This video is meant specifically for Vivienne Medrano, the creator of Hasn't been Hotel, and for the rest of her team working on the second season. Although everyone else is welcome to watch it too, of course. Vivienne, thank you so much for creating Hasn't been Hotel. I love your work so much, and now I want all my friends to watch it, because when you love something, you want to share it. But of course you already knew this, you created these characters, you love them, and that's why you want to share their stories with as many people as possible. But of course, people speak many different languages, and for this reason, to share your stories, you often have to translate them. And this is where I would like to offer my help. You see, I'm Mexican, my native language is Spanish, but when I was in high school, I learned English by watching friends and Dr. Hu, and ever since I've been in love with languages and translations. In fact, I have many videos where I deciphered a main language from Magic the Gathering. In fact, that's the language in this shirt. Here it says Phyrexian language, I made this shirt. But more relevantly, in my TikTok account, you can find many videos where I translate songs from Spanish into English, from English into Spanish, and one time from Germany into Spanish. That was the ode to joy. But if you check these translations, you'll notice that I always try to accomplish two things. Staying as close as humanly possible to the meaning of the original song, and staying within the meter of the song. Okay, so let me show you what I mean. This is the beginning of Tom's Diner by Susana Vega. I know you don't speak Spanish, but if I did things right, you were able to recognize this song merely by the rhythm. And if you check my translation, you'll notice that it is nearly identical in meaning to the original song. And do I think that this was just luck, that he just translated the song and it just happens to fit? But no, it was really hard to get it right. The point here is that I have some experience translating songs. And even though the Spanish versions for Hasn't Hotel were excellent, I did notice a few things that could have been improved. And so I am making this video in the hopes that it will be helpful for you and your team so that the translations for Season 2 will be even better. There are 16 songs in the first season of Hasn't Hotel. And if I'm being honest, part of me wants to analyze their translations line by line. But I respect your time Vivienne, so I'm not gonna do that. Instead, I'm gonna boil down all my thoughts into just three tips. Number one, each translation team should be in contact with the other teams, and they should all consult each other's work. I was really enjoying the Spanish version of A Happy Day in Hell until this point in the song when Charlie says, Por que puedo salvarlos del genocidio del cielo. This is the literal translation of what she says in the English version. But the problem here is that it doesn't really fit the mirror of the song. Take a listen. The singer did her best to try to rush and make it fit, but it didn't really work, because it can't work like that. However, this was the version for American Spanish. And I mean American as in the continent, not the United States. I know it would be more standard to call it Latin American Spanish, but what's the difference? Anyway, the point is that in the version for European Spanish, Charlie says, Por que del genocidio los puedo yo librar. This is also a literal translation of the same phrase in English. The only difference is that the words are shuffled around, because Spanish allows you to do that. Spanish has a freer word for than English. And by doing this, it actually does fit the mirror of the song pretty well. I am certain that if the team who did the version for American Spanish had seen this translation, they would have recognized that this line was a better fit, and they would have used it. But that didn't happen because they are not in contact. And the same is true for French. They also have American and European versions. And so they should be in contact, so that if one version does something better, the other version can improve. In fact, all the translation teams should be in contact with each other, not only the ones for Spanish and French, because they can all learn from each other. And this might seem really weird, like what could the Polish team possibly learn from the Japanese team, because their languages are so different. But you have to remember that languages are diverse and universal, just like music. And for this reason, I cannot tell you what they will learn when they compare their work with their colleagues, but I have no doubt that they will learn something, and their translations will be better for it. Number two, give them a list of key aspects of the song. Vivienne, for each song, you should make a list of key aspects that must be preserved in all the translations. And these can be things like phrases that will come back later, or maybe pieces of information that are relevant for the plot, or certain aspects of the character that must be conveyed, because there are a few instances where this is either entirely lost in the translation, or its impact is decreased from being a dagger in the back to being just like Pentius says that right. For example, A Happy Day in Hell is an amazing title for a 9-1 song, because by definition, hell cannot be happy. It is a contradiction, and so is Charlie. The whole point is that she is a contradiction, and this one phrase repeated throughout the song conveys this perfectly to the audience. So in a weird way, this is both an I-1 song and an I-am song. Try to say that three times quickly. Both in the version for European Spanish, they translated it as que este lugar se genera felicidad, which means this place will be filled with happiness, which just doesn't have the same impact, does it? I'm like, sure, by saying this place, she means hell, but why couldn't she say hell? Also, these singers say a shitty day in hell, which mirrors a happy day in hell, establishing a parallel between how singers feel and how Charlie feels. But in the European Spanish version, they just say, maybe I'll get fucked over again, which doesn't establish any kind of parallel. Well, as much as it pains me to admit it, the worst offender here is a version for American Spanish. Like, sure, they do a better job like 90% of the time, but when they make a mistake, it's a big one. For example, in more than anything, they changed completely the meaning of what Lucifer is saying. In the original, he talks about how he lost it all at one point, and now he's afraid to also lose his daughter whom he loves. But in this version, he talks about how amazing it was to fight for his dream, even if he lost in the end, which is a cool message, I guess, but it's not the message he should be saying. In Respectless, Velvet should end the song by asking Carmilla if she knows how the angel died. But in this version, she just says, you see that the angel is there, everything is against you. Which, she doesn't make sense. Like, one thing doesn't follow from the other one. And this one is particularly painful because the singer is slaying it. She's so good, especially when she says, De la guerra, con valor, de que es lo que usar más y no. She's really, really good. In fact, for me, this was the best version of the song, even better than the English one, up to this point. And this one mistake knocks it down because the song doesn't make sense anymore. Finally, when Alastor sings his solo in the last song, this version makes it seem that he is sad to have disappointed his friends. But of course, that's not right. That's not how he feels at that moment. I think that mistakes like this will be avoidable if you let the translators know what are the key points of each song so that they can anchor their translations around those things. Number three, have someone external validate all the translations. I'm not sure how this works inside Amazon Prime, but you need to hire external people to validate all these translations. Because whatever system they have in place for quality assurance, it's not working. Too many problems are sleeping past them. I've already mentioned a few of them and how they could be addressed, but this would be like an extra layer of protection, ensuring that nothing so far makes it into the recording booth. Here are some problems that I think could have been avoided by doing this. In A Happy Day in Hell, Charlie should say, I will get heaven behind my plan, but in this version she says, I will make heaven a better place. In Hell is Forever, when Adam says, when all said and done, this is translated as, and someone there is a minor. Yeah, I don't get it either. I don't know what happened there, but I know this would be easy to fix. In the reprise for More Than Anything, Baggy should say, you've already done so much, but instead she says, you can't do anything anymore. In Hell's Greatest Dad, when Lucifer says, whoa, this is missing, from both versions actually. In You Didn't Know, Charlie should say, You Didn't Know, but instead she says, it's horrible, which makes it seem like she's not surprised by this revelation, which again, lessens the impact a whole lot. Finally, I get the impression that you made the conscious decision to avoid using the word God at all, but sadly the translations do use the word God a few times, mostly as part of set expressions like, oh my God, or something like that, but if the original work made the effort to avoid using a certain word, then the translations should also do the same, and this would be super easy to check. There are many other things I noticed, but you get the idea. The point is that all of these mistakes are actually very easy to fix as long as you catch them on time, and so you should have someone whose job is precisely to catch them on time. And that's it. That's my advice, but before I go, I want to point out a few things the translators did really well. One of them is Poison.  It's better than the original one, especially when she says, como quieras cuando quieras, tantas veces como quieras, oh, it's so catchy and so painful. Also, in the finale, they translated after the battle, masterless cattle, as tras la batalla, vaca sin vaya, which is a nearly identical metaphor and even preserves the rhyme. Good job on that one. And in general, despite my criticism, I do believe that the translators of both versions did a really good job. And the singers and the voice actors and everyone, they all did a really good job. And I just hope that they make an even better job with the next season.


