Yes, we are very sorry for that small technical hitch right there But we are back as I said with the main man himself in who's a content creator And he has an interest in the motorsport industry in this country right now is here to share his story with us And now we got to this point that he is Karibusana Mr. Ian for the second time all right, so Just introduce yourself another time just in case somebody's joining us right now, okay My name is Ian Kiyama Some of you know me as Ian Ashie and I'm a content creator a youtuber And I mostly talk about the motorcycling industry that's there So yeah, mostly I do I talk about the events. I vlog about the events that are there the motorcycle races Especially with the superbikes there. Yeah, but I'm also planning this year to delve into Knowing about more about the radars that are in Kenya. Yes All right, so there's a there's a whole community of bikers. Yes. Can we find them on Facebook or in social media? Definitely. They are there. I think it's just that Probably not many people know about them. It's it's quite big. Just the other day on Sunday There's a group of riders who Who did a ride from Nairobi all the way to Namanga Namanga Tanzanian border And there are quite many I bet those guys who are following a number of radars. They they have seen they've seen the videos that are there All right, they are from did you did you were you part of this movement? Did you manage to get some documentation or some footage? I actually know I Was unable to but yeah, simply because I do not read myself. You don't write yourself. Yes but you're just interested in this and Every industry needs the person who's going to talk about them the person who's going to put them out there It needs their riders themselves. So it's a you need to coexist in the industry as much. All right But do you know how to ride a bike yourself? Yeah, I actually know how to ride. Yeah, it's just that I'm well It's it's quite an investment to own a bike and they and they gear and actually also the Maintenance of the motorcycles. Yeah, so because I'm actually a student. So of course You the vision is to own a bike someday exactly as you create this content around the bikers All right. So when did you first get interested in this? At first I was so interested in the bikes, you know, I've seen seeing the pictures the music videos With motorcycles. Yeah, I didn't get the chance to actually interact with some of the riders Or even getting close to a bike when I was younger until like I was done with high school And a friend of mine has a cousin who also rides shout out to a do the chef. So, yeah A friend of mine called newt took me to an event. That's actually in Kenya It was a rest. It was a road race in Ruiro. Those who know exit 12 Yeah, so from there. I knew yeah Finally, I am close to bikes and I think More people need to know about this Family that's in Kenya. Okay. So the first time What was the first event the biking of the first biking event that you ever went the first event? I was around in 2017 around September it was a road race organized by the road warriors Yeah, so it was actually I think it was a truck running from academia all the way to near Kimbo. So, yeah It was actually wow the speed. I mean the speed is so amazing and the sound of the bikes Can you handle the speed yourself? Actually, actually it's advised that you should start on a smaller bike from 100cc to around 300cc motorcycle so that you are able to understand and have a feel of what speed is like on two wheels And yeah, because it's it's it's handling a machine. It's something else You can handle yourself on a motorcycle because it's lighter So you just have to handle your weight, but on a motorcycle. It's a machine There's an engine under you and you need to know how to control it Then you can advance to 600cc motorcycles to a thousand up to 1300 1400cc motorcycles seem to be very prepared for your bike again. Yes Alright, so when people think motorsport when people think biking they think It's for the rich people that is the stereotype. It's not a spot for for the sufferers like us What would you say about this? Do we need money to enjoy motorsports? Of course, you need money, but some money is still good because There are motorcycles that are going up to 100,000 Brand new but Sana-Sana is mostly they then do this the Buddha Buddha kahwida motorcycles and But I'm sure it takes dedication time patience for you to really want to Get into that Family because it's it's it's it's more of a passion Like I know of a rider who says he's a doctor by profession and a rider by passion So yeah, it's a passion for so many people. Yes, all right.  Yes, and You've seen what publicity has done to different sports different kinds of sports We've seen how big the primitive is across the world. This is Because of publicity exactly So what do you think is the role of journalism students like your journal or journalists in this country in Growing the sports industry in this country? One thing I think I think most journalism schools teach that you should research And you should get go out there get a story. That's worth Watching or listening to so for me for me actually my YouTube channel came as a result of a school project From a video production class who are told to go do what go out do a documentary of about anything you want So it was a 30-minute documentary. So I think How that channel the project did is has really Come to my realization that really the media or Media houses that are out there should come and see the spots The various spots that are out there because I can tell you in Kenya They are very talented motorcycle racers Like we have a track in the river It's called whistling morons and the riders that are there who go to race or even the road races that are there in Ruiro by road warriors and superbike association of Kenya They went some of the riders went to South Africa. I can tell you some of the riders went to South Africa it was around November and They scooped seven trophies. You can imagine they conquered a foreign land Kenyans conquered a foreign Yes, without any form of formal training they do train they have trained they are qualified trainers in Kenya and Yeah, through that through that platform the events that are there And they have been able to put the word out there reached out to South Africans who are there and they went to Red the raceway truck. That's in I think it's in Joe bug and they won and they came back with seven trophies And I think people should know about this All right Yeah, so it's the role of the media to I like these stories exactly All right, so do you think the growth of the sports industry in Kenya is Directly tied to to the media mainstream and social definitely because the work of the media is to inform other than to entertain All right. Yes, so the Sports can only grow if the media come into it as well Yeah, they need to put that the word out there You can see what happened with the Kenya morons the basketball team and yeah Also like the volleyball team if their stories are put out there. Yeah People like investors will find the time they will definitely find the time If the sport has fun base and people can actually pay to go to those events Then definitely the investors can come the reason I ask is Because I'd like to know your vision with this a YouTube channel and the vision with this kind of content that you're creating because It's not the most popular Type of content Kenyans are going to look for me. So what is the what is the vision really? My my my vision for the channel is just true. It's just about the motorcycle. It's not just about The motorcycle racing it's all as the channel the title of the channel is life on a motorcycle So it's just about mostly about knowing the the riders that are out there, you know, you know, it's not It's not the Kawaiida border border guys that are there who do not wear who do not wear the proper gear Yeah, for example, I have a t-shirt here that I printed Last year. It's it's it's written always wear protection with the helmet So it's just what was that meant to mean what what it says Actually that exactly that all right protection because right many riders Don't motorcycle riders lose their lives from this Even different counties you hear of a hospital that has a dedicated word for just border border Accidents. Yeah. So these are some of the things you're trying as much as you you're highlighting this spot You're also trying to advocate for safety to advocate for safety. Yes. All right. All right I feel that that is really amazing what you're doing right there Please remind them how they can find you on social media as we learn some of the video content Content that you created of this spot. You come raise number four. Okay So you can follow me on social media on on Instagram ashy underscore Ian That's ashy underscore Ian and on Facebook. You can follow me at Ian ashy So yeah, and if you're watching this something is about to go down something is about to go down Do you have any dates for us or? Dating our calendars, sir. I think there is a there's a calendar events that has been released by the Superbike Association Ren who have tournaments the ESBC so different riders who Majorly race on trucks on the track for example right now They are they are doing the races and whistling runs. That's in at the river So I think the next event is in March the next event is a much Not really it's around 7th around 7th much. Yes, but there's also another event probably in February All right. Yeah, so well, I'd like to know what is the speed limit for bikes? Okay, we definitely On a normal day on a normal day because I see some of these superbike has a very notorious Now you see them now you don't now