everyone and welcome back to our R3 stage in Monheim. The next talk is a really interesting one. Stefania Maurizzi will let us know why we must save Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. And as an intro, let me quickly start with a high level recap. So as you know, Julian Assange founded WikiLeaks in 2006 and starting April 2010, WikiLeaks published a series of war crimes committed by the US government. And that same government then launched a criminal investigation into WikiLeaks. As a result, Mr. Julian Assange is currently being held at a high security present in the UK on the basis of a US extradition request on charges that directly stem from his work with WikiLeaks. In other words, he's incarcerated for simply doing his job. Investigative journalist Stefania Maurizzi and her colleague Nikki Hager are our speakers today. And Stefania is not only a firsthand witness working with Mr. Assange within the Ecuadorian embassy, but also a witness before the UK court. Stefania and Nikki will not only detail their work by documenting some of the most obscure aspects of the long-term campaign of attacks against WikiLeaks, but also give us a wake-up call. What does it actually mean to all of us when democracies declare criminal behavior as state secret and then let journalists who reveal these crimes end up with severe human rights violations with torture or even murder? And what about the freedom of speech as the foundation of a democracy? Stefania, I hope you're online now. Yes, thank you. So I would like to give you a very warm welcome and I think we are all looking forward to your talk and also to you and Nikki to give us some answers to how far journalism can actually go in Western democracies today. I'll turn my mic off now and the stage is yours. Welcome back. Thank you, Patricia. And thank you to the Chaos Computer Club. I wonder whether Nikki is already connected because they wanted to go first. So I'm checking with you whether he is online. Can you see him?  I would suggest that I give you a hint as soon as he joins, but at the moment it's you. Okay, fine. I'm happy with this and I hope he will join because he's a very good journalist and he can tell many things about WikiLeaks. So first of all, thank you. And let me introduce myself because your introduction was really good, but I want to explain what kind of work I have done in the last 11 years. So basically I'm an Italian journalist. I'm an investigative journalist working for the major Italian daily Fatto Quotidiano. And I work for the Italian newspaper, La Repubblica and the Italian news magazine, Les Presso. And the reason why I'm here is to discuss with you this work as a media partner of WikiLeaks from the very beginning. Basically back in 2009 when very few had even heard about WikiLeaks because WikiLeaks had not published its bombshells like the collateral murder or the gun war logs and the cables. So throughout the last 11 years, I have worked not just on the WikiLeaks case on the Julian Assange case, but also on all that documents. And one of the first things I want to explain you is why this work is crucial, why these revelations have been so important. You have to realize that the first time I look at WikiLeaks was back in 2008, and it immediately impressed me. Why? Because they had published the Guantanamo manual. And you have to realize that the ACLU, the American Civil Liberties Union, had tried to get a copy of that manual using the Freedom of Information Act. They didn't succeed. There was no way to get a copy of it. But fortunately, thanks to a bold whistleblower, that document was leaked to WikiLeaks and Julian Assange WikiLeaks published it. So it was amazing for me to realize that they were able to get a document that even a prominent organization like the American Civil Liberties Union had been unable to get. And not only that, they were able to publish it, even if the Pentagon had basically asked them to remove that copy from their website. I'm not sure if you realize what it means to say no to the Pentagon. I mean, I have been in this business. I have been in the business of journalism. I have been a journalist for the last 19 years. I had never heard of a single media organization saying no to the Pentagon. So for the first time, I looked at the WikiLeaks website back in 2008 and I saw how they were not just able to get the Guantanamo manual, but also to say no to the Pentagon. For me, it was really pretty incredible. I mean, I couldn't believe it. You need to be very bold to say no to the Pentagon. Because you realize there are legal and extra legal power all around the world. And really, actually, and I had never heard of a single media organization saying no to the Pentagon. So for me, it was really refreshing to see that you have such media organization willing to say no to the Pentagon and to get this kind of documents. And it was especially important in those days. I'm not sure if you realize those were the years where the New York Times and the Washington Post published a lot of lies which basically helped to justify the Iraq war or they published, they refused to use the term torture for the CIA torture and they were using enhanced interrogation techniques. So I mean, the media was really, really timid in those days. So the fact that they were so bold and they were able to get those documents was really important and really refreshing to me. So you have to realize that after those publications back at the very early days of 2009, 2010 when I started publishing, the documents as media partner, it was amazing to see the kind of documents that were able to publish like the Afghan war logs, like the Iraq war logs, the cables and the Guantanamo files which are the very same documents for which now in these days, Julian Assange is ending up in prison for life, 175 years. He's indicted and the US is asking his extradition precisely for these publications and these publications have been so important. I'm not sure if people realize how important we journalists who spend our day looking for this kind of information shared by secrecy, we can understand the full importance of these documents. Let me give you an example. Let me take the cables. So the cables, for example, published back in 2008 allowed to reveal among other things how the US authorities, how the US diplomacy had put pressure on the Italian authorities, on the Italian politicians in order not to have the arrest warrant for the CIA agents involved in the extraordinary rendition of a Buomar and then I will explain to you who is a Buomar and thanks to this pressure, unfortunately due to these pressures, basically the Italian politicians refuse to forward the arrest warrant to send the arrest warrant to the US and this basically ended up in having the CIA agents granted impunity. So even if Italy was able to nail the CIA agents involved in the extraordinary rendition of this guy, a Buomar who was a Milan cleric, he was kidnapped in the middle of the day in Milan, basically. Even if our prosecutor was amazing, they were able to use phone metadata in order to nail the CIA agents, they were able to put them on trial in absentia, they were able to get the final sentence. Even if our prosecutors have been amazing in getting all these and we were the only count, we are the only country in the world, Italy is the only country in the world which basically got the final sentence for the CIA 26 US nationals, most of them, almost all of them CIA agents. However, six justice ministers refused to send the arrest warrant to the US and basically we could guess that basically the US put pressure on Italian politicians but without the cables, we would have been unable to get the evidence, solid evidence of these pressures by the US authorities on the Italian authorities. Only thanks to the cables it was possible to get this evidence, only thanks to the cables it was possible to reveal how the Italian authority was spying on the pacifist, activist, trying to stop the trains bringing weapons for the Iraq war. Only thanks to the cables it was possible to reveal how they stop our precedent stopping the troops from Italy to Iraq. So it was only thanks to these documents that we got evidence, evidence of state criminality we could guess, we could imagine of course but we had no evidence, we had no evidence whatsoever because everything was shielded by secrecy. So when I got these documents I was so excited for the first time I could have solid evidence of the state criminality and this all around the world not just about Italy or about France, about the UK but countries all around the world. These documents have been amazing and 10 years after I keep using each time I need information to acquire some classified information I still access this database. It's not just me but look at the Washington Post journalist when Khashoggi was killed by the Saudi authorities. The first thing they did, they just accessed the WikiLeaks website looking for information. So this information has proved to be so valuable, so important that virtually there is no journalist that is not using this information. So I mean for me it's really, you know it's really upsetting to see that just for publishing these documents today Julian Assange and actually not just Julian Assange risk ending up in prison for life, in a maximum security prison for life just for revealing this, just for revealing these abuses, torture, extraordinary rendition and extrajudicial killings by drone. So how can I accept this? I have worked on the very same revelations for the last 10 years. I have published the very same revelations not just me that hundreds of journalists all around the world from the Washington Post to the Guardian to the Hindu, all people, reporters, investigative journalists have been using these documents for a decade. None of us have been in trouble. None of us had any problem whatsoever. I mean none of us was not even questioned or arrested but whereas Julian Assange has never known freedom again you have to realize that I have worked on these documents and I have worked as a media partner for the last 11 years and you have to realize that in these 11 years I was able to meet Julian Assange as a free man for the last time the 28th of September, 2010 we met in Alexanderplatz in Berlin with Christine Rafson, the current editor of Wikileaks. We met to work on the Afghan war logs. I left him in Alexanderplatz. That was the last time I met Julian Assange as a free man. After that meeting I have always worked with Julian Assange confined somewhere initially under house arrest then seven years in the Ecuadorian embassy then now in prison. So 10 years always confined. 