Thanks for joining us here on the breakfast on plus TV Africa. It's a very beautiful Wednesday morning And we hope that we have a very very interesting run today I'll start with of course the trend in stories the latest release from the Pandora papers Detailed illegal dealings of the Kebbi State governor Tiku Bagudu and his many shell companies And it's one of the things that we'll be talking about today Also southern Nigerian states put anti-open grazing laws in place But what does this mean for nomadic Kattu headers? I'll be speaking this morning to the secretary general of the Miatiala Kattu breeders association popularly called Macban And also this morning zoning causes internal wranglings within the Nigerian governor's forum and major political parties Is it the south's turn in 2023? Will the presidency and other positions be thrown open? Those are some of the very interesting conversations We will be having this morning here on the breakfast and of course of the press where we have a quick review of the major stories making Headlines across Nigeria this Wednesday morning. I am Osao Gie. Oh boy Now let's first of all start with some of the things that are trended yesterday I had spoken just a little bit about more of the Pandora papers Exposing on you know many many seemingly corrupt dealings of politicians and and kings and you know the lights all over the world All right, this was put together and it has about 11.9 million documents by more than 600 investigative journalists across the world Nigeria has 10 persons of That have been focused on and just two people have been spoken about so far The first one that was for my number of state governor Pitao B, which I spoke about yesterday and then you know Also give a little hints of the Kaby state governor Tiku Bagudu whose You know name also made the list. There's still expectations for many more Nigeria names about eight more that would be Exposed, but hey, I think about good to Kaby state governor. I'm gonna quickly share from the premium Times Page it says 11 years ago Abu Bakar Bagudu the current governor of Kaby state, but then a senator dispatched a delegation to Singapore in search of a new Haven to shelter his controversial wealth It says investigators said the huge funds warehouse offshore is part of billions of dollars Mr. Bagudu helped the Sani Abacha family still from Nigeria in the 1990s in 1997 some 13 years later. Mr. Bagudu had structured offshore holdings Readly trust and readly group in notorious tax and secrecy Havens Grancy and the British Virgin Islands Positioning himself as the unseen but ultimate beneficiary in the months that followed 99 million euros in cash and securities was then transferred from readly to a new structure Enabled by Asiya city or Asia city. I beg your pardon, which brushed aside the red flags about Bagudu's controversial background And source of his wealth. That's basically just a summary of what you know, it all states If you search for the link on the premium Times, it's online already. You would see very very extensive Details concerning this, you know where initially the funds were in the British Virgin Islands and then at some point After of course, you know some deals had been signed some money had been sent back to Nigeria If you remember when there was a hundred and sixty three million dollars that was sent back to Nigeria That was part of a plea bargain. I believe for the Kebys state governor Who of course had spent some time in jail? There was a plea bargain and then you know some of that money was repatriated back to the country He then at that point moved some of those funds according to the premium Times report or the Pandora papers report Rather move some of those funds from the British Virgin Islands to Singapore Where of course the money has so far been kept It basically exposes Where billions and billions of dollars that were Stolen from Nigeria in the Sanyabacha government Where of course stolen with the help of certain persons including the current Kebys state governor And of course the son of Sanyabacha and a few other people And of course some of all those funds have been sent back to Nigeria about three point six billion dollars has been sent back There's still talks that there's many many many more of those funds that have not been found or sent back to Nigeria But you know his name has come out, you know as one of those people who of course stashed millions of euros and you know dollars in you know secret in Havens well basically and shell companies in different parts of the world When this broke, okay, it was basically coming off, you know right after the peter will be story broke And of course I spoke about the peter will be story yesterday and said well, you know from what it looks There's not necessarily a crime that has been committed yet until there's further Information on whether he you know should have it, you know reveal some of all those things to the code of common bureau or not But that would be for the legal team and whoever it is that decides to get into that conversation Later for a good whose story It's not necessarily news and it's not necessarily breaking news for anybody that you know he had of course been arrested in the United States and You know was charged with some of these money laundering crimes And it's also not news that he was a part of the persons who Allegedly had helped a Sania Bach at then to steal billions of dollars from Nigeria if you read the report It says so much about how they used to you know source them, you know two or three billion dollars, you know allegedly to used for security Investing in security here in Nigeria, but instead transferred You know all of that money to accounts outside Nigeria He was a part of that process So it wasn't necessarily news when it broke and a lot of the reactions to it really were saying well, you know This isn't news ever a lot of people already knew about my gurus past and you know, you know And Sania Bacha of course very popular for the money laundering charges against him But what was really? The bone of contention with this conversation was you know the part where? People then start to ask how do we have people with these types of you know of history? How do we have persons with a history like this holding government positions in Nigeria today? And I'm gonna, you know say this along with some of the statements that I made on the Nazco terrorism, you know story and the controversy concerning You know Yeah, yeah, I can't remember his name also the Katsina man That I spoke about yesterday that was allegedly we're not allegedly that was arrested by Nigeria's security service Early 2000s by the Obasan your government and eventually was released charged with sponsoring terrorism Assistant with money laundering for terrorist organizations trying to set up Taliban The cells here in Nigeria was arrested then was released and then made his way back into government is currently one of the founding members of the Jibwis and one of the very very popular persons in Nigeria even taking pictures with President Muhammad Ubu Ari How do persons like that eventually get to become you know In political spaces run businesses own bureau the show or bureau the show offices here in Nigeria and many many things like that There's many of our politicians in the country today that have very very dirty pasts People who have also been found guilty of drug smuggling and drug trafficking many years ago in the 90s that eventually became governors To you know in Nigeria eventually became you know senators eventually be you know Became members of the National Assembly and some of all of that How do we have so many of those persons who have sought very dirty past? Somehow some way make it into government offices here in Nigeria and that really is the bone of contention How much do we need to look back at a person's past before we you know Then eventually give them a go ahead to run for office here in Nigeria and this will you know It will cover so many spaces. It's a pandemic. Of course, you remember You know the accusations against him You know some of the statements that he had made and it's not it wasn't in any way Denied that he made those statements the defense instead from the Nigerian government was that oh, you know It was just young and you know, he said those things while he was still a you know still a young man You know, and he knows better now But it doesn't change the fact that there's many of these persons who have either, you know been drug smugglers Or you know helped launder money or had you know links to terrorism that currently iron government in Nigeria and walking free How much more of research do we need to do about the people who vie for political office in Nigeria? And that's really where the major conversation is concerning the Kepa state governor And of course other people whose names will eventually be put out by Pandora papers I'll just quickly mention that it's not just here in Nigeria. There's about 360 Plus names across the world Presidents, you know in and persons in Cuba in Indonesia in the United States in UK in Nigeria many many places Kings You know heads of businesses very popular names that have been named in the Pandora papers expose We'll be bringing you further details as of course they drop and I'm looking forward to always talking about them But for this morning, I take about go to the Kebi state governor is the name in question Let's move away from there or from Kebi now to another state in Nigeria Cano where there seems to be a family problem that is involved the economic and financial crimes Commission Not very long