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Always remember, folks, whatever you think about, you bring about whatever you focus on, grows up, everyone's having a great day, safe day. It's a TGIF. And we're calling it the Christmas, folks. So Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, whatever type of holiday you're celebrating this weekend. Make it a great one, folks. Be impeccable with your word. Manifest your true intentions. Regardless of what language you speak, your intent will be manifested through the word. What you dream, what you feel, and what you really are, will be manifested through what you say each and every day. I love that cut. Make it a wise. Let's take a look at it out here. We have the Dow Industries up four. Nasdaq up 30, S&Ps up eight and a half. Gold, Gold contract up $14.10, trading at 2,065 an ounce. You get Silver down 16 cents, $24.42 an ounce. Lightsweak crude up 25 cents. 73 dollars, 64 cents, A barrel, notes and bonds. Ten-year note, flat, 112.21, the 30-year. Down two at 123.29, you get the ten-year right now yielding 3.895 and King dollar. King dollar's now at 151 ticks, trading at 101, 692, Euro 110, yen 142, British pound 127 to one U.S. dollar. Our phone number's 877-927-6648. Give us a call, folks. Want to know what's going on in your world and the world of the S&Ps. Let's go take a look at what we have out here. So, you know, we know that you have the aspect of no liquidity out here today. We take a look at the spy, you know, the spies in an ABC structure up, man. You know, we're at 473, 502 is the number. You know, so we'll see if we get there or not. At bottom line, it's an ABC upmarket, folks. And, you know, you put this on a weekly, I'll show it on the weekly, it's a clean ABC, man. You know, you can see A to B, blew away the B point, blew it away with volume last week. You know, so we haven't even reached the highs yet, but you do have that ABC structure up as you do inside the NDX 100 also. Doesn't mean, you know, that, yeah, you can't get negated, but my take is that we're gonna go. The reason my take's gonna go is, let me go right here. You go into the note and bond market. When you go into the note and bond market, the bottom line, you can see, notes are hanging tough at 112, 21. This is the 10 year, right? And then the dollar is not holding price. You know, so the dollar is just grinding all the way down to this 99 level. We hit 101, 425 today. So my take is that, you know, we're gonna be there probably by, we can be there by next week. Well, no, the next week's only a three-day week. That was a four-day week. Yeah, that'll be pretty easy to do, actually. Let's go to our man, Frank and Gloucester. Frank, what's going on, brother? Hey, Merry Christmas, buddy. Merry Christmas. How you doing, man? Oh, very good. Thank you. Hanging in there. Good. Getting things done. But I'm loving your gold report. I'm making money there. Thank you. But I have this stock and I thought I had an ABC up and thought I had a clean break of a swing high with higher volume. But maybe you can take a look at it because it's gone nuts. EFC, Ellington Financial Corporation. Okay, so let's take a look. Ellington Financial. Okay, so low for the S10 to 81, the highest, 1441. Okay, so it's a mortgage finance company. Okay, a company investing residential and commercial mortgage back securities, consumer loans, collateral loans, non-mortgage derivatives. Okay, so they do, well, this quarter, that's interesting. They've been doing 24 million a quarter. This quarter, they're gonna be doing 42 million. Yeah. So I wonder if they took someone over. That's interesting. But most of the time when that happens, they take someone over. Okay. Okay, so let's take a look. Okay, so we good? Yeah, Frank, okay, let me, I would stay right where you're at. Let me, where are you looking at the ABC? The end of the A is the end of October. Is it on a daily or a weekly, Frank? I'm going to the point too, I got it. Is it? And up to 12. Is it a daily or a weekly? Daily. Daily, okay, cool. Go ahead, I'm sorry, go ahead. Yeah, that's okay. The point is 1271 beginning of November and then it retraced, I don't know how you look at it, between 382 and 50%. Yep, yep. And it started taking off again and then it broke the B point with more volume. Considerably more volume. I'm just sitting there. There's about a million at the B point. I broke it with 1.2. Yeah, I see where you're looking at right now, right now. Okay, so you got this. But then there were those two huge down volume days the middle of December. Yeah. And it kind of got through the willies. They were okay, Frank, I think. The first one, I can see the first one that rejected lower price and it didn't get to the swing point, okay? And then the second one, you