Hey everyone and welcome back to Norris Cove. I'm Yoshida. I am the owner of Norris Cove. It is a functional planner sticker shop. We sell insert stickers mainly functional stickers at the moment but we do have mainly all of your functional needs. So today I want to show you guys I want to do better about showing you what's new in the shop. I run a Facebook group. I have my planner account and my Facebook group gets to see what's new first and so I want to start stopping over here as well.  I'm in love. They're a hit in the shop. I came up with this idea because I kept seeing the coffee dashboards and I loved them but I just didn't want to kind of do what everybody else was doing even though I still made a coffee stain dashboard. I'll show that later but yeah so we have these stickers and they're sized enough to go into any planner. They're sized enough that you could put in your happy planner on a day box or in a box in your functional ring planners as far as like a six pockets a five half letter. You name it many HP. You can put these stickers in there. You can also write over top of them because it is printed on transparent paper the matte paper or you can write you can put a script sticker over it or you can just leave it as plain deco. So now that I mentioned the coffee stain stickers let me show you guys the dashboard and I'm going to take it out and have it in my A6 and also I wanted to show it with the holes in it so that way you all can see exactly how it looks and to see that it does not the design doesn't go into your hole planches on the side. So this is what it looks like. They are so separate but they're a perfect match and it's just the breakdown or the definition of coffee. So that is the coffee dashboard. Guys next up we have our top task sticky notes. These are a new arrival just in and I'm in love. So let me show you I've been using it and they stick well they stick to paper well this is what I wrote so I'm going to show it to you on a piece of paper. So I've removed this and put it down removed it put it down and I like to show that it's not flimsy and that they do stick well. This is by the Post-it brand they are a three by three squared. You get 50 sheets in a pad and a sticky note and that's the Post-it brand on the back. I'm in love I'm always listing so I wanted to make a sticky note that kind of listed so I could use as a list or an extension of my planner and how I would use it as an extension is I have a top task here or pretty much a task on my inserts these are in my shop as well these are the daily plan I like to add it if my task list I don't have enough room or I need more so I can stick it right there as well and it blends because it's white it'll blend in so it lets me see that my task list has been extended. Next up we have our new shape which are the asterisks and they come in plenty colors let me show you so we have pompous grass as you can see I've used that and I'm going to show you what they look like on paper as well so this is pompous grass that's mine that's taupe oatmeal cookie gauge blush and you'll see some of our more popular colors that we've already had in the shop I just put them into this shape we have ice milk wheat smoke blush again and again the pompous grass so and to show you kind of the transparency I'm gonna pull up pompous grass I'll just use that one and that's the transparency and you can as well write on these as well and like I said you can write on them as well so those are great additions to our lineup of shapes we do have more shapes coming in the future but for right now we have dots we have dew drops I believe we have squares and now we have the asterisks next up we have chili bean chili bean is a new color that we've added to our dew drop collection right now we just have the large size but coming up we will have all of the sizes and all of the shapes so we'll have um asterisks and chili bean we'll have the small dew drops in chili bean so definitely look forward to that um also again if you're not in my facebook group you might want to join the link is below um I showed them all of the new things first so let's take chili bean so you can see the color and the transparency of it so that's how it looks right there and again let's write on it and it's another one that you can write on so that's chili beans so again this is our latest dew drop color um we love it since it's getting close I thought it was a great I was looking for more summer colors so I thought it was a great summer color also it could be used in the fall weather as well depending on your spray um next up we have sand sand is a new color as well and dew drops again it's just the large dew drops at the moment but um all the other items will be coming soon for it small dew drops asterisks and all that so let's write on here as well and they have it so this is how it looks on paper the sand color loving it okay next up are a little these have been out for a while but I still want to show them because I don't think a lot of people know that they're there but some people do we have the cleaning icons and they are tiny you guys they are super super tiny this is how tiny they are so you definitely want to get some of your cleaning icons and you get like a washing machine some laundry detergent buckets that looks like an oil can to me um gloves um what is this a dustpan brushes brooms vacuums irons um little hand towel scrub brushes so you get it all in this cleaning icon and it is the same size as pretty much all the icon sheets these are so tiny let me show you um how small they are they are less than an inch each icon is less than an inch so you can see this is how tiny they are go to the machine washing machine so that's how small they are yeah so we have those next up we have the medical appointment boxes these are great in the shop these do do well in the shop a lot of people get these and you can use these to indicate if you have a doctor's appointment you can use them to indicate a time um your appointment is or which doctor you need to see what have you and these boxes measure about 1.25 by like 0.3 so they're great for the small planners or even great for the big planners your happy planners and things like that it would not take up that much room in your bigger planners so that you have more room to decorate or do whatever you like to do so that's that now that is pretty much all of our new releases but i want to show you some things that are coming up you definitely want to join the facebook group to see um we do votes in our facebook group on colors and things like that that i create and a lot of times my facebook group has control of what i put out um i let them decide on color so we have these two that we decided upon which is cactus and the first i named it cactus then i named it cactus juice so i'm going to show you what they look like um i believe we voted on this one but i'm going to show you what it looks like in my plan so here's where i show my group the sand color this was one of the cactus colors and then that's chili bean and then that's the cactus so this is the cactus juice that we decided upon we love it so let me show it to you and again all of these transparent stickers you can write on so that's it right there let's write on that as well and there you have it cactus juice so this is the new color that will be coming very soon to the shop it should be in there this week but that is all of our new releases again i wanted to make sure that i stopped by here um you know thirdly and let you guys see all of our new releases um you can click the link in the bio and also today is the last day of the black business owners united sale it ends at 12 o'clock midnight i will have this video up before 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Filling your DS160 is the first step in the US visa process and it is also the most important one. This is because this is a form that the embassy officer is going to have in front of him when you go for your visa interview. So in this video I am going to discuss the 5 mistakes which I see people make very very commonly when they fill their DS160 and also how you can avoid those keep on watching. Hey guys my name is Shachi and welcome back to my channel. So I am back with another video on the US visa process. I have uploaded a few of them earlier if you are interested do check them out I am sure they are going to help you. So today let's talk about DS160. Now what is DS160? DS160 is the online application form which basically starts your US non-immigrant visa process. This is a form which is available on the US Department of State website. If you want to access the form I will leave the link to that in the description box below. Now today's video I want to talk about the mistakes which I see people make very commonly in filling their DS160 and many times this is the reason why their visas get rejected. So let's get right into it. The first mistake that I see people make all the time is putting information in their DS160 which does not match with the rest of their profile and the rest of their story. When you do this what is going to happen is you will go for the interview and you will be saying one thing in the interview and this might be the exact opposite of what is written in your DS160 and when this happens this is obviously going to impact your chances of getting the US visa. Let's understand this with an example. Now there is a question in DS160 which asks you who is sponsoring your trip. The exact question is a person or entity paying for the trip. Now in your DS160 if you write this as self but in your interview if you go and say that your family is going to sponsor you or your company is going to sponsor you then obviously is going to be a problem because of this big mismatch between your form and what you are saying. Another example and another mistake which I see people make very very commonly is details of their monthly salary. If you are working DS160 is going to ask you to input your monthly salary and this number should match with your base lift and with what is coming into your bank statement. If there is going to be a big mismatch between what you have