Okay, can you see my screen and can you hear me? If you could just type yes in the hashtag advanced-webinar section, then we'll get started here. Okay, excellent. All right. So okay, so let's get started. All right, welcome to the webinar. So we've been doing this in Discord here for a while, now just like three weeks or so, or maybe this is our third week, something like that. The idea here was, you know, during the holidays we thought we'd try this out, and we've continued with it so far. Typically, this is the advanced webinar that you need to subscribe to Global Plus to get, and the whole concept was to kind of filter out people, you know, asking, coming in and asking, you know, kind of silly questions about stuff, and, you know, people were there for their education and they were serious about it. And that's why we kind of separated it out, and if you have book map, you're going to be a lot more serious about it than if you don't have book map. 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All right. So here are some disclosures, and we'll jump into the live market. General disclosure. All book map limited materials, information, and presentations are for educational purposes only and should not be considered specific investment advice nor recommendations. Risk disclosure. Trading futures, equities, and digital currencies involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results. We'll bypass the hypothetical performance disclosure. You can read that if you like. This is more about automated trading, though, so we're not going to be doing anything like that. All right. Let's see a little bit of a review, a few different things. I want to show you guys on our YouTube channel and our Twitter channel here. We've been looking at some really large iceberg orders last week, and we did see some follow-through to the upside, but not the kind of follow-through we were looking for. Looking for a really big follow-through, and we have not gotten that yet. So it's very curious, you know, 14,000 or so icebergs, this was on what day was this? This was back on January 6th, is that right? And let me double-check that, yeah, on the 6th. And then we also saw on Friday some large iceberg order transactions, so we're going to continue to look for those, but we just want to be aware and watch and see and understand what is, who is getting filled. Larger players using iceberg orders, they can have it go against them multiple days, and you know, they're positioned, and their positions are much, much bigger, and they're looking for, you know, that market to turn around at some point. So anyway, we, yeah, really curious, I mean, this looks like just such a massive spoof at the close, and it really didn't go much higher. I mean, it went up to about this 4705 here, it was about it. Anyway, something to continue, we'll continue to look for, but the point here is icebergs are great, it's amazing transparency, we're order flow rules though, the order flow is the most important part. This is a confluence to add to your order flow analysis. Let's also take a look at our YouTube channel, I kind of arranged things a little bit in here, and I added the recordings, you guys have been asking about the recordings. So I've been, we had it as a link, you need the link, well I put them on our YouTube homepage here now. Okay, so just scroll down a little bit, you have the intro videos, you have the ProTrader webinar series, selected webinars, features and components, order flow education, recordings of live streaming daily discord webinars, that's where you'll find them. So this was Fridays, and we have like nine videos in here so far. Okay, alright, so that's that, connecting to data providers underneath that, and then if you speak Portuguese and you want to follow Santo Trader, some excellent videos in here for the Brazilian market. Okay, let's see here, looking at Bitcoin as well, big drop in Bitcoin. This is book map data here, it's a multi-book, so you're looking at five different exchanges here, looking at BitStamp, Binance, FTX, GDAX and Kraken, all within one symbol here. So it's a, what do you call it, a synthetic instrument here. It's with five different exchanges, to give you much more kind of clearer picture of really what's going on, since there are multiple exchanges within Bitcoin and all the different cryptocurrencies. Alright, so you can see like a kind of potential reversal taking place here, in fact, in Bitcoin. This is classic, classic stuff. Now we need to see if there's follow-throughs to the upside, but I just want to cover this here because it's right in front of us. Markets moving down, it's trading into high liquidity here, trading into high liquidity here, here, and trading into and through all these, all these areas with, you know, large, large volume here, and it comes back down into this area here, just shy of large liquidity that had been in the book here, around $39,500, and we see the buyers snap it up pretty quickly. Now, they're above all this selling here, okay, so this end is accepting so far. So we need to see some more buyers start to come in here. Even though, look at the massive selling in here. It's about the market structure, okay, if there's massive selling in here, it could be a lot of stops being triggered, a lot of liquidations, but the buyers are above that area. If they're sellers and they're still in this market, they're going to be buyers up above it. So we want to kind of keep an eye out for, you know, this kind of critical level here, around $40,400, okay, $40,000 down here, all right, the figure, but we're above this area here, and we want to see if we remain above that area or not. And right now, I mean, we're above it, but we just don't see a lot of buy volume here at the moment to be able to lift this. So anyway, let's jump over to the S&P E-mini and take a look. And this is selling off pretty hard. And we also have the icebergs here, just a note, you know, the icebergs starting to kind of ramp up a little bit, as you guys can see, over $4,000. It's not bad, but you know, order flow rules, so we're still dropping. And let's see where we might go here, okay, all markets are selling off. Yeah, I mean, there's liquidity down in this area here. What is this, around $45,000, $75,000, or $77,000, somewhere around there, might be a nice little area for it to go to. Let's just start to look at some of the market structure, and we're going to start with the higher timeframe analysis, and just to kind of understand what's going on here. So we're going to look at our candlestick charts here, and start to kind of piece some things together. Okay, so here's our daily chart, and the top that we're still in an uptrend in this daily chart, even though we're below some of these areas in here, if we just kind of, you know, take a look at more data in here, but even more than that. Let's look at a weekly, I guess, I'm going to go back a lot further than that. Yeah, I mean, here's our weekly chart, and now this is, you can see the bounce here off of just same ideas and structure here. And you know, here's the uptrend, pullback, the breakout, the pullback to where it broke out from now, multiple times here, here, here, and here. And yeah, and you know, it still broke out to all-time highs here. So this is, you know, a pretty big move to the downside last week, and this week starting off already, pretty strong move to the downside. Okay, but we're going to start to look at areas in here, and look for order flow to continue to the downside until we see something different. Okay, so let's take a look here at our daily bars, and our look back period. Okay. All right. And we can start to draw up some trend lines in here, and just, you know, where might we go is kind of what we're looking for. And I'm not very good at using this platform, but just a minute, try on these annotations. Where is it? Trendline. Okay. Yeah, we're already below this trendline here on the daily. No, I take that back. We're just kind of testing it right now. Okay, we're still in an uptrend, though. All right. There's no question about it. These are some pretty big candles, and there's some pretty big back and forth in here. It looks a little different than it did back in October here, September, October. You know, some pretty big down days here, but it didn't really drop too much. You know, we saw some big rises and some big drops in these areas here since December or so, even kind of end of November. So, you know, we're still looking for this to kind of test into these lower areas here. Let's kind of jump into the hourly and see what's going on. We, you know, could also draw up another trendline in here, and we're just going to just kind of keep an eye out of where, you know, price might be going here, okay, some of the market structure that we're talking about here. Okay. So, you know, somewhere around it here, we're going to find some people taking some profit on the sell side, and we're going to see some, maybe some buyers start to come in if it's a deal down here. Now, that's the trendline, but look at the horizontal line in here, okay. This is where we found buyers before, here and here, okay, also down here. So, there's kind of a whole zone in here where we found buyers. We're looking for that area as well, okay, to look for our buyers around those areas. My God. Let me get back to drawing here and rectangle. There we go. Transparent, somewhere around in here. Yeah. So, we'll see. We'll come back and take a look at this area in here. I mean, we're just kind of coming down toward it right now, all right. So, and we'll go with the trend until we see something different. That's the daily. Let's take a look at the hourly and maybe the 15-minute as well. So what we're doing for order flow is starting to get bigger picture structure. We want to understand that bigger picture and what is going on in the order flow in that bigger picture. So, here's last week, you see the move to the downside. We're looking for those pullbacks. We got a few of them, but then you can see the continuation here. And this is a bearish structure in here. You know, a big red bar, buyers in the Wix, they're kind of lower highs in here. And then you can see the gap here from Sunday to where we started here in the hourly and we're moving to the downside. And we're still moving to the downside, even on the 15-minute here. Okay. So, we want to do, let's add some more in here. More bars, not 20, 200. Okay. Yeah, it doesn't help too much. All right. Well, anyway, yeah, so the daily is actually helping us out the most here is this area in here. We're kind of looking for. All right. And it's a pretty big zone. It's like around 45-50 is kind of the top of the area here to current price right now, which is 45-81. Is that right? Let's take a look here. Yeah, 45-81. Okay. So, anyway, just kind of marking up our bigger picture here, getting a feel for what's going on in the bigger picture. All right. Now, let's just zoom in and start to look at the order flow here. A lot of liquidity in here, a lot of it polled. As you can see, some of it traded, definitely traded in some of these areas here after 930 cash open. Okay. So, they are getting filled right here, in here, here, also here. And yeah, trend is still to the downside. Here's our little double bottom pattern here. We're starting to see buyers come in. So, let's see, we already made an equal high here. Okay. So, let's see if they can come back up and make another equal high here at 45-88. I'd be looking for that. And maybe they can even break it up