Hello, everyone. Welcome to Options with Doug. Streaming live daily on Bookmap Discord and the Bookmap YouTube channel at 1.30 p.m. each time. Before I get started, I need to go through the disclosures. General disclosure, all Bookmap, the amended materials, information, and presentations are for educational purposes only and should not be considered specific investment advice nor recommendations. Risk disclosure, treating futures, equities, and options involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results. Here's my contact information. The best way to get in touch with me is through Discord. My name on Discord is Doug P. Also at Bookmap Discord, there's an options-dash-doug chat channel that's a great place to post questions, comments, and content related to the topics of my presentation and the topics of the channel that I'll go through in just a moment. And note there is a wide variety of content on Bookmap Discord, on a wide variety of asset classes, options, futures, stocks, crypto, also in a wide variety of languages, and presentations all during the day. I'm also on X, formerly known as Twitter. My name there is at Doug P. Here's the basis of my trading, the key tenets for my approach to trading. First of all, I believe that options traders and market maker options trades and market maker hedging activity are key drivers of price and many stocks and futures. And certainly in the equity futures like the SB500 and NASDAQ and the large cap tech stocks that I follow. And for the SB500, SPX is the underlying index and ES is a version, a derivative of SPX. And SPI is the ETF version of SPX. So when traders buy and sell puts and calls and SPX and SPI, market makers take the opposite side of those trades. They want to remain delta neutral. So they hedge their delta with ES futures. And for the NASDAQ 100, NDX is the underlying index. QQQ is the ETF version of that index. And NQ is a derivative of NDX. So again, when traders buy and sell puts and calls and NDX and QQQ, also the mag seven stocks will take a look at it in just a little while. Market makers take the opposite side of those trades and they hedge their delta exposure with NQ futures. The focus of my presentation today and the focus of the options dash Doug Chad channel is options order flow, the impact of options markets on stocks and futures and the influence of market maker hedging flow on price action. I have a two step process for trading and the first is planning and I use positional analysis. I look at how traders and market makers are positioned in the options market and how those positions change from day to day to develop a thesis regarding the expected trading range and volatility for the day as well as the directional bias. And the second step in my process is execution. I look at real-time order flow and book map and real-time market maker hedging flow and spot gamma hero to confirm my thesis and for setups. And when I talk about setups today, I will be focusing on an underlying asset. For example, for the SB 500 setups can be taken with ES futures, spy shares, spy options, SPX options, or even ES options. What's in the comments are welcome and I will be watching both the options dash Doug Chad channel as well as the chat and YouTube for your questions and comments. Please feel free to post. I'll do my best to answer your questions. And hello Steven and Iraq, Teddy and Mark using price and time method. Hello welcome. Glad you're all here. Thanks for watching. Alright, here's my agenda for today. Friday, March 1st. First of all, I want to go over news items, economic data and events for today. And then I'll go through my positional analysis. Then I'll review some setups from earlier today. And then I'll take a look at the live market. And when I get to the live market, if anyone has any stocks they want me to take a look at, please let me know and I'll be glad to do that. And also, I will try and demonstrate the trading functionality of Bookmap with a live trade. Not a recommendation. It will be just to illustrate the trading functionality within Bookmap. Alright, let's go on to economic data now for today. Alright, so there was some data released today. This is the ES futures in Bookmap. So the data today, there was at 945 a.m. Eastern Time, manufacturing PMI came in greater than expected, greater than the previous number, more manufacturing PMI data at 10 a.m. That was less than expected, less than previous. And then also Michigan consumer sentiment came out at 10 a.m. And that was also less than expected and less than previous. And here's the reaction to that data. Initial bullish reaction. Pullback. And then the SB 500 started to move higher and still continues to move higher. We'll talk more about that in a few minutes. Take a look at what was going on with the options market and also in the order flow here in Bookmap and levels that came into play. Alright, so let's go on. Let's go ahead and do that now. Let's take a look at the the levels. Alright, so again, this is the SB 500 futures in Bookmap. Let me check for questions and a rag ask. Since the data was bad, then why did the market go up eventually? Well, I don't know for sure, but I think in this environment, often bad news is good news. That means that the Fed may be closer to cutting rates if the data comes out bad. And that's what the market wants. The market participants are looking for the Fed to start cutting interest rates, right? Mark says AI stocks rampant. Yeah, so NVIDIA was a huge mover today. As long as NVIDIA is going up, it's hard for the NASDAQ and the SB 500 also to move lower. Alright, so let's take a look at the SB 500. I'm going to go on and move on to positional analysis. So this is the SB 500 futures in Bookmap, ES futures. And before I take a closer look at this chart, I want to step back, look at a larger time frame. And I'm going to go to the underlying index. I'm going to take a look at the underlying index of one day chart. This is SPX. Current rally began last year, October 30. And so far, SPX is rallied in the last four months up over 1000 points that shown by this purple trend line here. It's not showing the data. Alright, so let's move on again. That's over 1000 points. Alright, so that was a one day rally showing the current overall big picture. Now let's zoom in a bit sticking with SPX. This is the top end of that trend and a 30 day one hour chart. Let me just point out quickly the expirations for this year so far. There's the January expiration. SPX broke out above the 4800 level. Here's the February expiration. This is the monthly expiration, a little bit of consolidation after that expiration. And that's typical and a call dominated environment. And then Nvidia reported earnings. And now SPX continues higher. Note the call walls. I'll talk more about that in just a minute. For SPX this year, 2024 have moved up from around 4800 at the beginning of the year, all the way up to now 5200. Alright, so speaking of levels, let's take a look at the levels on this chart. Zoom in just a bit. Alright, so first of all, the dashed purple lines are showing the lower and upper weekly expected move. This is based on the options market. And this is based on the closing price last Friday. So I will update this over the weekend for the coming week. Alright, so again, this is based on the options market. And so far, SPX is trading still below the upper week, the expected move, the dashed blue lines showing the lower and upper daily expected move. This is updated once a day, also based on the options market. And I post this the evening before. So this is based on the closing price for SPX from yesterday. And note that now SPX is trading above that upper daily expected move. Alright, the other lines on this chart are spot gamma levels. These are proprietary spot gamma levels that are provided to spot gamma subscribers. And they're available on a variety of trading platforms. This is thinkorswim. I'm going to point out the key daily levels. First of all, here is the 5000 level. That's the absolute gamma strike. That's a strike with the largest absolute positive and negative gamma. So that's where most of the gamma weighted open interest is concentrated. And note that level did actually move down from from yesterday. It was at 5100 yesterday, moved down to 5000 today. Alright, the next level up is the put wall. And that's at 5040. That's right here. PW put wall 5040. That's a strike where the largest net negative gamma that can be expected to act as support. Next level up is the volatility trigger. That's at 5070.  Below that level, market makers position on the gamma curve is negative. And negative gamma environment, they have to trade with price to hedge their delta exposure. And that tends to enhance or increase volatility. On the other hand, above that level like SPX is trading now, market makers position on the gamma curve is positive. And a positive gamma environment, market makers have to trade against price to hedge their delta exposure. That tends to subdue or decrease volatility. And note that level did move up from yesterday. So it is, it was down at 5045 yesterday, moved up to 5070. And then most notable, the call wall has moved up to 5200. That's a strike with large net positive gamma that can be expected to act as resistance. So based on that, the level did move up from 5100 yesterday to 5200 today. And that gives the SPX more room to run higher the potential ceiling for price now has moved higher. Alright, so for SPX volatility trigger call wall both moved higher, the absolute gamma strike move lower down to 5000. Alright, let's take a look at one other SPX chart. Just go to a one minute chart to see the levels and play for today. SPX and one day chart. So it looks like this is showing about two days worth of data, two and a half days worth of data. So the dark shaded portions are the regular trading hours. So it looks like the current trend began yesterday, right around 1145, something like that 1135, and has is continuing today, this steady mechanical uptrend. Note this 5100 level that was the call wall that has been resistance for quite some time. SPX broke well, but broke firmly above that level now. So the 5100 level that was the previous call wall acting as resistance for quite some time. And now SPX is moving higher. Alright, let's go back to book map. So book map I have my own cloud notes. So I can show SPX levels. Here's that 5100 level that I mentioned before, that had been resistance in the past. SPX ES broke cleanly above that level. Also have spy levels on this chart. So here's the spy 510 call wall. So there's a pretty big difference in the call wall between spy and SPX SPX call wall remember still well up above at 5200. And now the SP 500 is trading above the spy 510 call wall. And we'll take a look at the absolute gamma strikes. And just a minute and see that there is a potential candidate for a new call wall. We'll we'll confirm that on Monday. But if this rally continues, it's likely that that spy call wall may move up closer to the SPS call wall. One other key level today actually. Well, one other key level is this spy 508.59 combo to level. And that comes from the spot gamma website. So again, I'm putting all these levels in my own cloud notes. So I can show spy levels, SPX levels as well as ES levels. So here's ES 5100. Here's the ES upper daily expected