Hello everybody hoodedCoreCommander788 here and this is a special unboxing and assembly video. We haven't done one of these in a long time. I have the 1993 Ninja Force Ninja Lightning Motorcycle. This is an open box, it was open when I bought it, but the contents inside are still sealed in the factory sealed bag. And I am going to do the unthinkable. I am going to open the bag and I am going to attempt to assemble this vehicle. Other YouTube channels have tried to assemble this vehicle, Sanitarium Productions and G.I. Joburg tried to put this thing together and they both broke it. So if I can successfully assemble this vehicle without breaking it, I will be the Ninja Lightning World Champion. I guess I would have to find something else to review, but I really want to review this so let's be very careful and put it together. I have some tools that I may need here to assemble this. So let's take it out of the box first. The box was open when I got it. So let's pull out the factory sealed bag with the contents. That's the whole vehicle there. Looks like the sticker sheet is in there. And then also in the box there's a catalog, a 1993 catalog, we've seen that before. And then in the bottom we have the instruction for the assembly. There's the instruction sheet and on the back of that the blueprints. So let's follow the instructions carefully and start putting this thing together. First we shall do the unthinkable and cut open this factory sealed bag. You ready? Here it goes. Here it goes. Oh, puncture. No longer factory sealed. There we go. All right. So let's take this thing out now. We've got some parts on the plastic trees there. There is the sticker sheet. Let's see, it looks like, oh, it's kind of stuck in there. It's hooked on something. I don't want to break it. I'm not going to break it before I even get it out of the bag. There are the wheels, also on a kind of a rubbery tree there.  And let's see, there's the side mounted missile launcher. And this one is hooked on the main body of the vehicle and I want to try to carefully pull it off. But yeah, see part of it is one of the wheels has already come off of the sprues. So we have a situation here before you even get it out of the bag. Like this piece here is hooked, really well hooked on the main body of the motorcycle. So let's pull the whole thing out, set that aside, and carefully, there we go. There we go. We've got it apart. So there's the main body of the vehicle and the wheels, missiles and such. Side mounted missile launcher, sticker sheet and tires. So let's see what the instruction sheet tells us to do first. The first thing we're supposed to do is put these black tires on these green wheels. So I need to, well it's almost popped off already. There we go. A little snip and then I need to remove these. Yeah, they cut off very easily and I need to see if there's any of the sprues left on them because I need them to roll smoothly. That one looks pretty good. This one has a little bit of the rubbery nib on it but not anymore. Alright, that's perfectly smooth. Looks like I should have worn a white shirt instead of a black one but there are the wheels. Alright, so the black tires are just supposed to wrap around the green wheels like that. Like that. Went on pretty easily. Make sure that it's on there perfectly, very good. And let's see. And the tires are marked with like a part number. So I'm trying to keep that on the outside because it looks like it's supposed to be decorative I think. So I'm putting the plain side on what I believe will be the inside of the wheels. There, that was easy. Then we need to go to step two, purple gear into green wheel axle. The purple gear is here so let's snip that off. That's that piece right there. There, there. Okay, let's see how many people complain that I've used the Xacto knife on my table surface. This table surface is just fine, don't worry anybody. Okay, so how does it go on? It goes on, looks like this, goes on like that. Now it should go all the way in and I think clip in, there, clips in.  The inside there has a hole that should slide right on there. I say that and then it won't make it easy, will it? Carefully, carefully, oh it's fine, yeah, alright that was not as hard as I thought it would be. It's a little tight but it needs to be in order for it to roll properly. Very good, so that was easy. Let's move on to step three. Alright, step three is basically to slot the back wheels into this rear fork and here's where it starts to get a little dangerous because this plastic doesn't have a lot of flex to it and little knobs that go into it are a bit long but I think it's going to make it, I think it's going to make it, you know what that is straining that plastic and it's making me very nervous. So ah, we did it, alright the rear wheels are on and the body did not break so that's a major hurdle to completing this thing, assembling it without breaking it, yes. So I can already see that step four involves the front wheel assembly and this is the trouble spot, this is where other YouTubers have broken it. Alright so we need to pop these two halves of the front wheel off. Alright, there we go, got a slightly thicker sprue, one more and I've noticed something even though I've just now taken this out of the factory sealed bag and I haven't slammed it against anything, I haven't done anything with it, there's a dent in it, sprayed out of the factory sealed bag, there's a dent in the front wheel, so we'll just ignore that even though it's straight out of the bag, it's not mint believe it or not. So these two halves go together, press them together, that's the front wheel and this is supposed to go on this fork right here and we're supposed to do it just the same way as we did the back fork, press that on until it clicks in, however this is the dangerous spot and I need this vehicle to review and I'm not going to take any chances with it, so there is a technique for softening this plastic a little bit so it can be a little easier to assemble and so that's what I'm going to do, I'm going to pause for a minute and do this the right way so that I don't break it. This is boiling water, ingredients include water and fire, the steam from this boiling water should be hot enough to soften the plastic on this front fork, I'm not going to put the vehicle in the water because I don't want to melt the plastic, I just need to soften the plastic enough that this thing will fit on and it'll snap right back into place without any damage to this front fork. So let's give it a shot, I'm just going to hold it over the steam for a moment, not placing it in the hot water, not in the boiling water, but just close enough to warm this front fork, only the front fork, so that I can try to get this wheel on without snapping some old plastic, let me test it, see how it feels, not quite there, I don't know if you can see but those knobs on the wheels are really much too wide, they're much wider than they ought to be for easy assembly, it's about there, it's about there, it's about there, oh I think we're going to make it, I think we're going to make it, ah! Well there you have it, the first failed assembly video on this channel, I tried to be cautious with it but not cautious enough exactly because we still broke that front fork. This is a tough one, this front tire is so wide and the knobs that you need to fit in the front fork are so wide that you have to stretch the thing in order to get it on and there are complete and assembled ninja lighting motorcycles out there, they're common, they're easy to find, so apparently they were easier to assemble in 1983 but over time this plastic must have grown brittle and it's, you just can't do it, you just can't do it, so let this be a lesson to you everyone out there, three different YouTube channels have attempted to assemble the ninja lighting motorcycle and all three have had the same break, so I still need to review the ninja lighting but it won't be this one, so I'll have to find another one and we will still go forward with the review but maybe not when I intended to do it but we still will do a review of this thing, that's a bummer and I don't really even know what else to say about it, ninja lighting you have beaten me, thanks for watching, I hope you had more fun than I did, I'll see you soon with a vintage GI Joe toy review and only Ninja Force is Ninja Force.


