Hello hello and welcome to PD and your PJs. I'm Julie. I'm so excited to be here with you today and I'm just honored that you would take time out of your busy back-to-school time of year to join me to talk about getting families connected in CESA. I have lots of tips and ideas to share with you today. Like I said, my name is Julie. I was a high school ELA teacher for 18 years. Now I'm on the teacher community team at CESA. I would love for you to find me on Twitter. I am at EdTech Julie Jay. I would love for you to give me a follow because I share lots of resources and ideas pertaining to CESA and then of course you can connect with our whole team on Twitter at CESA. Now in this webinar today I'm going to be talking specifically about getting families connected. I'm not going to be talking about creating a CESA account or creating a class or adding students. So if you're in need of that type of training please make sure you check our list of webinars. You can see the URL is right here at the bottom of the screen or you can always go to web.CESA.me backslash pds and you can take a look at any of our upcoming offerings. We just want to make sure you find everything you need if you're just getting started with CESA. So we're so excited to just talk about ways that you can engage families with updates from your classroom. So CESA is going to give your connected family members and parents some really personalized and visual updates about what's going on in the classroom and it's really just a transformative experience. I can tell you from my own experience in the classroom I was using CESA every day with 11th and 12th graders and we had families connected and they were kind of involved in our classroom in ways they never had been before. It was pretty amazing but I'm also a parent of younger students who are using CESA in their classrooms and it's an amazing experience as a parent as well. So whether you're a teacher or a parent I think you will love that experience of getting that peek inside the kids classrooms. So I'm going to show you some things today in the form of slides here and you're going to get the slides and the recording coming to you in an email pretty shortly after we conclude today. I'm just showing you some screen grabs and you can even see from this one I have arrows pointing to some of the right buttons that you will need. But the best part is after I click through a few of these slides today I'm going to take you right inside a CESA class and do a live demo for you so that you can see exactly how to do all the steps you need to do to get families connected. I'll show it to you in slides in case you need that as a resource later but then we'll go through and we'll do it together. Okay so I'm in my CESA class here. This is just a screenshot. I'll go into the live demo in a minute. Let's say this is my class it's called Mrs. V's fourth grade. I'm ready to invite families and what I need to do is just look at the bottom right of my screen and you see that button there that has the plus sign and families so I'm being prompted then to add families and if I click that button here's what opens up for me. What opens up for me is this pop-up that's going to ask me to turn on family access to make sure that I'm enabling it in my CESA class that families so I'm going to click this if I'm ready to connect families. I do want to assure you and make sure you make this clear to parents and potential connected families that you know they're only going to see items that belong to their own child or something that they're is tagged in so sometimes teachers will take a class photo and tag it to everyone or all students and then they would see other students in the photo but really they're only seeing their own child's work so sometimes people worry about that and they think oh well I see this work that belongs to another student and I really won't they're only going to see their own child's creation so that's something you can reassure people about but you're going to click that turn on family access button and then this is what's going to pop up on your screen you're going to have a couple of options here you can print some paper invitations that are unique for each kid in your class or you can send a sample email and I'm going to be honest with you today and saying I was teaching 11th and 12th graders and it was much more successful for me to send an email to parents and family members to get them connected big kids just aren't great at getting papers home you know there's not the same system of taking a folder home and emptying it out every night with your family members and hanging things up on the fridge so paper was not making it home with my big kids so I was having a lot of luck with email but of course I'm assuming you're probably working with younger students and there is a system where paper would make it home or even better if you're meeting with those family members at a meet the teacher or back to school kind of event then that's when you can get those paper invitations home so you're going to print here if you're connected to something that can print I'm going to show you exactly how to do that and each invitation will have a unique student name and qr code and again if you're interested you can just do the sample or you can click the email that then you paste into your own email to send to connected family members excuse me so here's something else that you'll really appreciate the paper invitation well I just cleared my throat there excuse me again we also have these paper invitations in a bunch of different languages so it's really important that you invite your family members in the language they speak so as you're clicking that paper invite button be sure to pull the drop down arrow and if you need to print that invitation in different language you can sure do that that's actually a really great opportunity to help get more families connected so I just wanted to remind you that was there and I can of course show you that in real time and I also want to remind you and this is like kind of something that's unclear to family members the first time they use sisa they're going to need to download the sisa family app if they want to connect from a phone so you know how you've been using the sisa class app so if you've been in webinars with us in the last few weeks and you've been playing along as a student you've been using the sisa class app you're using that in your classroom as a teacher your students are using that but and you know you remember it has the word class here in big letters parents and family members need to use the family app to connect so you need to make sure that you're making that clear to families if you're meeting with them face to face like if they're in your room for back to school meet the teacher night talk to them about the family app make sure that they're getting the right app because it won't really work for them to connect as a family member through the class app okay so just remind them about that it's pretty clear on the printed