#missed out on 10k+ dollars but their loss :

[mcfaucet]

love as long as you can

[doberbutts]

smokemirrorswolves replied to your post

“The rising price of puppies is so heartbreaking for a lot of people....”

@doberbutts hey, if you had time at some point, would you care to break down what exactly is reflected in the price of a purebred puppy? I think a lot of people are struggling to imagine what could cost that amount of money, me among them tbh. thank you!

Sure, though I don’t breed, so it’s very possible I might be missing something!

Cost of the litter itself:

whelping box with or without rails

pen

potty supplies for puppies- pads, litter, bags, scoopers, etc

heating pads or lamps

formula and bottles (just in case)

medications and supplements (not always needed, good to have on hand)

blankets, beds

toys

colored puppy collars for identification (not always needed)

vaccinations (at least the first one)

deworming (several)

food (for mom AND pups)

temperament testing (if the breeder does not do it themselves- and even if they do, one must learn how which usually costs $$ or time to be mentored)

if puppy culture is used, understand that it costs a lot of money to get ahold of the materials for it

even if it is not used, proper early socialization, stress response, training and drives, etc require time, money, knowledge, and equipment

at least one vet check before going home

registration with AKC

microchip (some breeders have you do it but all of my breeder puppies had this done before going home)

cropping/docking (if applicable, understand this is why dobes cost so much bc that’s $400-700 PER PUPPY unless the vet cuts you a deal for doing the whole litter)

increased water and electric and trash costs - utilities ain’t cheap

overall time spent with the puppies (most breeders if not retired take off work to whelp and raise a litter... that’s 8+ weeks of either vacation pay or no pay at all)

travel costs to and from vets, new owners, etc

Cost of PRODUCING the litter:

stud dog fee (not applicable if using their own stud)

health testing on the parents (variable, can be as low as $100 per parent or as high as several thousand, obv if they don’t own the stud they don’t pay for that)

if using live cover- either travelling to the stud or having the stud go there

if using AI- that’s already pretty expensive

C-section (if applicable, always good to have the money on hand just in case)

multiple vet visits and travel costs for the bitch (confirm pregnancy, canine STI check, making sure to breed when she’s hormonal most likely to conceive, etc)

supplements and high quality food for the bitch

medications to help induce or ease labor

treatments to help the bitch let milk down or clear an infected/impacted teat

medical supplies for the human to ensure a sanitary and safe environment to whelp (gloves etc)

Cost of the parents:

general care (food, physicals, vaccinations, etc)

titling (if applicable)

training

obtaining the dog in the first place

So what does this exactly mean? Let’s say a low-ball estimate is $8000 for the first two factors combined (so not cost of parents) (and that IS a fairly low estimate, at least for dobermans). Now let’s say that the bitch produces 8 puppies. Selling them at $1000 apiece means the breeder breaks even, and that also means time and money was actually lost as the cost sunk into the parents hasn’t been factored in yet.

Let’s say the breeder owns both parents and bought them at $1000 each. The low end of the average cost per year for dogs is $1500- so with both dogs that’s $3000 per year. Dogs should be at least two years old before breeding, so we’re at $6000 (general care) + $2000 (purchase price) if this is the first litter for both of them. Titling can really depend, some breeds title very quickly and easily for under $1000. Others take several thousands to finish. Let’s just say an incredibly conservative estimate is $500 per dog- we’re now at $9000 for the cost of the parents.

So if that breeder wants to break even, they can’t even just double the price ($2000 per puppy) because they’re still taking a $1000 loss. Now the puppies need to cost $2125.

Let’s hope a puppy doesn’t die, or that no fluke accidents or weird health concerns pop up, because things are about to get even more expensive very quickly if that happens. Let’s say the breeder wants to keep one- that means that there are actually 7 puppies that can be sold, not 8. Now the puppies have to cost roughly $2430 and there’s a very slight profit of about $10 there.

What if they don’t own both parents, just the bitch? Well that takes our estimations down by half, so now the litter cost $12500 to make. The 7 puppies can be priced all the way down to $1785 while taking a loss of a couple dollars. Oops, the stud owner wants one on top of their stud fee, make that 6 puppies- now they’re back up to over $2000 again.

Remember when I said these are low estimates? Okay, so let’s gauge high estimates:

Even with no complications the highest I’ve seen for total breeding expenses was $25000. Even if you sell all 8 puppies at cost, so a zero profit margin... that’s $3125 per puppy.

God help you, and your buyers, if your bitch whelps less than that, if there’s a complication, if for whatever reason a puppy is not sellable.

Creed’s breeder spent $10k on stud fee, AI, emergency C-section, and resulting infection cost alone. Her bitch gave her one single puppy. She usually charged $2k per puppy. Do you see the problem here?

Additionally there’s this weird like... stigma about making money breeding animals. Listen, yes, capitalism ruins everything, and the focus should be on the animals and not the amount of zeros in your bank account... but at the same time, whelping by itself is a lot of work and dogs are a fairly expensive hobby. As a dog trainer, an artist, a programmer... I demand payment and profit for my work. I cannot eat if I only break even. Yet breeders are told that it’s bad to make money off their dogs and that they have to have some other source of income. Why? There’s a line to be balanced here on getting fair payment for the amount of work they’re putting in vs pricing themselves out of the market. 

[phroyd]

Just how badly has American capitalism failed? Consider the following.

The White House backed out of a deal to manufacture ventilators because the price tag was too high. Go ahead and guess. Ready? It was…one billion dollars. Sound like a lot? Too much? For ventilators for…the entire country…in the middle of a pandemic…that’s already spiraling out of control?

Then think about this.

Jeff Bezos is worth $113 billion. Zuck, about $60 billion. Warren Buffett, about $70 billion. Are you seeing my point yet? Let me make it clearer. Either Bezos or Zuck or Buffett — or any number of penny-ante mega-billionaires — could pay for all the ventilators America needs right now, and not even blink. Not even think twice.

Take Bezos, for example. That one billion dollars to supply the country with ventilators is less than one percent of his net worth. The net worth of the average American household is about $100K. That’s like the average American spending…a thousand dollars. The net worth of the average millennial is about $10K. That’s like the average millennial spending…one hundred dollars.

That’s how trivial it is for a Bezos to literally supply the entire country with ventilators. It’s pocket money. To call it chump change would be an overstatement. He could do it and he’d literally never even notice the money was gone. It would take his accountant a lifetime to even begin to care.

Is your head spinning yet? What on earth? It should be.

All that, my friends, is an object lesson in the profound and surreal failure of capitalism. Let me now put it in simpler terms.

Capitalism is adding disaster to tragedy, by way of needless scarcity.

Suddenly, a society experiences a catastrophe — in this case, a pandemic. That would be bad enough. But because a tiny number of people in society have hoarded all the resources — in this case money, which really just means foregone ventilators — a society cannot respond to its catastrophe well at all. What happens next? What happens is what’s going to happen.

People are going to die. In fact, they already have. Perhaps you read about the poor kid who was turned away from an urgent care center for a lack of insurance. That’s not a ventilator, but it’s not exactly hard to see how a lack of ventilators is going to start killing Americans en masse very, very soon, if it hasn’t already.

Capitalism is adding disaster to tragedy…by way of needless scarcity.

How much is one billion dollars, anyways? The American economy is worth about $20 trillion. One billion is a vanishingly small fraction of that. How small, exactly? One twenty thousandth, or .00005%. It’s so small, I might have missed a decimal place there — and it doesn’t matter, because it’s that miniscule.

