Folks, you won't believe it. We've got lots to discuss. Number One, the latest on markets and plays. markets are but a few per away from all-time highs.

We'll discuss what you need to know and what the data suggest is coming this week. The last Fed meeting of the year is also happening on Thursday and Friday so you better buckle up. Number two. The next stage of the Venezuela Guyana conflict is on December 14th as President Maduro of Venezuela and President Ali of Guyana meet to discuss the territorial dispute.

This comes a week after Venezuela's so-called referendum to take the land resulted in favor of a land grab. We'll discuss what's next and the impact this could have on oil markets. and number three, we've got a sponsored segment on Sln. Sln is a NASDAQ trading super small cap in the renewable energy space which generates Revenue largely by Bitcoin mining and high Performance Computing both of which are industries that are super In Demand right now, which might explain why the stock has been on a pretty bullish pathway the last couple of weeks.

Well, we'll break down why. you might want to start your due diligence on the stock as soon as possible. Okay, let's get to work. So the NASDAQ 100 Slle Q is now just another 4% run from being at an all-time high S&P 500 is another 4.5% Rally From alltime highs you look at some of the biggest companies, Apple is getting close to being at an all-time high Microsoft just hit an all-time high even Walmart The Mort of Wall is trading in range of all-time highs even after a pretty rough earnings report, you look at triple Q options dating out to the end of the year December 29th expiration.

you're seeing way more concentration at 400 and above suggesting markets think the year end rally is going to continue. Similar situation right now with the S&P 500 if you look at Spy which is the number one index to try options on while markets are buying calls dating out to January 2025 and the main call seeing concentration is that 480 strike which is slightly above all-time highs by 2 cents. So markets are expecting new highs to be reached, but they have yet to really commit to being able to top that resistance. Now if markets do go and obliterate over those all-time highs and prove capable in doing that well, all of a sudden you are going to see a massive squeeze in Fomo cycle and it's going to be victorious which of of course will end up aging to be both unjustifiable and and unsustainable and will break down like rabid dogs, but will provide a pretty massive trading opportunity for anybody who has open eyes.

Now Also, be aware that this is going to be the week of the last Fed meeting of the year, and as CNBC reports, markets are looking for hints and clues on possible rate cuts. My view? Well, markets will be disappointed, but markets aren't going to Care Powell Simply isn't going to cut rates until inflation is closer to Target or the economy has collapsed force in his hand and at the same time Market aren't going to stop pumping until Wall Street starts dumping their bags on the trend, neither of which are going to happen this week, neither of which are going to happen in January. Now for those of you who have been following my coverage the last couple of weeks and months, Well, my view right now is that markets will pump through the beginning of Q1 of 2024 and then see a huge rug pull as Main Street data brings the market back down. The real question is after that, if that rug pull is going to result in a new dump, after that a more sustained dump, or if it's just going to be bought back back up.

But that is something that we got to wait and see. Remember I'm a big believer in trading, right? Which means the trend is your friend until the trend bends and then the trend is no longer your friend. A lot of people follow the economy. They buy based on the economy, or they buy companies based on the underlying fundamentals, That strategy can work over a 5 10 year time.

Horizon But when you're talking about short-term trends that are largely just made and forged by big money and whether or not they're moving Capital into and out of the market, well, those are best traded in the short term. For those of you who think that the Big Money is not concerned with making more money and is rather concerned with financial analysis and going and looking at the underlying fundamentals. well, you've got another thing coming folks. The simple truth is that Big Money makes buys and rides Trends And then Big Money breaks those Trends And those that don't see what's going on, they get crushed every single time.

This is how it's always been. This is how it always will be. For those of you who say that's not true, you got to open your eyes a little bit more because you're obviously not looking in the right direction. You're looking like at the floor.

Which is where you're going to be When the market takes all your money, You're going to be hiding, crawling, and just living on the floor. and again. Right now, we've been talking about how this has been the case, but right now, with nothing to justify the current rallies, you're starting to see media everywhere. Talk about how you should go all in stocks.

You're seeing major firms upgrade their price targets, You're seeing peachy analysis everywhere in the market. And why is this? well I'd argue because again, markets don't run based on fundamentals, especially not in a short to medium term. They run on emotions. And right now the emotional trade is up.

