My buddy joined IM Academy and I don’t know how to get him out of it
To preface this, my buddy is a really smart and really motivated guy. He was fooled by some Instagram representative of IM Academy and paid 300 or so to join their “company”. I’ve been trying to convince him that the information they are selling him cannot possibly work or else everyone in that program would be rich. He is open to criticism and isn’t trying to recruit me, but he still believes that he just needs to put more effort into learning it and that’s why he hasn’t made money yet. I feel horrible because he’s a really good kid and just got fooled by good (and extremely immoral imo) marketing. Now the real questions I have is how do I convince him to cut his losses and stop? Has anyone had any similar experiences? Thanks for reading
With this pc I will be using it for coding, graph works with forex and gaming. Games I would be playing is Modern Warfare, Rainbow six siege, Tomb raider, csgo and few more. My budget for this pc will be £1600-£1800 including monitor I will be needing a single monitor as the area I have for this pc wont be the biggest. preferably a 144hz monitor with 1ms refresh rate. I have seen a monitor in person down at my local curry's store in uk which costs about £200. This is link for the monitor-https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing/pc-monitors/pc-monitors/msi-optix-g241-full-hd-24-ips-lcd-gaming-monitor-black-10204313-pdt.html If there is any other recommendations I will take I plan to buy the parts any time past 15th July. I will just need the desktop itself as well as monitor which spoke about before North west United kingdom there is no microcenter near me as of location I am in but in Bolton where I live close to there is the scan computing place. Just some Razer gear but I am planning on upgrades in the future to better peripherals. I May possibly be overclocking my gpu, ram and cpu to get maximum performance out of them. For this I will do my research on how to do so. preferably a m.2 ssd for os and games I will use more often. but as well as that 2gb on a hdd would do me fine to store school work and little projects. preferably wireless internet but in future I may wire an ethernet cable threw the walls to my router. I do have an extension router in my room but is useless using ethernet cable with it. ps internet provider is Bt. mid tower preferably as space is not as big colour theme I would say black/white with possible bits of rgb which I can link all together for effects not so bothered with rgb strips as if I wanted to I can add in future. cases I have looked at have been h510,h710, corsair icu 220t as well as the 465x. I can used the watermarked version to begin with and can always buy a key in future. Extra info or particulars: This will be first time build and with cables for psu would prefer to be braided and fit colour scheme. Thank you to anyone who gets back to this will help out a lot.
App Name: TradingView - stock charts, Forex & Bitcoin ticker Description: Stock charts with real-time market quotes & trading ideas. Traders & Investors. Simple for beginners and effective for technical analysis experts, TradingView has all of the instruments for publication and the viewing of trading ideas. Real-time quotes and charts are available for wherever you are at whatever time. At TradingView, all data is obtained by professional providers who have direct and extensive access to stock quotes, futures, popular indices, Forex, Bitcoin and CFDs. You can effectively track stock market and major global indices such as the NASDAQ Composite, S&P 500 (SPX), NYSE, Dow Jones (DJI), DAX, FTSE 100, NIKKEI 225, etc. You can also learn more about exchange rates, oil prices, mutual funds, bonds, ETFs and other commodities. TradingView is the most active social network for traders and investors. Connect with millions of traders from around the world, learn from the experiences of other investors and discuss trading ideas. Advanced Charts TradingView has excellent charts that surpass even desktop trading platforms in quality — all for free. No compromises. All of the features, settings and tools of our charts will also be available in our app version. Over 10 types of charts for market analysis from different angles. Starting with an elementary chart line and ending with Renko and Kagi charts, which focus heavily on price fluctuations and barely take time into account as a factor. They can be very useful for determining long-term trends and can help you earn money. Choose from a large selection of price analysis tools, including, but not limited to, indicators, strategies, drawing objects (i.e. Gann, Elliot Wave, moving averages) and more. Individual watchlists and alerts You can track major global indices, stocks, currency pairs, bonds, futures, mutual funds, commodities and cryptocurrencies all in real-time. Alerts will help you not to miss the smallest of changes in the market and will allow you to react in time to invest or sell profitably, increasing your overall profit. Flexible settings help you to track the indices you need and also group them in a way that is convenient for you. Syncing your accounts All saved changes, notifications, charts, and technical analysis, which you began on the TradingView platform will be automatically accessible from your mobile device through the app. Real-time data from global exchanges Gain access to data in real-time on more than 100,000 instruments from over 50 exchanges from the United States, Russia, the East, and countries in Asia and Europe, such as: NYSE, LSE, TSE, SSE, HKEx, Euronext, TSX, SZSE, FWB, SIX, ASX, KRX, NASDAQ, JSE, Bolsa de Madrid, TWSE, BM&F/B3, MOEX and many others! Commodity prices In real-time, you can track prices for gold, silver, oil, natural gas, cotton, sugar, wheat, corn, and many other products. Global indices Track major indices of the world stock market in real-time: ■ North and South America: Dow Jones, S&P 500, NYSE, NASDAQ Composite, SmallCap 2000, NASDAQ 100, Merval, Bovespa, RUSSELL 2000, IPC, IPSA; ■ Europe: CAC 40, FTSE MIB, IBEX 35, ATX, BEL 20, DAX, BSE Sofia, PX, РТС, ММВБ (MOEX); ■ Asian-Pacific Ocean Regions: NIKKEI 225, SENSEX, NIFTY, SHANGHAI COMPOSITE, S&P/ASX 200, HANG SENG, KOSPI, KLCI, NZSE 50; ■ Africa: Kenya NSE 20, Semdex, Moroccan All Shares, South Africa 40; and ■ Middle East: EGX 30, Amman SE General, Kuwait Main, TA 25. Cryptocurrency Get the opportunity to compare prices from leading cryptocurrency exchanges, such as HitBTC, Binance, BitBay, Coinbase, Mercado Gemini, Kraken, Huobi, OkCoin, and many others. Get information on prices for: ■ Bitcoin (BTC), Litecoin (LTC), Ripple (XRP); ■ Ethereum ( ETH), Ethereum Classic (ETC), IOTA; ■ Dogecoin (DOGE), USD Coin (USDC), Tron (TRX); ■ Stellar (XLM), Tether (USDT), Cardano (ADA); ■ Monero (XMR), ZCash (ZEC), Dash. Playstore Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tradingview.tradingviewapp Mod Features: Additional indicators available in pro version of this app
Road To FIRE - an open source portfolio tracker app
Hello FIRE community, I would like to share with you a portfolio tracker app that I've been working on lately. It's free, open source, takes your privacy seriously and helps you keep track of your assets and rebalancing steps that you need to take on your road to FIRE.
What is Road To FIRE?
It's a portfolio tracker app for your stocks, ETFs, mutual funds, bonds, cryptocurrencies, commodities, P2P loans and real estate. It runs in your browser, so you don't need to install anything. Privacy is important, so all data is stored in your local browser (or your cloud storage account, if you provide one, in order to sync data across your devices). The only data sent to the app server are the symbols for your assets, in order to get their current quotes. It's aimed at passive investors, so no fancy real-time charts or news.
Key Features:
Track your stock, ETF, mutual funds, bonds, cryptocurrencies, commodities, P2P loans and real estate portfolio in one app.
Automatically get quotes for stocks (including Romanian stocks, if there are fellow Romanians here), mutual funds, bonds, commodities and cryptocurrencies.
Summary charts showing percentage left to the goals you set, historic portfolio value, portfolio allocation by asset type, asset geographic allocation, cash allocation by currency, monthly spending limit based on your Safe Withdrawal Rate (SWR).
Steps required to rebalance your portfolio to reach desired allocation.
Multiple currencies supported, and the value is converted to your base currency using latest forex quotes.
Track unrealized profit-loss.
Capital gains statements.
Automatic interest calculation and payment.
Track dividend, rent payments and capital costs (for real estate) to get total return.
Support for recurring transactions that can execute automatically or only after user approval.
Transaction history.
Sync across multiple devices using a cloud storage account (Dropbox, Google Drive and RemoteStorage account are supported).
Privacy focused. All data is stored in your browser local storage or your own cloud storage account.
Encryption is available for additional privacy, so your data can't be read even if someone has access to your device or cloud storage account.
Restrict access to application using biometric authentication (fingerprint, face ID, etc) on supported devices.
Works offline.
Can optionally be installed as an app (supported by most mobile and some desktop modern browsers).
Backup / Restore application data.
Can the app connect to my bank?
No, it can't, and this feature won't be added. For one, it's not technically possible, and even if it would, I don't see much benefit for having a portfolio tracker connected to your bank account. I see a great benefit in having that in a budget tracker, but this is not the purpose of the app. I did try however to make the manual addition of transactions as easy as possible. I am open to suggestions and bug reports. If you have any, just post them here, or on Github: https://github.com/iLiviu/road-to-fire/issues To run the app, just go to https://roadtofire.iliviu.me and you are all set.
What are some of the best apps you have on your Mac? here are mine
I have just upgraded my 2012 MBP to the latest one and am reviewing the software I have installed and going through what I use frequently enough to merit keeping on the brand new system. Figured I would share the list here and get some good recommendations from the community as well. Paid or free, does not matter. I love discovering new and useful apps and hope you find something new and interesting in this list too. Here is what I use frequently or semi-frequently:
Standard Notes
Cost: Free (all core functionality) with paid features (themes and editor customizations) Site: https://standardnotes.org/ It is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted, cross-platform text based notes application. End-to-end encryption means no one (not even the company itself) can read the notes you keep here unless they have access to your password. It syncs flawlessly on all devices and the bulk and most useful features are free.
Itsy Cal
Cost: Free Site: https://www.mowglii.com/itsycal/ Great little utility that provides you with the calendar in the menu bar. Its provide a more concise but slightly less attractive menu calendar option than Fantastical 2.
Fantastical 2
Cost: $40 Site: https://flexibits.com/fantastical If you have been using MacOS for more than a few months then you surely have heard of it. It is a great calendar replacement.
Quassell Client
Cost: Free Site: https://quassel-irc.org/ An open source and cross-platform IRC application. It is slightly less polished than the paid Textual 7 IRC app for MacOS but I use it because it provides the Core/Client capability. So I have the core running on an always on Windows server on my home network and I use the client app on my Mac and Windows computers to connect to the same IRC session. Sort of an always on IRC solution.
Omni Disk Sweeper
Cost: Free Site: https://www.omnigroup.com/more A free utility from Omni Group that provides stats on storage usage. it's free and useful.
Cost: $10 Site: https://pilotmoon.com/popclip/ A neat utility that pops up some options when you select any text. It's hard to explain how cool it is. Try out the free trial.
Bartender 3
Cost: $15 Site: https://www.macbartender.com/ A neat utility to customize and hide icons from your Mac's menu bar. Try the free trial.
Proton VPN
Cost: Free for one device, subscription for multiple devices Site: https://protonvpn.com/ An awesome VPN that provides unlimited bandwitdth for free for one device (at a time, so you can install on your iphone and ipad too but can only have one active connection at a time, for example, when travelling)
Signal Desktop Sync
Cost: Free Site: https://signal.org/ Free, open source, cross platform (no ipad) encrypted messaging app recommended by Edward Snowden.
DayOne
Cost: Free on one device, Subscription for sync on multiple devices and features Site: https://dayoneapp.com/ A diary and journaling app that provides (for subscription) end-to-end encrypted syncing for your diaries on all your devices (iOS, iPadOS, MacOS only, no Windows and the web app does not support end-to-end encrypted journals).
MS Remote Desktop 10
Cost: Free Site: Get from Mac App Store Remote Desktop app for connecting to all Windows machines on your network or at work
Cost: Free Site: Get it from Mac App Store A very handy utility to stop your mac from going to sleep. basically an updated, feature rich successor to Caffiene
Cost: Free Site: https://calibre-ebook.com/ Free, open-source, cross-platform ebook management system. Must have if you have an ebook reader like Kobo or Kindle
Little Snich 4
Cost: $40 Site: https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html A beautifully designed outbound firewall that lets you keep track on which apps on your computer are making outbound connections and where to. Run it in silent mode and then check every once in a while to ensure no apps are leaking your information to places that they shouldn't be. For example you can block certain apps from reporting to Google Analytics if they haven't asked for your consent to collect analytics.
Money Dance
Cost: $50 Site: https://moneydance.com/ A cross-platform personal finance/budgeting app (no mobile syncing for investments). I only use it for its portfolio (stocks, forex etc.) tracking and end-to-end encrypted syncing capabilities.
App Cleaner & Uninstaller
Cost: Free and Pro for $10 Site: https://nektony.com/mac-app-cleaner Just a little bit more thorough than the free App cleaner from freemacsoft but that one shoud be good enough for you too.
Cost: Free 5 GB. +1GB/each referral Site (link with referral for +1GB upon signup): https://www.sync.com/?sync_refer=8940a2ba0 An end-to-end encrypted dropbox alternative. Use it to backup important documents on the cloud without having to worry about the service/hackers being able to get at the information on the server side.
Better Touch Tool
Cost: $7.5 Site: https://folivora.ai/ Great utility to customize touchbar on your Macbook Pro. Use it with one of the available customization packages to get started.
Scrivener
Cost: $50 (or $40 with code: LEARNSCRIVENER) Site: https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scriveneoverview Porbably the best long-form wirting tool on Mac (and even Windows). I prefer it over Ulysses because it's not subscription based. Free trial available, try it out.
Paste
Cost: $15 Site: https://pasteapp.me/ A clipboard manager that prganizes copied information in a great card based system. Allows iCloud based sync too that is optional.
Strategy to Make 50% - 100% a Year Trading One Day a Week.
