Well, you know for some people it's very little. You know, they kind of stick to just the people they know It might be five percent. It might be zero. It might be ten percent However, the average in our study was thirty five percent so some people are walking around and 50 60 percent of the people and this was a nationally representative study so 50 or 60 percent of the people that they are interacting with on social media They've never actually met face-to-face What's up everybody and welcome to the show today. We drop great content each and every week And we want to make sure that you guys get notified and in order to do that You're gonna have to smash that subscribe button and hit that notification bell And if you've gotten a lot of value out of this make sure you give us a like and share our videos with your friends I certainly agree with the comparison part I'd like to unpack that a little bit more because I know everyone in our audience feels it and we're now living in a World where by pulling out a device that's ubiquitous. It's in our pocket. We can see inside each other's houses We can see what someone is doing on this fantastic trip We can see highlight reels of complete strangers and now we're not only comparing ourselves to our social circle to our community We're comparing ourselves to the entire world and that is certainly having a mental health impact So what is the research showing us there around comparison specifically setting aside all of the news and the doom-scrolling and what strategies Do the science show that can really help us overcome this comparison? Yeah, no, it's a great question and comparison is very interesting because There's another double whammy that unfortunately we are experiencing that makes this very problematic. Okay, Yikes I know I know as if as if we didn't have a you know enough All right, so there's always been comparison, right? You know you go into a classroom and somebody is better looking or has better, you know You know clothing or something then then then you do You know you go to work and you know someone's got a better car, you know something like that Advertising then came after you know sort of just our regular social Interactions and all of a sudden you're able to see that you know wow that model is Really really good-looking and definitely has a better car than I do however, there still is sort of a part of the human being that doesn't necessarily compare yourself to You know Brad Pitt well at least in my case I mean it so Instead we are meant to and we see this in the animal kingdom as well, you know baboons will Compare themselves to other baboons that are like them and They will try to do the same things that those similar baboons did or they will decide not to do things that other Baboons like them didn't do but the that other kind of baboon or that other kind of animal I don't necessarily follow. So in my case for example, you know, I I'm 52 You know, I'm I'm pretty Small I'm not extremely, you know like sports incline. So I'm not gonna really compare myself to Aaron Rogers I'm not gonna be all bummed that I don't have a quarterback rating of a hundred in 15 seasons, right? You know, that's not gonna upset me. However, if one of my friends is running a 5k Twice as fast as I am that is going to upset me. In other words, we we tend to have more Challenges and we tend to compare ourselves more and more Problematically to people who are in our demographic, you know, sort of groups And so what this means is that you've got this real double whammy with social media First of all, I don't I'm not friends with Aaron Rogers. I'm not friends with Warren Buffett So I'm not comparing myself to, you know, his portfolio, but on the other hand I am friends with, you know, other people that are like me And if they've got a bigger house or a better car or a boat or something that does, you know sort of mean more of a challenge for me mentally and so What that means is that I'm comparing myself to exactly the group that I'm most sensitive to but I'm not seeing them realistically Because they are all showing me one in five hundred pictures. So it I know that person. I know John, right? So I'm like, oh, that's John, but it's not really John. It's like an idealized version of John It's like super John, you know, and so I really shouldn't be comparing myself to that but I do and So therein lies the problem and why I think the social comparison is such is such an issue is that it's It's very very curated You know, well produced images, but it's also about the people and the the situations that I directly am programmed to compare myself to One of the things that I found interesting in reading the book You are bringing this up, but I couldn't also help but recognize that a lot of the relationships that we build online are non-reciprocal Right like I've built a relationship with this youtuber who's content I watch and who's blogging about their day and and I've connected to this person But they don't have any And I don't even exist to them, right? And so the the relationship is one way and I'm I'm curious to know if if that not being reciprocated Affects us and in any manner. I mean we certainly we leave comments We we maybe we write them to try to get some attention to say that we Enjoy their work and that we're here and and how much their work means to us But I'm sure that has to play some sort of role Mentally as if we are so connected with them But yet but yet we are we are so far away from them It definitely does and we actually have some science around this So for example, we did a study And published it that demonstrated that The number of your friends who are not face-to-face That number is directly related to depression So for example, if we say to a group of people Hey, what percentage of your friends, you know that you that you interact with regularly on social media You know, what percentage of those people are people you've never met face-to-face We drop great content each and every week and we want to make sure that you guys get notified and in order to do that You're gonna have to smash that subscribe button and hit that notification bell And if you've gotten a lot of value out of this make sure you give us a like and share our videos with your friends Well, you know for some people it's very little You know, they kind of stick to just the people they know it might be five percent. It might be zero. It might be 10 percent However, the average in our study was 35 percent So some people are walking around and 50 60 percent of the people and this was a nationally representative study So 50 or 60 percent of the people that they are interacting with on social media They've never actually met face-to-face and what we found is that for every 10 percent increment There's a significant likelihood that that person will be more depressed And the idea is I think related to what you're talking about Johnny in the sense that If you're not being reciprocated and if you don't really know what that person is like in real life You know, then you don't really have reality To temper some of the curating that's going on on social media If you know the person in you know in real life and you see this beautiful picture of them But you know that there's a double chin there because you've seen that double chin in real life Then you're kind of like, okay, you know, oh, that's you look so great But on the other hand if you've never seen that in real life, then you're thinking, oh my gosh You know every single person out there just is so fit and trim and and great And so I think that that's at least partially related to to what you're pointing out Well, certainly and and I think this is also why AJ and I go to such great lengths within our programs, we hold Masterminds and get-togethers quarterly so that our participants and for our own benefit get the meat Face-to-face the people we've been working with and it not only solidifies those relationships It solidifies the community and it offers more investment for our client's success And for them to feel good for everything that they are They are investing in themselves And I know for X Factor members when we talk about wins It's very easy to to build up a highlight reel of all the other Participants and to feel that everyone else is winning But you're not that you're falling behind And then when you get to spend time together in a room and actually interact with one another You really start to see the full picture that we're not seeing online We don't have that level of resolution And you know, I'm either fortunate or unfortunate to live in LA and be surrounded by influencers And have seen influencers in the wild and seen how much time effort and energy goes into curating a photo shoot Or a video shoot to get that one snapshot And all the effort that goes behind the scenes to realize well, I don't really want to be an influencer I don't want to put in that level of effort But if all I'm doing is following influencers and all I'm doing is interacting in this online space I'm really setting myself up for not only the comparison, but then also to feel really disconnected from reality So what I wanted to touch on it and Johnny and I have talked about this a little bit So we had Eric Weinstein on and we were talking about how Johnny's experience in the algorithm is different than my experience in the algorithm And at times it's caused friction And we're really great friends and business partners and we've both had to unplug and be like, okay Well, what what's reality here? Because now I realize that I'm living in this algorithm and and the world as it's being painted Is a certain color for me and a certain color for Johnny based on what he's clicking and interacting with And he was encountering news stories that I hadn't even heard of He was hearing narratives that I had never come in contact with And we're approaching Thanksgiving And we all have those family members who live on facebook who live in conspiracy theoryville and can Actually fray real relationships in real life because of what we're consuming in social media What is the science telling us around what's happening with misinformation Disinformation and and how it's fraying are real social ties the connections. We have built in real life It's a critical issue and you know piggybacking on everything that you're saying.  I mean because I see you in one way On this platform and I see you in this in a different way in person And I see you in a different way on this other platform And you yourself probably almost inhabit a different Persona in each of these different areas I mean, it's always been a little bit of a challenge because you know We present ourselves to our parents and our teachers very differently than we present ourselves to our best friends say, right? But you still have this sort of bit of core of identity But I think related to what you're saying We have such different experiences because this one is associated with this algorithm and this one is associated with this algorithm We can even be thinking wondering at this point kind of who exactly are we? I think a a a 2.0 step above You know old identity Formation challenges 1.0 was still difficult. I still had to figure out who I was You know with this group of friends versus this group of friends But I think that the the the sort of tech world has has has put that up even another level it's interesting um and talking about that and and one thing that Some of us have have been dealing with is No matter what platform you might be using your success or virility Your your content going viral It depends on how the algorithms are are being used So how I might interact with somebody on one platform is going to be different on interacting with somebody else Not only just due to what that platform is and what it's designed for But how the algorithms choose and use and put your stuff out there Of course when we see things like on twitter those the most Craziest and and Contrary and certainly get spread Much farther than say what what is going to happen on instagram and how we use those Both those platforms are Incredibly different which paints an Uncompletely different picture of who that person is