So Charlie How can we play this? What is a practical way to play this Well in terms of option Trade Ideas on Spy which is an S&P 500 tracker. Well, if you think markets are going to get to an all-time high in Q1 which again is only a few more percent up, well take a look at those 480 strike calls expiring March 28th. You can go out a little bit further in expiration if you want, but I'd say that March 28th is a pretty good balance there where you're not paying too much for premium, but you're still getting the coverage that you want. Now if I'm right and the trend breaks right back down after Q1 or towards the end of Q1, Well, all of a sudden you can flip the puts and write that dumpy dumpo all the way down.

Now a lot of people say that's unethical. You should only buy, buy, buy, buy. That's what my Financial Manager told me that gets 5% of my assets under management and gets a 20% commission every time he buys. He said just buy, buy, buy and hold hold hold.

Obviously he knows what's best, right? Well, sure there's some good ones out there, but you got to be a little bit careful with that advice. You got to think about their incentive structure and think about what the big money does. How are the big players in this market making money? Are they making money by just buying holding? Or are they making money by trading the fluctuations? Now, speaking of uptrends, Bitcoin is continued setting up towards the end of the week and for those looking for play ideas on Bitcoin, well, my number one idea that we've been talking about is Crypto Miner Mara Lovely. Mara Mara Did another 8% run on Friday into close now I see this breaking resistance at 1988 before year end, but that's really not a big enough move to justify buying shares instead? I Would say that the way to look at this is with strategic Cols do your own due diligence of course.

But one that I highlighted last week and I continue to follow were those 20 strike calls expiring January 12th they finished Friday up nearly 32% Now remember with calls you don't have to and in my opinion, you shouldn't hold to expiration I'd argue that they're best treated as trading instruments and not buying holds. If you have a smaller account, your money and your leveraging power on that money go way way further with options than with straightup shares. right now of course you knew the plug was coming, but if you do need help learning options, we do have Launch 50 which will get you 50% off our ZIP Trader options program linked down below. But anywh, who moving over? let's get to number two which is South America let's move over to South America So last week we talked about how there was a referendum a dumb of refm in Venezuela on whether or not they should take over a big chunk of their neighbor Guyana.

Well, if you believe the referendum V and swand and end up overwhelmingly voting in favor now, this is of course A playbook that we've already seen several times, but most recently it's a similar move to what Russia's President Putin did before he invaded Ukraine. He ran a big vote in the Russian occupied regions and in broader Russia and in widely discredited results. the people voted in favor and guess what happened right afterwards? Invasion? Of course. Again, that vote was, but it is what it is.

The difference between Ukraine and Guyana. It's a lot easier for Venezuela to invade Guyana because there's very, very little military in Guyana to protect it. and quite frankly, there's a lot less people in the region as well. Now what's going to happen next with Venezuela and Guyana? Well, they have talks on Thursday December 14th just a couple of days from now and the President of Guyana said quote our first line of defense is diplomacy.

President Ali told CBS News Adding that Guyana has reached out to leaders abroad, including in the US, India and Cuba hoping that they can encourage Venezuela to do what is right and ensure that they do not act in a reckless or adventurous manner that could disrupt the peace within that zone. Now, despite these talks, it is widely expected that Maduro will order an invasion into the region in the coming weeks. Maybe in Q1 of 2024, the Maduro government is expected to use their vastly larger military to eventually take Guyana regardless of the impacts of these talks. Right now, the President of Guy is saying we're not going to negotiate at all in terms of giving land over, but what else are they going to be talking about If that President doesn't give any kind of concessions, you can expect an invasion very very soon.

Venezuela isn't going and getting all this condemnation on a global stage for this referendum without eventually going through with the invasion. What would be the point of doing this Anyways, And in fact, that is the US's view, as well as the US is conducting military drills with Guyana ahead of this potential conflict. Now what you got to see here is the bigger picture. This is all part of an overall West versus East Coalition and overall plan to challenge the US and the EUR Le dominance.

Venezuela has been forming really, really tight relationships with enemies of the West like Russia Iran Cuba China and other authoritarian areas that are trying to build a coalition to destroy any influence that the US and the rest of the West have. This is all part of the bigger picture and that's why you've seen a huge escalation of big military conflicts over the last couple of years and other types of geopolitical conflicts which I can't say Here on YouTube Now Anyways, what are some plays on this or different ideas to watch? Well, number one is Vix. SL Volatility. look I get it.