written and what is actually coming into your bank account this is going to raise questions and impact your chance of getting the US visa. So to summarize you need to make sure that the information that you enter in DS160 is accurate and it matches with your documents and with the rest of your profile. The second mistake which I see people make is trying to hide information about their passport and about their previous visa applications. So when you fill your DS160 there are two questions which are going to be asked the first one is regarding your visa and the question is have you ever been refused a USA visa and the second one is regarding your passport and the question is have you ever lost your passport or had one stolen. Now if any of this is true for you please write in yes and when you write yes the DS160 will also provide a small description box where you can explain what happened and when you write this explanation you need to give a proper reason to it don't just write one single line saying that my passport got stolen or my visa got denied no don't do that. Write in 2-3 lines which explains what exactly happened this is going to be important. A lot of times I see people lying here and hiding information and writing note where in fact their passport was stolen or where in fact the visa was denied and there is absolutely no point in doing all this then the see officer is going to see right through it so be very very honest when you answer these two questions and give a proper explanation with it. The next point is for people who are working and who are going to put in their work details in their DS160. The first part is regarding your work phone number I see a lot of people leaving it blank please don't do that if you are working it's very important to put in a valid work phone number for this particular question it can even be a landline number but make sure that you do not leave it blank. The second part is about your work experience now when you put in your work details DS160 will ask you to talk a little bit more about your profile and the question is briefly describe your duties and you need to be very careful what you are writing now the description should be accurate it should be complete and also it should be simple enough for the embassy officer to understand when he reads it he should know exactly what is it that you do. A lot of times I see people making it too technical too complicated which doesn't convey any information about their work also people tend to make spelling errors and have grammatical mistakes when writing in this description so what you can do is type out this description do a spell and a grammar check and then put it in your DS160 I have worked with a lot of US visa applicants and help them complete and fill their DS160 accurately it is such an important step in the US visa journey so if you want to work with me and you need my help in completing your DS160 and even preparing for a US visa interview then do check out the link in the description box below and book a session with me. Point is regarding the address details which are asked in the DS160 and this is a source of confusion for a lot of people so in your DS160 there are two addresses which are going to be asked the first one is the home address and the second one is the meeting address now your home address is sort of like the permanent address and this should match with the address that you have mentioned in your passport even if you don't live there anymore even if that address is not of any use to you but still make sure that you put in the home address same as what is mentioned in the passport the second address is the mailing address now this mailing address can be your current address this is basically the address where your passport will be sent to once it is stamped with the visa so it can be the address that you live currently or it can even be your office address so keep this very simple and make sure that you don't mess up with the addresses when you fill your DS160 the US visa process doesn't require you to book your flight or your hotels before you apply for the visa but there is a section in DS160 which is going to ask you about your travel plans it basically asks you whether you have finalized your travel plans the exact question is have you made specific travel plans and what I want you to know here is it is completely okay to put in no to this question which means that your travel plans are tentative and the reason for this is if you write in yes here then the form elaborates and goes on to ask you dates of your travel places that you're going to visit addresses where you will be staying at all these places and so on and these are the details which you might not have with you when you fill your DS160. Don't be pressurized to answer yes to this question and then fill in some details it's completely okay to keep your travel plans tentative which means that you will answer no to this question. All you need to do is have a broad timeline about when you would like to visit USA and a rough idea about the places that you want to visit and the things that you want to come. So then these are the common mistakes which I see people make all the time in their DS160 so if you are filling out your form right now please take care to not make these mistakes. I had a lot of applicants complete their DS160 get their documents ready and prepare for the US visa interview so if you want to work with me do check out the link in the description box below and book a consultation session with me. You can also reach out to me via Instagram DM my Instagram handle is shachi.mul it's right below. So that's all for this video I have other videos on US visa process check them out they're going to help you as well and that's all I'm signing off for now I'll be back with another video soon see you then bye.


Hello everyone, welcome to Options with Doug, streaming live daily on BookMap Discord and the BookMap YouTube channel at 1.30pm Eastern Time. Before I get started, I need to go through the Disclosures, General Disclosure, all BookMap limited materials, information, and presentations are for educational purposes only and should not be considered specific, investment advice nor recommendations. Disclosure, trading futures, equities, and options involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results. The focus of my presentation and the focus of the Options-Doug chat channel in Discord is Options, Order Flow, the impact of options markets on stocks and futures, and the influence of market maker hedging flow on price action. I have a two-step process for trading, the first is planning, and I use positional analysis. I look at how traders and market makers are positioned in the options market and how those positions change from day to day to develop a thesis regarding the expected trading range and volatility for the day as well as the directional bias. And the second step in my process is execution. And I look at real-time order flow in BookMap and real-time market maker hedging flow in Spontagama Hero to confirm my thesis and for setups for entries and exits. And I will be talking about setups today. And the setups, I'll talk about are an underlying asset. And the setups can be taken with futures, shares of stock or options. My analysis is based on the options markets, hedging flow, order flow, but the setups, again, can be taken with futures, shares of stock or options. Questions and comments are welcome, and I will be watching both the Options-Doug chat channel in Discord as well as the chat in YouTube for your questions and comments. So please feel free to post. And hello, CARM FX. Glad you're here. Welcome. And hello, Jordan. Glad you're here. Welcome, as well. All right. What I want to talk about today, my agenda for today, first of all, talk about economic data, news, economic data events, earnings for the week. Then I want to talk just a little bit about my background information, why I look, why I'm using positional analysis, why I take this approach to the market. And then I'll go through my positional analysis for the day, then I'll review some setups from this morning, and then we'll take a look at the live market. So when we get to the live market, if anyone has any stocks they want me to take a look at, please let me know. And hello, Gray. Good afternoon to you. Glad you're here as well. All right. So first of all, news items, economic data for the week, pretty light week, early in the week. And then the most significant events are Thursday and Friday. Thursday, CPI data comes out at 8.30 a.m. Eastern time. And then on Friday, PPI data comes out at 8.30 a.m. Eastern time. And then Michigan consumer sentiment at 10 a.m. And note I'll talk about this in just a few minutes, but the gamma notional for the market, for market makers position is still negative. And in a negative gamma environment, you can expect larger moves, especially around economic events like CPI. And that was definitely true last year when the market was in a persistent negative gamma environment. The reactions after CPI data were quite large. All right. So that is the economic data, again, coming out later on in the week. All right. Let me go through a little bit of background information. So I talked about this a little bit on Friday. And for those of you who may be new here, again, I'm using a new way of looking at the market spot gamma calls of positional analysis. Again, I'm looking how traders and market makers are positioned in the options market and how those positions change from day to day. And then I'm also looking at market maker hedging flow and order flow. So let me just point out something here. So I believe one of my key tenants for trading is that the options market is a key driver of price action in futures and many stocks. And here's some evidence. And I'll just focus on stocks today. It's a little bit simpler. So this chart is for AMD. This is the risk reversal chart shown in spot gamma equity hub. This is a fairly new chart to equity hub. There are two lines on this chart. And this is going back to 2021. So it is a longer term chart. This is 2021. There are two lines on