can make the case that was actually pushing higher with volume. Okay, yeah, yeah. I would say right where you are here, man. And then the main reason is that, on the weekly, this is nice, Frank. See this weekly, I just put this weekly up. That weekly is pushing this other swing point on volume in. And then- It's got a great dividend. I got a 13% dividend on it. Oh, let me look at this. Okay, so now they're saying it's eight and a half, but that's because it went up a little probably, okay? Yeah, yeah, right. And one of the main reasons that I'd stay right there, Frank, okay, is that the business they're in, right? I don't know how many commercial mortgages they're gonna do, but what has happened is that because this interest rate has come down so fast, you're gonna see mortgage companies make money again. You know- Well, that was the idea of getting into it, right? Yeah, you know. Just stay there for a second, Frank. We're gonna get a quick break and we'll be coming right back. Okay, sure. We have the Dow Industries. 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Toll free at 1-877-927-6648 internationally at 727-873-7618. Welcome back folks. We're talking Frank from Foster. We're talking about BFC, which is Ellington Finance. So Frank, I think you're on to the right deal here, man. Meaning that, so technically what you have here folks is that you can see on the weekly, that bar from last week, we're pushing a swing point with volume. So when you push a swing with volume, it's like, okay, you want to go up to the next level, which in this case is the 1421. And as you said, Frank, you're getting a decent dividend out of it. The thing that's really cool is this. So picture what they do. What they do folks is that they buy mortgage backed securities inside the commercial market, inside the consumer loans, inside the collateralized residential and all of that. Now, I don't know what they have inside their portfolio, Frank, right? But what does happen is this, everything that they've been buying, let's say for the last year and a half to two years, right, is gonna have a high interest rate structure, okay? And so what ends up happening is that our interest rates are going down. Now, as they go down folks, and this is what's so cool about the bond market, is everything's reversed. As they go down, those mortgages that they bought go up dramatically in price. Because what happens folks is this, so just picture something. Picture that they buy, okay? And when they do this, you get them in a discount. Now the discount they're talking about, I don't know what the exact discount is, but I'm just explaining inside of the bond market, when you're buying collateral backed mortgage, let's say the mortgage is at 7%, well, you might be buying it at 6.75 or something like this. It's not huge, it could be a quarter percent or something like that, okay? That being said, every one of those mortgages as we go down an interest rate structure, they will go up in principle. So I'd kind of stay right where you are, man, because any type of play like that to me is, I think we've turned the corner, man, you know what I mean? And right now we're still at restrictive rates and the market itself has brought the tenure down, it's just a matter of when the Fed will bring them down. Okay, that's what I was hoping you'd say, something like that, thank you. Yeah, no, listen man, you've been doing this a long time. This rate change is a huge, like ship folks that is turning, okay? We don't see this a lot. I mean, we saw the rate change two years ago and that was one of the biggest ones, yeah, in the last 40 years, you go from, you know, one, it's totally, man, totally exactly, exactly. And you know, this one, this one's a big one too, man. This one, this one's a big one. We're not going back to, you know, 1% 2%, okay? But I suspect that tenure looks like it's gonna go back to 3.25 and if it's 3.25, the 30 of mortgages are gonna be out there at 5.5%, which, you know, is affordable. Let's put it this way, it's, you know. Hey, my kids are into 4% mortgages, I couldn't be happier. Isn't that, I'm telling you, man, all any, you know, all of us that have something like that, that is pure gold. Now listen, listen to this, this is a, folks, you definitely wanna understand mortgages number one and number two would you wanna understand is when your children are growing up, you really wanna make sure they understand percentages because I gotta tell you the story. Listen to this story, this is a crazy story. Okay. I had sold this guy a home, right? Beautiful home. Now, picture, these homes now, they're going for like 1.1 million, okay? Now, picture, I've been doing this down in St. Pete since the crash, so I've been doing it for 12 years, okay? So this guy had