you can hear them now. You can't hear them I think most riders will average probably a hundred KPH Yeah, but of course, they need to do this safely On on clear roads and yeah, but they do follow the rules. They do follow I can tell you that they are they are they are low abiding Riders out there. They're low abiding because some of these bikes really go fast up to 300 KPH So yeah, but they only do this on safer roads. All right I see we have something already on our screen right there. There is some content from your YouTube channel Please remind them your YouTube channel before we can get to see the video So my channel is life on a motorcycle Ian Ashie You can just type Ian Ashie on YouTube and you'll see the helmet icon there All right, so we bring you Ian Ashie's content live on TV So get a taste of what Ian Ashie does on his YouTube channel before we can carry on with this right there This new year, I would like to do things a little different Guys, if you're watching this something You can find more for his YouTube channel at Ian Ashie have you're going to line up another video as well But maybe you can tell me what was going on in this video right here This this video specifically was a preview of the events in 2019. So it was a way of I just Don't remember lane. I do just going down memory lane of the of the different events different people have interacted with different riders Even the friends that I come along with that those events and they my friends really enjoy Enjoy this event. I feel that being someone who's interacted with guys in this industry guys in sport What are some of the changes they'll tell you they? They face as as bikers in Nairobi in Kenya Okay, mostly it's about it's about the road safety and Some riders are not are not They are not observant. They're not keen on the roads They don't know that a rider is coming through. So that's why actually you'll find the The loud exhaust that are there with the bikes and so that people know that they are passing by Yeah Some challenges that they face as bikers in this because this is not This is not a textbook sports. It's not a sport that people are used to in this country So what are some of the challenges they tell you they face? races I think Mostly it's about Resource so some of these riders really have to put in a lot of money when they go for some of these races I spoke to one of the riders and he told me that he put about over over 100,000 just before the race For to get the bike ready for the race because you'll find some of these riders are they don't race because of because of many of the funds and also the truck and no more a normal track circuit Goes for more than four kilometers But in Kenya right now, for example, this is whistling whistling moran's track and it goes for around Slightly more than one kilometer. So you find that They don't really want they can't really push the way they would like to as the Yeah And the course that come with the racing is also another problem. So sponsorship is is is key They need some sponsorship for sure that they'll tell you and Infrastructure the infrastructure is also another important thing that needs to be looked into. All right, wonderful. And What is one thing you can say the motorspot or the the bikers can improve on themselves? Mm-hmm as an observer somebody who's not biking yet. Okay, I think I think some of the bikers really need to know how to you know limit the exhaust Because actually the guy the guy who did who who features in my intros for the channel He writes a Kawasaki Ninja 250 250 R. It's a 250 CC bike, but he put a loud exhaust Alphonse, I'm so sorry But it used to be loud like even Yeah, but it's it's okay, but the presence is very important. The presence is very important Especially when it comes to the road And I'd like people to understand those guys in the estates. Sometimes they let the loud exhausts come in Handy on the road. It may not come. It may not be pleasing to the ear in the house But on the road, it's very important for the rider. All right. How important though please expand As I told you so that people know you're coming exactly and they don't have to be hit because actually I can tell you There is one rider we lost Because me so dress in peace It's because it's it's it's It's quite Sad that up to now some of these things are avoidable. They are avoidable But still there are less riders out there. All right, we are running out of time but I like what you're doing about Promoting road safety when it comes to biking and the fact that you're trying to highlight this particular spot That is not so popular in this country But you're trying to vouch for it and push it to the max before you leave I'd like you to answer one question that we have on Facebook Which is do you shop do you prefer shopping at her at a mall or at the local duke in your in your in your store? I'd say it depends it depends with what you're looking for the things you'll find in the mall And others you need to find in your local duke. All right, so it's all It's all it's a case of it depends for even when it comes to motorcycle parts Some people prefer going to the physical shop so that they see that the good the the goods for themselves Or they even shop online all right like on eBay Somewhere else so as for you something that suits the need that you have at that particular moment exactly is what you'll go for you Can't go buy your normal breakfast in a mall. All right Wrap this up for me tell them at your social media handles how they can find you and how they can find more content from you So first of all, I'd like to thank the riders that are there Thank you for supporting me those guys who follow me on social media. Thank you for putting the word out there Thank you for sharing The experience of of the different traders that we have I can tell you more things coming for 2020 I call it a project 2020 and yeah for more follow me on Instagram Ashie underscore Ian that's as h y with a underscore Ian and on Facebook Ian Ashie Something is about to go down something is about to go down for sure On Ian's YouTube channel on and for the bikers and something is about to go down on my to fight for as well So we'll take a short break then we'll be back with some more of wine the morning don't go no I don't take that out


Hello everyone my name is Jon Hammond and welcome back to another video showcasing more of the all-army cyber stakes or ACI CTF. So let's dive in. I want to be finishing up some of the harder more difficult challenges so I'm going to scroll down to the bottom of my solve filter and I want to take a look at this sharing is caring challenge. The time recording it has about 250 points worth and 147 people have solved it. It's Friday competition ends on Sunday so they might get a few more solves in. It says hey challenger I know you're putting together that Veterans Day presentation here's all the US service seals straight from Wikipedia. I think you'll only need four of them to get the points across more than that is just excessive but it's up to you. So we're given a file to download and I will hop into our directory to work with some of the stuff. I'll make your sharing is caring hop over there and let's W get that file down. Okay so while that's downloading I am transparent about hey I'm gonna check the hints I want to know what this challenge is really getting at it helps our learning it helps my learning I hope it helps your learning. I don't think there's any shame in taking hints when that's what it's all about it's all about education and all that so research split scheme split secret schemes four out of the five secrets are required. Okay so before we go down the rabbit hole of researching and learning let me go ahead and actually unzip this so tarxzf and we looks like we have images here we have one two three four five so five images and we can take a look at what these are part of the air force part of the army nice coast guard yeah URA and Navy and Marine Corps okay cool so all the service seals that they mentioned no space force what the heck come on where's space force in here so let's do some regular file reconnaissance if I just run strings in the first image I see this weird guy this one long line one and then a bunch of numbers so I'll take that I think let's actually make some notes let me suble a little read me file just above here and I'll grab that first secret or whatever that is and put it in there we can do the same on two but I don't see anything extremely interesting in that right off the bat so let's try it on three that has the third one in here okay steal that just as well and let's do it for also four still nothing all right how about five looks like five has it as well okay so we're missing two and four we can do some more file reconnaissance I'll just run exit tool on two okay it looks like it sees it there in the artist metadata tab so let me steal that slap that in I'll make some new lines here and let's try that also on four looks like that works okay he's also in the artist section there okay so we have all these secrets we have five of them it says we only need four interestingly enough but what do I do with these what actually is split secret schemes so if I google this schemes what is secret splitting some information on wikipedia shamir secret sharing secret splitting also called secret sharing enables you to split a secret across into different shares and give the share and custody of multiple persons without disclosing the secret itself okay that's the idea sounds a little bit more like crypto than to me than forensics but oh okay they do a little implementation inside here random key is subtracted digit by digit without carry from the number combination this guy oh computer