10 years in such serious situation where his health collapsed. For me it has been really not just upsetting but also painful to realize how he has been treated how he had been denied proper medical treatment inside the embassy. How he had been denied one hour outdoors per day which basically we Italian give even to mafia killers and some of the worst people in our country. So the treatment of Julian Assange really upset me. The treatment of his journalist how the doc for example how their communication were secretly provided by Google to the US authorities. I'm talking about Sarah Harrison, Christine Rafson and Joseph Farrell whose emails were secretly provided by Google to the US authorities. I'm talking how all of them and actually even me have been spied inside the embassy the Ecuadorian embassy with all our devices and conversations and meetings recorded and spied on. So I mean this has been so upsetting. This has been so upsetting. Not just because, you know, it's upsetting. You have to realize what has been like to work in this condition. I mean, I have been always safe. I was never, as I said, I have never been arrested. I have never been questioned. I have never been put in prison. I experienced tailing. I experienced I was physically attacked and stolen very important information, very important documents which never surfaced again. I was spied inside the Ecuadorian embassy but at the end of the day, I have been safe. I have done this work safely. If you compare my situation with the situation of Julian Assange and the situation of the weekly journalist, I have been safe. And what terrified me about this work is not what I have experienced because I have not experienced any scary things apart from these minor things. What terrified me is basically the fact that I have seen how he has been treated, how his sources have been treated, how his journalists have been treated. He basically tried to find a place to be protected. He not a place to hide. He wasn't trying to get a place to hide. He was trying to get a place to be protected. He went to Sweden, which is famous for his freedom of speech and it didn't work. He went to the embassy, tried to take refuge in the embassy, didn't work. It worked, actually it worked for seven years at a very high price. He was confined with no proper medical treatment. He felt was collapsing, but at least for seven years he was protected in a certain sense. But at the end, he was put out of the, he was basically denied asylum at the end. His asylum was revoked and now he's in prison for life. So he tried to get protection somehow. He tried to get a place to hide. He tried to with the UN. And again, it worked. The UN working group on arbitrary detention established that he had been arbitrary detained by Sweden and by the UK since 2010. But the UK completely ignored this decision. Then he tried with the UN special rapporteur on torture, Nils Melzer. And again, it worked. Nils Melzer established that he has been psychologically tortured. But again, the UK and the US authorities keep ignoring this decision by the UN special rapporteur. So at the end of the day, there is no place to be protected for him. And this is the most terrifying things for me. I have seen that after all this state criminality, after all this impunity, none of the CIA people put in prison. None of the torturers put in prison. None of the people involved in drone killings and killings of hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians, none of them put in prison. Who are those put in prison? Who are those who are paying the highest price? Those who reveal this crime, this state criminality. For me, this has been terrifying. It has been terrifying to realize this because this is not happening in North Korea. This is happening in our democracies. So this is why we must save Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. We must save them because he must be possible in our democracy to reveal war crimes, to reveal the crimes behind extraordinary conditions, behind the drone killings, behind the war in Afghanistan and Iraq and to be completely safe. This is what freedom of the press in our democracy is to me. Thank you. Yes, indeed. Thank you, Stefan. I mean, this was really impressive. And I think you can guess the first question already, which we get from the audience. And that of course is, what does the Brexit mean for Julian's situation? What, sorry, what? What does the Brexit? So the UK leaving the European Union mean for Julian's situation? Well, it's hard to say at this stage because of course, we don't know what is going to happen. At the same day, we are lucky enough that even if Britain leaves the European Union, at the same time it remains in the Council of Europe. And so Julian Assange can at least appeal to the European Court of Human Rights. The problem is that basically he has spent so many years confined that this legal process will require us here and he cannot, you know, his health is collapsing. His health is collapsing. Can he go ahead for two or three years considering his condition, he's in prison, in a high security prison during a pandemic. He can get COVID anytime. His health is already seriously compromised. So will it be able to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights or it will be too late? That's what terrifies me, you know? Yeah, so I'm now personally interpreting but I think this question is also maybe related to the fact that what you alluded before, I mean, Sweden, UK, we're not talking about autocratic banana republics. We are talking about, you know, EU members and solid democracies and still they did what they did. So I think the question is more related if you think it could get even worse for him. Not sure this is applicable if it can get worse at all but could it get worse for Julian when the UK leaves the European Union next year? As I said, it's hard to assess what is going to happen. I don't think there is anyone who knows what is going to happen. Of course it can be worse but the real problem is whether his health will collapse in prison is completely isolated due to COVID and this comes after 10 years he has been isolated, confined without access to proper medical treatment, without access to sunlight. So his situation was already difficult enough, you know? And now he's in a high security prison in the middle of a pandemic, completely isolated. And we're terrified about the risk that he can be extradited anytime because look, I have spent the last five years trying to get the documents about this case from using Freedom of Information Act. And what was clear, what is clear thanks to this litigation is that the UK authorities have no problem at all about extraditing a publisher, a journalist, who it is, were crying, like if they are extraditing a mafia killer or a drug dealer or also kind of worst of the worst criminal. So they don't care at all about the fact that they are dealing with the extradition of a journalist who revealed tremendously important information and this is the scandal, you know? This is a complete scandal. This extradition case should have never ever started. Should have never never started, you know? We have not extradited and we published the very same documents. So why they do extradite him, you know? And they are crushing him physically and mentally. And the UN Special Rapporteur, who is a very serious person who is called to evaluate this kind of torture and human rights abuses, not someone whose judgment is like mine. I'm not an expert on torture. He visited him, he assessed him with two doctors specializing in torture. So it's someone who did solid work and no one cares. I mean, the UK keep ignoring and the British press is doing very little about this case, which is of extreme concern. Yeah, I think at least in the audience, we have a lot of, we have a lot more questions. So people do care, at least a few here at our C3. So the next question is, how is his defense currently organized? What are his lawyer's strategies? Do you know? Yeah, I mean, his lawyers are, some of them are top expert on extradition, on human rights and so on. So I mean, I'm confident in his lawyers and some of them are top notch professionals. So the problem is this kind of laws, extradition laws and the UK approach to extradition, as I said, because you know, this is a political case. There is no doubt. And the fact that we are not, we have not arrested and indicted and no one asked for our