move. And then the 5150 level just above. And note there is a difference in price between ES and SPX. And today it's right around eight points. So I'm showing the SPX 5100 level at ES 5108. So the ES to SPX offset today is 5108 is eight points. So again, ES minus SPX at eight points. And I do post those index relationships that I'm using every day in discord. I was a little bit late this morning, I try and post the preliminary numbers by 9am. And then the final numbers right by the round 10am as the data settles out. Alright, we'll talk about setups in a few minutes. So those are levels of play for today. Very steady mechanical uptrend today in the SP 500. Alright, let's move on to NASDAQ. This is the NQ Futures and Book, ma'am. And let's step back and take a look at the underlying index charts for NASDAQ. I'm going to start with QQQ. Looks like I need to adjust these price levels. I'll do that later. So here the, you know, this is just an incredible, very mechanical uptrend spot gamma levels. Only one in play earlier today. And that was the call wall at 440. Right now, I forgot to mention for spy, all four key data levels moved higher. So for spy, the volatility trigger put wall call wall and absolute gamma strike all moved higher from yesterday. And that's very bullish. Alright, for QQQ, bullish hat trick volatility trigger put wall and absolute gamma strike moved higher. So 440 is the call wall and absolute gamma strike. Alright, let's take a look at NDX. And note that level was support earlier in the day. Good launching point for a long if you wanted to take a long before the 10am data. All right, let's take a look at NDX real quick and then we'll get back to the in Q futures. Steady mechanical up trend just like SPX began just after 1130 yesterday. And note the NDX levels have been corrected. I mentioned yesterday they were kind of wonky. I did not did not even write them down. But today they're back to normal. Alright, so let's see. And this 1880 that acted as support this morning. So this is the cash open right here. And this 1880 18,080. That's a combo one combining s, NDX and QQQ. Gamma we open interest into one level. And here shown in terms of an NDX price so combo one being the most important. Alright, so let's see how these levels line up on the index chart in the in Q chart. So you can't see the label here. But this is the this white line right here is the 440 440 call wall absolute gamma strike. And there's that 18,080 NDX level just above both good launching points for long this morning. And so I get I have my own cloud notes so I can show NDX levels QQQ levels. And also important levels for for in Q. Here's the upper daily expected move and light blue and the upper weekly expected move. So far NASDAQ shows no what no sign of slowing down. Alright, so those are the levels of play for today. For the SB 500 and NASDAQ. Let's wrap up positional analysis. First of all, take a look at gamma notional. We'll see how market makers were positioned on the gamma curve at the at the beginning of the day. Alright, so here's gamma notional. This is the data table at the bottom of the AM founders note. I'm going to take a look at gamma notional for the SB 500 NASDAQ Russell to and Russell 2000 note all these numbers are positive. And for an index, what spot gamma assumes is that traders are short calls market makers are long calls, hence the positive gamma. And they have to trade against price to measure their delta exposure. And note all these numbers did move up from from yesterday. Alright, so all positive. Well, let's take a look at one other thing. This is the absolute gamma strikes. We'll start with SP x. Let's just zoom in real quick. Alright, so what this chart is showing is call gamma or positive gamma, this market makers position for SP x call gamma positive gamma with the orange bars and blue gamma put gamma or blue bars shown that's negative gamma shown with the blue bars. Here's the 5000 level. And that is the strike with largest absolute positive net negative gamma. That's pretty obvious. There's that 5100 level again, SP x broke above that level today. And then here's the 5200 call wall. And that is basically the orange bar minus the blue bar. That's pretty obvious the strike with largest net positive gamma. Let's take a look at spy zoom in on this. And spy remember. Alright, so there's the 510 call wall. Remember, spy is trading well above that level. And here's the 515 level to me that looks like the next next potential candidate for a call wall. And that very well could be the case on Monday. So we'll talk about that on Monday. If the call walls have shifted higher, the spy call wall has shifted higher. And you can see that there's a huge difference between the orange bar and the blue bar. Alright, so based on the information that I just talked about, my thesis for the day was bullish. Remember, there were two shifts higher for SP x and especially the call wall shifted higher. And for spy, all four key daily levels moved higher, most notably the call wall up to 510. And again, I expect that could potentially move higher on Monday. Alright, so let's move on to move on to talk about some setups. Now, let me check for questions. Alright, JBG asked, could we analyze Nvidia today? Yeah, I'll take a look at Nvidia that's on my list. I'm gonna look at the equity futures first, and then I'll move on to stocks. Alright, so yeah, we'll get to Nvidia. Alright, so everything that we've looked at so far other than the book map is based on static data. Spot gamma takes open interest data that comes out sometime during the E during the night, they apply their algorithms to that data to come up with the levels that I've been showing. Now we're going to move on to execution, move on to real time data. So this chart is the hero chart hedging impact real time options. So what it's showing is options trades and market maker hedging activity, showing it for a variety of instruments here. This is the SB 500. So what this chart is showing is options trades and market maker hedging activity for a combined signal of SPX by XSP and ES futures. The white line is the price for SPX. And the purple line is the hero signal, a rising hero signal indicates that traders are taking positive delta positions. They're buying calls and or selling puts and a falling hero signal again, the purple line indicates traders are taking negative delta positions. They are buying puts and or selling calls. Alright, so this is the signal that I use for the SB 500. Alright, so let's zoom in on this chart now. I'm going to zoom in just a little bit. Hello, Caesar. Welcome. Glad you're here. Alright, so what I'm going to look at is a long setup. Notice up until 10am price was drifting lower. Traders were taking negative delta positions. And this started to move up right around 955. And then right at 10am when the data came out, the consumer sentiment PMI data, there was a huge block order in the SB 500 bullish. And I think that was call buyers. We can take a look at that in just a minute. Now it also the flow alert. Signaling significant options activity. Hero signal started to move higher. There was one pullback 10.05. Great entry point for long as traders continue to take positive delta positions. Alright, I'm going to shift to puts and calls so we can see what traders were doing with puts and calls individually. So I'm going to shift to that. I'm going to have to move to another chart to avoid the auto zoom. I'm going to go back to the SB 500, the zoom in again. Alright, so the blue line is showing puts and the orange line showing calls. So this shows net for the day. Traders have been buying puts. There's negative notional value there. They've also been buying calls call buyers more aggressive. And that's what that block order was a large order that vertical line large order call buying and they continue to buy calls. Alright, so let's go to book map. Go back to yes. The zoom in on the morning here. Alright, so here's the reaction to the data. And note before that. Remember yesterday one of these in between spy levels was acting as resistance. Today acting as support bullish reaction to the data initially pullback down to VWAP it looks like price did not quite make it back down to that spy 508.59 level. Good entry point for a long and then multiple pullbacks. The volume dots in book map are showing market buy minus sell. Magenta dots indicate more sellers of buyers. Notice down here a lot of magenta dots. Those are again market sell market buy minus sell magenta dots more sellers, green volume dots indicate more buyers than sellers. aggressive buyers start to come in cumulative volume delta shown by the dark blue line starts to rise. And then as price starts to move higher, buy stop orders help to fuel that move higher that's shown by the rising yellow line. Also the on chart indicator there. So this rally that began I guess started up again right around 10am fueled by call buyers and also buy stop orders. It looks like I need to add more spy levels. I thought 512 would was going to be high enough today. I'll have to adjust my chart. Alright, so the rally continues fueled by buy stop orders shown by the rising yellow line as well as call buyers. Alright, let me check for questions. Alright, olgq ask how but how book map is good on a crypto market. And book map is does have crypto data. A lot of crypto traders I do not trade crypto. I don't know anything about it. But it is very useful for crypto. I suggest you join book map discord. And there is a room specifically for crypto and also presentations specifically for crypto. Our Pharaoh was asking about the block trade. Yeah, that's a feature of hero at that vertical line indicates a large block trade. Alright, so trend uptrend continues. Let's go back and take a look at hero. So we know that today stop orders by stop orders fueling the move higher. Also large traders are fading this move with iceberg orders that shown by this falling light blue line also the negative number here. This is cumulative for the day since I open book map around 640 am. Alright, so let's go back to hero. Let's see what options traders are doing. Alright, so they continue to buy calls shown by the rising orange line. This is pretty large. Notional value positive 6.1 billion compared with the notional value for puts minus 1.3 billion. Alright, so call buyers much more aggressive driving price higher. Or let's take a look at NASDAQ. For NASDAQ, I look at this mag seven signal. Let me zoom out show you what this chart is showing. So what that chart is showing is options trades, market maker hedging activity for the stocks known as the Magnificent Seven, Apple, Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, Tesla, and these stocks are key drivers of the NASDAQ 100 that make up a large component of the NASDAQ 100. And I found recently that this hero signal provides a much, much better signal for the NASDAQ. Alright, so this has been bullish all day. So this is showing for the for the mag seven stocks that traders are buying calls shown by the rising orange line. They're also selling puts that show them by the rising blue line. Alright, so let's go back to book map. Go to NASDAQ uptrend continues. Alright, let's go check hero again. Alright, hero zoom in just a little bit. Notice, initially for five, several between five and 10 minutes, they were selling