TGIM everybody, I'm so thankful the weekend is over. I love Mondays because I get to do what I'm most passionate about and that is Trading a couple things that I want to tell you before you watch the video of today's session trading session And that is my best friend Paul is back up training again I'm so happy for that because I can have somebody to speak to or talk to on the other side of the mic So to speak But for whatever reason today while I was recording today's session His voice wasn't recorded through the recording and it sounds like I'm talking to myself I know it's ridiculous, but it's gonna be a little bit of amusing For all the viewers watching at home second there's a technical difficulty on the Broker side the broker that I used to trade to place my trades their quotes or price quotes on the options were Incorrect I got on the phone with the representative while I was on the phone with him It seemed like all was well all the prices were where there should be and I placed a trade still on the phone with the representative I bought and I hung up told my best friend about it I'm even though the market action was going the direction of my train the option prices were going the office of direction He I immediately sold and thinking I sold at a loss Turns out that that was not the case Before I let you go hit that subscribe button I do need a hundred subscribers make a video tutorial of how I trade what I look for all the setups That you hear me talk about everything that you need to know to succeed I will make a video of it hit that subscribe button to share this video with friends and family Thank you so much for watching Good morning everybody. Thank goodness. It is Monday June 12th, we're just waiting for the opening beltering in about 30 seconds Yo, what's up, man? Back at it again It's weak man. That five minute is weak crazy. How's the weekend man? Nice that's awesome Damn, it is weak man At the moment is looking like we're gonna be sitting here for a bit Great Paul's back and now the market's a flat. No, I don't like the I don't like how it's not strong The five minutes is very weak shirts Yeah, sure like it's green, but like at any moment it can it's it could turn so I rather I rather just wait Don't don't be other there'll be other setups man. Yeah. Yeah.  Yeah, exactly. So we don't we don't want to be in these And these type of moves even though there might be a move like sure you could have gone in when you first asked me about it Gosh one two three four minutes into the bell you could have probably squeezed Some that that ten percent there But I don't ever want to be in that position where I'm just like, you know what it's kind of weak No, maybe no screw that just I've definitely have learned To be patient and in wait for for my setup to happen if you take a look at the 15 minute the full stone that that was another indicator that it just pointing the opposite direction as Everything else. I love this dude. I absolutely love this. I I know now my setup pretty darn well. There's 43 calls. They're not Trading that Yeah, they're not trading the way these it should be There's something Weird look at that. They're going up to 43 puts that expire June 14th. I'm looking on fidelity It's one 101 by 103. We go ahead and give them a call real quick man. I Got in on the puts the two forty three puts for Wednesday Sweet. Yeah, I got in at a dollar There's like a lag or something I'm not liking this man. I got out. I can't see the prices. I Got out at 106 I got in at a dollar and got at it's at a dollar six But I can't the the markets are like right now I see the bid and ask is at 99 by 103. I I just I got out man. I mean I made money Did you see that that setup Good good good I'm not liking that the quotes are wrong here Like I thought I was about to sell at a loss Yeah Dang it man. Oh well Yeah, I made money. Yeah, it's definitely absolutely. I mean, I'm not gonna argue With making money, but look at that dude. They're up to 118, but I still see the bid at 96 by 97 I like my strategy though, dude Love my strategy. Love it, dude Love it. Love it. Love it. And I actually got in while I was on the phone with the representative I was like to heck with it man. He's like, there's nothing wrong in there. I was like, oh, no, there really is nothing wrong in The bid and ask was was correct and then I got in and I got really nervous because Literally the bid dropped below where I bought and I was like, oh This is not anything you were telling me that the markets were Going lower I'm like, I don't know what to do here. Dude Congratulations Congratulations man back at it again Paul Brown Ladies and gentlemen Paul Brown is back. This is being recorded by the way this whole thing It's going on my YouTube channel


Hi, my name is Ella Sepaldi and I am PCTI's April Student of the Month. I am in the Performing Arts Theatre Shop and I love the community that I've gotten from my shop. I've made a lot of friends and I love my current teacher, Ms. Klin. So in the upcoming years I plan on majoring in psych at Rutgers, and from there I'm going to seek out a doctorate program and hopefully get my doctors in psychology and I want to do clinical psych. For the last four years I've been in the Tectone Choir and I'm also in NHS as the reporting secretary. I'm in Gifted and Talented and I also did Thespians this year. I participated in the stay-age competition and outside of school I play guitar. I sing, I act, I do any kind of theatre that I can find and I picked up crocheting recently. One fun fact about me is that actually for the last three years basically that I've been here, I was very set on doing marine biology and then this big life-changing event happened last year and I decided that psych was going to be my passion. First and foremost I'd like to thank Ms. Puttup because she is an excellent counselor and she helped me all four years that I've been here. I'd like to thank my parents because they support me through everything and also I love Ms. Quinn and Ms. Lotz, my theatre teachers, so shout out to them. And finally I guess all of the resources that I've had for psych and just that introduction that I've had to this career that I'm really looking forward to.


Welcome back to my channel and today I'm going to be talking about my least favorite books from 2018, my last video was my favorite books from 2018 and there were some really good ones in there. So I will leave a link to that one down below and in today's video I don't actually have that many books to talk about. I have four books that I gave one star ratings to or didn't finish and then there are another four books that I finished and they weren't terrible but there were definitely elements to them that I didn't enjoy. So we're gonna start off with those ones first. So first up we've got A Natural History of Dragons and they were by Lady Trent and this one is by Marie Brennan. If you guys watch my videos I am someone who absolutely loves books about dragons and the cover of this one is absolutely stunning. It is deckled pages and I really think aesthetically it is pleasing and this is an amazing looking dragon book. Now I've heard that for the rest of this series it actually does involve quite a few dragons but in the first one which is the one that I read I was very very disappointed because there was barely any dragons and Lady Trent although she was like kind of cool she wasn't as interesting as I hoped she'd be but I'm guessing that it's kind of more just setting it up for the rest of the series but the first one doesn't make me want to read the rest of them. I actually don't remember if I finished reading this book or not. I don't think I did. I don't remember what the ending of it was but it's kind of sad like it has these elements that I really would enjoy and I think that I just in my mind wanted so badly for there to just be a good dragon novel that I was let down by it. I can say if you guys are looking for a really good dragon book you should take a look at Samantha Shannon's new one which is the Priory of the Orange Tree because you won't regret it. It's amazing. Next up we have got Batman Night Walker by Mary Lou. This is part of the DC icon series where they have some big YA authors who are writing different kind of short stories from these characters and I've read a couple of them however with the Batman one I really think that they just picked the most boring character and aspects of Bruce Wayne and then chose to write a book about him and it really really sucked and I honestly think this book would have been about 300 times better if it was actually just told from Madeline's perspective because she is so much cooler and evil and well-rounded than what Bruce Wayne was and he was just a flat out boring character. Like I really like Mary Lou's writing it's the only redeeming part to it but this book was so boring. So the next book that I've got I've talked about a couple of times in videos and that is A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas. The only aspect of this book that I really liked was the fact that we got to see Farah yelling with the aftermath and the after effects of the war that happened in the third book in the series. That was really cool. I really liked those chapters but as for the rest of the book I really really didn't enjoy it. I thought it was a really really pointless story or novella or whatever it is. I think I would have rather have just waited like another year and had this included in the next book that she's going to write anyway. I think as a standalone book it wasn't really necessary or needed. Person who tops the crown for being the most annoying dingleberry of a character has to be rice and... I can't stand the guy. This entire book is just him being horny and looking for Farah so they can boink. That's it. That's his entire story in this. They were just bigger problems to deal with than sleeping together. They just need to keep it in their pants and get everything back to normal but they can't do that because rice and just wants Farah. I just get really annoyed at that book and I mean like I said there are elements to it which I enjoy but I think I've just moved past wanting to read about it. The storylines are just predictable and there have been things in Sarah J Maas's books that I just don't like so I'm probably going to stop reading them especially after a quarter frost in Stala. So the fourth book that I've got for you guys is Girl of Paper and Fire by Natasha Nagan and this one really tore me into because there are elements to this book that I think were amazing and that the author wrote really really well so it deals with a lot of violence and sexual abuse and it has two characters who are female that fall in love and she wrote those so wonderfully especially with the different sexual abuse that is involved in this. It was really hard to read and yet it was also very eye-opening. I did think though that the first two thirds of this book were amazing and in the last third just completely dropped off and how the ending of this book went was really really disappointing to me. It was predictable, it was unrealistic and I think it kind of went against everything that you'd learned about the characters so far. I also think that the world