handout but it's a good opportunity when you're seeing them face to face to make that clear just to kind of help make that point I did a screen grab from my own smartphone the other day just to show you that like if you're in an app store on your phone I'm on an iOS phone here but this would be true even if you were on an android phone if you look in your app store for sisa you're going to see these two options the class option which is of course what we use as teachers and our students use it but also I'm seeing the family option and it's the family one that you're going to want your parents to get I included a video here for you to do in case that's a helpful resource I'm not going to play it during this particular training but if you want to see what it looks like from the perspective of the family app or for a family member you can watch this video later I just thought that might be helpful for me to include there I think this is a good time for me to pop out here and go into a sisa demo class and show you what it looks like to do all of this in real time so what I was showing you before we're just screen grabs that I pasted into some slides and that can be a helpful resource for you for later but let's just do it together in real time here I'll show you exactly the steps that you can go to if you're ready to connect families so I'm in a demonstration class we use this for PD and workshops and of course if you've been with us in some other webinars you've seen stuff like this before so this is kind of a pretend class with pretend students names I'm going to show you how I would connect families remember I'm going to go to the bottom right I'm going to go to the bottom right and click that plus families button and then I get this exact screen that I showed you in my slide a minute ago so I can print the paper invites or I can view the email since I didn't show you a screen grab email I'll just show it to you right now it's going to basically make an email for me that then I can copy and paste into whatever I use for email to send to family members and so if you already have parents who communicate with you over email this is a really helpful thing like I said I had a lot of success with that I just pasted this right in in my gmail and send it right to families it even suggests a subject line for you so you can do that and you also have the option of changing that and the other languages as well which is really cool or you can print the paper invitations and don't forget you can switch language as well I'm going to show you what this looks like so just so you can see how easy it is seesaw's doing all the hard work for you you're not having to create an invitation this printable for you and so I'm actually you know demoing to you right now on a computer if you are not connected to print from like an ipad or an iphone this wouldn't work the exact same way but if you're on your computer and you're connected to a printer this is pretty simple so I'm even going to get a page of instructions and FAQs here so if that's helpful for me to review I can review it as well I'm going to also get a list of people in my class who already have connected family members and right now at the very beginning of the school year I'm assuming if you're a northern hemisphere teacher you're right at your beginning of the year you're not going to probably have this list you don't probably have connected parents yet but later in the year this is really helpful because when you're trying to see who's left to get connected and who you need to reach out to it's really helpful to look at this list and you can always generate it just by clicking that plus families button and then the the print the invitations and you'll see that list even if you don't print it you could always just take a quick screenshot if you needed that information but then here's the good stuff here's my invitations and I want to show you you can see that it's a 12 page file I have one for each of my students here it's a unique invite with their name at the top it's just for them and it has their unique join code the name of the class and my teacher name appears here and then the student name is here lots of helpful instructions and information for parents here and then their unique join code so I can just with just a couple of clicks I print all of these in invitations for my students and get those ready to go for back to school night or to send home with students when school begins so it's pretty pretty cool setup and it's pretty quick and convenient for teachers so that's that's how we do it starting here with the plus families and then getting that print paper invites button it's just as simple as that so I'm going to pop back into my slides and go over just a few final things before we take a few questions okay so you saw how I generated the paper invitations and you could see that the student's name is at the top I give you some advice here make sure you're sending home the right paper with the right student okay because that is a code unique for them and remember families can connect just by scanning this code it just takes a second they need to do that so in the staff family app just like we talked about a few minutes ago so make sure if they're trying to connect they're doing it with a family app and of course they don't have to join with the app they can join with the url I'll go back to the slide and just explain a few more things and then I'll talk about the url I did want to just remind you before I clicked too fast that students can have up to 10 family members connected to their journal so this paper could be used over and over you don't have to print new invitations Alonzo could take this home and the people who live in his house could connect but he could even share that with aunts uncles grandparents or whoever else wanted to connect to his journal so that's pretty cool too they can have up to 10 family members make sure you're sending home the right right okay and this is what I was starting to say that family members can scan the code in the family app and join in an instant or they can type the web address or url that's listed on the invitation it shows up right here under from your computer so if a parent is not connecting with a smartphone and they just want to connect with a computer they can just type in that address and they can connect just as quickly there's just one extra step though they have to pick their student's name from a list because they're not joining with a unique code like this so they have to click their kid's name off the list and then you can easily too I just wanted to remind you that it's a little bit of a different system but it is super fast for both parents okay so if you are meeting with people in your class as far as as part of that back to school event we do have a website ready go for you it's something that if it's handy for you to do it you could project on a screen or you could have open on a few student devices I can see that it's slow to open here okay if you have a few student