If He takes away the whole of mirrors, you will not see yourself anymore, and you will not be able to love yourself anymore. So you need the whole of mirrors. You become addicted to the whole of mirrors. Every morning you enter the whole of mirrors, you see yourself here, and here, and here, and here. And you fall in love again, every morning. And He has the power to shut off the whole of mirrors, to take it away. He has total power over you. This is why loving analysis is an utterly immersive and addictive process. It's like some kind of virtual reality, but very high-level virtual reality, what we call immersive virtual reality, where we feel that we're inside the world, inside that virtual world. But none of it would have worked if the victim had self-love to start with. If the victim loved herself to start with, she wouldn't need the mirrors. The mirrors would not work. She would immediately identify that it's self-love and not real love, and she would walk away. Therefore, the victims of narcissists, I mean, when I say victims, I mean someone who fell in love, cannot fall out of love, is addicted, stalking, obsessed, this kind of victims. And the victims who have malignant optimism, the belief that if they only love the narcissist, if they only cure the narcissist, if they only convince him to go to therapy, if they only love him unconditionally, everything will be okay. They will fix the fixers, the ones who fix the narcissist, the total nonsensical delusion. But these type of victims, they never had self-love to start with. A relationship with a narcissist is their first experience at self-love, which is utterly addictive. At a late age, it's very addictive. So because they don't have this experience of self-love, they have an emptiness. Exactly like the narcissist is the emptiness. But they have n emptiness. They have a hole. It is through this hole that the narcissist enters. That's a penetration point. And it's not death hole. It's a metaphorical mental hole. Through this mental hole, the narcissist penetrates, intrudes, invades and colonizes. Colonizes, it's a parasite. Narcissus is a parasite. It's a parasite invades the body and colonizes it. But there must be a hole. A woman without a hole is not amenable to the narcissist. His charm is magic, but not work. She must have a hole. She must have a lack of self-love, lack of self-awareness. And she must allow the narcissist to be the agent of her own self-discovery. In this, ironically, a relationship with the narcissist is a form of therapy. Or even on psychotherapy. It's a form of therapy. Because it is through the narcissist that she becomes much more self-aware and develops self-love. Experiences self-love. The only problem is that she cannot continue with these very positive developments except through the agency of the narcissist. In other words, he becomes her pusher, her supplier. Without him, she cannot obtain the drug of self-love or continue as self-awareness. That's the only problem. Otherwise, I would have said that ironically, having a relationship with the narcissist is actually a positive thing. It forces you to become self-aware, forces you to love yourself and forces you to protect yourself, to defend yourself. Finally, to stand up for yourself just in order to survive. So normally, it's actually a positive therapeutic experience, but it creates addiction for the narcissist.  These are the negative aspects of this. So the narcissist is a bed therapist. It's a therapist who abuses the patient. By the way, many narcissists openly would say, I'm going to heal you.  I'm like your doctor. I'm like your guru. Listen to me. I will teach you. I will lead you. They play the part of the teacher, the guru, the therapist, in order to penetrate. So this is modern life. What is it for you to dance macabre and how to dance? You usually mention in your videos that it's a dance macabre. How can we get out of this game and spread this cycle? My very good friend, Joanne Lechkar, who was the first psychologist to notice the resonance of pathologies between victim and narcissist. In 1983, she wrote the book The Narcissistic Borderline Couple, which was the first book ever on pathological resonance. She said that narcissists and their intimate partners or victims, their emptinesses resonate, their pathologies resonate. She said the rest of the dimensions of personality don't interact. Just the pathologies, just the pain, just the trauma, just the hurt, just the void, just the emptinesses. And the second edition of the book, it's a brilliant groundbreaking book. So she was the first to notice that. It's a huge problem. It's a very big problem. The rate of recidivism, in other words, the rate of going back to another narcissistic partner is extremely high among victims. Victims have been traumatized beyond words, lost all their money, ended up in jail, drug addiction, ruined lives, lost their children, and so on. Again, go to a narcissistic partner. Unstoppable. In this sense, the rate of recidivism among victims of narcissistic abuse from my anecdotal research. But it's much smaller. My database is huge. The rate of recidivism I can compare only to alcoholism. Even worse than drugs. As in drugs, we have about 60%. Alcohol, we have about 80% in the first year. So alcohol is the worst. To get rid of alcoholism is the worst addiction. Smashes, for example, to get rid of heroin and alcohol. And above alcohol are these toxic relationships. The victims of narcissists keep choosing narcissists. Because the experience of loving a narcissist, in other words, loving yourself, is incomparable. Nothing comes close to it. The world looks dead, black and white and hopeless and dreamless without it. It's interesting to love yourself erotically, sexually and romantically because it's not a typical self-love. It's not the healthy self-love. It's a healthy self-love. Where you have a core, you know yourself, and you parentify yourself.  Yes, you give unconditional love, support, advice, guidance to yourself. That's a healthy self-love. The self-love that I'm talking about with a narcissist is very sick. It's much closer, I would say, to incest. It's making love to yourself, also sexually, also erotically. So it's an indescribable experience of being in love with yourself, not only in the healthy sense, but also in the totally sexualized, eroticized, fetishized sense. In other words, you become your own fetish. It's a form of fetishism. It is an experience the likes of which I am not aware of in any other human interaction. It's absolutely mind-boggling, mind-blowing experience. And once you have gone through it, it's very difficult to go back to the normal world. Very difficult. The normal world feels dead, simply. Narcissism somehow makes you feel alive. It's what is sex, or what is eroticism, what is it? It's a force of life, of course. It's a force of procreation. It's a force of making new life. You feel very alive when through the narcissist you love yourself in every possible way. So it's a wow experience. Where else can you find this? You try. You try very hard. You take normal guidance. There is this. So far.


So I may or may not know how to tie my own shoes, but I did figure out a way that I can tie really cool looking knots inside of Cinema 4D that I'm going to share with you. In this video, I'm going to show you all the steps to creating this procedural knot twist animation using the new Cinema 4D rope dynamics and how you can easily iterate and create any type of rope knot animation that's in your twisted little head. Now if you want to follow along, you can support me by downloading the project files that I'm using in this tutorial. You can find the link to that in the description below. Let's dive right in. All right, let's create some twisty rope. Let's start out with a spline that will turn into a rope. Let's start out with a circle spline here. Let's bring the radius down and let's use an ellipse as well so we can adjust both the X and the Y here so we can go a little bit something like this. And what we're going to do is let's actually grab a sphere and let's look through it. Let's turn on our Superman X-ray vision here. What I want to do is I want to create this sphere and have these circle splines turn into rope, have some of the splines be attached to the surface of the sphere, then we're going to shrink down the rope and by having all these splines shrinking down, they will intersect with each other and wrap around each other and create some really nice knots. Okay, so you might not believe me just yet, but follow along. It'll all make sense soon. So if we create a whole bunch more splines, let's go and grab a cloner. Let's clone the circle spline and let's actually clone onto an object. That object will be this sphere. So now we have all these splines cloned onto the surface of this sphere. Let's actually change the up vector to positive X and that's just going to change the axis that these circle splines are facing on our surface of our sphere and let's bring down the count as well. And so all of our circle splines are at the outside of our surface, so let's bring them on the inside by going to our transform and adjusting the position Z. If we shrink this down enough, or if we move these in offset these enough, you can see that now we're having some of the edges of our circle spline on the outside and some being on the inside. And so what we're going to do is we're going to build connections to some of the bits of the spline to the surface of the sphere and then shrink the rest and again create those knots. So let's go ahead and let's go to the object tab and we can always adjust the random seed here to create different configurations and this is nice to like art direct and create different types of knots. So again, we're going to build a connection. We're going to first make our spline into rope and we're going to do that by right clicking on the cloner, going to simulation tags and we're going to go to rope. And so now we'll have rope dynamics applied to our spline can see that our ropes just fall. So let's actually just turn off gravity so we don't have stuff just falling down. So a command and control D and go to our simulation tab, go to our scene wide simulation settings and just zero out gravity. Okay, so now we have all these dynamic splines. And we want to do is attach some of the edges to the edge of the sphere and then shrink down the rest. So let's talk about how we can shrink down this rope. And how we can do that is in the rope tag settings, we have this target length option here. And if we shrink this down, you can see that we're actually bringing down the length of our spline to 47% of its initial size. So what we can do is let's right click on the arrow here to bring this back to its default value. What we can do is set a key frame at frame zero at 100% of target length. And then bring this down, let's just start with 50% of our target length.  