Springtime is here and the pond monsters are biting. We started off fishing some small ponds we've never been to and ended up hooking our first bed fish of the year. But just know the madness doesn't stop there. We found this small pond and it was loaded with giant bass. She just ate it. Oh my gosh. Dude, there's one on bad right here. Come on, come on. Oh my gosh. All right, boys and girls, ladies and gents, we're at a pond that we have never been to before and boy, does it look saucy, man. It is looking spicy. I got my kick in the bass TV ex-loose combo. If you guys want to check them out, kickinthebass.com. They'll be linked down below. Springtime's on its way, guys. It is coming up.  But we're gonna go ahead and hop into this. And I got a little special crawl that I'm gonna be using today. It's a new mock crawl, baby. And this one's in Junebug. And we're gonna be fishing around. It's an 80 degree day. It's around mid-70s to high, to low 80s. And we're just gonna be putting this on a three-awt extra y-gap hook, on a quarter ounce bullet weight, simple Texas rig. And we're just gonna throw this around pretty shallow today. I'm hoping some of these big girls are pushed up and see if we can catch some giants. Before we get deeper into this video, only 27% of you all watching these videos are actually subscribed. So if you could take the time, hit the subscribe button. Really helps the channel. I'd appreciate it. Like I said, I've never fished this pond, so I don't really know what to expect. But it looks so saucy. Pretty clear water. And there's the action of the crawl in there. You got a bunch of laydowns on the other side of this bank, and we're just gonna start casting, guys. Let's see what we can put together. And hopefully we'll end up hooking some springtime giants. The one thing I was hoping to get on today, guys, is some bedding fish. And this side of the bank is so shallow. I don't see any beds. But then again, they could be on this side of the bank over there. Or it could just be a little too early. A lot of these ponds, these bass have been pushing up. They've been staging up shallow. I haven't seen any directly on bed, but you can tell they're just, they're getting in the mood and they're starting to push up super shallow. So I'm hoping we're gonna find some today just up on these banks. Like right up there, it looks like a prime spot. It looks too spicy for there not to be. I'd be very surprised. I am using this Junebug color, and that's not exactly what I would wanna use in clear water. I just predicted that this place would be a little dirty and I pulled up to it, and I'm like, man, I should have brought a clean water color too, but it shouldn't be too big of an issue. Looks so good. There we go. Not a big one, dude, but he ate it right up on that bank. Oh my gosh, beautiful fish. The tiniest little bass, hopefully that is our smallest one today, but we are on board with the Mott Carl today. Beautiful fish, pretty lateral line, just really small. There's gotta be some giants in here though, guys. Here it goes. Heck yeah, boys. I'm about to say that bank looks so good. There's gotta be some more up there. And just know we're hitting this place today, but if they're not biting in here, we're gonna hit some more spots, guys. We're gonna be hopping today, pond hopping, pond hopping video. I know you guys love these. We're just gonna be searching around for these big bass, and we're gonna find them. It's the spring time. Fish are getting ready to stage up, and the big bass are out. Ooh, oh, dude, I just got here. Right in the middle there, dude. I thought I was on like a little stick, and I just pulled it right out of his mouth. He's about right there. See if I can get him to hit it again. Come on, baby. Show me what you made of, son. Oh, there we go. Another little tiny one. Right up on the edge of that tree, dude. See, that's a prime bank right there. We're not getting the size that we want, but that is the whole purpose of these videos is hunting, searching around, going to new spots, and figuring out how to upgrade these fish throughout the day, and catching bigger ones. But this is a good start, guys. We don't have any big fish, but we're at least getting bites, and that's all that matters. Thank you, baby. Let's go, boys. Come on, now. Not what we're looking for, but we're gonna find them. I guess this Junebug crawl ain't too bad right now, man. Ain't bad at all. I love these little reeds that are coming up on the bank down here. Everything that I'm looking for, you know, it's pretty shallow on the bank, and that was the best, I just swam off another small one. There's more ponds in here, so you might just have to move around. There could be a lot of dinkers in here. All right, guys, this is the same pond. We just walked around to this other corner. It looks pretty solid. This water's so ginger and clear, and it's a lot deeper on this side.  Gosh, this looks crazy, man. I just know there's some giants in here, guys. There's gotta be, it looks too good. I mean, dude, we are smoking them, but these are not the size ones we want. Okay there, buddy. Thank you for the nibble, but we want bigger ones than you. There he goes. I'm not buying it, boys. I am not buying it.  He's somewhere. He is somewhere in this pollen-infested water. Holy boy. It bought the thing now. This spot is a lot deeper. Different water clarity, a little warmer here. See, this looks different. Maybe this is where the big girls are, man. I'm about to say that feels like a giant. I hooked some dang fishing line. We just might, we might end up getting a free lure out of this. Oh, come on. There she comes. There she blows. I thought I finally hooked what we were looking for, and it was fishing line. Dude, he ate it. Oh my gosh, guys. He ate it as a dangle, and that's a better fish.  Oh my gosh. He's got some stuff all over him. That fish ate it as a dangle though. I landed over the branch, just bobbing it, and he came up and ate it like a dang topwater. Oh my goodness.  Poor guy. I don't know why this water's so clean. You expect these fish just to be super healthy. He's got something going on with him. All right, buddy, thank you for biting. There he goes. Poor dude. I don't know what was going on with him. Maybe we broke out of the nursery with this pond, because those other ponds, they were ultra small. He at least had a little bit of something on them. I have a weird feeling there's another one up in there. That was my first dangle bite of 2024. Love to see it. I got me a tree, and I'm just gonna pull them on in, man. At least we got a big one. So join, boys. Come here, son. You said the kicking combo can't catch trees too, baby. All right, boys. Well, we didn't find any big ones, but we're gonna keep on moving. I learned this new trick from Connor. You just go like this. Well, there we go, boys. New pond, new me. Hopefully we made it out of the nursery, man. I'm ready to catch some big ones. And this water is totally different. And there's a freaking bass right there. Oh, there's a big one. What is that? Oh, there's a bass, dude. There's big ones. There's a big one right there. And this small one's gonna look at it. Please, big ones. Oh my gosh. I should have been paying attention, guys. I didn't expect there to be some freaking good one right there. Oh my gosh. Dude, he's just totally ignoring me. He saw me. That is a good... Dude, there's one on bed right here. There's one on bed right there. Oh my God, he's looking at it. Please eat it. What's up, brother? How are you? Oh, I see one right here on bed. I've caught a few small ones, but nothing crazy. I should catch this one right here. He is just right up on bed there. Hey, she's being crazy. And she's getting mad now. Oh, man, I hope you get them. Have a good one, brother. Yep. We are a second away from catching this fish. Just have that guy come up and talk to me. Really nice kid. But he's about to eat it. He's a pretty dang good fish. It's a little windy. This fish is getting mad. Yeah, she just ate it. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Dude, that's a dang close to four pounder, man. Three something right there. Let's go first bed fish guys of 2024. A crazy eat on the new mock curl, man. Let's go. What an intense fight. We started off at the nursery today, boys. Catching some small ones. And now we got us a good three pounder on bed. First bed fish of 2024. That is freaking hype. And I'm gonna tell you guys, we've only walked five foot down this bank. There's gonna be a lot more bed fish. I'm actually gonna release her right back on her bed. That's her bed right there. And we can put her back in. Thank you, baby. I didn't mean to disturb you, but you stay there. Well, she's like, I'm getting out of here for a minute. And she's right there swimming. Let's go, boys.  Between the fight, the eat, I could tell she was getting aggravated with me. And that is the first time this year that I've gone out to a pond and just totally seen a fish that's like, okay, that fish is on bed. And that was awesome right there. It looks so freaking good. I can't see in this corner, but we'll fancast it a little bit. See if we can get any activity, any movement. Cause we're not gonna be able to see through that slop. It's a little boil back in this pocket. This pocket's a lot shallower, kind of flat, similar to how the other side set up. That's kind of what we want right now.  Look at that. See that boil? That was probably one on bed right there. I just spooked off. There's another boil right where I casted. This corner should have a few. Oh, he just, he had it. Okay. So right there, that gives us a sign. Okay, there's a bed fish right there. He's got a bite. He barely picked it up and dropped it. So what I'm gonna do is let that bait hit right where he bit it.  He got it. He's running. Dude. Yeah, that fish is on bed, heavy. He grabbed that thing, ran five foot to the left. We're gonna pitch it again. Same deal. Same deal. Let it hit the bottom or make him mad, okay? That fish can't see us. We can't see him. We're gonna have to walk around.  Notice what I'm doing here. Oh, he just ate it. He broke me off. He broke me off. He ate it off the dang tree, boys. And it totally clean snapped my line. Well, that happens. Probably should have checked my line. I had to have had a fray either that or it was a toothy critter. It's always a possibility. All right, boys. We are continuing to truck along. Had another fresh spot. And that looks like a dang bed over there, man. What we got over there? There's a lot of grass in here, but it ain't bad grass.  There's actually some good grass in here. Mm. Oh, he came off. That felt like a dang goodbye too. Oh my gosh. Pretty much what I was doing, I'll let this thing sink. But it was kind of getting down in all that grass. So I started to kind of really at the edge of the grass, kind of ticking the top of it. Dude, that fish hammered it and it started running towards me. All right, guys. With this wind picking up, I kind of want to try me an old Chatterdong now. So we got this white Chatterdong and we're going to cover a little bit of water with. Maybe they want something moving. You know, we've been throwing that crawl all day and we've got some good bites. We caught some fish on it. We have yet to try a moving bait. So let's give this a shot. We'll throw a few here. If we don't get anything, we'll just keep moving. But I think it's worth throwing this, especially with that wind and cloud cover coming out. These fish could be moving more. Plus all these ponds fish so different. I know that one, that fish was bedding, but all these ponds fish differently. Dude, I just had a big one right here.  There's a small one and a big one. A big one tried to eat this dang thing, right? Before I got it up on the bank. Looks like about a four pounder. Geez, man. Barely missed him. Gosh, that was sick. Man, he ate it right as I was bringing it in. Not a big one, but he was barely hooked, dude.  Hopped it right over that rock, man. He just grabbed it. I watched him. Only about a pound, but that was sick, man. Thank you, buddy. Heck yeah. All right, boys and girls. We are back out on a different day. We ran out of time the other day, and we're at a new pond to try to find some of these big fish. We caught our first bed fish of the year, and I'm just pumped about it, guys. I'm hoping we can find some more giants today. I got a mock jack with the drop shot on it. I got a new mock stick on there. Then I'll also have my kick in their bass TV, ex lose combo. You can check them out, kickintheirbass.com. And I got the mock crawl on a Texas rig. The last time that I came out to this pond, ended up hooking a five pounder on my second cast. So I am just pumped to be out here today to see if we can get a couple giants to bite. So let's go ahead and start casting and see what we can do. There's a lot of fish that hang out here too. So pretty much, you know, it's flat on the bank, especially on that side, pretty flat. And then it has a drop off.  You know, right now with these fish moving up and starting the bed, all ponds are going to be a little different. You know, that's another thought that we need to have. You know, some of these fish could be super shallow on those flats bedding right now. Guys, I just had my first bite right up on this edge. There's a couple of people golfing over there so I didn't want to make too much noise and just totally miss this fish, man. He grabbed it good too. So these fish are probably moved up a good bit. And I think that's going to change our strategy a little bit on the spot. What we need to do is throw this crawl, pretty shallow in this corner. I think we should give it a shot. Oh, here we go. Oh, come on, dude. Oh, he's got it. Oh, gosh. Okay. Maybe fishing this Texas rig up shallow on the grass is going to be the move. I'm sorry guys, my voice sounds a little weird to this pollen. It is killing me, man. I'm trying my very best. Let's see if we can get a bit again here. That was a good little bite. You just didn't have it. I just got hit again, dude. Might be loaded in this pocket. Come on, baby. Oh, dude, there we go. Oh, yeah. Oh, that's a decent fish too.  Get out of that grass. Let's go. It's a good two pounder. Freaking slam that my crawl, baby. That's our first fish at this spot. I'm telling you, that's two casts up in that pocket. Pretty shallow on that grass. Got one. High one pounder. Thank you, buddy. Let's see if we can throw it back in there. There's definitely more fish in that area. That's exactly what we wanted, boys. My crawl, I'm telling you. This thing recently has been getting some good bites. Let's throw it back in there, man. That's two casts, two bites. I don't think that that was the same fish. I think there's just a good bit of these bass pushed up shallow. Only thing with this Texas rig is just keeping it out of that grass. So when we throw it out there, we're not just letting it sink in that grass. We'll lift up and kind of pop it pretty good to get all the grass off the bait. And that's very crucial when you're fishing heavy grass. The last thing you want is a ton of grass on your bait the whole time. All right, we're gonna walk a little down where we started here. There's a little bass right there. Little tiny squirt. We're about 10 foot off this bank. Nice, got hammered. Dude, he ate it on the fall, bro. This shade line could be magical now. Hope I didn't hook that fish. I'll tell you that bait was sinking and all I felt in my rod was one hard hit. See if we can throw it back in there. Come on, baby. I might've stuck that fish. Oh, oh yeah, right out of the grass, dude. Look at that. I started working that bait a little fast and just barely reeled it by that grass and he came right out of it and smoked this thing. This fish are right on that dang grass edge, too. It's crazy because these fish are ranging, man. They'll be like 10 foot off the grass or they'll be right up under it.  