And yet the government can’t raise one twenty thousandth of the size of the economy in order to provide society with the one resource it needs most to survive a pandemic — ventilators.

Think about that math for a second. Really just think about it.

What would it say about you if you couldn’t raise one twenty thousandth of your income to, say, give your kids life saving medicine? That’s a flawed analogy, but I struggle for anything — anything at all — to express the magnitude of this failure well. I literally can’t think of anything remotely close to it, so let me simply try to express it again, even more concisely.

The government can’t raise one twenty thousandth of the whole economy’s income to pay for a critical resource during a pandemic — ventilators — while it would cost a Bezos maybe one hundred of his wealth to provide them for the whole country.

What on earth? My head is spinning. Is yours? It’s so grotesque, baffling, obscene, it’s literally impossible to process. How is it that in the richest society in human history, apparently — pennies can’t be found for ventilators? And yet it’s wealthiest man could single-handedly provide them, and never even notice?

Now, here’s the even more distressing part. Bezos (or Zuck, Buffett, etc) can’t spend all that money anyways. There is simply no way that you can spend a hundred billion dollars. What would you do? You could buy up all the luxury properties and mega yachts, and you’d barely have made a dent. You’d have to buy entire cities, nations, and whole social systems. Which is effectively what a Bezos has done. Americans don’t have ventilators because Bezos has hundreds of billions. Americans don’t have healthcare because billionaires have all the money in their society.

When I have more money than I can ever spend, then there is no real cost to me to supply you, say, with ventilators. Do you see how grotesque that paradox is? That is what “artifical scarcity” means. Jeff Bezos having a billion less wouldn’t actually cost him anything, because he can’t spend it anyways. All him having those billions does is cost everyone else life-saving resources, like ventilators in a lethal pandemic.

So let’s put this epic failure in more technical terms.

Capitalism has misallocated capital on a truly stunning and surreal scale in America. It’s created a system where an entire nation goes without the critical, life-saving resources they need, in the midst of a lethal global pandemic — while the wealthy could literally buy Americans those resources single-handedly, and doing so wouldn’t make a dent in their fortunes. But the wealthy can’t spend all that money to begin with. It’s literally just sitting there, going to no good use. Like, say, the critical one of ventilators. The result will obviously be needless death on a massive scale.

Economists call all that a “deadweight loss.” If American economists were actually good ones, they’d immediately understand that capitalism is a colossal and tragic failure. Consider the Soviet Union — Americans used to make fun of it for breadlines. But now Americans are the ones beset by artificial scarcities. What’s scarce in America? Yesterday — healthcare, retirement, decent work, education, good food, and so on. The basics.

Today? The critical, life-saving necessities. Ventilators, masks, protective equipment.

Capitalism — as an economy — literally cannot supply these things to society. It is more interested in billionaires hoarding as much wealth as possible — and then crafting political mechanisms to protect that wealth. And yet that wealth is too much, in the simple sense that nobody can even spend it.

But when I have too much money that I can never spend, of course you will go without — because the economy slowly grinds to a halt, as my money simply sits there idle, instead of being invested in the things you need. That is what “artificial scarcity” means: ventilators aren’t really scarce, we just can’t make them because only Jeff Bezos can afford them, since he’s now as rich as…a whole healthcare system, which Americans now go without, since those resources belong to him.

What we see at this dire stage of American capitalism is a kind of evolution, backwards, devolution. Yesterday, basics were in perpetual, artificial short supply — money, retirement, healthcare, etc. But you can eke out a life without basics, still. Just one without dignity and meaning and happiness. Yet today, the situation is much worse. Critical, life-saving resources are now artificially scarce. And you can’t live without those.

The result? People will die — needlessly, on a staggering scale.

I can’t think of an economic system failing in a more disastrous way than that. A truer way than that. You don’t have a ventilator that might save your, your kid’s, your partner’s life — meanwhile, the wealthy could buy them for all, for every single person in society…at literally no real cost to themselves. There is literally no better example of what Marx famously called “exploitation” than all that: you dying, during a pandemic because the super rich have such an absurd amount of resources in society that they could literally buy everyone life itself, and not even notice, yet won’t, because, well…why care? Americans are being exploited and abused by capitalism now not just into poverty and overwork and social disintegration — but into lethal illness and death itself. Yes, really — in hard, cold, absolute, unforgiving terms.

Let them eat ventilators? It puts Versailles to shame.

I have few word left to express how I feel about all this. But I am not the point. You are. Some day, the world hopes, Americans will understand just how badly capitalism has abused and exploited them. Because the world is made of good people, who want the best, still, even for Americans. The question is whether Americans want that for themselves.

Umair Haque March 2020

Phroyd

[argylemnwrites]

It Couldn’t Wait Another Moment - Chapter 11

Pairing: Drake Walker x MC (Riley Liu)

Book: The Royal Romance (Canon Divergent from Book 2, Chapter 15)

Word Count: ~4800

Rating: PG-13 (brief language)

Summary: Drake makes some decisions about his future and Liam turns to some unlikely sources to help him move forward.

Author’s Note: Sorry for the delays. Better late than never, though? I was going to post this much earlier in the week when I realized that my word count was over 10k. Whoops! Instead of posting a bloated beast of a chapter, I completely reworked this chapter and the next two in order to give you all something that you can sit down and read in one sitting without having to take a snack break, and at the end of the day, I’m much happier with this chapter than I was before.

This series diverges from TRR canon, where instead of waiting to discuss his relationship with Riley until their last night in NYC, leaving her a note while Liam is proposing to her, Drake tackles this topic as soon as possible after Tariq makes his statement and Riley’s name is cleared. To catch up on this series, you can find the previous chapters in my masterlist (link is located in my bio).

Liam sighed, sitting in an armchair in front of the fireplace in Olivia’s private office. It had been a long day. No, a very long week. Between the funeral preparations, concerns over possible attacks at the funeral, and public appearances, he hadn’t really had any time to catch his breath. Madeleine had been trying to pick up some slack, for which he was grateful, but there were certain requirements she just couldn’t or shouldn’t be tasked with. For instance, she and Leo could barely be trusted in the same room together without her lashing out and snapping at him.

Leo being around was both a blessing and a curse. Having someone who was also mourning the loss of their father on a personal level who he could talk to was a godsend. But Leo’s methods of coping were not always the most helpful in the big picture. Drinking to the point that they both had nearly blacked out, remembering both the good and the bad, had seemed like a good idea in the moment, but Leo didn’t have to attend the Security Council meeting hungover the next morning. Plus, as complicated as Liam’s own relationship with Father had been, it was nothing on the dynamic between Leo and Father.

While he hadn’t been sleeping much since the first attack at the Homecoming Ball, things had gotten even worse since Father’s death. There was just so much that needed to get done, and ultimately he was the only one who could handle most of it. Plus, there was the fact that when he finally laid down at night, his mind was filled with so many thoughts, it was difficult to process them all. From the safety of those closest to him to the protection of the citizens at large, from the calls for his abdication to the unwavering support of a select few, from his upcoming marriage and the need to produce an heir to his very recent heartbreak, it was hard to quiet things enough to gain any restful sleep.

