There's a writer and actor strike going on right now in Hollywood and it kind of sparked some old flames, an old memory of mine, and that's of a time when everyone thought they could be a writer on a film called Alien 3, a movie that almost went out of its way to piss off every single person that watched. With multiple rewrites and reshoots, different directors coming and going, and an actress on the verge of insanity because nothing's getting done.  Let's dive into Alien 3 as I recap the film in its entirety from beginning to miserable end. And no, this isn't the assembly cut, this is the theatrical release, the one that we were all punished with. So right out of the gates, I'm sad. The 20th Century Fox logo comes up to remind us of Better Days. A smattering of shots of space itself, pretty standard stuff really. But there's also a myriad of images of Ripley and her crew, the survivors from the last film, just kind of sleeping it off. But oh wait, wait, is that a facehugger? Where? How? How did that get on here? Aren't we in an escape ship?  What? They killed off the survivors from the previous entry after they just struggled to get out alive.  I'm a big fan of where this is going, said no one. Ripley, unbeknownst to her, gets thrown into a scape pod, she's jettisoned to a completely different planet. She crash lands on a planet called Fiorina 161 by Urana, Fiorina, paprika. Let's just call it prison planet because that's essentially what it is. Status report from a computer confirming that Hicks and Newt are in fact dead. Bishop out of commission as well, short for commission. You know who did survive though? Facehugger, and surprisingly this franchise.  This gets them all hot and bothered because they haven't seen a girl in a long time. Thankfully for them or maybe the opposite of whatever that is, they took a vow of celibacy. There's not going to be any sticking things into other things on this planet, not even into each other's things. Because in their lord and savior's eyes, that's a big no-no. At the sick bay, Ripley is informed that her crew members, they didn't make the cut. They didn't get out alive. The doc informs her that she's the only woman on this planet.  Buckle up. And this is really gonna set the tone for what's to come in this movie. We're gonna see Ellen Ripley completely miserable from beginning to end. Never cracks a single smile. Never has a chuckle. She is just down on her luck, down on everything. Everybody she knows, everybody that she loves is dead.   There's an alien in this bitch, too. But we'll get there. We spend a few moments with Spike the dog. I think his name is Spike. Someone calls him something, but I can't really hear them. They all talk quietly in this film. The takeaway from this scene is he appears to have been lashed pretty bad. He's got cuts and scrapes and nicks all over. The face is just atrocious. Ripley wants to check out the morgue, so she goes there with some buds to make sure that her friends are in fact dead, and what actually killed them. That's really the takeaway. It's not so much to say goodbye, friends. It's to see if there's anything being housed inside the carriages. She demands an autopsy, but Dr. Jonathan Clemens, played by Charles Dance, begs to differ. She makes up some Kakamemi excuse that the girl has cholera. He eventually gives in, and we are treated to a scene where he viciously rips into the lifeless husk of this once smiling cute little girl, Newt, from the last flick. What a treat for everyone. She's thankfully xenomorph and gingivitis free, but the doctor wasn't convinced that was the problem at all. The warden pops in for a look-see and decides to inform Ellen that the prisoners are all rapists, pedophiles, just all around unsavory individuals. So again, bon appetit. He did also inform her that they found faith, which may help keep their dirty deeds dundered cheap at Michael Bay, but for how long, you know? But for how long? We're now at a good old-fashioned body-burning party for Newton Hicks. Because let's be honest, killing them and ripping open their husks wasn't quite enough. I want to see them burn, too. The dude who wrote this final script must have absolutely hated these two characters. I don't want to just kill them. I want to rip their bodies open and then burn them. That'll show them. That'll show them all. Leonard Dillon gives an uncomfortable sermon. While that's happening, we get to find out how old Spike got those scars.  Mirror wipe transition to a now freshly shaven Sigourney Weaver. Downgraded the hair but thankfully got rid of that vicious pink eye. That was unsettling. Leonard already starts talking about faith with Ellen.  Middle-aged Eleven from Stranger Things is having a conversation with her doctor.  It's a large area that he's in. He's mopping or something and he notices some gross skin stuff on the ground. He steps in. He's like, ew, yuck, eerie. It's ironic because he doesn't look any better.   The dude got taken out like he was in a Mortal Combat stage fatality. We cut to Clemens, treating Ripley with one final prescription.  Just what the doctor ordered. That's right, these two already banged it out. But he hits it and quits it as he's called away to find out what happened to the janitor. The warden is furious with Clemens for letting the woman out of the infirmary. She was supposed to stay there until she was rescued. He then hands Clemens a glass of what I'm hoping is chocolate milk but is more likely his own feces.  Ellen heads to the junkyard, which could be confused with literally any place in this movie because it's all trash. And she finds her best friend Bishop. She also unfortunately finds several unsavory individuals. Holt McCalley from Fight Club is there to get his rape on. Robert Paulson even does a primal yell. Thankfully the janitor from Rudy shows up to save the day and that is when the best scene of this movie takes place. The freaking right hook Sigourney Weaver throws at this bozo is awesome. And you know why it's awesome? It's because she's a strong female lead. And quite frankly for this planet, it's about time. The prisoners are now patrolling the facility with sparklers. It is now apparent that none of them have seen the inside of a shower. This is such a dirty, scummy looking movie. Finally the mighty xenomorphon power ranger shows up and takes care of some business.  Some of the blood sprays on his body for what I can only describe as the perfect money shot. Ellen Ripley is able to revive Bishop who much like her in previous days has one hell of a bad eye infection. I'm not gonna lie friends. I don't think he's gonna fully recover.  Dylan believes him and as an aside he is acting his heart out.  He smugly recaps the events of the previous two films in front of Ripley before dismissing all of it entirely. He then tells her all the prisons on an honor system and doesn't have a single weapon. Seems like a good idea.    The alien then skulks over to a frightened Ripley. This is exactly how he walks by the way because the effects aren't just trash right here. Behind the scenes show that this was done using some puppeteering that they rotoscoped by hand into the scene. Not a great idea. It's followed by a really great shot though. Easily the best of the film where Ripley's freaking out and then he shows up on the side of her and he goes and then he backs away.  