There's two more bass sitting right there, pretty small ones, but heck yeah, man. I can tell that fish was a little darker, too, from being all up in that vegetation. All right, we moving now, boys. Got about four bites, five bites. Two fish. They being a little weird, man.  All right, we're gonna go up in the forest for a second to see if there's any little crevices and openings we can get into here. I feel like this back little corner, it's a super shallow little pocket and we can find some of these fish on bed here. That is not what we want to catch back in here. Come here, boy. Oh my God, that's a big end of the day. Holy moly. All right, I probably washed out this corner. So this pond right here, boys, I haven't put a ton of time in, but I came out here with Adam a few weeks back and I probably had the craziest catch of my life. Go ahead and roll that clip. Adam, Adam. That was the craziest moment. It was actually right here. I have never seen anything like that, dude. I just had my spinner bait dangling there. Somehow had a dang fish just run up on it. I've never seen a bite like that in my life.  Crazy little blow up there, man. There we go, he's running so far.   I couldn't move the fish. No. I was like hopping it over that branch right there and she just picked it up. I hooked it and it was just running. All right, we need to try to get to the other side. We're walking through the woods here on this other side. That bite right there just made me sick, man. I just feel like that was the bite we've been waiting on all day and he outsmarted me, man. I felt him eat it, I hooked that, he had it. He was running at me so fast that I couldn't catch up to him. Fish played that really smart. I lost him and it felt like a dang nice one. He was 100% on bed too, but you know, where I caught that fish was on some laydowns on the other side and this side over here has even more cover. So we're gonna make some good casts here. I'm not asking for 10 dang bites off this bank, but if we can catch a big one, that would just be insane. Oh no. Dude, I am a mess right now. We're good, we lost a tail on our crawl. Oh my gosh. What am I doing, dude? I might just need to put the dang fishing pole up today, boys. And I lost both of my tails. What am I doing, man? Yeah, I'm in a blender right now. Keep on chucking along, today ain't going as planned, but hey, we're trying, we're putting the effort. Oh my goodness, I couldn't tell you guys how many spots we hit today, but we're on spot number, let's just say 15. And we're gonna hope we get some good bites here and capitalize and catch them. I'm a little upset on that last spot, man. My fish just fell. Oh, there we go. Oh my gosh. Okay, well, he's on the bank and we get to catch him. Thank you for biting, buddy.  That was a good sign. Oh my goodness. Thank you, buddy. Wow, okay. Maybe it is gonna shift to this part in class. Oh my gosh. Yeah, when I felt that bite mid-talk, I knew it was on. Let's keep on flipping, see what we can get into. What I was saying is that fish at the last spot, it upset me, man. Nothing felt pretty good. I just didn't capitalize on them. That's part of fishing, man.  It ain't always gonna be catching every single one that you hook, but for here on out in the video, let's try to capitalize here. Catch as many fish as we can in this pond. Got one on our first cast, so that's a good sign. Just gotta keep that momentum rolling. Oh, big boil. Oh, no. What are these fish doing today, man? I mean, they're just not eating all the way. I've had some really good bites here and there, and they just don't have it. I threw in there and there's an instant big boil right to the left, and she was running with it. I went to the hook set, she just didn't have it all the way. That's been the story today multiple times, man. Oh my gosh. There she is. There we go. Who's the giant? It's a giant. It's a giant. Oh my gosh. Right here, boys. Right here, boys. Come on. Oh my gosh, come on. Come on. Come on. Oh my gosh, let's go. Let's freaking go, boys. Let's go, man. Freaking four pounder, baby. Barely hooked in her mouth. I don't know if that's the same one that just bit me, but that is a freaking tank right there, man. She smoked that new My Crawl, man. Oh my goodness. Yeah, no, she felt big, but when she jumped, I was like, oh my goodness. We actually got a toad, man. And all that hard work today has paid off right there. Thank you so much, baby. Thank you for biting. I'm gonna be able to get another bite in that corner. Oh my gosh. What a fish. Let's go. That could have been that big boil I saw, but there might be another fish up there. So we're gonna go ahead and we're just gonna take this crawl off. It's been ripped a good bit. Get this other crawl in my pocket. And we're gonna throw back in that corner, guys. We saw that boil through in there, got hammered, missed them.  There could be some more big ones up in that corner.  I'm so pumped, man. We needed that bite. Here we go. Here we go, boys. Another good one, dude. Oh my gosh. Not a big one, but that's a nice fish. Let's go, man. They are smoking this crawl right now. Just came off. Beautiful pound and a half fish. Not a big and weird getting on to something, man. This has been the first place today that it's just been happening. Crazy thing is we just, we haven't really found a spot where we got just a ton of bites like that other than the first spot today. Let's keep on casting. There's gotta be more down this bank. They're eating good, too, man. I wanna see another big one, though. Oh my God. Oh my. Dude, I thought I had grass on my bait and I was literally a fish eating it right when I casted in there. Oh my gosh. How about popped it out of her mouth? Shaded again. I cannot believe this, man. Look how fast he's running. I can't catch up. He's gonna run up on the bank. Oh my gosh. I do not know what's happening, man. But I just lost my last bait. I'm gonna go grab a few more. All right, y'all, we're back. And we got this little, like, candy-crawl color. It's like a green pumpkin with some green, pink, and blue in it. Looks really good. We're gonna do this color a try. We've used so many different colors in this video. Probably used five different colors, but they're eating them all for the missed part. The one I was catching them on a second ago is like an Okeechobee curl. This one just looks so good. This water's pretty clear. And it's like natural color with that sparkle. Should be money. See if we can get some more bites over here, man. These fish are just turnt up. I got another one. I mean, he's running again. Oh my gosh.  These fish are 100% on bed. They are just sitting on the edge. And right when I hook them, I mean, they're just freaking out. They're going crazy. I got a June bug now. He was running 100 miles an hour right at me and I just couldn't catch up. No matter how fast I reeled. Oh my gosh. Unreal is going on right now. I'll understand how we can have, you know, a subpar day the first day we came out. And then today has just been pretty tough. All of a sudden we just hit a spot that's just on.   Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Dude, I am just mind blown right now, guys. I'm going to be honest. I'm so mind blown at how good these fish are biting. I can't even believe it. Total shift in today.  I cannot believe that. It feels like a big, I can't tell. Nah. Oh my, oh my lordy man. Oh my goodness.  I guess when you catch one on your first cast, sometimes it means you're about to have the best look you've ever had. Let's go.