He had thought he’d been putting on a good front, but after his opening remarks, during his first dance of the night with Olivia, she’d encouraged him to duck out and head to her office when he got a chance. This had left Madeleine alone for the rest of the night and responsible for the closing remarks. Liam could tell she was annoyed by this turn of events, but at the same time, she’d not expressed too much frustration towards him, so he must have been showing some signs of his utter physical and emotional exhaustion. Otherwise, he was sure she would have made her displeasure known.

As needed as some time to himself was, sitting in Olivia’s office with just his glass of wine and no distractions had led to some introspection that he’d been avoiding for nearly a month at this point. Riley and Drake. Together. Since his engagement, Drake had said. Since his father had driven a wedge between him and Riley, making sure what they had would never come to be.

For some reason, it seemed to be getting harder to process than easier. It was like the more he saw and learned about the two of them together, the less sense it all made. The Riley he’d caught glimpses of since he’d learned of their affair was somehow the same woman he fell in love with and a completely different person at the same time. She’d always had a playful sense of humor that he’d adored, but he now was beginning to understand what Drake meant when he’d called her a “snarky piece of work” that would scandalize most of the court and press back when the social season was just starting. How had he been ready to marry her, to start a life with her, to have children with her when there were parts of her personality he’d never fully seen? It would have been one thing if she had been a political match, but she wasn’t. He’d never felt anything before like what he’d felt with her. But had he even known her?

The fact that it was Drake she chose over him complicated his emotions even more. Liam had always hoped that Drake would find someone someday, someone who saw past the bitterness and anger to the deep affection and loyalty he had for those he truly loved. But why did it have to be her? And why hadn’t he approached Liam when things had started to develop between them? What had compelled his best friend to sneak around behind his back for months? And had they really been that great at hiding their relationship, or had he just been oblivious, maybe only seeing things as he wished they were?

Everything just didn’t quite add up, as if Liam was missing some crucial pieces of information. He just wasn’t sure how to best go about getting them at this point. Drake and Riley were leaving the day after tomorrow, and with having to put in an appearance at the festival in Lythikos, there was not going to be much time to really talk. And even if they did talk, Liam wasn’t sure he could afford to delve too deeply into the whole situation. Doing so would undoubtedly dredge up a wide variety of emotions that could cloud his judgement, and with the terror threat still ever-looming, he needed to remain clear headed.

He raised his glass to take another sip of wine and was surprised to find it empty. Walking over to the sideboard, he was pouring himself a refill of the strong vintage when the door slowly opened.

“Glad to see you decided to help yourself to one of my most expensive bottles,” said Olivia as she shut the door behind her.

Liam smiled a little at her joke. The Nevrakis wine collection was legendary, and Olivia had added to it extensively herself over the past few years. Even a several thousand dollar bottle was unlikely to be noticed as missing. It was nice to be able to crack a smile. There was almost no one who would joke around with him these days. “Would you like a glass?”

Olivia nodded and moved over to one of the armchairs in the corner, “I need a drink after having to deal with your fiancée.”

“What did she do now?” Liam asked with a sigh as he passed her a glass and sat down in the other armchair.

“Oh, just some comments in her closing remarks about the loyalty of the citizens of Lythikos that I’m guessing she ad libbed from your prepared statement that seemed highly specific to the leader of said region.”

“I’m sorry. I should have known she’d do something like this. She’s not pleased I asked you to be in her court.”

Olivia shrugged. “She’s just lucky this dress doesn’t allow for me to carry more than two weapons.”

“Olivia…”

“I kid, I kid, at least somewhat. So what have you been up to since you made your escape?”

“Just thinking.”

“About?”

“Olivia, can I ask you… Did Riley and Drake being together surprise you?”

Her eyebrows quirked up slightly, but she showed no other sign of surprise at the turn the conversation had taken. “Honestly?”

“Yes, of course.”

“I mean, I suspected they were hooking up on your engagement tour. They were always next to each other, teasing each other, and there was definitely an increase in the amount of physical contact between the two of them as time went on.”

“Huh,” was all Liam could muster. He could feel Olivia’s eyes on him, but he stared into his wine glass, not quite ready for any eye contact. After a few seconds, Olivia must have decided to clarify her statement.

“Their decision to move in together did catch me off guard, but I thought it was pretty clear they were into each other. But really, talking to Hana or Maxwell is going to get you more information. They spent way more time together, and quite frankly, probably cared a lot more than I did.”

Liam sighed heavily, “It seems like I was the only one who had no clue there was an attraction there.”

“Yeah, well I’m guessing you had more important things on your mind than watching the body language of two commoners.”

“Olivia…” Liam warned, not having the energy to deal with any ingrained snobbery.

“Sorry, sorry. Not trying to offend here. Where is this coming from?”

“Never mind, I just was caught off guard by their interactions at breakfast this morning.”

“You had breakfast with them?”

“Yes, I had them come stay at the palace last night. They were staying at a hotel if you can imagine.”

Olivia let out a little snort that quickly morphed into a chuckle.

“What’s so amusing?”

“You really are a glutton for punishment aren’t you? Why would you invite the two of them into your home?”

“He’s my best friend, Olivia.”

“He’s fucking the woman you love.”

“I can’t lose him over this, though. I need to find a way to move past this.”

“So you decided to move them into the palace as a what? Royal blessing?”

“I had to do something. I have to figure out how to handle seeing the two of them together.”

A long sigh escaped Olivia before she continued, “Do you want some advice?”

Liam turned to face her fully at that statement. Clearly, Olivia had her heart broken at some point, but he wasn’t sure when or by whom. Still, if she had some insight, he would be a fool not to listen, so he nodded.

“You like spending time with her, right? Well, that has to be enough from here on out. You aren’t going to get anymore from her.”

Liam nodded, but Olivia was far from done.  “Anytime you find yourself wondering ‘what if,’ you have to remind yourself that she rejected you. She knew she could have had you, and she didn’t want you. All she wants from you is friendship, nothing more.

“You can try to channel everything into being a good friend, focus on that, but be careful. Just because she’s nice to you doesn’t mean she regrets her choice.”

“I know she doesn’t love me, it’s just…”

“It hurts to see her clearly in love with someone else?”

“Yeah, it does,” Liam looked up to see Olivia staring into her own wine glass. “So I’m guessing your knowledge on this topic comes from first-hand experience?”

Olivia’s head jerked up and she stared at him, but her eyes lacked their usual fire. Instead she just looked tired. She shrugged slightly, “You could say that.”

“Is this how you got over it?”

There was a pause before Olivia answered, “Let’s just call it a work in progress.”

Liam tilted his head to the side, trying to determine who Olivia could have been in love with recently. She hadn’t been pursuing anyone during the engagement tour as far as he knew and before that was the social season… The realization washed over him as he recounted moments between the two of them over the past several years. Conversations held at formal dinners, dancing with her at various balls, the kiss he had assumed was meant to unsettle the other suitors. Here he was, bemoaning that Riley didn’t love him to the one person who had to have been hurt the most by that sentiment. He should have seen her intentions. He needed to apologize for not recognizing her feelings.

She must have noticed the change in his expression, because her eyes hardened and she rolled her shoulders back before she spoke again.

“Don’t you dare say anything. I can handle rejection, but I will not tolerate your pity.”

“But Olivia, I-”

“Not another word. I’m deadly serious, Liam. I don’t care if it’s treason, I have two knives on me right now, and I will not hesitate to use them if we go any further down this road. Understood?”

He swallowed and gave her a small nod, “Understood.”