devices open like maybe you could have this on computer screens I'm ready for parents to see if you are attempting to connect real time in your classroom this is super the link is here in the slide okay so if you just click this later you can get to this back to school website it talks about what is seesaw it gives you a little video it walks parents through all this information we have the video available in a couple of different languages and then it gives those same sign-up instructions that I showed you on a slide earlier with even more tips it is really helpful if you have this available as you're meeting with parents so I just wanted you to know that resource existed for you it's that back to school or family website the other piece of advice I like to give teachers to is that if you're connecting parents and family members to seesaw make sure there's something waiting there for them and that they're not getting to a blank screen when they join it's really cool if when they log in to seesaw for the first time that they see something like a welcome video or even just a photo of your classroom anything that you want to post there for everyone you can just tag it to all students or everyone and then anyone who logs in can see it and it could just be like a welcoming message but that's really nice for families to see that when they log in for the first time so just make sure students have posted something before you connect families and we have some ideas for you a lot of nice things waiting for you in the seesaw activity library and if you want to join us for our first five activities pd the link is there and of course you know you can find all of our pds at web.seesaw.me backslash pds we give you lots of ideas for your students first posts in seesaw okay don't forget if you get stuck with any of these steps and you need help reach out to us through the help center you can search by a lot of really you can submit a help request here there's like three different ways you can get some help to start there that's a great place to start if you get stuck and then i always want to remind you before we end don't forget to connect with our community we're pretty active on twitter facebook and instagram so find us of those spots we even have grade level specific groups on facebook so i hope you can join the one that's specific to your grade and don't forget to find me on twitter i'm at edtechjulij i think what we'll do now is i'll stop the recording but i'll stay online for a few more minutes to answer questions so go ahead and type your questions in the question box and we'll take a few minutes to go over those over those i'm going to stop my recording today and then just wait the thanks so much for joining me and i hope to see you in a pd again really soon bye


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going to make us millionaires and that's going to be that we're going to rent some of our guitar equipment so let's just take a quick recap in our flow chart this is a quick books desktop flow chart we're just looking at it to see the flow of the process of our accounting cycle so we have guitars that we've been buying and selling to generate revenue we also then do guitar lessons and now we're going to rent some of that guitar equipment so the process that we're going to use to do that is going to be that if someone calls in for a rental of a band set we're going to set up an estimate or a quote and then we're going to pick up a down payment to reserve the equipment for them and lock them into that commitment of the rental and then when they come in we will actually have an invoice for them when we actually conduct the giving of the rental property which will record the revenue and then we will collect the payment in our normal accounting process on on that invoice and deposit it so that's the general idea in order to do that last time we set up a few new things we set up another income account which is in the drop down here accounting drop down chart of accounts and if we go into the revenue side we set up a new income line item of rental income we then set up our items in order to populate that so if I go to the accounting drop down let's not know the business drop down and go to products and services we set up the things that we're going to sell the items that are going to drive the population of the quote or estimate and invoices the bank set the bank of the bank it should be banned it should be banned but in any case the rental added rental guitars and whatnot so we're going to have this is the big baseline let's change the name if I can could you spell it right because you're confusing me this is ridiculous I don't even know okay so let's edit the item this is not a bank that we're renting we're renting a band set so we're gonna say you have to buy the minimum band set at $2,000 if you want anything and then from there I'm gonna go back to my products you can add another guitar or an amp and and modify it from that baseline point is the general idea I have no idea what an actual rental of band equipment would be I'm just making numbers up as we go here so we have some examples okay so now someone calls in they're like hey we want like a band set because we're making a band and again because we have it set up properly and we've educated the punk kid that we've got sitting in the shop taking the calls then he can populate the quote and get everything rolling even though he's not the brightest bulb you know in like the Christmas tree bulbs or something so we're gonna so we're gonna say that we want to say add and he's just gonna say I'll make a quote for you you want a band set we do that now let's add a quote I'll tell you how much that costs and let's say this is gonna be at one of my customer number let's just say number 10 customer 10 we'll add customer 10 and I'm just gonna keep on going with Feb 27 here so Feb 27 the call-in happened and then when I'm just having through the quote currency standard not going to a project exclude the tax alright and then the item I'm gonna say well you have to and are the punk kids like well you've dude you have to do at least the baseline band set if you want the rental at all and it's $2,000 at the baseline and they're like okay whatever but we but then they're like we want to have an added guitar and it says right here so the punk kids like in that like has two guitars a drum set microphone and amplifier and then they're like well we want an extra guitar and there's like oh you could add a guitar let me see where that is here you can add rental guitar and they're like we want two of those are like that's another $50 bro $50 and they're like well we also want another amplifier it's like we could do that too if you want to piss off the neighbors you can add an amplifier and that will be amp rental amp another $40 and that'll be 40 so there we have it so then we can get the estimate currently populating at the 2004 and all of these I said were tax exempt that's correct I'm gonna change this to four amplifiers for whatever reason