The following is a presentation of TFNN The Trader's Edge with Steve Rhodes toll free at 1-877-927-6648 or internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER> The Trader's Edge now Steve Rhodes Good morning folks, welcome to the April 13th, the terrific Thursday edition of today's Trader's Edge show. I'm your host Stevie Perseverance, Rhodes, who absolutely knows that each of us should always be pioneers of our future versus prisoners of our past. Hope everyone out there is having a great day. Let's make sure we have an extraordinary one. The easiest way to do that is to always remember that life is happening for us, not to us. That's right, when you and I make that one little two by four shift, it means we can find the gift in every set of circumstances that life is going to toss at us. Now today you and I are going to go check on the circumstance of these markets. We'll go figure out what those bulls and bears, what those buyers and sellers are communicating to you and I at just past 11 o'clock in the morning. I do want you to know I'm absolutely grateful for your presence here, but even more important than that. And that's this. During this next 53 minutes, I'm here to serve you. So feel free to pick up that phone. I'd love to hear from you at 877-927-664. But if you've got a question you can't call in, you can always send me an email. Send that off to Steve at tfnn.com. And inside the subject heading, please put radio show question. Of course, if you're inside our tiger's den, well, then any and every ping will do. So let's go ahead and get this show started on terrific Thursday. Of course, this is Tiger Financial News Network. I'm Steve Rhodes. Welcome to the show. For the most part, all the U.S. indices trading the upside. The exception being the Dow trainees are off 96 points. The S&P is up 25. The Dow is up 137. The Nasdaq 172. The Russell's up 13. Semis are up 13 as well. Gold is up 27 bucks. One to three tenths percent. One and a half percent for silver. A 39 percent, a 39 cent move. Lights recruit us up a dime. The S&P is up 4 cents and a 30 treasury. Pretty about 132.10. Our leaders in the clubhouse to the upside. Mercado Libre up 42 bucks. That's nearly a little over 3 percent. Micro strategy about 17 bucks or 6 percent. Solar edge 13 bucks, 5 percent. Netflix 13 bucks, 4 percent. Asma Holdings 12 bucks, nearly 2 percent. Our shakers, that would be Granger WW off about 20 bucks, 3 percent. SIA Inc, the transport company down 4 percent or 11 bucks. Parker Hannafin down about 11 or 3 percent. Sharpener Therapeutics off 10. 7 percent. And Progresso Corp. Down 6 percent, that's a $9 move. Of course I want to look at what you want to look at. What do you want to look at? Let's go look at this chart right here. This is a chart for the Dow. So this is the cash indices. This is a weekly time frame that we're taking a look at. What I love about this chart is that we've got our horizontal trading range boundary lines. Those are the ones that are in green. We've got our diagonal trading range boundary lines up here. So if we just simply take a look at the descending one, that's what I want to focus on right now. So let's just do this here. Let me get to this set of chart parameters. Let me turn a few things off. Let's turn off that one. I didn't want to turn that one off. That's one I wanted to leave on. Let's turn off that one. Let's turn off that one. And let's turn off the horizontals. There we go. So here is the Dow. This is a weekly time frame chart for the Dow. What we can see here is Price has made its way back up. We can move a little bit higher than this. But what we can see is we are trading into the top of its descending trend line. So we are at or near where a top could or should form if in fact we're still in a downward market out there. The thing that would change that wouldn't be just a close above this descending trend line. I would say it would have to be a close above the high chart. A close above the high from December the 12th out there. I don't have my data box up so I can't tell you what that is. Shoot. Let me see here. See if that will pop it open. There we go. That high would be 33,437 called 33,438. If Price were to close above that then you'd have an A to B equal CD to the episode. But right now what we've got is we have let me turn that data box off now. Let's take a look at the horizontal trade range boundary lines. What we can see is that Price could easily spike up to that 34,152. We have seen 11 closes near or at this 34,152 level. Opens or closes over its history out there. So we know that that is a congregation area. That is a support or resistance. In this case here that now is a resistance level. You've got your descending Price channels out there. If I put on any of the other Price channels out here which is a longer term one isn't really coming into effect about that one. That's not coming into effect. That was an older one about that one there. And at this stage here that diagonal rising Price channel doesn't come into effect. So here's what we know. We do know that the Dow has been a nice rally. It's making its way up towards resistance. It's not going to be there. Or we just will get there when we see a spike up to that 34,152. If we close them up 34,152 that would be a positive for sure. But right now we take a look at just the general markets out there meaning the Dow specifically we are up at resistance. If we take a look at what's going on inside the equity future contract well we know the ESMini has a sell the D point pattern. The four contracts it's the only one with a top. What's transpired since yesterday? The only thing that's really transpired since yesterday is that we do have a new profile that is attempting to form inside the Dow. We won't have confirmation of this till 6.01 this evening. So far pretty solid 33,982 is resistance. Support 33,504 so those are the numbers jot them down on your pad of paper. Tomorrow we'll be able to confirm whether that profile forms or modifies or changes itself or just simply vanishes. So but no top inside the Dow no top inside the Russell just a consolidation with inside his profile. No top inside the NQ although price did get back underneath the top of its profile yesterday and if we did get a second consecutive close below 13.062 I would say that would signal to you and I a retracement back to support which is between 12.705 and 12.777 out there. So that's what I see when I take a look at the equity future contracts defining time wants to know what the ESMini looks like 10-minute time frame. So let's switch over to the white background charts out here see what we see for the 10-minute time frame specifically. Your question is Steve can you look at the ESMini for a possible day trade so as we look at the ESMini here this is the 10-minute chart what we see is an A to B equal CD pattern so that A to B point is going to look like this quite a move out there and then let me just slide this over we're going to move that over to the C point so it certainly has completed the one-to-one or it appears that it most certainly has but we'll find out here momentarily yeah so it's completed it's gotten to the one-to-one level a much stronger move on this C to D like as you can see but and you do have the bearish reversal candle this is the key reversal session that took place at 10.40 defining time do you see that I don't know if you identified that so key reversal requires three things first you have to be in extended condition on A to B equal CD pattern getting towards the completion of that most certainly gets us there road's meant to mitigate a signal that gets us there as well that's the first thing must be in extended condition number two the high and low of the prior bar needs to be exceeded in the case of the downside it's not exceeded it's exceeded to the downside but you know what I mean there and then number three you must close one take in the opposite direction of the trend so there's your key reversal session what the case is doing is pulling back to test support that's at green oscillator and change line defining time you say a day trade which style to the north or to the south a long or a short let me know and then we come back from this break out here we'll finish looking at the ESMini for you Steve Rojo Tf&N we'll be right back currencies commodities and bond markets are as important as ever right now with how they're driving the volatility in equity markets across the globe which is why it's a great time to try out teddy keg stats tiger forex report teddy keg stat breaks down the forex markets every monday using his 30 plus years of experience as a trading veteran of 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profile 146 below the bottom so you are in the right position here forget the lines the lines aren't drawing properly out there but the market breath in the upper left hand side that is most certainly correct I believe it to be correct out there so you do have at least a bearish crossover set of signals for the S&P 500 and I believe that is also matching right now inside the NQ which is really what you want well both both really point in the same direction out here in the NQ it's 22 above and 24 below so it's pretty darn close out there so you got to be careful let's go see what's going on on a 30 minute time frame chart obviously I've got the I've got the 10 minutes still up on our screen up here what you're looking for while you're short is you don't want to see the screen us that are in change line acting as support so you really want to see a close below that that's at 41 40 right now if price does close below that the nods favor it'll make its way back to its next area of support on a 10 minute time frame defining time and that's up at the 41 35 level if it's only a counter trend move to the downside because this is a bearish structured profile that formed on this 10 minute time frame chart then where price would find support or should find support would be 41 33 so your areas to be watching here you've got 41 40 so conditions even though on a 10 minute time frame you have a sell the D point conditions are neutral there can neutral because you're above two key resistance levels the top of a profile and the green change line as we look to other time frame charts out here for the ES many what do we see we see a sell the D point on the 15 minute term same rules though it's neutral price above profile is green also turn change line 30 minute time frame chart where it's just slightly negative bearish from a task market profile standpoint we don't have any kind of a top we've got the A