The following is a presentation of TFNN. Trade what you see with Larry Pezzavento. Toll free at 1-877-927-6648 or internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER>. Now Larry Pezzavento. Hi everyone, Basel Trapp is sitting here for the one and only Larry Pezzavento today and Larry's away. So I want you to show you that the TLT, the Lehman 20-year Treasury Bond ETF, is down $1.21 and $1.31.23. Made a high yesterday of $1.32.58. Let me just show you this real quickly for those of you who are not used to my work in the chapweight methodology. We try to identify the lowest low bar, merely count each successively higher peak and label them alphabetically on the way up. We can go to seven peaks, A, B, C, D, E, F, and G, but it's at the fourth highest peak, peak D, that other things can happen. What do I mean by that? That's where you can have a grill seat. Many of the charts I show today at peak D, you get a much bigger pullback or it could recycle and start a brand new buy mode. I only look at three patterns straight up and straight down. That's a straight line or I look at an arch or a curve. Those arches or curves could be made up of an inverted V or a V-shaped pattern, but it's the same thing. Going from one level, rallying, coming back to that level, testing it, break that level of support, you can go lower. And on the upside, you break that level of resistance, you can go higher. And you can get a mix of the two, but it's basically the same three patterns. Straight up, straight down, arch, straight up, straight down. In this case, down, makes an arch formation like a lowercase H. Test the left side low, breaks it. You have to do an analysis there. Sometimes it can continue and make another arch, so it looks like a lowercase M and that can keep going for a couple of times. And on the upside is the break of the upside in the inverted Y pattern. All right, let's get out of that. Here we go. How does that fit here? Look, here's your cup pattern. It's called the Chapman Wave Cup and Ladle because it went right through 126.69. It's going all the way to 132.58. Normally in this pattern, I'd be saying there could be a left side, a test of the left side high of 126.69. That's a long way down. So a lot has to happen. But in the meantime, back of the ranch, there could be a high level consolidation of the bonds here. And that would mean that rates, yeah, they move a little bit higher, but then they stall. So this is going to be very important. What happens? Look at the power of this move with the, I use technical analysis in the sense that I use the standard tools. MACD, the stochastic, I use a slow stochastic moving averages. Now he does not do that. Of course, he looks at butterfly patterns. You can even see there's some butterfly patterns within here. What we're looking at is this leg E in the weekly chart has a strong MACD and the stochastic is flat at 94%. If the stochastic is going to stay in the 90% area, that's going to suggest two things. For me, at least the way I look at the market, it means that this market is still going to be under pressure because money is going to be coming out of the volatility, meaning the downside action of stocks and come into the safety of bonds. That's really what we're looking at right now. Look at this monthly chart, huge leg A pulls back a little bit, huge leg B pulls back a little bit, and now a huge leg C, but the difference is suddenly we are actually going into the next month. This is the month of June with a slightly higher high. There is a difference here. And if you look at the technicals, you're getting what I call a Chapman Wave Squash, and that's usually very powerful to move to a leg C in the chart that you're looking at. And then you can pull back as the stochastic starts to take a bit of a breather and the MACD's momentum. So the torque of the stochastic pushes it up, pushes the price up. The MACD fast-moving average, the nine-period differential, this green line on the right side chart, daily, weekly, on the right is the monthly holds the price. So this is going to be very important. What happens in June, and my suspicion is we're going to see a pretty choppy June. We could see some kind of a rally here, I believe, from my subscribers to my opening call. We were in a position where we're actually shorted out from the day before the recovery high back in April. And we remain short taking quite a bit of profits on the way down. But we've also got a long position. And this is the way it is, just a short-term trading position. We'll see if that happens. All right, let's get you some other new goodies here. There's a Terex, because I wanted to show you crude oil, that this particular point has had a big arch formation. Look at this weekly chart. Look at that H-Pattern Loic, it goes 7690 back in October of 2018, down to 42.60 in December. This long-legged doji candle starts to move up, goes to a peak C, hits the 200-period moving average at orange line. Resistance to go how many times? Five times, four times it hits it. Once it goes over, it cannot close above it. Now it's on the way down, it's below the nine and the 14-period moving averages. This is going to be very important for crude oil. It's also telling me about the overall economy, and it's saying there's some weakness right now. That's represented at least for me by the crude oil. I am looking at strong support in the 52s that goes back to February's lows for about four weeks. It was trading 52 as a support level. If it closes under 52, that's a big problem. My thing is, there could be a little bit of a bounce here, but there's a little bit of a bounce. But it turned into a bigger bounce going back to the 56s, where crude oil is going to be stuck. And if you put it together with Dr. Copper, International Demonstration of Buying and Selling, certainly in the building area, so Copper is down again, it's a 2.64, it's gone from the peak D. Yeah, we are. There's that peak D in the Chapman Wave methodology that goes all the way from the three level down to where we are. And right now, and the McDean Stochastic and the weekly chart are very weak, monthly chart doesn't look all that good. And I usually like to put it together with wood, which is the iShares Global Timber and Forestry ETF, which has made a full arch formation. This is a low-case variation. Let me just show you once again so that you can see patterns repeat over and over. Look at this pattern. There it is. And, say, as we just saw in crude oil, we've just seen it now in the wood iShares Global Timber and Forestry ETF, trading at $55.38 at the close yesterday, a little bit of a balance. Wow, $5,506 was the low back in December the last week of December, and last week's low was $55 round number close with a $54.33 low. Took out that low, but it hasn't closed below, yes it did, $0.55 a close, $0.06 lower. That says watch out because any rally now should have limited upside to at best $59 and then you could make another arch formation. This is a very important moment for the iShares of the Global Timber and Forestry ETF. Let's get to the question I had, what was the question? Could I look at to move ahead of tomorrow? NQ, which is a NASDAQ, this is a continuous contract made at PEE, double top in the Chapman Wave back in April into May the 1st, and then it pulls back really sharp. It goes to a low yesterday. This is really important because it goes from the 79 area down to the low of 69.41. So that's 1,000 points. That's a big move down. And you can see a monthly chart made an all-time high just above the previous side in the V-shaped pattern. Come back a little more than I would have anticipated based on the pattern itself with a 14 period exponential moving average support in the monthly chart right at 7,081. So it went lower than that, but it's above now. It's just a little bit below that of 7,060. Really important that there's some kind of a rally of at least sustainability for at least three days. We want to see. I'll be right back. Basil Chapman, the host of the Tiger Tech, this is our new sitting in Fulleripa's evento, and I'll be right back in a few minutes. The Taz Profile Scanner is the most revolutionary piece of trading software that you will ever try. Wouldn't you like to approach the markets with confidence? As you begin your trading day, it's likely that you'll be faced with lots of decisions. In order to make the best decision, the first thing you'll need is a strategy that will help you minimize your risks. 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I was asked a question about whether if I could look at the continuous contract of a New York Harbor blend stock, RBOB. It's trading right now at 1.71. I don't really see anything here. A, B, made a peak C in the weekly, sitting on the 200 period moving average of the weekly, this is a problem. These yeah, it's all these red candles says that any moment you can have a green candle, but at 1.71, I would just put it this way that the stochastics at 5 percent trying to turn so today's a really important day to at least attempt an upturn. But if this is the upturn that counts, what the MACD, the moving average convergence divergence is so heavily negative that it's going to take at least two or three attempts. In other words, there could be a rally, then a retest and then another rally. So I'm going to put it this way. Today is Tuesday, June the 4th. Oh, you're short, short from 2772. OK, if that's the case, then you've been perfect. OK, as I'm looking at it right now, the weekly chart is suggesting that it could be a balance, but there's a really good chance that it's going to have to go and test the one point. This I'm looking at this on the continuous contract. So 1.714. Yes, I'm just going to say to you, any rally to sustain itself has to see the MACD turn up and the stochastic go from the 5 percent level at least to 15 percent and then 20 percent. That's going to take a little while. I think there's going to be continuous pressure to this continuous contract. So unless it's trading at 1.94, is that an eight? 