Right now, we're not really getting any type of knots or anything like that. Because remember, we still need to have bits of our spline or a rope attached to the surface of the sphere. So it can have some kind of anchor, and then shrink down from there to create those knots. So we need to build a dynamic connection between our rope in our sphere. So we're going to use something called a dynamic connector. So if I right click on the sphere, or I can add this tag to either of these objects, simulation tags connector, what a dynamic connector does, it's very aptly named it creates connections between dynamic objects. And right now, we only have one objects that's dynamic. So we're not going to be able to create any connections to the sphere, unless we also make it dynamic. So let's go ahead and do that right click, simulation tags, cloth. And so now, if I go and you're not going to see any connection show up in your viewport, unless you choose update live, and if I increase the size here, this is the search radius. So once the connector finds two vertices that are within this search radius, it's going to build a connection, as you can see here in yellow. So if I go to display, grad shading lines, you can see that wherever there is a vertices that is within this search radius of another vertices, so a vertices on the sphere, and the vertices on the spline, it's going to create a connection. Okay. And so once we do that, if I hit play, you can see that some of our spline is connected to some of our sphere in the sphere is just doing a little sphere twist, right there. And we don't actually want the sphere to move at all, we just want it to be dynamic. So to pin our cloth in place, we're going to select our cloth tag, go to mix animation and turn on with pins. And this is like your follow position, follow rotation of your old dynamics. And you can see now we have our splines connected to some parts of our sphere. And they're shrinking down. And we're not actually getting any nice like intersections here, no nice twists, no knots. So we can tweak this a little bit more. So there's two things we can do. Number one is our sphere has vertices that are more clumped together on the top and bottom, we can even out these vertices by choosing a different type of sphere. So we can go in change this to a hexahedron. Now you can see the vertices are more evenly spaced. And you'd see that our dynamic connector is kind of all out of whack. And this is just a little gotcha with a dynamic connector. Is that anytime you change anything, so like the vertices placement on a sphere, you just jiggle the search radius here a little bit, and then it will update. And it's a little bit of a pain because of this glitch. What I like to do is I like to click and drag the search radius, drag it into the viewport, twirl this up. And then so this stays up all the time, going to right click, go to show always. And so if I change anything like the seed here, you can see how the connections are all out of whack. Instead of having to go back into the tag, I can actually just jiggle this right here. And you can see those update. You can also go and update the max connections here. And you can see we can only make so many connections because our circle spline has a very low amount of subdivisions or intermediate points. You can see that the spline's kind of chunky. So I'm going to update this to let's do like 55. And again, we're just going to jiggle this. And you can see now we have more vertices of the spline to connect to single vertices of the sphere. Okay, so let's go ahead and let's hit play now. And we're starting to see, we're starting to see some little intersections there, which is looking pretty good. Let's actually turn off the sphere from viewport view and render view. And let's see what we can do at this point. So the first thing we can do is on the rope tag, we can up the friction value here. So the ropes will, when they collide with each other, they're going to want to stick to each other a little bit more. So if I bring this down, you can see what's going on. So let's actually see if we can get away with shrinking down our rope even more because I think there's too much slack here. So let's go to our timeline. And we already set some keyframes to our rope target length here. So it's at 50. Let's go to about 30%. And let's hit play. And now you're seeing that everything's just going to snap in not even intersect with each other. And that's because our dynamic simulation is going too fast. And it's not accurately calculating all the collisions. So when you have dynamics going really fast, sometimes the intersections and the collisions won't register. So in that case, you'll need to up some of your simulation settings. So let's do that by hitting command and control D. Let's go to our simulation tab simulation. And we're going to up some of the settings here. So smoothing iterations going to help everything kind of calm down and remove jitter from our simulation. So let's bring this to like 20. And the damping is going to add a little bit more drag to our scene. So let's actually bring this all the way to 100%. So it's going to look like everything's underwater. And the real thing that we're going to worry about here is the collisions. So if we up this to like four and two, let's see if the fast moving dynamics will actually calculate those collisions. And voila, the collisions are taking hold. And you can see these nice little knots that we're getting right here. So this is looking really, really great. But of course, we just have splines at this point. Let's see what these knots will look like with actual geometry swept along our splines. So keyword, we're going to sweep some geometry across our splines. So let's add a sweep. Let's add our profile spline that will sweep along our circle splines here. So let's grab an inside. And let's go drag the sweep in there. And then the cloner. And we got to bring the inside down quite a bit. And you'll see that this is only going to sweep one of the splines. Because right now, the sweep objects not recognizing the cloner and all of the clone splines, it's just recognizing one. So to fix that, we're going to do one thing. And that is add a connect object, throw our cloner in the connect object. And that's going to say, Hey, sweep object, I'm going to connect all these clones together. And you're going to see it as a single spline, you're going to sweep all those splines with this inside. Okay, so you can see that our inside radius is a little bit too big. And the thickness that is used to calculate the collisions is this radius right here. So point five is actually a good number. So we can actually just update the radius to point five as well. And now you'll see this is all perfectly flush. We got these really nice knots going on. And you can see that we can probably up the sides here. So we're adding some more definition here. And that's looking pretty nice. And at the end of the day, we can always throw all of this in a subdivision surface and really smooth all that out. And you can also see there's like this little twist happening here. Sometimes that'll happen. And what I found fixes it sometimes is if you go to your sweep and uncheck banking, that will kind of help. But so right now, we got all these really nice looking knots. Before we get any further, I just wanted to say if you're digging this tutorial, I would really appreciate a like. And if you would gently just nudge the subscribe button, you don't want to smash it because that's abuse. And I'm sure the subscribe button would really like it if you would take it easy on it because it has feelings just like you and me. And at this point, you could go in here and like compose a shot. And there might be like this spline right here that might be in your view.  Now maybe you think this composition looks great as is. But what I want to do is show you how you can art direct and remove some of these clones. So what I'm going to do is select my cloner right here, I'm going to go to MoGraph, MoGraph selection. And if I just click once in my viewport, you're going to see hopefully you can see all these little gray dots. All these dots represent one of these clones. So if I select one of these dots, it's going to highlight yellow means it's selected, I can hold the shift key down and add to the selection. And what I can do is with those two clones selected, and the cloner object selected as well, I can go back to the MoGraph menu, and go to hide selected. And that's going to create a plane object that's going to automatically hide those selections. So if I toggle this, you can see I actually selected two splines that are actually part of the knot here. So if I turn this on, so I'm actually going to hit the commander control key and try to remove these and actually need to remember I need to select the cloner. And then I can hold the commander control key and then deselect those clones. But I can go in, select this clone, and actually that hid a spline that we won't need in this view. Let's hold the shift key down, add to selection. And that's actually a spline that's in our knot right there. We got some clones down here, I'll select that. That's actually part of it. What about this one? Nope. This one? Nope. This one is part of it. So hold the shift key down, we're adding to selections. And I'm just undoing if it's actually part of this knot here. Yep, that's part of it. That's part of one two. That is as well. So is that so we have a lot of splines as part of this little knot here. So it looks like we're not able to remove too much more. Yeah, because we got all these all these part of it. But we actually, you know, took care of removing some here. So let's actually go back here. So you can see we remove some splines from this, but all the other splines are actually a part of this knot we have here, but we can still try to art direct and crop in. Let's go and use redshift here. And let's grab a redshift camera, look through it. And if we go a longer lens here, and flatten everything out, you can see how we can kind of crop out all the other splines on the side there. And so we can get some really nice looking dynamic looking compositions with all these splines compose your shot. Now the one thing I want to mention is that when we do this and you remove some of the clones, it's actually going to remove it from the simulation as well. So if we go, let me just turn on garage shading, you can see that this is, you know, the simulation is still running pretty good. But if you wanted to first have the sim run, and then remove the clones, what we'll do is we'll unhide the selection, and we can cache our simulation as well.  And this is going to cache the simulation with all of the cloned ropes. Okay, so we're going to get the same consistent simulation here. And you see this is pretty like it's not very jittery at all, which is really, really nice. So we don't have like any popping going on, because we updated those settings. I'm just going to let this play out here. And so now we have the cache simulation. And then once we have this done, we can then go and turn back on our, or hide selection there, and compose our shot. So turn back on our subdivision surface. And that's looking pretty good. If you lost all of your money investing in Dogecoin like me, you know it's important to save money when you can. And that's why I'm here to tell you all about the three day sale that Maxon is having, where you can save 40% off of Maxon one subscriptions, or 30% off of new annual subscriptions of individual products can find the link to save all those monies in the description below. And really quickly, I want to show you if you want to say art direct this and say like, Oh, I actually don't like that not. How can we go and randomly get another type of situation going on here? So I'm going to go clear scene cache. And then remember, we went into this cloner. And we can adjust the seed here. Again, we're going to need to adjust the connector search radius there to toggle and update the dynamic connector there. And we can try this configuration and see what kind of knots we get. And so you can see we're getting totally different knots. This is actually with the hide selection still on. So this is like a whole different cool not set up here that I'm actually digging a lot. So maybe this works for a simulation as well. And so there's a lot of possibilities here by simply just adjusting the cloner seed, the count of the amount of splines you have, and get all these type of really unique looking knots. And it's very, very simple. It looks like a very complex animation, but it's not at all.  And you get something looking cool like this. So hopefully this inspires you to create some nice looking rope simulations. And I'm not going to really cover here's a here's another example of a nice little knot simulation here. And I'm not going to cover the lighting or anything like that, but I am using some GSG grayscale gorilla plus paracord materials that I highly recommend you use for any rope simulation because they just look freaking beautiful. So I'm going to link to a GSG tutorial that covers how to add these materials to your rope and also how to light your scene as well. Because Nick did a great job doing that aspect of it. But at least you have a really nice rope simulation that you can go and apply those textures to and make really nice looking rope knot simulations. So there you have it. It's pretty incredible what you can do with the new simulation systems inside of cinema 4D. I know I'm having a lot of fun exploring and sharing all of the things that I'm learning about the new simulation systems with you also. I hope you're enjoying it. If you are, please like the video and leave a nice comment. Give me the thumbs up emoji in the comment. I really appreciate that. And as always, really appreciate you watching and all the support that you give me. Thanks for watching. I hope to see you again in another tutorial real soon. See ya!


