I swear if Bitcoin doesn't move past  this 19  100 200 300 I promise you I'm gonna stop  doing shows until it actually starts  moving what do you think Carl I've got  to start it's got to do something it's  got to do something maybe it'll do  something this week because this week's  actually quite a big week uh for macro  and maybe the macro news will move  Bitcoin also I've got a big story for  you guys on ethereum I'm going to show  you guys one position that I took in my  portfolio a big position that I took in  my portfolio this week I'm going to show  you where I am in the trading  competition because I made my first  trade in the trading competition and  then I'm gonna talk about two other  altcoins so  Bitcoin isn't moving but there are  tokens that aren't moving so let's talk  about the tokens that are moving let's  do this  [Applause]  [Music]  get the [ __ ] out of bed [ __ ] go  get up  wake up try to wake up [ __ ] get up  up  [Applause]  [Music]  we don't do the good evening good  evening good evening anymore because too  many people are complaining that it  ruined their day first thing in the  morning to hear that good evening good  evening good evening good evening good  evening good evening so we don't do that  anymore we don't do it anymore so people  are asking about dinner welcome back  guys I hope you're well I hope you guys  had a good weekend I don't know if you  guys caught our weekend stream this  weekend uh if you didn't you should go  and have a look at it it was actually  quite a lot of fun I got bit boy to come  on the show on I actually wasn't going  to get Bitcoin I was going to do it all  on my own and then bitboy joined me on  the show and we started speaking about  his issues with SPF and I mean that's  got a lot of traction in that video so  if you missed that video go and watch it  then the other one which you probably  missed which you probably should watch  is this one with Arthur has this one  with Arthur Hayes the amount of alpha in  the in the Arthur Hayes video uh last  week was insane this guy's one of the  smartest guys out there right he is so  so so so so smart  and yeah we're back Monday uh if you're  new to the channel subscribe to the  channel if you've been here for a while  if you're part of the 90 what is the  number this way 91 90  91 but 91 of people that watch us are  subscribers which means that we are far  far the most little crypto community in  the world anyway let's do this I'm gonna  give you guys the highest Alpha packed  show per minute on the internet you guys  are going to like subscribe and help us  get unshattered banned by giving us good  comments in the um in the comments  um people saying big boy was huge yeah  it was huge it was huge um I made my  first trade in the training competition  guys I'm not doing very well I mean I'm  135 in terms of the ranking but I mean I  started I started uh what did I do in  the trading competition I've only taken  a trade on buy budget it's got a trade  lined up for uh bit kid later so what  have I done I've taken a long position  on GMX  um purely because it's been trading  above the 40 range for a while it came  below it so for me this is this is  something that I want to be in and then  I took a position on near which is a  little bit down  um  I made a mistake again that I put two  thousand dollars in my account and I  only used four hundred uh one thousand  four hundred dollars on margin if I  hadn't I would have been twenty percent  up which means I would have been one  step closer to Kyle and Sheldon so Kyle  is now number  cars 19. yeah yes you're 19 in the  trading competition  I share your screen don't talk [ __ ] I  want to see it don't trust verify don't  trust verify Sheldon is third in bitkit  Sheldon is third on bitkit and he is 18.  um  whoa okay so you are you actually are  19th  listen what do you say we increase the  the length of the competition  I agree I agree we increase the length  of the competition what should we do so  should we say end of November  I think end of November because then  it's not like trading fast it's actually  like real it's real trading okay so  we'll extend it till the end of November  so it's not too late to participate if  you want to participate there are links  below  um you've got if you want to win you've  got to use one of our referral links if  you just want to play for Five Below  then you can play for five uh here are  the links for those of you who don't  know where the links are right here  click this link sign up with our  referral links and then click here to  sign up to the buy button or the bitkit  for the US guys you can enter the video  competition  um when it asks you if you're in the US  just just say okay I understand and just  move on just move on  um all right let's get into the alpha  five minutes intros that's what I'm  allowed to do remember smash the like  button help us get this content out  there  um let's look at the market so Bitcoin  has to make a decision now it has to has  to has to make a decision now Carl says  another one or two days until it makes a  decision said next two weeks next two  weeks until Bitcoin moves  so it could be this because this is a  massive week I'll show you