building in this was a bit of a left down because you get introduced to this range of characters and you want to know how they are like how they are and what happened to create the society, how it was in this first place but you never get that background information. I think that when it comes to the next book in a series I will definitely have to like see how the reviews go in the next book because after how this book ended I really don't think I'll be reading the next one. It just really breaks my heart because I really wanted to love this book so much. It had all the elements that I would have absolutely loved and I'm just so upset that I didn't meet all those expectations. So the next four books that I've got for you guys are four books that I gave one stars to or I didn't finish. So these are kind of like the ones that I passionately dislike. First up is Whisper by Lynette Noni. This one has shopped a few people because I really like Lynette Noni's other series which is the Madoran Chronicles and that was a really fun fantasy series. So in this book you have Jane Doe. She has currently been residing in this prison-like thing for two years, six months, 14 days, 11 hours and 16 minutes and during that time Jane Doe has never said a single word. Her days are always the same thing. She has the same routine. She also does physical training so she's quite a strong and athletic person as well and then one day her entire routine is mixed up when this tall handsome man comes into her world and she finally begins to speak. What absolutely frustrates me so much about this book is that Jane Doe is basically described to be one of the most powerful characters that you have ever seen in this kind of book setting and I understand that if she doesn't want to use those powers she doesn't have to that's fine but she is also someone who has been training physically for two years, six months, 14 days, 11 hours and 16 minutes and I'm someone that goes to the gym maybe four times a week and I can tell you that I could definitely knock someone out with my guns and Jane Doe has a rigorous routine that she does every single one of those days where she gains weight and she's strong.   Next book I didn't finish this next one and that one is The Binding by Bridget Collins it is a stunning book and as you guys may know by now I buy books because they're pretty and so I bought this one it sounds so promising I really wanted to enjoy it and then I started reading it and I felt like I had been lied to about the blurb. So in this book I have a young guy called Emmett and Emmett is basically going into training to be a bookbinder. This means that he can make these handcrafted books with people's stories and he can erase things from their life. So for instance you have a woman in here who lost her baby and so she goes to a bookbinder and they write her story and remove all the memories of the baby so that she isn't so heartbroken and destroyed anymore and that's what Emma gets to do. But you never really get told what bookbinding is at all at any point during the first third of this book because that's how far I got into it and that's when I lost interest. Emmett is a boring character who has no depth, the actual story time for this is shocking and instead of actually explaining things to the reader they just end paragraphs with this Emmett guy fainting all the time and that kind of got old real quick maybe around the fourth or fifth time that he fainted for no fucking reason but that's fine because then he finally gets to where he's going to learn to be a bookbinder and I can put up with that like let's do this let's get to bookbinding it sounds so interesting I can forgive the terrible plot beforehand but then we get there and the bookbinding teacher doesn't teach him anything we didn't get to learn anything about it and then guess what happens she fucking dies and you still don't know what happened anyway then Emmett goes to be taught by a different bookbinder who does everything very different and you can clearly tell as an asshole and Emmett just goes with him and learns how to be a bookbinder and it was so boring that I then gave up I gave this a shot on audiobook as well thinking that maybe I could do it and then it got to the point where I was literally rather reading the label ingredients on a bottle of bleach than listening to the story that's when I thought that perhaps I should give up on the book I've actually had a few reviews out this book which have come from trusted friends who have also said it is equally terrible but still if you guys have read the entire book please let me know down below put your thoughts of it where the next one I've got is the historian by Elizabeth costova I won't talk about this one too much but it felt very flat for me one of my friends actually recommended it to me it is one of her favorite books and I can definitely see why it would be there are elements in this that I would really enjoy but when I was going through the reviews one of the best things that I read about this was someone said this book is basically about Dracula who hoards a load of books who then wants to kidnap a librarian to just organize those books and that is all that this book is filled with just extra plot that isn't necessary so I didn't finish it so the last book that I have got for you guys is the Sunday Girl by Pip drives down this one I probably passionately hate more than I do whisper and you guys can find out why so this follows a girl Taylor whose ex boyfriend has currently broken up with her her heart is broken so she decides to go and have a one night stand and she has this one night stand and the man has a book called the art of war on his table so she decides to take that and read it and use the elements from the art of war in getting revenge on her ex boyfriend she does some stupid things like goes to his house and like grabs things and moves things around then she like uses his work credit cards to buy a bunch of strippers and things like that and then he buys underwear for the next door neighbor so that it's all suspicious and ruins his home life so after Taylor's done this she still hates her life and everyone in it and then her ex boyfriend knocks on her door and begs for her to take him back that he was wrong that he loves her that he wants to be with her and the idiot decides that that's fine so she welcomes them back in wide arms and they bang a shitload of times and she thinks that everything is fine and at this point in the book I thought hey this actually might be a good story where the author is going to point out like sexual abuse and violence and like mental abuse and relationships and make it a really powerful book but she actually went in the opposite direction where the boyfriend then kind of admits that he knew she fucked him over and they start this like little battle between the two of them where Taylor is really stupid and makes her stupid choices because she's like skim read the art of war once and thinks she knows everything and then Angus who is the boyfriend like always shuts her down it's one step ahead of her and eventually until like she push him off her back and then kills him and then Taylor leaves the country with another man that she's fallen in love with who is also an asshole like she hasn't changed the type of guy that she's with so there's no like pro points from that but also she left the country and no one is suspicious that she might have killed her boyfriend and I just it was just such a frustrating read and I definitely recommend if you guys want to hate read a book this is the one for you this is such a negative video so I highly recommend you go look at my favorite videos because this isn't me I'm not someone who usually gets so angry and throws books around but sometimes when the plots are just that bad I can't help it thank you guys for watching my least favorite books from 2018 I know it's a bit of a rollercoaster ride there and I have no idea how I'm actually going to edit this video because I'm pretty sure I've just streamed and ranted this entire time but thank you for sticking by and hopefully I can make this look like some sort of coherent video I will be back again soon with another video thank you for watching let me know your least favorite books down below or if you really want to you can go into my favorite books and absolutely slam them because my intention is not to offend anyone but just have a good old banter sesh anyway thank you for watching and I'll see you guys again soon bye


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The following is a presentation of TFNN. The Trader's Edge with Steve Rhodes. Toll free at 1-877-927-6648 or internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER>. The Trader's Edge. Now, Steve Rhodes. Good afternoon, folks. Welcome to the terrific Tuesday, the August 24th edition of today's Trader's Edge show. I'm your host, Steve Perseverance Rhodes, who absolutely knows that each of us should always be, and I mean always be, pioneers of our future versus prisoners of our past. Hope everyone out there is having a great day. Hey, let's make sure we have an extraordinary one. And the easiest way to do that is to always remember that life is happening for us, not to us. That's right. We need to make that one little two-by-four shift. Well, it means we can find a gift in every set of circumstance that life is going to toss at us. Now today, you and I, we're going to go check on the circumstance of these markets. We'll go figure out what the bulls and bears, what those buyers and sellers are communicating to you and I just past one o'clock in the afternoon. I want you to know I'm absolutely grateful for your presence here. More important than that, that's this. During this next 60 minutes, I'm here to serve you. So feel free to pick up that phone. You can dial on in<PHONE_NUMBER>. If you can't dial in, well, we've got you covered there too. Let those fingers do the walking. Go ahead and send me an email, Steve, at tfnn.com inside the subject heading. Please put radio show question, of course, in our Tigers, Dan. Well, any ping will do. So let's go ahead and get this show started on terrific Tuesday. Of course, this is Tiger, Financial News Network. I'm Steve Rhodes. Welcome to the show, all the U.S. indices that we track our trading to the upside. Dow's up 62 S&P8. Nasdaq 139, Russell 15. Summizer up 8. Trendy's up 51. New York Stock Exchange 98. Composite 64. Wilshire 171. And the Spotball Tenix is up 4 pennies. Not a big deal there. It is still below its 50-day exponential moving average. Goldilocks is up 2 bucks. Silver's up 25 cents. That's 1%. Running right in. It's trying to take out the resistance of its daily profile. Perhaps that's a message to us about Goldilocks. Gold, I think. Lights we accrued, I should say, is up a buck 90. Trading out a 67.54. Natural gas back about a nickel in the 30-year Treasury. Dow 21 ticks. Trading out at 165.05. So let's begin by taking a look at the markets. We have a question that came in from Eddie. This is Eddie in Boca. And his question, he's got two really, integrates right into taking a look at general markets and what they're doing here. Since the Dow has been range bound on a 10-minute chart. I'd say probably