they want four amplifiers they're really gonna piss people off so that comes out to 160 so now we're at the 2002 60 and then and so now we can say whatever our baseline idea is on the down payment so then the next step would say okay we'll reserve that stuff for you but like dude we've got people that want this stuff all the time and we could sell this stuff at any time so you have to give us a down payment to make sure you're locked into this system so now we can use this to kind of figure out how much we would want on the down payment to reserve the reservation and make sure they're committed so let's first record this one so let's say we're gonna we're gonna save it and then we can send it I'm just gonna say mark it as sent here so we'll say mark as sent and then I can check that out so if I go into my estimates business drop down and go into my quotes here we've got the drafts it went to the sent item so I'm just gonna pick that one and I'm gonna go ahead and accept it so I'm gonna say it's been accepted and now it goes into the accepted and now it's just waiting for the invoice to populate it on the invoice so there it is we can also take a look at the contact drop down and look at all contacts and we have our new customer number 10 we said and if I look at it that way and check it out we've got our info on the quote down below so then we imagine the day comes and the customer number 10 comes in for for or or now what we're gonna do is also collect a down payment I should say so we're still saying okay now we want the down payment to lock in the fact that we're gonna have the equipment for you so now we're gonna collect the payment so I'm gonna say drop down and we're gonna say receive money I'm not making the receive money form from from the quote yet because this is a pre payment that we're putting in place and we can put the pre payment into if it's going directly into the checking account but we might have that same issue if they're paying us cash or something like that or if we have a payment processor that we're gonna put it into the clearing account so I'll put it into the clearing account as has been our practice and I'm gonna say next and we're gonna say this is gonna come from customer 10 customer 10 and Feb 27 again Feb 27 and alright and then I'm not gonna put any items we're just gonna say this is the down payment on estimate and I'm gonna say that I'm just making up the number but we might in practice say it's some percentage of whatever the quote would be that they made and then I'm gonna say that it's gonna the other side of this is going to go to unearned revenue and I want to make sure before I do that the drop down I want to make sure that I make this a pre payment because that will help us to track it just like we did for the other pre payment examples in prior presentation so I'm gonna make it a pre payment because we're not earning the revenue yet because we have not yet done the work what I would like to do is put it into a liability account if you haven't set one up you could set you would set one up as a liability that's not a light this is should be unearned revenue where did it go I'll just type it in here and there it is so I put it in here at 225 unearned revenue other current liability account so we're gonna collect that $200 so what's this gonna do it's gonna increase the cash account but it's going to go into the clearing account and then we're gonna the other side's gonna go to this unearned revenue account here a liability account and it's gonna track the fact that it was received from customer number one so that when they come in for the rental we can create the invoice and apply this credit payment to it this pre payment this deposit to it all right so let's save it and and check that whole process out saving it here and I did that in the balance sheet tab why did I do that I don't know accounting drop down let's open the balance sheet back up get your head in the game man crying out loud hit the drop down and we're gonna say custom date bringing it on back to 2023 or forward to 2023 update it okay so there's the 200 in the clearing account here so that looks good the other side going to a liability account which is unearned revenue so it's at 650 if I go into it then we could scroll down and this is where zero shines and tracking this liability account and still being able to connect it to a customer even though we're looking at a liability account so now I'd like to be able to assign that to a particular customer when I'm doing my internal bookkeeping and usually I have to it's it's assigned to an accounts receivable to do that but but zero has a nice system so if I go to the tab to the left and I select my business drop down and I go to and I go to my invoices for example and then I go to a waiting payment I can see my credit amount right here so it's ready to be paid with a little yellow that means it's like an overpayment that's going to be applied out or I can go to my contacts all contacts and I can see that in customer 10 so when the customer comes in I can go to customer 10 and I can say okay I see what happened here you had a prepayment and then you've got the quote right and so the next thing that's going to happen is we make the invoice and apply the prepayment to it which zero has a nice capacity to connect out even though we're using unearned revenue instead of the accounts receivable account all right so we'll actually do the invoice in a future presentation for now let's do that last step on the deposit side so if I go over here we've got this amount in the clearing account and so now I'm just going to I'm going to take it out of the clearing account and we're going to transfer it into the checking account noting that as I do this let's first go into this this clearing account just to see you can see what's been going on with it here so it's a clearing account so it's been going up and then it's been going you know back down to zero on a periodic basis that's the idea or that's the concept behind the clearing account so now it went up by the 200 again it's going to go back down to zero now note that usually the reason we have the clearing account is because we want to be able to group things properly when they go into the checking account in the same format that will be shown as the deposit grouping in the actual bank which will be reflected on the bank statement possibly through the bank feeds now in this case we only have one deposit so we could have possibly made this deposit go directly into the checking account without any problem because we're not grouping it with any other payment but if it's our normal system to go through the clearing account because sometimes we might group them we just didn't happen to have anything to group them with you might just want to keep consistent with the same kind of method that you're using because that'll become a routine method so now I'm going to say it's the end of the day we only have that $200 or whatever and I'm going to transfer that into the checking account in the same