into this liquidity here at 45-90 and 91. Okay. That would be the, just a kind of a pullback move here at the moment. I mean, because we made three equal highs here, or slightly higher highs, in fact. But it's still made a lower low here. All right. So, let's see if we can come back and make another equal high here. Okay. Pull back to these buyers in here. Our book is showing quite a bit of supply here on the offer. Let's see if we can get our buyers right here, where they moved it above, looking for the pullback to this area here at 86.5. Okay. The next area would be 82.5, where they broke out from in terms of the structure here. Okay. Let's see if we can get our buyers in here, right here, right now. Here they come. All right. Back up to 86.5. Okay. And then we're looking for a higher liquidity, 88.5, or this 90 they pulled, and they're still up here at this 91.25. Okay. Here they come. They're still looking for 86.5, one take away from it. Any questions? Any questions about what we're covering here? We've started coming from that higher timeframe, and you can see, I mean, we're building out the profile here as well. I'm just looking for a kind of a move back up to 86 here, where it basically has done it twice already. I mean, it was just one take away here. Yeah, we can see sellers coming in, so I think they're going to try to drive it a little bit lower here to 82.5. Yeah, here they go. Yeah, it just couldn't make it here, but it still may. We're just looking for the move back down to 82.5 first. Yeah, if it could do it here, we really got to see some big buying here. Green dots at this 85. There we go. Okay, so now it's up there at 86.5. All right, let's see if they can continue. Still looking for them to break up into 88.5, then 90, and then 91.25. Okay, what we're looking for is, again, really simple here. Order flow within the structure. Okay, we started to note. Yeah, we're in a downtrend. No question for today. And looking at these areas here, we're still making lower lows here, but we're starting to make equal highs here. We just made one lower high here, so that's kind of curious. But these three were equal, even slightly higher highs in these areas here. So here we are, we're up at 88.5, still looking for them to squeeze it on up into 90 and 91 here. Okay, there's our 90. Still looking for higher. I really like 91 here, 91.25. This is where it dropped from, and you can see it very clearly in the structure, and that's where the liquidity is as well. Let's see, trade the volume. You have a question. Maximum of 300 per iceberg. Let's see here. So this is what you're talking about here. And let's see, guys, if we made it back up there. We made it to 90, so that's about it so far. I'll have to take a deeper look into this. Not sure. I mean, it says maximum quantity, 3,000 right here. Well, maybe for one iceberg order, maybe. I don't know. This is something for, I'll take a look into though. Yeah. I mean, we see like, even if it is true, when we're kind of zooming out, we're aggregating these icebergs together, where we see like, that 14,000, for example, it's not one for 14,000. All right, on our Twitter handle here. It was, this was a zoomed out kind of version or a view here. And let me open this up in a new tab. Yeah, and, you know, there's several in here. And when you zoom out though, it kind of compresses it into something like this. All right, so I don't know if that is the question you're getting at. But yeah, perhaps that's a limitation from the CME for the native iceberg. Now, synthetic icebergs, you know, which our MBO data is not showing you that. We're not showing you the synthetic icebergs, which means these are icebergs that are not from the CME exchange. As an order type, they are off or maybe co-located to the exchange. And it's an algo like from, let's say, TT, for example, they offer iceberg orders. So you can set an order in there and co-located CME and get filled with an iceberg order. It's not going to be from the order type of CME, from the CME. So MBO data cannot read those synthetic ones, OK, just the native icebergs to the CME. And yeah, maybe that is the limitation. I don't know. Yeah, I'll have to get back to you on that. Yeah, but you'll see, like, you know, if we kind of zoom out here, you'll see, like, well, at a certain point here, this will be more than 3,000 in here. If there were more in this area, but that's just not the truth. The truth is that there are many in here. Actually, there's one for 2,000 here, right? So that's fact, OK? And then you have another one for 222. You have some on the other side here on the offer as well. OK, so what do we get up to? We got up to about 90. That's about it. So that is an equal high here. I thought we'd be able to squeeze above it here, but nothing shaken so far. It might have just, you know, no, I'm sorry, it did go just above it here, and that was about it. Did it trade 90? Looks like it did. Even traded 90, very few, well, not so few, 734 traded at 90, OK, so anyway. We're still trying here, as you can see, buyers coming back in. It looks pretty good, too. They need to kind of pick it up a little bit. We always like the move that if they can kind of get below some of the swings here and then come charging again after stopping everybody out, and then we get the move we're looking for. You know, it's trying, it's trying, it can't make it. You see the stop out, and then you see the green dots come in, and they really lift it quickly, OK? So right now, we're just right in the middle of our profile here, point of control, and they're supporting it, though. So this is something to look at. See how they're supporting it here at 85? We have orders here in the order book, limit by orders, and here we go. Now we're looking for a move 80 or 91, and we don't know after 91, OK, we're looking for, I think we should get a continuation, but this is kind of an important structural area here, and here it is, right here, and then right here. So are we going to break out from that? Well, we really need to see the buyers pick it up here. If they do, we should get right up to this liquidity here at 95, OK, and then also 4,600. I mean, this is where it dropped from here. Yeah, it looks good. I think they're going to go for it, 95. I don't see stops yet triggered, but boy, we should pretty soon, and there's a lot of people that are short in this area, I think. Now any questions about this read, OK, again, we're looking at, we're going to start off very simply here. I think, I don't know if Vince is in here today. Vince, I want to reach out to you, so you, let me know if you're in here. I can take a look as well. No, I don't see him. Yeah, just, he was talking about market structure, and it was just really nice that he said once you start to see it, you really can't help yourself any longer. Market structure is such an important part. Just think about it, let's just take a big step back if you're talking about head and shoulder patterns, double bottom patterns, sideways consolidation, it could be any sort of, we're just going to talk about simple patterns first. We've all read the books, like how to trade the break of the neckline and the head and shoulders, you get in, blah, blah, blah, that's not really the important part. What makes up that structure is what's important, and why these structures exist, like this is a reverse head and shoulders here. Why does this structure exist? What is the order flow within that structure, and then we can start to look at that order flow in the structure and then start to give insight to these moves unfolding, right? Because we can read it, we can read the order flow within that structure, so we got to start with the structure. We're looking at the structure here, and then put these pieces together, and read this, and then, well, if we're looking for these things to unfold, we know what this is going to look like, and here it is, it's unfolding. Still looking for them to squeeze this higher here into our 95 liquidity up here, 95 and a quarter, it's kind of an odd, this one's kind of an odd structure, in fact, because we've got the liquidity here at 95, now see how it did a double top here, and then we can start to look at this structure now too, and we've seen this so many times. This might be a failed head and shoulders pattern here, so we got our buyers, look at the second leg though on this move up, and this is where you get the insight. We're looking for this kind of buying yet again in here, and it started a little bit here, but look up here, and then buyers kind of dried up here, we're not getting buyers at these higher areas here, and now it's not a whole lot of selling to drive this lower here, and this is looking pretty good though, the sellers are starting to come in here, so this is a move back to value area, back to just around this 86 or 85 area here, the high volume nodes are here though, back to value. Now this pattern we see so many times, we used to look at it years ago in crude oil, crude oil almost always had this kind of pattern, you get your reversal pattern, you get the first leg, you get a pullback, and then we look for that second leg, and we're looking for continuation at that point, and it doesn't, it doesn't continue, it can only make an equal high or some sort of kind of like, you know, maybe a lower high on the second leg up here, you see the sellers come in and they're going to drive it back down, and you'll get trend continuation, so that's what's happening here, in fact they're pulling here, 85 and a half actually traded, so we're still looking at it, yeah, now it broke that trend line here, okay, did it break this one here, not yet, but it looks like it wants to, yeah, okay, so this is kind of the last gas for buyers if they're going to come in at this point, if they don't sellers should be able to take this into lows of the day here for the cast session, all right, let's see it sellers right here is where you need to do it, and then we hit 83, then 81, then 80, boy they sold down here, but they weren't able to move it, we have icebergs on the other side, I'm still looking for another move down to 85 here, and then then trend continuation, okay, here's 86 has some liquidity there, we get insight from that, what's the, how's the market react to that liquidity there, if we get our sellers here we should get a quick move down into this 83, come on sellers right here, looking for it, hitting an iceberg, still looking for it though, another iceberg, small ones, all right, buyers took these guys on here at 84, now the event, this little event took place here, what's the reaction though to price after that event, okay, we're above it, we're kind of at the same level now, so not getting too much insight at the moment, yeah, looking for some more sellers down below it here, if we can get it, now buyers are still trying to go a little bit higher, we're getting buyers above it, maybe they can take it back to 86, yeah, there they go, all right, but that's about it though, that's all I'm looking for right now, let's see if we can get more sellers down here around 84, or a little bit below 84, and then we should get a nice move lower, looking for the sellers here, push it down to 84, and then maybe 81, okay, we're at 84, okay, let's see it, let's see the move down to 81, looking for it, no, that was it, now it makes sense, we're kind of bouncing here a little bit, we're gonna get a little volatility in here, look at the profile, okay, this is rejection down here, so it looks like to me like some profit taking, it could be some new