I feel a lot of times people can over think and try to over engineer making moderate annual gains in the Forex markets. Simple and low maintenance strategies can be devised to do this. If someone said to me, "Hey, I've got $10 million and want 15% a year . I don't want to be in the market more than 3 hours a week". I'd say, "I got this. Give me close of New York session on Friday to 2 hours before the market close. Easy gig." In this post I will teach you how. I will also post setups and track results from strategy on Friday's that qualify. Since I am not doing this for a pedantic millionaire investor, I'll use the whole of Friday for my trades. With this I think I should be able to beat 50% on 1% risk per position. There are specific qualifiers needed going into Friday to trigger this strategy. It will not trade every week. Only when there is a trend present and we are either in a trending week or near the end of a corrective week. Here is what a corrective week tends to look like. https://preview.redd.it/dtdwbsjt74i31.png?width=673&format=png&auto=webp&s=37030c3d5e4aad34812ab806addb5e34e948b525 You can sync up this with real price action in what has been (and still is) a corrective week in GBPUSD. Setting Up Approaching Final High When we see this, we have a really easy trade looking to buy London open area at a 61.8% retracement. There are multiple reasons this trade could work. Lots of different ways a strategy can pick up this trade (I won't cover these here, if you look through my post history I cover them extensively). Here is the area on this chart I will be looking to trade. Entry Area Let's look closer at the trades when we have this set up. I said buy 61.8, but that is too arbitrary. Working one day a week here, should pretend to look busy, huh. https://preview.redd.it/lwtj73tia4i31.png?width=1298&format=png&auto=webp&s=444c8d13d15c8b8f3ea5402ec35cb46c63be1440 So we're looking for the 61.8 retracement for around London. This is where the strategy can potentially come active. This trade may or may not be taken, it depends on a few things. Honestly, one of them is I might sleep in. Others are more professional ... promise. When there has been this failed new high move, it's on. I always want the following trade. Here we're looking for a 61.8 retrace from the failed new high swing. A bounce from there, and then pending order can be placed to enter on a retest of there. This is what I consider to be a strong signal. I can use tight stops here and get good RR. I expect a strong move from this area. When it breaks out of the high and runs a little, I'll close half my profit and trail stops to protect running profits. I will wait and watch for the market contracting and starting to make a messy range. I'll then look for it to start to pull back and look like it's going to start to correct the move of the day. I will look to buy into this move and expect to see price spiking. Not trying to "time the market" or anything, but it's probably going to be 90 to 120 minutes before the market closes this happens. For trending weeks, I'll be using the same sort of execution rules and trading patterns. he prerequisite price action I want to see will be there having been a new high/low in the trend made by Thursday. I'll then be looking for a retrace of that and the market running out the end of the week with a final trend move. https://preview.redd.it/5u0qyoeec4i31.png?width=520&format=png&auto=webp&s=986aa1b123f98e24aec8c23da2dd8651417a8c85 Part 2 https://www.reddit.com/Forex/comments/cufic1/strat_for_50_100_a_year_more_details_first_trade/
Why I moved on from Robinhood to a proper broker (and am not looking back)
Hello fellow autists. It has now been around two weeks where I've moved on from Robinhood and am now using a proper broker (TD Ameritrade, using their "Think or Swim" mobile app / desktop app). I had been using Robinhood for about 1.5 years, but didn't realize the vast amounts of benefits you get at a proper broker (described below). I wish someone had told me about all this when I first started trading, so now I'm passing on this knowledge to youuuuuu. Perhaps other brokers have most if not all of these benefits, but I don't got experience with them.
Pretty cheap trades - While the main benefit of Robinhood is that its free - you can actually get pretty cheap trades with TDA. What you have to do is open a support request with them, and ask them to price match "Tastyworks" (https://tastyworks.com/pricing.html). You TELL them that you want them to price match their fees, or you'll leave etc... Can even ask for cheaper fees if you want. You can also get 300 free trades when you first sign up , and even free money (up to $600) if you deposit a LOT.
Practically unlimited day trades (for stocks and options) - this one was a big one for me, as I’m poor and have less than $25,000 in my trading account. You can ask for a “tier 2 cash account”, and you can do as MANY day trades as you want … but only if the money is “cleared”. Every time you make a trade, the money will clear the next day. What this means is that you can place a trade with 50% of your money in the morning, and then later in the day make another trade with the other 50%, then you can sell out of both positions. The next day the money will be cleared and you can continue trading. I went from doing that dumb 3 day trades every 5 days… to about 5-20 day trades every single day.
Charts have superb indicators in them - Here’s what my “charts” setup looks like - https://i.imgur.com/EiiWEHe.png - You can see I can monitor multiple charts at once (HUGELY beneficial), and I can see the 200d ma, VWAP, EMA clouds, and low and high of day. Hundreds of others to add if you want, and they all work on mobile too.
Combine having “unlimited” day trades with seeing proper indicators on a chart . . . and you can do my new day trading strategy of buying a few options when you see a setup occur (such as a stock going below the low of the day, or buying after it breaks the 200d ma). Then when the price hits a resistance point (such as the pre market highs), you can sell 50-75% of the contracts and lock in profits. Then you can add to your positions on pullbacks or just let the rest ride.
Good referral system - Refer someone and you can get either $50 or 10 free trades (with Robinhood I only ever for like $5 - $10 stocks)
Paper trading - Think or swim has paper trading, so you can practice losing money before you actually lose your real money
Stop loss on options - In a position but have to step out to a meeting? You can have little fear of the market going against you as you can put in stop losses for your options. As you set the stop loss for the price of the contract, it will even tell you what approximate price the stock will be
Market buy in and out of options - With Robinhood, if I wanted to get out of an option I’d put in a sell and it would put the price in between the bid and ask. Half the time it wouldn’t sell right away, so I’d have to cancel it then put in another (all the while the price keeps tanking). Now I can easily market sell something and boom it’s sold. You usually only want to do this if the option has high open interest / volume / tight bid & ask, which you can easily see. Also there’s no “this option can only be bought in 5 cent increment” bullshits
Buy today’s SPY option - lose your money even faster by getting same day expiry for SPY etc…
Easily see the prices for multiple options - Here’s what I see to buy into options (https://i.imgur.com/Ug8pskt.png). I can easily browse multiple strikes for today, and click into other dates to see those. No more clicking into an option… then clicking into it again to see the open volume etc… You can also see the IV on the very right of the tab name (with the date on it)
Excellent customer support, can live chat - Compared to RH where its practically 0 support and GG if you run into an issue
Transfer your IRA and day trade or do options on it - Lose your retirement funds too if you want. If it's a Roth IRA, gains are tax free (but losses aren’t a tax right off)
You can also link all of your accounts... And then trade with them all at once. So in a few clicks I can take a single trade that gets executed on my day trading account, my Roth IRA, and my traditional IRA
Excellent mobile app and desktop app that syncs - Tons of other features I’m leaving out too
Forex and futures - If you want, you can do forex and futures
Just download “Think or swim” and try out the “paper trading” at least, it's all free. You can also open a regular account and just do all of your chart viewing and option browsing, then go into RH if you want to buy in there. PM me if you have any questions :D
Dear Airdropbob Comunity https://preview.redd.it/vygmhvtiwp041.png?width=200&format=png&auto=webp&s=813dc73044e5f7f911200a1bc88252177e2d9a08 Welcome back to another weekend edition of our airdrop report. Again we present to you the best airdrops of the week, so you don't have to watch out every day for the best and most rewarding airdrops of the industry!We hope you enjoy the read and find the projects as interesting as we do!! This week started out with the PRO token airdrop. The PRO token, based on the ERC20 standard, is the inherent currency of the Prometheus platform. Their main goal is to bring solutions to businesses which want to implement cutting edge blockchain technology into their processes. They want to tackle supply chain management issues, solutions for media content delivery and more. And the PRO token gives the holder the possibility to access all the features of the platform. Get more information and the Reflink here: https://www.airdropbob.com/prometheus/airdrop-prometheusProjects website: https://prometheus.business Then there was BELA by Belacam. Belacam is according to their website the "Instagram of Cryptocurrency". And their native BELA token is already listed on CMC. Their special offer for every crypto interested social media user is rewarding the community not with likes, but instead with BELA tokens. These are than transferable to your own wallet and can be traded or you can support other content creators with your earned tokens. Get more information and the Reflink here: https://www.airdropbob.com/belacam/airdrop-belacamProjects website: https://www.belacam.com Later in the week we brought to you the ETH airdrop by Asia Trading Battle. They hold a big trading competiton and as entry incentive you will be awarded in ETH. There are two main contest, one for forex trading and the other one for crypto. The registration is still open and the big prize is 1 million $. And to top it all of the winner will be presented with a spacial winners belt by Mr. Mayweather himself. Get more information and the Reflink here: https://www.airdropbob.com/asia-trading-battle/airdrop-asia-trading-battleProjects website: https://atb2019.com On Friday we presented you the FUNTO token airdrop by FunnyToken. They created the ERC20 based FUNTO token to create a bridge between their games, where you can earn tokens while you play, with their over all platform as well as with third party providers. This way FunnyToken wants to grow their own business as well as the one of their partners. And at the same time of course give the players the easyest and safest way to trade, or transfer in game collectibles and items. Get more information and the Reflink here: https://www.airdropbob.com/funnytoken/airdrop-funnytoken-round-2Projects website: https://www.funnytoken.org On Saturday we brought to you the MNS token airdrop by Monnos. The ERC20 based MNS token is the native currency of the Brazilian based Monnos trading platform. At the moment they offer a proprietary wallet app for a range of different tokens as well as a crypto exchange. And for the future they plan to bring to life a special service that enables users to sync their own trading strategy's with the ones of other users. And for all this you will need their MNS token, so you can enjoy all the features of the platform. Get more information and the Reflink here: https://www.airdropbob.com/monnos/airdrop-monnosProjects website: https://monnos.com And if you want to know more about everything Crypto/Airdrop related and how to participate, go visit: https://www.airdropbob.com Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AirdropBob.io Join us on Telegram: https://telegram.me/AirdropBobChannel Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/airdropbob Or subscribe on Steemit: https://steemit.com/@airdropbob #airdropbob #airdrops #crypto #cryptoairdrops
Elaborating on Datadash's 50k BTC Prediction: Why We Endorse the Call
As originally published via CoinLive I am the Co-Founder at CoinLive. Prior to founding Coinlive.io, my area of expertise was inter-market analysis. I came across Datadash 50k BTC prediction this week, and I must take my hats off to what I believe is an excellent interpretation of the inter-connectivity of various markets. At your own convenience, you can find a sample of Intermarket analysis I've written in the past before immersing myself into cryptos full-time. Gold inter-market: 'Out of sync' with VIX, takes lead from USD/JPY USD/JPY inter-market: Watch divergence US-Japan yield spread EUUSD intermarket: US yields collapse amid supply environment Inter-market analysis: Risk back in vogue, but for how long? USD/JPY intermarket: Bulls need higher adj in 10-y US-JP spread The purpose of this article is to dive deeper into the factors Datadash presents in his video and how they can help us draw certain conclusions about the potential flows of capital into crypto markets and the need that will exist for a BTC ETF. Before I do so, as a brief explainer, let's touch on what exactly Intermarket analysis refers to: Intermarket analysis is the global interconnectivity between equities, bonds, currencies, commodities, and any other asset class; Global markets are an ever-evolving discounting and constant valuation mechanism and by studying their interconnectivity, we are much better positioned to explain and elaborate on why certain moves occur, future directions and gain insights on potential misalignments that the market may not have picked up on yet or might be ignoring/manipulating. While such interconnectivity has proven to be quite limiting when it comes to the value one can extract from analyzing traditional financial assets and the crypto market, Datadash has eloquently been able to build a hypothesis, which as an Intermarket analyst, I consider very valid, and that matches up my own views. Nicolas Merten constructs a scenario which leads him to believe that a Bitcoin ETF is coming. Let's explore this hypothesis. I will attempt to summarize and provide further clarity on why the current events in traditional asset classes, as described by Datadash, will inevitably result in a Bitcoin ETF. Make no mistake, Datadash's call for Bitcoin at 50k by the end of 2018 will be well justified once a BTC ETF is approved. While the timing is the most challenging part t get right, the end result won't vary. If one wishes to learn more about my personal views on why a BTC ETF is such a big deal, I encourage you to read my article from late March this year. Don't Be Misled by Low Liquidity/Volume - Fundamentals Never Stronger The first point Nicholas Merten makes is that despite depressed volume levels, the fundamentals are very sound. That, I must say, is a point I couldn't agree more. In fact, I recently wrote an article titled TheParadox: Bitcoin Keeps Selling as Intrinsic Value Set to Explode where I state "the latest developments in Bitcoin's technology makes it paradoxically an ever increasingly interesting investment proposition the cheaper it gets." However, no article better defines where we stand in terms of fundamentals than the one I wrote back on May 15th titled Find Out Why Institutions Will Flood the Bitcoin Market, where I look at the ever-growing list of evidence that shows why a new type of investors, the institutional ones, looks set to enter the market in mass. Nicholas believes that based on the supply of Bitcoin, the market capitalization can reach about $800b. He makes a case that with the fundamentals in bitcoin much stronger, it wouldn't be that hard to envision the market cap more than double from its most recent all-time high of more than $300b. Interest Rates Set to Rise Further First of all, one of the most immediate implications of higher rates is the increased difficulty to bear the costs by borrowers, which leads Nicholas to believe that banks the likes of Deutsche Bank will face a tough environment going forward. The CEO of the giant German lender has actually warned that second-quarter results would reflect a “revenue environment [that] remains challenging." Nicholas refers to the historical chart of Eurodollar LIBOR rates as illustrated below to strengthen the case that interest rates are set to follow an upward trajectory in the years to come as Central Banks continue to normalize monetary policies after a decade since the global financial crisis. I'd say, that is a correct assumption, although one must take into account the Italian crisis to be aware that a delay in higher European rates is a real possibility now.  Let's look at the following combinations: Fed Fund Rate Contract (green), German 2-year bond yields (black) and Italy's 10-year bond yield (blue) to help us clarify what's the outlook for interest rates both in Europe and the United States in the foreseeable future. The chart suggests that while the Federal Reserve remains on track to keep increasing interest rates at a gradual pace, there has been a sudden change in the outlook for European rates in the short-end of the curve. While the European Central Bank is no longer endorsing proactive policies as part of its long-standing QE narrative, President Mario Draghi is still not ready to communicate an exit strategy to its unconventional stimulus program due to protectionism threats in the euro-area, with Italy the latest nightmare episode. Until such major step is taken in the form of a formal QE conclusion, interest rates in the European Union will remain depressed; the latest drastic spike in Italy's benchmark bond yield to default levels is pre-emptive of lower rates for longer, an environment that on one hand may benefit the likes of Deutsche Bank on lower borrowing costs, but on the other hand, sets in motion a bigger headache as risk aversion is set to dominate financial markets, which leads to worse financial consequences such as loss of confidence and hence in equity valuations.  