Thomas Jefferson said, a well-informed electorate is a prerequisite for democracy. The following program is part of the series, influencers and media makers. A number of years ago, CCTV sat down with some of Vermont's most influential voices in media, news and information access to understand their perspectives about the role of media in democracy and how their decisions shape the way we as Vermonters receive information. Much has changed since our first interviews. The people, the technology and social media, the political landscape and so much more. Fast forward 20 or so years and in collaboration with Leadership Champlain we are revisiting the topic with a focus on what has changed, gaps and challenges across geographic, language and socioeconomic boundaries. The conversations you will hear with today's gatekeepers provide important, varied and insightful context to the media in Vermont today. Enjoy. Wanted to kind of start with suction is just a bit about Vermont CAS so people have a good idea in your words about what it is because Ben actually was able to provide a lot of the background and how this was born out of local paper owners. Marianne and Paul. I'm just kind of going from there and the content you are involved with specifically and how that fills out the Vermont CAS programming. So you're asking me about my journey with Vermont CAS? Yeah, this will be edited. Feel free to ramble and pause. I was just like, where am I saying? Yeah, about yourself too and how you came to be with Vermont CAS. Right. So I think one of the beauties of Vermont CAS is that it does parallel kind of the evolution of communication and the shifting of priorities that the pandemic served as a catalyst for and I think it was a perfect storm of a lot of things. So personally, I worked in the performing arts industry before this and you didn't have any performing arts during the height of the pandemic. So I did my introspection of what sparks joy within me, what do I think my purpose is and is to create these screenshots of emotions and moments to share that people can connect with and if that sparks starlight, that's fine. If that is just something that someone finds beautiful or interesting, that's fine. But I just wanted to use the power to frame how I see things so people can also see it because representation matters and I understand that my voice and the way I see things is not something that is very apparent in a lot of media. It's not, you know, when you turn on the TV the percent chance of seeing someone who sees the way I do and creating media the way that I create media is like, I don't know, maybe we're at a good 7%. We're at a 7% chance, but it's still not high. And I think as I developed my voice as an artist and I saw the indeed, you know, article being like hey, want to work for this company I was just like, yeah, that sounds amazing. And so I met with Mary Ann and Paul. They actually came to my studio back when it was still like barely, you know, called together because I did this all myself in the sense that my friends and my community came together and we, you know, I laid this floor myself. We picked it up and took it up a flight of stairs and we're like, wow, like 25 square feet of vinyl flooring is actually kind of heavy. And, you know, we talked and they talked about their vision of Vermont cast and how they wanted to highlight the beauty of Vermont, the passions, the underpinnings, the currents, and the different perspectives of Vermont. And a lot of times I say to people it's similar to a ethical version of Buzzfeed, like Vermont's ethical version of Buzzfeed in the best way of here are these pieces that highlight the type of people that are in Vermont. Here are the things that highlight the beauty of Vermont, the trials, the tribulations, the pathways to build this community that is not perfect but is striving to improve. And we're doing our part to show the human side of that improvement. So that's the reason I joined Vermont cast and that's kind of how they found me in that moment where we're just like, wow, the world's like, not great. And I kind of want to make it a little more great. And I want to do that through media. And then we're like, yeah, let's do it. And they're like, you want to join us? I was like, yeah, let's do it. That's a great origin story. I love that. Yeah, I think we were all feeling the pressure and the pain of the pandemic. And somehow along the way I started falling along and really did find a lot of inspiration there. I've also noticed some pieces covering Black History Month was a pretty robust programming. I also noticed you covered the amendment to the local city code removing the gendered language regarding sex work in the city. Yeah. Can you speak to some of those more pressing issues that you did choose to cover and why? Yeah, so it all connects in that I am a multi-media artist. So one of the things I do is that I do Berlesque. And Berlesque is complicated in the way that I often describe it as like the suburbs of sex work.  The history to it is tied and can never be removed. But where we are now and how people perceive sex work now, a lot of people can just be like, no, I'm just a Berlesque dancer. It's theater. Or when people talk about pole dancing they're like, I'm not a stripper. I'm a pole dancer. And you're like, these are our roots. We can't separate this. And I am pro-sex work. I'm pro-bodily autonomy. We need to normalize it. Not in the way that we need to sanitize it where you're like, we're normalizing in a way that, yeah, you see Rocky Road when you go to an ice cream shop. We're normalizing in a way where like, this is a facet of life. And if I don't interact with it that's fine. But they're deserving of as much respect as I give the average worker because they are just an average worker. So as a Berlesque I experience these things more and especially as a black person who does engage with these types of sex works. I do phrase the brunt of the oppression and the way that it is dangerous for me. And I understand that we are in Burlington and so there is a concept of being safer but just because it's safer in a physical way doesn't mean that we can just be on the sidelines and not work harder to be better because silence is compliance. You letting people speak illy or not realizing these words carry the weight of their harm is creating further harm. So I was just like, like, we're all good but like, let's get better. And so seeing these questions pop up, knowing people who are creating pole dancing studios and these Berlesque shows, I was just like this is a normal part of our life and it's just as beautiful as us going to say a watering hole that's in Vermont. It's just a part of the fabric that connects and builds the character of our community. Wow. Very well put. Yeah, I also love how you don't shy away from the really explicit nature of these codes and how they do impact daily remonters. We spoke to Taylor while last week about some of the legislation that she put through which is sadly now really coming into effect with some recent really harm done to the trans community. So I don't think that there's fun packed about me and Taylor or actually friends and that if you ever go to Taylor's house you will see one of my paintings in her house. It's very large painting so you can't miss it. It's like four feet by five feet or something. Wow. It's been so great to see all these connections in the community and that we're not as separate as the media would want us to think. So getting into kind of the meat of the interview that we've been trying to gather some of these points of interest in local media and what did I noticed in that piece as well about the just crack my back. In the piece about the gender language in the Burlington City Code that you also helped spread the word about how, when, where to vote. So what role do you think Vermont cast plays in voting decisions and how do you decide when and how to cover that? So one of what I think is a very interesting and part of why Vermont cast is important and impactful is that it is in a sense decentralized. I was speaking on how Ben is my supervisor but in a way he operates more as I would say our quarterback on a football team. Like he is our leader but in a way that we do feel like a team and it's not his way guiding us it's no take what you see as a Vermonter and put that first because we are making content for Vermonters and in essence your journey is the journey of a Vermonter so that is how we operate. So when it comes to creating or making these decisions it's coming from us living and being like this is important to me right now I want to make something about this right now and we know it will resonate because we are creating Vermont content for Vermonters as Vermonters and so this decentralized way that kind of separates us from the 25 hour news cycle where like okay what should we make to get these views to get these things we're like no what is important to us and we know by fact that as Vermonters creating content this will be important to someone else and it's not about the overarching numbers it's about the community based creation and the language and creating this space in which we are flourishing which is divesting what we from what is perceived often as traditional media so when it comes to deciding these things it's almost as natural as breathing because it's part of our livelihoods we're taking what we see and how we see and when we see it and taking these snapshots and putting it through for so and we know that because we're speaking as people to people it is a lot easier for us to be like hey it's time to go out and vote because it's not an authority figure being like now at 5 p.m. you must vote it's more like hey it's almost voting time oh my god I almost forgot I was like I know Sam that's what I'm telling you so we both vote yeah that's great yeah I think we touched on that national state versus local environment and building on that how do you address some of the bias and ideology and some of those more insidious aspects of the wider news or do you just try to stay in your own lane when you're creating that content the bias of national news I think in