Yeah, hello. I have to apologize for my voice. I'm sick till a few days. And so if you don't understand me, just ask me to repeat the sentence. Yeah, I'm talking about scalable actual graphics or SVG. And as I have in the subline, it's not just images. And I will show you where you can use SVG. And they are not really images. A quick overview. My name is Bernard Kau. I'm living in Berlin, Germany now. I'm a PHP developer. Since a year I'm also like professional WordPress developer and I develop some plugins myself.  I'm quite good transferring an image like from Photoshop to CSS and HTML. And that's why I learned many things also about SVGs. I'm also the organizer of the Berlin WordPress meetup group and I have a block in two languages on Cowboys and that's my Twitter handle. Okay, let's start with scalable vector graphics. What is it? As the name says, it's a graphic, at least most of the time. It's a vector format. And it's scalable. So at last, without any loss of quality. Technically, it's an XML file. So it's code, actually. And that's why I like them. To be honest, most of the time when I work with SVG images, I'm using a text editor to change the color of something like this. It's way easier for me and also like my text editor starts in milliseconds, whereas illustrator takes a moment. And I also don't understand anything about illustrator. So how does a SVG image looks like in code? It looks something like this. You have an SVG tag, an opening tag, and then you have some namespacing, things that you have a size. And here you have a rectangular with a color, a fill color, and some height and width. And you have a circle with another color. Can anybody tell me what that might be from seeing the code? It's a wide rectangular and that's a red circle. It's the flag of Japan. So quite easy. And that's only those few lines of code is a scalable image of the flag of Japan and you can scale it up to any size. And it doesn't grow if you show it like 5,000 by 4,000 pixels. It's still those few lines of code. Okay. Let's have another example. Maybe someone can guess what this is. It's three rectangles, two whites, one red. And that's somehow like opposites in width and height. Any guesses? No? No one from Swiss here? So sometimes when you look at the code you can really tell, okay, which part of the image should I have to change to change, let's say, this rectangular. Okay, a little more advanced, someone? No. Okay. Here we see something different. It's a path. So it's not like a circle or a rectangular. It's a path. And this is very weird stuff. So I don't know how to write that myself. So then I use something like illustrate or escape to deal with path. And that's like so the one from Funkin, they know what it is. So how can you use an SVG? You can use it as an SVG image. And the easiest thing is to just use an image tag, as you would do with a PNG or JPEG or a GIF or something else. So even some developers don't know they can just use an image tag. But an SVG is just an image format. So you can just use an image, which also has the ability to add an alternative tag or a title or some other CSS inline slides. Then you can also use an object tag to include it. That has the need feature. If you have to have some backward compatibility, then you can just use an ordinary image tag inside of the object. I just realized that should be PNG, not SVG, because otherwise the fallback, let's say you have an old browser and you have to support some fallback. If it doesn't support an SVG, then you can just have something inside the object. It can be an image. It can be a text saying your browser does not support SVG or something like that. But in this case, it shouldn't be an SVG. You can also use a picture element, which also has some fallback features. So usually with the picture element, you can use multiple sources, source tags. And then you can also have an image tag. So usually the browser takes the first thing he understands, and even if a browser doesn't understand the picture element altogether, it would fall back to the image tag. You can also use it as a background image in CSS. So you just reference it as any other image. Then with using it as a background image, some of you might know the technique using data UIs for including images into CSS, so that the browser doesn't have to download the file, but instead only gets like a base 64 encoded string. But actually because SVG is a text format, you can just use the SVG in the data UI. But because an SVG might have some brackets and colons and things like that, you should probably URL encode the SVG. And some of the libraries you might use for pre-processing CSS like less or sus, they have functions to turn an image or an SVG into such a data UI. So you don't even have to produce the code yourself. And it's a very neat feature to include many images into your CSS without having the browser to download additional files. And we come to why that's important on some of the other sites. The last thing you can do is just include the SVG into the HTML straight away. Because it's an XML format, you can just put the SVG code into your HTML. So in this, I just use a diff and then I drop the code inline. You have to be aware, you should not include the XML version. And for accessibility reasons, you can also add a title which describes the image when you inline. Because you don't use an image tag, you can use alt attribute. So in this case, you can use a title or even a description which has a longer description of what the image chose. So why should you use SVG? I hope it's clear from this picture set. Like this is what the flag would somehow look like on a device with a pixel ratio of three if you don't have a larger size of the image for those devices. And SVG is just as clear as on any size screen. Also, WordPress now has those responsive images features producing something like this which is pretty much code. And with SVG, it's just one image tag without any source sets and no additional images. And all the browsers that understand SVG, they only download those this one file. So it's much less code. So speaking about browser, how is the browser support of SVG? That's probably one of the things you want to know. It's not easy to see. So this is EA8. And this is Android 2.3. So if you have to support some of those browsers, you need some fallbacks. And there are different fallbacks depending on which technique you use to include the images. So there's a fallback for almost all of them. Most of them don't require any JavaScript. Some of them require JavaScript, especially like the picture element. But most of them just work with plain HTML. But then you have to produce those images as a pixel graphic in a program. So as I said before, an SVG is not just images. So usually, you think of images. It's also a web font format. So you have the Vof, TTF, OTF format. And also SVG is one of the formats you can use for web fonts. That's also quite neat because when you have something, let's say like glyph icons or like font awesome, you can just take the SVG format of the font and just open it up in a text editor. And then you see all the glyphs as a tag. And you can just copy paste the SVG out of the font. And then you might use something like Illustrator or other programs to just re-format the thing or colorize the things. I won't go into detail how to use it as a web font format because it should be obvious. It's also a very good replacement for web icon fonts in general. And I come to that in detail in the next slide, why it's superior to using an icon font. It's also a way to create image maps. So some of you might know from the old days there was something like a map tag with area text and you can have a