Deutsche Bank - End of the Road? Nicholas argues that as part of the re-restructuring process in Deutsche Bank, they will be facing a much more challenging environment as lending becomes more difficult on higher interest rates. At CoinLive, we still believe this to be a logical scenario to expect, even if a delay happens as the ECB tries to deal with the Italian political crisis which once again raises the question of whether or not Italy should be part of the EU. Reference to an article by Zerohedge is given, where it states: "One day after the WSJ reported that the biggest German bank is set to "decimate" its workforce, firing 10,000 workers or one in ten, this morning Deutsche Bank confirmed plans to cut thousands of jobs as part of new CEO Christian Sewing's restructuring and cost-cutting effort. The German bank said its headcount would fall “well below” 90,000, from just over 97,000. But the biggest gut punch to employee morale is that the bank would reduce headcount in its equities sales and trading business by about 25%." There is an undeniably ongoing phenomenon of a migration in job positions from traditional financial markets into blockchain, which as we have reported in the past, it appears to be a logical and rational step to be taken, especially in light of the new revenue streams the blockchain sector has to offer. Proof of that is the fact that Binance, a crypto exchange with around 200 employees and less than 1 year of operations has overcome Deutsche Bank, in total profits. What this communicates is that the opportunities to grow an institution’s revenue stream are formidable once they decide to integrate cryptocurrencies into their business models. One can find an illustration of Deutsche Bank's free-fall in prices below:  Nicholas takes notes of a chart in which one can clearly notice a worrying trend for Italian debt. "Just about every other major investor type has become a net seller (to the ECB) or a non-buyer of BTPs over the last couple of years. Said differently, for well over a year, the only marginal buyer of Italian bonds has been the ECB!", the team of Economists at Citi explained. One can find the article via ZeroHedge here.  Equities & Housing to Suffer the Consequences Nicholas notes that trillions of dollars need to exit these artificially-inflated equity markets. He even mentions a legendary investor such as George Soros, who has recently warned that the world could be on the brink of another devastating financial crisis, on lingering debt concerns in Europe and a strengthening US dollar, as a destabilizing factor for both the US's emerging- and developed-market rivals. Ray Dalio, another legend in the investing world and Founder of Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge fund, "has ramped up its short positions in European equities in recent weeks, bringing their total value to an estimated $22 billion", MarketWatch reports. Nicholas extracts a chart by John Del Vecchio at lmtr.com where it illustrates the ratio between stocks and commodities at the lowest in over 50 years. As the author states: "I like to look for extremes in the markets. Extremes often pinpoint areas where returns can be higher and risk lower than in other time periods. Take the relationship between commodities and stocks. The chart below shows that commoditieshavennot been cheaper than stocks in a generation. We often hear this time it is different” to justify what’s going on in the world. But, one thing that never changes is human nature. People push markets to extremes. Then they revert. "  Bitcoin ETF the Holy Grail for a Cyclical Multi-Year Bull Run It is precisely from this last chart above that leads Nicholas to believe we are on the verge of a resurgence in commodity prices. Not only that but amid the need of all this capital to exit stocks and to a certain extent risky bonds (Italian), a new commodity-based digital currency ETF based on Bitcoin will emerge in 2018. The author of Datadash highlights the consideration to launching a Bitcoin ETF by the SEC. At CoinLive, our reporting of the subject can be found below: "Back in April, it was reported that the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has put back on the table two Bitcoin ETF proposals, according to public documents. The agency is under formal proceedings to approve a rule change that would allow NYSE Arca to list two exchange-traded funds (ETFs) proposed by fund provider ProShares. The introduction of an ETF would make Bitcoin available to a much wider share of market participants, with the ability to directly buy the asset at the click of a button, essentially simplifying the current complexity that involves having to deal with all the cumbersome steps currently in place." Nicholas refers to the support the Bitcoin ETF has been receiving by the Cboe president Chris Concannon, which is a major positive development. CoinLive reported on the story back in late March, noting that "a Bitcoin ETF will without a doubt open the floodgates to an enormous tsunami of fresh capital entering the space, which based on the latest hints by Concannon, the willingness to keep pushing for it remains unabated as the evolution of digital assets keeps its course." It has been for quite some time CoinLive's conviction, now supported by no other than Nicholas Merten from Datadash, that over the next 6 months, markets will start factoring in the event of the year, that is, the approval of a Bitcoin ETF that will serve as a alternative vehicle to accommodate the massive flows of capital leaving some of the traditional asset classes. As Nicholas suggests, the SEC will have little choice but to provide alternative investments. Bitcoin as a Hedge to Lower Portfolios' Volatility Last but not least, crypto assets such as Bitcoin and the likes have an almost non-existent correlation to other traditional assets such as stocks, bonds, and commodities, which makes for a very attractive and broadly-applicable diversification strategy for the professional money as it reduces one’s portfolio volatility. The moment a Bitcoin ETF is confirmed, expect the non-correlation element of Bitcoin as a major driving force to attract further capital. Anyone Can BeWrongDatadash, But You Won't be Wrong Alone Having analyzed the hypothesis by Nicholas Merten, at CoinLive we believe that the conclusion reached, that is, the creation of a Bitcoin ETF that will provide shelter to a tsunami of capital motivated by the diversification and store of value appeal of Bitcoin, is the next logical step. As per the timing of it, we also anticipate, as Nicholas notes, that it will most likely be subject to the price action in traditional assets. Should equities and credit markets hold steady, it may result in a potential delay, whereas disruption in the capital market may see the need for a BTC ETF accelerate. Either scenario, we will conclude with a quote we wrote back in March. "It appears as though an ETF on Bitcoin is moving from a state of "If" to "When." Datadash is certainly not alone on his 50k call. BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes appears to think along the same line. On behalf of the CoinLive Team, we want to thank Nicholas Merten at Datadash for such enlightening insights.
Professional Forex Traders Follow These Things And So Should You!
In all the fields the most successful people have just one secret and that is to follow a set of rules without a fail. Forex trading is no different from other professions. There is a list of things that all successful traders have been following and whether you are a beginner or a seasoned trader, following the tips mentioned in this post will also smoothen your way to progress. Hafizzat Rusli 1. Aim For A Goal And Define Your Style For Trading Having a goal or destiny set in your head always helps you reach it easily. It clears up your mind, helps you eliminate extra or unnecessary things, pick up the essentials and define a pace to achieve smaller goals. With defined goals, you will be able to choose the different ways to achieve them and also help you to figure which of the ways will be the best. It just does not help you choose the best way but also gives you an option of plan b in case the prior does not work well for you. 2. Picking Up The Right Broker And A Suitable Trading Platform The paramount of being a successful trader is to know what trading platform suits you the best and if you have also chosen the right broker. The platform you want to work on is very much related to the broker you choose. It is the broker who will be providing you with a trading platform so you must choose the particular broker who can provide you the platform which you want to use. Do thorough research on both the trading platform and the broker because an appropriate trading platform is useless if the choice of broker is not right and the vice versa. 3. Be Consistent With Your Methods Before starting forex trading professionally you have to choose some trading styles, right broker, trading platform, etc. As important is this step, sticking to the methodology is equally significant. If you keep changing your methodologies and strategies, you will be on phase one and that is going to take you nowhere near to the success. Once you have picked up your trading style (which should also be done after complete research) then stick to it and keep making yourself better at it with practice and time. 4. Do An Analysis Every week The forex market is closed on the weekend and that is surely the time to relax for a while but also a thorough analysis. On the weekends you can take some time out to study the weekly charts, go through the political and geopolitical news of the country whose currency you have invested in. This strategy keeps you on toes and in case there is some loss coming your way you can reduce its impact or even dodge it completely. 5. Determine Entry and Exit Points Many traders get confused by conflicting information that occurs when looking at charts in different timeframes. What shows up as a buying opportunity on a weekly chart could show up as a sell signal on an intraday chart. Therefore, if you are taking your basic trading direction from a weekly chart and using a daily chart to time entry, be sure to synchronize the two. In other words, if the weekly chart is giving you a buy signal, wait until the daily chart also confirms a buy signal. Keep your timing in sync. 6. Expectancy Calculation The formula for determining the reliability of your system or strategy is known as expectancy. By calculating expectancy we mean that you should be comparing your wins with your losses. Once you know if you won more or the times you lost was more, the next step is to figure out how big were both wins and losses. E= [1+ (W/L)] * [P-1] E is expectancy, W is for wins, L is for losses and P represents win ratio percentage. In forex trading, this is a very important thing to keep on the right track. 7. Have A Formal Printed Record Of Your Steps One of the best tools to learn and grow is a printed record. You can print a chart use it to record things like entry and exit points, the reason to make a trade, the reason to retreat from a particular trade, the trades in which you were overconfident and suffered a loss, the wise strategies that you followed, and similar things which in future will help you to make better decisions.
The inventory market refers back to the assortment of markets and exchanges the place common actions of shopping for, promoting, and issuance of shares of publicly-held firms happen. Such monetary actions are performed by way of institutionalized formal exchanges or over-the-counter (OTC) marketplaces which function underneath an outlined set of laws. There may be a number of inventory buying and selling venues in a rustic or an area which permit transactions in shares and different types of securities. Whereas each phrase - inventory market and inventory alternate - are used interchangeably, the latter time period is usually a subset of the previous. If one says that she trades within the inventory market, it implies that she buys and sells shares/equities on one (or extra) of the inventory alternate(s) which are a part of the general inventory market. The main inventory exchanges within the U.S. embrace the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), Nasdaq, the Higher Different Buying and selling System (BATS). and the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE). These main nationwide exchanges, together with a number of different exchanges working within the nation, type the inventory market of the U.S. Although it's known as an inventory market or fairness market and is primarily identified for buying and selling shares/equities, different monetary securities - like exchange-traded funds (ETF), corporate bonds and derivatives primarily based on shares, commodities, currencies, and bonds - are additionally traded within the inventory markets. Read also.
Whereas right this moment it's potential to buy nearly every part online, there's often a delegated marketplace for each commodity. For example, folks drive to metropolis outskirts and farmlands to buy Christmas bushes, go to the native timber market to purchase wooden and different obligatory materials for house furnishings and renovations, and go to shops like Walmart for his or her common grocery provides. Such devoted markets function a platform the place quite a few patrons and sellers meet, work together and transact. For the reason that a variety of market individuals is large, one is assured of good worth. For instance, if there is just one vendor of Christmas bushes in your complete metropolis, he could have the freedom to cost any worth he pleases because the patrons gained’t have wherever else to go. If the variety of tree sellers is massive in a standard market, they must compete in opposition to one another to draw patrons. The patrons can be spoiled for selection with low- or optimum-pricing making it a good market with worth transparency. Even whereas buying online, patrons examine costs supplied by totally different sellers on the identical buying portal or throughout totally different portals to get one of the best offers, forcing the assorted online sellers to supply one of the best worth. An inventory market is an identical designated marketplace for buying and selling numerous sorts of securities in a managed, safe and managed the atmosphere. For the reason that inventory market brings collectively a whole bunch of hundreds of market individuals who want to purchase and promote shares, it ensures honest pricing practices and transparency in transactions. Whereas earlier inventory markets used to situation and deal in paper-based bodily share certificates, the fashionable day computer-aided inventory markets function electronically.
How the Inventory Market Works
In a nutshell, inventory markets present a safe and controlled atmosphere the place market individuals can transact in shares and different eligible monetary devices with confidence with zero- to low-operational danger. Working underneath the outlined guidelines as acknowledged by the regulator, the inventory markets act as primary markets and as secondary markets. As the main market, the inventory market permits firms to the situation and promote their shares to the wider public for the primary time by way of the method of initial public offerings (IPO). This exercise helps firms increase obligatory capital from traders. It primarily implies that an organization divides itself into quite a few shares (say, 20 million shares) and sells part of these shares (say, 5 million shares) to the wider public at a worth (say, $10 per share). To facilitate this course of, an organization wants a market the place these shares may be offered. This market is offered by the inventory market. If every part goes as per the plans, the corporate will efficiently promote the 5 million shares at a worth of $10 per share and acquire $50 million value of funds. Traders will get the corporate shares which they will anticipate to carry for his or her most well-liked length, in anticipation of rising in share worth and any potential revenue within the type of dividend funds. The inventory alternate acts as a facilitator for this capital elevating course of and receives a charge for its providers from the corporate and its monetary companions. Following the first-time share issuance IPO train known as the itemizing course of, the inventory alternate additionally serves because the buying and selling platform that facilitates common shopping for and promoting of the listed shares. This constitutes the secondary market. The inventory alternate earns a charge for each commerce that happens on its platform in the course of the secondary market exercise. The inventory alternate shoulders the accountability of making certain price transparency, liquidity, price discovery and honest dealings in such buying and selling actions. As nearly all main inventory markets throughout the globe now function electronically, the alternate maintains buying and selling techniques that effectively handle the purchase and promote orders from numerous market individuals. They carry out the worth matching operate to facilitate commerce execution at a worth honest to each patron and sellers. A listed firm can also supply new, extra shares by way of different choices at a later stage, like by way of rights issue or by way of follow-on offers. They could even buyback or delist their shares. The inventory alternate facilitates such transactions. The inventory alternate usually creates and maintains numerous market-level and sector-specific indicators, just like the S&P 500 index or Nasdaq 100 index, which give a measure to trace the motion of the general market. The inventory exchanges additionally preserve all firm information, bulletins, and monetary reporting, which may be often accessed on their official web sites. An inventory alternate additionally helps numerous different corporate-level, transaction-related actions. For example, worthwhile firms might reward traders by paying dividends which often comes from the part of the corporate’s earnings. The alternate maintains all such data and will assist its processing to a sure extent.
