That concludes the debate on Scotland's national parks. It's now time to move on to the next item of business, which is consideration of motion 4702, in the name of Donald Cameron, on statement of policy. I call on Donald Cameron to speak to and move the motion. Can I formally move the motion in my name? That motion is that the Parliament resolves the statement laid by ministers under section 71 of the UK withdrawal from the European Union continuity. Scotland Act 2021 should not be approved. The opposition of these benches to the statement laid by ministers is based on two points, a broad general one and secondly some more technical arguments about government transparency before Parliament. In relation to the first broader point, these benches firmly disagree with the stated policy of aligning with EU law. The ramifications of Brexit have divided opinions sharply in Scotland and the wider UK, but the plain fact is that the UK has left the European Union and has indeed now agreed a trade agreement with the EU. However much the SNP resent this, the fact remains that we are outside the decision making processes of the EU. We have no democratic input into the EU's institutions and we have very little, if any, influence on the legislative choices being made by the EU. And yet the SNP insists on the power to keep pace with and align with EU law. This is of course predicated on their desire to break up the UK and rejoin the EU at the earliest opportunity. Further it is very notable that not once has the Scottish government used the keeping pace power according to the report dated 10 May 2022, not once. Despite the warnings of the cabinet secretary's predecessor in the last session of Parliament who kept saying that the keeping pace powers were crucial and necessary they have not been used at all. Perhaps more strikingly there are no plans to use them in the future. The Scottish government's report says so in black and white. Given that background we are entitled to ask why not and more generally what is the point of continuing alignment with EU law. So for these very broad reasons we ask Parliament to support my motion today. The second limb of our opposition is more technical but equally important and picks up on some of the points made by the constitution committee in its letter to the cabinet secretary dated 26 May this year in relation to transparency to Parliament around the alignment process. The committee's view was and I quote that we do not have that transparency at the moment. In particular these benches are concerned that the revised statement of policy does not make it clear how the government will make decisions about which EU laws to align with or not. We are concerned there is no commitment to set out which EU laws the Scottish government has decided not to align with. Lastly we are worried that the Government's decision not to provide details of consultations which include consideration of whether to align or not is disproportionate and contrary to the transparency that Parliament deserves. For all those reasons I ask Parliament to support my motion tonight. I want to start by making it absolutely clear that Scottish Labour supports alignment within the European Union which is why we supported the continuity act. For us this debate is about transparency and the ability of this Parliament to scrutinise the decisions of ministers and the action to the Scottish government. I have to say that there is a bit of an irony when Donald Cameron suggests that parliamentary transparency is a technical issue. It is fundamental to how we operate. The cabinet secretary's reply to the key act committee following its consideration of the statement that we are looking at today is that we are looking at how we are going to make decisions about which EU laws to align with. The cabinet secretary's reply to the key act committee following its consideration of the statement that we are looking at today in our view does not go far enough although we did acknowledge that he made a couple of commitments to us. The statement being proposed today does not give us adequate scrutiny on the decisions taken by ministers on where to align with the EU and where not. It will only focus on the areas where the Scottish Government decides to align with the EU. However, MSPs, parliamentary committees and wider stakeholders must have the ability to scrutinise not just where the Scottish Government decides to align but also where it decides not to align. An up-to-date website would have been a very useful and easily accessible tool for MSPs, businesses, the wider public and environmental campaigners. Secondly, there is an issue about the issue of reporting on consultations and we want clarity. I hope that the cabinet secretary will give us more clarity this afternoon. We mentioned this issue, the rural affairs, islands and natural environment committee, that we need a list of relevant consultations and we need to see what everybody says. We did not get clarity on that. Thirdly, we do not think that there is a strong enough commitment on the cabinet secretary on securing memorandum of understanding between the Scottish Government and the Parliament on scrutiny of these matters. Simply welcoming our suggestion does not go far enough. There is no milestone for completing these discussions and no clear commitment to definitively have a memorandum of understanding. We need that. This debate is about transparency and it is vital that we can do our job as democratic elected members. The Scottish Government must be transparent and give us a clear commitment that it will be transparent not just on EU legislation where it seeks to maintain alignment but also where it does not, because people might not disagree with that judgment and they might want the Scottish Government to align. There is an irony here again in that the Tory UK Government has been completely inadequate in delivering parliamentary scrutiny on trade deals and other Brexit related matters where the SNP has stood up for parliamentary scrutiny. I hope that we will get a commitment today to change this statement because we cannot support it as it is currently proposed. We will vote against it today but if the cabinet secretary takes on our points we would support a revised statement that enables greater transparency and scrutiny. We can do our job so that we can make sure that we can see where alignment is needed and we can take this debate into the Parliament and have proper scrutiny of the cabinet secretary and his colleagues. The continuity act was brought forward in response to Brexit to ensure that Scottish ministers are able to protect the world-class standards that Scotland has enjoyed as a member of the European Union. It bears underscoring yet again that Scotland was removed from the European Union against its will. As we see on a daily basis there are no benefits of Brexit. The Scottish Government is clear that we must remain close to the EU and continue to protect the high standards that benefit our country. The people of Scotland have spoken in a referendum and voted overwhelmingly for pro-EU parties in last year's election. Their will is clear. That is why we will continue to align with the European Union where it is possible for Scotland to do so under the devolution settlement. We won't stand by while the UK Government is intent on a race to the bottom. The policy statement we are considering today is largely about the how. Our intention is to align where possible by subject-specific powers or primary legislation where necessary. For example, we use regulations under powers in the environmental protection act to ban single-use plastics in June, a move proposed and scrutinised by this Parliament as you would expect. Where powers are not available or would not allow us to align effectively, we will consider the use of the continuity act power. The transparency of decision making by Scottish ministers is of the utmost importance. We will report annually where the continuity act power has been used, where use has been considered and where use is planned. Our policy statement reflects this, as well as setting out how we will meet other considerations required by the act. How we will decide on the power's use is described, reaffirming our commitment to engage with relevant stakeholders just as we do with other legislation. We take transparency very seriously and our approach goes further than required for other legislation as we will lay statements specific to the measuring question so Parliament can scrutinise exactly why we believe we need to use the power. Following representations from the constitution and rain committees, we have been happy to offer additional information to support transparency. We will provide an annual forward look that will reflect on the European Commission's legislative programme, setting out where the Scottish Government expects to prioritise alignment and where that might not be possible. We have offered to provide information appended to all relevant legislative policy notes and consultations. This goes beyond the requirements of the continuity act. When the information required for other legislation, this will allow Parliament to fulfil its duty of meaningful effective scrutiny of the executive. The Opposition motion is simply an attempt to distract from their party's calamitous Brexit and on-going efforts to undermine Scotland's retained EU law and the devolution settlement. Our commitment to Europe remains steadfast, as is our commitment to transparency to this Parliament. I would advise the Opposition to reflect on that in considering today's motion. Yesterday, the Scottish Conservatives requested that this Thursday's census statement be extended to one hour due to the vital importance of the subject and the extraordinary interest from members to ask questions on the census and its shambolic handling. It is worth bearing in mind that, in a 30-minute statement, we would have only 20 minutes to ask the cabinet secretary questions. Later that day, the minister for parliamentary business appeared to agree with our request when he shared with the bureau his Government's programme for the next few weeks, including a one-hour slot for the statement. Finally, I thought that the Scottish Government is moving towards welcoming transparency and scrutiny.  