on any minute chart out there. Fluctuating 60 points up and down in a rectangular pattern. Why do you think the Dow is having trouble busting it up? Is it Powell's, Jackson Hole's speech? Absolutely not. What it is, is where the sellers reside. So Eddie, if we take a look at, for example, the weekly set of profiles out here. So you've got the ES, the NQ, they're on the left. And then you've got the Dow. That one, in the end we have the Russell 2000. What you're interested in is the Dow. And you can see on a weekly basis, granted the week's not over, it doesn't matter. But this tells us where the sellers reside. And the sellers are at 35, 354. That way, I don't have to give you a BS answer. I would have had to have been a BS answer before Steve had these TAS market profiles. But now we know that you and I, we have a competitive edge out here. And we know where buyers and sellers reside. And these profiles are just simply wonderful tools out here. If you take a look at the profiles in the ES and the NQ, they're priced as well above those. Those are weekly profiles, by the way, that we are looking at. So Eddie, I hope that answers your question or it should answer your question. Will price be able to take that out? I don't know. Certainly the ES and the NQ have. So perhaps the Dow will as well. If we go back to the daily timeframe out here, here on the daily timeframe, the pattern is in play inside the ES meaning. Now price is rising and doing so with less relative energy. And what that means is that, is that, what that means is that if there's a bearish reversal, sorry, I got a text from a friend of mine and I shouldn't have looked at it. So, but I'm expecting a birth announcement here shortly. And that was a different person in any event. They stopped that. So short of a bearish reversal candle, then the ES mini is going to target the 4600 level. That's the A to B equals CD pattern. The NQ has an A to B equals CD pattern as well, but it also has a consolidation breakout. So the A to B equals CD takes you up to 15, 438. By the way, that's just the one to one. That does not mean that's where price is going to stop. And there's also a consolidation that measured move, which takes us to about the 15,500 level. So in the case about the ES and NQ, they both have rogement and indicator signals triggered. But just being triggered doesn't mean anything. I mean, just take your umbrella and be on the lookout for rain, which in our case here would be a bearish reversal candle. Then that would generate some type of short term topping signal. In the case of the Dow just dealing with these sellers at the top of their weekly profile. In the case of the Russell 2000, it's dealing with these sellers at the center of its weekly profile, which is right at the 2223 level. And 2223 also happens to be the center of the bearish structured daily profile. Let me turn the weeklies off here for you for a moment. We get over here. Let's edit this chart. That way you'll be able to see it. So the Russell is right up against a significant group of sellers. The weekly sellers, let me do this here. First, I'll just turn on the top of the profile. There's a top of the weekly profile, 2322. Now I'm going to turn off all of the weekly profiles out here and just concentrate on the daily. And you'll see here at the 2223 level, so the center of a profile is where you have both buyers and sellers believe there is fair value within the range. What's the range? The top and the bottom of the profile. So the Russell 2000 is 2252 at the top, 2137 at the bottom. So you've got both at this level here, 2223, significant resistance. So Eddie, even though you didn't ask about the Russell 2000, you're getting a twofer. You've got the Dow right here at resistance where the sellers reside and inside the Russell 2000, those are weekly sellers, and Russell 2000 is both weekly and daily. Now if price can overcome those levels, that tells you about the move to the next level. The next level in the Russell would be 2252. The next level in the Dow equity future contract is going to be it's all time high. That's the trading high from August 16th, and that's up at the 35, 547 level out there. Let's go take a look at our nine panel market update charts. We had a little technical issue with regard to visually being able to see these charts out here. And of course, to a certain extent, to understand what the major markets are doing, all you have to really do is tune into the one o'clock update out here because this sort of covers it all. If you take a look at the EES mini, you see that in the upper left hand, we've already covered really the top row with the exception of the spot volatility index. So if the spot volatility index were to close above its 50 day exponential moving average, that's 1779, no indication that that's in play. But it could be, you would want to be, if we did see a close above that level, that would, we would likely see, we might see some type of various reversal candle in the EES mini. We're not there yet, but you want to have that down on your pad of paper as something to watch out for. The US dollar index, we talked about the Russell and the Dow equity future contract, sitting where buyers and sellers are, so too is the US dollar index. So the US dollar index has a new daily profile, the center of which is at $92.98. Price is trading right now at $92.97. You think it's sitting there right at resistance? So the Dow US dollar index hasn't really budged much. Neither has gold, silver has budged, and right now it's trading above the top of its daily profile. The top of the daily profile is $23.89. Now you should also notice in the silver chart, that's the center, that's row number two, and column number three, what you should also see those green lines are the weekly TAS market profiles. That is a bullish TAS market profile. So silver can close above $23.89, its next target is $24.34. And if price can close above $24.34, we're looking at $30 in change as the next move. Like sweet crude, she's headed to $69.39. Steve Rhodes with TFN, we'll be right back. Steve Rhodes started his trading career as a student almost 20 years ago, and the student has now become the master. Steve won the prestigious Timer of the Year Award in 2018, and barely missed that mark again in 2019, finishing at number two for the year, an amazing accomplishment. Steve Rhodes is committed to sharing his techniques and knowledge with anyone who wants to learn, and he shares his vast amount of trading knowledge every day in his Mastering Probability newsletter. Steve's award-winning newsletter, Mastering Probability, is delivered every trading day with updates throughout the afternoon. 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Watch online at TFNN.com or on TFNN's YouTube channel and become the investor you were born to be, TFNN Educating Investors. Call now. Toll free at 1-877-927-6648 internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER>. Welcome back, folks. So let's go to a couple of requests out here. Eddie had a second request, which was to take a look at NVIDIA. So let's get over to our three time frame charts out here. NVIDIA trading above the top of its daily, weekly, monthly profiles. It's a new all-time hire. Basically, yesterday hit a new all-time high out there. So everything here looks hunky dory. Let's go take a look at the white background charts. In the white background charts, what do we see out here? We see prices moving higher with less relative energy. Again, a signal that we've gotten the EES and the NQ. But other than that, that's just beyond the lookout for some type of bearish reversal candle. That is not what today's candle is. And so NVIDIA should continue to move higher. The daily again, no topping pattern that is in place out here. The same is true for the weekly chart. So that looks very good. And as I look at the monthly chart, that looks good as well. So topping signals out here. NVIDIA should continue to move higher. Eddie, I hope that helps you all. Thanks so much for writing in. We had a request for the SMH for Danny from New York out here. So the SMH is Danny's trying to follow the ETF that tracks the semiconductor index out here. So here's what we can share with you at the moment. If we take a look at the daily timeframe out here, the daily timeframe shows that prices run into resistance, resistance where the sellers are at, and that is at the top of their profile. And that level is $263.96. Now, even though price has not been able to take that out, that doesn't mean that you need to sell. And there's also resistance at the top of the weekly profile. So the resistance range inside of the SMHs are $263.96 and $265.85. If price can clear those level, then it's off to the race. There may be another level here for us to take a look at. That level being the titty-nine breakdown area, and that's on the daily timeframe chart. So that's $268.71. So even if price gets above these areas where the sellers are at, there's another round of sellers that are sitting at $268.71 out there. So just simply, and price is above, it's green oscillator and change line, which is one of the reasons why there's no way I can say, hey, sell this out here. I'd have to go to a 30-minute chart and see some kind of breakdown. We don't have that. What would be a breakdown? Well, the first breakdown would be a close below $263.04.  So the SMHs look strong like bull, and there ain't no bull out there. So I hope that helps you out. Danny from New York. The next request coming in from Dan in Boston. So let's go take a look at that. The ticker symbol here is... Can you look at WKEY? We can. Is that Workday? No, that is Wise Key International out there. Wise Key International. Let me get this going on my other set of tools out here. So here's what we know. Beautiful day today. Price is taking out resistance, and so is attempting to, Dan, the top of its barest structured daily profile. So close today, as well as tomorrow, above $7, says we go to the next level. Well, where is the next level out here for WKEY? Right now, from a profile standpoint, that next level would be $8.84. That's the bottom of its weekly profile. So it looks like $8.84 becomes the target. Let's pull over Stevie's white background charts, see what other kind of signal information is out here. And on the daily timeframe, not a zilch, nothing. Bar number five of a TD9 count. That doesn't mean anything to you at this stage here. This says price could be targeting $9.89. $9.89 is where, on a daily basis, WKEY in Cincinnati would tell you about a change in trend. Now that's quite a bit higher. You're at $7.20. But right now, this looks more bueno. If we take a look at the weekly timeframe chart. The weekly timeframe chart shows price is above its oscillator and change line. Danny, I'd like to see a close above $6.90, $6.89, somewhere in that area out here, because that would suggest getting up to that next resistance level of the $8.84 range. I don't think the monthly is going to give us much. It's not. So not much else really for me to do out here for you with regard to WKEY, but it does look like it wants to continue to move higher. So I hope that helps you out. Thanks so much for the request. There were other things that folks in the den were