extradition, provide you evidence that this is a political case. Is it about Julian Assarch, they want to crush him to set an example and they don't start doing this with the New York Times and powerful institutions like the Washington Post. They always use these techniques. They always do, even with the Islamic terrorists, they always use these techniques in order to have you, okay, who cares about these terrorists? I won't be involved. I won't be touched by these laws or these extraordinary majors like indefinite detention. But once they are able to have these laws approved, these laws will impact on you, will impact on every journalist. So if Julian Assarch gets extradited, ordinary mainstream journalists will be the next. So the fact that they don't keep picking out, they don't condemn loudly this extradition. Well, it would be something really problematic. They will be the next. We will be the next. They will start with Julian Assarch. They will start with someone who is not establishment, is not media establishment. They go after a small media organization after 10 years of smearing campaign and they hope to be able to extradite him and to put him in prison, so they set the precedent and then we will be the next. Yeah, and I think that is probably a question a lot of people out there ask themselves too. So the next question for you actually is what can we do? Well, I think we have to speak out. We have to talk with our politicians. We have to talk with our newspapers and TVs and trying to get press coverage and try to get all sorts of people taking to the streets and protest. I think they are concerned about pressure. They look at these kind of pressures by the public. So we should try all we can, I mean. So, right, stand up, be loud, demonstrate any kind of protest is super important, is that what you're saying? Absolutely, and unite because so far it has been all about divide, you know? Yes, I like publications but I don't like Julian Assarch. I don't like this or I don't like that one. And this divide and rule has done a lot of damage. They have extradited him for the 2010 publication, which means the Afghan war logs, Iraq war logs, cables, Guantanamo documents. These are amazing documents about extremely serious war crimes, folding serious war crimes and we cannot allow this. We have to speak up and we have to take to the street and say we want to allow you to extradite a journalist for revealing war crimes and tortures, you know? Yeah, and it feels like maybe the first waves or I can feel the first waves of a resistance here among our audience because the next question is, and that's a really good one, are other people allowed to reach out to the European Court of Human Rights on Julian's behalf? Are our people, sorry, could you say that again? Are other people allowed to reach out to the European Court of Human Rights on Julian's behalf? Well, yes, I think, well, actually, it is quite a formal structure process. He has to appeal, his lawyers have to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights certainly any kind of protest, even emailing the European Court of Human Rights, the European Parliament, which have been quite silent about this case. Every morning they wake up and speak out for Russian dissidents, which I agree. I mean, I absolutely agree. They have to speak out for Chinese, for Russian, for North Korea, for whatever. For all sorts of people under pressure by state authorities, but they are very silent on the Julian Assange case, which is pretty of concern, you know? Do you have any hope? I mean, we all know that on January 4th, there will be a new administration in the US. Do you think that this new administration kind of implies any hope for Julian's case? Well, I hope so. I'm not optimistic because the persecution, I would say not prosecution, the persecution of Julian Assange weekly started during the Obama administration. You know, they could have just closed the grand jury investigation. They kept open for two Obama administration that they never stop this blood investigation. Let me tell you, I never heard of a media organization which has been kept under investigation for a decade. I mean, this is the first time I hear a media organization under continuous investigation for 10 years, which means under investigation for alleged violation of the Expionage Act, means that they can intercept you, they can get secret warrants like in the case of the emails of Sarah Harrison, Joseph Farrell, and Christine Rasmussen, and they can do all sorts of very intrusive and secret investigative steps. They can take all sorts of secret investigative steps because Expionage Act is supposed to be about spies. So it's the first time they use the Expionage Act about the journalists. And this is also another, you know, never before you had a publisher, a journalist ending up in prison for alleged violations of the Expionage Act. It's the first time in US history, the first time US history that the publisher end up in prison for publishing truthful information in the public interest.  It's look, look at what's happening, something unprecedented. For the first time US history, a journalist who will end up in prison for publishing truthful information in the public interest. This is something you have to look for. And the next question is maybe even a call to action rather than a traditional question. And that is why not writing down a text to share with people that want to write to the European or whatever court. So I think, or I guess this is kind of the request for a petition type of thing. Yes, I mean petitions certainly is a good idea. The problem is to take the street to be physically so that they can not ignore because petitions can be easily ignored. Whereas if people take the street, if people email newsrooms, if people emails TV and media and editors in chess, because I mean we see how little coverage there is about this case. There is very little coverage. And there is people asking me why so little coverage? You know, I don't know. I mean, I'm doing all I can. And you know, I'm fighting hard doing all I can and other colleagues are doing the same trying to get press coverage on this case. But I think more public pressure is necessary from the public sending emails, contacting the editors, contacting the local politicians and get this case discussed at political and media level. Yeah, indeed. So again, in essence to sum it up, so that was the last question so far. It obviously is again, stand up, do the best you can, unite another important topic you mentioned and yeah, I mean, right to courts, right to press rooms, right to the European Parliament, keep nagging. Just make sure that the silence around the Assange case gets squared away. There are other important topics in this world besides the virus. Absolutely, absolutely. I mean, we cannot look, we cannot afford to lose this case. Seriously, we cannot afford to have them putting in prison a journalist for revealing war crimes and torture. This is what the state, we cannot afford to lose this case. Because if we lose this case, they will go after to everyone. And of course, if we lose this case, it is also about a human being. It's not just about journalism, but also human being. Look at how they have treated them. It's horrific, absolutely horrific. I've been there from the very beginning. It has been painful as a journalist to look at how they have been crashing him for the last decade. Yeah, I think this is really a great, on the other hand, also a sad statement, but I will leave it as is. Oh, hold on. There is one last question for you. Is it known of the US negotiate with the UK regarding the surrender of Julian? Do we know Biden's point on this? We don't know. I mean, we know, as I said, we know that the Obama administration, so the Democrats have been, you know, after Julian Assange, which leaks from the very beginning, and Biden called him a high tech terrorist and things like that. So, you know, I'm not really optimistic, but at the same time, at the same time, we have to hope they will, at the end of the day, they will say, okay, we cannot cross the Rubicon and put in prison a journalist who revealed war crimes, you know, for the first time in our history. So we have to hope for this, and we have to fight for this. I'm telling this as a journalist, you know, I'm not telling this as an activist. I'm telling this as a journalist because I care about freedom of the press because if you cannot reveal war crimes safely in a democracy, I mean, what's the purpose of journalism? You know, if you cannot reveal state criminality as a journalist safely in a democracy, what's the purpose of journalism, revealing minor crimes or minor scandals about politics? No, we are supposed to fight and get the highest level of the power, those level where intelligent services, diplomacy, and the states operate. Yeah, indeed, and also a very important control function. Stefania, unfortunately, the next speakers are already waiting, and we need a couple of minutes to prepare. I can only say thank you very much for being here again, for sharing these great insights. And yeah, I'm pretty sure that... Let me tell you one thing, that this discussion will continue in the whistleblower village in the art C3 world. Exactly, so call to action for everyone who wants to hear more. Go to the whistleblower village in the RC3 world. Stefania will be there and a lot of other experts too. Thank you very much, everyone, for joining us here on the R3S stage. Thank you very much, Stefania, and have a great day. Thank you.


