Uh uh. Ah, what is going on and welcome to the second half of power hour today, tuesday, 2, 22, 22. 2. 2.

2. 2. 2, 2, 2, tuesday, wow. What a day, what a volatile day, if you're, looking at the stock market right now, you're gon na, be seeing quite a bit of movement to the downside, to the upside and now everyone's saying: what is the market close going to bring? So i want to go over what in the world is going on? Why are we seeing these gyrations? Why are we seeing these large? I guess unknowns random movements, the vagueries throughout the market.

It all relates to rush at all really to ukraine. It all remains to the biden discussion. We will be diving into that 100 and then i'll give you an update on the short interest for the spy, the q's, the russell. We could take a look at amc and jimmy um.

I do have one thing. I guess i want to discuss and talk about the ape community so stick around. We have a lot to go over and while we're doing that um i would love your. I guess prediction of based on where we are now the spy, the cues the russell.

From now, until that bell goes ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding ding at the end of the day, do you think we're higher or lower or roughly the same? Do you think we're still going up? Are the bulls going to continue flexing their muscle like they have ever since? Roughly i don't know 2 45 or are we going to go down? This is just kind of a fake out, so let me know up down or sideways into close would love your thoughts if you've been paying attention to the market. Today, you probably noticed some crazy, crazy movements, and that is for good reason. The tensions related to the whole russia, ukraine border situation, as it really relates to us in the us and many other nations on a global scale. The tensions are extremely noteworthy and it got worse over this presidents day weekend, and i just want to give you the most recent update of what in the world is going on and to better show you just the insanity of the market right now.

Let me switch over to this. The spy was trading down down down down down down down when we broke below 428 when we broke below 427. That was not good. Those are major levels of support and then right around 2.

2. 15. 2. 30.

Right in here. This is when president joe biden started to talk, and let me do my best to explain why him even announcing sanctions actually caused the market to go green, at least in the short term. You can see that in the overall market, the s p 500. You can see the exact same movement in the nasdaq 100 same thing started to bounce and we're also seeing it even in the small cap sector of the russell coming down and bouncing.

All of these were very, very close to going on tilt. Three of the major indices were at risk of coming down to kind of like the final level of support before we could have seen a more serious capitulation. No way am i calling for a stock market crash or anything like that. I'm not here to fear monger, i'm here to look at the technical levels of we were at support.

We almost broke down and from there the next support for three of these indices was not that close by. So, let's take a little bit of a deeper dive of what in the world happened today and to better understand what happened today. You have to know what happened over the weekend over the weekend. You've probably heard about the russia, ukraine, like tensions of, are they getting invaded? Are they not going to invade and the u.s kind of took the line of if you invade that's, when all hell is going to break loose? Well, they, i guess, did a weird move.

Where they said these two regions are actually independent. Russia declared this putin declared this and they moved troops into those regions. So it's kind of like well technically we didn't it's kind of like when you were a kid and you're like i'm, not touching you, i'm not touching you that type of like a tit for tat of like seeing who could push the line the most before something. Actually happened.

Very much has the vibe of hey. You were the one who actually attacked. First, we were just being defensive that type of a vibe, so that happened over the weekend, two regions that putin declared were independent, which a lot of people were saying. Actually, president joe biden said you don't have the right to do that anyway, moved troops there.

So when the market opened today it started going down and it started going down and it went down even more market sell-off intensifies as russian ukraine. Tensions escalate. Dow drops 600 points. Well that was going down down down down down and then all of a sudden biden at first he was gon na speak at two.

Then it got moved up to one. Then it got pushed to two and beyond and he ended up speaking at the and beyond part around two thirty et for today, tuesday. Two two two two two two two biden says us: will sanction russian financial firms, sovereign debt and individuals after ukraine incursion. These are the sanctions that got hit.

We already know that, because of the developments from yesterday and just the time zone thing uk already hit them with sanctions and the us followed suit today, with some other global powers. Here's what you need to know, president joe biden said today tuesday, that russia has begun an invasion of ukraine and has announced sweeping sanctions on major russian bank veb and its military bank. So two big financial, like institutions in russia were hit with eeb, is, as i'm speaking in real time. Right now is apparently offline and what you need to know about this.

An invasion like why that's in quotes and why that's important at all is because it's the first time that joe biden has actually referred to the developments as an invasion, and that was kind of the line in the sand of. If you invade we're going to be pissed off type of a deal, the sanctions will prohibit american financial institutions from processing transactions for veb and its military bank. This would effectively cut the bank out of transaction involving u.s dollars. The global reserve currency.