ago. I had seen a story of how the son of the like Ganduji had reported his mother To the EFCC for alleged fraud Apparently he had, you know sought her assistance with Getting land, you know and and you know some property for Foreign investors and people who had, you know hundreds of thousands of dollars to invest in Cano state to buy land Basically in Cano state and about 35 million Naira also But when they had come for the land that they had paid for apparently it was it turned out that she had So those lands to all the people and so it was obviously fraudulent We hear about these things in many many parts of Nigeria places in Benin City when they tell you to not bother Giving any money money to anybody, you know to buy land because by the time you get there You realize that there's seven other people who have paid for that particular piece of land and you would never get it You know you go to court for many many years and you never get that land But it was pretty much the same thing that she did so she allegedly did And it was only just funny because it was her son who was reporting her to the EFCC She was eventually meant to show up at the EFCC's office when she was invited for questioning And didn't show up and the news then broke yesterday that she was arrested It says that she didn't get to spend the night at the EFCC's office or anything She was arrested maybe for a couple of hours and then, you know, very likely released It says here Abdul Aziz was said to have reported his mother to the commission for corruptly using family power and status for personal Enrichment according to report in his petition is stated that he was approached by property developer To help facilitate the acquisition of some plots of land in Cano with some hundreds of thousands of US dollars and at least 35 million Naira as Facilitation Commission He was said to have paid the money to his mother But three months later the property developer discovered that the plots of land he wanted and paid for had been allocated to other buyers He then of course asked to be refunded and that never happened And so there that is, you know, basically a summary of the chaos in the Ganduja family between, you know EFCC mother and son and of course the questions that I've you know have been wanting to ask is you know, it's you know The Ganduja wife is she commissioner for lands in Cano state? What leverage does she really have concerning land allocation in Cano state if she's first lady of Cano state, which is fine But you know, how much influence does she where should she have with being able to allocate land to you know investors or You know presence of interest in Cano state It doesn't you know seem to make a lot of sense that you know simply by being the governor's wife You know, you have that much power. Of course, we're Nigeria. So nothing shocks anybody But you know as a governor's wife, should she have the the leverage, you know, and the authority to allocate land to anybody You know and you know take her own kickbacks and fashion our own commissions for my location of lands and It's still part of, you know, the whole corruption that we speak about here in Nigeria I mean other climbs, you know, the Wife very likely would be arrested would be charged for some of all these allegations. Maybe also The husband would decide or this is too debty for my political, you know, you know You know space and so I would resign But of course, nobody gets to resign here Nigeria because even if you're caught stuffing dollars in your Agbada, you know, you still get to keep your job and you know finish your tenure here in Nigeria But anyway, just quickly share the little bit of chaos in the Gandhaj family And that's our second top trend in the story for today Finally, of course, just before we move to off the press the president has announced 75,000 Naira Per semester as a feast to students studying education in public schools here in Nigeria It says the president mama de boire approve 75,000 as a stipends for a per semester for education students in public universities across the country He also approved 50,000 Naira as stipends for Nigerian certificates in education students The development spot of his last year's promise for the education sector and was announced by the Minister of Education at Damuadamu During the annual celebration of World Teachers Day at the Eagle Square in Abuja It's basically to encourage more people to get into That department and study education and hopefully become lecturers and teachers in the future Of course the reactions to this have been varying. There's people who have said okay. Well, this is good It definitely will encourage more people to study education But at the same time it's not enough, you know with with regards if the plan really is to help boost the education sector It really is not enough, you know Because the whole of education sector in Nigeria needs overhauling needs more investments needs better infrastructure Needs more funding. There's so much that needs to be done from the primary secondary to the tertiary level of education here in Nigeria The teachers the students the infrastructure the universities so much needs to be done our annual budget You know an allocation done the percentage of our budget that goes to allocation education Sorry needs to be improved on every single year And those are some of the things that should be more important than simply encouraging students to study education Because that may not really really be effective in the long run eventually is they're gonna have a lot of people, you know Emigrating to other countries to you know practice their work after learning here in Nigeria Those are top three stories on top trend in this morning, and thanks once again for joining us We'll take a short break when we come back Demo like King Bala will be joining us as a publisher of the podium and media to share his thoughts on the stories making headlines Across Nigeria this morning. Good morning once again


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Hello, everyone. Welcome to Options with Doug. Streaming Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 1.30 p.m. Eastern time on Bookmap Discord and the Bookmap YouTube channel. Before I get started, I need to go through the Disclosures. General Disclosure. All Bookmap Living and 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 investors. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results. Here's my contact information. The best way to get in touch with me is through Discord. My name on Discord is Doug P. Also on Bookmap Discord, there's an options-doug chat channel that's a great place to post questions, comments and content related to the topics of my presentation and the topics of the channel that I'll go through in just a moment. I'm also on X, formerly known as Twitter. My name there is at Doug Pless and note that I did post a couple of setups yesterday. One in Tesla, Barry's setup in Tesla and then a bullish setup in NVIDIA yesterday. So if you are active on X, please take a look. If you like what you see, give me a follow and a like. That would be appreciated. Alright, so again on X at Doug Pless. Here are the key tenets to my approach for trading. This is the basis of my approach to trading. First of all, I believe that options trades and market maker hedging activity are key drivers of price in many stocks and futures and certainly in the equity index futures like the SB500 and NASDAQ 100 and the large cap tech stocks that I follow in trade like the MAG7 stocks. And for the SB500, SPX is the underlying index and SPY is the ETF version of that index and ES, the SB500 futures that's a derivative of SPX. And when traders buy and sell puts and calls in SPX and SPY, market makers take the opposite side of those trades and they hedge their delta exposure with ES futures. And for the NASDAQ 100, NDX is the underlying index. QQQ is the much more liquid version of that index, the ETF version of that index. And NQ is a derivative of NDX. And when traders buy and sell puts and calls and NDX and QQQ, market makers take the opposite side of those trades and they hedge their delta exposure with NQ futures. The focus of my presentation today and the focus of the options dash Doug chat channel is options order flow, the impact of options markets on stocks and futures, and the influence of market maker hedging flow on price action. I have a two step process for trading and the first is planning and I use positional analysis. I look at how traders and market makers are positioned at 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 a directional bias. And the second step in my process is execution. I look at real time order flow and book map and real time market maker hedging flow and spot gamma hero to confirm my thesis and for setups for entries and exits. And when I talk about setups today, I will be focusing on an underlying asset and setups and that asset can be taken any number of ways. For example, for the SP 500 setups can be taken with ES futures, spy shares, spy options, SPX options, or even ES options. Questions and comments are welcome and I will be watching both the options dash Doug chat channel and discord as well as the chat and YouTube for your questions and comments. Please feel free to post. I'll do my best to answer questions. Hello, Katina. Welcome. Glad you're here. Hello, Steven. Welcome. Glad you're here as well. Alright, here's my agenda for today. Friday, April 12. First of all, I want to go over news items to wrap up the week. Then I'll go through my positional analysis from today. Then I'll review some setups earlier