardano is going to be getting listed on a new exchange in Japan, as you guys can see here on the 25th of August, so in about two days. And the other thing, which is probably the most bullish thing is the Alonzo hard fork. So there is a hard fork on Cardano the same way that Ethereum recently had a hard fork this month. Cardano will be having a hard fork next month in September. This hard fork will be paving the way for smart contract functionality. Finally, after what feels like years of waiting for this, it's finally coming to Cardano. So very bullish on the long term of Cardano, very bullish on the short term as well with the fork coming up. Now, what's even crazier here is that we predicted this exact to move up in June. So in June, which was the last time that we did an analysis on Cardano, and I believe we did this analysis on a live stream, we predicted that if we saw a breakout here, we would get a move up to $3. You can see that we had our target set there at that $3 mark, and it was an 88% move up, right? So we didn't get that breakout there. Instead, we got a break down, which eventually got the bounce. Now, when it got the bounce, it hit a hard target of $3. That's the target that we were projecting on a breakout here. Now, it took a lot longer than expected, but we did end up getting that breakout finally after what? June, July, August, right? So we were a little bit ahead of schedule with our projection, but it did finally come and hit our target of $3 here. Now, with the fork coming up, because it's still a few weeks away, we still do project Cardano to continue its rally up, possibly going up beyond that $3 mark, maybe up to $350 to $4 would be the targets there for us if we were to just kind of take a guess, looking at the numbers and using human psychology here. So one thing to keep an eye on though, remember that we are very, very oversold here. And last time we were this oversold, we saw a pullback here. So earlier this month, we went up to a high of 228. We saw a pullback to 187. And now we're heading back up. So just be aware that there could be a pullback, especially if the overall market begins to pull back. For example, Bitcoin in September, something like that, there could also be some sort of pullback in Cardano, which could take it back maybe to around 250 to 240 range here. So that's something to keep in mind if you're deciding to buy now, you know, it's hard. People are going to be asking, do I buy right now? It's hard to say to buy now when it's at all time highs. This is when you should be taking profits, not really buying. But if you like the project for long term, you could start to dollar cost average into Cardano at this point. And as a, you know, if there's any drops in, you know, add in more, again, you don't really want to be buying when it's at all time highs, you want to be buying, you know, when there's pullbacks in Binance Coin, you see that we finally got over this Fibonacci resistance level here, which was also in line with that 450 range. And we just were at the $500 range right now. So currently the top of this range is going to be right around 540. So 540 is a target here currently on this move for Binance Coin. If it continues up, we can see 540, we could potentially break above that. And if we do break above that, we could be seeing, you know, we test of the top of this range over here once we get in this, in this range, right? And that's around that $700 area. So that's something that we're going to be watching in BNB. In Polkadot, you'll see that currently it's struggling to get above this, but look at this run, guys. Look at this run straight up, right? So once we break above that, I expect it to continue up and start testing that $34 to $35 range. Once we break above that, then we could get into that next range up here. And if we break above that, then we can see the previous all-time highs here that we spoke about many times. And we actually hit last time when we projected it there as well. So that's what we're watching there in Polkadot. In Chainlink, you'll see that we did just break above that previous resistance Fibonacci level there. And we're now trading within this new range. So top of this range is going to be right around $32. So we're currently at $28. The top is $32. So it'll be good to buy right around that $27 range if there's any pullbacks, you know, with a price target of around $32. And if there's a breakout above $32, that's also an entry that you can look for there to write it up to that potential next target, which is around $37. And Litecoin finally making a run back up after bottoming out around that $100 range. So I hope you guys