the sense I this is going to come from more of me personally than from Vermontcast and I think the fact that I am employed by Vermontcast and even before this interview Ben and the team was like you're speaking as yourself and you speaking as yourself is a reflection of Vermontcast so like say what you gotta say as you gotta say because that's why we hired you so speaking as myself the my existence in all of its facets and all of the levels and intersections in which I exist has always put me on the outside of major news because more often than not the classifications in how I am reported on or how people like me are reported on put me as a villain or put me as unable the way that we have fat phobia so they're just like yeah you're big because you're unhealthy and you're going to die I'm like no that's not it or yeah if you raise your voice you're angry because you're black and you're like no that's also incorrect so I think my existence and me reporting honestly through my feelings and speaking through the harm because it's not me falling into respectability politics it's me saying I'm existing this is actually how we exist you see me exist and I and that is what we mean when we say existence is revolutionary representation matters because I am not actively fighting them to be like no look at me approve of me I'm existing and that fact alone the fact that you I am being seen and I am not giving you the power to change how I will interact at any point is us dismantling that system and while it won't make the huge impact such as systemic changes and laws make it makes the changes in the grassroots movement of people being like oh this person exists and this is normal it is the more they see people like me the more people who are like me can be like okay I can do this they're like it might be hard but I know it can be done and then when they do it it's a little bit easier and it also proves to those who don't like me that it doesn't matter I'm so sorry that you hate that I exist but look at me go so my existence in itself is how I kind of battle the system absolutely I notice even just going about your weekend is often reported on and do you feel like that is a political act given your identity I think it is in the way the nuance of that question lies in the crux of because no matter what I do I will always be politicized the way these systems are in place and the way that white supremacy in itself is a beast that evolves to keep itself in power that no matter what I do it is an act of resistance but the nuance lies in that I do not fight it by trying to change it I fight it by saying my purpose in life is to save someone and it is okay if it's just myself my purpose is to bring joy and me bringing joy to myself is enough I am very privileged and I am very happy that I can show that act to other people and I can show that my personality type or my idiosyncrasies are as welcomed and they are just as deserving and so yes it's a political act because we live in a system that refuses to show that narrative but I don't politicize it in the way that I'm doing it as an objective I'm just saying this is the way it is and if you and so if it adds fuel to a fire that's not my problem because I'm a beautiful tree regardless yeah getting into the news desert and access section of our interview we define a news desert as community either rural or urban with limited access to the sort of credible and comprehensive news and information that feeds democracy at the grass roots level this can be interpreted so many different ways though everyone we've interviewed has had such a different take on what they visualize as a news desert in Vermont sometimes it's geographical sometimes it's socioeconomic and sometimes it's technological have you had a chance to think about kind of the landscape of Vermont who has access to media and how Vermont cast and how yourself as a creator kind of contributes or at least yeah right so thank you so when it comes to news deserts everyone is correct because there that is the point but that is the fact of intersections there's so many avenues and ways that things balloon to the issue that it is today it's a death by a thousand cuts so socioeconomically there is an issue and that technology is tied to it but also is separate to it so all these things come together to create this huge monster and it is very well and good that each person might attack it differently and that's why you'll always get a different answer because there's so many facets to bringing it down because once again I said it white supremacy and all these things build upon themselves to create a stronger problem to make it harder to dismantle which is why you see it everywhere in every aspect and I think Vermont cast recognizes that and I think because it's that human to human approach that makes it more comfortable so I think the way we access how we show things being very much ourselves being very cognizant of who we have as Vermont cast representatives not saying we need to find someone who is diverse but saying if they are able and if they are willing to work with us obviously they can because they are Vermont and we need to recognize that like yeah a lot of us who like to ski are gonna wanna make ski content so Parker if you're like hey we're gonna have a federal duck contest both in Vermont cast yeah that makes sense I don't know how it makes sense but I know it makes sense to you so we're going to do it and so I think that kind of helps with kind of a cultural approach and then when it comes to a technology approach while the United States has one of the highest access to social media it is still not perfect and we recognize it's not perfect but we also recognize that it's easier for someone to access Instagram than it may be to access a news channel that maybe they can only access our Tiktok and our Instagram and they don't have the ability to go to a website so we have different lengths of time we have different avenues technologically that you know if someone is at a library they can access the website easy peasy or easier easier if someone has a cell phone if they have wifi they can access us so while it's not perfect because we can't fix technology because that's not what the power we have but to make sure within the limitations we can be accessed is great and then with social economic I think that is one of the reasons why I do my weekend we do the weekend run down and we have people show their own locations because you know I am not going to be able to afford to go to a really nice like weekend festival but I can go to a bookstore this is you know broke bait problems that's another way to kind of create that comfortability or create that like modern language in that it's not taboo to speak on this and so I think that's how we're operating and that's how we're growing and as we gain more in the future because we also have to recognize that VermontCast is so new it started in 2021 and we are just we're technically like four months into 2022 but like you know it's still like very early for not even a year old so to see that this is what we're doing with our bare bones abilities what we do as we grow as a company with our ethics and our integrity guiding how we create content I do believe we will have more impact in different ways in the future do I know what it is? No but I know we're going to do it because I'm going to be there and I'll be like why don't I do it so great hopefully I answer the question I might have gone off absolutely cool yeah I know Ben spoke a lot about specifically engaging youth and it seems that these tools that VermontCast is using would be really well adapted to that and what do you see as your responsibility as a member of VermontCast to expand access to diverse audiences is VermontCast focused on that or is that something that's a byproduct of engagement with social media and what kind of partnerships do you have with other organizations to that end it is a byproduct that we foster in the way that it's like a garden and we're building a garden, the garden of VermontCast and then there's this plan of being like oh we're engaging youth and we can nurture this because I think speaking on systems like well when we go through the US education system currently the love of reading has been destroyed because of the way it has been so specifically by these types of authors for these types of themes for these types of tests and it kind of takes away the way that people want to read where you're just like no you reading comic books is you reading you reading a romance webtoon reading you just engaging and really like people who have very poetic Instagram captions reading and I think the way the education system has kind of stripped that and how it is a tool for people to kind of like disengage with news because the 24 hour news cycle you're just like this is some big wordy stuff and like I know I don't like big wordy stuff because when I was in school I hated reading and we're just like fair that's true but also would you like 60 seconds with me using an R2D2 clip to tell you about the sci-fi expo would you like us to like speak to you like a human being at your level respectfully because we are a human first news news organization and I think that is why the byproduct is hopefully very apparent or hopefully makes the impact that we think it will because we recognize that this isn't we're not forcing you to engage we are your peers engaging with you bringing you stories that we think you would find interesting because we find it interesting that because it's something that we assume has to be done we're aiming for the community not for the escalator of what we think or what people have propped up to be a media company so that's our goal that's our goal just to be a really cool community and people being like yeah we're like yeah yeah I think that social media engagement is something that a lot of broadcasters have kind of struggled with to some degree with not always the most positive spin on that resource so let's see do you have a relationship with more traditional media sources as a social media maker and do you see let's see yeah I think that's it yeah what relationship do