Hello! Welcome back to Exotic Wine Travel. I am your host, Matthew Horkey. Hi, I'm Sherene Tan. Welcome back to the show today. Today is kind of a thoughts and review episode. I'm really excited because we recently got back from the Wine Writers Symposium 2018 at Meadowwood Napa Valley. We were finally going to Napa Valley. So actually it was really cool. We actually both received fellowships this year. Something that we weren't expecting. We thought maybe one of us would get it, but we both got it, which was very cool. And what is it? It's a three-day event and located in the gorgeous Meadowwood Resort of Napa Valley. It's three days of workshops, panels, tastings with 28 fellows, 15 faculty, and just coming together in the spirit of Napa Valley, I would guess, right? That's correct. And what are the objectives? I think it's just to bring people, bring wine writers, editors, and critics together so they can mingle, exchange ideas, and learn more about wine writing. Yeah, I agree. But I also think that it's particularly apt for Napa Valley to be doing this symposium because I felt like when I was there encapsulates the spirit of Napa Valley as well. Been the region that brings people together, been at the forefront of wine industry, been open-minded, and always nurturing creativity. Yeah, but why did we actually want to go? This is the second year that we've applied, both of us, and up beyond is the reason I wanted to go. All I want to do every year and look at the wines I taste, I wanted to taste all the wines. I think it's an opportunity to taste a lot of these wines that are hard to get, or you need a big-time budget if you want to taste all those wines. So that's really the main reason I wanted to go. Yeah, you were amazing and you really cracked me up because you were so enthusiastic about it, and you were really dedicated to tasting the wines at every single tasting, I must say. For me, I think of course I wanted to taste the wine, but it was also because we were kind of at the crossroad of exotic wine travel, and I was thinking about, oh, so what's next for us? What's next for exotic wine travel? How do we bring the business to the next level? How do we nurture ourselves as wine communicators and writers? Yeah, and basically what the program was, it was lectures, tasting panels, networking, and I want to tell you a little bit about what we liked. I like what Shireen liked about the whole event. You know, one of the cool things is the first day we did a down and dirty tour, it wasn't a normal wine visit you really got in deep, and I'll talk about my experience first. I went to Wheeler Farms, a fairly brand new property by the Arroyo family, they used to have the Arroyo sellers, and they're trying to build like a biodynamic community, I guess not fully certified demeanor like yours, but there was gardens, there was beehives, there was chicken coops, there was a custom crush pad, which means that there were three brands making their wine in the facility, and the cool thing that I got at Wheeler Farms, the thing that I took away the most, it comes back to wine, is I do not really enjoy Napa Sauvignon Blanc, and the Wheeler Farms Sauvignon Blanc was outstanding, I was so sad that you didn't get a chance to taste it, it was guava pineapple ripe fruit, but it was snappy, spicy, it had this really really nice spicy finish, I thought it was really beautiful, all stainless steel, so good job Wheeler Farms on that one. Would you consider that as your favorite Sauvignon Blanc from Napa Valley? The Spring Mountain that had Semi-On, but I don't count okay what did you like about it? Fair enough, fair enough, so I'll talk about my dull and dirty experience first, I visited Raymond, and I thought I didn't know anything about Raymond until I got there and I tasted their basic Sauvignon, and I asked the marketing manager Megan, is that label typically in wine, and she said yeah and I said I tasted this wine many years ago in Singapore, when I tasted it everything just came back, and I thought it was kind of like a serendipitous moment to not really coming full circle, but re-experience something all over again, so Raymond is biodynamic Demeter certified, and there are so many things to talk about, because we saw them doing their preparation, we met a, I don't know how, what's his official position, but he is basically the leader in working in Raymond, leading the biodynamic practice in the vineyard, so there's actually someone else, a vineyard manager, and they work together, and I thought that was, that really shows the dedication of the winery that they really want to push biodynamic forward, another thing that I learned from them is they are so intentional, I mean we've been to many biodynamic wineries all over the world, in Austria and Italy, but I think also because of the communication problem at times as well, they couldn't fully communicate with us why they do the things that they do, so at Raymond it was really eye-opening for me to experience and hear all of that. And we signed up, we signed up to go on the same tour, but we were spun up because there's only three people per group. I'm happy about that actually. So what else did I like? The Stephen Spurrier tasting, so Stephen Spurrier actually chose all the all the red wine estates that he chose for the 1976 judgment of Paris that was portrayed in the film Bottle Shock where American wines won top prize in white and, and sorry, white and red over French counterparts, so it was awesome. We got to taste some of the classic Napa Valley Cabernet's new vintages and older. For me, I thought the Heights, Martha Vineyard 1997 was awesome. We had a Heights from a new single, from 2013, the Stagg's Leaf showed well, for you it was all about my accounts. Yeah, but before that, you liked Heights so much, you drank your tasting pour and then you would turn to me and say, can I take your wine? And you just took it and just dialed the wine. I was diligent about spring the whole time, but I definitely drank that my account. The 1979 Clos du Fall Cabernet Reserve was beautiful also. Mayakamas for you, what else did you enjoy? Mayakamas Spring Mountain, but I was really blown away by Mayakamas because when we tasted the old vintage and the young vintage, I really could feel the consistency, the texture, the mouth feel.  