1.84, I'm sorry, 1.84 by within 10 days. I'm going to give it a full 10 days. This is it's just going to do a lot of retesting in that 200 per moving average to 1.78 right now is that doesn't look good at all. How you how could you be short from that level? Are we looking at the same contract? We can't be looking at the same. You're short from two seven seven two. Oh, OK, I must be looking at something wrong. So that's what you're looking at. I you've got this. I've got the RB and I've got at RB. Is it let me just go RBZ for the moment to see if I can do something different RBZ? I'm still in the one point. Did you mean two or one one point to seven seven two? Yeah, you must be one. So I'm just saying to you, I think that you're in the absolute the right position that rallies are going to probably fail. And there's going to be a lot more testing before we can have a V shape. And this is spectacular news. A V shape recovery just doesn't look like it's in the cards. You could have a little bit of a balance to make an arch formation. I think you're looking good there. I can just tell you this. And if it takes out this low of the 50 week to the 15th one point four four four, that's a real problem. So that's the way I'm looking at it right there. OK, let's do a couple of things because before the opening bell just got a few minutes. Let me just run this quickly. The YM, this is the the Dow futures continuous contract. Trading right now up one ninety eight. There's a little news report here that says Trump US is committed to a phenomenal trade deal with the UK. You remember phenomenal today is un-phenomenal tomorrow. This is this is this is a negotiating tactic. So I'm not using any descriptive words right now. I'm going to say let's look at the charts as they are. And we're up two hundred and two in the futures and the Dow. This is a really good sign. One of the reasons I'll explain. One of the reasons why I said to subscribers yesterday, we're going to take a position on the long side of the Dow is because within the context, look at the VIX index VX dot X. And this to me, I'm just treating it initially as a shorter term position because it's counter to what we are in for the intermediate term position, which I don't think is quite done yet. So if you're looking at the VIX index, which is at 18 right now, the move that we had with going to lower lows in almost all the indices should have seen the volatility index at least test the twenty one to twenty two area close to the high of the ninth of May, twenty three thirty eight. That high was it was a little bit of a wonder for me. Why it went that high under the actual economic conditions and what was being discussed, it is almost the same as that. Where was that crazy one that went to 50? Remember this one that went to 50 point thirty back in February of two thousand and eighteen, it was absolute mystery, higher years and all that. But the news itself wasn't anywhere close as bad as even the one that came much later with yours, tariffs, China, the Saudis right there on in December of two thousand and eighteen plus you had a really interesting phenomenon because the Fed had committed themselves to a number of moves to the upside and that went to thirty six point twenty. So this move to twenty three point thirty eight on the on the ninth is the one that I thought was suspect. This is the one that I thought would actually move because it sounded a lot worse a few days ago and it didn't. It only went to nineteen something. So I'm looking at the VIX index as saying there's a disparity. Number one, the TLT in this very powerful leg looks a little overboard to me and it could pull back. But I'm going to make this. I have been saying it on my show that I get conditions out at noon every day and to my subscribers to my opening call. My daily newsletter that as long as the TLT is holding well and that's stochastic, which is at ninety five percent in the daily chart. If it flattens out at ninety three percent, but holds in the mid nineties, that is going to say that rallies will probably fail as we come back and do retesting in the major key the key indices like the Dow, the S&P, the NDX 100 and the IWM, the Russell 2000 because it doesn't mean that we've gone to an extended AD that you suddenly have to make a V shape. What is a V shape reversal? A V shape reversal is what what chart was I looking at short while ago that I was asked about a CL was a Crudo. Yep, Crudo. Yes, the pattern that I talk about right here is the pattern that I call the Eiffel Tower straight up straight down. It looks like an uppercase A. Let me just type that in right here. I always go A and then I give it a nice there we go. So now I'm going to give it in the text. I'm going to go to red, make it font goes all the way to forty eight. And then I put this right in. You can see exactly what I mean straight up and straight down.  Looks like an uppercase A and how test the left side low is really important. What was the chart that I was looking at that I had a perfect one just a short while ago does Oh, was it wood WOD? No, it wasn't. It doesn't matter. So in the meantime, back at the ranch, as we say, the E-mini on the short term basis, let me just show you here, has gone to a peak G in the two minute chart, a leg D in the five minute chart. I would not be surprised if it when the market opens. This is a sudden pullback and then I moved to the upside in the many futures of twenty one twenty two at twenty seven seventy one the E-mini and five minute chart has gone to a D, but the ten minutes only a leg B and that should over the period of the morning should should get to a leg D. We'll be watching that closely. Basil Chapman sitting here for Larry Pezzavento. I'll trade what you see. This is the break before the market opens at nine thirty eastern time. Stay tuned. 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Yesterday it's gone from 2949 in the high of the 1st of May, 2949 down to 2744 has 200 points. That's a huge move, 2000 points in the Dow, 2200 points in the S&P. So it needs to get about 2378, 2778, the 200 period moving average. And there's a whole bunch of resistance, target points and resistance between 2778, 2788 is next, the pink nine period exponential moving average, 2806 is going to be the big kahuna to to push over. And as far as the week, these concern needs a little more time to get the technicals to turn up and price. So we'll see how that works out. The QQQ is following the others. The others are now up 0.87 and 0.90. And what is the QQQ up 1.21 percent up $2 at 172.13 in the middle. Just a little bit above the middle of yesterday's very ugly candle. Nervousness about testifying candle. And it's 169.27 was the low and it's trading up at 171.97. I like that. That's good. A lot of work needs to be done for it to get to the 179s in June. That's all I'm going to say. But any retested closes under 168 in the next week or so will be very per action. This is a very much needed, oversold bounce that we're seeing. We're also looking at the IWM, the Russell 2000, which has been lagging in the chart formation in the weekly chart. But actually yesterday, when Hawaii was leading to the upside in terms of the candle, today's up 1.13 percent up $1.66 and 148.06. Nice action. Look at the V-shaped pattern on balance volume. Look at the V-shaped pattern in the stochastic going to 9 percent. This says to me that there's a chance. I didn't want to do it for subscribers today, but it's something I'm looking at. There is just a chance that over the coming, let's say three to four weeks, we're going to see whether the Russell 2000 small caps act a little bit better than the multinational and the much heavily weighted international stocks in the other indices. So that's going to be important. Let's look at the XLF, because the XLF is also kind of key right now with interest rates, etc. Up 0.36 up 1.39 percent at 26.55. Nice balance. That's what I say to subscribers. I'm expecting some kind of bounce in the sector. So we're looking at it holding a very important trend line support in the weekly chart. Look at that. Just a simple trend line holding the support. Maggie hasn't yet crossed the negative because it's a weekly chart. We have to wait for Friday. We're going to be watching that closely to see what happens in the S&P select financial spider. Now, let me just get to this. I had a question about GBTC. Now, I remember just a moment ago, I was talking about the Eiffel Tower straight up, straight down this particular pattern looks like an uppercase A. Well, Bitcoin hit 38.71 back in November, December. What was it? November or was it December? It was, in fact, December of 2017. I remember discussing this intensely over the next month and a half on my show saying I had a neighbor who was talking about Bitcoin. He said, I missed the dot com bubble. I missed the real estate bubble. I am not missing out on this on this Bitcoin. I'm deep into Bitcoin. I think I've got to be a little careful. I it looks to me like it's a little toppy here that was at a peak D in the daily anyway, it kind of came down a little bit from 38.71 down to $3.66. I would say that's a bit of a 90 percent or more decline. So now it's at a spectacular run going from the $3.60 low to the most recent die three days ago of 12.58. Let me type that in. 12.58, I think at peak D in the Chapman wave here, the daily testing, the 14 period moving average of 10.38. It's trading right now. What's testing? How could that be? It's at 9.95. And I've got this at 10.38. Where's the price? As as a trader today, today's the third. Where's the fourth? I don't see the price. All right, well, the price will be there. 9.95 sits down here somewhere. It hasn't shown up on the chart peak E possibly this week in the weekly chart. If you don't mind, I'm just going to do this Chapman wave automated, automated projections, GBTC. Yeah, look at this. So 11.49 was the resistance. It went right through it. Even on the weekly, I don't have anything. But as support, I have 10.51 has just taken that out. So, yeah, so the question is Basil thoughts on GBTC. My thoughts are twofold. One is when was it was it Goldman Sachs? Some big kahuna came out with the saying that there was they liked the the whole area. And that was somewhere around April, the first issue. I thought it was April Fool's joke. April this April the third. And it just kept going. And my so my first thought was, wow, I really missed that because for subscribers, I'm saying, I'm afraid of this for for you for you because overnight anything can happen. But certainly gave from three sixty, sixty, twelve, fifty eight. Even a pullback, even a 50 percent pullback says that it's way off the bottom. So my answer is, I think it's I definitely think it's obvious. It's in play before it wasn't in play. Just went sideways for a long time. Now it's in play. But I also think that money from the Magnus stochastic money's going to be coming out of it for a little while. And I would not be surprised if the eight dollars and twenty cents to seven dollars and twenty cents, this 200 period exponential moving average in the 50 period moving average area will be tested at some point. And then I think it's worth looking at it. So on the shorter term, no, I don't see anything just yet. So I think that was the next question was Baba Baba, which is Alibaba and Alibaba right now is trading at one fifty point seventy seven up ninety cents. It has it's got that peak deal, the weekly chart. It has this lowercase h pattern in the monthly chart. And as a Chinese company, Alibaba group, holdings, it's like a Google, it's gone to an E and then it goes peak ABCD. And then it has another look. It has another short term. We just do this real quickly. And then there's another by mode right there by signal to buy mode. It goes peak A, peak B, peak C, and there's your peak D right there. So it makes a peak D on the daily at about one hundred ninety four ish five ish. And then it comes down very sharply. That's a peak D in the weekly. I would say hold off on anything with Alibaba if you're short. That's great because the one forty three 200 period exponential moving average, I think would be a target for me based on the way it's gapped down. And this is kept coming. It's just it looks very weak. 4.9 percent in the stochastic. That's very, very weak. That's the equivalent of that's equivalent of ninety three and a half percent. On the upside, I'd say that's very strong, but we're on the way up. So I'm saying it's very weak on the way down. So that's that. Next thing I just want to say the dow is up to two hundred forty three FH. I'm looking at let me just see what I've got. G F G F is. Oh, I'm not getting that HG. Well, all these contracts are going to get them right now during the break. I will do the cattle and hog. Let me do a live cattle as we go out. Live cattle trading right now up point six seven. I'm going to do wheat, soybeans and corn as soon as we return. That's up two hundred fifty fifty thirty five. If you're in the C.D. market and looking for a secure investment, the Tiger First mortgage program may work for you. The security for these first mortgages are building lots in the tax opportunity zone in St. Petersburg, Florida. The tax act of twenty eighteen set up tax free zones across the country where you can build and hold for ten years and pay no tax on the profits, which makes these lots valuable. 