you have to those traditional media sources I guess is what I'm getting at there I think it is very similar to my relationship as an artist in that I have been privileged to you know I went to Champlain College I was a creative media major so I was able to take classes to help me learn a lot of traditional basics I have been on the news or worked with organizations it's it's like one of those things where like I it's it's not weird that it's happened but the frequency I'm like this is a happen that happens you know in Argentina in 2014 you probably saw me in news twice for two different reasons and for something with the embassy that I don't remember if you've been watching the news here you probably see me like randomly out and about you know in different pieces being like oh Champlain College is breaking ground or you know there was a conference with Senator Leahy and I'm just like there so I think I've had these exposures because of how I've grown up how I've operated the education path I've had where I got to learn these foundations and because I just am very joy focused in that I am trying to live as honestly as purposefully and as beautifully as I can because every step I take I want the footprints to leave something like to grow something beautiful behind me and so with that integrity and that honesty and that focus on creativity I have been able to be more on new media because I'm just like I cannot force myself to assimilate to what we know as traditional media because it's not me I understand it and I can take the lessons to create things so like I I know how to work a camera I learned how to work a camera I know how traditionally I should work a camera am I going to put myself at my space angle because I think it's funnier and it's more relatable and more me and therefore someone's like this is funny and I'm like I know that's why I made it so we both think it's funny I think that is how that relationship works for me is that I understand it I don't want to do it I just love that I guess flipping the perspective and that kind of attitude about social media and using it for a force of good do you see any critical challenges to overcome in that goal or are there just these bright spots that you've been able to highlight everything has ups and downs and definitely with social media there is the problem of the digital self versus the in-person self and I feel like it's easier for me to find the bright spots because once again I have the education and I've had that privilege to like be able to like parse those things but for the average person we shouldn't expect them to because they have other shit going on I was like you didn't go to school for like a master's degree in museum and gallery studies and then read a thesis about like the digital self and dismantling the white cube that's what I did so that's why I can talk about it you just are living your life trying to pay your bills surviving this capitalist hellscape so like I have that being like I see why this is happening and I see why it's like a little out of my control so it's like I don't carry the judgment or that resentment so I feel like this is why it's a little easier for me when it is something that is very hard for people because the digital self and the real self a lot of people feel that anonymity and they feel that empowerment to kind of project and put their issues out there and especially when a lot of those issues are ugly because you know we're going through this world we all experience these ugly things that shape us and we don't often have the tools or the space to build the compassion to work through them and so especially because the instant gratification it's so easy for people to be hateful or to people to shut down and break down and just put that on the creator especially in parasocial relationships so like yes people have you know called me a disgusting whale people have been like I thought this was Vermont and you know you knowing the racial undertones of them being like why does a black person tell me about Vermont they're not from Vermont I'm like guess where my address is Vermont and so those dark spots can really be overwhelming especially when you think about the privilege and the access and like the comparison to other creators that are where you want to be or saying a narrative that's not yours and people are just like putting all these things together and I will never say that it's not hard and it's not for everyone but I am very grateful that I understand that like that's not my issue I see the comments and I will I will be affected by them I feel my emotions but I'm also like yeah I feel these emotions I felt them I see them I'm going to move on because at the end of the day I'm making this for me in my homies always order a really good meal from China Express totally yeah I think I maybe would want to give you the opportunity to speak to your homies and say hey homies yeah um you know to emerging creators, emerging people of color and all these other identities that have so been under represented what would you say to people wanting to step out into that scary arena of social media and media in general in that this will sound mean and it is mean it might sound beautiful because it is beautiful the world is a messy gross place but so our gardens so our mulch so our earthworms so our blooming flowers it all comes together to create this ecosystem and if you want to step out into it and you think it's because oh I have to like I'm suffering from depression I have ADHD I have like I don't have the language of someone who went to school for it or I like colorism's got you down it will try to beat the ever-loving crap out of you but this world thrives through community survival of the fittest isn't the biggest baddest person it is the people who find the solutions and find the community to thrive together and we are social animals and you are deserving and competent and smart enough to break into these spaces that are trying to exclude you those are the spaces problem not your problem so find your community people that give you strength inspire you whether that be parasocial that you look up to them or people in your community that you can reach out to and learn from or create with because whether you are you know aiming to take down Fox news or you're trying to you know split rent three ways in a dinky little studio to make a little zine just for yourself and maybe your cousin that would love to see it that is enough you are enough and the amount of joy you create as long as it brings you joy and it makes the world what you think a little more beautiful that's the perfect project if you like this and want to see more watch the rest of the series thank you for watching and please vote


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This video will cover the following objective from muscle physiology, describe the role of ATP in muscle fibers, describe three ways ATP is generated during muscle activity. These are direct phosphorylation, anaerobic respiration, and aerobic respiration. Myosin is a major enzyme in muscle fibers that uses ATP. Remember from the power stroke cycle of the sliding filament theory, that in the third step cross-bridged attachment, ATP attaches to the myosin head, stimulating cross-bridged attachment. Then myosin performs hydrolysis of ATP in order to fuel cocking of the myosin head in the fourth step of the power stroke cycle in the sliding filament theory. What causes rigor mortis is depletion of ATP Without ATP available to bind to the myosin heads, the third step cross-bridged attachment is not possible. So without cross-bridged attachment, myosin heads remain bound to actin, causing the rigid muscles characteristic of rigor mortis. Another major enzyme found in muscle fibers that uses a large amount of ATP is the sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium pump, also known as the sarcapump, standing for sarcoplasmic slash endoplasmic reticulum, calcium ATPase. So ATPase tells us that this enzyme performs hydrolysis of ATP and this is a calcium pump. So the sarcopump performs active transport in order to move calcium ions from the cytosol into the sarcoplasmic reticulum. So the sarcopump is important for sequestering calcium inside of the sarcoplasmic reticulum and this is important in order to lower the calcium levels of the cytosol enabling muscles to relax. The sodium potassium pump is another enzyme that uses a large amount of ATP in muscle fibers. The sodium potassium pump performs hydrolysis of ATP and uses the energy released in order to force sodium out of the cytosol and potassium into the cytosol, creating the concentration gradients necessary for the action potential. Direct phosphorylation provides a rapid source of ATP in order to fuel muscle contraction. In the mechanism of direct phosphorylation, the enzyme creatine kinase transfers a high energy phosphate from the molecule creatine phosphate onto a molecule of adenosine diphosphate in order to form ATP. This mechanism provides enough energy to fuel contraction for a short amount of time around 10 to 15 seconds. When the muscle is at rest, creatine phosphate can be regenerated as creatine can be phosphorylated from ATP. Then when the muscle needs to use ATP rapidly during contraction, creatine phosphate can be used in order to rapidly regenerate ATP. Aerobic cellular respiration provides another pathway for the generation of ATP. Glucose enters glycolysis and as glucose is broken down to produce pyruvate or pyruvic acid as a product, two ATP molecules are generated. Then the pyruvate molecule can either enter aerobic respiration to generate more ATP if oxygen is available, or if there's not sufficient oxygen to fuel aerobic respiration, the pyruvate will be converted to lactic acid that can be transported out into the blood. If muscle fibers do have sufficient oxygen availability, pyruvic acid from glycolysis can then enter the mitochondria and mitochondria will perform aerobic cellular respiration using oxygen to break down the pyruvic acid, producing the waste products of carbon dioxide and water and generating a large amount of ATP that can be used to fuel muscle activity.