You forgot to say at the beginning of the screening and it's very important. We do have some sponsors for this screening and some of you may have seen them around. They meet to almost every film, Pam Wintle and Henry. Sorry, they're very close friends and suddenly I forgot his surname. Henry Griffin. They were around the first few days and they were really looking forward to being here at this screening but they had to leave very, very slightly and go back to their home in Washington D.C. for family reasons. So I thank them very much anyway. Kristen Hansen. Elections and exhibitions at the Fleming Museum of Arts at the University of Vermont. Maybe you could go closer. It's very awkward having to push the mic into your mouth so I'm really sorry about that. Okay, we'll try again. So my name is Kristen Hansen and I'm the curator of collections and exhibitions at the Fleming Museum at the University of Vermont and I just started in that position about a year ago. So I'm happy to share with you a little bit about what we're doing at the Fleming Museum and to discuss thinking through the history of the museum, the history of the collecting and in terms of reimagining the museum so that it can be more inclusive, welcome and relevant to our audiences. So like I said, I arrived in August of 2022 and one of the things that drew me to this position is the opportunity to work at an academic art museum where we would have more opportunities to take risks and chances and push boundaries unlike at previous institutions where I have worked at the Art Institute of Chicago which is much more limited in terms of the types of shows that were being put on. Additionally, I saw the Fleming Reimagined Initiative and Vision Statement that had been posted on the museum's website. That's an initiative that was started in the summer of 2020 to start really critically thinking and evaluating the history of the museum as an institution and to look critically at whose stories, narratives and lives are being represented by works in the collections and who had been historically marginalized, erased or sort of left out of the collection but also being represented. So those are things that we're working on now and that we're trying to fold into all aspects of museum practice. So it's not just about the works that you're seeing in the galleries or the programming that's happening, it's at every level of museum practice. So I'm happy to open up to questions about anything that you saw in the film that you thought was interesting or specific questions that you might have about the work that's happening at the Fleming now. Maybe I'll speak loudly. How do you forget? Good. The audience, right? The Fleming is a collection of objects that is both broad and specific meaning that you're going to focus some of your activities on artists who've probably been here in the region, right? And thinking about collecting broadly sort of the future for the more diverse works. I work at Sheldon Museum and we have similar channels when thinking about our support holdings. I'm curious about this. Yeah, that's a great question. Thank you. And I can speak to one of the projects that I most recently worked on was an installation of paintings in our Marble Court balcony, which is a space that because of the light that comes in through the windows can't really tolerate showing works on paper or textiles. So I was limited in terms of selecting paintings and I decided to show a selection of regional landscapes of Vermont and New England because that's a large strength of our collection. But the more that I looked, the more that I realized that we were really limited in terms of women artists and artists of color. So I think two of the 15 paintings in that space are works by women. And one way that I tried to address that was to be really transparent by creating labels that reflected on museum practice and were really transparent about those gaps and limitations in our collection. One of them in fact starts by asking viewers who's missing or underrepresented in this gallery, the answer is women, and I go on to explain why that's the case. And in another label I also ask whose perspective is missing in this gallery and one of those answers is Indigenous Peoples. And in fact, one of the women artists who's shown in the gallery is Felicia Meyer Marsh and she's entered our collection largely because of her association with men. Her father was a painter and then she married Reginald Marsh and I sort of think that her work wouldn't have entered into the collection and wouldn't have been accepted if it wasn't bundled together with the gift of work by her father and then work by her husband. But to talk about going forward we're right now working on a collecting plan which I think will lay out quotas as they were talking about in the film that will be really specific about what type of work we want to collect and who we want to give visibility to. I actually had invited, contacted the Shelburne Museum to participate in the Q&A and was told that it's too complicated. Oh, that's true. I can tell you that every curator I've ever done I have had, you know. Just saying. So I wanted all the local curators to be here. Yes, there's a... Yeah, it's a really interesting collection and I think that part of the exhibition was basket and in the film you're settled, you're able to say, hey, you just want to be kind of representative of, you know, whatever, I don't know. Actually, no, thanks. So I think with that kind of capacity that there's a bunch of ways are to be set. You know, this is the 15 hours where I'm not not related, you know, to marriage and births. You might not have got views or we're not going to get that far. So my question is, is there probably a different question at the beginning of the process and if so, how do you select the curators? And how does... And how does how do you select the curators either validate or invalidate the process so that as the content of the museum becomes more diverse and more inclusive historically it's not just on a whimsy or just because someone has to be able to enact your own, or whatever, right? But if there's some kind of vision of our society here, how does that happen? I think something that I was struck by throughout the film is who was at the table and who wasn't in terms of all of these different types of decisions that were being made. We saw three, four people at the table, most often white men, and they're talking about how do we have our collection be more inclusive and diverse when we're not asking the very people who are making this art or the audiences who are coming to the museum what it is that they want to see. And I think that's probably where we're going forward is that we're going to be more democratic and transparent in these processes and maybe open up acquisitions, ideas for brainstorming to students or present a pool of works and ask students or... For what sort of piece of art is this? I think that there would be some value that we could bring out, whether you're reading a series of books or whatever kind of way of art you're doing it. I think that's the first piece of art. So if you're reading for visual art or art of color, who are you going to become and then who do you reach out to? Or whatever it is. And I think without that, we're left with a little bit of sense of why we can, you know, work with people at all. And I think part of what we also want to do is create more opportunities for community engagement. So these selections of works by artists of color are not independent and completely removed from the communities that we're interacting with. We're building relationships that are leading us to supporting local artists and bringing them into the fold and creating lasting relationships as opposed to just buying something and bringing it to the museum as though we've solved a problem. There's a question there, Michelle. Okay, number one. Very close. Can everybody hear me today? One thing that I thought was really interesting and I like that you brought up the conversation about who was at the table and that being interrogated a little bit later in the film was something that I found fascinating just in my own experiences living in Vermont these last six years. There was such a binarial thinking happening where it was we want more women. We want more people of color. But then it gave me the impression that there was a lack of understanding that there's intersection. So then we need to get more women but then we can't have more people of color. We get more people of color than we can have women which then also made me go, so then aren't I a woman then? So would I not fit both of those categories, right? And then also when they did bring up the person of color and it was a man. So then it was like we went back through the hierarchical structure and we started to open the door for. I'm curious about what you felt about that watching it and then what has been your experience as a curator as, and please forgive me on my own assumption, a woman in this space doing this work and then trying to be more equitable in this work. This was the position of Antonia Gray who was on the beat before. Thank you. I think that I really struggled to find the right language to talk about some of the art in our collection and I think that in some cases I'm not the best person to write about and describe the art and I think part of what we're also trying to do is democratize whose voices and perspectives are appearing in the gallery through label texts and through other means of describing and interpreting the works. A direction of moving the floors. And it's really hard to reduce artistic categories. I always am worried about the language that I'm using to describe artists, especially if they're not alive and they would not use those terms in their own lifetime. I'm worried about retroactively applying terms to them that don't accurately reflect or communicate their lived experience and that's really challenging. Yes. I just wanted to also critique our use of the word quality because I think that a lot of our ideas on what is good have been limited by, forgive me, the patriarchy that is about only promoting certain perspectives. And so as a pilot musician and as a classical musician we have a very narrow picture of what is good and what defines goodness. And so many artists now are really pushing that and for me it's a personal struggle. And so when you said quality and how do we make sure that these works are of quality. I think we have to admit that. Thank you. Janey Cohen, the previous curator. No. Executive director. Close, close, close. More on observation. Major question probably. But one of the things that's striking is that the issues that the statement is dealing with are a narrower set of issues than the ones that the planning of other musicians like the planning of the gentleman which is a collection that basically tells the story of the audience. You know, a collection that came about through means that have really difficult stories about it.  It's a, it was interesting to me to see this play out in the culture that obviously is so effective by American culture. But I think that ultimately the European and American collections that were built on colonialism have a world of and a world of challenges and a world of remediation basically to do more work. So this was, I had so much joy seeing this and you know, it was, it was so... My heart. Yeah, it's so great. So, you know, I also have a question. Thank you. We have time for just two, three. I think we're done. You have, okay. There is the scene, well, the shots, whatever, of the individual who was the art collector who had so many options.  