players in here, but there are some new icebergs in here as well, I'm just looking for these sellers to try to explore this bottom edge here in the profile, so you'll note these areas in here, you see how like, I mean, this is what these profiles are telling us is there's a lot of trading in here, and not much trading down here in the tail, okay, so this is kind of a rejection of price, this little area, and you'll get responsive buyers, they'll trade it right back into like 86, or maybe even the top of the range back up into 89, okay, so let's see if they're gonna go for it here, looks like, so one thing we can we can kind of glean from this here, and understand that move down into this 83, we're looking for 84 or 83 here, it did that, it's the bottom of this range, and consider taking some profit at that point, I mean we're still kind of looking for them to explore this bottom edge here, right, it's a pretty thick edge here, so here come our sellers, so I'm looking for them, this is exactly what we're looking for in terms of selling, okay, they're moving it and they're starting to move it on size, that's what it takes to kind of explore these areas here, okay, makes sense, or anyone have any questions on that, again we're starting to really, we're going over nuances in the order flow here to understand like why these moves might unfold here, right, that's what these webinars are all about, right, so here it is, we got the move lower here, we're looking for little pullbacks and nuances in that as well, those unfolded but then we're looking for this move to unfold to the downside and explore this area here, it's already happened, okay, we're down at 78 right now, okay, we're looking for just 80 in fact, it's still pretty pretty strong here, so looking for 75 now, okay, now we can go over some ways to, first off, let me know if you have any questions about this and starting to understand these areas and what we're looking for in the order flow in these areas here, looking at profile or looking at our price patterns, they're the same thing, profile is just another pattern as well, it's just a different way of looking at the data, you're looking at horizontal, you know, accumulation of data, that's all it is, once you start to understand, at least for me, put it this way, for me what was so crucial is not to just learn like, oh well, you know, rejected here is a low volume node, you short it, you try to trade it back to a high volume node, why though, why and what does the order flow look like inside those areas, that's where the magic really kind of happens and in our educational course, we start from understanding these like very basic market mechanics of understanding like, you know, the bid, the offer, the transactions of the aggressors on that bid and offer, book sweeps, moves to the upside, like this is aggressors coming in moving price away from an area down here and then we can also look at liquidity in these areas here, well, there's more demand down here and we don't even trade into it, the best bid comes into it but not even one transaction in this area here, so what does that mean, we can put this together in an auction, buyers are coming in, sellers are not interested in this liquidity here, are we getting more buyers in these areas in here, yes, I'd be looking for the move back up into this 79 and 3 quarters, did we get it? Yeah, and that was it though, and it actually kind of exhausted out up there, yeah, so it didn't actually didn't even trade there, it just traded one tick below it. Okay, and then this is part of educational course part one, you know, starting to understand basic market mechanics and it's, you know, it's not so basic. A lot of traders, even veteran traders like trading for like 20 years and they're very good traders with their, you know, trend lines or their moving averages or whatever it might be, but they still don't really understand what makes price move. And I just, we just think that you can optimize your trading even more by understanding that. Yeah, even this pullback in here, you know, makes sense. This is look at all this, this is very low volume at that bottom edge. So a pullback to this 82 and a half makes pretty good sense. Right, if we get buyers in here, if we get buyers in here, right, and we're, we got a little bit here, we only got to these high volume nodes in here, and we're getting more sellers now. So it looks like they still want to explore the bottom edge here. All right, so looking for these sellers here, and let's see if they get, now if we don't get it, and we get buyers, yeah, I'm looking for the move right back up into this 80 and a quarter here. And it looks like that's what they're going to do. And maybe we can get back up into higher liquidity up in here and look at our profile 82 and a half. Okay, so we have to really kind of watch these little areas in here. Okay, do we get more buyers up here again? Let's take a look. If we do, we should get the move up into this, this liquidity up here. 81 to 82 and a half. There we go. There's our move. Okay, now I would, I would look for a rejection here. And a move right back down to maybe 80 and a quarter. They just a pullback to where it broke out from here. And there it is. All right. So now let's take a look. Is it going to build out this new profile? Or are we going to get even more buyers here to try to move it right back into this area here 85 to 86? Right kind of high volume note up in here. I don't know right now. Okay, looking at it. All right. Well, that's as far as we got. Okay, let's take a look at not not so much at profiles here. Let's take a look at some of these patterns in here. Yeah, looks, we're down here, we're getting our sellers here. Let's see if we get another move lower here. 75 liquidity just below it. But I want to see it go further than that. Maybe 60 maybe 65 icebergs are ramping up as well. 200 200 240. Okay, so we're still looking for exploration lower here. The 70 area looks pretty good. We're already at 75 stops being triggered. They sellers. Let's see it again. And let's see if we get our move back down into 70. Now, let's also take a look at our our higher timeframe because we're in our zone now, right? Or are we? Let's take a look. No, not really. We need to get a little lower in our higher timeframe zone in here. The same ideas that we're looking at, just on a much much higher timeframe. This is where there was buyers earlier. And we're still in an uptrend. Now we can also read the the order flow in here. You know, it's kind of wonky. I mean, you just look at kind of the speed of moves and candles. And you know, you don't know exactly where the volume traded. So it's, you know, you're not getting much out of your candlestick chart, but you can definitely get the edges and we can look at the wicks and we know that there's buying in here in these areas. Yeah, so, you know, it's, it's trading around these trend lines here. In fact, maybe we can get rid of the bigger trend line. It's broken that one. Make things just a little simpler here. Alright, and that's not not seeing much. I mean, yeah, higher timeframe, we're just looking for it to still go lower here, basically, we're getting a pullback right now. They got down to 75 and you guys can see what happened here. We're still in the downtrend. Okay, and again, like, you know, I kind of cringe to draw up trend lines. It's really market structure that we're looking at. Okay, so in terms of market structure, we're looking at a diagonal structure of value, you know, back and forth and value in that structure. It's the same as looking at your your horizontal structure. It's just a range. It's a range bound activity. This is more kind of a range bound activity within diagonals of, you know, value overvalued, undervalued, etc. You know, let's draw up a little bit more as well here. And just sticking with the market structure. Heck, we've got structure over here as well. Okay, volume looks pretty good on the buy side here. You know, it's coming in. Alright, so let's see them, we're going to get them move back to this kind of 85, it looks like. Let's see if we can. We got some supply in here, you got to get through first. But it looks like the buyers, I mean, you know, pretty strong line and nice little strong move here. So responsive buyers trading back into value and back into kind of 85 and 86 and a half or so 87, I think. Yeah, here they come. Okay, so we kind of had to flip flop a little bit down here. 75 and then then it came back in and was showing a higher timeframe and then came back in and it's like, okay, whoa, okay, we got some buyers coming in here. And looking for them to reach back to high volume node and value area here. So that's looking at your volume profile. We can look at our patterns as well. And, well, the trend line is being broken here on pretty high volume on the on the buy side. It's not bad. I'd be looking for it to fail though. I mean, I don't think it's enough. It looks like we'll probably go back down to this 8045 80 here, minimum, and maybe even down here at this little structural area down here. 40 or sorry, 7075. Okay, so what are we going to look for up here? First exhaustion on that buy side sellers here. And let's see them drop it down into well 80 first 78 next 75 next after that. Okay, there's 80. Let's see it sellers 78 pulled. So we're looking for a little lower here. There's seven 78 and three quarters. More than that. See it. Okay, there's 78 and the swing here. And come on sellers. See if you can get down to I actually like this little area better to be honest, it's around 76. The liquidity is lower though at 75. Okay, that order flow starting to change here as well. They're adding more on the on the bid and look at the reaction we get buyers. Let's take a look around to like look at some of the other markets and see what's going on. We're breaking this longer term trend line for the day. Since 930 cash open. Okay, so we can adjust that one. We've broken it. And we're going to look at something else. And that's that's starting to break now too. Yeah, we can take a look at crypto. Sure. Yeah, I started off looking at crypto. But yeah, I wanted to see if we're going to get you know, we've come back to this 85 area 87 area a few times now, we're going to reject, we're going to get some of those sellers to come in here, not responsive sellers, but the impulsive and impulsive sellers in here, and move this away from that area. Not yet. It just seems to be hovering around in it. Yeah, this might be a good time to go go check out crypto. Let's jump over again. This so what we're looking at here, this is a book map data. As I mentioned, that when we first started is this is five different exchanges. This is the multi book product that we have. It just gives more insight than if you look at, you know, one exchange. There's just so many exchanges and so much liquidity. So this is just giving you a more objective kind of overview. Where we left off on this when we started was a big move down into high liquidity into these lower areas here. And then the move back up above it, though, and we drew in this line here about around this of 4400 just or 4500 here. And we're accepting above it so far. We noted that, but we're not accepting above on a ton of volume here. Right. So it's still accepting though. And that's that's kind of where we left off and still kind of where it is. Not really seeing much here. We kind of made an equal high here traded into this liquidity at 41 200. And that was it. I mean, look at the way that this is accepting up above here. You know, a lot of volumes trading up there. But you know, it just doesn't look that convincing. So it you know, we're talking about two different things here. And you could talk about your T WAP and your V WAP.  