Let's focus in our attention on Jesus Christ today in this passage in Mark chapter 15 Let's start with a quote This meat is as tender as a shoe as a leather shoe This meat this piece of meat is as tender as a leather shoe another statement Last night the fire station burnt to the ground. What are these two statements have in common? This piece of meat is as tough as leather shoe.  What am I communicating?  One is a verbal irony One is a situational irony You remember toy story where the where the toys are alive, but nobody knows it All the people don't know that toys are alive That is dramatic irony And so now when we look we come to the cross of Jesus Christ Mark in his perspective He wants us to hear something from the irony Today we'll worship the Lord in this morning and then in this evening in the morning We're going to look at verses 25 to 32 the first three hours of the cross tonight We'll focus in on verses 33 to 37 the last three hours of the cross in the first three hours on the cross Mark uses irony. It's the text is packed full of irony situational irony and Verbal irony Even dramatic irony in order to communicate something powerful to us Jesus we won't hear from Jesus this morning We'll hear from Jesus his enemies and God in his amazing wisdom will teach us something about the gospel From here the voices and the situations of Jesus his enemies So here the good news today Here the good news today Not from Jesus his voice But God using his enemies voice to preach the good news to us In our text in verses 25 to 32 We'll hear the gospel according Jesus his enemies first in verses 25 If you look on the outline that you have in your bulletin verses 25 to 27 We're going to see the setting the setting of Christ crucifixion and in the setting we see great irony and then in verses 29 to 32 we hear Jesus was mocked as he was crucified and from his enemies from their mocking in The irony they're mocking we hear the gospel So there could be no greater story than this good old story that I get to say to you today We get to worship the Lord. So let's go in and remember this good old story As we're coming up into in the mark 15 here. We we see that In verses 1 to 5 Jesus comes before Pilate and he almost says nothing mark doesn't really tell us much about what Jesus says It's just a simple little statement in verse 2 that he affirms what Pilate is saying about his Being king of the Jews. It's as you say It's a briefest statement possible that Jesus could give to affirm What when Pilate's question about whether he's the king of the Jews and then in verses 6 to 15 Jesus in Barabbas are Jesus takes a Barabbas his place and what a picture of substitutionary atonement in verses 16 to 20 We come to the scourging of Jesus Christ Where he is treated as a criminal and then in verses 21 to 24 we have the the true view Via the Rosa or the true way of suffering the true road to the cross and Then in verses 25 to 32 We come to the first three hours of the cross and so in this time is When Jesus will when he's on the cross and this time is when he'll pray things such things as Luke tells us father forgive them But they don't know what they're doing and in this prayer. He expresses a desire for his enemies to be saved and What a contrast we have here between the way Jesus is living acting speaking and what his enemies are doing in This text is a great display of the wickedness and the sinfulness of men So first and verses 25 to 27 we read about the the setting of the cross Read with it read read it again with me in verse 25 Now it was the third hour and they crucified him and the inscription of his crucifixion was written above the king of the Jews With him they also crucified two robbers one on his right and the other on his left So the scripture was fulfilled which says and he was numbered with the transgressors So when we come to verse 25 It describes the timing and the state the reality what's happened So first we look at the timing now. It was a third hour This provides us the background we need remember in the in the the way that the gospel writers met Matthew The first three gospel writers Matthew Mark and Luke that they described the timing of the events around the cross They use a different time frame than what we use when we look at the clock So here when he says the third hour, this is the third hour after the sun has risen Okay, so it's about nine o'clock about nine o'clock our time and so Mark noting the time remember that in time in the ancient world is not it like we have time like we've got a Timer on our phone or a timer on the on the clock They're just they're going by estimates by where the sun is at right So if you you consider the sun rising is the first hour and you got the the six hours right when the sun is right above Above you they right remember the sun is somewhere's right in between in between Right coming up and right above you and they say more or less that the that was the timing and mark so mark notes that for us and so We remember now not only the timing But then what does it mean and they crucified him? and So I'm going to explain some of that cultural background some of that what that means because in all for us to read it We don't understand the same thing that marks audience would understand likely marks audience is in Rome and that they're When they read this they don't need any explanation. They know well what it means and So I'm just going to remind you Some of what it means When Jesus is crucified or what it means in that short statement in verse 25 Crucifixion was a very common way of Execution the Romans used it in a particular way to communicate fear to communicate a sense of humiliation and A sense that Rome rules with an iron fist The Romans then developed this form of Execution, but we can say that they perfected it and and made it very common in 8070 you remember that that Jerusalem was destroyed by the Romans. This is like some 35 years more or less after Jesus Christ and The historian Josephus tells us that they crucified so many people they ran out of wood That when they would crucify many people they would sometimes make a scaffolding in order to crucify people so a great Structure of wood in order to crucify many people to it They crucified big people in different ways. Sometimes it'd be like an axe Sometimes it's like a traditional cross like it's like a lowercase t Sometimes it's like an uppercase t They have the form could change Depending on what suit is the people at the best The crucified person was was required to carry The plank or the whole thing to their place of execution They typically would wear their With a plaque or carry or somebody else would carry the plaque a wooden plaque Typically perhaps sometimes painted white with red letters black letters and it would have the person's crime on it And so then on the road then everyone would know publicly that crucifixions would take place in public places So that as many people could see it as possible Rome wanted to communicate to the people The the horror of opposing rule Jesus was nailed to the cross. We know that by how he did in John 20 how it describes the marks that he showed the marks And there's a resurrection that he received But some people are tied to the cross crosses Then the Jewish mind when the Jew would see a cross They would think of Deuteronomy 21 curse is anyone who hangs on the tree cursed by God is anyone who hangs in a tree So when they would see someone they'd say they would think this person's cursed by God crucifixion was In that when they would typically nail The nails would not go through the palm of the hand that would rip out They typically go, you know, you got two bones here right in your hand and you got the wrist bone typically goes in here In between these two bones and they can still consider that part of the hand What we could consider the wrist You have a nerve here cyanionic nerve That it goes the boat the nails would typically be long nails six seven inches long iron and Then they go through this nerve And so then they would they found a Jewish body of a Where the long nail goes through the both heel bones on the feet And so they place the two heels together and then the nail is going through the That heel bone or perhaps one wrapped up on the other But the body the evidence the archaeological evidence we have this through the heel bone sometimes there'd be a seat like Where the person could rest perhaps the backside on it But no the The death would come by exhaustion and suffocation Not by so much the nails not so much by the the idea is They keep you alive as long as possible So that you suffer as long as possible In order to breathe and that like that You got to lift yourself up on your nails and you're in your wrists and on your feet And so you can't breathe and you're down You got to lift yourself up to breathe and you slide back down Until you got to breathe again And so there's a constant moving a constant torture and a constant rubbing against the the wood Until you're too exhausted and you can't lift yourself up to breathe anymore Often it would take days to die Crucifixions normally took place with the person naked Sometimes the Jews hated this they opposed it We don't know whether Jesus was allowed a loincloth or no or not but the Is an all part of the shame of the event victims would often take Like I said days to die Sometimes birds dogs would come in while the person is dying And try and eat the person The muscle muscles would often have spasms Because I'm riding a nurse So the person could shake uncontrollably at times In Roman society people didn't like to say the word Cross crucifixion