to B equal CD but we don't have a bearish reversal candle price above profile price above screen also turn change on what it's really saying defining time is on the short side for you and everybody else make sure you've got some stops in place out here is even though we've got some short term signals their overall message to you and I is neutral that's on the 10 the 15 minute chart the 30 minute chart is just simply all out bullish with no bearish reversal candle the 60 minute chart is all out bullish is now trained above the center of its 60 minute profile at 41 41 this suggests that price should be about close on a 60 minute basis at 41 41 defining time would tell us that price should make its way to 41 54 maybe 41 54 would be the area to be taken a look at on the 120 minute chart really have the same kind of setup going on prices dealing with the center of its profile right now a close above that which is nearly about the same area that we're trading right now it's about 41 44 would suggest 41 57 so if you get a close above the high of those sessions that generated the bearish reversal candle so that's going to be the price point of 41 47 you get a close above that that tells you that you are likely on the wrong side of the trade and that price should continue to move higher now on a 15 minute basis the heat maybe you can handle that is up at 41 54 but I think you said you're in around 41 or you're on 41 45 so you're dealing about a nine point a swing out there 450 on a contract so it's probably doable but that's why I would be looking at my take look at the S&P 500 the ES many as we speak so let me know defining time if that answered all your questions if not if there's some piece of information that you need happy to get that to you you do have that resistance up of that 41 52 that's the top of its daily profile and then of course is key reversal session yesterday's bearish shooting stars so the ultimate resistance level really inside the ES many is up at 41 77 75 let's go to our next question out here and David writes okay thank you I've stopped before perfect okay so David H writes in and wants to take a look at TMO TMO is too much information now it can't be that be TMI TMO is it's not time Warner it is I don't know what it is it's a thermo Fisher scientific there we go so it's actually read the question from David David's question goes like this you look at TMO for me a week ago or so I have the 595 calls expiring on the 21st could you look at the charts and give me an idea of the upside potential during these seven trading days so we've got TMO on the screen right now what you'd love to see today David is you'd love to see it close about 586 34 there's an A to B equal CD that is in place right now it has achieved the one to one level that says be on the lookout for a bearish reversal candle if you were to get one of those that would tell you that you're now in a sell mode versus let's say buy mode out there 586 34 is a TD 9 count breakdown level that was formed or that generated on February the seven so taking out that high would be a bullish outcome you're looking for this to get to you at the 595 calls I would say close of a 586 is going to signal to you that prices intent is to get up to 600.87 600.87 is the top of the weekly profile 601.86 is the monthly oscillator and change line I believe that that's where you're going to really run into your resistance level assuming that price closes the day above 586 34 and that's going to be at that 601 level which is the top of the weekly profile and it's the monthly green oscillator and change line out there let me see what else do we have for thermal Fisher scientific let me look at not really much else let's do this let's take a look at TMO let's see if we've got historical data let's actually try to type in the correct symbol TMO and that's thermal Fisher so we do and we have 43 years worth of data so let's use all the data and right now you are in a wall it's most favorable seasonal cycle over the last 43 years that is this is the best month of the year Wednesday and Fridays are your best days of the year but Thursday is not a bad second out there Mondays doesn't like Mondays who likes Mondays out there and it doesn't like the month of September that's over the course of the last 43 years this is set to really top out in about June based upon the seasonal pattern how about the last 25 years same thing getting ready to form a bottom right now and should move higher so we're in that favorable seasonal cycle over the last 15 years still somewhat favorable but kind of Peters out right around the next week the 19th out there so that's over the last 15 years that last 15 years that's got the 2020 so I got rid of the March 2020 that's not doing anything out there so yeah I would stick with this it looks good you're in the right seasonal timeframe for thermal Fisher scientific and they'd love to see a close look at that so David H in Panama City I hope that helps you out please write back to me and I'll try to get to the information that you are looking for insider Tigers Den Dwayne the bathtub wants to take a look at platinum so let's go take a look at the platinum I hope I was on okay good give me a second here we'll pull up the platinum charts and those platinum charts so we're trading the July contract out here no for the monthly and the weekly timeframe Dwayne I've got the continuous contracts the continuous contracts are suggesting that we should have a higher price 1086 being a price target the daily timeframe very similar to what we looked at with David H for TMO you'd love to see a close above 1040.50 why? that is it's TD9 account breakdown resistance level closing to that would be a beautiful thing that doesn't mean you're not going to see a short-term top because you really should a short-term top should start between about 12 and 1 o'clock this afternoon and we should get some type of retracement out there but you'd love to see this day above 1040.50 that would tell you we're headed to 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bar number 9 as we speak right now on the 30 minute time frame bar number 8 qualifies and as long as price closes above on a 30 minute basis closes above 1054 60 and that's at 12 noon you'll have a confirmed TD9 count what price should then do is pull back to its oscillator and change line 1052 you're going to get a TD9 count or likely to get a TD9 count that completes at 1 o'clock so the top may not be over out here and if you take a look at the 4 hour and the 5 hour charts 5 hour chart will go ahead or the 4 hour should say at 2 p.m. will complete a TD9 count and the case of the 5 hour chart that won't be until late this evening before that takes place out there but you've got a number of the topping signals here in platinum now the cool thing there is that it's possible that these will get negated and so the first place to start the first place to watch I would say is the 30 minute time frame so it's a 30 minute time frame chart that you should put up on your screen and continue to watch it now I don't know what the high of the pattern is going to be I can tell you what the high of the pattern is thus far which is 1060-20 but we could get a spike above that between now and 1230 so the 30 minute chart will complete its TD9 count or should complete it at 1230 so whatever the high is that's what you want to make note of defining time because if price closes above that on a 30 minute time frame then that's telling you about a strong upward momentum moving maybe the other TD9s will fail as well but right now what platinum is doing is running smack dab into pattern resistance out there and so the next couple of hours will be pretty critical for it when I say a couple of hours the five hour chart is not going to complete its pattern until like 11 o'clock tonight and actually won't be until 4 in the morning because that would be the bar following bar number 9 out there I hope that helps you out and thanks so much for the request we got a number of other requests that have come in the next one coming in from my gym let me close these out so I can at least free up some space here give me just a moment to do that we'll go take a look at Jimmy's request from inside the Tigers then the first one is going to be ticker symbol CAL so let's get back to those charts out here and CAL is drum roll droney I don't know what it is I don't have to know what it is we're agnostic to it but it is it's a very good request and if we take a look at it it's trading out at 22.05 on my screen it says 21.98 sorry about that it is really trading at 22.05 as we speak right now does that matter no it doesn't really matter it's trading with inside a bullish structure profile out here it's really a consolidation so to speak so to speak I have to say your support level is really 21.54 to 21.74 and resistance up at 23 in a quarter what I don't have here is any kind of a bottom pattern this negated a TD9 out bottom did it well no never formed a TD9 out bottom so I don't have any kind of a bottoming pattern out here I just have a consolidation on the daily basis I've got a consolidation on the weekly basis with price below the center of its profile below it's read outside and change line and move to 2027 would not be a surprise which is both the bottom of its weekly and it said a monthly time is out there on a 30-minute basis so we have had price moving lower on the 30-minute chart what do we see out here what we see is 21.81 is a level to be watching now Jimmy if price closed below that that's a TD9 count breakout level on a 30-minute time frame that tells you about lower price coming at you so I'd watch that to the downside to the upside I'd be watching that greenhouse that are in change line currently about 22.17 if price get closed above that then you'd be looking at the most recent highs out here on that 30-minute time frame so that's what I see when I take a look at ticker symbol CAL but Jimmy had a twofer out there and that second instrument is going to be C-P-R-I Capri out here at C-P-R-I is trading at about 43.67 the actual number is 43.73 this is Capri holdings now Capri holdings is trading below the bottom of its bullish structure daily profile has been for about a week maybe six sessions out there and it has been able to find support at that red oscillator in change line 42-49 if price were to close below that well that's telling us that it's going to go retarget or target the swing point low or the swing point itself from March the 15th that's anywhere between the price point of 40-23 at the low and 41-54 at the high the weekly chart