this chart. First is the risk reversal line. That's the, I guess, kind of the bluish purple line. And what this risk reversal line is showing is the implied volatility of a 25 delta call minus the implied volatility of a 25 delta put. So implied volatility, well, basically when traders are buying calls, demand for those calls increase and price increases. And then implied volatility increases, implied volatility is an output of the options pricing model indicating that there is a demand for calls. So this line is not perfect tick by tick, but this rising light blue line is showing a persistent demand for calls. And this kind of grayish white line is showing price. So as there's a persistent demand for calls, price increases. So demand for calls, when there's demand for calls, again, the price of the calls is increasing. The implied volatility is increasing. The implied volatility relative for a 25 delta call is increasing relative to the 25 delta put. All right, and I've just picked out a few examples that may be somewhat cherry-picked that show this fairly well. So here's Netflix. And by the way, these are with the exception of Netflix because the bid-ass spread is so wide. These are the stocks that I like to trade that are heavily driven by the options market. AMD, NVIDIA, Meta, Tesla, all right. So here's the risk reversal line for Netflix and then price response. So again, high demand for calls, persistent demand for calls, implied volatility of calls versus puts is increasing. So that's Netflix. And then we'll take a look at one other example. There's NVIDIA. Again, this risk reversal line is increasing, indicating a persistent demand for calls and prices responding higher. All right, so again, my key tenant is that options trades and market maker hedging activity are a key driver of price action in many stocks and also futures. But this doesn't happen all day, every day. But these are a few examples of that. All right, let's go through our positional analysis now. Let's go back to book map, ES futures. And before I take a closer look at this chart, I'm going to take a look at the S&P 500 SPX in a 30-day one-hour chart. And note the trend break here. And this was the Fitch downgrade of US debt last Wednesday after the market closed, SPX gap down. I'm going to zoom in on this chart just a little bit so we can see what's going on today. Let me point out the levels on this chart. This is the lower and upper weekly expected move shown with the dash purple lines that's based on the options market. And then the dash blue lines are showing the lower and upper daily expected move. And right now, SPX looks like it's trading up just at the upper daily expected move. All right, let's take a look at some spot gamma levels. So first of all, the SPX put wall is at 4,400. And note that level did decrease from last Friday. It was at 4,500 on Friday, and it moved down to 4,400. And I interpret that as bearish. That traders are looking for lower prices and the potential floor for price is lower. So that is the put wall at 4,400. And then the next level is 4,500 right here. And that is the absolute gamma strike. That's the strike with the largest absolute gamma. And by the way, the put wall is the strike with the largest net negative gamma can be expected to act as support. And then the absolute gamma strike is at 4,500. That is also the volatility trigger. That is the strike spot gammas proprietary gamma flip level. Below that level, market makers position on the gamma curve is negative. In a negative gamma environment, they have to trade with price to hedge their delta exposure, and that tends to enhance or increase volatility. On the other hand, above that level, market makers position on the gamma curve is positive. In a positive gamma environment, they have to trade against price to hedge their delta exposure, and that tends to subdue volatility. All right, so the volatility trigger also dropped lower from 45,20 to 4,500 today. So drops lower in the put wall and the volatility trigger for SPX and SPY. And then here is the call wall at 4,600. That strike, that remains the same. That's the strike with the largest net positive gamma, and that can be expected to act as support. So the key levels, key daily levels for SPX are 4,400. The put wall, the level expected to act as support, absolute gamma strike and volatility trigger at 4,500. And SPX is trading above that level. And that is also kind of spot gamma's pivot level, a key level. And then the 4,600 call wall. All right, those are the levels, all the key daily levels. Now let's take a look at another SPX chart, a shorter time frame, so we can focus on the levels that are in play for today. So here is the volatility trigger, absolute gamma strike at 4,500. And then the upper daily expected move. And notice how accurate that is, acting as resistance. And this is based on the options market. So that is the SPX, the levels in play. Let's take a look at the ES futures and book map. And on this chart, I have my own cloud notes. I'm showing the SPX levels, there's the 4,500, absolute gamma strike, volatility trigger. And I'm also showing SPI levels. And I've got some support and resistance levels noted here. First of all, the SPI 448, this is not a gamma level, but it did act as support earlier today. And then the upper daily expected move for ES, as well as the SPI 450, absolute gamma strike volatility trigger, that's for SPI, did act as resistance, this kind of cluster of levels, the upper daily expected move, the SPI 450 level, as well as all the liquidity shown in the order book here. Let me just dial that in. You can see all of the liquidity, again, liquidity in the order book. These are resting sell orders, limit sell orders, waiting right at that level to sell. Looks like I had a little bit of an interruption in data. Can everyone hear me? If somebody could just confirm, I want to make sure my connection is still good. So I did lose data briefly. All right, karma FX, thank you. Okay, great confirms in Discord as well. All right, great. So it looks like it may have been just a data issue. Okay, so those are the levels in play for today. The S&P 500 trading in a range between SPI 448 and 450, we'll take a look at setups in a few minutes. Let's go to NASDAQ, right, NASDAQ, let's start with QQQ chart. So for QQQ, the 374 level earlier today did act as resistance, acting as resistance now. All right, let's go take a look at, and now QQQ looks like it may be moving above that 374 level. All right, so those are the levels the NASDAQ trading roughly between the NQ15, 350 level and the QQQ 372, and the NQ450 and QQQ 374 level. No gamma levels in play, actually there was one, looks like it was not a round number. Let's go back to that QQQ chart, yeah, this combo L5 at 372.04, all right, let's take a look at some other information. Let's go take a look at Gamma Notional to see how market makers were positioned at the beginning of the day. This is Gamma Notional, market makers position on the Gamma Curve for SPX by NDX and QQQ. And hello, trading sale, glad you're here, welcome. All right, so Gamma Notional, market makers position on the Gamma Curve, still negative at the beginning of the day for SPX, SPY, and QQQ, and really NDX does not change that much. So these numbers did change a little bit from Friday, Gamma Notional for SPX became more negative and became less negative for SPY and QQQ, but still this Gamma Notional for SPY is pretty significantly negative at minus 1.6 billion. All right, let's take a look at the Vana model now. I've got this for SPX, let's see where SPX is trading. Give me just a moment. I've got SPX at 45.10, so right around the bottom of the curve. So there's not, at this point, not much of a Vana tailwind. So what I'm looking at, let me go into more detail. So this is Market Makers Delta Notional and this chart is showing how it changes with changes in price that is shown by the light gray curve and also how Market Makers Delta Notional changes with changes in price and implied volatility that's shown by the purple curve. So this is typical of a negative Gamma environment. Market Makers lower skew to the left showing as price decreases and implied volatility increases. Market Makers will have to sell futures to hedge their delta exposure. On the other hand, as price increases and implied volatility decreases, they can buy back their short futures. So in either case, they're trading with price and that tends to enhance or increase volatility. Just a moment. Check on the price of, all right. I want to take a look at SPI as well and also a Gamma Notional negative Gamma Notional chart for SPI. So this is SPI the lower the day around 448, right where I'm holding my cursor, not much of a Vana tailwind today, but again, a curve very typical of a negative Gamma environment. And then SPI is trading right up around 450 today. So there will be not much of a tailwind, not much of a boost as price increases and implied volatility decreases. And at a certain point, Market Makers will have to start selling futures as price increases, but that is not a significant headwind either. All right, so based on that, my thesis for the day was looking for higher volatility, wider trading range based on the negative Gamma position for SPI and QQQ and also bearish specifically for the SMB500 based on the drops in volatility trigger and put wall for SPI and SPI. And so far, that's not necessarily playing out. Although there were some good setups short and certainly the options traders here shown by Spot Gamma Hero are looking for prices to move lower. They're taking negative Delta positions. What this chart is showing is price. Again this is Spot Gamma Hero, H-I-R-O, hedging impact real time options showing price with a white line for SPX and then this purple line is the hero signal and that is showing options trades and Market Maker hedging activity for a combined signal SPX, SPI, XSP and ES futures. And if you trade any form of the SMB500, whether it's ES futures, SPI shares, SPI options, SPX options, this is the signal that you want to take a look at. And note it is, excuse me, it looks, it is definitely bearish. Alright, let's