picture and have some click of the areas. For that you can use SVG as well because you can link individual parts of the SVG. And they are also responsive and very sharp. And I also explained this later. And also you can use it as a container for CSS filters. That's something I only learned like three weeks ago and it's really weird what you can do with SVG images as CSS filters. So SVG as an icon font replacement. Why should you use images in an SVG format rather than an icon font? Which also like a font usually is a vector graphic. So they are scalable. But there are some issues with icon fonts in general. So the one thing is rendering. Because an icon font is a font, the browser might do weird things like anti-analyzing. Or like something like, yeah. Sometimes some browsers show fonts larger than others. So like surviving browsers, they used to make some text more bold than others, things like that. That doesn't happen with an SVG because it's just an image. And it just shows as it is. Then also CSS control. I mean, what can you do with an icon font? You can change the size. You can change the color. But that's it usually. You can't just say, okay, I want to have this part of the icon in this color and this part of the icon in that color. But you can do that with CSS and SVG. So you have those standard font properties. But you also have CSS for SVG. So every like on the previous slide, I showed you like the rect and circle and things like that. And you can just use a CSS file and using the rect or circle as your selector in your CSS file. And you can add classes to those tags in the CSS file and then style those things with CSS. And you can also do things like animations or hover states or things like that. Because it's just an XML file, you can add CSS properties to it. You can do very crazy things. And also like coloring different parts of the image in different colors. It's quite easy. Or having like a hover state with a different color, usually with an icon font, that's not easy to do. Then also positioning. When you want to position an icon font, you have to deal with things like line hate, vertical alignment, letter spacing, word spacing and things like that. So everyone who ever used an icon font and having issues, having it like vertically aligned to the text next to it, they know what I'm talking about. And SVG is just an image and you can just align it quite easily. Then there are also loading issues, which can really be a problem. Like there's the so-called cart headers. And that's when you have like the images from another domain, then your browser might block them if the headers in the response are not set correctly. They just block the thing because it might have some malicious code in it. So even like a web font can be malicious to your site. And like the content type is an issue. So if you don't have the right settings in your Apache or engine X and you send a web file format and you doesn't have declared the content type, then the browser might not be able to read the file. And then usually you use something like font awesome from a CDN.  And with SVG it's just an image file and you usually host it on your own site. Then also like some weird issues like proxy browser such as Oprah Mini, they might not load it or users might have some overrides for fonts. Let's say some users, they don't like all those fancy web fonts. They're saying I always want to use Helvetica or Times on every website I see and then they would also overwrite your icon font and they wouldn't see an icon. And then, yeah, some might just block custom fonts because with an icon font you usually want to produce your own custom icon fonts if you don't want to have those 500 glyphs and you only use five of them. So then you produce your own custom fonts and they might be blocked as well because the browser doesn't trust them. Yeah. And with SVG even proxy browsers, for them it's just an image so they just load it or pre-render them. Then also semantics. So usually when you use an icon font, you use like a span or an eye attack as like font awesome suggests or you use some pseudo elements in CSS and that's really bad. I mean, semantically that's not what it is. It's not a span. It's not an italic text. It's an image. So it should be an image. And also that comes to accessibility. So let's say you have an eye attack with some text in it. So one symbol and a screen reader might read or might try to read it. I mean, there are some utf-8 spaces where you usually put those glyphs but you might put them in some other spaces and then a screen reader might try to read them, which is not nice. And as I said before with an SVG you can use things like a title or description or even like those area labeled by attributes to really make them accessible and even complex things like image maps. That's really nice. Then also the ease of use. So with an icon font you can produce your own icon fonts. There are some great online platforms where you can just produce your icon font but usually you use a very big icon font with hundreds of glyphs and just take some of them because for most users it's so hard to produce online. And then also when you have to add new icons you have to recreate the icon font and have to download it and upload it again. And with an SVG, especially when you're using data, your eyes are just adding another line of code. And also like changing something, like a color. It's quite easy. The browser support might be an issue. With web fonts, even IE6 supports web fonts. Maybe not all formats but they support web fonts, funny enough. And as I mentioned with SVG, it's not working in IE8 or in Android lower than 2.3 so you have to have some fallback mechanism if you really have to have those browser support. Like with image maps we once had a project. They want to have an image map but they had to have IE8 support because like it was a German governmental thing which not the newest versions. And so I had to produce a fallback regular map with areas like the old way and using a PNG as a background image. Which I found a script that auto generates from the SVG the area map which was quite nice. But it's more worked to be done. When you want to know more about SVG as an icon font replacement, last week I was in London at the WordCamp and there was a very good talk about SVG as a replacement on icon fonts and all the extra things. Like also things like animations and all that stuff. So let's see how you can use SVG for something like an image map. So here you see a German map and here you see some part of the SVG. So you have the SVG, the star, the viewbox. And then you have a G tag with an ID and then inside it you have a path that's like two ring and that's like the path. It's very long. And like here the stroke and stroke width and things like that. And then you just surround it with an A tag. You all know. But you can't just use ref and title. You have to use x-link colon ref and x-link colon title. But that's all you have to do. And then you have something like this. When you hover during it, you see the title and when you click it, you refer in this case to the sub page Turing. It's as easy as that. So when you have any SVG and you want to make some areas clickable, just surround that by an A tag using the x-link ref and maybe x-link title and then it's clickable. You should, like when you want to do it correctly, you should also add the x-link namespace. I think most browsers would still work if you don't add it, but just for completeness at the namespace also. And then to the last point, which is really, really awesome what you can do, you can use them as SVG filter containers, I would call it. So you have an SVG and you have maybe many filter tags