“Good,” Olivia said, raising her glass to clink against his. They sat in a comfortable silence for several minutes, both lost in their own thoughts as they finished their wine.

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Drake looked around, trying to process the destruction in front of him. The pictures hadn’t conveyed just how bad it was. But now, standing here at Applewood, it fully hit him. There was nothing left. Absolutely nothing.

It was on impulse that he’d asked Bastien to head to the orchard on the way to his parent’s old home. The plan had initially been for him and Riley to go and box up some family mementos to be shipped over, but after Maxwell whined incessantly yesterday about not getting enough Riley time, she’d agreed to meet him and Hana for lunch in the capital. However, this threw a pretty big wrench in their plans when Riley informed Drake that the last time she drove was when she was 17 years old and had been dating a guy who lived in New Jersey.

“I grew up in Manhattan, Drake. I didn’t exactly ever need to learn to drive,” she’d said to him that morning, like that was supposed to be some perfect explanation. Regardless, they’d had to adjust. Bastien had agreed to essentially chauffeur them out to the Walker home, then take Riley to the restaurant, before returning to help Drake with some packing. But as they were riding along, Drake had asked Bastien to swing by Applewood. It was basically on the way, and Drake wanted to get a sense of what Liam had been facing first hand.

It was worse than he ever could have imagined. There wasn’t a single tree left. Centuries of agriculture, of history, of national pride. All gone. And he’d been off fucking a girl in a different country.

“That’s not exactly a fair assessment,” he thought when Riley came up behind him, wrapping her arms around him in a comforting embrace. It wasn’t just some girl; it was the girl. Being with her hadn’t been a way to avoid his responsibilities. She was his responsibility. But that didn’t erase the fact that his best friend had been left to handle everything alone while he was off getting laid. With the girl his best friend loved.

The weight of the guilt only increased when they pulled into the driveway of his parent’s home. Being at Constantine’s funeral had brought up a lot of memories of his own father, and now being here again, where they had spent so much time together, it irritated the wound that most days felt like it was basically healed.

Riley grabbed his hand as soon as they were out of the car, almost as if she knew how tough it would be for him to be back here.

“Little different from the palace, huh?” he said, gesturing towards the small home tucked behind a few trees.

“A lot nicer than the apartments I grew up in,” she replied with a shrug.

He gave her a brief tour of the place, showing her his old childhood bedroom with walls covered with posters of football players, the kitchen with its olive green appliances, the living room with family photos that did not show any progression of time since he was 14 years old. He stopped outside his dad’s office, though. He hadn’t been in there in 15 years. Riley ran her thumb over the back of his hand soothingly, but he couldn’t bring himself to open the door.

“Ahem.”

Both he and Riley jumped slightly as they turned around, startled by Bastien’s reappearance. “Ms. Liu, we should probably head out in order to make your lunch reservation. Drake, I can take care of your father’s office when I return, if you’d like.”

Drake nodded mutely. Riley tugged him around to fully face her, staring into his eyes, “Are you gonna be okay here? I don’t have to go to lunch.”

“Nah, Liu. I’ll be fine.”

She nodded, but the look in her eyes was clearly skeptical. Still, she took him at his word, giving his hand one last squeeze before she let go and walked toward the front door with Bastien.

It turned out going through the house, even just to decide which items he wanted to ship to New York, was a huge project. He hadn’t been out here in basically a year, and hadn’t spent any significant time here in over five years. Quite frankly, he’d severely underestimated the amount of crap that had been left behind. He’d barely made a dent in his bedroom by the time Bastien returned from dropping off Riley.

“I brought us back some food,” he said from the doorway.

So he and Bastien ate lunch, laughing about all the times that he’d let Savannah and him stay up late watching horror movies and other misadventures in babysitting. After finishing their meals, the two of them had dipped into his father’s bar, sharing more stories from years and years ago. They didn’t exactly get drunk, but Drake knew he wasn’t exactly sober. And not-sober Drake was even less motivated to pack up the house.

Drake knew that there were a lot of reasons that he was avoiding boxing up this house that hadn’t really felt like home since his father’s death. Quite frankly, with all the upheaval in his life over the past month, digging through his childhood memories felt like an unneeded burden. He had enough to process without revisiting pains that were over a decade old. Also, it seemed like a rather pointless endeavor. There were very few items he would want to keep, and most of them would be useless in New York City. What would he do with his dad’s fishing rod or tackle box in New York? Where would he store their tent in Riley’s tiny studio? He could maybe grab a couple of family photos, but he would feel weird adding them to Riley’s shelves. Plus, it’s not like he was putting the house on the market or anything. He and Savannah were both named on the deed, and he really hadn’t talked with her about selling it. So instead of doing the task he’d set out to complete, he reminisced about his dad.

He had to wonder what his dad would think if he could see him now. Would he be happy that he was attempting to forge his own path? Proud that he was trying to do right by the woman he loved? Or would he be disappointed that he’d abandoned king and country when they needed him most? Ashamed that he’d ignored the olive branch extended by his sister? Horrified that he neglected his duties in a time of crisis? His father had always stressed doing the right and honorable thing, even when it was the difficult choice. Would his father have even accepted him being with Riley, knowing that the foundation of their relationship was built on the deception of his best friend?

He didn’t bring anything back to the palace with him, brushing off Bastien with an excuse about the size of Riley’s place. He knew what he needed to do, he just didn’t know if he was going to have the courage to do it.

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It was well after dinner time when Maxwell and Hana dropped Riley off at the palace. Their lunch had led to drinks followed by a dinner consisting of only desserts and pastries. It had been great spending time with them, but Riley knew she needed to get back and help Drake pack up some of his belongings in his quarters. Their flight wasn’t until the afternoon, but Riley was hoping Drake would take some time in the morning to spend with Liam. He would be back from Lythikos sometime tonight, but tomorrow he didn’t have any formal meetings scheduled, so it would be the perfect time for the two of them to actually talk.

When she got back to Drake’s quarters, she was surprised to find them empty. Things must be taking longer than expected at his parent’s house. She pulled out her phone to text him when a knock on the door startled her. She had no idea if it was technically okay that she was here without Drake. Obviously, everyone was just kind of looking the other way and ignoring the fact that she was sleeping there, but would it be okay for her to be there alone early in the evening?

“Drake, are you here? It’s me,” trickled through the door. The voice was muffled, but it was clearly Liam’s.

Riley hesitated for just a moment before heading to the door. Liam eyes widened briefly at the sight of her, but he quickly composed himself, giving her a friendly smile.

“Good evening, Riley. I was hoping I might speak to Drake.”

“He’s not here.”

“Oh.”

The silence that followed was awkward, stilted, heavy. Liam turned to leave, as he said “Alright, well I’ll see you both tomorrow before you leave,” but Riley felt wrong leaving it at that.

“Why don’t you come in and wait for him?”

The invite had slipped out before she really thought it through. Liam stopped in his tracks though, and gave her a smile that actually reached his eyes as he stepped into Drake’s quarters.

As the door closed behind him, the awkwardness began to seep back in, but both of them seemed determined to squash it away.

“A drink,” said Riley, walking over to the hutch that Drake had apparently kept stocked with whiskey, “Let’s have a drink.”

“That sounds perfect.”

After pouring two whiskey neats, Riley settled onto the opposite end of the couch, handing Liam one of the glasses.

“So where is Drake?”