format as we'll be going into the actual bank account physically so I'm going to hit the drop down I'm going to do that with a transfer form as we have seen in the past it's going to be let's see if I can get this right this time it's going out of the clearing account and it's going into the checking account and we're doing this as of Feb 27 Feb 27 that's the day that everything happens and it's going to be for $200 I'll just call it a deposit and so it's from the clearing account to the checking account that's it save it transfer it close it greenify green button it and then tab into the right update and the the other clearing account is gone going into the checking account just to double check the checking double check the checking and we're going to say that we have that transfer happening increase in the checking just as it should okay so let's go back on up that's all we'll do this time we'll continue on with the next step of the saga of the band rental next time when they come into the shop and actually we enter the invoice and we apply the credit to it and rent the equipment so we're going to go to the accounting drop down and we're going to go to then the reports let's type in trial balance trial balance and let's go then to the drop down we're going to look at custom date end of 2023 the end of it update it there we have it so if your numbers tie it out to these numbers great if not it might be a date range issue if something is off and you were on the last time after the last presentation and you're following along the things we changed the clearing account went up and back down that's why it's gone and then the checking account is something that we changed and I think that's it because we just had an estimate so we haven't entered another invoice so everything else is the same so if something's off you can you can change the range drill down on it see if it's a form issue drill down on the form the source document and make any adjustments necessary


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What tactics do we wanna use to execute and what are the optimal ones that we wanna do that with? And before we get into it, just wanna highlight disclosure. You can read through this, take a screenshot. Basically everything we're doing right now is about education. And we're not advocating any specific position to trade off of, but everything that we're doing here is for your benefit to help you succeed in trading. And so that's what it's all about. It's all good, we're all working together. But we're not advising you to do anything specifically in the market. And that's really the mission of direct capital trading is to really create a positive impact to help you achieve your full potential. That's what we're all about. Look to empower traders with our fact-based trading solutions that enhance your self-awareness and decision-making. And as I mentioned, this approach enables traders to execute trades confidently and effectively by facilitating a state of flow, getting into the moment.  When you know yourself, you can do anything. And understanding your enemy, who are you trading against? We've gone through trading against the large funds and the HFT that are out there. What's the battlefield? We talked about market-state, understanding the context of that state, you have that awareness. Also along with that battlefield, where does the terrain change? What's the structure of that battlefield? So if we're transitioning from a flat area to a mountainous area or a tree area or going fighting underwater, whatever we're doing, basically what's that condition of that market-state? And since when we understand the battlefield, we can put together our strategy foundation. How do we approach the market based on that state and structure? And so today we're getting involved with, okay, now we've got that foundational strategy and now we have to execute it. So now we're the warriors there with our, we're going to war and what tactics are we gonna use to win within that environment? So understanding, winning tech is the key to successful trading and what conditions are you in? If you're applying the wrong tactic in the wrong condition, it's gonna be an issue. For applying the right tactic and the right condition, that's when everything seems easier. Trading seems easier because we're in alignment. And so that's what we're gonna get involved with about how do we line our tactics with the context of the market-state and structure. And that's how we create a structured approach. We're really kind of an if-then. If the market is this in this state, within this structure, then we're gonna use this strategy theme and we're gonna apply these tactics within that theme. And so by doing that, we're going to be able to really always be in a situation where we're having the optimal risk-reward opportunity. And those tactics can be applied in multiple market-states. So we're always consistent and we have this structured approach that we can apply. One of the issues that many traders face is that you get started in the business and you pick up these different trading tactics along the way and you find something speak to you and you hold onto those things and you look to apply those things every day. You come in and this is what I do. This is my tactic. The problem with that is that just like a broken clock, it's gonna be right a couple of times a day, but otherwise it's a bit hit or miss. And you don't have any consistency with that because it's not aligned with the state and structure. So if you're always going with a mean reversion strategy and that's your thing, because you like to fade moves, you're gonna get run over when the market starts trending. So you're really understanding what the context of the state is and structure and what strategy theme is in play and then aligning your tactics to deal with that is really the key to long-term success in the business. And that's what it's all about, just balancing your strategy and tactics to allow for ideal entry areas for your best risk reward, how you can maximize that on your exits. The decisions you're gonna make to adjust that position and really have a structured trading approach. You know, it's the famous strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory and tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. And it's so true. We need to have that strategy foundation and then all these tactics and tools that you've acquired, we applying those in the correct situation. You know, if you have a oscillator strategy and you use it in RSI and you really like your RSI is your thing, you're looking for these overbought oversold situations, you're looking for divergences in the oscillator to get involved in an opportunity.  