today. Then I'll move to the live market. And when I get to the live market, if anyone has any stocks they want me to take a look at, please let me know and I'll be glad to do them. Alright, let's start with news items. Michigan consumer sentiment came out at 10am. I don't know if that was really much of a market mover. The market was already making a series of lower highs. And when the data came out, just continued lower. So Michigan consumer sentiment came in lower than expected and lower than the previous number. Alright, so let's move on to positional analysis now. I'm going to start with the SB 500. This is the ES futures and book map. Let's just zoom out for a quick perspective. So the current down move began really somewhere in the pre market, maybe 4am, 430am, something like that. When the ES broke below VWAP shown by the light blue line and ES and the SB 500 continues to make a series of lower highs. Alright, so let's move back and just take a look at the from the cash open on. Alright, so again, this is the ES futures and book map. Before I take a closer look at this chart, I want to take a look at a higher time frame. I'm going to go to the SPX, the underlying index. I'm going to start with a one day chart. This is thinkorswim showing a one day chart for SPX. And the rally that it looks like it's coming under pressure now maybe has ended began last year, October 30. And the green trend line is showing the SPX rallied up over 1150 points. And definitely getting weaker. This is the weakest that the SPX weakest price action since the rally began. Alright, so let's this is a one day chart. Now let's move to a shorter time frame. I'm going to take a look at a one hour chart. This is the top of that trend line. High for SPX right around 5265. That was a couple of weeks ago. And since then SPX has been making a series of lower highs. And the drop has just accelerated today. Alright, let's take a look at levels on this chart. First of all, the dash purple lines. And that's this lower dash purple line. I'll talk more about this other line 5139 in just a minute. So the dash purple lines are showing the lower and upper weekly expected move that's based on the options market. That's based on the closing price for SPX last Friday. Those levels remain in place for the entire week. Know that SPX is trading now below the lower weekly expected move. The dash blue lines are showing the lower and upper daily expected move. This is also based on the options market. Based on the closing price yesterday from yesterday, I do post these numbers and discord the evening before. So those both of these numbers, the daily and weekly expected moves I did post in discord in the options hashtag chat channel last evening. Alright, the other lines on this chart are spot gamma levels. These are proprietary spot gamma levels. They're based on gamma weighted open interest. They're provided to spot gamma subscribers. And they're available on a variety of trading platforms. This is thinkorswim again a 30 day one hour chart. I'm going to go over the key daily levels. First of all, 5000. That's the absolute gamma strike. That's a strike with largest absolute positive and negative gamma. That's where most of the gamma weighted open interest is concentrated. Above that is 5150. That's the put wall. That's a strike with largest net negative gamma that can be expected to act as support and not doing its job today. And that level did move up from yesterday. Yesterday it was at 5100. So yesterday the put wall was down here at 5100. And above that is the volatility trigger at 5190 that a spot gammas proprietary volatility flip level below that level market makers position on the gamma curve is negative. In a negative gamma environment, market makers have to trade with price to hash their delta exposure. That tends to enhance or increase volatility. We'll take a look at the Vanna model in a minute and see that the Vanna is definitely in play for today. This is definitely a very negative gamma environment. Gamma notional at the beginning of the day for the SB 500 was negative for SB X just slightly negative. And now much more negative. Well, again, we'll take a look at the Vanna model see a graphical representation of this in just a minute. And above that level above the volatility trigger market makers position on the game curve is positive in a positive gamma environment, market makers have to trade market makers have to trade against price to hash their delta exposure that tends to subdue or decrease volatility. And note again, SB X is trading firmly below that volatility trigger. Finally, the call wall is at 5300. That's the strike will bar just net positive gamma that can be expected to act as resistance. That level definitely not in play for today. Since SB X is trading below the football. Alright, let's wrap up our view of SB X. And again, this is the underlying index. That's why I spend so much time with this. Alright, so let's take a look now at a one minute chart for SB X. And I've zoomed out just a little bit to show the last three days worth of worth of data. Remember, SB X only trades during regular trading hours. So it does gap compared to ES. So this is Wednesday. Gap down to the CPI report, chop, and then a move higher at the open driven by primarily zero DTE options traders, taking positive delta positions. So that's Wednesday. Thursday, PPI data came in lower than expected. SPX did revisit lower the day from Wednesday, then rallied pretty sharply. And then today, gap lower. And so far, SB X has been making a series of lower highs. Yeah, lower highs. Alright, I'm going to note the low of the day 51 10. We'll take a look at that when we take a look at the venom on. So let's take a look at the levels on this chart. First of all, volatility trigger. SPX well below that level. Who's the put wall was in play earlier today, lower daily expected move. This recent low the 51 39 that acted as support Wednesday, Thursday, earlier today. And now SB X trading well below that level. Also below the lower weekly expected move that was shown on previous charts. Alright, that's the landscape for SPX. Or let's go back to book map now. So in book map, I have my own cloud notes. So I can show SPX levels on this chart. There's the 51 50 put wall. I could I'm also showing smile levels on this chart. Both spot gamma levels. There's the 515 large gamma four level me zoom out just a little bit. Also note here's this 51 69 zero gamma level the five spy 515 large gamma four level acting as resistance earlier today, just after the cash open good entry point for short. Right now there is a difference between a difference of price between ES and SPX. And today that difference is several between 43 and 44. I'm using 44. So I'm showing SPX 5100 at ES 51 44. Alright, hello, Tony. Tony asked what exactly are the functions of these index relationships. Right, let's take a look at that. So I use those numbers to know where to put the spy that you're referring to the ES to spy ratio in the NQ to QQQ ratio. Right, so I'm using these numbers to show the spy levels at the correct and the QQQ levels. So the spy levels on my ES chart and the QQQ levels on my NQ chart. So here's what I do. I get these levels from spot gamma. So the lowest spot gamma level that I that was it looked like it would be in play for today is the 510 large gamma three level. So I'm using these this spreadsheet to feed the price lines add on that I use to populate my cloud notes. I'll show that in just a minute. So this is my spreadsheet. Then what I do is, let's just show this this 510 level. So 510, let me click on that cell. And here's the formula. And I'm I put these numbers out to the side so I can use these numbers to calculate the correct ES number. So this is basically ES this column right here equal I 51. So I'm calculating this level right here. I 51 times 10.1172. And I get these that 10.1172 from a script that that's running a thinker, thinker swim showing that real time ratio. So I take that ratio, enter this formula in the cell right here. I'm grabbing this number calculating the correct ES number in the cell. And so I'm showing the 510 level at 51 59 and price lines rounds that off to 51 5975. Alright, so there you go. Hope that answers your question, Tony. And this is the add on that I'm using this price lines add on. And this is the spreadsheet that I was referring to. Alright, let's move on. And that price lines add on is available in the book map marketplace. Alright, let's take a look at NASDAQ. Alright, so let me just mention levels and play for today. This 5200. And just above that is the spy 514 level. That's just a round number level acted as support, resistance, resistance, get set up for an afternoon long, spy 512 just a round number. That's not a spot gamma level acting as support. Also note the point of control is still right at this 5200. It's difficult to see that's that purple line that has moved down to 5200. Alright, let's move on to NASDAQ now. And we'll talk about setups in a few minutes. Alright, so similar pattern for NASDAQ series of lower highs began before the cash open. Let's take a look at the underlying index charts. I'm going to go to QQQ series of lower highs. Just after the open this 442 441.9 combo two level acted as resistance. Later in the day 441 and VWAP acting as resistance. Now it looks like this 437 maybe acting as support. There's no label on that. Give me just a moment and let me check what that is. Whoops. 