bought a brand new home off me for 690,000, okay? I'm going back years now, okay? Cause that was the price then and that's a main home with the pool and the carriage home, right? Now here's the kicker. He had a mortgage at 2.2%, 2.2%, okay? He calls Bestford and I up about seven months ago, no, it's eight months ago now, eight months ago, right? Wants to sell the home, right? And they were moving back to Sarasota. He had been in Sarasota, moved up here, five years, wanted to move back to Sarasota, bought a new house in Sarasota, right? So I'm talking with him and great guy. I mean, just, he says, man, he says, you know what, my mortgage is going to be 6.75%. And I said to him, I says, have you done the numbers yet of what you're actually going to lose giving up a 2.25% mortgage? And folks, okay? When you do this over the course of like 30 years, we're talking about six or $700,000 compared to, for what he bought and then what he sold. We sold this house for 990 grand, okay? And so that was great for him, do you know what I mean? But you get the gist of it? It's like, there's so many other things that could have been done there. And it wasn't up to us to, you know, say that to him. He just wanted the sale. But right off the bat, you could have rented that house for 6,000 a month. And he still wouldn't, anyway, you get the gist of it. If you don't do the numbers on a very large number, I mean, you're just giving up so much money, man, you know? So I mean, I think it's going to stay tighter than people think. Like, you know, you hear a lot of the folks, you know, Frank, they're saying, okay, yeah, you know, it came down another percentage point that's going to release a lot of houses. I think it's going to release some houses. I don't think it's going to release a lot of houses, man. You know? Because I think some of those numbers, you know, and because of the rent structure, the rent structures are high. So it's like, if you can afford to rent it, well, then rent it, and then you can still cash out, you know, when these rates get lower, you know? Anyway, so, yeah, that's- Good advice, Tom, some age advice. It's wild, man. Well, listen, man, you have a great Christmas, happy new year. Thank you for all the support, Frank. And tell everyone I said hi. You too. Okay, man. I gotta take this crazy new dog to the beach and it's 32 degrees because she has to run, so. That is awesome. She got a new dog. What kind of dog? What's her name? Oh, God, it's a mutt. It's Willow and- Perfect. Cross with a red lacy and an Australian cattle dog, and she's nuts. Perfect. Mutts are where it's at, man. Mutts are beautiful. I love mutts, man. Yeah, totally, man. Yeah, yeah. She's great. She's great. Totally, man. All right, buddy. Have a great one, have a safe one. Make sure you get that mutt, some good Christmas presents, some good bones. They need bones and they're gonna- I've already got them. They're gonna chew all your wife's shoes and you gotta go to the nostril and go get some shoes. Well, I think we're past that. She was doing the baseboards and my wife put a Vaseline on there and put on some hot pepper and she woke up one day very thirsty. Oh, my God. So she doesn't do that again. I love it. I love it. Okay, man. Have a great one. Have a safe one. Down the stairs right now at 11. That's six of 35. That's a piece of nine and a half. Stay right there, folks. Come on right back. You might think that if you want to be successful at trading in the stock market, you're going to need a crystal ball. After all, it's impossible to predict the future, right? Like any endeavor in life, before you decide it's impossible, get some advice from the experts. You might find that it's not so impossible after all for daily market overviews that give you direction on the key indices, selective stocks, and commodities. Subscribe to the Opening Call Newsletter at tfnn.com. 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All the hard work you've done for us over the years. Well, I really appreciate you calling and saying hi. Yeah, to follow with the previous caller, yeah, the real estate market here in Florida has been dynamized over the years. Yes. No doubt about that. No, and especially where you live too, I know. So what's happening, let's give them a little geography here. So what happens, folks, is this, is that George is in Newport, Richie. That's north of St. Pete, right? And what you've had in Tampa is not the St. Pete also. And that's where all the growth is happening. Because that's about the only place they can go, right? Yeah, pretty wild. Yeah, I mean, the building has been going on crazy for the last, I've been in Florida for 20 some years, and you just can see now they're moving even north of a 54 way north, like 52, because 54 pretty much