My name is Jimmy Lease and I'm Danika Katowicz. This is a new program launching today on CCTV called Skywatch. Skywatch is about grounding the F-35 fighter jet. I've been working to stop the F-35 in Burlington since the plan to base it here was first announced in 2010. And I'm the national co-director of Code Pink Women for Peace and we're working to halt the entire F-35 program nationally and internationally. Twenty F-35 jets arrived at the airport in South Burlington, Vermont three years ago. They take off and land in the most densely populated neighborhood in one of Vermont's largest cities, South Burlington. And they fly low over the equally densely populated cities of Burlington and Manuski and over the town of Williston, all of them within a mile of the runway. The F-35 noise is extreme. It's at least ten times louder than that of civilian airliners. Using very accurate equipment, the Burlington Airport measured 115 decibels on the ground in residential areas. The U.S. Air Force itself wrote that repeated exposure to military jet noise at that level can permanently damage hearing. The Air Force further said that the learning and cognitive development of children is degraded from daily exposure to such noise that it causes deficits in reading, attention, problem solving and memory. The U.S. Air Force further said that nearly 7,000 people, including 1,300 children, are living in an area that's generally not considered suitable for residential use because of that daily exposure multiple times a day to the 115 decibel F-35 jets. By training with the F-35 in a city, Vermont airmen are not just training to operate the jets. They are inherently also training in a manner that hurts and injures civilians, especially children. That is not legal military training. It's just the opposite. The discipline for the U.S. military prohibits using a weapon in a manner that causes unnecessary suffering. It requires distinction or separation of military forces from populated areas. Training with F-35 jets in a city only makes sense if the goal was to get airmen used to hurting civilians when they are deployed overseas for combat. This should not even count as training because it violates the military's own rules. It has to stop now. The pain, injury, and suffering inflicted on civilians is one of the reasons we are calling for grounding the F-35 in Vermont and in any populated area. Thanks, Jimmy. I am coordinating Ground the F-35, which is a campaign at Code Pink. Just as general background of the F-35 as a fighter jet, it's the most expensive weapon system in history. It's going to cost the U.S. taxpayer $1.7 trillion over its lifetime and probably more than that. It's been riddled with issues and setbacks since the beginning. My favorite story to tell is, I think it was in 2007, the fighter jets, the F-35s were supposed to debut at the Paris Air Show. Instead of sending a prototype of the fighter jet, Lockheed Martin decided, you know, we don't have it, it's not ready. They sent paintings of what the F-35 was supposed to look like. The F-35 history is kind of riddled with stories like that. We launched a letter in October 2022 with over 220 organizations from all around the world signed on. We worked with the groups in countries that were buying F-35, so Canada, Switzerland, and Germany, to organize around that angle of arms sales. If we want to stop the F-35, we have to stop demand from the F-35 internationally. We also partnered with organizations in Burlington, Vermont, where F-35 training takes place, and in Madison, Wisconsin, where F-35 training is going to start taking place in just a few months. So we sort of see, we saw the F-35 as a microcosm of the military industrial complex. It's wasteful, it's delayed. When it works, it's harmful. It's bad for the environment. It's been a huge learning tool because sometimes when we talk about the entire Pentagon budget, it's sort of hard for people to grasp. Cutting funding without something specific can seem really abstract. It's $880 billion or something like that. It also got a lot of criticism from members of Congress last year. While war inflation continues to punish working class people in the U.S., you know, we can sort of point to the wasteful programs of fighter jets. So we highlighted a few aspects of the BPM pane in the letter. So the first was harm caused by militarism. We primarily opposed the F-35 as a weapon of war. I'm thinking today specifically about the Palestinian people. As videos have been circulating of the Israeli occupation forces raiding al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. Israel has used the F-35 against Palestinians in Gaza in 2021 and in 2014 to drop bombs on civilians there. Inefficiencies and failures. The government accountability office at the F-35 continues to fall short of prescribed mission-capable rates and is consistently missing reliable targets. The cost of the taxpayer, of course, we're sending billions of dollars to this program every year. And spending that much money on a plane that's not yet up to speed with what the government requested is just poor fiscal policy. And we put that in there for people who might value that more than the other things you put in the letter. We also highlight environment. The F-35 uses a significant amount of fuel, about 2.37 gallons of fuel for every mile traveled and about 1400 gallons per fuel an hour. And another thing that I want to highlight is we also, the F-35 is also part of the U.S. Strategic Nuclear Bomber Force. Possessing the capability to carry and deploy the B-61-12 guided nuclear bomb. And if it was a surprise to anyone, nuclear bombs aren't great for them. Bombs are relatively, they are, they can decorate their surface, which yields about 1200 kilotons, which is the equivalent of 83 Hiroshima bombs. But we're using all the Sandia Labs, which is owned by Lockheed Martin, which is the company that makes the F-35. So that was, those were the things we highlighted in the letter that we released in October with 220 organizations signed on. And we just actually got finished with a week of action, but I will leave it there and then maybe me and Jimmy can talk about the week of action at some point in the program. Yes, you touched on a lot of important things. One of the things you mentioned was cost. This is a huge, enormous takeaway from anything else that could affect people in the United States. $1.4 trillion for a weapon that really cannot be used and shouldn't be used for dropping nuclear bombs or any other kind of bombs. And for them to be, for the airmen to be training in a populated area where they know they're hurting people is obvious that this is going to be used. They're being trained in a way that no military, self-respecting military would allow itself to be trained. To hurt people by training in a purposely, deliberately and intentionally training in a populated area where they know, where they themselves said they were going to be hurting people. So it is so fantastic that Code Pink has taken on this issue that they've gotten 200, they've circulated a letter and gotten 220 organizations to sign on to ground the F-35 to put a stop to this nightmare for us here in the U.S. and around the world. One of the aspects I just want to mention that has come up as an immediate crisis issue in Vermont is housing. We have a tremendous shortage of housing to the point where the state is looking at adopting a new law that would allow housing to be built in pristine open fields in Vermont. To turn any place where there's available space and you can connect to the utilities into housing whereas up till now Vermont has been very careful to preserve beautiful open fields and mountain vistas and views of the lake and so on. So why is that happening? In part because of the F-35. The noise is so intense that over 200 houses were demolished on 44 acres, 44 football field area adjacent the airport. Before that the commercial jets and even the military jets were not anything like the noise of the F-35. So now that land has to remain vacant of housing until we can get the F-35 to depart. Once that happens this former area of working class affordable housing can be restored and the pristine open fields in the city can be preserved. It's either or we can't both have open fields and the F-35. It's as Donica said the key problem with it. It's a weapon of war. It's militarism on steroids. This is something that all of us can unite to oppose. Thanks Jimmy and yeah I when I first met and talked with you about how the F-35 was impacting people in Vermont because we specifically did want to include its effect on locals in our original letter. And you mentioned to me that they demolished 200 houses while Vermont's in a housing shortage. It really just sort of gave me something specific to give people when they asked like how we bring the war home and like how militarism affects people here in the US in a tangible way outside of just spending a bunch of our tax dollars on it. It's actually creating a housing crisis in Vermont so that that was a particularly important piece for me to include in the letter. And also in Madison, Wisconsin, the Truex field we included and started working with Safe Skies Clean Water Wisconsin who are trying to stop the F-35 from coming to Madison. I forgot how many exactly are going to be there but they're supposed to be stationed there in a couple months. So I was wondering sort of what the lead up was for you all in Vermont three years ago when the F-35 was placed there. Sort of if you can give any advice to the folks in Madison trying to stop the F-35 from actually ending up there. Yes, we had a tremendous amount of opposition to the F-35 being brought to Vermont. And we had demonstrations, we had hearings put on by local city councils. We had, we had, we tried to meet with our local representatives both our congressional delegation, Senator Bernie Sanders, Patrick Leahy, Peter Welch. All of them refused to meet with citizens. The strategy was to avoid the issue by the establishment politicians. Their strategy was lockstep united support of the establishment and don't talk about it with anyone who might be opposed. And so to the extent I think that they were seeking to have happen they kept it out of the news media. But it really, it really nevertheless became a major social issue in Vermont. We had town meeting referendum kind of vote in Burlington in 2018 and it won the resolution to oppose the basing one with over 55% of the vote. Then after the jets arrived, we had another town meeting vote in the city of Wanooski, which is a working class city one mile from the end of the runway with tremendous amount of deafening noise from the F-35 in 2021. So that was about a year and a half after the jets arrived. And that one with a two to one margin, 67% of the vote. So there's no question that the public is strongly opposed to the F-35 training in Vermont. These are things that Wisconsin has been doing also. They've had, they have a tremendous organization and they're doing their best to mobilize the public. And I think that that does make a difference. The main thing that is necessary though is persistence to never give up. When the military or the government is doing something as outrageous and inappropriate and intolerable as providing deafening noise that's hurting people with F-35 jets in a city. There's no way people should ever tolerate this and allow it to continue and to persist. So we're continuing the campaign in Vermont. We're not going to let it happen without a big