Did you just see that I swear to God that cup of coffee just moved. Oh, I guess I must be seeing things Wait a minute. Good evening prop hunt is one of the simplest joys that the internet has to offer Whether it's hopping on for a quick fun game with your friends or just watching your favorite internet celebrities on YouTube Hold back their laughter in a precarious position prop hunt has captivated tens Maybe even hundreds of millions of people over the last 15 or so years It's become a staple of online gaming and long since graduated from a funny gimmick minigame on g-modern roblox to an undeniable cultural phenomenon You know how it goes one team are the hiders who disguise themselves as random objects and try to hide from the other team the hunters Who are humans armed with guns and explosives instructed to find and eliminate them if the hunters kill all the hiders before the time runs up They win if not they lose what results is a thrilling stealth experience They can be just as tense as it is comical filled with clever japes and funny strategies that simply couldn't exist in any other context Are you a bicycle? Rarely has a minigame trend like prop hunt retains such popularity and relevance for so long You'd think it would have gotten old by now I mean I remember playing this game when I was six or seven years old yet now I'm coming up on 21 and across its many forms this game mode still continues to fuel countless memories and viral funny moments Year after year after year even to this day it remains popular with both old-timey Nostalgic people like me and skippity band-band iPad kids alike And I think it's safe to say it's become a bit of an icon of internet pop culture at this point But have you ever stopped to ask yourself? How did we get here before every popular modern multiplayer game had a mode about hiding from hunters as paint buckets and traffic cones How did people get their fix for these sneaky shenanigans and where did this bizarre concept even come from in the first place? For myself, and I would wager a lot of viewers prop hunt has kind of just been a constant online for as long as we can remember But as it turns out it does have a history a very long one In fact one with many twists and mysteries and one that I find quite fascinating So why don't we have a look and see if we can figure out just how exactly prop hunt took over the internet? 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We're going to have to go all the way back to 1998 Do you remember 1998? I sure as hell don't I was negative six years old in 1998 and back then the video games industry was Similarly infantile for reference Half-Life came out in November of that year And that was pretty much the first immersive first-person shooter game ever made It was a time long before loot boxes battle passes in-game economies or even physics engines and seven months before Half-Life on April 14th A man named Chris Holden was stricken with inspiration quickly cobbling together and releasing a mod for quake 2 multiplayer by the name of Crate DM. That's right If you think Half-Life is old enough to be considered a boomer shooter that means prop hunt technically is too jokes aside The story behind Crate DM is pretty novel. Here's how Chris described it in the mods readme file One day I was experimenting with player model plugins while I was working on a new project and I made a crate player model now This was just for testing but I left my ass off watching it move around the map I consider the possibility of a deathmatch mode with both players using this crate player model and a map with a lot of crates So you could stop running and blend in so to speak I didn't really see any quake 2 maps that had the number of crates I was looking for so I tossed together a single room map I sent the mod over to a friend and we played for several hours having a great time with it the gameplay was insane It's just funny to see a crate sliding around the map and then when you're mid-battle all of a sudden your opponent disappears It was extremely fun and creepy. So I figured why not release it as stated The mod consisted of just one map called Crate DM 1 a single room filled with crates with custom code embedded in the map file That turns everyone's character model into crates leading to sneaky mid-fire fight hijinks and ambushes It was simple good fun and the concept wound up being a lot more popular than Chris Holden expected A lot of early quake fans still remember Crate DM fondly and it even wound up being ported over to other games like quake 3 arena And even Unreal Tournament in the following years It's not bad for a mod made in under an hour But while the concept behind Crate DM was funny and unique it was pretty simple and especially given that it only came with one map It definitely got old after a while However as mentioned earlier another highly moddable FPS game was right around the corner and in 2001 around three years after Crate DM's release another mod are known online as Planet Sun or bacon sandwich Real name Paul Arath created his own take on the idea this time built from Half-Life deathmatch dubbed box war Here's the tagline the premise of box war is as easy as pie when all the factory workers leave to go home for the night The crates come out to play suddenly the once work-filled factory floors become deathmatch arenas as the crates pick up their weapons and let out Their frustration on one another so what's so special think about it You're a crate fragging other crates in arenas filled with crates Stand still and you blend into the scenery a simple concept, but it's oh so much fun Funnily enough Paul seems to claim he actually came up with the idea for box war completely independent of Crate DM Stating I got tired of making the same people slash monster player models and turned to more interesting objects like couches chairs Tables lamps etc. I went on a quest into the depths of Worldcraft to seek out a prefab that would be best and easiest to use as a Player model the answer the crate Unfortunately, I was only able to get the box war mod the launch using the original release version of Half-Life from the 90s Not via either version of the game currently hosted on Steam So I'm sorry if the graphic settings in the footage look a little weird once I did get it up and running though I did find it to be pretty charming It's a lot more fleshed out than the original crate DM project for one It's technically a standalone game with its own really funny looking menu and for two It's got a lot more content to chew on it comes with six maps as opposed to Crate DMs one as well as light medium And heavy classes called captain oak chip and speedy McPly on a gameplay level It's not too different from Crate DM outside of being built from Half-Life instead of Quake 2 But it does have a pretty funny set of weapons like this freakish pump action double barrel shotgun and in place of the ankle biting Snarks from the original Half-Life deathmatch mode termites get it Is everyone's playing as wooden boxes? I thought it was cute online bloggers at the time noted just how tense box war Could get do you dare move was that crate there the last time you looked it's really rather eerie to see The boxes gliding around the rooms and hiding now I know some of you by now are thinking Richter isn't this video about prop hunt.  