Free Mark Abbey and Chateau Montalini showed well as well, but those were, you know, those are standouts for us. Another cool thing that we liked a lot about the program was in the middle of the program, there was a grab-and-go dinner, actually where we got some gifted wines. I'm really excited to start trying these. We got a Maryville Cabernet Franc 2014, this is a special edition, a priori Cabernet Seven Young Reserve 2014, Gurgage Hills Petite Verdeau 2013, you can't escape Croatian wine, you know, Aruso Milady Chardonnay from the Haynes Vineyard 2016. So that was cool. So we get to, you know, have dinner with our colleagues outside the Meadowood Resort. And I think that covers the sensory benefits of the trip and also the learning aspect as well. I think it's also worth mentioning that we had a gala dinner and eight master sommeliers came in to do the wine pairing dinner of four dishes for us. I thought that was spectacular. And I had one of the best pairing that I've ever had in my life, one of the best. Do you think so? It was the squab ad and the Zinfandel. Oh, that was crazy. I actually, we had a last Serena, it was a Sera-based wine. I can't remember the name of it, I'll put it up on the screen. We also had a beautiful ribolda gala from Matthias and it was two weeks on the skins. It was a cool event. It was beautiful too. They decorated the room, it was really, really beautiful. Yeah, that was spectacular. And I think most importantly for me is always the interaction. Interaction with the panel, people as well, the faculty members, but also among the peers. I probably benefited the most out of the casual conversations that happened with people in the team. I have to give a shout out to Todd Kuhlman. His last name is Kuhlman. And I think I still don't know what is the real impact yet, but it was through my personal interaction with him that I realized that I really need to be more vulnerable as a writer. And we exchanged a couple of, he gave me a couple of his writings and I think it was something that really moved me. So what are the things that we did not like about the symposium? So for me, first of all, you know, there was a cool session.  There was a long session, two long sessions about the fires in Napa Valley where they brought in professionals, insurance people, talking about what was going on. And it was awesome to see what the community was doing. But those were two sessions a whole afternoon. I think it took away from what could have been other learning experiences. I don't know how else we would have got that information because it was valuable, but that's, you know, honestly, that's what I think. I think there's an elephant in the room for other participants as well. Another thing is I would have liked to see more structured tastings. Most of the tastings we did were at lunch when we were in a rush to eat or at dinner. The only real structured tasting was the one with Steven Spurrier, what we talked about earlier. I would have liked to see one, maybe at least one, maybe two more structured tastings. I do agree with you. Adding on to that point, I was hoping to do a, I'm hoping one day I could actually do an AVA tasting, maybe Cabernet Sauvignon from all the 16 AVA's. It really would help us to get to know Napa Valley as a leading wine region better. Also kind of adding to your point as well, the fire, one of the best quotes that I've gotten from the symposium was actually at a session. It was, it was through the fire, it's not about what we lost, but it's what we saved. Again, I kind of think that it encapsulated the spirit of Napa Valley, but yeah, I do also hope that there will be more tasting sessions as well. One of the things that we talked about a lot is back to why I wanted to attend the symposium. I was thinking about what is next for exotic wine travel, how can we move forward and all that. So I was really hoping to hear more about the business model or potential, business model of publishing or potentially what is next for wine writers and communicators. I come from a 10 years background in, in corporate background. So you know, we're seeing HR people moving from HR manager into HR business partners. Marketing managers in the past, today they are known as what? Community managers, sometimes social marketing managers. And putting that point back to wine writing, I'm just wondering, I don't have the answer, but I want to know that what's next? Do we stick with just writing? Do we need to pick up new skills? Is social media very crucial? How can we leverage social media to to build our future career? Yeah, I think a lot of the conversation was around, you know, just like journalism. My journalism is dying. It's hard to make. Same thing about wine, about wine. Everyone was kind of a little bit sad about it. I would have liked to see the conversation pushed forward instead of being defensive, but that's the one. I even wish that we could have a inspiration speaker coming in to actually pick up the spirit a little bit. So to sum it up, would we apply again? Absolutely. Of course, we can't apply next year because we got it. It was four nights fully paid for in the Glorious Meadowwood Resort. All the tastings, lunches, meals were all paid for. So that was awesome. We can apply again to the next year. If you do want to apply, I think the guidelines change every year, but you have to submit at least two pieces of paid wine writing that was published within the last year. Submit two letters of recommendation. And I think that's it might change every year to year. So I want to thank I want to thank Meadowwood, the Napa Valley Vintners, the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone for a fantastic event. I really enjoyed myself. What about you? Very much. Anything else that you want to add before? I think that it depends on what how prepared you are for the symposium as well. If you are ready to look for something or you come with an objective, you can definitely get a lot out of the symposium. So guys, check it out. If you are a wine writer, if you can pay to write about wine, I'll put the link in the description box so you can apply. If you like this video, please subscribe to our YouTube channel, Exotic Wine Shuffle. I will see you at the next episode.


What's going on guys? It's your boy DPJ here today with another Destiny video. In today's Destiny video I'll be showing you guys how you can get this amazing sniper rifle. Now we all know Banshee the gunsmith now has reps so you can level him up. This is mainly done by completing few test weapon challenges which are really pretty simple and you can do them while doing other things. Ranking him up you get to choose an arms day package but getting him to a rank 2 he also gives you another package as well as a quest called Back in the Saddle. There are two main steps to this quest besides the standard talk to so and so between steps. The first step requires you to get 75 kills while having a special telemetry active. These last 30 minutes so it's quite easy and you can buy these from Banshee himself. To do this part of the quest I did it in the Citadel area of Venus where enemies constantly spawn but there are many places you can do this. The second main step of the quest is to dismantle rare or legendary snipers. I think I dismantled a couple of old snipers I had to learn about which I was never going to use but I suppose if you don't have any spare snipers this part could be pretty long. I'll probably suggest playing them strikes for engrams and hopefully getting some rares and legendaries dropped but once you have the spare snipers or have dismantled them that's basically this quest done. You can head back to Banshee and collect your reward. The weapon is called the still piercer. Mine offers void damage with 280 attack but obviously can be infused. Its main mods are perfectionist magazine is refilled if all shots are landed are precision kills which is an amazing perk. And then we have south spotter. Increased radar resolution when this weapon is equipped. In my opinion this is a promising looking sniper and I cannot wait to level it up. Guys let me know if you already own this sniper or if you're going to rank up that gunsmith to try and get it. Hope you guys enjoyed the video. Do drop a like or do appreciate the support. Subscribe for daily destiny and I'll catch you on the next one. Peace out until next time. Peace.