price found support at its TD9 Cal breakout area that's at 41-98 you're back inside its profile as long as price remains about 42-97 may want to move up to 45-70 the monthly time frame kind of like the daily a little bit troublesome troublesome from the standpoint that price is trading below profile trading below its oscillator and change line is key level of support would be the low of the hammer candle that formed in May of 2022 and that's done at 36-90 so how are we going to summarize all of this if we want to summarize it I'd say you don't have a bottoming signal we had a TD9 Cal that took place all the way back here in the early part of March or mid-March out there but price is pulling back your below profiles I don't have a great take on this Jimmy I don't know that I had a great take on Cal either so you've given me two curve balls how could you do that I'm just kidding you so on a 30-minute time frame a 30-minute time frame formed a Gartley bi-pattern so it looks like this that's what my eyes visually see let's just make sure of that so here's your A to B we'll just move that over to the C point out there there we go and maybe not maybe Stevie's eyes aren't as good I think that's a little bit too far away to call it a buy the D point or Gartley bi well we do have here at a 30-minute basis Jimmy his price is back inside his profile 43.65 your next battle is at 43.89 and above that 44.23 so that's about as good as I can do for Capri C-P-R-I sorry that I couldn't have performed better or maybe I could perform just a little bit better let's just see if C-P-R-I oh that's the wrong panel and I'm interested in that panel this is the panel I meant to try to drag over there and I got the time so let's see here C-P-R-I just to see if there's enough data in here if there's any data and there it is so let's go take a look at how many years worth of data do we have we've got 11 years so in 11 years if we take a look at what we were just looking at you kind of see the sideways type of action out here that we're sort of in this little consolidation and then slightly moving lower in essence that's really what the daily and the monthly charts were communicating to you and I so I think we're just in you know April's a decent month March is a terrible month you know you get a little bit of a counter trend move it looks like in April or historically you have over 11 years and then you've got a terrible may out there so I just be careful with Capri based upon the weekly and the monthly charts that you and I looked at that helps you out thanks much for the request as always next request coming in from Joey D inside the Tigers and Joey's going to take a look at SRS and that is the ProShares real estate ETF out there is that a double or just a single do you know I don't know the answer to that but as we take a look at SRS maybe it's a double because I would imagine the single is the XLR-E out here but as we do take a look at SRS here's what we know trading below profile you trade below greenhouse that are in change line you're trading into a swing point that swing point is from May the third April the third swing point did volume of 87,000 shares so far you have done 65,000 shares prices moving lower with volume if it closes below that low about low being 1731 this is going to generate an A to B equal CD to the downside that's what we see when taking a look at the daily time frame weekly time frame says ah not too much to worry about Stevo I'm just in a consolidation I'm trading above my green oscillator and change line so that should take me up to 1995 the monthly chart says I've just got a good old fashion consolidations between 1479 and 2181 out there so that's what I see when I take a look at XRS XLR-E while we're going to break here just want to see if we've got that similar type of a volume it is the XLR-E what's it doing no that's not showing the same thing at all so maybe there must be different instruments inside XLR-E versus SRS I don't know but that's what I see Joey we take a look at SRS hope that helps you out Steve Rhodes with TFN we'll be right back you might think that if you want to be successful at trading in the stock market you're going to need a crystal ball after all it's impossible to predict the future right like any endeavor in life before you decide it's impossible get some advice from the experts you 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So I'd say you've got to confirm A to B equals CD. The price projection, the one-to-one level out here, I'm not gonna draw it in, I'm just gonna give you those numbers, I've got them on my other screen out there, Greg, and that's the one-to-one is $79.86. The one-to-one 0.272, $81.24, and the 1.618 is $83.01. Those are your price targets to the upside from a daily standpoint. The weekly says, hey, skip what Stevie said. When you get to $79.73, the weekly is lined up with sellers out there. Now, if price can close above $79.73, then you're looking at that move to 81.25, $83.01. So that's a beautiful move today, nice volume, set up an A to B equals CD, $7.86, but at $79.73, you've got weekly profile resistance and at $83.33, you've got monthly, oscillator and chains line resistance. So everything looks pretty good here, and at least you're pushing up into a resistance level with volume. You want them to keep stepping on the gas out there, Greg, but that looks pretty good. So I do hope that helps you out. Of course, you're looking for the next entry out there. You're going to have to wait for a pullback, and maybe we're about to get one here in the next couple of days or so as price deals with those resistance levels. Let's want to take a look at the spot volatility index out here. So let's do this. I went ahead and threw up a set of charts here, daily, weekly and monthly. We don't do this too often. So there was a TD9 count pattern that did form out here. It formed on April 3rd. That was negated on April the 6th. Does that matter? I don't know if it matters or not. What we can see here, Fletch, is that all the rallies inside the VIX index have run into resistance at that red oscillator and change line. The red oscillator and change line tells us the price oscillator is below zero, and because price is below red line tells us it's falling. Those are bearish conditions out there. The monthly chart doing the same thing below a red oscillator and change line. Forget the profile levels out here. Those aren't real. I just don't want to change screens and all that setup. So I don't have any kind of a bottoming pattern or anything along those lines. If anything, things are really somewhat kind of bearish for the spot politics. That would be bullish for the S&P 500. Fletch, if that didn't provide you with the information needed, please let me know. I'll try to get back to that for you and get you what you're looking for. We had a request to take a look at Procter and Gamble. That was from John Z. That's not what we were looking at. That's not what John wanted. That's not what John wanted. What John wanted maybe was gonna be this tab. Let's see, do we have it? Yeah, Procter and Gamble. And that came in off of email as well. Ooh, the fine print is too fine for Stevie's size. Let's see if we can span this out here. Procter and Gamble, ticker PG. If you could bring up your long-term charts, Procter and Gamble doesn't seem to want to sustain any moves above 150 to 10. And I want to see Procter and Gamble go to 165. Would you buy PG and hold it for a year? Well, first off, what Procter and Gamble has done is it formed a TD9 count top and it completed that pattern on April 6th. When you complete a pattern, what usually takes place, John, is price pulls back to test support. In this case here, that would be the Oceter and Chains line. What did it do yesterday? It tested and rejected support. What is it doing today? Test and rejected support, that green Oceter and Chains line. Its conditions are neutral. You're asking, would you take a long position now? But you want to do it for more of an intermediate-term play out here. So best advice I can give you is let's be patient. You should be patient because you want a longer-term move. And the reason that I say that, John, is if I look at the monthly chart out here, we can see that price is consolidating with inside its profile. And we can see that this month, as well as the prior two months, not that prior two months, I started the January and December of last year, but January of this year, price ran and resisted that 152.08. That's what it's done so far as we speak. So I would hesitate, especially with the daily, having a TD-9 account, granted that price has held support. I see that. And we could easily see it move up to 154.80. Could. But the monthly chart just says, just be patient out here. The 30-minute chart, you see what the 30-minute chart tells us. 30-minute chart, not telling me a whole lot, other than price did find support where it should have. At $149.95, that was its breakout level. So to answer your question, wait, be patient, see if this thing pulls back, hit me up again if it does, and we'll then perhaps be able to find an entry point into Procter and Gamble. Jane wrote in, and Jane wants to take a look at Walgreens boots. Let me get over to her question. And it says, could you please look at WBA? I have the 40 May 19 call, should I get out and re-enter at a later time? So we take a look at Walgreens boots. Here's what we know. You've got a little bit of a consolidation right now with inside its daily profile. And price is testing the bottom of that profile. That formed yesterday. Whoops, that was at 35.42, I believe. Yeah, 35.42 is support. So would you get out? I wouldn't get out unless price closed below support, but then you still have another support level, Jane, and that's down at 34.98 or thereabouts. I say thereabouts because it's the oscillator and change line and that is going to change. I don't have a top, so to speak. So without a top and just a consolidation and price holding support, I would stay. Walgreens boots on a weekly timeframe is consolidated with inside its profile and price has hit resistance up at 36.60. We have a consolidation inside the monthly profile as well, 34.11 being key support there. So, well, let's look at a 30-minute chart. You know, we've had price pullback yesterday and today. What is that setup for? Has it set up anything? And at this stage, the answer is no, it has not. It set up the potential. Quite frankly, we have an A to B equal CD to the downside. And if that were to come to fruition, that would give you a one-to-one price projection level about, give or