437 is a combo three level combining QQQ and NDX gamma weighted open and open interest. Oh, here I'm showing it right here. Combo three C three level acting as support. So again, combining QQQ and NDX gamma weighted open interest into one combined level shown in terms of a QQQ price. And here I have used that ratio that Tony posted just a moment ago to calculate the correct level to show that on my chart. And as we just saw in the QQQ chart, that is the correct level. In QQ did trade down to that level QQQ. Let's take a quick look at NDX. And it looks like the 18,000 level is in play for today. And 18,000 is a large gamma two level. And down below that 17,900 is the absolute gamma strike on the call wall. All right, let's go back to NQ levels and play for again. Here's that 442 and then the 441.9 combo two level acting as resistance. And now down to the 437 level that combo three so far acting as support today. Alright, let's take a quick look at gamma notional and the van model wrap up our positional analysis. So as expected yesterday after the large rally gamma notional, this is gamma notional at the beginning of the day for the SB 500 and NASDAQ shifted higher. So still negative for the SB 500 just very mildly negative. That's pretty much neutral for SPX still mildly negative for spy and then shifted positive for the NASDAQ really just mildly positive for QQQ. Alright, again, those numbers did shift higher from yesterday. Again, given the the big rally. Alright, let's take a look at the van model now to get a better understanding of what this might mean. What this chart is showing is market makers delta notional on the vertical axis, and the spot price for SPX on the horizontal axis. There are two curves on this chart. And the first curve, the light gray curve shows how market makers delta notional may change with changes in price only. The purple curve adds implied volatility to the to the equation that shows how market makers delta notional may change with changes in price and applied volatility. And note as implied volatility increases, and nothing else changes, market makers delta notional will increase just based on the change in applied volatility. And again, that change in delta with a change in implied volatility is the van effect van is a second order Greek. So this is the curve that we want to take a look at. So as let's check, let's check on prices now. So we know the low of the day was right around 51 10, somewhere between these two lines. Alright, so we know as price has been dropping, we'll take a look at a chart of VIX in just a minute price has been dropping, implied volatility increasing. Market makers delta notional is increasing. They have to sell futures to hedge their delta exposure. So this is definitely shifted toward this negative gamma portion of the Vanna model. In this case, trader market makers are trading in the direction of price that tends to enhance or increase volatility. So definitely this is put Vanna fueled volatility fueled move lower. Let's just take a look at take a look at VIX, take a look at a chart for VIX. This is a five minute chart for VIX. Note that VIX does trade overnight and began moving higher, significantly higher about 8am and earlier today, traded at 19.2 and that's the high of the year. So we know that overall today VIX has been increasing price dropping. So implied volatility increasing price falling. Market makers delta notional increases. They want to remain delta neutral. So they have to sell futures to hedge their delta exposure. That tends to enhance or increase volatility. Alright, so that is the that wraps up my position analysis. So based on the day, I, you know, I forgot to go over shifts and those I mentioned for SBX, volatility trigger and put wall shifted higher for spy. Volatility trigger also shifted higher. The call wall shifted lower and the absolute gamma strike shifted higher. So overall, gamma levels for the S&P 500 did shift higher. So that was slightly bullish. And then so just based on that, my thesis would be would be bullish. That's that shifts in level, those shifts and levels were expected after the big move yesterday. On the other hand, pre market, definitely bearish. Also keeping this Vanna model in mind watching VIX and knowing that price is moving lower. That would lead to more of a bearish thesis. And for the NASDAQ, there was only one shift level shift higher levels that was QQQ volatility trigger did shift slightly higher. Alright, so let's move on from position analysis now to execution. So everything that we've looked at so far other than the book map is based on static data. Swipe gamma takes open interest data, updates it once a day, it comes out sometime overnight. They update that and apply their algorithms to those to that information to come up the levels that I put on my charts. Alright, so let's move on to execution now. I want to take a look and see what options traders have been doing today. I'm going to start with the SP 500. So this is the hero chart. It's available to spot the MS subscribers. Hero is hedging impact real time options, H I RO. So this is real time data now. What this chart is showing is options trades for a combined signal of SP X by X SP and ES futures all into one combined signal. The white line is showing showing price for SP X. And the purple line is showing the hero signal. A rising hero signal indicates traders are taking positive options, delta positions, they're buying calls and or selling puts. And a falling hero signal indicates they're taking negative delta positions, they're buying puts and or selling calls. Market makers take the opposite side of those trades. So with a rising hero signal, they have to buy ES futures to hedge their delta exposure. And with a falling hero signal, they have to sell ES futures to hedge their delta exposure. They take the opposite side of customer trades. Alright, so let's zoom in on this chart. Alright, so pretty choppy hero signal today. Let's just take a look at one thing and we'll we'll see why I mentioned zero DTE trades before. So all expressions that is today, next week, next month, that's shown by the purple, that's all trades. And then the green line or teal line is showing options trades that expire today. And for good bit of day today, the zero DTE options trades have made up a very large portion of all trades. And this zero DTE trade tends to be mean reverting, selling highs and buying lows. Alright, let's go back to all trades down. So that is one explanation for this up and down hero signal makes it a little bit more difficult to interpret hero. But the main thing is this. And we'll combine this by taking a look at order flow and book map to come up with setups. Alright, so first of all, note the sharp move higher and hero, right at the open for about 20 minutes, it shifts lower. We can zoom in on this just a little bit. Alright, so 950 hero signal shifts lower, then right around 10105 1010, zero DTE traders push it up, and still continues lower. So that just made a made for a slight pause or consolidation as the SMB 500 continue to move lower. Alright, so let's go take a look at book map. We'll go back to the SMB 500. So we know the hero signal shifted lower, right around 950. So let's zoom in. Give me just a moment to adjust the chart. Alright, so first of all, the volume dots in book map are showing market buy minus sell magenta dots indicate more there's there more sellers than buyers. magenta dots more, well, green volume dots more buyers than sellers, magenta dots more sellers than buyers. So aggressive buyers on the way up, they become exhausted. A little bit of a stop run that's shown by the small green dot 450 contracts, price reverses lower as options traders start to take negative delta positions. Some aggressive sellers come in, price starts to move lower, makes a lower high, right at this 516090 gamma level, and then continues to move lower. Alright, so then the SMB 500 just continue to move lower. Notice price started moving down, sell stop orders, helped to fuel the move lower that shown by the following yellow line. This is pretty typical for large traders, they're buying the move down with iceberg orders, they're fading in the move that shown by this rising light blue line, large traders are buying this move down with iceberg orders. Alright, so since then the SMB 500 has just continued to make a series of lower highs. Deep pull back right around 1130. Let's go take a look at hero again. Though to this case, this hero floor alert comes in toward the top of this move. These hero floor alerts signal significant options activity, and they can often act as a mean reverting signal. I did post a more detailed explanation in discord in the options dash check channel earlier today. And right around 1130 1145, heroes starts to shift lower, takes a while for price to start moving lower. Overall, though, I think hero has been somewhat difficult to interpret today for the SP 500. Alright, so let's move on to NASDAQ. Much easier read here today. Let me show you what I'm looking at. For the NASDAQ. I like to look at this mag seven signal. This is another combined signal showing options trades for the stocks known as the mag deficit seven showing options trades and market maker hedging activity for Apple, Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA and Tesla. These stocks make a very large component of the NASDAQ 100 and often dry price. And as usual, this signal is providing a very good indicator for direction for the NASDAQ. No, in the case of this mag seven signal, it has been bearish all day. Traders taking negative Delta options positions. Again, much more clear signal. Let's take a look at 10 o'clock. So initially hero move lower, a little bit higher, then started to grind down then drop sharply right