It turns out that the one-hour slot was just in fact a typo from Mr Adam, and he does intend to keep the statement to only 30 minutes. There is no escaping the fact that the political decisions of the Scottish Government on the handling of the census could have far-reaching, damaging consequences for Scotland. My amendment would extend the day's business, allowing the statement to run for one hour to accommodate as many members of the Scottish Parliament who wish to ask questions on this very serious issue. I genuinely hope that the SNP members will support my amendment. If not, I hope that Mr Adam will at the very least apologise to members of my party and possibly others who were informed that they might have an opportunity to ask questions on behalf of their constituents but who may not now be afforded the chance to do so. Therefore, Presiding Officer, I move the amendment in my name. I call on George Adam to respond on behalf of the parliamentary bureau. Thank you, Presiding Officer. Meanwhile, back in the real world, earlier today we discussed the statement at the bureau, and I stand by the discussion that we had then, Presiding Officer. Once again, I move business as agreed at today's bureau. The question is that amendment 4833.1, in the name of Stephen Kerr, which seeks to amend motion 4833, in the name of George Adam, on changes to the business programme, be agreed. Are we all agreed? No. The Parliament is not agreed, therefore we will move to vote and there will be a short suspension to allow members to access the digital voting system.


Hey everyone, Lee Lowell here, smartoptionsello.com. Today's Saturday, September 3rd, 2022. We're back for another Saturday synopsis. Why are you here? Why are you watching me on a Saturday? Well, I'm here to make your life a little bit better, to make you a better trader, to let you see what I've been doing for the last 30 years and show you some of the stuff that helps me get into and out of trades. I'm a technical analyst, chart reader. That's what I do. So I'm here to help you look at charts, maybe in a different way, show you what I'm seeing, and just help you become a better trader in general, specifically an options trader. I get lots of questions from people that ask me, Lee, how do I trade options better? And I think one of the things that a lot of these new traders seem to forget is that options are a derivative product and their value is derived, what Pence White's called, a derivative product from some other source. And that other source is the stock in which you're trading the options on. You can't just trade options in a vacuum by themselves and just think, I'm just gonna buy options and sell them for a profit. Their value is based on something else. So if you're trading stock options, you need to understand what that stock is all about and how you think or where you think that stock's going to move to within a certain period of time. And if you have no idea how to read stock charts or how to figure out which way a stock might move, then you have no business whatsoever trying to trade options. Call options, put options, whatever, spreads, whatever you wanna trade.  So the reason why I make these videos every week is to give you an idea on how to potentially read charts or give you an idea on how to look at charts and how to look at stock prices and see which way they may be headed. That way you'll have a leg up in the options market to buy or sell certain options contracts more profitably. So that's why I'm here. I'm here to help you become a more profitable and smarter trader, give you some education, something that some things that I've learned over the last 30 years. So that's why I'm here every Saturday trying to up your knowledge game on the options trading and stock trading business, all right? So what we do is here every Saturday, we look at the charts and we look at specific individual stocks, we look at the indexes to see where the market's been over the last couple of weeks or so and where we think it might be heading. There's no guarantees in trading. Nothing's 100% right and you just have to make more educated high probability guesses on what you think the market's gonna do. And one reason why I'm such a big proponent on option selling strategies is because when you sell an option, you give yourself a lot more room for error, lot more room for directional error. And what do I mean by that? I mean that if you think a stock's going to go up and it goes down instead, well, if you sell certain options strategies, if you sell, let's say a put option or you sell a call option, that gives you room for your directional assessment. If the stock goes in the wrong way, you can still actually make money by using option selling techniques. That's something that some people don't understand because most people tend to buy options. They either buy put options or they buy call options. And the only way to make money by buying options is that the stock has to move in the certain direction in a certain amount of time in order for that option trade to be profitable. On the flip side, option selling, if you sell a put option or you sell a call option, the stock doesn't always need to move in the direction that you thought it was going to move in order for that option trade to be profitable. I think that's something that a lot of people don't understand. So that's why I'm such a big proponent of option selling. And so before we get started in looking at the charts, let me just bring up my website here, smartoptionseller.com. And just tell you about put selling basics. Put selling basics is a strategy. Selling put options that we call it put selling that I've been doing for basically the last 30 years. That has been my go-to. My strategy has made me lots of money over the years. And that's what we do in our newsletters. We have a put selling newsletter and we have a put selling spreads newsletter that we don't have to be right on the direction of the stock all the time in order to be profitable. And that's such a great way to make money in the options market. And we're not here to always guess where our stock's gonna be at a certain time. We're here to guess pretty much where our stock's not going to be at a certain time. It's a much different mindset. We're trying to figure out where our stock isn't going to go versus where it is going to go. And when you figure out where it's not going to go, you have a much higher probability of profit. So go to our website, put selling basics. This is the basis for our whole system. It's all about how to sell put options. Put your name and email address in here and we'll send you an email. And in that email, there'll be a link to download the report that I wrote or the e-book that I wrote. So selling options is what we're all about. Let's get back to the charts here. And so it's all about chart reading. It's what we call the Saturday Synopsis. So every Saturday go over some charts and try to help you understand what I'm seeing and why I would be getting into or out of trades, all right? So what you're seeing on the screen in front of you is the charts that I use. This is the SPY, the exchange traded front for the SP500. It's the best barometer I believe of the overall market as a whole. And I look at a daily chart. I'm not an intraday trader. I'm not a swing trader. I'm not somebody who's in and out of the market a thousand times during the day trading one minute charts. That's just not what I do. We look at longer time frames in our newsletters. We're a couple months for each trade. It gives the market a chance or that gives the stock the chance to move in the direction that we think it's going to move. If you're trading minute by minute, the market's just too random. It's really hard to figure out how to make money on a consistent basis, minute to minute.  It's taxing emotionally. It's a lot of people coming into this business thinking I'm just gonna make money. I'm gonna buy and sell stocks and options all day long. It's a hard gig.  It's tiring watching charts all day long, especially one-minute charts. What do I mean by one-minute charts? Well, this is a daily chart. Each one of these lines here is one day's worth of trading. If you click on the one-minute chart, that's the lowest time frame that you can look at for a stock or index. Each one of these little bars is one minute's worth of trading, okay? So this is random.  