Well, you know, oscillators don't really work very well at all when the market's in a trend mode. And you're gonna get oscillator signals that are gonna jump in your RSI above 80 or even 90. And when it's in a trend state, that's actually a positive signal. You know, and you wanna roll with that. You know, so you have to make sure that, you know, when you're in, you've got to discount that tactic. It's the very least. If you're dealing with a market that has a strategy foundation that's trending, you have to take that into consideration and understand, you know, what phase of that trend are we in? What part of the structure are we in? You know, absolutely, that oscillator can work really well if we're in a positive trending market state and we get a big, huge break. It's a corrective move against an underlying trend and a diversion signal on an RSI off lower structure points is a fantastic tactic to use in that situation. But, you know, if the market starts to transition higher again and we get that transitional signal and the oscillator flips, you know, to more of a overbought situation, it's really not. It's really more of a generation of, hey, this market's strong, it's making a move and we're getting ready for an extension higher. So how do we, you know, we wanna make sure that we're aligning our tactics with the correct market state. And so there are tactics for, you know, entry, exit, position management and what I'm gonna get into today is just a few tactics on entries. And so if we're trading off structure, we're trading off price levels, there's basically three entry tactics that you can use. We can either fade momentum into a level, we can trade with momentum, a market trades through that level or a breakout and we can accept a reversal. So we can wait for a market to fail and then trade a breakout back through the level. So reversals are great tactics to use in a market that's, let's, you know, in a extreme situation. So the market's breaking really fast, really hard. You wanna buy it, you know, instead of fading it, catching that falling knife, you know, let the market tell you when it's done. You know, identify the right structure point and wait for that exhaustive reversal and the market takes out the structure and then can't hold below it. And you know, that's a great tactic to use in a corrective trade situation. So again, it's just aligning tactics with the context of the state and structure. So I'm gonna get into a little more detail on each of these tactics and then we'll take a look at the some alive market situations and you know, what they look like there both on the macro and the micro level, how we can take advantage of it. So first thing I'm gonna do is kind of go through the essence of what these tactics are. And so, and that's a really important thing to do and something that you wanna take all the tools that you have and you know, any technical indicators that you use ideally put those into some kind of, you know, if then statement, if it does this, then I do that but then throw it into buckets of fading momentum buckets, trading with momentum buckets, breakout buckets and exhaustive reversal buckets. And really, you know, have, create this kind of quiver of tactic tools that you use for specific situations. It's really important. And what else is important is to understand the essence of what you're doing when you are fading momentum. You know, it's a counter momentum, works, you know, this is classic non-trend market state tactic. Non-trend meaning markets, not trending, it's going sideways. So sideways means we wanna fade moves into the extremes. And in a non-trend market state, if we expect it to continue to not trend, you know, we'd expect those extreme parameters to hold. So we're gonna fade it, when we fade moves, we fade it in front. You know, it's kind of a, it's our classic return to mean tactic. You know, this works well for opening range strategies. If that opening range is gonna contain the market or you know, we're gonna wanna, it should stabilize in front of the figure. That's an important fact feature of a fade tactic is that the market is stabilizing in front. You know, that's why, you know, it's effective in trending markets for corrective moves. So for in a positive trending market, expectation is that it's gonna make higher move lows. So if we identify that lower price point for that positive trend, expectation is it's gonna be a higher low. And in the market, we can fade momentum in front or above that figure. And that's an important aspect of the fade is that the market, if the fade is gonna work, the market's gonna stabilize in front of that or if we're selling it, it's gonna stall out in front of it on the downside. It's not gonna penetrate it because if it does penetrate it, it means something. There's a potential issue with that fade. And that's a real important feature because more than anything else is, you know, the market's always telling you what it wants to do and when it tells you that something's not true, you need to factor that in. And you need to factor that in that the market does take out a specific structure point. The fade's no longer true. There's a problem with it.  And if it's not a perfect fade, that's good information, it's just not a perfect fade. And we shouldn't hope that it will be and we should adjust our expectations. The other strategy trading with momentum is a breakout strategy. Again, you know, this is a momentum strategy and we can trade momentum strategies in trending markets but we can also trade them in non-trending markets. So, you know, when the market moves into an extreme and then it exhausts and reverses the other way, you know, that's a momentum shift. You know, and we can take advantage of that. Crossing through the midpoint, you know, like if you're using an oscillator to identify, you know, overbought over soil conditions in a non-trend state, the midpoint cross is a good momentum shift. You know, and so that's a momentum trade. That's a breakout trade. You know, absolutely it's gonna work the best in trending states because we get follow through. Non-trending states we don't. You know, but this tactic allows you to participate in transitions of state. So it's a powerful tool. One thing about this tactic is it doesn't work that often but when it does work, it works big. So it's a tactic that, you know, unrisk wise, you risk less, go for more. And if it, you know, if a breakout's gonna work, it should just go. Absolutely you could get, you know, some momentary headaches but as it's making a decision but you should know pretty quickly if this thing's making them over or not. And if it's not, that's good information too. You know, now we've got a false failure and so your expectations should change that, hey, you know, a lot of people got sucked in and now we're, it's more likely we're gonna go the other way. And so again, owning the essence of what a breakout is and the tactics that you use and you can kind of go through what you're comfortable using and really tweak it out for that. And again, it's immediate validation is pretty key with breakout strategies. And if not, we might be in a reversal.  This is one of my favorites because the market's really telling you something. And when you get these exhaustive signals at extremes, it can be the precursor to a nice big move. You know, it's any false breakout of any level. Especially, you know, in the volatility that we've been having, especially in crypto, you get these all the time.  