The uk took a similar action. Biden also announced that the united states will sanction russia's sovereign debt, and on top of that, they put sanctions on russian elites um as he referred to it, so that, and this or his own words, the president's own words. This is the first tranche of sanctions. Um, probably making me feel that there could be more to come depending on the development of what's going on over at the border there uh there's other things i wanted to bring up uh.

Mainly one statement from him was defending freedom will have cost uh. This is very much referring well. First of all, you see the craziness in the market, but more so i want to focus on energy because remember: russia is a big producer of natural gas of crude oil, so we already know that, because of inflation and of other like supply, really constrains uh, we Know energy costs are going up and up and up there's a very good shot that this whole debacle pushes it even higher. So i just wanted to share that with you.

These are the most recent updates, i'm sure there's going to be more coming, but as this really directly impacts the equities market uh. Another interesting development here, russia, ukraine conflict - is a worry, but there is still the biggest threat for stock investors. According to analysts, over at j.p morgan, the russia, ukraine tension is a low earnings risk for u.s uh corporates, but an energy priced shock amid an aggressive central bank, pivot focus on inflation could further dampen investors, sentiment and growth outlook and i've been calling out a hundred Potentially 120, if we actually do go into a full blown out war, obviously, let's hope that it doesn't get that far, but oil currently trading around 92 looks like there is still decent amount of upside in the world of energy. Uh supply being constrained.

This whole debacle for clear logical reasons it could keep going up and up and up, but what i want to dive into is a little bit more related to the federal reserve. According to analysts, actually a chief strategist at jpmorgan investors could see the russia, ukraine crisis, forced a re-assessment of the fed tightening path resulting in central banks, turning less hawkish, while policymakers may consider additional physical stimulus such as a gas tax credit in the us. So what does this actually mean? Less hawkish means more dovish, more dovish means more accommodative to the overall market, but it also means they're not going to be battling inflation. We already know inflation's at a four decade high and if you're less hawkish, that means you're not fighting it and if you start to do additional fiscal stimulus.

That means you're actually adding to the inflation problem. So jp morgan kind of calling out the energy situation and also the monetary uh, i guess policy situation of how it's potentially and we'll clearly getting worsened by the whole global geopolitical situation with russia and ukraine. So that's what i have for you of the craziness in the markets today, a lot of unknowns and right now the best way. I could really summarize well, okay, lots of tensions, obviously, all the way up to 230 et today.

The reason we're getting a little bit of a bounce, at least in the short term, is because the market hates unknowns, and a lot of this we didn't know what the president was going to say. We didn't know what the decisions were going to be. Are they just going to stick with the expected sanctions, or are they going to declare a whole new war? We did not know. So when you have these unknowns down down down markets, it doesn't matter if it's crypto, equities, futures options does not like unknowns well when he started speaking, it was pretty much in line with expectations of what the first round of sanctions were going to be, and obviously With one unknown now becoming known, you see a little bit of a relief bounce, but i cannot stress enough.

This is in the short term. This is a five minute chart. I am fully fully 100 expecting high volatility, the remainder of today, the remainder of the week. You got ta pay attention, because this is a very um like hair trigger situation, so any of this stuff it could be changing just like that on a dime, so pay attention keep your training plan very close by and stick to it, don't let your emotions get In the way and expect these large swings and don't get chopped up in those swings, that's what you need to know and i'm sure there's going to be very important, updates coming out in the short term, so make sure you're paying attention.

That's really the market for a bit there uh we actually had gme uh, actually close to going green, so i was having that up for a second um, but i want to quickly share this, so the spy short interest is 16.7. The qs of the nasdaq 100 short interest of 13.25, and then we also have the russell 2000 short interest of 38 in terms of amc, 21 and in terms of gme uh actually dropping. Today it was over 21 now we're just below 21. uh.

I thought that was a little bit interesting gme. Actually we have dwack, which is green. That's why i have this up. Um number one app, currently the free app on the app store, uh, true social, i'm currently pending for my position.

I just want to see what it's all about, but jimmy kind of close. We have the semiconductor that sub industry of tech, nvidia amd micron all doing pretty well right now, at least in terms of their gains. I have gme just i want to see if that can go green amc, currently trading just below 1650.. We have that important support at 1660, 1670.

uh we'd love to see it recapture that, but currently down eight percent uh in the short term, there's no, if ands or buts, about that uh, that's a rough blow. You never want like. We don't want any red like we just want green and green and green, and that leads me to one important thing i want to cover with all of you um so earlier today i tweeted: where is it where's, my tweet um? This doesn't look good. That was an hour ago right when the s p 500 was breaking below important levels.