why this is a  massive week you've got the NASDAQ uh  currently the Futures are down about  three quarters of a percent the markets  are not open yet there's nine minutes  until the Market opens so let's wait  until the Market opens our futures are  half a percent  um S P 500 features up 0.25 uh one  interesting thing that you had is you  had Hong Kong down six percent this  morning so yeah the Hong Kong market  down six percent why was the Hong Kong  market down six percent first of all  impressive that the NASDAQ futures are  holding up so well with Hong Kong market  down six percent what moved the Hong  Kong market down was this  I mean this is crazy [ __ ] but I mean  this is what happened in China  that's  oh hold on let's let's actually go back  so you can just so you can see it  this is the X I think it's the ex prime  minister  and he's being forcefully removed from  the cabinet as Xi Jinping takes full  control of the cabinet again  it's like get the hell out and then like  he tries to talk to Xi Jinping  and you can see it's like basically  he's like don't touch the papers bro  touch them outside  you get out  that's rough and then you see you'll see  when he walks past and he he hits uh Xi  Jinping he says sorry bro you got the  wrong number  she's like hello hello  sorry wrong wrong number wrong number  yeah  I don't think anyone will see me ever  again  so anyway that's what happened in Hong  Kong that is why the Hong Kong Futures  were down six percent uh and impressive  as I said that uh even with that the  Hong Kong the the  um  the NASDAQ uh is about even then you're  looking at the Dixie so the Dixie is  still under the parabola but the Dixie  got a bit stronger you see what that  great green candle in the Dixie so we'll  talk a little bit about why we got this  green candle here in the Dixie  um it's quite important that we speak  about it it's got something to do with  Japan so we'll talk about that in a  second uh we've got a huge week why did  I say we've got a huge recoil so Monday  and Tuesday kind of non-events so PMI  data from Europe not important General  and speaking not really important uh U.S  consumer confidence not important we  know consumer confidence is an all-time  low and there's going to be no news  there it gets a little bit more it gets  a little bit more  um uh juicy on Thursday and Friday where  you've got US GDP and ECB policy and  then you got on Friday you got pce  inflation so this is this is quite big  so why why is this quite big so the  first thing is  um you've got US GDP you've got PC  inflation and you've got earnings this  week you've got the biggest earnings  weeks on the on the on the calendar this  week I want to just run you through what  we can expect from earnings so from the  earnings point of view this is more or  less the week ahead as I said to you  guys last week we've got Amazon uh on  Thursday you've got Microsoft this week  you've got Facebook this week meta  you've got this week so if you look at  the the companies that make up the the  um the NASDAQ and you look so Apple  reports this week Microsoft reports this  week Amazon reports this week uh  alphabet I think reports speak meta  reports this week so you got 12 trillion  dollars worth of market cap of companies  reporting this week so this is the the  biggest uh earnings week of the year now  what are we expecting in those earnings  week well quite simply if I look at all  the Wall Street expectations for this  week  the theme is the same so what you're  seeing is you're seeing turnover up so  if you look at the revenues you're  looking at revenues for example Apple  the estimates are that revenues are up  six point six percent year on year but  earnings per share only up 2.4 percent  year on year so that means that what the  market is saying is that these guys  never increased Revenue but slightly  lower earnings then if you look at  Google which is much worse they're  talking about increased revenue of 8.6  but the profitability down 10 you're on  year and the same thing for Microsoft so  up 10 on Revenue but only one point  eight percent on earnings per share so  you can see there's a common theme here  where the guys are saying look we expect  you to get revenues up and that's  because of inflation but we don't expect  you to be more profitable  um so massive earnings week this week  um  you remember that it's all about  expectations it's not about what you  actually report but it's what you report  relative to expectations because if it  was about what you actually reported  this is what people have actually  reported now if you look at the earnings  per share quarter on quarter all of  these companies have reported negative  earnings per share quote-unquote but it  hasn't moved uh their stock prices and  that's because they declared this and  because the markets actually  um are preparing for this in fact the  market  right now is as I said I'm not looking  at consumer confidence because I know  consumer confidence is an old-time short  an all-time low Market confidence is an  all-time low you've got fear and greed  down uh fear and greed down you've got  um uh the number of puts so if you look  at the puts remember essentially put to  