take, right around the 35.03. It could call it 35. No, this could form a TD9 count bottom. And it could do that between by 12, this is bar eight, by one o'clock. But in order to do that, Jane, price must spoke, must spoke or must spike below 35.43 between now and then between now and one o'clock. And then you could get a TD9 count bottom pattern on the 30 minutes. So 30 minutes is somewhat questionable. But the daily says just hold on because price is back and it's full of structured profile and that area may hold. So hope that helps you out, Doug, Jane. Thanks much for writing in. If there's any price change inside Walgreens boots, please write back in and we'll be happy to pull those charts up and get a feel for where price is headed to. We've got AMZN, that's a request out here from Hector and Patty. They are fuel injectors and the question goes like this. It says, happy thirsty Thursday. Thank you, same to you. Amazon, you see the potential for a run to 114 top and break through this month. Any thoughts there? So we take a look at Amazon, what you really wanna see this do next in order to really get on its merry ways is to close above about 10109. So that number's gonna go up a bit. So let's just call it 10125. If it closes above that, then Hector and Patty, you're gonna have a battle at 101.83 and then a real battle at 104.20. So that 104.20 is really where you get the answer to the question, will this get up to at least that 111 area because there's an A to B equal CD that gets us up to that range. We don't know how price is gonna deal with the resistance levels that we've already identified. 10110, 101.83, 104.20, 114.08 on the monthly. Nothing, your weekly isn't the one giving you any problems out here. So you'd really like to see this close back above or back inside its profile, Hector. That means a close today above 100.25. Otherwise, this could be telling us about lower price before we actually had higher. So I do hope that helps you out. Thanks much for the question. Steve Rhodes with TMNT, be right back. If you're looking for potential trading setups in the stock market, then Rocket Equities and Options Report is a newsletter you should try. 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That was ticker symbol, M-A-R. So my apologies for that. Let's go out to our next question out here. This is from inside the Tiger's Den from Siegel. And Siegel wants me to take it. He's asking about my thoughts on gold. That may be gold and lights we grew, but we'll focus here on gold. That may be all that we get to, but we'll see. So we take a look at gold. What I wanna do is kind of give you the bigger picture out here. And so to do that, we've gone to these charts. Now I'm using my synthetic version of the gold contract so that I can get these longer term profiles out here. We've got daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly that are up on our screen. What I would first say this is if we take a look at the weekly timeframe chart, we can see the first high that was formed out here that was back in 2020, August 2020 out there. Probably pull back even a second here. So really we could go all the way back here to September of 2011. Then that high, and we make just a slightly, now we take on those highs back in August of 2020. That's the first time that we try to take out those highs. The next time we do that, this weekly timeframe is March of 2022. And now, as we see price moving up towards that swing point area, this is gonna be the third time up. Typically, it's not a guarantee, but typically it's not the third time that's the charm. Siegel, it's the fourth time that is the charm out here. So right now we have a series, at this moment in time, a series of lower highs out there. Don't know whether that's going to, I mean, goals look good. Looks like we've got A to B, we'll see it at the upside. I'm just saying, I am just saying, it's usually the fourth time that up that will get you through. And we're only at time number three to the upside. You gotta like today's action on a daily basis. You're trading above the top of its profile. So that's a bullish outcome. 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Sometimes it feels like miracles or like happy surprises because you don't see them coming and you just end up beholding them and feeling so grateful. Yeah, it's a real transformation, isn't it? It's really a change that happens when we let the miracle in.  Yeah, you lose all that.  So is there anything you would like to say to the audience, to the readers? They're brand new, really curious and they just won't help with their experience. Yeah, this is like an answer to the prayer of the heart. Just please help me. Help me be lifted up from this sadness or despair. Help me be lifted up from all these difficulties that weigh me down day after day. Yeah, this is my prayer to the universe to be helped and to know that I'm loved and to really experience the answer to how deeply loved we are. So it's just an honor. It feels like an honor. Our whole life has been an honor and it's been a privilege to be used in this way to answer the call. Because all of us have a calling. Yeah. So this is really a support to others to answer the calling, to find the calling and find the answer to it. Yeah, this is it. This is a way. I mean, many of us don't think we have a calling. We just serve working on surviving on planet Earth and actually there comes a point where we know there's something more and there's an inner calling and this is a way of answering. This is just precisely for answering. To see it there and to answer the call. It's fascinating that there is an answer. Yeah. It's a miracle. So just, wow. To take it in, to enjoy it.


Welcome to Anabaptist Perspectives. Steve Russell and I are together here at Faith Builders. And today we're going to be talking about some of the Anabaptist contribution to these large conversations about Christendom, the social church, and where our culture is kind of heading today. But we'll start off with your more general interest here in world religions. I know you've been interested in how Christianity compares and contrasts to other or two world religions, right? So maybe you could just begin here by introducing us to some of the aspects of world religions that you're interested in. Okay. Well, of all things, this comes partly through reading Chesterton, who would have been both a member of the Church of England for a while and then eventually Catholic, both of which are part of Christendom. But anyway, one of the things Chesterton makes clear, as he is trying to help people see the reality of Jesus, is that Christianity is not a world religion. And he does that by showing the connection between all of the world religions. And there are connections such as all of them make the essential method of becoming whatever they are, the natural birth. You are born into this community and that's what makes you what you are. Some of them are so rigid on this, the Zoroastrians, or they're sometimes called Parsis, won't even let someone outside of their circle join. So you get that on the one extreme. On the other extreme, you have the Muslims who say everyone is born a Muslim.  And then you have to revert, you do not convert, you revert to the original. So that is really one of the key things about religion as the world sees it. And that is that you are born into it with some of them do have the possibility of making a change, but even when you do, often it's seen as not a conversion but a reversion. And then all of them also care about the government and the religion working hand in hand so that what you have, whether you're in a Hindu country like India or a Muslim country like Turkey or a Buddhist country like Thailand, in each of them, the government has some kind of connection with the religion and they work hand in hand, the religion undergirds the state and the state supports the religion and even enforces it sometimes. So that is typically on whatever scale you're thinking about even if it's maybe a tribal religion. They still work that way. You're born into it and it works with whatever the leadership is in that setting. This is kind of startling. What you're describing here is the way many world religions operate, especially cooperatively with the state. I think to many of our viewers here, that's how Christianity operates as well. So what kind of distinction are you making here between Christianity, Christendom and religion? Well, this is where I feel that Anabaptism has a powerful word to speak to other believers, Christian believers. Christendom would be what happened after Christianity started to do the very things that the world religions were doing, that you were more born into it than chose it. That was a change that took several hundred years to go from a faith that you chose to follow, or a person you chose to follow, to where everyone who was born in a Christian family was baptized. I've read somewhere that someone did some research and the last time he could find a record of someone being born into a Christian home in Europe, so this would be in the Middle Ages, and yet not baptized as a child doing that later is in the 1100s, early 1100s. So from some time in the 100s to 1100, the Christian church made a shift from choosing to become baptized, choosing to follow Jesus, to that's done for you as a child. And also during that same time period, there was a gradual turning away from the early Christian recognition that we don't pick up the sword and we don't rule over other people, to a position where we have to, this happened under the Roman emperors, we have to, the Roman state maintains peace and we need to support that at least initially. And so there's actually in the years something like 300 to 600, there are a lot of Christians who, people who really did believe in Christ, I'm convinced of this, but who also thought before they got baptized they should either serve the government or be in the military, and then they would withdraw and then they would be baptized, and then they would not participate again in government or in the military. That kind of compromise can't last and it eventually disappeared, and so you had a movement from making a compromise to basically church and state working hand in hand, you had a slow change from wanting your children to choose to follow Jesus to making that choice for them. And this is where we get Christendom. Still a lot of true teaching and still a lot of real believers, but a lot of people too who are baptized pagans. So you have this very mixed situation in Christendom and you actually have a situation where