fight. This program is part of that fight. We're going to do our best to continue to build the movement to expose the criminal activity that's being foisted against the will of the people, against democracy, against the rule of law. And worst of all that as I said before they're training to do these kinds of violent dropping bombs on civilian population. Why else would they be training in a city? They're getting the pilots used to hurting civilians and this is something that should not be allowed even by people who are the strongest supporters of the military. You can't be supporting the military if the military to the extent the military is doing what is wrong. It's got to stop. I wonder if it might be a good time to talk about what we've done over the last week or so around the F-35 week of action. Just so we heard a little bit about what y'all have been doing in Burlington, which is super inspiring. And actually I got to watch live the Burlington City Council meeting that you all sort of dominated the public comment section about it and made sure that the F-35 harm was known to your city council members. And so just a little bit of a recap is in DC, we kicked it off in Washington DC because last month and it was at the end of March. So it was the Women's History Month. One of the vice presidents of Lockheed Martin, who's a woman, was on this women's empowerment and defense panel. You know, militarism and feminism, I don't think go super hand in hand. But anyhow, there's like a Pentagon officials and then the vice president of Lockheed Martin talking about gender diversity in the military and gender diversity at defense companies. And so basically as soon as she started talking, Codepin got on stage with a Palestinian flag and a sign that said I think Lockheed's F-35s kill women in Gaza. And our staff member, Olivia, who is the one who disrupted the event, was able to talk for I think uninterrupted pretty much until she was removed by security. And she was able to say, you know, I think her name was Nancy, the vice president.  And so she cited specifically the F-35s were used to bombard the people in Gaza where dozens of Palestinians were killed in I think 2021.  I think it was very successful and sort of getting our message across. And then another highlight that I had was I was actually able to be with safe and then I think the workers for their annual convergence and their focus was grounding the F-35. And so we did an action at the field, the 115th fighter wing, where the F-35s are going to be placed in a few months. And we were able to effectively block the shift change that morning to kind of call attention to the workers, to the people who like live around the fighter wing, like just to sort of disturb their day and say, you know, what exactly are you doing here, not just let them go about their day. So we did block the shift change for a few hours successfully. No one was able to get in, except some person who almost hit me with their car. They just tried to charge through the protesters. So, and then after we blocked the shift change at your ex field, we went up to the capital. We did a big banner, 18 foot banner that said grounding the F-35. And then some of us risked arrests and going into the governor's office to demand a meeting about grounding the F-35. Oh, those are tremendous and inspiring actions. One thing that we've actually is new here in Vermont is a focus on the emissions that you mentioned earlier in your remarks. We calculated, similarly to the calculation you did, that the F-35 burns 22 gallons every minute of flight. That's a whole tank of gas in my car. In fact, it's more than that. I currently call it 15 gallons every minute of flight. So we're, and it's being emitted high up in the atmosphere where it's not just the carbon dioxide that's a greenhouse gas emission. Way up there, the water vapor, which is also a product of combustion, is a greenhouse gas. So it's really doing double duty to emit so much, to have so much emissions high up in the sky. And the training in Vermont, there are hundreds of training flights every month. And it's an enormous amount of emissions. It's equal, the F-35 emissions are equal to the emissions of all the civilian airliner flights put together, just from the F-35. Now, the airport, it's just a nightmare. I could go on about emissions, but I want to do also mention another thing, a pick up on another thing you mentioned, which is that around trucks field, it's a working class area. And it's the same thing here in South Burlington, in Winooski, and in Burlington. The only neighborhoods that are being severely affected by the F-35 are working class in Winooski. Winooski is the most ethnically diverse city or town in Vermont, more than 30% BIPOC. 98% of the children are on reduced free or low reduced price lunch. It's an area which has a lot of needs, and it's being wasted, completely wasted on the F-35. $30,000 an hour is what Lockheed Martin is generating from the flights of the F-35. For each flight hour, it's costing American taxpayers more than $30,000. This is something that working class people could benefit from if the money was spent right here in Vermont to uplift the lives of ordinary people. Instead, they're being assaulted with even more horrors. So we have the opportunity to do a lot of good by stopping the F-35 in Vermont. Another quick thing about the sort of climate outfall of the F-35 is that it burns a lot of fuel. Also, it's made out of a different alloy than a lot of the other fighter jets. If they crash and combust like one did in Fort Worth a few months ago, it releases toxic chemicals when it's burnt. So it really has a bunch of different things wrong with it environmentally. And I hope as our program goes on, I think we gave a very general overview of what we're working on, but also just to uplift and educate, especially about the contractor Lockheed Martin that is profiting off of this sort of boondoggle of a weapons contract. Because, you know, they have made billions of dollars off of this and they will continue to and they continue to make money every time that the project is delayed. And Biden just requested I think about 40 F-35s and his new Pentagon budget. So there's a lot of questions about why are we doing this? And I think it's a great opportunity to build the peace movement out. There's so many ways and avenues for people to get involved and so many different things to care about it in regards to the F-35. Yeah, and the focus that Code Pink and other organizations are taking on Lockheed Martin is really important. Lockheed is knowingly and deliberately sending these new F-35 jets from their factory to places like Burlington and Madison where they know that it will be hurting civilians. They are deliberately involved in the business of hurting American citizens in their own homes. It used to be a time when you could go home and expect to enjoy the peace and quiet of your house. And there was a revolution in this country when the British quartered their soldiers in homes of Americans. We need to fight to get that peace and quiet back in our own homes. We shouldn't be assaulted by government military forces in this safety and security of our own homes. This is a right that has been withdrawn and revoked and demolished by the F-35 training in these cities. And they're purposely doing it in cities to train the airmen to commit criminal activity, war crimes when they're deployed in these U.S. wars abroad. This is not the kind of training they should be getting. I don't think airmen want to be trained in this way. We want the best way to support our armed forces to keep them within the discipline for the armed forces which requires protecting civilians. And there are five different ways the military requires protection of civilians during military operations including training. Well, we're getting close to the time when this program is coming to an end. And I'd really like to encourage participation. The next program, which is going to be in May, is going to be live. So viewers will have the chance to call in and contribute to the program. I'm really so delighted that Code Pink has taken on the issue of the F-35. This is a huge and important thing to be doing, especially when the U.S. is getting more and more involved in escalating the war in the Ukraine. And even to the point where the president is talking about it becoming a nuclear war, we know that the bases of the F-35 are going to be targeted. We have a responsibility to see to it that these bases are not in populated areas and not anywhere. As we need to build the campaign and that's what this program is going to be doing. We're going to be interviewing many people, prominent people, local people, people from international areas where the F-35 is going. We're looking forward to your participation in the program. Do you have any closing words, Donica? Yeah, I'm very, very excited to be part of this. You can actually sign on to the letter as an individual. We're collecting individual signatures at CodePink.org forward slash ground the F-35. Well, thank you very much for watching and we're looking forward to seeing you again or next month.


Hello everyone, welcome to Options with Doug, streaming live daily on Bookmap Discord and the Bookmap YouTube channel at 1.30 p.m. Eastern Time. Before I get started, could someone confirm that they can hear me and see my screen? I had some technical issues this morning in Discord or in YouTube. Alright, so in YouTube Noah and Damjan says, audio good, thank you, and D&T Matter says he can see and hear as well. Alright, great. Thank you. Thank you for the confirmation. Before I get started, I need to go through the general disclosure. I'll bookmap the materials, information, and presentations are for educational purposes only and should not be considered specific, investment advice nor recommendations. Risk disclosure, treating 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 and the first is planning, and I use positional analysis. I look at how traders and market makers are positioned in the options market and how those positions change from day to day to develop a thesis regarding the expected trading range and volatility for the day as well as a directional bias. And the second step in my process is execution. I look at real-time order flow and bookmap and real-time market maker hedging flow and spot gamma hero to confirm my thesis and for setups for entries and exits. And just to be clear, when I talk about setups, I will be talking about an underlying asset. Setups can be taken any number of ways with options, stocks, or futures. Also today, I want to go over a little bit more detail about my planning process, why I'm doing this, why I'm looking at it, and more specifically, exactly what I'm looking at. Questions and comments are welcome, and I will be watching both the options, dash, dug, chat channel, and discord, as well as the chat on YouTube for your questions and comments. And Karma FX, hello. Glad you're here. Great to see you. My agenda for today, what I want to talk about. I want to go over news items, economic data that came out today and the rest of the week, events and earnings. Then again, I'll go over my positional analysis and provide a little bit more detail about exactly what I'm doing and why. Then I'll review a few setups from this morning, and then we can take a look at the live market. So it's been a very interesting day. All right, let's get started. First of all, economic data, and this is what got the day going. CPI