Hi everyone, Joe for JasperysCaseBreaks.com with the team random for Nuara Pick Your Team Number One. So basically, most of you know this process by now, but we pulled the remaining teams out of Nuara Pick Your Team One, and then we're, you know, averaged out the price of all the teams right there, and then selling those spots. So it's essentially a random team break inside Pick Your Team Number One. Except in this case, we're only randomizing your customer names, not the teams themselves. Now if you bought a full spot, you got a chance to win a full spot. So we only ended up selling seven spots outright. So I'm going to randomize those names with the first dice roll. Top three of the seven, really great odds. Top three of the seven will be winning extra spots. So let's do that right now. So there's the new dice, new list. Top three after seven. Top three of the seven after four. One and three, four times. Top three after four. One, two, three, and four. So that's Nick, Logan, and Brian. Congrats to you. After four times, you got some extra $220 spots going your way. So now, hopefully, well, you're not hopefully, but your odds definitely have improved to try to get some of the top teams. So that's good news for you. Now, let's gather everybody's names and let's assign you a team. New dice, new list goes out this list now. All right, now let's assign you a team. Two and a two, four the hard way. One, now the good news is two, everyone's guaranteed something. Three and fourth and final time. After four, there you go, Brian. With that extra spot coming in handy. So we will put another rooftop next to your name.  That helped out. Brian, you got the Warriors. Jeff, you got the Pistons. Logan with the Cavs. That's with the extra spot too. Brian, with the Rockets. Jesse with my Lakers. Nick with the Raptors. Jeff with the Grizz. Nick with the Thunder. William with the Nets. Joshua with the Hornets. Logan with the Bucks. Aaron with the Sixers. Joshua with the Spurs. Jeff with the Clippers. And Aaron with the Wizards. So there you go, gang. I'll see you in the next video for the break itself. Jasper's casebreaks.com. Bye-bye.


If you get to manage other people, you'll see and understand why your bosses are sometimes distant and cold. Managing people is far more complicated than undertaking any task at work. People have different behaviour patterns and different motivations. How you do it makes all the difference. According to Subbuck's blog, great leaders go deeply into what is really going on, what emotions are driving their employees and what perceptions might need to be adjusted. In today's video, I'm going to share with you 17 traits of a good boss. If you're new consider subscribing to our channel for more awesome videos such as this one. 1. He's interested in your career advancement A good boss does not just want to milk you of what you are worth. He doesn't see you as just another element that contributes to his business success. He sees you as a human that has dreams and aspirations and tries to understand how working with him can help you actualize this. A good boss wants you to have the best experience possible and will not many pulate you to stay if you have gotten a better opportunity. 2. Informs you of opportunities for development A good boss looks out for conferences and seminars his employees can attend to better themselves. There is always something new that needs to be learned. While this will also benefit your employer because you will end up using the new information to implement better process for the company. Still, some bosses do not even want their employees to grow at all, out of fear that they might outgrow them. If your boss has never shared an opportunity with you in over a year of working with them, start considering a new role. Working is not just about being busy and getting paid, you can only build a career when you are actively growing. 3. Respects your personality Some bosses treat everyone the same and try to motivate everyone the same. This almost always never works. Some are primarily money driven. If you can double their salary, they will go to the moon and back. They are also most likely to take about what a better offer comes along. Some people work better alone, while some of those work better with others. A good boss knows all the names of his employees and their personalities. He can tell who is most likely to complain about a task, and sometimes who is likely to ask for a raise first. 4. Values your time Some bosses give you excess work and expect you to put in overtime without extra pay. They exploit you until you quit. According to Forbes, it's too expensive to invest time, energy and resources into dealing with the fallout of bad bosses who compel their employees, often the best performers to live. Imagine you could have spent 2 years developing a business that can make you a millionaire in 5 years and you spent it working at a place you can't really place what you have learned. 5. Values your contributions Most employees value being recognized for their contributions more than how much they are paid. If you pay someone a premium salary and treat their work like trash, sooner or later, you will lose them. 6. Encourages you during difficult tasks Good bosses know that every employee contributes to the overall growth of the company and will try to encourage them when they encounter difficulties in the execution of their tasks. Are you an employer? Have you ever worked alongside your employees? When your employees know you are human, it is easier to buy your vision. 7. Pushes you to become your very best Some bosses do the exact opposite. They spend time showing you how flawed your work is and how lucky you are to have a job at all. They pick at your confidence until you have none left. Good bosses don't do this. They insist on results because they place confidence in your ability to push through. They don't let you quit. They push you until you become a better version of yourself. Everyone has a mental limit. The job of the boss is to push that limit until you are at your best. 8. Models and instills discipline Good bosses instill discipline in their employees They are always early and therefore encourage punctuality. They do their jobs and expect everyone to do theirs. Everyone is different, but good bosses can get through to their employees. Even those who did not come from backgrounds with discipline is emphasized, learn discipline on the good bosses. They set clear goals and vision for their company and sell to their employees. They are very unrelenting and guide their people to be as well. They teach them how to take rejection and how to achieve their goals strategically. 9.  Mental health is essential, especially in today's modern age. Good bosses don't yell at their employees or emotionally abuse them. They also don't manipulate them. They try to build professional relationship with their employees, which helps in their relations at work. They try to understand their employees to work more efficiently with them. Bad bosses do not have a lot of patience. They order people around. Sometimes they even assault their employees. According to a poll by MSN News in 2017, 31% of people in the US have been sexually harassed in the workplace. 45% of women said they were sexually harassed and 15% of men said they were. Every employee deserves a work environment that is not toxic to both their physical and mental health. 