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Good morning traders. This is Bruce at the locks pro if you can hear me and see my screen. Can you just type yes in the questions? And we'll get started Okay, yeah, thanks guys. Okay, excellent Let's get going. Okay, so we're gonna look at the live markets and go through the order flow in book map Risk disclaimer a trading futures and options on futures involves substantial risk of loss is not suitable for all investors Past performance is not indicative of future results For more information go to book map comm if you want to learn about the product Become a member there and you have access to a lot of the free resources A lot of those resources are in the handouts folder that you'll find right there in the go-to webinar software, so if you open that up and you take a look you'll see that there is a user guide for 5.0 the book map 5.0 beta and You also see the book map hft intro guide and How do you recommend taking a look at that and understanding how these markets trade today? If you are unfamiliar with the hft environment And then I also include now the CME rule 575 PDF because a lot of the things there. I mean, this is a current and topical A lot of the order flow that we're going to see I relate very much to that document and we can see What exactly what they're talking about in that document and a lot of that is now considered? Well, they're trying to figure it out in some cases, but a lot of it is illegal behavior and Not going to say that what you're going to see like in some of the spoofing type of action or flipping of the book type of action If it's illegal or not, but I do want to show that phenomena because book map can very easily show that and display that and Doesn't have to be on the millisecond level We'll see it in a five-minute chart and we'll see it in a 30-minute chart or an hour chart We see it all the time. 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We just have if you click on that link There's just one and that is the current one that you're in All right And then under this education tab, this is where you'll find all the recorded webinars so click on that link and up pops a Bunch of the recorded webinars starting with the the last one that we had Okay, so yesterday was a holiday so the previous webinar was on Friday and we this was for this was from Daniel Scalock and This was during the professional trader webinar series We had a trader each day last week present and I'll give you the playlist I'll put it into the chat box there for you. Okay, so In fact, let me go there now Okay, and you can see all the different webinars that we had here And you'll be able to access them in the playlist. They are all here as well But from the drop-down up above here in the playlist, right? So you can see here. We have Daniels on Friday and then Thursday. We had Jason Love on Tuesday we had for on font-remental I'm sorry Wednesday on Tuesday. We had FT 71 and On Monday, we had the Met Day. All right Okay also Would encourage you to watch as many of these video snippets as you can this goes through the Order flow phenomena that we can see in book map in a very concise way Just a couple minutes each video, but if you can digest that information, you're going to see it again and again in the book map chart Okay So learning the order flow in book map, right? We I'm going to start off with a quick review here since there are a lot of new traders in this room We're going to go through this quickly though. I'm not going to delve into a deeper analysis of this But unless you guys have questions, then I'd be happy to right. I mean this this webinar is for you, okay? So any questions that you have, please let me know And we're gonna what basically though we're going to look at some of the higher levels of interest On higher time frames our levels of interest, right? And and then we're going to look at the what the book looks like Understand that microstructure and we're going to put the two together Okay, this is what everyone did last week all of the traders professional traders that we We had present last week. They're all looking at their higher levels Okay, now you can scalp using book map and very very effectively Okay, but you can see that the majority of the traders They are looking at higher time frames and then looking to the microstructure and the order flow in book map Okay, that allows them to pinpoint their entries and exits in the trade management and we saw all of the traders do that and We'll take a look at our Our higher levels here, but let me just go through and review what you're looking at first in book map, okay? And I'm going to take off all of the Information here or data, okay, and We're gonna just start with this very simple view here And we have an indicator panel down here as well, but we're gonna even hide that Okay, so what are we looking at here? Okay, we have three different sections. Okay? This section here is this the historical best bid and offer. That's it Okay So and you can see here. I have quite quite a bit of data here This is the 930 open here in the S&P E-mini and it's currently 11 almost 1110 All right, so a lot of data here and it's just the historical best bid and offer going back and forth Okay, and then you can see in this window here this Very elongated window We have the best bid and offer at the moment. Hey, this is the current best bid and offer this number here is The last traded volume on the best bid or offer Okay, and then you can see the price ladder here and then We have many different columns here to look at we're just going to focus on the COB Which is the current order book column and that's it. Okay? Unless you guys have questions about some of these data columns over here volume trade columns quotes columns, whatever But you can see we actually have two COB columns here This is your dome in book map. Okay, let me zoom in a little bit and we can make this a little bit bigger and What this is showing here is here. You have your best bid and offer right here with these two boxes And then you have your depth on the offer up to this white line And then you have your depth on the bid down to this white line here. Okay, that's it All right And the the CO the other COB column I have here is just a graphical representation of these numeric values in the dome Okay All right, okay, so that's all we're looking at here in book map Pretty pretty straightforward pretty stripped down. All right now Let me add on the volume dots Okay, now what we're looking at here Is the traded volume that took place on the best bid or offer? Okay, a historical view. Okay, so you can see exactly where the where the transaction took place What type of trade was it? and how much traded and and the overall Delta the Buyers versus the sellers and you can see that very clearly here I mean so many trades took place here, but we can see that the overall Delta here There's quite a few more sellers than there are buyers all right But we don't aggregate our data. Okay, this is all it's just a Convenient view When we take a look here and we can see the the overall With this current view. Okay. Now if I click on this hand tool hover over this area and use my center mouse We'll just scroll in you're gonna see how we just Visually aggregate that but there's a lot more trading activity that really occurred here Okay, and we can show you the details here All right, look I mean look at them hit the bid here very very aggressively All right, we're gonna zoom in further and now you can understand Okay, we're looking at just millisecond level here now. We can continue on and we can look at Microsecond level and even nanosecond levels here, right? But I'm just gonna zoom out and we're showing you it's not aggregated data. Okay, it's You can see everything that took place here every single of a discrete market event All right But you can see we visually aggregate that when we zoom out so it gives you the overall Understanding of what occurred in this area All right Okay, so very much like a footprint chart here. What we're looking at is a graphical representation of The traded volume not the numeric. Okay that you would see in a footprint chart Okay So so now now we've just added on the traded volume now. We're gonna add on the heat map Okay, so what I'm looking at now is a grayscale heat map. Okay, what this represents here is the Liquidity in the market. So let me explain. Okay, so I'm gonna zoom in here And we're gonna we're gonna go back to our COB column here Okay, our depth here on the on the bid and our depth on the ask right these numeric