zoom in on this. Alright, so based on this, based on this signal, let's talk about some setups. So first of all for the SMB500, based on my thesis for the day, the falling put wall volatility triggers for the SMB500. Based on this falling hero signal, the setup that I was looking at was this reversal lower right between 1030 and 1045. Alright, let's go take a look at BookMap. Go back to the SMB500, let's zoom in here. And by the way, I thought there were much better setups and stocks. Alright, so let's take a look. And remember that options traders are taking negative delta positions, starting around 1030. And then this, let's, looking at this trend break here, right around the point of control. Oops, wrong tool. Good short entry. So here you can see the shift in order flow, aggressive sellers start to come in right at that cluster of liquidity and levels, right around ES 4530. Trend break, retest of that level, point of control, shown by the purple line there. And then aggressive sellers start to come in and move price lower. And then as price starts to move lower, sell stop orders help to feel the move lower as well as aggressive sellers. You can see with the pink dots there. Those are market sell orders. And then here are the sell stop orders, helping to fuel the move lower. Alright, so it didn't play, it was a good short setup. But you know, obviously at price reversed and moved higher. As aggressive buyers came in, shown by the shift, the aggressive buyers shown by the green dots, and then buy stop orders, helping to fuel the move higher. And it continues higher. Multiple stop runs, that's shown by the rising yellow line. That's pretty typical behavior. As price approaches a key level, that's where traders put their stops. Alright, so that is the SMB 500. Alright, there are a couple of questions in YouTube. Lead and sale ask, do you use multiple screens? How do you organize your charts? Yes, I have two screens, I have two computers. One screen, my main computer has two screens. One is always book map, and the other is typically going to be a hero. Then I have another computer that I look at a variety of charts. And now during my live stream, I'm looking at the YouTube stream on my other computer, so I can see the chat and answer questions. Alright, sorry, I can't pronounce your name. What kind of chart is this, he or she asks? This is book map. That's what I'm looking at. And if you're new to book map, if you don't understand this, just go to bookmap.com or the book map YouTube channel, there are great introductory videos there. Alright, so I hope that's what you're asking about. Alright, so that's the setup that I saw in the SMB 500. Let's take a look at NASDAQ. Alright, let's go to hero. Alright, so SMB 500 options traders, let's just see what they're doing. So options traders, and this is very typical for the SMB 500. They are buying calls, and they're buying puts. Put buyers are more aggressive, but they're not obviously not getting paid today. So I'm looking at the rising orange line, or slightly rising, kind of flat really. But the number here, the notional value is positive. Traders are buying calls, and they're also buying puts, that's shown by the following blue line, as well as the negative notional value here. So notional value for puts is minus 2.47 billion versus around 281 million positive for calls. So put buyers, definitely more aggressive. They may get their way later on in the day. Alright, let's take a look at NASDAQ. I'm going to zoom in. So for NASDAQ, the only shift in levels was a slight shift lower in the volatility trigger for QQQ. So looking for higher volatility, higher trading range, but no specific directional bias for the NASDAQ. Alright, let's actually... So there was a confirmation for longs and shorts today with NASDAQ. Very strong correlation between hedging flow and price action, up until about noon where Hero started to shift lower. Let's go back to Bookmap. Go to NASDAQ. So trades, just a moment, zoom in here. So far this morning, in the morning anyway, I thought the order flowing Bookmap definitely favored shorts. What I'm looking at is the falling yellow and pink lines. Yellow is stop order, showing sell stop orders. And the pink is the falling cumulative volume delta. Short set up, trend break. Right around just a little bit later than the... Or right around the same time as the SB500. Alright, there's another... Let's see, Abishak, not sure how to pronounce your name. I asked, do you also use candlestick chart? I look at a candlestick chart just to give me a sense of the overall trend, but I don't make any trading decisions based on a candlestick chart. So here's one thing that I look at. This is thinkorswim. These are the primary stocks that I trade. So I can add a quick glance, tell what all these stocks are doing, whether they're trending up, down, or sideways. So I like to see all these stocks at a glance. Alright, but again, I'm not making trading decisions other than looking at trend breaks. Alright, so trade and sale, I prefer... I'm trying to keep things as simple as possible, and I think trading stocks for me is a little bit simpler than trading futures. So I'm looking at book map on one screen and the hero signal primarily on another screen, and maybe looking at that chart that I just showed you with all of the stocks. So if I'm looking for... I see a trend break and look at book map, see the order flow in Nvidia, for example, and I see the hero signal falling. So I'm looking at a total of three different screens, and then I'll make my trading decision. Alright, I could definitely use more screens, but that might just add to complexity. Alright, so let's take a look at some stocks now. First is Apple. Alright, so you're welcome, trade and sale. I'm not sure. Trade and sale asks, so you don't chart hero on the same chart as book map. The initial version of hero was an add-on for book map, but that was deprecated some time ago when Smart Gamma that turned that off, and before then they had been focusing on the web-based version of hero that I'm showing now. So there is no hero available, so I have to look at hero on one screen and book map on the other screen. Those are... That's primarily what I'm using to make trading decisions. Alright, so I'm showing... Again, I can only present on one screen, but this is the... Primarily I'm looking at this screen, and let's go back to hero. So this is what I'm looking at on my other screen. So I can see at a glance what all of these stocks are doing, stocks and indices. I can also rank this hero signal list. My weakest to strongest. Sometimes that's helpful, sometimes not. Alright, so here's Apple. Alright, so trade and sale says he was looking for the old version, could not find it. I assume you're talking about hero, again that was deprecated some time ago. So it was available at one time on the book map marketplace, no longer there. And Abhishek says, Fibonacci strategy is trending nowadays. What's your view on this? I don't look at Fibonacci at all. That is... Let me just say I don't use Fibonacci's, and we'll leave it at that. I look at the options market, like I talked about at the beginning of my presentation. I think the options market is a key driver price action. I'm looking at what is actually driving price, and that is the options market on specifically the stocks that I showed with that risk reversal chart. So again, I'm looking at the key driver of price action, in my opinion, for many stocks, which is the I think the options market. Alright, so let's take a look at Apple. Here's hero, let's zoom in a bit. So earlier in the day, traders were selling calls and buying puts. So when traders sell calls and buy puts, market makers have to, they take the opposite side of those positions. So they're taking positive delta positions, and they have to sell stock to hedge their delta exposure. So that's why this is an important driver of price action. And one of the key things that I do is look at whether traders are buying calls or selling calls. So there's Apple, let's go take a look at book map. So again, this is screen one, hero screen two, nice short setup in the morning. Also in planning for Apple, I look at in other stocks, look at, let's go to equity hub, go to Apple, look at history. So I can see that there was a drop in the hedge wall, and also a drop in the put wall. And trading sales says different sorts, sources, each one clear and informative, but no mixing up, no confusion, so exactly. That's one of the many reasons I don't look at Fibonacci's. I'm trying to keep things as simple as possible and avoid conflict. So I'm focusing on the options market for my lower and upper daily and weekly expected moves, and also for the drivers of price action during the day. And I'm also looking at the gamma levels, the concentration of gamma, where market makers may have to change their delta, change their hedging, may have to hedge at those levels. The for stocks, the hedge wall, the put wall, the call wall, absolute gamma strike, that's where market makers, that's where market makers may have to hedge at those key gamma levels. All right, so this is the in planning for stock, very simple. I'm looking at the changes in these levels. I see that the put wall and the hedge wall both shifted lower. I interpreted that as bearish. All right, let's go take a look at book map. And Abhishek asked, please tell us about money management mindset building. So I'm sorry, I've got 15 minutes left. I'm focusing on this is what I do best. Talk about the options market and how the options market is driving stocks and futures. This is that's kind of beyond the scope of what I normally talk about and what people come here to see. So there are plenty of other traders that talk more about that. I suggest go to the book map YouTube channel and take a look at maybe JTrader. He presents once a week, he covers stocks primarily on Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. And he talks some about those topics. All right, so there's Apple. Let's go to the next one. Actually, let me take a look at AMD. Let's go back, take a look at hero, go to AMD. So note that these, let me zoom on