 The following is a presentation of TFNN. Trade what you see with Larry Pezzavento toll-free at 1-877-927-6648 or internationally at 727-873-7618. Now, Larry Pezzavento. Okay, looking good, Billy Ray, feeling good, Lewis. Sounding bad, feeling good. Let's take a quick look here at this gold market, folks. Once we went above that 1,500 level that we talked about on Tuesday, it was pretty much clear sailing. We had a tiny bit of resistance at 1,508. We went through there like it didn't even exist. We're now at around 1,514. The interesting part is that gold is one of the more susceptible to lunar cycles than anything else, and we have a new moon with a solar eclipse coming in here today. Very, very important. And another thing, folks, if you do the silver charts, go back to look and see the last time we had a move like this in silver. It measured to 1,803. We've been as high as, I believe, 1,808. 1,810 is the 50% retracement. So I certainly can't recommend going along the gold and silver in here even though they could go straight up. We're up 13 days in a row in the silver market just by itself. So that in itself makes it very, very overbought, but it could stay overbought for a very, very long time. That's for sure. We want to remember that because it's very easily to see that happen. Let's just take a look what this is going to look like today for those of you that are out there in the stargazing mode. We'll bring up here to let you see one second here. We've got to change the venue just a little bit. There we go. Here's what it looks like. There you go. There's what that solar eclipse is going to look like in different parts. It's actually visible in the northern hemisphere, I think, from what someone said. But you can go online and check that if you wanted to take a quick look at it. Another thing that's happening that I think is relatively very important. And that is, if we look at the Bradley date, we'll bring this up here to see where we are. You'll see here where we're looking at the Bradley model. Now go back to last year, folks. Remember we had that huge rally after the first of the year? Well, look what's happening now. We're right in the Bradley zone right now. You can see it right now. We're right at that level. So it's going to be really interesting to see if the market explodes to the upside from this level again, which it certainly could, or whether it's going to invert this time and possibly move to the downside. We really don't know that. I've done a lot of... Well, I've done every Bradley model since we had good data in the stock, which was in the 1870. We started getting data from the New York and Philadelphia newspapers and then later on the Wall Street Journal to get pretty good data. But that tells us that these things do work, but they don't work all the time. I wanted to go back and take a look at the history. Well, just look at the longer term history on some of these things here. But here's one. This goes back all the way. We're going to go back about 25 years into 1966. You'll notice here, I just want to show you the patterns that you're looking at. You can see the three drive to a pattern at the bottom there in October and December. There was a double bottom. That was later on in life. I would realize much later. 20 years later, I would realize that that double bottom was a double conjunctions and oppositions. So in October and December of that year, that was one of the reasons that got me really interested into the astro aspects of this stuff. And I was working with some of the folks out of Pittsburgh at the Foundation for the Study of Cycles, Gertrude Scherk. And it really gave me an idea later on. This was 10 years later. I didn't get this until 1986 when I was working with Dr. Ruth Miller. But just looking at these old patterns, you're going to see that they're really, really very interesting. The main one that I really wanted to bring up to you is the fact that if you'll notice that the low we made there in 1978, in March of 1978, and then the low we made on August the 12th of 1982, that was just a slightly lower low. If you'll notice, look closely on those red market coming down, you'll see it's a beautiful three-drive to a bottom pattern. It's setting exactly at the 61% retracement from the low of 1974. And from there, we went from a little bit higher in the Dow at 720, I believe, all the way up to 28,500 and counting. So that was a major, major bottom. And all of those were absolutely major cycle things related to the harmonics of the move. So yeah, the Bradley model, it works part of the time, but when it works, it works really good. The dates themselves are pretty good, but sometimes the trends get a little upset. Now take a look here. This happens to be, since we're talking about this, I wanted to spend a little bit of time this morning because it's important. You'll notice that we had this three-drive to a top pattern back in 07. It was in October of 07. The most significant part of this chart was on the high right there that week. Bernard Bernanke came on and said that, you know, all systems go. Everything looked great. And from there, the NASDAQ gave back, what did it give back? About 75%. And we lost 67% in the S&P 500. So notice here, this is the Dow Jones industrial average. And we bottomed in 2008 or 2009 in March, and the Dow was trading at 6,600. So that's how far down we came from this. But when it does work, it works