bought that dip because that was an incredible price to get into. It's almost doubled already from there. And we can see that we're currently at a resistance here right around that $188, $190 range. So once we break above that, it looks like we can run up to with a minor resistance at $200. But the top of this range is going to be more around that $220 area. So with a break above this resistance and a break above $200, that's what you can expect. You can be setting some entries maybe around $175 or set up an entry above $200 for that breakout to write it up to that $220 range. You can see Matic had this massive run up and then a massive retracement, almost like 100% retracement from where it started all the way up. But now it's catching some momentum as well, just like every other project at the moment. Currently it looks like it's just breaking above this resistance here. So you see that it had trouble there as well. So this is actually a pretty good area here to enter a trade, right around that $160 to $150 range, right? With your target going to be, it's probably going to be around $188 to $2 that first target, then the next target will be around $220. So you could also wait for $188, a break above that, or a break above $2 to enter with a little bit more momentum there. The top target here is going to be its previous all-time high, which was around $2.80. Last one we're going to look at, guys. XRP, as you guys know, it's still in that case against the SEEC. So until there's some sort of breakthrough in that, I don't think we're going to see any massive run-ups or massive movements, even though we did see this big jump here. But we're going to be limited to this previous all-time high here. However, entries above $132 seems like a good entry for resistance there, with a target of around $160, or you can buy back at pullbacks around that $110 area, $115 area, looking at a target of around $130 there. Now people keep asking, where do I think it's going to go until the case gets solved with the SEEC? It's going to be under a lot of pressure. People are going to be afraid of getting into this, so it's not going to pump very much. You could definitely pump up again to where it was over here, or possibly back to that $170 range over here. But once the case is solved or whatever happens with the case, if it goes in the favor of XRP, then it could be running up past these previous highs, and finally retesting its previous all-time high, which was around that $3 to $4 range. Okay guys, I lied.  Here, you can see that we had the massive 80% drop off from the Saturday night episode with Elon Musk. And now we're currently kind of consolidating there. You can see kind of a bull flag there right around that 30 cent area, right? So if we get this breakout above 30 cents, then I could see it hitting this target up here. You can see that it hit the target here last time when it broke to that level. That's going to be around 40 to 45 cents like it did previously, or it could go all the way up to 50 cents, because if it breaks above 45, 50 cents is really the top of that next range. Now, it still has a lot of work to do, and I don't know if it's going to get that hyped again, where it can run up to these previous highs, but I never thought it would go up to 75 cents, and it did.  Again, I don't invest in Dogecoin. I do not have any money in Dogecoin, but for those of you who choose to do so, that's basically what I'm looking at right now. Alrighty guys, so this video has run a little bit longer since I added in all those outcoins. So let's do these trade setups really, really quickly for Bitcoin here. I'm of course, looking at entries above 50,000. At this point, I'm risking around 2% probably, and I'm looking for pullbacks at 48,000 for another around 2% risk there. And in Ethereum, I'm going to be looking for the breakout above 3,400 for about a 1% risk, breakout above 3,500 for about a 2% to 3% risk on that. And of course, if there's any pullbacks back to $3,000, I'm willing to risk about 2% to 3% on that as well. Thank you guys for sticking around. If you stuck around this long, make sure to smash that like button. It takes us a lot of effort and money to create these videos. So and it costs you $0 to just support the channel. So I appreciate it greatly. It helps us a ton. And if you're new here, don't forget to subscribe. We're posting videos weekly, multiple times a week. I'm trying to do five times a week. Sometimes we do a little bit less, but we're working on that as well. Thank you guys so much. Let's have a bullish green profitable week this week. I'll see you guys on the next video. As always, peace and love.