inside. And you have an ID for every filter. And in this case, I'm having a color matrix. I don't know exact how the math behind the color matrix works. It's really complex mathematics. But you can use an SVG for many of those filters. There's also like Gauss filters or things like that to make something blurry. And then you can use them like in two ways. You can either use them when you add the SVG inline into your HTML. You just use like this selection. So you have the ID and you just select the ID. Or you can use an external SVG file and just reference it like the filter you want to use. And then what does it look like? So that's from one of the example pages. You have an image of a person and then you add some chromatic, monochromatic filters with some colors. And then you might have something like this only with SVG methods. So we had a project and they asked us to add like a blue scale over all the images when you don't have them. So I didn't know gray scale filters in CSS, but I was not aware of a blue scale filter. So my first intention was that's not possible in CSS. I mean, yeah, you can do it in Photoshop and you can send me this Photoshop file and tell me, just do it. I use this filters and I clicked here in Photoshop. It can be that hard in a web page. And my favorite was, no, that's not possible in CSS. There's no like filter or anything to do that kind of things. And then I found out about the filter in SVG images and then it was pretty easy. And you can almost do any like image manipulation you can do with some graphic programs. Maybe not all the things you can do with Photoshop, but really a lot. But then still you have to ask yourself, is this really something you should do on the web? So it might look nice, but yeah. But that's another story. And that's also why I called it, it's not just images. It can be something different. One thing I didn't mention, as it's an XML, you can also add like inline style attributes, but you can also import a CSS file. So it's not a link attribute. I don't know exactly how it, I think it's, they usually have this XML and I think there's something like XML style sheet. And then you can like import a CSS file. So you can just use a CSS file inside of the SVG. So if you have an external file, you can just load a CSS file. And you can also load a JavaScript file. And that's where you can interact with the SVG with JavaScript.  Oh yeah, and by the way, I also learned you can, let's see, here you have like a German map with an image map and it's an SVG image. But let's say you have a satellite image of something. It's not an SVG, but you can still use an SVG for having the path and the clickable areas and just have the PNG file or the JPEG of the satellite picture as a background for the SVG. And then you define the clickable areas with an SVG and not with a like old map and area because they're not as easy to create as like an SVG with illustrator or things like that. Like here for the clickable areas. As you can see, it's a path. So like this path here, like the borders of Turingen, no, the ATEC doesn't have any like size, it's just defining something you can click. So like even in a normal page, now with CSS3 you can have shapes. So you can have a round shape in CSS3, which is not an SVG, but it's a round something. And when you add an ATEC, this round shape is clickable and it's only like this shape and not the spaces around. So the ATEC itself doesn't have any shape. So you just make this thing clickable. You just add like the x-ray graph to the path directly. You have to wrap it into an ATEC and then it's clickable. But it has the clickable shape as you see in it here. Like with the standard map and area, you can also create those shapes, but it's really hard and you don't have all the flexibility, like really tiny details. So it's really not as fun as with SVG. Yeah, as I mentioned a minute ago, you can include JavaScript into an SVG. So you can inject some JavaScript into another site. So you can have a cross-scripting attacks through an SVG, which can compromise your site. So that's an issue. No, it's there. As like with any, yeah. When you allow the user to inject some JavaScript, then he can compromise the site. So when you produce SVGs yourself, there's not really a big security issue. Yeah. If you control the SVG images, then there's not really a new issue you have to deal with. Yeah. I also find it hard, like in contact with designers, they usually give us a Photoshop design. And I always have to ask them for the logos as a vector graphic. So like an illustrator file, something like that. Because they don't know why I need them. And then I have to explain them, okay, I want to have a responsive website. I want to support retina display. So I need an SVG image. Just give me the SVG image. Or the illustrator file or the InDesign. Just any vector format. Or at least like a PDF. Something I can extract an SVG out. Yeah. Yeah, me neither. Yeah, for the data matrix, I don't really know how to calculate that. I read them a large article. I also have it in the sources. I didn't take the time to really read it. It's something like a blue, red, and green column. I think that's the transparency. But I didn't know what the fifth column was. And I also didn't understand sometimes they have it just in one column. Sometimes they have a diagonal. So I don't really know how to calculate it. But maybe there's some, like when you do something like that in Photoshop, then you can just export the settings. I don't know. There might be a way. Because I don't think that they just change the numbers and see how it looks like. But I can really tell you how it works. Yeah, they might do that. Like with the path and things like that, I also don't understand things like Photoshop or Illustrator. I know how to change little bits. But I also don't have a license on my personal PC. Like for Windows, I'm using Inkscape, which is okay to do some little things. But as I said, usually I use a text editor. So especially for cleaning up. So when you export an SVG out of Illustrator, it has a lot of comments and tags you don't need and attributes you don't need. So you really have to clean up those files because otherwise they are quite big. But also like an SVG is a text file and text files are really good in using G-SIP on them, making them even smaller. So when you have G-SIP enabled, you should also enable G-Sipping for the SVG extension. And then you have really small sizes.  So as you would do with a CSS or JavaScript file, you can just use the same minification techniques to reduce the size. And on finding images like the German map, the best source is Wikipedia. Because also like the flags I used in the first slides, they are from Wikipedia. And most of the things that can be shown as a vector graphic, they have an SVG image.  