But there are a few amounts of it just sitting waiting to sell it, to buy it. Or, you know, in other places you've got people whose great-grandmother has a whole stash of, say, Abinike thinks that they should be returned to their people or should be on display. So my question is, what is, or is there a plan for a more ethical procurement of certain art that you'd be displaying at the filming? That's a good question. I'm thinking your question starts with me thoughts about the ethics of collecting and what we purchase and under what circumstances. And I mean, those are questions that we're grappling with, not only in terms of collecting, but also with atriation. You know, right now there are laws in place about things that need to be returned under certain circumstances, but then there are also all of these words that we suspect or know were probably obtained unethically. And, you know, our thinking going forward is can we build relationships with these communities and return those works and perhaps support their living artists by acquiring works equitably from them and show those works and return works that we shouldn't have in the first place and that are part of a living culture and community that needs amount so that their current artists can draw on those. So that's, I think, what immediately came to mind, but, you know, I was also disturbed by the laying out an infinite number of works and just then being reduced to a commodity and then being reduced to something that allows for me to check off that box. Oh yeah, so now we have one more work that fills this quota without this sort of human connection and relationship with the maker. Thank you. One more question? Yeah, Katie? I'm going to answer a solution but it is a further complication that relates to your question. So, the emissions elements we made in the bill and showed us that in the World War I there's a big hanging. It's a beautiful works of art, right? When we look at his body work one of the challenges now is most of Ella's works are being sold to western collectors and while they're garnering themselves for you know, the pain of the world of art and the adults, right? One of the sort of critical realities of this is that communities in countries where folks are wrong. Folks who are not afford to have these objects in their own countries. And so the larger problem that Chris is talking about has to do with the market and our practices of acquisition and just this whole sort of cycle, right? Like, if someone has a monographic exhibition of their work all of a sudden those works go up and down and all of a sudden they become more appealing to collectors and you have to ask them to make it seem like it's a great work. I work at 319.35 buying different works. So we have a whole set of different issues that apply but that issue of the market is increasingly challenging and it's something that we can't get away from. So I have an answer for you. I really appreciate your question. I wish we had some something other than they do. So it's not just an investment in a thing that we can have and show in our museum but it's an in kind investment to the community of makers so that they can keep and own and display some of their own work. Maybe we should all become guerrilla girls. Thank you all very very much.


Hello everyone because you're having a good day It's kind of choppy out there. I'm John Slazos from Dharma Capital Trading and today I'm going to go over our playbook and Having a decision matrix in the market. So more of a practical application today We're gonna take a look at ether. If there's any other specific markets people want to cover You can throw them in the chat As a disclaimer everything that go over today is all educational. So we're not making any trade recommendations and if you are trading We absolutely recommend that you are you only using risk capital So at Dharma Capital Trading, we're all about empowering you giving you the you know fact-based solutions to improve your intuitive judgment decision-making So we everything we do is you know, they're something factual What's the close? What's the high? What's the previous high? We also have our quantitative analytics, which are all fact-based Incorporate some behavioral variables in them, but basically everything that we do is out to search for the truth and you guys are all bookmap users and You know, you're using that platform Because it's fantastic look insight to the order flow and what's happening in the order book So, you know getting into that zone while you're and having a foundation To really help your intuitive judgment when you're making those decisions and so to do that You really need a fact foundation.  I'm a I'm an old-school technician and you know, I believe in price and You know, I started out in the mercantile exchange and you know Back in the day of you know building charts by hand, you know And I was always really careful in trading futures is you know of having the proper continuation charts, you know And making sure that I identified the proper role not just the volume role You know to understand, you know, where those gaps and in the rollover were because they made a big difference So I get it But you know and that was kind of the fact base of making sure I had the right data and when you're trading crypto You've got you don't have centralized exchanges. You've got a lot of different data points. What is the real price? What is the real? You know, you also have All you know different market makers in different order books and you get a lot of skews a lot of spikes You know, do you just discount those spikes? Market traded there So it's you know, and then you know, so where do you start to base your your analytics from your indicators the whole nine yards just gets You know a little bit Skewed and you've got a question in it.  I've got ether up five-minute chart and we've got We're using the combined order book for the for buy-in Bybit no KX There's no perpetual. Otherwise we'd we'd like, you know, that's what this is a perpetual contract that we're looking at There's no perpetual With book map, but we have but with the benefit of book map. We do have this combined order book so we can see You know a combination what's going on because if you know, ideally, yeah You'd want to look at every single order book that's out there to get near your own insight But that's difficult to do and if you're in just one order book in your trading just coin base or cracking or just finance You're not seeing the whole picture The other thing on crypto that you have to be aware of is a lot of the trading is done OTC So You know, those trades aren't even seen So that's something you know, it's definitely something that you have to you know Be aware of when you're you know when you have your decision-maker matrix and you're going through your process You know trying to search out what is the truth? So on this on this chart, you can see, you know, what's you know, the previous day's high I'm gonna throw up our indicator because it it'll break out the periods for you But you know yesterday's yesterday's high came in here right off the top of the session makes a low We're settling up, you know right here and then immediately them after the settlement market's taking off And then I also look at the midpoint of that Daily range so not only the daily close but the The midpoint So these are just facts But it's a great tool as a basis for making decisions so if I'm You know, we're at the get-go if the market is opening up, you know higher It's positive. I Like to use the midpoint because it gives me a sense of you know From the previous time for structure Are we in the upper half or the lower half of that simple as that just gives you some insight to what's going on there? And then as you you know, you these are the factual baseline tools that you need to just you know Incorporate into your trading and and what I've done over here Because I've used the the notes to identify them over here, so here's previous days midpoint Previous days close and I've got the previous days high here that's coming in In 1916 So just you know giving some guidelines of structure, but I mean just just that tool alone Is is good, you know is controlling the range today. You've got you know the previous days high And note, you know, this is some kind of fun fact that's interesting that happens You know if you're if you're doing your classic price structure or analytics and you're looking at different, you know You know peaks and troughs, you know, you've got here's your peak and You know what really you know, but then you had the previous days highs came in below that that peak of that impulse And now you've got and so that was the daily high which really you know was the factor So if you were using this as an opportunity This got you in instead of waiting for that getting in here Also, the you know, you know, then you have this true reversal that came into play and the pullback and the pullback on this Comes back into the close and midpoint. So that's a you know real solid Real solid momentum area, you know, everyone's looking at the net change So it's it's definitely something to you know do every day Get your parameter set get some clarity there We take it in next, you know, another step further, you know, providing it, you know, looking for statistical baseline And we have this application we call the playbook And so what this does for us is it identifies the market state Its structure And because of that state and structure Strategy themes to look for to take advantage of that state and structure of the markets performed to the state expectation Or if it's not performed expectation So you could look at this as a statistical baseline everything here is quantitative there's a couple different algos that are involved one that defines the state and I developed this algo back in the late 90s When you know all the sows bandits were coming to the futures markets to get the our analytics So we've watched the S&P to trade their markets and they wanted to Start what you know, they wanted us to start focusing on you know hundreds hundreds of stock names and it just It just it just didn't work, you know the way we were doing our analytics. We just couldn't handle that And so what we did is I I just needed something an indicator that would tell me, you know, what's the truth? Just point me to the truth. I just want to know is this you know, is this market trending? Is it non-trending? And we took it a little farther instead of just being trending or non-trending well, you know, yeah Markets are in bear trends and we've all traded a bear trend Lower lows lower highs. It's classic bear trend. But you know sometimes These bear trends are going down fast And so it's more of an accelerated bear trend. We've all traded that trend that we've all traded that too We've all traded against that too And so, you know getting a little more Granularity on you know, what is that state, you know markets not just in May not just be in a neutral general neutral state You know, it may be in a a neutral state that's transitioning to the negative side of the extreme that neutral state You know, we might not just be in a bull trend. We might be in a a corrective trend or here's a corrective bear trend So understanding the context of what you're doing and what you know what you're trading in This is paramount You know What's the playing field?  