Hello everyone. Welcome to Options with Doug. Streaming live daily on Bookmap Discord and the Bookmap YouTube channel at 1.30 p.m. Eastern Time. Before I get started I need to go through the Disclosures. General Disclosure. All Bookmap limited materials, information, and presentations are for educational purposes only and should not be considered specific investment advice nor recommendations. Risk Disclosure. Training futures, equities, and options involve substantial risk of loss and it's not suitable for all investors. Past performance is not necessarily on to get a future results. Here's my contact information. The best way to get in touch with me is through Discord. My name on Discord is Doug P. Also in Bookmap Discord there's an options-doug-chat channel. That's a great place to post questions, comments, and content related to the topics of my presentation and the topics of the channel that I'll go through in just a moment. I'm also on X, formerly known as Twitter. My name there is at Doug Plus. Here are the key tenets of my approach to trading. This is the basis of my approach to trading. First of all I believe options trades and market maker hedging activity are key drivers of price and many stocks and futures. And certainly in the large cap tech stocks that I follow in trade as well as the equity futures, the S&P 500 and NASDAQ. And for the S&P 500, SPX is the underlying index and SPI is the ETF version of that index and ES is a derivative of SPX and SPI. So when traders buy and sell puts and calls in SPX and SPI, market makers take the opposite side of those trades and they hedge their delta exposure with ES futures. And for the NASDAQ 100, NDX is the underlying index, QQQ is the ETF version of that index, and NQ is a derivative of NDX. And again when traders buy and sell puts and calls in NDX and QQQ, market makers take the opposite side of those trades and they hedge their delta exposure with NQ futures. The focus of my presentation today and the focus of the options-duck chat channel is options order flow, the impact of options markets on stocks and futures, and the influence of market maker hedging flow on price action. I have a two-step process for trading and the first is planning and I use positional analysis. I look at how traders and market makers are positioned in the options market and how those positions change from day to day to develop a thesis regarding the expected trading range and volatility for the day as well as the directional bias. And the second step in my process is execution. I look at real-time order flow and book map and real-time market maker hedging flow and spot gamma hero to confirm my thesis and for setups for entries and exits. And when I talk about setups today I will be focusing on an underlying asset and setups in that asset can be taken any number of ways. For example the S&B 500 setups can be taken with ES futures, spy shares, spy options, SPX options, or even ES options. Questions and comments are welcome and I will be watching both the options-duck chat channel as well as the chat and YouTube free questions and comments. Please feel free to post. I'll do my best to answer your questions. Hello Steven. Welcome glad you're here. Hello Sheena in C40G. Welcome glad you're here as well. And hello Zuko. Welcome glad you're here. All right here's my agenda for today. Tuesday March 12th. First of all I want to go over news items, economic data, and events for today as well as the rest of the week. Then I'll go through my positional analysis. Then I'll review some setups from earlier today. And then I'll take a look at the live market. And when I get to the live market, if anyone has any stocks they want me to take a look at, please let me know and I'll be glad to do that. All right let's get started with economic data. Oh hello Dan P and Anna Rag. Welcome glad you're here. All right so let's get started with news items, economic data, and events. So big economic data released today that is the CPI data that came out at 8.30 a.m. Eastern time. So let's take a look at that. This is the CPI data, the year over year, month over month, core, and the total CPI generally came in greater than expected and greater than or even equal to the previous number. So go figure the market rallied after that.  All right so this is the ES futures and book map. Let's just take a look at the reaction to that data. So initially there was a move down right around this SPX 515 level noted a support in the spot gamma am founders note and then a spy 511 just above that and then the market moved back down and then at the cash open found support right around that 515 level again and then has rallied up all the way up to the upper daily expected move and also this spy 515 combo 3 level. I'll talk more about those levels in just a minute and noted 3 1 p.m. there was a 10-year node auction and there was not much of a market reaction to to that 10-year node auction. All right for the rest of the week tomorrow Wednesday there is a another bond auction a 30-year bond auction at 1 p.m. then on Thursday PPI data comes out at 8 30 a.m. Eastern time also retail sales at 8 30 a.m. Eastern time then Friday is the big monthly options expiration and that is also a quarterly options expiration. Those are the largest expirations typically March June September and December and this options expiration is quite call dominated. I'll talk about that more later on in the week and we'll take a look at the the expirations again later on in the week. All right let's move on to positional analysis now. So again this is the SAP 500 futures and book map the ES futures and before I take a closer look at this chart I want to take a look at a larger time frame and I'm going to step back and take a look at the underlying index again which is SPX. This is a one-day chart and think or swim. The current rally began last year October 30th and so far SPX has rallied up about 1080 points so very strong move higher in SPX. Now let's take a look at the upper part of that rally. This is a 30-day one-hour chart so this is the trend line that we were just looking at on the one-day chart. The top of the the high of the for SPX so far 51 89 SPX trying to make its way back up to that that level. All right during this year 2024 the SPX call wall has moved up from 4,800 at the beginning of the year to the current level at 5,200. I'll talk more about that in just a minute. All right let's take a look at the levels on this chart. First of all the dash purple lines are showing the lower and upper weekly expected move that's based on the options market that's updated once a week. That's based on the closing price on Friday and the dash blue lines are showing the lower and upper daily expected move. Also based on the options market based on the closing price yesterday note that expected move for today was quite large ran around plus or minus 48 points and I post those numbers in discord every evening the the day before. So yesterday evening I posted the the expected moves for today and know that SPX did trade up above the upper daily expected move earlier today. All right the other lines on this chart are spot gamma levels. These are levels that are provided to spot gamma subscribers. They are shown on a variety of trading platforms. This is thinkorswim. I'm going to point out