around 10am. Let's go back to book map go to NASDAQ. Let me assume just a bit. 10am. Move up to that 442 441 9 level. Again, aggressive buyers on the way up shown by the green volume dots. Then aggressive sellers start to come in shown by the magenta volume dots. Price makes a series of lower highs and cell stop orders continue to fuel the move lower that's shown by the following yellow line. And then finally all the way down to the 437 level. So series of lower highs mag seven signal providing a very clear indication that traders were taking negative Delta positions. And those stocks that again, make up a very large component of the NASDAQ 100. Having to fuel this move lower in NASDAQ. Let's go back to hero. Alright, so again, this is to me a much more clear signal. And maybe leveling off somewhere somewhere. Starting around one o'clock traders taking negative Delta positions have taken their foot off the gas and NASDAQ trying to move higher. Or let's take a look at some stocks. This is Apple kind of an unusual move for Apple today. More like some other more volatile stocks in the mag seven, but it was really one of the best setups to that of the day. So this is Apple. First of all, note the rising hero signal. Just a few minutes after the open, flow alerts come in signaling significant significant options activity. And for stocks, these flow alerts that come in just a few minutes after the open are usually a pretty good signal. So I interpret this as something to get my attention. Neo had asked about this earlier today in discord. This is how I use these hero signal for stocks. It gets my attention. I'm looking at the direction of price and the direction of the hero signal. I see hero signal moving higher, Apple moving higher. I'm looking for an entry point for a long. And note that 177 50 is the call wall.  Then they started taking negative delta positions and price move lower. And note the hero signal did start to move higher. And this was really more of a head fake. We'll take a look at that in book mapping just a moment. Alright, so good move higher. This morning in Apple. And this is more like more like meta really than Apple. Quick move higher. Hard to find an entry point on that. The zoom in on this. So what I was talking about this the that quick move higher and hero consolidates remember 177 50. Let me draw a line there. 177 50 is the call wall price does move up above that level. Soon after breaching that level, options traders take the foot off the gas, start taking negative delta positions down to this level of very high liquidity at 176 50. Look like that was going to be a good point for a bounce and really did not amount to much. Maybe if you caught that full move maybe about a point in Apple. So what looked like it would be a promising pullback back up to at least the call wall did not play out. But the first play out the first move with the hero alerts did play out for a nice nice bullish move in Apple. Alright, let's move on. Next is Google. Let's see what options traders are doing at Google. And by the way, when I'm reviewing these setups, what I'm thinking about is I'm reviewing the day. What did I miss? What could I have done better? I'm looking at some some trades. Some I took some I didn't. Again, with the attitude of reviewing the day reviewing setups, what I could have done better, how could I improve? And what I did? What did I do well today? Alright, so this is Google. Note the call wall at 160. That's key for today. Initial move higher right up to just below the call wall. Hero flow alert comes in. Another one comes in. And this time with the breach of the call wall, right on just before 10am, hero moves lower price moves lower. Call wall does his job acts as resistance as expected. Let's move on to Google. Alright, so here it is. Here's the 160 call wall. Again, doing its job acting as resistance. Entry points as traders options traders take the food off the gas start taking negative delta positions. Here's a pullback to VWAP and then a trend break. So potential very clear shorts just right around 1030 at VWAP and then just as that at that trend break. Let's go back and take a look at hero. Alright, so if you miss this second, the this touch of the call wall, secondary entry really right, I guess right around 1030 test the VWAP and then move lower. Let's move on meta flow alert just a couple of minutes after the open hero signal falling looking for short. Let's go to go to meta meta opening print. Quick move higher up to 520 price versus lower. Traders taking negative delta positions. Looking for a short. Let's go back to hero. So hero has been trending lower all day. Secondary entry right around right around this area right around 517. As hero signal starts to move lower again, that was around 1145 or 12 o'clock. So meta move back up to right around the 517 level, then reverse lower. As traders started taking negative delta positions again. So a late morning entry, then a quick move down all the way to 511. Let's take a look at Nvidia. Nvidia down there low of the days, not low of the day. 900 call wall key gamma strike, acting as resistance. Just after the cash open, aggressive buyers on the way up, then aggressive sellers start to come in. Multiple test of 895 and VWAP VWAP, just like meta price returns to that 895 level, just below making a little bit lower highs. Alright, let's see what options traders are doing. Go to Nvidia. Alright, does anyone have any stocks they want me to take a look at? Please let me all be glad to do that. Alright, so again, flow alert at the open potential resistance level at the 900 call wall key gamma strike. Hero shifting lower. Let's zoom in on this. Call wall key gamma strike. Flow alert. Hero moving lower price moving lower. I'm looking for an entry point for short. Let's go back to book map. Alright, Caesar says trend breaks with flow seem to be really nice. Yeah, that's a good way to good way to look at things. I draw trend lines on my charts quite often. Trend break. Lower highs. Alright, so short in Nvidia down near the lowest of the day again. Alright, KP wants to take a look at SLV. Alright, I don't have SLV in book map. We can take a look in heroes see if it's there. Take a look at SLV. SLV call wall at 27 did act as resistance earlier today. There was a lot of chop earlier today. Spot gamma has indicated when there are a lot of flow alerts coming in close to the same time that is a very that's indicative of chop. Just price price moving up and down in a narrow range. And then finally, right around 1115, hero signal shifts sharply lower and price moves lower. Breaking below that 27 call wall. Alright, WRB wants to take a look at Tesla. Last time I checked Tesla was a pretty choppy mess today. So now looks like Tesla find the resolving lower maybe around 1145. Earlier today, Tesla was pretty choppy. Assume on on this. So in this case, the hero signal. Whoops. Early hero signal for Tesla was somewhat of a head fake. options traders took their foot off the gas pretty quickly. Just right around 94945. Then started to take negative delta positions around 1010. And since then, Tesla has been moving lower. Alright, let's go take a look at book map. Let's go to Tesla. Alright, here's this choppy mess for Tesla in the first, at least the first hour.  Random around 1145 12 o'clock, trend break. And Tesla moves below VWAP as traders were taking negative delta positions. Note also that cumulative volume delta has been falling all day. Alright, Caesar says seems like flow, as well as book map aren't as reliable for ETS. Yeah, I would agree. I think the hero signal for a stock is is more pure, if you would, would say that like for Apple, the only thing that is influencing Apple, it's just a single single entity single stock. And options traders, options trades as well as aggressive buyers and sellers are moving price for stock like Apple or Tesla or Nvidia. So the I think price action for the SB 500 and NASDAQ, you know, of course, they're the ETF versions of those, take a little bit more interpretation. Of course, there's much more information as well, with stop orders and iceberg orders. All right, Elizabeth, my opinion on SOUN for long term stocks, sorry, I'm not familiar with that stock. And I really can't give any opinions on long term stocks. We can take a look in hero, I'll let you see what's going on today. So I look at see if it's I've never heard of that stock. So I don't know if it's even available. Yeah, it is. Alright, so low price stock very thinly traded. Looks like there are options trades. They've been taking negative delta positions all day. Price has been moving lower. So Elizabeth, sorry, other than that, I can say for today, that it would have been a good short heroes, the hero signal moving lower from the open. Of course, a low price stock like this is most likely hard to borrow and most brokers played training platforms. But it is moving below the 450 put wall. Alright, does anyone have any other stocks they want me to take a look at? So again, Caesar back to your comment. Yeah, that's why I have mostly stocks here. Except for qqq and spy, mostly stocks, and the equity index futures. And of course, mag seven. Alright, Caesar wants to take a look at Rivian. Sure, I don't have that a book map, we can take a look in hero, the low price stock. Looks like there is some decent, notional value here at around minus 7 million traders taking negative delta positions, hero moving lower from the open, would have been a good short. Let me just check one thing. Alright, in my broker's platform, I use trade station. So it's not really the best platform for low