data came out this morning, and it looks like all of this data was lower than forecast, year over year, month over month. So very bullish response to this data. CPI data came out lower than expected, and the market just took off to the upside from there right after the data came out. Tomorrow, PPI comes out, and Friday consumer sentiment comes out, and I believe the large bank earnings start on Friday as well. So the earning season will get started on Friday. Right, let me talk about my positional analysis now. So one of my key tenets for trading is that options trades and market maker hedging flow are a key driver of price action in equity index products, equity index futures, as well as many stocks. So when traders are buying and selling puts and calls in the index products, for example, SPI and SPX, market makers are buying and selling ES futures to hedge their delta exposure. They want to remain delta neutral, so all they're doing is making options markets and managing their risk, hedging their delta with ES futures. And the same for NASDAQ, whether generally if traders are trading NDX or QQQ options, then market makers are hedging those trades within Q futures. When traders are taking longer term positions, anything that causes open interest, anything that's held longer than a day, that those options show up in open interest. And what SpotGamma does is they're looking at gamma weighted open interest. So open interest levels, high levels with high open interest that are closer to the money and closer to expiration have a higher gamma, so these levels are of greater interest. And these are levels where market makers are expected to react. So for my directional bias, I'm looking at how these levels change from day to day, more specifically the key daily levels that have specific meaning, like the put wall, the call wall, the volatility trigger and the absolute gamma strike. And I'll talk more about these and I talk about those levels every day. So I'm looking at how those levels are shifting. If they're moving up, that it's a good indication that traders are looking for and expecting higher prices and they're positioning themselves in the options market for higher prices. And on the other hand, if those levels are all shifting lower, that's a good indication that market makers are looking for lower prices. That's what they're expecting and that's how they're positioning themselves in the options market. So that's why I'm looking at the location of these levels every day and to get an indication of how market makers may react at these different levels and they're also the shifts in levels from day to day to see what in the longer term how options traders are positioning themselves and what they're expecting. So the levels, the way I look at these, again the key daily levels, the put wall, call wall, volatility trigger and absolute gamma strike have specific meanings. But generally, I'm looking at these levels as potential support when tested from above or potential resistance when tested from below. And then finally, I'm looking at how market makers are positioned in the options market at the beginning of the day and I'm looking at gamma notional, market makers position on the gamma curve as well as the Vana model to get an indication of how market makers may react with changes in price and implied volatility. And so again, I'm looking at gamma notional and the Vana model for that information. So all together I'm looking at the location of the levels for today, the shifts in levels to get an indication of how traders are positioning themselves from day to day and then looking at the Vana model and gamma notional to get a better understanding of how market makers may respond again to changes in price and implied volatility. So when I go through my positional analysis today, I will talk about all of this information. All right, so first of all, this is the SAP 500 futures showing a book map. Let me point out some, actually before I go deeper into this chart, I want to take a look at a larger time frame just to get a bigger picture of what we're looking at. So first of all, this is SPX in a 30-day one-hour chart. Let me point out some levels on this chart. The dash purple lines are showing the lower and upper weekly expected move. So that was set last Friday, basically at the close last Friday. And note SPX is trading above that level. Then the dashed blue lines are showing the lower and upper daily expected move. That's for today and that was set last night at the close. And note also today with the CPI report coming out, the expected range was much higher than the day before. So at the time that I looked at the expected move for the SPX, it was 32.83 points compared with about 21 points yesterday. So based on the CPI data coming out today, the expected range was much greater and SPX is trading above that level. Let me point out some spot gamma levels now. These are shown with the red horizontal lines. So first of all, there's the put wall that is the SPX put wall, the strike with the largest net negative gamma at 4,200. That can be expected to act as support and that is certainly not in play for today. And the next level up is the volatility trigger at 4,395. That level did shift slightly lower from yesterday from 4,410 yesterday to 4,395 today. And that is spot gamma's proprietary gamma 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 hedge their delta exposure and that tends to enhance or increase volatility. And then on the other hand, like SPX is trading now firmly in the positive gamma portion of the curve, market makers have to trade against price to hedge their delta exposure and that tends to subdue volatility. And then the next level up is 4,400 absolute gamma strike. That is the strike with the largest absolute gamma looking at positive and negative gamma and taking the absolute value. That is the strike again with the largest absolute gamma. And then finally, the call wall is at 4,500. That's the strike with the largest net positive gamma and that can be expected to act as resistance. And that is clearly the next target up and one thing to take notice of here. And that should, I think spot gamma is thinking and probably makes sense, that that should be an upper bound unless that level shifts up. And note the huge gap here. There's not much gamma available until this 4,600 strike and that is pretty low. That is the lowest level of gamma, one being the highest and five being the lowest. So a big gap there, not much in the way of gamma levels above the 4,500 call wall. Let's take a look at one other SPX chart just to get a clear picture of the gamma levels that are in play for today. So this is a chart for today, the one day one minute chart. Again SPX now trading back above the upper daily expected move, well above the volatility trigger at 4,395 and also above the upper weekly expected move. And there's the call wall above at 4,500 and that is the next potential target. All right, let's take a look at book map now. In a book map I've got it zoomed out so I'm showing the reaction after the 8,30 am data and I have my cloud notes here so I'm showing the same SPX levels. For example, there's the 4,450 and that was kind of the launching point for the move higher after the data came out. We also have SPI levels there. There's the SPI 4,45 call wall, also the absolute gamma strike for SPI. So for SPI the volatility trigger shifted slightly higher from 4,39 to 4,40 and then the absolute gamma strike also shifted higher from 4,40 yesterday to 4,45. So as of today that 4,45 level was the absolute gamma strike and the call wall and then also there are a couple of SPX levels there. There's the upper daily expected move. All right, so in this view of book map here I'm showing SPX levels, combo levels which would be SPI and SPX as well as individual SPI levels and also the upper and lower daily and weekly expected moves. So those are the levels that are in play for today and again shifts in levels for SPX, volatility trigger moves shift slightly lower for SPI, volatility trigger moves slightly higher and the absolute gamma strike also moved higher. And we'll talk about setups in a few minutes. So those are my levels that are in play for today and just briefly we can see that this cluster of levels there, SPX and SPI levels acted as support before the open and around 12 noon and again we'll talk about setups in a few minutes. So one cruise asks, could you show the name of the platform? Yes, this is book map and I do not trade crypto. I am not showing crypto but book map definitely is used for crypto. There are a number of exchanges that you can access with book map, crypto exchanges and a pretty active community of crypto traders with book map. So if you trade crypto, again, that's not me but there are other traders that present about crypto and again an active community of crypto traders in discord. All right, let's take a look at NASDAQ. Again, we're looking for the levels that are in play for today, shifts in levels and then we'll take a look at how market makers were positioned on the gamma curve. And before I take a closer look at this chart, I'm going to take a look at a QQQ chart. I have to zoom up just a little bit. So note, SWAT gamma levels here. There's the volatility trigger QQQ trading well above the volatility trigger. Also, there's the call wall and QQQ is also trading above that level. So for QQQ shifts in levels, the absolute gamma strike shifted higher from 365 to 370. So that was the only shift higher for QQQ today. In DX, there were kind of odd shifts in levels lower and upper and down and up. I'm not going to mention those. They seemed odd. So anyway, QQQ, those are the levels that are in play for today. No gamma levels in range other than the 370 level below.  And note the round numbers for QQQ have definitely been in play. Support this morning, then resistance, resistance, support. So round numbers definitely in play for QQQ today, but these are not specific gamma levels. All right, let's go back to NQ now. So NQ, just like the ES, I have my own cloud notes here showing a variety of levels. There's the 370 QQQ, also the NDX QQQ combo level at 15,195. And now NASDAQ is back above the upper daily expected move and approaching the upper weekly expected move. So those are the levels that are in play for today, acting as support and resistance. And shifts in levels, again, I'm going to discount what I saw in NDX. And so for QQQ, the absolute gamma strike did shift higher. All right, let's take a look at a couple of other points of data. So we know where the levels are for today. We know how they have shifted from day to day. And now let's take a look at how market makers are positioned on the gamma curve at the beginning of the day and how they may be expected to react. So first of all, at the beginning of the day, I'm going to look at gamma notional for SPX, SPI, NDX, and QQQ. And yoga mat asks, you need to pay for data feed to use book map? Yes, that is correct. So book map and data are two separate subscriptions. Now with crypto, I believe some data may come for free, but for stocks and futures, you need to pay for data. And I use DX feed data for stocks and rhythmic data for futures. And that's pretty typical of most of the traders that I use. No, use the DX feed for stocks and rhythmic for data, rhythmic for futures. All right, gamma notional market makers position on the gamma curve for SPX, SPI, NDX, and QQQ. At the beginning of the day, the S&P 500 firmly in the positive gamma region of the gamma curve. So