the key daily levels and note these levels are based on gamma weighted open interest. So again the key daily levels first of all the put wall that's at 4900 that's a strike with largest net negative gamma that can be expected to act as support. That level did move lower from yesterday. It was at 5110 yesterday not a very convincing put wall level and the put wall now has moved down to 4900. The next level up is 5000 that's the absolute gamma strike that's a strike with largest absolute positive and negative gamma that's where most of the gamma weighted open interest is concentrated. Above that is the volatility trigger VT there. That's at 5095 and that a spot gamma is proprietary volatility flip level. Below that level market makers position on the gamma curve is negative. In a negative gamma environment market makers have to trade with price dash their delta exposure that tends to enhance or increase volatility. Above that level market makers position on the gamma curve is positive. In a positive VM environment market makers have to trade against price dash their delta exposure that tends to subdue or decrease volatility and note that SPX is trading above its volatility trigger. Finally the call wall that I mentioned before that's a strike with largest net positive gamma that can be expected to act as resistance and the call wall for SPX has been at 5200 for several weeks now. All right potential floor at 4900 potential ceiling at 5200 and the volatility trigger also shifted lower from yesterday from 5145 to 5095. All right let's wrap up our view of SPX with a one minute chart. One minute chart this is showing the reversal from last Friday so the dark shaded areas are showing the regular trading hours and yesterday the low of the day was just a little bit below the zero gamma level. That was at 5094 yesterday and for today as I mentioned before SPX did trade above its upper daily expected move. Looks like it may be heading back there again. All right so those are levels in play for today in a one minute chart. All right let's take a look at book map now. Let's zoom in just a little bit. In book map I have my own cloud notes so I can show SPX levels. Here's that 5115 support level that I mentioned before. Here's the 5150 level that was noted as resistance and the spot gamma M founders note also the 5160 and then I have spy levels on this chart as well. This is I usually just show the round number levels but this combo three level was in play for today so that's showing SPX and spy gamma weighted open interest combined into one level converted to a spy price and then converted to an ES price I did that. All right so I've got spy levels SPX levels as well as key levels for ES like the upper day they expected move in the 5200 level. Note there is a difference in price between ES and SPX and that difference today is right around 66 points so ES minus SPX equal 66 so I'm showing the SPX 5150 level at ES 5216. Note that I'm also using the June contract so I have rolled over to the June contract. This is just one of many reasons that I use the look at the underlying index as the basis for trading. All right just just quickly for those of you who may not be familiar with how to roll in book map what you do is so I just I closed out the March contracts already but what you would do is two step process very simple first of all you need to subscribe to the new new contract I've already done this so I'm just showing this as an example well you can just type it in here so you just type that in and you subscribe to it again I've already subscribed to it here it is so once you do that then what you want to do is go right click chart settings inherit chart settings from so I've already deleted the March contract the ES H4 normally if I had not done that it would appear on this list you just select that and you're inherit all your settings from your previous contract so very easy to roll over in book map right so book map the levels in play for today primarily this SPX 5115 level also the spy 511 level round number level acting as support and then this cluster of levels acting as resistance earlier today that was the spy 516.36 level and also the upper day they expected move and then that is also an SPX level let's see what we'll zoom in let's see what that is that's this 5174 that's a combo 4 level so again combining SPX and spy gamma weighted open interest into one combined level shown with an SPX price and then converted to an equivalent ES price alright so that range of levels acting as resistance alright let's move on to NASDAQ so this is the NQ futures in book map and before take a closer look at this chart I want to take a look at the underlying index charts and start with QQQ dark shaded areas the regular trading hours QQQ volatility trigger 437 acting as support after the data release and then after the cash open more or less acting as support then the 443 acting as resistance the 440 level is the absolute gamma strike that did briefly act as resistance right at the cash open also on the initial move higher now acting as support so the 440 level in play also note 439 is the call wall so QQQ is trading above its call wall also above the absolute gamma strike in the volatility trigger let's take a quick look at NDX NDX reversal higher on Friday chop yesterday now NDX is trading above the 18,000 level alright back to book map NASDAQ futures looking at levels of play not not clean support but good enough for NASDAQ the 437 volatility trigger QQQ that was also noted as support in the spot game I am founders note and so far today the 443 level also the 18,450 level acting as resistance then as I pointed out before the 440 level has been in play as resistance then support we'll take a look at setups in a few minutes alright shifts in levels I forgot to mention for spy both the volatility trigger and absolute gamma strike shifted lower down to 510 NDX there were no shifts in levels and for QQQ the volatility trigger shifted lower that's again that 437 level put wall shifted higher and the call wall shifted lower down to 439 from 450 yesterday alright so net overall the shifts at levels were slightly lower for both the SB 500 and NASDAQ and of course that is before the CPI data that came out this morning alright again we'll take a look at setups in a few minutes let's wrap up positional analysis by taking a look at gamma notional first this is market makers position on the gamma curve at the beginning of the day for the SB 500 NASDAQ and also 2000 note all these numbers are positive what spot gamma assumes in a positive gamma environment that traders are short calls market makers along calls it's the positive gamma they have to trade against price-dash their delta exposure so this is at the beginning of the day note all these numbers did shift higher from yesterday let's take a look at one other thing that was in play for today this is SPX the Vana model what this chart is showing is market makers delta notional on the vertical axis spot price for SPX on the horizontal axis there are two curves on this chart first of all the light gray curve shows how market makers delta notional may change with changes in price only and the purple curve adds implied volatility to the equation that shows how market makers delta notional may change with changes in price and implied volatility and that change in delta with a change in implied volatility is the Vana effect all right let's take a look at some prices for SPX right now so the low of the day for SPX was right around 51 15 all right so somewhere between these two lines so it's not significant but what this is showing as price has increased from that low of the day market makers delta notional has