price stocks. Rivian is hard to borrow. So maybe if you have another, another plating trading platform, like I think J trader uses Cobra, which is much more suitable for selling short finding hard to borrow stocks, borrowing hard to borrow stocks. Alright, let's go back and check the SB 500. Right, he Caesar says Yeah, much cleaner, reliable signals, so much less noise on equities versus ETS. So yeah, ETS or a basket of stocks. So you have all these competing stocks, which may have different signals. Alright, very choppy hero signal for SB 500. Again, driven, at least earlier today, large part by zero TTE DTE traders shown by that teal line. Let's take a look at mag seven. So last time we look at the mag seven signal was was leveling off. That still looks like the case. Traders have taken their foot off the gas. But now NASDAQ chopping around lows of the day. Let's go take a look at book map. Go to NASDAQ. And note for NASDAQ, point of control did move down. That line before was right at NQ 18,300. And that line now moved down to right around the QQQ 438 level. That is the dark purple line moved down. Looks like it's right around here right now. So just right around the 438 level. Let's zoom in. See what that white line is. Alright, so that is the the 18,000 level NDX 18,000 QQQ 438. And then here's point of control has moved down now to around these cluster of levels. Looks like CVD, cumulative volume Delta is moving lower. Let's see what options traders are doing. Back to hero. I'm going to zoom in a bit. So the hero signal is still chopping around. Alright, Edmund Lee asked what is point of control point of control is the that is the volume point of control. That is the the level with the highest amount of volume. That's where the again, the highest amount of volume. And let me show you let's go back to book map. This is for the session volume profile. So this is in my session begins at the opening for for NASDAQ from yesterday, 6pm Eastern time. So I have backfill data that I that I get I open up book map sometime between 630 and 7am Eastern time. Then I will load about 12 hours of backfill data. So this is shown in the session volume profile. Over here to the far right this far right column, point of control again, the level with the highest traded volume. And Edmund asked how is point of control different from VWAP? VWAP is volume weighted average profile. So you can you can search those terms on Google. You should be able to find more exact definitions of VWAP and point of control.  Edmund asked highest amount of session volume, a particular price. Yes. So Edmund, you can take a look at the go to book map.com, go to the knowledge brace, you can search for point of control. And you can see a more detailed explanation, or just search on Google volume point of control. And VWAP, and you'll see the difference. Alright, so the downtrend continues.  I want to thank you very much for watching. Thanks for your questions and comments. Have a great weekend. And I will see you on Monday. Thanks again. Bye.


We have special guests with us this morning. And they are really special. And let me tell you why. We have Tim and Kathy Bush. They're really, really successful businessmen in our city. They contribute a lot to our community. And they are men and women of God. And I would like you to please help me welcome them to the stage. Tim and Kathy, please, can you come up here and take your seats? And one thing that Tim Bush, he used to be my employer. He's a great boss. I used to work for him. And yeah, welcome, welcome. We thank you so much for joining us this morning. We really appreciate your time and everything that you do. First of all, we want to start with Kathy. Would you please share with us how did you guys meet?  And pray and we are just honored to be here. Thank you for having us. So Tim and I met through my sister and Tim's brother were friends. And so they kind of hooked us up. Nice. So we did not, we did not meet in school. He, Tim had already graduated. And so. How old were you guys? I was 17 and Tim was 20. Good, good. Good age to me. You have a good sister. Tim, can you please share with us how did you get saved and when did it happen in your life? I was five years old. I'll be a part of Salvation. I know that I was always working, but. So, I wasn't in nine. I want to get that correct. December of 2009. And a lot of things came up to get us to that. But the actual aha moment was actually through music. I was, I was out at a concert we were out at the Coliseum. And we heard a song called The Lighthouse. And I was standing up listening to that song and I literally felt something happening to me. And I told Kath at that point things are gonna really change in our life. I just had something happen to me. I can't even explain. And things really started changing in our lives.  Quite the opposite. I grew up, how much, yeah. I grew up with no, we didn't go to church. My mom was married nine times. And then at age 12, my grandfather and grandmother adopted me and gave me their last name and raised me. But no God, no church.  And he was very proud of me. And then ultimately at around 20 years old, they divorced after 37 years of marriage. And then I was very attracted to Kath because her family went to church. And of course we didn't go to church. So even the fact that she went to church seemed stable to me. Her parents had been married almost 25 years. I was attracted to that. I thought that I wanted to be like them, but really no relationship with Jesus. So we started going to church and off and on did that for many, many years. About 1.3 times a month. I think that's about the average nationally and that's about what we did. And we tithed, he talked about tithing about 1.3 times a month. Whatever was left over in our money clip, not any intentional thing that we thought it was God's. I thought I was doing my part by the little bit I was giving. But that was all part of the process too. But it was a long, long, 27 years of us going to church and literally just showing up. And not like today, but I can remember 10 minutes to 11. I could hardly, I only have 10 more minutes I can get out of here. And I can go and I can go watch football or whatever else was more important to me than being at church on Sunday. And again, I thought it was all about going to church. And I made deals with God all the time because I'm a deal maker. Yeah. Business man. And so Kathy, you're coming from a Christian background, right? So the thing that the way I was raised in going to church and going through the motions of religion is exactly what we did with our kids. So we took them to church and we went through, we had them baptize as babies. And so there was definitely a disconnect. So for me, through the journey of our marriage and always Tim and I were always searching for something. And we were searching in all the wrong places. Sometimes it was in good places but we were in and out of marriage counseling. We were just struggling in our marriage. And I know that we know looking back now that God just had a plan for us because in those moments when one of us was gonna leave, something always brought us back. Whether it was, I actually ended up, the thing that brought us together after we had met is I got pregnant. And so we ended up getting married because I was pregnant because that was the right thing to do. From first date to our wedding was five months and five days. And seven months after that, we had our first child. And so there was a time of separation for us. And at that time we found out we were pregnant with baby number two. So we came back together but it was kind of a, it was definitely a rough, rough marriage. But for me with my salvation, when Tim and I ultimately took out the root of our sin with alcohol, we were so entrenched in alcohol, we took that out and we put God's word in for the first time and started reading the Bible. That's when for me it wasn't like that moment that I submitted my life to the Lord because I had the foundation there and I believed in Jesus but all of a sudden I developed a relationship and my eyes were open. And I was hungry and I remember watching anything I could on TV, watching the Christian station and every time they do an altar call, I'd sit down and I submit my life to the Lord again. And finally I realized, okay, I've got it. I understand it, my eyes are open, so yeah. Thank you, thank you so much. Now they have an amazing, amazing marriage testimony and actually they will share how they are leading marriage classes ministry right now.  Well, we really felt that if the Lord could redeem our marriage, we do multiple events now annually. We do a couple six week classes annually and multiple other things now that we do, that the Lord has us doing. And of course my only fear now is the fear of the Lord so I have no other fear other than that. So I gotta be obedient and do what God says.  One of the things when we left that church that we went to for so many years, there was an interim pastor that was working there and my brother had passed away which was a big cause and my coming to salvation and he was my grief counselor too and he had shared with me, he said, you know Tim, he said, the Lord has a calling on your life and you need to find it and you're not gonna find it here. And he said, you need to find a Jesus loving Bible teaching church and find your calling and once you do, you're gonna feel fulfilled and during that period I was in full stage anxiety, unable to work, unable to do anything as a man and totally messed up and we started doing that and like Cass had taken the alcohol out and we knew that the Lord wanted us to do something together, we just didn't know what it was. I thought it was to do marriage ministry. So we, at the church where we were saved we asked if we could do a six week class and they said yes and 36 couples came and when 36 couples finished and during that class we started working together on that and Cass was telling me what to say.  