So we like to take a longer time frame. This is the daily chart going back. This is two years of history just on my chart here. And so I try to keep it simple. The few things that I use to help me gauge where a stock might be headed is I use three moving averages. I got a 50-day, 20-day, and 200-day, all simple moving averages. Some people like to use exponential moving averages. I use simple. And down here is the RSI. It's an overbought, oversold indicator. And there's so many indicators. There's hundreds of indicators out there that you can try and tweak and use to see what will help you follow the price action, which way the market's headed. And over the years, I've found three moving averages and the RSI pretty much gives me a good gauge of where the market's going, all right? So we look back, we draw these channels here to help us just see visually which way the market is headed. And when the market moves in another direction, we draw a channel in the other direction. And there's also head and shoulders patterns. There's support and resistance. There's the W patterns. There's bull flags, bear flags, congestion patterns. There's all these things that typically can help you find the way that stock might be headed in the future. And I'll show you some certain patterns. But mostly these channels help us understand which way the market is currently moving, all right? So we're looking at the SPY here. And if you've been with us for a while, you've known that since January 2022, the market's just been in this downtrend. Middle of June, we got a little reprieve. It had this uptrend. You can see the channels that I've drawn up channel here. And now since just basically the middle of August, we've hit a brick wall and the market's been selling off. Also Jerome Powell, the US Federal Reserve Chairman gave a speech last week that a lot of people didn't like. He said the Fed's gonna be more aggressive, keep raising interest rates to bring inflation down. Inflation's really high all around the world. And the best tool that the Fed has to combat that inflation is to raise interest rates. And that's typically not a good thing for stocks. Stock market doesn't like when interest rates go higher. Why? Because people can pull their money out of stocks and start putting their money into fixed income securities, bonds, CDs, treasuries, whatever, because interest rates on those fixed income items are going higher, you get a better return on your money. Plus it makes it harder for companies to borrow money. Higher interest rates means higher borrowing costs. So you get a lot of these tech companies, startup companies that need to borrow money, they're first few years out. And the higher interest rates, the more money they're gonna pay on those loans. So that's another reason why stocks will go down in a higher interest rate environment. So right here, middle of August, we hit the 200 day moving average. Plus this is the price action came upon the top edge of this uptrending channel as well. Hit a brick wall and started to sell off. Last Saturday here, I was hoping that the market would come down and find some support at the bottom edge of this channel here and then pop up again. That obviously didn't happen. We've had a big flush down this week. Thursday and Friday, had a little bit of a bounce but then it came up upon the 50 day moving average right here and it got knocked down, kind of closed near the low of the day yesterday. So we don't like to see that. But obviously, the market, let the market show you what it wants to do. I thought last Friday, last Saturday when I made this video, here's where we ended, I thought we would bounce and come back up through and go higher. Didn't happen. The market had other ideas and wants to go down. So what we can do is you can sort of draw a new deep descending channel here, okay? That just kind of gives you a gauge of where the market's headed. The other thing you can see here and I wrote about to my newsletter readers, this is the SPY. We had the 390 level, which is right around here was a area of support and resistance to prior moves. You can see right around here in this area, the 390 held up decently, came through it and then on the way up, it had some resistance here as well, got knocked the market back down and then probably the middle of July, it blasted through, came back one more time to test it and then started to go up. So now on its way back down, 390 could be the support area for next week. Okay, so maybe we can see a bounce here at the 390 level. Now, for some of you who are Fibonacci people, Fibonacci is just another way to gauge where a market might find some support and resistance. A 50% move or a 50% retracement of a last major move is also a support area. Now, we can also draw some Fibonacci levels here. Where's my Fibonacci numbers here? So we can do a Fib retracement. You go from the recent low to the high and then you'll see where the 50% mark is. So here is the low, we pull it up to the high of this move and roughly right around there. So Fibonacci will tell you where a market might retrace to. So this whole move from low to high, this move right here, usually on a pullback, it'll maybe find some support at the 50% retracement. And then the next level is the 618. Okay, so the 50% retracement was right around 396.77. Thought there could be some support there. The next level is the 618 retracement. The 61.8% retracement is right around 388.5 or so on the SPY. So the next level of support could be right around 388 and change, we'll see, I have the 390 level in here of the prior support and resistance. So I think next week's gonna be a telltale sign. Will it find support at either 390 or 388 roughly, the Fibonacci yet to be seen. We have to see what plays out next week. And if it does find support, then maybe it'll bounce and get up to 388. Get out of this downtrending channel and start on its next leg higher. You know, as I said, in the short term, anything could happen. We've got Jerome Powell's news last week, the speech that he gave really kind of shook the market up a little bit. He says the Fed's gonna keep raising interest rates and the market didn't like that. But there's a point where the market will find some equilibrium and say, okay, we know interest rates are gonna go up, let's prepare for it and we can start to buy stocks again in the long run, in the long run, months and months, years and years, we know that the stock market goes up over time. So you just have to be patient, figure out when the market's gonna turn. So let's get rid of the Fibonacci here. And so for me, next week, I'm looking at the 390 level as possible support, maybe that Fibonacci 618 retracement level and then maybe a bounce. But for the next bulls, we have to have the market move up and outside of now this new downtrending channel and hopefully bounce off 390. We'll see, there's no guarantees. So we watch and wait, in our newsletters where we sell put options and sell put option credit spreads, those are more bullishly oriented trades. So as I've been saying, if you've been watching these videos, we've been a bit on the lighter side of taking new positions because the market is showing us it's going down, it wants to go down. And even on this up move, we took a few positions, but we have a lot of cushion for directional error, okay? That's the great thing about selling put options is that you can give yourself lots of cushion. You know, when we sell put options, we sell out of the money strikes. Some of that might not mean anything to some of you yet, if you don't know. But you know, we sell strike prices down here well below where the market's trading to give us more cushion for error. And we wait to see what happens. So that's the SPY, that's S&P 500, looking for maybe 390 support next week. If that breaks through, then it still has some more area to fall to. 360 or low 360s is the last level here, the last down move in the middle of June. That would be the next possible area of support. But I'm hoping I'm bullish for the long run. I'd like to see the market go higher, but you have to take what the market gives you and it's telling you it's still got some bears left in it. Okay, so let's look at the NASDAQ represented by the triple Qs. Same thing. We can draw the visual, here's your new channel. Okay, you try to connect some tops, try to connect some bottoms of the bars. That's how you draw a new channel. It doesn't have to be exact. Just to give you a visual, you can see the inverted V. Okay, just to show you, Apple had the, this is the regular V. Okay, that's called the V shape bounce. So the Qs has an SPY as well, has the inverted V moving down. Okay, so on the Qs, is there any support where we can see, it's not, the 280 level could be some area of support possibly got through it a little bit here. So, but the next leg down would be shooting for this right around 270 is the last low, the last swing low here. And, you know, we'll see, but we need to see the market come up and outside of the downtrending channel before we feel better about things. Now, this was the last period where it was down in this downtrend and then we had the up move. So it had the up channel here. So a market's gonna stay in one direction until something comes along and pushes it in the other direction. You know, this one, Powell scared everybody out. So that sort of helped this new channel form. What's gonna be the next thing to push it higher? In the long run, companies, as long as they keep producing profitable products and having profitable quarters, every quarter earnings announcements comes out, as long as companies mostly beat analyst expectations and are profitable in general, in the long run, those stock prices have to go higher. In these short runs, you know, the market could do anything and the market reacts to a lot of news. So you have to take what the market gives. Don't try to force your opinions on the market because you'll end up losing. You can't fight the market. Let it tell you what it wants to do. Let's look at the Dow Jones. Same thing, big move down the last week and the last two weeks, roughly. So, you know, the markets are back in this bear mode. And until something comes along and says, okay, we're done, it's time to start buying, then the market will go back up. So you have to play on the defensive a little bit.  And I buy a lot of, you know, S&P, the SPY, that's my go-to. I buy shares of the SPY and nibble on the way down, hoping, not hoping, knowing that in the long run, the market will go back up again. You know, people think when the market goes down, that's the end of the world. Every company's going out of business. There's no reason to buy stocks anymore. That's not how it works.   