Well, well, it might have been a rough start These two early mods are important to mention because they almost certainly help lay the foundation for the strategic and deceptive gameplay later seen in hide-and-seek in 2004 valve released Counter-Strike Source and this games community quickly gave rise to one of the most legendary PC game modding scenes of all time not only were the custom weapons and maps that were made for this game Completely balls to the wall insane but tons of iconic game modes like jailbreak surf and gun game were all either created for or otherwise heavily rooted in the counter-strike source modding scene and hell even left for dead technically started as a counter-strike source mod However, for the sake of this video, we're going to be honing in on only one of these cool game modes that spawn from CSS I'm talking about a bizarre somewhat obscure script mod simply called hide-and-seek This game mode took the concept of hiding among the scenery in an FPS map from box war and crate DM and expanded it beyond crates to Allow players to hide as any object they could find on the map It also took advantage of counter-strike's team-oriented gameplay by introducing the hunter versus hider dynamic stripping weapons from the Hiders and blindfolding the hunters at the start of the round to give hiders time to find a good spot and to prevent hunters from just spraying down Every room in the map the server would also hit them with damage penalties anytime They fired a shot at a wall or a non-player prop this at least from what I can tell was the first ever iteration of what we now know Today as prop hunt now unfortunately even after digging through countless form archives I still can't find an exact date for hide-and-seek's initial release the earliest video I can find of it on YouTube was posted on April 14th 2007 but it's definitely older than that though since everywhere online seems to say that by 2007 the plug-in had already been updated to version 10 Unfortunately, it's been shockingly hard for me to track down the original 1.0 release or the name of the original hide-and-seek script creator I spent a good while running dead form links listed in old YouTube videos through the internet archive and scouring them for hints But I didn't find much other than this deprecated page that credits the script to a person named Mitsu Digi The only other traces I could find of a Mitsu Digi online were a PSN hacks page abandoned in 2007 and a hotmail address that I sent an email to But got no reply out of however another archive page my friend Fragato found as well as this game Banana listing of hide-and-seek 13.5 both write that the original mod was made by a guy named Kevin Who then apparently promptly abandoned it leaving another user named Typhoon West to take over the mod for a period of time and save it from death So unfortunately, it seems like arguably the most important person in prop-hunt history The person responsible for taking the deceptive crate DM formula and turning it into what it is today is Ambiguously credited as a guy named Kevin who may or may not have also gone by the name Mitsu Digi 17 years ago Before seemingly leaving the internet forever seeing how big this hunters versus props concept went on to become and how much of a Culture and even industry it later helped build I can't help but feel a little sad about that fact So if anyone watching thinks they can find a better lead on who this Kevin guy is Let me know if you find anything in the comments below and be fascinating to know what he thinks of just how far his idea has spread nowadays Anyways, if you boot up Counter-Strike source, you'll see that hide-and-seek is just about completely dead nowadays But for good reason Counter-Strike source was never really intended as a modding platform in the way that Half-Life and Quake were and it Seems like a lot of upkeep was required to even keep it running as the game continued to receive engine updates In other words this captivating idea was definitely being held back by the limitations of the game It was made for and it was kind of in desperate need of a new home Luckily, however right around the time hide-and-seek started picking up steam another source engine game called Gary's mod had begun emerging Which not only prioritized community made content But also took advantage of a highly flexible programming language called Lua making it a much more ideal platform for writing and maintaining Custom game modes thus a remake of hide-and-seek for gmod created by a user named amt or Andrew Theos was released on September 15th 2007 this time titled prop hunt As far as I can tell this remake of hide-and-seek is where the name prop hunt actually originates from thanks to gmods aforementioned lua support this new prop hunt project ran much better than the CSS hide-and-seek game mode and also had new fangled features that Could have never been properly implemented in the Counter-Strike version such as auto balance and an actual proper hide because of this overall much Better playing experience gmod quickly became the place to enjoy prop hunt You can find videos of people playing it on YouTube as far back as 2007 as it turns out living toilets have been a part of gmod culture long before the advent of skibbity toilet in October 2010 prop Hunt apparently even wound up being added as an official game mode in Gary's mod for a short period alongside ttt Ascension and dogfight arcade assault by the time the big gmod 13 update rolled around in 2012 though All of these had been removed other than ttt it wound up not mattering However as prop hunt still remained massively popular in the games community eventually becoming the most subscribed gmod add-on of all time on the steam workshop And it's not even close either at the time of me recording this prop hunt has over six million subscribers While the second place add-on Star Wars lightsabers has only three million prop hunt is king by a very very wide margin And it's actually not far fetched to say a lot of people probably bought Gary's mod just to play prop hunt anyways By this point where was getting out about this nifty new sneaky game mode and then it started peaking people's interest outside the gmod community on October 22nd 2009 a user named dark immortal released a port of the game mode to tf2 Helping bring it to an even wider audience in this version The blue team are all hunters in the form of pyros while the red team are all props as scouts Now I don't mean to be overly negative or put down people who created and played this version back in the day But I personally never thought tf2 prop hunt was any good It's very limited by the game It's in even more so than the counter strike source hide-and-seek mode in my opinion unlike gmod Which was basically built for custom shenanigans like this tf2 prop hunt feels like it's being Held together by chicken wire and in my experience most matches revolve around props Just trying to clip into objects and become basically invisible because frankly in tf2 The props are so fucking massive that there's just not a lot of good hiding spots The jank has always been part of the fun of prop hunt though and in a new more colorful game prop hunt immediately became an even bigger hit with Many games journalists sites running articles about this new fun tf2 experience and just like gmod prop hunt wound up being somewhat Officially supported in tf2 as well with multiple official updates pushing features and fixes directly intended for the community Developers of the custom prop hunt mode to take advantage of by this point There were now three different popular valve games hosting their own versions of prop hunt and things were definitely starting to heat up for the game mode a very popular roblox version by a guy named maximum ADHD was also released in March 2010 And it was in the following two or three years that prop hunt started really going viral in 2011 and 2012 two things Happened that helped lead to a huge boom of interest in prop hunt content on YouTube for one The gmod 13 update came out making the game less prone to crashes brighter and more colorful looking and overall more Accessible this led to a massive wave of new players checking out gmod and all of the wacky things it had to offer Including prop hunt for two team fortress 2 went free to play up until this point The game was sold on steam for around $20 But now anyone with a computer and a steam account could join and peruse the game server browser at their leisure These two factors led to a massive spike of interest in prop hunt and with YouTube content entering a renaissance around the same time A culture was born with these multiple different versions of the game right for the picking Vanoss gaming markiplier scene enters PewDiePie and countless others started having fun in prop hunt and broadcasting their japes to millions and millions of their viewers Before the age of Minecraft SNPs We had these guys yelling and expanding into a web of funny guys gaming on the internet for fun And back then it almost felt like an infinite supply of content Tons of videos came out in this era showcasing funny moments and clever strategies The combination of humor creativity and the deceptive nature of prop hunt made it a very engaging choice of game for youtubers This is also probably a good time to mention taunts taunts were