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This is Basil Chapman sitting for Larry Piz event. A live cattle. Is that what I was looking at? Live cattle? Yes. Live cattle. I don't see anything right now. It's in a major downtrend to start significantly with other than bounces. It's at 103.3. Live cattle continuous contract. It needs to get about 105 and 106 resistance and start to trade in the 108s and it needs to do that. It needs speed. So I'm saying by Wednesday or Thursday of next week, if it's if it's trading under 101, that's really poor. But if it's able to rally, it's the 105, 106 level that it needs to get above. And then there's only candle from last week.  I don't see anything just yet.  There's a little bit better in that it's trying at 84.37 is trying to establish some kind of a base. The stochastic is at 15 percent trying to flatten out. Omband's volume is about to turn up. The MACD is still quite weak, but it is making a W formation. It needs to get above 88.50. And it's at 84.3 right now. That's a big move up, concerning that it's had two red candles from the downside from that level that makes it it would be a countertrend move. But then a really important upside rally if it can trade in the 90.70 to 91.30 area, this is live hogs. And it has to do that by Thursday of next week at the latest. And we're talking about Thursday of next week. Is that next week? Is it we've got a week to go by June? Yeah, June the 12th, a week from. Wednesday, Tuesday, a week from tomorrow. I'm doing a webinar. It's going to be called the tide. What am I mean by the tide? And that's what I'm discussing. What do I mean? I'm talking about. I'm talking about how you can identify that in different time frames, what key indices or key patterns can give you a sense of the time. Remember what we've been watching someone in the den, one of our wonderful traders that we have in the den, where he's shorted the S&P over and over for weeks. And it's just been building up an incredible kitty on a one day basis. He's managed to get enough shorts to really build a huge profit margin. And it's just been admirable the way he identified the tide, saying we're going down and I'm not going to go along. I'm going to go short. And that's the way you've got to be you've got to be stubborn about. You got to identify and then stick with the trade. Because if you're short, I've got a beautiful chart. I can't find it right now. Take a little time in my CD, introducing the Chapman Wave methodology CD book available at TFNN, where I show a pattern that's going up. And but I draw the arrow going down. It means that someone, if you keep shorting when you're on the way up, you can do quick trades, but anything else, the tide going up, it's just going to wipe your art, identify the trade. And that's what I'm talking about. How can you identify the tide? One of the reasons why we did go short the Dow right the day before the recovery high on the 22nd, recovery hours of 20, 30, 26,691, is that it seemed to me that I would be getting a tide based on the fading Magdeen stochastic that could have depth to it and strength to it, which is exactly what's happened. Even now, I'm looking at a chance of a rally, so we're only playing the rally on a short chin basis, because I think there's going to be further testing based on the patterns that I'm looking at. If there isn't going to have to just deal with that. But at this particular moment, the tide appears still to be weighted towards going to low tide. We haven't quite finished going to low tide. All right. So enough with that. Question I had here is, how does the chin look? Chin should be quite low. Let me just go to this. I've got a thing I call the Chapman Wave Tringage. It isn't really mine. It is Richard Arms whole procedure. Just use particular numbers and answer any numbers here that give me any clue either way, so nothing there, nothing to see there, folks. And the question I had here was SRPT. Sir, sir, I was going to say serendipity. So Reptotherapeutics has been an incredible stock. We once saw it go down to the single digits down to like point thirty five or something and it got resurrected and the darn thing went all the way to one hundred and almost one hundred and eighty is trading out one hundred and fifty. Just a sideways raise. Now, the question asked about it, Bob, I'm going to say that you could treat this as a rectangle formation. And you know what I say about rectangle formations, they can last a lot longer than your patients. The way to do it is at some point you will be wrong. It'll tell you very clearly you're wrong. But you want to be trading from the bottom, this area, one hundred and seventeen to one hundred and one hundred and thirteen. That's kind of the buy zone. And then you want to either be getting out or getting short in one hundred and twenty two to one hundred and twenty four area with about a three point stock. And so it's been going for months since since the lowest made in in in March at one hundred and thirty point fifty one.  That's an aberration. I'm calling the the level of one twenty five the resistance. So even here, you could treat it as a trade. It needs to get to one twenty. The two hundred period orange, two hundred period moving average. Once it goes above that, you're going to get yourself ready to start thinking about shorting. You can lighten up. That's the only way to trade it. I don't see this as being the big move to the upside yet. When it does that, it'll so quickly move to the hundred and twenty eight one hundred and thirty two area will probably be one week. It'll just go from a low to to that level. But until it breaks out and goes to one twenty six, it's just stuck in the range and range can last a lot longer than your patients and certainly a lot longer than your money. If you keep thinking it's going to break out and then it goes all the way back down. The thing is going to break down and it starts going up. Just treat it as a little ping pong ball stuck in a tube and the tube is a horizontal tube. That's the only way I would fight. I would even treat it, Bob, because I don't know if you do this. Use options. Look, it's at one hundred and sixteen. You could buy one hundred and twenty. We've got another one for June, another week to go two weeks ago. Two weeks. You could treat it. You could do options. You could do you could do other ways. But I'm saying that's the way it looks. And at this particular point, even if it pulls back to one hundred and fourteen, one hundred and thirteen, it's still within the range that says it should go up. My only qualm here is that the Mac D is now negative. And every other time it held beautifully, the slow moving average and the stochastic is pulled back very sharply. But that allows the stochastic to bounce. So just treat it as something that you that's the range. So if you're looking for the big move, I just don't think it's just yet. OK. That's wheat. That's my only French that I've learned. That's what is five hundred and ten and a quarter and a half. This is wheat continuous contract down almost ten dollars in legs. This seed's gone from four hundred and eighteen to today's high of five twenty nine up in a hundred points. That's twenty twenty five percent, twenty three percent gain. That's fantastic. So it's pulling back here. 501 is the two hundred period exponential moving average, a bunch of moving averages in that area, but it is like, see, I suspect it will make a D. But most of the move might be done at least for now. So it could go maybe to the five thirty one area, maybe five thirty two. I wouldn't be surprised if that's where it stalls. Soybeans continuous contract up seven and three quarters at eighty six and and three quarters. This is in leg C. Very nice action. The MacD's now flattened out at eighty seven percent. That suggests that soybeans could go a little higher. Look at the single leg A in the weekly chart and Khan, as we say here in the the Boston area, Khan is trading at four hundred twenty nine and a half up five and a quarter. It has stalled in this upper range, but the magninium stochastic are good. I think it will go to a leg C above the high of four hundred and thirty eight that was made in the twenty ninth. Holding very nicely here. So for our subscribers, we have the the grain futures, so the grain ETF. I'm certain you are or strive to be one of the best of the best at everything you do in life. It's the most common trait that we tigers and tigers share. 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For more information, just click the Think or Swim banner on the front page of TFNN dot com. Folks, so looking at the e-mail, it's up 17, made that peak e.  Why? Because from that peak D right then the two minute chart, look, the MACD and stochastic were fading. And then you got this aberrational thing. This is what happens in the open very often. It pulls back, it has a spike up, and then it goes into the direction that it really wanted, and then it popped up to 2774 area and bam, it turns around and it's trading now at 2765. That's in the two minutes. The five minutes also made a peak e, same sort of thing. I suspect it's going to be kind of buying pressure, but a chunk of that buying pressure might have been done now. There has to be a whole new bunch of strength that comes in. You're at the mercy here of geopolitical and and other technicals that are very important. Oh, talking about that, how could I not have done this? I wanted to show gold. Gold right now, it's not sure, no, I didn't. Gold has had a spectacular move from the 1280 level to today's high of 1334. And it's holding quite nicely. The MACD hasn't gotten to over 80 percent yet, it's a 79.5. It needs to hold above 83, 84 percent to for gold to maintain this upward move. There's a cup formation that says that there's a chap made inside track resistance level, it just hit the green line right there in the cup formation. If gold by Thursday is able to test 1348, there's a good chance that it's going to go to a new recovery high above the high of the 20th week of the 22nd of February. At 1361, 6.6, it could go above that. That'll be really important. That also helped the monthly chart a lot. The dollar, I think I did that, maybe I did in the update. The dollar is up point four, just four pips right now. It's holding quite nicely, actually, concerning what gold is done. So we still remain long the dollar from April of 2018 at 90. I think that the dollar is the currency. De Jure, I think it's the one that's telling us about our economy so far. That's true. We'll see what happens. Have a wonderful day. That's what happens sitting in for Larry Pasevento and have a wonderful day because Tommy coming up and then think of swim that I come up and do. And then you got Steve, Dave and Tom O'Brien. Have a wonderful day. Hope to see you tomorrow.