there's the gamma notional for SPX, 631.9 million, SPI, 313 million positive. So for the S&P 500, gamma notional shifted more positive for SPX and shifted from negative to positive for SPI. So this is indicating that market makers for the S&P 500, their position on the gamma curve is positive. And they will need to trade against price to hedge their delta exposure. And then for QQQ, still slightly negative, but less negative than yesterday. And one other thing to point out, this spot gamma, gamma, NDX for SPX, that ranges from minus four to positive four. And that can be an indication of the volatility for the day. And the more positive that number, the lower volatility can be expected. And the more negative the number, the higher volatility can be expected. All right, JEC, you're welcome. Hope you can catch the recording. We'll see you tomorrow. All right, let's take a look at some, take a look at the Vana model now. And I'm going to take a look at SPX. So we know that market makers position on the gamma curve is positive for SPX. And what this chart is showing is market makers delta notional and the vertical axis and how that may change with changes in price shown on the horizontal axis. There are two curves on this chart. This light gray curve is showing how market makers delta notional will change with changes in price only. So what this is showing is if price increases, market makers will need to sell futures to hedge their delta exposure. And again, that is typical of a positive gamma environment tends to subdue volatility. And then the purple curve adds implied volatility to the equation. And that is showing how market makers delta notional may change with changes in price and implied volatility. And that change in delta with a change in implied volatility is the Vana effect. That's a second order Greek, hence the name of this, the Vana model. Alright, let's see where SPX is trading right now. I've got SPX at 44.78, somewhere between these two lines. So right, I think it's about right here, 44.78. And earlier today it was higher. But anyway, this is on, we know that market makers position on the gamma curve is positive. We saw at the beginning of the day, we know SPX is trading well above the 43.95 volatility trigger. So we know that market makers will need to sell futures to hedge their delta exposure as price increases. Alright, so yoga mat says Vana curve seems mostly the same every day. How valuable is this or is it the difference between days that it is more important? So I think of this as somewhat secondary information to the levels that I'm looking at. But I want to know, this is information that I definitely want to know. How market makers may be expected to react, whether they're on the positive side of the gamma curve or negative. So in a positive gamma environment, I'm basically looking for lower volatility for the day. In a negative gamma environment, I'm looking for higher volatility. I don't know if you remember last year, the S&P 500 was in a negative gamma environment for most of the year. And there were huge reactions to CPI reports. And that was fueled by a put Vana rally. So when the data comes out and let's say it's as expected or better than expected, imply volatility drops, price increases, and market makers can buy back their short futures. So that was last year. And knowing that potential for a put Vana rally was extremely valuable information. And then when we take a look at the S&P 500, there was a strong reaction to the CPI report. But really, when you compare it with the moves last year in a negative gamma environment, that the move was somewhat subdued compared to the larger moves last year in a negative gamma environment with a put Vana fueled rally. So that's how I use that information, yoga mat. And Truman asked, can combo levels work as key levels for instruments? Not a part of the combo peers. So I'm not sure I understand your questions. Your question, combo levels are very important. There was a note about that in one of the recent spot gamma AM founders notes. Let's take a look at that. So I'm looking for the combo levels here. Yeah, I don't see them. Oh, here they are. So this is the combo strikes for the S&P 500 in terms of SPX prices. So this is showing, again, combining SPX and spy showing these key levels. And note all the call gamma that's shown above the zero line from around 4417, 4413 and above. There's the volatility trigger at 43.95. All right, so Truman, again, I'm not sure I understand your question, but here are the combo levels and this is indicating. All right, so combo levels are only for S&P 500 or NASDAQ, combining SPX and spy for the S&P 500 and NDX and QQQ for NASDAQ. But for individual stocks, there's only gamma levels for those stocks. So again, the combo levels meaning means for the S&P 500 combining spy and SPX into one level converted to an equivalent SPX or spy number and the same for NASDAQ. All right, let's take a look at... All right, so I think we'll be taking everything into account for the position analysis the way I do it. So the information that I have for today now, this was all done before the CPI report came out yesterday. The levels are all set based on open interest, so that comes out once every day, sometime around midnight, sometime overnight. So the gamma weighted open interest comes out overnight. The levels are set in the morning before the data comes out. And then, of course, the data had a pretty big impact this morning. And again, that's where knowing how market makers position on the gamma curve can come into play as well as the Vana model. So let's just go back. So the SPX traded up to $44.88. That's right, shown right here. The high for the day, $44.88. So let's just go back quickly to the Vana model. And this will definitely come into play for today. Go back to the Vana model. So somewhere around these two levels. So at that point, market makers were having to sell futures to hedge their delta exposure. So unlike last year, when market makers position on the gamma curve was negative, CPI report comes out, apply volatility drops, price starts to rise. Market makers can buy back their shorts. And that tends to increase volatility and can set up a much larger trading range for the day. So there's the difference. Yoga mat, I hope that helps. Sorry. And again, finally, in a positive gamma environment, I'm expecting a little bit more subdued reaction. All right, let's take a look at setups now. And for that, I'm going to go to, I'm going to take a look at the hero signal for the S&P 500. Actually, let's start with, we'll start with the data coming out at $830. And SPX options and ES options are trading at that time. And spy options start to trade at $930. So here is the $830 data release. And then here is the $930 cash open. So ES and SPX options start our trading at $830. And then spy options start trading at $930. What this chart is showing is price in terms of SPX and options trades and market maker hedging activity for a combined signal, SPX, spy, XSP, and ES futures. So let's zoom in on this chart. And we can take a look at the individual components if necessary. Then I'm going to go to the cash open here, trying to zoom out. So we're just looking from $930 on. All right, got it. So interesting reaction this morning. Initially, let's take a look about $945. Well, before that, there was a big spike in options trades. Then traders started taking negative delta positions that's shown here. And then they started taking positive delta positions. And that set up a pretty good long. The interesting thing was there was no follow through. And Yolgamat says, to simplify it, basically, are we in a positive or negative gamma? When looking at Vana chart, bigger moves if in negative gamma? Yes. We're looking for options traders, market makers to support a move one way or another, more in a negative gamma environment. And then as price continued higher, options traders really started fading the move. They were no longer supporting the move higher. They were fading the move, started taking negative delta positions as price moved up. And it's kind of the hero signals kind of choppy, but definitely interesting. Price was making, we can zoom in on this. So Karma FX asks, what time frame is this chart? I assume you're talking about the hero chart here. So this is, there's really no time frame here. I'm showing data for the entire day. So a very interesting move lower, another move lower, move lower in hero. Options traders continue to fade the move higher, the scroll over. And then finally price responds right around 1120 and moves higher. Options traders continue to take negative delta positions. All right. So Karma FX, I'm just zooming in and out, but I have the entire day here. There's nothing like a one minute or a five minute candle or anything like this. This is just a line showing price and hero. All right. So we know that initially there was a, just zooming in here looking at, you know, let's say we're at 945 looking at this data. So notice here I have one minute intervals just because I zoomed in closer to this chart. And this is a lot like book map. I can zoom in and out, but there's no specific time frame. So let's take a look at 945, 942 and see what happened. And then we'll look, take a closer look at this reversal here. So here was the, we know that options traders were taking initially negative delta then shifted to positive delta positions. We expect this cluster of levels to act as support and large traders came in buying with iceberg orders that's shown by that 1650 there. That's 1,650 contracts, iceberg orders executed. Also shown by the jump up in that light blue line. So price reverses at a level that we expect to act as support. Larger traders start buying with iceberg orders. We know that options traders are starting to take positive delta positions and price reverses higher at that level. And really this, this time of day around 940. Actually, I'm sorry. I'm looking at the, that is the before the open my bad. Let's go back, take a look at, that was also a good setup. If you, if you want to trade before the cash open. So here's the setup that I'm talking about another cluster of levels. There's, there's the SPI 446, not a gamma level. Also the 4475 C2 level combo to level. So again, we know options traders taking positive delta positions, iceberg orders. Not as large as before, but 703 contracts and price moves higher. So two setups really, one before the cash open, one after. Long setups here and here, both around levels that we expect to act as support. All right. So D and T matter as negative gamma environment, meaning the index spending a majority of time below the zero gamma level, right? So I really, and spot gamma looks at the volatility trigger more than the zero gamma level. So if generally if market makers, if prices below the volatility trigger market makers position on the gamma curve is negative. And if, if prices above the volatility trigger market makers position on the gamma curve is positive. So look at the volatility trigger more than the zero gamma level. All right. So I talked about two setups, one my bad before the cash open there at that cluster of levels and then one after the cash open. Just before 945 reversal higher up to the spy 447 level and, and beyond. All right. So let's I'm going to zoom out just a little bit here. So now price is setting up for a big reversal. Remember, we saw hero showing that traders were taking negative delta positions up and down as price moved up. Also the second clue note