the church has to impose itself with force, now it doesn't necessarily do that itself but it gets the state to do that, but that's not what the church should be about. So Christianity as the original believers, the apostles practiced it, was a call to follow Christ and to form a community, to form a new community, and that community would be one that sought the good of themselves of course and the good of others. So Christendom is the way you're describing this kind of alliance between state and church which inevitably seems to become somehow coerced even though you can get some fine distinctions there. Inevitably. And that becomes something of the problem. I think John Howard Yoder, he coins the term of Constantinianism and he always says it with something of a sneer, it's that merger, the overlay of these two powers in his mind that it should be something totally different. That's carried forward a lot these days. Could I say what before you have another question? One thing that you made me think about there, I think we need to recognize that this shift, this compromise, if you would have been in it, it would have made a lot of sense. And what I would ask you to do is read the last chapter of Eusebius' history of the church or sometimes it's called Ecclesiastical history. And in that he talks about how the world was prepared for the coming of Christ, how Christ came, how the apostles preached the gospel throughout the world. And right up to his time where Constantine took over the Roman Empire, this champion of God. And just before he took it over in the eastern part of the Empire there was a strict, a very severe persecution of Christians. And so the ending of this book is so fantastic. Constantine defeats his brother-in-law who is the persecuting emperor. And Eusebius says, whereas something like this, this is a paraphrase, whereas the day before people walked around with their heads down and were nervous, would somebody ask me, am I a Christian? Now that Lysinius, the pagan emperor has been defeated, now the Christians are walking around with their heads up and they're celebrating and they're all so happy. God has conquered the evil emperor with the good emperor. And so I think we need to try to understand where these people were and why. It's so seductive, this shift. And it's even seductive to why not? I'm a Christian, my spouse is a Christian. Why not baptize our child? The move is seductive. Now we are a couple, we're many hundreds of years later and we can look back and see the results and they couldn't back then. So that's something I really, sometimes this sneering is what bothers me. I think we should recognize that we're also liable to slip into something that looks good but the end result is not going to be good. And earlier I talked about my political involvement. I just, that felt good. It looked good and I think it was destructive. What the early church, the direction the early church moved looked good at the time. But it was destructive. The formation of Christendom was destructive. I don't think it meant those people weren't Christians anymore. There were Christians and there were pagans in the church. But there needs to be, well I think this is where we come in, Anabaptists, we need to be bold and talk about these two things that shifted and how the church should move back to what it means to be a church and what it means to relate to the wider culture. I'm going to use Criter's book here, The Patient Firm and the Early Church. Excellent book. Something of a bridge. What Criter identifies as being one of the really significant virtues of the early church was its patient kind of attentiveness, its embeddedness in its own community as kind of an alternative to the pagan system and at least pre-Constantinian. And that's what actually drove forward the church and its growth at that time. He's also suggesting, you know, some of us get the picture of the early church is growing explosively, just like always like acts. And there are periods of that. Many times it wasn't quite so fast and patience was actually very significant. But what begins to happen with Constantine is something of a departure from that patience to something that's much less patient. I think the chapter is just the inpatience of Constantine. So let's get this done, let's get things moving and it becomes bureaucratic and in some ways effective but that cardinal virtue of patience is left behind. Let's just use that as a jumping off and talk about the Anabaptists and we're leaving some wide gaps here but the Anabaptists have had political views. You could maybe locate this in the times of the Reformation. There's the early church and they're seeing themselves as their own body politic within the larger culture. There's something of the Constantinian synthesis or merger happening there. Jump forward now, go to the 1500s, talk about some of the political views of the Anabaptists. Okay, well I often myself avoid the term political for the church. Pretty loaded. Yeah and the way our culture uses it does mean the American culture which is a democracy. Oh that's so unfortunate. But that's how it's used. But the Anabaptists, one of the key things they saw was that we are part of this bigger political unit. The state. They recognize that. And they very clearly stated that it's from God but that it's meant to be ruled and directed by those that haven't surrendered to Jesus and who can use coercion legitimately. Now I don't exactly, that's another question, how to talk about that and how to think about what God has done in establishing the government. They recognize that. But they also recognized, and that is something you're born into. I'm born into the city of Zurich. I have no choice. So I'm going to be a citizen of Zurich. Okay. I'm going to be a citizen of that political unit. However, they also saw that the church was something else. And I think we can say that they recognize clearly that it was yet another kingdom. And that it functioned very differently. And this is where the world religion thing comes in. You choose to become part of this community that is following Jesus. It's not inevitable. It is your choice. Okay. And the neat thing about that is it doesn't remove community. You have a responsibility, a very important responsibility, and someone else has a responsibility to you. It's that community of believers that are following Jesus. Now I'm not saying the other, the political community doesn't have any call in our lives. They do. And we're to respect our leaders and pay taxes and obey the laws. But in my way of thinking about this, that is a dead community. I think that's Adam, the body of Adam, a dead community. We have joined the living body of Christ. So we choose that one by one, and yet we're planted into this community, and we have responsibilities to the community. The community has responsibilities to us. It's a living thing, whereas the state is a necessary thing, but not a thing full of life. So on the one hand we have to, we choose it. We're not born into it. And on the other, this dead community, this dead body, it has to enforce its will by coercion at certain points. That should not be what the church is about. We should be, and that's one reason we don't participate in and what the state does, we should be calling people to choose individually to also join this community that is following Christ and to let that transform us, change us, make us different. The state never changes anybody. It does make us do things differently than maybe we want to, but there's no real transformation there. And so just going back to this book, what Crider has to say is the early Christians recognize this. I think the things we see in the New Testament are mostly the reaction of either Jews or converts from paganism or pagans who have become God-fearers, all of whom have heard about Yahweh and they have submitted themselves to Him to varying degrees. And when they heard the Gospel, they were ready. It's later the church has to decide to bring people in a patient way. So there are fewer of those Jews coming in, there are fewer proselytes and God-fearers. And so most of the people that are coming in a little bit later are right out of paganism and they need someone to walk with them to make sure they really understand and are moving really towards Jesus. And that's the beauty of what the early church did as it lost a pool of potential converts who were already aware of the Old Testament. It shifted and it worked with people where they were to bring them fruitfully into the church. Some of this is implied I think in what you're saying, but I'm wondering where, and this is moving toward the Reformation again, where the center of gravity you could say of the sense of obligation actually fell out. I think you've said as much, if there's a living body and if there's a dead body, I'm probably going to spend most of my time with the living body, but it could almost sound like just dual citizenship here. Well, you know, Paul had dual citizenship. That's right. I think if you, we won't have time to get into this, but if you look at the times he used his citizenship in the book of Acts, I think every time was to advance the kingdom of God. And I could get into that, but I don't think we will right now. Yes, the early Anabaptists, they had a sense of dual citizenship. They were quite willing to obey the government where they could. But their primary citizenship was in heaven, to use one of Paul's phrases. And this wasn't just I'm connected to Jesus thing. This was I'm part of this community that's connected to Jesus. And so if you want to use the word political, well, there is a real politic there that's going on. And that was what was important to them. I don't think that they scorned the government. I think they recognized the need for the government. They would scold the government, at least during the times they were persecuted. Somebody who was ready to be beheaded or burned at the stake would sometimes say, this is wrong and this will redown on your head. They were willing to say that, but they always were willing to obey the government where it was legitimately calling for them to do certain things. There's a recognition of some of the authority that's given to a government. They could even say that God ordained authority, but there is a really significant allegiance to that community that actually functionally a part of. And that's probably where a lot of their time and their energy is actually going. Absolutely. And it fits with this beautiful phrase that probably Michael Sattler wrote in the Schleitheim Confession. They're in a community that's walking according to the resurrection. They're alive. Which is a political statement. Yes, it is. They don't call the other community dead. But I'm thinking about Paul where he talks about, we were in Adam, we're now in Christ. We were in that dead body of Adam, and that's where this government is. We are now in this living, we're walking in the resurrection. And just to be clear when I'm saying political, there exists this term, and this is why I have regret about it. We've been hijacked in a lot of ways, and when you say that to be walking in the new Adam, that's the organizing principle of what makes that community function.  