What's going on everybody? Welcome to a very very special chicken sandwich episode of fun bros food As you may know over the past couple years the chicken sandwich battle between the major restaurant chains has been going crazy With each company releasing their own chicken sandwich or tweaking their recipe But we have a newcomer that's entering the market a new competitor that could be a dark horse favorite Jollibee released four new chicken sandwiches guys the original the deluxe the spicy the spicy deluxe And they are doing something a little different here with their flavors and I heard Andrew This could be one of the best if not the best chicken sandwich in the game Well in this video We're gonna be taking you on a quick trip around New York City to try Jollibee and four other major Restaurant change chicken sandwich first up Jollibee alright David So Jollibee already known for their amazing bone-in fried chicken the chicken joy So for them to transition to a fried chicken sandwich it does make sense They have umami mayo a brioche brun. They're just doing things a little differently should be light work. Let's check it out We have secured the Jollibee's chicken sandwich guys if the chicken sandwich is as juicy as crispy as their bone-in chicken Then I think it's looking up original Now guys, you would assume that all chicken sandwiches are both crispy and juicy, but this one really delivers All right you guys we are looking at the original spicy right now, and it's not just spicy sauce Andrew They add jalapeno slices man. The fresh jalapeno is gonna give it that kick almost feeling like a bun meat Jollibee spicy chicken sandwich I'm gonna make sure I get that jalapeno in that bite, too This is the one David.  You already know chicken joy is juicy So they're just gonna transfer all that energy and that expertise into this sandwich original deluxe There's crispiness and juiciness a little bit of that pepper as you can see right there And then on top of that you got umami mayo spicy deluxe That gave you everything it gave you the jalapenos it gave you the lettuce gave you the tomato gave you the sriracha Look at how thick my chicken breast filet is and it's cooked perfectly all the way through still juicy I got to try all the other competitors today, but I have a feeling this is the spiciest Chicken sandwich in the game because of the fresh jalapenos you guys trust me Nobody is doing anything as unique and elevated as Jollibee in the chicken sandwich game is Jollibee's chicken sandwich the best We don't know yet, but is it one of the most unique that we've ever had? I think it's ranking up there Try something new check out the Jollibee chicken sandwiches, but we got to move on to our next couple spots All right, so our next spot is one of the best known in the game a classic You know who we're talking about Popeyes. All right, you guys We're looking at the perennial champion of the chicken sandwich game But I do think the Jollibee is coming in hot Let's be honest Popeyes when they had their chicken sandwich drop it was a lot of hype Popeyes chicken Sandwich Popeyes chicken sandwich I got the spicy Andrew got the classic the chicken is really good at Popeyes, man Some of the other elements in this sandwich like the pickles are a little bit large and are kind of overtaking The flavor overall in the sandwich the chicken is good. There's been a lot of this a lot of that in the media Let me tell you this the Popeyes chicken is very very strong overall. It is delivering the taste But I think the pickles were just too big. It's a little overpowering for me And I agree with you. I think they're chicken. It's possible. It's still the best But guys a sandwich is not only defined by the chicken. There's the bread. There's the sauce There's the whole cohesiveness synergistic aspect, but I got to give it up those Cajun, Louisiana spices I could tell you this you could taste it that they are down on the bayou Well, I tell you this chicken sandwich right here pretty damn good Those wait and those who are knee-high on a grasshopper, which type ain't you ain't of course Popeyes strong showing as Usual, but we got to go check out Chick-fil-A. All right So we just had the original and spicy from Jollibee, but of course we are trying the best chicken sandwiches in the game So our next stop has to be Chick-fil-A Wow, I would say the Chick-fil-A and Popeyes were the previous one and two now that Jollibee is in the game I think the race tightens up. All right guys here. We have the originals I have the original deluxe David you have the original original. Yo, they keep it very basic here at Chick-fil-A I noticed that their deluxe has a ton of stuff. But did you notice no sauce? No sauce whatsoever guys You can't have umami without the sauce. However, a lot of people really do like these products. So Chick-fil-A. This is the original This is the deluxe. I mean the chicken is high quality. Let's be honest here So there is no mayo which I do miss in a chicken sandwich But the cheese is kind of making up for it for an American tasting chicken sandwich This this does a great job. I mean this is high quality, but it is missing the mayo You know what it is it is missing the mayo, but obviously Chick-fil-A you can feel the quality Yeah, and they do have other sauces that you can add on to it. So it's clean tasting. I'll tell you that it's clean I'd like the pepper. Yeah, I'll taste the pepper. I like the pepper. All right guys These are the spicy sandwiches. We have spicy deluxe I have classic spicy as you can see lots of red cayenne pepper flavoring in that chicken again No sauce just pickles Chick-fil-A spicy Spicy deluxe is good. Spicy one is good, man I can feel that cayenne kick now There's no jalapeno kick and there's no sauce, but that kick is very very similar to that Nashville kind of spiciness So I think Jollibee and Chick-fil-A are neck and neck It's almost like when you see two amazing dunks in a dunk contest and you got to give them both 50s Andrew Which 50 do you give a higher 50 where you can't get any higher than 50 and to me That's the analogy that I would draw between the original deluxe at Jollibee and the spicy deluxe here at Chick-fil-A These two are 50s. Oh, I gotta give it up to Chick-fil-A on the spicy deluxe They came through with an absolute banger very competitive with Jollibee Jollibee is way up there as well But we got to continue on our journey compare and contrast with the other competitors. Let's go next up We have KFC Kentucky fried chicken. This is probably in fact It is the largest fried chicken chain globally as well as in America. Yeah, and they just got a brand new chicken sandwich They have an original and a spicy they're going minimalistic with it Kind of like with just the mayo and the pickles or jalapeno. Let's check it out All right, you guys we are taking a look at the two KFC chicken sandwiches right now They just debuted I have the original you have the spicy as you can see keeping it very simple They have the spicy sauce now. What is always in these people's spicy sauce? Is it always sriracha? No, I don't know what it is exactly, but they have the pickles right here I think the pickles give it more of a Kentucky Tennessee type vibe whereas obviously I felt like Jollibee had a lot of influence from Asia KFC chicken sandwich classic spicy You know for me these this chicken filet or whatever part of the chicken that it actually is It tastes a little bit more like a chicken tender.  They give you a lot of chicken and the bun is really soft. So shout out to KFC for that one Andrew everybody in this moment right now in 2021 is dropping brand new chicken sandwiches Yeah, I swear on the outside of all these restaurants. It says new chicken sandwich So I'm really surprised but of course one of the big dogs had to and they released three new ones They have a deluxe a crispy and a spicy McDonald's here. I have the crispy chicken right here. David. You have a deluxe one I gotta say this the bun is really nice It's kind of looks like an arch deluxe bun split in the middle kind of like a potato bun Sauce only on one side sauce only top of bun not on the heel David you want to see if this regular crispy even has sauce? Wow Okay, so McDonald's is going super minimalistic with this one. I only get sauce on the deluxe I'm interested to see how this one goes McDonald's chicken sandwich McDonald's whether you like it or not it always has its own flavor Not the biggest fan of this crispy one. There's no sauce to balance out the pickles The chicken filet is not super juicy.  This one is one of the weaker sandwiches I had in this video. All right This is the spicy chicken sandwich from McDonald's. Wow, that's plenty of sauce, bro. Wow Sauce on both sides. So I can see that there's pepper pieces inside of that sauce right now. I'm interested McDonald's spicy The highlights are the bun and how spicy this one is with the sauce So I respect that but everything else about it the juiciness the crispiness. Ah, I'm actually a fan of the mouth feel This has mouth feel But as far as the flavor goes, I think it's 50 50. All right, David Since you said the deluxe crispy chicken is the best one here at McDonald's I'm gonna try it If I was gonna recommend you one sandwich of three get the crispy deluxe Andrew let's address the gorilla in the room can the new McDonald's crispy chicken deluxe compete in the top tier Sandwiches along with Popeyes Chick-fil-A and now Jollibee. I think overall it's not packing the flavor as Chick-fil-A and Jollibees So I would say McDonald's is not really in the top two. It's not cracking top two or top three Jollibee Chick-fil-A and Popeyes all had strong showings Jollibees does bring something new to the table So you've got to try it if you haven't already they're doing something different Let me tell you this they're bringing the international aspect in and it is certainly Elevated with the brioche the way they bread their chicken the quality the juiciness the crispiness. I'm with it All right, you guys, thank you so much for watching that video huge shout out to Jollibee for sponsoring this one Like we said, don't just take our word for it. Go check it out for yourself I think you will be very pleasantly surprised by the offerings at Jollibee Make sure you like subscribe turn on your notifications Make sure you let us know who has your favorite chicken sandwich and why in the comment section below and until next time we out Peace chicken sandwiches they so fine up pay the damages punitive calories accumulated I get a spicy chicken deluxe For a little more than three bucks