all the liquidity coming in to the order book. Limit sell orders. Traders looking to fade this move higher. They want to get filled. These are limit sell orders, passive orders in the order book. They want to sell at these levels. Also note the falling light blue line here. Larger traders gradually with it looks like a number of smaller orders selling as price moves up. And you can see some of that here. That's probably much larger than 16. There's 500 543 iceberg orders executed 224 more there that looks like 424. So as price was moving up options traders were taking negative delta positions. Larger traders was selling with iceberg orders and then other traders were just placing their sell limit orders in the order book and all that set up this short. Back down to this cluster of levels that acted as support before the open. Alright, so that was the setup in the S&P 500. Let's take a quick look at NASDAQ and some stocks and then we'll get to the live market. So I need to go through this pretty quickly. So again, I mentioned that the round numbers for QQQ were acting as support and resistance. So we'll just go to this setup here short at the 374 level and note the pretty similar to the S&P 500. Larger traders start selling with iceberg orders just in a series of smaller orders. That's why I like to look at this iceberg and stop orders in some mode. So I can see all of the smaller orders and how they are accumulating. Alright, let's take a look at HERO for NASDAQ. I'm going to zoom in on this. So initially the HERO signal and there was really not much of a clue here. Let's go back to, so we know the reversal started, let's say around 10.30. So let's go take a look at HERO again. So just looking at this time frame at 11 o'clock, we're looking at the cash open. This is NASDAQ, NDX and QQQ combined signal. So we know that initially traders were fading the move higher. Options traders were taking negative adult positions and then HERO really is just trending up slightly. So not really supporting a move higher or lower, but definitely bearish at the beginning of the day. So we know that options traders are not supporting a move higher. And then order flow finally reverses at this QQQ 374 level as larger traders start selling with iceberg orders. And then as price starts to move lower, sell-stop orders also help to fuel the move lower. And that's shown by the yellow line there. Alright, so that was the NASDAQ setup this morning. Alright, let's take a look at some stocks real quick. First was Apple, short setup this morning. And this was another clue to look for potential reversal in NASDAQ. So there's Apple and traders were buying puts and selling calls this morning. So just for after a brief move up, Apple was really not supporting any further rally in around 945, beginning to reverse lower as options traders started taking negative delta positions. So that was Apple. Then on the other hand, Meta, very bullish. Traders were buying calls, not doing much with puts. So call buyers driving price higher when traders buy calls, market makers sell the calls and they have to buy stock to hedge their delta exposure. And Meta reversed higher at this 300 level, the call wall and the key gamma strike. So in this case, the call wall acted as support, not resistance. Let's go to back to book map. So there's Apple. There's the reversal lower in Apple. And initially in the morning, not supporting a rally in NASDAQ. And on the other hand, Meta was. Sharp rally higher in Meta. And let's take a look at Nvidia. Another sharp rally higher. We'll take a look at Hero. And we want Nvidia. Sharp rally in the morning as traders were buying calls and selling puts. And note as they stopped selling calls, stopped selling puts and started buying puts, then price moved lower. Then this activity with puts, they've stopped. So from around 1140 on, they're not buying or selling puts. They're, they're the put line, the blue line is flat. And as they start buying calls again, just around noon or so, price starts to move higher again. All right. So those are three examples of stocks. We've looked at ES and NASDAQ and ES, both long and short setups. I could just ask, is there a divergence at 1150 and Nvidia? All right. So it may be, I would say yes. Let's take a look at the total signal. So Nvidia, we can, let's zoom in on this a little bit. Just looking at the total signal here. So looking at this, first of all, Hero really stops declining making. So it's making lower highs, lower lows, makes an equal high and then starts making higher lows. So I would say for Nvidia, there was really a good, good solid entry points just before 1220 and 1230. So let's go take a look at book map. So 1220, 1230, something like that. We'll go back to book map. Let's zoom in a little bit. So price starts making higher lows. This is all around that area, 1220 to 1230. Here's another good entry point waiting for the aggressive buyers to come in. The shift in order flow there, aggressive sellers down to around the 434 level and then aggressive buyers come in. So we know that around 12 o'clock, 1150 to 1220, the hero signal shifted from negative gradually to back to positive. Traders taking negative delta positions that levels off and then they start taking positive delta positions. So watching that and reading order flow here, we can find a couple of good entry points for long. All right, there's a question in YouTube, Doug, how do you implement CVD as part of your trading strategy? Or it is important on your end, your advice is greatly appreciated. You're welcome. All right, so CVD, I really don't look at CVD for stocks. I think it's just by experience. It is not as helpful, but CVD I definitely look at for futures. And I'll get back to ES in just a moment. All right, so Icojet says at 12 price making lower lows, call lower highs. All right, so this turnaround, quite sure I understand your question, but this turnaround took a while. You know, I would look for, let's go back to hero on hero. Okay, all right, so let's take a look. We'll separate outputs and calls. Let's zoom in on this, see if we can get more clarity, maybe go back to a 30 minute look back period. All right, so that really, so if we just let, I'm going to, let's go back to the one day look back period. All right, so what we know here is traders just around noon, 12 o'clock, they have stopped buying puts. So that is one potential thing, pressuring price lower, that is stopped. And then, you know, this is kind of subtle, but then the call ride line starts to rise and then really starts to rise more significantly around, around 110. So if you, for me, looking for a very clean, long entry, there it is right there at 1310, taking a while for that to play out. And that's combining this hero signal with looking at order flow. All right, let's go back and take a look at book map. So again, for me, this was the, right around 1310, 110, 115 was the safest entry, a deeper pullback, clear change in order flow, pink dots to green dots as traders start buying calls. So that's what I see. That's the cleanest entry you just would have to wait patiently for that. All right, let's take a quick look at the S&P 500, see if we can get a read on what's going on this afternoon. So I go, Jed, I hope that answers your question. This is, this is how I would approach that setup. That is the, you know, looking in retrospect here, looking back, that is the cleanest entry. All right, so there's the S&P 500. And D&T Matter says, you see that NVIDIA confluence with the S book map chart as well. So yeah, we can see that. So we just looked at a reversal higher at just around 115, 110 for NVIDIA. And there it is for the S&P 500. NVIDIA is a, you know, big component of the S&P 500 and NASDAQ, especially NASDAQ. Regarding the question about CVD and YouTube, yes, here I want CVD for ES and NQ. And here this is a strong signal, positive. I'm looking at CVD here in this line, the line that changes from pink to dark blue, that's CVD. And this upper daily expected move did act as support here and resistance here and here. All right, let's see what options traders are doing in the S&P 500. Then we'll wrap it up. And just to be clear, I'm looking at hero and book map, order flow and book map and hedging flow with Spontagama hero at the same time. You know, here I'm shifting from one screen to another. And when I'm trading, I'm looking at both screens, two screens, hero on one screen and book map on another screen. Looking at them at the same time and combining what I see to make a decision. So there's a comment in YouTube, your voice is really far from mic. That happens occasionally in YouTube.  So if you can't hear in YouTube, I urge you to join us in Discord. I have not had any complaints about volume in Discord. All right, so S&P 500, and we know just around 12 o'clock, 12.30, options traders started taking positive delta positions in the S&P 500, setting up a number of pullback entries. And there's the one that we talked about around 115, 120. And the overall trend of hero was bullish. Traders taking positive delta positions. And you're welcome in YouTube. Sorry, I'm not sure how to pronounce your name, Fee. You're welcome. All right, let's take one last look at book map. So interesting to note that larger traders are not taking, they're still selling with iceberg orders pretty subtly. This continues also by stop orders, not fueling this move higher. Price is up at $44.80. So we know that options traders are taking positive delta positions, but market makers position on the gamma curve is very strongly positive. And they're on the positive gamma portion of that Vano model. So that may not be supporting a strong move higher. But so far, S&P 500 is definitely making a series of higher lows. Entry points down to potential support levels. So lower daily, upper daily expected move, pullback to that level is a long entry. Pullback to the $44.75 combo to level was also an entry point. And then potentially this pullback to the $44.80 level, also a potential entry point for long. All right, hard rock lobster roll says these icebergs make me think we, I assume he asked, could dump into the end of the day once retail starts closing out. That's definitely a possibility. And as I'm at, well, that was rude. My volume over 60, but still barely hearing. I'm sorry, I'm just trying to tell you there's nothing I can do about it. If I could, if I could put my microphone closer or turn up the gain on my microphone, I would. I'm sorry that has come up before on YouTube. And I would do anything. So James says OBS setting to fix the low volume on YouTube. My OBS setting is at max gain. That's what I'm talking about. So that is set all the way, all the way to the right. So others yoga mat says volume is fine. All right, I'm going to wrap it up for the day. I'm sorry about the audio problems. If there was anything that I could do about it, I would definitely do it. As far as I know, I've done everything I can. All right, I want to thank everyone for watching. Thanks for your questions and comments. I will look into this volume problem. Maybe there's something that the other people and book map can do to help me with this. I'll look into it. I want to thank everyone for watching. Thank you very much for your questions and comments. And I will see you tomorrow. Thanks again. Bye.