What's going on everyone? Sam here with late in sports cards ripping two boxes of 21 a penini playbook football hobby for James F So good luck James. See what we got man. Let's pull you something big out of one of this pull a big quarterback See like a big Trevor or something nice one-on-one Like we may have a redemption got CD lamb to 149 for the Cowboys and Calvin Ridley to 299 on the hot routes for the Falcons We've got nice Javante Williams 3 of 10 on the rookie auto for the Broncos There we go James nice start man Take that for sure And we've got redemption it's gonna be vault trifle Jersey auto Kyle pits There we go. Congrats, man I think they are yeah, let me I'm gonna double check see what these are numbered to 25 or less 25 or less awesome. Congrats on that one James.  Oh Well, it's 10 cards serial number to 25 This one will be to 25 right here that there's gold to 10 then platinum one of one This is only a 10 card set as well. So there you go. Congrats on that one James. That's so cool, man Can't wait to get that one redeemed. That's gonna be It's gonna be a monster right there Maybe that's been ridder will be his guy, right? Honestly, hopefully all right. Let's see what we got in number two here James For 14 Nice one there Ramandre Stevenson on the rookie 22 out of 49 There's Kyle Trask mammoth materials 15 out of 75 this is a really cool card right here I love the looks of these that's gonna be 23 out of 49 a goal line graph JK Dobbins for the Ravens. Nice one there James And we've got nice one here is Josh Palmer 21 out of 49 three colored patch auto There we go.  Congrats, man Big palm is probably gonna end up being I would say the number two once Keenan Allen's gone Yeah, and he might even end up being better than Mike will so here we go nice big palm He's so good Congrats on that really really nice two boxes. Congrats James need to play something big We gotcha that'll do it for your break James. Thanks again. We'll get those right out to you buddy


So this is one of these, um, chisels. It's called a flanger, um, dongle. Do I have any broccoli in my teeth? No. You can't beat a flanger, donger. You're too friendly, they're pretty large. Oh, David, this is a fine vintage. Then come on over. That's so irritatingly cute, or what are you, charismaticly, a challenge?  Give me a terminator line. It's time. Like that? No, that was, oh god. Let's just go. We're back here with our final Finnish clock, and look how beautiful it is. I love art resin on wood. It just makes it look so, so, so beautiful. Yeah, but the problem is I don't really, it takes so long to read what time it is. Because it's like, look it. You have to say the other thing, that's never sit. No, how do you do this? I don't know what time this is. I think it's like 25 to five? I don't know, like that's three, four, like five. Anyways, it looks great. It's for smart people. Yeah, you don't actually, it's very, yeah, and you don't actually need to use it as a clock. It just looks like you're really smart. Exactly. Yeah, and then you say, I made it myself and it was easy, right? So you're crafty and smart. Creative and smart. Yeah. So the last steps were really easy, just picking all the tape off of the back. Just use an exacto knife to get under there. Did you get that? I did. And then re-drilled the center hole, just to get rid of all the epoxy that had hardened in there. It made it nice and clean. And then just ran it through the table saw to make the perfectly flat bottom. I love that smell. Delicious, eh? And you can actually see how thick the resin is now, right on the side, which is kind of neat. Then we took our clock mechanism here and you can see we just placed it in the back in that hole that we've made. And we lined up our second in minute in our hands here and then just fit the whole thing in. It looks beautiful. It was hard. Those pants, did you ruin them from working so hard? I know, from hard labor. Did you or you bought them? I bought them. Yeah.  It looks awesome. Slow clap. Yeah. I guess my final words are I never really thought about time and like, what is time? Oh, wow. That's getting pretty deep now. Kind of existential. I don't know. What is time? Anyways, if you know, comment below. And thanks for watching. And Drann, that was great. It's second to none. It's second to none. I'm done. I'm spent. Next time on Dave and Joanne make something, we are going to make a... You'll have to watch and see.