pretty well. Now you'll notice in June, you see where that low was made. That was an inverted market. And it went up and then it came back and tried to make a low. Missed it by just a little bit. But overall, it does a pretty good job. And so we're at one of those points right now. And we're also looking at the, you know, these different cycles that we have, not just the lunar cycle, which is the solar eclipse and new moon we have today, which is the, you know, the 28-day cycle. You're having that Mercury is in there too. It's really, you know, moving around. And Ritzke pointed that out in his talk that we had, we had him on for, well, actually, Dana was a technical problem. But there's some really heavy cycles in here. This is very, very important days that we have over the market right now. So we'll see. We'll be up. This is, yeah, this is only the fit. There's, I think there's, I don't know if you know this enough, but you know that there are five Sundays and five Mondays in the month of December this time, which is that doesn't happen again for another 823 years, I think I heard. Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's that. Let's, let's move on. I want to, I have to discuss this thing about open interest because I tried to do a lot of information on, you know, what's going on. Let me get this up here to see my market up here. Here's the open interest. I wanted to show you this folks because I think it's important. This is the open interest in the E-mini S&P as of the 20th of December. This is where at the close, there was only 589,000 open interest versus 2.7 million in the March. Very, very important. Okay. The next thing you want to do is to take a look at what happened to that open interest as we went through. Here's where my red lights came on here. Look at this here folks. This is where, and I, let me get, we'll get right back and talk about this again. I think it's important, so I'm going to talk about it. We'll be right back. The Taz Profile Scanner is a standalone piece of software that instantly filters over 2,500 global financial markets such as stocks, ETFs, commodity futures, and forex. 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Again, we had another drop in open interest that day also. So it's very interesting folks that this open interest is dropping at a time when prices are going higher. Because I couldn't get any information off the internet from anybody saying, gee, this looks very interesting. And I went back and compared. So I called Chicago to ask him, is there anything in the contracts that have changed that would make it? The guy said, no, he said there's a cash settlement for the S&P. In other words, if you bought the S&P last week, say on Thursday and you carried it through until Tuesday, it didn't even take off the trade. When it goes off of expiration, it's a cash settlement. So if it sells at $3221, then that's the price that you get. You don't have to do anything as far as liquidating your contracts. But that still doesn't account for the fact that open interest last week was setting at 3.2 million and now at $650,000 less. So there's 650,000 less players in there, folks. And if you go back to John Murphy's book and take a look what that means is, if you come up and look at this, you'll see that if open interest is falling, you'll see the second link. They're bracketed off in blue. If open interest is falling and prices are rising, the market is weakening. And that's what we're seeing here in all of the indices, especially they don't mean they don't roll. That means they did not roll the contracts, Bill. That's exactly right. In other words, there were 620,000 people that left the market. That's long and short. But because the market's going up, it's short covering. And that means the market's in a weakened condition. I've shown you this stuff. I don't want to beat the horse any more than they already did. There's some other things that they're interesting that's going on in the market. If we take a quick look here, this is a real interesting one, too. Oh, I think I can do this really easily. Let's see if we can do that. Yeah, wow. Did that post that easy? Are you kidding me? Oh, my goodness. Look how much time I could have saved. Did that post okay? The put call ratio? I bet it did work. Shut the front door and raise the rent. What a great Christmas present. It didn't post, huh? Yeah, it did. Sure. I'm getting it, Marshall. It showed that it posted perfectly. Did the put call ratio chart whether it would make my life a lot easier if it posted? It really didn't post. Uh-oh. And then I got to do it another way. Posted as a picture. All right. Let's do it. Let's do it the old way. Get it up here. And here it'll work this way for sure. It should work that way, but I don't know why it didn't. Here's the put call ratio. What you can see here, we made new lows back into January of last year when we had the put call ratio at pretty much the same price. So we're at very, very extreme levels. You need to keep an eye on that, especially with all these cycles that are due at this time. And I think it's important to remember, you know, what's going on. Sorry for the, I have a little bit of a sore throat and stuff, folks, but I wanted to go through some of these other patterns and some of these other things, astrology-wise, that we don't cover too often. Here's the, this is the SMP going back to 1958. I bring this to