values here We're painting it in this live market window here. Okay with the best bid and offer in the last traded volume Okay, we're painting it a grayscale. So this 1721 here is reflected with this brightness in the grayscale. Okay, you can see here that 1572 is it's a little darker all right, so Therefore, you know the numeric value is less the grayscale is less that this you know the market is being made all day long and liquidity levels change dramatically all day long. Okay, but we we record this data and You'll see the grayscale change here And then it's reflected though in on the historical chart. Okay, so as I zoom in we just saw this number change quite a quite a bit here and and this is what it looks like. Okay, it got brighter and Then it got darker. Okay, that is the adding and pulling of liquidity All right, and that's all this is. Okay, so this grayscale Now where it gets interesting is I zoom out and now I can understand the The depth of market historically Okay, I can see where they're bidding and where they're offering. Okay, where they were before are they still interested? How the market behaves when a price approaches them? Do they still want to line up and buy at these levels or sell at these levels? Okay All right, so that's the review and Let me know if you have any questions happy to go through it the the grayscale is You're able to change it. This is not a set-and-for-get Type of tool you will need to change your some of your cutoff White and black cut off here Because the liquidity always changes the picture is always different All right, so all of a sudden you might see two or three thousand contracts come into an area All right, it's going to blow out the heat map in reference because it's going to be 2,000 contracts compared to you know 15 or 1400 right, so You can adjust for that. All right, and it doesn't take much It's a little tweak here and there with some of these settings And and you'll get a feel for what it is that you like and in your view And it just takes a second and then you're back. All right, so That's the the heat map and Let's see here All right a couple questions and we have a Yeah, a question Gunther on the cumulative volume Delta here and HFT calculator So I'm not I don't have any details on the HFT calculator So not not sure where to tell you there But the cumulative volume Delta is available for Both basic and advanced Versions of book map you'll get it. Okay, and you'll find it under this tool up here Okay, the AP API add-ons configuration So you can see that we now have This indicator panel and this indicator what we're doing is where we're showcasing our new API to you Okay, so you have the capability to write your own indicators within book map Okay The benefit is you're going to be able to see your custom indicator within the heat map here and have the context of The the auction process as well as that traded volume all right Okay, so I Think that answers your question come through. Let's see here. How do I get in two columns? Okay? So Adding more columns here. You can add as many as you like. So you just right-click in a column Okay, and click insert a new column or you can hide it Okay, let's insert one and to the right pops a new column That is a duplicate from where I came from and then right-click again And you can see the different types of data I have available here Okay, so I have the current order book. I have a volume profile I have a trades counter profile a quotes counter profile and a quotes delta as well as custom notes and in cloud notes here all right Okay, and you can format those columns so click on format and you'll have the the different options here to you know Split out your data and verse the split bars bars in numbers numbers only extended not extended You know just show the bid or just show the ask, you know and in the justification of it, too So you want to justify it to the right left whatever? Okay And let me hide that one Okay Let's see Carl, you're not able to get CVD 13 Okay, I'll go over that in just a minute Yeah, that's the same question Luigi has okay I have no idea. I think you should you're talking about futures trader 71 and his settings For the CVD and different markets. You probably have to reach out to him. Okay I'm really not sure exactly what his settings are for those different markets. All right Okay Let's see here Okay, so Now let's take a look at our higher time frames here and just start to map out Some areas of interest and what the order flow is going to look like in some of those areas of interest Okay, so you can see a strong day-to-day on a 30-minute chart and Let's Zoom out a little bit. All right. I mean you can see very strong uptrend for several days And we could put a trend line in there. We should And you can see how nicely it's holding even the the aggressive trend line here All right And they're still buying right so Let's take a look at a five-minute chart and what kind of insight can we get here? Okay, what is the order flow going to look like in some of my specific areas of interest? Okay, I can put in the small trend line just for today And a couple horizontal lines in this area Also, I'm very curious in this area here. You can see the pause and then the extension Okay, so this is where they started to buy yet again at 59 and Yep, we can also put something up here around the highs and volume profile. We're gonna see more This is gonna be a nice edge as we can see here So I'm also interested in maybe a retracement to this area right here So 63 the the highs And 59 and then all the way back down to where it opened or Around there 54 Okay, so let's let's we can put in some some lines here with the new pen tool In in book map and let's put in some some vertical lines or I'm sorry some horizontal lines here All right, so we're looking at our 64 area Okay, 64 and a half Let's put in another one and We were looking at 59 Now what is it 59 and a quarter? Okay? down here Okay, and and what else 54 and a half or so Okay There we go. So I'm yeah, let's take a look and see what the order full looks like at some of those areas and We're gonna we're gonna look at the order flow and we're gonna analyze some of these areas in a very specific way all right and Let me make the indicator panel a little smaller and let's zoom here. Okay, so for understanding the order flow What is it that I? Want to look at here. Okay. I want to look at the current configuration of the book All right, we're showing up to the market here. It's an auction And now we can really understand this this auction process in book map because we're looking at it not only in real time But historically All right, so what it what is the current configuration? Where were they lining up before and where are they now? Lining up to to to deal And then the second question is how does the book behave when price approaches these areas? And then overall What is the tape the traded volume telling us where do the transactions actually take place? okay Okay coming down in our 59 area. All right and Just hitting it now Okay, and let's take a look at the the book. All right looking pretty dark here Well, let me let me adjust it then.  I bring it down okay, and I'm not seeing much at all And now they're starting to get interested. Okay a little bit below All right. Okay, so current configuration. What do I mean by that? Okay? Where are the buyers and sellers lining up? Okay, the majority of them currently? Right now at the moment. We're looking at this 57 and a half. That's where they want to buy. Okay after this drop And they're now here at 59 on the opposite side They broke through our level and they're on the other side selling now Okay, so a very very tight range at the moment After this breakdown and you can see We can see here How the market behaved as price came down into these areas So current configuration very simple to answer that question all right Look for that that high liquidity on the bid and the offer and The second question is how does the market behave though when price approaches these areas? So these sellers are they really that interested in selling up at 59? Okay, and we can see that they're not they're pulling that liquidity here. That's giving us insight Okay, how about these guys down here that want to buy? Okay? How are they behaving? Well, they're getting pretty aggressive right there they're starting to Want to buy at higher levels? Okay? You can see them step it up here Okay, so what now we're starting to understand the auction going back and forth All right, how about these guys it when we broke through this area down here? Okay? Well, we