And you just click on the link and you have the SVG file. And they're usually creative comments because like flags, they can have copyrights. You can just download the SVG. And they're really minified. There's not any additional comments or tags or things you don't know. They're really good quality. And then when you want to change some things, you use something like Inkscape or if you know Illustrator and how to use it, you use something like that. So even like when we have a company we work with and they don't have a logo as a vector graphic, I just see if they have a Wikipedia website and I just take it from there. They usually have the vector file. Yeah. Here I have some sources. I use for the presentation. Two are on accessibility. Two are on like fallbacks. And there's one about like base 64 encoding and how you could do it. And one is for icon fonts and the other one is for color filters. And yeah, that's it. And you can find the slides on my blog maybe tomorrow. So any more questions? Yeah, the question was if I have found any tools for creating image mess. I do have found some tools. I might add them to the sources. Yeah, you can just upload an image and then you click some points and it produces a path which is usually not as good as using something like Illustrator. If you know how to use Illustrator, I would recommend that. And also if you know how to vectorize an image. So you might have some image and you just vectorize it and then you have a shape. And then just we know of all the things like background colors and things. And then you just separate the shape and you have like a good shape of the thing you want to have an image map for. Yeah, but there are tools to do that. And usually when it's not something like a map with borders, it's usually okay to have some additional padding around. So at least as long as you don't overlap those clickable areas too much, it's okay to just have a rectangular clicking area over maybe a city or something like that. So don't overcomplicate the path. Yeah, the question was on filters, how you use them, how you group them, and how you address them. So I've seen some examples and it's just like also with icon fonts when you create an icon font replacement with SVG, you have a large SVG and you just have some different like tags and you like just define a filter. So let's say here if I have monochrome filter, then I might have another filter calling ID blue scale and things like that. And then you reference it like this. So you can have a large SVG file defining many filters and using them is just with when it's in line just referencing the ID or referencing an external SVG file plus the ID and it doesn't have to be on your own side. So you can reference an SVG defining filters from some external resources. No, the inline filter would be added to like the containing diff or something like that. So you have a diff and inside the diff you have this image and I'm defining the filter on the surrounding diff and the filter is applied to all the content inside of the diff. So it's not only directly on the image, it's all on the whole container just as any other CSS filter. And you can also chain them like filters are chainable in CSS. So let's say you want to have this blue scale I talked about. We added a blue scale to an image and it really doesn't look nice because it was like a real picture with colors and then we used the grayscale filter comma and then the blue scale filter and then it looked it had better contrast. So we can even like chain those filters and having some very fancy effect. Yeah, if they don't overdo it, yeah, any other questions or has anyone has experienced with SVG on client projects and issues? Yeah, that's quite easy. The example I show you here is responsive. So all you have to do is you have the thing called view box. It defines the size and then you just have width and height 100% or 100% in author auto and then it's just resizable including the clickable areas. So this image map is fully responsive. I mean, I don't know if it's usable on a mobile device because the clickable areas might be too close to really click them. So in this case, we also have a link list of all the of all the states. So you can just click the links instead. But it is responsive. Yes. Usually, I mean like in the in the first examples, I defined a rectangular. So I have an SVG with 900 by 600 pixel and that's like the size of the individual parts. But that's on like normal scale. So every SVG image has a default size, but then you can just scale them. That's also an issue with WordPress. So I showed you how to use SVG and that will all work when you use them inside of your theme and just upload them with your theme. The problem is you can't upload an SVG file into WordPress straight away. It's not allowed. So the SVG extension is not allowed to be uploaded because it might contain JavaScript and it might compromise the site. There's a filter to add additional extensions so you can upload an SVG, but then there's a problem. You can also see them in the media library, but when you insert them into your post, it has a size of one by one pixel because it can't determine the size of the SVG itself. And so you have to change the width and height attributes to fit the original size. There are some plugins to fully support SVG inside of WordPress. I haven't really tested them a lot. They might work, but usually you use them for your theme. So using them inside like posts, there's some more work to do. But because there's the issue with JavaScript, I don't see it in core natively in the future. Maybe with that, if they have some sanitizing, stripping out all the JavaScript as they do with the post content, that might be something they add, but I'm not really sure if it's happening in the future. I mean, I added a filter which allows uploading it through the media library, and then I added just as regular, and then I changed the one by one pixel to the actual size. If I really use an SVG inside of a post, usually I don't use them in a post. When you write a blog post and you say insert image and then you pick the image and say insert into the article, then usually it adds the size of the pixel graphic, but it can calculate the size of the SVG. So it sets it to one by one pixel so you don't see the image. So you have to go to the text modes and then change the attributes. Yeah, then it works. But it's also very important for themes and logos and things like that, and usually you upload them through FTP or whatever or Git, and you write the code anyways. But you can also use them for the post featured image and things like that, but then you have to have some workarounds. Because the function that renders the thumbnail also doesn't know how large the SVG images. So it's not as easy as it should be right now to use them in the content of your website. But for the theme it's easy. It was like the text on the street, or the street, or the street. It was a typography on top of some other part of the text. Yeah. There are also some few cases where using an SVG is not the best thing to do. Like when you have social icons, and they are smaller than let's say 20 by 20 pixel, then using like a blurred PNG file, they might look better on a desktop PC. Because an SVG, the browser has to decide, do I show the pixel or don't I show the pixel? So they don't like blur round things. So like for us, I have a mix in saying, okay, when is the pixel ratio of one, use a PNG file, if it's a pixel ratio of two or more, use an SVG. So for very small sizes of the image, with very like the Twitter logo, which is not a very easy thing, like WordPress or, yeah, no WordPress is more complex. Like the Facebook F or things like that, they are quite simple, but like the Twitter bird is quite complex in the path. And there might be cases where the PNG file looks better on a desktop PC than the SVG. But usually when it's like a little bigger than it's perfectly fine on desktop, and it's awesome on like regular displays. Any more questions? Yep. Yes. Not necessarily. I mean, you can not only add like pixel graphics, you can only add text, just plain text. And you can also then use web fonts on the text. I mean, it depends. It's not as clear when you upscale because it's a pixel graphic. But if you set the width and height and inline styles correctly, and they, I mean, it's just an XML file. So just as you put an image into an HTML file, having it responsively scaling, when you do the same, including them into the SVG file, it's also like responsive. You mean when you upscale with some JavaScript VR? Or you can use like an image tag with a source set, and then you have different sizes. So it's just an image tag inside of a SVG. That's perfectly fine. Yep. Yes. Yeah, usually when you have an SVG file, as every XML file, it starts with this declaration. And a file should only have one of these declarations. And usually you have the declaration if you're using XHTML, you have the declaration in the HTML file. If you use HTML5, you don't have it because it's not an XML format. And when you add many inline SVG images and you add the line, I mean, technically the browser shouldn't break, but you just, yeah, should remove it. And instead of that, just add something like a title tag to add a description. So you shouldn't just copy, paste the code of the SVG and just put it inline. But I don't think that browsers would care too much about it. Okay. Thanks for your attention. And if you have any more questions, just leave a comment on my blog or ask me today.