your attention just to show you these patterns have worked for a very long time. You'll notice that we had the one, two, three, four, five expanding trying, three to a top pattern that was also expanding triangle because four was lower than two, two, three was higher than one and five was higher than three and one. That's a three drive to a top pattern and a five point reverse wave and the, during the time of 1973, that's when the market went down and made that double bottom down there in October, October and December of 1974. And then we made the other bottom in August of 1982. But if you just went and did the ratios on these, I think you'd be quite surprised to see that these Fibonacci numbers are still just a much, pretty much spot on doing what they were doing. And I think that's why we have to keep reminding ourselves that they don't work all the time, that they work more often than they fail. And that's the, that's the key to looking at. We have a question about the Bradley model. Why does it invert? Well, Norm says it's because of the inversions to happen because of the retrograde planets moving. And that's certainly possible. I don't know the answer to that. The way I try to use the Bradley model are the key dates because it, it does pretty good with the key dates and we are certainly over one of the major key dates right now today and tomorrow. So we'll see if, and believe me, if you come in Monday and the market's up really strong, you know, and it might still be strong, you know, by the time we finish today, you know, this thing could literally go up a lot more. You don't know because when they fail, they certainly move. We've got a situation monetarily that the Fed can do almost anything they want as far as, you know, keeping interest rates lower, whatever they want to do. At least that's what they're trying to tell us. So we'll see whether that's going to be the case or not. We'll have a chance to take a look at Bitcoin here this morning. And as we look at Bitcoin here, you'll see here that we've, we did hold that low at 6400. That took out the low of early November right there around Thanksgiving time. We took that low out by just about 50 points at 6400, which was the 61% retracement almost spot on on the long-term charts going back a year and a half to two years ago. But if you looked at it logarithmically from the start of $100 a share in Bitcoin, that was a 382 retracement. So just like the gold was so important at that 382 level, that's the same reason why you have to pay, you know, very close attention to the same thing in the other thing that we've been watching here. Let's just take, since we're talking about gold here, because we've cleared 1512, 1510 very easily. And you'll see here that we've got above these levels, the 78% level of the move comes in around 1517, I believe, and we're having a really strong move today. So that will bring us up near this level that we're looking at. What looks like toast? I don't know what means, what that means. Marshall, so you tell me what looks like toast. Gold doesn't look like toast. It looks like it's actually acting pretty good. You know, it's running up pretty much. Once we cleared 1500, there was nothing above it that would make it. We've gone, you know, yeah, Bitcoin, it doesn't look that bad. Actually, if you look at a longer term, Marshall, that 6400 is a really big figure, and we came out of there really strong saying it's important. If we go back below 6400, it would not only look like toast, it'll look like burnt toast. But right now, it's still acting relatively well, whether that's going to be the case or not. I don't know, it's Boxing Day over in the U.K., so there's hardly nothing open over there in Europe. Currencies are moving around a little bit, but other than that, there's not too much happening here. So we've got a break coming up here, 877-927-6648. And he's already delivering content to his subscribers on a daily basis when the markets opened and even on weekends. Each Monday, you'll receive Larry's written report that provides detailed commentary and a summary on the charts and videos that Larry sends out. And throughout the week, when warranted, Larry will send out via charts or videos or both the key markets that he is watching during the day. 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This segment is brought to you by Think or Swim. For more information, just click the Think or Swim banner on the front page of tfnn.com. Okay, folks, we're going to take a look at the Hang-Sing Index, the weekly index going back to 2018. You saw we had a big break. Almost went to the exact 61% that retracement missed it by about 200 points and then rallied up exactly to the 61% retracement and then came down and almost made a double bottom in August. And since that time, Hong Kong has been under extreme pressure. It started about that time when the rioting started and the folks that are arguing about who should run Hong Kong. And you'll notice at the high that we made here in the rally just a week or so ago came in at 61% retracement. But I want to spend just a moment to look at this chart very closely. Here's one of those things that you hear about Warren Buffett and by where there's blood. Look down there in August how bad it looked with that big gap down. It looked like it was going to go down forever. That was the bottom of the market, folks. There's nothing but turmoil and all kinds