Not not bad. Right. And you know, if it still can accept up here, this must be your kind of new value area. Oh, no, no worries.  Yeah, there's no problem. We're just looking at this this zone here, though, and trying to kind of figure it out what's going on. What's the order flow within the structure? Okay, so this is kind of where we dropped from here. And you can see it right in this little area here. And that's that's when the high on the retest back here. Okay, and then this is where it dropped from here, but we're above it. Okay, so you can see the drop in here, right? And you can see even the bounces off of that area here. So this is the zone we're in right now. In between this kind of 600 and 41 200 up here. Here's some high liquidity on the offer. Let's see the reaction is looking for some sellers in here. Maybe around 900, then we should get a drop to 700, maybe back down to 500. Okay, there's I'd love to see these sellers take these guys on at 960. This is just odd. I mean, there's it's selling up here. This is not really what we want to see. They can get squeezed so easily, but right back up into like this 41 150. We need to see the sellers down here. Okay, this is starting to look better. We should get our move now. Okay, so looking for bottom of the range here around 880. And then I want to see it move lower. Maybe 750 or 700 here. Yeah, I like this liquidity down here at 700. Again, we can also look at bottom of the range as well as a high volume node. So again, like looking at these different ways of visualizing the data, you know, in different patterns, etc. So we've got multiple traders here. Right? So a move down into here is kind of probable around this 8800 or 750 area here. Now this is where we want to see the selling now just looking for them to drop it. Okay, we got a swing low.  And then we've got it's a high volume nodes. So these are responsive sellers trying to trade it back down here. They back to a value area outside of value back to value. Yeah, right now I mean, I it's you're making a good point like, yeah, breaking some of these areas. But I mean, this is what we see so far. And, and, you know, don't don't forget, like, you know, this is the only time that we have during these webinars. So we're going to go through as many order flow examples as we can. You know, higher timeframe, lower timeframe, whatever doesn't doesn't matter. But you know, we can't sit back and wait for the higher timeframe move, we got to kind of cover stuff anyway. So yeah, I mean, you can look at your higher timeframe structure, you can start to line some of these things up, like this here, maybe you're going to get a pullback to something like that, you can or pull back to 600 right here. There's also a you know, kind of area where it kind of pulled back to already around this 200. And it's just trying to kind of figure itself out here. Yeah, okay, great. So it Lex, Lex it or something. Lex, okay. Anyway, it was kind of weird, weird volume in here, I have to say like, selling on the way up here like this. Yeah, and this is odd. Yeah, I don't I don't really like it. I meant I want to see the selling down here. And then I thought we had the break into the into these lower areas here. We're not we're seeing the selling up at the top top edge here. Okay, all right, Lex. Yeah, cumulative volume of Delta dropping to selling sell dots, sell bars. But we just made a slightly higher high here. So it's kind of weird stuff. Let's jump back to the SNP. SNP made it up to its 90 level here. Look at that. So sorry, I missed that. Let's see what happened here. It made it down to 75. That's it. And then it's been kind of back and forth in here is building out this huge kind of value area here for the day. Okay, as well as just, you know, trying to get a trending move here, it looks like it's trying. It's breaking these other trend lines, we've adjusted it a couple times. Right so we can get rid of those. Yeah, volume looks good in here, I like it is above this little structure as well. So let's see if I can make make it back to this kind of 95 level here, or maybe even 600 or 4600. Yeah. You know, and this this liquidity in here, the figure of course. So yeah, like I like it. Let's see it though, they really got to pick it up here, like this is kind of, you know, critical level here, the volume, it looks good. They need to pick it up to break it here. And then what we want to pull away from this over this whole volume area here, and to do that, you need to it needs to be on pretty big volume. See the move to 92 and a half. And the swings up here around 95. How are the other markets look? Let's look at that we haven't looked at the other markets here.  Just look at some other markets, what is the value of these areas, or these instruments in contrast or comparison. But we haven't looked at NASDAQ in quite a while. We used to look at this was our primary market to go to. And it's kind of struggling here. We're at the Russell Russell's probably Russell's not up. Not up. Alright, let's see the Russell can do it and see if they can it can lead the way here and break this on up. And let's jump back to our S&P. Yeah, our S&P made it to that 92 and a half. Still looking for higher here 95. Looking for some stops looking for a short squeeze like like 4600. Okay, let's just take a step back here now, you know, and look at the volume and within the structure again, same ideas here. And just just looking for the move to 95 right now. You know, they're pulling it away here on volume. And how are they pulling it away? Like pretty big volume dots in here. But these moves are not so strong. So they may it may pick up and it may like stream right up into 4600 really quickly here. So yeah, I mean, we've almost got, you know, we've got all sorts of icebergs getting filled along the way. But yeah, just just to move to our 95, you know, I would be taking some profit there. And and trying to let the rest run. And there's our 95. Okay, it's up to 96 96 and a half. So let's see if we can get up to 4600. Okay, everything's looking pretty good. Pretty good. Okay, we should see some squeezes here to I'm not stops are not being triggered here. That means sellers are still in it. Maybe we need to get it back up above like this kind of 4602 and a half and that swing. Now we can also take a look at this here and look at our bigger picture. Even even with this downtrend here, you know, we're seeing see it curl around here. We're looking for, you know, it being slowed down by the liquidity. And then the volume within these structures. And then now we're starting, you can see it. I mean, like, yeah, it's not bad, you know, looking for this move back up into 4600. It might even come back up into this 4610. And we'll have to see like if this down structure is going to hold or not here. We're at 98 right now. Okay, on a big volume dot. Okay, great. Let's see it can continue then. It's leaving away from this area here on on volume on size. So looking for that to continue. If it cannot continue, we look for it to return back to it here, right back to our 85 level. Okay, right back to where it broke out from here around 86 and our structural level. Also a pullback to this little area where it just broke out from at 92 and a half. Anyway, guys, just keep in mind, keep keep looking at the structure first, and then understanding the volume and the liquidity context within that structure. Okay, up at the top ends, bottom ends, even in the middle, you'll see like when price is going to move away from a high volume node or like, you know, a value area, it will move on on size to drive it away from from the from the middle. Alright, so no other questions. Then let's wrap it up. We've been going for about an hour and 15 minutes. Saw lots of different moves in here. Just a few notes that made earlier. Yeah, still looking for this very curious about this icebergs that we saw on the sixth. And also on Friday, which was the seventh, I guess. Yeah. And let's see if we can can get above those areas. And what are those areas? Let me take a quick look here. For 4720 or so. Yeah, something like that. 4700 here. That's where that big spoof was here at the close. Anyway, just keep it in mind. And and then our YouTube channel. So all of the Hey, hey, Tom, nice to see you in here. Tom will be having his own room here soon, everybody. So what, you know, Tom's taking a nice vacation for the holidays here, and we'll be back here soon. And he'll be streaming. It'll be a little different than these webinars. Tom will just kind of like be in there all day long. And when something pops up, he'll go he'll cover it, he'll go over it. It's gonna be a real treat real treat for you guys.  We can't really do that with the webinars. So what we try to do instead is cover smaller moves, bigger moves, you know, lower timeframe moves, micro moves, different markets, you know, whatever we can get our hands on to read the order flow with in context within the structure. And then and then take it from there. Okay, so yeah, yeah, really looking forward to it. And Tom's been doing a great job, as you guys know, in that futures room. So yeah, he'll be he'll be he'll be here soon. All right. The Oh, I just wanted to show you the YouTube channel. A little bit of changes in here might change again. Okay, I just did it very, very quickly. So I need to kind of bounce it off the team here. But I just did it for the heck of it here. Pro Trader webinars are now moved up underneath the bookmap intro videos. Okay, on these playlists, then there that under that we have selected webinars, then features and components, then order flow education. And then we have the recordings of the streaming daily discord webinars here. Okay, so there's nine in here so far. So yeah, we've been doing it, you know, a couple of weeks so far. Right? I'll upload today's in a little bit. So look for it in here. And it's right on our YouTube channel. Okay. All right, let's let's wrap it up. Thanks for coming, everybody. We'll do it again tomorrow morning at 10. And yeah, then Wednesday, we have J Trader Thursday, Scott Pulsini, it'll all be in here in this discord room. We're still trying it out. I know some guys really like it. Others don't. We need to kind of, you know, get a feel for it here about the webinars. Okay, the streaming though with Tom, that's going to be something very different. Like I said, he's going to be popping in and out when things are happening. So really, you know, should be really elevated education for everybody here. Okay. Yeah. Alright, guys, thanks. Thanks, everyone. And we'll catch up with you tomorrow. Same time.