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It's almost as bad. Well, politics is the worst. The Fed stuff is second worst. But anyway, that's what we're doing. We had a really good trade in the short gold market. Also, we had a really nice trade in natural gas. It worked out right at the old 382 level, which was good. So those were been acting relatively well. I wanted to take a moment to bring up the chart here of, oh, there's too many things I want to do. And our guest today is Bill Meridian. And we want to see what he's got to say, here, what he has to say, because he is really good. Cycles research in Austria. Here is the soybean oil, folks. It's down the limit. It's 40. Jimmy Tourneyman called me about a half hour ago saying there were 48,000 contracts in a selling pool. Evidently, the government came out sometime today and made an announcement. What it is, I don't know. I had him contact Rich Anderson. Rich is very busy today, probably because of this. So this is going to shake up the soybean market. But folks, stop and think about this. We're in the middle of a drought. And soybeans are up 35 cents on the day. Corn's up 20 cents. Wheat's up. You remember wheat? Remember wheat back there at $6 when nobody wants it? Now it's 770, folks. Hello, operator. I mean, there's got to be something to these patterns that we work with for heaven's sakes. Pay close attention to it. The reason why this soybean oil is so important, folks.  They were using lacquer. Lacquer is related to insects and I don't know what all that stuff is. But they needed an oil that could accept color. And the Chinese had a product called soybeans. And so he imported soybeans sometime in the 20s and stuff that became popular in 35. What they were doing with soybeans to start up with, folks, they would plow the field over. In other words, they would grow soybeans in one field and then plow it over and use it as fertilizer for the corn coming up. I remember I lived in. It tarred Indiana. It's one of the big soybean areas of the United States. I saw it all the time. Anyway, they were able to get soybean oil mainly for paint. And then someone figured out, my gosh, they could make this synthetic for margarine. Those of you that are young don't remember this. When I was a little shaver, we had to go to the store. You bought margarine in your tub from Wisconsin or wherever it was. It was a synthetic margarine. And not only that, it had to be white. That was part of the rules. And what you had to do is you had to take this little tube of dye, yellow dye, and you mixed it together to make it look like butter. Well, the margarine people got a little upset with that. And then they finally figured out that they could all work together. And it's still pretty much at this day. I'm still a aficionado of butter being an Italian that I am. And so anyway, that's why all this stuff is so interesting to me is because one little stroke of a pen, the government can change a whole lot of things. Folks, that's why you've got to be able to be able to put stops in. Honest to God. It's really, really important because if you don't, you're exposing yourself to risk that is just totally, totally unacceptable. And you don't want to do that. That's just not worth it. Okay. Now, I want to share a really neat chart with you today because very important, something happened in silver today. Remember, folks, just a second, we'll get up here. We were just trading here just a few days ago up at 2560. And we dropped $2 an ounce here in the last few days. And I want to show you the bottom in silver today, folks. This bottom right here was right at the exact 1.618 expansion. It hit it exactly at 2251. It rallied up to 2281. Haven't checked it lately, but it stopped exactly at that 1.618. Look how it stopped right at the 78% level here. It rallies up to the 78% level here. And then look at the big move down. And then it just keeps going down. And now we've hit a major bottom. We really need to watch the silver. Now, we were short gold today and gold took out the old lows at 1936. We got out of it around 1940. It's trading in 1941 now, but we sold it in 1968. So that was a very nice move that we had also. And we are now waiting to see what the next move is going to be in the stocks. What we're assuming we're going to have happen is we're going to be looking for that ABCD pattern that we like so much. Now, let's take a look at the big daddy rabbit here, which is the NASDAQ. This is going back to the high that we made back here on last Friday. Remember, the whole world was bullish back there. And well, there were a couple that weren't that bullish. But anyway, there's your high right up in here. There was your 382 retracement. You can see it hit it 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 70 times. And then today we came down and broke pretty badly down into this area here. I don't know whether we took out the low here in the NASDAQ. I didn't check that. I probably should have, but I didn't quite get that done. I'm just the excitement of having Bill Meridian here today. We haven't had him on for a couple of weeks. And he's been calling for some really big moves. He alerted to us the fact that these bonds were getting ready to go lower, i.e. higher interest rates. And that is certainly what's going on. So he'll be with us here coming up at the break. And we want to be able to see that. I want to remember, folks, I look at these patterns. I got to show you this pattern. To me, this is the most important pattern of all. This is this S&P with the, it weights the market with those, the Magnificent 7. The dark lines are the Magnificent 7. Down here is the S&P 500. We have never seen anything like this with divergence like this, with seven stocks doing this. But look at that. There's a three drive to a top pattern, folks. And I know these fail all the time. But what if it doesn't fail? What if this is something really big? This means that these stocks are going to be probably getting to a little bit of a trouble. Also, when we come back before the break, when we have Bill on, I have to show you the chart of Tesla. Because about two months ago, we were mentioning that Tesla should go to around 272 to 273. And I think the high today was 276. I'm going to post that when we come back from the break here. Because I want to show you that there's another perfect example of how some of these numbers, you know, really line up. So let's take a break here. We'll be back with Bill Meridian of Cycles Research. So stay with us. Currencies, commodities, and bond markets are as important as ever right now with how they're driving the volatility in equity markets across the globe, which is why it's a great time to try out Teddy Kegstad's Tiger Forex report. 