a big part of prop hunt back in the day Basically every minute or so the props would emanate a noise to help hunters find people who had been hiding in an unfair or glitch spot I'm not really sure when but at some point this evolved into a system where props could choose what sound they play from a list And even play them at will if they wanted what immerse was a culture of running around and spouting memes at hunters while narrowly avoiding the wrath And it was massively entertaining at times Of course when something is good People tend to copy it and by the mid 2010s the amount of eyes prop hunt was catching online made people outside the valve community Realized just how much of a demand there was for silly shenanigans like this and thus prop hunt grew wings One of the first major companies to embrace prop hunt outside of valve was activision on march 31st 2017 Call of Duty modern warfare remastered was updated with the addition of a new prop hunt mode for the first time in the series And it was actually very interesting. I personally will always be most fond of the gmod version But I can't deny the charm that call of duty prop hunt carries There's just something really interesting about seeing this weird frankenstein game mode with roots in a 1998 quake mod Officially adapted in a triple a gritty serious military console shooter How far we've come just a few months later in may 2017 arcane studios released an fps stealth game called pray With mechanics very much reminiscent of prop hunt The main enemies in the game are called mimics and their opponents with the special ability to turn into any object In the game on a whim later on you get the ability to scan objects to determine if they're mimics or real objects And you eventually even unlock the mimic ability yourself with the game letting you copy any item in the world and opening up all kinds of Opportunities to explore find new secrets and glitch out of balance. It's neat in 2018 They also released a multiplayer spin-off called pray typhon hunter That was basically a full-on imitation of actual prop hunt, but was not received very well by the community I've actually not played pray myself But the original game has incredibly good reviews and seems to be an undeniable cult classic So it's probably worth checking out sometime if prop hunt in space sounds like an interesting premise to you Getting the helicopter on the roof. Just go ahead and uh get inside this What I I died I I got an achievement Over the years there have also been a few other projects that have tried building standalone indie games based on prop hunt And posting them on steam or various mobile game stores now in theory this could be cool And I understand where the impulse comes from all the versions of prop hunt We've covered so far have been created by mutating other games and are thus kind of flawed They've got exploits and other imperfections that sometimes detract from the experience So I can see why people would think there was room on the market for a more refined product Being available on mobile also obviously opens prop hunt to a larger market of younger people as well The thing is in my opinion, most of these just kind of look boring There was some real personality to the props and counter strike gmod and tf2 running away from a guy as the Fucking hypno toad or a bunch of bananas was funny. This this just looks kind of lame It seems to me like a big part of the charm of prop hunt lies in its transformative and janky nature And while I haven't spent a whole lot of time playing prop night or any of these other spin-offs I feel like the reviews tell me all I need to know about them Speaking of reviews back in 2023 everybody's favorite game overwatch added its own prop hunt game mode called mischief and magic I don't play overwatch I never really cared to check it out to be honest and apparently the guys who make it also do no good bad Nasty stuff in their office or something But I do have some friends who are into the game and they tell me that this mode is actually pretty fun And one of the better things they've added in this game in the last few years From what I hear every 10 or 15 seconds the props make a noise to alert the hunters akin to the taunts in gmod And they also get grenades or flashbangs to stun them for a quick getaway Which sounds like it probably leads to some pretty entertaining loony tune shenanigans Oh and the fortnight, of course they put this shit in fortnight In the last few years fortnight has been trying to expand to host other kinds of game content in a way similar to roblox And of course one of the game modes they've jacked is prop hunt from what I've played It takes the player to a small map and sets things up just about how you'd expect Though the team of hunters are handled a little differently the damage system in place to punish hunters from just shooting everything Isn't present instead the hunters are limited by their weapon a single shot shotgun with a slow firing rate It does seem to insta kill the hiders though who once again occasionally emanate sounds to help give away their position Basically, if you're a hider you hide and if you're a hunter you just run around and shoot everything that moves or seems out of place I played this one map themed around the house from home alone And there were rc cars and shit on the ground that seriously confused me for a second Now I know the audience I've cultivated on my channel is probably not big fans of overwatch or fortnight And I'm not either but I think it's important to mention them in this video to show just how far this idea has come The flavor of the month minigame culture birthed by early custom game modes like prop hunt has now evolved into the modern live service standard of triple a video games Custom game modes have been adopted and turned into official content because nowadays games need to have a revolving door of content In order to stay relevant in a modern social media landscape And while in some ways the commercialization of this once organic phenomenon is sad I for what I'm glad that this beloved minigame continues to live on and bring people joy When I look at the journey that prop hunt has gone through and rising to the top I can't help but notice the parallel its story has with that of the source engine itself It all started with a simple mutation of quake then evolving into its own more interesting identity Then with the technological jump in video games from the early 2000s Something truly great was born and then promptly served on a golden platter throughout online pop culture via gmod and tf2 In the early 2010s still echoing to this very day Playing a match of prop hunt with my friends never fails to take me back to my younger years Holding back laughter in the same way you would when your friend makes a silly face at you from across class While the teacher is in a bad mood it's a reminder that the best most earnest joy is usually the simplest as of today Craig dm is 26 years old and it's fascinating to me that the fruits of its labor are still creating laughs and smiles A quarter century later So here's to prop hunt if you want to talk more about its history or your favorite version join my discord in the Description and tag me and call me a poopy head. Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed Shout out to this article by robert yang on the radiator design blog That included some really good info on crate dm and box war and partly inspired me to make this video and have a good day