can answer that question to these guys stayed in the book we can see the transactions that took place and the liquidity that was provided here and You know some of it was pulled for sure, but look at the look at the dots. Okay, and the aggressive selling here All right, so these traders they wanted to be buyers and they and they got what they wanted All right, they We get my arrow back They they were buyers at these levels and and sellers took them on and completed that transaction here and here All right. Okay. Now. Let's get into that third question Okay What is the tape telling us the traded volume? Okay? And what kind of clues does this give us here to what's going on? Okay? Well, we can see a lot of selling came in. All right We're now we're starting to see though some some buying interest pop back in Especially lifting the offer in this little area here All right at this 58 and three quarters Okay But sellers are still there they're still just hitting the bid here, you know hitting the bid through All right Okay, so so in terms of reading the tape It's up to you But we're looking at where these transactions are taking place and that's kind of the the key here and And what type of transactions are taking place? You know the we're using aggressor classification of this traded volume, which just means if it's a A market sell it's going to be a red dot if it's a market buy it's going to be a green dot Okay, and it's aggressive because they wanted it and they cross the spread to pay for it whereas these other traders in the And the limit order book are they're waiting at their levels to deal they want a specific price All right, they don't have to they can wait for it. They don't they don't want to get in right away All right. So anyway Let's see here Let's see what is our this go through our three questions again, right? So we saw them starting to pull but then they they Jump back in here with high liquidity at 59 and then they actually pulled in this area here As you can see Okay, so our aggressive buyers they they got cold feet right in this area here Okay, and they're still getting cold feet notice this area here now at 57 and a half Okay, but now they're lying up here at 57 Okay, now our other area of interest was down here at 54 and a half Okay, we're starting to see some buyers come in here down at at 55 and a half All right Okay, majority of it though looking at the tape. We're still seeing more selling than buying Okay, at the moment Okay, just to look at the the red dots here taking place and More trading taking place at lower lows. I'm looking for continuation to can you know to for price discovery to the to the downside here okay That's usually how the tape operates In giving us insight Okay in a trending market. You will especially see that Okay, more volume trading at lower lows and then at these lower highs You'll see points of exhaustion take place here Look at the look at the aggressive buying up in this area here. Just all these little just little dots All right, they're not too interested in buying Okay, instead look at the sellers here. Look at look at where these transactions are taking place Okay, so I'm looking for further continuation to the downside and And and we got that we got that follow through okay and Yeah, they're starting to get interested here again. We saw them starting to pop in at 50 57 Okay, and also this 55 and a half all right, let's see questions about the CVD and the Automated strategies as well okay the Let's just we'll click on this and Go over a few of these things okay, so you can see here that the the API and add-ons configuration You can add all sorts of new indicators Within this window here your your custom indicators you can have them written you can write them yourselves it's Java based and And we're showcasing a few examples for you Okay, we have the cumulative volume Delta We have some automated trading strategies. We have the chase escape and execute all right and Let's just go through the cumulative volume Delta right and what are we what are we showing here? Okay, so I'll click on this okay, so if you're Familiar with the cumulative volume Delta, you know what it is. It's just adding the Aggressor classification of that volume if it's a market sell Is it's going to be a negative one if it's one one contract? All right, if all of a sudden then you have a market buy for one contract It will balance out in your cumulative volume Delta will be zero okay And and that just it just accumulates all day long All right, and and you can see the selling here that took has taken place Okay, so that's that's actually matching pretty nicely with our volume dots as we can see here Okay, more and more selling lower lows on the cumulative volume Delta here all right and There's all sorts of different settings that you can Place here within your cumulative volume Delta. Okay, we're going to go through just the the basic setting here and Just showing the the overall since I opened up my book map Okay You have the options for to reset it You can reset it now you can add or reset Whenever you like as well and it will go back to zero at that point Okay, what that allows you to do is study specific areas Okay, so if you're looking for a zone And you want to know what that volume Delta is in that zone All right And you can see here we have actually two lines We have the blue and this green line here So the blue line is this CBD that is 13 lots, so let me click on this one And you can see we have a filter on it here. Okay, the minimum accountable volume size We have it set for a 13 Okay, and this is I believe what FT 71 is is currently using with the S&P E-mini And you also have a filter for the maximum as well. So with the minimum volume size It's showing the minimum volume of 13 if a 13 or or more contracts traded then This will make the computation and you can see the computation here in the little widget window Okay, you can see the CBD for the 13 lot is negative 3200 and the regular CBD is 6500 all right, so You can see the difference here now why why Why go through this difference? Okay, what is it was it showing me it's showing me what the behavior is with the larger traders? Larger traders are going to be using larger size with their with their contract size and so We're making a distinction. So we're getting insight to how they are behaving in the aggressive volume All right, and we're comparing and contrasting that to everything else Okay, so this would include all of your smaller traders as well all right and We can see that actually they're not you know, they're starting to perhaps You know accumulate Position here. See notice how we had the crossover here. Okay. They were aggressive here And then it's at this point right here All right, we can see it. This is where we have a flip In our two lines. Okay, so now We have them starting to you know, they're not they're not hitting the bid as as much as the The smaller traders. Okay, we're the smaller lot size Okay, so it's up to you How you want to integrate that if you're looking for a specific level? and And then you're looking for maybe absorption in your cumulative volume Delta. Okay with limit orders Then you're going to look for a divergence in that price Or in the in the output here in the in the volume Delta Yeah question here on the smaller circles and what I'm what I'm showing here. Okay, so click on the the sprocket here and and you'll see the different Icons that you can show or hide the indicator. Okay, so the a bar chart Icon here it will display in the indicator panel here. Okay, the The volume Delta for that study. Okay, or This one here is for the widget panel here. So if I click on that and then you can see that I don't have it any longer All right. You also have the Ability here to look at circles or you can look at lines as well or bars Okay, and if you want to Change some of the settings you can click on that and you're back to this window here That is the same as clicking on this button up the API button up here, and then your volume Delta Okay All right. Well, we've got our continuation to the downside. Okay from reading our tape Okay, and the Let's see what is that auction telling us here. Well, we can see them get really aggressive in this area here And then we can see the the lack of the buying up in this area This was their chance for the bowls to take this higher and they really just didn't Put anything into it at all you can see the lack of buying at this 58 and three-quarters here. Okay, so bookmaps showing you that pretty pretty nicely pretty clearly Okay, so reading our tape and we can see the Price