data they're using xor hmm secret sharing also called secret splitting refers to methods for distributing a secret among a group of participants each of whom is allocated a share of the secret secret can be reconstructed when only a sufficient number or possibly different types of shares are combined together individual shares of no use on their own well we have all the shares we have all the pieces of this thing secure versus insecure secret sharing oh that's probably interesting secure secret sharing scheme oh lots of s's distribute shares so that anyone with fewer than t shares has no more information about the secret than someone with zero shares consider for the password consider for example the secret sharing scheme which the secret phrase password is a vital the shares pa ss w o r d huh okay well we have all the shares so what do we do with this shamir's secret sharing shamir's secret sharing is an algorithm in cryptography yeah is that what we need shamir's is there anything that does that shamir's secret sharing s s s is that a tool how do i learn that let's look for github sss shamir secret sharing secret sharing shamir a java implementation of it is that what is that oh that's like a whole library i don't know if i want to deal with that also secret sharing doing the same thing maybe just secret sharing github block stock secret sharing is that the one that i was just in oh no okay that's a that's a little python library oh it looks like they use the same sort of thing that we use from secret sharing import plain text hex secret sharer what else is there well if we have the python library maybe be that will behave library for sharding and sharing secrets okay it just needs pip so let's try that pip install secret sharing um okay i've got it does it work i don't know if it's python 2 or python 3 not gonna lie pi pi v2 well we can try it they use secret sharer and those are hex but our numbers are in like decimal they're like straight integers base 64 base 32 raw integers okay splitting into shares from secret sharing import secret insta point well can i run that just on its own can i let's move out of here let's do a subtle um ape dot pi let's grab all of these in here let's critish little shebang line and i'll shrink this down so it's at least sane to read i'm gonna remove these new lines so i can make each of these a list element there we go i just use control shift and control shift l to make multiple cursors and then i align them with the home key or the end key and then i can modify as i need to on across multiple lines so i like that a lot in sublime text okay let's try and import secret sharing and they use secret int to points to go ahead and make the share and they use points to secret int to get recover the secret so from secret sharing import points to secret int it looks like their original secret okay and they're using l here so that makes me think it's python 2 i'm gonna have to use python 2 i guess we'll try it we'll try it in three but we'll see what it does even if i even run that will that work python 3 ape nope it winds about the long data type so that's totally a python 2 gimmick fine fine i'll just use python 2 their syntax is they have a secret and they use secret int to point and that returns a list of tuples of all of the secrets as their integers and their long form the l so what i'll do is i'll do for i and s in oh we should make this actually a shares list here and then let's expand that a bit for is in a numerator of shares we will have a uh their version list name i guess so their version will append in a tuple of index plus one because it's going to be it's going to count in zero based but i want it in numbers one two three four five uh and we will grab the integer form of s so that's the actual share value but i want to carve out the one hyphen two hyphen etc so i'll slice from two forward and now let's verify that our little their version variable we'll have to run it with python 2 as usual because that module isn't working in that python 3 mode okay now we have the correct data points that we want and it looks like we can just give those to that points to secret int uh function here so let's say uh secret equals points secret int on their version and let's print out our secret what do we have here whatever that is okay let's try and convert that uh i like this really trick this nice convenience thing from crypto utl number it has a bytes to long and a long to bytes so if you have a like long integer or just an integer or a number to begin with you can convert it into what would be its ascii representation or in the bytes so let's use long to bytes on that so i will be able to long two bytes secret and that should roll right through it awesome cool okay so i hadn't heard of shamir secret sharing before um maybe it's just kind of known to have that prefix of one hyphen and the data and then cut it up into different slices or slivers of the secret or different shares right but that's that that is that challenge uh not that hard i guess kind of once you identify it and know what to do with it with some of the tools but the fact that python can do it is pretty slick we should see what we can do to get this module converted to python 3 because i know python 2 is dead and the internet gets really angry at me when i use python 2 so here we go that's that challenge i hope you guys enjoyed this video if you did please do press that like button leave a comment i'd love it i'd appreciate it subscribe hit the bell do the things that the youtube algorithm needs thank you thank you thank you i'd love to see you guys on patreon if you're willing to help support and donate thank you so much i cannot say that enough paypal if you just like a one-time thing link in the description also i'd love to see you in the discord server link in the description linked in facebook twitter instagram i don't know it just it'd be great to see you and thank you thank you thank you so much for your support all right hope to do more of these coming at you thanks so much guys take care


Students from schools island-wide will get an opportunity to learn about the life of St. Lucien Botham Jean. The Botham Jean Foundation is screening a two-hour documentary by Discovery Channel entitled The Ballad of Botham. The film provides a chronology of the life and death of Botham Jean, as well as the trial of a former police officer, Amber Geiger, who was convicted of his killing. Chief Education Officer Dr. Fiona Philip-Meyer says, a corporate citizen who believes that the film should be viewed by students in St. Lucia has made the provisions. We are honored that the foundation and the director of the foundation, that being Mrs. Alison Jean, has invited our students and more so a corporate citizen has found it necessary to speak to the importance of ensuring that his legacy remains significant in the minds and hearts of our children. And so this Friday, our from fives and from fours are invited alongside their teachers and we've targeted every single secondary school, including our private ones, so that the students get an opportunity to view that documentary free of cost, a slight snack we provided for them, and in addition to that the corporate citizen has agreed to pay transportation for every single school on island. And so as a Department of Education, we are very, very pleased to support this program and to ensure that our students do not forget who Botham Jean was, the impact that his life has had, and as the International Committee celebrates him, so much that the U.S. has named an avenue after him that we at St. Lucia recognize his legacy, St. Lucia as a whole, but more so we give honor to him as an individual and we support his family likewise. Dr. Meyer, who has watched The Ballad of Botham, says the documentary film is impactful. There's really about the pain and suffering that was caused, but more so the resilience of the family and the overwhelming love that we saw of Mr. Jean for his family, for his nation, St. Lucia. And so it is for us to rally round our own, you know, very often we look at it from a distance, but it is to say how best can we as St. Lucia appreciate that something has happened which we would pray never happens to any other family, but out of this, what can we gain from it, what lessons are to be learned, what knowledge, and what kind of attitude do we want our young people to have in terms of being resilient even in the face of such, you know, a horrendous act and tragedy, but coming out of it and saying how can we be better individuals, better humans.


Often, you can see whether or not a population has undergone evolution by acknowledging the five assumptions of Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. For a population to be in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, these are the conditions that must be met. Number one, you must have a large population. Number two, mating must be random. Number three, no migration into or out of the population, also known as gene flow. Number four, no natural selection. And number five, no mutations can occur. A helpful technique to memorize these assumptions is to use this acronym, large random M&Ms. The large is for large population, random is for random mating, and for the next three, you put no in front of them. So no migration, no natural selection, and no mutations. If all five assumptions have been met, evolution is not occurring, and the allele and genotype frequencies will remain unchanged over time. Thus, the population is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. If any of these assumptions have been violated, the population is evolving. Thus, the population is not in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium.