I'm Peter Burris, Chief Research Officer for Wikibon theCUBE and welcome to another special digital community event. Today we're going to be presenting Wikibon's 2019 trends. Now I'm here in our Palo Alto studios in kind of a low tech mode, precisely because all of our crews are out at all the big shows bringing you the best of what's going on in the industry and broadcasting over theCUBE. But that's okay because I've asked each of our Wikibon analysts to use a similar approach to present their insights to what will be the most impactful trends for 2019. Now the way we're going to do this is first we're going to use this video as a basis for getting our insights out and then at the end we're going to utilize a crowd chat to give you an opportunity to present your insights back to the community. So at the end of this video, please stay with us and share your insights, share your thoughts, your experience, ask your questions about what you think will be the most impactful trends in 2019 and beyond. A number of years ago, Wikibon predicted that cloud while dominating computing would not feature all data moving to the cloud but rather the cloud experience and cloud services moving to the data. We call that true private cloud computing and there has nothing been, has occurred in the last couple of years that has suggested that we were anyway wrong about this prediction. In fact, if we take a look at what's going on with Edge, our expectations that increasingly edge computing and on-premise technologies or needs will further accelerate the rate at which cloud experiences end up on-premise, end up at the edge and that will be the dominant model for how we think about computing over the course of the next few years. That leads to greater distribution of data, that leads to greater distribution of places where data actually will be used. All under the aegis of cloud computing but not utilizing the centralized public cloud model that so many predicted. Prediction we'd like to talk about is how multi-cloud and orchestration of those environments fit together. At Wikibon, we've been looking for many years at how digital businesses are going to leverage cloud and cloud is not a singular entity and therefore the outcomes that you're looking for often require that you use more than one cloud especially if you're looking at public clouds. We've been seeing the ascendance of Kubernetes as a fundamental foundational piece of enabling this multi-cloud environment. Kubernetes is not the sole thing and of course you don't wanna overemphasize any specific tool but you're seeing, driven by the CNCF and a broad ecosystem that Kubernetes is getting into all of the platforms both public and private cloud and that we predict that by 2023 90% of multi-cloud enterprise applications will use Kubernetes to lead for the enablement of their multi-cloud strategy. One of the biggest challenges that the industry's going to face over the next few years is how to deal with multi-cloud. We predict ultimately that a sizable percentage of the marketplace as much as 90% will be taking a multi-cloud approach first to how they conceive, build and operate their high strategic value applications that are engaging customers, engaging partners and driving their businesses forward. However, that creates a pressing need for three new classes of technology. Technology that provides multi-cloud networking, technology that provides orchestration of services across clouds and finally technologies that ensure data protection across multi-cloud. While each of these domains by themselves is relatively small today, we think that over the next decade they will each grow into markets that are tens of billions if not hundreds of billions of dollars in size. The prediction I'd like to talk about relates to robotic process automation, RPA. So we've observed that there's a widening gap between how many jobs are available worldwide and the number of qualified candidates to fill those jobs. RPA we believe is going to become a fundamental approach to closing that gap and really operationalizing artificial intelligence. Executives that we talked to in theCUBE, they realize they just can't keep throwing bodies at the problem. So these so-called software robots are going to become increasingly easy to use. And we think that low-code or no-code approaches to automation and automating workflows are going to drive the RPA market from its current position, which is around a billion dollars to more than 10X or $10 billion plus by 2023. I'd like to predict that in 2019 what we're going to see is more containerization of AI and machine learning for deployment to the edge and throughout the multi-cloud. It's a trend that's been going on for some time. In particular, what we're going to be seeing is an increasing focus on technologies and projects and code bases such as Kubeflow, which has been established in this year, just gone by to support that approach for a containerization of AI out to the edges. In 2019, we're going to see the big guys like Google and AWS and Microsoft and others in the whole AI space begin to march around the need for common DevOps frameworks such as Kubeflow because really that's where many of their customers are going. The data scientists and app developers who are building these applications, they want to manage these over Kubernetes using the CNCF stack of tooling and projects to enable a degree of supportability, maintainability, and scalability around containerized intelligent applications. My prediction is around the move from linear programming and data models to matrix computing. This is a move that's happening very quickly indeed as new types of workload come on. And these workloads include AI, VR, AR, video, gaming, very much at the edge of things. And ARM is the key provider of these types of computing chips and computing models that are enabling this type of programming to happen. So my prediction is that this type of programming is going to start very, very quickly in 2019. It's going to move very rapidly about two years from now in 2021 into the enterprise market space but that the preparation for this type of computing and the movement of work right to the edge very, very close to the sensors, very, very close to where the users are themselves is going to accelerate over the next decade. The prediction I'd like to make in 2019 is that the CNCF has this steward of the growing cloud native stack that they will expand the range of projects to include the frontier topics, really the frontier paradigms in microservices and cloud computing. I'm talking about serverless. My prediction is that virtual cubelets will become an incubating project at CNCF to address the need to provide serverless event-driven interfaces to containerized orchestrated microservices. I'd also like to predict that VM and container coexistence will proceed at pace in terms of a project such as, especially cubevert I think will become also a CNCF project. And I think it will be adopted fairly widely. And then one last prediction in that vein is that the recent working group that the CNCF has established with Eclipse around IoT, the Internet of Things, I think that will come to fruition. There's an Eclipse project called Ditto that uses IoT and AI and digital twins and a very interesting way for industrial and other applications. I think that will become under, come under the auspices of CNCF in the coming year. Security remains vexing to the cloud industry and the IT industry overall. Historically, it's been about restricting access, largely at the perimeter. And once you provided access through the perimeter, users would have access to an entire organization's resources, digital resources, whether it be files or applications or identities. We think that has to change. Largely as a consequence of businesses now being restructured, reorganized and re-institutionalizing work around data. That what's gonna have to happen is a notion of zero trust security is gonna be put in place. That is fundamentally tied to the notion of sharing data. So instead of restricting access at the perimeter, you have to restrict access at the level of data. That's gonna have an enormous set of implications overall for how the computing industry works. But two key technologies are essential to making zero trust security work. One is software defined infrastructure so that you can make changes to the configuration of your security policies and instances by other software. And two, very importantly, high quality analytics that are bringing the network and security functions more closely together and through the shared data are increasing the use of AI, the use of machine learning, et cetera and ensuring higher quality security models across multiple clouds. It's always great to hear from the Wikibon analysts about what is happening in the industry and what's likely to happen in the industry. But now let's hear from you. So let's jump into the crowd chat as an opportunity for you to present your ideas, your insights, ask your questions, share your experience. What will be the most important trends and issues in 2019 and beyond as far as you're concerned? Thank you very much for listening. Now let's crowd chat.