He spares her but why? We'll find out. We'll find out in act two. The men are once again bickering like hens about what to do with the situation they find themselves in. We're at the hour mark of this movie and this is when my 11-year-old son Connor gets up and bounces. He's done. He's seen enough. He watched the first two movies in their entirety and this one he said, you know what dad? I'm good. I'm perfectly good and I respect that but I pushed on. They devise a plan to lead the xenomorph out. This goes wrong almost instantaneously as one of the dumbasses drops his flair. Boom goes the dynamite and this place is lit up like the 4th of July. Needless to say everyone's pretty bummed out about what transpired. They start fighting. They start yelling and of course they're sweating profusely.  Nothing pleasing on the eyes here. This is directed by the brilliant David Fincher. He's done some of my favorite movies ever and he has beautiful visuals. This first experience was miserable for him and it's miserable for the viewer. He does not like this film. He doesn't ever want to talk about this movie. I mentioned the assembly cut. He had nothing to do with it. He walked away. He washed his hands from this mess. Let's keep going. Ripley's feeling a bit peckish at this point. She wasn't feeling great earlier but now it's really coming to a head and she has to get it checked out so she does an ultrasound in one of the ship pods. She thinks she's got a fracture but it's actually something much worse. It turns out there's a baby on board.  Ripley's still laser focused on the cause. She knows that when this baby bursts out it's gonna be up for grabs and the military that are coming to rescue her really are only interested in that for a weapon of mass destruction. So she wants to get on the horn and tell them not to come but it's too little too late JoJo. The MedVac team is only two hours away. Ellen went to the basement to meet her baby's maker and possibly get a DNA test while she's there.  I mean how is it fitting inside there first off? When did this happen? How did they not notice it? Moving on. It's at this time she and the crew decided to give it one last ride. All they have and they're gonna put themselves up as bait.   I do not like it's Sam I am. We have more atrocious green screen rotoscoping shots going on with the alien.   Pretty funny stuff. And just when I didn't think this movie could get any more orange we enter the final act. It's orange ageddon. It couldn't get any more orange if it tried.  Not even a flaming hot Cheeto should be able to survive this heat right? WRONG!  Now comes down the water. This must have been the stored water that none of the prisoners ever used once to shower. The xenomorph snap crackles and pops out of existence in a explosive death but unlike the T-1000 this liquid metal is infusing back together. He won't be back. At that very moment the rescue team plops down led by Bishop? What? But the model of this android is human. That's right he modeled those after himself and he's trying to convince Ripley that he's a good dude. He just wants to help her and kill the baby alien inside. But she's not buying what he's selling.  Bloodyface McGee quickly helps her get away by slowly moving the platform back. And now we enter the second Terminator 2 ending. Self-sacrifice. Ripley slow motion jumps backwards into the magma or the fire-burster thing that's going up in the air. I don't know what these things do. I don't know the practicality of them even. Alien Xenomorph baby tries to get away. She grabs it two hands, puts it in close, and together they cheesily disappear into the fires below. Hasta la vista baby. Indeed. Indeed. The movie ends appropriately enough with a crappy computer message saying end of trans manshan. End of a franchise really. This is pretty much the end game. Alien Resurrection would come out quite a few years later and try to rebuild this bear. And I don't mind that movie. I know a lot of people hate it. They say it's the worst of it all. It's like a schlocky B movie action flick. I don't have any really. I found it entertaining. I found it zany. I found it completely ridiculous. The baby alien at the end. It's like fully grown mama mama.  She's crying. It's just complete insanity. Maybe I'll do that one in the future in these longer form rants. People seem to enjoy me doing these movie breakdowns. I have a fun time doing them. Let me know what you want to hear next. Put it in the comment below. Like this video if you had some fun. Please subscribe if you're new to the channel. I post a lot of movie content each and every week. I try to give a lot of different styles. We got YouTube shorts. I got a podcast. I have live streams. I have longer form video, shorter form video, little bit of everything. All on movies. If you really like what I'm doing and you want to secure one of these movie rants, please join me on patreon at patreon.com slash adam does movies. There's different tiers and at the top one you can actually request a movie rant just like this. 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Hello everyone, welcome to MSP lecture series on advanced transformational chemistry. This is 19th lecture in the series. In my previous lecture I discussed about the application of molecular orbital theory to main group elements with a couple of interesting molecules where there are controversies when you compare valence bond theory or VACPR theory. Now let us continue from where I had stopped. Now let us try to use molecular orbital theory or one can also call it as ligand field theory to explain bonding among coordination compounds. So I have just shown a generic M-O diagram that depicts bonding in case of metal complexes with ligands having pure sigma bonding properties. A typical M-O diagram can be written in this fashion. I am just overwriting on the diagram I have shown to make you familiar with drawing yourself M-O diagrams for complexes. For example in this case what we are considering for any given transition metal Nd orbitals and N plus 1s and N plus 1p orbitals are considered as valence orbitals and the intention needs to utilize them for making bonds when the ligands are entering coordination sphere. Now here of course to begin with we are considering atomic orbitals of metal here. We are considering this 5 d orbitals and we are considering N plus 1s orbital and then we are also considering N plus 1 3p orbital for which the mullican symbol is T1u and here we are considering ligand group orbitals. There are 6 ligand group orbitals are there and each one is coming with a pair of electrons. So we have a total of 12 electrons that has to be accommodated. Let us not worry how many electrons we have in the d orbitals of transition metals that is immaterial now. So now if the 12 electrons are coming from 6 ligands as 6 pairs they will be put here. So now you can see this is how this molecular orbital that have combined ligand orbitals along with 2 d orbitals that is in this case it is dx square minus y square and dz square to generate this many bonding molecular orbitals in which these 6 pair of electrons are accommodated. If any electrons