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It's just coming in perfectly. Okay, you want to go ahead and start? June 21, the summary, we're in a shallow correction followed by a further rally, which I'll explain. One good rally is needed to turn the bears to bulls, which I'll explain. Bonds, I think, are lower. Gold, higher prices after June oil is likely down. So the pessimism that had sparked the rally has been dissipating bearish short-term but bullish longer-term. So the cycle sort of punked out in April-May. The market has held up because there were too many people looking for a decline and sentiment is very tricky. There are a number of ways to measure it. Fortunately, I knew Paul McGray Montgomery, who was one of the great masters of sentiment along with a few other people. And what I concluded was in order to dissipate the sentiment, which was bearish, which using contrary opinion is bullish, you had to have a rally. And so we're in that rally now. And suddenly, as you'll see, some of the sentiment indicators have turned up to getting more bullish. In the past, that has been bearish short-term but bullish long-term. So I hope that's understandable. So the big cap leaders are likely to remain strong. The lagging stocks are now picking up. Those are the stocks in the S&P 400, 600, the value line index, and the S&P equally weighted index. The relative strength of all of them started to turn up about two weeks ago. In other words, they're not going straight down. And the big cap stocks are not the only ones appreciating in the index. Those stocks have gotten extended a bit expensive. And so now fund managers are looking elsewhere and they're starting to bid up stocks that are small cap and mid cap. And here's the S&P daily. I don't think yesterday's close is in there. But as we'll see, we are now in post-OPEX week, post-Option-Expiration week in June, which has traditionally been bearish. But we lost one day. We had a holiday Monday. And I do not expect stocks to come down any much lower than that. That's a Fibonacci retracement line. That's an old support line from a previous high or low. I don't really think it'll come down much lower than 43, 25 or so. If it does, it'll stop then at 4,200. But I don't think that's going to happen. And as you can see yesterday, the S&P was off 40, but closed down only about 15 or 20. And if you look, until today, the technology stocks actually with Tesla and other stocks were actually up. The market is overbought. That is an oscillator based on momentum that I've used for years. So it was overbought as we were in early April. And here is the 10-day breadth MA moving average. In other words, advances minus declines, taken as a 10-day moving average, which has been a fairly reliable indicator. But as you can see, it's up about as high as it was in late March. So it's not up where it was in early 2023. But it's no longer that series of higher lows was a buy signal. And you'll notice that's come down fairly sharply here. So it is overbought, but not too overbought, which would lead to a major correction. And here again, we'll just review the one for 10-year cycles. Of course, the one-year cycle is just the average cycle for the year. And of course, we're in June, which is usually weak. And the four-year cycle is the election year cycle, which peaks in late June and turns down. But they call it the election year cycle. But again, as I pointed out many times before, before we had the Federal Reserve in 1913, we had a four-year cycle. We have a four-year cycle in countries in which there's a four-year election cycle, six years and no elections at all. There is a four-year cycle, which actually measures out to about 3.84 years. And down here, we can see the average of all four of these. So it doesn't really signal any trouble until we get to September. Now, this is the dynamic. These cycles are what I would call static. They change slowly. This is dynamic. This is based upon... What's the difference in that, Bill? How do you figure the... Well, the static changes very slowly over time. The one-year cycle is probably not going to change over the next 20, 30 years. You need some significant variation from that. And the green is... I forgot to mention the 10-year cycle, the decennial pattern of Edgar Lawrence Smith, which, as you can see, is pointing down. That changes very slowly. This was just run this morning. That is based upon the latest data. And you see a buy signal. You see a sell signal. The only problem with this is, I have to tell you, only 58% of the sell signals in the last year have been valid. So that is why I'm not looking for a sharp decline this month. The last two weeks of June are usually weak. That is a static cycle. We confirm it with this, the dynamic cycle, but it's only been right 58% of the time in the last year, which means it is probably a shallow correction based only in the technology stocks. So now we go to this week in June. Monday, the market was closed. Tuesday we were open, and today is Wednesday. And as you can see, the weakest day is Friday. So post-OPEX week in June, as you can see down here, that's $100 invested. More or less, you start with $100, you end with $100. But these weeks, if it's triple option expiration, which only occurs four times a year, it is down four to five times more than it's been up. So in other words, it's not only the expiration in stocks, it's the expiration of a couple of other instruments, a couple of the markets. So it is triple witching, because four times a year it is especially bearish. So this is not as bearish as it should look. Now the S&P 100, here's the big change. The S&P 100 is the 100 largest cap stocks. And you see here, we got a little reversal here. This is only a daily chart, so it's not the end of the world. And it doesn't include yesterday, but it's overbought, yes. And you note the relative strength here started to come down, it started to recover. Let's go, this is the S&P 500 equally weighted. So in other words, since all 2023, if you equally weight the stocks, the relative strength is going down, which means most stocks are going down, and it's a few very large cap stocks holding the market up. And as you can see, it too is overbought. So now we go, this is weekly, and you'll see what's happening. You're forming a big triangle, which we know a breakout from there is bullish, and you see higher lows in momentum. And you see the, so we're going from daily here to weekly, so that relative strength upturn does not look like much at all. But you can see how much the average stock has underperformed quite dramatically. And somebody came on Fox Business News the other day and said the average stock this year is up 1%, if you take out the big leaders. The S&P 600 is firming up. This is the small cap stocks. Note, in June, at least they've stopped declining relative to the S&P 500. So not only are they up in absolute sense, they're up in the relative sense. And here's what I meant about the sentiment. Are you more likely to increase the decrease cycle exposure over the coming day? Excuse me. We've got to, we've got to pay a few bills, my friends. Stay with us. Okay. We'll be right back with Bill Meridian, folks. Cycles research. The gold report. As a precious metal, gold is still king. It continues to hold the most effective safe haven and hedging properties across the global major trading hubs of the London OTC market, the US futures market, and the Shanghai Gold Exchange. The gold report. 