Welcome to the Toffees Tactics Show, I didn't do one last week. This week's going to be a little bit brief of the normal, being renovating studios and stuff, but it is back and will be back every week. Let's get on. Since the last one we've played West Ham at home and capitulated despite me giving all the reasons why we, how we could beat West Ham. We went out and turned in a rubbish performance and were beaten, missed far too many chances that day. So yeah, so off we went last week to the Emirates, which hasn't been a happy hunting ground for us, hasn't has it, let's be honest, 1996, the last time we won there. Marco Silva made some changes to his team tactically. Morgan Snidlin came off the side, Tom Davis was captain and he had a different make-up in midfield. Obviously we welcomed back with Charles and he was being a big miss for us while he'd been suspended and obviously Michael Keane came back in which was probably the biggest shock. Up front he went with Dominic Calvert-Lewin rather than Jank Tolson and he went with Dominic Calvert-Lewin simply I think for pace. Jank hasn't been scoring goals this season, so he was probably an easy drop. Calvert-Lewin came in with his pace and I'll just figure this image up now. This is basically how you want to have it set up. So as you can see he's got Michael Keane in there with Zuma and then in midfield he's got Davis and Garner there to be more mobile because obviously Arsenal are a mobile side. Morgan Snidlin is a bit more disciplined in terms of sitting but everything's a little bit slower. So we had Tom Davis and he had Garner in there to be nice and busy, gilfee ahead of them to try and link up with that and make it that the front four almost make it a diamond type of attack. Obviously for Charles and back on the left Theo on the right and Dominic Calvert-Lewin through the middle. And you know what I think it worked in terms of the way we played. I thought the first half I thought we were very very good. We broke through them so many times.  Tom Davis with an absolutely fantastic three ball to Dominic Calvert-Lewin. And if he rolls it's great so with Charles and it's 1-0. Or if he takes a shot himself it's 1-0 and Dominic hesitated and tried to go round Petitech the wrong angle. He was making the goal smaller for himself and didn't get it right anyway and that squandered that opportunity. We had others in terms of one which Gilfee put Theo Wolcott through and he should have done better. But Charles had two with three shots which Petitech saved. It was a really incisive attack on display by Evan and I think we got about them. We restricted Arsenal to hardly anything. Jordan Pickford makes a good save that he should make I think for him. I think it was a barmy angle runs even on those two. Other than that they had nothing. They had really nothing. We dealt with the corners quite comfortably. We went and won the first ball like we talked about on here in terms of the Zonal. We went and made sure we met that so that was okay. So everything was quite good. We came out for the second half. We started again. We had the ball. We were on top and then we gave the goal away and the goal was really frustrating because it can be avoided. Tom Davis gets a half clearance on the edge of the box. Gilfee doesn't react. He's a bit far up the pitch for me. He doesn't react. The ball comes back to Ramsey who shrugs off Davis and then plays a ball in to lack of set. Now I'm going to put another graphic on the screen here and this is what I think John Joe Kenny should be doing and I don't understand why he doesn't. The ball has gone into lack of set there. Now John Joe Kenny forces lack of set onto his left side to that shaded area that is on the screen. Then half of that issues are gone immediately but the goal is gone immediately because he's forced him onto his weaker foot and I don't understand why he doesn't. He allows lack of set to stop and come back inside. He's too far away from him instead of going and pressing him in that area and forcing him onto his left hand side. Then he allows other people to pick runners up but I haven't actually got eight men around the penalty area to Arsenal's four. Because John Joe Kenny allows lack of set to come back inside and whip it into that top corner there's not much we can do. Everybody else is trying to pick people up and it's in the net and we're one little down from no way. It doesn't get me wrong it was a really good finish by lack of set but it could have been avoided. And I know most goals can be avoided of course they can but that to me was just a little bit cheap. You know if he takes him on the outside and wax it in with his left foot then you'd go what a goal. Not really much we could do but just think showing him back inside. The way we showed you our melenko inside the other week against West Ham onto his better foot it's just it could be avoided.


Hi, my name is Liam Rowe currency trader and trading coach at trading 180.com and welcome to this week's supply and demand Forex and gold fundamental and technical analysis for those of you who are new to the channel a warm welcome to you and if you are returning an equally warm welcome to you and Don't forget to please like subscribe and share The content with your fellow traders if you enjoy the content that I provide every week and just a quick I guess Overview of what we do at trading 180 and what I do is really follow a fundamental Analysis process to establish directional bias and then apply technical analysis supply and demand strategies To really kind of time trade entries manage risk and establish profit targets. So Let's get into the the week Ahead and quite an important week matter of fact We've got a jobs report which would take the spotlight Followed by the worldwide manufacturing and services PMI surveys in Eurozone GDP. So that's that's going to be the fourth quarter GDP Figures, which is the first of the fourth quarter GDP figures And that's usually the most important and inflation numbers, right? So the reason why GDP inflation is important because it really kind of Signals as to what or it can signal tool as to what the central bank may do with interest rates Or quantitative easing or tightening so also central banks in the UK Australia Euro area and Brazil will be deciding on monetary policy. Why why open meeting? Is expected to offer guidance into the production plans from March. So we're going to talk about You know this the UK and I guess the Euro area of monetary policy a little bit later on And touch on that and the earning season will also be in the spotlight with GM Yes, that's nothing nothing to do with us and Forex, but yeah So we're going to be potentially a market moving week this week And potentially depending on what the central banks say, especially Australia as well You know, it could be the beginning of a certain trend either to the upside or to the downside depending on obviously the pairs So let's get into the the technicals and starting off on the US dollar index And the US dollar index from last week Pretty much I was saying this and I said, you know, you really want to be a buyer right I think last week what five days ago Friday Thursday Wednesday Tuesday and Mondays so you guys would have watched the analysis from here and I was saying pretty much I want to try and be a buyer if prices pull back but in the group on Wednesday, in fact I was saying that you know price of the dollar should really go higher So I didn't know I can predict what price is going to do in the short term But it was just obvious that the dollar had to go higher at some point as we approach the decision really to to high crates and fundamentally again You know, it says this is just a bit of a newsletter from Bloomberg. It says the Fed's new steady and nimble playbook and Again, what's priced in now? So it's basically You know for over four hikes priced in for the year with 30 basis points priced in for Intermarch is FOMC. So we've got the Fed plot which is you know, they're forecast and pretty much You know pre FOMC and where we were where we are in In in January, I guess And what's