taking a look at. So let me just take a look at a couple of those. They weren't really request out here. One, I believe, is INMB out here. We're just going to look at the white background chart just to provide some additional assistance out here. That additional assistance shows that this instrument, which made a nice TD9 count bottom about a couple of weeks ago, trading inside a bowler-structured profile. You know, when price gets above the center of that, you usually get to the top of the profile. Well, it did that yesterday, and it's taking that level out today. That level is $18.87. Next up for INMB to the upside is going to be 2076. If price can clear that, that says you head back to its all-time high. If we take a look at the weekly chart out here, which had a TD9 count top pulled back, and where did it find support? I don't really see it right. Where it found the bottom was on the daily timeframe when it made that TD9 count. So we know why the bottom is in inside INMB, and it looks like it wants to continue to move higher. The next item that was being discussed, I believe, was Bitcoin. I think that is the August contract. I don't trade Bitcoin, but here what we have right now going on is potentially a Rosemont Demindicator top on the August contract. I'll go ahead and put the September contract up as well. You can see that price has moved higher due to less relative energy. Does that mean sell? Does that mean that Bitcoin is going to crash? No. What it means is Bitcoin is going to get back and likely test that oscillator and change line, which also happens to be the top of its profile. So 46,835 should be a strong level of support if that holds. Then you really have a neutral to bullish signal because key support will have held, but you might have this Rosemont Demindicator top. And if price can take out yesterday's high, 58,535 is the number. If price closes below 46,835, then price can move all the way back to 44,928 or 43021. Let's just see what the September contract here looks like. And give me a moment to, well, don't give me a moment. Let's give the chart. So you've got a similar set of patterns here on the September contract. And 46,915 is likely its downside target. Again, the top of the profile and a green oscillator unchanged line. So that's what's going on inside of Bitcoin. Let's see. Did I get everything that folks were talking about? I hope so. Yeah, I think I did. If I didn't and you have a request, would you be kind enough to go ahead and type that in? Here I'll look for some additional questions. Hector and the fuel injectors. Hector wants to take a look at Newmont mining. NEM is a ticker symbol. And happy a two for Tuesday to you as well.  Really? So let's take a look. Let me get my other charts up here for a Newmont mining as well. Price is now inside of a brand new daily profile that is forming Hector. And as long as price can hold, $57.71, prices trading at $57.73, this would be a signal that price is likely to go target the $59.27 level. But let's take a look a little bit further, a little deeper dive into Newmont mining. What we know about Newmont mining is simply that it has a roadside indicator signal. I don't have a bullish reversal candle per se, but nonetheless prices above the oscillator and change line, it's inside that new profile out there. And so it does suggest that price could continue to move higher out here. Now you may get today's candle might be a little red candle, red body candle. Maybe we get that bullish reversal signal tomorrow. But isn't a dead cat bounce? My, let's take a look at the weekly chart out here, just for the heck of it. I mean, it's got that potential. It most certainly does. However, gold has formed a really nice bottom. I'll tell you what, we'll get back from this breakout of your Hector. I'm going to share with you and everybody else in the listening audience, Sumi and I can find it, a study on gold. And yeah, let me put this into a PowerPoint slide so you can take a look at it. 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When the bars are above zero, it tells you about a directional positive correlation. And when they're below zero, it tells you about an inverse correlation. You can see that gold and the GDX basically trade in the same direction. And if you ask me which one is the dog, which one is the tail out here, I'll tell you that gold is the lead dog. And so the question becomes, did gold form a bottom? Well, there's an A to B equals CD. Let me show you. Let me see if I've got that somewhere here. I know I've got it somewhere. I've just got to be able to find it. And probably right here, I can take a look at this. So here you've got an A to B equals CD. Here's gold, silver, US dollar index. So here, as we take a look at gold, you've got a nice A to B equals CD pattern. This was confirmed with a bullish reversal candle out here. Price is inside its bullish structured weekly profile. The next level of resistance for gold is 1817. And to close above that, 1836-70. Okay, so we've got that established. Let's go take a look at this chart here. This is about 75, 85, 95, 2005, 2015. 45 years, 46 years worth of data. Okay, so that's what we're going to look at as soon as I can get this slideshow going. Slideshow from beginning. There we go. Voila. So this is a chart table, I should say. This table goes back to January 1st, 1975. And what it does is it takes every month since January 1975, all Januarys, all Februarys, all Marches, all April's, May's, June, July, August, September, October, November, December. Hey, pretty cool, huh? That I know all 12 months of the year. What this chart here is doing, this is giving you the odds of closing higher, of gold closing higher by month. And what we can see is, if we go back to 1975, as we enter the July time period, it's well above 50%. And as we get into September, it's a 60% chance.  But right now, I just want to focus on July, August, and September. And the reason that we want to focus on that is because we've got an A to B equal CD on a daily timeframe and on a weekly timeframe. And then when we just simply go ahead and take a look at the seasonality, so to speak, on a monthly basis out here, we know that what gold is doing Hector and Patty is entering the most favorable, the most favorable time period for gold, at least over the last 46 years. So for those reasons, I would say the answer is no. It's not a counter trend. It's not a dead cat, a dead kitty bounce. And instead, it's something more than that. And we should see gold and the mining equities continue to move higher. Now, I say should see. I can't control that. But what we can do is we can do the work to understand whether it's seasonal patterns, then along. Remember, if you get a seasonal pattern, what we're then looking for seasonal patterns as we're moving higher or lower, what we're looking for is some type of topping signal or bottoming signal. And in this case, we got it as Tom likes to say in spades because you got it on the daily and the weekly. So then we go back to where we go back. Let's go take a look at the XAU. Let me get that going out here. XAU and as we take a look at it. So this is going to, as soon as it finishes populating here. So now we take a look at the XAU. Again, we're looking at the sector. You can see we did get the bottoming signal yesterday. Don't pay attention to these profile levels. They're not accurate here for the XAU. So as we take a look at this sector, you can see yesterday's gap to the upside. That rising window was the confirmation of that road's momentum indicator bottom. So we've got a nice bottom pattern in the XAU. We've got it in gold on the daily and the weekly. And we know that July, August and September are the most favorable months for Goldilocks to close higher. Therefore, no, I don't think it is a dead cap. At least the chart patterns, the correlation patterns are really the ones that are signaling it to me. Now I'm sharing with you the exact same evidence. And maybe you've got a different way of interpreting it. If so, that's the beauty of the markets. You've got to take a look at both sides, right? If everybody just simply took a look at both sides of the transaction and we can include all the ongoings on politically and so forth and just everything, if you looked at both sides of the transaction, then you should be able to reach a fairly good consensus conclusion. So Hector, I want you to write me back as I've laid that out to see if in fact that did that or if not, you know what other question you might have or something that you want to throw to me. So I realize that the bounce per se inside of Newmont and its point back in testing support. Again, that's the support of the bottom of that new daily profile that's out there. Maybe it didn't look that great to you, but I think overall it looks like we've got a bottom that should at least last through some time in September out there. You also had a second question. I'll try to be a little less winded with regard to answering that, although you never know.  Well, so that's another great question. And I wish I could give you the answer. Like I'd say in like a 2.30 on October the fourth. Somebody should write that down on a pad of paper. Who knows? It might be. But in this case here with regard to the end queues, they're very likely targeting the 15, 4.38 to 15.500 area. And I'm not saying that that is where they're going to stop. I'm just giving you the next price target. The only thing Hector that gets in the way of that would be some type of bearish reversal candle. Not because of bearish reversal candle would form, but more so because it would go ahead and give us a topping signal. What would be that topping signal? Let me just go ahead and change screens as opposed to dragging stuff all over the place out here. Let's see if Stevie can do this. I know I can do it, but can I do it accurately? Did I do it? I did do it. Okay, that's a bonus start. So Hector, in the upper right-hand side, that's the end queue out here. What you can see is price is moving higher, doing less relative energy. I also, by the way, happen to have a wave number 7 out here, letter G, so we can pay attention to that. But at this stage here, it would really be the bearish reversal candle that would give us that signal of some type of short-term top. Now because the profile, the daily profile levels inside the end queue are way down to 15.141, that could set up a nice little short-term trade. Are we there yet? We are not. And so I am not at all suggesting that that is the market condition. I'm just letting you know that conditions exist, that should we get a bearish reversal candle, that would confirm at least a short-term top. And we'd have to see where price is trading in relationship to any new market profiles that could form. The oscillator and change line, which is at 15.246. So it does look like to me where normally we have a market that moves lower into October. Let me see here. As long as I've got that screen, if you give me a moment, you know, normally I try to be more flowing and more prepared out here. But give me a moment. Let me get this new slide going again. And let me pull over a similar kind of a study. Now you're familiar with the seasonal charts that Stevie does. But this one here is also broken down by month visually. I just want to go ahead. The easiest way for me to do that is to put it into this PowerPoint. Okay, cool. We're going to a breakout here. So as soon as we get back from this break here, we'll go take a look at the Adal. And draw some conclusions. Steve wrote to a TF. 