Very shy. So my first response was I don't wanna do that but I thought okay I'm gonna submit to what he wants to do and I'll just, at first I said you can do marriage ministry alone, go ahead, you can do it alone, I'll support you and he goes I can't do it alone and so I said okay I'll go with you but you can do the speaking and so the first night of the class I sat there and I let Tim teach the class and do all the speaking and I remember on the drive home I was kind of excited, I was. And she was telling me all the things I messed up on. And I told Tim, I don't recall that but I do recall saying we could do this and we could do that and you should say this and you should say that and I stopped and I looked at him and I said you know what babe, I can talk. And so the next week I was drawn into it and since then we've been just doing it together. Well and during that class something else happened that was amazing because we had already been reading the Bible together for some time we were reading, we started, that was part of our testimony too and a whole nother part but when we started reading, we started reading just a proverb a day and then we started reading a Psalm and I had asked Kath to do that with me which she said was by the way the sexiest thing I've ever done was asked her to do that so that's pretty cool. So we started reading God's word that way and during that class I had started, I'd been praying with Kath every night for well actually before that class for several months I'd been praying every night before I went to bed and then she had gotten very very sick right after the second class and then sick all week and then the night prior to the class I got up in the middle of the night and I walked around and I laid my hands on her and prayed on her and then the next morning she woke up and said I feel a lot better and I says well guess what? You talked about healing that's what kind of what happened and anyway that night we were praying together and she said to me do you mind leaving a little bit at the end and let me pray and that praying has kind of changed our lives so anyway we left that church God called us to another church and we had gone to a conference called the catalyst conference over in Seattle a leaders conference and I was a leader in a totally different thing and the speaker was a guy named Craig Grishel and Craig said where we missed it in our church was marriage ministry with the staff and with the body and so when we came back from that there was really clear to us that that's what we needed to be doing in the church and God made us to do that and we got the church said go for it, this is great and so anyway that kind of spurred into now hundreds of couples that have been literally maybe even close to a thousand now that have been in the last little over two years. We even got to go to Aiken, South Carolina where our daughter and son-in-law were living and do a marriage event there. That is awesome. Would you please share with us what were the struggles you faced in your marriage life and how God helped you to overcome them? We need weeks. Yeah. Today you guys is our 35th wedding anniversary. Come on. Yeah. Woo. 35th. And so let me start. So as far as struggles I think from the very beginning because the way I was raised in a family there was seven of us, seven of us kids and college was never talked about. It was pretty much you were gonna find a man and he was gonna marry you and take care of you. So when I met Tim and he was a stable man. How was that man? He had a house, he had a car, he had money. I was like, well this is what I'm gonna do. But because of going into it in really an unhealthy place and I had started drinking probably when I was in ninth grade and that goes back to a lot of kind of dysfunction in our home and I was extremely shy and that was kind of a way that I could, it was liquid courage. So the drinking was, it caused other problems which so sex outside of marriage was happening and then when we had a baby pregnant before we got married so we went into it all wrong so that we were struggling from the very beginning. So for me, there between our alcohol and there was infidelity in our marriage. There was- For both of us. On both sides and but it was just, it was a complete, we were searching. We were both of us were searching and we look back on it and we're like why did we stay together? Why, but God just, he had his hand in it. He totally had his hand in it. I was a very, very controlling guy. Everything had to be my way. I make all the money. I do all this, I do all that. I make all the choices is basically how I put it. Was not a lot of freedom in our marriage for Kath. I control, again, I control everything.  And the funniest thing is one of the greatest stories in this is seven years ago in December I said that's my aha moment. None of our kids were walking with the Lord. None of them were baptized. None of our grandkids were. We have six kids, three are biological, three are married to those spouses, they're our kids. They're all saved. Come on. And we have six grandkids that are all saved as well. And thank you. And we believe God's working so hard in this but one of the biggest deals is so cool right now that all of our grandkids and all of our kids with the exception of one grandson, the oldest one and Kath and I, we're all, we all read the Bible every day and even the seven year old granddaughter is reads the Bible every day. And so for that to happen for God to work in that kind of a way in seven years is truly amazing. Wow, wow. Let's put our hands together for God. This is absolutely amazing what God does and this is a miraculous restoration of a marriage and how you guys allowed God to work through you to help other couples. It's very honorable and thank you so much for doing that. And I wanna ask you, Kathy first, what do you say the secret to a successful marriage from woman's perspective? Well, I would say, you know, we were on our way here and we knew the questions and Tim wanted to know what I was gonna say. I said, I'm not gonna say.  Well, the first thing is to be grounded in Christ. That is the first thing because I can tell you I've tried everything else from any self-help book to be grounded in Christ to know as a woman the role that God has designed you as a woman to be in your marriage. I mean, I didn't know that I needed to submit to Tim and out of reverence for God. It's not because he wants me to. It's out of reverence for God. And to be Tim's biggest cheerleader, to be his encourager, man, there's just so many things. And the cool thing is, if you don't know it, you go to God's word and he tells you how to do it. He just tells you how to do it and that's what I'm learning. And man, I slip and fall, but what is so cool now for Tim and I is we used to fight all the time and I don't believe we fight anymore. We definitely have conflicts. And they say, if you don't have conflicts in a marriage, one of you is not necessary. So we know that we're gonna have conflicts and we know men and women are so different. I mean, there's times that, I know Tim looks at me like, I just don't get you. And we understand that we're different now. I don't expect him to understand everything about me and but we love and respect and respect is huge. We were told by somebody with a lot of wisdom, been around the block a lot longer than us, tell us that the most mature one in a relationship will apologize and ask for forgiveness first. So that's stuck with us. So we race to that. We always want to be the most mature. But I do think and respecting Tim and not in a way that I feel like I'm respecting him but in a way that I know that he feels the respect and he needs to be respected. Wow, thank you so much, yeah. Tim, what about you, men's perspective? Well, first off, and Kath wrote this, the greatest compliment she gave me is what she wrote in her card this morning to me that I read. She said that, thank you for loving me as Christ loves the church. And guys, that is the goal. If you're loving your wife as Christ loves the church, no matter what she's doing or saying to you, if you continue to love her, that respect will come and that love will be beyond any understanding. In our marriage class that we teach on page 40, there's 25 ways to raise your family spiritually. And I think all 25 are amazing, completely amazing, but the number one thing, and I think it's the key, I'm gonna do number one and number 25, but the number one thing is to pray with your wife consistently. This is outside of meals, this is to hear her heart, to hear your spouse's heart, and to do that in a way that you're honoring the Lord and invite the Lord into the center of your marriage, not above your marriage, not below your marriage, or on the side, but right in the center where Christ is always there. That's number one. And number 25 on that list, it says don't quit, persevere, so that's what I would tell you. Amen, thank you so much, thank you. Let's put our hands together for Kathy and Tim. Hold on a little bit. Now, we have a surprise for you guys, just a little bit. We wanna congratulate you with your 35th anniversary today and say thank you so much for your time and may God bless you and keep using you. Again, thank you so much.