10. Notes your progress and encourages you. Good bosses collaborate well with their human resources department to note the progress of their employees. When it is multinational, this is not always possible. However, in a multinational, your direct supervisor is usually your boss. The director will likely not even know your name or the name of your department. Do you work in a multinational? Does your supervisor check on you to see how your personal development is going? 11. Provide strong visionary leadership. Great bosses are visionary. Their ideas are beyond money. The business will make money, but this breed of bosses value the impact it will have on people more. They inspire their employees to lead in different segments of their industry of work and make time to speak to them. As a result, the people who work under them flourish. People without vision are usually not as focused as people who do. Visionary bosses work hand in hand with their employees towards their goals. 12. Offers mentorship in the course of your career.  If the answer is yes, you are in good hands. There is hardly a teacher as effective as experience. Your boss likely has far more experience in business and work than you do. He or she can teach you things that can help. Good bosses mentor their employees. They sometimes run internship programs and work placements and put their employees in charge. The more responsibilities they give to their employees, the better they turn out. Does your boss send you for retreats or conferences where you can network with others? 13. Inspires growth. Good bosses inspire growth amongst their employees. They put in their best and teach others how to do the same. Some bosses do the opposite. They want everyone to work hard to push them. They want everyone to see their success as their success. So this model only breeds contempt and spite. People don't want to feel like slaves to your dreams. It also makes employees look out for only their interests since the boss looks out for only his own. It will not breed the right type of environment for creativity, collaboration, and innovation. 14. Allows you to have family time and observe important holidays. Some bosses don't care about your personal life, not that they should, or they should at least respect it. Imagine being sent a work email on Christmas day or Easter day. Work is important, but family is often more important than work. People need to realize this. A good boss recognizes all holiday and will not send a work email on any of those days. They will also typically not call and even remind anyone that tries to come that it's holiday time so that they can go home and rest. This, of course, does not apply to essential services like health-related services, telecommunication services, and banking services. 15. Does not coerce, control, manipulate, or intimidate you. A good boss will not try to control you to get you to work.  A good boss will instead protect you in any way they can. They take responsibility for your actions and work with you to produce the best results. 16. Looks out for you. Good bosses look out for opportunities that can improve the career of their employees. Good bosses may go out of their way to secure foreign work placements for their staff, even though their staff may choose to live them for their new company. They also give a good recommendation to other employees when the employee lives them, even if they missed a person. 17. Do not condemn you in the face of mistakes. A good boss knows that mistakes are prone to a core, especially when their employees are under a lot of pressure. They try to be patient. Instead of condemning you, they teach you how to do it properly. A good boss asks questions while the bad boss complains. A good boss wants to understand how a model will work, while a bad boss tells you to make it work. It all depends on the situation. But bad bosses always do things that are not in the best interest of their employees. 18. Do not be a bad boss.


Ash Barty vs. Anjali Kerber is the first semi-final for the women's event of Wimbledon for 2021. Both players have had different roads to get to the semi-final stage. Kerber came into the tournament as the number 25 seed. Her first-round opponent was the Serbian Dojanovic, and Kerber got through her in straight sets 6-4, 6-3. Her second-round opponent was informed player Tormo, who had had a really good 2021 season. And after losing the second set, Kerber had to fight to get through, eventually winning in three sets 7-5, 5-7, 6-4. Her third-round opponent was the unseeded Sancinovic, and after going down in the first set, Kerber stormed back to win in 3-2-6, 6-love, 6-1. In her fourth-round, she'd take on the 20th seed, and another player who's in very good form in 2021, Coco Goff. But it didn't seem to faze Kerber as she showed her experience winning in straight sets 6-4, 6-4. The quarter-final opponent was the number 19 seed Mukova, and after winning the first set, she went down a break in the second, but rebounded strongly to eventually winning straight sets 6-2, 6-3. Barty entered the tournament as the number one seed, and would take on Suarez Navarro in the first round. And after dropping the second set, Barty would eventually win in three sets 6-1, 6-7, 6-1. Her second-round opponent was the Russian Blinkova, and Barty showed no troubles here winning in straight sets 6-4, 6-3. Her third-round opponent was the Czech Sinyakova. And again, Barty would prove why she's one of the favorites to win this event, getting through in straight sets 6-3, 7-5. Her fourth-round opponent was against the number 14 seed and French Open champion Rajakova. And although the first set was tight, Barty would eventually put away a fellow French Open champion in straight sets 7-5, 6-3. The quarter-final opponent would be fellow Australian Ayla Tomyanovic. And after a bit of a hiccup in the second set, Barty would eventually win in straight sets 6-1, 6-3. These two have played four times before with the head-to-head split at 2-2, so there is no advantage for either player. And they haven't actually played for the last three years. They haven't played since 2018 in Wuhan, where Barty got the win. And it'll also be the first time they've actually played on a grass court as well. Kerber's going to get the win. She needs to be aggressive. And she needs to push Barty around. Also be patient as well, because Barty we know she loves to slice back end. She loves to drag out the points. So Kerber needs to be very smart about this and use her lefty serve to her advantage. Barty's going to reach the final. She needs to cut down her errors. She hit a lot of errors against Tomyanovic, even though she won in straight sets in her quarter-final. But she needs to cut down on the errors and not give Kerber the chances that she was giving Tomyanovic a couple of days ago. We've got a battle on the former world number ones, with Barty being the current number one, Kerber being a former number one. And of course, champ versus champ battle as well. Barty a former French Robin champion and a former Wimbledon champion in Kerber. It's going to be a lot of fun. Let me know down in the comments below. Who are you predicting for this one? I think I'm going to go with Barty in three sets. But again, it could be Kerber in three sets. This match could be very, very close and could be a long one. It could be a classic. So again, let me know down in the comments below. Who's winning this one?


Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. I want to kind of tackle the question today. Since we're entering the ladder stages, we're starting to head outwards of Team of the Year. I want to kind of tackle the question, where is our market rise that we were looking at? And the market rise we were talking about post-team of the year, because we have seen the market rise a lot. But of course, the past couple of days, a lot of our special cards that we were looking at, a lot of other cards in this game are starting to drop. Because of a few things that have happened in FIFA and just what people are doing in FIFA right now, now that we've had all of our saved up packs have opened, and we're kind of on the out and out. We are in the last few days of Team of the Year. A lot of people right now, if you're somebody who's not just spamming upgrade packs at the moment, then you're kind of like, all right, well, you know, we're just kind of getting this SBC content, and that's what you're doing in FIFA. Maybe you're doing some objectives. But a lot of what's going on in FIFA is just basically packs. It's just basically packs. It's basically grinding those SBCs. I finished up my initial investment of about a million coins worth into upgrade packs, packing Kimmich and Fakir as my two Team of the Year and one honorable mention. But I've seen more people hit some packs. So I'm probably gonna send another couple hundred K into upgrades in the next couple of days. But let's talk about this market, man, because these two SBCs, and I can show you in my team because I actually have them in my squad, these two guys right here, Mr. 87, Christian Ronaldo, and the Boateng SBC. Now, we talked in the last night's video about, we talked about them in last night's video a little bit, but again, I just wanna go and show you. Again, with the content we got yesterday with a mid icon, non-repeatable upgrade, right? A lot of people are gonna be doing this as well because they have a lot of fodder in their club. They have coins. So they're gonna take a shot at this SBC. Now, of course, people were saying today, why is this not a mid or prime? Cause they feel like that this SBC should have been a bit, you know, a higher quality SBC for where we're at in the stage of the game. I don't disagree, but that's just kind of where people are at right now. A lot of people are doing SBCs, and you can tell, right? By going over here on foot bin and taking a look at some of these prices of the SBC cards that have been in the game for a bit, right? Bruno Fernandez, Player of the Month, which I'm actually crafting through upgrade packs. This guy is 1.1 million coins. He was 900K. He was even, he was so low. Thursday and Friday, this guy was like 900,000 coins. He actually started to go up the past couple of days, but basically Thursday when fodder was super duper low or even Friday during the first hour or so of lighting grounds, this SBC was lower like 920, 930,000 coins, and it's up to 1.1 mil, right? This is kind of like a barometer when we have SBCs that are out in the game. You can kind of use an SBC that's been out for a while as a barometer on how the SBC fodder market is fluctuating. Now, of course, today with that mid icon, you saw 86 rates kind of shoot up in price a little bit. You saw 85s kind of shoot up a little bit as well. So if you guys are holding SBC fodder, the only stuff that I would consider to sell if you have SBC fodder right now is this really, really high rated stuff, right? Allison has 65,000 coins for a 90 rated goalkeeper. Now, he was 65K early this year, but that was also because he was just meta and usable. He went down to 49,000 coins and is now back up to 65K. The stuff that I would consider selling right now is like your 90 and 91 rated cards. Oblock is 75,000 coins after being only 66K. So he has not risen up that much, but the 90 rated cards have risen up a ton. Terstegen, Allison, those guys are up a lot. Even some of these 89s, Casamiro 55K. That's a huge rise on his card, right? He was 44,000 coins, low 40s early this week, up 10K card in just a couple of days. You could start to look out, taking the cash on some of these, but honestly, you might as well just hold because a lot of these cards are just gonna go higher as fodder rises. As people finish team of the year, they have halfway completed SBCs, they have coins from opening packs, and they're gonna be finishing whatever SBCs EA put out, and they're gonna be more incentivized to do those. And that's what's pushing the market down right now. That's why we're seeing cards on this game drop in price. We'll talk about team of the years in a second. Or even if we go back here to the popular page, if we look at a lot of these player prices, you can see a lot of the informs that are quote unquote out of packs, informs they're down, right? Some of them are not very meta, right? But you have two sides of the story here. You have the headliner Benzema 178K who just really kind of dropped off today after their game. You have gold cards that are even out of packs, Van Dyke, 180K, of course, a panic selling because of the SBC that came out. For Boatang, people are switching up their back lines. Renato Sanchez is down a little bit, but he's still super duper meta. The biggest thing you have here is cards from the last team of the week that people invested in for a rise out of packs. Ben Yetter, 400K, this guy was 440, he's down to 400. Pogba was like 540 as well, he's down to 525. The rises on these cards have been cut short and Dombley, 31K. The rises on these cards have been cut short because a lot of people invested in them. If you actually go in the market and look, a lot of the 87 Benyetters and the 88 Pogbas that you'll see are fresh, second owner, third owner. There's ones that people invested in that they were trying to see a market rise on after team of the year and they are kind of getting killed because again, people are selling their investments and selling cards to go do SBCs. The same thing happened with Griezmann and DePie, man. It's like the Dutch Lynx have literally just gone away. This guy was 190, almost 200K. Last week, a week ago, 200,000 coins for DePie. He's 50K down right now because again, the hype has moved away from some of the League One, from some of the Dutch Lynx, of course, with the Robin and the Clyber and it's moving to the Bundesliga and it's moving to Bundesliga defense and Serie A and attack. Now, one thing I will say is some of these Bundesliga cards like this Royce, he was a little bit over-invested in. I still think there's a possibility for a bounce back on some of these cards, especially if they're Bundesliga and that's what I want you guys to be watching. There's a couple of different cards that I want you guys to be watching in the sell-off of the Weekend League as we had out of this weekend specifically, right? You want to focus on Serie A, Bundesliga and just stuff that is super duper meta in general, right? You're not to Sanchez type cards, some of your really meta cards like that but this Kealini has been 360, 370K almost. He's down to 333 at the moment with a little bit of Weekend League sell-off. So definitely look at cards like Kealini, Quadrado or Serie A cards that have been really, really hyped up. Now, of course a guy like Valtarro Martinez with his freeze item, you're not super duper interested in him because of course Ronaldo has kind of replaced his card. This guy went up a lot because of Di Bala but now he's back down a lot because of Ronaldo. So we kind of keep that in mind. Still could rebound a little bit but that's one area that I would keep a look