basically been priced in by the market? So And you know the basis points is here as far as you know interest rate percentages. So You know, it's pretty much hiking cycles Right is what you need to really kind of understand from here The Fed are looking to high crates, which is generally positive For a currency doesn't mean it's going to be you know every single week You know the price of the dollar is going to go higher and higher and higher. No It just means that you know, they're looking to appreciate their currency to try to Stop inflation from getting out of control, right? So what was actually a bit interesting was here as well So what the whole article was interesting But for the moment traders are starting to speculate the Fed could hike five times this year Which is which is even more hawkish in keeping With the call of Bloomberg economics Goldman Sachs is now sticking with its forecast of a drip feed of four increases So whether it's four whether it's five The you know, it's again the rate hikes are coming as we know it yesterday And the more I think there will be a 50 basis points Salvo in March Steve Matthews writes here about what it could prompt such as shock and awe because Inflation is really out of the out of control and it is getting out of control. It's just you know trending away from their 2% target. So Regardless, whoever you think is gonna be four or five, you know any pullbacks as I've been saying for a very long time You can check out, you know past Weekly videos I've been saying by the dollar by the dollar not necessarily financial advice But I tell you what I'm doing and you can pretty much see what's been happening, you know, you get a pullback cool That's fine, right pullbacks have to happen, but generally, you know the path leads resistance if you look at that what the dollar has been doing You know, it's literally been a path. These businesses been to the upside. So You know dollar index again more pullbacks, right? So where do we go from here? So again, this is not financial advice. Nothing of the sort, but I Will be looking for either a pullback into that demand zone where we'll get it or not is is something different Or if prices do something like this where you get a pullback and then a new a new height and then a pullback into that Demand zone, right? That's really what what I'm looking for as confluence because we're not necessarily trading the US dollar We're just looking at the US dollars overall strength because it's a measure of strength Again from the dollar against for example the pound the euro the yen Right and some other currencies And we're looking at this as confluence to buy, you know, the dollar against the yen the Swiss franc for example So if prices do kind of pull back create some sort of demand zone Then that's extra confidence to buy the dollar But just fundamentally, you know, you do want to be a buyer of the dollar if you're looking at, you know Sell trades that that large supply zone and I always tell traders Really, you know, there's no point in you know trying to sell a currency against, you know, technically when you when you know when fundamentals are and risk sentiment are in play because There's no technical analysis level that's going to stand in a way of fundamentals or risk sentiment So there's no point in trying to make a decision on trading the dollar based off a technical analysis If you don't know, you know, what what is going on fundamentally Then it's just you're really kind of flying blind in that sense But yeah, so I guess we've got some suppliers on from way in 2020 but again the question is why it whatever drove the dollar down In 2020 I made it, you know, depreciate Right here. Is that the same thing that's going to make it depreciate in, you know, two years later in 2022? I highly doubt it. Yes, there's probably some, you know, maybe some profit-taking going on, etc And if you do want to be a, you know, try to short the dollar and profit-taking then, you know Be my guest. This is a this is a level that you might want to look to potentially short Right to make money from. But for me, it's just literally, you know, buy trades and looking for dollar buys Not necessarily the dollar index, but more to do with dollar other currencies like the dollar yen and dollar dollar Swiss for example and Look at that. So I was highlighting, you know, the three levels that prices may want to, you know Bounce from and pretty much, you know, we got it, right? So last week's analysis is still on here and these were the three levels what we were looking at and Yeah, we pretty much saw where prices again. This is Friday, Thursday, Wednesday, Tuesday, Mondays So Sunday that was Sunday's open And that's when you would have got the analysis of saying that this level was really nice again, you can go back and look at the analysis and Again, my bias was to buy the dollar, right? So there we are Now there is obviously a bit more of a demand zone there So, yeah, I mean, it's just really just pullbacks, right? The power for these resistance is to the upside Dollar hiking the yen really isn't in fact, they're way behind the curve So from that perspective, it's just looking for dollar buyers I don't know where again, I don't know whether prices will pull back to that one 14 area But if it does, I think that's the first area that you want to look for some sort of buying the dollar Again, we do have in fact quite a wide zone of supply But the higher level was really where if you're looking for any kind of short trades based off of some sort of risk off sentiment coming into play then Then that's really where you want to start to look for potential short trades But for now again, I think just buying the dollar going long dollars It's just really waiting for pullbacks for me. So there is an opportunity to short if you want And not to say that prices can't you know pull back But for me, it's just one-way trading for me for the foot on the dollar yen And that's where I am dollar Swiss pretty much same thing Again nice Nice demand zone last week's analysis still on here Looking at buy trades. So we do have that level has held I was kind of expecting prices to come just a bit lower Really want your prices to come lower so I could get involved in that trade wasn't able to get involved in that move higher unfortunately So can't catch them all but as long as you get the direction, right? And that's really the main thing because when you do catch them you've got the You've got the Sorry Yeah, you're doing it consistently, right? You're you're literally picking directions consistently, which is what we do at trading 180. So where are we now from a sell trade perspective? If you're looking at buying the Swiss franc and selling the dollar, of course We haven't quite come up into that supply zone just yet So that's not really a sell and from a demand zone perspective the nearest demand zone if prices come all the way back down here So again, I think if we get you know bearish candle Higher highs and then a pull back into that zone be, you know, the probably the The trade to take from a daily time frame perspective again, you can always try to look for short trades up here For me, why would you want to but there is a higher Supply zone also as well We've got to zoom out and have a look at just the profit-taking perspective And just also remember that the more times a level is touched level level the weaker It becomes because if it got stronger then prices would pretty much go nowhere, right? There would be they would forever main trapped within a range, right? So It doesn't make any sense for for for prices to keep touching levels and getting stronger. So From that perspective, this is probably more likely to break Again from a Swiss franc perspective, there's no reason really to buy the Swiss franc if we're not if there's no real kind of risk off That's gonna take That's gonna the market's gonna care about yes We've got you know, Russia and and Ukraine which is a definitely a risk-off event and that could cause prices to go lower But I just you know pushes prices to where you want to really be a buyer