Now, if you want to get a whole smattering of all them, that's why the SPY can be a great form of investment in the long run. And that's what I do. And then I look for individual stocks as well, which is what we want to do right now. Let's take a look again at Apple. You know, we look at some of the more popular stocks because that's what people like to trade. So we look at those charts here. Apple had the nice V shape bounce, okay? And just like everything else in the last week or two, it's come back down. It has a new downward channel. When will the channel end? The channel ends when it ends, when the market tells you it's over. So don't try to fight the market. You know, if you want to buy Apple, maybe nibble on the way down, but you can wait for certain price points. Right here, this is the 50 day moving average, this line right here. And you know, maybe Apple will find some support on the 50 day moving average, but it all depends on how the general overall market is doing as well. Individual stocks tend to follow the overall market because on a daily basis, there's not a lot of news out each day for individual stocks. So they tend to follow where the indexes are going. So if the index is going down, the individual stocks will go down as well. If the indexes find some support and trade higher, then the individual stocks will trade higher as well outside of their earnings announcement numbers. Okay, so you know, Apple's on the way down a little bit too. Maybe find some support here. Let's look at Tesla. You know, these are the charts, stocks that are popular and stocks that I get lots of emails about. Tesla, these are the congestion patterns that I had talked about. They start to form this triangle like this, the ranges get tighter and tighter, and then they blast out one side or the other, blast it out to the upside here. Now we got another congestion pattern came to the downside. Here's the 50 day moving average right here. So Tesla, same with Apple, maybe finding some support on the 50 day moving average. These are important numbers, the 50 day moving average, 20 day, 200 day, because everyone follows them. So things sort of become a self-fulfilling prophecy in the long run, that everyone's watching the same thing. If it finds support, people think, okay, it's time to buy, and if everyone's buying at the same time, then the stocks have to go up. So these are important numbers to watch, okay? So Tesla, maybe finding some support on the 50 day moving average here. Amazon also, 50 day moving average right here. So a lot of stocks seem to be falling down to the 50 day moving average. Maybe we find some support and start the next leg higher. Amazon had this nice support at $100 per share and moved up nicely. Now it has a little pullback. You can see, had the resistance right at the 200 day moving average, just like the overall market did. Market ebbs and flows, ebbs and flows. But over the long run, let's look at Amazon's long run chart. This is a monthly chart. So each line is one month's worth of trading, flat for a number of years, and then just rallied up. But it's having a nice pullback here. $100 level could be the area of support. You can see over the longer term, there was some congestion right around the $100 level. Will that be the ultimate support at this point? We'll see, okay, so far it's held. Let's look at some other stocks. GlaxoSmithKline is a stock I wanna show you. We've sold some put options on it, still have some cushion below. I mean, it's just been going down. But the reason why I like it here is because look how oversold it is. I got into some shares just yesterday, told my newsletter readers, I'm buying. I'm buying some shares down here just because it's so stretched, so oversold that a bounce is really the next thing that should happen. Whether it's gonna go all the way back up to the 40s, that I don't know about. But I do know that when it gets really stretched like this, there's a bounce that's imminent. Now you can scalp that, buy some here, and then sell it if it maybe jumps a couple dollars a share, and that could be your trade. But do you want in Glaxo for the long run? I'm bullish on healthcare. Healthcare stocks, I know. Pharmaceutical, healthcare stocks. Companies that have been around a long time, they make lots of products. And the reason why it's come off recently is because one of their new drugs that they've been working on didn't do so well in the next phase trial. But it's not the only drug in their toolbox. They have a ton of other drugs that they sell. So it's not, one thing's not gonna bring them down. Way oversold, so I got in some shares here hoping for a rebound. But we also sold some put options on it, and we still have, you know, directional, I mean cushion for directional error. And the thing about put selling is that you can, you're looking to potentially buy these stocks much cheaper than we're currently trades. Now if we look at Glaxo Smith Klein on the long run, it's been sort of, you know, flat-ish. But there's a point where it won't, shouldn't be, there's a point where it shouldn't be falling below. And I'm taking a stab at that. And that's just me, but you know, there's risks in investing. And I'm taking a calculated risk here to buying some shares of a company that's very oversold. But the rest of the healthcare sector, Johnson & Johnson, and let's look at the long run for a lot of these stocks, Johnson & Johnson going up, Merck going up, Pfizer going up. We also have another play on Bristol Myers, BMY going up. That's the monthly, the daily, Bristol Myers had a gap down. So we sold some put options down here, bullish trade, and Bristol Myers has moved up. So our position's already making some money for us, which is good. You know, the GlaxoSmithKline just got too oversold for me. Taking a stab, oversold on the RSI. 20 is my level on the RSI oversold. It got below that, got down to 17 and change on the level. That's pretty oversold to me. Will it bounce in the next week all the way back at the 40? Probably not, but it'll bounce a little bit. Maybe I'll take some profits and sell out, we'll see.  Let's see what other stocks we have. Let's talk about the chip sector, AMD, NVIDIA. The chip sector's been getting hit pretty hard, basically since the beginning of the year. A lot harder than I thought it would be. These companies, AMD, NVIDIA, Micron, they make chips for computers, which we all know computers are not going away. They're getting faster and faster. And these are the companies that are making the chips. And so it's a little surprising how hard they've been getting hit. Now, I love AMD as far as the chip sector. I like it better than Intel. I'll show you Intel chart. But we've sold some put spreads, not naked puts, but put spreads, which are also bullish on AMD. But the AMD price has just kind of gone into this waterfall, which I don't really like. Right around $80 a share. It was in the downtrending channel, popped out of the channel, had the congestion pattern, but broke down to the downside, along with every other stock in the market, pretty much. So AMD, unfortunately, it's still going down. I like to see it pop. NVIDIA, same thing. It's a lot more expensive. NVIDIA's got this support. Right in the low 130s here, I must have drawn this line sometime in the recent past. You know, we want to see these stocks bounce, but you can see the downtrend that it's been in. Intel used to be the winner, not so much anymore. It's lost its superiority to AMD and some of these other chip stocks. But you can see Intel just been going down since early 2021. Let's look at the monthly for Intel.  But here, right on the 200-month moving average, okay, every chart you look at, it's called the 200-period moving average. And this is the monthly chart. So it's a 200-month moving average, falling through support Intel on the monthly. Let's look at AMD on the monthly. AMD had been going up. It looks like it had a W pattern back here at some point. Went up to 116 change, pulled back, it's lost half its value. Hopefully we can find some support here. So, but you know, the chip sector, I'm bullish on. Unfortunately, it's just pulling back right now. What other stocks do we have? We look at Disney. We look at name brands, stalwarts, been around a long time. Disney, probably finding some support here. Finally, pulled back just like every other stock. Here's the 50-day down here. Hopefully we'll find some support, but it all depends on how the general market's doing. What other stocks we'd like to look at? Nike, Nike's, you know, having a rough time as well, but we know everyone knows the product. A lot of these charts look pretty ugly, you know, especially when it's coming down. Get lots of fits and starts bouncing up and down. Had the uptrending channel, but now it's coming down. Fell through the support right here. So Nike, probably stay away from it for right now until it starts to get its mojo back. What else do we like to look at? Coca-Cola, another one of my favorites. Right on the 200-day moving average here. So it's fallen below it, needs to get on its horse here and start to move up. Had this big, wide congestion pattern right here. Popped above it a little bit, but now it's popped down below and sitting right on the 200-day support. You know, if you love Coca-Cola for the long run, you know, it's not, it's a great company. Look at it. Just moves up nicely. So, you know, if you wanna take a little stab, I bought some shares recently on the support of the 200-day moving average. Hoping that'll hold, but, you know, you can sell some put options as well. Down here, if you want. Just gives you some cushion for directional error. You wanna hold Coke for the long run and hope to get put the shares, meaning you have to buy shares, pick a price on the chart that you'd be comfortable buying the shares. Read the put-selling basics guide. It'll tell you all about it. What happens? How do you sell put options? You know, what's involved with selling put options? It's a great guide. And so, right here, 200-day moving average for Coca-Cola. Pepsi, also another stalwart. Moving up nicely as well. Here's the 200-day moving average right here. This long one right here. Coming down to the 200-day, had a little pullback. But you can see, bottom right, bottom left to top right. That's the way you wanna see a chart moving, okay? And if you, if a chart over the long run goes from bottom left to top right, you know, it's probably a pretty good company. Pepsi, Coke, you know, you can't go wrong. These are great dividend-paying companies as well. So over the years, you're gonna get dividends. Reinvest those dividends, your dividends will be even bigger. You'll be able to buy even more shares. Reinvesting your dividends is a great way to increase your stake in a company over time without even realizing it.  