calls that may be right around 937, 938. They started buying calls again, started selling puts, blue line, orange line moving in the same direction. That's a very powerful directional indicator. Market makers when traders buy calls and sell puts and stock, market makers take the opposite side and they have to buy stock to hedge their delta exposure. And looking at this in terms of the NASDAQ, when, when traders are buying and selling these puts and calls, market makers are also hedging within Q futures. Alright, so the move up started somewhere between 935 and 940. So traders were buying calls, just a few minutes after the cash open. Alright, so there were long entries. Remember this white line, right here is the QQQ 440 level, and that is in Q18,100 just below that initial entry point for a long next entry point. If you wanted to trade before the 10am data, the 18,080 C one level combo one level, then if you're looking for a long after the cash open, it looks like point of control there might have been a good long entry. Pull back to QQQ 441, just like just like DSB 500 rally and NASDAQ also driven by call buyers and buy stop orders. Let's zoom back out. And it looks like I'm gonna need to add more QQQ levels to my chart also. So I'll do that over the weekend. Alright, so in the case of NASDAQ, cumulative volume Delta rising as well. Now it looks like large traders are getting on board with iceberg orders. So at this point, in the Mag7 stocks, traders are buying calls and selling puts, cumulative volume Delta, so aggressive buyers are buying NASDAQ, my stop orders fueling the move higher, and now large traders are buying with iceberg orders. JBG asks, how does Moomoo compared to book map? I don't want I'm not familiar with Moomoo. I don't know what I don't know what that is. Alright, Ferris says SPX already weekly call wall. Alright, so their SPX is not at the call wall yet. The call wall is now at 5200. I don't know if you're talking about the the upper weekly expected move. Two different things. So the upper weekly expected move is still up above, right around 5150. And the call wall still up at 5200. Let's take a look at some stocks and then we'll get to the live market. Alright, while I'm talking about NASDAQ, I do want to follow up on something from yesterday. This is from yesterday afternoon. If you remember, I was talking about a long setup in NASDAQ looking for a long setup right around this 438 level. This is the this is 430 the end of my session yesterday. And I went over about five minutes looking for a long at that level, just trying to illustrate or show the trading futures features in book map. And this is the illustrates part of the difficulty of live trading during a session. It really took 45 minutes. This NQ finally didn't take off until around 315. So again, that kind of indicates the difficulty of trading live in my session that trading futures especially requires a large amount of patients waiting for just the right setup. Alright, so that's a follow up from yesterday along at 430. 438 took 45 minutes to really play out. Or let's take a look at some stocks. And then we'll get to live market. Alright, so here's Apple. Let's take a look at hero. Let's go to Apple. And I'm going to focus on the morning session. That's, that's mostly when I trade. Note that 180 is actually the put wall. Also the key gamma strike in the hedge wall. Good entry point for short this morning. As traders were selling calls and buying puts right around 1215 looks like that reversed. And now Apple is making its way back up to the 180 level. Let's go take a look at book map. Alright, so there's the short this morning at 180. Then just after 12, Apple makes a sharp reversal higher. As traders start a buying calls and selling puts. Alright, the next stock that I want to take a look at is meta. Alright, let's take a look at something for meta here. Give me just a moment, crack this screen over. This equity hub for meta. What I was looking at is the looking for a potential call gamma unwind. So looking at next X free gamma percent. So this is the gamma that expires. And it shows the date. So for meta, 30% of gamma was expiring today is expiring today. And anything over 30% is significant. So looking for a potential call gamma unwind. This chart is the composite view chart showing green area the green area showing call domination green call domination. That's above the 480 strike put domination below. So I was looking for a potential move lower in meta. If traders started selling calls, meta move lower the calls up above 480 here that are expiring today start to lose value due to charm. That's just changing delta as time passes. And market makers, when traders buy calls, market makers sell the calls, they have to buy stock as their delta exposure. When those calls start to lose value of their delta exposure drops, and they can sell their long stock edges. So that's a potential that I was looking for. And it looked like that may play that might have played out. Let's zoom in on this a little bit. So in the morning, making for a nice long setup, traders were buying calls. Note there were some good pullback entries. If you were looking for long, they were buying calls and selling puts. And just right around 1010 1015 options traders took their foot off the gas. So they stopped selling puts and stopped buying calls and actually started selling calls again around 1010 as price moved up above the 500 call wall. Alright, so let's go back to book map. Let's zoom in on this. So here's the we'll focus on the morning here. Long setups on the pullbacks that were shown with the call buyers temporarily taking their foot off the gas, pullback longs. Price makes it up to the 500 level. Let me zoom in a bit more. Alright, so I was looking for potential short. After after long on the move up to the 500 note also the liquidity at that level. Book map shows a history of the limit orders in the order book. This dark red shade shading indicates there were large number of cell orders. There's a limit cell orders often act as a magnet for price. So initially, when price hit that 500 level, met a move down about two points. And then finally broke this trend line. And for that was good for another short from 500 to 498. And that's all that was good for just just a couple of scalps. Alright, let's move on. Oops. Alright, price consolidated for a while. Let me just go ahead and zoom out. Then every then started move higher, and then broke above 500 after, let's say around 1245 something like that. Alright, so good long in the morning, short scalp and then long again in the afternoon. We'll see what options traders are doing back to the entire day. So right around 1230 they started buying calls again, maybe 1250 price starts to move higher. Alright, Nvidia the last one, then we'll get to the live market. And note for Nvidia 800 is the call wall key gamma strike. A couple of flow alerts in this morning this morning. So traders are buying calls shown by the rising orange line and selling puts. And also Nvidia has breached this call wall. So what happens then those calls are concentrated at the 800 level. Remember, traders buy calls market makers sell the calls, and they have to buy stock to edge their delta exposure. So they are short calls. And as those calls at the 800 level go deeper in the money, their delta increases, market makers have to continue to buy stock to hedge their delta exposure. Let's go to book map, go to Nvidia, and Nvidia made a sharp move up to 820 then consolidation. And let's take a look at go back to hero. So no call buyers took their foot off the gas right around 1130, then around 130 they started buying calls again, book map 1130 at the 820 level, call buyers take the foot off the gas, then they start buying calls again. Let's take a look at one other thing. Let's go back to hero. I want to compare the Nvidia signal to the mag seven signal. So remember this key turning point right here somewhere between 935 and 940. Go to the mag seven signal. There's typically a very, it's a very similar chart. Key turning point. Same time. So between 935 and 940. Nvidia drives the mag seven stocks, which drive NASDAQ. All right, does anyone have any stocks they want me to take a look at? All right, let's I want to take a look at let's see WRB wants to take a look at Tesla will take a quick look at Tesla. So kind of a choppy day in Tesla here. Moving higher in the afternoon with everything else. Looks like call buyers. Alright, so the rise for the SH for CME by 300. Okay, WRB, there's Tesla. Let's take a look at NASDAQ looks like the options traders taking the foot off the gas. Let's take a look at in queue. Alright, so and a rag gas. Can you suggest what the market may do now using hero? Not using hero alone. I'm looking at when I'm trading, I have three screens. Let's just take a look at this. This may be a potential short. So I'm going to this is demo. So I'm trading in a demo account. Let me just talk quickly about trading and book map. So again, this is demo. This is not a recommendation. This is just to illustrate the trading features in book map. Alright, so first of all, to trade in book map, you need book map global plus, so you need a global plus subscription, and you need a data feed. So for futures, I have rhythmic data. And that's what the stops and icebergs add on indicators are using the MBO data. Also, you need a broker account for futures. I trade on trade of eight. And there is that there's often a lot of confusion about trade of eight trade trade of eight users seem to want to use data provided by trade of eight. I do not recommend that I use rhythmic data I subscribe to rhythmic data from the book map marketplace. And then I use the trade of eight connector. And using that I mean, I can't get an arrow in and show that. So here are the connections I have my trade of eight connection turned on. So I can trade in my trade of eight account show the trades on book map or I can trade a book map and show the trades on my trade of eight account. So slow to Rossi, I'm not sure if this selling may be short live. Alright, so now going on to the trading futures and features in book map. Here's the trade control panel. And I like to trade on the chart. Also, this is a very handy feature in book map. You can select micros if you want if you want to trade micros from the NQ chart, you can do that. That's what I have selected here. So I can trade the full mini contract or micros. A lot of people like to trade. MNQ that's the micros for NQ makes it more accessible for people. And then the way I trade is I will start with either one or two contracts and I will double click so I can move and I'm also using the bracket order. So I once I click, I have a stop loss order and a take profit order. If I double click, I that puts twice the number of contracts that I've selected in my order and I can then adjust the take profits and stop orders as I see fit and note that I never move my stop orders higher. Let's take a look at ES see what's going on in ES. Let me just show a trade from earlier today. And this was a very simple countertrend trade just before noon just before I was going to leave for launch. Again, just to illustrate the trading futures and features in book map. I did notice there was a little bit of weakness in the hero signal. This is the upper daily expected move. So here again, I'm using the micros just to make this more accessible for everyone. One contract, double clicked here, sell order at the upper daily expected move. Also that liquidity in the order book. And then the way I have my bracket set up, both take profits were right here. I moved one up just above the 511 level. That's right here. And then the other one I initially moved just above the 515 level got a little bit impatient. I was ready to go to lunch. So I moved it up just a bit. And I could have waited. But I got filled that I entered short at 2850. And my first take profit was at 2625 and the second take profit at 2450. So that's using the trading features, the trading control panel within book map. Alright, so this is from earlier today. Just a counter trend short. And it certainly does not seem like that would be a good idea. Now, let me just check one thing to see where the 513 level is. Right? So yes, trading above the 513 level now. Alright, so this pullback was another just another potential entry for a long. Same for NASDAQ here. Just to pull back to 350 potential long entry. Alright, let's check hero, see what options traders are doing. Let me just remind you when I am trading, I'm looking at three screens, totally concentrated. The screens are book map. In the middle, I have hero on one side, and my trading platform trade of eight for futures on the other side. Here, of course, I'm only presenting on one screen so I can only look at one screen at a time. So that makes it much more difficult to place live trades.  