at on the market specifically is combing through these out-of-packs informs and other special cards. If that's an area that you want to look, I would definitely keep an eye on the Serie A and on the Bundesliga. Now there's one card that I want to take a look at right now, Kula Bali, 615. This guy fluctuates a ton. This dude is an incredible, incredible card to trade with. Check out his price earlier today. He was 660,000 coins, went down to 580 back to 620. If you see this guy in like the mid-500s, there is not really a good center back in this game in the Serie A other than this card in my opinion. I think this is like the best Serie A center back in FIFA. So if you can, if you can find this guy, I'm talking PlayStation prices here for, you know, 570, again, 580. I don't know if he gets too much lower than that or on Xbox, if you can find like a 560 which is where he was yesterday. This guy is so rare. He's probably going to bounce back again and be up in like the 650, 660 range in a week. It's going to be that kind of crazy bounce in some of these Serie A cards. I think, I think also since Boatang expires on Tuesday, some of your Bundesliga center backs, especially the live items. And that's another kind of thing that I want to look at is just some of the live items today because a lot of these cards are still kind of low, especially ones that got hit because of Boatang. And I think these guys are going to bounce back because road to the finals are so very rare. If you see sell off on any of these cards, even headliners and road to the finals, Upamakano, Alaba, Kloss Sherman, keep an eye on those because we are two weeks away from Champions League games. So make sure you watch road to the finals this week for sure for the ones that have good matchups, right? That's key. Do a little bit of research. Go look at the matchups for the games that are on February 16th. I think those are the first games that we have, like Griezmann, man. This card is ridiculously low. And these are cards that I would 100% keep an eye on as we get towards. Now, Footbin had a massive undercut here. They said 360 for this Griezmann card, which would be ridiculously low for him. So that's a card I'm going to keep an eye on because this guy really hasn't risen up much. And I feel like people are going to be looking to road to the finals as honestly just an investment, right? Whether they're buying them for their team or if they're just honestly buying them because they want to see them rise as we near Champions League and Europa League games. These guys are going to be rising in the next couple of days in my opinion. Even guys that were hit because of the new SBCs, I think these guys are going to get hyped up a little bit and you're going to see a rise. Oblak even as well. I mean, this guy is so rare, right? He's so rare. This guy's down to 265. So keep an eye on these cards, especially today with the weak and the sell-off. The more meta of course, the better. But again, I think the reason why we're not seeing the rise on the market that we were really expecting and to be fair, we are seeing a really, really nice rise in some areas. Let me preface this by saying that, right? You have cards on this game like icons that are absolutely flying. This Mid Desai last week, he's a million coins, man. This Mid Desai is a million coins. He was like 880, 900,000 coins last week. So some of the icons are just exploding. I mean, I've talked about Garencha, right? I missed the Stoikov today at 1.5. He's actually over 1.6 mil. He was in the 1.4s last week, right? Hullet baby. This card was selling at 1.5 million coins, 1.5 mil over the weekend this weekend. And he was a 1.1, 1.2 million card even after he had risen because of Robin and Clyber. I flipped a real Ferdinand baby card tonight at 1.32 mil that I bought at 1.22. And this guy literally last week was like 1.1. So you're seeing some of crazy, crazy rises on these cards. This long middle card was 1.25 last week. He's up like crazy. Makka Lele, who I'm trying to flip right now has been 1.3 mil a weekend. And I got this for 1.2, trying to get a nice flip right there. So that's the kind of stuff that you saw on my transfer list as well. I had an Alejandro Gomez. This guy was 240,000 coins for his inform and his team of the group stage cards are ones that I would definitely keep an eye on because this guy was really expensive earlier this week. 203 at the moment. And this guy was 240. Of course, links to Ronaldo and links to DiBala. And of course, DiBala goes away in a couple of days as well, I think. So you could see this guy bounce back with the Serie A being so prevalent right now as people build their teams around the new SBCs in FIFA. So again, I like those two leagues for a rise out of packs. But again, that's why you're seeing a lot of the gold cards just get sold off, right? Veran, 100,000 coins for arguably the most OP center back in the game. I just think that with the supply, again, I should have stuck to my guns, right? I thought that a lot of these cards would have the potential to rise post team of the year like they did last year. Originally before I looked at last year's graphs though, what I knew about these gold cards was is that they were just so supplied and the supply on the gold cards this year is just different than any other year. That's why we saw some of the crazy drops post Black Friday on Mbappe and on Neymar. And I think that even with some of the other gold cards this year, it's just the supply that is crazy to me on these items. And I think that's why you're seeing these guys not really rise post team of the year. And of course, that Boateng SBC is not helping people in their defense, right?  People might revert back to using Veran after team of the year is over because hey, maybe Boateng isn't that good for them. But, you know, a lot of center backs this game are down, Van Dyke is out of packs and the dude has dropped 20k, which is kind of crazy. I think he's like 180,000 coins at the moment, which is wild. And this guy's literally out of packs right now. So that's the kind of stuff that you're seeing. And I think it's, again, just that supply combined with everybody is just flocking towards the Boateng SBC, the Bundesliga back line with the special cards and the Serie A attack. So that's one thing that I'll be looking for out of this weekend as well for possible investment. Now, one thing I wanna say as well is, wow, we have a situation. Is the man of the match card design, it is not. We have a little situation here on Christian Erickson, my guy. His Fanta card is 34,000 coins. Watch these Fanta cards and watch this week's team of the week because, actually that might have been a saucy undercut according to FootBank because this guy's been around 40, so maybe 34 was a bit of an undercut. We'll see, no, it was not. Wow, but man of the match cards, especially Kiesa and Erickson I think, maybe Phil Foden a little bit, but Erickson the most, maybe Greenwood actually, watch those guys, they should be only in packs until Tuesday I think. Basically when the team of the years go out of packs late that night I think these guys will go out as well because that's usually how man of the matches work. But I want you guys to keep an eye on this week's team of the week, team of the year cards and the team of the year honorable mentions because these cards are gonna be rare. They're gonna be very rare. The honorable mention cards in my opinion are gonna be great to flip with and possibly rising out of packs after Tuesday because they're not that expensive for the most part. I think Kier is a great card for 240. I know he doesn't