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So this is the normal chart that you are used to seeing when I present it, which is the annual seasonal cycle goes back 86 years. And typically we have a top, the summer top that occurs in the third week of July. We actually did get a summer top that occurred right around then, but that was taken out obviously. And then the market typically moves lower into the middle of October. On average it's around October the 13th. So the thought process here is, and we have seen a handful of significant tops in October. You can go back and take a look out there and you'll see those highs. So the question is, I don't know if the answer is yes or not, but I'm prepared for the possibility that even though I don't like inversions out here, and so I'm not calling this an inversion, is that the market instead of moving lower into October is going to move higher into October. So that's the first chart. That's what you're used to seeing. You can see the data, although I don't go back 86 years here, I only go back to 1970, so we're what? 1970 we're 50 years, 51 years. So you can see here that here's where you typically get a nice, the odds of July closing higher than June. You've got about a 63% chance of that. And then we know that markets typically move lower into the October timeframe, September-October timeframe. So we're approaching here September. And September of all of the months of the year. Now, you probably knew this, but if you didn't, now you can visually see this from 1970. September is the month of the year where only about 35% of the time does the market close higher in September than it did in August. So it could be that what we're about to see is some kind of top take place. I'm not, you know, and we've got those roads with the indicator signals that are out there in the ES and the NQ, and it just says to me, we just simply have to pay attention. So at this stage here, Hector, short of, and to finally answer your question, short of a bearish reversal candle occurring, it appears to me with regard to the A to B equals CD and the consolidation breakout that the NQ should target 438 to 1500 or even higher than that. So I hope that that helps you out, and thanks much for writing in. This next question coming in from, I'm not sure, DBC. DBC is what we'll call this individual. And DBC wants to take a look at PLTR. I think that is Palantir or something like that. So let's go take a look at this PLTR. And Palantir Tech is just simply consolidating, just looking for insights. It's consolidating with inside its daily profile. Today it hit that resistance level, again, where sellers are at. So no biggie, 25, 36, that's the range. It's inside a bullet-structured profile. Only becomes a problem for you if you were to see two consecutive close below 2338. Let's pull over the Palantir charts, the other Palantir charts, see what other signals we have, if anything. Well, might as well just start with the weekly, since that's what this is going to sit on. I don't have anything here in the weekly to assist us with regard to what's going on. Other than it's positive that price has gotten back inside its weekly profile. What you'll be looking for here, DB, is a further rally up to 27 bucks. The question is, can it clear 27? If it can, by the way, that has been an area where the countertrend rallies have stopped. But if price can clear 27, you're looking at 3044 and then 36 bucks. That's on a weekly, so a larger timeframe. On the daily timeframe out here, just looking for any kind of signals of a top, don't have them. Price is just consolidating between support and resistance, and the price can close above 2536. Price should set its sights on 2692. So DB, I hope that that helps you out. Thanks so much for writing in. The next question coming from Joe. Joe wants to take a look at Tillray. T-L-R-Y is the ticker symbol. So let me do this here. Let me get this off the screen. Let me get that going on my other white background chart.  So take a look at Tillray. You say, is Tillray a buy at 1350 for a long position? 1354 is where it's trading at. So what do we know about its market profiles? First, let's start with the monthly. Both the center and the bottom of the profile are at the same level. And that's at 1067. So Joe, if you gave me my preference where it would be a great buy, it would be at that $10.67 level. Price is below the bottom of the weekly profile. So that says, OK, that could happen. However, price has gotten back inside its daily profile. So what I really need to do out here is take a look at Joe, the white background chart. See if there's any kind of bottom signal. And the answer is, there is. There's a Roadsman Dominicator bottom that completed on July 28th. Price has pulled back into this daily profile. And so you've still got that. You still have that bottom pattern in. So it just may be in a consolidation. You're near the bottom of the consolidation, which is right around the 1250-ish level. So yeah, if you want to take a buy, and I'll go look at a short-term timeframe chart, but yeah, I can see that. I know that you've got a battleground at 1412 and one at 1531, but has till reformed a bottom on the daily timeframe? It has. What might it lead to? Maybe a consolidation? Maybe something more than that. But yeah, it's certainly not an A-cell signal. Now, interestingly enough, the weekly, unfortunately, it's not helping us out. You've got a TD nine-count pattern that may form this week. In order for it to form this week out here, price on a weekly basis has to close below 1461. Is that right? Did I say 14? Yeah, 1461. But it also not only does it have to close below that, it needs to spike lower than last week's low.  So I'd love to see a TD nine-count bottom to go along with that Roadsman Dominicator bottom on the daily timeframe. And we don't have that right now. So maybe someone is saying, nope, they're not saying, no, they're not saying that. So let me look at a 30-minute chart out here. We're just looking to see if price is busted through a key level of resistance. It has not. The key level of resistance is 1388. So you're looking at 1350, 1388. I'd rather pay 40 cents more to get that confirmation. So I'd say sit tight. If price closes above that, you can chase it if you want to. But ideally, you'd see Till Ray pull back and create a nice TD nine-count bottom on the weekly timeframe as well. So thanks so much for writing. I hope that helps you out. And let's go out to Denver and speak with Ron. Ron, thanks for calling. Thanks for holding. How are you? Great, Steve. First of all, I wanted to compliment you. I think it was last Thursday.  And I sold some puts and tried to buy some calls, but I missed the calls. But my puts, I sold the 385 for 240. I did a couple of those on the spread. And they expire Friday on Amazon. But anyway, and of course, Amazon now is 3304. And I sold with, what was it, 285s? 2285s. Anyway, I wanted to see what you thought of a STEM, STEM. Sure. Tell us what you're doing here and how I can help you. Well, I'd like to spike some calls and sell some puts on STEM. Okay. I think, I know there's, revenue users really zooming. They do energy storage as they sell. They work for utilities and large corporations. Okay. So let's take a look at STEM. I'm just going to start with the white background chart here for a moment. And you're going to have to hold on because we're going to go to a heartbreak here in just about 15 or 20 seconds. So the question is, do I have some type of bottoming pattern on a daily timeframe? And I don't. That doesn't mean that hasn't bottomed. It just means that I don't have a bottoming signal. And price right now is at resistance, which is at 2447 basically, which is where price is trading. So do me a favor, Rod. Hold on. We'll come back from this break. We'll use the last two minutes to rip apart STEM, S-T-E-M. Steve Rhodes with TFN and Ron and Denver. We'll both be right back. Sharpening your skills as an investor is like getting better at playing a musical instrument. You have to practice, sure, but you also need excellent instruction from experts. At TFNN, you'll get advice and guidance from the authority in technical market analysis. And it's not just dry, tedious text either. TFNN airs live financial content streamed live on TFNN.com and TFNN's YouTube channel with Tiger TV, live every market day from 8.30 a.m. to 4.00 p.m. Eastern. For free, each host is an experienced trader and gives their take on the market while taking calls and questions live from around the world. 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Don't forget, you can listen to TFNN live on your mobile device 24 hours per day. Go to TFNN.com and hit Watch Tiger TV. That's TFNN.com. Then hit Watch Tiger TV. Welcome back, folks. So we're going to be taking a look at STEM in a moment here. But, Ron, on this chart here, I just wanted you to understand and, you know, it was a very kind compliment with regard to Amazon, but it was really the chart pattern that was the one that was generating that bottom signal inside of Amazon last Thursday. That was a TD9 count. And then the following session, a bullish structured daily profile to suggest that price should make its way to $33.21, $33.58. So we had the patterns going for us. I had mentioned before we went to the break that inside of STEM, I don't have that pattern on the daily time frame. And so, you know, price right now is trading into potential resistance, the top of its daily profile, $24.43. You're about $0.10 above it. Even if price closes above this level, it's not clear to me whether it's going to be able to take out the down draft from August 12th. So it may just be, you're looking at getting to $25.87. That's likely not going to set up a good trade. Maybe price could get all the way down up to $26.64. But without having any kind of real patterns in place out here, I struggled to try to find a similar type of a good trade for you. Does that make sense? Yeah, I appreciate it very much. And Amazon at the time was $31.85, and that's how I sold the puts. I bought a $31.80 to cover it. And I got $240. It expires Friday. So as long as the stage is above $31.85, I make $240 times two. Yeah, Amazon should continue to move higher. Again, it's resistant. So in STEM, I'd be disingenuous if I could come up with something there for you. I'm just not into doing that. So with regard to Amazon, $33.21.51. So you're not that far away from resistance there. And I don't know where the price will clear at the top of that profile or not. It could hit it and then pull back a normal retracement. So just keep that in mind on that trade as well. Ron, always good to hear from you. Thanks so much for calling in. And folks, stay tuned. We've got two more great hours left. Your favorite polar bear, David White, power trading hour. He's up next. Time for Brian to take us on home. I'll be back with you on wonderful Wednesday. Have a terrific Tuesday, folks.