“He’s packing some things up at his parent’s house.”

“I suppose that makes sense.”

“I kinda thought he’d be back by now. He’s supposed to decide what he wants to ship over from here,” Riley added, gesturing around the suite.

“Why wouldn’t he take everything?”

“Square footage is kind of limited in New York City.”

“Ahh, yes. My apologies.”

Riley waved him off. He had no way of comprehending how tiny the average NYC studio was. She took another sip of her whiskey, trying to think of another topic of conversation.

“How was Lythikos?”

Liam gave a little shrug, “The Winter Festival is always a highlight. With how much snow they get there, they always look to celebrate the start of the season as early as possible.”

“I can’t believe you went right after your father’s funeral. I was useless for like a month after my mother’s funeral.”

“Yes, well… The country doesn’t stop for familial loss. My father would have wanted me to be there.” Liam took at larger drink of whiskey at that, and it was impossible to miss the way he stared into his glass.

“You can talk to me about it, you know,” Riley said after a moment, “I know what it’s like to lose a parent where you had a… complicated relationship.”

“Oh, I won’t burden you with that. I got through my mother’s death when I was much younger. This one should be easier as I’ve had some time to prepare myself.”

“But Liam, he didn’t die from the cancer. It’s okay if this still is shocking to you. It’s normal to be affected by the loss of a parent. No one would blame you if you took some time to grieve.”

He gave her a hollow smile at that statement, “As king, I don’t exactly have the luxury of taking a few days off when there is an active terror threat that still hasn’t been neutralized. Once things have calmed down on that front, I think I’ll probably cancel meetings for a few days, take a little time for myself.”

Riley squinted at him and cocked her head slightly, “And what happens when there is some other crisis that only you can handle?”

Liam let out a little chuckle at that, “Then it’ll have to wait a little longer.”

“Right, because I’m sure there will be a day where everything is one hundred percent calm, and you’ll be able to take as much time as you want to just relax and do nothing.”

That elicited an outright laugh from Liam. “You sound just like Drake.”

Riley didn’t know how to respond to that. It was clear Liam didn’t know exactly how to move past the implications of that sentence either, as an awkward silence settled between the two of them. They both moved to reach for their drinks, clearly looking for something, anything to do now that the conversation had come to a screeching halt.

After a moment, Liam sighed before soldiering on. It didn’t surprise Riley that he spoke first, given all his years of diplomatic experience. What did surprise her was that he didn’t redirect the conversation.

“I suppose it’s not surprising that you sound like him after spending so much time together over the past few weeks.”

“Months, if we’re being honest here. But Liam, do you really think I’ve changed by being with him? Because I can tell you right now, I haven’t. I think you are just seeing a different side of me than you saw when I was on my best behavior during the social season.”

Liam nodded slightly as he said, “ I’m getting that sense.” He took another sip of his drink and paused, seeming to be contemplating his next words. “Drake told me that things between you two started after my engagement, but it seemed like that was a difficult question for you both to answer. I assumed that your hesitation was born out of a desire to shield me from the duration of your relationship, but the more I see of you two together, I have to wonder if there was another reason you were reticent to share things with me.”

Riley swallowed. This seemed like a conversation for Liam and Drake, but at the same time, she wondered if there wasn’t a reason Liam was asking her instead of Drake. It was a fair question, really. He had a right to know. “It’s hard to define exactly when things started, but honestly?” Liam nodded at her, probably trying to be encouraging, but he was radiating tension, as if he was bracing himself for some horrible revelation. Still, Riley knew she had to continue, “I would have answered that question a little differently than Drake did.”

Liam did not seem surprised by her answer, continuing to stare at her as he waited for more details.

“I would say that things started between us at Applewood.”

“The time we were there after my engagement?”

Riley shook her head, “No, the first time I was there.”

Liam nodded slowly, eyes staring up at the ceiling. Riley wasn’t sure whether she should keep talking, or if more details would just be cruel at this point, but in a flash, Liam composed his face, a gentle smile taking the place of his pained grimace. “Thank you for your honesty, Riley. I think I will leave you for the evening. It’s been a long day.”

“But Drake-”

“I’ll talk to him tomorrow. Goodnight, Riley.”

“Goodnight, Liam.”

He set down his glass on the coffee table and walked out of Drake’s quarters, giving Riley a slight nod of farewell as he shut the door. He couldn’t have been gone for even a minute when Drake entered, shoulders sagging and eyes downcast.

“Hey you, I was wondering when you’d be back. You just missed Liam.”

His eyes shot up to hers at that. “What was he doing here?”

“Looking for you. He wanted to chat before we leave tomorrow. Speaking of which, we’ve got some packing to do here.”

Drake sighed and shook his head, taking another deep breath before he spoke again. “Liu, I can’t head back with you tomorrow.”

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If a trader holds an fx trade in the spot Forex market overnight, this position is rolled over. In most cases, you are likely to either pay or receive a rollover fee. The rollover fee is determined by the differentiation between the interest rates which are priced into the 2 currencies that are being traded in the currency pair. The trade transaction is settled after 2 days. If positions are held overnight, then the Forex broker closes Forex trades at the conclusion of the trading day, (5 PM EST) and new trades are simultaneously opened. For example, the USD/JPY pair is traded at 1.40, the JPY interest rate is 3.5% and the USD interest rate is 1.5%. The pip differentiation is 0.60 pips. As a result, if you were to be long on JPY and short on USD, your trade would be found at 0.60 pips higher than previously. The example was calculated out by completing the following calculation: (base currency interest ÷ counter currency interest) × (day/days) × (traded rate). Leverage on the Forex Market Leverage allows Forex traders to control more currency in a trade than they have deposited in their trading account. This is where the real power of Forex trading lies. Therefore, trading with the leverage system wisely can work in your favor, and bring you big profits. With 1:100 leverage, the trader needs 1 unit of currency to control 100 units in the Forex market. Thus, it would only take 100 units to control 1 mini lot (10K) in the fx market or 1000 units to control 1 standard lot (100K). Forex Trading Hours The fx market is based on "spot transactions". The reason for this is that trading takes place 24 hours a day, 5 days a week. Trading never ceases in the Forex market, apart for weekends and holidays. This includes Christmas and New Year’s Eve, when the Forex market closes early. Read the full article

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Employee Monitoring can be controversial at times. But the report says it all, the companies who monitor their employees’ computer usage are much more likely to increase their productivity level by more than 35% in the first month.

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Advantages Of Using This Software: How Will It Help To Enhance Productivity?

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Working remotely certainly has tons of productive benefits, along with different distractions. Youtube, social media, house-old things, and various other things tamper productivity.

And it’s also difficult for the management staff to keep a check on what employees are working and how they are doing. It’s the main reason behind which employers are searching for good employee monitoring software like EmpMonitor which not only keeps the track of employee’s work done but also helps boost their productivity levels by time management.

After the implementation of the employee monitoring software, you can see a drastic growth in the overall productivity, and henceforth it is the reason most of the companies are adopting it.

CUSTOMER SUPPORT OR DROPSHIPPING CENTERS:

Building trust and loyalty is a worthy goal for any business, and it lies in the hands of the customer support team. It is the main reason behind when an employee monitoring tool got introduced.

All the professionally run service centers record all the phone calls with their clients. These recordings help to maintain quality by identifying mistakes and train support agents to enhance customer-handling skills. It’s important to keep a record of all the recordings that help to present as proof in case there will be any legal issues with the client in the future.