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And I also just want to jump back. I think a lot of pessimism is back here. If we can find the is the 100. Why would people only buy the 100 biggest cap stocks? You see the green line? That's the relative strength versus the S&P 500. They do that because the economy doesn't look good. The politics don't look good. The weather doesn't look good. I don't know. They get frightened. So they only buy the biggest best stocks. And this was a mentality. You know, I fought when I was in Abu Dhabi, you get young guys coming in. They don't want to make a mistake. And in that coach, you don't want to lose face. If Morgan Stanley recommends a stock, you say, well, Morgan Stanley recommended it or Dolvin Sack's record.  It's not your fault. And so if you, as I talked to, I remember talking to Ralph Ackampore, I talked to young fund managers, what do they do? They go out and buy more of the winners. We're still winning and they're big caps, so they're safe. So I maintained that that green rising line is a sign of fear. It's we're buying these stocks and not these stocks. You see the declining green line. We're a little afraid of the average stock. So that makes sense. I agree with that too. So here we are, still too bearish. Now let's go to the next one.  One month ago, I was on your show, Larry, I recommended applied materials, which rose 9%, micron, which dropped to 2%, Nvidia, which was up 40%, and Meta, which was up 16%. The Nasdaq 100, from which these came, was up 9%. So the net gain here was about 15, 16%, as opposed to the benchmark nine. This comes from this screen. The seasonal rank, if I run it now, it is looking at the seasonal rank for next month. So in other words, I can never pronounce it as at very risk. They do data analytics for the insurance industry. They're ranked number two for the month of July in the Nasdaq 100. But their current relative strength rank is 11. And so we add the two together, divide by two. I used to check one, check the other, then I had the coding guys do this. Fiserv, which is a software company, seasonal rank is seven, relative rank, QLD, I don't know who that is. Amgen, I'm sure you've heard of Amgen, Sintas, AVGO is Broadcom. They're ranked, they're number one for relative strength. Comcast is number three, KLA is number four. So from this group, first I have a special word of an Nvidia. This looks overboard, it looks overvalued, it's over everything. In the financial analyst journal, the one with the PhDs, the guys who don't believe anything that Larry and I say, they did a test using fuzzy logic to identify technical patterns. And they used the rectangle, the triangle, all the obvious ones. And the conclusion was that these patterns are real and they work. The single most prevalent one is the rectangle. And the single most profitable one is the rectangle, particularly a rectangular low. What you see right there is a rectangular low. When it broke out, this should rise, the technical analysis 101, by the height of that triangle, and that would put just a height of that rectangle, this should go to 500. And it's only about 440 or so. Relative strength going up, overbought, yes, it's overbought, but this is weekly, monthly it doesn't look that overstretched. Now let's add in some contrary opinion. This is Time Magazine. AI is the end of humanity. This is a very negative suggestion there for holding a stock.  And it is especially potent if it appears on the cover of a non-financial publication, which time is. Now it was Paul McRae Montgomery that discovered this when he researched 3,200 covers of Time Magazine back in the 60s and 70s and 80s. So this, you know, when people ask me, well Bill, you know, what should we do? Should we sell it? It's overbought. I said, just hold it and in fact add on to it. And that's what we did. So I'm convinced that's going higher. And the fundamentals, of course, who knows? I mean, if China takes over Taiwan, who knows? But all of the things being equal, they've got the chip of the day. And I remember back when LSI Logic, trading under $4 a share, developed a chip for use in the Sega game stations. The stock went from $4 to $56. And the Arabs are telling me, why don't you buy it? I said, we're already loaded up with chip stocks. And what is LSI going to do when people stop playing the Sega game? And the answer was it went back down below $10 a share. But I don't think this is going down any time soon. Now Contrary Appliance applied to the market. This is from June 12. And this is a bullish cover which suggests that we should have a correction here this week and perhaps next week. Now let's apply Contrary Opinion to the economy. The Economist writing high, the lessons of America's astonishing economy. There are a lot of people who don't think this economy is astonishing. And so this is bearish to the economy. Now of the stocks, very risk, which I picked out of that group, to me is, well, first of all, this is daily. So a lurch up on their earnings announcement. Now it's consolidating, poise to go higher. It's not, if you look at the momentum, you got a series of higher lows in here. And of course, the relative strength is very strong. So if I'm adding a new stock, I'm going to add this one because I went through the entire Dow, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq 100. And this is also, I think, number four in the S&P 500. It is number one in the Nasdaq 100. And this is the seasonality. It's only 14 years, but you can see May, June, July. And this is expected return. So it's only, again, it's only 13 years, but seasonally it's the right time of the season to own the stock. Shopify also comes in, but let me see where was it here so I can show you. SHOP is, oh, that came from, all right, I didn't include it. Value line keeps a list of the highest cash flow generators. 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The fund are designed to be utilized only by sophisticated investors such as traders and active investors. Distributor, foresight fund services LLC. This program is brought to you by Vista Gold traded on the NYSE American and TSX under the symbol VGZ. Okay, we're back folks and we're on with Bill Meridian cycles research. Bill please continue. Okay, now that you've improved your cash flow, we will look at Shopify. Value line has a list of the 100 highest free flow cash generators. It is computed in the following way. They take free cash flow and divide it by plant spending and dividends. In other words, it's cash into cash out. Now, when I first looked at it in 1977, Thompson Medical was at the top. The number was $19, $19 coming in from every $1 out. It's changed dramatically over the years. Now, the top 10 have like $20 per share cash into cash out and the top one is 40. So this is where Shopify comes from. I think Barrisk is also on that list. So that came in very highly rated. So let's look at the chart. It had a huge tumble from 175 down to 25. So it's got to get back up to about 75, what it almost is, to just retrace 50%. But the key here I think is the relative strength, which is bottomed out in May of 2022. So general rule of thumb, you have to have six months of rising relative strength or at least not making it low to launch a major uptrend. They just reported very good earnings, which is why you can't see it too well there, but that gap up here. So that's another stock that I'm considering adding as soon as this one to two week softness is over with. And old friend Cintas, CTAS is always on the list. They do uniforms, uniforms people wear in hotels and restaurants. The way the business shakes out, it's a high cash flow generator. And as you can see, it was in this 350 to 450 range, which means it should rally at least 100 bucks from where it broke out, which is 450, which would put it up at 550. And it's currently at 500, which means another 10%. And again, the series of higher lows and momentum relative strength has been a bit off, but you know, from here to here, it's rising. But you get a series of higher lows and relative strength. That's another one that comes with the screening method, but it's just applied to a different list. Now, last month, I had recommended meta and I just wanted to follow up as I see no reason not to continue. You have a new high here, absolutely, relatively. And if you look at this, this momentum, you can't say it's overbought.  