decreased and they can buy back short futures that's a put Vana rally not large but definitely a playing a factor that's a factor in play for the rally today that put Vana rally let's take a quick look at VIX as a proxy for implied volatility and after a quick spike up right around 945 and we'll see that was when things started moving up VIX falling price rising market makers can buy back short futures helping to fuel the rally higher so again a little bit of a put Vana rally put Vana fuel in the tank for the rally today all right so let's that wraps up my position analysis now let's take a look at some setups so everything that we've looked at so far other than the book map is based on static data the levels on the charts that's based on static data spot gamma takes open interest that's updated once a day sometime during the night they apply their algorithms to that data come up with the levels those levels change a little bit every day that's why I look at them every day and track them to get a feel for how traders and market makers are positioned in the options market and so anyway now let's move on to real-time data so first thing I do wanted to do is take a look at what options traders have been doing today excuse me all right so this is the hero signal hedging impact real-time options what this chart is showing is options trades and market maker hedging activity for a combined signal of spx spy xsp and es futures so I'm going to start with the sp500 the purple line is the hero signal a rising hero line indicates traders are taking positive delta options positions their buying calls and or selling puts market makers take the opposite side of that and they have to buy futures to hedge their delta exposure so again when traders are buying puts and calls or buying calls especially in this case and spx and spy market makers take the opposite side of that and they have to buy futures to hedge their delta exposure note the hero signal has been moving higher almost all day beginning let's zoom in on this but he beginning right around 945 remember that's when the the VIX started to move lower 945 hero signal reverses higher traders are taking positive delta positions all right I'm going to separate out puts and calls now I'm gonna have to jump to another chart to avoid the auto zoom bug and go back to NASS SAB 500 let's zoom in on the morning all right so right around 945 to 950 the orange line is showing calls so up until about 950 it was pretty flat then traders started buying calls aggressively that shown by the rising orange line also a few minutes before that they briefly started selling puts that shown by the rising blue line they resumed buying puts that shown by the falling blue line but call buyers were in charge all right let's go take a look at book map go back to ES let's zoom in all right so let's take a look at the order flow and book map so we know traders started taking positive delta positions somewhere between 945 and 950 VIX started dropping the volume dots and book map are showing market buy minus sell magenta dots indicate more sellers than buyers green volume dots indicate more buyers than sellers so the aggressive buyer started to come in again right at that 51 15 level let me darken up the heat map a little bit the heat map is showing a history the limit orders in the order book don't the band of liquidity here traders were front running that liquidity below price that is those are buy orders limit buy orders again the heat map showing a history the limit orders in the order book aggressive buyers start to come in when price starts to move higher my stop orders help to fuel the move higher that shown by the rising yellow line also the magenta line is cumulative volume delta so both cumulative volume delta and buy stop orders so aggressive buyers buy stop orders and call buyers all driving price higher and all the way up to this spy 516 level just below the upper day they expected move right so that's the long set up in the SP 500 let's take a look at NASDAQ go back to hero all right so overall for today what this is showing is traders are buying puts that shown by the falling blue line looks like they have taken their foot off the gas right around 1220 1230 that put line is flattened out and ever since 950 they've continuously been buying calls this number is very large that that's delta notional value 7.32 billion very that's very large number traders aggressively buying calls all right let's take a look at NASDAQ now and for NASDAQ I look at this mag 7 signal let me show you what this is this is another combined signal for the stocks known as the Magnificent 7 Apple Amazon Google Meta Microsoft Nvidia Tesla these stocks make up a very large portion of the NASDAQ 100 so when I'm trading NASDAQ this is what I look at and it's been a very good directional indicator for the NASDAQ all right so in the case of the mag 7 signal we'll zoom in on this right around 949 945 950 traders started buying calls and selling puts that show them by the rising orange line and the rising blue line when both lines are moving in the same direction that's a very powerful directional indicator but call buyers definitely in charge today very typical pattern somewhere mid morning mid to late morning they take the foot off the gas price moves lower then just after it looks like around 110 they start buying calls again price moves higher this price is shown in terms of QQQ these are QQQ prices let's go take a look at NASDAQ zoom in very similar read on order flow to the compared to the ES aggressive buyers start to come in shown by the green volume dots as price moves higher buy stop orders shown by the rising yellow line fuel to move higher as well as kema to volume delta aggressive buyers shown by the dark blue line all the way up close to the upper-day they expect to move again for NQ and remember the mag 7 signal consolidated price move lower back down to the 440 level QQQ 440 and now is moving higher again let's go back to hero all right let's take a look at some stocks first I want to take a look at AMD zoom in so at the open AMD made a sharp move lower note this floor alert that comes in maybe around 944 shortly after that traders start aggressively buying calls start selling puts AMD reverses higher again orange line blue line moving the same direction very powerful directional indicator typical pattern call buyers take their foot off the gas put line flattens out price consolidates let's go look at book map go to AMD there's the sharp move down at the open traders start buying calls and selling puts price aversus higher nice pullback to 197 for a long entry next is Amazon actually let's yeah we'll take a quick look at Amazon so note as opposed to AMD there were a lot of aggressive buyers here in Amazon note all the green volume dots that's very bullish very bullish order flow CVD rising shown by the dark blue line then leveling off as price consolidates so aggressive buyers definitely in buying Amazon let's see what options traders are doing let's go to Amazon call buyers shown by the rising orange line driving price in Amazon and above the call wall 175 call wall key game of strike note that when price does breach a call wall remember for a stock spot gamma assumes that traders along calls market makers of short calls as price moves above that high level of concentration of calls at the 175 level those calls go deeper in the money their delta is becoming more negative and market makers have to continue to buy stock to hedge their delta exposure and daddy long legs welcome glad you're here go ahead and post your questions about hero and book map I'll be glad to answer alright so there's Amazon another bullish setup