What I'm going to do is set up a buy stop order. So I'm going to do a shift, double click this down just a little bit. And this is not a recommendation. This is just to illustrate trading futures features and book map. Drag this down a little bit more. So I'm looking for move higher stop field. I probably would have been better to wait for wait for a test of 350. My stop is below 350. I'm going to set my first take profit 10 points up. Again, this is just for illustrating the trading features in book map. Alright, so my my time was pretty much up. I just wanted to go ahead and enter something just to illustrate these features again. So what I did, I double clicked, I have one contract trading micros, then I have my stop 10 points down below. And then I dragged my first limit order, take profit order 10 points above my entry point. Looks like I'm going to get stopped out. Stop filled. Alright, so again, that was not a recommendation. That was just to illustrate trading features here in book map. Alright, we can try that one more time. Ideal entry point. Let's do a quick check on a shift. Double click again. Stop filled my take profit down right on top of that liquidity there. And for us to ask what is the bands that is that past liquidity? Alright, so this everything to the right of this line right here. This is live. So this this is live liquidity. These are live orders moving up and down. Alright, so it looks like a trend break short here would have been a better would have been a better trade. Alright, so it looks like I'm going to get stopped out again. Alright, everyone, thank you very much for watching. Thanks for your questions and comments. Stop filled. Have a great weekend. And I will see you tomorrow. Thanks again. Bye


This is all about the highlight reel of like this What Alex did this week to guide you guys and this is how you executed and our members are absolutely becoming Beast mode so guys Monday the 17th I'm gonna go through some quick examples because again if I did every example These videos would be like two hours long if I showcased everybody's P&L. So really quick guys I cannot make this more clear if you have any questions during this or after Obviously you can reach me on the website to book a call or you can go to two one three four five eight five nine nine seven But let me kind of show you what we do. So we're going back to Monday the 17th Obviously, this is the Monday of this week. You scroll up here. You see the date ATXI was one of the ones that I do want to highlight because this is MIC process every day guys So this is the watch list. So this is a screenshot of Monday and I have this for every single day So all you got to do is realize that every single day. What are the levels? What are the lines that multi seven figure your trader Alex Tamiz is guiding you on a daily basis a morning basis? So an early am basis. So in the day in the morning, okay, this is what's happening. It's up What are the lines ATXI looking for a short at 370 to 420 with a stop guys? I draw this out Are you kidding me like if you literally and look we don't want to breed sheep at MIC We do not want you to follow us and just copy blindly You should be doing this yourself and using as a guide, but are you freaking kidding me right now? And that's just one example guys. I can go through a million I just think that that's such a perfect example to showcase and that's what happened on Monday Unfortunately, Alex had some technical difficulties and he totally Forgot and and or couldn't get his his P&L and his charts up So I'm just gonna showcase the members on Monday, but I have the rest of the week for Alex Which he had a pretty decent week. I think it's around like six grand, but let's take a look So if we dive right in There's a lot of members that I'm actually gonna double up on this week And I'll show you why as we go along, but let's start with David here dude ATXI exactly a plan Look at this. Look at this. Just following MIC watches, baby 370. I love it Waited for the outermost line. He didn't hit down here in FOMO didn't hit right here He hit where he should frickin hit awesome job, David. I love it. He's getting really good rock mon lace Just hitting it hitting it low-hanging fruit awesome job and confident and and actually really good on exits That's a phenomenal exit. Um, Gil awesome awesome job on iMux perfect short right there Follow-through is great to the downside great short ATXI guys again members waiting for the perfect line crushing it paying themselves on the dip Shaking their hands of it and guess what trade one hour a day and you can have a career in this That'll supplement and or replace your income for the rest of your life as long as the stock market's here guys MIC process is gonna keep you profitable and consistent Hooper X. I have peppered an absolutely seasoned like Cajun chicken a jerk chicken all throughout this Kind of video that I'm gonna put up for you guys because this guy I want to showcase the most this week He is not only mastering our lines and the entries, you know, so to speak because we're really Really heavy on good entries in MIC and we're really heavy on scalping So we're really heavy on you waiting for a good entry Then once you have that good entry, you're gonna have the confidence to take that money Take the money and run get your scalp do that a couple times a day and brother or sister You have a full on trading career. So Hooper X is just crushing it with these outer lines. Look at this man And in fact, I wanted to showcase this one because look he even admitted He's a little early on this one So the one that he didn't and this is a break even trade because of it How do you just waited for his outer lines, which he usually always does this is what happens Now let's go into travers travers is the scoop king scooped it right here Sold all these pops paid himself all the way up.  Awesome job soy sauce All right, we're coming into Tuesday Here is the watchlist guys. I'm just going to keep this up real quick My phone number down here if you have any questions So alex made about four 4100 He goes a slow day turn into something awesome today morning started off with dwac Pump and dump then shorted arm it into the failed v-walk bounce and ended the day on kprx nail and bail So let's take a let's take a look at a couple of his trades. So He was talking about dwac that pump and dump. We will absolutely pull that up. What is this? The I think there's the 18th. Yep Tuesday the 18th. So let's pull up dwhack dwac I'm sure you guys remember this very very popular stock recently in the last year So we're going to the 18th just look for the date right here guys scroll in the 20 day. We are right here Um, we get the pump and dump alex hits it perfectly covers as you guys can see how quickly money can be made That's the first one. That's just pump and dump make the money now. Let's go to our med um, I love this one so One sec. Let's pull this up. We are going to 18th, which is this day right here So it's up on essentially quote-unquote day one right here after hours I always kind of incorporate as a day one It's up pre markets higher lows higher lows has some failed follow through into the open And alex followed it down once topping started to be set I love this trade so much and he started a little bit in pre market But let me tell you something guys He added to a winner paid himself on the way out Hit this follow through on the way into the open and covered the wash in the open Down to about 690. This is is clean as trading gets from starting in pre market And actually coming into the interday with confidence of paying yourself a little bit to cushion And then again just doing follow through, you know, this thing was overextended probably too much It was showing signs of weakness into the open nail and bail take your money Did alex think he would probably go, you know into fives no or he would have held You know, but that's trading you take the easiest money that you can you take the quick money Now let's go to kprx We're going to 18th.  Why not man dual income? So I love that, right? All right, let's scroll in trend supporter absolutely phenomenal on lace outer lines covered paid himself on the way out then Um, just kept covering out. I love that. Um, which I love everything So if I say I love something guys, you know, I love it all Rockmon outer lines pre-market then coming into the open Unbelievable job. See one of the biggest lessons at mic guys is where did the stock fail? Okay, now that you know, sorry this mouse moves over quick When a stock fails at a certain level and then it goes back up to that level It's a ceiling. So as you can see these two little short arrows right here He is so banging on the entries it failed right here. It proved it. He's not hitting in here He's not hitting in here. It failed here. So where does he want to hit it again? Right there. This is the bow method every this bow's legacy David on arm edge so freaking clean. Look how clean that is Hooper X again, just follow through. This is exactly what the plan was on arm ed. Alex was talking about it Um, he was talking about coming in the day He said potential hot chick will wait to see what this does close to the open and that's exactly what happened guys Like I said, you know, that's why I didn't read this first to confuse you What happened was is as Alex writes this in the morning by the time the morning kicks in You start to see these lower highs or this failed follow through and you go wait a second Now it's changing and then as you go through the live commentary within the chat You can take this and go well, this is not a hot chick anymore for x y z or abc reasons Now there's live commentary of guys that this is breaking down like we're offered a short You know, we are now offered a short edge I'm gonna I'm gonna