But we've tended to reserve that term for certain democratic functions, which is, I think, hugely unfortunate. But it's also the way it's understood in our culture, which is one reason I avoid it. I understand. You know, you use the word, we come up with rules, and so what I'm talking about is something we enter into freely, but it is a community, and it will have a history, and it will have a tradition, and it will have rules, and that is not the sword. It's not the same thing. We come together, we recognize that we need to have something directing us as a community, and different Christian communities may have slight variations. That is not a problem. But sometimes, I say this because you use the word, our rules, and in the contemporary church, there are many who reject any kind of responsibility or recognition that somebody else might have a say in my life in the Christian community, and that is something the early Anabaptists and the early church both recognize. Which really undercuts your ability if you have no means of discipline within the community. It's a very difficult reaction to really accomplish the sort of Christ-following goals that you're after. And in fact, all of the early Anabaptists' confessions or statements of faith, I think they always included excommunication, and Schleinheim makes it really clear this is different than we don't kill people, but we try to wake them up when they have slipped away from Christ, when they are leaving the community, we try to wake them up, this is what you're doing. And so we excommunicate the Catholics and the Protestants back in the Reformation would execute people, and they make a very clear, you know, there is a need for discipline in our living community, but it's meant to bring you back to life. And Meno himself talks about this, he says, you should be so careful, you should take years sometimes to make sure that the person hears what you're saying and really does say, no, I'm going this way. And he also says it should hurt you more than it hurts him. It should hurt the church more than it hurts the person that you finally expel. But it's all for his good and it's for hopefully bringing him back. This is all interesting and we keep on going here, I think, I think we should jump ahead. We've talked early church, we've talked Reformation, and now let's talk about the times that we're actually in right now that you and I are participating in. People say, and I think it's becoming more apparent that we're living in a post-Christian culture, and in this post-Christian culture it's, I think, becoming also clear that we have in these days some things in common with the early church and the first number of centuries of their time, there's more things in common with them now than we have for thousands of years, right? Yes, because of the culture around us. That's right. The situation of the church has some things in common with the situation that they face. So supposing that somebody today, a Christian today wanted to participate in that tradition established by the early church, what beliefs, what practices would you recommend to them today? Well, I would, one thing, going back to world religions, if that person had been baptized as a child, I think that person, I would talk to him or her about this is really what it means to start to follow Christ, to actually be embedded in a community, and this happens at least in a large part through the baptism. So we should be ashamed about that. This is the reality that the early church saw and the Anabaptist saw. And we have to be gentle. You said the setting we're in is more like the early church in the pagan Roman Empire. That was an adversary. Well, up until recently there was a very strong Christendom kind of setting. And so we have to recognize that for some of those people they still look to that and yearn for it. Well, I think we need to be bold enough to say there needs to be a break. And so I'm not even questioning if he's a Christian or not. But this is the way it was meant to be. This is a place where Christendom absorbed a part of world religions and I think it's good to make that step. So that would be one thing. And you need to do it in a community. So I made the switch from Catholic to Anabaptist. It's not that we're perfect. We've got lots of problems. But I would invite that person to go on this journey with me in an Anabaptist setting. But I also would want to say that I would invite him to recognize that we need help too to see where we have perhaps made a compromise or are too comfortable in an un-Christian way. And so I would want to invite that person to come and go with me and us. But feel free to talk about what you see that needs to be changed. So as far as practices, I would really say that if he hasn't been baptized, that is really key. And I would try to help him see this doesn't just mean that I baptize him and that's it. Or that somebody baptizes him. But rather than he's baptized into a living community that he's going to participate with and that is going to have a real say in his life and he's going to have a say on our lives. And that's why I would say to him, recognize we may be making some mistakes and feel free to talk about it and we'll try to hear. This is what the church ought to be. Well, I would say this. One of the things that really surprised me, even when I was Catholic but not yet an Anabaptist, was the priesthood of believers. I mentioned in another talk that when I converted I wanted to serve the Lord. And I was Catholic and so at first I moved towards becoming a priest. That didn't work out for many reasons. It was very discouraging. And then later I found out I'm already a priest, which was really very encouraging. So I would say that another thing I'd want a person to understand who is coming, who is seeing the problems in Christendom, is to recognize that often there, even in churches that talk about the priesthood of believers, there's often a kind of hierarchy that I think there's a hierarchy in creation. That's what I think. But I think there can be a hierarchy in the church that's disruptive and doesn't take consideration of the gifts that we have been given and that we could use in the church. Understanding the priesthood of the believers and actually practicing it really opens that up. We want whatever God's given you to be exercised in the church. That's what we should do. We want him to understand that, that he's got giftings that come from God, natural ones and gifts of the Spirit. Well, let's use those in the community. So baptism as a means of entering into this living body of Christ and then the gifts and the capacities of this person being encouraged and realized through the priesthood of believers is something that I'm hearing you say. But this actually has a real form to it. It's got its own consistency, its own integrity, and it's something different than just spilling ourselves into the state and trying to go ahead and encourage that to do our work for us. Yes, yes, definitely. And having said that, let's say this person had been politically involved. I would also try to help him see that it's as we help others come this way, start to follow Christ in a real community, that we're going to really make an impact in the world. We're told in the Gospels to be salt and light, not to be the sword, not to be the king. And it's that salt and light. You know, you were saying let's think about the contemporary world. Well, in our world, we don't even know what it means to be human anymore. And one of the big ways that comes out is this confusion about sexuality. I think that what the church is called to right now is to think clearly about what it means to be a human being. I used to say human sexuality and I realized later, no, that's only a part of it. But what I wanted to say is if we're right, what people are doing as they believe there's no shape to being human and no shape to a human sexuality, what they're doing is hurting themselves massively. And so if he's been involved in politics, the thing that we need to do as a church is to be salt and light and to talk to people about the direction they're going, which is destructive, and then to also be willing to help people in very messy situations who have been destroying their lives. That's really where the... Instead of putting energy into politics, that's where we need to put our energy is into helping people recognize the destructiveness of the path they're on. I think this is valid, by the way, to call people to follow Christ because he actually wants to make us more human. And the path you're on is a destructive one. And so somebody might say, well, this is so self-centered. In a sense it is, but I think this is what God wants, is to develop us. And so I would say that in our contemporary world we need to recognize how destructive the culture has become and being a small community that's trying to follow Jesus is actually going to be a light and it's going to draw people. And it's going to be hard for them to... Some of them are so far away that it's going to be a long... We need that patience again. It's going to be a long haul as they start to move in the right direction. This is interesting. It explains to me, I think, to understand some of the interest, which is very significant in the early church right now in Christian studies. And it's part of that again. It's that situation where we find ourselves in which it's like, well, the church actually has her own claims about what it means to be a human being in the world. And there's a lot of interest in trying to unpack and excavate what that could actually be like, but I think the trace... There could have been a little bit of an overstep into this Constantinian world, you'd say, right? And now there's a recovery of saying, wait, we don't just say everything that everybody else has. We actually have our own views as Christians about what it means to be a human being, what it means to live in community with each other. And Christ is at the center of that. When the church goes into union with the state when that Constantinian thing happens, I think then we get this big emphasis on, okay, now I'm saved. And then you just march ahead with the church and the state working together and doing whatever the state says. Whereas... And so the reality of what does it mean to be a human isn't big there. But it really was in the early church. It really is for the early Anabaptists. It should be for us. It is for the world right now. What does it mean? And so I would invite... You wrote about Irenaeus, and this is a big thing for him about what it means to be human. And so I would invite them to ask you some questions. That sounds like a lot of fun. You can feel some Aristotle coming through on Irenaeus. We're not human yet. We're potentially human. But Christ is the human, and we should be on our way to him to become actually human. I think the early church got that. They weren't so much philosophers that they could say it really well. But that's what they were doing. Irenaeus says it awfully well. And this is what motivates me so powerfully is I want to be... We all say we want to be like Christ.  