Boom, what's up everyone? Welcome to Simulation. I'm your host, Alan Sokian. Very excited. We are still doing interviews at COFA as the Congress on the future of engineering software for our second annual partnership with them. We are now sitting down with Linda Locke. Hello. Hello. Thank you for coming on to our show. We really appreciate it. Thank you for having me. I'm excited. Yay! We are very excited to have Linda on our show. She has 30 years in engineering software experience. She's now the VP of Product Management at PTC. She's very focused on generative design. We're gonna be talking about this digital transformation for competitive advantage and so much more. Linda, before we get there, let's talk about you. How did you even get involved in engineering software? How did this get picked up in your life, just about it? Well, you know, I didn't start out expecting to be in engineering at all. I originally started just with a passion for languages and at a certain point, some teacher, my calculus teacher, basically said, you just have a natural aptitude for math and science. You should do something with it. And he got me introduced into a summer program for electrical and computer engineering. And I hated the electrical, but I loved the computer engineering aspects. And so that was the aha moment to say, I need to go to school and, you know, focus on the computer, ultimately computer science aspects. And, you know, great, great time. I actually worked under a professor who came out of IBM Research, out of the Kipsey Lab, and really took me under his wing. And I happened into this thing called CAD at the time. And, you know, my first job was to work with a Russian mathematician named Pavel Rabinke. He couldn't write code, but he could produce these amazing algorithms for wire harness bending. And it was my job to work with him to basically translate it into something real. And he was great to work with. And what really got me hooked into the engineering space was I was, besides the wire harness, I also worked in graphics. And I actually got a defect from General Motors for a car design, which was about five years before you'd see it in the market. And I just loved the body style. And it was just so exciting to go. I can work in a space where I get to make a difference and work with people who design these really cool things. That was kind of the beginning of getting into the industry. Shout out to your calculus teacher, because that is a big deal to have that tiny bit of mentor help push. I see you have good skills here. If you thought about this, go to the summer camp, take these. Those little pushes from mentors can open so many doors for a powerful career. It's so fascinating how important that is. Then it's also cool how you had these moments of working with the Russian mathematician and just being able to really see that you wanted to be a part of building things into the world, designing things into the world. And so then what about these milestones that came in your journey, these aha moments of, okay, I'm looking at CAD, I'm looking at picking up some of these new skill sets in engineering software. Where did you kind of see things trending towards and what were you achieving in that process? It was an interesting journey along the way, because it was a transformational time going from that initial opportunity with Computer Vision to my first startup company, which was PTC or at the time it was Parametric Technology Corporation. And to actually go there, that the industry was transforming in terms of the actual computer technology. Of course, PTC is known for revolutionizing the CAD industry with parametric based modeling. At the time, I won't be so wise as to say I understood what we were doing and how transformational it was going to be, but to just be part of a team, to be able to do that, the company IPO'd. And through that I was in the R&D group. And teach us about parametric based modeling. So being able to define features and to control those features with parameters, so if you have a height and now you can just change the height and the model readjusts. Readjusts, interesting. All the other variables will follow suit. Appropriately. And to expand it to features, it gives me pause because it's so part of what computer-aided design is today that I really have to stop and say what's parametric? Because the whole industry has adopted parametric based design. But you can think about, you know, you create drafts and cuts and slots and all the terminology that is used in the industry and how to represent those features and control the features where prior to that you were talking about cones and spheres and boom and operations. So a true advancement for sure. Yeah, yeah. Okay. And then the IPO happened. The IPO happened.  At the time, in addition to the CAD system, what was then called PDM, product data management, was also coming to the fore because you create all of these models. How do you manage change control and such? And so it's the precursor to what we know as PLM today. And while all of those transitions were happening, I got to a point where there was the realization of more technology change in the hardware, in the operating systems. So at that point, what was it called? I can't remember. Windows came out with their platform. I forget what it was. But basically there was a transformation moving from all these Unix-based systems to the Windows platform. And with that, some of us saw that there was an opportunity to have a lower cost solution fully capable of what CAD systems were capable of at the time, but at a much lower price point. At that time, the price points were probably $70,000 per unit or higher until you bought your hardware, licensed the software, and depending on kind of the extent of software. So very high priced systems.  And then the answer ultimately was I left there to join the next startup, which was SolidWorks. And, you know, I was employee number 10 at SolidWorks working with John Herschdick and, you know, Mike Paine and company to build a parametric based system. It wasn't revolutionary. It was really evolutionary because the underlying technology allowed you to build the system and sell it for $5,000 per seat. And it took a few years until the capabilities were advanced enough to substantially start replacing some of the larger players. And the target really was small, medium-sized companies. In the course of doing that, of course, we were acquired by Desso system. You know, that was a big shift for the industry because, of course, they had Katia. So, you know, how to, how to manage two systems. And, you know, they did a very good job about segmenting to position Katia for that high end. You know, when you think of aerospace and some of the high demands and, you know, automotive, those cars that I love, the body designs and, you know, very advanced requirements. And SolidWorks was focused small to medium-sized businesses.  Probably my favorite part of SolidWorks was I had the opportunity to move to Cambridge, England to basically build what was initially planned to be a new R&D facility for the team. I was given keys to a house and told go, go build it. So, it's that startup sort of environment with the protection of the umbrella of, you know, the parent company SolidWorks. And a new beautiful place in the world. It was awesome. Cambridge was such a wonderful experience and, you know, to go, it literally started that startup environment. I had a house, I had people before I had an office. So, the guys would come to the, to my kitchen table and they would work there every day.  You're throwing ragers all the time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, good fun. Good fun. Hey, neighbors, we've started a technology company in our neighborhood. Right, right.  So, you know, very quickly found, found an office for, for the team in Cambridge and spent two years really building up the team, focused on the R&D aspects, and then ultimately helping out the, the European group. I'll call it secondary, like marketing support and such, so that we could be a focal point and then distribute things and out to, to the rest of Europe. So, fabulous, fabulous opportunity, you know, to, to just grow a team. Yeah. And then the team was, was very good, very productive. And that tie back to Pavel, where I started, a big part of the responsibility was routed systems, cabling, wire harnessing, piping systems. Yeah, yeah. So, you know, in a sense, she came full circle. So, so that was awesome. So, you were actually a big expander of solid works into Europe, then that location was kind of a funnel of getting solid works into more locations in Europe. From, the primary focus was, was R&D. I mean, there, there was a whole separate group, you know, of course, sales and, and marketing and such. So, you know, we were supports, because R&D of like the Cambridge intellect into, into what solid works knew how to do. Right. Okay. You know, part of, part of the reason to, to actually go to Cambridge is not, and some of the, the skills that we were looking for, they weren't always easy to find anywhere in the world. And not everybody, believe it or not, not everybody wanted to move to the Boston area. Yeah. Right. Yeah. And you add on top of that the whole visa issue and, you know, and trying to work through, I mean, the visa issue has only gotten worse. Easier for you to set up shop there than for them to come to. Exactly. Exactly. Interesting. And, you know, so, you know, different requirements, much easier for, for Europeans to, to be moving around, you know, the flexibility at the EU. Yeah, yeah, sure. So you don't have to have visa requirements. And, you know, we had teams from India and they, they could stay longer on, you know, just a normal entrance visa as opposed to having to get the equivalent of like an H1B here in the U.S. So, you know, we had an Indian group and they would come spend time to ramp up and learn the systems and such. And we could do that in the UK easier than trying to get everybody to Boston. So it was really a need to go find talent.  Did it start in Boston or did it start in Cambridge? So if you talk to the people in Cambridge, they will say it, it was founded in, in Cambridge. If you talk to people in Boston, it was founded there. So. Interesting. If you talk to people in, in Cambridge, they say that Silicon Valley is the West Coast Cambridge. And if you talk to people in Silicon Valley, we say that Cambridge is the East Coast Silicon Valley. Yes, there's this, this is funny jokes because they're both very, very powerful centers of, of strong, of technology development. So, so what was, what was that, what was that about? I haven't heard of the Boston versus Cambridge debate between where CAD. Wow. Yeah. Now this predates me. So I just know more of the stories. There are people, you know, still around in the industry who actually lived those times. But there was a place in Cambridge called the CAD Center. And I believe it was an offshoot from Cambridge University. But you know, don't take that as fact.  