Okay, so I want to talk about a special case, which is internal beam loading. So when we have beams that are under bending in other scenarios, what that means. So if I go ahead and say we have beams, which can be supported in a variety of ways, they can be what we call simply supported, which is they're pinned on one end and they're free to roll on the other end, cantilevered, which means they're fixed on one end and free floating on the other, and overhanging, which is like pinned, but that rolling or kind of bendable or movable position is slid in from the end of the beam. So great, we have these different types of beams. Now, if I want to know what's going on in a beam, I have let's say I have a cantilevered beam, I'll draw that over, and it has just an end load applied, let's call it P. Now, if I want to know what's going on, just like when I look at internal forces, normally I would make a cut somewhere through there, and then I take and separate out a section of that beam, and I'm going to pick the section of the cut to the right, which has the externally applied load P on it. So again, just like with internal forces in any other rigid body, I need to know what's happening internally, and I need to balance this force P. So I have a balancing force, which we call V, and P would tend to cause rotation clockwise, so I need a balancing counterclockwise moment to balance out both the force translation in the vertical direction and the rotational motion. So that gives me my internal forces, and I've left off my axial internal force because I have nothing applied to my beam that's axial. So these internal bending and shear forces are great, and we can model those and calculate them with free body diagrams and equilibrium equations. But the trick is that it's dependent on where I made my cut, so over here I just chose a location for the cut, but if I pick a different location, I'm going to have different resulting forces, right, particularly my bending moment, because the bending moment balances P based on how far away it is, based on that distance. So if that distance is different, then I'm going to have a different resulting bending moment. So that's something, a key point that we need to consider, and it's important for machine component design, because a lot of times the different things that we talk about, you know, that are machine components are mounted to shafts. There's a lot of rotational motion in machines. So things tend to be mounted on shafts, and shafts are pretty good examples of beams of this type, so it's nice to have an understanding of how to model those. So if I scroll down a little bit here, let's take another example. So suppose I have a beam, and I'm just going to do a simply supported beam, pinned, roller, and the reason we do pinned and roller is because of preventing the beam from being over constrained. So if you fix too many components of the beam, then it's over constrained and the solution procedure gets more difficult. So I'm going to apply a load P, and I'm going to say it's at a distance of half the length of the beam. So it's in the center of the beam equal from either side. Now, if I go ahead and say, well, what's a free body diagram of this look like? Again, my load P, and then I have to have reaction loads. Typically, we might say, well, let's call that RA, just say it's that position B, we're just, you know, making up labels. And then we have another one, RB. Now, solving for these reaction loads is a free body diagram, right? We can go ahead and do that, do a force balance and a moment balance. In this case, we'd only have two equations, some of forces in the Y, some of moments around some point. Now, this one's nice and easy because we said that this load P is centered. We know that it's going to be evenly distributed at these reactions. So we can go ahead and say that each reaction is equal to one half. Now, if I want to understand the internal forces in this beam, I need to do my internal force analysis, which is, again, making a cut. And I'm going to label this cut one. And I might need more than one cut, right? Because the situation is different if I'm talking about the left-hand side of the, in relation to the force P, or if I'm talking about the right-hand side, those are two different scenarios, right? And so we can analyze each separately. So, for cut one, if I again draw the two resulting free body diagrams that would come from this, I would see that I have my force P applied on this side, P over two applied over here. And then I have my resulting internal balancing forces. So I have a shear, shear, a moment, moment. And let's see if I label those V and M, M and V. And of course, those are going to be the same at either side of the cut, because really the cut is one location. I'm just looking at it from the left or from the right and analyzing it that way. And then, of course, I'm just missing my other reaction over here, which is P over two. Now, what I'm really interested then in is the difference between this and the other side. But before we get to that, let's go ahead and draw that other side. So let's say now we want to look at cut two, and I draw my free body diagram. It's going to have a force P. It's going to have a reaction P over two. It's going to have the same labeled shear and bending moment. Over here, it's got P over two, same labeled shear and bending moment. Okay, so I've got my two free body diagrams. Now, typically what we would do here then is draw something that we call a shear and bending moment diagram. And really all I'm trying to do is represent the shear, V, and the bending moment M as a function of X. So if I say, I'm going to go back up here to my original drawing, if I say that X is some coordinate position along my beam, I can go ahead and draw what I think the shear would be. Now, if I look at my first cut location one and look at my free body diagram here on the left, I can say, well, by summation of forces in the Y, V has to be equal to P over two, right? And that's going to be the same no matter where I cut up until I hit point P, right? In which case I jump to the other side, which is down here at the cut free body diagram labeled two. Now I have V down, P over two up and P over two down. So V in this case has to be negative because of the direction of the arrow I've drawn, which is down on the left hand side here. And that's by convention, down and then up is like my standard positive convention for drawing shear. So what that tells me is that this actually is pointing the opposite direction, which means it's negative. So if I come up here to my drawing, I can say, well, my shear is P over two, and then I hit that center line where P is, and then it becomes negative P over two, and it goes back to zero. So the shaded area under here represents that plot with P over two and negative P over two for my shear. Now if I look at bending moment, I can do the same sort of thing. Starting with number one free body diagram number one, I can see that, okay, my moment has to balance this P over two, and it's going to be, of course, P over two times however far away I am. So as I move position with increasing position X, I can see that my moment is going to get larger with X because it's, you know, force times distance effectively. So increasing, increasing, increasing, increasing, and then I hit P, right? What happens after P is now I'm in this region two, and I have a contribution to the moment now in the opposite direction from P at an increasing, increasing as I move to the right with increasing distance from P. So I can go ahead and say, well, now it's going down, and we could work out the equations to this, but I'm just kind of walking through it slowly here. And the shaded area under here is a plot of my moment. Now, what is this maximum moment? Because usually when we're, you know, doing stress, this is really what we're interested in. Is this maximum value? So I'm going to scroll down here a little bit to get this on the screen better. So I have this maximum moment, and what's it going to be equal to? Well, it's right in the middle, where the moment is at the location of P, which means P doesn't contribute, but P over two does. So P over two at a distance of L over two, which means that my maximum moment in this case is P L over four, and it occurs where L is one, where we're at a position of L over two. So I get a plot that looks like that. Now this one was relatively straightforward in that we only had this one point load, it was in the center and all of that. Now one thing you might notice in looking at looking at these plots is that there's a relationship between moment and shear, right? And that relationship is that it's an integration. So if I integrate my shear from left to right, and remember that integration is accumulation of area under a curve. So as I integrate from left to right, I'm increasing, increasing, increasing, just like my plot down here, then it drops negative. Negative means I'm decreasing, so decreasing, decreasing, decreasing, until I hit zero. So moment is the integration of shear, and it's a nice, you know, mathematical way to think about what's happening when we plot it like this. But we can also just do these cut methods and figure out what's going on once we do free body diagrams and balance these out. And of course the same thing can exist in torque. So I'll show that really quickly, just a simple drawing. So if I have, for example, a shaft with a pulley on it, this is kind of hard for me to draw, but do my best. Shaft with a pulley on it, and the shaft continues, and then there's another pulley. And suppose, you know, this pulley has some belt pulling on it that way, and this pulley has a belt pulling on it this way, and that's how they're, you know, transmitting force between the two. And then, you know, we usually assume that we have bearings at either end, so there's no load being carried there. So if I have bearings, that means this is free to rotate, which means there can't be any load in it. But between these two bearings, I'm going to have the resulting torque based on whatever the, you know, radius of these pulleys is. So if I were to draw a torque diagram along the position X of this shaft, I'd see that I have nothing, nothing, nothing. Then I get to that first pulley, torque, second pulley, nothing after that. So my torque would be whatever that, you know, force times radius would end up being, and it would only exist between those two pulleys. So I can do a torque diagram just like I can do a shear and bending moment diagram, depending on, you know, what's all going on in my system. Okay, well that's all I have for beam loading. We'll talk about that more as we do other example problems.