go into this like I'm gonna start into this or I'm a size in so That's exactly what the members were doing based on one of two things and or both Watchlist and or updated live commentary near the open because you can see how early You know an hour before two hours before sometimes the watch list is Hooper X outer line killer Absolute killer again killer. I might do this guy's all this guy's all over it Trent Long 22 year old making 900 bucks a day. I love it I think that's his rough numbers David I had to showcase one stopout bunny because this is so phenomenal You never know how far a stock can go and let me tell you something guys when you're wrong Just cut it. Just cut it Soy sauce coming in 600 bucks awesome job such consistency The the the dudes on it. I don't know if he's a kid I don't know if he's growing adult with the dudes on it, you know So we're coming into Wednesday guys Let me pull this up for you. Let me pull up what alex was talking about what he was trading It's always good to showcase alex every single week. I'm a big proponent of this because he's our best And uh, he's our best case starter at m. I see you guys and he's the main mentor that is teaching you So I think it's really good to showcase what he does so alex um Made 300 always didn't say too much about it. It was just it was really simple You know plain and simple sober potential day on the watch this potential daily chart breakout runners So ignoring unless a big fail at the open more commentary close to open So remember what I said guys these are written really early So as you go throughout the day all of the commentary to come back And to even compliment the watch list is going to be in the open So alex makes you know really quick scalp of $300. Let's take a look at what he did sober on the 19th, which is Wednesday Uh, we are actually giving a webinar on this. That's why I still have Links and things on this me and bow are giving a total webinar So, you know when by the time alex writes this it totally craters pre-market It comes back down to remember what I said guys remember what I said What rock mon did in that last example when a stock fails Where do you want to keep hitting it bow was all over this chart here here here here because that's where it proved to fail And then you get this midday absolute crush, but that's sick, right? So alex is hitting in the morning.  Have we simplified this? Nj awesome job. Just follow in process. Where did it fail? Okay, I'm gonna hit right there. Um, David Like guys, this is not rocket science. We teach our members exactly what works Hooper x back on imux outer lines just a just an absolute killer travers You're the scoop master and I respect you for it, buddy. So again guys in m. I see we do not just have Short trading travers is scooping this he is getting in here. The first one was a cut I love how fast he's able to cut when he feels like he's wrong tried again Awesome victory nice reattacked great job. So he saw us coming in for another 600 love it Bow like I said guys This was the sober example We gave a one to include this because this is what we did during the webinar The top is set wait for the top hit where it hit where it previously failed cover hit again Where it previously failed so here to here here to here and then this one based on this one And then this one based on it like guys it can be that simple Then bow is using the three dollar whole and half dollar line During the webinar late day. So you guys can see how simple it truly truly can be and alex makes 300 dollars Um, let's go to thursday. So we're coming on the 20th I Feel like I feel like maybe I should go audition for actual esp Get up there with charles barkley and shack now Is this good commentary? Do you guys like these videos?  I'm just trying to lay it down for you guys and make it as simple as possible. So We got to reiterate these we got to reinforce these good habits guys You got to see this stuff up to date every single week to keep your mind going You got to constantly evolve and learn so coming to the day on thursday 2.5k on a slow day I felt the it's to trade more but modern rock reminded me to take what the process gives me And to not be greedy. So I will take the profits and run today alex makes a quick $2,500 guys and uh, I have a silo trade. So let's take a look at this. This is so sick alex said giant tank pre-market would love a bounce to vwap to short now. Let's go look at silo Uh one second and we will look at amp x as well But let's take a look at silo real quick So if I pull up silo in the 20th Uh, this is exactly what alex was talking about like how disgusting Is this stock guys how disgusting is this? So alex basically got in the pump and dump and covered on the way down And you guys have to understand this is this is even before the open like he crushed this pre-market He absolutely freaking annihilated that and as you guys can see that's kind of the second You know this pops a little bit, you know, I'm on a three-minute chart So it might look a little different than one, but he absolutely smokes this nails it Great scalp great trade and then the amp x trade right here Um to kind of compliment Well alex was saying his potential hot chick Uh continuation plays so waiting for us for some sort of top to be set first before I get involved Nail and bail only guys. We're only trying to scalp this stuff More commentary at open will add to the watch list shortly and I think he did add to that But let's just take a look at this real quick for the sake of time. So now let's pull up amp x Um real quick the 20th. So we are coming in right here. Like he said continuation plays so day one on the 19th Day two right here using the red to green line. How unbelievable is that? It's just such a simple process It's up where to fail before. Oh, where are we actually looking to hit this? Where the hell do you think we're looking to hit this right here? It failed here the day before like I had to scream at people how simple this can be and again guys coupling factors So because this was the high I'll draw it out for you. I'll draw lay it down for you guys How simple you know where the short is it's there the mountain ranges the tops Where do you actually really want to look? Oh, well, let's see 11 is a whole and a half dollar number. How important is that very important? So guys, that's how simple it can be Alex lays it down every single day every single week if you guys aren't getting it by now You either haven't joined m. I see where you're not watching the videos. You're not reading the watch list So you guys got to read this stuff.  So like again wolf doing exactly what making money guys like Like it's so comical and laughable How simple we have laid this out for members to literally change the scope of their lives financially Like just read the watch list just execute properly hyper x just use the outer lines You know, it is that simple. No, obviously guys, there's a level of risk associated with everything There's a level of uh hardship in the sense that yes, you have to risk money for a living But when you have a roadmap and a blueprint like we lay down for you every single day It really really really takes the edge off nj and px Amazing following watch list. Oh, let's see what alex was doing on a thursday He was looking down and watching his daily driver 300,000 r per firmante probably worth 400,000 with all this inflation on assets just getting washed in his in his Near his garage like guys. This is what trading has allowed alex and Eventually not overnight. This is no get rich quick Can eventually if you have enough focused discipline and work ethic could could possibly do this for you too Um at least supplement income for god sakes. You don't have to think about lambos My god, look at look at aron right here or aron I can never pronounce that correctly.  Keep it fun. Um sober awesome job. David Dude our members are crushing So if I go into oh, there's one more thing. I wanted to show you on thursday guys. Check this out.  Go give that a watch. It's it's it's a great little vlog. You guys got to go check that out So we're coming into friday. We're coming into today and uh alex was looking at these. Hold on one second Um, he makes 1500. So he made this was a p in l. A. He makes 1500 and he had ast i So if we come into this, let's take a look At what the chart was doing for today again day one the day before on the 20th. We're coming into the 21st guys Holy crap, man. Have I not made this as simple as possible for you to understand? Where did it fail before? Oh This is where I want to short. You know what?   So, you know, we're wrapping up friday Let's see what the members did they crushed it as well, of course because m i see bridge champions El matador nail and bail on peggy freaking awesome And if you go read the watch those guys I just don't have time to read all these and showcase again. I don't need a three hour video This is kind of like a highlights reel go through and see all of these other examples that work that hit the line Maybe alex didn't train him, but they still hit the lines. They still were processed and members crushed it as well So 80 tx real professor x great job Uh nj again and px great job in the outer lines buddy. Uh el matador. I love it.  It's exactly like mine and aran again Awesome day, buddy. Great job. Just keep it coming and then let's uh, let's let me show you guys A couple things so guys we take it to the slack chat right here and this is our chat room, right? So this is the watch list every single day like I just showed you every single day This is the first thing you pay attention to we come in the main trading chat Where all the shorting is where all the longing is and small caps. This is a community. It's a network funny stuff Exactly like there's memes every now and then there's fills. There's live commentary all day There's warnings. Um, this is true guidance. This is true mentorship Then if you need the one-on-one, obviously you have dms down here You can talk to your moderator of choice, etc, etc.    What do you say? Bone and ribeye outback of all places was actually pretty good. Cool. There's the plug You know for outback. There you go But the point is guys here is where you network. Here's how you have fun.  This is the community you get and then if I go to Let's go to my investing club together So we go to my investing club. This is our main website You can see that you can get a one hour free training right here Scroll down meet the team alex bow myself right here where the creators at mic And then you can actually meet the full team of moderators See what our mission statement is watch this free webinar. Look at alex's broker statement see How this guy has made your main mentor seven plus million dollars in the last three years guys verified broker statement Like like go do your due diligence if you need if you're one of those forensic If you're one of those detectives you guys can you guys can go get the forensics if you need But the point is guys go to the website for one massive reason do your research If you feel like mic is for you then what I want you to do is either text my line if you have questions immediately And or just book a call so you can click this right here Book a free mentorship call you're going to talk to yours truly me directly one of the creators at mic There's nothing I can't answer to help get you the confidence you need to get in the club And it's a it's a great time.  