are left in T2g that is dxy dyz and dzx they remain non-bonding and they are placed here. And now this gap what we have here here so this one so this is called delta O here and then from here onwards if you consider they are all anti-bonding properties they have. They are anti-bonding molecular orbitals Eg star A1g star and T1u star. So this is how one can write a typical M O diagram for a metal complex with octahedral geometry. Of course this the same M O diagram what I showed is also good for ligands having only pure sigma donor properties. So again I have shown here is the same what I showed here except for the fact that I have also included the symmetry of the ligand group orbitals that so that you can match appropriately with appropriate metal orbitals to generate molecular orbitals A1g. This A1g is coming here along with A1g is this one and then when you go for T1u so 3 orbitals coming here and 3 orbitals are coming here and then T2g Eg is there Eg 2 orbitals are coming here and then Eg 2 orbitals from this d group will be coming here and then this will remain and this is T2g so rest would be same. Once you know how to write this diagram you should be able to fill the electrons according to the number of electrons you have in a given metal complex. So this molecular orbital diagram represents ligands having only pure sigma donor properties. Now let us look into ligands having both sigma donor and pi donor properties. So in this case already told you in my previous lecture ligands have low energy filled sigma orbitals and low energy filled pi orbitals when they interact with metal atomic orbitals to generate molecular orbitals this gap between T2g and Eg or T2 and E shrinks this is what exactly happens in case of metal chlorides and fluorides. So here relatively these compounds are less stable compared to pure sigma donor ligands. Then the other ligand group we are talking about is bonding with sigma donor and pi acceptor ligands such as carbon monoxide triphenyl phosphine and hetero cyclic carbenes and etc. In this one here it is again metal valence orbitals Nd N plus 1s and N plus 1p and here we have again ligand orbitals they are low energy filled sigma orbitals and high energy empty pi orbitals. So in this case you can see the magnitude of this separation has increased remarkably that explains why these complexes are very stable compared to other 2 class of ligands that I had described. For comparison I have put all the 3 types of you know diagrams here you can clearly distinctly you can see the separation between these 2 and of course he in this case we also use the term HOMO and LUMO this is highest occupied molecular orbital and this is lowest unoccupied molecular orbital between which electronic transition takes place. Once again 6 sigma donor ligands such as water or ammonia and they are again coming with 12 electrons that these are the symmetry of the ligand group orbitals that are going to combine with metal orbitals and here I have just put 6 electrons in the orbital and these 6 electrons remain here as non-bonding and if there is any electronic transition is there these electrons can be promoted to this higher energy state here. So this represents a typical hexamine metal complex or hexa aqua metal complex here. Here you can put whatever the electrons you think the metal possess after required axis state is achieved with that metal. So this one you can guess what geometry it represents and of course the moment you see here 2 orbitals and the symmetry corresponds to A1 and T2 obviously this is for a tetrahedral complex. In tetrahedral complex we are talking about 4 ligands coming with 8 electrons and here we have 5D orbitals again and here the symmetry will be E and T2 and as usual N plus 1 S orbit having A1 and this N plus 1 P will be having T2 in case of tetrahedral. So here very similar to Christofield theory the energy of E will be lower compared to energy of T2 and this remains non-bonding here and in many cases what happens tetrahedral complexes also have electrons in the anti-bonding orbital here. If they have more than 4 electrons obviously the 5th electron has to be placed here and these compounds are relatively unstable compared to tetrahedral complexes also to an extent square pen are complexes. 4 pairs of electrons coming from the ligands would occupy these 3 plus 1 4 molecular orbitals here and electrons present in the D orbitals will be filled in this one if it is more than 4 2 electrons then it would go here usually here pairing does not start here because this gap is much smaller so electrons will be promoted here and they will be usually high spin complexes. And also I am showing you the orbits involved in this one you can see these are the orbitals having this kind of orientation of course you can also compare them to PX, PY and PZ and this is A and all of them what is putting tetrahedral geometry can be seen here. This is called symmetry adopted linear combination of atomic orbitals you can see here this is composite of DZ square and DXMY square you can clearly see and also you can see how DXMY square orbitals are oriented with respect to direction of approach of ligand again once again Christopher theory whatever we discussed it can be seen here why the energy of these things are lower and then if you see here again it is very clear why the energy of T2 is higher because they are almost coming on the way of ligand approach here in all these cases. And this is ML bonding molecular orbitals filled with 8 electrons for 4 ML sigma bonds and then we call them as anti-bonding molecular orbitals and this is how the looks like anti-bonding orbital the another one of course you can see here this is for square planar complex in case of square planar complex again 4 ligands are coming but they are having different symmetry or mulligan symbols depending upon what kind of orbitals that are available for bonding from metal ion or metal autumn. So, here ND you will be further split into different sets that I shall show you and then A1G does not change here and since one of the orbitals participating in mixing and others 2 does not if you recall Wellesborn theory of DSP2. So, 1p will be mixing as a result what happens it has 2 different type of p orbitals here then accordingly they are further split of course tetragonal elongation if you remember how it splits one can visualize here also in case of ligand field theory then these are the mulligan symbols given for various d orbital A1G, B1G for d x y square and B2G for x y and d x z and d y z still degenerate they are called EG set and they are metal to ligand bonding orbitals again 8 electrons are comfortably placed here as 4 pairs they are responsible for making 4 metal to ligand bonds and they are anti-bonding and these are non-bonding orbitals here this is very very important when we talk about reactivity and let us now compare bonding in metal carbonyls and metal phosphines and if you see metal carbonyl in my previous lecture I showed you about the lone pair present on carbon that is responsible to perform as a sigma donor these electrons from CO would be overlapping with one of the orbitals from M essentially d z square or d x y square to form a sigma bond then the field metal orbitals will overlap with pi