let's go to meta very bullish setup in meta here zoom in a bit call driven and in the case of meta traders are buying calls from the open sharp move lower down to the 485 hedge wall and price reverse is higher as traders buy calls market makers sell the calls and they have to buy stock to hedge their delta exposure 500 is the call wall key game of strike meta does break above that level but that's where the options traders the call buyers pretty much take their foot off the gas hello Caesar welcome glad you're here again the very typical pattern for these large cap tech stocks call line remains flat meta drifting lower let's go take a look at book map let's go to meta so here's the initial reversal hire at the 485 hedge wall then a pullback just a few minutes later the 487 good long entry remove up above the up to the up to and above the 500 call wall great move in meta today over 15 points from low to high right Microsoft and again remember there was an alert as well to get your attention that's what I saw here's Microsoft let's go take a look at back to hero let's go to Microsoft another flow alert traders buying calls from the cash open looks like a reversal at the 405 remove hire from the 405 hedge wall 410 the key gamma strike typical pattern call buyers take the foot off the gas price consolidates start buying again around 1 p.m. come back from launch start buying calls again price moves higher so there's Microsoft pull back entry call buyers take the foot off the gas 1 p.m. they start buying calls again price moves higher and let's wrap it up by taking a look at Nvidia and a rag gas what does flow alert mean please flow alert is a signal for significant options activity so that's what it that's what it means I use I use that to get my attention so one approach is to what we'll take a look at this in just a minute so one one approach is to look for alerts in the morning to get your attention so I'm looking at you can see all the stocks that I'm looking at in the morning looking at all these stocks I'm mainly trading stocks now but you know certainly futures and in queue yes and in queue futures as well so I'm looking at a lot of stuff and the hero flow alerts get my attention so again significant signaling significant options activity alright so here's Nvidia let's see what options traders are doing move on to Nvidia starting around 945 950 traders start buying calls there was an alert earlier than one after call buyers came in they were also selling puts blue line orange line moving the same direction and 900 is the key gamma strike call wall call buyers take their foot off the gas also put sellers blue line flattens out and price consolidates so they Nvidia did breach above its call wall key gamma strike back to all right so 900 the call wall key gamma strike pullback entry earlier in the morning down to 875 just above VWAP show them with a light blue line alright let me take a look for questions alright an Iraq if ask if there are so many levels on ES that we mark does that get not get confusing yeah it can be let's go take a quick look at ES alright so when I'm trading and this is this is pretty pretty good movement for ES you know pretty wide trading range so often they're not so many levels in play but today that that is just the case so when I'm trading yeah I'm zoomed in a lot closer than I normally show let me turn down the heat map this is pretty typical in rollover period this cloud of liquidity above and below that should disappear next week alright so that and rag that one that's one reason that stock trading may be a little bit easier alright and and Iraq also asked would it be call or put activity I assume you're referring to the hero floor or it could be either so all I know is that it signals significant options activity and it's a good way to get my attention that traders are aggressively buying or selling puts and calls and it's something that I want to take a look at alright Katina asked hello welcome glad you here great market analysis thank you how would you apply the movement to actual live trading you just look at the respective directions to make a movement prediction well what I'm doing is let's go back to hero so I'm looking at three charts when I trade so I have hero on one screen book map on another screen and then I have a chart like this on another screen so I can see the movement of all these stocks and then I'm looking for potential setups in primarily hero first but I'm also looking at all these stock charts and then let's zoom out in the morning I'm looking at these alerts for my for my watch list so let's take a look at this for hero right so that's a flow alert let's let's go back to the total signal so that won't get confusing I'm gonna have to jump jump back so this is alerts for my watch list let's take a look at snow often these alerts can be mean reverting so this is snow let's go take a look so I see this we're a little bit late so about an hour late on that that one that rolled off so let's go take a look at snow so I see that alert I look at the hero signal it's rising they came at a 123 so this is no flight zoom in a little bit so that alert came in somewhere in here so at that point I would be looking for a long entry a pullback to get long I see that first of all the hero signal was rising Kimble to volume Delta rising it looks like prices reversing higher at this 160 level looking for a pullback to get long at this point I'm using the continuation pattern that Bruce has talked about in the learning center bookmap learning center there is a video on chart patterns and there's there may be another pattern there may be a reversal pattern and anyway there is a continuation pattern and this is not real clean but I'm just looking for pullbacks to get long so I saw the alert I see that hero signal is rising snowflake has made a move down looking for a potential trend break there it is prices reversing higher Kimble to volume Delta's rising there are aggressive buyers coming in showing by the all the green volume dots again Kimble to volume Delta rising I'm looking for a long entry so that's that's my approach to how I can trade a number of stocks all right daddy long legs ask how to use hero signals and mag 7 trading for spy or ES with confidence I really look for ES or spy for the SB 500 whichever form I'm trading I'm really looking at the looking at this signal the combined signal for the SB 500 all right so this provides overall typically the the best signal for the SB 500 and for the NASDAQ I'm looking at the mag 7 signal all right so again my approach in the morning I'm what I have my watch list so that this is exactly the view that I have for hero in the morning looking for these alerts often they come in on the first 15 20 minutes in the morning when traders are aggressively taking position so then let's go back to meta so meta two ways to take this trade first of all you see the flow alert rising hero signal looking for a long entry looking for deep pullback there it was I showed that another second way to play this is look for the very typical pattern for options traders to take the foot off the gas a couple ways of playing that probably the best way is to take a what spam spot gamma calls a not bullish position sell a call vertical by a put spread above the call wall so perfect example for meta here taking a negative delta position that's defined risk and all meta has to do is stay below that level so if you trade take a like a 505 510 call spread sell that all meta has to do is stay below that level for you to make full profit on that position all right let's see daddy long legs ask about oxy all right add a rank I'll get to your question in in just a minute so first