Hello everyone, welcome to Options with Doug, streaming live daily on Bookmap Discord and the Bookmap YouTube channel at 1.30pm 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, creating futures, equities, and options involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results. As a reminder, the focus of my presentation and the focus of the Options, 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. I have a two-step process for trading. In the first is planning and I use positional analysis. I look at how traders and market makers are positioned in the options market to develop a thesis regarding the expected trading range and volatility for the day as well as a directional bias. And the second step in my process is execution. And I look at real-time order flow in Bookmap and real-time market maker hedging flow with SpotGamaHero to confirm my thesis and for setups for entries and exits. And questions and comments are welcome and I will be watching the Options, Doug, Chat channel and Discord and also the Chat and YouTube for questions and comments. So, again, please feel free to post your questions and comments. Okay, let's get started. What I want to talk about today is, first of all, economic data events to wrap up the week and then just a little bit about what's coming up next week and then we'll go through our positional analysis and then we'll talk about setups and there were some great setups today. Okay, so first of all, there was a pretty big drop in the markets yesterday. I think it was around 3 p.m. and the news outlets were attributing that to some hawkish comments by FOMC members, Bullard, etc. So, anyway, that's potentially what happened yesterday and that kind of set up a return to negative Gamma, market maker's negative Gamma position for today. And now today is options expiration. This is the monthly options expiration in February. It's a pretty small expiration, smaller than January and smaller than March. And we'll look at that more closely. And also the SPX, again, has two expirations every month on the monthly expiration, the AEM settlement and the PM settlement. So, the AEM already occurred. That was at the RTH Open. And then just a reminder, Monday is a market holiday, so I will not be streaming on Monday. I will be in chat, but I will not be streaming live on Monday since it's the market holiday. All right, let's go through our positional analysis. And this is a bookmap chart of the S&P 500 futures, the ES, again, ES, S&P 500 futures. And I'm going to start by looking at some longer term charts, some simple charts. This is SPX, and I'm just showing price and spot gamma key levels. And this is a thinkorswim chart using a script that Spot Gamma provides to its subscribers. Every day you have to update this manually. But this is showing the key SPX levels. And notice here, the put wall has moved up to 4050, and that has definitely acted as support today. And then the call wall still remains at 4,200 up here. And then the key gamma strike has shifted down to 4,100 in this level. Okay, the thing to note is for a quanta while, SPX was basically moving around in a narrow range. Since most of last week until today, SPX was trading in a narrow range between 4,100 and 4,150. And especially this week, really trading in that narrow range. And then today has dropped down and is now in the 4050 to 4,100 range. Okay, so that is a thinkorswim 20 day one hour chart, looking at the bigger picture, looking at the key levels for today, as well as the trading range. And let's take a look now at a another thinkorswim chart, a little bit shorter timeframe. This is a one minute chart. So this is just for today. And showing this 4050 put wall, SPX 4050 put wall, holding a support. Okay, let's take a look at book map now. So again, this is the ES futures, S&P 500 futures. And one thing to note here is those same levels are shown here in the spot gamma cloud notes. And they're off just a little bit today. Spot gamma is using a 10 point difference between ES and SPX. And that what I calculated, that difference is a little bit lower. So it's so these levels should be down a little bit. So this is showing SPX levels converted to an equivalent ES number, again, using a 10 point difference. And that difference is a little bit smaller. So these levels should be just a little bit lower. So the notable thing about this, again, is that level holding that 4050 level holding. And I'll discuss this a little bit more on my thesis. This is what spot gamma was calling for today. So when I talk about my thesis, I'll, I'll talk about their reasoning for that. And that was in their AM founders note, the note was, was great this morning, very informative. Okay, so those are the levels that are in play for today. And interesting to note how order flow shifts from bearish to bullish as price shifts at those levels at that level. So notice the pink dots here, green dots coming up, pink dots, green dots, pink dots are market sell orders, green dots are market buy orders. So pretty consistent pattern there. Okay, shifts in levels. And there were some pretty significant shifts, significant shifts in levels. First of all, for SPX, the volatility trigger shifted up to 4095. So the SPX is now trading, trading below its volatility trigger. And that is generally bearish. That means that this is a negative gamma environment. The volatility trigger is spot gammas proprietary gamma flip level, or gamma market makers position on the gamma curve shifts from positive above to negative below. So that means that traders are long puts, market makers are short puts, and they have to sell futures to hedge their delta exposure as price decreases. Okay, so that is that's SPX volatility trigger the spy volatility trigger dropped from 412 to 408. So it is also trading below its volatility trigger. And the SPX put wall actually increased from 4000 to 4050. And I see that more as a consolidation of gamma in a more narrow range. And that that will most likely or very likely could change next week as some of those some of that gamma comes off due to expiration. And then the spy call wall actually shifted up slightly from 418 to 420, which makes sense that 418 was just kind of an odd strike. So the key gamma strike for all the indices SPX, spy, ndx and qqq all shifted down. So SPX, and remember that kind of odd shift yesterday, up from 4000 to 4150, the SPX key gamma strike has shifted down to 4100. And the key gamma strike is spot gamma's absolute gamma strike. That's a strike with the largest absolute positive and negative gamma. And the spy key gamma strike dropped from 415 to 410. And then the qqq key gamma strike dropped from 310 to 300. So I definitely interpreted that as bearish. All right, let's take a look at the gamma charts. So this is the S&P 500. This is SPX. And what this chart is showing, here's the zero line. It's showing positive gamma or a call gamma above the zero line and put gamma or negative gamma below the zero line. And this is market maker's position. So this is the 41 key gamma strike. And that's pretty obvious, the strike with the largest absolute gamma. And the put wall is actually at 4150, although there's still significant put and call gamma at 4000. And then the call wall is up at 4200. So the call wall is the strike with the largest net positive gamma. And the put wall is the strike with the largest net negative gamma. The put wall can be expected to act as support. And the call wall can be expected to act as resistance. So that's SPX. And again, the gamma is concentrated really between 4000 and 4100, both call and put gamma in that region right there. Here's spy. I'm going to zoom in. So spy the 410 as the key gamma strike. Put wall at 400. So that's the strike with the largest net negative gamma. And there's also significant gamma at the 405 level. And then the call wall is up here at 420. So for spy, the gamma is concentrated primarily around the 400 to 410 level. And you could possibly extend that up to the 415 level. All right, let me check for questions. And Jono asks, will the charm effect likely lessen the SPX put wall support level of 4050 as we get closer to the end of the day? And it's possible. Spot gamma was thinking a little something different about that level. And I'll talk about that when I get to my thesis for the day. So I look for the, and I'll talk about the charm effect and what I was looking for for setups for today. Call gamma unwind in a lot of stocks that