Good morning! The courageous ones are here. Gideon's Army. So this morning we're gonna do two things. I'm going to give a presentation on coming home to the Father and then we're gonna have some time for you to give testimonies. And I hope that you'll want to give glory to God for what He did for you or what you received. My first book that I was pushed to write was called The Older Brother Returns. It was just about how I had discovered after 15 years of believing I was the prodigal son come home I had discovered that I was also the older brother and how I needed not just to deal with the external sins but the internal sins the sins of the heart. And that kind of laid the foundation for for unbound to come forth like 10 or 12 years later. It's just being able to understand my own heart and others. And then unbound exploded and I've written a couple children's books that float out of that. I've written Resisting the Devil, a Catholic perspective on deliverance because because unbound was a practical guide and I wrote along with my son the guidebook which is really for leaders and just developing those for those who are learning to minister to others. And and all along the way ever since I wrote Unbound there was another book in my heart and that book was about the Father. As you know the fifth key is about the Father's blessing but there was something in me that just said it's not enough. It didn't express enough of what was in me and I just felt this credible need to to write about the Father. And I didn't really I don't have another book in mind. I don't plan on writing another book so it's kind of the book ends as the Older Brother Returns and Abba's Heart. And now God might shift and give me something to write but I but to me this is the finishing word. So I'm going to speak today about Abba's Heart under the title of come home, coming home to the Father. And I believe that many of you have been doing that all week. Actually I believe you've been doing that all your life but it's a message that is is critically needed I believe in the church today. As someone surrenders to Jesus and confesses him as Lord embraces their faith the dynamic work of the Holy Spirit is released. We prayed last night about the cry of the Spirit being released in our hearts crying out Abba Father well that cry is released and a lot of people don't know how to fully release it. I believe that that work that the Holy Spirit's doing to release that cry and bring us to the Father is the is a way of understanding all the sanctifying work that he does in us to make us holy and to continue to bring us into the fullness of what it means to be children of God. And he does that by revealing the Father to us and drawing us into the Father's heart. So no matter how much you have received or how much I have received over the years a revelation of the Father I know there's always more. Every disciple goes through a season and and some of the seasons we've been through you've been through I've been through is where the Holy Spirit is emphasizing Jesus or emphasizing a relationship with the church or with his mother or the emphasis shifts and then there's seasons when he's going to emphasize what it means to be in relationship with the Father. So I want to I want to look at some of my conversion and ongoing conversion in terms of coming home to the Father. We all have a longing for home. I remember the first time I came home from college I had not been away from home for four months ever in my life and when I came home nobody was in the house and I I just kind of walked around and I just looked at I remember looking at an ashtray and it just brought memories to me and I looked at a picture on the wall and in the living room couch and I was just taking it all in. What all these things represented to me and spoke to me of is they just spoke to me of of home.  Now none of us grew up in a perfect home and many of you grew up in a home that was not happy or it wasn't even safe but we're still longing for a place called home. This is how we were made. God placed us in families so that we could come to know our true identity as children of the eternal Father in whose heart is our true home. God placed us in families so we could know the Father. In Ephesians chapter 3 15 the apostle Paul tells us that every family in heaven and on earth derives its name from the Father. The very nature and meaning of the family has its source in God the Father. It was intended that the Father would be revealed to us in families but because of sin families have been can't come a place for us for many of us with a goodness of the Father has been hidden from us. So what was what was meant to reveal the Father has become because of sin a place where the Father is obscured and hidden. Saint John Paul the second said a regional sin attempts to abolish fatherhood destroying its rays which permeate the created world placing in doubt the truth about God who is love and leaving man only with a sense of master-slave relationship. The power of sin working in our midst continues to obscure the Father and to obscure our true identity as His children. Sin leaves us acting like orphans and slaves. Many of you many of you might have received ministry yesterday might have renounced an orphan spirit. I know a lot of times when I I talked to people they grew up in families of 10 12 did you ever feel like an orphan? Oh yeah I did didn't make any sense to me I remember one one girl said oh my brothers and sisters used to tell me I was adopted and and one time I went to my my my mom about it and she said I had eight other kids you think I'd adopt you but it was like these these scenes of insecurity and then we're just spoken and it's like it's just like it's another way of saying I don't know why but I just don't belong I just don't feel like I belong everybody else seems to belong I don't belong or everybody else seems to connect with dad but I don't spirit of fatherlessness so the enemy is always trying to rob us of our relationship and the potential for intimacy with God the father so even though many people who we have encountered many people that have encountered Jesus and had a great powerful encounter with the Holy Spirit like we did last night and yet the father remains distant and hidden and sometimes there's a fear of the father he's the judge of the Old Testament he's waiting to catch me in my sin and to punish me for any little thing and and maybe close the door of heaven to me I had one nationally known Catholic leader say to me I'm okay with Jesus but the father he scares me we may look to Jesus and and press into him for for mercy and love and forgiveness but like like we just keep pushing the father back or or we've never allowed the father himself to come close to us now on the other hand there's others that perceive the father in the way that they want him to be this twisted idea of the father that is based on maybe how their father was or some imaginary person where the father is just he's my daddy and he will do whatever I want him to do and if he doesn't do what I want him to do I'll be mad at him and I'll give him a piece of my mind and so there's this faith is the grace filled response to revelation what is the revelation of the father that we're responding to or is it not revelation just imagination it's a deep longing in all of us to know the father in fact the very spirit of God is working in us now crying out for us to know the father but sometimes sometimes he remains distant to some of us and sometimes sometimes just saying the word father gets stuck in our throat or we say father but it has no significance no meaning oh we say you know we pray in the liturgy to the father and we pray the our father and yet there's no personal connection for it now speaking to some of you I'm in one way I'm speaking to you as those that are proclaiming this message and and the people in the pews need to hear this message but I'm also speaking to you as like in relationship to the father there's always more because that's the work of Jesus within us to bring us to the father a question we can ask ourselves or I would like to ask you is can we find freedom apart from a relationship with the father can we find freedom apart from a relationship with the father now I know that God's grace works wonders with in your heart no matter what the obstacle and he can in a real way bring incredible freedom but there's another answer to that question which is no we can't because of who we really are so let me let me just in John chapter 8 verse 32 Jesus said to those that believed in him this is to those who believed in him if you continue in my word you truly be my disciples and you know the truth and the truth will make you free all truth sets us free but there is a hierarchy of truth and the greatest truth that reveals man to himself is the father son and Holy Spirit in this if this verse is quoted out of context we missed the deep deeper meaning of what Jesus is saying the deeper point that he's trying to make because in verse 27 before he set broke this these words he said it says they did not understand that he spoke to them about the father he was speaking about the father and then he says if you continue in my word you will know the truth and the truth will make you free they could not see they did not understand we are his children that's who we are it's the freedom of the sons and daughters of God in 1 John 3 1 it says see the love the father has lavished on us that we should be called the children of God and that is what we are he is a good father who loves to care for his children in Matthew 7 9 to 11 it says if you then though you are evil know how to good give give good gifts to your children how much more will the father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him he is a good father but many have been deceived actually all of us have been deceived in the garden we have we had intimacy with the father and we walked with him in the cool of the day and just remember remember you were in Adam you we walked with him in the cool of the day and he entrusted everything to us and we trusted him and then the tempter came along with the fundamental lie that still grips us today the fundamental lie is God is not a good father and he can't be trusted we swallowed that lie through sin and it made a home in our fallen nature and we have been bound by a twisted perception of God ever since Jesus came to break the power of that lie to set it straight to reveal the father and to be himself the pathway the way home to the father's heart we're told in 1 and John 1 18 no one has ever seen God the only son who is in the bosom of the father he has made him known another translation says referring to the son who is in closest relationship with the father so Jesus who is in the bosom of the father he is the one that is making the father known and we can grow up calling God father and thinking of him in terms of father but if you want to know him there's only one way to know him and that's to know him through the son who comes from the bosom of the father is in closest relationship with the father who is the very son of the father who makes him known and the good news is that he's going to continue to make him known John 17 25 and 26 righteous father Jesus says righteous father the world does not know you but I know you and these that you have sent me I have made you known to them and I will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them that I myself might be in them and I will continue to make you known the spiritual life is I mean you have much more wisdom about the spiritual life than I do but I just understand it from this perspective in a simple way Jesus is making the father known and is revealing my heart