Features of an Inventory Market
An inventory market primarily serves the next features: Truthful Dealing in Securities Transactions: Relying on the usual rules of demand and supply, the inventory alternate wants to make sure that all market individuals have instantaneous entry to information for all purchase and promote orders thereby serving to within the honest and clear pricing of securities. Moreover, it also needs to carry out environment-friendly matching of acceptable purchase and promote orders. For instance, there could also be three patrons who've positioned orders for purchasing Microsoft shares at $100, $105 and $110, and there could also be 4 sellers who're keen to promote Microsoft shares at $110, $112, $115 and $120. The alternate (by way of their pc operated automated buying and selling techniques) wants to make sure that one of the best purchase and greatest promote are matched, which on this case is at $110 for the given amount of commerce. Environment-friendly Value Discovery: Inventory markets must assist an environment-friendly mechanism for worth discovery, which refers back to the act of deciding the correct worth of a safety and is often carried out by assessing market provide and demand and different components related to the transactions. Say, a U.S.-based software program firm is buying and selling at a worth of $100 and has a market capitalization of $5 billion. Information merchandise is available in that the EU regulator has imposed a wonderful of $2 billion on the corporate which primarily implies that 40 % of the corporate’s worth could also be worn out. Whereas the inventory market might have imposed a buying and selling worth vary of $90 and $110 on the corporate’s share worth, it ought to effectively change the permissible buying and selling worth restrict to accommodate for the potential adjustments within the share worth, else shareholders might battle to commerce at a good worth. Liquidity Upkeep: Whereas getting the variety of patrons and sellers for a specific monetary safety are uncontrolled for the inventory market, it wants to make sure that whosoever is certified and keen to commerce will get instantaneous entry to position orders which ought to get executed on the honest worth. Safety and Validity of Transactions: Whereas extra individuals are vital for environment-friendly working of a market, the identical market wants to make sure that all individuals are verified and stay compliant with the required guidelines and laws, leaving no room for default by any of the events. Moreover, it ought to make sure that all related entities working out there should additionally adhere to the principles, and work inside the authorized framework given by the regulator. Help All Eligible Kinds of Contributors: A market is made by quite a lot of individuals, which embrace market makers, traders, merchants, speculators, and hedgers. All these individuals function within the inventory market with totally different roles and features. For example, an investor might purchase shares and maintain them for long run spanning a few years, whereas a dealer might enter and exit a place inside seconds. A market maker gives obligatory liquidity out there, whereas a hedger might prefer to commerce in derivatives for mitigating the danger concerned in investments. The inventory market ought to make sure that all such individuals are capable of function seamlessly fulfilling their desired roles to make sure the market continues to function effectively. Investor Safety: Together with rich and institutional traders, a really massive variety of small traders are additionally served by the inventory marketplace for their small quantity of investments. These traders might have restricted monetary information, and will not be totally conscious of the pitfalls of investing in shares and different listed devices. The inventory alternate should implement obligatory measures to supply the required safety to such traders to protect them from monetary loss and guarantee buyer belief. For example, an inventory alternate might categorize shares in numerous segments relying on their danger profiles and permit restricted or no buying and selling by widespread traders in high-risk shares. Derivatives, which have been described by Warren Buffett as monetary weapons of mass destruction, aren't for everybody as one might lose far more than they guess for. Exchanges usually impose restrictions to forestall people with restricted revenue and information from entering into dangerous bets of derivatives. Balanced Regulation: Listed firms are largely regulated and their dealings are monitored by market regulators, just like the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of the U.S. Moreover, exchanges additionally mandate sure necessities – like, well timed submitting of quarterly monetary stories and instantaneous reporting of any related developments - to make sure all market individuals grow to be conscious of company happenings. Failure to stick to the laws can result in the suspension of buying and selling by the exchanges and different disciplinary measures.
Regulating the Inventory Market
An area monetary regulator or competent financial authority or institute is assigned the duty of regulating the inventory market of a rustic. The Securities and Alternate Fee (SEC) is the regulatory physique charged with overseeing the U.S. inventory markets. The SEC is a federal company that works independently of the federal government and political strain. The mission of the SEC is acknowledged as: "to guard traders, preserve honest, orderly, and environment-friendly markets, and facilitate capital formation."
Inventory Market Contributors
Together with long-term traders and brief time period merchants, there are a lot of several types of gamers related to the inventory market. Everyone has a singular function, however, lots of the roles are intertwined and rely on one another to make the market run successfully.
Stockbrokers, also called registered representatives within the U.S., are the licensed professionals who purchase and promote securities on behalf of traders. The brokers act as intermediaries between the inventory exchanges and the traders by shopping for and promoting shares on the traders' behalf. An account with a retail dealer is required to realize entry to the markets.
Portfolio managers are professionals who make investments portfolios, or collections of securities, for purchasers. These managers get suggestions from analysts and make the purchase or promote choices for the portfolio. Mutual fund firms, hedge funds, and pension plans use portfolio managers to make choices and set the funding methods for the cash they maintain.
Investment bankers characterize firms in numerous capacities, comparable to personal firms that wish to go public through an IPO or firms which are concerned in pending mergers and acquisitions. They care for the itemizing course of in compliance with the regulatory necessities of the inventory market.
Custodian and depot service suppliers, that are establishment holding prospects' securities for safekeeping in order to reduce the danger of their theft or loss, additionally function in sync with the alternative to switch shares to/from the respective accounts of transacting events primarily based on buying and selling on the inventory market.
Market maker: A market maker is a broker-dealer who facilitates the buying and selling of shares by posting bid and ask costs together with sustaining a listing of shares. He ensures adequate liquidity out there for a specific (set of) share(s), and income from the distinction between the bid and the ask worth he quotes.
How Inventory Exchanges Make Cash
Inventory exchanges function as for-profit institutes and cost a charge for his or her providers. The first supply of revenue for these inventory exchanges are the revenues from the transaction charges which are charged for every commerce carried out on its platform. Moreover, exchanges earn income from the itemizing charge charged to firms in the course of the IPO course of and different follow-on choices. The alternate additionally earn from promoting market information generated on its platform - like real-time information, historical information, abstract information, and reference information – which is significant for fairness analysis and different makes use of. Many exchanges will even promote know-how merchandise, like a buying and selling terminal and devoted community connection to the alternate, to the events for an acceptable charge. The alternate might supply privileged providers like high-frequency trading to bigger purchasers like mutual funds and asset management companies (AMC), and earn cash accordingly. There are provisions for regulatory charge and registration charge for various profiles of market individuals, just like the market maker and dealer, which type different sources of revenue for the inventory exchanges. The alternate additionally make income by licensing their indexes (and their methodology) that are generally used as a benchmark for launching numerous merchandise like mutual funds and ETFs by AMCs. Many exchanges additionally present programs and certification on numerous monetary matters to trade individuals and earn revenues from such subscriptions.
Competitors for Inventory Markets
Whereas particular person inventory exchanges compete in opposition to one another to get most transaction quantity, they're dealing with menace on two fronts. Darkish Swimming pools: Dark pools, that are personal exchanges or boards for securities buying and selling and function inside personal teams, are posing a problem to public inventory markets. Although their authorized validity is topic to native laws, they're gaining a reputation as individuals save massive on transaction charges. Blockchain Ventures: Amid rising reputation of blockchains, many crypto exchanges have emerged. Such exchanges are venues for buying and selling cryptocurrencies and derivatives related to that asset class. Although their reputation stays restricted, they pose a menace to the standard inventory market mannequin by automating a bulk of the work completed by numerous inventory market individuals and by providing zero- to low-cost providers.
Significance of the Inventory Market
The inventory market is among the most significant parts of a free-market economic system. It permits firms to lift cash by providing inventory shares and company bonds. It lets widespread traders take part within the monetary achievements of the businesses, make income by way of capital gains, and earn cash by way of dividends, though losses are additionally potential. Whereas institutional traders {and professional} cash managers do get pleasure from some privileges owing to their deep pockets, higher information and better danger taking skills, the inventory market makes an attempt to supply a stage taking part in subject to widespread people. The inventory market works as a platform by way of which financial savings and investments of people are channelized into the productive funding proposals. In the long run, it helps in capital formation & financial progress for the nation.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Inventory markets are very important parts of a free-market economic system as a result of they permit democratized entry to buying and selling and alternate of capital for traders of all types.
They carry out a number of features in markets, together with environment-friendly worth discovery and environment-friendly dealing.
Within the US, the inventory market is regulated by the SEC and native regulatory our bodies.
Examples of Inventory Markets
The primary inventory market on the planet was the London inventory alternate. It was begun in a coffeehouse, the place merchants used to satisfy to alternate shares, in 1773. The primary inventory alternate in the USA of America began in Philadelphia in 1790. The Buttonwood settlement, so named as a result of it was signed underneath a buttonwood tree, marked the beginnings of New York's Wall Avenue in 1792. The settlement was signed by 24 merchants and was the primary American group of its type to commerce in securities. The merchants renamed their enterprise as New York Inventory and Alternate Board in 1817.
Started out with forex about 4 months ago, babypips, some other associated read, trying to understand some signal and then got in to scalping - learning by refining settings. It’s been an up and down adventure, had an EA go a bit crazy and I freaked, closing trades and lost most of my profits. About a week a go, I started to find a groove, I haven’t synced the stats but around 90% win. Until I had a fairly solid trade, USDCHF long, and I thought the trailing was in place but it dived and I lost out big (sort of). The loss came from my VPS subscription expiring and the EA settings not enable properly, leaving my open trade with no supporting attributes. Happy to put it down as a lesson, though I received no real notice - I knew it was soon, but no emails etc. It’s a mql5 VPS. Thought to share, happy trading.
Communication is all about clarity. We communicate some piece of information, the recipient gets it. Straightforward on the face of it. Speaking about trading will typically be succinct, focused, and very clear when complete. The ‘audience’ has as many expectations as the speaker though: one should know the context and purpose of the information they are getting to a specific discourse. I occasionally drop into jargon or analogy. It’s a personal weakness: I assume the audience will have the appropriate context of the situation, and knowledge of the context. It’s also a habit. I was on a recorded line for a decade, and use as few a words as possible in a business situation. My writing, not so much. I’ve hesitated to talk much about trading, because of ‘it’. I’ve seen ‘it’ far too often…..’it’ being people using language and jargon of trading without really knowing what they are talking about. A great example of this is around options. People can pick up the definitions, the verbiage, the ‘lingua franca’ as it were. Problem is, they have no clue what they are talking about in the whole. Sure, definitions are known and expounded upon. But the context/situation remains in the abstract to them. Or what they are talking about doesn’t sync with the nature and purpose of the exposure they are taking on. Like talking about that cool new skateboard you’re riding as you're sitting on a bicycle. This isn’t conceit or hubris - it’s only what I’ve observed. Hence the backstory above. Speaking with u/modo85 and u/TheJosh last week plugged me in again to professionals face to face, and a recent post about Constellation by a sub got me thinking about trade again. So….I’m going to tackle the most misunderstood word in trade: hedging. I was taught in business school that a hedge is a ‘risk neutral activity’. One can find definitions for hedging in many places, and for the most part, they’ll align. What won’t is the people using the term. Dynegy, Enron, and other companies took on ‘hedging programs’ that were often positions of leverage. Even the word ‘hedge fund’ is a relative misnomer. Looking at some of the bomb craters left behind by a couple of them....they were either simply a ponzi or flavours of insider trading. They weren’t hedging, they were stealing. So, what’s a hedge? A risk neutral activity that reduces aggregate risk to a primary exposure. A Canadian company buying a greenhouse from an American supplier in 4 easy payments over the next 2 years? Great. You’ll have to pay in USD, so, buy forwards in 6 month increments, pay CAD at the time they come due, your forex exposure is gone, and the total cost is known in advance. The USD/CAD rate might move for or against you during that time. But that’s the point of a hedge: replace risk with certainty. A while ago, Westjet bought a strip of jet fuel futures, taking out physical price exposure for (a very long) 2 years. While not unheard of, it’s a pretty big move. If jet fuel prices tank, they get to eat the difference. As it happened, jet fuel prices soared, Westjet bought physical with cash and offset the futures gains against it. They enjoyed a 2 year window of serious operational cost advantage, and their share price accretion showed it. Prescient....or lucky? That’s what business books are written about. This example might have prompted you to think about another industry where energy is the single largest direct input cost behind headcount (hint: it's cannabis) Constellation’s entry through the CGC buy is another example of a hedge to myself. Different nature and purpose, but a hedge nonetheless. In my eyes, STZ sells booze. Weed will impact aggregate sales of booze, with potential to reduce it. STZ’s buy into the industry is a hedge is to replace dislodged revenue from booze by dope: cannabis exposure will replace these lost revenues, keeping STZ whole. A hedging program is part of a larger initiative, and plugged directly into the strategic course of the business. It has topline impact. If you’ve noticed - the Westjet and STZ examples above are for far different underlying purposes - but they are both simply hedges. Hedging for the retail investor might entail seeking exposure to different provinces, or different links of the value chain, or perhaps within wholesale or retail price exposures. With hedging, you are seeking to reduce, not enhance, existing exposure. The other takeaway is (and there is one in here): don’t use terminology and trade terms unless you know exactly what you are talking about, or what the underlying purpose of using it is. It doesn’t matter what someone notices or thinks: any professional can tell pretty quickly if someone knows what they are talking about. What really matters is that you know what you are actually doing when you take on risk of loss to your capital.
Hello Guys, I'm developing/using a custom App to track my investments in UK and EU, (P2P lending, ETFs, Pensions, Forex?, etc...), some people asked me if I will release the App to the public, so I decided I will make it public. I am looking for 1 beta tester in UK, basically somebody who can play with the app everyday, who knows a little about taxes, stocks, p2p, crypto, and stuff like that... The app will NOT sync all your banks/brokers/platforms accounts, because some of them will not allow to access that data, so probably a lot of manual data will be necesary. if somebody is interested, contact me, you can see some old screenshots here: https://flowfin.tech/flowe
Hey guys, what's up? So a little bit of background - I am currently a Jr Full Stack PHP Dev (html,css,js,mysql,php) in NYC (financial district). I earned a degree in Finance in 2012 and worked as a helpdesk tech (ughhhhh - job market never recovered for Financial Analysts at investment banks) until 2013 while teaching myself webdev. I started at 30k as a tech (thanks college degree, you were really useful) and got a raise to 42k earlier this year after doing dev work for 1 year. I am nearing the 2 years of experience mark, and I feel I am being underpaid for working in NYC. I am currently the lead (95% of the work, aside from managing the scripts that sync an ERP accounting system with some SQL Server DB's) on a project where the goal was to make a front end billing portal for Sage 300 so that the vendors of a client can submit their invoices electronically instead of mailing papecalling/etc. I pretty much built this from the ground up, along with other projects for BMW (they are one of our clients) - a few internal web apps for key management people such as converting US accounting CSV's into a German format and logging any missing entries. This is in addition to creating virtual machines, creating and managing SQL Server tables, spinning up IIS and LAMP servers, and various other (minor) tasks - occasional helpdesk and structured wiring in the field. As for personal projects - I've written an image scraper that scrapes all new submissions of imgur albums in a certain subreddit and uploads them into folders on AmazonS3, and my other major personal project is an automated forex trading algorithm that pulls minute-by-minute data from a live forex feed, drops it into sql, and then makes trades based on that data. Also a bunch of wordpress sites but I don't really consider those as PHP experience, although some employers do (swolesnacks.com as an example - me and my roommates stagnant startup). If any of you can chime in that can give me an idea as to how much I should be making (without knowing any frameworks - although I do know some OOP PHP) or how much you are making in a similar position in NYC, I would be very grateful. The experience here has been great but I am living paycheck to paycheck after taxes get taken out and I think it is time for a change. My last raise was $12k in January and I only got it begrudgingly after my boss found out I was job hunting, not before when I asked for it. I like working here - I can walk in whenever between 9 and 10, wear gym shorts and flip flops, play some DOTA2 for an hour before I leave - but I like being able to pay my bills more than the non-monetary perks offered here. Also, if anyone has any openings in NYC or Brooklyn for a Jr Dev, please let me know! I am open to learning Rails, Python, or Java if need be.