So we got to do it again.  So we'll just go tuesday through friday. Uh, let's see 4100 alex was green all this week I wish I had monday. We could just make this bigger. Um, 2,500 Uh, and let's see 1,500 guys you kidding me Like who doesn't want to make 8 8500 dollars a week and this is before rebates. So alex absolutely crushed it I'm so excited for him to make this money every single week because when he does guys It means you are as well the process works the lines work the watchlist works So what I want you to do guys is text my line here. I'm going to give you a secret code The first five people will get free mentorship. I'll give them a discount Text my line the first five people that text quote-unquote 8400 put the money sign It's alex's p&l for the week uh full encompassing just put 8400 and I'll give you a secret code for everybody who watch this We'll get you in discount annual lifetime if you're approved in the application process Um, I'll discount a little bit and or a free training session And also just lastly guys check this out. Are you kidding me alex? We have just started to release I plugged this last week. I will one more time just so everybody's familiar with it We are doing a live trading series where alex is now recording a lot of his trades putting it to music putting the comment He's literally commentating on the video like guys. I made 145 in 10 minutes. Here's what I did breaks it down Zooms in zooms out draws the line show you guys the examples. It's edited together. It's absolutely trader perfect It's a total vibe and um guys you guys start watching these and if you want to watch Ones that are not the first one because there are a lot more coming You will have to be a lifetime member until then guys. I'll see you next week for another highlights reel. See you guys


We're all used to Britain's extreme centrists making every one of the world's ills about Jeremy Corbyn. But this weekend, former Labour MP and now crossbench member of the House of Lords Ian Austin took the tradition to levels which can only be described as ridiculous. He wrote an article in The Sun, headlined, could Congress attack happen in Britain? It could, with our lefty mob. Now in the piece he asks, what is the difference between Trump using conspiracy theories to claim the election result was stolen and the hard left betrayal myth that claims Corbyn almost won in 2017 but was cheated out of victory by sabotage by moderate MPs and Labour staff. Now this was printed in The Sun newspaper, but they're not normally people who print high quality journalism. You might not be surprised to see that they printed something again that's not high quality journalism. If you need it spelled out, why the fact that many Jeremy Corbyn supporters ourselves included, there was some sabotage of in the Labour Party trying to stop him winning the 2017 election and Donald Trump saying fraud stopped him winning the 2019 election. Two big reasons. One, so there is no evidence whatsoever to support Donald Trump's claim that fraud meant he lost the election. None whatsoever. There's actually quite a lot of hard evidence that people within Labour Party HQ attempted to undermine Labour's electoral chances or at least were very happy or happy too. They were disappointed when Labour did well and they were very, very willing to act against the wishes of the democratically elected leader. There's hard evidence for that. You can watch our shows on the Labour leaks. More important though, and this is where I think the comparison is just so ridiculous that I can't believe someone who was once taken seriously, still is taken seriously by many extreme centrists, could think this was a sensible thing to write, is that Donald Trump's claim about fraud has been used as a justification to try and overthrow the state and to overthrow the results of a democratic election. I haven't spoken to a single Corbyn Easter who said, because there were some staffers in the Labour Party HQ who tried to undermine Labour's electoral chances and because there were some MPs who were constantly attacking Jeremy Corbyn, we need to overthrow the state and annul the 2017 general election results. This comparison does not work. Why does this all matter? This is just a has-been crank, someone who always attacks Jeremy Corbyn, who this time around is again attacking Jeremy Corbyn. Now the answer is, because this guy was taken very seriously and not just by people on the Labour right, it wasn't just by progress boosting this guy, it was also our national broadcast, or it was also all of our media establishments who, and this is according to a Loughborough study into the media environment in the general election that was shared by Tom Mills, friend of the show, sociologist, which showed that Ian Austin was actually the 11th most prominent politician in the entire mainstream media's coverage of the 2019 general election, the 11th most prominent politician. This is someone who members of the British public heard from all the time and it's someone who thinks it's sensible to compare people saying, maybe we need a bit more transparency in the organisation of one of Britain's major parties to people who want to violently overthrow the state. To remind you about Ian Austin's role in the 2019 general election campaign, here he is being given a headline slot on Radio 4's Today Show. The country faces a big choice. There's only two people who can be prime minister on December the 13th, Jeremy Corbyn or Boris Johnson, and I think Jeremy Corbyn is completely unfit to lead our country, completely unfit to lead the Labour Party. And after 34 years of showing the Labour Party as a teenager, I worked for the Labour Party. You know, in my 30s I was a government advisor, in my 40s I was an MP and a minister, but so it's really come to something when I tell decent traditional patriotic Labour voters that they should be voting for Boris Johnson at this election. I can't believe he's come to this, but that's where we are. It's really come to something when me, someone who passionately hates Jeremy Corbyn and the left wing of the Labour Party, so much that I can't see the difference between them and far-right people with holocaust slogans on their jumpers breaking in to the Capitol building because they've bought into some lie that the election was stolen because of bits inside machines in Georgia.  It's so difficult for me to tell people to vote for someone other than Jeremy Corbyn because I'm so committed to the Labour Party. He's a fraud, he's clearly a fraud and I would hope that there are some people, you know, within the the higher echelons of the BBC who are questioning, why did we give this guy such high prominence during this general election when clearly he's not really motivated by some desire to get a healthy good government for patriotic Britain's bit of an odd phrase in itself. He's not someone who this was it wasn't a difficult decision for him to tell people not to vote for Jeremy Corbyn. He passionately hates him so irrationally, so in such a deranged manner that he'd make this comparison now they should hang their heads in shame. Ash, you know these media inside is better than I do. Will there be anyone in the top echelons of the BBC who are questioning how much prominence they gave this guy? No, just a really straightforward answer. No, and that's because I don't think you can ever overestimate the degree to which both the venality and idiocy permeates the kind of heart of our broadcasting establishments. People like easy stories, you know, consumable storylines, and Ian Austin was a packaged storyline, which is, you know, a labor man through and through and was forced to make the hardest decision of his life to take down his most loathed political opponent. But it's a compelling storyline and so people were willing to just absolutely eat that up. And there is very little reflection in these kind of broadcasting circles about whether or not something that they'd done before was the right thing to do, right?  So that's that kind of reflexiveness that you're talking about just doesn't exist within our media establishment. It really doesn't. And I think that you've also got the fact that there is an alignment of interests to make sure that the left goes down with Jeremy Corbyn, right? That, you know, he's the Titanic and we're all, you know, the passengers who are in third class, you know, sinking below the line. And it's an interest which is shared by multiple actors. One is that you've got, you know, those kind of agrocentrists who were more threatened in lots of ways by an emergent and renewed left than they were by a nationalist and increasingly authoritarian right. Because if you're an agrocentrist and you are used to your spot in the media or your job in the Labour Party, a new leadership of the Labour Party, a new set of blood in the Labour Party, is much more of a direct threat to your job than another five years of Tory government, right? So you've got one set of interests that you've got an ideological interest, which is shared between, you know, the kind of agrocentre, not the entirety of the centre, there's some very, very, you know, kind of, you know, genial centrist out there, but the agrocentre and, you know, the populist right, which is redraw the boundary of reasonable opinion so that it excludes the left. The centrist wants to do that because it means that there as far as you can go and the right wants to do that because it's part of an ever moving, great moving right show in the words of Stuart Hall. And in Austin is still someone who can play a compelling role in that. He can be the patriotic, decent Labour man who is speaking to a dedicated Labour audience of some readers and can kind of continue this bit of political theatre, which until there is a significant challenge mounted to it in the establishment media by a dissenting voice, an alternative voice, that other story is never going to be told. And I think that because of this kind of, you know, attempt to realign reasonable opinion, so it's to the left's detriment, you're not going to necessarily see that being staged, right? You're not going to see Ian Austin placed in a circumstance where he is going to be challenged in such a robust way.  But I don't think that that's going to happen now, but you will see that story repeated and repeated. It's not exactly, you know, I'm not saying anything which is particularly optimistic, I guess. And I suppose the only thing to be hoped for about is that you have this huge generational chasm in terms of voting behaviour and also media consumption. You know, you have an ageing broadcast audience, you have an ageing print media audience.  And I think that you are going to see a, you know, long term, you know, kind of counterweight emerge of young voters who really don't see their material interests and social values being reflected back to them in the establishment media. And that will take a kind of political form as well as just changed viewing and reading habits. But I don't think you're going to see Ian Austin singing a different tune now, not when it's had him, you know, rewarded quite so well. I don't think that he'd have gotten a seat in the House of Lords were it not for his service to the Conservative Party.