427. 426. After that, it's 421, and if we don't hold ourself at 421, there could be capitulation. That's a big deal in the overall market.

If this bounce doesn't hold i'm watching 421, hence why i called it out um. If you look at these comments, there's a lot of people who, for whatever reason they just assume it's amc. If you, this is insane um and i think all of you watching get it. Hence why you watch me: there are other channels who um they can't walk into bubblegum.

They they follow, amc, they follow jamie and they don't really follow anything else. Maybe they do it in their personal time, but on a public uh, i guess display. All they can do is follow that. I think that is very, very bad.

Um. There's no reason for me to be like cute or terse, with my words, you need to know. What's going on in the overall market, the chance of amc or jamie doing well without some major individual fundamental catalyst to the company when the spy and the q and the russells are all getting hit? Are a snowball's chance in hell, if you're not paying attention to the overall market, if you're not paying attention to geopolitical news that could potentially be leaning to world war three in the worst case scenario, obviously something none of us want to happen, but it's in the Cards, i'm not saying it's likely, but it's there if we have too many people that are myopically focused on is this about amc. Is this about jimmy folks? You got ta open your eyes.

There is very, very serious going down beyond this like beyond. Just a singular equity, it actually blew my mind if you want your mind, blown go read some of those comments and people are just is this amc. Is this amc? Is this jimmy? Is this jimmy i'm in amc i'm in gme, but right now there is very, very important historical things going down in real time. I i don't.

Even i haven't even wrapped my mind around the fact that people don't even know they're like well. What is he talking about? Folks lives are on the line, lives are on the line. There could be a huge impact to the entire global market setup and they're like well is i i don't know. If is he talking about amc with this? Why do you say 421, it's the same thing, i'm pitching to you in every single live stream of what's going on in the overall market, you owe it to yourself to be a better trader and investor, and that means paying attention to what's happening in the overall Market, especially in circumstances like this, it's one thing if it's a off-season in the summer and things are going sideways and you don't care about the market and you're looking for fundamental drivers such as what we recently saw with dwack, but right now holy my mind is: Being blown by people like i didn't even know, this was the market that yeah it's the market.

This is a crazy, crazy, situ. You are living through something that historians will be putting in textbooks. You got ta pay attention uh. What else do we have all right? So the spy - i don't know for the people who said they think it's going down into close.

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I've been using it now for a couple days. I think it's cool, but it's also free. You, like literally, have nothing to lose. You can just be tracking social sentiment uh, we only care about the moas.

If you exclusively care about the moas, you have not been paying attention at all. There are right now lives on the line with the whole world um. In terms of you just care about the moca mo s, what about market transparency? What about market um, the equibility, the equity of the mark? I just i just don't get it um! I can't tell you what to do. I think, if you're exclusively care about the moas, i hope you're right, like i hope you are successful in the thing that you care about, but um, i i think, there's things that are more important than exclusively the moas like i i just don't get that.

What's your take on uv xy after biden spoke me, kevin mentioned markets tend to dip for three weeks during global conflicts and three weeks recovery. What do you think uh? So i haven't heard about the three week three week thing, but i have heard about that on the announcement of the official invasion and the declaration of war, that's actually commonly given a big enough time frame, a buy signal which i know that might sound counter-intuitive, but Usually the unknown of, are we going to war? Are we going to war that leads more for a dramatic sell-off and then, when things settle and the market digest, like the quote, unquote actual news, you kind of see the bounce from there. So i have a spy credit spread which i posted on locals. That's up.

Let me figure that out right now, that's up 78! Actually, i'm going to close that 70. 81 right now, i'm gon na take the money on the credit spread i'll. Let you guys and locals know that um i have a uv xy call right now that was kind of my hedge in case things get like really really crazy: that one's currently down 35 um, so up 80 on one down 35 on the other um. So i'm just kind of waiting to see how, like i have various things i also have plays in the futures market.

I sold a couple contracts there um. I i just really wasn't buying this, because i don't think much of the situation has changed. I think there's still actually quite a few unknowns and i'm watching my key levels of 427 is kind of like the last potential. Stop all the way down to 421.