You know, you're gonna need to have different cleats Same thing in the markets. You need to understand what the baseline is So what is the factual baseline? You can't just go into a market with a tactic And just apply it, you know over and over again and expect it to work every day No, it's gonna you know certain, you know tactics Certain tactics and momentum tactics are gonna work better and markets that are trending Deviation strategies are gonna work better that when markets that aren't Simple as that. So you want to align your tactics with states to compliment it. And so that's what this Playbook's all about strategy-based trading tool You know, if you have the best, you know return to mean Reversal, you know tactic Well, absolutely, you know, you want to get involved in markets that are you know, actually This is a great market state for that a bear trend correction because you're gonna look for opportunities to get involved at the Exhaustion point of that corrective move so you can get on the bigger move to you know, the bigger next trend move You know so identifying you align your tactics with the market state So that's that's you know, the You know Besides understanding the you know, the time frame structure, you know, what's the previous days high low?  Okay, here's our place Here's our strategies. This is what we're doing because this is this is the the state structure and context and We you know the and the definitions that we provide here, you know after you get you know go through them You know, it's just the awareness of what it is. You might need a reminder one time But basically bull trend is pretty straightforward You know the one thing you need to understand is markets are always in transition from one state to the next so How how it transition Transitions is key because then you need to again you need to align your tactics, you know So if the market's performing to the expectations of a state, that's pretty straightforward. We're gonna expect the market to Trend higher and look like this momentum should be good. We have a positive bias Trending positive and and we could see an increase in ball But and a lot of times, you know other insights to bull trends, you know a lot of times They like to pick up buying it's later to set a later part of the session, you know classic bull trends They just have that kind of positive move into the clothes You're so just little things like that they add up to you making a difference in your trading You know the next part of the decision matrix on our fact foundation is, you know understanding the structure of that state So If we know markets in a bull trend Where sentiment well in a situation like today sentiments above the market in a positive trend, so that's unusual And what does that tell us? It tells us we might be in a more of a corrective part of the bull trend So, you know, if the bull trend looks like this, you know, we're in this type of situation You know, are we here ready to take off again? Or are we here ready to move lower, you know And and bottom line is as long as we're below 1931 98 on ether the ether perpetual and finance This markets vulnerable to corrective action still positive and if we get some negative Action or corrective dips. We're anticipating that those dips are going to bottom out So just having that awareness is that's the environment the environment is potentially Corrective moves and you know markets when they correct. They're either going to break or they're going to go sideways So, you know corrective markets in any trending market. That's part of the corrective process. They digest So that's something to be aware of The other thing with this structure, it's interesting because it's it the structure is not only defining the sentiment bias But it's also defining where This market will transition or not will it perform to the expectations of the state? Or is it going to break structure and transition to a new state? And so these so we identify these key parameters Upside pivot downside pivot here that define that So as long as we're within this structure or within 1931 between 1866 68 This this whole this structure banned or we call it our critical range This is the expectation That's your story and you're sticking to it. That's where you're lining your tactics with Whatever they are There if you're using technical analysis or if you use an order flow This is that we're just what all we're doing right now is to find the playing field So you can really get into the zone and you can own it and you know what that environment is And when you see those tells happening in real time, you can act on without thinking. That's the goal here So we know if the market break structure below 1866 68 in in ether That's going to be an issue because that's going to make this statement not true Markets not in a bull trend anymore And we also know that if the market starts trading back above 1931 That this bull trend is going to be ready to engage because now we're now sentiment's going to be will be below us And the expectations that we're going to see a new extension higher So we outline that in this in our risk statement here where we're identifying, okay Well, this you know, the we're the market trading within this zone is at risk Because it's corrective So you have to be you know, you need to be cognizant that you know This thing is potentially vulnerable and you got to be concerned And then we're identifying this midpoint to say hey, you know, yeah, if you're below that You're more at risk and above here. You're going to be back wanting to re-engage the bull trend and then really Completely risk comes off if we get above 1948 and ether and We go we go risk on if the market starts trading below 1866 Which is makes sense because we've broken structure This is just kind of a validation just to confirm things so we don't get flushed out on some stop squeeze But bottom line is this structure is defining the state And then we also give you some parameters to identify. Okay. Well, you know, so If it goes a dollar below here, is it is it violated? Yes, and no, it's you know with these markets with slippage It's definitely needs to be noted that if the market take good trades down to 1865 or 1864 that that there there's you know, it went lower than the price, but we also get some risk metrics and So really today the what we call our alert distance But you know about four and a half dollars is a good risk metric So if you know for stop placement and we also give reward metrics So tip with the reward we reward metrics tell us is what what the market's paying out These are just the facts in bottom line the markets trading in $32 segments So we always like to look for at least a half segment or I call it an average price map distance APM D So we always are looking for half segment full segment or two segment moves And so that this helps you to align your expectations for profit So when you get into an opportunity when you're getting into an opportunity and you get into an opportunity around structure You have to go for $32 at least I mean you could take something off at 16 bucks just to Work out of your trade, but you have to take something off at 30 You're going you have to go for 32 because that's what the market's paying out And you really don't need to risk much more than let's say five bucks four and a half bucks five bucks That's what you want to look to you know adjust your risk for so you're always keeping your risk reward in line But the end the way you do that is by being patient and waiting for the market to come line with structure and we can incorporate those Those met you know those risk and profit metrics into our strategy section so Again, it's a fact-based tool It's an if-then statement if you're in a bold trend and you have and the market sentiment is above the market Which is corrective then These are the strategy themes you want to look for And so these aren't the only things that are happening today But they are the best things to take advantage of And so again, you think of them as themes And you want to identify what theme is in play And maybe none of them are in play But when these opportunities present themselves and then and especially when your tactics align with that theme You know, that's when you want to bet bigger That's when you want to you need to up your size You can't trade the same size all the time you have to trade bigger when the odds are in your favor And that's all this is doing it just telling you what the odds are And so if the if the market starts trading above this structure the odds are it's going to extend higher and And also if the market trades below this price point odds are Market's going to break so For an optimal thing to do in this in this state and structure We want to Buy dips above off the dp and if we can buy an opportunity here This is where the risk is the lowest because this is where the this and everything changes below this price point So if we're entering the market here That's that's one of the optimal things to do That's obviously it's logical if you're trading a bull trend Where's the lowest risk? Well off the the the the Dip that's going to you know break that higher move higher higher move a little structure That's when things change So that's the best opportunity, you know the best risk reward opportunity is there and being patient and taking advantage of And the other opportunity is jumping on some momentum if we get a breakout above here And as we're going to see as we get into it You know, there's also ways to anticipate that so you know if the market does Break low down Stabilizes and starts to turn you can you know get on this this Momentum earlier and then this is the validation of it and what happens If if things don't follow through with this the the state characteristics So the market's going to transition. Well, what are tells on that? The market breaks out to the upside And can't hold the breakout And produces what we call a reversal an exhaustive reversal market trades back trades up to 1940 Can't hold above 1931 fails back down straight in at 1926 all of a sudden. Hey, we've got a reversal market could turn It could break all the way back down to here And then if we do fail from this price point, you know, this is another what we call a hedge strategy is to Sell below the downside pivot sell below here because now the market's broken structure So you come in every day and you're getting your foundation set to trade you identify the state Okay, I'm trending market. So I'm going to adjust my tactics for Riding the wave I want to you know, this we nobody has a clue where this these markets are going But we do know that this thing has propensity to trend And so if it has a potency propensity to trend then we've got some opportunity to get some follow-through potentially Structuralized we're corrective. So, you know, that that kind of puts the follow-through potential in a little bit of a box because until we really Um, either get a play for the downside and start building a positive structure We may be in a sideways corrective action. So that so that's now we're going to need to tweak that So we need to we need to be prepared for potential sideways But there and be ready for if this market tries to engage to the upside And then if we have a sharp move to the downside, you know, all the the negative Breaks, we want to take you know, potentially take advantage of, you know, getting on the long side with that And so what so now we're going to you know, we identify these strategy themes And we we need to see or any of these, you know, so if any of these things come into play We want to participate in and so we you know, that's in our back pocket of hey When