He's the human being. There could be nothing more natural. No, yes. It's so wonderful. That's being a Christian and becoming what it means to be a human. I love that. It's natural. We're actually moving away from this corrupted thing. It takes time. But we're moving away from that to bit by bit becoming what we were meant to be. Just to circle this up and close this. When we become our truest nature, which is in the true atom, that's Jesus, and our communities are moving us in that direction. We actually just have the true form of human community. There's nothing more natural, nothing more compelling about that. So, thanks for the invitation. You have something more. I just want more things that you said what you just did. And then you can close. But I do want to emphasize this isn't just me becoming more of a human. It has to happen in a community. And I think this because Paul says we're in atom. So I think that the original formation of humanity by God in Adam and Eve was meant to be community. In fact, the whole story about Adam being alone. You need community. So this has to happen in community. It isn't just Jesus in me. It's in community. And so the dead community doesn't work. But now we're in the living community of Christ. This is something that the Anabaptist and the early church understood. And we need to get a hold of it in this modern autonomous age. We have to get a hold of, no, we're really meant to be connected. So I just wanted to throw that in. To be even in the image of God isn't something we get to do as individuals. It may be something that we do collectively. At least as male and female, but maybe even broader. Even broader. You see, I think you reflect things to me about Jesus. I can't see. And I hope I do the same thing. So that's why we need to be in a body. I can't reflect fully what the full humanity of Christ is. But I can reflect parts of it. You don't. And vice versa. And it just brings joy into life. That I can learn from you and maybe even become that part of me that's not there. But that's real humanity. Maybe I can develop that too. But yeah, we need each other to see what that is. What it is to be human. So that's all I have. Well, thanks for talking to us today.


All right sub traders welcome on back here this Wednesday October 25th shortly after 2 30 p.m. Eastern And I'm gonna need some like Dramamine if anyone has any it has been a down market across the day I mean you're looking for a move up or a bounce most important thing you need to do is play tight defense Which you know we're doing but we're not getting that bounce that we want that we're looking for that pop that we're You know expecting here heading into the end of October so great to you know I see all this inside our live trading room yet Luciano just before Ryan We had Brian just a moment ago as well that rhymed had Mark and a few more of us just joining me inside our live trading room And perhaps if you're joining us back on social media, you can see my screen you could hear me, but you can't see my face just Got a lot going on here in my home office.   I guess they shed off some weight there at 375 but you know this stock has been a huge tease for us by by Huge I mean tell me I mean I'll tell you I mean it's like really bad tease So finally we had a nice breakout over 350 later on into the morning here before we started class That's what led to a good move. Don't get me wrong That was like the best move that we had on that squeeze up at the time, but Again yesterday was choppy. It was really teasing us trying to break over that 350 level so it did make a nice move up at first but Then obviously the wheels fell off it came back down and you know for a stock that teased us like that You normally don't tend to come back to it afterwards. So if it making that second wind type of move here I just don't want it to lower us back in that that's the issue on that So don't get me like there like has a decent spread good order size on level three and level four That's where it could lower us so actually I'm not fully sold on putting this on our afternoon list just yet My notepad Back there we go Just like panicking for a second. All right LIA and we'll put on our side list We'll come back to the stock at least at the end of this meeting now Markets been pretty choppy for right now. Unfortunately, I'm teaching coming up at 305 eastern time We got the fees one stock horse finishing up So I may have to like think about a swing on the spy or maybe just like, you know Longer term play rather than a day trade It's still to say of the day trades tough trading option calls in the afternoon with time decay Especially if you're doing the zero dates zero days till expiration calls Just because obviously the price can fluctuate so wildly as it drops So here before I was looking for a strong balance on the spy if you follow us on Twitter at cyber trading you You'll see a few posts that we had made as far as the spy levels throughout this week and a lot of lines on this Chart there are even more I try to simplify the process to your first so more or less this stock era The the the the spy rather ended up holding under last week's close price at 421 19 broke under early at the open I knew pretty early and pretty early on at that point I was like, I'm probably gonna get a drop off at least up until 10 15 10 30 So once this ended up beginning to bounce heading into class I was looking for a nice move caught it at the time But ended up failing to really get going up higher So help it held the close price from this past week for 21 19 that dashed green perfectly as resistance and Drop back down. So that's where I was kind of assuming. Okay. We should likely get a move down towards like four 1750 ish. I would love to see a higher low. Don't get me wrong I'll attack on my face and I would love to if we get a higher low from there But ended up continuing to drop off right and with that well just before a lot of us inside our live Trading room Brian and mark Ryan a few more of us as well like here we go like right well I've wanted a much better reaction. I was looking at you know at this area all throughout this week Even from Sunday night, you follow us on Twitter you post it right there There's still time to see the squeeze up into the close The the damn issue is I'm teaching class and a lot of us are gonna be in it So, you know, hey if you trade the spy calls, obviously this can make a nice push So it's actually beginning to hold beautiful set of higher lows as we're talking but It was whips on before so if anything I would look to do more of like a longer Not a longer term just set the expiration date out a little bit wider Probably like for like a few weeks at a time. Yeah, it'll be a little bit more expensive, but And that's if you get the higher lows. This is pulling back down right now as I'm talking So you'd really want to see it hold at least the lower end of this range It was chipping under it at first and I was looking for this to make a stronger move up with it closing above this on the five minute chart I thought okay, there's a chance for this to go. Well, we clearly haven't seen that big push So right now here we are right back down to support this needs to hold in my opinion Otherwise and I'm not trying to spread fear. I'm just showing you my levels here if I still have it up Yeah, 415 next psychological level, but then from there I mean you can go every whole number, but really psychological levels of every five So 415 but even lower if you know, this really continues to sink off heading into November Then perhaps we can go as low as 412 and change but again level by level, right? Let's hope that this holds I'd love to see so I'm just giving you the road map ahead. That's all all right there So we'll see what what comes of this now. Let's just go right from top to bottom at least we do have a Short amount of time here. We got a beginning class at 305 Eastern I want to make sure all of our students and myself have enough time to jump in and if this five bounces me They can have enough time to try and get a squeeze in there, but otherwise though Let's start from the top here ASPA This looks exactly how I thought it was gonna look at eat 30 9 o'clock whenever the hell it was in the morning This was like one of those like low float expensive stocks by expensive. I mean like not $1 Right like you know all those low float Runners pop and drops that normally like one to five dollars or even less This was like $20 here this morning pre-market So when you see that normally it's like the order book better be good and it wasn't out the gate You knew it. So yeah, this looks exactly how they typically look at this point I don't even know if it's a pharma stock. Don't care to check and move up move forward And VVE and again with this we'll move forward on this as well because we normally don't trade stocks below a dollar Let alone like 20 cents, but you know if it's not can head on a dollar like this g-pack is you know, we'll consider it We'll keep it going here howl So these like animal stocks we wolf the other day You know howl right now You know like a full moon out there tonight or what? I I Wait with this with this how it's wearable therapeutic. So howl it's making a push up towards 250 And tried pushing above there earlier actually just the issue on this trade is like the liquidity. It's terrible Just for a cheap stock like this you want better. So Again side list. We'll put it with the Leanne trade Li an at how old or side list I'm not gonna howl for you. Trust me All right g-pack this here I mean over a dollar here pushed over likely earlier today, you know mid-afternoon one o'clock It just hasn't broken higher though And it's just having a tough time at that So the more times it knocks its head on a dollar here in the VWAP likely get a big break below support there Seems like it's also a new IPO. Oh So it dropped down from like foreign change it went down to a dollar. It's going under and over it there is like In terms of that long-term or so to say long-term graph It's like, you know, there actually is a shot to see this continue to push a little bit more of a sling shot I'm gonna pass on it here for right now though. I'm putting on my side list I'm not gonna add it till to the main list either way, but uh, just so I don't forget about it tomorrow, maybe Keep going BT AI Trying to go back up again. Damn. We got so many these like Trades that are like teasing us trying to squeeze back up here and there That doesn't really like look too good for us.  