is built up the capacity. That's right. So now they're even going way further north. And that new Vecton Expressway is pretty amazing, man. I mean, you can go from, what happens, folks, is that when you go north, it's called the Nature's Coast. And if you ever come to Florida, and if you like nature, I mean, we have nature like beyond belief, man. I mean, it's just gorgeous. And this Nature Coast is something else between the, you know, whether you want to go in the rivers, or you're basically going in Crystal River. There's just so much to see, man. It's pretty amazing. Yeah, you've seen quite a bit. I've been here just about as long as you have, George. So, you know, there's no doubt. And you know what happened, folks, this year in the census, the census, you know, they just come out, they just, well, did the numbers a couple of days ago. I mean, this is from the last one, but, you know, the bottom line is that Florida, Texas, those are the states that are still growing. So pretty cool. And we, you know, there's still plenty of room. So, yeah. Pretty cool, George. So yeah, Tom, I wish you a Merry Christmas, you and your family, Merry Christmas. Thank you so much, and Merry Christmas to you and yours. Happy New Year. Thanks. And thanks for calling, man. I really appreciate it. My pleasure, Tom. Okay. Thank you for your show. Thank you, man. Have a great one, a safe one. Appreciate it, man. Let's go to John and Orlando. John, what's going on, brother? Good afternoon, Tom. How are you? I'm doing great, man, yourself. That's about to start. I wanna tell you, I've been listening to you since your radio days, back in 99, 2000. And I appreciate the call. I haven't heard your voice for a while, man. All the time, all the time. I appreciate what you guys do. But the most, what I really enjoy that you brought back to me, or this guy is as smart as a whip. I am so happy for that feedback. You know? Yeah, because I used to listen to him on your show on Thursdays, on the radio. Yep. And he was gone for quite a while. Yes, he was. And, yeah. Yeah. And this guy is really, I enjoy his technical analysis, his charting and all that, really, really. No, listen, man, I appreciate the feedback because, you know, I know, you know, we do them twice a week, but I can tell you, flat out, folks, okay? TFNN is about educating everyone, including ourselves, okay? And I'm telling you, you wanna listen to what this guy has to say. This guy taught me so much in 1992, 93, 94. We used to trade live. I mean, I trade a lot more than most people, okay? But the bottom line is, is that if you just study his stuff, and, you know, you have to study some of it because there's a lot of ratios, okay? But I'm telling you, man, no one has stuff like this. And, you know, yeah. He's one of a kind. He is. He's gotta be at the number one market, you know, time or our talent. It's like, he calls it pretty good. He calls it really, really good. He does. And what has happened over the course of the years is that, like anything else, when you have that much screen time, you know, he's developed a lot more ratios. And, you know, you get the gist and I really appreciate the feedback, man. Yes, yes, because the technology, you know, with technology advancing, I think he probably gained more knowledge himself, you know, over the years. Yes, absolutely. No, because you gotta keep changing. The market keeps changing, folks. You gotta keep changing, not changing, but there's more things that get, you know, anyway, it's really cool. And that's great feedback for all of us. Yeah, I wanna ask you about coin. I got in this at 80, around 86. Nice. This is Coinbase, folks. I've been holding it. Yeah. And it's very, very strong. It is. It's really strong. Coinbase, the low for the year, folks, is 31, the high's 178, so it's up 400%. And, you know, this is all predicated on, you know, Bitcoin, because the higher Bitcoin goes, the higher Coinbase will go. Coinbase is, you know, realistically the only legit broker deal for, you know, that's regulation-wise. It doesn't mean they won't get sued by the SEC, but they seem to have it pretty clean. You know, I would just hang right there and just, you know, I mean, he is so extended that you're gonna get some kind of a pullback. But, you know, what you really wanna do is, and you're probably doing it, you know, John, is you gotta trade this off Bitcoin because the higher Bitcoin goes, the higher Coinbase is gonna go. And, you know, Bitcoin, you know, I mean, it's had quite a run. So if that pulls back, you gotta expect Bitcoin, I mean, Coinbase to pull back, you know, so. Yeah, I bought in the 80s, and then I sold because it was a parabolic move, which is great. I mean, it's like, I sold in 146, and then I got regretted it, and I got back in