Welcome everyone. Today we're talking about Stemtastic Science Learning with CESA. I'm Angela from the CESA team and I'm so thrilled to have Rachel here with us today. She has so many slides and so many great things to show you that will really help you out in your classroom. So welcome Rachel. So excited to have you here. Thank you, Angela. I'm really excited to be here and I just want to give a shout out to you for anyone that's up really early or staying up really late to listen. I really appreciate the support and I'm excited to show you what I'm doing with CESA in my science classroom. So for those of you that are on Twitter, I've put my Twitter handle here. So I'm at Rachel there on Twitter and I've got the extra A there which is important. So I'm just a bit about myself. I'm a primary science and digital specialist teacher at a primary school in Western Australia, West Beachboro and I'm also a host of primary STEM chat which is a weekly Twitter chat. Probably not a great time for a lot of you there in the US but it's on a Thursday evening here in Australia. So we talk all things STEM on a weekly basis and CESA is often something that comes up too. So now I'm just going to talk tonight really about my science learning and how I'm trying to bring STEM into that and I often think about this and I don't know what you would think when you ask this question but is science learning STEM and I often hear science teachers talking about themselves as STEM teachers. I don't call myself a STEM teacher or a STEM teacher because I don't think necessarily that just because you're doing science that you're doing STEM and I'm going to talk a little bit more about what I think STEM is and how I see it fitting into science classroom because I think sometimes you just are purely doing science. And so my focus over the last few years and with embedding CESA and other technologies in my classroom has to bring a STEM focus into the science learning. So I hope this will make sense to you and please ask questions and if Angela can't answer them I'll try to answer them later. So you would have heard of STEM as an acronym or STEAM with the extra A in there as being science, technology, engineering and maths or you can add the art in there and that's a very common acronym and I like to think of STEM less being about the four subject areas and there's this really nice quote here that I found and it says the overarching theoretical framework for STEM education is integration so it's curriculum integration but this second part is what I really love is a focus on deep learning and engaging students in creative thinking and problem solving through real world learning experiences. So for me it's less about checking that I'm teaching science with technology and I'm bringing in engineering and maths but it's thinking about STEM perhaps like this that it's students thinking and it's students exploring and making and so students are thinking deeply about designing solutions to real world problems and then they're exploring solutions and then they're making. So for me STEM is quite a hands on style of learning in the classroom. So I found this great website if you haven't come across that GE STEM and there's a link here and I love that they talk about STEM here as a culture of learning or a pedagogy rather than a separate content area so that comes back to why I don't call myself a STEM teacher. I embed a STEM learning into my science classroom and that's where I love CSOL because it helps me to do this. Now at my school West Beach Grove I am a science teacher and I'm a digital technology teacher. I have to report on science. I have to report on technologies in the curriculum and so there is no STEM. I don't know in the US but in Australia we don't have a STEM curriculum. It's science and it's technology and it's maths. So I like to embed STEM learning because I want to first of all keep alive the why and that science curiosity, the wonder of children but also to embed those skills and capabilities to help them succeed in the future that I think STEM can do. So that's why my goal is to integrate science with STEM. Now I'm going really fast so like I said just ask questions. Angela may be able to help or I'll talk at the end so I'm happy to ask any questions. I like to think about STEM in terms of this model and this is what I'm going to be looking at tonight with CSOL. There's these seven essential aspects of project-based learning that I think fit really well into STEM learning in a science classroom. So I'm going to talk about how CSOL and other technologies help us do these seven things. This is an image which I've retrieved from this site. I don't know where it came from. I've seen a few others similar images so I apologise if this is your image and I don't really know who designed it but this is the link to where it came from. So the first aspect of this is driving questions and I think that is just the key to both science and to STEM learning. So the questions are questions that are coming from the students about what they want to know about what they want to ask others and also questions that the teacher myself is asking of the students. So you can see here we're looking at activities in CSOL. So I use activities in CSOL to just give the students a chance to ask those burning questions. So whatever our topic is, this one was an example from space where I just want to know what the kids really, really want to know. And another way that I've used CSOL to help drive those questions is by putting links to a padlet and then when we've had a presenter and we were in this fabulous lady came to speak from Homeward Bound which is a program where women go to Antarctica and my students were able to then ask the questions here in this shared platform via CSOL to ask of this presenter and it was a really great way for them to actually articulate what they wanted to know. And driving questions too, when we're doing STEM learning in the class I want to know what the kids think before we do the task. So we've been exploring with making instruments out of cups and so I'll just simply put an activity and the question is just how could you make sounds with cups? So I just find CSOL a great tool to just put a simple question in. The kids can answer those questions really easily in CSOL. We're also making pasta cars at the moment that we're trying to get to roll really well. So in CSOL a question that's going to guide their learning why we're also here with this penguin we're learning about the light and how light travels and refracts and we're using that for different tasks. So again putting questions in that the students can answer and CSOL activities is great for that. Now the other part aspect of this STEM learning I thought that was great was the 21st century skills. Now you might see up to seven of these listed. I'm just going with these four key ones so collaboration, critical thinking, communication and creativity and they have four things I'm trying to really nurture in my science classroom through STEM learning. And if you've had any experience with CSOL you can see that it's a tool that lends itself so well to students working together. I find that they rather than being face down into an iPad not communicating that students are sharing the task together. They're working together. They're talking about things and then when they post their learning their shared learning obviously they can tag one, two or more students. So I find it's a really great tool for capturing the learning of the students in groups and working together. Another thing I think if we think about critical thinking about looking at problems in new ways and linking learning. I love that in CSOL you can first of all articulate these visible thinking routines like this one here. We often do a see, think or wonder. You can make it quite explicit in CSOL activities what you want the kids to do so that you can actually get them to really think deeply about the experience. And I think this activity like a see, think or wonder those kind of visible thinking routines are great in CSOL. And the other thing I like is that they can go back to their prior learning quite easily. They can go to their journal. They can find something from a previous date and then they can go and build on that learning. Everything's kept together and I love how that they can go back to that and then keep thinking forward. Communication. I mean I really can't think of a better tool for enhancing the students abilities to share their thoughts, their questions, ideas and solutions. And if you've had any experience with CSOL you know that there's so many ways for the students to do this. They can share drawings, they can share photos, they can share recordings, they can share videos, they can type, they can link from other apps. And I find that it's such a great tool in the STEM aspect when we're doing STEM learning that some of those kids with the lower levels of literacy but they have really good understandings. They can pick up CSOL and they can add a recording to their work. They can take a video, they can take a photo and it really can help me see that they understand but they maybe couldn't articulate it in a traditional way. So that's communication and I think creativity, CSOL and a whole lot of other apps just allow the students to be innovative. If you're using this as a tool to let the students show what they know creatively. So I've just got here a slide where we don't have very many apps on our iPads, the student iPads. And CSOL is our main app that we use but with CSOL we use these few other apps here. But every app on the iPad has a purpose for the students to create something in a digital format that will show what they know and understand. There are no apps to consume, the apps are to create and to share that they need the CSOL. So everything we do gets shared back to CSOL. Now the third aspect of these seven aspects of project-based learning was that students inquire. And one way that I've used CSOL with this is to put links into the activities. So the students go into the activities but they don't actually complete anything there. I think this is a great way for me to give students some safe places to go to learn the things that they need to do their project. So there's an example here where I've just put a link to a Planet website which was a really great website that was at the right level for the students. And I find it safe rather than the students having to type in a URL and maybe get to the wrong place or to Google search. CSOL gives you a really safe way to give students some information for their inquiry. I do the same with video clips here and also web interactives. So