And you can't say this is overbought monthly, you would have to be up in this range. So I'm continuing to hold meta. I don't know what you're doing right. Maybe Zuckerberg started wearing a tie instead of t-shirts. I have a question though.  You got a real high IQ. What do you think of this AI stuff? Is it the panacea of all that everybody's talking about, or is it a fad? Do you have an opinion on it? No, I think it's going to develop and be useful, but it's like other things. Initially, it will not deliver the bang for the buck. People are very amazed now with what is that new software program that I forgot the name of it now, chat, GP. I think it's going to eventually create more jobs than it will replace. Right. Victor Verpaille, he must be 90 now. I haven't seen him. I met him in Vienna. He's a futurist in a serial tech entrepreneur, lives in Northern California. He thought our economy will be as sophisticated as Star Trek. If you remember Captain Kirk, who always ate chicken salad sandwiches, he'd say computer chicken salad sandwich.  And he thinks that's actually going to happen with the help of AI. And he says the problem is going to be that so many people will be replaced.  It'll be done, I guess, at a nanotechnology level. Or it'll be made out of bugs or something. But Victor said people will not have the disposable income to buy the stuff that the economy is going to churn out very cheaply. So therefore, he is for a national minimum wage so people could buy this stuff. I sat with the guy who was the chief expert in blockchain and cryptocurrency from New York University whose name escapes me right now. But he lectured and I caught him a half hour before the lecture. We sat in the act and he said blockchain is the big thing. And he said if you want to tell your kids what to study in college, have them study technology and management like a BS in technology and master's degree in management because there are going to be lots and lots of people employed in blockchain and digital currency who will need management. And so banks close down or they automate staff but they don't lay anybody off. Why not? Because the people get retrained and they do a higher function at the bank because now there is something new to do because of the new technology that displaced them. And also there are going to be, there will be accidents. It's like cars, self-driving cars that crash. And I'm sure there will be but I think it will take some time to come in. I think we are Star Wars is quite a way away with the, but I do think automation is taking over. I mean automation will take over after all if you have people who don't show up for work or people who file spurious, what do they call them? Annoying lawsuits. They're going to replace people. And they're doing that. They go automated hamburger stands and stuff like that. But somebody has to invent all that stuff. I visited NYU's robotics lab and I met Caesar the robot. You've got all these students working, one's making hands, the other's making feet. So anyway, we'll switch over to gold. Gold, I'm still holding it for two reasons. Look, it usually bottoms in June and it rallies up through September. So you're at the beginning of a strong seasonal run. And look at this. This is the close only monthly. It broke out here and it hasn't gone below this line, which is around 1925 or so. Well, as long as it stays in this position, and how did that happen? As long as it stays in this position, I'm bullish on it. And I think the sentiment is not bullish enough to reverse the trend. So I'm staying long gold. Well, this is gold from 1861. I didn't even know this was in here, but it shows relatively the same histogram. Now we'll switch to oil, which is bearish and bearish. So this is oil's monthly histogram. This is the expected return only. This has, the blue is the average percent change. The red is the probability of a rise on that day. And the green is the product of the first two. Let's make it simple. Where are we right now? This looks like an Austrian ski slope. You're in June and you're headed toward the seasonal low in October, November. So oil bear, oil bulls are swimming upstream. Let's look at that. Now this is a static cycle. It doesn't change that much. If I had it back to 1860, the data at 1860, it would probably look the same. Let's look at the dynamic cycle, which is the extraction of the latest price data projected out. And that is on a monthly basis. Down, you have your choice of down or down. And so I would say there's a 75 to 85% chance of lower oil prices. So why do I pick that? Because I learned from Richard Diamond, the professional trader, whose great qualification was he never worked for anybody else. He made money trading or he didn't eat or pay the rent. I studied with him and he said, if you're 85% certain with his a healthy degree of doubt, you're usually right. But if you're 100% certain, you're usually almost always wrong. And I'm throwing it 75 to 85% because you don't know politics plays a big part. 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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 and hit Watch Tiger TV. Bill Meridian, cycles research. You want to tell us about the oil market here? We're still looking a lot lower, you say? Oil is still down and there's a major retracement level around 67-68. So that is my short-term target. If it breaks below that, then you're going down into the 50s. So I don't have the monthly chart, but we'll go to the bond market. Most bond markets, whether it's Italy, Germany, Japan, they're at major, if you've been out to your retracement levels, like the US 10-year note, which we see here, it's a 38.2%, which is around 109.110. So has it got far to fall? Well, no, not over the short term. Now, here's notes monthly. You'll notice June is a week month, not as weak, but all that weakness is tied up in this week. This is where we are right now. Today's date is what? 20? 21st. We're right here. I'm covering shorts and getting out of this tomorrow, the 22nd. But this happens in March, June, September, and December, of which March is the most bearish one. If the month of May is down, the probability of this is enhanced. So right now it's about 75, 80% that we're going to see lower prices lower on the 22nd, 23rd than they were on the 15th. So I'm currently short, but after that, it turns up. Here's the... Oh, this is important. What is that, Larry? It goes to a new high and close below the close and below the low of the prior month. That's a hook sell signal. Yes, it is. We have this confirmed. So my guess is you're going down to about 109 eventually. I don't know whether it's this month or next month. And that's the notes monthly cycle. As you can see, it's been headed down as a seasonality weekends. It actually bottoms out in July. So at that point, the seasonality and the dynamic cycle will be in conflict, which means you'll probably get some sort of a trading range with the emphasis on the downside. And we are editing show and I want to thank you for being with us, my friend. We'll have you on again soon and stay safe, my friend. I'll be ready folks. Cycles research in Austria. We'll see you tomorrow. Live every day in an attitude of gratitude and may God bless.


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