fit into what people are doing with their teams right now, but he is French and there's gonna be French links that come back, right? French is the most popular nation in FIFA. Robertson is a permanent left back, 330k, he was 300k, he's gonna rise out of packs in my opinion and Marquinhos had 120,000 coins. I know people have freeze Marquinhos already in their teams, but the PSG and the Brazilian links for me are gonna reign supreme here and I think you will see a nice rise out of packs on him. And then the current team of the week, I wanna talk about these cards as well because nobody's talking about investing in these and usually Saturday nights are honestly the cheapest for some of these cards. If I had to pick one card item out of this week's team of the week that I would like for a market rise in the next few days, it would be this, the young card, 170,000 coins for the Dutch links that people are still sort of using with Robin and the Barcelona links and people just love the young. In FIFA, this is first special card of the year. He bounced back big time on Friday night from like 180K back to 210 and now he's down into 170. So this might be honestly, especially right now with people are on the game, they're gonna have coins, right? The investing people in FIFA are gonna be on their best game, right? The Patriots are gonna be going, the mass buyers are gonna be going in the next few weeks because people have coins again in FIFA. They wanna make coins, head it out of team of the year.  We're probably gonna have future stars though and people are gonna wanna make coins because they spent a lot in upgrade packs. So just keeping on the team of the week. I like De Young, Madison, Bernardo Silva, Pope and El Vetti. I do like El Vetti because this guy today I already saw him bounce between like 17 and 20,000 coins. I think this might be his only inform, is that true? Flippen says right now he's 17K but that's actually not true. But if this guy had 17,000 coins, in my mind is a steal. Again, with the Bundesliga hype that's going on right now, this guy's honestly a pretty good steal at 17K. I think a lot of people are gonna be investing in this so watch out for overinvestment but I do think there are some cards out of this team of the week that will rise. And then talking about team of the years, I got my eye on this guy. I have my eye on Manuel Neuer because 480,000 coins for the goalkeeper that links to the SBC that literally everybody is doing with their fodder crafting from team of the year. I think this guy's getting too cheap. If I, this is the cheapest he's basically been. He's been 480K on Thursday during the lightning rounds and this is like his lowest point honestly. I'm getting very interested in Neuer. I don't know if we see lightning rounds today on Sunday. We didn't have any yesterday on Saturday. They've kind of been doing it every other day. So maybe we do see a little bit more supply today but that's not something I'd be super worried about in all honesty because these cards do go out of packs on Tuesday. So I feel like this is gonna be the start of when if team of the years are gonna rise out of packs you'll see people start to buy into them. Now if you look at the team of the year at a whole the prices don't look that great, right? They don't look that great because I think there's still a lot of people that have bought these cards that are holding onto them but it seems like a lot of these guys have just simmered, right? They're just kind of simmered in price. They haven't gone bananas. Van Dyke is the one that's held his rise the best. Van Dyke and Trent. Trent was 9.50 on Thursday. Van Dyke was like under 2.4 and Davies as well. Davies was 1.59. Davies is gonna hold his price because of course he's one of the most meta left-backs in the game. Everybody wants to use him.  I mean, I do honestly think that these cards are probably gonna tick up out of packs unless we have a crazy week of future stars next week. If that is the next promo, I do like Neuer if you're like for a possible investment on team of the year, just because everybody did. Everybody did that boating SPC and I also like Neuer's inform because some people I know will see a 500,000 coin keeper and they'll just be like, yo, I can't spend that much on a goalkeeper in this game. So I also like this Neuer inform in the 180,000 coin range on the PlayStation console. I'm not entirely sure what he is in Xbox but I think it's about the same. But this guy's a rare team of the week item and it's half the price of the team of the year. So I think a lot more people will be interested in this card as well. So this guy was 220, he's back down to 180s. So buying into the hype leagues and nations of cards that have already gone up. We talked about Alejandro Gomez, Manuel Neuer. Those are cards that I would definitely keep an eye on and then Icon Trading. Icon Trading is gonna be fantastic because again, this is what I wanna leave you guys with and I mentioned it earlier but this market is still very healthy. The market has a lot of coins.  That's why you see icons rising. That's why you see some of the high tier market rising on the out of pack special cards like Messi, team of the group stage. Some other of the cards that are in the Serie A that have gone up exponentially. Some headliners as well. Bruno Fernandez headliner is still 1.9 mil. Some headliner situations with Gretzgera. He's got COVID and they did get their streak win. So some people have bought into Gretzgera because he went from about 800,000 coins down to 700K. My thoughts on this is he was just a little bit too low today. I think he was a little over invested and he has all the links. So I like this. If you can find them again at like 670K and that's what his lowest was before people started buying him back a little bit and the listing stopped after Bayern confirmed their fourth win in a row. So this guy will get upgraded on Wednesday. I think Bomba is in the same situation and seeing again how high this card is, we were talking about it a little bit today on stream. I might consider cashing out if you have this Bomba as an investment. If they do win today, I think they play on Sunday. I would cash it out. I might cash it out before the game because this guy is really, really high and I think he might drop a little bit like Gretzgera did. Of course, not Serie A, not Bundesliga really hyped up right now. But we'll see. Live items almost have like minds of their own. They're kind of crazy on FIFA anyway. So I just wanted to kind of talk about this, why you're not seeing the part of the market rise. Some of the markets risen a lot. Other parts of it haven't risen that much. They've actually gone down a lot. And I just want to kind of present more thoughts around that today and give you guys some possible buys because again, this market is pretty healthy, right? It's pretty healthy. People's minds are just focused on that Ronaldo, on that Boateng and the links to those cards. And that's where I think if people are focused there, you want to focus there as well as we go through into this next week. Really curious to see what EA does this next week. The content has just been kind of lackluster so far. And I feel like they might lose some of the hype on FIFA and they might lose some people playing FIFA right after Team of the Year if they don't spice it up with future stars and make it pretty interesting. So that's the video for today, boys. If you liked it, make sure you give it a thumbs up, comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe if you're new. It's been Nathan Foddekount and I will catch you guys later. Peace out.


Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome. This is Melissa Arma, the stock swisher. I'm reviewing the spy today. What an unbelievable day in the market. I am almost speechless, except for I'm not. This is incredible, incredible. If I drew a picture of what this, if this market, if I, if I could just go in, if I could just travel back in time, no, if I could travel ahead in time, seeing what the market was going to do, and then travel back in time, it wouldn't even be like this. It would be, I couldn't even make the stuff if I tried. First of all, let's go back. Let's pretend this wasn't even here. Huge bounce in the market in here. Rally, this is on February 3rd. I thought, gosh, you know, we're just gonna, we're just gonna rally to the sky. We didn't do it. The next day we followed through, like I thought, gapped up. Rally did a buy a set up, but, and we closed green, but then this was Thursday. Friday we gapped down, and we fell so hard. We fell so hard, we held support, but I thought, this doesn't look good. We did hold 187. I wanted us to hold 187. I thought, this really doesn't look good, because we actually did a sell set up into resistance on the daily chart in the spy, but still enough trend, which I'm aware of every day. I look at everything I look at. Today, when we gapped down, under support, and fell hard all day, I thought, well, whatever. I had no call for the market today, except for the fact that I still thought we would hold. I, I still thought we would hold. I did not think we'd retest this anomaly day, this area, which this counts as one area here. I didn't think we'd do it. We didn't do it. When I saw the bounce today into the close, I said, oh, my Lanta. I was floored, floored, because I never expected it. I never expected us to fall hard today in a gap down and rally into the close, but we did. And actually, the low, low was set here at 230, but the buying came in. All right, let's just, I want to be very, very exact here. Let me just, I'm gonna, I'm just gonna go the one minute chart. Hold on, here. So 184. What time do we get over 184? 315. This is crazy, people. Do you believe this? I mean, again, once again, no one believes me, but I keep double, triple, quadruple checking myself every second. The market's still higher, and I'm not surprised. I mean, I'm flabbergasted because I didn't think we'd do it today, but we're, what we're gonna give up tomorrow. We will gap up tomorrow any day. This is gonna do exactly what I said any day. And originally, I said 198. This is, this is gonna be what I tried. I didn't think we'd bounce today in the close, but we did. We got bought today. Buying came in to support the market today. Institution of buying, the market would never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never at 315. Five minutes into the close have gotten bought like that without real money coming in and buying it. Did I think we'd fall through here? Yes. Did we? No. Did I think we'd fall through here? Yes. Did we? No. Did I think we'd get down today? No. But we are gonna still follow through higher. I mean, this is so amazing. I wouldn't even be surprised.  We, we, there's no question. No, no chance of failure that we don't get up tomorrow in the market in accusing the spy. The question is where I will tell you that I wouldn't put it past us to have a huge massive green body day in the market tomorrow or gap up huge and then we're still gonna run. There's nothing that we're gonna do not to be green tomorrow. Nothing. And this is so tricky.  In fact, you think it's in a downtrend because if you read PIVOTS, if you read PIVOTS, you think that we made a series of lower highs and lower lows and you're convinced the market's in a downtrend. We're not. We're still holding up trying. And when I see the buying community today, I am speechless, except for I'm not. And I had to do a video because this is amazing. It's the most amazing thing I've ever seen. And this is what money looks like. Money is supporting the market today. This is buying that came in. We wouldn't do this otherwise. See, this, this is why understanding how money moves in the market is critical. It's, it makes your breakthrough. Making money are losing. And one of the reasons that I do so well, I'm so successful as I'm so good at reading money. It's like, I just read it so well. So well. It's this. This is just the greatest thing I've ever seen. I love it. I love it. I have no idea where we got tomorrow morning. Not a clue, but I know there's no reports really out tomorrow. No major, no major earnings out tonight or tomorrow morning. I mean, whatever we do, whatever we do is just buying coming in. And, and it's, you know, this is pretty terrific people. So I was a little early when I called it back in here because I thought this would follow through. But we're still going to do it. So before I said 198, 200, it's really 198. This is the level. This is the level that people will be convinced that we will, that regular people, normal people, will start buying back into the market. But, but, but the people that control the world bought it today and then bought it in here in our buying, it's still in supporting it. The one thing that I understand about money is when it wants to fall, when it wants to drop, when it wants to fall off a planet, it absolutely will. Therefore, if the market wanted to fall today and break the anomaly day and break 181 and 180 and 182 and break everything in the world, it could have done it. It would have done it. It just would have done it. Selling action has no end. It will just go, but we didn't. Buying is full-on, thoughtful process. And to do that today into the close, I mean, that is unbelievable. And I will read you February 8th. Here's the affirmation for today. Everything is possible. Nothing is too good to be true. Great, great market. And when I saw the gap down in the market today, I didn't call us bearish. I didn't call us bull. She said, I kind of ignored it because I thought it was weird. And I didn't believe we were lower, but then I didn't think we get bought today. And I was like, whatever. And I just like was like, and then I kept looking at the market. I was like, well, this is interesting, but I really wasn't convinced we drop. And then when we were at Solid Red Bar, I was like, blah, blah, blah. And then I looked at it, I was like, and then I saw it. And then when I saw what we did into the close, I'm, I just love this stuff. I love this stuff. And not only do I love it, I love it. I can predict it so well. I can predict these impossible, impossible things, which is why I'm making money and why I have a successful business. If you want to make money in the market, email me at MelissaTheStockSwitch.com. The next class is February 20th and 21st. I'm making an incredible cause. I'm seeing things before they happen. I'm reading the money and that's how you make money in the market. Have a great night, everyone.


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