If you're in polite society, you're not going to talk about it. You're not going to say it. It's considered a curse word Because people know what comes to the mind what What's taking place For us, it's like Something in a story, right? For them it was something that they had seen Somebody some face Some voice they heard screaming It was brutal It was common It was for those who opposed Rome Crosses were not normally that high Sometimes the people were just off and not high enough off the ground Jesus's cross was a little higher We know that because they got in order to give him something to drink they put on the end of a stick So they get a rod stick Sponge and they lift up to his mouth So his cross is a little higher and if they would do that that would be so he could be seen farther away more of a public display The fact that Jesus is crucified is attested by five other secular historians The bible is the word of God and God's good enough to tell you that that and he'd never life But if you need to know, yeah, there's the five other historians and that record Jesus is the fact that Jesus Christ Of Jesus of Nazareth died on a cross outside Jerusalem So this is the setting This is what mark when he communicates and they crucified him That everybody in his audience would immediately know these things And so I tell them to you This is the physical suffering that Jesus faced is not the point That's not what mark wants us to focus in on But I but it's important for you to understand the historical background It's important to understand these things There's just something greater than that that God wants us to hear We pick up again In verse 27 or 26 rather the setting around the cross and so We read in verse 26 And the inscription of his accusation was written above The king of the juice Like I described this will be part of the wooden plaque That Jesus would have had to carry around his neck as it or some a Roman soldier carries with him Holding up in some way they bring it and in some way they place it above his head and because they place it above his head And the gospel writers tell us this in Matthew 27 37 And in john 1919 says it was faster than the cross It's how we know Jesus was not crucified on an x But he was crucified likely the inter-traditional way that we We communicate the cross like behind me And so mark focuses in on what does the tablet say? What does this plaque say above Jesus's head? He describes the situation for us. He describes the setting for us And this plaque is to have the basis for or the reason why Jesus is executed Why what Jesus has executed so that people walk by They would know And mark tells us here that it said the king of the juice By reading all the other gospels and you piece them together You know that it says Completely the whole message was this is Jesus the Nazarene The king of the juice This is Jesus the nazarene the king of the juice In john 19 we let's look there very briefly John 19 verses 20 to 22 we learned the background of why this was written Why was it that? This was both on the plaque nothing more nothing less You remember from going through the gospel mark this text John 19 Versus 19 to 22 We read Now pilot wrote a title and put it on the cross so pilot wrote it And the writing was Jesus of Nazareth the king of the juice Then many of the Jews read this title for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city There is the public place again, and it was written in Hebrew greek and latin So it was written in three languages in order to communicate Greek the most common trade language, Hebrew the language of the of Jerusalem the written language of Jerusalem And latin official language of the roman empire They want to communicate to everybody as much as clearly as possible like at the airport when you got the signs and they're translated into multiple languages In verse 31 therefore the chief priest of the jews Said to pilot do not write the king of the jews, but he said i am the king of the jews And pilot answers what i've written i've written Pilates had enough of the religious leaders He hates the the discussion. He hates the hypocrisy.  He's a compromiser himself two evils coming together They have a conflict. It's not a surprising thing, right? and so we see these Group of evil men and this evil man fighting squabbling We return back to mark mark 15 mark 15 Versus 26 and 27 looking at the setting of the cross We remember that the plaque and the accusation was written in such a way to insult the jews Pilate is trying to insult the jews petty revenge Now verse 27 In verse 27 it reads with him Describing the setting they also crucified two robbers one on his right and the other on his left So the scripture was fulfilled which says and he numbered with the transgressors So here we have the setting Jesus is not alone Jesus has a criminal on his left and right and mark uses the term for a violent man Probably associated with barabbas the rebellion leader the terrorists we would use or turn the term he would use and these men Are the language that mark uses is one who steals another's property by violence The language it's the the term that the jesus used in the story of the good samaritan with the men who come down And they beat the good samaritan and leave him for death this kind of person And so one's on the left one's on the right the situation Is is telling us jesus has the place that most of the highest place of shame His his place is not an accident. It's communicating something to us And so now we've seen this verses 20 25 to 27 verse 28 Is uh likely in the it's not in the earliest the most reliable manuscripts But luke 22 verse 37 does have this verse And so in luke's verse and so we know this is scripture. We know this is quoting isaac 53 verse 12 Communicating the meaning behind the irony And it says and he was fulfilled the scripture says and he's numbered with the transgressors So now we've seen the situation I'm going to describe this scenario to you Walk through the situation Walk through the words and then we're going to come back at the end And talk about what they mean Let's continue to walk through The scene of the cross the first three hours Now we're moving away from in your outline moving away from the situational irony Now to hear the voices Now to hear the words Now to hear the mocking in verses 29 to 32 Let's walk through again and now in verses 29 and 32 to hear again. What is just what happens? Then we'll go back. What does it mean? In verse 29 we read and those who pass by Blaspheme them wagging their heads and saying aha you who destroy the temple and build it in three days Save yourself and come down from the cross So here we recognize these who are described as people who are just passing by Again, they were by the road or by the road And the general public is expressing a general public rejection of him They may be affected here by the false teachers the false religious leaders who are hanging out by the cross And they are They read the the crime over his head and they're in their own pride. They are insulted By the crime These pastor by people passing by they read it and they think this is not my king What an insult to me This is one remember Deuteronomy 21. This is one cursed by god someone who hangs on the tree And so as mark describes those who sit who pass by He describes them as mocking insulting reviling and unknowingly blaspheming By what they do When they wag their heads like this There's a jewish way of showing contempt scorn. It's also describing their arrogance It's expressing He's nothing I'm better He's no he's not my king Psalm 109 verse 25 describes how uh, it says I also have become a reproach to them when they look at me They shake their heads Again, the jewish a jewish way of this of expressing scorn mockery When they say aha This is a this is an exclamation. It's an emotional.   What authority do you have what shows who you are that you can be able to do this? And he says in verse 19 And jesus answered and said to them destroy this temple and in three days i will raise it up And the jews said it's taken 46 years to build this temple and you will raise in three days But john tells us what he was really talking about What does john say in verse 21, but he was speaking of the temple of his body In verse 22 therefore when he had risen from the dead His disciples remember that he had said this to them and they believed the scripture and the word which jesus had said So here back in mark 15 People are mocking people who are passing by on the road They don't know what they're saying they think they're quoting jesus They have a sense of victory over him And what evil it expresses That someone would die this way And then they would mock him as he dies this way and so We see in verse 30 Someone else is joining in with the mocking likewise the chief priests also mocking among themselves were described said he saved others Himself he cannot save Let the christ the king of israel descend now from the cross that we may see in belief In matthew's version 20 in chapter 27 verse 40 they also had add if you are the son of god So in matthew's version they speak to him mark's version they're speaking to each other And by mark's version Um, it's almost as if you can hear satan's voice right Through the mocking in the midst of the mocking He saved others himself. He can't save Let the christ the king of israel descend now from the cross that we may see in belief In verse 31 when we see this likewise the chief priests It's like likewise. We got another evil group likewise. We have another great expression of evil and wickedness And so they're also Mocking and they seem to be congratulating one another. They seem to be speaking to one another patting themselves on the on the back In vert in luke 23 35 they also turn their nose up at him To express their victory and how they're better What an amazing thing they say in verse 31, right? Others they say he saved others Himself he cannot save Of what an amazing thing, right? This could be a sarcastic referral to him how jesus how did he described how he forgave others or his healing ministry But but likely both likely both Look at how they acknowledge the good that he did It comes out of their own mouths and then look at how happy they are himself he cannot save In matthew's version in in chapter 27 verse 43.   