Recording in progress. Allie, we'll start with you for opening statements. Can you please tell us why you are running and what will be different for Burlington if you are elected? Hello, yeah, thank you, Emily. My name is Allie House. I use she, her pronouns, and I'm running to bring compassion and pragmatic leadership to Burlington's eighth ward of city council. I bring experience from the front lines of the pandemic as a social worker and a public school educator. And, you know, I see every day the impact that local policy has on people's lives. And I fully believe that my experience working in the community will bring a unique lens to city council. You know, I'm passionate about a variety of local issues, including climate solutions, housing justice, mental health, and also transforming public safety. I'm a systems level thinker and I have firsthand experience finding solutions to tangible problems within the context of greater system and systemic issues at play. And yeah, now more than ever, we need bold and experienced leaders who are optimistic about our future and are committed to tackling the most difficult issues in our community with integrity, transparency, and a compassionate lens. Thank you very much, Allie. Hannah, can you please tell us why you're running and what will be different for Burlington if you are elected? Hi, everyone. My name is Hannah King, and I use she, her pronouns, and I'm proud to be running for the Ward 8 city council seat. I'm a renter, student, and daughter of a single mother. My father was a construction worker, and my mother is a healthcare worker and proud union member. The lived experiences of my family have served as the foundation to my commitment to pushing actionable progressive policy forward. I truly understand the struggles so many of my Ward 8 neighbors face because I've lived them myself. I'm running for city council to be a representative leader that listens and is responsive, is thoughtful in their approach to solving complex problems, and frankly just puts real progress before politics is usual. I have taken action to ensure every neighbor is taken care of and given the chance to participate in their community. Ward 8 deserves a counselor who has proven themselves as a dedicated public servant who understands the intricacies of our local government and will be able to produce results from the moment that they are elected. I'm confident that I am that person. Thank you. Thank you very much, Hannah. All right, we will move on to, I'll jump off of that and just kind of more specifically ask what, and we'll continue with you, Hannah, what experience do you, what specific experience do you think you bring to bear that makes you qualified to be a Burlington city council member? Absolutely. I believe we can solve our deepest challenges through working together and listening to each other. I've worked tirelessly on behalf of our Ward 8 neighborhood serving as a steering committee member on the Ward's 108 neighborhood planning assembly and as the Ward 8 representative on the city of Burlington's community development block grant advisory board. Through these roles, I've had the opportunity to help expand language access in some of our community's most important events, such as assisting and organizing Vermont's first live translated mayoral forum, as well as working to strengthen relationships between student and long-term Burlington residents by creating a pen pal program to ensure and to ensure and encourage productive dialogue within Ward 8. I've also worked closely with my neighbors and university leaders through community coalition to de-escalate problematic situations in our student dense neighborhood. I recognize being a good city councilor goes beyond just traditional ways of community engagement. I'm proud of the time I have spent as a substitute teacher working in public schools, as well as organizing work I have done with immigrant and refugees farmers in relation to fighting for increased and fair land access. I'm also very proud to have the support of policy leaders such as state treasurer, Beth Pierce, Speaker, Jill Korinsky, state representative, Barbara Rachelson and former state rep, Mary Sullivan. My experience working with communities of all types ensure I will be a compassionate, well-versed and prepared city councilor for Ward 8. Thank you, Hannah. All right, Allie, I would like to hear about your specific experience that you think makes you qualified to be Burlington City Council member. Sure, absolutely. You know, I'm a renter and a student and also as I mentioned, I have experience on the front lines both as a social worker, a support group co-founder and co-facilitator and also as a full-time educator in Vermont public schools. You know, I also have experience in politics, getting involved in turning at the State House, speaking with our Garverner, Phil Scott, about issues such as the PFOAs that have contaminated our neighbor in Bennington's water. And yeah, I've developed a really strong network and relationships with people in our community who are compassionate about bringing just change about and I'm also, I'm personally trained in like several different areas. I hold several different certifications. I've also completed trainings on de-escalation and violence prevention myself. And I'm certainly interested in hearing what the voters of Ward 8 are most passionate about and I'm excited to work arm in arm. Great, thank you, Allie. So we are actually going to take a caller on air instead of just asking the question for you. So we will do that now. Hi, caller, you are live on the air. There was a little bit of a lag, so speak confidently and please ask your question now. So my question is, sorry, my question is, you both have a lot of involvement in the political atmosphere. So beyond that, how does your professional experience and engagement in the community speak to the kind of person that you are and the kind of city counselor that you'll be? Great, we'll start with you, Hannah. Thank you. Yes, thank you for that question. I think that's incredibly important. As I just mentioned, I think being a good city counselor goes beyond just using traditional avenues of community engagement on city boards. I'm incredibly lucky for the leadership that I've had and had the opportunity to serve Ward 8 in a traditional sense, but also the work that I've done within my neighborhoods as a student leader, as a neighborhood leader have also given me the opportunity to connect hand-in-hand with my neighbors throughout Ward 8 over the last four years. With that, I feel like it's given me a well-versed role and viewpoint on what my neighbors experience and are looking for on a council level, which will give me the chance to serve them well on council. Thank you. Thank you, Allie. Sure, yeah, thank you. Thank you for that question. Yeah, that's a great one. So as I've mentioned several times, I do bring experience from working on the front lines throughout the pandemic. And I have also co-founded and co-facilitated a couple of support groups that work to engage with folks in our community about issues that are impacting them. And even beyond that, just myself, I've had experiences. I've been employed in Burlington in food services and in retail on UVM's campus in multiple positions, including in the mailroom as a resident advisor. And I've also founded a group on campus during the climate walkouts called Call Your Reps, which helped to bridge the gap sort of between like the student community and also other communities and marginalized folks and also between politics. So it was a peer education movement that helps people explore strategies for engaging with their political representatives. And so I really bring this experience of bridging the gap between everyday working people and my experience from the political sphere. And I'm really passionate about their intersection and hope to bring that to city council if elected. Thank you, Allie. All right, I will move on to one of our prepared questions and then we'll go back to taking a caller. Just as a reminder, we're welcoming questions from the community. Please call us at<PHONE_NUMBER> if you'd like to ask a question. So, Allie, what do you think are the biggest challenges facing the city right now as a result of COVID and how can the city council address them? Sure, yeah, you know, that's definitely a big one. I think certainly pandemic fatigue and mental health and balancing that and knowing that people are certainly struggling and also that this pandemic phase is not over. I feel like we have to learn how to balance people's internal struggles with the fact that the virus is still spreading widely across our community. And even though there's been progress made on different fronts, just knowing that this is not over has been really tough on people's mental health. And I think if we've learned anything from history, we've learned that systemic issues cannot be solved solely by individual actions. There's certainly a degree of personal accountability, but we as a city do need an equitable and data-driven response to this unprecedented crisis. And we need to bounce back and create lasting change to uplift those who've been hit hardest throughout the pandemic, including many of the folks that I work with myself. And also, I too have struggled throughout this pandemic, have had to access various resources, including Vermont's Emergency Rental Assistance Program. And it's interesting to me that so many of our current conversations are centered around things like rent stabilization when, as we speak, the Vermont Emergency Rental Assistance Plan is still in place and is being widely accessed by folks, including myself, who've had their jobs, their careers and their income impacted by the pandemic. We also need opportunities for collective care and healing to learn from and to heal from this very painful time in world history and in the history of our city. Thank you very much, Allie. Hannah, what do you believe are the biggest challenges facing the city as a result of COVID and how can the city council address them? There's no doubt that COVID has put an emphasis on the day-to-day inequalities facing Braille and Tonians, whether that's access to vaccines for our community members facing houselessness, access to information related to social distancing and health guidelines, which are often changing and therefore incredibly difficult for folks to access when considering the boundaries imposed by language barriers or that just don't have access to traditional modes of technology. At the start of the pandemic, I was able to witness this firsthand through my work at the Burlington, the BTV Low Barrier Homeless Shelter. I was thankful to be able to play a small part in the effort to ensure those members of our community had access to necessary resources by organizing a donation drive for the shelter. Additionally, our community is in a mental health crisis, which was exacerbated by COVID. On campus, student resources are underfunded, inadequate and difficult to navigate. I know that in 2009, I lost my father when he took his own life due to mental health challenges. So I hold this near and dear. Access to therapy is expensive and often inaccessible to our neighbors. As mediums of treatment have gone digital, it's also difficult for members without regular access to technology to be able to receive the treatment many of us have needed throughout this difficult time. Lastly, supporting small business and frontline workers have become more crucial than ever during COVID. We need to ensure that as a Vermont community, we are providing fair compensation, as well as resources to our most vulnerable small businesses and their workers. Thank you very much, Hannah. All right. We're gonna go back to questions from callers. We'll take one now. Greg? So, caller, you're on the air. There is a little bit of a lag. So just speak confidently and please ask your question now. Okay. Activism is very important to awardee voters. What, if any, is your history and activism? Thank you very much. Allie, we'll start with you on that question. Sure, yeah. So, as I mentioned, on campus, I did found an initiative called Call Your Reps, which is a peer education climate action initiative during the student lockouts. And it provided effective strategies for bridging the student community and other marginalized communities with local, state and national representatives. I've also interned at the Vermont State House. I've met with our governor to discuss, you know, the PFOAs that are contaminating the water system in our neighbors' communities. And also, you know, I am a social worker and activism and changing policy and changing systems is really the core of what we do in our work. And so that is something that I deal with on a daily basis, advocating both on an individual micro level and on a greater systems macro level for whether it's as simple as making sure that somebody has access to decolonized mental health resources all the way up to fighting larger systemic issues such as inaccessibility of those mental health services. So really, this is something that I do feel I have experience in and also that I've surrounded myself with people in the community who do have experience in that and lean on each other and that networking that is involved