you can link these all in CSOL activities and the students don't necessarily complete anything there. They may but there's also a link to where they can get information to learn. Also when we are inquiring through doing, I find that just creating a simple little template in CSOL gives the students somewhere to go and record. What they're finding from their hands-on investigation and inquiry. So in science classroom it's perfect for doing our experiment write-ups. I create all these little activities. I just use Keynote or even PowerPoint and take a screenshot or save them as a JPEG. And then the students work on these little tables and things. So really maybe it's like a glorified worksheet but I find it helps the students do the work fast. And then they are able to share what they've learned through a hands-on experience in CSOL. Now I love this fourth aspect about students having voice and choice. And I think that through using CSOL and a range of other tools with CSOL, there's a really great way to give students this voice and the choice. I've put links into CSOL for things like Padlet. And so the students can go in here and they can have a choice about how they present the information. And this is the same in CSOL directly. They can type what they've learned. They can show videos. They can add photos. And also they can actually articulate in a shared platform through adding a link to say like this problems I care about. They can articulate that in a shared community. And I find that when you have these shared walls of information, the students feel more accountable for adding quality information because they know other people are going to be seeing it. And I so often in STEM learning and in my science classroom give the students a choice for how they're going to show me what they've learned. So we've been inquiring about electricity and we've been doing a range of tasks towards the end of this unit. It's quite broad and I'll say what can you show about electricity and you can use any of the apps on the iPads and the robots and resources. And then you can see here that students have used Minecraft. They've used Padlet, sorry, Poplet. They've made a keynote. They may have used a robot and filmed it in CSOL. They've used different circuit kits. So they've chosen something that gives them the chance to really show their voice so that they feel comfortable and that they can shine. And then everything that they do then gets shared back to CSOL. So and we find that using Flipgrid and again sharing that back to CSOL is a great way for the students to really have a voice in their learning and to actually talk about what they've done and to share that. So when there's no other way, for example, with some of this scratch coding for them to share it, they can go in here, they can create a video, they can talk about what they've done and then we can put it to CSOL and others can see that. Now, STEM learning, I think, needs to have a foundation into some content. I don't think that it's, in my opinion, it's sensible to send the kids out just without the resources they need to be successful. So I think that it's important that they have science content in my case because I'm a science teacher or the knowledge of how to use a digital tool so that they can build on that and apply it to problem solving in a STEM learning environment. So in CSOL, I find, and I mentioned this a little bit earlier, that you can have links there for resources, a PowerPoint that we've watched that I've saved as a PDF, a link to a video, and students can go to it when they need it. So they're off doing their learning, they're off inquiring, they're off designing, they're off building, but they can go back to CSOL and the activities and find this information at any time so they can find it when they need it. And that's the same thing here with links to other PowerPoints and some websites that we've used and some web interactives. So I use a lot of those and it's great that we may have shared it as a class but the students can go back to that when they need it to enhance their learning. Now, students revising and reflecting and if I'm super honest, I feel like this is something that I tend to skip because we get so time poor in the classroom and I'm sure you can empathise with that. And it's something that I don't do well but I love how CSOL lends itself so well to students going back and looking at their work and reflecting on their work. And so what I've used it for, if we do an experiment or an activity or an investigation one week, the next lesson I'll get a photo or a video of that experience and I'll put it into CSOL and then we'll start that lesson with a really short, maybe just three minutes where the students go in and explain what they observed and what they learnt. And I think it's just a good way to revise what we've done in the past and to just consolidate learning and to see if students are understanding the concepts. And so that way you're not forging ahead to things that are too challenging for the students if they haven't understood the basics of the previous lessons. So I often begin my lessons with a little task, a fast task where they are actually just sharing what they understood from the previous experiences. And I also, I'll just go back to that. I just wanted to say that I love how that in CSOL that students can go into the journal and in the comments and they can comment on not only their own work and how well they thought they did and what they could do better but they can comment on other students' work and I like to build a community where we feel safe in sharing constructive comments and when we've finished a task and we've put it into CSOL we'll often come sit on the mat and we'll choose get a pop stick and choose a few students and we'll look at their work and they will tell us how they thought they went and then as a group we can reflect on what they can do to improve. So I love how CSOL brings it all up on the board and you can actually just see right there what they've done at a quick glance, especially when you're using activities. And then finally I know I'm flying through so you might want to listen a few times to catch everything but I think it's very important with STEM learning that students are presenting to an authentic audience and CSOL has been a tool. I've been using it now since 2016 in the classroom so it's been a tool that has really changed the way that we learn and it has opened an audience for my students. Historically we were just in the science classroom in the four walls we were not sending work home very often. Now everything we do gets shared to an authentic audience with our families. The classroom teachers are seeing what they're doing in the science classroom the administrators are seeing and commenting and more than that we can actually share as I've mentioned before to platforms like Padlet and Flipgrid and I haven't actually started exploring this yet but the CSOL blog is fantastic and some colleagues have shared it and so you can actually share things right within CSOL so without having to share any other tools, use any other tools that can actually connect you to other classrooms, other teachers around the world even so I've heard some amazing things about that. I've just got some examples of when students have done a shadow puppet show rather than taking that time for every student to stand up in front of the class and to present that puppet show you can use CSOL with things like Flipgrid for them to make their video and then we post it into CSOL and then they can view these at home so by using the blog again these can be shared to a wider audience and these are my girls' STEM club goals about what they wanted to do in the future again I shared it publicly, I often share them to Twitter and it just gives them a space to share their dreams for their future as well as what they're learning and I just think really if I was going to pick one app and out of all the apps that we use, CSOL is the only one that I would pick so that was a really fast fly-through on how I'm using CSOL to promote some of those aspects of STEM learning in the classroom so I'll hand it over for questions. Awesome Rachel, thanks so much for all those amazing ideas and of course we could spend hours together I'm sure going in detail and talking back and forth with questions and things like that but I want to let people know too that if you want to connect with Rachel she obviously has her info here I'm sure she's more than excited to answer your questions so make sure you take her up on that offer but we're going to go into live questions now.


Hello everyone welcome to options with Doug streaming live daily on book map discord and the book map YouTube channel at 1 30 p.m. Eastern time before I go any further I need to go through the disclosures general disclosure all book map limited materials information and presentations are for educational purposes only and should not be considered specific investment advice nor recommendations risk disclosure trading futures equities and options involve substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results and hold on just a moment I need to adjust my my stream on on YouTube okay that's better I had to manual set it to 720p okay as a reminder the focus of my presentation and the focus of the options with Doug chat channel and discord is options order flow the impact of options markets on stocks and futures and the influence of market maker hedging flow on price action have a two-step process for trading versus planning and I use positional analysis I look to see how traders and market makers are positioned in the options market and how those positions changed from day to day to help develop a thesis regarding volatility and expected trading range for the day as well as directional bias and the second step of my process is real-time order flow I look at real-time order flow in book map and real-time market maker hedging flow and spot gamma hero to confirm my thesis and for setups both entries and exits and I think this two-step process with positional analysis and real-time order flow and market maker hedging flow is a new way of looking at the market and I think it provides significant edge and questions and comments are welcome and I will be watching both discord and YouTube for questions and comments and in discord please post your questions and comments in the options dash with dash Doug chat channel okay let's get started and what I want to cover today is first of all go over some news items economic data reports events and earnings and then I'll go through our positional analysis and then we'll take a look at setups and there were a lot of great