If they don't believe the bible They're not going to believe if somebody comes back from the dead If they don't believe the book god has given They're not going to believe if somebody came back from the dead If you don't if you don't believe what the bible says here You wouldn't believe if your a failing member came back out of the grave and told you about heaven and hell And so we know They wouldn't believe anyway This is just their expression of sin and so they are speaking in such a way That they're they're speaking together To and they're speaking such a way to express that he's beneath them He's lost they've won This is an extreme form of shaming him They're trying to shame him and give him the greatest possible pain Not just physically he's suffering that but now emotionally as well And so we conclude with when it was we see the pastor buyers those who passed by mock him In verses 20 in verse 29 and 30 then in verse 31 and 32 the chief priests and religious leaders mock him And then at the end of verse 32 it says even those who were crucified with him Reviled him Even those who were being crucified Couldn't hold back They thought of themselves as better than jesus They began to mock And It was an amazing thing right They're thinking something like this Well, we're criminals, but look he's a fool He's a fool They're dying for their cause against likely against rome the rebellion against rome But they think he what is he dying for? What a fool Mark doesn't care to tell us about how one repented that's not his focus One of those thieves on the cross and mark doesn't tell us about how what jesus says Here about committing mary to john's care. That's not his focus he's focusing here on All the situation all the irony. Do you see the meaning behind the irony? Do you see What the truth is Behind this situation Behind this mocking This piece of meat Is as tough as a leather shoe What am I saying to you? What what is what is the truth behind this irony? What's the the truth behind this irony? This is what we want to focus in now I've explained to you the events the events that take place in the first three hours of the cross Now let's go back through Let's go back. Let's rewind people. They won't rewind anymore.  Whatever to go back to the beginning. Let's go back and watch it again And do you get what mark is telling you you get what god is telling you through the book of mark by Using the situation and these voices of mockery Let's walk through and then you hopefully you can see some these applications Let's look at verse 26 Where they talk about the king of the juice Look at how he's mocked Look at how pilot Wants to insult the jews.  He really is the son of david. He really is the king of the jews He really is the The one who crushes the serpent's head and gains victory And he does this Gains this cosmic victory through the suffering He rules as the son of david Be through this suffering because of this suffering The plaque that is above his head Is true because he's on the cross And god is declaring to us That he really is The king not just king of the jews, but king of kings and lord of lords and that all the universe is his What an amazing thing That he the king of kings would die He wears a crown And they mean to mock him But he Really is will be crowned and his crowned king of kings and lord of lords Look at how amazing god is That he could he would work through evil pilot That what pilot means for all evil God means for a great good To tell us something Something that we need to see and something we need to hear That the that plaque said the truth And as well in verse 32 when the Pharisees say let the christ the king of israel to send now from the cross He is the king and displays the fact that he's the king And is and is exalted as the mediatorial lordship because of this This suffering through this suffering It's his This aspect of his kingship Comes as a result of his suffering on the cross because of his humiliation obedience even to the death on the cross The spirit does not have this aspect of his kingship. The father does not have this aspect of His mediatorial kingship. The son alone has this because of his work of staying on that cross And the apostles preach in such a way in the book of acts And paul teaches in such a way to communicate this truth In the book of romans and in philippians chapter 2 And so Look at more details. Look at more irony Don't you get it as you read it through it?  Look at the situational irony They mean to say Jesus is the worst of this group by putting him in the middle By putting him with thieves They mean to say This is what happens to those who oppose wrong. This is what happens to those who who Say that they're the christ But what is god saying What is god saying by putting him between two criminals Isaiah tells us And he was numbered with the transgressors He is the true judge He's condemned at this place between criminals, but he's the one who will judge all the world God Is saying the true judge becomes treated like a criminal So that you As the true criminal might be saved He's communicating a substitutionary autonomy. He's communicating. He's taking the place of evil men That he would save many And so being in this place not just alone, but being between two other criminals And his silence, you notice Jesus didn't say anything Jesus doesn't say anything when they mock him When he takes uh in mark's account in mark's account when he takes us through chapter 15 There is a great silence No recording of screaming or suffering no recording of of words and mark has his silence on purpose To express that Jesus is quiet when they say You're a blasphemer you're a And all the things in the mocking and why is he silent because he's actually innocent But officially guilty He's in his true self and he's actually innocent, but why is he there?  He's He's not saying anything Because he's innocent But officially He must be treated as a guilty Do you see what god is saying by putting in between two criminals? He's taking our place Look at verse 29. Here's a mockery What is but what is god saying through this mockery?   Through their mockery What a What an amazing is our god That he wouldn't just use apostles To preach the truth Now he uses his enemies To declare the good news And they say Save yourself Verse 30 and 31 save yourself and come down from the cross and the chief priests also join it And they say he's saved others himself. He cannot say Look at the The true meaning what is god saying behind them What an amazing thing that By staying on the cross By not coming down He is the savior. He does display that he is the christ the king of the jews by doing the exact opposite of what they say He displays the great truth And he does them one better not just coming down from the cross. He three days later. He rises from the dead And he rises from the dead So declaring to all the victory is his the sacrifice is accepted And he is the lord of lords king of kings So he declares the truth by staying on the cross Do you have eyes to see ears to hear what god would have you hear today? This meat This is tough as a leather shoe What do I want? What do I want to tell you? Is this meat is tough? What does god want to tell you through this text? You see the emphasis? Think with me. How should you apply this today? We've seen today the first three hours of the cross and what mark wants this to hear Is great irony They say all evil and do all evil Well, what is god? What good what great the greatest good god is doing through this evil Should we not trust him? To in our lives When evil things happen should we not trust him? That he will work a good for his own people But shouldn't we do one greater Shouldn't we trust him for our own souls? Do you see your evil there? on the cross If you do not see that you deserve to die on the cross You cannot share in the blessings of the cross It's an easy thing to say but it is impossible to do To truly believe That I deserved To die on that cross That because of that i'm not just had not just done bad things, but I am an evil person To see that truth to believe that truth Is a gift from god And i'm declaring to you You must see it You must see it And you must believe it You must abhor yourself Turn from yourself and trust in christ to be your substitute Trust in him To save your soul To forgive you of your sins And to take you to heaven What a good savior we have trust in him believe in him repents Go on in that road persevere in that road Hearing this good news That's how you would apply today What does it mean to you today? What should it mean for you today this text this good story this good old story? Just part one part two is tonight come back If you're at all able The story does get better But apply what we've heard and seen this morning Apply it by enduring the shame To be named with christ You must be shamed today As part of walking that calvary road. It's part of what it means to be a christian To say what he said to walk as he walked You must be hated as well You must be mocked as well Know and recognize That's part of what it means to be a christian And take joy in it instead of complaining How this should be an encouragement to you To trust in him to believe upon him Let's pray Jesus christ Once again, we we think about your great sacrifice Your great obedience Your perfect life You're taking the curse in our place We bless your name Today we help help us Today we help help us this morning To hear the irony to see the irony in the situation And not just to hear that your enemy's voices Not just see what your enemies have done Help us to see what you have done Help us please use this this um This short time or to save people here And to sanctify your saints Thank you for the opportunity to worship you And glorify you So we pray lord we put this uh this time in your hands for you to Be at work through your word and we trust you Your name we pray amen