star atomic orbitals to pi star orbitals of carbon monoxide to take electrons from the metal through back bonding and this is how carbonyl ligands stabilize metals in their low valence state in their low valence state and overcome inter electron repulsion in the metal by taking comfortably the electrons from metal to pi star of carbon monoxide orbitals. So this is a typical metal carbonyl bonding scheme here and let us assume a pair of electrons are coming from carbon monoxide these 2 electrons here this orbital and they interact with appropriate metal orbital to form a sigma bond so we established a metal to carbonyl sigma bond now the energy of this one quite comparable with pi star of this one that is t 2g I would say and then they overlap they interact again to generate a set of bonding and anti-bonding molecular orbitals one thing one should remember here is pi star is not going to take directly electrons from the metal t 2g orbitals when the metal autumn or anion is ready for giving electrons from its t 2g t 2g orbital should be treated as atomic orbitals and pi star or anti-bonding orbitals present on carbon monoxide should be treated as atomic orbital they 2 combined together to generate again a set of bonding orbital and anti-bonding orbital to the bonding orbital what happens the metal electrons goes so this is how back bonding takes place if somebody says that sigma star or pi star in phosphins or carbon monoxide directly take electrons that is incorrect they are not going to take they have to be treated as atomic orbital and t 2g orbits or with pi symmetry are essentially t 2g or dx y dy z and dx z they have to be treated as again atomic orbital they combine together to generate a set of bonding and anti-bonding orbital and they have pi symmetry and we call it as that is the reason we call it as pi back bonding so same thing I have shown here for in case of phosphorus again phosphorus lone pair is there that goes to metal to form a sigma bond and then the sigma star when we write pr 3 molecular orbitals pr 3 has a sigma star that sigma star interacts with field d orbital to take electrons and this is called back bonding here again in this case also sigma star orbitals you should treat as atomic orbitals they interact with field d orbitals to generate a set of bonding and anti-bonding again they have pi symmetry and here electrons will be transferred from metal to this bonding molecular and hence we call it as pi bonding very similar here except for the fact that here we are using pi star anti-bonding orbitals and here we are using sigma star as anti-bonding orbitals and then you can see symmetry pi star and pi so electrons would be transferred to this place so that what happens inter-electron repulsion is minimized. So now I have shown here for chromium hexa carbonyl you can see here 6 carbon monoxide are there and the symmetry is referred to A 1 G T 1 U and E G here and as usual they combine here and then we have also given T 2 G pi star orbital as I mentioned these orbits are now combined with T 2 G and you can see now this is a bonding and it is anti-bonding and the electrons are placed here and now you can say the moment it is involved in bonding the energy of electrons present here previously it was non-bonding somewhere here it is lower so since it is lowered the gap is increased so we can say now the compound the complex is more stabilized because the energy of this one is lower. You can see here this is the pair I have shown here this is the one so that I am considering from 6 carbon monoxide this 6 pairs of these electrons are given shown here and then this pi star whatever I have shown here this is the pi star I am referring to here this is same as this one. So I have an interesting case here nickel tetracharbonyl and normally you do not see a more diagram for nickel tetracharbonyl here I have written too many electrons you may be surprised to see why I have written so many electrons instead of writing just 8 electrons from 4 carbon monoxide they are making bond with Ni to form NiCO 4 but I have written extra electrons here you can see 1 2 3 4 pairs are there and 4 and 8 pairs and another so basically I have 16 pairs are there so that means about 32 electrons I have considered here 32 electrons where they are coming from yes let me show you here let me write Lewis dot structure again you know how we are establishing a triple bond between carbon and oxygen. So this pair is 1 2 3 and 4 pairs are there 4 pairs means 8 electrons are there and 8 electrons into 4 ligands 32 electrons are there out of 32 electrons what happens this 4 8 electrons ok this 4 pairs means 8 electrons equals 4 pairs they are responsible for making bond. So this is what wellness bond theory says but is it really true let us examine that one whether the sigma the electrons really participate and interact with appropriate metal orbitals to make NiCO bonds you can see here these 4 pairs are I am referring to this one this is the 4 pairs I am showing and then here 8 pairs whatever I am showing here these are the electrons I am showing here together they remain non-bonding and to our surprise if you see these 4 orbital should have interacted with this one as well as this one to generate a set of 4 molecular orbitals to place these 8 electrons very similar to what we saw in the tetrahedral complex in earlier case but if you see these 4 pairs of electrons remains almost non-bonding here the energy is much lower compared to any of the metal orbitals here that indicates there is no sigma bond at all between nickel and carbon monoxide there is no sigma bond in order to have sigma bond we should have pulled these orbitals much lower and to connect with this one but that is not happening. So that indicates the 4s and 4p energy are too high to interact with this sigma electrons from carbon monoxide then in that case there is no 4 sigma bonds at all in NiCO4 then how NiCO4 is formed? NiCO4 is formed through only back bonding you can see here 5 star of carbon monoxide that is interacting with here T2 E T1 T2 here and as a result what happens the electrons here degenerate prior to the formation NiCO4 are split into two levels as usual E and T2 and the electrons are placed here 10 electrons present in nickel nickel 0 means 3d 8 4s 2 0 means 10 electrons these 10 electrons are placed here that means just by splitting this one what happens this is stabilized. So Wellesband theory says that we are utilizing these orbitals from metal to establish NiCO4 that is not the case at all and of course this one can see if they want to read more about that one you can refer to these papers and not many textbooks talk about this one and I have not come across in many textbooks describing a more diagram for NiCO4 in this fashion but this is very true and also this explains why NiCO4 is highly volatile and more reactive for the same reason this is stabilized by only back bonding and there is no sigma bonding in NiCO4 at all whereas in case of chromium hexacarbonyl we have sigma bond that I showed you in previous slide. So there it is a solid and reasonably stable high melting point white powder moderately are reasonably stable atmosphere whereas this one is highly volatile and it can decompose readily. So some of these properties can be explained nicely and bonding also can be explained and that normally we do not see in case of Wellesband theory and also crystal field theory of course it does not explain anything about such complexes where metal is in zero valence state. Let me stop here and continue more interesting stories about trans-metal elements in my next lecture.