I've made wrong call after wrong call on volatility over and over again. This year, markets have Shrugged off volatility over and over again whether it's with escalation on oil Israel Ukraine so on and so forth. But now you're at new volatility lows. It's just hard for me to imagine given all that is going on and given current trends that you could continue to see this drop without any massive squeeze.

To the upside: if you see an invasion of Venezuela into Guyana I have a hard time believing that Vix isn't going to go parabolic. I have a hard time believing that wouldn't result in at least a 2 or 3, we rally. Now what about oil? Charlie Charlie To tell us about oil? So oil is on a downslide right now thanks to demand worries and recessionary fears. but again, if Venezuela goes into Guyana Venezuela will be hit with new sanctions and their oil will likely be cut off by more players including the Us.

and that could provide some price support for oil. But I'm not really a fan of oil at this point. seems slated for too much more downward pressure because of that demand problem. Okay, moving on.

Now it's time for today's sponsored segment on Sln for saluna. Holdings Now when I'm looking for a new stock idea or trade idea or perspective stock for a sponsored segment or I'm analyzing a prospective sponsored segment stock, Well, what? I ask myself is is the story good and is there proof of concept that is going to excite markets? Is there an inefficiency that could lead to price appreciation ation? and I think you can make a good case for all of this With Sln, Sln is a NASDAQ trading super small cap in the renewable energy space which generates Revenue largely by Bitcoin mining and high performance Computing both of which are Industries super In Demand Right now, given the Bitcoin rallies, the stock has started picking up into the weekend as well. I'm going to break down exactly why you should put this on your radar after doing of course, your own due diligence. Okay now context a couple days ago I was looking at this article from The Wall Street Journal talking about how Bitcoin mining used more water than New York City did last year the entire city and it's true that Bitcoin mining as well as other forms of high energy Computing such as is needed with AI use a lot of water because you need water to cool down the servers and you need water for the air conditioning units that cool down the whole area that has all the servers.

But of course all this also uses a crap ton of power and when you see headlines like this folks you can already see the next round of Regulator calls to pass legal action to limit the environmental impact of crypto. And of course AI which also requires a ton of power. So Sln is an interesting play right now because it provides a renewable energy solution. What What exactly do they do Charlie Charlie Te Well, essentially they built these modular, scalable data centers that convert wasted renewable energy into computing power for intensive, batchable applications such as cryptocurrency mining, but also Ai and machine learning, so on and so forth.

Anything that need a lot of computing power, one of their projects looks like this: this is actually their project Dorothy Now if this project Dorothy is as promising as Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz, maybe this company is worth at least a look, right? Sorry, my jokes are a little bit. Rusty Maybe not as Rusty as the Tin Man but Rusty Nonetheless, Okay, bad jokes aside, in terms of result, the company reported Financial results for the third quarter ended September 2023, which included a 176% increase in revenue and they hit an operating profit Milestone Gross profit improved to 1.4 million in Q3 as compared to negative 390,000 in the second quarter of 2023. So pretty solid proof of concept right there. and when you're talking about the story perspective of this stock this company.

Well, that's something I like to see. Alongside this, the company is also been featured in Bloomberg Business Insider CET Forbes the independent inverse MIT Technology review and reuter the RO of the Reuters and as crypto, Mining and Ai and such are expected to grow bigger and bigger and bigger into the coming years. Well, this company might just be on the Forefront providing a cleaner way to provide processing power. But anyways, let's go ahead and open up the chart.

That's what you care about anyways, right? And you look at the stock momentum has been brewing since it hit lows in late October at 209 a share and it has gone on an overall boom and bust uptrend and it's been attempting a break over our red directional SMA line. Crucial resistance levels to hit our previous eyes at 4 60 Previous cycle support at 4.88 previous cycle resistance at 6.25 previous cycle Highs at 7.78 Keep an eye on these levels, make sure that it shows proof and not promises. We like it a lot when it starts proving that it can hit certain resistance levels and when you hit each resistance level, look for further accumulation. Anyways, keep an eye on this one and make sure to do your own due diligence.

Small caps can go up huge and provide huge opportunities, but they can also go down just as fast if not fail completely. So you got to make sure that you keep that in mind. And of course we sponsor or not, you always got to make sure that you're doing your due diligence on these stocks. No one should ever buy a stock we talk about just because we talked about it or because we accepted a sponsorship for it.

Anyways, folks that caps off today's video have a good one and we'll see you in the next video.