And so absolutely this works best at exhaustive extremes.  And a lot of times, you know, you've got good defined parameters to take advantage of profiting from the opposite side of that non-trend digestion. And this is another one that's a hit or miss. You know, you should get a quick validation. You know, the one thing that's a little different about the reversal than a breakout on the validation is the potential. So if you really had an extreme and you're really gonna reverse and have a major turn, it's gonna just go, it's gonna be a quick validation and you don't need to risk a lot. If the market produces a reversal signal and then you don't get that quick validation and maybe it pulls back and starts chopping around, the fact that it broke structure is huge because it tells you, it is at the very minimum it's told you that that trend that it reversed is stalled. So that'll happen a lot of times with reversals where the market may take a little more time to, you know, turn, but the key information is that you're getting is that the market, that trend is no longer true. And so that can kind of change your perspective on your profit targets on your reversal. But what's more likely is if the trend does start to resume, it's probably not gonna fall through. And so that's another good signal for the reversal that it kind of tells you that, you know, kind of the exhaustion there. So for your optimal tactics, you know, this is, you know, well-timed adaptable techniques that align with the current market state and structure to maximize favorable risk reward, which is gonna improve your consistency. And we can optimize that by incorporating the micro-dynamics of the order book to make them more effective. And so that's something that we're gonna take a look at now and we'll look at both the macro structure and get into some of the micro structure. So let's flip to a live screen here. Let me set this up. So this is our playbook. Those are the analytics I mentioned before, our fact-based trading solutions. What we've been doing for, you know, over 35 years to find the market state structure and strategy themes. And we're talking about the tactics we use to apply it. We're gonna look at Ether today. And so let me move this over a little bit here.  Funny thing about markets, they always don't just do exactly what you want them to do when you want them to do it. So we'll have to just always take what the market gives us. But the key thing here is just understanding that, you know, that kind of the, what's the foundation, where are we at? So we're coming into Ether and what we know about Ether that the market, the underlying foundation is still positive trend. However, sentiment is above the market. So this is a situation where the market is in a corrective trade situation. So under, you know, we have this big underlying foundation of still buying breaks, and we're buying breaks today above 1801.76, which is here. That's our key structure point to the downside. And a break in structure there is going to potentially transition this market into a non-bull trend state, but this is kind of our stabilization expectation area, our structure point of our state. So we have our state that's underlying positive. Sentiment is way above the market. So it's above the market here. This is our structure that defines the bull trend. So we're always just, you know, what's the battlefield, positive trend? What's the, you know, the skew of that battlefield? Well, we're corrective, so the market's vulnerable. Where's it potentially going to stabilize? It's going to stabilize off this structure point, or we might fall off a cliff.  You know, we're fighting. This is our backs are against the wall. And if we fail here, we're going to need to do something. And so we currently are pressing into this area and the optimal thing to do in this state is to buy, buy a, what we call our downside pivot buy a DP fade. So we have a fade situation here. We're fading momentum. So let's take a look at this fade and what happened. We also have some minor levels that we use to validate opportunities. I'm going to put those up right now. Use help with profit management, position management. So just, you know, everything that we have, you know, we set our stage of our macro structure and we know that we're markets in a positive state.  Sometimes they have corrective moves and we know from our structure that we're in a corrective situation. Because this is a corrective situation, we want to, you know, and pretty much anytime we're in any trade, we want to buy low and sell high. So, you know, and what is the optimal strategy theme? Well, with the market opening up below what we call our directional midpoint, it's negative. And what typically what that means is if the market, this is a rotational number and it tells us that if it's below this number we might get applied for the opposing critical range extreme, which is downside pivot, which we do. And what do we want to do when we get there? We want to fade it. And so the, you know, when do fades work the best? When does this tactic work the best? Well, it works well when the market is absolutely showing us that it can correct. So in this situation here, you've got a market that's starting to build negative momentum. And here you've got these lower lows. This is called price structure. We're just looking at the price structure of the market. And then here the market gives us a trade that goes above this price structure. Doesn't break structure. This is our first structure break, second structure break. But it just, it's a little tell. You know, typically if the market's really bad it's going to cascade and it's going to continue to hold all the structure and it's just going to go. So that's just a little tell. That this, there might be something going on with this momentum. You know, having these good, these big swings here tells us that this market might not be in a situation where it's just going to throw up and go to zero. But what do we also know? We know that this area is, you know, we're looking at our strategy plan and our battlefield says that, hey, if the market's going to stabilize it's going to stabilize above here. So it should make a higher low. And so here it does. So here we, you know, this is a classic fate opportunity where the market came into our zone our metric boundary and it provided us with a fate opportunity. Now this is a trade that if you were there in the, this is a, let's go down to a smaller timeframe because this is important too.  