of the dollar But once that situation is resolved because it will get resolved at some point dollar CAD and the dollar CAD again dollar CAD you got two you really got kind of two Pairs that are that you know, it's strong In a sense of they're both their central banks are hiking rates. So this is a harder trade, you know from a divergence perspective Again, I think the Canadian dollar not hiking rates This last week There was a bit of a shock. I think the market expected that the Canadian dollar to hike rates and they didn't so and whereas, you know the The Fed pretty much, you know Really hawkish. So you're seeing that kind of play out in the market. There is a Bit of a supply zone. Yeah, I'll draw it from here supply zone there and another supply zone up top and Again, just something interesting because you've seen it that this level's been touched several times. So what could happen is in fact That level right there Yeah, could actually be I Tested and potentially stop-hunted for those of you who are in the Private members discord group. You could get a manipulation around here and then, you know to the downsides So that is very very interesting not a pair I'm looking at to be fair, but I do like the technical setup really like that But if you do like the any of these supply zones to get short and want to buy the Canadian dollar over the US dollar Then you know be my guest. That's where you are if you want to be a buyer of the US dollar Then that's going to be the first area to look for long trades Looking at the pound and the pound again has come off this area here and Really kind of getting cutting Through I guess that demand zone and demand zones again This is this was a harder trade to figure out fundamentally because you've got again two central banks that are looking to You know high crates right the Bank of England are hiking rates as well as the Federal Reserve. So From that perspective in fact, I mean delete that from that perspective It's difficult to say which one you should be buying or selling for me I think they really the the trade could have gone either way But with the Fed being you know really hawkish At the moment and the pound Being you know fairly hawkish or maybe you know, I would say there's decisions to be made I think again from last week not a pair that I'm interested in but you know the path of these resistance Probably was going to be more slightly to the downside, but looking at the The central banks and what they're really looking to do so Europe's big two Deep and split on inflation response. So you've got the UK Brazil check central banks to hike and DCB To hold policy. So there's a divergence there, right? You've got the Bank of England Hawks and doves Generally, you know, the the monetary policy Committee members are hawkish. They're they're more, you know, content on a or say content But they're looking to hike rates, right? So he's hold hike or Titan and this really is, you know What what the the vote is probably likely to be right because then they have to kind of tame inflation So from a buying perspective of the pound, the pound is definitely a buy against the dollar I wouldn't necessarily trade this pair against the dollar, but you've got You know from a technical analysis perspective, I think there's a decent demand zone there To potentially take advantage of I'll delete that so really if you're looking to buy the the pound I would say waiting for price to come down into that zone there zoom out a little bit That level's been put in touch several times So it might be open for a manipulation below that before going higher or if you're looking for a buy on a dollar Against the pound really a pull back into these zones to look for sell trades But either way, I don't really have a bias on this because I'm not really trading it Euro dollar though I am and again many of the guys made You know really nice Profit in the group. We were pretty much predicting this again. You can look at last week's Analysis with literally just saying, you know sell Sell euros and buy dollars, right? We've been saying that again. You can check the track record You can check the the the the videos in the YouTube channels and go back all the Sundays And I've been saying, you know sell Euro buy dollars sell Euro buy dollars sell Euro buy dollars He's no surprise to see pretty much what's been happening, right? So with that being said we've got You know that that demand zone is broken and again just to sound like a broken record, but there's no Technical analysis that's going to stand in the way of fundamentals of this sentiment none There's no supply zone demand zone is no support is no resistance because price doesn't move based off of you know Support and resistance and and supply and demand in a sense in the way that is typically taught. Yes, it moves or supply and demand But fundamentally is what you need to understand from a supply and demand perspective not technicals Are not going to tell you the whole picture? All right But I think this is a really nice level. It's one thirteen ten if prices pulled back to that zone there Very very nice for a potential sell trade if it could come back up to that area But if you do want to be a buyer, I don't think there's any really zone that I would want to be a buyer at on the Euro Of course prices could you know come up based off of you know, what did European Central Bank say this week? But I think overall if you're looking at you know, just Europe in general Not this was which one was it so yeah, so inflation outlook For the for Europe no reason for the European Central Bank to change track Simka says so this is basically One of the European Central Bank Governing Council members I think says that the European Central Bank has no need to fundamentally change this assessment on the inflation outlook outlook Or accelerate policy tightening, right? So there's no need to accelerate Or even entertain hiking You know with the European Central Bank also as well you've got Germany slash his growth forecast as virus surge slows Rebounds the government cuts 2022 grow forecast of 3.6 from 4.1 So in this in the short term at least it's it's difficult to kind of justify the For the European Central Bank to kind of justify why they should be you know Hiking rates or appreciating their currency there is going to be a time for it for sure But for now in the short term, I think the euro dollar is still a sell, right? So any pullback doesn't mean that you know, I'm gonna be a buyer doesn't really matter I'm just looking for a short raise until You know the divergence basically gap closes and they I guess they more converge essential banks I'm moving forward to the Australian dollar US dollar and again with the with the US dollar hiking rates in March and the Australian dollar really kind of standing still on rates Although the expectation for the for the Australian dollar is actually potentially this this week They could actually start to quantitative tightening or reduce their quantitative reason if they do that Right or basically end their quantitative easing Programming if they do that, I think actually Australian dollar is a buyer So it's come down to a really really nice area Technically, but again for me, I wouldn't necessarily buy the Australian dollar against another strong currency I'll buy the Australian dollar against the weak currency like for example the The Australian the yen or the Swiss franc for example, so or even the euro so So from that perspective, you've got to you know, pick your pairs wisely But nice technically I do like that zone, but just from a fundamental perspective. I'm not interested in this pair whatsoever So it's various supply zones Depending on what happens with the Australian dollar That's a buy as far as you know the ECB meet ECB, sorry the RBA meeting or the or there might be a sell trade here Which is decent for a yeah for a sell trade if you buy in the US dollar and finally gold so gold sold off I was talking to a trader about this on the think on Friday and Yeah prices pretty much came up to this nice Supply zone and they're pretty much pinpoint