What's up guys, so we're here in Detroit. We're at the Henry Hotel. We're at a breakfast with remax up here in Detroit. We're about to have a little talk. I'm going to tell everybody my story, everything I learned along the way, and answer questions. So man, I'm just totally honored to be up here. Blessed to have the opportunity. I want to give a big shout out to Eddie the broker for reaching out to me and putting all this together. It's cold up here, but today we'll be back in Alabama. It's about 50 degrees and me and Blake are going to be happy. Pizza man and all that good stuff. You drinking stuff? Yeah, I don't drink at all, but I'll get you a beer. I did it and I think he said he got like two deals out of it. They prefer somebody and then they bought something from them. All kinds of crazy stuff happen. It's like when you show that you really care and that you don't really ain't there for nothing, anyway, they're going to do the deal.  They're going to do the deal with you. But like that's the logistics of it. That's like the details of it. I mean, what are you going to do? What's your plan? You're telling me how you're going to do it. I want to know what you're going to do. Do you need to spend eight hours a day just calling property owners and keep being non-salesy and crush the team that like sell more property by yourself than the whole team that just got rid of you next year?  I just want to say thank you guys so much for showing up. And I love you guys so much. I'll do anything in the world for you at all. What's up? It's just amazing that you guys are here right now. It's super humbling for me. And you know, here's to a great 2019. I've always been really curious. Curiosity is what's gotten me everywhere in life. And then my competitors, this is what makes me outwork everybody. I think that's the two qualities you really got to have. If you want to be the best, you got to be curious enough to figure out how everything works and how that person got where they are and then take what they're doing and outwork them. You got to push yourself out of your comfort zones. Overwhelm yourself, figure out how much you can handle and then scale back to that comfortable place that you can pace yourself to reach your full potential. This is how you reach your full potential, knowing how much you can handle and then staying right there on the brink of that at all times. Voice to voice is the reason why technology will not replace real estate agents. There has to be the voice to voice consultation with the prospect to consult them through the market. To me, this makes way more sense like being flexible and helping people and putting the relationship before the money every single time you're going to go away from it. A lot of people say, you're down there, you're selling condos. Is that going to work up here in New York? Yeah. I've got agents up there that are crushing to use them when I'm doing it. Okay. Because why? Relationships are universal. I have the guy sell a car the other day. He met me on Instagram and said, hey, I see you're in real estate. You're doing really well. Can you give me some advice on how to sell more cars? I said, yeah. Don't care if they buy or not. Take the closing out of the equation. He's like, oh, yeah, that sounds cool. An hour later, he messaged me and said, hey, I took your advice and I sold a car. I'm going to do this from now on.


Hello, and welcome to this presentation of the STM32F7 USB full-speed and high-speed interfaces. It covers all the features of these interfaces, which are widely used to connect either a PC or a USB device to the microcontroller. This figure shows the connections between an STM32F7 microcontroller and a USB connector. The STM32F7 features a USB full-speed communication interface, allowing the microcontroller to communicate typically with a PC or a USB storage device. The simplest implementation is a USB peripheral device, but the STM32F7 also supports the USB on-the-go functionality. Let's look at some of the key features of this USB full-speed interface, which is a USB specification 2.0 compliant interface that operates at a 12 megabit per second rate. In the simplest form, a USB FS device can be implemented. Built-in support for link power management adds enhanced power modes on top of the USB 2.0 specification. In addition, the on-the-go or OTG functionality enables implementation of an OTG product or an embedded host, both of which have the capacity to behave as a targeted host. The battery charger detection function allows for increased current to be drawn from BC 1.2 compliant chargers up to 1.5 amps. USB 2.0 high-speed is also available via the ULPI interface. The same modes of operation are possible when coupling with an external ULPI transceiver. In this block diagram, the USB OTG full-speed controller core is shown in the center with its data FIFOs below. The physical layer, or FI, on its right side handles the analog signal levels, including many specific level detections relating to on-the-go and battery charger detection functions. The USB interrupt goes to the Cortex processor to signal various USB events. The AHB peripheral bus enables read and write access of the controller registers and the power and clock control block. Depending on the use case, whether device-only or OTG device, a low or high-speed crystal oscillator is necessary to provide an accurate timing reference for the USB block. In this block diagram, the USB OTG high-speed controller core is shown in the center with its data FIFOs below. The FI on its right side handles the analog signal levels, including many specific level detections relating to on-the-go and battery charger detection functions. The USB interrupt goes to the Cortex processor to signal various USB events. The AHB slave interface enables read and write access of the controller registers and the power and clock control block. These two and from memory are handled by a DMA engine inside the controller via the AHB master interface. At any given time, one of the two operating modes will be functional, peripheral mode, which will be used for a regular device or an OTG device when operating in peripheral mode, or targeted host mode, which will be used for an embedded host or an OTG device when operating in host mode. Interrupts from this USB block can be triggered by a large number of events or state changes. This slide and the following three slides show all the events that can trigger an interrupt. As can be seen, these interrupt sources are diverse. They range from events related to low power management and OTG to events related to normal host behavior and regular USB reset and disconnect events. In this second slide showing interrupts, another diverse set of sources is described. In this third slide describing interrupt sources, many suspend OTG functions and FIFO status events are listed, as well as a general register access error. Now let's take a brief look at the various low power modes of the PHY and the controller. For the PHY, power down mode can be used, for example, when there is no VBUS present and the session is identified to be not OTG. It is also possible to disable the VBUS sensing related to OTG, A and B sessions, if the OTG function is not used. During suspend mode, there is no dynamic signaling occurring over the USB interface, so three different controls are offered to lower the power consumption as desired by the application. Low power modes for the high speed core are similar to the full speed, but the modes concerning the PHY are not listed, as in this case the PHY or transceiver is an external component. The USB peripheral is active in run and sleep modes. In stop mode, the USB is not available, but the contents of its registers are kept. In standby mode, the USB peripheral is powered down and must be reinitialized when returning to a higher power state. Within the USB module, certain dedicated bits are implemented to allow debug functionality in a USB application. They relate to FIFO status and contents and the scheduling of periodic cues in host mode. Additional details of these debug bits are listed in this table. Here is an application example of a low power device. Power is drawn directly from the USB VBUS signal. A single crystal oscillator starting from 4 MHz is needed outside. For complete USB specification documents, please refer to usb.org. The USB 2.0 document homepage has a zip file containing the USB 2.0 and OTG 2.0 specifications and an ECN for LPM. The USB device class documents page has the battery charger specification.