So i'm closely watching that level. 427. 428 on the overall market uh. Just so, you know, dwack, showing some strength, would love to see this like cup and handle breakout of 94.

gme only a little bit a dollar 88 away from going green on the day, not a bad deal. There um amc trying to make a run back up to that key level: around 16, 60, 60 and 70.. Folks, it's okay to chew, bubble, gum and walk you're allowed to do both um. In fact, you make more money by paying attention to multiple things.

I'm not saying to pay attention to every single crypto and equity and future in existence. But it's okay to follow a basket of things that you particularly care about, because you're going to see different opportunities at different times. And you want to be able to take advantage of those said opportunities. What is locals it's in the description of the video, but that's just where i post my trades and like the details of my trades um so because some people, whether you're working or i don't know, have things to do, you're not going to be here.

For all. My streams, so i needed a place where there was like written documentation, so people could check at the end of the day end of the week. So that's where i just kind of write it up. I need to stop walking to take a sip of water.

Oh man, it happens. Uh. I have to look into that three week thing: that's kind of interesting uh, just tuned in why cfvi stock dropping uh. The question is: why is everything dropping a little bit more of a and it that's why it's because, like the whole market's going down um, i need to figure out a way to show you all my futures account because uh it's showing my account number.

No. Actually, it's not actually, i think i could show oh no, that is my. Is that my account number? Oh actually, i think i figured out a way to show you what's going on so here's a quick peek at how futures trading actually looks um, so i am on the esh22 contract. That's the front contract for the s p, 500 and, as you can tell um, i'm a little bit around break even right.

Now this is my stop loss. This is my target for one of two. I am. I sold two market um contracts and, as you can see, uh it's a pretty volatile mover like every single move is going to be 25.

It moves in like little quarter increments, but, as you can see, every quarter it moves like. You could watch the number right here and you could get a better sense of the volatility. These were some trades from earlier today i was just locking in profits as it was walking down. I locked in profits.

Locked in profits was just hitting some of my limit goals and i have one more limit goal for today to see if i could get hit and we'll see how that plays out um but the futures market. I just wanted to share it with you, because i do talk about it a little bit more now, it's highly leveraged in the time that we're talking there's a difference in almost 400 very, very leveraged, and i just was sharing the contracts and where we're at um, But i like to pay attention to this because you get to see what's going on in the overnight session, this trades 23 hours out of the day. It takes a break from 5 to 6 p.m, et and that's it well. It also takes a break on saturday, but other than that from sunday night until friday night it is trading 23 hours out of the day.

So i like to just check in and see what the markets are doing. I mean you could check oil. You could check gold, you could see the various indices, the um right here. This is the s p.

500. Here's a look at the nasdaq um, so this is just a little bit of the futures market. Just for those who are curious, but i'll also let you know if that goal gets hit, we're getting close about uh nine points away, not sure why people are concerned about the mo s. The current set of geopolitical market tensions could easily send us into a recession.

If it goes wrong, that's possible. I also um. I don't like the term moas and i know hang on, hang on. Hang on hang on before, like everyone's draw hits the floor.

Oh my god. Matt says he doesn't like the term moaz. I don't like it just because it's very vague to me, i understand terms like the short squeeze, because shorts are getting forced to cover and it goes higher and higher. I don't really get the mo ass and to me it it's a term.

That's super vague and when you have a super vague term, how do you define if you had it or not? For me, it's easy to define if there's been a short squeeze were shorts forced to cover? What's the difference between a short squeeze and the moas, i really don't like that term. You might have noticed that i refrain from using it just because when it comes to the market, things need to be well defined and i get it. I'm a stickler for terminology, but also being a stickler being very specific, with your words and what you mean and what you're attempting to do. That's the mindset of a successful trader if everyone just kind of goes like with, i think i generally mean this or that that kind of vagueness, that's what leads to losing trades like.

I guess i'm just trying to articulate the mindset of what helped me become a successful trader um. Maybe it will work for you. Maybe it won't work for you, but to me that's the we have a definition of a short squeeze uh. So the mo s thing of people calling for it like i i just it doesn't make sense to me - i'm not against it in the sense of like i get its sentiment of people calling for like the biggest one ever but then what are you comparing it To like, are we comparing it to just other equities, like tim to me, uh, i'm not the biggest fan of it, because it's not well defined like it.