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. Welcome to the August 16th, the wonderful Wednesday edition of today's Trader's Edge show. I'm your host, D.B. Perseverance Rhodes, who absolutely knows that each of us should always be pioneers of our future versus prisoners of our past. Hope everyone out there's having a great day. Let's make sure we have an extraordinary one. Now, the easiest way to do that is to always remember that life, it's happening for us, not to us. That's right. When you and I make that one little two by four shift, means we can find the gift in every set of circumstance that life is gonna toss at us. Now today, you and I, we're gonna go check on the circumstance of these markets. We'll go figure out what those bulls and bears, what those buyers and sellers are communicating to you and I at just past 11 o'clock in the morning. I want you to know I'm absolutely grateful for your presence here, but even more important than that, and that's this during this next 53 minutes, I am here to serve you. So feel free to pick up that phone, dial on in at<PHONE_NUMBER>. Now, if you've got a question, but you can't call in, you can send me an email. Send that up early and send it to Steve at TFNN.com. And inside the subject heading, please put radio show question. Now, if you're inside our Tigers Den, well then any and every ping will do. So let's go ahead and get this show started on wonderful Wednesday. Of course, this is Tiger. Financial News Network. I'm Steve Rhodes. Welcome to the show. Mixed back out here. Got the Dow up 114, the S&P up eight, the Nasdaq 118, the Russell's off three, the summaries are down 17. Gold is trading off 40 cents. Silver's up one penny. Life's recruit is off nine cents. Natural gas is down eight pennies. 30 Treasuries up two ticks. Printed out at 120.05. Now lead the charge dollar-wise the upside. You've got HubSpot up nearly 2% or 10 bucks. Progressive Corp is up nearly 11 bucks or 9%. All the beauty up 2% 9 bucks. SIA Inc., the freight company, 2% 9 dollars there and Broadcom up 1%. That's an $8 move. To the downside, it's SAC's Perente Golf. Down 80% 23 bucks. I don't know who that is, but it's a stinger. Coherent Corp is down 33%. Another stinger there. Down 16 dollars. Henry Jacken Associates, 7% or 12 bucks. 25% for VinFast Auto. And Waters Corp is down about 3%. That's a $8 move. But to start our day, we're gonna go out to California and speak with Garo. Garo, thanks for calling. Thanks for holding. How are you today? I'm very good, sir. How about you? Excellent, thanks for asking. We're back to taking a look at Square, I believe, right? SQ is a ticker symbol out here. Tell the folks what you're doing. Yeah, tell the folks what you're doing and how I can best help you at this stage. Yes, sir. It is the daily chart on that. My charting system shows there are two supports. One is support. The first support is 57.54. The next one is 57.72. I don't know if that matches with your numbers. But that's what it says. And it's very close to that. I wanna make sure, I wanna not make sure. I wanna see your idea regarding that. That is the bottom. It's gonna build a base there or it's gonna go below than that. Okay, so we do have some numbers that are pretty close to being in agreement, I believe. So I'm looking at the weekly timeframe chart right now. I've got my white background charts up here. And what we'll notice on a weekly base, I know you mentioned the daily, and I'll get to the daily momentarily. But what stuck out me as you were going through your review and identifying support in the 57-ish range out there, I have a daily TD9 count to breakout level of 57.78. So I show that as being a key area of support. And it can be a bottom. So this formed a TD9 count top. It completed that pattern back on the, this is a weekly chart. We're looking at the week of August the 4th out here. And so if price closed below 57.78, then the next area I believe that I'd be looking at would be 42.33. So that's the first thing. As we get down to an area I had set on the weekly chart, price has gotten down towards that breakout level 57.78. When price does that, what I look for is on the shorter term timeframe, see if we've got any kind of bottoming patterns. And here, voila, it turns out that yesterday was a TD9 count bottom. And that says that Garo, as long as price does not close below yesterday's low, you could see a bottom and a bounce, or you should see a bottom and a bounce. And that bounce should at least take us up towards the 64, 24, 64.78-ish type area. Now, today's going to be a key day for Square because our price closed below yesterday's low, and yesterday's low is 58.13, then that tells us about a further move lower. Now what we don't know is whether or not it will actually bust through 57.78, but that would be the signal that it would be sending to us. So we have, on a weekly basis, price getting back to a level of sport that can be a bottom. We've got a daily TD9 count bottom pattern that came in yesterday, and really it's going to be all about yesterday's low. Will it hold or not? And so I think this one is pretty easy to call with regard to key levels of support or resistance. It's at 58.13, and obviously the 57.78 on the weekly, 58.13 being yesterday's low. Any questions about those charts, Garo? No, everything was fine. I wrote it down. There was a 54 and something on a weekly chart. You said if that doesn't hold 57.78, the next one was 54 dollars and change. 42.33, 42.33 would, yeah. 42.33, very good. And that comes from, that is, so both the monthly and the weekly had TD9 count tops and the breakout level for the monthly timeframe would be that 42.33 area. So the first thing, the first level is watching yesterday's low. Right now we're trading below that, but we need to see where we're at at the end of the day. 58.13, 57.78 fails, and I say 42.33 would be targeting. Sort of some other bottom pattern that we would see, and I don't have anything yet. I didn't have that number, so I wrote everything down, you said, and I'm gonna be watching with your heart and see what happens, because once it turns around and it starts to go up, then I'm gonna follow that, yeah. I appreciate it very much for your time and listening to me, thank you, sir. Have a nice day.  And Garo, thanks much for calling. Always good to speak with Garo, who has his own set of charts on Stevie's system. You gotta love that. So thanks for that call. Let's get back to just the overview of the markets where we're at in this next minute or so. So to do that, let's switch over to this set of charts here. I think this chart, this set of charts is probably important. It's very important. And that's where we take a look at the daily equity future contract. So on the upper left-hand side, you've got the ES mini. You'll see the TD9 Cal Bottom, 44.47 is that key threshold level. If price closed below that, that says we had lower out here. Otherwise we should see a rally. That rally should take us up to the 45.33 level. It would be better for the ES if he closed back above the bottom or get back inside his profile at 44.69. The NQ also forming a TD9 Cal Bottom. That remains in effect unless price closed below 15.0, 20.75. Short of that price should target the 15.437-ish area. The Dow does not have any kind of a bottoming pattern out here. It's basically been trading sideways to lower. And so it could be targeting 34.410. But if we take a look at the Russell 2000, today is going to complete its TD9 Cal Bottom. I don't know where today's low will be. Whatever that low is though, that's what you would mark on your pad of paper. Price closed below that, just like Garro and I did. We took a look at Square. If the Russell 2000 were to close below today's low, whatever that is, tomorrow, that would negate that signal. And that would be telling us about a potential move back to the 17.60 level. So three of the four equity future contracts have got TD9 Cal Bottoms. Question is, do those levels hold? And if those levels hold, well we should see our rallies up towards those oscillator unchanged line levels. Steve Rhodes with TFN, we get back from this break to take a snow, TTD, Neumann, Tesla, natural gas, ANET, Apple, and Microsoft. We'll be right back. 