Hi and welcome to the show. This will be the last regular show of the season and we're going to have a special one-hour show today I Don't know how to introduce this man. I'm having the show today. I really don't I've been trying to think of the words The he's written five books. There are many books about him television shows documentaries He's simply described as guardian forster for the game being old crime family and the game being old crime Family is pretty much the family of which most mob movies the godfather most of them Is about about the game being old crime family But if I had to think of one way to introduce this man would be this and I'm not quoting This is my own quote if you took all the characters from the Sopranos The good fellas of the Godfather movies Bronx tale.  Chaspalm and Terry From into a blender turn that blender on and pour that blender into a glass and that glass is drawn a light That glass is full of him because he is the embodiment of every character that you've ever seen on any mob show Documented John welcome aboard. Thanks for driving up here from New Jersey. Thank you. Appreciate it. You live in Audubon, New Jersey Yeah, yeah, no, I do. Yeah, that's it. So was that named after the original Audubon like James Audubon? I don't know you know And John I want to start right out of the blocks With your testimony in the gaudy trial which all of us in this room would have would have watched in real time How many trials did you testify in just to you justified into and in both of them There was either a quiddle or a hung jury if I correct No, no one was a conviction the other one was an acquittal a quiddle and I hung jury not a quiddle a hung jury And I read that when the jurors were interviewed they said well We didn't find his testimony credible even though the government when they went to speak at your sentencing said he was credible He was honest and he was candid I want to ask you do you think it was your testimony that was not credible or somebody got to the jury? Well, no, I don't think anybody got to the jury. Really? Yeah, I don't believe that what I believe is God his attorney said their whole Their whole case was based on blaming me and the father for doing all these crimes that it had nothing to do with the son and The jury believed I was way too violent. This is his attorney's version Believe that was way too violent for the son who's not violent at all to be able to control me So they didn't believe that he was intelligent enough to be able to control me which they were right I mean honestly the the messages and and and the crimes were coming through the father and The son was the conduit to me. So, you know, they do have a point and his attorney made Actually did that interview in Forbes and said that they just believe I was just way too violent for most of the guys in the street Let me just send her. I just want to introduce you Rob My co-host today and the person responsible for getting this interview going is my dear friend Rob Baldacci I promise Rob. I'm not gonna chime in every five seconds today And the message if he says there he passed the catch-up that means I'm talking to much talking too much I love you John first of all, thank you for coming up to me. Thank you It's a real pleasure to get to meet you and and for us to be able to have this exchange Talk a little bit about growing up in Queens, New York and how you ended up living the life You did for so many years a very violent life Working with the mafia working with one of the five Crime families organized crime families in New York, but you you know talk about your father a little bit the neighborhood and And how you ended up a life in a life of crime Well, my father grew up in the Lansing, Rivington Street in the low east side of man it was known as the hub for the mob and He was friends with guys like Vito Genovese. They were from those areas. Yeah lucky Luciano's cousin Blackie Who was a North Jersey guy, but had business in the city as kids with my father in the North Jersey? So he was around these gangsters and introduced me to these gangsters as a kid So I was exposed to him at three and four years old. I was with some famous gangsters and He was an outskirt guy. He was a gambling was a street guy We come from Albania, which was a closed-in country. It was a communist country You didn't a lot of people didn't understand the the culture of Albanians and the suppression from the Ottoman days So my father wanted me to be able to protect myself on the street And he was very he didn't care about education. He dropped out of school in the third grade He had a mentality of you know work on the street hustle on the street and Be a fighter to be able to you know not get bullied in a violent world that he grew up in his intentions were good, but What he wanted for me and what I did is I didn't stay on the outskirts of the mob like he did I didn't stay just friendly. I wanted to be the guy running things So I developed because of what he taught me to be violent He was a fighter. He was a boxer my uncles were boxes They were all gamblers and I'd seen violence in the house in the street from where we come from And I became very violent and became a fighter What was it about these mob guys that said that's that's what I want to be that's what I want to be like everybody Yeah, you know you're coming from a communist country that nobody has money, right, you know my family's all broke And you know, there's other neighborhoods surrounding my neighborhood I'm from Jamaica Avenue that you've seen some big money guys and then I go to card games down in your South Bronx behind an abandoned building in a garage underneath the parking garage was behind that that guys like Al Greco and and Very tough famous guy that end up getting life for murders We're friends with my father and and Blackie and handsome Jack and these guys were some of the guys from the Jersey crews too So I'm with these guys. They're driving beautiful cars back those days Everybody had caddies and convertibles and Lincoln's it wasn't so much the Mercedes back in those days and You know, I seen money. I seen suits.  You don't know. Yeah, you do know You're around stuff and you see who has power just by the way to move around And where's this money coming from John with drugs and what else where's the income coming from? Well, my uncle was a you know, he's very good card player he was the he was a dealer my uncle Harry and He would run those three card Monty games in the Bronx and he used to brag about Money bragging in a night made more money to Reggie Jackson.  He bragged that he's making more money to Reggie Jackson So that's just his cut. So, you know, that's from a card game. That's not from anything else He listed gambling loan shark in the drug business.  Right, you know, you had a hundred my father you say don't take the money Meanwhile, we wanted to my father shot. Can I curse?   So maybe my brother we wanted to be there all the time John what blows my mind is we've had this conversation for the last half hour We're waiting for the studio to be set up and you talk about being a great baseball player in high school You get it. You get a baseball scholarship. I mean, so You got away being this all-american kid baseball, you know the all-american sport to being enforcer for the the toughest crime family But what I want to ask you is how much money in a year when you were like in your 20s and 30s How much money would you be making in a year?  Is that what you said? Yes. Yeah, I never wore a mask never did a robbery with a mask and The people say why I said one of them knows me I wanted them to fear me and I wanted to know that I didn't have to kill him to rob him But if they came back I would kill him so, you know, I was secure with that secure the way I handled myself on the street and I ended up shooting Stevie and Stevie made a statement about money to get back to your question is He said I was the smallest guy in John's organization. I made 15,000 a month back in those days So we made millions, you know, we we had big money I bought a lot of properties and things like that talk a little bit about that some of your properties Just just to add credence to you know people, you know, when you talk about property owned the property It's a ten million dollar estate I had the lakes on it and built in pools and outdoor boxing ring a pavilion of three homes and Drive rate was seven blocks.  I know 1505 Aspen Drive Plainsboro 2192 Ashcourt, South Jersey South Brunswick had 78 brick road Cherry Hill 805 West Hillsboro 295 Greenwich Court So I bought buildings and houses and you know, and I got a good memory so I can spit out 491st Street I had two units there and I was on park So, you know when guys are questioning sometimes the amount of money we made I can just spit these buildings and properties out and You know, I own nightclubs. I had five nightclubs nightclubs. What kind of night? I owned a place kind of thing country music country music stampede in Florida American cowboy one and two I owned more that's more Raj. I owned illegal after hours. So, you know, I had a ton of businesses I owned clothing stores on my own It was called in Cherry Hill at the candy store Colony Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Yeah, Cherry Hill Park. So, you know, I had I I wasn't a typical also I bought businesses and I got involved in Illegal and legal so my illegal money went into my legal and that's how the government came after me They said that that was a clean of my money through my John in the early 90s You were doing International drug dealing in 10 different countries dealing with 10 cartels and you were bringing in the family Essentially over a million dollars in a month and this is back way back So these cartels are you telling me that you also worked with like I mean the Colombian cartel and the Mexican cartels Are you dealing with them with the high up guys like the chopper kind of guys? Well, you know, there's the Flores brothers that actually testify against choppers those guys did time with me So People that don't you know the the reach we have I had you know friends like that my friend Nelson He'll be coming out pretty soon He'll be doing some shows with me He's one of the bosses over the years from El Salvador MS-13 to to the Mexican mafia So these are personal friends of mine. These are guys. I know I I went on a run I was with the cartel in Colombia. They hid me and For people that they hid you they hid me And you know for people that want to look at Statements by guys like Ronnie one of truth. It was a captain again being a family his opening statement when he was talking against me was That I'm the I'm running the drug industry for the goddess and with the goddess He said it like 15 times on his opening statement, right? So that's a captain again being a family to doing the talking against me So, you know when people questioning what's accurate. What is it? They could go get the documents in the Florida case and see what he had to say Called me a loose cannon and a killer and you know some other Words against me, but these are their statements not mine Can we just roll it back just a little bit John in terms of Your how did you end up working for John Gotti and the Gambino crime family? How did that happen? Fat Andy Ruggiano was a captain in our neighborhood. He was Made by murdering and Albert Anastasia. He was the grandfather figure to me I grew up in his house around his family around his sons Albert and Anthony I was very close at that time with Albert more than Anthony Anthony does is involved in this genre a little bit with me And Albert was my baseball coach. We would box up at Los Battalion Hall. We were all fighters I did Jerry Cooney show people that don't know who he is. He fought Larry Holmes very right this fight Yeah, so me and Jerry did a show on his radio show about you know We were boxing at Los Battalion Hall in those days and then some of this stuff in this genre, but You know I work for them. I grew up with them I work for them and later on fat Andy ends up getting 18 or 22 year bid and Gotti senior ends up taking over the family as the captain and the boss in our neighborhood and but there was an assassination that that occurred and That was pretty much pinned on Gotti