tell you how many people are short how  many people are are  um uh bearish on the market we're now at  at  um higher levels of puts than in 2000  and 2009 so this is in this Century this  is the highest level of shorts and puts  that are open on the market now in terms  of the bear Market  so where are we when it comes to Bear  markets from a duration point of view  this bear Market's actually in like  almost a year old so it's 284 days old  in fact it's it's the crypto bear Market  is almost coming up for its one year  anniversary  and if you look at the drawdown well the  drawdown's only 25.4 so there could be a  way to go if we're going to be uh um uh  relative to to to other markets it's  also the first year well not the first  year there's been one two three four  other times in history or in in in in  modern years research since the 1900s  where you've had both stocks and bonds  done on the same year so look at this so  you've got both stocks and bonds done  you got the 60 40 portfolio down 20 this  year and that's unprecedented except for  1931 after the Great Depression so it's  unprecedented other than the Great  Depression so just to give an idea of  this the spare Market that we're in it's  no this is not a bear market for this is  a serious serious serious bear Market  um so that's earnings this week the next  big thing that we've got this week is we  got  um we have the US GDP data and you've  got a uh PC so the pce numbers a  personal consumption expenditure numbers  these are quite important numbers and  the reason why these numbers are quite  important is because this is what the  FED uses to measure as their as their  more reliable rate of inflation last  time we forecast this to be 6.2 percent  and we came in at 6.4 percent now the  forecast is the same it's at six point  two percent  but I've got a feeling that's coming in  at six point three percent all the stuff  that I've been reading says that it's  coming in at 6.3 if we get high pce  inflation well then you know again the  markets are going to react pretty badly  because you have an fomc meeting at the  end of the month and then chances are  people are expecting pal to lift  interest rates by 75 basis points now  and then 50 basis points to the next  meeting and then maybe even 25 basis  points at the meetings off that but if  we don't get the pce uh if the if the  pce numbers come in and show that it's  inflation isn't yet uh where it's  supposed to be then it's going to get  even worse  um and then lastly this week you got the  GDP numbers  so remember the GDP numbers show the U.S  GDP growth we've had two consecutive  quarters of negative GDP growth so  negative 0.6 and negative 0.6 and now we  are looking to see what what the next uh  for the next is and the forecast is a  2.4 percent increase in GDP I don't  really believe it but I mean if you read  the data the data says that well not 2.9  percent uh increase in GDP  um I want I wonder I wonder if we do  snap out of this if we're no longer in  recession so let's see let's see what  that is  um  cool so that's that let's talk about  um  I bought Chinese stocks today big sale  yeah big sale big sale big sale  okay  um  I'm gonna look at the Dixie and hope  that the Dixie stays under this Parabola  um and one of the things that brought  the Dixie Down Below this Parabola was  the intervention by the Japanese Central  Bank which happened on Friday see over  here they intervened I'll take it to the  one-hour charts it makes a lot easier  and you can see here that they intervene  now how do they intervene what they do  is they have dollars and they put more  dollars in the market and they take  Japanese Yen out the market and that's  what they did they intervened on Friday  they spent about 20 billion dollars to  reduce the currency from about 151 all  the way down to about 145. problem is  that we're only on Monday and we're back  at 149 so it's almost like the market  doesn't respond to these interventions  and if you look at the previous  intervention let me try and find it for  you guys here's the previous  intervention here which happened at the  level of 145 and  they intervened and you can see that  within a couple days we were back at the  same levels in fact within about two  three weeks we were back at the same  levels and to make matters worse the  economic Minister of Japan has handed in  Israel his resignation so just to make  matters worse it's not it's not looking  good but the bank of Japan does have 1.5  trillion dollars to defend the Japanese  Yen so they can continue to do this 300  times if they need to to get stability  and they vowed that what they're going  to do is they're going to continue to do  this until they get uh stability the  other thing that moves the Dixie is the  pound  and you can see that there was some  action on the pound there was a lot of  action on the pound earlier today when  Boris Johnson said that he's out of the  rush and now there's I think this this  Rishi what's his name Rishi  the news there's a new  super issue they call him well you guys  are calling him in the chat he's the the  new he's probably going to be the new  prime minister of the UK so let's keep  our eyes open for that all right