The more shares you own means you can buy more shares when they get, when you get that dividend. Instead of taking the dividend as cash and just spending it on something, reinvest those dividends. So your shares get bigger and bigger over time. Okay, let's see what other stocks. Kellogg and General, we'll look at the other one here in a second. This is Kellogg, I'm sorry. Kellogg's been going up nicely and it's partner in crime. General Mills been going up pretty well too. So you look at companies that provide us with the things we need on a daily basis. Kellogg's and General Mills make lots of food products. Procter and Gamble PG makes products that we use. It's been in sort of a downtrend, but over time, let's look at the P&G chart over time. Bottom left to top right. We can look at Clorox cleaning products. Hasn't done that great over the last two years or so. Let's look at the long-term chart. But in the long-term, been looking good. It just COVID, it just came back down. Let's look at Colgate, bottom left to top right. Colgate doing well over the long run, but you can see in the last two years kind of sideways action. You have to look at the stocks and look at the profitability and hold for the long run. In the long run stocks will reward you. That's just basically the idea of long-term investing. Netflix, let's look at some others. Netflix, been finding some support at this level that I drew recently, probably around $225 a share, $220 somewhere in there. It still has a lot of gaps to fill, but maybe it found some support here. What other stocks? Cisco recently took a play on Cisco, put sell with directional cushion. Had good earnings here. That's why we had the gap here. And then it pulled back. The post earnings announcement drip got in right around here, but it still fell with the rest of the market. We make high probability trades and hope that the market goes in our favor. And when the market has other ideas, we have the cushion to protect us when markets don't go our way. So that's a great thing about put selling is that you have the cushion, all right? That's why we love to do it. What else do we have? Verizon, talk about Verizon every week, still going down, still going down. Let's look at the long-term chart for Verizon. Got through the 200 month moving average. You know, the next line in the sand could be this bar right here, which would be around $37.5, $38. And then the next support probably right around $35. How far will Verizon fall? I'm not getting in yet because the market's telling me don't get in yet. AT&T, the other big carrier, wireless carrier, still down. You know, I like Verizon much better than AT&T as far as an investment. AT&T pays a great dividend, but if the stock price is going down, that's gonna offset the dividends. So nothing yet in the telecom sector for me. PayPal and Square we'll look at. Maybe starting to find a bottom here. Had the big, big move down, gave up a lot of pricing. And so it's been hovering between $70 and $100 in this range here. Has it found a bottom? Maybe. 50-day moving average here, 200-day lurking above. So it's kind of captured in this range here. So PayPal, you know, we've played it in the past, but nothing for us right now. Costco, another great company. McDonald's, doing well. Let's look at Warren Buffett. I'll show you something else you can look at as well. Warren Buffett coming down since basically April had been going up since the beginning of the year where everything else was going down, but hit the wall in early end of March, early April, came down, had the uptrend channel, and now got hit recently like everything else. But you can't hold Warren Buffett down for long. Guy's worth a lot of money. He knows how to buy stocks properly. Something a lot of people might not know, Warren Buffett also sells put options. He sells put options. If he's selling them, we should be selling them too. He's doing them on a much larger scale than we are, but he does sell put options. Let me show you something else on our website. You go to the More tab up here, click on the shop link, and we have the report that I wrote, the secret to buying Warren Buffett for pennies on the dollar, not free, small price, but it entails another options trading strategy, something different than what I've been talking about here, a way to piggyback Warren Buffett for a lot less money out of pocket. So if you're interested, take a look at that back to the charts. So Warren Buffett getting hit just like everything else, but in the long run, if you wanna follow Warren Buffett, his Berkshire class B shares trades just like an ETF, you can buy and sell at will. You can follow him for the long run. Why not get on board? What else, Twitter, nothing happening there. Elon Musk trying to get out of the deal. We know some bad things have been happening with Twitter. Got whistleblowers and things happening. Facebook still stuck in the channel. Still stuck in the channel, not doing much. What else, IBM, kind of range bound. I wanna show you stocks where I can give you examples of good buying opportunities or just really seeing things on the chart that can help you say, oh yeah, I see it now. Yep, I'm staying out until the market tells me otherwise. And for right now, it's either a lot of sideways action, downwards action, things are reacting to the news. So being in cash is a position. Don't worry about being in cash. If the market's telling you to stay out, don't buy or you're confused, you're not sure where the market's going, then you stay out. You don't have to be in the market all the time. Now with interest rates rising, banks are paying more. Not the big commercial banks. I'm talking these online banks where you can only do your transactions online. There's no physical branches to walk into. These online banks could pay a lot more interest. So banks are paying over 2% now on your cash in those banks. Money market accounts, 2%. Haven't seen 2% return on your money interest in a bank in a long time. So I've opened up new online bank accounts to take advantage of some of that interest, those higher interest rates. And these are all FDIC insured banks. So take a look. That's one of the good things about interest rates going higher is that your cash money will get paid a little bit better. So use your resources. You know, make sure your money's working smarter for you. All right, so that's it for this. That's it for the synopsis for Saturday. Let's take one last look at the SPY for next week. We've got the V pattern. Maybe 390 will hold here. We'll have to see how the market, we're closed on Monday for the holiday. So Tuesday, when the market opens up, we'll see if it either comes down through or maybe finds a little bounce here. But we could be in this range here for a little bit in between the sideways channel here. But you know, long run, I'm hoping or wanting the market to go back up. It will. You gotta be patient. If you're trading day to day, minute to minute, that's a hard gig. All right, that's all for the Saturday Synopsis. I hope this video has been helpful to you. I've given you some education. Please give me a thumbs up. Like this video on the YouTube. Don't forget to subscribe. Leave me a comment. I look at the comments. I respond to the comments. Send me an email. I respond to the emails. I'm trying to help everyone out here. Become smarter and more profitable traders. All right, that's all for me. I will see everyone next week. Have a great weekend. Don't forget, got the Buckeyes tonight, playing Notre Dame, hoping for a good game here. All right, this is Lee Lowell signing off.