and exposing my heart so I can receive the love of the father through the son this is his commitment to you as you go forth from here and and some of you have to stand on what you renounced say yeah I'm not gonna let that in again I'm making my stand I'm gonna stand on it but every one of us needs to have that confidence the father is going to continue Jesus is going to continue to make the father known to me and what it means to be free and what it means to be a son Pope Benedict the 16th wrote this Jesus's communion with the father is the true center of his personality without it we cannot understand him at all and it is from this center that he makes himself present to us today if we're holding back from the father I can't relate to the father my father was this I it just I can't make that leap God's not demanding you to make a leap you can't make but if you just cut it off and say Jesus Mary Holy Spirit that's enough for me we're cutting ourselves off from Jesus you want to be a disciple of Jesus you want to live like Jesus you need to live in relationship to the father he only did with the father he saw the father doing he only said what the father was saying and and it's in this dynamic that we have been invited to enter in it's the only way to really understand Jesus but enter into this relationship with the father Pope Benedict says we can't understand him at all because it's at from this center that he makes himself known to us and still today Jesus said if a man loves me he will keep my word and my father will love him and we will come to him and make our home with him the father and the son have made their home in us and invites us to make our home in him so the question is how is it that the father can be remain hidden especially from those of us who have embraced our baptism have received them well we're going to give you two reasons one reason is how the father has been misrepresented to us we carry father wounds and mother wounds and we need to be set free from those bondages because they twist our idea our understanding of our loving heavenly father the need to know the father is universal as a matter of fact the my passion to write Abba's heart whom which i wrote with my son Matt which is glorious that a father and son would write a book together and but my passion is because we were teaching about the father's blessing in countries throughout the world and in many places it was the father's blessing there was everything they never heard anything about it they never heard anything like it they never had any idea of the true love and compassion of the father it's true in this country but it's universal because the spirit of god is within us working to draw us into intimacy with the father and there's going to be times in your life maybe it's now maybe it's next maybe it's next month but there's going to be times in your life you're going to you realize there's an absence and the father is drawing near and he wants you to draw near to him the second reason is knowing the father through the son is a lifelong process John's gospel is a special gift perhaps 30 years after the synoptic gospels were spread widely there was another gospel that needed to be written one that came out of the experience of the youngest disciple living life longer than all the others as John grew spiritually and in his understanding and his reflection he had married the mother of Jesus under his care to guide him they together had time to reflect to remember to share together about the intimacy Jesus had with the father and how he was inviting them into the relationship so when you read the gospel of John think about John's heart just inviting you in to this relationship with the father a real moment was when Thomas and Philip asked Jesus to show him the way to the father so I kind of picture it this way Jesus is is is saying I'm going to go prepare a place for you I'm going to go ahead of you and you know the way that I'm going and I imagine the disciples speaking to each other he says saying there he goes again he's talking he keeps talking about the father do you see the father do you see I don't see him Jesus sees him I don't know what he's talking about now he's going he's going to go away and he's going to prepare a place for us in the father's house and there's going to be many rooms there I don't know what he's talking about so Thomas who represents what part of our personality says Lord we don't know where you're going show us the way give me directions tell me what to do Jesus says to him I am the way the truth in the life no one comes to the father but through me if you'd know me you would have known my father also henceforth you would know you know him and have seen him imagine Thomas with that answer I just asked he's going someplace I just want directions so then you have Philip from another part of our personality and from who we are he he cries out for all of us and he says he said Lord show us the father and then we'll be satisfied John gave us that prayer it's yours Lord show us the father and then we'll be satisfied may the may God give us a hunger may he even frustrate us like Thomas and Philip so that we cry out from a deeper place in our heart to receive what God wants to give us so now I'm going to share a little bit about my personal journey of how that frustration came in and his response two years after I encountered the Lord I I was baptized in the spirit in 1970 and two years later I was in this dry place wondering where where Jesus was and he seemed far away and I was laboring and I was facing discouragement and and I went through an inner healing and I experienced forgiveness of of my father and and a restoration in the family and so that was really the beginning and opening in in my heart and and then I was staying with some people and and this this man was over at the house and he was talking about God and they were into theology and he was talking about God and he just kept saying he just kept referring to God as father over and over again he said father this father that father this and I'm there thinking I don't know if he knows Jesus I mean this spirit is the spirit of Jesus I think he's just talking about the father and I don't think he knows this Jesus and then this thought crossed my mind the father's second best and as soon as that thought came through my mind I realized oh something is wrong here I knew that wasn't true but that was what was coming out of my heart was a protest because I didn't know the father he was talking about something I didn't know exposed my heart and that's when I went off and and received ministry and and and that's when I I was led to through an inner healing model I was basically led to forgive my father and the forgiveness wasn't so much based on bad memories because I was that was all blocked out I just didn't have them I loved honored my father but it was what wasn't given what wasn't there the absence to not being there needed to be resolved but it needed to be exposed before it could be dealt with my father had long since passed away but the Lord began to just restore my love and my sense of belonging through that time of forgiveness but there's a number of other points I'd like to share with you on my journey back to the father I remember one good Friday my eyes being opened I was meditating on the crucifixion of Jesus and we were reading about his suffering and it was pierced for our transgressions and I could clearly see behind the crucified Christ I could clearly see the father's broken heart and now when I and since that time I see the father all the time behind the son or through the son another significant thing that happened was my first born son I had my son was born my first born and when I became a father I realized that I didn't know how to be a father but I figured it this way I said if I could only learn to be a son then I would know how to be a father and so I pressed in to wanting to live as a son of the eternal father and it's I think it's the same for you how am I to be a father to my parishioners be a son press in to your sonship press in the relationship with the father and then your spiritual children will experience his fatherly love come through you because we're all inadequate we can only give what we received 1986 I was delivered of a spirit of rejection that opened up whole new levels of trust and confidence many years after that I went on this personal silent retreat I just borrowed somebody's shore house I went down there to be by myself to be with the Lord it was my my pain and my desolation that led me there wasn't getting any better I just felt really alone I wanted to go home I was talking to God but he was silent then I went for a walk on the beach and I began to talk to God again but this time it went deeper I was alone on the beach it was late fall and I expressed my deepest needs to God and I said I basically said this God I don't understand why it is so hard and I said this out loud why am I so empty where are you and then as I began to speak the concerns and the words changed and I spoke from the memories of my dad my father died more than 20 years earlier and it's actually his death led to my conversion but now on the beach I found myself saying I don't understand dad why you weren't there for me as a boy and I don't I don't know why I didn't know you and as I spoke these kinds of things tears came to my eyes tears that I didn't shed at the funeral or after emotions that I was unaware of were coming up and I began to grieve the loss of my father at a new level because I faced it in relationship to my own heart you know when a parent dies it's like whatever you were missing it seems like it's final as long as they're alive you think well maybe I can get it maybe I'll get that thing that I've always wanted even if I don't know what that thing is and then they die and it's like it's done and we need to grieve we need to grieve the loss of what wasn't said wasn't spoken wasn't happened so I was grieving his loss and as I expressed my pain I began to say dad would you forgive me for all the years of rebellion and I repented for withdrawing my heart and for my selfishness making it so hard for him to love me or to reach me and then I spoke forgiveness and I found peace and then I sensed the heavenly father's presence and in my mind as you know I get pictures a lot so in my mind I had this this image of my father who he loved the ocean I just had a picture of him walking out into the sea he wasn't he was like almost walking on the water but it's like floating kind of just out there and as he as he left he was waving and then he went like this and I knew what he was saying I knew what it meant and then we've come to the completion of this chapter and you're gonna do it I'm proud of you I'm with you I'd leave you with the lord or different impressions that came to me so years later as I understood and began to understand the father's blessing and we pray in the fifth key is the father's blessing I was receiving the father's blessing this is a memory of my father saying and communicating that which which had been lacking God has encounters for all of us because the heavenly father wants to break in and he wants to fill the empty place wherever you did not receive the words of affirmation your father didn't bless you didn't say words maybe didn't bless your priesthood maybe held back in your choice maybe there's a whole host of things that sometimes we carry that we just need to bring to the Lord we need to forgive renounce the lies and