let's  talk about  um  ethereum the big story around ethereum  and what we've seen around ethereum is  we've seen an indicator flashing green I  want to talk about what the indicator  means not only to ethereum but also to a  lot of um Rishi sunak that's his name  today  so  let's look at ethereum and what's going  on in ethereum and why we decided to  make a show in ethereum and this  indicator that flash green on ethereum  and that indicator  for ethereum is  the eth supply chain since merge so  we're almost almost at a point since the  merge where eth has become deflationary  so you can see that as soon as we go  below this line ethers become  deflationary and that's a big difference  as to if we were in proof of work so  remember that the total East Supply  change has been an increase in Supply by  2078 ethereum since the merge but if you  if we were on proof of work we would  have put another 467 600 and four Ethans  into into the supply but because of the  changed emissions in other words the  slower emissions  uh on ethereum plus the eip1559 which  burns 75 of the gas used in every single  transaction we're not at a point where  we're almost almost deflation in  ethereum and this is a big a big feat  because it's not like a bull market  where you've got a whole lot of  transactions this is happening in in the  midst of a bear market now what's  driving this  mean coins a whole lot of different meme  coins on ethereum are driving this  doesn't really matter what's driving  what what it shows is that as soon as  the usage on ethereum goes up even a  little bit and the gas fees in fact like  look at this now if the gas fees go over  15 gray okay so right now when we look  at the gas fees the gas fees and if you  want to look at your own gas fees it's  etherscan.io forward slash gas tracker  so  right now the average East transaction  is using 23 gray anytime that this goes  above 15 gray we are on course to become  deflationary so right now if this  carries on in terms of usage we are on  course to become deflationary uh which  is amazing it's the first time that it's  happened to ethereum since the merge and  hopefully from that point on as ethereum  usage continues to grow then the the  East will actually be deflationary on  top of that what I saw today was I saw  that  polygon passes ethereum in weakly active  users third consecutive all-time high so  polygon not only from a price point of  view because if you look at the polygon  price let's actually quickly get the  polygon price yeah  can't call it polygon to me automatic  it'll always be magic I know to some  people it's polygon but to me it's magic  um so you can see that  first of all there's been a 3X in this  price but it's also held this price uh  pretty well all the way since the 26th  of July and that's because of an amazing  Business Development effort by by the  Matic team and what you can see is that  it's starting to really really pay off  so you've got weekly active users uh  2.27 million plus 45.7 percent uh  transactions absolutely percent Revenue  up 196 and what this this is showing you  is that ethereum is becoming a  settlement layer and the layer twos are  becoming where the processing is  actually taking place and that's what's  going to make ethereum so powerful is  that you're going to have all these  ethereum layer twos arbitrim optimism  you name them and then you've got or  Matic Etc and then you've got ethereum  is almost like the settlement layer and  so when you put those all together it is  true that these will probably do a  hundred thousand transactions per second  and then if that's the case  then you've got to ask yourself a very  serious question what is the point of  investing in any other layer one  protocol and that's what Arthur Hayes  and I discussed when I when I in the  interview go and listen to interview  with Arthur Hayes because  in his View  it should be Bitcoin and ethereum and  nothing else I'm not going to tell you  why you should go and listen to  interview anyway so  um that's what's happening with Matic uh  just to give an idea of how impressive  the the their um uh growth is uh the  consistency so it just keeps growing and  growing and growing if you compare it to  other chains so if you look at other  chains uh medic was up 45.7 this week uh  arbitrim negative 12.8 avax then this  negative 12.8 is purely because of GMX  and the reduced volatility and the  reduced uh fees on on  um on arbitrim  um  and you look at all the other ones you  can kind of see this is really really  really impressive uh fromatic so yeah  that's that's one of the big things also  Reddit users have opened 2.5 million  crypto wallets after launch of the nft  marketplace so that's that's huge  another 2.5 million crypto users uh  added to to the market  cool so that's that uh there are a  couple of other things  and if you guys saw this  Kathy Wood has admitted that she bought  a whole lot of Bitcoin she bought a  hundred thousand dollars worth of  bitcoin at 250 and she's still sitting  on them  uh which has made us very happy but he  um  your question again I lost that dude  what was your moment where you realized  so I I put  I don't think I've ever disclosed this  before but