Similarly to lighten up the monitoring process in these organizations, EmpMonitor comes with monitoring chats and email conversations of the customer support people easily. As it’s always not necessary to attend a client through phone calls.

PAY/HOUR AGENCIES:

Industries operating in digital marketing, front-end development, and others associated with getting paid per hourly basis. Using tools like EmpMonitor easily helps to track the productivity hours of each employee and how much time they are spending on each project.

In short, EmpMonitor’s user logs and productivity measurement features help managers to ease up the process of billable hours that are practically eliminated.

INVESTMENT BANKS/TRADING ORGANIZATIONS:

Financial services companies use employee monitoring in a variety of ways for their sales as well as operations. Most of them need to follow stringent information security and confidentiality regulations such as ISO27001, which require them to monitor their employees to prevent data leaks or data theft.

When it comes to banks or trading organizations they use employee monitoring tools in different ways ( both operations and marketing). As one of the biggest fears in this industry is the loss of security and safety of the data they are using. Hence, it’s advised to use the best employee monitoring software solution like EmpMonitor.

EmpMonitor helps employers detect and take precautions before the data breach occurs with the help of features like screen activity monitoring, network monitoring, keystroke logging, etc. Some organizations also allow monitoring employees through cameras, which help them to easily know which employees are currently at their desk and who is missing the trade ranges.

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT INDUSTRIES:

Industries dealing with different project management software need to closely monitor how their employees are managing their time. Using a time tracking software like EmpMonitor, which has easy integration with project management software, helps in tracking employee productivity.  Teams can discuss their time investing in meetings and search for ways to gain better improvement.

MARKETING SECTOR:

Different sectors use different employee monitoring tools to improve the productivity of their marketing teams. Using monitoring tools with GPS tracking features helps to check how much time the salesperson is taking to reach a particular location. Are they using the shortest paths or moving to different places during working hours?

To know more about the sectors in which this monitoring software has marked their presence, check out the link below.

Solution

ADVANTAGES OF USING THIS SOFTWARE: HOW WILL IT HELP TO ENHANCE PRODUCTIVITY?

MINIMIZING PRODUCTIVITY LOSS

As per various surveys, employees admitted that they spend nearly an hour or two on different sites apart from the official ones. Wasting time is said as a common thing in offices and is more common if we talk about remote working. And there’s no way managers can check and see how their teammates are working.

EmpMonitor helps to track employee activity in the best possible ways:

It helps to track how much time employees are spending on each work and project.

Screenshot features allow employers to keep a check on the employee’s on-screen activity.

Top apps and website tracking features help to know which sites employees are surfing.

Though all this seems nosy, it will help to increase the overall productivity of the whole company.

IMPROVES EMPLOYEES ENGAGEMENT

Employee Monitoring Software increases employee engagement – provided you should use the perfect tool which suits all your desired needs.

DECREASES SUPERVISION

Using employee monitoring software employers can work on their projects without micromanaging their employees manually. As long as people stay focused on their work and meet the company requirements, employers don’t have to go and check every generated report.

ENHANCE PRODUCTIVITY

Employee Monitoring tools like EmpMonitor guides people to increase the work speed and also provides a detailed report on how much time a particular employee is investing in completing one particular task. It allows employees to know about their strengths and weaknesses, helps them to create a simple 1-3-5 rule to manage workplace productivity.

But, here the question arises,

IS EMPLOYEE MONITORING LEGAL? KNOW ABOUT THE WORKPLACE LAWS.

Most of the employers have thought either once or twice in their mind – Is employee monitoring legal? Is it officially valid to keep a check on the employee’s office work activities using an employee monitoring software? The solution to this question is not as easy as it seems to be.

All the things depend upon your work culture and the activities which you are monitoring.

In other words, management wants to know whether their employees are wasting time on any particular unwanted sites or resources. Though managers don’t mean spying, it helps to increase the productivity of the team and helps in preventing data breaches.

To know more about whether monitoring employees is legal?

READ THE BLOG BELOW –

EMPLOYEE MONITORING: PRODUCTIVITY BOOSTER OR PRIVACY KILLER?

WRAPPING UP

Employee monitoring has the power to greatly increase the efficiency and quality performance of your business in a variety of ways – and so it has a direct effect on your profitability. And if you give a try the suggestions I provided in this post, flexibility and employee engagement can also be improved in your company.

To get started on employee monitoring, I recommend you to start a free trial of EmpMonitor.

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Weekly Digest: Bitcoin Price, Libra Hearings And More

Yesterday, the world celebrated the 50th anniversary of the first Moon landing. But did the week’s crypto news give any indication of ‘When Moon?’ for Bitcoin?

Bitcoin Price: Another Week Of Consolidation

So it’s been another week of consolidation for bitcoin price, which is never a bad thing long term. Let’s have a look at how it unfolded.

The week started somewhat perilously, as whales tried to shake out weak hands, and price dipped briefly back below $10k. Still, this did present a great buying opportunity for anyone who thought they had missed their chance at a sub-10k bitcoin.

By Tuesday, things seemed to be on the mend again though as price broke out of a bullish falling wedge and climbed back towards $11,000. However, the optimism was short-lived, as on Wednesday another crash saw BTC trading in the low $9000 levels.

Despite concerns of further losses, resistance held and price bounced back to five figures on Thursday. A study showing that price is most volatile between midnight and 1am UTC had traders reconsidering their sleep patterns.

The consensus is that bitcoin will not return to 2019 lows, based on mining costs. This, despite concerns that US President Donald Trump may feel that he has to be seen to act against Bitcoin in defence of the dollar. Although apparently he can’t ban Bitcoin because source code is speech.

John McAfee was still positive about his $1m by 2020 prediction anyway. So we can all rest easy and anyone who bought the dip can consider it a steal.

Bitcoin Being Dragged Down By ‘Sh*tcoin’ Libra

Part of Bitcoin’s current volatility is down to the US Senate’s investigation into Facebook’s Libra. There were not one, but two hearings where Senators tried to get to the bottom of what exactly Libra was supposed to be.

Few had positive feelings on the whole affair, and Bitcoin got somewhat dragged into the argument, but did gain some fans who understood the difference. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez criticised Libra for calling itself decentralised, when in fact it is controlled by ‘largely massive corporations‘. One congressman correctly identified Libra as a ‘sh*tcoin’, after which Google searches for the term skyrocketed.

Meanwhile, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin was wheeling out the tired old rhetoric about Bitcoin (and Libra) posing an increased risk for money-laundering. However, further analysis suggested that Mnuchin did appreciate Bitcoin’s as a store of value, and understood that Libra is a very different beast. He closed the week promising strong regulation to prevent Bitcoin becoming “the equivalent of Swiss-numbered bank accounts.”

Cryptocurrency News In Brief

On the other side of the world in India, a draft law appeared set to prohibit use of Bitcoin and crypto other than the proposed ‘digital rupee’. However a government spokesman later clarified this, saying no coin was illegal and regulations were coming. So nothing’s changed there as of now.

Japanese exchange, Bitpoint, announced an additional $2.3 million had been lost in last week’s hack. Then later pledged that all $30 million stolen in total would be returned to customers.

$73 million worth of BTC was pulled from Bitmex after reports it was to be investigated by the CFTC over allegedly providing service to American traders.