Okay, very good morning to everyone. Monday 15th of July. Hope everyone had a good weekend. Certainly better than Roger Federer. So close but so far. But not going to dwell on that. Going to get ready for the trading week ahead. And as per usual, a bit of an overview for the main highlights of the next five trading days. Not just a review of the news and a look at the charts this morning. So before I get into that, let's just have a look at how things reside this morning across asset class. And you can see equities right out the gate this morning. Fairly aggressively, you can see the DAX just as I've literally turned the mic on. The DAX, if I put this on a minute chart, you know, such a fast moving instrument when certainly the cash market gets underway, you can see from 8am just zoomed higher here, taking out some technical levels of the previous range highs. Now just testing up and around some of the higher levels that we've seen towards last week. Comes with overall US stock futures similarly at their highs. And this is one of the things I want to explain in the briefing. It does come as Chinese GDP has hit a 27 year low. You would think logically, well, that's not good, surely. And one of the world's largest emerging markets starts producing gross numbers that have been the worst in three decades. But this again is kind of reflection of like with the US and the Federal Reserve. Worse, it gets the more the authorities, whether that being the government or the central bank throw at the issue. And the more powerful the stimulative measure comes, whether monetary or fiscal, to help prop things up. And certainly that might explain a little bit of what we've had.  And it rallied, not the opposite of what you might normally think. So a little bit of a pick up in the equity index futures, obviously from an equity point of view for the states. This is record territory and does of course come as we head into the earning season of which we are looking at a profit recession from US companies. But again, we'll dig into that in a bit more detail in a moment. FX markets pretty quiet, actually, not too much going on at all. And that's reflected in the major pairs, both Euro dollar cable broadly flat, as is the Dixie Gold as well, not too interesting at this point, trading around its pivot, maybe a support level. Technically, I can see how that would work out from prior price action from the end of last week. But with the equity move, fixed income futures, T notes down about seven tick, spoons down on the opposite side of things, a little bit of a divergence between the two this morning. But let's get straight into the news. I'll leave the charts for Sam to discuss. But this is the week as an overview. And as you can see, I had highlighted and bold on the line was Chinese data, GDP, industrial production, retail sales, and fixed asset investment, some of the major data to get the week under the way underway. And so let's just have a quick look at things. And as you can see here, that was the headline, which a lot of people are talking about this morning, China's second quarter GDP growth slows to a 27 year low. But as per that former line, more stimulus is expected. And I was looking at a couple of numbers this morning when I was on the train in the way in to work. And in terms of the tax cuts that the Chinese government have done since we've had this escalation in trade war over the last kind of 18 months, it works out at roughly about 300 billion dollars. And the government has performed about 300 billion in other fiscal unplanned measures to help propel the economy or mitigate the downturn. And the people's Bank of China have cut the reserve requirement ratio six times since the beginning of 2018. And just given the nature of this economic kind of growth slowdown in China, we can imagine that more of that type of action is to come. Not only though that there were a couple of other highlights, the retail sales, the industrial production out of China were in fact actually better than expected. And so it might go some ways to explain why we're having a bit of a more positive read through because of the net consequence of what this type of growth data does mean for the policy reactions. I mean, this is just having a look at the annual percentage change quarterly of Chinese GDP growth. As you can see in terms of the real rate, you know, just moving down to around these levels, which would be below the trough of the financial crisis in itself going back to then that 27 year statistic. How did China perform overnight though? Well, originally dipped, although this is slightly dated now because it's a fixed graphic, but we dipped and look, we've recovered so sharply, so quickly. If you remember, there was a briefing I was doing. I think it was Thursday or Friday and we were looking at non-farm payrolls and we were looking at the S&P 500 dip rally. We had a similar situation towards the second half of last week in US equities, dip and then rally. And it's a similar type of thing we're getting here. So very much, I feel a reflection that the market, at least for the moment, is more focused on the following effects of policy rather than it is the real effect of the actual, what the data signifying in itself at that point. Back to the calendar though, Chinese data out the way. It is earning season. So as you can see here, you've got US earnings firms reporting today, Citi. If we go to Tuesday, you can see at the bottom here, you've got JP Morgan, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs. You've also got Johnson & Johnson. Then you get some other interesting companies like IBM, Netflix reporting on Wednesday. The latter obviously forms part of the so-called Fang stocks, those that are quite highly sensitive to market confidence. So that would be particularly interesting. Thursday you get tech giant Microsoft. You also get the German heavyweight SAP reporting pre-market open on Thursday morning. And so yeah, earning season, not the busiest, it really does start to pick up pace really next week. But we get the first of the banks, and regardless of Citi being the biggest, the smallest or anything like that, remember, it's the first of its sector to report. And so therefore tends to have slightly more focus for the market. And so net reaction could be that however well Citi have done, irrespective of the fact that other banks will have slightly different product mixes, revenue mix and so on. It kind of translates. The market will see that as then how well that industry or that sector is performing. So Citi will be quite interesting later, the other banks to follow Tuesday. With that being said, with earning season, while we're on the topic, earning season is expected to project a 2.8% earnings drop. This is what Q2 earnings growth year on year percentage is set to look like by expectation. And for overall, the S&P 500 to be negative, defensive