And the other aspect is around the geometric modeling. So PTC, at the time, we had built our own geometry engine. The other geometry engine really came out of Cambridge at the time. So now if you think of Siemens, Siemens has a geometry engine called Parasolid, came out of Cambridge, England. There was also ASUS, which was created later than Parasolid, but I think fundamentally the same, same core resources available in Cambridge. So ASUS, which is actually a Colorado based company called Spatial, which was acquired by Deso. They had, they had their origins in Cambridge, England as well. So when you think of, you know, really the geometry engine is the heart of a CAD system. You had, you know, what's now called Granite, part of PTC, was built in Boston, but precursors to that were built in Cambridge. So this knowledge, this technology, you know, on the Boston side there, there was Computer Vision, Prime Technology. You know, they were, you know, the companies that started in Boston about the same time as the CAD Center was happening in the UK, hence the competing years. But those all predate me. This is, this is always, it's always an interesting thinking about which areas of the world are, are innovating concurrently on similar edge science or technology and who's, and who's bringing it forth, who claims, kind of like CRISPR-Cas9 to a little bit of like, you know, there's always interesting things like that. All right, now what about post-solid works up until PTC most recently? So post-solid works, I had worked for a company at the time that was called Raindrop Geomagic, more commonly known as Geomagic, Ping Fu, who was well known in the industry, had headed up that company. So I had worked with Ping in North Carolina for a while, and from there I had actually moved to Spatial Technology, which is component-based software, selling software components and of course selling ASUS, which is why I know ASUS so well. And that's what moved me to Colorado because that's where the company was based. And I came with the Dassault acquisition of Spatial, so Dassault had recruited me back to, it was actually a shift for me because up until that point, my primary function was always R&D. With Spatial, I actually transitioned over into sales and marketing. And a lot of people go, well, why did you make the jump? And what was easy and natural was because it was software components that we're selling, so who are we selling to? We're selling to heads of R&D to help them solve their problems. So I can speak their language, I understand their problems, and having been at SolidWorks, licensing Parasolid, I was a consumer of component technology. So I just flipped sides in the conversation, so it was very easy to transition. That's another one of the reoccurring themes of the conversations from the interviews that we've had is to be able to have both a technical understanding and a business understanding on how to build rapport and how to get into technical details. That's such an important melding. I mean it was a great learning ground, especially the sales aspects, because there's creativity in software, there's a different creativity in sales. And to learn the standard phrase out of the box thinking. We encourage everybody to think out of the box. It's kind of an old phrase now, but I found I was trying to put the sales people back in the box. Help me think. So it was great learning, great opportunity. I actually left the industry for a while and branched out. You were just surfing somewhere. Not quite, but I can honestly say at that point I was still a startup junkie. Spatial, while I was there the first time around, I was at Spatial twice. The first time around it was about taking the company back to profitability, and stabilizing ASIS because the company was struggling, which allowed the opportunity for the acquisition. So to do the culture change, the technology, writing it, holding on to the customers while you're going through that transition, fascinating challenges, definitely the hardest job I've ever had. Startups like SolidWorks, so rewarding, hard work, but when you're trying to change culture, it's one of the hardest jobs I've ever had. Most rewarding. Yes, when you see this, when you can see people recognize that they're successful. Thanks to your real hardcore hustle along with so many other people of building out tools and getting them out to the right people and them smiling when they use it. This is very important. So how about this massive digital transformation for competitive advantage? This is PTC's tagline, and I mean there is a massive digital transformation happening with engineering software, but it is in many ways it does end up giving the ones that take on these the engineering software tools that are at the edge, that are at the newest, that are the ones that are providing the most value, they're the ones that then gain the advantage over in terms of how fast they can iterate on creativity, how well their design's function in the world. So teach us about what it's been like being a part of the culture that is PTC. So to be fair, I haven't been back at PTC for very long, so in terms of the culture so far I love what I'm experiencing, very high energy and to see the breadth of the portfolio, being traditionally more in that CAD, PLM sort of space, with Spatial I used to see a wide variety of technology offerings, but to see PTC really taking it with VRAR and IoT and I'll say stretching and being able to provide solutions on the edge while still having that core based in the CAD PLM space. It's as I'm learning more about how all the systems are connected. It's fascinating and I'm so impressed with what they've been able to accomplish because I'll just leave it at that. I'm learning about what especially the IoT is an area that I'm very interested in relative to generative design because of course my coming to PTC is through the frustum acquisition and so for us generative design is a paradigm shift for the industry. We're still in its infancy, there's still a long way to go to get to the full value for engineers, but I can see the potential as you look at the information that's going to be available from be it IoT or as the PLM systems are capturing data and part of generative is how can we leverage AI or machine learning trying to get clarity of what would be the opportunities and the specific technologies that we need to use to be able to leverage all of that information in order to better inform your designs. Yes, it's almost as though the human capability to run all of the permutations on what would be the optimal function given a certain amount of specifications is just nowhere near the capacity of AI's ability to do that. So to now be able to leverage generative design just to run all of the possibilities given the parameters that we have, what is the optimal function and what does it look like and then what would it be like to manufacture that where we need to source the materials from it's just it ends up being a very interesting part of the future generative design out of manufacturing it just seems like a general intelligence constantly being able to iterate on itself which is exciting in many ways. I'm ready for Star Trek. I'm very ready. But the one thing to keep in mind is it's not just about things like additive manufacturing and you know this is it's applicable for the manufacturing processes and the traditional ones casting forging you know milling all of those so that the generative process can provide that the options the key part which I think you said is optimal solutions because it's great the technology is out there now so you have the compute resources you know you have the storage resources all of that sort of stuff it's becoming less and less expensive to leverage all of that but in the end what you need are the optimal designs so there's little value to throw 10,000 options at an engineer and say which ones would you like and the other challenge is as you set up the problems and to we still have to answer how to properly set up the problem because you can solve it'll solve successfully but if you didn't set it up properly your your system is going to fail as as you tested further downstream so you know that's why I say there's still there's still a lot to learn and a key part as as we look at it is we need to make sure that the human is still the driver in the process so it's great we have some autonomous computations happening but the feedback is hugely important to say is it headed where I expect it to go can I change in the midst of this you know in order to refine my solution and so on and of course as we go through the whole generative process you get to you know offer up here's your three four six ten optimal solutions now what do you do with that and you know that's that's where if I look at PTC's portfolio especially around the CAD space and their partnership with with the ANSIS to to take the information and then take it back into the workflow so that they can be looking at the simulation live and do that validation and ultimately final analysis type validation and you know to to say yes yes our our optimal choices are meeting all of the criteria so generative gets you there faster but you can't skip those steps it's still hugely important yeah and to follow all of those those other steps so teach us about the order of of operations here so does the do the do we get the 10 generative designs first and then we go through the ANSIS simulation live and then we get validated is that the order right okay so then the simulation live tests the 10 generative designs right for functionality for like forces sure yeah okay it's ability to perform as it yeah as we hope right and then you may choose just to have one versus the ten and you know that's where we leave it up to the engineer what and they they do initial exploration in in the generative process and ultimately they're they're they're they're trying to drive to the one solution so I mean would I expect them to take 10 maybe not you know maybe two or three into the simulation live and you know to continue with their validation and go downstream from there so this is so interesting because if the if the if the how does how does the generative designs how do they get entered into the ANSIS simulation live like I'm very interested in how it kind of like ports over and how it you know runs that simulation how does