Authored by Jeffrey Snider via Alhambra Investment Partners, In another sign of repeating 2015, the Chinese are beginning to mobilize their “reserves” again. Three years ago, in a futile attempt to staunch CNY’s stubborn “devaluation” various government authorities blew through just about $1 trillion. It didn’t work. You would think that everyone could learn from this episode. I think the Chinese did, which is why in 2017 they engineered the bypass through Hong Kong in order to hide the continued peril; _capital outflows_ in the mistaken parlance of the mainstream. All that changed, unsurprisingly, in January. At first, unlike 2015, it was a trickle. Only small balances were deployed scattershot suggesting that officials weren’t going to repeat their mistake. Western Economists may still view foreign reserves as insurance against this kind of thing, but eurodollar squeeze #3 proved conclusively the absurdity of being so monetarily ignorant. If you can’t steady your currency with $1 trillion, _no one_ can. Period. To chuck that mind-boggling amount into the ether and get nothing to show for it is about as conclusive a demonstration. The PBOC and others’ reluctance to do the same thing in 2018 is therefore understandable. They let CNY go mostly unaddressed (apart from some clandestine operations here or there) because what else were they going to do? This, I believe, explains why CNY plummeted in 2018 compared to the “ticking clock” stairstep decline two and three years ago. That’s another aspect monetary officials may now appreciate, how in the end the mobilization of reserves tends to make things worse. All that may be changing, however. I have to assume with great reluctance, pretty much they don’t know what else to do. Foreign reserves are flowing out of the government’s various pockets all over again. China’s State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) reported that in September 2018 total foreign reserves fell by $22.69 billion. It was the most since January, that prior month a one-off fix. Today, SAFE estimates that in October China shed another $33.93 billion. This was the largest monthly usage since the last ticking clock in 2016. On a 2-month basis, it is pretty clear things are getting serious in China with CNY hanging just on the other side of 7.0. It is a pretty clear signal for escalation. Of what? All these things are connected; from eurodollars to Chinese foreign reserves to Chinese internal money (RMB). They all follow from this exogenous state. As the eurodollar system goes, so does everything else in China (as well as everywhere else). In this case, if A = B, and B = C, then obviously A = C. In other words, all the factors pictured below (3 charts) are the same thing approached from different Chinese angles: eurodollars. Thus, working backward, the more China feels compelled to act against various forms of internal monetary tightness we know right then its origin. China tells us everything we need to know about the eurodollar system, and therefore the dollar nobody on this side of the world pays any attention to (continuing the age-old policy of benign neglect that in the past eleven years has devolved into just criminal neglect). The dollar shortage, or eurodollar squeeze, however you wish to call it, is growing more disruptive not less (where’s federal funds lately?) We can see the results of the disorder scattered all across the globe. Nothing is more consistent with the sudden struggles in the European economy of late as China’s declining foreign reserve balances. Likewise, the absolutely huge warning in the oil market, the futures curve going contango, is very much related to China going 2015. The list of unwelcome developments is multiplying and amplifying. Even the Western mainstream is finding it more and more difficult to just skate past all this. _Bloomberg_ last week (thanks M. Simmons): The world’s major economies that entered 2018 accelerating in sync risk entering 2019 decelerating in sync. The shift is being led by China, where the economy’s weakest performance since 2009 is set to worsen unless a peace can be struck in the trade war with the U.S. Factory readings from Asia already show a fallout, with Taiwan, Thailand and Malaysia slipping into contraction territory. The euro-area too is losing momentum, expanding in the third quarter at half the pace of the prior three months as Italy and Germany stagnated. Even the US may not be invulnerable, if the Economists quoted by the article are right (though they don’t know why, sticking with this trade war theory). I wrote back in September, as for months before, just where this is all heading: From 2003 to 2009, it went: globally synchronized growth, decoupling, globally synchronized downturn. From 2010 to 2012, it went: globally synchronized growth, decoupling, globally synchronized downturn. From 2013 to 2016, it went: strong global growth (not synchronized), decoupling, synchronized downturn. Last year to this year, it has gone: globally synchronized growth, decoupling. What comes next? The answer is given to us by SAFE.
Businesses devise a billion ways of wooing customers, every day. If a chatbot can be a useful accomplice toward that end, why not give it a try? Afterall, who wouldn’t want a tool that can hold an intelligent conversation with customers, make them feel comfortable and bind them to your business. Is it possible? Recall that memorable scene from the award winning 2003 film, Lost in Translation, where an aging American actor, Bob Harris (played by Bill Murray), is on a set in Tokyo to shoot a whiskey commercial. The director, Yutaka Tadokoro, begins instructing Bob in Japanese, and the slapdash interpreter fails to capture the meaning—namely, it gets lost in translation. The process bogs down, and the commercial is a disaster. You don’t want human-to-computer interactions to end up that way, right? But one-way communications prove to be too exasperating to users. People give up on trying to get a machine understand their intentions in a few clicks and presses. There’s that missing vibe, that interactive component in any human-computer engagement; and it’s the main reason a vast majority feels they must adapt to the technologies they use, rather than technology adapting to them. https://preview.redd.it/mzxagl6zwrd11.jpg?width=220&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=49da6f90e91dc9686b28c337b159b74c7f6dd3bf Enter 2018, and we have artificial intelligence (AI)-driven chatbots that are revolutionizing human-computer interactions just the way the humans want it. Chatbots today are more adaptive to the way people speak and mimic their emotions to the nearest binary. 2018 is paving the way for a great chatbot innovation. Meanwhile, developers are working tirelessly to bring in new consumer experiences to market. For example, once WhatsApp opens to bots next year, it will unlock direct access to over one billion new users. Chatbots are continuing to push the envelope of new technology further. To reckon with, a chatbot isn’t an additional handle on your website or a fancy add-on. It’s the need of the hour for every business that’s flourishing or aspires to flourish. In a market that’s fiercely competitive, customers expect to receive accurate information quickly enough to make a decision. As a business owner, you need to cater to that need. If you don’t have funds to recruit more people to answer all the questions customers throw at you, then deploying a smart chatbot can rescue your business in that case. https://preview.redd.it/vpuz6mb1xrd11.png?width=800&format=png&auto=webp&s=f615929b9f190e38afe38c3d59ba084dbfc9747b But then intelligence also matters as it determines the kind of tasks or conversations your chatbot can handle. Needless to say, if you have a clear set of activities preconceived in your mind, you can build awesome customized bots. Let’s take you through a short read about 5 important things that can make a chatbot intelligent. 1. Bots need to understand human conversations: The bot needs to be quick and intelligent enough to understand the context of the conversation happening in real time. It’s about sense and sensibility, in conversations. Normal human conversations are replete with instances of switching over context while talking, while at work - resuming a task, discarding the current task and switching to a newer one, or in general hold a task while the other is being executed and work on follow on. Human conversations tend to switch between contexts and variables (intents and entities), often combining multiple things into one. Sample this response to a flight booking bot for example, "My Destination? San Francisco. But how's the weather over there?" What should be the bot’s response here - capture the entity and continue booking or check the weather before that? In this case, chatbots need to
have context switching abilities to handle interruptions smartly and provide full control to developers in defining the experience
capture unattended interruptions from a conversation flow and keep them accessible
be equipped with human conversations and have the ability to hold and resume a dialog for a certain amount of time and execute the tasks in sequential order, and especially while understanding human emotions
You may argue that a bot is after all a machine and cannot absorb emotions, but all said and done, it also depends partly on how much capability you build into it. So, it must be clever enough to filter the feelings of the customer. The bot needs to understand, analyze and respond based on the human emotion. For instance, if a customer messages an online shopping portal saying, “Your service is amazing, the delivery of items are always 2 to 3 days delayed”, none can miss the biting sarcasm intended in the statement. But if the bot isn’t developed to cater to this sort of sentiment, it may end up answering in a horribly awry manner. https://preview.redd.it/a3p88148xrd11.png?width=800&format=png&auto=webp&s=f589d16a1d1407018f26c460404a69def2a4cf52 Intelligent bots will have: Sentiment analysis, context switching, hold and resume feature. 2. Standardization and uniformity in bot utterances It’s important to remember that a chatbot must give vibes closest to humans as much as possible. The way humans carry the stamp of their personality and style, bots too need to be enabled to do that. When asked about something, a bot must respond in a particular way and pattern that sounds like a human. This warms the usecustomer and makes him feel at ease during the conversation with a chatbot. “You must have direct connection with your customers as part of your brand’s identity, even more than your website that doesn’t seem to have an identity, this will have a personality.”- William Meisel Thus, chatbots need to
understand and remember the user context - make all user information available in a single location and accessible
store the user profile with information like first name, last name and make it accessible to all the systems for the convenience of the user.
remember what a specific user talks to a specific bot, in an enterprise scenario it needs to keep certain features such as prompt for ‘Password length’ / ‘folder for HR information, constant for all the employees in the enterprise
It’s important for a chatbot to keep a current task which is being executed in an active mode and store information. As a corollary, customers appreciate and connect with the support executives (call support executives/shopping store helpers) who can remember their preferences, can validate their purchases, help them with more information on products, and basically give importance to them while attending to their queries. For example, in a Forex platform the currency against each country is maintained constant across all systems for everyone to access. The platform tends to store the first and last name of the customer, their last transaction and their payment options. Chatbots now have the responsibility to standardize their understanding of a customer and respond to them accordingly, whether in the manner of communicating or the speed with which they resolve their query. Chatbots need to converse with customers to extract this information and keep up to their pace. https://preview.redd.it/flps4l6bxrd11.png?width=800&format=png&auto=webp&s=dee88672cef176ed92778e962a9029543ee6cbd9 Intelligent bots will have features like: Small talk, Bot user session, Enterprise context, User context and User session 3. Making the complex conversation sound simple Chatbots are expected to break the complex structures of conversations into simpler tones and bring to a logical conclusion. Here’s where ‘Artificial Intelligence’ comes into play. Among the many types of chatbots, the most common ones are task specific that cater to a specific job, with pre-loaded answers and information. These type of chatbots have the ability to gather data from the internet, previous company database and other sources. Therefore, these bots are able to reply to diverse queries. The intelligent bots, in addition, have the potential to mold the conversation the way the customer wants and guide him towards a specific solution. In an office setup, it’s common for a conversation like, “Hey Lisa, set up a meeting with Phani if he’s free”, to be handled between a Boss and Secretary. To enable that, the chatbot needs to first look up the calendar of ‘Phani’, find a suitable time for a meeting in sync with the Boss’s schedule and then reschedule the meeting. Chatbots thus need to break up complex sounding conversation into simpler nuances and then execute the task sequentially and logically. Intelligent bots can also break down the conversation to its essence and action items. Let’s look at a very common scenario: ‘Customer tries to book tickets for 14th August, confirms on the choice of airlines, origin and destination and navigates to the next page, but feels that the pricing is very high. The customer then asks the bot to check for ‘15th August instead’. Here, based on the situation, the chatbot is acting and will be able to display the new prices by changing the date of journey. https://preview.redd.it/bzfoasiexrd11.png?width=800&format=png&auto=webp&s=67d134343093daf3d239c9bcfd0b315fb687d333 Intelligent bots will have features like: Amend Entities, Planning. 4. Adapting to human utterances In the context of human–computer communication, forming assumptions about what a system can do and understand is problematic for most people. In turn, forming assumptions about how users will “talk to” the system is also likely to be problematic for system developers. The potential for variability in how users will communicate with a system is enormous and has been dubbed “The Vocabulary Problem.” An intelligent chatbot can not only handle queries smartly and remembers them through the session, but also learns new things with every conversation that happens, saves them and uses them appropriately for future instances. In a human conversation and especially over voice, there are bound to be
expectation of elaboration or confirmation (“can you hear me?”, “I do not follow”)
request for repeat of sentences (“ I’m sorry I couldn’t hear that, can you please repeat it again?” “Sorry, can you repeat?”)
pauses (“can you please hold? [pause] thank you!”)