utilities, healthcare probably outperforming. And so typical kind of rotation if you like, would be out of cyclicals and also not just technology getting hit, but materials given this global growth, slowdown, story, and the effects of the ongoing trade war. Looking at technology in particular, I did mention Microsoft are reporting this week. So quarterly earnings per share growth for technology stocks in the S&P 500. Well, actually we're looking at a earnings recession here. So back to back quarters of negative growth in terms of their earnings per share. So certainly it's quite an interesting era obviously that we're in at the moment, because just looking at the charts this morning, US equities cross the board at record high territories, despite the fact that we're in a back to back quarters of earnings recession. So it's going to be quite interesting certainly going further forward as we get, I think, into the next six months, 12 months, 18 months. If we start to get consecutive quarters, it's like, well, how much more can the likes of the Fed continue to prop up the market? And this leads us in then to the next interesting discussion point, which is the Fed and how many times they're going to be cutting. Because as we know, and we discussed here in the briefing many times, they've only got a limited amount of room for maneuver with rates coming and residing at two and a quarter to two and a half percent. Very different from prior occasions that we've had in the previous economic downturns over the last 10 and 20 years. Now, if we go back to the calendar, there are quite a lot of Fed speakers this week. Today you've got Feds Williams. Tomorrow you get Feds Evans and Bostick. Wednesday you've got Feds Beige Book, which is basically the 12 regional districts of the U.S., or comprised of the way the U.S. is managed, all come together and they report a localized update on the specific regions. So good insight into the health of the U.S. economy on that level. You then get Bostick and Williams speak again on Thursday. You've got Rosengren and Bullard speaking on Friday. So just like the end of last week post-Powell when we had a number of Fed speakers, there's more coming. And I feel that is to some extent trying to manage expectations then of the likelihood or not of a 50 basis point rate cut because you remember they've got only till basically this week and Monday and Tuesday next week before they go into the blackout period. So I think they're going to want to be as clear as possible and hopefully we'll get clarification of whether or not basically this number, 23.5% for 50 basis points, either it's got to go up or down. And we're going to be looking to these speeches as to ascertain whether or not markets need to reposition themselves for a credible 50 basis point threat or not. And I think, and I've said this before, I think it's going to be not the case. I think the Fed will not cut 50. I think they will cut 25, not just because of the limited ammunition that they have with rates being so low at the moment. But this is the crib sheet for the feds, hawks and doves, kind of the way in which they lean from a policy perspective. So in this Bloomberg graphic, you've got a couple things, board of governors, the voting regional presidents, the alternative voters who switch in every 12 months basis on a calendar year, and then the current non voters. So again, from the top explanation here, it's the voting members which are going to, of course, carry the most sway given that they have the opportunity to actually put their hand up and vote for the direction of policy in the actual meetings taking place at the moment. The other thing, of course, though, is the this plus or minus figure. Now the more heavily minus down to minus two to dovish the member, the more positive the figure, the more hawkish. Now one of the interesting ones and someone who's speaking on Friday and someone who spoke last week is James Bullard. He is a voting member of the FMC and he's a minus two. Now the interesting thing and one thing that I think supports the reasoning why the Fed will not, at least at this point, go 50 basis points is that James Bullard has said only a few days ago that he thinks 25 basis points cut would be adequate, not 50. And if the most dovish member of the Fed is not committing to 50, but 25, I think then that's very telling. If he's only there, I'd say others are nowhere near given how outlyingly dovish he is to getting down to that aggressiveness of a rate cut. So yeah, this is a good crib sheet. I did tweet it at the weekend, so if you need it as a refresher, remember every time one of these guys speaks you should know well in advance on your calendar, what are they speaking on, are they a voter, non-voter and what is their policy stance. It's the absolute 101 of trying to interpret these speeches as they come out. Okay, other things to have a look at from a from an oil perspective. I did briefly want to touch upon this. WTI crude this morning is trading absolutely flat 60-21 to the cent absolutely unchanged. But this is what Bloomberg saying oil trades in 60 on storm disruption as glut concerns linger. A couple of interesting points here I wanted to point out on the oil side. So at the weekend we know we had the storm. Barry make landfall hitting around the Louisiana area about 73% of crude output was halted on Sunday. Some producers though on the offshore facilities are preparing to return workers back to platforms now that that storm has made landfall and moving inwards so you know I guess geographically if you want to see so a lot of the offshore facilities are placed here so this would have been if you remember last Wednesday and Thursday when the storm was coming inbound and picking up pace but now Barry's moved more in land it means that these facilities whether patterns are returning back to some degree of normality and business can return as per usual. So that that storm has now passed and I don't see that really being a factor now to move market prices going forward not unless something new was to develop in the Atlantic of which there are no signs of at the moment. So that would have been a positive catalyst to help lift prices but that's now passed and if you look overnight one of the things that we've seen was Chinese GDP obviously now looking at the demand part of the dynamics of driving oil and growth potential in China slowing down but as we've discussed the various stimulative measures that now are likely to be kind of increased on behalf of the Chinese government and central bank which might help to turn that around but still it's kind of a that's a laggard effect you would say and at the moment Chinese growth is slowing. Also I know if you remember 9 a.m. on Friday last week we had the International Energy Agency the IEA and they said that production cuts by OPEC and its allies failed to prevent the return of a surplus in the first half of 2019 as supply exceeded demand at a rate of 900,000 barrels a day. So again another very interesting factor here is that the market is you know somewhat oversupplied but it's almost being counteracted by this idea that you've got this recent weather system but more importantly you've got these ongoing tensions in the Persian Gulf as well