at 136, and now I'm holding it again, you know. Well, you know, another thing that you can do, man, I mean, if you do any options, man, you know, the premiums are so high on this, you know, you can sell some covered calls, man. And that's the way that you can get, you know, just keep rolling them, you know, you just go out a little bit. And, you know, cause I'm looking at these calls right now, man, they're outrageous, man. Like, we're at 175, and if I go out to even February, watch this, this is sick. If you sell, you can sell the, you can sell the two 10s at 1230, 12 bucks. Wow. Yeah. Yeah, so. Yeah, a lot of premiums there. It is. Well, listen, John, man, have a great holiday, have a great Christmas, great new year. Thanks for calling, man. Thanks for the feedback on Tim Maude. I really appreciate it, man. Yeah, thank you. Thank you. Thanks, man. You too. Have a great one. Have a safe one. 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S&Ps are off four and a half, so check this out, man. This is, I'm trying to find an inflation calendar, but I don't have my PC right next to me. Anyway, listen to this, this is like amazing, man. So I'm gonna bring this over. So what happened this morning, folks, okay? This is like insane. So the United States this morning claimed the seabed of the US continental shelf, okay? That comes off of Alaska. Now check this out, this is what's amazing. The United States extended its claims on the ocean floor by an area twice the size of California, secure on rights, of course, to everything that's on the bottom. Now this is the kicker, man. Wait till I show you this. You gotta remember something. So we bought Alaska off Russia in 1867 for $7.2 million, two cents an acre, okay? That's what we paid. Now watch this, though. If you're watching Tiger TV, look at this. So the way that the international boundaries work is that when you do have actually continental shelves, continental shelves submerged are the property of the closest country, okay? That goes back, it doesn't go back that many years. When I was reading this article, it goes back about 30 or 40 years that they signed this whole deal. But when you look at this, look at this just for a second because two different things you're gonna see here. Number one, Alaska's gonna, I mean, Russia's gonna be going out of their mind that they sold Alaska, number one. But the continental shelf itself, this thing is like freaking huge. And then what is also going to happen, this is where, you know, Canada is huge, there's no doubt about that. And there's gonna be a little overlay with Canada, so I suspect we'll make some kind of deal with Canada because we're grabbing parts, well, it has this angle that we're grabbing parts that contested also. But just look at the size of that grab. That is a land grab, folks, in a monster way. And, you know, it's a legit land grab. Well, it looks like it's legit in land grab anyway. And you can see the difference. See the difference on this map when you go down to the Atlantic Ocean because there, what ends up happening, the shelf drops off and then it's just wide open. Where up in the Arctic, that shelf goes that far. And if you haven't seen, you know, how actually a shelf works, it is like a phenomenal man. I've never dove with tanks going down, but off the Cayman Islands, we get out of the Caymans a lot because it's only an hour and 20 minutes away. What happens is that you go out and you don't even have to, you go out like 20 minutes. 20 minutes off Seven Mile Beach, there's a drop off and the water's so clean, you can, you know, you don't see down a lot. Well, you're seeing it down 50, 60 feet. But this thing drops off like 2,000 feet, folks. And it's really cool. A shelf and a drop off is absolutely phenomenal if you've never seen one. I'm sure there's probably on YouTube or something, there's probably some of them. And that's where you talk about fish and species and talk about layered. That's when you actually see layered schools of fish and how the feeding gets one on top of the other and top of the other. It's phenomenal, man. I mean, it's just, you're talking about life, man. Teaming life in a monster way. And yesterday was the solstice, so now what we have, especially here in Florida, which is really cool, well, for all of us, every day gets longer now. Excuse me. Now what will happen in Florida, and this happens, let's see, there's a 20 second, yeah, we get it about another 40 days, 45 days. And about 45 days to 50 days, folks, okay? What ends up happening is that the fish in South America, they stop making their way up the coast. And when you see the water, it is just a mind blow, man, because the different specimens of fish that come right off the coast going, it takes them a while to go up to New