the market's trading at these levels and these levels, I need to have one I need to Not get, you know, not Spend too much money trading on the short-term opportunities within this zone So that if I do get opportunities at these extremes, I can really take advantage of it with the proper size So I don't want to spend all my money getting dinked out Or you know on smaller opportunities Because you have to trade bigger for the bigger opportunities All right, so we know we want to buy this dip buy a breakout above here Potentially have it look for an exhaustive trade here and there's a failure here is going to Signal transition. So now we start now we're ready to go. We have our foundation We have our we're set with our structure and if we wanted to If we wanted to look at You know any additional subjectiveness we could But it's still it's it's still pretty early for that. I think that the subjective technical tools help better for position management And for helping to identify, you know, some short-term swings where you might get a pause that you need And if you do have a trade on, you know, do you want to sit through that pullback or do you want to You know, you want to take your money off the table and potentially re-enter Okay, so what I did here today is I put I added this sentiment bias because that was the That was the key level. This is our Applicate one of our integration applications that you can Subscribe to if you're interested in test driving it see if it works for your stuff Bottom line, like I said, it's a fact-based structure And so what I did here is I just I put the critical range on So, you know, the the main structure here So we've got the upside pivot and Typically the upside pivot is going to be read like this Here I can That was yesterday's Action I'll add the The labels for that So it's just this isn't going to factor into today's You know what we're going to do today, but just to see The fact that, you know, when sentiment is at a price map level, we turn it green actually, I'm I'm going to get rid of it because I want to focus on the current session You know, everyone, you know, you're going to want to look at you'll end up looking at structured differently than somebody else You maybe want to just focus on one thing or the not So that, you know, we just had the integration tools kind of allow you to kind of mix and match what you'd like to do A lot of times I just like to look at the r level and the directional because this is kind of the momentum area You know, I know that, you know, this is the midpoint of the critical range So I know that if we get below here the market's going to have some momentum to the downside and in this situation It's corrective on the bull trend. So it could we could turn into this situation.  What's what's happening you know, is the market performing expectation or not and We are in a corrective state, you know, we did have a push into the You know, this is another, you know, here's the value Of, you know, the quantity of structure and when you're looking at the, you know What's the structure of the market state? So identifying the state? What's the structure? What's the sentiment bias of that state? The you know the how that adds to what we you know, our other facts Is, you know, we understand that yeah, we've got the previous day's highest here and it's going to be a You know, it's going to be a factor and it was right after get go When the market transitioned at You know, 12 a.m UTC time But the you know, the real selling energy is above the market here So as you're getting this kind of, you know, rally, it's it's it's corrective rally, right? Because it's this is sentiment and so um And just you know, and so I'm going to add in these levels So I've got what this is called. This is the critical range So this is the kind of critical range positive above the midpoint, which is the directional Critical range negative. So it's their kind of validation points to help you position manage opportunities within the critical range They also provide short-term trading opportunities And then also the critical range Extreme positive extreme negative. These are the validation points for a breakout of this range So when your market's breaking out above here, it needs to validate through here to really confirm that it's going Same on the downside needs to validate through here to really confirm that we're going to we would see a transition so they'd also give you good insight and For you know for the position management. So just looking at this, you know, it's at the get go You know the market opening up The what you're what we're looking at here are those metric boundaries. So You have your variance alert and alert distance And so this is the variance And this is the alert distance So you have those metric boundaries surrounding the figure. And so this is what you can you can use these metric boundaries for your risk management They you know, they also give you insight You can work into trades and you can start selling at the alert distance at the variance at the figure all the way You know through here this whole area signal acceptance. So if you had a You know an indicator system That might be You know in any indicator system is bit is based on price, you know price history. So it's always lagging, right? So so your your indicators Is designed to lag because that's just how they are Whereas the price map structure is something you can anticipate So it's a whole different game because you can anticipate i'm going to do something here But if you want to wait for validation for your indicator systems, you uh, you know, you can These are the areas of the signal acceptance for them. So as the market comes into this area, uh, you know, absolutely You can start to use it, you know kind of anticipate a potential Signal on your indicator because it's already a valid opportunity based on structure And so here and so let's uh So now we have the full structure on there and then also just i'll talk about this and then let's take a look at Let's combine this with the order book Getting you know, what's happening with the book map and how that helps us in the moment to make decisions Um, but on the risk reward metrics just to point something out. So we talked about the market likes to move in segments, uh, you know, uh APMDs, you know average price of distance segments of 32 dollars and a half segment move And two segment moves. So that's what we're always looking for. We're looking for, you know, half segment full segment and two segment moves and so you know the last You know these trading over the last couple days has been pretty brutal And so, you know, yesterday you had a market that made, you know, the the full range of the day was a one one segment move Like I said, this is this is just identifying facts of what the market's paying out So you can see how it moved in a half segment here Move this out of the way So here you have a half segment move half segment move And then, you know, this ends results in a full segment move You know, you see it, you know, a half segment move half segment move and it ends up falling through with another full segment You know, and so now here today, we've got, um, you know, half segment half segment Is that all we're going to get? More likely not, but that's what we have right now And that's and so this is the absolutely, you know, if you come in today on the opening or the start of the session Market's firm above the previous day's close Which also turns out to be the midpoint. So immediately you're like, you know You're happy, you know, I I'm always happier when more things are in alignment because that gives It's kind of criteria for my decision matrix to trade bigger. So anytime I get to trade bigger. It's it's a good thing For me, I like to do that. Um You know, if I if it's a signal, it's a small signal It's it's not as interesting, but I can't I have to stick with the the program and and I can't uh Overstep my size management based on The structure of the market and where where it's at. So I can't just have a feeling of oh, I really feel good about this thing I'm just going to load up No, it's got to be in alignment and when that alignment is it's exciting because now things are in alignment You can trade your max size. So this is a this is a good opportunity The market is at the close which is positive above the midpoint Which is another great thing and you have all that alignment coming in here At the uh negative alert distance off the directional So especially after the market produced this emotional move the prior, you know, and this is all you know This is seven o'clock at night Uh in chicago time, you know, so this is all kind of in play this these crypto markets never stops So it's just all one flow So, you know, as you and then you have this market price structure here So I got price structure. I got the midpoint. I got the close and I got this lower metric And I had this emotional flush here Uh that bottom out above here It's it's a lot of positive things happening at this moment So, you know, it's an opportunity to get long here It gives you an opportunity to get long it's transitioning through the directional here It takes it out pulls back gives you an opportunity and this is something to note for breakouts because it they usually don't pull back too much They usually do this and stop at the alert distance And now they pay me out a half a pmd. I'm my expectations is coming up here So I'm in this trade to go here But I don't get it but I do get but you know, I do have You know facts, I got the previous days high and I have to deal with it I know that's going to be an issue.  You have the opening phase Uh, I need to respect the these interior validation points because you'll get I might get a reaction So it's an opportunity here to take some money off the table You know, basically at this point market's holding positive structure. I'm all good Um, it takes it out here market should start basing above this metric And move higher and when it doesn't It's a tell that there's a problem and we could break that, you know, we could see a half a pmd move back into this area And and so when the mark at at this point and even not even at this point, but at initiation You know what you're going to do when the market if the market does this You know, you know, you this is part of the risk management plan in your decision matrix that hey if this market can't hold You know Higher lows higher highs and it breaks structure at a at a market structure point, you know, do I want to give back Half a pmd You know, which is going to be the bulk of what I had made I'm definitely going to want to lock something in and then look to rebuy And you know, they gave it they gave an opportunity to rebuy they pushed it up. This is super fast and this is crypto So this is something to anticipate to you had you, you know, and if you have Automated risk Auto execution tools that you can use be prepared But anytime the market makes a you know, a breakout here. It's the same routine the market can't sustain Trading above that metric. It's a problem and this was a problem. So, you know Um Another thing are we buying this breakout? No, why because we're coming into a sentiment That's that's this is corrective and that's a sell below here. So the expectation is you're going to get a reaction off of this But what does happen off this, you know a motion off this figure in this trade you get this exhaust here This tells us this this is tells us the market's positive because it's The market goes above the previous day's high point and now we breach this metric So that's you know, to me I kind of like that Uh, but this is kind of classic where the market will give you a positive signal and then just screw you And then it takes out these lows and it comes back to retest the lows. So when the market's trading here What's your risk? You first of all the market is you know, it's still, you know, we know we're in a corrective state So this is this kind of stuff should be anticipated We're right back at the midpoint from the previous day and the lower metric boundary So it you know, it and your risk is defined And if the market does stabilize here half apmd full apmd That's that's that's the that's your story. You're sticking to it. And so, you know, how can we um How can we you know, so now now we you know You know, we're at now one we we have the the structural foundation and now we're going to take, you know, get more in depth on the order book And and we can kind of see some of the things that uh occurred in the order book. Um, And I'm just going to keep it super simple.  