which are keeping prices supported. So there's a lot of indecision I feel at the moment in the crude market you've got this this balancing act between this global growth story which is one of fragility at the moment and certainly coming into what's likely to be quite a downbeat earning season are all kind of negative contributing factors however you've got this obviously constant supply shock risk coming out of particularly as I said the Gulf region. So what this has led to is quite an interesting statistic and I think this is quite interesting if you're trading oil medium term is that hedge funds haven't been this indifferent to crude in six years. What I mean by this is that the the CFTC put out the speculative future positioning in the market they put that out every week and a lot of hedge fund managers will look at this as to give them a better sense and idea of the markets leaning whether there's more long or short positions in the market but the problem is if you combine the bets on WTI crude rising or falling those bets have reached their lowest now since March of 2013 and I think that's quite telling so I think from a fundamental perspective you've got this kind of equilibrium if you like of positives and negatives which does I think mean that you could start to see an area of consolidation in crude oil until something starts to to move ahead either the growth concerns start to accelerate and that starts to then dampen the demand even further or we get more tension in between Iran and the U.S. and Saudi and so on. Okay otherwise final parts on the calendar I'd suggest to be aware of from the UK you've got UK CPI coming out Wednesday retail sales on Thursday and then from the U.S. it's not just about of course monitoring Fed speakers U.S. data is equally now important as well as to ascertain this this idea of of how aggressive the Fed might be going forward U.S. retail sales on Tuesday industrial manufacturing production also Tuesday and you get the University of Michigan prelim figure on Friday as well so quite a few things there to to get your teeth into. Okay so that that's really it from me I'll let Sam jump on and talk about the charts from a more technical perspective so with that I'll wish you a great week ahead and I'll catch up with you in the chat room on trading life thanks very much. Thanks and I hope everyone had a good weekend. So the cricket yesterday I'm sure there'll be a couple sore heads this morning fantastic for English cricket final was absolutely incredible commiserations to New Zealand is anyone following us from that part of the world commiserations just having a look here at equities as I mentioned earlier on the DAX was pushing and that in turn helped the S&P push higher here and taking it longer term that trend channel that was was so good last year beginning of last year to the mid part September October before that breakdown eventually in December you can see if that was to get hit today that looks to come in around 31 so about eight or so points away from where the third test of this top end of the trend channel would come in so definitely have that marked up on the charts you can see not too far away and if the last two reactions from a technical point of view are anything like that would be a great place to take some profit short term so have that marked up for sure let me just move the lower point of that trend channel just above the camera so you can see that there obviously back from February last year and then even more medium term potentially Tennessee if that wasn't to hold you've got all kind of trend lines just in the mix around that area that could come in of course above there still a way to go but 30 50 maybe I'll be a longer term target before we start to potentially slow down a bit looking more intraday here at the S&P and we've put the pivots on just for a bit of a guide you can see last few days we've had decent pushes above the all-time highs to then come back and retest the pivot acting pretty good as well as arguably the the previous high and similar for on Friday we saw late into the session just before four o'clock before that European close the previous high on Thursday acting as a level support so keeping an eye on on that if we were to push on at the moment it's enjoying a push higher you can see not far away from that trend channel coming in just above the R2 so I still would definitely look to to have that on to the downside we've had good support this morning if I just draw it's on a 15 minute draw up here around 30 17 so as a bit of a line in the sand you could you could say maybe looking to potentially get short below that we've only got the two tests on this trend line to maybe see how that reacts as well and that could lead to a push lower but at the moment sentiment seems firmly to the upside well that will be interesting to see what happens around 30 and around those kind of levels the NASDAQ pretty similar this morning in pushing higher as is the Dow Jones really extending of course making that new all-time high you know last week the last of the the three main ones to do so and look over at the currencies today the euro just spiking above that high that we had good resistance from Friday evening to this morning so keeping a close watch if we were to to drift back down to that level as well you can see really nice trend line from Friday's low to today's low squeezing in price action as well before that push higher to the upside obviously the main key point to have marked up on the R1 is the higher that we had back from Thursday as well so as we drift higher or if we continue to drift higher this sort of trend line would continue to do so as well as a bit of a line in the sand that could well be it along with the previous highs that we've had for the last eight or so hours that's a pretty key point there as well if we were to extend our legs and push higher than the level seen from last week and just putting this onto a four-hourly chart you can just see the importance of all of that point so these were previous lows before we did push lower on the fifth 10 days ago so above that 1350 would be an area as well to keep an eye on so maybe you can see here it's quite a tight zone so quite a lot of resistance up there even if we were to push on moving over to the pound here it's going to put this on a 60 minute time frame and you can see relatively quiet start to the morning unlike the euro which obviously just did push higher there to the upside you can see what was you know really key resistance you know the breakdown before again on the fifth where we had some you know fair bit of dollar strength that's somewhere I would keep an eye on I know we had a brief go at testing above it on Friday evening and we're looking to come back and test that this morning albeit just falling short that's going to be a really key area if the dollar is to continue any weakness that we saw last week in terms of moves lower obviously the pivot has acted quite well we're keeping an eye on this trend line that would mark up by the time it comes down or potentially comes down to that trend line and pivot as well a breakthrough there and you'll be looking down to sort 87 where we had some support from last week as well some quite key levels