Just doesn't like really add up too much in my head, it's legitimately for fun! No and i get that but there's been historically in this community - and i get that and that's why, like this is the first time i've um defined it or brought it up, dexter um. There have been other things in this community that at first were for fun. Like some of the price targets you know about, but then all of a sudden it got out of hand and people think it's actual legitimate things like i am all for the memes, i'm all for the jokes, i'm all for that terminology, because that does help foster A sense of community and the more sense of the community, the better things actually turn out, but i think sometimes these things, especially when there's new people coming in they don't realize they weren't there at the inception of the joke. They weren't there at the inception of like the meme or the statement and all of a sudden they hold it to be truthful.

Um. We've seen that and like my best example, are some of these outlandish price targets. Uh it started literally. I was there at like.

I saw it starting as a joke as like a hashtag and then all of a sudden. There are many people who now think it's real um so and like on my end of it. That's like it's tough when to address things or not to address things because, like the sense of community and the fun that's beneficial like i no way want to get in front of that. But then, all of a sudden people start to put like some weight on it of being like the legitimate thing that we're looking for.

It's tough because, like that's a fine line and that's a tough line for me of like the literal thing versus just like community terminology, that's a really tough line is gerardo back here. By the way, did you sell your uvx white calls? I did not. I still have them uh. I have some time they expire march, 4th uh.

I do want to lock in the spy credit spread. So that's the second one that i've given everyone on locals. That's printing money right now, so, ideally we'll be locking that in why was dwack running way early? How can you sell before hours missing the window? Um selling, pre and post market is all about your broker. If you're on the right broker, you'll be able to sell in pre and post market has nothing to do with institution versus retail, it has to do with what broker are you on um? So just so you know that and uh.

What was your other question? Why was it running? Because they started sign ups and it already ran up to the number one app in the app store. I got my apes together, strong mug yesterday, i'm pumped for the movie. I'm so excited for it very very excited all right. What else do we have going on? We have a couple minutes.

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You live and you learn you live and you learn. I don't think gerardo came back with us today. The casino is open all right folks, folks, folks, folks folks does ttg believe in amc uh. I don't quite know what you mean by amc.

They are um. They are supportive of market transparency, but uh. They are not a group that is like particularly focused on i i guess what we were just referring to as a moas. This is a group.

That's teaching people how to trade. It's teaching people how to invest um, so their goals are exclusively to make money. Obviously they want uh the markets to be a. Oh did, i just say open my my apologies.

I meant close um ttg they're. That's what they're focused on their their focus is to make money um they have. If you watch their streams, you can see their commentary sometimes in the short term, they've been supportive of amc other times they haven't, but i think it's always good to have differing opinions. If anything, that's a benefit, if you're sitting there, and you only want to be in communities that are telling you exactly what you want to hear.

That's an echo chamber. If you are in an echo chamber, especially surrounding the markets, you will end up losing you need to take in all differing opinions, but i also don't need to speak for them or their traders. You can ask them directly um. I can only speak for me and my thoughts, um, hey, amc and jimmy.

I understand the sentiment and the symbolism behind them and that's why i've expressed my plans of amc and jimmy just to hodl. That's my plan. That's not everyone's plan. Nothing i say should ever be taken as a buy, a sell or a hold signal that does not make sense.

I don't know anything about your financial situation. I don't know anything about your personality. All i know is my personality, my financial situation and i'm just sharing what i am doing. You might agree with it.

You might disagree with it, but at the end of the day, it's my money and i'm doing what i think is best with it. At the end of the day, it's your money and you should be doing what you think is best with your money. That's how this world works, don't just be arbitrarily blaming things you saw on reddit or twitter or youtube, or rumble or twitch, that that doesn't make sense, there's just no that's not being an adult you're, just not being responsible at the end of the day, you're, the One buying you're the one holding you're, the one selling: that's how this game works. No one's gon na force you to buy, sell or hold no one's gon na force me to buy seller hold.

I do what i think is best. I've made my decision about amc and jimmy. I like what it symbolically represents, and because of that, i'm going to hold my risk is zero dollars. That's what i'm willing to hold it all the way down to that's what i believe not that's, not appropriate for everyone.

For some people it is for some people, it isn't there's no way. I can make a generic statement that is going to cover that type of a thing of what's a good or a bad training plan for all of you listening right now, just mathematically that would be impossible um. I just i just share my own thoughts. I just share what i'm going to do.

You have to go and make your own decisions beyond that. But anyway the bell did go ding ding, ding, ding ding. That is it. That's all.

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That's where you can find me tomorrow have an awesome awesome evening. I do appreciate your time and i hope you have a great night. I hope you're just chilling and relaxing. I hope you made some money but i'll catch you later on, as always for me and share best of luck in the markets.

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