this a bit, not as clear signal as some of the other stocks, but this was a good short set up right around 10.55 or 11 as traders continued to buy puts. Initially they were selling calls, started to buying calls, started to sell calls and price move lower. Let's take a look at the total signal and the divergence here is much more clear. Hero starts moving lower and then price follows. Really nice divergent short right around 11 o'clock. All right, let's go take a look at book map. So there's that short in AMD and there was another short, really pretty signal, signal pretty well with order flow right around 10 a.m., reversal at the 119 level. Notice all the aggressive sellers coming in there, the big pink dots, and then there's the second divergent set up right around 11 as traders started taking negative delta positions. And Abashak, you're very welcome, glad you're here, welcome. If you're not familiar with what I'm talking about, again, this is a new way of looking at the market. I talked a little bit about the basis of what I'm doing earlier today. So you can go back and watch the archive. And I'm watching a combination of order flow and hedging flow during the day. Just like I said on my introduction, my execution process, looking at real time order flow and book map and real time hedging flow and market make, real time market maker hedging flow and spot gamma hero for setups. So that's why I'm looking at order flow on one screen and book map or spot gamma hedging flow hero signal on the other screen. All right, so there's another short set up. Traders taking negative delta positions and price moves lower. Let's take a look at meta. Note the strong correlation between hedging flow and price action. So here was a divergent short in meta just right around 10 a.m. Options traders taking negative delta positions, price moves up, makes it around an equal high and then moves lower. And that was just around 10 a.m. Let's go take a look at book map, go to meta. So here's the short set up in meta. And then note around 11 that options traders started taking positive delta positions. Let's go back to hero, zoom out. Options traders started taking positive delta positions. And it looks like actually here, let's see if we get any insight separating out puts and calls. Not really. Well, maybe so. So they started selling puts, price started to move higher, then they started buying calls. So the total signal looks like it was delayed a little bit here. So in this case, price started moving higher. All right, let's take a look at Microsoft. Another short set up in Microsoft. And note all of these took a while to play out in the morning. 10, 1030, even 11 for AMD. And here it looks like calls were driving. Craters are, at this point in the day, selling calls and selling puts. Call sellers more aggressive, price moves lower. Let's go take a look at book map. Maybe another way to interpret meta there was when that negative delta hedging flow shuts off, price starts to move higher. And here's the short set up in Microsoft. Turn and break. Options traders taking negative delta positions. Price moves lower, Nvidia. Great short setups in Nvidia today. And for Nvidia, my bias was negative as well based on the falling hedge wall and put wall for Nvidia. All right, let's go take a look at Hero. See what options traders were doing in Nvidia. So overall net negative delta, minus 64 million. Up until about noon the hero was definitely sloping lower. Leveled off. Let's see what options traders were doing. So they're selling calls and selling puts. That's shown selling puts by the rising blue line on the positive notional value. Selling calls, shown by the falling orange line and the negative notional value. And for stock like Nvidia, this is, I'm primarily focusing on the orange line here. If that steady stream of call buyers are not in here, you know, I think that again, that's a key driver price action for Nvidia. Those call buyers driving price higher. If they're not in there buying calls, then I'm really looking for a short in Nvidia. So let's go back, take a look at book map. So there's Nvidia, first trend break at price test the 455 level looks like that liquidity was consumed and then price moved lower. So that was for this move higher. That was the primary target at 455 liquidity at that level consumed. And then price moves lower as options traders were selling calls. Then a couple of more shorts at VGWAP and then note this liquidity came in just below 447 and that was absorbed. Well, let's see what options traders are doing now. All right, so I'm zoomed all the way to the current price and it looks like overall hero has leveled off. All right, trade and sale says I'm looking forward to starting my trial at spot gamma. Yeah, I recommend it. They offer a free seven day trial. Definitely worth a look. I think this is very valuable information, both the levels and the hero signal, Vana model. All right, let's take a look at the live market. Let's see if the options traders are starting to get their way in the S&B 500. Definitely negative delta. All right, so trade and sale. Which of the plans do you recommend pro or alpha? So the difference is pro, the basic or standard subscription does not include equity hub or hero and pro subscription does include equity hub and the alpha subscription includes equity hub and hero. So if you want hero, you need the alpha subscription. All right, so that is the S&B 500. This is pretty negative for the day and this is similar to Friday that options traders were taking negative delta positions and finally price rolled over on Friday. Let me just see if I can, let me take a quick look at something here. Yeah, on Friday it looks like right around between one and two o'clock price finally started to roll lower as options traders were taking negative delta positions, buying puts during the day that was on Friday. We'll see if the same thing happens. So they're really buying puts and now they're selling calls. Both numbers negative, put buyers very aggressive. Let's see what they're doing with zero DTE options. So I'm going to look at the total signal. So this is about, I'd say around half of the hedging flow options trades. Hedging flow today are zero DTE. Those options that expire today, that's shown by this green line and the notional value is about half of the total. This is showing all expirations options that expire today, this week, next week, next month, etc. All right, let's go take a look at book map. Go back to the ES. All right, so after that stop run, get rid of this. So after the stop run up above the upper daily expected move and the spy 450 level that's shown by the rising yellow line and aggressive buyers coming in, stop run up to the liquidity right around 3435, price reverse lower as aggressive sellers started to come in and options traders continue to take negative delta positions. And now the aggressive buyers are back in. All right, so we'll keep an eye on this this afternoon. Let's take one last look at NASDAQ and NASDAQ continues to move higher. Let's see what options traders are doing. Turn that off, go to NASDAQ and overall the trend for hero is negative as well and the number is slightly negative minus 388 million. And the same thing for NASDAQ, although the ratio is not nearly as extreme. So for NASDAQ they are buying calls and they're buying puts. The number for puts is about twice the notion of value for calls. All right, so NASDAQ back up at the highs of the day. All right, so the SMB 500 testing the spy 450 level again. All right, this is all I have for today. Trading sales says, I assume you mean you're going to be in Berlin tomorrow. I've never been there. We'd like to visit Switzerland though. All right, anyway, that's my time is up for the day. I want to thank everyone for watching. Thanks for your questions and comments. And I will see you tomorrow. Thanks again. Bye.


update. Good morning everyone. Basel Chapman here on this Monday the 21st of March. We're looking at very interesting here at the Tiger Financial News Network market update site. We're looking at the Dow minus 66 at 34,567 after an absolutely fabulous four sessions last week going into Friday almost at the high. The futures are down 70. The Dow itself is going to be very interesting because we've got a legacy in the Chapman Wave methodology. In that particular technique we're always looking for, once you get a buy signal to a buy mode and that's what it's in right now there should be, should be doesn't mean say it has to be, a peak a D, four higher peaks and then we've got to decide what's happening. So as it says right now we would expect from the last hour of trading on Friday that pushed right to the close at 34,754. There would be about a 20 to 30% pullback of the last hour's big gain that was over 100 points and that's kind of what we're getting. You're looking at the S&P which closed also at almost the high of the day and that's trading that was at 44.63. The e-mini futures are trading down some so the continuous contracts at 44.49 down four and a half absolutely this is a really fantastic action when you consider what's going on internationally and what's going on in the market itself. Having had those four big sessions you would anticipate more of a pullback the day's young anything can happen but just at this point to be at this level really good action. One of the reasons why we are for subscribers to Mope and Core. We were really thrilled that there was that extension from Thursday right into Friday as closed on the upside since we had gone along on Tuesday morning. We're looking at the QQQ down $1.56 at 349 also closed almost at the high of the day on Friday 351.49. So you can expect some kind of a pullback in fact I'm looking at limited upside but the fact that we're even talking about that if the QQs get anywhere close to 353 that is 349.90 right now then that 200p moving average of 357 becomes a magnet. IWM did very nicely that's the Russell 2000 down to 17.6 at 207.10 we'll talk about that more I'm going to be filling in the hour for Tommy for his market for his market kickoff show I'll be doing that and I'll do my show an hour later.