Tron CEO, Justin Sun, announced the name of another guest he will bring to next week’s charity lunch with Warren Buffett. Circle CEO, Jeremy Allaire will join Charlie Lee, Sun and Buffett, with four golden tickets still to be distributed.

And Finally…

A report revealed that the number of Bitcoin SV transactions is growing… but that 96% of all transactions on the network are generated by a weather app. Still not sure ‘whether’ SV is Satoshi’s Vision of bitcoin? Seriously Vexing.

What do you think about the topics discussed in this week’s roundup? Let us know in the comment section below! 

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Here’s why the Bitcoin halving could be priced in | Why we have a higher chance of $3k BTC vs. $10k

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Hey, good morning, everyone. Happy Monday. It’s April 20th and we’re starting a new week here. Let’s get to the Bitcoin analysis real quick. All right. So first things first. It looks like we went from the high of seventy-two hundred dollars to down to seven thousand flat pretty much overnight. All right. And in terms of key levels to watch out for, it actually did come down to a pretty key level for me, which was this seven thousand ninety-seven marker.

OK. So if we look over here, this marker right here, this high actually came down to that same level. And I was hoping that just like we did over here and over here. You know, I wanted it to, I guess, push up from here because yesterday it looked like we were creating a mini inverse head and shoulders on the 50-minute timeframe. It looked like something like this. And even though this kind of fell through, I was hoping that this could push us up further.

It looks like that didn’t happen then. In fact, what we really did was sort of collapse down overnight. OK. And so, as I said, you could see that seven thousand ninety-seven markets right here, pretty much broken. OK. At least on a smaller timeframe. All right. Now, what we need to gauge and assess is are restarting our next leg down or are we simply just consolidating in this area? The reason I’m a little bit more careful over here is that if you look at this period of movement consolidation, it’s very analogous to this whole chop right here that we saw.

It was very wild of fall time movement right here. And then we finally broke out. OK. Our community was actually in a long over here from seventy-one twenty-five. I think actually we grabbed it over here somewhere and then we had a stop set for seven thousand seventy. And you could see right here, you know, we took that long and we got stopped. OK. So, you know, it is part of the game. And we understand if this trade were to be left as-is and we left, the long chances are, I mean, we could be coming down a little bit further.

So either way, we could get a lower entry or it’s a possibility that we might get stopped out lower because our stop was initially actually further down here below this low. OK.

So the reason we try to move our stops with the way price is moving with momentum is because that either secures your ability to lose little or also secure profit. All right. So this is one reason, you know, the cup disarming community. We tried to minimize our losses as much as we can. As you can see, we barely missed out on an up 40, I guess. Forty-five or fifty dollars move right there. You know, so.

Point is, when you are able to contain your losses, you’re going to do far better in the trading landscape. OK. So let’s get back to it. OK. So another thing that we’re seeing right now is if you look at this big descending trend line right here. OK. So remember this big descending trend line that comes from this middle of actually middle of February way have over here. Right. You can see we’re still well above that trend line right now.

OK. So the fact that we’re above that trend line and we haven’t really smashed through the weekly open on a daily timeframe, we are under it on a couple of hourly time frames on the smaller time frames. This is a good sign. It is a good sign in terms of. Shorting. OK. But on the larger time frames, we start to go on the 4:00 hour and stuff. It’s still a bit uncertain exactly what Price wants to do, because like I said, this consolidation period is very similar to this one where it’s a wild movement up and down and then we finally push up.

OK, now we did a video yesterday for our numbers. You can actually go check this out on YouTube.

And we talked about the pivotal week ahead for the stock market. The oil markets and the bond markets to go check this out on YouTube. We just put this up yesterday. And basically what we’re seeing right now is just an aggressive, aggressive sell-off in the oil. OK. You can see right now. I mean, last night when I shut down for the night, it was around $15. And we’ve now dropped another, I think, 10 to 18 percent.

So since last night’s open, OK, we’re down now. So since last night, crude open, we’re down now almost twenty-nine percent. This is absolutely nuts because remember, as I said before, oil is a big part of the American economy as well as the global economy. OK. So oil getting crushed. It’s going to be a significant impact on the stock market. All right. At some point, it’s going to start impacting the stock market because it’s only because not only going to start affecting jobs, which again, the oil markets employ about eight to nine million people in America.

It’s about a percent of the total GDP in America. But not only is it going to start impacting jobs. It’s going to start dragging the market down, too. OK. Because remember, oil exposure has a lot of banks associated with it. So if the oil is going down and companies are filing bankruptcy or they cannot pay back their loans or they default on their loans, that’s on the balance sheet of. Banks. OK. So if oil starts going down, banks get hit and banks start getting hit.

Other people in the economy, other businesses and even the federal government is going to get hit. The point is, I mean, it’s all tied together. All right. And we actually explain this in our analysis from yesterday. You can go check this out on YouTube or if you want, you can go and read about this on medium as well. We wrote in an article about it at the Alpha Trade. Remember, we’ve rebranded folks from crypto Somnath to Alpha Trades.

Now, you know, I think it’s a great rebrand because we’ve now switched over from just doing different analysis to forex equities options and oil. And then we’re going to try to consider adding gold as well soon. So all these things are related. OK. And our community does a fantastic job at explaining to you how these markets are related, what you can look out for a day to day basis. Remember that Bitcoin is not the same uncorrelated asset that it used to be.

OK. It doesn’t get to move on its own. In fact, it’s completely run by how the stock market moves, whether it moves up or down. So now that it moves the way it does with the equity markets, it’s best to understand how equity markets move. And this is one thing that Fassel and I have been doing for years. So we understand a good amount of how equities move. So for us, it becomes very easy to understand how Bitcoin is going to move.

So we’ve pretty much warned our members that they, for the most part, we still have a short bias. OK. It doesn’t matter what price is doing right now. Just remember the bigger picture, which is that if we start looking at the larger timeframes on the S&P 500 over here. All right. If we start looking at it this way, we are doing nothing but approaching the 6 1 8 feet, which is the golden pocket area. All right.

And we’ve hit pretty much key resistance right there. All right. Just last Friday, you know, the news is already starting to stack up with more unemployment numbers, more small businesses going out of business, declaring bankruptcy. Even larger corporations like Neiman Marcus was considering bankruptcy. J.C. Penney, Winning’s Petroleum a declared bankruptcy two weeks ago. So you see the bankruptcies are piling up. All right. And that’s going to eventually start impacting the economy. The market just can’t keep going up.

It doesn’t matter how much stimulus the Fed throws, it doesn’t matter. OK. At some point, the market will come back down to earth because no matter how much money the Fed prints. The reality is the situation is going to sink into the market. OK. So the fact of the matter is we still got a bearish five, but that doesn’t mean we blindly short, you know, every move. OK. We wait for the technicals to play up.

We wait for the perfect moment to strike. And that’s essentially when we’re going to consider going short again. All right. And you can read all about this on our trading view or even our medium articles. You know, I put out a lot of free content, folks. You know, I hope you guys really like and enjoy our content. I hope you get the thumbs up because it does take a lot of energy and effort to do so.

And just, you know, hitting the subscribe button, hitting the like button, leaving us a comment, does great things for our community. You know, it helps bring in members into our advantage side. And this is where we have the paid analysis. You know, tons of information, the paid side where we have evening analysis, where we let our community members like exactly what we’re seeing in the market, multiple updates through the day to let people know exactly where our thoughts are.