senior. Correct. Yeah, you know that Gotti got caught in the middle with some of his guys in a drug organization heroin Some of his guys got caught on tapes Paul Castellano wanted to hear those tapes. They didn't want to turn them over and Gotti used that and take advantage of Let's hit the boss. He was the excuse that if we don't hit him He's gonna hit us and my belief he was never gonna hit them He had a case going on at the time with Roy de Mayo He had another commission case that everybody got life on and Paul was involved in that He didn't have the ability to hit Gotti in them. He didn't have the He was it was too much heat on him at the time. So nothing would have been done to them He would have just shelved them God. He was smart. He knew that John. I got to ask you this question about Gotti Because we all watched him and if you watch any of the so-called Godfather movies Mylon Brando wasn't this You know bigger-than-life guy that Gotti. He was in the public eye all the time Teflon dawn He's a picture of a magazine. Do you think that was Harmful for him to be so much in the public eye like that become such a grandstand I think that was harmful to him. Yeah, I mean, it's a big mistake But I think some of it was intentional not just because he wanted the attention he wanted the protection of law enforcement and The media around him constantly where all the guy other families couldn't hit him back for him I think they're being involved in setting up to hit a Paul Castellano So I think it was in it was in one aspect was intelligent the way he maneuvered the media Law enforcement to actually be the second and third body guards from and on the other thing is, you know The notoriety killed him destroyed him destroyed the family destroyed the mafia and he ended up in prison He ended up in prison because his under boss Sammy Gravano gave him up, right, you know, Sammy Gravano end up Selling out, you know, he's got an excuse why kind of like your son did to me You know so when people don't know the history you have his son was an informant against me before and his team Captains like I just mentioned and Mikey Scars deal an auto the whole group of them Along with the banana family role testifying and giving information against them all been me. So, you know When when guys aren't loyal to you, you owe them nothing in my opinion I mean people everybody's gonna have their own opinion, but I was in a penitentiaries Sitting and fighting a good fight while these guys are all having lunch with the FBI and their informants So, you know, well, we're gonna talk a lot about, you know How you made the decision to say enough is enough. I'm gonna start naming names and But in terms of Gotti Yeah, he was sort of bigger than life. I mean even even up here in Maine We would we would see the news and and what is it with this guy? I mean he he was right out front. He was glamorous. He was how did how did you feel about him? I mean, did you look up to him as a This this is the best of Kosinostra That he he lived it Did you look up to him John?  It was very quiet and you know Al Greco who was quiet and you know handsome Jack and these other guys that were in the mob Were you know a different type of gangsta?  Yeah, they were soft He knew they were soft so he knew how to maneuver him He knew how to bully him around and how to control them all yeah, and they were weak He wasn't in a lot of aspects, and you know I use Sammy as an example He does a lot of talking now, but he carried the man's he's carrying umbrella for another man He's walking around like a like a puppy so all that nonsense You're not all about that because you're carrying umbrellas for this guy God he asked you to carry is a man. I was a kid. I looked at him more like a like a son You know he had me in his house sleeping in his house I'd be with them at different events and when people question that I was you because you're gonna get people question this There's videotapes of me picking them up at court this video tapes of me coming out of his house It's video tapes with me at the very tonight, you know and these are an era when there is no tapes and there is no cameras So you know I had a different relationship. He would say it you you know you're with the regime Meaning you're with the king. Yeah, are you about the same age as this son John? Yeah, I'm I'm the same age And you so you folks grew up in this in in the same house Sleeping over and and you get to know him and later on you testify against him at a court of law federal court Well state court. I'm testifying against a guy. That's an informant. That's the part It's like what whitey bulge it. Yes, people understand He's a guy that's an informant since 1998 he's bringing the FBI with him to go see his father There's no business with the FBI, you know when you're traveling around with them you give an information from your I don't know Anything to an informant so you know people don't understand There's a time frame here of when a guy's an informant when he's running around and he's dropping dimes on me and me Not just me the organization and his answer is well I was only ratting on my enemies or people I didn't like right, right? I mean ridiculous statements, but the Part that I try to tell kids is you got a guy whose father went to do life. Well, he was doing life He's an older man. He gets stomped on in prison His son does nothing to that guy that comes home a year later You have a guy who Samry Gavano to put your father in prison.  He's not a gangster.  That's why he was an informant. He was weak John We know that when certain soldiers go to Afghanistan or Vietnam They're their particular occupation like a Marine forward observer.     These guys are selling their own stories John talk you mentioned your work your work is an enforcer How many people do you think you you've been responsible for for killing? I mean again You know that questions asked to me and I give different answers depending on, you know, whatever I show when you're not really giving The audience and the people that are listening Facts when you're shooting people or somebody shoot, but we don't check each body, you know If then you got charges of this government when you're killing somebody I shot a guy in the head and I'll give you an example on a Bell Parkway into Bar Parkway Ricky Stratton and I'll say it by name so people know how to guy Larry Cuccarelli and some of his family members were with me They were driving with me when I did the work and the guy died a month later They didn't charge me with the homicide. I baseball batted another guy three bikers. I killed him. He was a vegetable They didn't charge me with that homicide. I'm not a Prosecutor I don't know why they didn't charge me on some of those some of them. They didn't have bodies I was involved with the good fellows Frankie Burke was my good friend his father Jimmy in the movie everybody I was good fellows. We hit two guys in Brooklyn. They didn't charge me with those bodies So it's very hard to say how many exactly but you got you know when guys are questioning that I tell them listen I'm not a forensic team. I don't stick around. I got guys like Angel Costelli He's dead who shot a couple guys with me and Joey Dank actually Joe.  I believe one of them is dead. I think the second guy's dead I'm not getting charged. I'm at the scene. I'm involved in the scene. I got hurt at the scene But he was the shooter. So do I know for sure these guys died? I didn't stick around.  I don't know how many those guys got killed So it's very hard to give that number. You know what number I do give is I was involved in you know, 40 something shootings So 40 something. Yeah, how did you pay your lawyers? You must have had a battery of lawyers, right? I had a ton of lawyers when when they started informing All the list of some of the guys that gave him more guys. I started hiring attorneys I kept guys like Richie Raybok for people don't know that was God. He's seen his lawyer. He gave him to me So he was working for me. I kept them on payroll for a long time There was a note that he was getting divorced from his wife Sylvie There was a bad divorce and she called me a cash cow in the newspapers The lawyers wife because she wanted the money that I was given Richie Richie hit it What you might pay for a retainer on a certain criminal matter What I mean depends on a good attorney my last attorney was Roy Black's office out of Miami Yeah, I gave my half a million how it's redneck was one of my attorneys half a million retainer. I gave so, you know But I have a team of lawyers. He's just one.  So, you know, I'm going for big money I went for a couple million and just in lawyers and investigators. Yeah, so when people talking about, you know, money That the money comes in Pretty good, but it's going out pretty good too. John as as Rob told you Rob and I had the last interview with F. Lee Bailey before he passed away. Great attorney and Rob was one of one of one of Bailey's best friends was Rob himself He wrote a book about the truth about the OJ Simpson trial in which his theory is which is somewhat convincing at least to me is That the Colombian drug cartel one of the Kill these two women for Resnick and Nicole Brown for not paying their debts for cocaine You mentioned in the book that one of your buddies stole some money from them from the cartel the Colombian cartel It's just all some kilos and they found his head on a spike or something like that Do you concur with F. Lee Bailey that it is at least possible that the Colombian cartel might have been involved in in the So-called OJ Simpson Nicole Brown murders Well, you know Marsha Clark, I believe was a prosecutor Yeah, and you know the problem is they wanted the media she could say what she wants But she wrote some books and they made some detrimental mistakes in that trial that people thought I was nuts because I used to follow that trial I was a big fan OJ Simpson and unfortunately a woman died in a young kid, but That glove did not fit him no matter what they say to glove didn't fit him forget about everything else in that evidence That glove was supposed to be a glove that was used at that scene of the crime that was dropped it didn't even close to fit in his hand They sent some excuse while he had arthritis and his head swole you could that glove didn't even fit over his fingers forget about this one So it to me. It's always a major thing If he did do it Maybe he had an accomplice would how come they didn't find out who we think then then you got the the officer at the time I figured his name.  Yeah, so there was a lot of evidence there to really question that homicide You know, it's supposed to be a overshadowed doubt that he did it and there's no way you could say that No one that glove didn't fit him Exactly and and yet yet and possibly had a second suspect there that nobody brought in So I've always said no matter what he might have acted funny He might have did some but people do funny things trust me because when I was in trouble and I was on the run And I was spending the millions of dollars You know the juries they they indict a ham sandwich, you know because you so These you get in a night So if you're a guy like OJ Simpson You're a black man in America and and I hate to pull a race card here because I do a lot of talks for inner cities And I don't like anybody use an excuse for themselves But he was a famous rich black man and LA doesn't have a great reputation of Prosecuting I would feel the same way as him.  