Allah, the one and only, chose Yunus from amongst his people to be a prophet. Prophet Yunus' people prayed to make believe gods. They made from stone. Prophet Yunus' job was to teach his people about the oneness of Allah. Prophet Yunus tried to explain there is only one God. He warned his townspeople of Allah's punishment if they didn't follow his rules. Our fathers and grandfathers have prayed to these gods for many years and no harm has come on to them. Prophet Yunus' people argued. Prophet Yunus tried to explain and warn his people but they never listened. I am leaving. Prophet Yunus finally said he left his town feeling angry with his people for not listening to him. Prophet Yunus knew Allah would punish them soon for not worshiping Allah alone. After Prophet Yunus left town, the sky turned red. The clouds looked like they were on fire. Prophet Yunus' people became super scared. They remembered Prophet Yunus' warning about Allah's punishment if they didn't believe in him. This is a real story. Prophet Yunus' people gathered on the mountain and they all said sorry to Allah. They all saw it. They prayed to Allah alone and they hoped Prophet Yunus would come back and guide them again. Allah listened to the people's prayers. He quickly removed his anger and the sky turned blue again. Wow, thank you Allah. They cheered happily. Allah forgave them. Prophet Yunus' people and gave them another chance. Allah is so kind. Prophet Yunus had already left the city. He had no idea that his fellow townspeople asked Allah for forgiveness. Prophet Yunus was on a ship with other people sailing far away in the calm sea. You think so? Let's find out. When nighttime came, the sea suddenly changed. A horrible storm started and the ship's captain got super worried. He feared the ship might sink because it carried a super-duper heavy load. Throw your bags in the sea. The captain yelled, we need to take off some of that heavy load. Yes, there were only people, but only Allah knows. It doesn't say that in the story. The waves were harsh, yes, and they were scared the boat would sink. So because it was too heavy, they said we have to start throwing out heavy stuff into the sea to make the boat lighter so that it could stay on top of the waves instead of sinking. So they start throwing out all of their bags first. Let's see what they throw out next. The passengers did as they were told, but the ship still stayed super heavy. The captain decided that one of the passengers would need to jump into the sea to make the weight of the ship lighter. It was the only way to save the rest of the passengers. That seems like a scary thing to do. You have to jump into the sea. Let's see. The captain of the ship made a set of straws with all the passengers' names. He closed his eyes and he picked one of the straws to see who will have to jump in the sea to save all the others. The straw he picked had Prophet Eunice's name on it. Oh, my God. Sorry. Oh, my God. Prophet Eunice is the best man here. One of the passengers cried out, please don't let him jump into the sea. The captain agreed. He closed his eyes and he tried again. But the straw he picked was the same one. It was Prophet Eunice's name again. Oh, Allah. No way. The passengers yelled. The captain decided to give it one last try. So this is now the third time he's trying. He closed his eyes and he picked again. To his surprise, the straw he picked was still the same one. It had Prophet Eunice's name on it. Prophet Eunice realized that it was Allah's will. Perhaps that was his punishment for being angry with his people and leaving instead of being patient. Eunice stood at the edge of the ship and he jumped into the deep sea. At that moment, a lost mentality chose a huge whale and ordered it to swallow Prophet Eunice whole. Prophet Eunice was trapped alone in three different kinds of darkness. First, the darkness of the night. Next, the darkness at the bottom of the sea and then in the darkness inside the whale's tummy. So dark. A darkness we can't even imagine. Even though Prophet Eunice, how he was in the belly of a whale, he never stopped praying to Allah. He felt bad for being angry with his people and leaving without Allah's permission. He kept saying the same prayers over and over again. There is no God but you, O Almighty Allah. I know I did something wrong. This is based on Surat al-Enbiya. It's not an exact translation. Allah listened to Prophet Eunice's prayers and saved him. Allah ordered the chosen whale to surface up to the shore and let Prophet Eunice out on dry land. So dark. All you see is eyeballs. Prophet Eunice was feeling very ill when he came out. The sun was too hot and the land was too dry. Ouch. Can you say that a little bit louder? So the book, it says Jonah because that's how you can say his name in English. But I like to say it the way that most of us are familiar with which is Eunice. But you can say Jonah or Eunice. It's the same name. Yeah. Prophet Eunice never stopped praying to Allah. So Allah, Almighty Allah spent an ordered a gourd vine to grow over him. The leaves grew so big that they made a nice shade and protected his body from the sun. So imagine he was in the dark for so long that when he came out and he felt the sun it was hot and burning his skin. Yes. So Allah spent a lot caused the plant to grow and protect him in its shade. Prophet Eunice alaihi salam felt a lot better and thanked Allah for his mercy. He decided to go back to his people and this time he promised to be more patient. What do you think he'll find when he goes back? His people were super happy to see him. He went back to guiding and teaching them all about Allah, the greatest. The whole town prayed to Allah alone and became a good and kind people. Sounds like when they sought forgiveness from Allah, they meant it. What does that mean that they had if they really meant it? What was the second step of doba? They felt remorse good. The end.