England, Canada, but we have this twice a year. And it's just really cool, man. I mean, the dolphins are always here because there's so much fish, but when you actually see the migration of them, it is phenomenal. And where Steve lives, the difference, on the Gulf Coast where we are, that's the West Coast of Florida, you have to go out a lot further. We don't have to go a lot further to see the migration, but for bigger fish, we have to go out a lot further, like at 35 miles. Where Steve Rhodes lives, right? You literally only have to go out about 500 yards. That's how the drop-off and Fort Lauderdale, Boca, all that area that literally is about 500 yards. And you are talking about every specimen in the world, not in the world, but that's going up. And the difference is the larger fish, the whole ball of wax, rougher water, but beautiful fishing, man, insane fishing. And market-wise out here, hey, listen, coming into 2024, folks, okay, what you want to keep your eye on is keep your eye on the rates, keep your eye on the dollar. Because I suspect what we have right now is that rates number one, yeah, let me put this up for 10 year because I'm gonna put this 10 year yield up chart up first. Because this is gonna be one of the signals also. Tim Ward, we're gonna use his ratios, no doubt about that. But one of the signals here, see, this is a 3.8. If I take this and you put this on a few, you're gonna see that the bottom of the consolidation, which that's where I think we're going, that's 3.24, okay? So when this market stops going higher, okay? So if you're bearish in the market, you want to keep this in mind. When this gets down here, this is when the market's gonna be, I mean, it's extended right now, but it's gonna be extended beyond belief. And see how much support's there? I think we're gonna be trapped here for a bit in the 10 year, which is 3.24. And then we go over to the dollar and you want to combine these. And then you take the dollar and then we put the dollar and you can see the bottom of the consolidation and we're getting close to it. It's 99, 98 in that area. When those two line up, that's gonna be, I suspect, the S&P maybe finishes ABC up by then. The ultimate would be the ABC finishes ABC up by then. The Q's finishes ABC up by then. The dollar and bonds come back to that point. Then you can hit the shot button. Until then, I wouldn't be hitting no shot button, man. And this is a 1996 market, folks. 96, 97, 98, you know, home ball of wax. Stay right there, folks, come right back. Are you ready to take your trading to the next level? 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Go to tfnn.com and hit Watch Tiger TV. That's tfnn.com and hit Watch Tiger TV. Welcome back, folks. That was down 14. That was like as up 31 S&Ps are up eight. And that's kind of all she wrote, coming into this Christmas holiday, folks, okay? So let's go take a look at, actually, no, let's look at the gold market before we call it a day here. So we look at this. Yeah, see, this is the second spike. This is, you know, we got that huge spike and that has volume in it. Today wasn't bad, 161,000 contracts. This thing's gonna blow away all that stuff. Yeah, we know we had an expansion. This is good, here, check this out, man. We took out the consolidation of the last six days and it has volume. And that's amazing for being the Friday before, you know, the holiday. So this high volume spike up here that went up, gave the whole thing up, didn't go break a swing. We're going all the way up there. And my bigger picture is, and I'll put this up, this is gonna be the 2,500 number. And you know what, hey, the ABC structure up, this is a really large ABC structure up, and it's on the monthlies. And you can, you know, I mean, look at this thing, man. I mean, you know, huge consolidation, which makes it even more powerful. You broke the consolidation. We already broke the consolidation. So you get the huge leg up. You're at 2,052. It's not gonna be hard to get to 2,500, you know. That's the next, that's the move that we're in right now. That's my take on this thing. We actually are in this move. And, you know, 400 bucks in gold, yeah. That can take a while, I don't know. All you get an incident in the Red Sea and it's not gonna take long at all. You know, they're gonna have to be dealing with this Red Sea, man. It seems like they, yeah, that's what it comes down to. Oh, as you remember folks, LeBak and Claudia Hotout, the bull can run you over and thank God there's always another trade. Health happens in prosperity. Have a great Christmas. Whatever you celebrate and have a great one, folks. Have a safe one and come back Tuesday morning. We're kicking everything off again. Time to kick everything off Tuesday morning. Have a great one, folks.