setups today a lot of reversal higher setups this morning so first of all the news economic data tomorrow there are a couple of items the durable goods orders and GDP coming out at 8 30 a.m. Eastern time and then on Friday at 8 30 a.m. there's the PCE and a 10 a.m. Michigan consumer sentiment and earnings of course I think the big news today is the Microsoft earnings and let's just take a look at let's go take a quick look at book map and let's go take a look at Microsoft so Microsoft reported earnings after the close yesterday so I'm looking at yesterday and today so Microsoft reported right after the close yesterday zoomed way up and then I think well when their conference started conference call there was I guess Saatchi Nadella gave weak guidance and Microsoft drop lower gap down this morning moved all the way down to this 231 level and as Raleigh'd ever since and we'll take a look at hero and see what what traders are doing with options and that that is certainly helping to drive order flow and what again we'll take a look at hero so there is there's Microsoft big jump after the open conference call starts weak guidance and Microsoft drops lower and then it looks looks like it's just trading back up to around the 240 key gamma strike level and that was the primary target for along this morning right so that's Microsoft that was the big really the big event for today until Tesla reports earnings this afternoon so that should be certainly that will move Tesla and could be a market mover as well although Tesla does not have the same influence on the market as Microsoft and then as far as events go the next big event is the FOMC meeting next week on Tuesday and Wednesday with the announcement and press conference on Wednesday and that will be during my session next week on Wednesday okay let's let's take a look at our positional analysis now and first of all let's take a look at the spot gamma levels on some charts we bring up book map will go to the S&P 500 and while we're waiting on that I'm gonna take a look at a couple thinkorswim charts and this is a thinkorswim 20-day one-hour chart for SPX and it may be a little bit difficult to see here it's on the the far right and we'll take a look at a zoomed in level and in just a moment so this is showing all of the key levels and here's the put wall and that is actually jumped up from 3,800 yesterday here's the call wall and that is increased also and the put wall is the strike with the largest net negative gamma and can be expected to act as support and then the call wall is the strike with the largest net positive gamma and can be expected to act as resistance so what we can see here is SPX gap down lower trade it right down to the 3950 level and we'll look at that in a zoom zoomed in view in just a moment and then is traded higher okay let me take a look at questions so yes we will look at Tesla there's a question about see traders buying calls on Tesla that's one of the setups that we will look at and there's a question about be able to share this thinkorswim script and there's really no point in it it changes every day and I'm not going to share it every day this is this is available to spot gamma subscribers every day and I talked about this yesterday where to find it and and how to add it to thinkorswim so it changes every day you have to manually update it and thinkorswim every day so this is not my script this is from spot gamma so again it's available to spot gamma subscribers okay great all right so let's take a look now at a a closer view and the reason I do this this shows this is just the clean SPX levels and showing how SPX price action reacts at these levels and also how these levels have changed so that is the longer time frame view and let's go take a look now at a shorter time frame this is the two-day one-minute chart and the thing to note here is again the gap down in SPX and that 3950 and that was noted as support and the spot gamma AM founders note and it was it traded just a little bit lower but that 3950 level held as support as expected and price once it gap down went down and tested that level just after 1030 has rallied since then and this just shows the importance of these SPX levels the SPX round numbers the gamma levels and if you trade ES futures you really need to track these levels all right so let's go look at book map and what this is showing I have two columns with levels and these are the spot gamma cloud notes and these are also available to spot gamma subscribers and this is updated automatically there I don't have to do anything manually and this is showing the key SPX levels converted to an equivalent ES number right now spot gamma is still using 20 point a 20 point difference between ES and SPX and it's about 15 points now so these numbers are wrong they should be should be five points lower so I have this is my own cloud notes excuse me these are my own cloud notes and I note the support and resistance levels that were uh in the AM founders note this morning and I have shifted mine down to the correct 15 point difference so this is showing the support at the 3950 level which is equivalent to ES 3965 so there's the reversal at the just after 1030 reversal at the again the 3950 level break of this trend a lot of aggressive buyers coming in and you can see that by the green dots and also the rising cumulative volume delta line that's the dark blue so a lot of aggressive buyers coming in at that level and we'll take a look at a hero in a minute and see what options traders were doing so those are the levels in play and we've looked at a larger time frame and then zoom down and then finally looking at book map and combining those levels with the water flow so there were some shifts in levels all higher yesterday first of all the spx and spy volatility triggers both shifted higher spx is now at 4010 and spy at 40401 401 and that uh volatility trigger is the spot gamma proprietary gamma flip level with positive gamma above and negative gamma below and negative gamma means that market makers will be trading with price action to hedge their delta exposure and above the volatility trigger that would be in a positive gamma or a call gamma dominated environment and market makers would be trading against price action to hedge their delta exposure so that indicates below the volatility trigger there's going to be more volatility uh because market makers are trading with price action and above the volatility trigger less volatility because market makers will be trading against price action so there's the volatility trigger both shifted higher and also the spx put wall shifted higher from 3800 to 3900 and also the spx call shifted higher from 4050 to 4100 and for the for the nasdaq i just tracked qqq and the volatility trigger shifted higher also the put wall shifted higher as well from 260 to 280 so given that that is that's bullish the shifts in levels higher uh are bullish so let's take a look now at we'll take a look at the absolute gamma charts for uh first of all for the s and b 500 and these are the levels of of high gamma and what we're looking at here's the zero line and above that line the black lines are call gamma or positive gamma below that line the teal lines are put gamma or negative gamma so for spx here's the put wall now and remember this was uh 3800 was the put wall yesterday and that was really out of play not not in range so now the put wall again that's the strike with the largest net negative gamma uh has shifted up to 3900 and the key gamma strike or the absolute gamma strike remains at 4000 and that is the strike with the largest absolute gamma and that's pretty obvious visually obvious and now again the call wall has shifted up to the 4100 level so again the put wall call wall had both shifted higher for spx and that's bullish and spy no shifts higher in the uh levels other than the volatility trigger so the put wall remains at 390 and call wall or the key gamma strike remains at 400 and the call wall at 410 and that's pretty obvious not much put gamma at that level and a lot of call gamma and one thing to note here is the build in and call positions above the 400 level now there's still spy is still put dominated there's still plenty of put positions below 400 and we'll take a look at gamma notional in just a moment and see that that actually shifted more negative so the put down even though there were there's a build in call positions the put dominance increased in and spy so that's spx and spy let's take a look at the qqq charts so again for nasdaq all i look at is qqq and dx is is not significant so for qqq here's the put wall at 280 and that's pretty obvious the strike with the largest net negative gamma and then that is also the key gamma strike so that's also the strike with the largest absolute gamma and then the call wall up here at 295 and you can see there's a large difference a lot more call gamma than put gamma at that level so let's take a look at data now i'm going to look at gamma notional as usual so this is showing market makers position on the gamma curve for spx in the left column spy here and then qqq on the far right and gamma notional has shifted more negative uh or lower for all of these instruments so first of all yesterday spx gamma notional was 268 and it shifted down to 75 so still slightly positive but shifted down from yesterday and then spy yesterday shifted down more negative from minus 708 yesterday to minus 1254 today and then qqq was slightly positive yesterday at 45 and they shifted down now to minus 273 all right so this question and discord what is the significance with a diversion on gamma notional for spx versus spy does one dominate over the other and how do you read the difference and that's been pretty typical lately and i think the spy gamma notional dominates it's so much larger it's it's almost always look much larger than spx so again that's that's pretty typical and i i give a greater weighting to spy to the spy gamma notional let's take a look at vana models and this is a just a quick visual representation of what i was talking about so remember the gamma notional for spx is 75 and that's pretty neutral and that's what this vana model is showing so this is showing market makers delta notional on the vertical axis and how that changes with price that's on the horizontal axis and how it also changes with implied volatility and that's shown by the green line and that's the current expiration and that's the vana effect the change of delta with the change in applied volatility and then the black line shows the change in delta notional with at the next expiration or as time passes and that is the delta charm effect the change in delta with a change in