have risen this week and traders have been buying calls and those as those out of the money calls lose value due to charm. So traders buying calls, market makers sell the calls. They have to buy stock to hedge their delta exposure due to the charm effect is those out of the money calls quickly lose value as expiration approaches. Market makers can sell their long stock edges as their delta exposure decreases. So that was the primary charm effect that I was looking for. And I'll talk more about the 4050 level again in a couple of minutes when I get to my thesis. All right. So that's SPX and spy and the ranges of the absolute gamma levels. Take a quick look at the NASDAQ. And here's QQQ. So for QQQ, the QQQ, the key gamma strike, there is it is at 300. And the call wall at 310. And then 300 is also the put wall. So most of the gamma for QQQ is concentrated between 300 and 310. All right. One other thing that I meant to look at here for SPX was this chart down at the bottom. And this is the expiration concentration for SPX, spy, QQQ and NDX. And this is showing the here's the February expiration. And this is showing, there's the zero line, call gamma above, put gamma below. So these bars are showing the, I'm sorry, that's the delta notional. So this is the positive or call delta notional and put delta notional. And notice that this expiration is call dominated according to this chart. And that is different from the January expiration, which was put dominated. Okay. So I just wanted to point that out and also notice the scale of the expiration. So this expiration was about, is about half of the January expiration and certainly way smaller than the March expiration, which is shown here. And that's the March quarterly expiration. Okay. So let's take a look now at data. And by the way, this is, since I'm showing this, I'll take a quick look. This is a similar chart that was shown in the AM Founders note. This is for equities, non-index ETFs showing the call delta dominating for equities. And that helps to support the setups that I'm going to show in a minute. So what I want to take a look at now is the gamma notional. And this is Market Makers position on the gamma curve for SPX in the left column, SPY in the middle column, and QQQ on the right column. So with that big drop yesterday afternoon, the gamma notional shifted to pretty negative for all of these indices. So yesterday, SPX, gamma notional, Market Makers position on the gamma curve was positive at 439 and today it has shifted negative to minus 254. And then SPY was negative yesterday minus 437 and has shifted much more negative to minus 1487. And then QQQ was positive yesterday 171 and has shifted to minus 345 today. So a big shift to negative gamma today for all the indices. Let's take a look at the Vana charts. And this illustrates this graphically what I was just talking about. So this is SPX. And what this is showing is that Market Makers delta notional, that's shown of the vertical axis increases as price shown of the horizontal axis decreases. So that means they have to sell futures to hedge their delta exposure as price decreases. And that's typical of a negative gamma environment. And that tends to increase volatility when Market Makers position on the gamma curve is negative. And this graph is showing how that delta notional changes with changes in price and also implied volatility. And that's shown by this green curve. That's the current expiration. And that that is showing the Vana effect, the change in delta as implied volatility changes. And we can see the shift for the last couple of days. So this is yesterday. So the shift. So again yesterday SPX gamma notional was positive. And in a positive gamma environment Market Makers delta notional increases as price increases. And they have to sell futures to hedge their delta exposure as price increases. And that tends to subdue volatility. So in a positive gamma environment, we're looking for lower volatility. And then the negative gamma environment looking for higher volatility. And let's we'll step back one more day. So shift from slightly positive, more positive, and then pretty distinctly negative. And here's SPI. And we can see the shift from mildly negative to strongly negative. Okay, so that's SPI. And then there's QQQ. So all all all three are negative gamma notional today. All right. So there's a question in discord. Do I have to record yesterday's gamma notional values? Well, I do that. But they are available. Those that data comes out. You know, we just saw the this is the AM founders note. And spot gamma keeps an archive of all of the of all these AM and PM founders notes. So if you want to see what the gamma notional is for January 3rd, whatever date, you can go back and find that AM founders note and find all the data for that date. But I actually I record this all in my I have a trading journal just a notebook that I keep. And this this helps me to track the data from day to day. And I you know, it takes me a couple of minutes in the morning. And I mark the volatility trigger zero gamma level put wall call wall key gamma strike, and a few other items like gamma notional in this notebook for sbx spy and dx and qqq. So I can quickly flip through the pages of my notebook and find that but it is available. If you don't want to do that. All right. So this is something else that I keep track of. This is a pretty simple spreadsheet that I use every day I track the key gamma strike for all the stocks on my watch list. And I compare it with the previous day. So the previous key gamma strike shows the key gamma strike from yesterday. And the current key gamma gamma strike is for today. And then I color code these red or green. So red means that that key gamma strike dropped from the previous day. So notice today, there's a lot of red here. So based on really based on this, my thesis for the day was bearish. And again, I mentioned the spot gamma am founders note was very informative today. So far is holding up. Let's go back and look at book map talking about this 4050 level. And they were looking for this level to hold today. So this is the put wall sbx 4050 put wall. And they were looking for it to hold today, due to traders not wanting to hold long puts over the weekend. So traders are possibly if they have been buying puts during the week, taking profits on those. But that should provide some support at this level. If traders are selling puts and not buying puts, and we'll look at hero in a minute and see if that is actually what's happening. But so far, this level has held. And then next week, due to this, you know, I showed the expiration, both for the indices, we looked at the chart and also the chart for expiration chart, showing Delta for equities, as well as the indices, both being call dominated, looking for some consolidation next week. So again, that would be due to the charm effect. Now that may may not happen if traders want to come in and buy the dip and start buying calls again. So we'll we'll know more next week. But anyway, that was the reasoning for the 4050 holding today. And then they're giving an edge to price dropping lower next week. Okay, so that is that is that was my thesis, it certainly made sense. And that is more discussion. Jonah will hope that answers your question about the the 4050 level and what what's backgamma was thinking. All right, let's take a look at some setups for today. And I'm going to take a little bit different approach today. And let me do this first. I'm going to reset this. And then there's some specific stocks that I want to look at. Airbnb, DoorDash, and Roku. So these were all strong stocks this week. So traders were buying calls. And I'm going to I've got these stocks and book map on another computer. Let me share my screen and we'll what we'll take a look at those in just a minute. So let's go through the equity, go through equity hub first. So what I'm looking at is this next expiry gamma percentage. So this shows the amount of gamma that is expiring today. And all these are well above 30%, which is kind of a spot gamma is cut off level for significance. So these stocks have all been in the news today, reporting earnings, I think for most of them. And traders have been bullish on the stocks buying calls. So that's the first check. And then the top gamma expiry is today. So we'll start with Airbnb here. And we can see that above this 140 level, these are this is call dominated. So this means above this level, traders were buying calls. Again, market makers selling the calls. And they have to buy stock to hedge their delta exposure. And traders were almost certainly buying the calls that expire today. So this is showing that that level, the pivot level above 140. And notice the large amount of call gamma at 140 and above. And there's also some call gamma down below. But 140 is the key strike. So that's Airbnb, DoorDash, call gamma at the 70 level on above. And there's that pivot. And then Roku call gamma that's shown by the green here above the 70 level. And put gamma below. And this is showing the concentration of gamma. Sometimes it's hard to tell from this chart at the, that's around the 70 level. Okay, so that is, that's what we, that's what we're looking for here. Notice this note. And it's similar on the other stocks. 