of all oxy let's take a look at that all right oxy I do not do not have that in a book map so just based on this this is not a recommendation I would be looking for a long entry a flow alert here another flow alert this rising hero signal sharp vertical line indicates large block orders but this is not not a stock that I would trade this is very small remember for the SB 500 for calls alone the delta notional value was positive 7 billion and this is 2.32 billion so I would not be trading oxy and let's see so here's that alert that came in for oxy so I'm just watching my watch list they're just too many alerts that come in all right KP wants to take a look at our TY well here's the let's take a look we can take it so yeah the Russell futures not in there but this is this is a combined signal of rut and IWM so not much to see here this is this is one of the reasons that I don't trade the Russell 2000 so again this is a combined signal of rut and IWM not much to see here pretty small notional value let's just take a look at IWM I have not found over time that there's a very strong correlation between options trades and market maker hedging activity not enough to to make me spend any time looking at it all right daddy long legs ask how do you interpret the chart what is your process for diet deciding long or short or do nothing all right so let's go back all right so that one's a little bit confusing let's go back to let's go back to meta so first of all for meta I know the typical pattern aggressive options traders in the morning meta moves higher so I see the rising hero line you know definitely safe to wait for a pullback a deep pullback right there so in meta I see the rising hero signal traders are taking positive delta positions they're buying calls market makers are selling the calls price moves higher right so that's that's my process that's how I decide long or short all right then anirag asked about says this is excellent information thank you show how to find the lower find of the daily and weekly expected move and think or swim all right so let's go take a look at that all right so this is spx I'm gonna go to the options chain all right so this is tomorrow 13th of March and here I'm looking at here's the expected move now I don't take this information now I take it at the close at 415 p.m. Eastern time so that's when spx closes so I will get the closing price again at 415 p.m. Eastern time and then I'll take this number whatever it is let's say it's plus or minus 30 then I'll subtract and add 30 to the closing price to get the daily expected move and the same for the weekly expected move so I do that so on Friday I'll get the weekly expected move so look at the closing price on Friday and then the expected move for the following Friday following Friday and note for the monthly explorations you always want to look at the number for the the weeklies the for spx there's still an a.m. settlement that's the traditional settlement and a p.m. settlement so for the monthly options explorations I'm looking at the p.m. settlement that would be noted as a weekly all right so hope that answers your question all right let me check for questions all right rainy days ask if a ticker is below its previous close price and hero gives a buy signal flow alert how would you handle that so I I really don't look at the previous close so let's take a look let's go back to snow all right so spot gamma does note that price in in the hero chart there it's not something that I put much weight on that closing price all right Abu asked do you announce the spy and QQQ level early in the morning before market opens the information that I put in in discord in the morning first of all I will post the expected moves the evening before so when I get those levels the expected moves daily and weekly expected move I'll post that sometime in discord the evening before and that is for the daily expected new for the following day as well as the same weekly expected move every day that doesn't change so I do post that I post that the day before and then in the morning in in discord I do post the index relationships that I'm using yes to spy in queue to QQQ those ratios and that is what I use to show that's how I calculate where to put the SPX and spy levels on my chart with the index relationships I post the preliminary preliminary numbers somewhere around 9 a.m. and the final number somewhere around 10 a.m. I was a little bit late this morning very busy trading now as far as the spot gamma levels I do not post those if that's what you're asking all right Caesar asked about the AM settlement let's go back to the thinker swim when I trade when I trade SPX longer term I will typically trade the AM settlement I plan on being out and on that selling premium and I will be out long before then the expiration all right so let's just compare open interest for the AM settlement also I think a lot of institutional traders would use the AM settlement so compare open interest so when the thousands typically let's compare that with the PM settlement so I would say there is more open interest you know just as a quick a quick glance more open interest in the AM settlement than the PM settlement all right so again I think the institutional traders are using the AM settlement and again when I'm trading SPX longer term I'm typically using the AM settlement just because there's more open interest all right daddy long legs ask one of the blue orange and white lines on time series I'm not sure I understand your question if you're asking about hero which has orange blue and white lines I suggest you go back in and watch the watch the earlier part let's go back mag seven white line is price in this case it is for QQQ let's get let's take a look at SP 500 so in the case of SP 500 the white line is price for SPX calls are showing the orange line is showing calls rising orange line this is shown in terms of Delta the direction rising orange line indicates traders are buying calls blue line is for puts again showing a term directional in terms of Delta traders are buying puts call buyers much more aggressive today all right so Caesar asked you understand how the expiry works on AM settlement so my understanding it is based on the the closing price or the actually the opening print for SPX and that is that may take some time that is based on the taking the opening price for all the stocks in the SP 500 and coming up with that number all right so Caesar hope that answers your question I would not be in any position with an AM settlement anywhere near Friday morning I would be out days before all right rainy days a boo welcome and right ask can you offer a discount for spot gamma I'm sorry I have no no way of offering a discount for spot gamma but note that spot gamma does provide a seven-day free trial so definitely worth taking advantage of I would wait until over the weekend sign up so you have Monday through Friday again spot gamma offers of a free seven-day trial all right folks my time is up I want to thank you very much for your questions daddy long legs one last question I've got that got to wrap it up when looking in hero does that make looking at the total in make more sense than looking at calls and puts not necessarily just to begin I like to show the total signal but the calls and puts gives him a little bit more refinement to to what I'm looking at a little bit more information but both are great all right everyone again thank you very much for watching thanks for your questions the comments I love it when you all answer ask questions hope I answered everyone's questions and I will see you tomorrow thanks again bye


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