interruptions (“the number is 212-” “sorry can you start over?” )
The simplest thing to do when writing responses to command and inquiry utterances in a conversational UI is to get straight to the point: respond with facts. That’ll remove a lot of the ambiguity and simplify the dialogue. It’s up to the intelligent chatbot to adapt to the way the human responds - with the referential context (or) pauses (or) specific context (or) synonyms (or) repetition (or) abbreviations (or) variations in dialect. The chatbot needs to map it pre-contextually. But like their human counterparts, chatbots’ conversational skills determine whether they earn you seamless, scalable transactions or just another horde of pissed-off customers. This needs a lot of training by the chatbot to help continue the conversations to the logical ending. https://preview.redd.it/u5g63jovxrd11.jpg?width=1581&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1f394c933c28c1079cf290156de09f285b2054d1 Intelligent bots will have features like: Sync, Repeat, Interruptions and Pauses. 5. When bots are kept simple Although AI chatbots’ task is complicated and they need to be built up that way, yet the effort should be made to keep it simple. They need to be comprehensive yet detailed. A customer initiating a conversation with a chatbot might already be troubled due to some poor service related issue, hence it’s better not to irk him further with complex interaction. The bot should be answering the already irked usecustomer in a most precise way possible without confusing the person further. It’s easy to figure out if you are talking to a bot or a human. Make sure the customer knows that they are talking to a bot by welcoming them with some sort of welcome message. Nobody likes being told the same thing over and over again, so why do chatbots keep doing it? Bots should detect when they’re about to repeat a previously given answer and switch strategies. If the answer didn’t resolve the user’s needs before, repeating it certainly won’t either. From the user interface, to the dialog flow the experience should be pleasant, and information given to the user needs to be valuable and crisp. Twitter also provides the option to give your bot a custom name for different sections of the bot, which can be of use. It’s important to show what the chatbot is capable of doing with Quick Replies. The customer needs to be a guided stepwise within the conversation and with enough accessible options to choose from. Lastly, there must always be a way to end the conversation with the bot and switch to a human agent. Many bots today include a Quick Reply to “Speak to an Agent”. Certain actions, such as open-ended visual search, are challenging to complete in a messaging environment. In those situations, bots can route to a website or app to help the user complete goals they couldn’t execute within the context of chat. https://preview.redd.it/gc1j3z4sxrd11.jpg?width=578&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=331b9de9fcfa0c26ddf34eeb93783e909ecab6cf Intelligent bots will have features like: Simple UI, Simpler steps, Agent Handoff In a nutshell, a chatbot must be programmed to not just provide optimum solutions to problems, but also converse with customers in an engaging manner. The interaction must be exciting and the bot must appear to be curious enough to answer all queries. People prefer lively interactions and a chatbot needs to meet that expectation. https://preview.redd.it/erd22jzpxrd11.jpg?width=1505&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d83e0de6283b47b1210a912d26e23dd8023d3afc For example, there are bots aligned with online shopping portals that can actually sense your liking and disliking. They can cancel orders for you accordingly and order the stuff that you actually want. Businesses are now moving way ahead than what anyone had ever thought of earlier. If we have an amazing concept like messenger or Kore.aiBots Platform, then why not use them to the full extent. Their proficiency in collecting massive data in a short period of time can be used to forecast upcoming business. You know it better how to get edgy with this interesting concept. The more you experiment with chatbots, the more you would get to know the wonders you can create with these little machines. Some of the Global 2,000 companies and large enterprises are using Kore.ai Bots Platform to build their chatbots. How about you? To get everything you need to build and deploy intelligent, enterprise-grade chatbots — without unnecessary complexity, click on Build your first BOT. To ask questions, get tips, learn and grow with Kore.AI developer community, click on Ask questions on Developer Community. Also Read on :Chatbots (of) the Future Thank You Phani Marupaka LinkedIn| Tweet at : @phani_teja
Businesses devise a billion ways of wooing customers, every day. If a chatbot can be a useful accomplice toward that end, why not give it a try? Afterall, who wouldn’t want a tool that can hold an intelligent conversation with customers, make them feel comfortable and bind them to your business. Is it possible? Recall that memorable scene from the award winning 2003 film, Lost in Translation, where an aging American actor, Bob Harris (played by Bill Murray), is on a set in Tokyo to shoot a whiskey commercial. The director, Yutaka Tadokoro, begins instructing Bob in Japanese, and the slapdash interpreter fails to capture the meaning—namely, it gets lost in translation. The process bogs down, and the commercial is a disaster. https://preview.redd.it/6vqwiux3urd11.jpg?width=220&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fd5151869d3e932a32f56fc969406633cd3ba623 You don’t want human-to-computer interactions to end up that way, right? But one-way communications prove to be too exasperating to users. People give up on trying to get a machine understand their intentions in a few clicks and presses. There’s that missing vibe, that interactive component in any human-computer engagement; and it’s the main reason a vast majority feels they must adapt to the technologies they use, rather than technology adapting to them. Enter 2018, and we have artificial intelligence (AI)-driven chatbots that are revolutionizing human-computer interactions just the way the humans want it. Chatbots today are more adaptive to the way people speak and mimic their emotions to the nearest binary. 2018 is paving the way for a great chatbot innovation. https://preview.redd.it/27twgl16urd11.png?width=800&format=png&auto=webp&s=c2a83408e1f5a9495428fff1f4cc0414d30b8d84 Meanwhile, developers are working tirelessly to bring in new consumer experiences to market. For example, once WhatsApp opens to bots next year, it will unlock direct access to over one billion new users. Chatbots are continuing to push the envelope of new technology further. To reckon with, a chatbot isn’t an additional handle on your website or a fancy add-on. It’s the need of the hour for every business that’s flourishing or aspires to flourish. In a market that’s fiercely competitive, customers expect to receive accurate information quickly enough to make a decision. As a business owner, you need to cater to that need. If you don’t have funds to recruit more people to answer all the questions customers throw at you, then deploying a smart chatbot can rescue your business in that case. But then intelligence also matters as it determines the kind of tasks or conversations your chatbot can handle. Needless to say, if you have a clear set of activities preconceived in your mind, you can build awesome customized bots. Let’s take you through a short read about 5 important things that can make a chatbot intelligent. 1. Bots need to understand human conversations: The bot needs to be quick and intelligent enough to understand the context of the conversation happening in real time. It’s about sense and sensibility, in conversations. Normal human conversations are replete with instances of switching over context while talking, while at work - resuming a task, discarding the current task and switching to a newer one, or in general hold a task while the other is being executed and work on follow on. Human conversations tend to switch between contexts and variables (intents and entities), often combining multiple things into one. Sample this response to a flight booking bot for example, "My Destination? San Francisco. But how's the weather over there?" What should be the bot’s response here - capture the entity and continue booking or check the weather before that? In this case, chatbots need to
have context switching abilities to handle interruptions smartly and provide full control to developers in defining the experience
capture unattended interruptions from a conversation flow and keep them accessible
be equipped with human conversations and have the ability to hold and resume a dialog for a certain amount of time and execute the tasks in sequential order, and especially while understanding human emotions
You may argue that a bot is after all a machine and cannot absorb emotions, but all said and done, it also depends partly on how much capability you build into it. So, it must be clever enough to filter the feelings of the customer. The bot needs to understand, analyze and respond based on the human emotion. For instance, if a customer messages an online shopping portal saying, “Your service is amazing, the delivery of items are always 2 to 3 days delayed”, none can miss the biting sarcasm intended in the statement. But if the bot isn’t developed to cater to this sort of sentiment, it may end up answering in a horribly awry manner. Intelligent bots will have: Sentiment analysis, context switching, hold and resume feature. 2. Standardization and uniformity in bot utterances It’s important to remember that a chatbot must give vibes closest to humans as much as possible. The way humans carry the stamp of their personality and style, bots too need to be enabled to do that. When asked about something, a bot must respond in a particular way and pattern that sounds like a human. This warms the usecustomer and makes him feel at ease during the conversation with a chatbot. “You must have direct connection with your customers as part of your brand’s identity, even more than your website that doesn’t seem to have an identity, this will have a personality.”- William Meisel Thus, chatbots need to
understand and remember the user context - make all user information available in a single location and accessible
store the user profile with information like first name, last name and make it accessible to all the systems for the convenience of the user.
remember what a specific user talks to a specific bot, in an enterprise scenario it needs to keep certain features such as prompt for ‘Password length’ / ‘folder for HR information, constant for all the employees in the enterprise
It’s important for a chatbot to keep a current task which is being executed in an active mode and store information. As a corollary, customers appreciate and connect with the support executives (call support executives/shopping store helpers) who can remember their preferences, can validate their purchases, help them with more information on products, and basically give importance to them while attending to their queries. For example, in a Forex platform the currency against each country is maintained constant across all systems for everyone to access. The platform tends to store the first and last name of the customer, their last transaction and their payment options. Chatbots now have the responsibility to standardize their understanding of a customer and respond to them accordingly, whether in the manner of communicating or the speed with which they resolve their query. Chatbots need to converse with customers to extract this information and keep up to their pace. Intelligent bots will have features like: Small talk, Bot user session, Enterprise context, User context and User session 3. Making the complex conversation sound simple Chatbots are expected to break the complex structures of conversations into simpler tones and bring to a logical conclusion. Here’s where ‘Artificial Intelligence’ comes into play. Among the many types of chatbots, the most common ones are task specific that cater to a specific job, with pre-loaded answers and information. These type of chatbots have the ability to gather data from the internet, previous company database and other sources. Therefore, these bots are able to reply to diverse queries. The intelligent bots, in addition, have the potential to mold the conversation the way the customer wants and guide him towards a specific solution. In an office setup, it’s common for a conversation like, “Hey Lisa, set up a meeting with Phani if he’s free”, to be handled between a Boss and Secretary. To enable that, the chatbot needs to first look up the calendar of ‘Phani’, find a suitable time for a meeting in sync with the Boss’s schedule and then reschedule the meeting. Chatbots thus need to break up complex sounding conversation into simpler nuances and then execute the task sequentially and logically. Intelligent bots can also break down the conversation to its essence and action items. Let’s look at a very common scenario: ‘Customer tries to book tickets for 14th August, confirms on the choice of airlines, origin and destination and navigates to the next page, but feels that the pricing is very high. The customer then asks the bot to check for ‘15th August instead’. Here, based on the situation, the chatbot is acting and will be able to display the new prices by changing the date of journey. Intelligent bots will have features like: Amend Entities, Planning. 4. Adapting to human utterances In the context of human–computer communication, forming assumptions about what a system can do and understand is problematic for most people. In turn, forming assumptions about how users will “talk to” the system is also likely to be problematic for system developers. The potential for variability in how users will communicate with a system is enormous and has been dubbed “The Vocabulary Problem.” An intelligent chatbot can not only handle queries smartly and remembers them through the session, but also learns new things with every conversation that happens, saves them and uses them appropriately for future instances. In a human conversation and especially over voice, there are bound to be
expectation of elaboration or confirmation (“can you hear me?”, “I do not follow”)
request for repeat of sentences (“ I’m sorry I couldn’t hear that, can you please repeat it again?” “Sorry, can you repeat?”)
pauses (“can you please hold? [pause] thank you!”)
interruptions (“the number is 212-” “sorry can you start over?” )
The simplest thing to do when writing responses to command and inquiry utterances in a conversational UI is to get straight to the point: respond with facts. That’ll remove a lot of the ambiguity and simplify the dialogue. It’s up to the intelligent chatbot to adapt to the way the human responds - with the referential context (or) pauses (or) specific context (or) synonyms (or) repetition (or) abbreviations (or) variations in dialect. The chatbot needs to map it pre-contextually. But like their human counterparts, chatbots’ conversational skills determine whether they earn you seamless, scalable transactions or just another horde of pissed-off customers. This needs a lot of training by the chatbot to help continue the conversations to the logical ending. Intelligent bots will have features like: Sync, Repeat, Interruptions and Pauses. 📷 5. When bots are kept simple Although AI chatbots’ task is complicated and they need to be built up that way, yet the effort should be made to keep it simple. They need to be comprehensive yet detailed. A customer initiating a conversation with a chatbot might already be troubled due to some poor service related issue, hence it’s better not to irk him further with complex interaction. The bot should be answering the already irked usecustomer in a most precise way possible without confusing the person further. It’s easy to figure out if you are talking to a bot or a human. Make sure the customer knows that they are talking to a bot by welcoming them with some sort of welcome message. Nobody likes being told the same thing over and over again, so why do chatbots keep doing it? Bots should detect when they’re about to repeat a previously given answer and switch strategies. If the answer didn’t resolve the user’s needs before, repeating it certainly won’t either. From the user interface, to the dialog flow the experience should be pleasant, and information given to the user needs to be valuable and crisp. Twitter also provides the option to give your bot a custom name for different sections of the bot, which can be of use. It’s important to show what the chatbot is capable of doing with Quick Replies. The customer needs to be a guided stepwise within the conversation and with enough accessible options to choose from. Lastly, there must always be a way to end the conversation with the bot and switch to a human agent. Many bots today include a Quick Reply to “Speak to an Agent”. Certain actions, such as open-ended visual search, are challenging to complete in a messaging environment. In those situations, bots can route to a website or app to help the user complete goals they couldn’t execute within the context of chat. Intelligent bots will have features like: Simple UI, Simpler steps, Agent Handoff In a nutshell, a chatbot must be programmed to not just provide optimum solutions to problems, but also converse with customers in an engaging manner. The interaction must be exciting and the bot must appear to be curious enough to answer all queries. People prefer lively interactions and a chatbot needs to meet that expectation. https://preview.redd.it/ri36kv7aurd11.jpg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b8d3f5a1bab5b31dc3617f4bb7645e88bf70f836 For example, there are bots aligned with online shopping portals that can actually sense your liking and disliking. They can cancel orders for you accordingly and order the stuff that you actually want. Businesses are now moving way ahead than what anyone had ever thought of earlier. If we have an amazing concept like messenger or Kore.aiBots Platform, then why not use them to the full extent. Their proficiency in collecting massive data in a short period of time can be used to forecast upcoming business. You know it better how to get edgy with this interesting concept. The more you experiment with chatbots, the more you would get to know the wonders you can create with these little machines. Some of the Global 2,000 companies and large enterprises are using Kore.ai Bots Platform to build their chatbots. How about you? To get everything you need to build and deploy intelligent, enterprise-grade chatbots — without unnecessary complexity, click on Build your first BOT. To ask questions, get tips, learn and grow with Kore.AI developer community, click on Ask questions on Developer Community. Also Read on :Chatbots (of) the Future Thank You Phani Marupaka LinkedIn| Tweet at : @phani_teja
Since the smart people seem to be here (as opposed to the other subreddit): Explain something to me.
What is the exact mechanism of the whole crypto market moving roughly in sync? "BTC drives the crypto market" is self-evident looking at the charts, but how? They trade independently. Yes there are ratio markets, and that conceptually ties BTC to other cryptos, although I'd think that volume on those markets would drive the currency/USD prices apart rather than together. Besides, the existence of a USD/GBP forex market doesn't mean those currencies move in sync against a third currency, the way BTC and LTC do. In other words, I'm looking for a more operational answer than "the whole economy is up/down". What happens at the trade level that results in all the charts looking similar?
I believe through surveillance, and through other sources through "deep blackberry" who have told it and told you about in the Congress, that this was a very much a Depot this was a home depot literally a home depot
I don't know what this saying of Home Depot is
But this literally was the true essence of a home depot for IT technology where different runners like Jamal Awan
I'm gonna say that today came and left came in wet primarily to get Blackberries
Not really laptops every once in a while a laptop but that was more I believe an Imran or Awan brother operation
That's more for placing different syncing servers around Capitol Hill like they put in the Library of Congress building in that crevice
But I believe the Blackberries was a rather standard operation and Rao Abas I'm going to say right now was a part of that as well as Assan--the other person that Imran hired to make these runs back and forth into Congress
Now why didn't Imran do it? Why didn't everyone go in on the end of a Longworth office building with these Blackberries and on the cameras and say hey everybody I'm here I've got a dope blackberry well obviously you wouldn't do it that way you would drop off these Blackberries you would get people new Blackberries at different places where they were at at a ambassador's reception or meeting at a restaurant or whatnot
So we need to know the movements now--the metadata of Rao Abbas and the other runners that were hired by Imran Awan
But I can assure you I can assure you that the reason for the 10-day delay of Wasserman... Steve Wasserman was not because he wants to spend ten more days--well he may want to spend ten more days in Canada with Hillary planning the defense--but it was to find out what the heck does do I know and what the heck does deep blackberry know and what did heck does deep Blackberries the network of people know, right?