Perhaps the standout Irish business story, success story that is of the past three decades, that of Paddy Power, who have gone from sort of cheeky high street bookmaker to a billion dollar business because their own other parent company is Flutter Entertainment, the largest gambling business in the world. And I mean, the success of Paddy Power can be seen everywhere. Shopfronts, bus shelters, to sporting arenas. There's a new book by Aaron Rogan, the journalist, Aaron Rogan, news correspondent at the business post and was senior reporter at The Times Ireland, but has been writing about Paddy Power for years. And the book is called Ponters, how Paddy Power bet billions and changed gambling forever. And Aaron now joins us. Aaron, good afternoon to you. Good afternoon. This book is about the success, the continuing success of Paddy Power. But it's also about much more than that. It's about the story of how modern business collects and uses personal data for profit. Yeah, very much so. I think Paddy Power is a really strong illustration of the transformation that bookmaking and the gambling industry has had over the last, I'd say 15, 20 years with the advent of online gambling and how these sort of, what was once a chain of bookmakers shops around the country or occasionally on tracks and things like that is now, basically it's like a tech company. It's a lot of data harvesting, a lot of mathematicians and scientists going through it. It's all computerized, it's all modernized. And it's at a sort of a reckoning now because it was sort of an innovative industry and Paddy Power in particular was quite an innovative company. It may be if it had its excesses where problem gambling really became a big driver of profits and new customers and turnover on accounts and things like that. So it's sort of, the industry's at a point now where it's trying to battle for its reputation by showing it does want to be a sustainable and safe sector, but it's had a rough 10 years of its practices being exposed. And they have been exposed and the damage that, not just Paddy Power, but other big bookmakers are doing, especially with online gambling, are now well known. But back when they started up in 1988, it was really just to take on the sort of British bookmakers like Carl and Ladbrooks, initially. Yeah, it was basically those guys that come over, Carl's, Ladbrooks and Mecca, which is gone now, and William Hill had come over and bought up independent Irish shops and created big chains that the independent shops, even if you had three or four dotted around a county or a city couldn't really compete with because they were corporate giants really. They had a lot of cash. They were tied to other companies such as the Hilton Hotel Group was part of Ladbrooks for a little bit. So John Corcoran, Stuart Kenny and David Power came together and started Paddy Power by linking up their shops. They started with about 20 shops and just tried to, the first goal was get to 100 shops and then you could compete against the British bookmakers. But it wasn't long before they were buying up shops that the British bookmakers had only maybe a decade before bought themselves, because it was just, they really got that Irish gamblers were quite different to British gamblers. They wanted different products. They wanted to have a different sort of brand around it. It wasn't just a transactional thing. They liked spending an afternoon having a cup of tea or going between the pub and the bookies and getting to know people. So they built a very strong customer base and eventually sort of surpassed the British bookmakers in Ireland before hopping across the water to go and have a go at them over there and they've succeeded in that as well. Yeah, absolutely. Well, they've changed with the time. So they rolled with the changes and I suppose you would say they were innovative in certain ways, albeit at a cost along the way. But we still like to see them or some people would see them as sort of that cheeky high street bookmakers. And a lot of that is down to their marketing, their gorilla marketing and the sort of the tongue-in-cheek marketing. Oh, absolutely. I mean, I think the Paddy Power brand is one of the most recognizable Irish brands up there with Guinness and Ryanair. I think for a lot of people when they think of the part of the national conversation people talk about Paddy Power all the time. They really did during the sort of the internet age they tapped into that gorilla marketing that sort of irreverent, sometimes controversial often controversial really and often quite offensive thing that younger men in particular really liked. You know, they liked seeing those sort of jokes that were politically incorrect or were making light of serious situations. And they really did that in a way that other big corporations would be far too scared to do. You know, you see a lot of companies now getting involved in politically correct campaigns and things like that and the Paddy Power's Flutter Entertainment does that now as well. But for a long period, they were doing things that advertising agencies would be too afraid to even raise at meetings with other companies. Paddy Power was doing them. You've been writing about Paddy Power for years and in fact, it goes back as far as a time when a lot of your friends were working for Paddy Power in Dublin. And I suppose you might have had a bit of an insight in the early days, but over time, the whole thing has changed. It's become, well, you know, since the advent of online gambling, the whole thing now from a business point of view has become more sort of more corporate. Oh, absolutely. I mean, Paddy Power and our Flutter Entertainment