Thank you very much Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I rise to express my support for the motion before us. Mr. Speaker, the leader of the opposition said a lot and then he walked out as usual. Mr. Speaker, it really tells you and this afternoon we notice it, the character of the leader of the opposition, because you are in a debate with colleagues and then you sense you're losing the debate and you start to get personal and start accusing honorable members of stale tales. Accusations that have been long debunked and as a member of the UNOF said, of all the things they said about him, he increased his majority to show that those very accusations had no validity and in no way represented the actions of the honorable member. But I wish he had remained so we could have really engaged in the debate that he said he wanted. But he said he doesn't mind a debate. But I noticed his colleague, the member for Troselle, Salty Bus has remained. So you will carry the stories to him. He will hate on the TV. Well, I would still ask you to carry to him. Because Mr. Speaker, the member for Miku South does not understand sports and I will say without any fear of contradiction, the worst thing that happened for sporting development in St. Lucia was the laying of those astrotyphs throughout our communities. The worst thing. And I am sure honorable member from Troselle, Salty Bus, you would never have allowed them to put astrotyphs at La Fag. Never. Because you know why it would be such an unadvisable act. Simple, Mr. Speaker. Simple. And I first experienced it. Although we have spoken about it during the debate in this house, I went to Sufre Junekwiyol by nine o'clock. It was almost unbearable to be at that ministerium because of the heat from the astrotyph. I was again in Sufre for the independence parade. And persons could tell you, you could literally smell the rubber. And it was barely two o'clock in the afternoon. Barely two o'clock in the afternoon. Athletes will tell you that they cannot really use it until nightfall when the sun has started to set because of the heat that is generated. How can you boast that you did such a magnificent thing? How can you compare what you did with what we're doing now? Explain that to me. And more so, you killed Cricket in so many communities. For some reason, a member from Mikusov believed that you can play Cricket on astrotyph. Think about that. But I know where he got it from. I know where he got it from. In an earlier life, the individual that was contracted by the last Gordon, Mr. Don Lockaby, actually tried to convince the ICC that we can play Cricket on astrotyph. I sat in that meeting. I will see your Western cricket board then. The same individual. We've worked before. So I know him. And in typical style, the leader of the opposition, a member of Mikusov, who is easily fooled, easily fooled, was convinced that you can play Cricket on astrotyph. So he saw nothing wrong in putting astrotyph in Souffre, where they played cricket, they played football. They put a 400 meter track where track season came and all sports coexisted. Right now, there's no cricket in Souffre. One of the bastions of cricket in this country, there's no cricket in Souffre. The Miku playing field, there's no cricket at the Miku playing field. None because of that facility that was put there. How can you tell me you understand sports, you care about sports, and you want to boost of your outstanding contribution to sports in St. Lucia and that achievement is reflected in four astrotyphs? Seriously? I mean, the member from Souffre told us, I tell you, and he would not say it, he would never allow that to be leading in Souffre. Never. Because he knows exactly how unadvisable this is. But let's also move further. He's accusing everyone, but Don Lockerbie is his friend, his very good friend. So he gave his friend a contract for $42 million to lay down four tracks. Four tracks. I'm not going to accuse him of anything like he did to the honorable members. I'm not going to do that. I think everybody can assume for themselves how such an illogical act can be pursued, and why would you do so? Four astrotyphs. And in fact, the one in Souffre, we heard the member from Bruce Lee explain to us, it cannot even be certified for track and field. It cannot even be. But he boosts, he understands sports, and he's done so much for sports in St. Lucia. There was no, Mr. Speaker, I will not doubt the good intention. But I'll tell you, and the member from Catholicities has answered it, so I don't even need to repeat it for you. I have no, I'm not doubting any good intention, but I know there were a lot of evil practices that came with the good intentions. But Mr. Speaker, then he speaks about different sports, and why he had to put the astrotyph because of track and field and scholarships and soccer. I have said it before, it's my opinion, and you know, if that is his plan, and I'll repeat it, there are two sports I maintain, St. Lucia's world-class aid, two sports that we world-class in, track and field and cricket. A 15-year-old world in St. Lucia can be world-class. A 17-year-old can be world-class. The last, before this, under 19 captain, the last two under 19 captains of the West Indies cricket team that went to the World Cup was St. Lucia's. We are world-class at youth level in cricket, and in track and field at Julian Alfred at 16, 17, 18 world-class. Unfortunately, football might be the most popular sport. It has the greatest participation, but you don't find 18, 19, 20-year-olds in St. Lucia that are world-class. That's the truth. But you can find an 18-year-old and 19-year-old in St. Lucia in cricket, track and field, that are world-class. So if you're going to speak about which sport you should promote, it cannot be to establish astrotyphs that kills cricket. That kills cricket. Because that's where you've had the most success internationally. Very soon Julian Alfred might surpass the achievements of Darren Sami. But on the world scene, a sport that is viewed by almost two billion people, almost three billion people, we've had a captain who's won two world trophies, two world cups. We have had that. So tell me how you want to argue with us. We don't know about sports on this side. But the two persons you had on this side, three. What I advise him on sports was Spiderman Tutt, Estefan and Fortuna Belrose. So you had three of them. We have one Kenston and we're making better decisions. Then he speaks about the monies and why you're borrowing for national lottery and isn't that contingent liability, you know, on the books and he goes on and on. And the member from then, you know, just answered that HIA redevelopment was guaranteed in this house. The largest infrastructural project in the history of St. Lucia was a contingent liability. And don't let us go now into exactly what they did with that project. I keep asking the member from the Prime Minister, let us have a debate in this house on the HIA. He says to be patient, to be patient. So I'm going to be patient. But earlier today, the member from Cassius is explained to the nation that how can he continue a project where the interest rate is five percent. You have to top it up before eight percent project fee, that's fifteen percent. Now that eight percent is on top of the contractual cost of doing a particular piece of work. So if for some reason the contractor has to give somebody to do a still frame, it costs 10 million, they automatically get eight percent on the 10 million. And then the loan is another five percent. And then the Minstown cash is also pointed out that the loan is tied to a contractor, that the same member from Microsoft directed Slasper to give the contract. And he wants to accuse members here of a playing field, a change in room on a playing field that cost, say, a hundred thousand dollars and suggesting that something so wrong was done and something so corrupt was done when he awarded a contract that was worth over a hundred million US dollars without tender, without bill of quantities. Think about that. This is a member and I want you to tell him that. Ask him, honorable member, I'm the chair, I'm the speaker. How it is that he has the guts, how does he have that character where he can stand in this house and label and criticize a member for getting a contract to bill a change in room that costs a hundred thousand dollars, but he cannot award a contract by directing Slasper to give it to a particular firm. They contract that super for a hundred million US dollars without a bill of quantities, without any tender. How can you do this? How does he feel comfortable sitting next to you and be doing such? I know that's what I meant. That's what I meant. Explain that to me. But he doesn't stay there for us to point out those things to him for him to answer. So he leaves. He speaks about national lotteries unable to pay and the history of national lotteries. Mr Speaker, does he want us to open the history and start bringing letters before this honorable house about his dealings and his commitments he made to cage? Mr Speaker, I'm not going to venture on that road today. At the right time, I'm sure you know the responsible authorities will deal with it, but suffice it to say on the eve of elections, on the eve of an election, Kate was given another ticket by a former minister where they will pay no duties, no vats, no tax on anything, something they did not have the authority to do. Only this parliament can win the payment of vats on the eve of an election, on the eve of an election, costing the national lotteries millions of dollars. No, no, no, they sign a contract. They sign a contract where they would not really require to pay any duties, any taxes in this country, on the eve of an election and they don't have the authority to do so because only parliament can win the payment of vats. I'm sure you're not aware of that honorable member. Sorry. It never came to parliament and that's the point I'm making. It has never come to parliament. The same member from Miku South by a minister in his government. So, Mr Speaker, there's so much more we can see, but you have to tell the member from Miku South. He has a practice of coming in here, throwing, making accusations, saying things and then running and then running. You know, he came this morning expecting and getting ready to go for injunction and deputy speaker, British constitution. I don't know if you will brief on the actions that we're going to take place, you know. Well, we should have nominated you. We should have nominated you to be deputy speaker, Mr Speaker. But let's go on to the motion before us because I want to say a few things about the motion. I want to say a few things about motion and why support the motion. The motion states that the monies which will be received will be spent on preparing for the hosting of the ICC World T20 as well as supporting other youth and sports infrastructure in the country. And I'm in total support of that. Many years ago, we started promoting sports tourism in this country. Then I happened to have been PS in the Ministry of Youth and Sports, the Tourist Board, a sports consultant in the prison of Red Sparero was employed at the Tourist Board, had promote sports tourism. And we had severe challenges. So, for example, one of the most beautiful playing fields was La Fargue because imagine you're boarding from the southern end and the head of view is the Peters. If you're boarding from the northern end, you're seeing St. Vincent and the background. Beautiful field in Souffre. In those days, you used to play a lot of cricket down in Old Trafford. There were many beautiful playing fields. There's also a very beautiful one in some very beautiful playing fields. And we would bring in teams from the UK, primary school cricket teams, whatnot. And sometimes the young men want to use a washroom. None of our playing fields had washrooms. The only playing fields had washrooms then were the fields that had hosted the Caribbean and the West Indies Caribbean. Remember that? Caribbean cement. I think you might have been involved in that. You were too old then. Yeah. And the 15th tournament. So, Grosely had one. Miku had one. There is Souffre. A few of them had those wooden toilets and pavilions. But we didn't have that in all the charities. When players came down, female teams, whatnot, we had no washrooms at all. We had not county teams. Just below county. Some of the cricket teams from England. We took them out to play. I can recall taking one out to Monripo one time at Wendt playing field. And then the guys wanted to use the washroom.  