it like how does it compute that so I mean that's that's a big part of what we're working through right now if you look at generative systems today and this includes frustum you know at at the point of the acquisition we were all independent tools and and one of the barriers to adoption is how do you plug back into the ecosystem on the front end and the back end right so how do you take your your CAD model be it a part or an assembly sub assembly whatever bring it into the system that first part is is fairly straightforward you know and the CAD systems and the industry kind of has that figured out and we can figure out how to bring all of that information in you know so now when you do your design space exploration and you're setting up your loads and constraints and and so on you solve and you have something which is not not geometrically compatible with any of the traditional CAD systems so part of the challenge is for for us to figure out how to have then the generative representation it's it's more than coexist but how to integrate it back into the workflows and you know and it's it is one of those barriers to adoption and you know one of them that you know of course we have to to work with the the rest of the team and within ptc to to solve that problem because ideally you don't want to have to take the model if we solve the geometry parts which is a complex problem and you still want to be able to not have to set up your problem all over again as you take it into discovery life right so how can we make it an a seamless experience for for for the user and you know while while that's the the view as as I see it of of what we need to accomplish inside of ptc for any system to to be successful they have to be able to to solve that compatibility problem and you know it's no different than um well even um even external systems um you know you have to develop that integration so if if you're a uh an on-shape how how does on-shape plug into a downstream analysis there's some sort of integration that that has to happen and the more seamless you can make that the better the experience for the user yeah yeah yeah the the more frictionless the user experiences and the more it enables maximal creativity for engineering that this is going to be on leak a lot unlocking a lot of creative potential who are the most common users right now because we know a lot of like first robotics kids are using ptc um who are the most who are the most common um use cases right now for um for both the generative design as well as the ANSAS simulation live which um I mean I I can't really say for the ANSAS simulation live uh you know because this goes to um you know my my knowledge coming into you know into the group but uh from from a generative perspective there's there's actually been a challenge for generative because um if you look at the industry they're they're um just go look at a set of of websites and um various companies will have this what is generative design and the definitions are all over the map and you know generative design is topology optimization generative design is genetic algorithms generative design is fully autonomous um so you know the first question is what is generative design and um you know it's it's still something that needs clarification there's and I look at it as there's there's generations or steps to generative design where you have something like topology optimization it's a tool that generative um utilizes in order to provide results um you know there are people who think generative is only for additive because of course uh that the lattice structures and even with your topology optimization you can get those those star track kind of shapes you know the space future shapes um and or the whole lattice structure so by uh by associativity people think that's what generative is for and additive is just one possible manufacturing process that you know generative can provide solutions for it comes back to you can do the casting milling um forging and and so on um so if if I look at you know pre-acquisition who the early adopters were primary interest was around lattice structures and it's the research groups in engineering organizations who are trying to figure out how did they get lighter weight the material science right okay and so how it's it's the research organizations to try and learn and understand what can they do um you know be it with the the new materials uh you know you think of uh like an Airbus for example Airbus GE they're the the companies that are at the forefront in the news uh around additive and so they they do rely on generative in order to help provide solutions for them but we come back to we have uh other opportunities where it's basic they have a manufacturing problem they need to solve so um you know an interesting aspect is to think about say costing you know I need to to build my widget whatever that widget is uh and you know I have different material options um I may have only certain uh you know machine options so those are are variables that I want to take a look at to figure out how do I get the most cost effective and okay maybe I want then I want to use the least amount of material um so what are those constraints that you want to put into the system in order to to produce the optimal design so generative and this is why it's so transformational as as we work through um this whole variety of use cases it will allow um the the user to again figure out optimal designs based on what they what they have what they know uh so it's not just about the the loads that you put on it it long term as as generative comes to um it's it's more mature state and you can then say um I only have these materials you know I want the lowest cost uh and and so on so yeah it it's part of the design process right yeah it's it's important that that the way that you're you know identifying that it's such an early time in in in the in the definitions that we are a little all over the place and that soon it it'll maybe all of them will kind of all the definitions will kind of bundle together into into a one that that encompasses that but the the enhanced creative experience with um generative design and the way you're describing it it's just it's it's a me it's a massive part of engineering software now will will you um speak to where you feel as though um so much of the engineering software trends are pointing towards hmm there's various trends and you know it's being being here at cofez and and that the digital twin is um you know is that or the digital thread I should say and you know is it seems to be the all-encompassing um targets for for companies and so that would mean a digital thread would mean so the the well honestly I'll say that's that's part of the challenge yeah you know what is the definition of digital thread just like what is the definition of generative design the digital thread again it's like it's like combining everything that's being discussed at cofez into one thing and it seems that way it seems that way yeah you know so how do you how do you take that the advances that are happening and you know how do you uh as as you're going through say the entire lifecycle process um you know how how does plm evolve to relate to it and you know of course as as I look at the iot you know all of that information and you know the performance information uh how does that tie back into the the digital thread yeah um so uh yeah yeah it's in the ar right there's so many of these of these components and simulations um and then what would you say is a main principle or skill that we should have children and and adults develop into the 21st century hmm just one skill that's a fantastic question i mean i i start in our inherent nature has to to to first be um in inquisitive continuous learning and it's it's at the foundation and you know so from from there yes and you know the the sciences are are so important and you know as as my children have grown and you know they they all had the the computer programming courses and you know my daughter um she's um she does art animation and she kept saying why why do i need that there are people who who do the coding i just want to use the solution it's like no you know if you have that basic understanding imagine how you can influence control and so many of the software solutions are or your phone apps and you know you can change them if you have those basic concepts and so you don't have to be the the the power developer uh you don't have to be the power mathematician but these you know to have that firm foundation across the sciences and just helps you as you're interfacing because and if i take it out of this space we're touching digital everywhere so you know it is just part of our life it be it's um you know trying to trying to work your cell phone uh somebody trying to tune in the basketball game from from yesterday you you have to know uh and have a basic comfort with the the technologies that are there and so it just becomes foundational and it doesn't matter that you're an artist versus an engineer but a basic foundational understanding it kind of reminds me a lot of this base camp of knowledge that and that we're really aiming to try and make more common in our in our culture is to get people to the business the base camp understanding of of what's happening where we came from what you know who we are where we were planning to go how we get there how we problems to solve and then rock it out to the edge if you want which edge do you want to go through of knowledge right you know you know so so do we cover everything well do you feel like there's something else that you would like to maybe end with discussing or do we wrap pretty well no i think yeah i think we covered a lot wonderful wonderful this is great this is such a pleasure thank you so much for joining us on the show thank you it's a pleasure there's a lot to still um to understand and and i'm really grateful that you were able to to drop these these these powerful wisdoms on us about about what's going on in the industry and where we're heading thank you thank you thanks everyone for tuning in we greatly appreciate we'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments below let us know what you're thinking go and share these wisdoms around with your communities with your families your friends online go and share them around also check out linda's links below check out the links to cofe as below as well check out simulations links below as well support the artists and entrepreneurs that you believe in help us scale help us grow and go and build the future manifest your dreams into the world thank you so much for tuning in and we will see you soon 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