That was one of the best best validations of Bailey's book that I can think of go ahead Rob. No, no what I was gonna say is with with social media now being so prevalent in our lives and people's fascination with Organized crime and the Mafia as a result of all the movies and Sopranos and everything I think you were one of the first John to to really go online to with podcast and YouTube and then you then that follows with Sam with Michael Francaise and Gravano and others and They've also in the case of Francaise and and Gravano I'd like you to talk a little bit about them because you know them both Francaise kind of dismisses you and in an interview that I see like you were you know He never met you and then then you get Gravano who you know made his Derogatory comments about you and I know when he first came out of jail you actually tried to help him I helped him. I gave him money. Yeah, he did a 40-minute tape about me. Yeah, he had the Stupidity because you're not too bright to say talk about him. I gave him three grand He begged me for money had no money. He asked me for help in construction. He asked me for help with Albans He asked me for help.  His best friend Frankie Chico got blown up in a car. He did nothing about it Bobby Borrella got killed.  He did nothing about it. I could go on Where's anybody believing the loyalty to this life? Where's this tough guy?    He's a dummy. I just so yeah They can put them on a show and they're like puppets they put the string and they can tell them what to do and say Because they're not intelligent enough to dance these guys I could dance all over these guys because I know they're not really about anything So when they're trying to believe and send a message to the people that they're in a mob world That are that like this genre, but don't really understand it and there's a handful of street guys and people that are not Actually involved, but they they do get it well They'll use their titles and I can use titles to Jimmy Burke wasn't a made guy He was Irish, but I don't think anybody in that mob world was really telling Jimmy what to do So when these guys are playing that card or Joe Watts was German I don't see too many people telling him what to do instead you got guys like John Gotti, Jr Has a title he ain't a street guy, but then he ratted on Joe when he says he was his enemy That's why I rather I'm kind of ridiculous statements of these guys and and who the fanboys that are buying into this So I can go with names like Maya Lansky. I'm going with Bugsie Siegel Like you go, you know so those numbers can do his names could continue These guys throw that title out because they try to bullshit people and I'll tell you about oh I sat with Tony Celerno.  Tell me where you do that. Where'd you do those robberies? People don't know what went on Kamala Harris is a vice president who was a dummy we know that whether you like or don't like is Besides but that's Sammy ground. She fit the political stage for Joe Biden in America right now That's why she's there only that and we all know that Sammy Gravano fit the stage for John Gotti senior. He needed him. He needed somebody he can boss around treat like a dummy Tell him to take the fall if he wanted to take the fall not that I believe that Sammy's version but if you want to be that guy then Would you do to get there?  Yeah, we'll bring Fats Allen who was a friend of mine who was a gangster was intelligent He's away from the life.    Yeah, that's what I got Have you heard the name? Do you know Gianni Russo who played Kahlo with the movie Godfather? Do you know him personally? I don't know person, but we we've talking on social media I'll bet now he has been interviewed and Because of your very high position in this feeling among the highest that anybody could imagine He was giving Without any hesitation Opinions on various things that have happened in the country And so I'm gonna give you some true or false questions where you can answer true or false things I don't want to decline for example the first question I want to ask him the assassination of John F. Kennedy was orchestrated or involved the mob true or false through She's gonna get Jack rude of to a false Jack Ruby was hired by the mob to kill leavey Lee Harvey. Oh, true Lee how are you ready for this one Lee Harvey Oswald was not the lone assassin as the Warren Commission said he was True, we couldn't even make that shot besides the miracle bullet, but good. Okay, the final one It's the final one Frank Sinatra his greatest protection as a human being actually came from the mob True. Thank you and the people that question Russo yeah is You know again, he's a smart guy He jokes and he doesn't answer them and he shouldn't answer them because these are idiots that don't even know what true What facts they don't even understand it and especially when you're playing at this level of what's all good about here I know a sniper that teaches guys in our armed forces to snipe so I know exactly we have these discussions there's only a handful of people that could have made that shot and On those angles it wasn't happening So, you know, you remember the technology back then what they knew back then and what they know now when the cover-ups so, you know again Some of the people that talk they talk without any knowledge and you can't stop that especially in this in this day and age Did you watch the movie the Irishman? Sure. Yeah, tell me what your thoughts were I Watch I had you know I on my show for people that don't know I have a podcast and yeah I had Jimmy Hoffa's driver on so he was involved with Maya Lansky was the next fight. He lives in Canada He's 87 years a legitimate guy.  He's a nice kid So, you know these situations are first-hand information. Yeah, when people question guys on first-hand information With no knowledge Yeah, yeah Talk a little bit about your I don't know how much more time we have but this is kind of flying by but You serve time in prison, how many years did you serve in prison? I served you know all together media if you listen to me to my last cases had six years. I did ten and a half on the last case Prior to that.  How many different prisons are in Brazil? Yeah, I had a good memory. I went to Bangu to in Brazil a couple grandeur in Brazil and Ari Franco in Brazil, which not an advocate group was ever in those jail So a couple grandeur was a little soft. What did you say? Not an advocate group has ever been in Ari Franco I up to that when I was there.  You're so below Terrain you have killings that go rapid. We have guns in there. We have machetes. We have knives So it's how do you sleep at night John? You get you get rains inside because have to have to fence it because you have catwalks above us You don't sleep at night. How long would you stay in one of these places? I stayed there two years and Seven months every minute is horrible horrible We just did a movie on it about Klaus's life story as the boss at Denmark It was a four-part series and him and guys from London guys were in jails with me from Italy from Turkey from Spain We're all friends still and you know, they got involved a little bit on the on the movie And how do you John? How do you survive? How do you survive something like that? I mean violence I got all my teeth knocked out when I was there just part of it If you're gonna be in the mix you're gonna get hurt I mean it's just part of it so when guys, you know, you got a lot of guys talking about, you know Guy hit you or guide us.  You're my height. You're not a big. I thought I was taller than you know John how how do you establish yourself right off the bat with these giant dudes that we see How do you what do you have to you have to knock a few guys out? I mean your aggressions everything if you hear some of the people who talk when you say he's very aggressive I mean, I'm listen. I'm the same guy, but I'm laid back.   You have to be so what do you have to do like take somebody out right off the bat Well, you don't have I mean when an incident happens You got it. You got to be aggressive. Yeah, you got to hurt them. You got to kill them You got to stab them up and they're just part of it You know if somebody shies away from that you're not going to make it through those jails I had guys like Klaus was 6-5 Justin Beck in the UK with me was 6-7 these guys could tell the stories for me. I don't have to tell them They were with me. They know how I act Jesus It's incredible. Well, I got I want to ask another I want to ask another Let me just jump in though at what point you you come back. You're out of jail. You're out. You're out You've done your probation at what point did you say? Okay, and look Do you have any regrets first of all what you did and second do you miss the life that you had? being part of organized crime Any regrets. Yeah, you know somebody asked me have a great on a show. I said something about I don't regret it They're misunderstanding what I'm saying. I can't regret my whole life because it's not possible Right and my sorry for a lot of things and my choices Of course I am did I reach out to people and victims of mine whether they were killed or hurt by me? Yeah, I Can't change that it was it was the road I took whether I like it or not the past is the past I got to leave it there That only do the right thing going forward. That's what I try to do. I work with a lot of kids I work with a lot of organizations. I try to be very upfront and and precise on the way I talk Factual, you know dates times addresses like I just gave right money that I had bank accounts I showed everything over the years Because you know people say well, he's embellishing these exaggerate not just me they say it about other people They say about Russo when people don't understand and they live in a little bubble like I said most of these guys never left Enable it. We're going to 30 countries 40 countries We're involved in a different level that these guys can't even comprehend and then you have guys like I said whether people know People know I don't really particularly care about the Goddy kid, but they know I like the father So if there's loyalty in that life, I got to show people Then why didn't you do anything about people hurt you for not as a gangster just as a son to a father, right? Right, so if Sammy was so worried about that He wouldn't be living in Arizona. He'd be here in Brooklyn if he wasn't worried about that excuse me He'd live where he loves it. So they're telling stories and nobody's questioning That's why these guys want me on TV But the second part of your question was what if I got regrets I do yeah regrets you do But do you miss it? Do you miss that life? The other thing and you know I am honest to the kids too and I have to be honest Of course, I miss it. Okay. I missed the power. I missed the money. I had tons of money I miss it, but it isn't worth it. There's two different things exactly. It's not worth it The suffering that we don't talk about today. We haven't talked about the health mental issues because the physical I could take How about the PTSD? How about the crying because I'm like everybody else. I'm a human I shed tears.  I missed their graduations I missed their you know when they were getting engaged or you know when one son just got engaged I missed a lot of things family members of mine passed away Cousins were killed on the street.  No one's loyal to me They stole my money while I was in prison.  