and sort of bridging the gap between activism and action. Thank you very much, Allie. Hannah, can you tell me a little bit about your experience with activism in the community? Yes, thank you for this question. Activists really have served as the backbone for many of the incredible policy that the city of Burlington has been able to pass in recent years. When I think about activism, something that comes to mind for me that's incredibly important is the work that I've done with immigrant and refugee communities. I really got my start in local government working with my hometown's agricultural commission. Folks that don't speak English or aren't able to just walk into a space where it's the same old 60-year-old white men serving on a board, it's not always comfortable for folks. And so during my time working with the immigrant and refugee communities, I was able to not only learn from them but also create strategies and ways for us to effectively go into policy discussions with decision-makers to ensure that they were being supportive and had the tools necessary for them to be successful in either gaining more access to land if they had gotten materials or taxes which were unfair or were a burden to them, making sure that we were going into conversations and finding adequate solutions to those issues. Thank you. Thank you very much. So we have four calls in line. So we're gonna go ahead and take another call from a community member and we'll go ahead with that. Hi, Collar, you are on the air. There was a little bit of a lag, so please speak confidently but please ask your question now. Hi, Collar, you're live on the air. I really value the idea of young people getting involved in local politics but I am concerned about each of your commitments to the neighborhood. How long have you lived in Ward 8 and how has your experience living in the neighborhood really helped you, helped guide you in your campaigns and how you will do work on campus? I'm sorry, I'm having a little bit of trouble hearing. So the gist of what the caller said was they're really, they're excited about young people getting involved in local government but they're concerned about your commitment to the area of Ward 8. So they're wondering how long you have lived in the area and sort of what your plans are going forward and we'll start with Hannah on this one. Yes, thank you for the question. I know that as I've gone door to door and called neighbors, this has been a real concern. I think in Ward 8 specifically, we see that we have a very transient population of folks moving in and out of the ward really due to the nature of Burlington's rental market. I know that this will be my fourth year living in Ward 8. My first two years at UVM, I lived on Athletic Campus, which is in Ward 8 and then I'm been a proud member of the Bradley Street neighborhood and next year I'll be moving up to College Street. I know that I have been a committed member to Ward 8 every year that I've lived here. I mentioned it earlier, but I am incredibly proud of the work that I've done with my Wards 1 & 8 Neighborhood Planning Assembly. I know that it has not been easy for us the last couple of years through the transition of going primarily online. Beyond that, serving on the City of Burlington's Community Development Block Grant Advisory Board, I've stepped up a countless number of times to serve the Ward 8 community when truly no one else wanted to. And so I know that regardless of what happens in March, I will still be here, I will still be a dedicated member of the Ward 8 community. I think I've really proven that over the last couple of years. And so I'm excited for this moment, but also I really look forward to the work that we can do along with my neighbors in Ward 8 moving forward. Thank you very much, Hannah. All right, Allie, your turn. Yeah, thank you for that question. This will be my fourth year living in Ward 8 as an active member of the community. And Ward 8 and Burlington are my home. I remained in Burlington and in Ward 8 while many of my peers returned home at the start of the pandemic. And really, I chose to work on the front lines in Vermont public schools and also as a support group co-facilitator at Lund, which brings crucial mental health services to Vermont families and brought those services to them during that unprecedented time. And I believe that my work in the community really highlights my level of commitment to Ward 8 and I'm excited to support long-term residents and students alike. Thank you very much. I think we'll take a question from the list and then hopefully we'll take another call from a caller and we'll see where we're at. So Allie, where do you see opportunities for addressing racial justice in the city and how will you use the city council seat to meet this challenge? Sure, yeah, that's a great question and definitely a very, very important issue impacting our community. I think first and foremost, we need to be building trusting relationships with local organizers and activists who are doing the important work of addressing these issues. We need to be working with organizations, RAIB, Racial Justice Alliance. We really need to go beyond performative activism and hollow words and actually decolonize our spaces, especially in government, and really shedding that white savior narrative of like, oh, let's allow space for people like, no, let's work arm in arm with folks. Let's be empowered together. And I think that, especially in our government, we do need to be taking a look at how our spaces function. And so that individuals who are members of the BIPOC community can be heard and have their perspectives centered. And I think we also can't talk about racial justice without talking about the fact that our mayor just appointed a police chief who's stated that he doesn't believe racial bias exists in our city's police force. And so as a city counselor, I'll never support the appointment of leaders who get complacent in their efforts of self-reflection and stop examining bias within themselves and within their department. Thank you, Allie. Hannah. As a white cisgender person, I first wanna acknowledge my privilege when discussing racial justice and equity. I've experienced Burlington in ways my BIPOC neighbors, unfortunately, if not. When we look at our current crisis of justice, it's important we recognize the systemic realities which are holding us back from creating practical, progressive change for our communities of color. One policy point I am proud to put forward is the creation of a guaranteed minimum income program. This will be an important avenue in relation to the matter of economic justice. The reality is traditional welfare programs impose a number of work and educational conditions that require able-bodied adults to work at least 20 hours a week and participate in mandatory training programs that just doesn't work for everyone. Guaranteed minimum income programs should be far more straightforward and work directly to tackle systemic realities of economic injustice faced by our BIPOC community members. Our communities of color currently have the lowest rate of home ownership in the city and experience overwhelming health and economic discrepancies in comparison to our white neighbors. It's important that we look at new forward-thinking policies such as guaranteed minimum income to tackle the systemic issues we are facing for decades. I am proud to also have had the opportunity to work alongside Karen Durfee, who is now the city of Burlington's first black HR department head. Karen is doing incredible work in diversifying our city department hires. This is work that the city council needs to encourage and support regularly. Also, as a city counselor, I will work to ensure our racial equity inclusion and belonging committee are provided adequate funding to do the critical work that they have already been working tirelessly on. We also need to support REIB in their efforts to carry out the city's strategic plan for racial equity. Thank you. Great, thank you very much. So we're getting close to time here, but I'd love to take another caller if we can do that. Shortly. Hi, caller, you are on the air. There was a bit of a lag, so please speak confidently and please ask your question now. As the cost of living in Burlington continues to rise, I'm wondering how you plan on helping the people of Burlington afford to get by. Thank you very much for that question. Hannah, we'll start with you. Yes, thank you for that question. I've spoken very openly about my background coming from a single mother family where I've always needed to pay for my own personal and educational expenses. These struggles have impacted the way I view affordability in the city of Burlington. My struggles are not unique to what so many of my ward eight neighbors face day to day. It's far too expensive to live in Burlington. We need to work to create good paying jobs where we pair workers a fair and livable wage. We also need to supply more housing options and implement a rent stabilization programs so folks don't continue to be gouged for rent. Lastly, we need to be creative about policy solutions moving forward, such as, as I just mentioned, creating a guaranteed minimum income program. I'm confident that we can make Burlington a more affordable and fair place to live for all Burlingtonians together. Great, thank you, Hannah. All right, Allie. Yeah, yeah, that's a really important question and certainly one that's been raised to me by a lot of folks. So you're certainly not alone in wondering that. Yeah, I mean, I think simply put, we need to completely revamp our housing system and really begin to hold landlords accountable to their tenants. We've got a city that has 62% of the population renting and so we need real housing justice that names and resists the inflated and horrifically high prices that folks are paying for rent. I think quite frankly, rent stabilization efforts are going to be hollow when prices are as high as they are. And we also cannot overlook the role that UVM plays in this housing crisis. And so as renegotiations begin in the memorandum of understanding between the city council and UVM, I would really like to see UVM be held accountable for the role that they play. And I would really like to see them list all of their on-campus housing below market value. So that will make access to housing on campus much more affordable for folks. Thank you very much, Allie. So really quickly, if you'd each like to do a 30-second closing statement, we'll start with Hannah and then wrap up. Yes, I first want to just start by making a comment that I think that in order to make real policy changes, we need to make the first step. When we're talking about holding UVM in the city accountable is creating avenues for dialogue. And so with that, I know I've already reached out to UVM president, Garamella, to have an honest conversation regarding UVM's intentions for building more housing stock. But with that, I would also like to thank Town Meeting Day TV for organizing this event today and to everyone who has been watching along. My name is Hannah King and I'm proud of the work I have done with my Ward 8 community. From my time spent at NPAs to the mornings we've spent together counting early ballots at City Hall. Ward 8 deserves a counselor who has proven themselves as a dedicated public servant who understands the intricacies of our local government and will be able to produce results from the moment they are elected. I'm confident I am that person. Learn more about our campaign at hannahforberlington.com. Thank you. Thank you, Hannah. Ali, your closing statement. Yeah, I wanna take a minute to talk about something that I don't think that we talk about enough, which is this concept of hope. And I think now more than ever, the hope of humanity and our community is being tested. Many people that I've spoken with have been brave enough to express their fears related to many issues, including the climate crisis, housing justice, public health and a lot of other issues impacting our world. Now is a pivotal time in our community's history. And we as a state and as a municipality on the brink of some really amazing change. And now more than ever, we need leaders who are optimistic about our future and who are gonna fight to ensure that these changes actually happen and that they're decisive, rapid and equitable. I believe in our city and I believe that we, the people of Burlington have the power to create lasting and impactful change. So thank you everybody for turning out tonight for making this event happen. Yeah, and together we can do this. Thank you very much to both Ally House and Hannah King for participating in tonight's Ward 8 City Council election forum. And thank you to all our viewers for tuning in to town meeting TV's ongoing coverage of local community candidates, budget and ballot items. You can find this forum and more at www.ch17.tv. And don't forget to vote on the first Tuesday of March on town meeting day, March 1st, 2022. Burlington will be mailing absentee ballots to all active registered voters. If you don't receive those ballots by February 16th, please contact your clerk's and treasurer's office and polls will also be open all day on March 1st from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thank you very much for watching.