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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This is coming in from Sat P. Let's take a look at Snow, ticker symbol SN, that's Snowflake at ticker symbol SNOW. And the question is, he's looking for an entry point. Well, you've got it right here right now. So if you're looking for an entry point, it's here. Why? Because what we've got is a TD9 count bottom. That TD9 count bottom completed yesterday, as long as price does not close below, so it's an easy trade here. If price does not, if you would exit that trade, if price were to close below 1.50.07, that would negate that TD9 count bottom pattern. And the reason why you would enter. So you could enter it now. Your price target, or at least your first target, is going to be the 1.5780 area. The reason I have to say areas, because if this rallies up, the number's gonna go up, that number's coming from that oscillator on change line area. So you've got the daily bottom. If I look at a week, I'm not sure, if I look at a 30-minute chart, just to confirm the daily bottom, what you have this morning is you've got a roadsman to indicator bottom. That took place at 10 o'clock. So price went ahead, it pushed lower, it was testing the TD9 count. I've got a roadsman to indicator bottom pattern here. So you've got the confirmed buy signal right here, right now. So now is the time. Now, as far as a, as far as a, so your entry point, you've got that. You're right around 1.5080. Now this on an average daily true range, over the last 10 days, has, is about $6.15. So 6.15 is the average true range of this. Where's the price target? Well, we said the price target was up right now about 1.5783 or there about. So if you take the trade, it's going to be less than a one-to-one risk reward out there because what I use, what I would use for your average true range, you've got $6.15, as I mentioned, but you need to use some type of Fibonacci expansion. You use either 1.272 or 1.618. I was using 1.618. I typically would fall back on that, but that's just your first price target. Your real price target out here is 1.7280. And 1.7280 would be its TD9 count breakdown level. Now 1.7280, your reward risk on that gets up to about 2.1 to one out there. So that would, you know, you've got really, you've got your first resistance zone and battleground at 1.5780-ish area and then a price can close above the asset and change line, that would be signaling to you and I move up to the 1.7280 area. So you've got your entry point inside of SnowSat and everybody else that's out there. Make sure you use proper position sizing, which would be about 10 shares per $10,000 of free trading capital out there. So that's what I'd be taking a look at. Your next request was to take a look at, and this is for Sat P. His next request was to take a look at TD, TTD out here. TTD, which is also in the process of completing a TD9 count bottom day. This is the trade desk. So your entry point, it basically could be right here. Now let's take a look at a 30 minute timeframe chart and see if there was some kind of bottom out here. And the, what do you got? You've got arrangement to indicator bottom. That went ahead and confirmed at 10.30, it bowled through at 11. Price right now is consolidating with inside that profile. It could back down to the bottom of the profile at 73.32. The top is active as resistance at 74.18. But to be clear of that, it should be on its merry way to higher ground. So you're getting the bottoming signals that you're looking for. You want it inside of TTD. Now the average price movement on TTD is $2.87. That's again, over the last 10 day period. This is trading right now at 73.36. Let's stick this in my little calculator system here. And our price target would be, again it would be that oscillator and change line at this stage, 81.12 would be the level. So this would give you about a 1.6 to one reward, so buck 60, oh I said it's 287. So 287 times either 1.272 or 1.6, that would be about 22 shares per every 10,000 and free trading capital. Now if price closed below today's low, it's sad I don't know what today's low is gonna be. I know what it is right now. I just don't know what would be at the end of the day. But right now that low is 72.80. Let's assume that low holds. A close below that would have you get out of the trade. A close, not price intraday tested, but a close below because that pattern would get negated. If that gets negated, that tells us that we're likely headed back maybe towards the 64.56 level out there. For right now you were looking for an entry point while you've got the TD-9s to help you out. And I hope that that helped you out with both which it should have with both of those trades. That was for Sat P inside the Tiger's Den. And thanks much for the request. The next request from Tom G coming in by email as well. And he's looking for an entry point into Newmont Mining. This question is, is right here right now an entry point at 38.37. I wish I knew the answer to that question. If I answered that question only by looking at the Newmont Mining charts out here, my answer to that would be no. Why would that be no? It would be no because we don't have any kind of a bottoming pattern on a daily timeframe. In fact, what we had was yesterday, was it yesterday that no, yeah it was, no I take that back. It was on Monday that the, its TD-9 count bottom was negated. So on a weekly basis I don't have any kind of bottom. I have price perhaps trading back into support and support would be the low from November 4th. That low out there is 37.45. On a monthly basis price is below profile support. So it could be targeting 32.86. Now I was, I said, I wish I knew if it was gonna form a bottom. The issue here is that Newmont Mining will move with gold or should move with gold. So if you're asking me does Newmont Mining have a bottoming signal that says that you should take the trade now, the answer would be no. If I go to the 30 minute timeframe chart that I'm gonna do here, we've got a TD-9 count bottom and a Roadsman to Mindicator signal. This says we should see a rally. However, if price closes below the low of the day so far, the low of the day at Newmont Mining, let me just give that to you, it's gonna move us over here. The low of the day is at 38.21. You just get a close below that. That tells us that Newmont Mining is headed lower. What should transpire here is if price can clear this oscillator and change now, we're seeing that's what it's dealing with right now. And that's Tom at 38.32. We should at least see a rally up into the 38.92 level. Now the caveat with regard to any of the mining equities, quite frankly, is what is gold going to do? And that was really the hesitation, Tom. And the reason was because what we've got in Goldilocks is we've got TD-9 count bottom patterns out here. In fact, we've got it for gold and silver. If I just switch over and I throw up these charts, I believe we'll get them. Now this is gonna show gold, silver, the GLD, SLB. So it's got all everything daily and weekly for each of them. What you're gonna see here is in the upper left on the daily timeframe, we've got that TD-9 count bottom for gold. As long as that remains in effect here and it remains in effect as long as price continues to close above 19.34.20, we should at least see a rally to the 1951 level. Silver's also got that TD-9 count bottom. So if we do start to see gold and silver rally, although Newmont Mining won't have a bottoming signal, it likely will rally as well. And that's where this gets a little bit dicey and tricky. But to answer your specific question about Newmont Mining and we just take a look at that chart, we don't pay attention to gold or silver. The answer was no other than on that 30 minute timeframe out there. But you've got some pretty good parameters, I think, Tom, to help you out for the rest of the day. So thanks much for taking the time to write in. Let's go to our next question out here. This is from Kota inside the Tigers and wanted to take a look at Tesla. Now what Tesla did yesterday was it negated his TD-9 count bottom. It did it immediately, did it in one day's time. So what that tells us, Kota, is we should see Tesla continue to move lower. Now on a daily basis, its next area of support would be at 195.12. That's a TD-9 count breakout level. What Tesla also needs to do to confirm that signal that it's gonna get down there, it has to close below the bottom of its bullish structured weekly profile. 23193 is the number I'd have on my pad of paper there, Kota. 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Educating investors. 