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Good morning, good afternoon and good evening from wherever you are joining in to see this World Economic Forum Sustainable Development Impact Summit session on Uplink, scaling local innovation for sustainable development. My name is Dominic Waray, I'm a managing director at the World Economic Forum and it is my pleasure and privilege to emcee us through the first part of this session which is a panel discussion. We've got a super group lined up for you and we're thrilled to be joined on my left by Professor Klaus Schwab, who is the founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, by Simon McCulhey, who's the chief innovation officer of Salesforce, by Michelle Parmalie, the deputy global chief executive officer and the global chief people and purpose officer of Deloitte, USA Deloitte, and Nicole Bishop, who is the founder and CEO of Quartolio, an uplink innovator. We'll be talking in particular about the importance of innovation in achieving the sustainable development goals and in particular to introduce you to an innovation accelerator called Uplink, which Salesforce, Deloitte and the World Economic Forum have been collaborating on. Uplink was announced this time last year in the SDG action zone at the UN headquarters and launched at the annual meeting in Davos in January 2020. In this panel we'll learn a little bit more about Uplink and the impact it has had since then, in particular in relation to the COVID-19 response, forests and the ocean. So I'm delighted to welcome you all, a global audience streaming this session live through our platforms and also our audience joining us through Toplink. I must tell you as well that there is more on Uplink tomorrow. We will be holding an Uplink session tomorrow afternoon, Geneva time, to select the winners of our trillion trees challenge where you'll be able to help us choose the People's Choice Award through online voting. You can find more details at uplink.weffforum.org. So with no further ado, let's get started. Professor Klaus Schwab, founder, executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, perhaps you can kick us off. You've been a digital pioneer and a champion for entrepreneurialism in the global interest for many years. Uplink seems to bring these two ideas together, especially in relation to meeting the SDGs. Could you tell us a little bit more? Thank you very much and welcome to all of you. I'm very proud that so many people joined us for this important session. It's right just a year ago we actually inaugurated it. We started Uplink by signing a strategic cooperation framework agreement with the United Nations. And one of the issues which came up is how can we perform, which is a multi-stakeholder organization, but how can we engage all those entrepreneurial talents around the world behind the SDGs? How can we create a digital platform which allows those young people, those entrepreneurial, innovative people, really to contribute with solutions to the big issues which we have in our world today. So we developed the platform and I would like to thank our partners, which made it possible. Salesforce and Deloitte represented here by Simon Malkai and Michel Parmoli. Great thank you because without you this platform would not exist. I also want to thank John Dutton and his team in the forum who worked very hard not only to get the technology right but also to fill the platform with life. And I'm very proud of what we have achieved in a relatively short time. I suppose that Dr. Goodell will join us later, I hope so. But in any case, preparing for this session, I have found the quote of her which I think is very characteristic for how we developed uplink. We will only attain the great potential Jesus of the great reset when head and heart work in harmony. So let's take our heads and our hearts during the next 60 minutes and apply it to the further success of uplink. Back to you Dominic. Thank you so much Professor Schwab and this vision that has been turned into reality over the past several months has truly been quite astonishing. It's evolved from an aspirational idea uplink to a live digital platform with nearly 4,000 entrepreneurs, change makers, experts and investors, already over 500 solutions to the proposing innovative approaches to ocean, reforestation and COVID-19 challenges related to the SDGs. And in fact the social posts from uplink have been seen by nearly 30 million people around the world and have created a real pathway for engaging with the forum's mission. So we're very, very excited about the impact that has been created already. I think it's early days. We are starting to see some of the outcomes advancing, but perhaps Simon Mackay, together with your founder and CEO at Salesforce, Mark Benioff, you guys have been a champion of uplink and its vision since the origin of the concept. And Salesforce of course has such a massive network of customers and corporate engagement and drives for purpose and a desire for the impact on the sustainable development goals, like the ocean, like the trillion trees initiative, like on COVID, like on social justice and reskilling among many other areas. Perhaps you could explain what drives the involvement of Salesforce and uplink for you on these sorts of issues. Simon, over to you. Thanks Tonic. Well at Salesforce we believe strongly that business is the greatest platform for change and we really view the environment as one of our key stakeholders. And you can just see this over COVID-19, which has really magnified the whole issue of climate change. On the one hand you've got hundreds of millions, if not billions of people who are staying at home. And that's really given the planet a breather, including here in San Francisco. On the other hand though, we've really seen how global climate issues haven't subsided or slowed down. And we've got these astonishing weather swings in the Rocky Mountains, the most destructive wildfire season ever, at least by acreage on the west coast of the U.S. And so many hurricanes on the east coast that we're running out of names in the English language. Climate change is not a potential challenge, not just a potential challenge for future generations. It's real. It's a real pressing threat for our businesses, our economies, in the near term. And I think global damage from 2.7 degrees of warming is estimated to be $54 trillion. So now, more than ever, we need innovative solutions that are driven by partnerships. And our ability to scale innovation will therefore require unprecedented coordination and communication across the globe. An uplink, thanks to the incredible vision of Professor Schwab and the leadership Dominic Avue and John Dutton provides the framework to make that happen, connect incredible entrepreneurs with the capital, regulatory power and know how that they need. And it's urgent. We're never tipping points and whether the impacts of climate change are going to be irreversible. Simon, thank you for that and for reminding us about the urgency of the context in which we face things. And you mentioned entrepreneurs and how one can bring them together through a digital platform of uplink. Let's turn to one which has been engaged through uplink and is an uplink innovator, Nicole Bishop, founder and CEO of Quartolio. Nicole, perhaps you could chat to us a little bit about how you've been working on various issues out there in relation to some of the purpose driven outcomes that you seek and how you've experienced the uplink network. And what's your motivation for getting involved? Because I think it's quite interesting to hear if you like from those who've been experiencing the platform for others who are listening and such. Nicole? Absolutely, thank you Dominic. I'd just like to say thank you to each of you for creating the platform. It's necessary avenue for entrepreneurs to have a space where we can connect and not only entrepreneurs in general, but those with a like mind focused on impacting the world. My own journey with Quartolio stems from a desire to connect the world's research. And so when we saw COVID, we wanted to essentially put our resources into analyzing the scientific articles, clinical trials, patents and everything that we could, all the different data sets and bring those together in order to bring insight to researchers sooner. And the uplink platform parallels that very much by essentially bringing together like minds and bringing those connections together. So we've been appreciative of the experience on uplink and look forward to connecting with like minded entrepreneurs, but also partners and potential investors as well. Nicole, thank you for that and congratulations on the great work that you are doing. I mean, when we conceived and started to design uplink, we didn't anticipate a world like we have today with the COVID pandemic and the other issues that it's revealed in terms of social justice challenges, the economic challenges. But Michelle Palmer Lee at Deloitte, I mean Deloitte and yourself in particular, you've been supporting uplink since it was conceived over a year ago. And Deloitte, you know, you're a hugely purpose driven company pushing hard on ESG issues and many other areas of purpose. So what excites you and the Deloitte leadership team about the sort of digital innovation interface, the innovation accelerators and the uplink platform for the SDGs? Michelle? No, it wasn't letting me unmute myself, but I'm here now. Who we are, Michelle? Thanks Dominic. If you have a chance to think about the question. I was doing some hand motions, unmute me. No, thanks for that question and that's right. I mean Deloitte is a purpose led organization. Our purpose is to make an impact that matters. We say make an impact on our clients, on our people, on the communities where we live and work. And our purpose recognizes that in times of uncertainty, society looks to business to lead the way. And so we believe we have a responsibility to respond and we want to be a force of good in this world, but we know we cannot do it alone. We know that solving the world's biggest challenges such as social inequality, joblessness, the climate crisis Simon spoke to that requires that we work across sectors, requires that we work across generations because it's when we combine our strengths that we can deliver the kind of end to end solutions that today's problems require. And Deloitte has collaborated with the World Economic Forum for more than 20 years, and we were honored to join it and Salesforce to support uplink. And we are proud to have contributed our technology expertise and our execution capabilities. And what we have built together is a one of a kind platform that connects SDG innovators and entrepreneurs, many of which are