This is the best time in history to build digital products. I'm not saying this just because we are surrounded by 1500 product leaders in San Francisco, and being joined by many, many thousands of product leaders from all over the world online. As the founder of Product School, I've seen the role of product evolve since the last 10 years. I mean, from being almost non-existent into being the most strategic function for most companies. But why? The main fundamental shift that happened is this is the rise of the Chief Product Officer. Today, there's over one-third of the Fortune 100 companies that already have a Chief Product Officer. We estimate that we'll have over 50 CPOs in Fortune 100 by the end of 2024. Just think about it for a second. Most of the companies in Fortune 100 are not high-tech companies in Silicon Valley. We're talking about oil and gas, consumers, financial services, healthcare. They're all investing in technology. They're all becoming software companies. This is not just me saying that. This was also published in a McKinsey report this year. But how did we get here? How did we get CEOs of public companies, banks saying, we happen to be a software company that sells financial services instead of saying, we are a bank. They're saying that because it works, because it makes them more money. Why is this happening right now? How did we get? Well, there are three planes trying to land right now that is creating this momentum shift. Number one, we finally have education and product. When I started my company, I remember people coming to me 10 years ago saying, what is a product manager? Is this a project manager? How does that work? It's not just about us. We are seeing these universities trying to catch up, launching more products in product or at least adding product management as part of two-year MBA programs. There's much more education around product. We're also seeing companies that are creating their own product schools. Most of them call it APM, Associate Product Manager Program. Google was the pioneer in the 2000s. Now, there are many, many more companies trying to train and create their own product managers. So education is number one, but it's not enough because now that there is much more awareness in the market from the top as well as from the bottom, we are still lacked tools to do our job. Long gone are the days where we will have to piggyback on tools created for other professionals like Photoshop, like I remember trying to create some prototypes using Photoshop. Today, we use Figma, many others. Long gone are the days we have to learn how to use SQL to write analysis. There are a lot of tools today that are giving us insights directly without having to throw a single line of code. Same thing with websites or mobile applications. You do not need a technical background in order to become an excellent product manager. And if you look around this room, today we have 25 of the most powerful tools for product managers being represented. They are supporting this conference because they know that we as product people need our own technology to be able to make the most our job. Specific use cases such as A.B. testing or experimentation, prototyping, road mapping, user research, now we have tools that are created specifically for us. And by the way, those tools are very, very visual. Some people would call it no code or low code. They are enabling an entire generation of creators that do not need a specific technical background or other type of degree in order to start building faster and better products. And by the way, this is the first and last time I'm going to use the magic word in my presentation. Because we expect that this technology is going to accelerate how product is being built and the tools that we are using to build such products. And last but not least, ultimately, this digital transformation, these companies that are not high tech trying to act like software companies are trying it because it makes them more money. Product is now being perceived as a revenue generator, not as a cost center anymore. Long gone are the days where product is part of IT and someone in sales or marketing says something and throws the contract over the fence for product to ship something. Long gone are the days where the highest rank product person in the organization would report into a chief marketing officer or a chief technology officer. We have a seat at the table and that is huge. And why? Because we earned that seat. This wasn't just a check to look cool and look more like a startup within a startup for big companies. It's because now all of these companies can build much faster by reducing the cost of infrastructure, right? Like now you can use cloud. You don't need to build or have your own servers in your office. The same way you don't have to build a lot of things from scratch. You can leverage software as a service to get you a competitive advantage. It's obvious that internet online is giving us a global reach 24-7. What might not be always obvious is that we can now leverage our own website or mobile apps to generate revenue directly without any human interaction. And I'm not just talking about e-commerce or cheap items. I'm talking about cars, houses, complex tools. Now products are becoming much more easy and able to allow consumers to enroll, to sign up, to pay directly. And you can also layer on new, detailed services on products on top of the existing products that you might be selling. This is a huge opportunity. That's why CPOs are now having much more authority and responsibility. So I don't want to just paint a rosy picture here. Not everything is rainbows and sunshine. I want to acknowledge what we've been living, especially through the last year or year and a half. But especially in the US, there's been over a quarter of a million people laid off. And even though we are at an all-time low on a month to month basis, it's still something to recognize. But if you go deeper into these headlines, which are scary, of course, we wanted to understand what is the real impact for the product organization. And what we found out, which is not always obvious in those big headlines, is that the product team is actually being the least affected team by layoffs. In the case of Amazon, around 3% of the people that were laid off were actually part of the product team. In the case of Meta, around 4% of the members of the team that were laid off were actually from product. And this is because product is making money. Product works. Product is building the future. You don't want to reduce your investment in something that is keeping you alive, especially now. But if you look at the other side of the coin, we did a search on LinkedIn jobs just to understand how many open roles there are today. In product management, we found over 66,000 open jobs in product today. And it's going to get bigger. So let's talk about the future, because this is the state of the art. This is what happened right now that is creating a seat at the table for chief product officers. So what I'm going to share with you today is how you can make the most out of this opportunity for you and your teams. This is based on a report that we publish every year titled The Future of Product. The number one trend is that product is accountable for growing revenue, not just adding user value. Let me repeat this one more time. Product is accountable for growing revenue, not just growing or increasing user value. CPOs are acting more like general managers and owning P&L. In some cases, even if they do not own P&L, they're still partnering with sales to be more accountable for the total revenue that is being generated, because it makes sense. Now it's not the time to only focus on long term. And the way most product leaders think about roadmap, obviously it has a diversified portfolio of bets where there's still going to be investments in the long term and increasing the overall value for the user. But now there's going to be a higher concentration in how to capture some of that value right here, right now, in order to keep the lights going. Otherwise, there might not be long term, because in times of economic uncertainty, the best products do not always win. Even the best products need incredible distribution. And you know what? Product can be distribution. Product can be distribution. And this is not in conflict with other distribution channels that might be leveraged by marketing. I mentioned before that now we can monetize directly without human interaction, directly using websites or mobile apps. It's called sales of revenue. But we can also use our product to increase adoption and this way increase retention of our existing customers. It's not just about bringing net new customers and kind of forgetting about them once they pay. There are different mechanisms to be able to leverage directly through the website, directly through the mobile app that is going to help you close new deals, increase usage that will increase retention and ultimately find opportunities to also upgrade some of your existing customers. And if you want to close the circle, hopefully you can find opportunities to leverage existing customers to bring you net new customers. When this flywheel done well, it's an extremely cost efficient distribution channel. And I don't want to scare anybody here because product and go-to-market teams can be best friends. They should be best friends. What I mean by go-to-market teams, mostly marketing, sales and customer support. Let me break it down. Product Lab is what many of us would call this strategy of leveraging product as an inbound channel. It's generating more revenue for companies that do this than for companies that don't do it. This is a report generated by venture capital firm called OpenView that show that all of their B2B SaaS companies in the portfolio were the ones that were leveraging PLG were outperforming the SaaS companies that were not doing PLG. And by the way, it's not about either or. It's not about we do PLG or we do sales. We do PLG or we do marketing. We do PLG or we do founder-led sales. It's about and it's about we do something and we can also leverage product as a revenue generating channel, as a distribution channel. Specifically in the case of marketing, I just mentioned how this can be combined with many other channels could be paid acquisition, could be organic growth. But at the end of the day, even if you decide not to monetize directly through your own products, just creating the right value for the user upfront is going to make your marketing channels more cost efficient. We're also seeing how sales teams sometimes could have some reaction or negative reaction to this. And I always try to explain that this can be an amazing opportunity for sales to actually