say father I need to hear from you I need your blessing I need your words I need to hear your whispers and I'm going to trust in your whispers and I'm going to trust it that I can hear your voice and receive it and maybe you'll get a brother or sister to pray with you and speak the father's blessing over you and and those words can penetrate your heart and change everything because you know the lack that you've been living under was just a lie was just a deception of the enemy it was just a small story not the bigger eternal story of which Jesus has broken out of it into your story to bring you home to the father so now for me and I think I might have mentioned this but the three titles for Jesus that are most significant for me as he was introduced as Savior and Lord and Son for me the Son always meant when I read the Son of God I said oh he's God that means Jesus is God that's true but from now from now the Son means the Son has made his home in me he dwells in me and I have an ongoing relationship with a father as I identify with the Son so I'm just going to take a few minutes now to reflect on the heart of the father and the place of star I'm just going to talk about the product of the two sons and then his final words to us Jesus tells us of a father who lost his two sons one is an open rebellion and the other is withdrawing his heart one ran off rejected him basically saying you are dead to me the other focused on fulfilling his outward duty he was doing what he was supposed to do but he abandoned his father through resentment judgment and bitterness Jesus reveals in this parable the broken heart of God the father pleading for his children to return he runs out to the product when the product turns to him he goes to his the older brother who's heart is heart and he pleads him to enter into the celebration I cannot imagine the pain of losing a child I have four sons and 14 grandchildren and from time to time I minister to people who's who's lost a child to death suicide drugs you read in the paper about children that are kidnapped disappeared stolen just stolen never to come home perhaps you've experienced it in your life in your family life or perhaps you've experienced it through people that are close to you in your parish and you you've seen this incredible agony sometimes children's minds are twisted through drugs or mental illness and the memory of their love has been robbed of your love for them a parent's love for them and and the parent becomes the object of their wrath and their hatred and they blame their parent for all the the suffering and and you've been unjustly blamed for every problem in people's lives but the more you can perceive that the more you can understand the father the father see the eternal father lost his children in the garden they were stolen kidnapped and he will do anything to get them back they were sentenced to death and he will take their death sentence on himself through his son he will suffer their pain pay the greatest ransom ever paid for their release when they come home he will heal their hearts and restore their memory of his goodness he will give them hearts of flesh and he will put a new spirit in them that cries out to him for intimacy and affection Abba father this is the father's heart towards us yet we saw it differently this is the father standing in the garden as we were sent away to live out the the consequences of our choice but when humanity left the garden of his delight they lost sight of his goodness the human perception of God was twisted not based on revelation but based on our inability to understand his love and the evil that has befallen us so how do we interpret that where is God we carry this fear that that God has abandoned us we're alone God has left us he doesn't care even if we know the Lord we're tempted to blame God for the evil that comes into the world against us every day we're tempted to blame him or to be angry with him or judge him or shake our fists at him we do not understand how good how good God could allow such suffering and I know every one of you have answered that question with a good theological answer but somehow it doesn't always reach our own hearts much less someone else's we just don't understand him from here we're all participating in this spiritual battle to believe the trust Psalm 13 captures this for us how long Lord will you forget me forever how long will you hide your face from me how long must I wrestle with my thoughts and day after day have sorrow in my heart how long will my enemies triumph over me and then the psalm ends with but I trust in your unfailing love my heart rejoices in your salvation I will sing the Lord's praises for he has been good to me both sides struggle within us how long oh Lord but I trust in your love it's the spiritual battle Jesus revealed the depth and the pain of the human heart when he identified with our sins and our separation from God and he cried out on our behalf he cried out for all humanity when he said my God my God why have you abandoned me that's the human condition apart from salvation that's the only thing that's at the core of our fear and Jesus took it when he took our sins he understood our basic deception and how twisted our understanding of God is my God my God why have you abandoned me yet we're the ones that abandoned him Jesus knows our fear and the issue settled Jesus surrendered to death and the father's faithfulness is demonstrated forever for us in the resurrection of Jesus from the dead it's settled and the movie the passion of the Christ there's a teardrop that falls from heaven at the moment of the moment Jesus died this is an image of the father's love for the son it's also an image of the broken heart of the father when I saw that movie and I saw that teardrop this question came to my mind when did the teardrop fall did it fall when Jesus died or did it fall when Adam sinned in eternity these two moments cannot be separated the moment Adam sinned was the same moment in eternity Jesus died we cannot separate the father's pain for the suffering of his crucified son and the pain over the loss of his children they are eternally joined together we know in Colossians 1 15 that the son is the image of the invisible God and in Hebrews 1 13 it says the son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his being Jesus crucified is the image of the father's broken heart when people come to you and confess their sins God's broken heart is present to be communicated Jesus did not come to condemn the world he came to save the world he was sent by the father whose heart was broken over the loss of his children but the broken heart of God is only half the picture at the same moment that his heart was broken his heart was also full of joy his heart is not like ours joy is not constrained by suffering in Luke 15 the parable of the lost coin the lost sheep and the lost son all followed by descriptions of heaven's joy celebration says there was rejoicing in the presence of of angels of the angels of God over one sinner who repents the father was rejoicing in the presence of the angels joy was spread throughout heaven when one sinner returns Jesus is revealing the father's joy and all heaven participates in it and this is the reason why Jesus endured the cross Hebrews 12 2 for the joy set before me endured the cross scorning its shame and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God for the joy set before him Jesus came to reveal the father and in a certain way you can think of it this way he came to heal the father's heart I picture Jesus saying dad I'm coming home and look who I'm look who I'm bringing with me we're going to celebrate so the next time you mess up or you're tempted to think of him as angry and judging you rejecting you condemning you withdrawing his love from you and his fatherly care think of the father of Luke 15 standing waiting longing pleading for his son's return and the joy that awaits him waits you God hates sin because it separates you from the knowledge of his goodness God's wrath is directed at sin not you we come under the wrath when we identify and don't separate from the sin but God's wrath isn't directed at you it's at your sin at the moment you turn home to God you're leaving your sin and he wants to embrace you and kiss you and restore you so let me just read this to you but while he was still a long way off his father saw him and was filled with compassion form he ran to his son threw his arms around him and kissed him the son said father I have sinned against heaven against you I'm no longer worthy to be called your son but the father said to his servants quick bring the best robe and put it on him put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet bring the cat fatted calf and kill it let's have a feast and celebrate for this son of mine was dead and is alive again he was lost and is found so they began to celebrate heaven's joy came down from heaven in their celebration the first message of the risen Lord to you after the resurrection was entrusted to Mary Magdalene we have this incredible picture of a woman's passion and God's heart Mary is at the tomb she's weeping she's uncontrollable and her grief and and she wants to find the Lord she wants to be near him she wants to touch him she wants to care for him and and uh and Jesus the picture in John's gospel is so incredible Jesus is on the way to the father he had not yet returned to the father and he's he's like this is what he's all about he's going to the father and and he hears her heart he comes back weeping so hard she doesn't recognize him till he calls her name and this is the message she gave to Mary for you do not hold on to me for I have not yet ascended to the father go instead to my brothers and tell them I am ascending to my father and your father to my god and your god what he was saying to Mary was this I'm going to my father and your father and you are part of my family you belong my father is your part father and you are part of the eternal family your home is in his heart so brothers when your mission here is over and we enter into glory you will be like me when I came home from college you'll be captivated by the many works the many signs the many many things that you hardly noticed moments when the father was whispering to you revealing himself to you throughout your life and then he's always been saying to you you are home in my heart and every grace and every moment of grace and that he's reached out to you he was saying that that this is your home this is where you belong and one day we're going to see all those moments of grace we're going to be seeing how the father reached out to us and and how we were veiled and couldn't see it because of whatever evil that surrounded us but but he was there and so would you stand and let's just ask that this would be one of those moments of grace and I'm just gonna what I want you to do is just to take a few moments within your heart just to talk to the father just talk to him about what you just heard if you don't know what to say you can just say Lord show me the father and then I'll be satisfied I'd like you to if you will I mean if you just want to stay where you're at in this space you can just sit down but if you will if you will just turn to a brother and just share a little bit about what the Lord's saying to you or what you're saying to him and then just have a brief prayer and then we will go into a break but just let's spend about three or four minutes just just responding with each other or by yourself