discovery to the downside here All right now. We're starting to get you know down to our level of interest around our 54 area We're still we still got a few points to go But we can see that some buying is starting to come in we look at 56 here Okay, they're starting to get interested All right 55 has been in here for a while now they're they started to pull and they're now they're back in okay at 55 Okay, but look at again. This is this is this is what's called a flip of the book Okay Looking for they were on the On the bid but now they're aggressively on the offer. Okay So they want to be sellers here aggressively in these areas Okay, then the swing was up here. All right, but they're down here okay, so And now we're now let's read that behavior now We're starting to approach this area here and let me as I zoom in we'll need to adjust our map a little bit Okay, yeah, pretty high liquidity here. Okay a few levels of it as well. Okay, and they're staying they're staying in the book 56 is staying though here as well. They did pull right in this little area, but they're right back in now Okay, look at the aggressive behavior here at 57 jumping in and now these guys are starting to pull Okay, now we have the opportunity to come up here and test this 59 area Okay, let's see the aggressive buying take place We can maybe we can get a push up into this At least 58 and a half, huh? the Christopher the these are the book and volume and balances here these are Add on indicators And it's showing the the overall book here from this current view. You'll note that if I zoom in we'll get it We'll get a different reading Because it's making different calculation, but it we're looking at the Bids versus the offers. Okay, and then we get a skew in it Okay volume is the same thing. It's just for this current view, but you can see that We have more selling than we do buying all right And when we're in a you know in a downtrend at the moment, so that's really no no surprise Okay All right guys, well, I didn't get a chance to to get to the automated strategies. We'll do that tomorrow but we did go through the cumulative volume Delta and started to look at the different settings and relate it to the the price action that we're viewing here. Okay, so Let's let's wrap it up I'll show you where you can find those recorded webinars. Okay, they are here under in the members area Here under this education tab click on the link here And then click on the playlist for others up in the upper left hand corner Okay, this webinar will be up there in about an hour hour and a half or so and If you want to give bookmap a try this is new new data here new information a 30 30% discount so Yep, you can Receive that if you purchase in the next three days All right. Thanks guys. Thanks for coming. We'll catch up with you tomorrow


Hi, good morning and welcome to today's products and focus and what roller coaster we had yesterday most global equity markets or massively on the back foot as crude oil sold off very aggressively and Actually briefly went below $27 which was an incredible move almost about a six percent slump on the day and that had big Grammifications on most European US and Asian markets as well The Japan 225 was down way over 5% the UK 100 was done about 4% at one point Just as the US markets took a massive tumble one point the Dow was actually down 500 points before staging LA in the day recovery with an Aztec Actually almost finishing and positive territory almost flirted with positive territory towards the end of the close so today has actually brought with it a Kind of a resumption of that slide so we had our initial move back to the to the to the upside And I think there's a beginning slowly drift that down again as you'll see by the charts when we look at the technical analysis part of this video Now crude oil I think is almost below $27 again first thing this morning Which isn't so good and most other markets while they are away from their lows that they plumbed Yes, the morning and they're not that far away from there And in fact some quite ugly candlestick formations already Japan 225 down almost a thousand points from its intraday high so far today So that in itself is is about a five or six percent move already So it's it's been a very interesting start to the day There is a lot of fear and negative sentiment out there And I guess the question that everybody's asking is is the bull market rally Completely over now and a number of markets have entered firmly into that official correction period You've got Japan you've got the hand saying and you had the UK 100 yesterday Now it didn't close below that 20% drop from its from its recent high But most markets are entering into a correction phase apart from the US 12% down from its high still resilient Questions obviously still remain because growth growth is there So the sell-off in the markets does seem to be slightly overdone Everybody's looking at crude oil and basically Holding their hands up going what we don't know where this is going to stop and the impact It's going to have as some big energy companies begin to feel that pinch You never done and see sell-offs liquidations, etc And that's the thing people are thinking about not today What's what's going to be like tomorrow and that's a major thing for the for traders to get through their heads so far today So there is a lot of fear, but there is still growth at the US There still is growth in Europe and as we discussed yesterday There's lots of things that China could still do that they haven't done yet Perhaps there is an element that this is slightly overdone at the moment, but nobody wants to catch a falling knife So let's go ahead and have a look at things from a technical perspective and see for some of those support levels could potentially be So as ever, let's start off with the US 30 So you can see the extent of the move that we actually had there yesterday Way off the session lows now the US 30 had rallied already in the session as we push back down We are off today's session those 72% of seems to markets clients are currently short the technicals are obviously oversold so 15,900 is a potential support. We are a good bit away from 15,300 and 15 Though you could be looking at the tip of this candle as the next potential support Jumping on to the UK 100 and you just see how it beautifully bounced off that 55,600 level before reversing back up as commodities had a late late in the rally You can see exactly where we are again support levels working very very well on the UK 100 5769 is potential resistance 5600 is potential support and 90% of seems to market clients are long obviously hoping for a rebound Jumping on to Japan 225 really ugly. I'm going to talk about a thousand point move That's from here down to here and that is a it's a significant move What's really interesting is we actually went lower than we were yesterday at one point before reversing back up very very volatile Japan 225. It's a it's a tough one to trade at the moment 70% of seems to markets clients are currently long on Japan They're obviously hoping for a turnaround. You can see we're a long way away from the next potential support level So as long as 16 440 as we're below this That's the resistance level so that negative pressure will continue And of course you got a double whammy because everybody's buying the Japanese yen as a St. Haven now again We're far away from 116 again a beautiful bounce off that level You know if we go all the way back to here You can see where that level was bounced off it Yes, they'd be for moving back up 58% of seems to markets clients are currently long And we are pretty much at the cusp of 116 70 as a potential short-term support level But if the negativity markets continues the yen will be well bid West Texas crude per West Texas again bouncing off around about 27 dollars before it matters a very slight bounce this morning It was in green been pushed back into red $27 is we're pretty much at that right now. So that gives you an idea of what to expect 62% of seems to markets clients are short if 27 is broken 25 next if 25s broken 23 and a half is what you'll have to look forward to Looking a potential forward to looking at gold Gold's actually been quite an interesting one had a decent rally yesterday Sell off towards the end stopping shy of 1100 we're just taking our head above there right now You'd be looking at the tips of these candles as the next short-term potential resistance 68% of seems to market clients are currently along So your dollar you have Mario Draghi's press conference today And so the ECB is not re-raising