time so pretty neutral for spx spy still sloping up from right to left typical in a negative gamma environment again showing market makers delta notional increases as price drops and they have to sell futures to hedge their delta exposure and they can buy back futures as price increases since their delta notional is dropping and then we'll take a look at quick quick look at qqq okay so keep that in mind then let's take one final look this is my key gamma strike spreadsheet and i track this every day and this shows in the far right column previous key gamma strike and that was for yesterday and then the current key gamma strike is for today and i color code these green indicates that the price increased from the previous day and red indicates that the price key gamma strike decreased so the thing to note here is on monday there was a lot of green so recall the big rally on friday and i think every every stock of my list almost had there was no red they're all all green all rising key gamma strikes and then that excuse me so then yesterday there were still several stocks with rising key gamma strikes and then that is slowed down today so showing more of a i guess a neutral stance so a couple stocks red with lower key gamma strikes and a couple green so all in all based on this data data alone i was looking for a higher volatility day wider trading range due to the drop in gamma notional and so looking for again a wider trading range higher volatility than yesterday and also bullish based on the rising volatility triggers for spx and spy and qqq the rising put wall and call wall for spx and then the rising volatility trigger and put wall for qqq all that is bullish so the only the only wrench in there the only thing that threw a wrench in there was the microsoft earnings which again led to a i i think led to a gap down this morning that uh you know as we'll see did not last long okay so let's take a look at some setups now and before i get into the usual uh day trading setups one thing that i want to take a look at is take a look at a longer term position that i was trying to actually trying to fill and never never got till but i'll i'll talk about my reasoning for doing that and plan to talk more uh more about that as time goes on so what i'm going to do i have um the stock that i want to look at on my other computer okay so the stock is mera and what i was looking at so i was i started looking at uh tasty works that is a that's an options trading platform that i used and looking at my universe of stocks the stocks that i look at are uh the spot gamma and the spot gamma hero list i think they're about 200 stocks and in tasty works i rank those by the uh i v rank implied volatility rank and that shows how uh the current implied volatility uh how high or low it is in relation to uh how i think in the past year maybe or maybe longer time period so in a high i v rank means that that the i v rank for that stock the i v is higher than it has been in the uh in the time period there look back time period so mera uh marathon digital holdings was at the top of that list so that was the first step i was looking to uh looking actually looking to sell a put or some sort of um longer term position like that and what i was i'll talk about the the position that i was actually trying to fill so that was my first step so i was interested in mera and let me just reset this let's take a look at mera now i'm going to this uh going to equity hub here so let me switch over and hold on just a second okay so here's mera in equity hub and this is showing the call dominance so let's take a look at the composite view call dominance above nine showing here so the the call gamma the orange line much greater than put line put gamma line that indicates that traders have been buying calls they're bullish been buying calls let's take a look at the skew chart and this what this is showing is the implied volatility for calls versus puts so this line here this is the at the money delta 50 and that is showing and what what spike gamma is showing here is the implied volatility for puts to the left of this line and implied volatility for calls above this line and the dash lines are showing the next expiration and what this line was showing yesterday or the prior day and then yesterday so this green dash line is showing there's actually increased interest in calls and then the so that's the next expiration that's the friday expiration and then this is showing the the solid lines are showing the next uh expiration about 30 days for now so there's a interest in calls traders are bullish and there's a question how does it show that calls are dominating so let's go back to the put call impact line so this orange line is showing call gamma and remember this is the market makers position so mark for stocks spot gamma assumes that traders are long puts long calls market makers are short calls short puts so this is the market makers gamma position and this indicates you know notice the the wide difference the call gamma is almost twice as we go down here almost twice the put gamma and still it dominates from pretty much this line is showing the crossover at about eight and notice also the call gamma at these strikes the orange bars much greater than the blue lines the the uh negative gamma the put gamma so call gamma a lot greater than put gamma so call dominated traders are interested in buying calls so again first of all see that the ivy is high ivy rank is high and also given this call domination the call skew traders are bullish on the stock so i was looking for a uh a dip to buy just like a lot of other people were doing today and uh you know to enter a bullish position so what i was looking to do was let me go to thinkorswim and that's for that's for microsoft let's go to mera that's an earnings play on microsoft we'll go to mera and what i was trying to do is fill this and this is a this is a tasty trade or tasty live they call themselves now uh position called a jade lizard and it's a short put and a short call spread and i was trying to get this filled and i never could get it filled this the bid ash spreads in mera were just too wide this morning and i was not able not willing to to give in more than a penny or two and i never could get filled but this is this is what i was trying to get filled so let me go back and let's take a look at book map and i'm going to go back to so here is let me just get rid of this go back to book map so i was watching it this morning and saw that that mera found support around the eight dollar level so that's where i i should have probably just tried to sell a put but anyway i was trying to fill that jade lizard never got it filled so anyway that was my reasoning and that's how i was looking to to buy the dip all right so let's uh and again i'm going to uh spend more time talking about these longer term positions so this morning i did have a a long put spread and video a longer term position and i use the drop down to it was not a very good position but i lose uh use the the dip this morning to uh we'll go out of that with a small profit so um all right so let's take a look at some setups now and let's go take a look at hero and there were a lot of good setups this morning so i'm going to go through these pretty quickly and just go in in alphabetical order and this is the the first one amd and there was a call divergent short this morning so traders were selling calls price increased a little bit higher and then moved lower as they started buying puts all right let's go take a look at book map amd so that's what i was looking at first thing in the morning and and i did post my um hero watch list and discord ranked from weakest to strongest so here was the short setup this morning absorption just below the 74 level with the 72 liquidity price target then let's go back and take a look at hero again and not really uh a lot of confirmation for the long but a good divergent setup for the short first thing in the morning all right the next amazon looks like puts are driving here so focus on the blue line so the put buyers become put sellers and that appears to be driving price action let's take a look at book map so nice reversal here oops try again get a rectangle notice all the big green dots in coming in here a retest of the 92 level and price is heading up or is headed up to the 96 hedge wall so microsoft threw a very short term uh wrench into the bull parade which continues so there's amazon let's go take a look at hero again coinbase that's on my other computer another long setup or short setup in the morning then long there's hero there it is in book map quick drop lower just like everything else and a reversal higher disney disney is on my other computer pretty much straight up from the open let's go back go back and take a look at hero there's disney so traders are buying calls from the open that's shown by the rising orange line initially they were buying puts then started selling puts there's there's a uh looks like a block trade comes in here large oops large institutional trader selling puts then both trader uh both call call and put lines rising indicating traders are buying calls and selling puts and here it is on on book map and by the way this computer that i'm looking at now on this remote screen cheer is a it's a mac it's an m1 mac mini one of the the first uh first first of the mac minis with the apple silicon and it is fast and book map works great on it i'm running the the 7.4 alpha version of book map that uh that is native m1 native and i think this is the future of computing my i my main computer is a pc i think my next main computer is going to be uh be a mac as well so this book map is faster on this 16 uh this m1 mac mini with 16 gigs of ram than it is on my pc with an amd processor and 64 gigs of ram okay so that is that's disney let's go back to hero nice strong uptrend and i'm just going through these in alphabetical order all right here's es so this is the s and p 500 futures and this combines what this is showing is a combined signal for spx and spy all right so there's some discussion and discord let me let me just take a look at youtube i haven't checked for questions either let me go see if there are any questions okay so um trader hg is asking what the heck did you just say mac mini yes it is the um m1 the original mac mini with apple apple silicon and i like it a lot and it is tiny it is about the size of a a pie and it it's fast it's stable uh it works great and apple recently introduced the m2 versions of the mac mini excuse me so and they already have the the mac uh studio as well and um that is running i think the higher higher end versions of the m1 processor so again i