better qualify their opportunities and increase the accounts that they should be talking to and then allowing product to take care of the lower-hand fruit as well as helping them take care of the customers that actually need human interaction because the deal is very big or because the deal requires more customization or other reasons. And last but not least, and I hate to put customer success at the end because it's always kind of the poor sibling in all of this equation. In some cases, people don't even think about customer success as part of the GTM team. Customer success is a strategic function to actually increase pretension and expansion. So leveraging product to flag certain opportunities for paid customers to actually be engaged with customer success is a win and it's not mutually exclusive with customer success also launching other initiatives to stay in touch with existing customers. And I know I talk a lot about money and this might be shocking to some. I don't want this conversation to be just around money. There's definitely more of a concentration on short-term but at the end of the day, it's not just about short-term because you cannot fake an excellent customer experience. And that's the art and the beauty of product. Product leaders, product teams need to rightly balance how much of investment, how much of the portfolio is going into the short-term and to capturing value versus adding more value that could be captured later on. The second trend that we notice is that product is not just about having a CPO in order to increase the relationships with other functions not just in GTM but others, product is becoming at the intersection of everything. I'm sure many of you when starting product probably saw this Venn diagram that I am showing on the left. See that shows product as the intersection between technology, design and marketing. That doesn't do justice to all products today by any means. Product is literally at the intersection of everything including sales, customer success, data, research and others. Otherwise this whole engine cannot work. If we still coordinate product at the end there is not going to be a real long-term win for the user. So what is happening right now is that now companies are creating what they call competency model or a career ladder structure to create space for different product leaders. Product teams are not just made out of product managers and not all product managers are equal. This is a defined career ladder usually starts at the associate product manager level, goes up to product manager, senior product manager, group, director, VP and ultimately CPO. Some companies might not have all these stages and that's okay. They're all creating the right competency model for them. What's true is that they are now creating this type of ladder as well as a parallel track for individual contributors that want to continue growing as individual contributors. Long gone are the days where the only option for a good individual contributor to grow is to become a poor manager. Now, principal product managers or lead product managers can still grow and be rewarded while maintaining their passion, which is staying in touch with the user, with the engineers, with the designers and building, getting their hands dirty, building instead of having to manage others, which is also a perfectly okay path. So this type of expansion of the product team is not just vertical, it's also horizontal. We're seeing emerging product roles within the product org, including product marketing. And I know there's been a lot of controversy around this based on the comments that the CEO of Airbnb made recently at a design conference. And my take on this is in order for the product team to support the amount of relationships with other functions as well as the depth that is required with such functions, product teams are now growing. The role of the product manager is more strategic than ever. When companies are small, I understand there might not even be a product manager officially, but that doesn't mean that there is no product management being done. Product management work is probably being done by a founder of one of the early members of the team. As companies grow and there is more maturity, there is definitely space to create a product function. As those functions evolve, we're seeing that the product teams are being now expected to come up with pricing strategy, positioning, competitive intelligence, enabling revenue teams. We can decide if this is something we want to give to product managers and have them have the same title or we want to come up with other titles. The point is those responsibilities are now falling under product. And in many cases, companies are designating this to product marketing, which is a huge, very important co-pilot for the product manager to really figure out what to be next and empower existing teams to go to market and launch products faster and more successfully. And the third trend that we are seeing for 2024 is that acquiring top product talent is not getting any easier, not at all. And it's also not easy to retain this type of top talent. We're seeing that around 60% of the product managers that were surveyed by us would likely leave their companies within the next two years. Some of you might be thinking, that's not me because my company is awesome. And we have such a strong product culture that everybody's very happy and they're not going to leave us. I'm talking about non-regretable losses. And this can be very scary because the cost of acquiring product manager is very expensive. On average, $300,000 in the U.S. If you make any cost as well as the time to ramp up someone and make them productive. So even if you have the resources to throw money at the problem, it's still not a sustainable strategy unless we figure out retention of top talent. And the key to retention of top talent is training. The same people that said they were willing to leave their companies within two years said that they would be willing to stay for at least one more year if they see an investment in their learning and development. Now here's the catch 22. It's not just any kind of training. It's not training for the sake of it. It's not just videos or something boring that is imposed by your manager or human resources. It's training that brings revenue to the company that drives business outcomes. And that training tends to be specific, custom, advanced. The good news is that now world-class companies are investing more in training than ever because it's more strategic. It's not only cheaper than acquiring top talent. It's also a much better investment to retain talent. But here is how they're doing it now. They are empowering product leaders to be the decision makers. No more just give me the same type of training that you are giving to other functions. They want something that actually works for the team. We're also seeing that this type of stipends or budget, however you want to call it, is becoming more flexible. Now companies are asking for options to take their teams to places that can be more specific, practical, short-term than traditional universities. They don't want to send their employees back to school to spend a year or two full-time doing something and then coming back and then not really knowing how to apply what they learn. So in summary, the top three trends in product for 2024 that we identified are number one, product is accountable for growing revenue, not just adding user value. Number two, product is at the intersection of everything. With career ladders being created, as well as new roles within the product team, such as product marketing. And number three, top product talent still is very hard to acquire. It's still bullish in the future of products and believe that this is the best time in history to be a digital product. Thank you very much.


Today I want to talk with you about the mindset for enrollment which is getting enough clients for your business. What kind of mindset is healthy, wise, and will allow you to keep sustaining your business until it is successful, until it is stable. Oftentimes business owners are sold some kind of formula. There's some six steps to a six-figure income or seven steps to a seven-figure income or whatever it's number of steps, 12 steps, however many steps that's supposed to get you to a successful business. I have been around the block. I have seen dozens of such systems. I myself have sold several of these kinds of formulas and systems and I will tell you that after a decade of business experience I have come to the realization that what's most important is that you need to launch with as lean and simple as possible. So in other words anytime you do a marketing campaign, anytime you reach out and contact prospective clients, do it in a simple as low drama way, the least amount of cost, the least amount of time possible to test because the ultimate formula, if there is a perfect formula for enrollment, the formula goes something like this, experiment, learn from your experiment, modify based on your learnings so that you can then experiment again, learn from your experiment, modify based on your learnings. I've come to see that successful business people and successful marketers have an experimentation mindset. They don't think gosh this campaign better work or else I'm sunk. This launch better you know fulfill all my dreams. They're always saying well this is yet another experiment so let's launch based on our previous wisdom and knowledge. We'll launch again and then we will inevitably learn from our launch so that we can see what we can modify and do differently next time. So I really encourage you to hold to that mindset of experiment, learn, modify and to launch in as lean of a way as possible and this might include a marketing campaign or might include contacting a prospective customer or prospective referral source. Experiment, learn, modify so that the next person you contact you can contact in perhaps a better way or at least a different way so you can experiment, learn, modify. And also one more thing is practically speaking you have an unlimited number of people you could reach out to especially using the internet. You have an unlimited number of audiences and even if you've reached out to someone before you can reach out to them again after three or six months. So in other words you have unlimited opportunity to experiment, learn, modify.    Experiment, learn, modify. Whether you're doing a launch or you're reaching out to prospective clients or reaching out to prospective referral sources. So I hope you'll remember that mindset so you can stay curious and hopefully joyful in the learning process. And so you can be sustainable in your business. So until the next video wish you well.