sold off people might be saying well, why did it set off? Why did it set off? Well, you've got a hawkish Fed You know came out this week and pretty much said that they're looking to hike More right and you always always have to remember that I'm not saying that you know gold is a sell Right that there is obviously, you know times that maybe you want to sell gold or maybe you want to buy gold But the point is is that? You've got to understand that there's a divergence between First of all risk sentiment isn't a strong yes again I've mentioned Russia and Ukraine but from the perspective of the US dollar and the economy growing as well So the the the economy grew this week was actually better than ex forecasted for the US dollar Which indicates more hikes? So for holding the dollar you're gonna get a return if they're hiking from zero point two five to potentially zero point five or even potentially even zero point seven five They could hike to in one in one go then Why would anyone want to hold gold and they can hold the dollar and get you know some return on that? Right so yes, I understand gold is a hedge against inflation But if interest rate hikes start to bring inflation down then obviously the end gold becomes devalued because of the fact that You know the dollar is getting stronger due to you know inflation coming down or starting to appreciate Which then would have that negative effect of gold coming down, right? So Again, not necessarily something that I'm trading or interested in but There are obviously opportunities. I think this is probably the zone now to look for potential buyers if you're looking at buyers for me Again, it's a difficult one because you've got you know dollar You've got dollar strength coming in but then you've got the gold bug You know bugs who are saying that you know inflation regardless what they've Fed do may not be enough and I think if if gold would be a buyer for example the Fed of high crates, right and For example, if they hike rates, but yet Inflation still starts to go up as well Then I think gold is going to be a big buy but for now with the rumor circulating and pretty much all bought priced in That the Fed are gonna hike rates gold may start to still you know tail off But let's see But these are the areas really that you want to look for by trades or prices pulled back any sell trades in there So that brings us to the end of the video. I hope you enjoyed it if you were Like the video again, please don't forget to press that like button and subscribe and comment They're always your comments are always appreciated and guys take care until the next video. Have a great trading week


There are quite a few people talking about ways to strengthen your immune system, and most of them are correct, but they aren't giving you the whole picture or talking about the most important thing, low level radiation from Wi-Fi. So the main points are the reduction of Wi-Fi levels, the removal of toxins from the food and water supply, increasing nutrients in the diet to optimize healing and antioxidant status, exercise, grounding, and a positive mindset. No one dares talk about Wi-Fi or how they're rolling out new towers, but even our current Wi-Fi can be harmful on many levels. It causes consistent, low level oxidative stress, and it's certainly the main cause of very popular things like gut issues, as our bodies are affected by these frequencies, but bacteria and yeast thrive in them. So depending on your individual antioxidant status and what the levels of this radiation is in your home, that will determine how it's affecting you. I have a video on how to reduce these in your household, but the first basic start is to keep your phone on airplane mode as often as possible, definitely don't sleep next to your phone, directly wire all internet sources when in use, and turn off electronics when going to bed. Again, I can't emphasize this enough, and this is the reason that hospitals can be so deadly. They tend to have high levels due to all of the equipment and infrastructure, and they know about this. They even have lead rooms that they put sensitive people in so that they don't just have heart palpitations or an issue. And a lot of the symptoms from Wi-Fi can be related to F-L-U-like symptoms such as coughing, nasal, headache, just feeling unwell. To reduce toxins from our food and water supply, we need to get as close to nature as possible. Organic, minimal agrochemical usage on the animal and plant-based foods we're consuming. Try to get meat from a local farm or reputable source, and make sure that the plant foods that you do purchase are organic or from a farm that does not use herbicides, pesticides, fungicides. These chemicals can also be in our water. In addition to antibiotics, and the chlorine and fluoride, they add for our health, and who knows what else. I have videos on water, but the three options are reverse osmosis distillation, glass bottled water, and finding a local well or spring filling up on a bi-weekly or monthly basis. Consuming nutritious foods, making sure your diet has a base of quality animal nutrition with plenty of raw and fermented foods will ensure your body has all of the vitamin building blocks it needs to restore tissue. People tend to be deficient in vitamins A, D3, and K2, the first of which is easy to get if you're eating a lot of animal foods. D3 can be supplemented since the sun is only available in the summer, as can vitamin K2, as fermented food access is typically limited. These fat-soluble vitamins are crucial for cell health, hormone production, and of course immune system strength. We do get some nutrients from our diet for certain antioxidant cycles. Particularly be vitamins in the production of glutathione, the master antioxidant in the body, but most people aren't getting enough vitamin C or reducing their oxidized fat intake to optimize the vitamin E cycle. So you can take a vitamin C supplement, ascorbic acid, aceroliteru powder, camu camu powder, liposomal vitamin C, are all good options. The natural food alternative would be plenty of raw milk or freshly slaughtered meat that was consumed raw or lightly cooked. For vitamin E optimization, you would just have to avoid high omega-6 feedlot animal foods, keeping omega-3 to omega-6 ratios in check, and focusing more on saturated fats that are less prone to oxidation. For glutathione, you can actually take liposomal glutathione, as well as NAC and acetylcysteine, which is a precursor. Not only are these antioxidant cycles crucial for immune strength, they are also helpful against Wi-Fi signals. You can learn more about these in my understanding antioxidants video. Antioxidants promotes antioxidant production in the body. It activates the genes that defend against oxidation in the body, increasing your natural defenses against free radicals. That combined with grounding, being in touch with the earth, provides free electrons as well. But grounding is ideally done away from the grid as non-native electric fields amplify this which causes issues. So go to a beach or trail to hike. You can check out my grounding video if you want to learn more on that. Your mindset is very important as well. Ignore the fear-mongering psychological warfare that everyone is playing into. The media wants you in your house, caged like a rat, worried about what's going to happen. Focus on your life goals, take things day by day, and think about what you're going to do in a positive light, whether that's instilling this positive thinking in other people or how you're working towards those future goals. So helpfully this helps some of you guys out and there's absolutely nothing to worry about if you have all of these aspects in your diet and lifestyle correct. The problem is convincing other people that these things are important. Your family members, your loved ones, your close friends, getting everyone to realize that we are being played by the elite of this planet. So if you guys could please like the video, subscribe, hit that bell icon and of course share the video if you can. 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