of bad things happening in Hong Kong and yet the market rallied from 25,000 all the way up to 28,000. That's a big rally. And the rumor is from China from what we're hearing from our friends over there is that George Soros was in a short position in this and he was hurt really badly. Now, if you believe that, I still have two shares at the Brooklyn Bridge that I've been saving for you. So please contact me and I'll be able to sell those to you at a very, very wonderful Christmas price. Folks, that stuff when you hear about the news, those are reporters just trying to get their name in the news most of the time. For first of all, if George Soros wants you to know what he's doing, he's probably doing the exact opposite. Because if he's doing something in the markets, he certainly doesn't want people to know what he's doing. I know sometimes he'll say that I'm selling and he's buying, we see that all the time. Warren Buffett is the master of that. But when you hear that in the news, take it with a grain of salt, folks, really look at the charts. Look at all during that time of all that writing and stuff, the market was rallying for heaven's sakes. That really doesn't... That's not... Mr. Peake is saying that it's not his real name and he doesn't trade anymore. I don't know any of those things. That sounds like conspiracy theory stuff. So I'm going to stay away from that. Hold on one second, folks. Okay. 877-927. I'm going to move on here to cover a couple other things that we're watching very closely. In the futures market, folks, keep a very, very close eye on the cotton. We've really... We're getting ready here. This is the daily cotton chart. We don't trade this... Mr. Z's been following this very closely and we just went up to the 50% retracement level. We're at that 68 resistance level. If you're like the cotton, the ideal situation, if you'd like to buy on a dip, would be to see it back off to about 63. That would be a 382 retracement of that big three-drive to a bottom. That happened down into August. How cotton... 7, and now we're up at 68. We rallied a little more than 20%. We're setting right at the 50% level. We're up like five days in a row, so we're watching this closely. I don't trade cotton, but Mr. Z has piqued my interest once again, and so we're going to keep following it, and he'll be following it in the room here. So pay attention to what he does, because it is... All we need is a little bit of a break down, and then a move back up above 68, and this thing can really have good legs. If you look at the rally that we had from December to April of last year, you see we went from... We went from 70 all the way up to 79. That was 9 cents. This time we went from 57 to 67. This time we went 10 cents. So these are almost equal rallies. So now we're due for correction. So I can't buy that into this, so I'd like to see it back off and make a beautiful ABCD pattern. Sometime in January or early February, that would be an ideal situation to take a look at cotton. Haven't traded cotton for a long time, but I'm going to be watching it because the pattern looks pretty good. It's tradable. The situation regarding cotton as trading is so different than it was 40 years ago. 40 years ago it was traded by a whole bunch of relatives in the cotton pits in New York, and now it's traded electronically, so you've got just as good as a chance as anybody else does trading cotton. So that's another one that looks real interesting. Also, remember the natural gas. I want to bring this up to your attention too because we had a really nice double bottom form here in the natural gas that we talked about last week. We got down to that 219 level. We're now back above that substantially. We're trading around 226. So as long as we stay above 219 in that natural gas, it looks like it could have a pretty good chance here to have a pretty good move to the upside. Someday I believe natural gas is going to be trading around eight or nine, but whether that happens in my lifetime, I don't know it or not because it's very clean energy and there's a whole lot of it, but with the solar energy and some of the other things that are happening, maybe we won't need that kind of energy. I don't know with the green piece coming, anything's possible, I guess. So we'll pay very, very close attention to that one. Also, another one that I'm watching for the new year, one second is this hopper, because we're up here in this area where copper should be running into some pretty stiff resistance. I don't know what it's doing now, but around that 286 level, we have some major ABCD patterns. I think I haven't checked copper in the last couple of days, but someone would be kind enough to let me know what copper is trading at right now because at 287, it's going to be pretty interesting possibility for a short at that level because it was a really great buy down there at 260 that Mr. Z was talking about quite a bit of the time. So let's, someone give me a heads up on where we are at 284. Okay, we're very, very close. So we've been a couple cents away and of course we've got the gold and silver running pretty good right now into this solar eclipse and new moon. I'll tell you that's a really big cycle, folks, in this gold and silver. So I think it would be really interesting to pay close attention to it when you watch these charts because that's a very, very, sorry for the phone folks, I can't turn it off. I got