They just named them all besides all the bosses I can name from everybody in different from Ralph and Italian in Philly and gas pipe and a little casey family out The boss of the little casey family prior to that that that that went bad So you got guys in every family Joe Massina wearing a wire So, you know when people saying what are you talking about whitey bulgy here in Boston Chucky Porter in Pittsburgh. What was it? It's treachery. It's everybody's every man for themselves Anybody believes any different for these kids that is selling a dream to these kids.    Is that what you just say? Yes. Yeah John go ahead. Yeah, well just cuz it's a great online But you're sure besides the money adrenaline rushes were one of the many things I live for I loved to fight Whether it was the cartel the mafia or anyone else the number of guys fighting against me never bothered me I knew that I'd be smarter tougher Crazier the adrenaline rush is something I run senior track and I run the hundred meter dash and people say what it is It's because the adrenaline rush lasts for a couple hours, especially if I win. So Were you actually doing any of those drugs that you were involved selling or were you just basically? Alcohol and the adrenaline rush were you doing some of those?   I mean as guys that use it and takes over guys that drink They drink too much. It takes over. I wasn't one of those guys ever was too much into athleticism and money So, you know, I never lost control on any of that. No, I mean did I ever try it? Yeah, yeah, I play around here and there would have go. Yeah, that'd be a lie if I said it But never to any extent of any kind of problem. I didn't do it every day. I do it once a month They do it sometimes I'm weak like I would drink alcohol. You drink every day. No, you know, I drink it Sometimes I don't drink for two months. Sometimes I drink three days in a row, but I never let anything control me like that And your children are they all pretty much growing up now? I have one son in prison He's in prison on Southern prison. I got two sons. What if I ask what he's there for yeah, same as what I did It was shooting shooting and a gun possession and again He didn't know the guy shot actually the guy came to a house That was bothering the owner of the house that used to live in the same house My son happened to be there and he came back a fault threatened them He said he was gonna shoot him He came back with his hand on there his shirt with a gun when he stepped up my son started shooting How long how long will he be there? He gets a he's been in about six years. He was He gets out of believe next year.   That was his answer like most kids would say to me and I go yeah, actually I wouldn't that's why I ruined my life Yeah, so but after he shot this gangster because kids are gangsta gang member gangsta They're right the first thing he did was right on my son So, you know this goes back to the same thing and I told my son well now you're in prison.  Talk about what you're doing now, John with kids And yeah, I know you're you're you're invited to high schools and I travel around the world Yeah, it depends on where I'm at. I've been in Kosovo. I was a guest with the prime ex-prime minister who I have High regard for he's a war hero with the Serbian Kosovo war I talked to kids in my country. I do one-on-ones. I talked to family members. We went to Switzerland I went to Switzerland. I did some articles in Switzerland on me Talking to gangs of kids that really you don't have too much violence in Switzerland But on occasion they had violence in Switzerland when they were stabbing each other and I went there I did a speaking engagement. I get involved in second chance programs. I was involved in speaking in Winslow Camden County I did three bids there where in a city kids I go to Brownsville with a friend of mine Dan Hello Dan, by the way, he's got two kids that were killed on the street. He's got one in prison black gentlemen we talk about keeping race and religion out of the streets and Get back to when kids are all playing with each other in the streets and no one cares what color you are Everybody's laughing and smiling they're being taught hate and we try to talk about the unity not division So I do that I do a lot of talks at college is a chief little you speak college I spoke at probably about seven different colleges So before you speak John and I'm getting to your question Before you are introduced do people like get to watch a Movie about you are here, so I mean do they just get I'm saying this guy used to be a bad guy And I was a good guy. I mean don't these people have to I mean Rob and I researched you have read this book and Know about you, but do they know your background when you first start to speak to these people? I mean, I went to Newark High School Yes about four years ago I believe and it was about three four hundred students in the auditorium when I stepped in the principal originally Wasn't gonna let me speak because prior to me the other principal was killed by mop But I'm up so I said to him listen Let me just go up for a couple minutes There was another guy that introduced me was also a black-eyed nice guy, but he wasn't a street guy he was more of a white collar guy and I says if you don't like what I'm saying stop me just give me a thing and I'll cut it after five minutes and He let me run for about 40 minutes because I went in and I said Basically, they gave me a small introduction.  I said, I'm just trying to load those numbers I'm not gonna get all used to listen to me But I said if I tell you about all the killings I did all the shootings I did all the years in jail I did and now they're listening Because now you capture what they understand today. I told you I wanted to get a call for your Dunkin Donuts to young kids You know, yeah, they think the images and they're probably nice kids They got their pants off the rest that we're in a hoodie. It's 90 degrees out So it's not because they're cold and I walk in and they want to be gangsters They think that's the cool look and they're hopping when they're walking and I smiled usually I bother and I'll say something I'll give him a card.  They're just lost. They don't know they think it's cool You know, they're the little girlfriends probably think it's cool and it's not, you know, that's not the image I have a friend Paulie and I just came home and Boston. I was with him last night. They're 27 years He met me when he was 22 years old in prison or about that and he's 45 now So he did a couple years prior to meet me and then he went back in and while he was in prison So people know he was a regular kid and this is what happens in jail He had a problem somebody wanted to hurt him bad and he ended up stabbing him up bad quote another 10 years And he did probably seven or ten years in solitary confinement. That's the reality the kids that I've run into today I like them to see him because that was him.   So I'm paying for it.   So, you know, maybe sometimes you reach some of them John I want to tell the audience folks if you go to Las Vegas one of the second or third biggest attraction out There's a so-called mob museum. It is absolutely fascinating and it talks about the legitimate aspects of your legitimate The good the bad and the ugly it's right there John have you been to that museum band of chance? I was a guest speaker at the museum and goodman is the attorney that why am I not surprised? Yeah And you know, he was the mayor at one time. Yes, he's involved with the museum my author George Anastasia wrote got his rules right also wrote a book with him about the mob and about his As an attorney for the mob and as a mayor and in Vegas. So yeah So a guard his rules by the way, you said it was the best seller Yeah, and you've got several books but at that museum.  It's what one of the best things I've ever been to I agree. It's actually beautiful museum. Yeah. No, it's not a dump No, no, no, this is their folks you form a very classy. So John if somebody goes there They're gonna see references to you in on several aspects of that museum. Yeah, you're all over that place Okay, yeah, because they do a lot with a game being old family and and the hearings before Congress and all that sort of stuff Did you ever testify before like a subcommittee or something? No, no, no, no, no, okay But everything else everything else yeah, I'm going ahead. We got a couple minutes. We got a couple of minutes I mean John talk a little bit about your platform And your social media where people who are interested in knowing more about you and your message where they can find you They can find me if you plug me in just my name on YouTube you'll find me at different shows But one of them is the mob the mafia and the man Yeah, I do a show with an ex corrupt cop Mike Dow. They changed his life 15 years in 15 years in prison. Yeah, he was from the 75. There's a documentary out about him also We do a thing and we hit every subject politically. There is from gay rights to Neurosurgeon was a very good friend of mine. I had him on the show to politicians I've had on the show to ballplayers from the New York Giants From congressmen. I'm gonna have on shortly. So if I have a very different aspect to gangsters I'm on my platform on Instagram is true John elite That's I don't know me if I got a pretty big following there I've done shows on Netflix fear city Classic yeah running right now folks on on Netflix on Netflix and John I'm gonna close by saying this In your books in your life in your life history if you sat down with the Netflix producer For like three hours, they would have at least 15 series of stuff in the prisons the stuff going this way I mean your life is quite incredible for someone that just literally hit the lowest of the low the rock bottom of taking people's lives and you certainly have you know the You pulled yourself up and and you're encouraging people to live live a normal life basically, right? Yeah, I hope I hope I'm helping and encouraging some kids I mean, you know, I had a bad life and you know, unfortunately, like I said, I can't change it But I can only move forward try to do the right thing Hopefully I reach some of these kids a lot of parents reach out to me about their sons and daughters Hopefully help them. I just had a 13 year old girl on my show with a mom that was stabbed up another girl tried to kill her and Innocent girl the other girl was a gang member So I try to reach out. I have a lot of guys from the street from my neighborhoods in the city kids black Spanish I have a kid that the real good kid at a south side of Chicago Bugatti that is a rapper that I'm involved with I you know I really push his message because he's a positive kid So there's a lot of young positive kids from my neighborhoods from the hoods that do the right thing and people want to reach out to me John elite calm on my website if I can help them or their family you also went by the name of John Aletto Yeah, when I was on a run and one of the times prior to that I had a hook and DMV and they made a new license for me because I was in trouble with something else and You know back in those days you can John one final question. Do you ever worry about your life? Yeah, yeah, this is gonna be a quick answer, but I got it one of my girlfriends time come kill me. Yeah I just move around life listen Yeah, I don't understand some of the people who walk around with a mask and everything I get it, you know They're afraid but that's not living, you know, you got to live. I live I stay in my neighborhoods John Thank you so much. I can't thank you enough for being up here Rob. Thanks for putting this together All right, buddy and folks thanks for watching the Derry Rummet show


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