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. Welcome back up for folks. What we're first gonna do is we're gonna go take a look at the GDX. We had a caller Dave in Framingham. Dave, my apology for not picking up on and seeing that you were on hold there. That's my fault, that's on me. But I know that you were calling about the GDX. You're welcome to call back in, but I'll cover this for you. And hopefully I'll review your question. So what took place yesterday in the GDX was price closed below it's TD9 count bottom. That TD9 count bottom formed on August the 8th. The low of that pattern was at 2867. Price closed below that yesterday and it gave the signal. That would have been the reason to have been long the GDX out there. So at this stage here and of any kind of a bottom pattern there's an A to B equals CD that is in place out here. If we generate or it generates a bullish reversal candle that would then confirm a Gartley butterfly pattern because we've extended past the swing point here from June the 29th. So the next pattern, next viable pattern that I see that would be printing inside the GDX would be a bullish reversal candle that would then generate the buy the D point which would in this case here create a Gartley butterfly buy. On a weekly basis price right now is trading below last week's profile below the bottom of its profile. That's at 2912 and a close below that would also suggest lower price. As far as lower price is concerned when we take a look at the monthly timeframe chart it brings into play 2353 to 2554. Very much like Newmont mining though Dave is that if you've got gold and silver that've got those 89 count bottoms if they take hold then we should see the GDX stocks move up. That's not a really a great tool let's say to say go ahead and take a long position inside the GDX. I just need to make you aware of that. And on a 30 minute basis if we take a look at the GDX as an example we've got gold and silver still trading right at or just above their TD 9 count breakout or as you got TD 9 count bottoms on the GDX for its 30 minute timeframe. And if price were to close above 2856 that could be signaling something to us but we'll have to go figure out what that something is by take a look at gold and silver and so forth. So at this stage here if you were long I close it out or at least have a stop some low maybe today's low or what have you but the reasons to be in they failed yesterday Dave. So I hope that helps you out. If not, please call back and we'll make sure that that I get to your call. So hope that that helped you and thanks so much for the call out there. I'm going to do this here. I'm going to take a look at Kota we'll go to natural gas after this. Otherwise I'll kind of screw up my place holder here. So I'm going to take a look at Anet for a 007 inside the Tigers then that's James Bond 777 Jack is the code word that he goes by but I know that's got to be James Bond. It's Jack Bond and we take a look at Anet out here Anet trading at about 181 34 and the question was really just to take a look at it. This is Arista networks and Arista networks is trading with inside its daily profile. I don't see any kind of a bottoming pattern if anything it negated a TD nine count top couple of weeks ago on the trading day of August the first with some big wide price movement and pretty good volume in this position 16 million shares on average does a couple million a day trading with inside the profile no topping signal trading trading above its green oscillator and change line. Jack this suggests the run back for the 186 50 level on a weekly timeframe no topping signal above profile above its oscillator and change line this suggests a further move higher on a monthly basis a close above at the end of the month the close above 178 36 would negate its TD nine count top prices trading above a new profile that formed last night at 178 36 everything on Arista networks looks pretty hunky Dory but you do have some battles that's for sure and that battles up at the 186 50 level. So hope that helps you out with regard to Arista networks and thanks much for writing in Jack. We're gonna go take a look at natural gas right now which is trading back towards its weekly a daily profile support level we should be able to pick that up here on these charts and that daily profile support I'll just simply expand out the chart or delete it. Now that was really smart. Steve all good Lord. Let me just see if I any chance that I didn't delete it looking at another screen another screen maybe right here pick the some what we got. Okay good. All right. So I didn't delete it. I just minimized it. Thank you. Now we're gonna go ahead and expand it out. So here's what we've got going on inside of the inside of natural gas. So you can see the A to B equal CD pattern. Did it actually complete it? Let me see. I don't think it did but let me see. So here's A to B. I'm gonna move this over to the C point out here so we can grab it. That would be right there. And it really didn't make that A to B equal CD. Okay. So I don't know why it topped the where it did. In other words, well, I take that. No, I really don't know why it topped where it did. Doesn't matter. That's not what we're dealing with here right now. Is it? What we're dealing with is what the heck is price doing and Kota, what price is doing is pulling back into its bullish structured profile level. That's between 251 and 256 out there. That's what's going on on the daily timeframe. Now, when you're pulling back into a support structured area, what you like to see if that area is gonna hold is either bottoming signals on the intraday charts. So we've got the 30 minute chart is the smallest timeframe that I've got in this set of patterns out here. Give me a second here. And if we take a look at it, you've got a Roachman-Demindicator bottom pattern that is attempting to form. We've got that's 11.36, so we won't know till 9 a.m. If it does form, then the next area of resistance for natural gas is gonna be 259 and above that 2.609 and above that 2.624. So this is suggesting we should see a little bit of a rally. Maybe it was a bottom on the daily timeframe. Let's continue with these intraday charts. A 16 minute chart is a wave number seven pattern out there. That just needs a higher low. That's not gonna happen until the earliest that that could happen would be by one o'clock. But this also has a Roachman-Demindicator signal. And if at 12 noon we have a bullish reversal candle, at the moment it's a hammer candle. I don't know whether a hammer candle sticks at 12 noon or not. But if it does, that would confirm a bottom. The 120 minute negated a TD9 count, that's not confirming a bottom. You're in bar number eight on a 240. That's gonna take several hours before that could confirm a bottom. No bottom signal on the five hour chart. So natural gas, this is a doozy. This is a struggle out here. You're traded into the support area. So here's how you're traded. If that is a bottom, you'll start to see resistance levels fail out here. And the resistance level that we need to fail on the 30 minute timeframe, but I have to say it'd be $2.64 cents out. I'll call it 265 is where price would have to move through. So hope that helps you out, Kota. And thanks so much for the request. Let's go back to the phone lines. Is it Garro that we have on the line? Or is it Dave? David. David. David, thanks so much for calling back. Thanks for taking my call. Sure, sure. I'll see you real quick. I'm looking at the, on the GDX, there's a gap of 28 back on March 13th there. Is that have to get filled?  So I'm gonna pull up the GDX charts right now. So give me a moment. God, I guess, yeah. Yeah. So does it have to get filled? March 13th area there. Yeah. No, I see what you're looking at. And the price point that he's looking at, would be $27.95. If price got down to $27.95, it would fill. The actual low so far today has been $2,803. Does it have to get filled? Yeah, it doesn't have to get filled. I would say if the following conditions were to form, if we got a bullish reversal candle days then, you could get a small little bullish hammer candle. And as long as gold holds its TD9 count bottom, and as well as a silver, then my answer to that would be no, we don't have to, because you'd have a buy the D point pattern. 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An investment in the funds is subject to risk, including the possible loss of principal. The funds 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. Welcome back, folks. We're on the line with Dave in Framingham, Massachusetts. We'll take a look at the chart here for the GDX. His question is, does the gap need to be filled? The gap he's looking at is one that formed on March the 13th when price gapped up. And before it went to break, what I said was no. And the reason I said no was because of the correlation that gold has with regard to the GDX silver as well. And Dave, I always like to prove my points with facts. If that gap has to be filled, then we should be asking ourselves, well, how about the gap that formed back here on November the 14th, 2022, gigantic gap, that hasn't been filled. I can go back 2016 and show you gaps that haven't been filled. I can go back even further than that with regard to the GDX. So factually speaking, historically speaking, analyzing the stock charts out there, the answer is no. At least with regard to the GDX. It'll be, in fact, if we go take a look at the correlation here, I'm gonna go ahead and switch screens and you'll just see, now this is a three-day correlation. Out here that we're taking a look at right now. Top portion of the chart is a GDX, center portion is gold. And what this is taking a look at is the correlation between the two, the directional correlation. When bars are above zero, which the majority of these bars are, 90% of these bars are above zero, it tells you about a directional correlation over a three-day period of time.  