that have held as well to the downside you can see the lows that we had on the afternoon of the 10th and then the 11th and the 12th all marking up around the S1 so quite a bit of support below in what's pretty much a flat morning so far for the pound despite a tiny bit of dollar weakness that we've had in the markets and a quick look over the other currencies that we really focus on here Aussie dollar has been on a great run hasn't it since that multi well the test of the the yearly low we had a brief pullback before pushing higher last a couple of days helps with some dollar weakness and you can see if we were to continue to push higher than this area the high from what's that the fourth would be the main kind of target to to have marked up similar to the S&P in that those previous highs of the days of acting as support for opportunities to get long so even shorter term just having a look and dropping it down to 15 minute how we react around any of these previous highs so this is Friday's high here obviously we could argue we broke through that trend as well so even if that wasn't to work you could argue along from around that trend line is also not a bad trade to have a look at however for these kind of markets if the trends to the upside was to break aggressively you're not want to not going to want to get in too too aggressively on that so Aussie dollar pushing higher thanks to you know the move this morning and it sustained a you know relatively decent start to the week and a look over at the yen pivot acted really well today as initial support and similar to the dollar pair or some of the dollar pairs in that we are you know pretty flat really here I mean the push lower that we've seen this morning over the last sort of 15 minutes or so and he was checked might be helped by the fact that he did push on but just seeing in in Europe anyway the euro stocks is just coming off a touch from those highs the DAX perhaps looking to start following that suit as well so the upside you can see price from the previous low of Friday and then this morning is held as resistance that's a decent line in the sand where the sellers should be in control of that and then to the downside keeping an eye on this trend line from the lows and that pivot as that could obviously be really handy in containing price before you know break down to that pivot as well so I think it could be down to buyers in control above here sellers in control below there as well and a quick look over the DAX here as you can see just you know coming off a touch the euro stocks start to switch over before coming back to the DAX you can see already pushed back to that R1 having found resistance from levels on the 11th so keeping an eye on the on the DAX you have quite a few previous highs that we have broken through which we could have tracked buyers but you can really see strong push above this trend this morning not saying we're going to get a full reversal to there but maybe going in too aggressively on these highs might just be a bit of a bigger risk I'm going to look at gold and oil to to wrap things up you can see gold relatively flat for the day just up a couple of dollars Friday was pretty rangeband before the back end of the session as we broke on having a look at this obviously from the upside still fair way away probably worth having on one of these kind of trend lines to the brief resistance we've had for now 14-17 bit of a breakdown this morning that's somewhere I would have marked up really between the pivot and that I wouldn't be too interested in getting involved having a look to see if we've got anything from the downside not amazing looks relatively choppy for for gold and that's kind of in tune with the price action that we've had here just dragging this to the last few weeks you can see no real direction in this big-term range where you've got the double top you've got multiple tests of this this low as well not necessarily waiting for either of those to come in but you might start to get a clearer reaction from that you could argue we are getting squeezed in as well just from both directions over the last few days going back to the ninth certainly from the top and the bottom so maybe patience at least on the Monday anyway waiting for breaks of that before really looking to get in and look over at oil here you can see if I just put this on a longer term chart we we have found some really key resistance here definitely at a point where people would have looked to have taken profit for more medium term you can see support initially on the 13th and 7th of May before the breakdown we had on the 23rd which signalled a decent push down to almost 50 well yeah but just below 51 dollars decent rally back in the first real test of that area as you'd expect on Thursday offering a really strong level of resistance if that was to go at any point to this week then you'd be looking back at previous highs you know 61 64 and then key breakdown points from anywhere above 62 last few days on the sessions anyway you can see we have been trending lower so to get that bullish feeling back well I mean there's a couple of trend lines you can see maybe a break above that would be would be half interesting the low of the weeks of the day I should say so far was also quite a key level that we had back on Thursday Wednesday as well and that previous high so keeping a close eye on those two points the low and that trend line around the pivot which isn't necessarily the most respected one but just as a guide it might be that you finally would get another push if we were to get above that point pivot looks key as well as you had some resistance late there on Friday we're just holding up however on the previous sort of resistance point from the Asian session as usual any questions please do let us know the strategy report will be will be out before midday so even if there's any questions regarding that please feel free to do so but I hope you will have a good good trading day just quick look over that calendar just to reiterate likely to be relatively quiet on the on the data front into the afternoon and things look a little bit more interesting Tuesday Wednesday Thursday as well so just plan the day and week accordingly but I hope you have a great one as well


I will never forget the time I was at a tournament. Yes, so welcome back you guys to my channel. My name is Cocoa and I love volleyball. That's just the biggest, I love volleyball. Today I am bringing such an important topic to you guys that it's really close to me and it's really close to all the women of the world. And I know that Cocoa Volley has a lot of young men and male volleyball players, but this video is for the ladies. Today I'm gonna talk about how to play sports on your period. I was at a tournament once upon a time a long time ago and we were playing at Doubleheader. So this is back before period tracking apps were out where you just kind of like, you kind of just decimated what was gonna happen. You know, it was just kind of in the wind. So I didn't know that this was gonna happen. I didn't know that my period was gonna come on. So I was kind of like, we have the blue. And sometimes it just catches you out the blue. 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