I put a hundred thousand  dollars in 250 yeah I don't have any  Bitcoin that is uh is that 400 Bitcoin  I don't even know and I wasn't counting  at the time but but uh and I've kept it  all but because as soon as he said that  the leaders  couldn't do it with the fund because  we had to find a security  and so this thing called gbtc which  everybody knows now is grayscale Bitcoin  Investment Trust  um that had the one-year holding period  and they were just cycling through that  so this is the rules of your fund means  you can't yes its can only own  Securities and so we had to find one and  we found Grace grayscale actually the it  grayscale was one uh poor Catholic  because when she started buying  grayscale gresco had a premium and now  that same premium is turned into discard  so she's had a she's had it pretty rough  she's had it pretty rough  um I don't know if you guys saw it on  the weekend that we had a huge pump from  Aptos so I mean it was it wasn't an  unpredictable pump we could have  expected this pump because you're going  to get the airdrop everyone's going to  dampen the airdrop and then what's gonna  happen is everybody's going to start  buying Aptos again and the market makers  are going to come into the market once  the setting pressure's gone  um we got huge volume on apples and if  you were a market maker and you wanted  to manipulate the price of Aptos to make  the VCS uh um happier what would you do  you wait for the weekend when there's  low liquidity and that's exactly what  they did they waited for the weekend  they pumped the price of Aptos you can  see though  that the trading volume on Aptos was  huge so what you can see is that the  trading volume on Aptos was bigger than  the trading volume on bitcoin and the  trading volume on um on on ethereum and  that's on by but interesting the same  thing happened on FTX so on FTX uh you  look at the the trading volume on on  Aptos 526 million versus ethereum and  Bitcoin much less net but also  interesting when you look at that is you  can see how much bigger vibrate is than  FTX everyone thinks that FTX is like one  of the biggest derivatives exchange and  it's not private is a much much bigger  derivatives exchange and to me also a  much better derivative exchange that's  why we put that that's why we've  partnered up with barbit but what you  can see is that while barbit was doing  almost a billion dollars in volume FTX  was doing about half of that why is that  important because of liquidity you want  to be on an exchange that gives you  liquidity so you can exit your trades  pretty easily and that's why it's good  to be part of one of the biggest  exchanges and that Trend I mean  continues in the last 24 hours you've  got  um Finance obviously the king and then  under that I saw okx which is a a  surprise appearance but okay good then  you've got Bible 10.2 percent then  you've got FTX which is which is smaller  than them so yeah that's that's the the  access thing I don't know I mean would  you be buying Aptos now for me as I say  like 10 billion dollar fully diluted  evaluation it means that you're giving  the VCS a 5x return on their last round  before when do you know anybody that's  ever used Aptos Kyle have you ever used  Aptos James have you ever used Aptos run  have you ever used Aptos nope I don't  even ever used Aptos  I know anyone that's ever used Aptos  um what else what else is there today  Sam bankman freeze had an interesting  few days I mean that's I don't know if  you guys saw my my rant with bit boy on  Saturday but she's gone you should go  and look at it but I see I think he  feels like he got unexpectedly attacked  around this regulation and he's thanked  everybody for all their contributions  and whatever else except but boy of  course uh and Bitcoin is not leaving him  alone because now there's been a an  exploit around the three Commerce API  which is an API that plugs into a piece  of trading software and a whole lot of  people who apparently hacked and  apparently it's been happening since the  18th so bit Boy again jumping attacking  Sam bankman freed Thursday should really  get room they should really really good  room all right I did tell you  that I'm going to show you a token that  I've added to my portfolio in size I'm  gonna say it's becoming it's become one  of the the I won't say the top Holdings  in my portfolio but something  one of the biggest and the reason why  I've started to stock up on it or the  token that I've started stock up on is  gains Network so this is gains Network  this is G trade g-trade is a  decentralized derivatives platform so  it's like buy bit and it's like bitkit  and it's like all those other exchanges  like uh GMX  um but uh and it's decentralized it's  like Barbara and FTX but it's it's  decentralized now what this allows you  to do is the largest you trade a whole  lot of different assets including Forex  uh and I think there's about ten  thousand is am I right they're saying  there's about 10 000 different pairs  um  let's have a look here so  um so yeah you can trade up to 10 Forex  pairs with up to a thousand X leverage  and what I'm seeing here is I'm seeing  two things grow I'm seeing hey I'm  seeing the user their user