Newmont Mine is gonna be more influenced by the direction of gold and silver than it is with regard to where gaps are present. Does that make sense? The other quick question is the UUP, the dollar. Okay, dollar, real quick. Yeah. It topped out at 2872 in June. Now we made a double top at 2875 about three days ago. I believe the dollar is topped out here. So is that gonna help the, if that starts dropping here, the dollar, it's gonna help, correct? It will help. It will help. Does it, at least at this stage here, there's still a pretty good correlation between the U.S. dollar index and the mine, and gold out here. The question is, has it topped out? So on a daily timeframe, before it asked me, do I have a topping pattern, the answer is no. But we take a look at the weekly chart and that's the upper right-hand panel that we're looking at right now. You can see the descending trend line, which price is run into. And you can see that price is trading with inside a bearish structured weekly profile. So in order for the dollar to break out or to not have topped out, you need to see a weekly close above 10349. You really need to see two close, but one would start that chain reaction. Charlie, what I do expect, so I just wanna, I'm gonna just lay this out for you. What I do expect to take place, gold's really gonna move because of issues with regard to lack of confidence in governments. Which it seems like we're really headed down that road here. That's what it will really move out here. And when that happens, you should see what we will see is we will see gold and the US dollar and the mining equities all move north all at the same time. And the proof of that is the dollar bottomed in 2008 and gold's much higher than it was in 2008. So gold in theory has been rallying as has the US dollar index. But right now, to answer your question, yes, it would be better if the US dollar index were pulling lower than it is, that it was headed lower. So that would be helpful. But I think we're getting towards a period of time, let's say over the next 12 months, I don't know when it will kick in, that we'll see all three of those things rise at the same time. Yeah, because I was looking at the UUP here where it topped out at 2875 as a double top. You see the same thing that I'm looking at? Well, I'll go take a look at the UUP charts, but the UUP is getting its calls and its action from its other charts. Really, when we take a look, even when I just go take a US dollar index, I'm being unfair because we really have to see what's going on with the underlying instruments. In order for the, here's what I can say with certainty, in order for the US dollar index to top, we need to see the Euro form a bottom. And that needs a bullish reversal candidate. I don't know that we have that in place just yet, but do I see that double top inside the US dollar index and UUP? I do, but I'll take more of my calls, not from the ETF, but instead what the instruments are doing, what the Euro is doing, which we won't have time to take a look at today, but what the Euro, the end, but I'll definitely do that tomorrow. I did that yesterday, so if you were to go watch yesterday's replay, you will see the evaluation that I do with regard to try and understand what the US dollar index is doing out there. And that's a better, that's a better place for us to spend our time. Okay. Thank you very much, Steve. Oh, my pleasure. Thank you so much for calling back and sorry that I didn't get to your call when you first called. That was Charlie and Framingham. Let's go on to our next request out here, this is for Nancy inside the tiger zone. She wants to take a look at Apple. Now, Apple has a TD9 count bottom pattern. Nancy, that TD9 count bottom formed, well, the low of that bottom is on August 11th. That's your key level to be watching. That's at 176.55. It's trying right now to form a roadsment and indicator bottom. It doesn't really need to. But what you really need to see Apple do is get back inside its profile levels. And right now it's struggling at 178.13. And 178.13 is a real key level of resistance or a key level of support because both the center and the bottom, oh, it's Charlie, not David, I'm sorry. Sorry about making that mistake. In any event out here, if we take a look at, if we take a look, so both the center and bottom are at that 178.13 area. So that should have been strong support. Yesterday it broke through it. Now we're gonna have two days below it. If we have two days below it, even though you'd be more neutral than bullish and a price close below that TD9 count bottom Nancy, you're asking where price is gonna head to 175.31 would be the first stop and 178.172 could be the next stop down. But right now you've got valid bottom patterns out there and that has to get negated in order for price to head lower. Your next request was to take a look at Microsoft. MSFT is a ticker symbol out here. As we take a look at Microsoft, I don't have any kind of a bottom. Yeah, except they couldn't form that today. What would that be? That's the A to B equal CD pattern. So let's take a look at A to B. Let's draw that in there. Let's just simply move that line over to the C point out here. Give me a moment. There's our C point. You can see this is more than a one to one A to B equal CD. So that's probably one to 1.272. If you get a bullish reversal candle today and right now it's a bullish engulfing. That's at 1148. What's it at 4 p.m.? I don't know. But if you did get that, we should see a move up into the oscillator and change line around the 327-ish range and above that 330, 36. And if price can clear that's the top of its bearish structure daily profile. Price can clear that. Nancy, you're off to 335.71. So watch the day's action on Microsoft. If you get that bullish reversal candle, then this is likely gonna at least bounce up to that oscillator and change line. The next request came in from Phil inside the Tigers then I believe it was. He wanted to take a target out here. So what do we have for target? Target negated a TD9 count bottom yesterday. But what still has held, it was testing the lows here from June 12th. That was a rogment to indicator bottom and only a close below that low. That would be 125.08, which suggests that we're headed lower. Now volume back then was about 8.2 million shares. Yesterday this did volume as it was moving now at 9.4 million shares. So likely that candle is going to get tested again. And if price closes below this red oscillator and change line, that's at 129.19, then odds would favor a retest of that area. As far as where resistance is at, the key level of resistance inside of Targe is 136.54. Price can close above that, you're headed higher. Price was also testing the weekly TD9 count and rogment to indicator bottom. Now on a weekly basis, the volume was 50 million shares. So far this week in Target, we are done with 27 million shares. So this could be testing that swing point on lighter volume out there. But if that fails, if all that fails to hold, then we'll be looking at out here Phil as a move back to 106.10. Steve Rhodes with TFNN, we'll be right back. If you're looking for potential trading setups in the stock market, then Rocket Equities and Options Report is a newsletter you should try. Tommy O'Brien delivers options and equity trades when the markets present them using a combination of fundamentals and technicals. Sign up for Rocket Equities and Options Report today with a 30-day money-back guarantee so you have nothing to risk. For all the details and to start your subscription today, visit the front page of TFNN.com. TFNN, educating investors. 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Hosted at Discord, TFNN has been educating traders for more than 20 years with live programming hosted by a variety of professional traders during market hours, the Tiger's Den. Available to all tigers and tigers for just $1 for the year. There's no cash or added costs when you join our community of traders. Sign up today and become a part of this educational community of traders. Just visit the front page of TFNN.com. Sorry, folks, a quick run through. I was on the wrong set of charts out there. Let's take a look at the target out here. You can see price right now, a train below that red oscillator and change on in the daily timeframe. It was testing that swing low from back here on June the 12th, so likely that's going to be retargeted. It may only be the high that gets targeted at 127.39, but that's the target. You can see the weekly rogment of indicator, TD9 count bottom again. Do you get closer below those levels, those levels out there? Again, price point is at 120.08. That would suggest we head to the 106.10 area. For Nancy, it was with regard to Microsoft. If we take a look at Microsoft out there, this is a bullish engulfing candle as we speak. There's your C, there's your B to D. A leg out here that I've got drawn in there that would create a buy the D point pattern with one of the 327 area being a price target. And back to Apple out here. Apple has a TD9 count bottom that formed a few days ago. This should take price up to the its oscillator and change line to 182 level, but right now price is struggling with that bottom of that Profile 178.13 out there. So sorry that I didn't have the chart showing, but we got that solved out here. Last request coming in from the Tigers, Den McGuppy wants to take a look at IONQ out here. I thought I had that. I think it's in position one. Here we go. So IONQ, IONQ could be forming an A to B equal CD to the downside today. All it needs to do is close below this low. This low is the August 9th low of 1410. If it can do with more than 12 million shares right now, we've got 9.2. It's gonna have more than, it's gonna have more than the shares. So if it closes below that low, and again that low out here for IONQ is 1410, you'll have a confirmed A to B equal CD to the downside. Where I give you the estimated price projection on that because I'm just using my Align tool out here, but it would be somewhere in the 1166 area. It turns out at 1222, you've got the bottom of its weekly profile support. So you close below that low. I believe the McGuppy, this is headed to the 1222 or lower level. And that's in ticker symbol IONQ. So folks, stay tuned for all the great programming we have lined up. Please have a wonderful Wednesday and I'll look forward to seeing you on terrific Tuesday. Thanks for the call, Dave. Thanks for the call, Garo. And thanks for all the requests inside the tiger stand and by email. There may even be a few more by email that I didn't get to. I hope not. Looks like we're pretty good. So folks, have a great day and I'll see you on terrific Thursday. Take care.