I mean SAVA looks incredible Chuck Where are you out on SAVA right now? He's calling out DAKT Chuck is SAVA.  I'm late to the party on this But one of our students here does normally really long this pushing up pretty nicely It looks like on you know lighter volume it spreads pretty big But really strong push on SAVA here Filling the gap as you could see on the daily chart. It's already filled the gap pretty much at this point. So is the room to see more? I guess we don't have any stocks on our main list yet. Do we so Mizzle add one to begin. I Know Chuck that happens the best of us though. It's like there are times where I'll come back It's like oh AMD's up like five points in the last two hours. Damn. All right, so You know, it's tough though when the market's dropping off and we got UVXY pushing up yours Obviously need you know a ticker that will add to our watch list and ETF But the market potentially squeezing the lower Hopefully not and you know if that were to be the case then this could be a good long Chuck saying UVXY looks better. It does it does more volley more liquid, right? So I definitely prefer UVXY over even SAVA, but I Gotta respect that that move up though so far. I like that and we're familiar with SAVA at least a little We'll give it a little spotlight. Ah Now this though, I think could be up any one's radar anyone's alley the we works trade so Again, you never want to hold your breath waiting for a move up because for a stock that has like short squeeze potential I think they did a reverse stock split Possible to see this make a squeeze up over time. The more it does dump off I mean just you know in terms of valuations It wasn't really 220 dollars back then but based off the reverse split essentially You're seeing a stock that was valued at like 220 230 a share, which is now at like two bucks a share Well, it has a little bit of recovery room to do doesn't it?  Hey, it's up 11% Well, how much was like TPS T up again? How much was the INVO yesterday or the day before, you know So why can't we see a lot more than even this? I I really like this we works trade definitely this is like number one on our watch list here looks really good cheap good order book Hey, we got one nice Good one Alright, so if there's anything else looking good here on the way up folks Just type it in the chat board. Let me know a lot of time on the stick today. I actually got to refill up on water How did I not feel I'd fail to fill up on water before I start this meeting about to take a sip I was like, ah, we got an empty cup. Alright, so even furthermore, we'll try and be brief finish up here hop over to the loser side So seeing if there's anything looking good, obviously the energy stocks taking a hit this morning once again as PWR Sun Run, I think this was off and phase earnings. Wasn't it or are they reporting tomorrow morning? Maybe I think and phase EMP eight EMPH reporting earnings tomorrow That's even after the big drop from SEDG earnings Last week. So yeah, we knew going into this week These energy companies would be really volatile at a minimum meaning like up or down obviously here once again another big drop on SPWR and the rest of them. So You know, I'm not as like jumpy towards them as a day trade here this afternoon Just keep your eye on them tomorrow, especially with Enphase earnings FSLR another one might I say how's to there we go All right, what else we got here folks rich very timely with that link in our chat board once again folks Just make sure that you click the link for a phase one finish up the phase one stock course going over a Very important topic. Actually, I was asked earlier What was like the most important class like I think they'd asked or maybe they had said in their opinion A specific class was like one of the most important to which I said it could be but honestly coming up this afternoon Journaling journaling your trades. It's something that we tend to find to be a bit tedious at times But we got to explain really not just how to do it for our new students But for honestly everyone we're fresher why it's so important, you know to go over the trials and tribulations of Trading your your mistakes and also your successes too But you know, definitely you got to learn before you could truly earn it's not just hearing me flat my gums here for You know 15 20 minutes of time and stay even the coaching sessions one-on-one These classes are the most important part of what we offer here at cyber trading universities So even the journaling classes as in as a returning student long-time student. I would suggest for you to join me All right, so with that, let's see if there's anything else looking good At least on the loser side for those that are not joining it Those are stubborn perhaps now I'm kidding if you if you want to trade the clothes if you have not matched your days pay yet And you feel like there's a good chance then and if you know how to journal and you're doing your homework later Then definitely I suggest Yeah, try and make your days pay and re watch the recording later AFRM down 15% took a huge hit today, right? I'm gonna guess so if I down big also this thing was too slow though I saw this on some people's watch lists early this morning on Twitter And I didn't comment on anything because you never want to like crap on anyone or spread negative negativity But I'm like I didn't see any like specific good news for for so far like Going into this morning. Did they report earnings this morning specifically because I didn't even have them on my calendar I thought, you know, perhaps maybe a firm, but otherwise Yeah, I had no news on this so I saw this on some people's watch list I'm like this thing's the slowest thing ever unless if there's incredibly good news to where it can like pop in pre-market And make a more volatile run get like the Wall Street bet traders out there or social media people Look at the orders on this thing. It's huge. They're huge. So it's gonna be a slow trade basically That's where I say AFRM at least if you're gonna compare tomatoes to tomatoes This is a little bit more bang for the buck in my opinion more volatile. Obviously down more percentage wise today, but You know to me it's like trading Mara versus CLSK Mara is more volatile. It's more bang for the buck Even the CLSK is cheap Luciano saying Google trying new support there. Take a look. Oh right off 125 Luciano. So how about this? Good call or a good segue. I can't talk much more folks. We got class lined up in just about 1520 So it's me pretty much one of the last few things we'll cover Where do we see support? I mean, there's the reason why there's a lot of my chart here for You know to begin but looking at level four, where do we see support right now? We have that dark red line, right?  So obviously now we're at our next major level again You want to focus every five dollars for a more expensive ticker So something like this an AMD a Tesla, whatever it may be like your next level below this is 125 dollars. So Yeah, I got a big iceberg sitting there So, you know, just something to keep in mind happens to come enough earnings a lot of people, you know Remaining to be focused on on Google either way. So only makes it more volatile with the earnings that came out Just we're not gonna keep it on our watch list But if you do the options on it daily or if you look to over the throughout the remainder of the week I think it could be a good play, you know, a good sideless play for sure All right, so hey folks up down left right. Let me know if there's anything else though missing that is Looking good. I mean this could smash below support and continue to drop don't get me wrong there We could short but I want to see if there's a nice runner like a we work so we could work with there Ha get it on not really intended, but I caught myself. So let me know if there's anything else looking good I'm gonna just actually jump back to all the sideless stocks. I wrote down like the Leanne trade Just still kind of teasing us Howl still kind of teasing us on thinner volumes. So I'm probably gonna pass on that there G pack same deal if it pops around three o'clock three fifteen and riches there to call it out then You know, he will follow up on it And this yeah, I mean This if anything look at this it hasn't Hasn't truly broken lower from like where it was at 11 30 in the morning It's actually been trending back upwards pretty nicely and it's on good volume. It has a good order book. So That is where I feel like this could lure me back in But you know with good reason It's got to break a higher high though and you got to see like you'd prefer at least You don't need to see this but you'd prefer to see like, you know, a nice iceberg on the bid laddered up So for the sake of saying this thing hasn't broken a lower low here I'm going to actually add this btai out of all those sideless stocks to the Main list be on the bottom All right, so folks, you know where to find me inside our classroom actually coming up at 305 eastern for all of our bronze Silver gold platinum and diamond all of our students actually Here at cyber training university now if you're just a member here inside our live trading room and don't have access to our classes Then I would suggest for you to make sure that you contact your education advisor They are the middle man or middle woman between you and fowl. So you and myself So any questions you have in relation to our education? 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