So far they've done a fairly good job the media has done a McCabe has done a pretty darn good job of suppressing the media
Almost no one the story about Imran working at InnterAmerican has not come out no one has covered that story no one we've got him in the New York Times talking about configuring Blackberries for different people working on the different committees it's right there in the New York Times 2005
So no one's arguing that anymore that he's a blackberry expert that he's moving these Blackberries back and forth
Nobody's arguing that he hired these Macduff people that were fired from McDonald's to move these Blackberries in and out of Congress that's also been in the New York Times
It's really quite astonishing that someone could write a title of an article knowing that knowing that it's astonishing that someone could write a title of an article yesterday saying "The Strange Case of Imran Awan"
It's not The Strange Case of entrada Wan it's a strange case of a spy ring where you're using the basement of your home as a depot for dope Blackberries to spy on the Congress that's what you're using this is the Lindbergh baby backdoor this is the home depot right here in this basement this basement down here was the home depot for all the dope Blackberries and the doped and the syncing blackberry enterprise servers or these are just sinking service to the Blackberries and then there was a big blackberry animal Enterprise Server downstairs again the American people
Now I had endured 75 days of pundits on the internet saying I made this up!
So I had 75 days of this McCabe knew I was right the whole time
That's my point McCabe knew I was right the whole time and he was devising strategies to suppress this
This is going to come forward the blackberries are going to come forward the laptops are going to come forward one way or another people can be on the front of this or they can be on the back end of this
But this is coming forward this is fundamental to the case fundamental to the case
And just shows you how one piece of evidence one piece of evidence can alter the global narrative on a story through proof
It's not about me having more subscribers or whatever or being able to yell out or whatever it's about proof this is about proof
This one piece of proof changed the narrative
And this next piece of proof--however they want to discover it--is going to change the narrative again when they find that these Blackberries were coming in and out of this house and there's surveillance on this house
I know that there's different surveillance points for people to watch the approaches on these two roads
I know I know about these houses here Andre Taggart told me the same thing he told me the same thing Andre Taggert said they've got loouts here for this house
If you don't believe me the interview Andre Taggert put him on CNN all right
We're gonna find that uh I guess George didn't dream that when I guess I was reporting I published the text chatter between Luke Rosiak and myself that night
He got mad at me he didn't get mad at me because he got mad at me because because wasn't true he got mad because it was exposing his number so that other people could interview him
Because I don't want this to be a trips and draft story I want him to be Andre Taggart to be interviewed on camera about actually what was in that basement and I want him to come clean on this Lindbergh baby back door
And it's kind of fun to say Lindbergh baby back door it sounds like baby back ribs Lindbergh baby back door
Start your rap video now DeFango-- I mean that is gonna sweep the nation "Lindbergh baby back door"
{{ 911bs: Actually I think John and Tony Podesta would rather be Rapping on the Lindberg Baby's Backdoor, TBH }}
So that whoops hi folks
That was that's what's going on here
One: this is what I like how I call it the little pin that blows up the balloon--that pops the balloon of MSM
Because up until this point MSN had a big Russia balloon and a little George little five-year-old kid George with the little pin of truth--pop that went away
So that's I want to proceed the rest of the way
Now again this is the same situation with the Memphis Maersk and the trafficking of DU for Iran
This was the deal that was--now Imran didn't set this deal up other people negotiated Khattak negotiated the deal and and other diplomats Assan of the White House negotiated the Iran nuclear deal
But the reason why they went after the nuclear deals they said hey we could do all the interest--Jack Lew said we can carry forward all the interests at some ridiculous interest rate and then we could get it all back
We could split it with these guys
This is gonna be great this around nuclear deal
But the reason they did the Iran nuclear deal was trading and depleted uranium and I knew it
And I knew the diplomatic container was the loophole there was no way to prove it because it's all under diplomatic cover
Anybody ever says anything about it they just take it to a different port and clear through it through a different port
Well this lawsuit is going to prove that
That that that the readings were the diplomatic readings were refused
And they did the Maersk Memphis did leave the port of Charleston
Did go to Savannah did clear it off with this anime or the next day because the Memphis Maersk's didn't have the qualifications to be shipping radioactive material
Again one fact--one fact and one fact only the diplomatic container loophole
MSN never brought you the diplomatic container loophole
Never tied together Jafar to the this shipment
Never tied together the Awans and their diplomatic passports
Never connected the royal family on the ship manifests at the port of Qasim with the diplomatic shipments completely unknown
We would have gone another ten years with this diplomatic in loophole unknown
But McCabe knows about it
Comey knows about it
Mueller knows about it--he also knows about Tarmacs and climbing the stairs with highly enriched uranium as well
Wray knows about it
Shawn Henry at CrowdStrike knows about it
They know I know
Now what's their state of mind
You got five guys who are doing an illegal trade--you got five guys at FBI that are doing it illegal trade--I'm calling Shawn Henry as FBI really--at CrowdStrike--you got five guys this little cadre of five
Now this isn't the Awan brothers anymore
This is the five guys before, here this was just become Hillary's Senate Armed Self-services conspiracy
This is just Petraeus and four senators, , with this little spy ring was Graham and Biden McCain and Hillary and Petraeus
There's only five people running this spy ring but so far no FBI guys
So I've moved along but this
This is five FBI directors--well Shawn Henry was never an FBI director--but the other four are FBI directors this is going right at the Lion
This isn't this is a going after senators this has gone straight at the deep state
Mueller: director
Comey: director
For a short time McCabe: was a director
Wray: a director
And then Sean Henry, who aspired to be, but I decided to take the low road and be a Black-Arts shill at CrowdStrike for the FBI
But this is going directly at the deep state
Opening this up opening this diplomatic container proving this one fact sinks this whole narrative stinks the whole narrative of the MSM, and exposes the huge ratline
This is why in the McCabe asked for 200 agents in Iran and didn't in Iraq excuse me quid pro quo the Patrick Kennedy--to enable this DU trade
Not to lo for Monica Peterson's killer
Not to lo for Beranton Whisenant's killer.
One fact unfolds this whole situation for five well for directors FBI directors and one who sold his soul: Shawn Henry
So what else do they know I know?
Well I've been talking about JTTF this slides from day 100
This has been around a long time with the bombing the Boston bombing
And the whole scheme the whole JTTF scheme of asset seizure
The whole enemies lists in the United States and all the schemes all the entrapment schemes that McCabes' run
Really I think since he's been, he's actually was involved in entrapment schemes as a as bait, going all the way back to his days in high school in Richmond
I believe he knew Comey from Richmond at least in college days at least summers
So he has been I feel bad for McCabe in some ways because he doesn't know what law enforcement is
His initial exposure to law enforcement was it was entrapment
And so therefore and I believe it was gonna be at a young age just like commis exposure to law enforcement was entrapment
So that became becaus so many of the early examples in their life were in entrapment: that became what they thought law enforcement was
We take some innocent person,
We drop tread crumbs along the way
We try to get them to do something we engauge them in these chat rooms try to encourage them out to lure them out to these places
And we try to have intermediaries and informants then lure them a little bit closer
Then once we have the fall then we go for the asset seizure
That's what JTTF is
He believes this he believes this is law enforcement
If I was interviewing him today he'd be saying hey I've had a long career in law enforcement he would he would quote all the entrapments and fake Muslim terrorism
He would quote it all and say that was my that was my finest hour he's different
He would he would say Mohammed Mohammed that set up a Mohammed Mohammed that I have a case I'd work where it to three different informants and illegally recorded all of his conversations without a warrant
He would say that was one of my best cases I'm sure you would I'm sure would we go back became and I'd go back all the way to that point
He knows I know he knows I know his modus operandi of law enforcement
That's why what happened in Zanesville happened in Zanesville
And that's why it was so important to prove that Zanesville
Hey all along the way though you learn new things I only thought that there was the Federal agencies I and CIA
I only thought the CIA hadn't had infiltrated JTTF---boy was I wrong well
As soon as I loed up Chris Whitaker the guy who was making phone calls to Zanesville Police Department I learned a whole bunch of whom were involved
10. 10 different DoD's, right?
How else are the American people well this is their own hand this is their own slide
So I don't know how oh I don't think I have to prove this anymore what I do have to prove is how the DoD is driving this effort in the United States
How the DoD how this is no different than the COINTEL program programs it's actually far more sophisticated and far more technologically deadly with cell phones and twelve triple three wiretapping
Now this isn't just going after five FBI directors wll four and one who lost his soul
And maybe the other four guys lost their soul as well, but they didn't do falsification of evidence and they didn't lie
Well I guess they did--they didn't do it to the extent that Sean Henry is doing it at CrowdStrike I guess that's what I want to say
I mean the real the real Iago is Shawn Henry.
The old paper clip two things going to come forth
Now finally I'll show you the last ring which is this auto theft sales
This is David Petraeus as this is the CIA kind of guys manual for starting in a country with a thousand dollars and then running the country ten years later
First steal a car then you start chipping black weapons then you fence it you have these diplomatic fences like Alpha Jalloh both of those guys
Getting fake docs putting it in diplomatic containers and then shipping it to these ports in west Africa
Hey guess what? now the ship's empty. What are you gonna bring back? Well let's bring back the weapons do you ammunition from Pakistan
Let's take the DU from the reactors in Iran we've been lying about right take them over to Pakistan press them into DU ammunition and then we'll bring them back in South Carolina
And we'll sell them all over the world for ISIS what a deal
Right they know I know that's the problem they know I know this is coming
We have the information
We have lots of leaks you have marked or you have all these the different people that participated in these programs lots of footprints all over the place with Home Department Homeland Security for these visas
These theft rings they all have VIN numbers you saw Bill Warner last night
All these ship ships at GPS tracking
All these documents or state tax documents for their car companies
Again if we don't get the metadata one way we're gonna get it the other way we're gonna go through these diplomatic container tracking there's tag numbers on these diplomatic containers
And these ships all have P crews that work on them as well as metadata GPS metadata
So my point is it's only a matter of time now but take everyone wants to play Constitution bingo
I got all these people asking create me a bingo card of the ones we're playing
Give me a some people say the night we should add the ninth amendment, because this says all rights that aren't expressly this is the express-clause, which is
If we didn't talk about it here we missed something in the Constitution you can't make a law that then in Congress that then goes and abrogates those rights all those rights that we didn't mention our are belong[sic] to the people of the United States
So some people say well they're 1/9 added to it I'd have to say I might have missed that with FOIA
So let's add nine and somebody come up with a nice bingo card for the six amendments for constitutional bingo
But I just want to talk about the first one here
The first one here isn't just the journalist of silencing me, right?
What McCabe knew that I knew was I had confidential sources
He knew that I had a confidential source in the Congress Steve-Blackberry
He knew that I had a confidential source in the loan program of the Congressional credit union "deep loan"
He knew that I had a source in homeland security six sources actually would "deep uranium" and the "uranium five"
He knew about those sources what he needed was a reason to get into the phone to get into my phone that night
He knew I had two sources in Zanesville about the murders in Pike County and the murders in at Arnel construction Arnel trucking excuse me
He knew that I had sources many sources for the Delphi murders and the murder at Evensdale murder
He knew that I had contacts and information about the Cleveland car dealer murders and he knew I had information about Jacksonville and Rochester Mayo Clinic as well as the Cleveland Clinic had a lot of contacts there
No small surprise right before this case came out my phone was destroyed with all those contacts
But the idea here was intercept this phone, come up with a reason to intercept this phone, third party parallel construction diners at this phone, and find out who his contacts are
Then work down the stream find out what who their contacts are in their contacts lo at all their communication
This is the same thing that's happening right now
This walk they call it walking the tree or walking a social graph to walk down this graph
Same thing happened when I mentioned about the Lindbergh baby back door
The Lindbergh baby back door--knowing people are moving in and out now
Now McCabe knows for the first time that I know right the McCabe knows that I know
Now who else knows is the next question
Well we know deep blackberry he knows his deep blackbear he told me about it right we know that other people in this neighborhood don't work aren't in this cabal of mr. Petraeus's spy ring here right
So what did they say we know that people have cell phones that are walking around this neighborhood walking dogs there's delivery trucks that come up and down this street here right
Also from the other Street we know that people sometimes do security cameras will point their cameras out the window
When suspicious characters start walking in and up
So what are you gonna do how do you chase all this how do you chase all this information do you have Shawn Henry come in and put CrowdStrike on everybody's computer?
Put Falcon on everybody's computer?
You go house to house to try to construct some kind of reason to go house to house to see who has information on the Lindbergh baby backdoo
The Lindbergh baby backdoor is gonna be a problem here
There's lots and lots of metadata this wasn't just once or twice or three times
This was a flow a flow of traffic reason being if there's a Senator he's at a party and all of a sudden he's having fun and we separate him from his Blackberry I've got to go get another blackberry
If he says oh hey do you want to upgrade your blackberry
We're always gonna be saying oh here's the latest and greatest thing new thing that came out oh yeah I'm gonna get you one I'll go over to the Congress and get it
No they weren't going over to the Congress and getting it
They were dispatching the runner who was gonna be Jamal Awan
Dispatching the runner to run that Blackberry over to wherever they were meeting wherever the party is or wherever the reception is to deliver those Blackberries
And that means somebody getting going from this street or from the other street going in that Lindbergh baby back door and getting one of those Blackberries to deliver
And I don't expect people to believe me just like I didn't expect people to believe me initially about the hard drives here or the black of the existence of the Blackberries in general but I wait for people to go ahead and say I made it up because then when the information does come out kind of feels nice los good
So when this comes up and Andre Taggart, the x-ray machine that television is will tell volumes, because he was there he lit there he was the one who knew what was going on downstairs
This story is about to break that's gonna be big
So why the bingo why the bingo why constitutional bingo?