So here's our structure This structure is On we've got an integration with the book map platform. So this is something else if you come on to the Playbook You can go to the downloads and you can download Uh Our our data file that interacts with uh book map and you can do this yourself um And then I manually added the uh The previous day's high information But this kind of situation here when this happens, well, you know, one I'm getting, you know, I'm getting this, uh You know Big volume dot And doesn't follow through It's one thing if I get a bunch of these volume dots here and I and I'm getting some You know, I'm using this Tool under here to identify you know, uh, the the green and red is more small orders and uh retail side and the uh, the Cyan and and pink are uh, Are the uh, larger institutional size traits And so you just try to get an insight of, you know, what you know, what's happening Where the clip size is and so when I get this volume dot here that's on this breach Um And it's immediately followed by you know, some large selling, you know, it's just it looks like a trap and One I know my foundation is bull trend correct, you know, it's a bull trend But I it's more corrective below the up and then when I can't hold it just tells me okay We may have a squeeze and then when I'm coming down here And we're coming, you know, we're start trading back underneath the directional here And I'm getting these, you know, big some big sellers, but I'm getting big sellers right into my main structure I you know, this so it's you know, this is this is a tell that these people are getting squeezed out But they're getting squeezed out right into to liquidity I mean, this is this is a great buy zone because it's the lowest risk opportunity for the you know for the day Besides on the opening and most people are you know, at least in Chicago they're Having dinner You know getting ready for dinner and they've they've dealt with you know, this and they're done So So this was a great setup With uh, you know just identifying, you know, this liquidity excitement And you especially when you get stuff like this happening In front of structure And so here you've got structure alignment with the time frame structure. So the previous days structure with market structure And so now we're getting a similar situation where we're getting another volume does popping up here and it's um, it's happening in front of the previous days high and the CR plus So, you know, if if If the market is doesn't if we don't start into we're starting to see some the the Some some real buying come in and if this if this is really true You're going to see a few more of these volume dots pop in here And we're and the clip sizes are going to are going to increase and we're going to take off and we're going to make a move for up here And and you can see, you know Things liquidity is starting to build up here and the market should just you know chomp on this and take it out Otherwise, we're just going to be it's just we're going to fall back and we'll have another half APD Break to the downside and we'll have this this this kind of churn action So absolutely, you know buying, you know here your risk was defined. You're coming in here I you know, are we looking to sell this thing? No I mean if you have it if you if you are if you have a a tactic that comes in It's giving you a big screaming sell signal. Absolutely. Here's your you know, it does do the risk alignment Do things align with your risk? Well, here's your risk They shouldn't take out that high And what's your reward your rewards here? Personally, I like to look for getting on opportunities for the resumptions of trends because they have you know multi-day multi-period Follow-through So if I'm in it in this markets and also, you know in this market state I know we're corrective. I know the under, you know, I know the bigger picture is positive I know we're above the previous day's close and midpoint which is positive I know we took out the previous day's high which is positive And I know we're you know, we're already Through the session somewhat So I know that if we do close here or we do close at these levels or anywhere in this zone here I do know that more likely structures are going to shift and this this sentiment bias is going to shift down And if his sentiments by shifts down all of a sudden now I've got my energy below me and I'm in a bull trend So kind of anticipating something that that may occur and you know You know and what we can do Along with those that comment is say, okay. Well, let's take a look at the higher time frame So I'm going to get rid of the daily structure and let's take a look at the weekly structure and so so here on the on the weekly structure we have and the beauty of this market structure this price map is that it's It's unified across time frames. It's all the same stuff. So the apmd metrics work You know, what's the market trading segments for the day? What's it trading for the week? You know, they're all it's all all the same stuff. You know, all the metrics are the same the the Price map qualifiers are the same How the market behaves is the same. So the weekly here has been pretty messy, but I've got this 1920 is my My is the directional Let's just for fun take a look and see what the monthly critical range looks like So the monthly critical range is coming in here right here at the cr plus. So I'm going to get rid of the weekly for a second typically I'm doing this You know, you're looking at the longer term structure You before you before you start trading. So you have a kind of a big picture first But I you know, we just kind of jumped into the playbook Just to show you those facts. So here so on the on the monthly basis Let me a little higher time frame chart So we can get a bigger picture. So you can kind of take this with you for the rest of the rest of the month and just as we put the previous day periods on for the The day we can do it for the the month as well, which I Is something I definitely recommend that you do But just for you know, just just quickly to go over this Before we close out here To give you some insight of what's happened on a monthly basis. So we have the same situation You know, we've got the markets rotating around the directional sentiment bias for the month is below the market. So that's positive We talked about those critical range parameters Well, they did you know for the month they that you basically ping both sides And and ended up in this digestive trait. So what happened? This is kind of classic Coiling action where, you know, typically the market's going to ping pong within the critical range extremes And so when it really starts to coil, it's going to it, you know, that these parameters will start to come into play And so is this enough coiling or for for the month Are we going to continue to coil into august or even through the summer? Is it going to be just this flat line through the summer or are we going to or is the market going to make a move? Um Well, we have no idea but what we do know is that if you know, you're going to get Initiations off this directional area and you can see how this monthly directional has kind of come into play Sparked a lot of different initiations and basically we're right back at one right now So that's another interesting fact about what's happening and occurring In the current moment Bottom line you need to have a decision matrix And that decision matrix needs to be fact-based And you anything any tactics that you have you want to throw them into You know if then statements and if you can't make an if then statement out of it There's a problem with that indicator If it's like subject to subjective that oh, sometimes I do this it all depends on that And then and then I do this What happens is it messes with your your body your body won't you know, your unconscious mind wants facts Your ego wants to figure it out, which you know more times than not you can absolutely You're going to make good calls and if you have good insight But you're you're subconscious that is You know when you really get into a state of flow and that's how you're performing it Um It needs facts and so having a fact foundation is going to help you get in that state of flow where you're no mind And you're just doing and you're and you're trading that but having the best trading days that you've ever had And and that's the state that we want to get into and that's and that's what this fact foundation does So the the that's why we design this playbook.  We cover futures stocks ETFs Um, it's the same thing across asset classes. It's it's meant to be a statistical baseline Set the stage get your facts straight. Know what the foundation is Then come into the market Integration tools are great because you vision, you know, I'm a super visual person You got it visually here. You get into the microstructure You got one of the you know bookmaps one of the best tools out there that you can have to You know to work the order book and order flow You've got the integrations. You're all set and you know And you you get to work and you and you have the Everything's built into your workflow to help you get into that state of flow Always go back to the facts if you ever have doubts worries. You're struggling.  You know, you're short. You know, are we positive on the day? Yes Are we above the the market midpoint from the previous day? Yes There's a problem. Are we above yesterday's high? Yes, there's a real problem, you know, so And if you all of a sudden just Added to your position that was against you Um It's time to bail and get out and you know You know and potentially go and potentially roll long but you know stop stop, you know fighting the facts Align your trading with what is true We can help We've got a virtual trade room that we do Teaching and training in and come to dharma capital dot trade and sign up for The playbook The integrations and We're going to continue every Wednesday we'll be back here Going over some, you know different things You know today was uh, you know just focused on kind of a big overview of the decision matrix And and as we go forward we'll end up, you know getting into different specifics and More order flow and more Trading tactics, but here's our website and you can come here you can learn about our different Analytics and applications and you can sign up for a demo here So thank you for your time today Any questions you can also email me directly post them in the chat And I look forward to working with you. 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