a new, one of the call these smart phones and I'm not smart enough to turn the darn thing off. So my wife usually takes care of that for me, but we'll hope it's not bothering you too much. I know it rings a little too loud, but there we go. There was nothing more than a, hit the little button on its side. Yeah, I tried that, it didn't work. Okay, I'll try it again to see if I can get it to work. I'm just not a technical person, but you know, I've survived this long, I guess I'll be okay. Okay, let's move on to the next one. It's the one on the opposite side maybe. I'll try to figure it out. I've only had it a little short period of time just a few days, so we'll see what happens with the rest of this. Oh, someone asked, oh, we got a break coming up here pretty soon, but I had a couple of Christmas stories that I wanted to share with you from the old Drexel days that I think you would really enjoy to hear, but we'll do that when we come back for the break. If you have a question, please call 877-927-6648, and I'll be happy to answer it for you if I can. 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And we were having a Christmas promotion for one of the orphanages in Los Angeles that one of the big wigs at Drexel was promoting. And they started to have a little contest about which of the brokers could give the most... give the most money, you know, to the charity. So they had a contest that anybody that won this contest, they would get a... they would get around the world trip. All the expenses paid. And so they started bidding on this thing. Of course, remember, this is 1979 and things are heck of a lot cheaper than they were now. But it quickly got to $50,000. Then it got to $75,000. Then it got to $100,000. And then it stalled there. And we had about three weeks to go in the thing. And one of the Milken guys, I don't know, it wasn't Mike, but it was one of the other guys that was in the group. It wasn't any of the big four, but it was one of the big, big boys. All those boys made a million bucks. I mean, that was nothing to make a million dollars up on that floor. Anyway, we got to about... I think it was about $200,000 bidding and Fairman came in one morning and he said, okay, he said, I'm giving $500,000 for these tickets. And everybody says, you're nuts. And he was... It was just about all he made for the whole year. It was around $500,000. He's just going to give the whole thing. You see, I'm going to give the whole thing. And so he did win. He won the whole thing. And what was really interesting was, is that after he did it, Drexel picked up the tab for the hodarn thing. All right, we got a caller. Hey, shut the front door and raise the rent. John from Oakland, Michigan. John, how are you? Larry, I'm great. I haven't had a chance to call you in a long time, but today's the day I wanted to get in with you. Hey, the reason for my call is I saw a story. I want to say it was last week that someone had bought a huge shot of gold call options. And here's what it said. Somebody plucked down a million and a half dollars to buy 5,000 June 2021. Not this June coming up in 2020, but June 2021, $4,000 strike, $4,000 strike price, gold calls. Have you seen that story? Have you heard that? Well, John, I know the answer to that. I have not heard the story, but there's one other thing I could add to it. It was not me. I don't see why anybody... Well, hey, people do a lot of different things, but to sell calls is a better thing to do. Somebody took the other side of that trade, but 5,000 is a very... It couldn't have been very expensive. It had to be just a dollar or two. It was $3. $3. Yeah, $3. So someone's got $2 million to play back or add or what do they want to do? That's what it amounts to. But I don't believe those things. And that's over my pay grade to try to figure it out. All I know is in the only way you're going to make money in options is you've got to be an option seller. If you sell the calls and you sell the puts, you can make money. But if you buy a put or buy a call, you're going to make money maybe one out of 10 times. But usually it's a losing proposition. Tom O'Brien Jr. and Tom O'Brien Sr. talks about that quite a bit. They have the boys on with TD Ameritrade talking about it. So it's good information to talk about at a dinner party and stuff. But I really don't know the answer to that. Certainly could be. There's no question. All you have to do is you look at the open interest and you're going to see if somebody came in here and bought that money because it'll tell you whether they did or not. I couldn't find open interest with that number. And it wasn't a reliable publication that I saw that. It was either. And, you know, I hate to throw out the name, but I look at investors' business daily. I look at barchart.com from time to time. It was one of those types of outfits, I thought. But I couldn't find the open interest worth. You know, we had that number of calls out there. Well, you know what I'll do is when we come up to the next break here, which is going to be in about three minutes, what I'll do is I will go into the CME and pull up the calls for that. You said June of 2021? Yeah, June 2021. And it was the $4,000 call. I don't think they had a strike crisis. I didn't take anything of it. I just looked at it. I said, I can't find anything, probably, you know, but by a bunch of somebody blowing smoke. But, you know, 13 days in a row with