We prove who the agency was that actually did this phone pinging
And who and at what device did they used
That's the only thing I want to know at this point: who was the agency I'm gonna say it's G4S or a derivative of G4S and what's the device they used
I'm gonna say it could be a cheap and expensive device, but I also say it could be a stingray
But the public has a right to know in this case
Here's the journalists working on a story which is ten Watergates and this happens, right?
This is the biggest arguably the biggest Washington scandal since Watergate
Now all of a sudden I do parallel construction to get into this guy's phone
Who did it?
What kind of contract does G4S have what kind of contract does G4S have with the US government?
How many Dana Priest in an article that said there was 7500 organizations like G4S private security firms doing surveillance in the well she said two thousand in her landmark piece "top secret America" in The Washington Post
Dana Priest Washington Post 2010 top secret America 2000
That number is tracked by a Columbus civil rights group at 7,500 as of two years ago
I would say that number of private security groups mostly about family security companies that are about I would say 10 to 12 people in little private security teams really than our families Believe It or Not that are making money 24 hours a day
Google the term surveillance role player if you don't believe me
How many are there now?
Which one was it now let's say it's retired FBI guy agent Jones and his family company that actually was doing the pinging ran that lets say that a spring ring or let's say they know
He's got to have a contract with that rolls up eventually to G4S
We're gonna do that we're gonna show the American People that these little private contracting firms roll up through G4S
Because until we do you won't believe it
Till we do you'll say that can that could never happen--that's impossible
That would have been that would have been the FBI there that night doing that
We'll find out we'll all find out together
We're gonna find out that that is gonna I have them gonna take that information the fact that
This is a standing Army that is in place right now in the United States
And then prepare a third event a challenge fourth amendment of forces in the Boston bomber case Boston bomber JTTF case which we're gonna build our case around this is the Boston bomber JTTF case here
I don't even think this hit the news that the Boston bomber JTTF case they found for the plaintiffs on on 7e
I I didn't hear anyone report this this is the biggest misuse of police power bringing Tsarnaev's in, using it to kill witnesses, and Whitey Bulger crime ring, and then the Waltham team before that
This is the biggest misuse of power ever in the history of the United States in terms of bringing and kill teams from other countries
So this case this case proving this standing Army, proving this G4S will also unlock the Boston bomber case
Will also unlock the Tsarnayev case
Will also unlock the Waltham triple murder case
And I'm just gonna say this now it'll also unlock the Orlando shooting case with Matteen working for G4S
{{ 911bs: Mateen worked for Wakenhut which became G4S, they vetted him thorugh psychological profiling which apparently they missed how he was to become a brutal mass murderer -- derp! // 'missed' }}
So there's lots to be gained here by drilling down here
Lots of light again only one fact or two facts will change the entire U.S. opinion and perception of what's actually going on here with the FBI
Only one or two facts we're gonna find that out
I have a right to do that because I have standing now
I can show the FBI was pinging my phone it's a fundamental right I have these are fundamental rights
We have the highest if the government impinges on fundamental rights this standard is the highest standards--not down here
Standards all the way up here to strict scrutiny what is strict scrutiny stricter scrutiny is discovery must-have discovery
We must find out how this was done
We must not for me just me also for the Boston bomber case also for the tsarnaevs it also gave me the Orlando shooting
It's also good anywhere G4S is involved
we don't know how many shootings actually are the result of G4S shootings because there's no audit trail
We won't have any chance of unwinding the rat's nest the G4S is affected on this country
And the parallel constructions that they've come up with of oh Johnny Joe John was shot down [Music] we don't know why
We don't. This unlocks a Pandora's box of G4S activities in the United States
We need to know the first step is America's right to know America needs to know
This case is not about me
This case is not about just the Memphis Maersk or just the depleted uranium trade of the five different or the four different directors of the FBI and the one who sold his soul--Shawn Henry at CrowdStrike
It's not just about David Petraeus and his little spy ring in Congress
This little Senate Self-Services Committee spiring what they want it's not just about that
This is about a fundamental attack on democracy really through the deep state through the 41 JTTF companies but mainly entities but mainly those top ten... those top ten DoD agencies this is the attack
So I don't really I don't want to put David Petraeus or any of the senators and the Awan'spy ring in jail
I don't want to even hurt any of the five or the four directors of the FBI the one who sold his soul at CrowdStrike or or any of those
I want to stop this this is the JTTF crime ring these are these are the 41 agencies this is their own testimony this is Sean Whitaker's our excuse me Mr. Chris Whitaker's own slide show where he was named agent of the year in 2013
I think he's a great career officer he worked for the Coast Guard worked in Intelligence great creative career officer
Great men are being destroyed by this corrupt system great men are being used to destroy other good men with this corrupt system
That's what I want to stop
So we're gonna keep going thanks for I found a really good channel talking about these constitutional issues called th well I can't remember the name of it
Now but it's it's a guy talking about all these constitutional issues -
Felt like he was talking directly to me
He said basically we need lawsuits because we're never gonna do it through the press haha
He just and it sounded like you said and we're not gonna do it through the media we have to do it through these YouTube guys
And there's a there's these YouTube guys that are actually doing this and it needs to just be times a thousand
So that's what he said this morning and I was like that was a posted an hour ago I thought wow does he watch my show?
So who knows but that's why we fight Frank Capra did a movie called why we why we fight to clarify our war objectives in World War two
It's a wonderful life's probably my favorite movie
This is why we fight this is why I'm fighting right here to stop this
This is the DoD taking over not only are in our Federal FBI but also all of our state all of our state police through these fusion centers
And then all of our local police sheriff's and city police through really intimidation
Using using red team tactics and the old things we used to do in the 70s - see I used to do in the 70s if you put up any resistance will kill you
If there's any witnesses will blow you up it's just that kind of CIA kind of tactics and it isn't good for government
So anyway that's my missive this morning I do hope to go to the Brolyn car theft ring warehouse today
And go ahead and talk and interview some of the people in theft ring
And wait for that a little bit later this afternoon
Good morning everyone already sweating on my morning walk already done with my coffee
Walking to train station here Bronkers like we call it half way between the Bronx and Yonkers
So a couple of things first of all yesterday I talked about a case I even got one of the names wrong today we've got all the case law in
Hundreds of legal opinions from around the world really beautiful summaries of those three cases
And we're due to get to those in just a second you're gonna say oh yeah I know I know Jones Graham Carpenter
You're gonna get to Jones to Graham to Carpenter it sounds remember the Cubs tinkers Davidge the chance tinker's to Evers to chance was a DoublePlay combination
The world just little children I can see little children singing Jones to Graham to Carpenter Jones to Graham the Carpenter
Jones to Graham to Carpenter it's it's almost it's almost lyrical Jones - Graham - Carpenter those are gonna be the cases we're gonna review but first we're gonna talk about the importance of this case we're gonna talk about the importance of this case -
The Boston bombing case and and the whole Whitey Bulger case as well as the Walton triple murder case
And if we're successful the really cool thing will be anyone who is FOIA at the FBI for their own personal records wanting to know if they're on the terrorism watch list
Because the car dealer across the street doesn't like them and they call them in for something they'll be able to remove that 7e restriction from the FOIA request
And they'll be able to know for the first time am I on this terrorist watch list
Which now that we've got this fake white supremacy thing going on in Charlottesville where everybody drives in from mommy Ohio
We can we can start dealing with the facts rather than these kind of school plays
So anyway I know songs are being written there's Broadway cavalcades being worked
Now that I've said it around the world I'm just kidding with this with this Jones to Graham to Carpenter
I don't know what the mnemonic would be for that Jones would be I think of like Casey Jones because the train was going by right as I said that
So Casey Jones you can be imagine him in the in the cab of a train and he's eating a graham cracker right he's eating a graham cracker and all of a sudden he doesn't like the taste of it because he realizes the graham cases is crap
And he takes a hammer out and he hits it with a hammer because we need to get rid of that dang graham case
And that's the Carpenter now I'm not necessarily saying Carpenters a great guy but the law is the law in the Constitution is the Constitution
So we can't have one set of rules for one people and one set of rules for somebody else
So and I'll get to that in a second but it's really this the Purple Reign the Purple Haze--Purple Reign Purple Haze
You can't use JTTF oh I think I just missed my train you can't use JTTF to support your Purple Reign habit
I'm not talking about the FBI directors the Forex FBI directors (I just missed my train) I'm not talking about those four FBI directors being somewhat tangentially getting a bribe from the depleted uranium or somehow sharing in the depleted uranium business
They are the principals of the depleted uranium business
Now and I'll explain how it happened you have this Senate armed self Services Committee right and what you do is you approach the what an emirate of some type
So you go to let's say UAE where there's seven emirates right
This is kind of a nice train station here I walked up here. Bronkers..missed my damn train
Anyway the what you do is you go to one of the Emirates you got seven to choose from you've already gone and done deals with UAE and you've done deals with Dubai
Other presidents have done that George Bush let's say
So you picked the third one which is let's say the guy let's just call it the rack because everybody calls it to R at R ACK which is like the third emirate
Hillary Clinton met with that guy you say hey we're closing down a DU plant in New York right what we'll do is health whatever will bring up the health aspects well write a few stories close that down
Instead of putting in the health restrictions or safeguards for the workers, we'll just close it down
We'll publicize a couple of cases we'll get Brad Baumann to come in to get a whole bunch of money on the Victor on the legal fund for the victims rather than the victims
And then we're good to go right what we'll do then is hey David Petraeus will use your spy ring that you've already got going in Congress, and will ship DU weapons in
And DU ammo we'll get the depleted uranium from Iran that's there under embargo they can't trade it anywhere else
We'll get it for a song
Matter of fact will charge them probably or maybe not who knows what the deal was cuz it was all done on BlackBerry's outside of the US Congress anyway we'll get the DU will send it over on Maersk ships I believe that Maersk Memphis is gonna be involved as well as mayor Stanton and others
That's why all the radioactive ships get dumped when they're done in Bangladesh even though they come up with a cockamamie oil mining excuse
So then we'll use the old ordnance factory from the British Raj up in the upper reaches
Because it has to be Punjab right because we control Punjab
That's for sure we have to oppress Sint where the port of crassius but we control Punjab
We control the Pakistani ordnance factory we Awans
We of the 111
It's also on W's I'll get to the W's
And how quick how quick the W's worked in the three case law cases
But we'll ship this DU and then we'll bomb the port of Karachi every once in a while if those damn sent
oh yeah I'm insane
Why don't you read your wikileaks or lo at pictures from Google Google Hillary Clinton and the third prince of UAE
Now if you want to tell me that Hillary never does pay-for-play and you want to Comey insane yeah fine
I think I know who you are I'm not taking your opinion too seriously
So the a ship the DU on the Maersk Line
Why also the ship's radioactive did I put the radioactive material on the ships no I don't think I did
They go over to Charleston Harbor and they go in there and they store the store the material at Savannah River Site, which is got a lot of nuclear waste problems already
Nobody's gonna notice a little extra DU going into Charleston
Now Petraeus through his network of small arms dealers like purple shovel, like skybridge tactical, like gosh Chemring all these other small dealers like Yankee Foxtrot Mark Turi and tree whatever all these little arms dealers
You used the small arms dealers to send your arms in to different points
That no no Jason I was I was responding to somebody who said who was questioning my sanity
And I'm just explaining the ratline for the DU
What I mean by the DU ratline is the actual directors--the directors of the FBI Mueller Comey McCabe let's see Wray now
And then also the one who lost his soul with what's his name again at CrowdStrike the would-be director Sean Henry
They have a what I'm saying today is they have a direct financial interest in maintaining this uranium trade
So it's storehouse its warehouse in South Carolina
Now skybridge tactical can fly it anywhere if you really need fast most of the time we're gonna put it on a slow Maersk boat right this is why they got
So pissed this is what I got
So pissed at me
I think we are we are marked men on June 8th really with with the Lionel interview, because we're starting to gain momentum
They didn't know when that was gonna air and we'll get back to that
But anyway that's the de ratline those do you weapons lo we're finding them in Syria all over the place right
We're finding the weapons in the radiation radioactive testing all over the place the same thing for the white phosphorus
So there's metadata all over the place
So if you don't believe in the UN reports you don't believe in New York Times all these other independent reporting that's fine you could throw all that out and believe that whatever CNN saying today I don't know what they're saying
But that is what I'm saying the Purple Reign Purple Haze that's that's McCabe that's McCabe
This is Virginia this is the Port of Norfolk this is Terry McAuliffe
This is the enrich Mond Gang
This is Comey from Richmond the in Richmond uranium gang enriching themselves
If you don't believe Bob Mueller climbed that climbed the stairway on the tarmac to try to show HEU to the whatever some commissar of uranium and at the state in the state of Georgia then: switch to CNN
So either you have a choice but that's the game
Now you want to protect this game because it's man it's good money
Here you're getting from the US Department of Energy right you're getting two hundred thousand dollars a ton to dispose of this stuff this depleted uranium
And it's and we're gonna take that we're gonna have a little cut out to take that money then we're gonna ship it and then we're gonna make to Pakistan or wherever I believe Pakistan is where most of the stuff is made
And then you're going to store it in Savannah River Site
Now I think there's other places like near Tampa just north of Tampa where they're storing the WP
So as I said it's not all in one place and the orders are configured the kind of the Amazon configuration house is going to be a port of Naval Navy Yard where everything kind of gets put together
I think actually it's a little bit further down from the Navy Yard near the United States Naval labs
So that's kind of the pic I don't know if anybody's ever worked in warehouse type work I've never had but I did a lot of systems
Anyway the picki system is you go pick a little bit of this for an order then you go pick out of this bin for that and then you pick then you complete the order into what - into a tub then it goes down the line for packing
So pick and pack whatever they call it
So pick and pack is definitely going to happen at the Navy Yard Washington Navy area
G4S is right on top of hill loing directly down on that operation
Running that operation they're also watching what's coming up stream from on the Anacostia and the Potomac
For picking and packing I think a lot of the stuff comes there by a by boat
But some of the stuff like the wp and the white phosphorus I believe comes by air
I don't know if it's Andrews Air Force Base yet or or I think it's actually Air Force Base there's one in Anacostia
I believe
Joint Air Force Base Anacostia I believe that's where the actual and the reason for that is there's just too many chances for interdiction of the white phosphorus or the WP when you when you put it on the boat
Anybody with a wand can read the anybody want can read the radiation for the DU for instance
And that's a long slow boat trip these are like 30 or less than that I think 20 knots
So it takes a while to get up even from Charleston up to Washington DC
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