45% of its gamma expiring today. And we can see a reversal in stock, look for support at 50. Okay, so those were three stocks with a large amount of call gamma expiring today. Now let's go take a look at Hero. Somehow my web browser has reset everything. All right, so I'm going to, let's go to Airbnb first. And let's see what traders were doing. So they were buying puts and selling calls. All right, I'm going to share my other screen. So give me just a moment here so we can look, look at book map. All right, here's Airbnb. So good, good short setup. And let's go back. And this is confirmed by, by hedging flow. So traders selling calls and buying puts and price falls closely. All right, so that's the first setup. And now let's take a look at DoorDash. Strong confirmation between hedging flow and price action. And here calls were dominating. Traders were selling those calls. So the calls that traders bought were, traders were not only taking profits, but they were quickly losing value due to the charm effect, the change in Delta as price as time passes. So as expiration approaches, those calls are quickly losing value. Market makers are selling them, or traders are, traders are selling the calls. Market makers, Delta exposure is dropping and they are selling their stock edges. So let's go take a look at book map. All right, so here's DoorDash. Another great short setup. All right, let's go back and look at Roku now. Just out of curiosity. All right, now let's go, let's go on to Roku. Stick to the script. There's Roku. So traders are both selling calls and buying puts. And those calls are losing value. Market makers that were long stock, their Delta exposure decreases and they can sell their long stock edges. Let's go take a look at book map now. So it looks like Roku is rebounding somewhat, but a good, was a good short setup in the morning. And here it is in book map. So there's the, here's like the other stocks, quick drop in the morning. And I would just be leaning short on this, looking for any potential to take a short. Okay, that is, those were some special circumstances. Just following the news this week, then looking at those stocks and equity hubs. So the first thing was first step following the news this week, knowing that those strong stocks had been strong, they were higher beta stocks that often respond well to options trades. So knowing that traders were most likely buying calls in those stocks this week, stocks that expire today. And any weakness in those stocks, those stocks, calls would start to lose value and market makers could unwind their long stock edges. So that was the first step. Second step was just looking up the stocks and equity hub, noticing the large amount of gamma expiring and checking the date. That's all today. Then the third step was checking in the chart, making sure there were some call domination, some out of the money calls that would be expiring. And then just looking at the charts, looking at hero once the market opened and checking with order flow and book map. So that's one approach. And then the other approach. And so far that's the stocks that I looked at were three for three. And those were just stocks that I had thought about that were that I remembered being in the news this week. So the next another way to approach this, actually there are a number of ways you could so the way that I did this first is just those stocks that I was aware of. And the next is go to my watch list. And I'm going to rank these by next expiry gamma percentage. And then we'll just go through these stocks in order. So let's go to coin. So I'm going to go to my watch list here in hero. Just rank this in alphabetical order. Let's look at coin base. So that is on my other computer as well. So hedging flow is bearish negative delta. And let's take a look. So mainly mainly calls driving traders are selling calls. And let's go take a look at book map now. There's coin base. Another good short setup. All right, let's go back to the list now. And the next one on my and this is the list that I'm following. I'm just going to go through in this order right here down to the 30% level. So this is I'm looking at and I've ranked them by this next expiry gamma percent. And I'm going to go down just down this list in this order and going down and stopping it at the 30% level. And note that these this is all gamma that expires today. All right, so the next is block. Let's go here. And that is also on my other computer. I keep mostly the on my main computer, mostly the large cap tech stocks. And then on the smaller computer, some of these smaller on my other computer, some of these smaller higher beta stocks. So again, just like the other stocks that we've seen the hedging flow leading or confirming price action traders of both buying puts and selling calls. And notice these numbers are pretty small. This is, you know, minuscule of a small fraction of what trades and spy and some of these large cap tech stocks. But bearish. And then here's block in. Let me just get rid of this. So here's block in in book map. Again, another another good bearish setup. All right, the next one that I have on the list is Nvidia. So we'll take a look at Nvidia. So traders are selling calls and buying puts. Actually, they're buying calls. So they're there. I'm sorry, they're buying calls and buying puts. But puts are driving. Hedging flow is bearish negative delta. Let's go take a look at book map. And that's on my main computer. All right, so there's Nvidia and hedging flow and order flow, both supporting short setups. Notice all the pink dots and CVD falling falling from the open multiple short setups at pullbacks. Okay, there's a question in discord. I'm new to this. Do you use only use this setup for the day or can you use it for intraday trades also? So I use it for for day trade. So this is I'm looking for short setups for the day. And that's really the only way that I that I trade stocks. I feel like I have a pretty significant edge for day trading with stocks using spot gamma and book map. But beyond that, I don't I don't feel like I have that much of an edge. There's some other things that that you could look at. I guess a directional edge is what I mean. You know, a range edge, I think I do have for longer. But for stocks, I again, I think I have the best edge just for day trades. And I'm showing my thesis for stocks here. So I showed the key gamma strip key gamma strike list all the stocks that had a falling key gamma strike for today. You know, I've given my thesis about a call gamma unwind showed how the for equities and the indices, this expiration was was call dominated. And then I'm just looking at order flow and hedging for flow to confirm that thesis and then looking for shorts today. And this is a setup that is specific to expiration. And for stocks like Airbnb or Door to Ash or Roku, you can do this every week, every Friday, it's a pretty reliable setup. And as long as traders are not buying calls any, any significant number, then you can look for this charm effect to be in play and for market makers to be selling their long stock edges. So I hope that answers this question. I use this as a setup for the day. And and beyond day trades, I primarily trade the S&P 500 beyond that with options using primarily non directional setups strategies to trade a range for an intermediate and a long term. So I'm selling volatility typically in the S&P 500 with option strategies, using a range that I can, that I understand from spot gamma and book map. But again, for stocks, I'm just looking to trade for the day. So let's go on. So there's another short setup in NVIDIA. Let's