can tell within a few bets how profitable or they can, you know, they can, they have data that would indicate how profitable your account will be to them, whether they'll take 20% of all the bets, all the money you bet with them are 30% or 5%. They know how much it costs to win a new customer and how quickly they can turn that, you know, get that money back. They're doing that in the US at the moment. It was gambling's really opened up there. It's a real corporate activity. It uses every trick and tool available to us and it's got the data collected on the other end to show what works and what doesn't work. And they're very, very quick at switching to streams that do work away from ones that don't work. So effectively, they'll target you. They'll hone in on the sort of gambling that you might be attracted to or throw up bets that are likely to get you to spend money, is that it? Yeah, well, if you open a Paddy Power account, they'll know whether you opened it following an ad online or a social media post or an email, well, they wouldn't email you before you open the account, but you know, I don't know if you opened it on your mobile and they know mobile gamblers of a certain age are more likely to prefer certain types of bets. They might prefer betting in play and football, next gold score sort of thing. So they'll promote those bets to you. Then when you've placed a few bets, particularly in horse racing, if you place a few bets in horse racing, they're very savvy at finding out whether you're savvy yourself or if you're just picking the tips from the local paper. And then they'll sort of work to ensure that the risk on their end of being exposed to a very savvy gambler is reduced and people restrict accounts of customers who are doing too well. And they'll do all this through algorithms? Through algorithms and oversight by risk managers. There's still quite a number of people sort of hands on looking at that data as it comes back and saying, this is what we should do with this customer, this is what we should do with the other. Flutter entertainment are absolutely huge. They're the largest company of any kind on the stock market here. And what are Flutter doing about the whole problem of gambling addiction? If anything? They are taking steps now to make the product safer. They've started treating under 25-year-olds as a particular cohort of gamblers because it's long been said by academics and clinicians that the brain doesn't fully develop until after 25. So you're much more likely to take risks that you perhaps shouldn't or you don't calculate properly the outcome of the risk. So they've started capping the amount you can deposit at 500 euro a month for under 25s as a designation that younger people should be protected from themselves a little bit more. That's going beyond any regulation that's in place, but it's to head off regulations that are coming in both Ireland and Britain and undoubtedly in the US as well to show that they want sort of a sustainable customer base. They don't want to be dependent on guys coming in and losing their house to them. They want people who are punting steadily and readily and keeping going. And really, in a way, the ball is in the air court because the last thing they want to do is to end up like the tobacco industry. Yeah, and that's a real concern. I mean, Stuart Kenny has said to me, he's a co-founder of the company and really built the brand. I was part of a team building the brand with another guy called Fintan Drury. They're now actively campaigning to prevent addiction really destroying the industry. And they've, Stuart Kenny has said to me that the gambling will get a stench like cigarettes if they don't do something about it, it'll become heavily taxed by government. Investors will want less to do with it, although when it's making the profits it's making, that's unlikely to see ethics or morals come into it. And there is a real sense in the industry at the moment that it needs to act to prevent itself becoming the next tobacco. And fathers and mothers telling their children never to gamble as opposed to kind of maybe bringing them in for put a fiver on the Grand National. Where are we in relation to regulation? Say when you compare us to the UK or the United States? We're probably about 80 years, maybe 90 years behind the UK. We haven't updated our gambling laws in decades. They're due to be updated now in the next year or so with the proper regulator coming in that'll oversee online gambling companies and things like that. But it's a long time coming. The industry at the moment get to self-regulate in Ireland. They can impose their own code of conduct amongst members of the Bookmakers Association. So we're marching to their beat in that way. It'll be interesting to see who that gambling regulator is if it's someone who's gonna make the industry uncomfortable or not, or is it gonna be someone who's there to sort of facilitate the industry in Ireland? And obviously it's quite a big industry in Ireland. It's part of the horse racing grey hand industry as well. I mean, gambling provides quite a good amount of revenue to newspapers and radio stations and television stations. So restricting advertising and things like that might seem like a good thing, but it will have consequences and it'll be quite interesting to see how they're all balanced. Well, leaving the morals of what happened to one side, it's an exciting story about the rise of Patty Power and it's called Ponters, how Patty Power bet billions and changed gambling forever. Out now, written by Aron Rogan. Aron, thanks a million for joining us. Thank you very much. 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