rates incidentally. They might be talking about cutting rates perhaps more likely To the rate decision is a 1245 UK time followed by a statement by Mario Draghi at 140 a 130 130 you can see the tip to these candles that it's failing to break through This is we're still in this descending triangle formation until we get a break and a close through that sloping trendline 67% of seems to marks clients are currently along And we'll have to wait to see what Mario Draghi has to say but it's The fundamental factor would definitely have an impact on this and let's finish up with GBP USD poor old cable Just isn't getting much love. We're below one spot 42 The pound has not been getting a lot of a lot of love because interest rates is a bit of a distant memory at the moment in the UK Some of the figures economic growth figures are okay There's certainly nothing to write home about one spot 35 10 is the next potential support level and If we get a close below one spot 42, that will be one of the lowest closes in my decades on cable It's not very good time to be going in a holiday to the US. It's nearly 88% of seems to marks clients are short And they must be loving this sell-off all the way down. So I can make data-wise. I have a quick look at market pulse You can see there. I don't have my European equity my euro zone Products turned on where is the euro zone? There we go. And then done And you you can see that that interest rate decision there as at 1245 Mario Draghi's come Prestiglet 130 UK time. You got unemployment claims CPI weekly petroleum sales and then Friday You've got German and European PMI figures to look forward to and total Existing home sales to finish up the session. So guys that gives you an idea of what's happening the markets right now And from a technical perspective Join me again tomorrow to find out what happened next and best of luck with your trading. Thank you very much and goodbye


Well hello and welcome to Understand Men Now. I'm Jonathan Asley of JonathanAsley.com and I'm so excited to be shooting this short video for you today. Our topic, if he pulls away, ask him this, don't lean back. Okay, you've got to ask him this. I'm going to share this in a moment. Really quickly, if you've been watching my channel for a while and you notice that the photographs keep changing, that's because I bought a gazillion of these things called mix tiles, mix tiles. This was shortly after Connor passed away. I felt the desire to get all the pictures I could of him and they're plastered throughout all my house. They have these sticky things that you can stick on the wall. But anyway, that's what happens. And if you've noticed a change, please post a comment below. Mention, I've noticed all the pictures keep changing. And by the way, that's a picture of my mom and dad. Okay, when a man pulls away, ask him this, don't lean back. Okay, now let me share with you why men pull away happens to be one of the most popular search terms for women because they've noticed that in this dating process, in this form of the dating process, certainly for those of us in midlife, men seem to rush the process of getting close and then they pull away, they emotionally pull away. This happens frequently. Now, most of the time this happens because men aren't crystal clear on what they want in relationship. Men aren't crystal clear on what they want in relationship. It was a lot different for men, at least I know for me as a baby, you know, tail end of a baby boomer, almost a Gen Xer, I had a programming.  I had a blueprint, but the challenge for men at midlife is they don't have a blueprint of what a healthy relationship looks like when you're doing it the second, third time around. So a lot of men don't know what they want. So the minute the relationship gets a little bit too emotionally intense, they pull away because they're not prepared for it. And I know you ladies all want that 1% guy, that one or maybe it's the 10% guy who is crystal clear on what he wants when he likes you. He's demonstrative, he's effusive, and he's all in literally from day one. I know that's what you want, but that's not all men. In fact, I'd say about really only about 50% of men are genuinely capable of leaning into a healthy happy relationship. So this is why when a guy pulls back, it's important not to do this lean back. And the only reason why I over dramatize the whole leaning back in my videos is that you've been coached by a lot of coaches to lean back, which on some level is good. Lean into your sovereignty. Lean into your personal empowerment. Lean into your self love, which I talk about frequently. In my book, what the heck is self love anyway? Lean into your self love. But there's this notion that by leaning back, it creates space for the man to come to you.  And it's only gonna work on the guys who have anxious attachment style because they feel abandoned and they immediately want to rush after you. This isn't gonna work on those avoidant personality types, okay? And if it does, it's only temporarily. What you really have to discern is what is his true capability of being in relationship. And that's what I want to invite you to do today. So if you're not familiar with the book Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg, okay? This book teaches you how to communicate more effectively. And ladies, I know you think you're these great emotional communicators, but I'm gonna tell you, I'm shocked at how many women are afraid to speak up to a man because you're afraid they're gonna run away. And part of it is merely because you haven't learned the skills to communicate in a way that you can be seen, heard, and understood. Hence why I want you to get the book Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg. Because in my book, What the Heck Is Self-Love, there's chapter one, Speak Your Truth, Do It With Kindness. We're gonna talk about that in a second. And then later on in the book, there's a chapter called If It's Sincere and From the Heart. You can never say the wrong thing to the right person. So I'm here to say, Speak Up! And when a guy leans back, he pulls away, I mean, short of even ghosting.  Well, guess what? You have to call him or you have to reach out to him. This is the only way to navigate this.  All right. I curse there.  Hey, I feel that you've pulled away a little bit. I'm checking in to see what's up. I feel you've pulled away. Okay, you're using a feeling word. I feel I'm feeling a little bit unclear because you're not as communicating as much as you were before. And I'm just checking in to see where you're at. By doing that, you initiate the process of whether or not he's going to lean into you or he's gonna ghost.  Learn the words next, okay? Learn the words next. But by doing this, you've actually shortened your anxiety level because I've talked to women who are waiting weeks and weeks. They're giving them space. They're giving the guys space. I'm giving them space so he can come to me.   You ask him what the hell is going on and get clarity so you can make a choice going forward. Now, let me grant it. You can bail on him. He pulls away. You can bail on him. That's certainly something you can do.  Let's be real. So go ahead and ask him, I'm simply checking in. What's up for you? You have to recognize that most men and women alike are struggling to find their own emotional center. This is why I'm a big proponent of personal development, self-help, and spiritual work. In my book, I talk about the roadmap to do that inner work so you can find inner peace. And guys need this substantially. Do me a favor, ladies. If you know a guy that just any friend, male friend of yours, buy my book for him so he can start growing as well. Give him the invitation to improve from the inside out so he can have his own sovereignty so maybe he doesn't ghost or disappear or pull away for the next woman. It's just a suggestion.  I say what the fuck's going on but you know you're gonna do it a lot nicer with a lot better tone. And read the book Nonviolent Communication to help prepare you. All right. Once again, if you find value in the work I do and you'd like to schedule a discovery call with me to see if working with a coach is right for you. Check out the link below. Check out all the links, my podcast, my book, my free gift and everything. I'm gonna wrap up this video. I always do giving myself a big gigantic job to bear a hug of self-love. I'm gonna reach into the camera and give you a hug of love. I'm gonna ask you to turn to someone and give them a hug of love because hugs are a great source of love and we can all use more love in our lives.