nontraditional contributors to other like minded groups like funders. And so uplink enables the collaboration, the connection that we believe is so fundamental to accelerating action towards the SDGs. And we believe that the impact that we are making, and we'll be able to make through uplink is not anything that Deloitte or any of us could achieve could have achieved on our own. Michelle, thank you very much. And thank you again for the collaboration and partnership. It's been truly extraordinary to be able to leverage all the fantastic assets and knowledge that Deloitte and Salesforce have to help people like Nicole and 4000 others get to a kind of global set of interactions which might not have been possible before. In that context, I think Dr Jane Goodall is now with us. Jane, are you there? I've actually been with you right from almost the beginning before Dr Schwab left. Fantastic. Well, it's good to see you and it's wonderful to have you with us. So thank you for joining us. Now you've been someone who everybody knows has been inspiring change for decades, especially in the environmental and reforestation agenda, and including in particular community led involvement to respond to the challenges that Simon and Michelle and Nicole were talking about. We were delighted in fact to launch with you, the trillion trees initiative back in Davos in January. So perhaps you could tell us all about the scale of the challenges you feel we face and how these new kinds of digital innovations which can connect together so many communities and individuals like uplink can help communities and others to mobilize, engage and innovate at scale. Dr Goodall. Well, first of all, I'm sorry that Schwab has left because I wanted to thank him so much for putting the environment up you know, high up in the priorities of the Economic World Forum in Davos this year. And that's really made a difference. And also, but jumping in to help support the trillion tree challenge. Well, about the uplink, the uplink program, nobody can do it these days by themselves. We face unprecedented crisis in the world today. First of all, there's the right now, the pandemic. And the tragedy is that this pandemic has been predicted. And in some extent, it's been caused by us because we've disrespected the natural world. We've disrespected animals. We've created environments which make it much easier for a pathogen to jump from an animal to a human where it may cause a new disease, a zoonotic disease as it's called, such as COVID-19. Unfortunately, COVID-19 was incredibly contagious and has raced around the world, causing so much havoc, so much suffering, so much economic chaos. But at the same time, all the time, we have been threatened by a much greater challenge. And that is climate change. And to a great extent, it's the same disrespect of the natural world that has led to this climate crisis, because this planet has finite natural resources. And we've been plundering them in many places faster than Mother Nature can restore them. And we have to realize that we are part of the natural world and we depend upon the natural world. And we have been destroying the natural world. We've been destroying the forests, trees that can absorb carbon dioxide. We've been polluting the ocean, the ocean that can also absorb carbon dioxide, and both forests and oceans give us the oxygen we need to breathe. We're in the midst of the sixth great extinction. We depend on healthy ecosystems and the healthy ecosystem depends on the biodiversity. And gradually we are poisoning the land with chemicals and as well as destroying forests and oceans, we're destroying so many other environments. And so both of these major crises that were in the midst of right now, but in particular climate crisis, which threatens the future of all life on the planet, including human existence, if we don't get together, we'll be emerged from the pandemic and join hands. And that's why linked up is so important, because we can't do it alone. We need everybody who cares about the future generations to link up and try and work out a new green economy that is less destructive of the environment upon which we depend. And somehow move into non-renewable. I mean, we need to move into some of these innovations of science, like solar wind and tide energy. Otherwise, for my grandchildren and theirs, the future is more than grim. It's very dark. We mustn't let that happen. We have a window of time which is closing and we need everybody who cares to get together and find solutions now. Dr. Jane Goodall, thank you for those very moving and profound words. I suppose if I could follow up, if I may, a question for you. I mean, over the time that you've spent working on these issues, I guess on the one hand, you've seen us not learn the lessons and humanity is destroying more and more of its natural resource base, not getting better, but perhaps getting worse. But at the same time, these incredible changes in technology and in the ability to connect together digitally and that ability to perhaps mobilize hundreds, if not thousands, if not millions across communities and networks. Does that offer hope, would you say, from all of your time and work on these issues? And if so, is that the sort of thing that Uplink can perhaps inspire to create the mobilization of the millions that we might need to solve this challenge? Yes, I think, you know, let me preface my remarks by saying there's three major challenges we have to overcome. And one is poverty, because while people are living in abject poverty, they're going to destroy the environment to grow food, to feed their family, fish the last fish for the same reason. By the cheapest junk food, they can't afford to say, did this harm the environment? We have to solve the problem of the unsustainable lifestyles of the rest of us. And we have to recognize that right now, there are 7.2 billion people on the planet, and already we're using up natural resources in some places, as I've said, faster the nature can restore them. In 2050, it's estimated there'll be nearly 10 billion of us. So what's going to happen? We cannot afford just to put that aside, because it's politically incorrect, we've got to think about it. So to come more directly to your question, when I flew over the tiny national Gombe Park, where I've been studying chimpanzees and my team since 1960, when I flew over in 1990, the tiny national park, which had been part of the great the great equatorial forest belt that stretched across Africa, was a tiny island of forest surrounded by completely bare hills. More people living there than the land could support to buy food from elsewhere over farmed land. And that's when it hit me, if we don't help these people find ways of making a living without destroying the environment, we can't save the chimps or anything else. And so we began a program involving the local people right from the start, called Take Care on Takari. And these 104 villages now involved in this program, where people are learning about agroforestry, about permaculture, about tree nurseries, about all the different ways that they can make a living without destroying the forest. One, they've understood that protecting the forest is protecting their own future, not just wildlife. And two, in all of these 104 villages, there are volunteers who've been to our workshops and learn to use smartphones. This is technology for you. And they go into the forest reserves in their villages, which is where most of the wild chimps and other animals are quite unprotected. And they monitor the health of the forest, they're very proud of their work. It gets uploaded into a platform on the clouds. And it's worked. So if you fly over Gombe today, you don't see those bare hills. The forest has come back. And we've got this program in six other African countries. And a major part of it is involved is scholarships to keep girls in school during and after puberty and empowering women by enabling to get small grants from microcredit programs based on the work of one of my heroes, Muhammad Yunus and the Grumine Bank. And this has made the villages in all of these seven countries our partners in conservation. It's all ready to be scaled up. And technology and our amazing brains, that's what can help us scale it up with satellite imagery, GIS, GPS, and of course, funding. Thank you so much. It's quite inspiring in terms of the potential, certainly that you've seen and you've experienced, have had the digital capability through smart phones and things can connect smaller communities and locally based activities into a much bigger mobilization, which is, as you say, the link upward, the uplink kind of core element of the platform. Perhaps Simon and Michelle, we can turn back to you because there's something very interesting, isn't there in here about the small scale entrepreneur or innovator community based initiative startup, but it's not small scale because lots and lots connected together is a massive change.  