think this is the future of computing and my next main computer is most likely going to be a uh a mac mac mini so again they've introduced the m2 versions now so it works great again this is the uh this is a native version of bookmap native for the m1 processor and i've been running that for um so at least a month probably longer okay so this is the es this is the combined signal of spx and spy let's zoom in so initially this morning traders were buying calls shown by the rising orange line now that is leveled off some they were buying puts as well let's take a look at the total line and i think this is somewhat of a divergent setup here for the morning the recall the reversal at spx 3900 it's kind of choppy but notice hero rising price continues to drop then reverses higher at the spx 3900 level so given this rising hero and i'm sorry the 3950 level and that what again noted as support in the in the founders note so this is a kind of a classic hero divergent setup see hero rising price continuing to fall down to a an expected or anticipated support level and then price increases and recall we looked at the order flow in the bookmap chart and saw all the green dots coming in all the aggressive buyers coming in at that level so there's es let's take a look at at spy it'll look a lot like that and one thing to note is i'm going to rank these by the strongest to weakest signal and notice here what's at the top es spy and qqq the indices and these hero signals here showing that hero for these indices is the strongest that it has been in the last 30 days and that's shown by the entire range of this slider and also in the last five days and that is shown by these dots all being outside of this colored range so that is definitely a a bullish signal as well right so let's take a look at spy and it'll look a lot like es same divergence so there's a question earlier about spx versus spy gamma notional and this is the the same same idea same thing hero spy options trades dominating es so market makers are are hedging spy and spx trades with es with futures let's go back to alphabetical order let's take a look at adirna now very strong correlation between price action and hedging flow it looks like putz dominating here let's go take a look at book map so nice drop lower down to the 190 liquidity level prices reversed higher up to the 192 put wall and pretty much stalled there and you can see the volume concentrated just below 191 and then at at 192 there that's shown in the session volume profile all right let's go back so again it looks like puts dominating traders were buying puts they have stopped and prices risen just a little bit as traders are buying calls and we've already looked at microsoft let's take a look at netflix and in youtube rumba ask if you had a choice of a strike with a high iv around the same strike as a price as one with a low iv i don't i really with a high iv higher iv strike be better and i'm not sure i understand your question be better for what if i'm going to sell volatility i i definitely want a uh to sell high volatility but i'm not sure your scenario uh makes sense there's uh in the same expiration probably all of the strikes are going to either have a uh a higher iv or lower iv similar similar iv netflix as usual very strong correlation between price action and hedging flow puts driving in the morning and it looks like there's a put divergence and i'll sell a call divergence let's take a look at the total line again zoom in a little bit more so hero was creeping lower while price was making slightly higher highs and then price falls and then starts to rise again as traders start taking bullish options positions okay and then rumba says sorry i meant to say open interest and yes i would definitely want to trade uh strikes with higher open interest and it depends on the instrument too so i know that that spy is going to be uh very liquid and i can trade any strike i want and spy within reason and get a great fill and that may not be the case for other stocks that are that are not as liquid so yes i'm definitely looking for a uh a strike with higher uh higher open interest for trading all right so there's netflix and vidya and the trade here was long and notice the divergence here and puts driving so this put divergence traders are selling puts all right let's go take a look at book map so we need to take a look at netflix and then let's take a look at nvidia so there is the there's a long setup in nvidia notice the order flow this quick drop down to the 187 level that liquidity there then notice all the green dots coming in aggressive buyers coming in and move price higher to the 190 key gamma strike and now liquidity next liquidity target at 192 and then 194 above right so there's a question in so questions about tesla well let's let's go ahead and take a look at tesla and we'll wrap up with that all right so let's go back to hero now oh i do let's look at qqq first then we'll wrap it up with with tesla all right let's go take a look at hero so that's nvidia put divergence long setup confirmed by order flow take a look at qqq and here i thought this was a call divergence long so traders start start buying calls shown by the rising orange line then price slowly responds as traders start selling puts as well let's take a look at the total signal this divergence is a little bit more clear hero rising the price moves higher about 10 30 10 10 40 something like that let's go take a look at book map again so there's the chopper around the 282 level right let me take a look at questions i do the hero charts plot other levels they do plot hero charts plot some of the levels i they may not put may not show the call wall but typically do show i think put wall key gamma strike for sure okay we will show i i'll uh we'll take one last we'll take a look at tesla and then we'll take a last look at yes all right so there are a couple questions um first about tesla then yes so let's go to tesla so tesla and nvidia we're about the best setups today reversals long trend break first entry here at the 139 level looks like there's absorption just above the 138 hedgewall level and price continues to move higher so let's go take a look at hero now for tesla then we'll go back and revisit yes so as usual there's a very strong correlation between options trade hedging flow and price action so there are call buyers again traders buying calls price chops around just a bit watching order flow then price reverses higher just above the 138 hedge wall level all right so if there's a question about traders buying calls on tesla yes so traders were buying calls let's see what they're doing now continue to buy calls so if you're interested in in chasing tesla uh traders are still buying calls all right and let's uh revisit es and again this is a combined signal spx and spy and traders are uh fading this move so they're buying puts and they have stopped buying calls so notice the call line is pretty much flattened out whereas they continue to to buy puts and this is pretty typical as price increases uh sab 500 traders will take negative delta positions and as price uh decreases they'll often uh by the dip they will take positive delta positions so that's es right now and let me look for questions so um so i think i answered the questions hopefully about tesla and es questions and discord um so rumba his question about open interest referring to spy in spy again i'm not that concerned because it's so liquid and there's going to be open interested almost any strike that i'm um that i'm considering trading and on a another stock that's less liquid i would definitely look for a strike with higher open interest and i think i answered the questions for um regarding the spot gamma levels on the hero charts and let's just we can do a quick scan through and see you see what we see so let's nothing on apple so amd there's the there's the key gamma strike it also shows the last closing all right so we we looked at the put divergence in es in the afternoon and rtrt ask is it necessary to have book map to trade your method i my method the way i trade yes uh i i find there is so much more information uh that i that i use on book map rather than a candlestick chart it's just um a world of difference for me so yes book map you know you could certainly trade without it but i can't i trade with book map and ba today i i'm sorry i didn't look at um bowing we can take a quick look at hero i don't have it on my book map charts it's too too late to load it but we can take a look in and hero very strong correlation between price action and hedging flow and bowing so initially traders were taking negative delta positions and then around between 1045 and 11 they started taking bullish positions looks like mainly calls driving and prices moving higher on bowing okay rtrt asked i you know it's up to you i i think book map adds uh you know as i i talked about my process at the beginning of my presentation uh book map is a key part of my process there are things that you see in book map that you're just not going to see in a candlestick chart you're not going to see the the heat map you know see where liquidity is you know they're just there's a lot of information that book map charts liquidity the volume dots i i can't trade without it and uh daryl asked can you use book map with options yes so the trades you know i i gave an example this morning of of mera and how i was using um all the information and the spot gamma equity hub and uh as well as book map as well as tasty works to try and uh enter a uh try and sell volatility try and sell a put tried sell a jade lizard and i just couldn't get filled the the bid ask spreads were too wide and i i was not able to or was not willing to give up uh that much in price but yes you can use book map with options and any trade that i talked about today you can certainly uh trade with shares or futures or calls and puts okay and calling in discord and slada zari i hope i answered your questions and that is all that i have for today so thank you on youtube for your kind words and daryl asked just discover this channel a book map will the session be available to rewatch yes so these sessions are recorded and they are available on the book map youtube channel uh in the archives and i think this recording is available uh soon after the session ends so that's all i have very interesting day microsoft just threw a small wrench in the bull bull parade which is now continuing so again that's all i have for today watch out for the data tomorrow again gdp and let's see tomorrow gdp and durable goods at 8 30 a.m eastern time and then that's it so again i will see you tomorrow afternoon at 1 30 thanks everyone bye