go back to hero. Next stock on the list. Snowflake. Another good short setup traders are. So they're selling calls and buying puts. And that's on my other computer. All right, let's go take a look at the other computer now. So there's Snowflake. So another good short setup. And the next one is Netflix. And while we're looking at this, that's also on this other computer. So Netflix up and down, but a couple of good short setups here. Short from the open. Another potential short there. Let's go take a look at hero. Go to Netflix now. And Netflix was a good short setup in the morning. This right here. Let's go to the next stock in the list. And again, remember, this is the list that I'm following. So the next one is AMD. And overall bearish order flow or price action and hedging flow shown by this following hero. Let's go take a look at, let's go take a look at bookmap now. That's on my main computer. And not a lot of range in AMD. And that's pretty typical. And AMD, small short setup in the morning. And notice that this AMD has pretty much found support at this lower edge of the expected move. And that is, that is from the options market that's showing the lower edge of the expected move for the week. And it seems like AMD has found support there. All right, there's a comment. Tesla recovered nicely back above 200. And we'll look at Tesla. That's on the list here. And that's actually the next one on the list. So let's go to Tesla. And notice 200 is the key gamma strike. Let's just go take a look at something in an equity hub. We'll take a look at Tesla and drill down a little bit. And notice the five day history that the key gamma strike at 200 has not changed. So there have been some changes in the call wall. And also the put wall has not changed in the last three days. And the hedge wall has remained around the 193, 195 level. So this 200 level is an important level. Let's take a look at this. And we can see the, there's the 200 level right there. That largest orange bar is what I'm looking at at the 200. And that is the the concentration of gamma. All right, so let's go take a look at Tesla. And again, I was looking for short setups. So there was the first one right, right from the open in the morning is looking for hero to drop. And notice hero is dropping now, potentially setting up another short setup and a return to the 200 level. And let's take a closer look and see what traders are doing. So they were probably lightly buying calls up until just recently at oh, just after two o'clock, two 10. And it looks like some pretty large orders came in selling calls. And that could potentially move Tesla back down to the 200 level. So I wasn't, was not expecting Tesla to move much below 200. I was looking for that 200 level to act as a magnet today. So let's take a look at, let's go back and take a look at book map now. So there were good, good short setups and good long. So this looks like a, you know, if you wanted to take it a good long setup. But I'm, I was looking for shorts. And there were, let me actually zoom in on this level. So I was looking for shorts here, here. And again, here, here, lower highs, lower highs, return to the 200, oops, return to the 200 key gamma strike and liquidity level there. Return to the 200. And then notice price bounces back up to the 200 level. And this is all supported by bearish order flow. Notice all the pink dots in the chart, market sell orders and following cumulative volume delta. So let's go see what Tesla is doing now, see if it's responding. So I would still be looking for shorts here. All right, let's quickly go through some of the other stocks in the list. And the next one was Apple. And we'll just stick with the total signal here. So bearish notional value following hero. Let's take a look at book map. And bearish in, in Apple as well. And by the way, Apple is one of those stocks that has a huge opening print and even a larger closing print. You can see by the huge volume dot here by orders at the open. And then hedging flow looks pretty bearish with all the pink dots after that with a narrow range, but still a downtrend down to the 151 level. Let's take a look at, take a look at the next stock on the list. That's Moderna. And we'll go to hero and then Moderna is on my other computer. All right, so bearish set up in the morning. And then Moderna is trying to recover, although hero is, is pretty flat. And if there was any downtick in hero, I would, in order flow, I would be looking for another short in Moderna. All right, let's take a look. That's on my other computer. There's Moderna and a short set up in the morning. All right, the next stock is, is Google. Take a quick look at that hero. So short set up this morning, not really confirmed by, by hedging flow. And we'll just skip over that one. You, you could have, you know, there's a short set up this morning, but again, not really confirmed by hedging flow. Let's just take a look and see if looking at puts and calls provides any more clarity. Really, we'll take a, we'll take a look in book map. So there's a short set up in Google, although again, not really clearly confirmed by hedging flow. Next one is Amazon and not a lot of range, but also a short set up. You know, if you miss the short at the opening, at the open, there's the, the next short. All right, that was the, all the stocks on my list. Let's go back and check equity hub. Check that list. Let's see. I don't think we ever looked at hero and spy. So, all right, so the, let's go back to this list and spy and actually meta. Let's, let's take a look at meta and a good, good short set up up until about one, one 30 confirmed by hedging flow. Let's go take a look at meta and book map and pretty choppy. You know, you could have taken shorts or a long in the afternoon, falling hero. And again, remember, we're getting down toward the bottom of the list with just around 30% of gamma expiring. So not as significant. And that is really all that I had today. Let me, I haven't checked YouTube in a while. Let me check YouTube for questions. All right, so Sheena ask, can I look at spy? So let's go take a look at spy. And that 4050 put wall, SPX 4050 put wall continues to act as support. And let's go take a look at hero for spy. So here is spy. All right, so here is hero for spy. And remember, spy was a, a special circumstance. The spot gamma AM founders note talking about traders not wanting to go home over the long three day weekend with, with long puts. So let's see what they're doing. So they're actually buying calls and buying puts. And that's this has been typical all week. But anyway, that's that 4050 level continues to hold. So and let's go back and we'll end up with book map here at spy. So the 4050 level has held just like spot gamma expected it to the the call gamma unwind stock setup that I showed for today showing that the process of going over that had a very good, I think it was 100% hit rate today, especially the stocks that were special circumstances like a Airbnb, a door dash and Roku, those were all great shorts. And then some of the other stocks in my watch list were as well, but there were good, shortable setups and all the stocks. So 100% hit rate in that call gamma unwind setup. And then again, next week, we're looking for the levels to change. And so potential weakness in the market do especially to the call dominated expiration today. So one last question Sheena asked is on unwinding long hedges, put downward pressure on stock? And yes, that's what I've been talking about. So a rash says Tesla's going up. And yes, so there were good short setups and Tesla this morning, I took one. But this call gamma unwind strategy. There's a caveat to that. And that's why we want to check hero. And now we can see that hero is is starting to rise again. Let's take a look at let's change to a 30 minute look back period. Now this doesn't help. So traders are just buying buying stock. But again, there were short setups this morning. And I would look for Tesla to roll over it at some point. And again, unwinding long stock hedges does put downward pressure on stock. Market makers are selling stock. Yeah, that does put pressure downward pressure. So anyway, that's all I have for today. I want to thank you for your questions and comments. And remember that Monday is a market holiday. I will be in chat, but I will not be streaming. So again, have a great weekend. Thanks for your questions, comments. And I will see you on Tuesday.