Maybe Simon, we could start with you first. Yeah, great question. Actually, there are so many phenomenal entrepreneurs and I know that I think tomorrow there's going to be a big focus on trees. So there's a couple there who are truly inspiring. So I won't talk about the trees ones coming up, but certainly the oceans and the deep dive on oceans. There was one that really blew me away and that was Recyclo. So the CEO is Shui Yaminu who founded Recyclo three years ago in Myanmar. And what they do is they focus on recycling and waste solutions in Southeast Asia. This is a part of the world where that technology and those services are scarce. And they basically target a region where they can really make a difference. And they're working hand in hand with companies operating in that region to institutionalize recycling and sustainability as a norm for doing business. And I also love actually that they're they're providing data analytics on the on the amount of waste that's recycled and the impact of on the carbon footprint. I think it's about 500 tons of waste that they're managing. And they've saved 1500 tons of CO2. And on top of that they've educated nearly a million people on the on the merits of proper recycling. So that's a really great example of what one small entrepreneur in Myanmar can do. Just think about all those others. It's a brilliant example Simon. We were delighted to find them when we kind of put out the ocean and waste challenge on uplink. I think that they came in on the plastic pollution solution set. And if I recall correctly you might remember that through a discussion like this we had a global range of stakeholders watching and literally quite soon after those entrepreneurs were put in contact with the city of Jakarta to see if what they were doing in Myanmar couldn't be replicated in Indonesia. And so the power of these connections and of course how it gets investors and others on the financing side interested can go exponential quite quickly as as Jane was saying. So it just sort of goes to show how small innovations if we can kind of find and connect together on a platform can actually start to change the game quite dramatically. Michelle are there any other particular innovators or entrepreneurs or or or or start to sort of caught your eye on the uplink platform. Sure. I'd like to highlight one that that that came through the COVID innovation sprint and specifically the idea was submitted by Hello Better and they're calm through the crisis campaign. This campaign provides people with free professional psychological support from a fully digital solution. And at Deloitte we recognize that one in four people experience poor mental health and our annual research of millennials and Gen Z's has shown that 48 percent reported being anxious or stressed all or most of the time and 44 percent ranked mental health as their first or second priority in life and half of those who took time off from work gave their employers a different reason than their true reason which was mental health. So at Deloitte we want all of our professionals to thrive. We know people are not at their best when they're experiencing poor mental health and so positively enhancing mental health of our people through an inclusive and supportive environment as a global strategic priority for us in COVID has only brought the urgency of mental health even more for the four to the forefront not just for us but for all employers and so let me come back to Hello Better and its solution and highlight two advantages which really which really struck me. The first is that it enables self-service so a person get assistance and information on their own and this is important because as I shared earlier people still face a stigma when it comes to mental ill health and second the information provided is evidence-based and this is important because there are a lot of tools and apps out there to enable mental health but an evidence-based approach meaning it's grounded in what works is really critical when it comes to effectiveness. So what I want to say to conclude is kudos to Hello Better right first for submitting an idea to our COVID challenge and specifically one that reminds us especially in these times that it's okay to be not okay and then second for providing a very valuable tool to aid people in order for them to get access to help. Michelle that's a brilliant brilliant example it's so exciting I mean for those who are listening in the way we sort of structure this and my colleague John I'm sure will talk more about it and you'll find more on the uplink website uplink.wefforum.org is we have sprints so for a short period of time six weeks or so maybe solutions to problems that people see in terms of the response to COVID or oceans issues we heard about plastic pollution or how to upscale massively the planting and restoration of trees and landscapes as Dr Jane Goodall was talking about and what's really exciting about that is through the global reach of uplink all sorts of smaller more purpose-driven initiatives or startups or ideas can be collated and people like Simon or Jane Goodall or Michelle or others from actually you know the wide range of networks that we're able to curate at the World Economic Forum and can find out can connect together can scale up and take things to an altogether new dimension of impact which is which is really quite exciting um to that extent Nicole coming back to you I mean you've sort of been part of this from the other side and I wonder from your perspective what sort of reflections you might have about how we might you know expand our networks or what people like yourselves who are engaged in that startup and innovation space are looking for from something like uplink Nicole over to you thanks Dominic well this is a great start the platform itself through what I've been able to learn about a number of different innovations as noted by Simon and these innovations have the power to be essentially amplify each other and by bringing us together we can assist essentially assist each other in in in in that way with say for instance with Cortoglio something that can connect the research that each innovation each of the innovators is is working on so the access to each other as well as part potential partners is something that's really vital for us to essentially scale up these these research these resources as well as access to additional data it's really important for with the advent of COVID for us to essentially get out there and get as much knowledge connected into the to the researchers as possible and uplink provides that opportunity by connecting us with partners as well as like-minded researchers and innovators that we can essentially bring that together and excuse me and and bring those innovations together and and leverage the platform in that way thanks Nicole I think that's that's excellent again and people like yourselves we would never have found through our kind of usual networks at the World Economic Forum so it's just a privilege and a pleasure to be able to make those connections and see what we can do to help scale up I have a favorite which I'm going to take prerogative to to talk about I'm a kind of a sort of oceans water person a little bit by background and we found this super outfit who also submitted through the uplink challenge called cubex global and these are is co-founded by a couple of young pakistani entrepreneurs who are part of our global shapers community I don't know if there's any global shapers who are tuning in and watching kudos to you Chappell but what they'd created was a digital marketplace for seafraith that maximizes the empty shipping container space because when shipping containers go on the ship it's not like they're always full so in fact you could be shipping big containers but only half full of stuff so if you can have a smarter digital marketplace to fill up the gaps between all those shipping containers a couple of things happen first of all it becomes a lot cheaper and more agile for you to ship things around the world and secondly it's a much more sustainable process for ocean transport because you've got less ships because you've filled up all the ships and all the containers full up and they've even run some numbers on how much greenhouse gas emissions would be reduced which are not insignificant and in fact having done that they're now going through their series a round of financing and having been connected to the forum shipping industry group and others so I just thought I'd get that one because that was my favorite we have we do these sprints we have juries and they all start to vote they're all very big experts and things and they start to vote on which ones they like I put that one forward as my one that the others voted for other things but I thought I'd use that to get my point across well done cubex so there we are see all our all our sponsors and champions have their favorites listen Dr Jane Goodall, Michelle Parmalay, Samim Khauhi and Nicole thank you so much for your time and being with us for this and thank you for your engagement with uplink if you are watching this and you're thinking hmm I reckon I've got a pretty good idea or two or I'm actually running a sort of small shop purpose driven I've got some entrepreneurial clout in me I've given you the site before uplink.weffforum.org get in touch get in touch to kind of put yourself forward in one of the sprints that we've got or generally become part of the community or indeed bring others who you know who are working in this space along because as we grow this network we're on 4000 could it be four million just imagine what that could do to triggering the change that we want to see across all of those SDGs and to finding a mobilization of bottom up grassroots solutions to some of the things that we've heard about on this discussion already. So I hope that gives you a flavor of uplink and again thank you to Nicole Bishop, Michelle Parmalay, Samim Khauhi and Professor Klaus Schwab a founder and executive chairman at the World W Forum, Jane Goodall of course what we're going to do now is play a little film to give you a little bit more of a feel for uplink and then from here on my colleague John Dutton who heads the uplink initiative will take forward the next part of the conversation. So for this segment thanks again to the panelists thank you for listening I hope it's got your juices going and you're already starting to submit your applications to join the uplink community and with that let us move to the film thank you very much indeed.