That's how embarrassing it was, Mr. Speaker. That's how embarrassing it was. And then I recall, then we started building facilities and improving facilities. And as we prepare once again to launch sports tourism as a major program in St. Lucia, we will need those playing facilities to be upgraded. We will need, Mr. Speaker, from the indoor facility right now. I'm sure the honorable member will speak about the aquatic center being built right now. So we will have in St. Lucia playing facilities that can accommodate people from outside coming in and offering them the comfort that they want. So, if this will take care of that concern, I'm certainly delighted that the decision has been made. If the money that was spent on putting astral turps was spent wisely, you would have a lot less work to do, honorable member. So this is thick. I can also say to you, Mr. Speaker, the honorable member from the north spoke about these challenges. As a member in opposition, I beg for the upgrade of the St. Lucia playing field under Dr. Anthony and the member from January North and former rep Robert Lewis, they will go to upgrade the St. Lucia playing field. It was stopped by the last government. Stopped. I wanted to put lights. I obtained the lights myself. I was told I cannot put the lights. And about fruited for elections, the UWP candidate comes in four electricity poles and one light on each of them and a generator to put lights on the field and actually put them on and then took the generator away and the poles are still there with the lights on it. But within the next few weeks, we will get lights in Cicero. We will get sitting in Cicero. Thanks to my CDP. And the support of the National Lottery Authority, Mr. Speaker. We have redone the surface in Cicero. We now can boast of having a very good surface. The works are going on today, some disruption, but we have had upgrades. So I know there are many colleagues in here who are looking forward, you know, you know, that looking forward to get support so they can be upgraded. Mr. Speaker, what that will do is that it will promote more sports participation. It means now, especially with lights, more young people can use the playing facilities and be more constructively engaged rather than being idle on the blocks and on the streets, Mr. Speaker. And many years ago when I was permanent secretary, we had a programme called Sports Development for Peace, SDP. And it was actually using sports as a way of promoting peace among young people, conflict resolution, social cohesion. And maybe, you know, it's time we probably return to some of those programmes where we try to organise more and more sporting activities to engage our young people. We established what I call a community coaching programme where every Saturday morning we wanted every playing field in the country occupied by young people, playing sports, playing sports and more facilities we build, the more we upgrade it, the better we are placed to use sports as a tool for social advancement. So I'm excited by this, Mr. Speaker. I'm super excited by the fact that the semi-pro league has been launched, Mr. Speaker. I'm super excited. I'm almost jealous of the member from Ansler Canaries. He has three teams, three teams, Ansler Canaries and Ruzo Valley, Mr. Speaker. But the point is, Mr. Speaker, football is really the widest split sport in Sanusia. The more young men and young women we can get participating in sports, regardless of the sport, the better it is for our country. And the semi-pro league is actually starting to prepare our young men to start understanding, even though in a bigger way, the demands of professional sports. The dream of playing for serious football teams like Arsenal and Man City, Mr. Speaker. Serious teams, Mr. Speaker. They dream of doing it. They will start getting to understand the discipline that is involved when you're an elite athlete. As an elite athlete, it requires high performance, your focus on nutrition, your mental strength, your physical conditioning. All those elements, Mr. Speaker, the semi-pro league will slowly start providing our young athletes with Mr. Speaker. So I'm really excited by the launch of this and as much money that can be put into developing sport infrastructure, the better it is. I am hoping the minister of sports, the member of Ruzo Valley, will start a semi-pro T20 league for cricket, Mr. Speaker. Because if you look at cricket all over the world, and the member spoke about scholarships in the U.S. Yes, there are scholarships in the U.S. You can get scholarships for cricket now. You can get a lot of serious money in cricket, especially in the T20 leagues around the world. And we have solutions that have played in the league. Darren, Sami, Johnson, Charles, Mr. Speaker. And we need to say to more young men in cricket that you too can play in the IPL. You can play in the Big Bash. You can play in the 100 in England and earn substantial amounts of money. We have solutions who are Kim Oogis played in the CPL, Mr. Speaker. So there are avenues for our young men, and we need to encourage them. And of course, the high performance center, I believe, is one of the most progressive moves made by the minister of sports to establish the high performance center because, Mr. Speaker, you really started in young people. You see what you see on television? It does not happen overnight. This hard work, dedication, commitment, and the high performance center teaches them that kind of discipline. So the monies will be used, Mr. Speaker, in a very positive way. I want to end, Mr. Speaker, the notion that we must understand when we do those things for young people, why we're doing it. The member from Miku South, the lady opposition, was going on and on in case the national office cannot pay the loan, and they must be able to generate enough money, the Dharan Sami cricket ground must be able to generate enough money for its sustenance. Mr. Speaker, we need to be very careful how we reflect on this. And let me just share with you. When we were building the Dharan Sami cricket ground, then the boasters of cricket ground, we took a loan for $35 million. I remember a lot of the debates and the presentation that was made to the Ministry of Finance then, and they actually rejected the proposal to establish a cricket ground on the grounds that it cannot generate enough monies for it to maintain itself. And I remember my reaction then as a PSU from sports to that insinuation that we should not go ahead with it. And Dr. Anthony was Minister of Finance, had to put peace in the meeting. And he made it very clear to all the technocrats there, and he was so right that building the cricket ground is not an economic initiative. It's not an economic initiative. It's an investment in our young people. And that the ground would have to produce the next generation of cricketers and produce our first international cricketer, which we did through Dharan Sami. So when we take a loan to build sporting infrastructure, we're not talking about the lotteries must have money to repay, or else it's disaster. It's not disaster. We are investing in the young people of this country. And if by borrowing this money and spending it on young people, we cause less crime in this country, we have succeeded. If by borrowing this money, we are able to get more international superstars, we have succeeded, even if it means that national lottery cannot pay it and the government have to step in and pay for it. Because that's an investment in future generations. And it must never be measured by whether the national lotteries can repay that loan. Similarly, the member for Microsoft once stood there and said about Sir Arthur Lewis Community College, I don't know how many colleagues remember that, almost suggesting that Sir Arthur Lewis Community College was a failure and that students were getting a free education and as if they had to contribute more and we had to remind him this is an investment in young people and the future of the country. It's plain and simple. We need to remember those things. We are investing in young people and future generations. And we're not going to measure it in strict economic and business terms. There are powerful social implications for investing in the future of this country. So Mr Speaker, I end by once again expressing my support for the motion and looking forward Mr Speaker to get in its chair of the party. Thank you very much.


This video will talk about parallel and perpendicular slopes. Parallel lines, if you look at two parallel lines, remember slope is the rate, and these two lines are going at the same rate, so they have the same slope. If I draw a perpendicular line in here to these two lines, remember perpendicular lines have a right angle. Well this one has a, the blue one has a positive slope, and this green one is going down, so it has a negative slope. So I know that they are going to be opposites of each other, and if I were to actually give you those slopes, you'd find out that they are opposite reciprocals. So for instance, I could say that maybe this slope right here is going to be maybe positive two, then if that were true, then this slope over here would be a negative reciprocal of two, which is one-half. And it asks us, how do we know that all horizontal lines are parallel? Well, a horizontal line is straight across, and another one is going to be just like it, also straight across, and if they are both doing the same thing, their rates are both zero in this case, so we know that they are parallel lines. So line one contains zero, zero, and negative two, four. And line two contains one, negative five, and negative one, negative one, and we want to know if they are parallel, perpendicular, or neither. Well we need to know their slopes. So let's find the slope of line one. So line one slope is going to be y minus y, four minus zero, over x minus x, and negative two minus zero. So that's four over negative two, or it's just negative two. And if I do the other one, l two slope is going to be negative one minus a negative five, which is really plus five. And the x's would be negative one minus one. So negative one plus five is going to be four, and negative one minus one is going to be negative two, which reduces to negative two. So we know these are parallel because their slopes are exactly the same. This example says slope of line A is three-fourths, and the slope of line B is four-thirds. And are these two parallel, perpendicular, or neither? So they're reciprocals of each other, but they're not negative reciprocals of each other. So these two are neither. So now we have some equations of lines, and we want to know if they're parallel, perpendicular, or neither. So if I look at this one, it's y equals slope times x plus b, so I know that the slope here is negative six, and the slope here is negative six, so they're the same slope. So we know that they are parallel. Now this case I'm going to have to solve for y. So I'm going to subtract the x from both sides, and that'll give me three y equal to negative six minus x. And if I divide everything by three, then that tells me that y is equal to negative six divided by three is negative two, and negative x divided by three is negative one-third x. So this slope here is negative one-third, and the slope in this equation is a positive three, and they are reciprocals of each other, and they're also opposites of each other, one's positive, one's negative, so these are perpendicular. Y equal three is a horizontal line, so its slope is going to be zero. And then this is y equal three x, so its slope is equal to three. They're not the same slope, so they are neither.