silver up, gold popping over 1,500. And I remember one other thing, you know, I keep things in my mind. Paul Tudor Jones, and I called you about this probably a couple months ago. Paul Tudor Jones made a call one time on a show called Real Vision. And he said that if gold broke through 1,400, it would run to 1,700 in a shot. And we had that, you know, we had that breakout was a couple months ago where it broke through 1,400 and made a big run and then all of a sudden just collapsed, you know, come back and now all the time it's making a run. So I just thought I'd call you. It only made it. It only made it big call that, which I can't find proof of. But I like it. I will do this, John. It wasn't some goofball thing. If I can't check it today, I will check it by tomorrow to find out if there's anything like that in the data. And I just been talking to the Mercs or I know the person to call there and they can tell me, and they could probably tell me who's on the other side of the trade too. Well, they know the answer to that, whether they give it away or not, that's a little question you might have to agrees upon or two, but you can find that kind of stuff out. But I will take a look at it. Regarding that gold, you know, that pullback was really not a collapse. We dropped about 160 bucks an ounce down to 15, excuse me, to 1445, which was the 382 retracement of the last low. So that's why gold looks so bullish. I mean, it really does. I mean, it's got roots rocking and rolling. I have a hard time buying it today. I did a little last night, just because I knew it was going to get up above 1510 for a minute, but right now I'm just waiting to see how it handles this next high that we got in about two hours. We'll see if it does anything. But hey, listen, thanks for calling in and please call in more often. Welcome to you and you have Tom who guard and David, I can't David Paul. So wonderful. And happy holidays to you and your family. Mark Douglas's DVDs on trading. So thanks very much. You bet. Thank you. All right, folks, we're going to have another break coming up in here and we'll see what's going on here. Let's see what we have here with how gold's acting so far this morning. We've been up almost to 1514. The resistance is 1515. That's the one that we're sort of keeping a little bit of an eye on. But keep a close eye at about 1140 today, folks. Excuse me, 1040. That's in about an hour, just about, well, 50 minutes from now. Watch the gold because there's a possibility we might have a little bit of a high coming in at that point. And it'll be interesting to see whether it'll actually do anything from that level and we'll watch it closely. Another one to watch, of course, is the E-mini S&P. I think we just made new highs in the NASDAQ, as I recall. I think we did. Yeah, we just did. We just popped up and made new highs in the NASDAQ and we're making new highs in the S&P as we should because we're over a lunar eclipse and a new moon. 877-927-6643. It's the best of the best at everything you do in life. It's the most common trait that we tigers and tigers share. 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For more information, just click the Think or Swim banner on the front page of TFNN.com. Okay we're back folks and we were talking to John in Michigan about options in gold for 2021. The open interest, the total open interest in June Gold for 2021 is only 17,000 excuse me, 1718 contracts. So I think that person I'm not even sure what the strike price is let me double check the strike. No, there's nothing anywhere near that. He might be doing it off exchange or a different exchange or foreign exchange. I don't know but it doesn't show that in the Merc anywhere at all. My two cents worth but I will watch it but I'm not sure how it's going to end up to see what's going on here. Okay I think what we'll do here this is the day after Christmas so we'll just do something a little different here. I'm going to send a few ideas out today because we're over something really interesting now in the Nasdaq. You don't have to wait very long if this is correct. Yeah it's you're right Marshall it's on the BS exchange that's the Boston Singapore exchange. I've used it quite a few times in my life. Okay here's the Nasdaq it looks exactly like the S&P we should be topping here in the first hour right around now whether we get much above these new highs or not I don't know it's all about risk control but keep a close eye on it but this is a lunar eclipse full moon type thing. I want to do the gold one too if I can I think I've got it ready here I don't know if I do or not I don't know but it's due to top in about 40 minutes of gold if it's not much above 15 15 it would be a very low risk short at that level if it does get to there but we'll have to do one thing at a time that's really what we're paying attention to here. You can see here what it looks like from early this morning that I was looking at I told you that I nibbled the gold from the long side and got out of it a little above 15 11 but here you see that time we're looking at there that is a 10 about an hour from where we are right now 1045 to 1050 for up around 15 15 15 16 and what you do is you wait for it to back off a little bit so you can quantify your risk live every day in an attitude of gratitude and may God bless you. See you on the flip side tomorrow. Bill Meridian on Monday boys and girls. Bill Meridian on Monday.