number grows  now they're very very very very early in  their user numbers when you look at  their user numbers they're active  Traders now now this is not the total  Traders it's the active Traders is about  7 000 Traders how does that compare with  say a GMX well GMX has got about 117  000 Traders I'm not sure how many of  those are active  um these guys have got about 7 000  active Traders uh the trade volume about  41 million dollars  um that their total value locked was I  think about 12 12 million or 13 million  dollars but they are growing and they're  growing super fast now the reason why I  like this one is if you look at  their market cap their fully diluted  market cap because I think under 100  million dollars  so it's 94 million dollars that's their  fully diluted Market where if you look  at a GMX it's about 500 million dollars  so let's quickly look at GMX I think  their fully diluted is about half a  billion dollars so 481 billion a million  dollars which to me I took a little bit  of a bet because sentiment is right now  on the side of of Gaines Network and I  think it's just about to take off and  that's why I I filled up my my portfolio  with some gains networks I just thought  I'd let you guys know it's not Financial  advice but if you want to follow that's  that's what I've been doing  all right what else is there they are  one or two other things  um this is interesting uh B USD Supply  is topping 20 billion this month for the  first time ever and you know busd was  never a real competitor for the stable  coin Market it was always like usdt and  usdc but it does seem now that cz's done  all the right steps and one of the right  steps was he he removed the usdc trading  pairs on binance and that of course made  be USD stronger so you should be  watching busd obviously you wouldn't be  buying busd but you know it's becoming  one of those stable coins that's  probably worth holding so yeah uh then  Dylan declare says that there are some  rumors of some big name miners in  trouble because the hash rates are high  and if you know the hash rates are  higher hash rates are now an all-time  highs and that means that it's harder to  mine Bitcoin you need to spend more  money on miners to mind Bitcoin if you  do need to do that well then it means  that it becomes more unprofitable for  the miners to mine Bitcoin so you're  getting rate pressure you're getting  hash rate pressure  Etc so maybe we'll get some minor  capitulations who knows  and then lastly Kanye West was  approached uh or asked around Bitcoin I  think he said the right thing he said I  just don't know enough  they get papers  y'all making sure but as far as Bitcoin  I'm just not knowledgeable enough to  speak on that subject of course  so I mean I think a good a good response  I mean we should probably talk for a few  seconds around Kanye West because I mean  he's been canceled his his deals are  being canceled Balenciaga have now uh uh  said that they they stepping away from  him his accounts have been closed JP  Morgan all for making anti-semitic  statements not you know what I'm I'm not  for anyone making any interracial or  anti-racial or anti-semitic statements  and as a Jew I should be very very  sensitive to say like that but it just  shows you how quickly you can be  canceled the more famous you are the  easier it is for people to attack you  it's almost like a an attack when  everyone just jumps in and poor guy poor  Kanye must be having a really tough time  um cool I think that's it for today I  remember that we are going to extend the  trading competition so if you have an  integer inter join us I think it's going  to be fun okay I'm sliding down which  means that the Market's actually coming  down it's  let's see  I'm not actually coming down so much  okay look Intel buy but intern bitkit  tomorrow I'll do funding of some  accounts  um I'll do some funding of some cards I  may actually put a trade in on bitkit  because I made a mistake on buy but I  think I won't make the same mistake on  bitkit so join you can join us once you  can join us twice we're going to extend  it to the end of November which gives  anybody that um is uh um anybody that  enters now gives you guys a good chance  to catch up to people like Sheldon and  Kyle and all the other djinns who have  managed to I mean this is this is  excellent just shows you how good some  of the Traders are in our community  473.65 now this guy could win ten  thousand dollars  if what  if he doesn't do anything see now this  is where it becomes interesting the  strategy here is just don't do anything  don't do anything bro  that's the way to do it just don't do  anything  yeah  I don't think so I think we didn't get  sales into the last time did we maybe  yeah two weeks is not enough we'll  extend it till the end of October I'll  let Barbara and Burkett know you guys  sign up I see there's a  1187 people sign up on this one and  probably the same one on bitkit  um yeah help us get the numbers up the  more people that enter the more people  that win the more money we all win all  right guys I'll see you guys again  tomorrow until then have fun and trade  well my friends hopefully tomorrow we  get some volatility  [Music]  foreign