Electric alia, begins flight testing at Eglin Air Force Base. The beta technology's alia aircraft lifted off, for its first official test flight here, November 7, 2023. The goal of this first test was to examine battery usage over certain distances with specific power configurations, as well as the ground logistics of executing back-to-back flights with an electric aircraft. The mission of the day was for alia pilots to fly 68 nautical miles to Tyndall AFB, land and return. Upon returning to Duke Field, north of Eglin, the aircraft then recharged via the Defense Department's first and only aircraft charging station. Alia took approximately an hour to fully recharge. The aircraft received a maintenance check and then a new beta aircrew flew a second mission. This process is similar to the military flight operation, hot-pitting, where an aircraft flies a mission, lands for refueling and then flies again. Only with alia, the fuel is electricity. This was also the aircraft's first solo mission, here as well. Alia flew a local area, Eglin Range Familiarization Flight, November 3, but was accompanied by a chase aircraft. Today's mission was an excellent first step to exploring what this aircraft type can offer the Air Force and the military, said 2nd Lt. Maria Reynoso, 413th Flight Test Squadron Agility Prime Lead Test Engineer. This first test also incorporated initial infrared or IR recordings by 782nd Test Squadron sensor operators. The operators recorded the alias' takeoffs and landings with special IR cameras that collected heat signature data. These early recordings provide an IR baseline for the test team, and help calibrate their sensors for a future test in December with alia. We are trying to get an idea of what kind of IR signature this aircraft is putting out, said Josh Bohannon, 782nd TS Senior Electronics Engineer. We want to compare electric aircraft IR signatures to conventional fuel aircraft signatures. Infrared engine signature is a metric that helps determine survivability of an aircraft, and this is our first look at an electric aircraft engine in flight. That data along with the battery usage and, logistics findings will be recorded for the overall of work's electric vertical takeoff and landing program. The alia aircraft is flown and maintained by, beta technologies operators. A fork's agility prime manages and sponsors all the alia testing. Here all Air Force of those programs.


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So we have 37 minutes left. I want to make sure that we have some time for people sitting in the room to be able to raise questions. So what I'd like to do now, if it's possible, is really to ask each of you a question which I'd like, if it's possible, to answer it very quickly in two minutes, if you could. And the first question I have is for you, Madam Thuray, which is you heard this vision of multiple frameworks and coexisting. In some ways, you have some of that already. From your point of view, would that be a good outcome or would that be a bad outcome? Well, definitely. I spent now some years in the multilateral organization. I was a former UN personnel for many years. I went back to government. And I came out of this process thinking that you need frameworks, for sure. You need many frameworks. And I always speak from the point of view of Africa now, I mean, after having been global now, focusing on Africa, the richest continent, by the way, by any means, and the poorest. So whatever framework that we'll deal with that issue, we're going to be part of it first. Second, I'm more interested in, I think that's the feeling in the continent that we have to take business into our own hands. How to strengthen African Union, how to make sure that we are self-interest driven because that's how the world works. We are going to be more forward-coming in terms of defending our interests, being very strong on whatever issues and making our own points. I appreciate it when you talk about forcing some countries to take part. That was the case for the Russia-Ukraine war and most of African countries look at it as a white man's war somehow and just didn't take it in a position and that's how it's right, like everybody does. But I think the questions that need to be reflected upon is how are we going to make sure that we move forward peacefully, peacefully to a more equal order, an order that respects the environment, that put women also on an equal footage, nobody brought the issue of inequalities and making sure that young people are part of it and that we need for the corporations, I think that's very important to bring that upon, to look beyond profit because we are a profit-driven world as we speak. So it's not enough anymore. So do we want to go through changes by revolution or do we want to be smarter and put in place equal frameworks where true discussion comes out of what we want to build for the future? Every time I come in this country, in the Emirate, I remember that Dubai 100 years ago was a small Bedouin village. So how did change occur? It means that it's possible. It means that you can accelerate change and then you can have a more sane discussion because we are having an insane discussion because you do have a pool of very wealthy group of countries in front of very poor countries, but within those countries you do also have that huge gap. I was visiting south of Senegal in the mining areas just before I came. It was terrible. You do have very big mining companies taking gold out of the country and they were not even capable of building a decent road because they don't care about it. They just have an airport, they can fly a private jet, it looks like the world we are in. So how are we going to take a pause and then come back to what the United Nations was supposed to be as a promise and share the common interests as human beings? Other than that, people are what I'm seeing now very much even within the intellectual elite is let's focus on our own interests as the rest of the world is doing. Human rights, okay, we can talk about it very globally but it's not a reality, so that's how we look at it. So what are the solutions that we want to come up with that are human rights-centered, that are equal and preserve the environment beyond just the idea of pursuing profit? Thank you very much. So a very clear message that you want to be clear about your own interests and engage in multiple conversations, multiple frameworks but be clear about what is to the benefit of the continent and organize yourselves in a way to better represent those interests. And in that context, I assume that you and many leaders in Africa would welcome the decision about making the African Union part a permanent member of the G20 because I think that in some ways is one forum where that could happen.