We even put out a forex trade just yesterday mentioning how the European markets are doing. And I want to touch upon that a little bit. Here’s the thing. Right. Fifty fifteen to twenty percent of all employment in Greece, Spain and Italy and Portugal is directly linked to tourism. Obviously, all those things are suffering now. Right. So on top of that whole for these countries are severely cash strapped, specifically Italy, which is really on the brink of default.

If Italy defaults, that means Netherlands and Germany, which are the strongest economies in the eurozone, are going to get hit harder again. The eurozone is already struggling. So I have no doubt that it’s going to be a very, very tough battle for the eurozone in the coming week or weeks ahead. Oil specifically, as I said, you can see Western Canadian select oil is now trading at negative prices. Basically, that’s like saying, hey, you don’t take these oil barrels off our hands because we can’t even afford to store them.

So you can see oil across the board. All right. It’s getting hit hard doubly. Futures, like I said earlier. What I showed you over U.S. oil, those are down also about 18 percent overnight. OK. And then U.S. airlines can’t fire anyone till September 30th. Under the terms of 50 billion dollar government bailout. But they still plan on cutting almost a hundred thousand jobs. So you could see that the pain is pretty much imminent for most people.

Right. And it’s really sad because, you know, we know people in the energy and oil sector. You know, we know people, or we have friends or family who work in the airline business. But at some point, you will know someone will be unemployed who will not be able to maybe feed themselves. They might have to go into government assistance programs. And this is why I urge you guys to learn about what’s happening in the market. Come join our community, watch and read our updates and trade with us and understand how to take advantage of a market like this.

OK. Because ultimately it’s going to pay off whether now or even in the future. All right. It’s at some point, remember, the market is going to go up. Right. We understand that the American economy is very strong. But you want to be prepared. You want to understand, you know, how to trade in the market if you have to. Again, we can’t give you financial advice. Right. We can show you exactly how Fassel and I are trading and how we’re making money in this market.

That’s the best we can do for you. OK. So with that being said, you know, make sure you come joining with the crypto Sonya Web site. And again, we’ve rebranded, but we haven’t actually quite taken our Web site over to the Alpha Trades Web site. So you can go to Crypto Salmi ICOM, get the products page right there and join Advantage membership. And remember, we are going to start changing prices, folks, from ninety-seven to one twenty-five starting May 5th because we’re now including forex options, oil and equities.

All right. So let’s get back to it. Let’s get back to the analysis. OK. So another thing that I want to mention to you all is if we start looking at the daily fibs, write this down just a little bit. OK. So from this high to this low. Right. Guess we’re close to that golden pocket of 6, 1 8 and 65 percent. And that’s about seventy-eight. I mean nine hundred dollars all the way to about eighty-one hundred dollars.

OK. So that’s about, you know, nine hundred dollars from where we are essential. All right. So this is one reason why I’m a little bit cautious that. All right. I don’t really know if I want to short yet until I see one hour, four-hour showing strength to the downside. I also want to see the equities markets starting to break down. And then I don’t mind shorting. Then I would probably say this movement right here is kind of like a double top, almost analogous to this one right here.

OK. So that’s kind of what I’m waiting on right now. And I’ll let my advantage members know exactly what I do. But I urge you guys to be a bit cautious, you know, in terms of blindly longing in this environment. Know everyone, their mother out there is talking about the having effect and all that garbage. But I could probably say with at least 70 percent confidence that either the having is priced in or it already priced in the way up here.

And this is just the reverberations of an oversold market when we went down so hard, so fast. So this is really your, you know, maybe dead cat bounce. It has nothing to do with the having coming up. This is just a dead cat bounce. Really, the miners, maybe major players across the board might be trying to get out of this particular area. OK. Just be careful about, you know, the whole narrative about having Bitcoin has to go up and all that jazz because, you know, to be honest, this is the time for Bitcoin to thrive.

OK. Bitcoin was built for times like this where governments across the border printing money. Governments across the border doing awful shit where they cannot contain their local or national economies. So if bitcoin doesn’t thrive now, chances are it’s going much lower. OK.

It doesn’t mean it’s useless. It just means that its value is far less. OK. And as I’ve told my members before, that it is very, very possible that bitcoin could go down to three thousand or two thousand. I know those numbers sound crazy, but just remember, those numbers also sounded crazy when, you know, we were at ten thousand five hundred and then we went down to three thousand six hundred in less than two weeks. Three weeks, actually.

OK. So just remember that these markets are volatile. The times that we’re living in are unprecedented times and really anything can happen. But we keep our advantage members, you know, updated with the information and analysis as much as we can. Even my. Twitter. You know, I put out a ton of information showing you guys exactly what I’m reading, what I’m looking at. And you can see what’s happening in the real economy. Aside from the stock market, you can see the unemployment numbers.

You can see more and more companies laying off people. You can see what’s happening with oil. You can see what experts are talking about. You know, Jim Bianco, my favourite analyst. He said the next five days are the most critical period in the U.S. financial history. Said it says that the stock market expert who profited in 1987 and 2008 crisis even over here, you know, got the stock portfolio of companies with relatively little debt, lost seven point nine percent last month versus a portfolio highly indebted companies, which plunged twenty-one point two percent.

That’s Goldman Sachs data. So what this is basically saying is, you know, companies are over-levered higher debt, are really paying the price and really suffering. And Bitcoin is actually one of those fields that is a highly credit-based, credit-based environment or not the environment, I guess a credit-based asset class. Because remember that, you know, miners themselves need a price to stay higher. Just to be able to pay off their bills because their bills will start piling up or they may already have bills.

Well, there’s electricity, whether it’s a debt from their mining machines, know whatever they need for four coolers and stuff to keep their specific area cool from the mining equipment heating up the area. All this stuff costs money. Right. And so if the management of the product itself or the stock itself costs money, at some point those costs are going to outweigh the revenue that’s coming in. And then when that happens and when a majority of the miners get hit, they have to sell.

And, you know, no matter what you want to say, miners or some of the biggest people who hold the supply, if miners start to suffer due to price, that means the structure is a whole of bitcoin will slowly start chipping away in terms of prices start collapsing faster than most can imagine. Which is kind of what happened here? You know, when we went from eight thousand down to thirty-six hundred dollars in less than 24 hours or so right here, no one imagined that could happen.

That’s what happens, though, when miners are really stretched out. OK, so you want to be careful. All right. Let me see here. All right. So, again, as I said, we’re still above this descending trend line that we broke out of. But that doesn’t mean we’re out of the woods. OK. If we look at the price in terms of one level at a time, like I said, this key area right here, let’s give it this real quick.

All right. Let’s go to the hourly timeframe. OK. If we start seeing that seven thousand seventy is turning into resistance. OK. Does something like that. And then it starts breaking down past, at least in this key level right here, which is down sixty-nine hundred dollars and it does something like this. I think that’s your shorting opportunity with the stock above here. And you could start writing this down towards six, seven, six thousand five hundred seventy-five or so and then all of all the way down to six thousand two hundred at the very least.

OK. That’s what I’d be doing personally. I can’t give you guys financial advice, but, you know, I could tell you guys exactly what I will be doing in our advantage by the community. So make sure you guys come join. OK. Ninety-seven. You’ll be grandfathered in for ninety-seven dollars per month. Your rates will not change. But unless you join after May 5th and then it will be one twenty-five. All right. Give me a thumbs up if you enjoy our content, folks.

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