Otherwise you might miss the opportunities. And so this is the second fade that came into play. I'm going to talk about that in a second. So here we're coming into this area and let me see if I can pull this up as well. Kind of using the macro and the microstructure together here. So here you can see the same structures in book map. And key to this whole thing is we're all teed up. We know what we want to do. We know our strategy theme and we know the tactic we want to apply. And, you know, in this situation when the market's making these quick, you know, the crypto they're making these quick moves we need to have resting orders in there. We can use the order book as well. And since we're not live you know, the only thing we have here that's interesting and I look for this all the time is we've got these big sell dots here. So we've got, this is just telling us an exhaustive signal, which is good. You know, we're getting an exhaustive signal. We're getting a lot of, you know, liquidity. People are puking out of their lungs and selling into structure. So getting, you know, getting big sell dots into a major structure point or at a major structure point especially within the metrics is a good indication that, you know, we could have a kind of a quick turn out of that area which we do, which we, you know, which did occur. And we'll go to the, we'll go to live market in a second. Did I just, you know, but looking at this tactic we're fading momentum. And then we know that this absolutely has the potential to be the low point of a new bull extension. You know, it's the very bottom. So, but, you know, so we, we can, we can have a more of an extended outlook for this. Let's take a look at just on this fade, what happened. Market paid us out right away. Call us half APMD move, starts to work higher. It validates this. It should be going higher. Market's telling us it wants to go higher. And then immediately it says, no, we don't want to. And so at this point, the market's telling us there's a problem. Market broke structure. Our initial fade opportunity worked and we get a retest. But now on this retest, one, you know, if we, if we're, you were coming in here, the fade opportunity paid out on a pullback didn't fall through. Now we get a retest of the area, but we take it out.  So this is definitely a spike. Where's the, you know, where there's really the liquidity on that, but it bottom line, it's still a fact that we went below it. And a real fade, a true, a true fade situation, we should stay, we should be staying above it. So we've started to damage that structure. Move this over here. Here we go. You know, we did get in another exhaustive dot in that area. And we quickly, you know, came back to this, what we call our kind of a half APMD area. So the market is kind of setting up more of a digestive trade. So this, this was, this was a, the first opportunity was a good opportunity. This second opportunity was more aggressive. It's paying out. But that is the essence of the, the fade strategy. So let's take a look at a different day and let's take a look at a breakout strategy. Or we'll just take a look at this current situation we've got going on here. This is pretty aggressive because it's more in working with the dynamics of, of kind of minor structure. Typically I like to look for opportunities at major structure points. And we'll take a look at one of those later. But, you know, we just, since we're here and we've got this opportunity going on, let's take a look at it. This is a consolidated order book. So I like to look at, you know, liquidity a bigger of more exchanges at once. And so we do have a transitional signal going on here. Just like we had here, this was transitional. We had a new move low. Now we have a transitional signal here. We do have the order book picking up. And this is something that occurred while speaking where this, the order, the bids continue to build up. And then when we get the, a basing above this metric, that's a, you know, that's a sign of strength. This is a momentum signal. So this, this should just go. It really shouldn't pull back. And we just should see a move right up to this 1840, 1845 area. I always like to look for good alignment. So here, you know, we did have these structure, these high points here at the figure. And that came into alignment with VWAP. So whenever, you know, the, going back to our original conversations in previous sessions of talking about who's your enemy and what large funds like to look at, they like to look at the VWAP. So it's a good transitional number. It's a good area to use a breakout tactic. And so the expectation now is if this is true, and we're going to, you know, we had our original fade, we came down, held the figure. We didn't fail. So it's still valid to, you know, kind of basing action where we're pressing into structure. We know it's big structure because it is the low point of this potential new extension to the upside. But the fact that we did press into it again makes things questionable. And based on the bigger picture, the bigger breakout is if we get a move above 1852. That would be a validation of the market holding this structure and that we're going to have kind of a positive signal. And that would be another breakout opportunity that would target 1928.  You know, this is a trend. This is one of those transitional momentum moves. So it's more short-term. It's just for this kind of a pop. Again, the bigger momentum would be here. For a reversal, the fact that it went below here, can you call that a reversal? In the essence, it was an exhaustive move. So you could say yes. However, this is more of a reversal where we have a fade opportunity fading in front of the figure. We're getting a breakout signal above our momentum area here. Again, risk less go for more. We know that this thing might get a pullback and it should just go. It should go, it doesn't. So it's a false breakout. You can consider this a reversal here. So it's a reversal in momentum that occurred at structure. So this is always, always what we're talking about when we're dealing with our tactics is alignment. So when you have price structure that gets in alignment with market structure here as well, this is a good signal. And so it's just telling us, hey, the market wants to go higher, it should just go. And when it doesn't, that tells us something else. It's just not true. And if it's not true, what is true, we could reverse. If we reverse, where could we go? We can go back down to the downside pivot. Here's a good reversal off of this number where we have a market that takes out our metric. This is a good flush. And now we get back above it. So this is kind of a real classic at the extreme. Then the market comes here and we get this basing above the metric and it starts to move higher. It was the end of the session. So this is settlement period. So things kind of reset. But if we had this type of a signal earlier in the trade period, we would anticipate kind of a bigger reaction. Since it's later in the trade period, the expectation is what we had, which is more sideways. So as I briefly got into, we can go back and look at some more on their tactics. How can we use the microstructure? How can we use the, to optimize our tactics? So we have our fade breakout reversals. We can look for liquidity shifts, imbalances in the order book, intensity of trade, and as well as resting paper to kind of assist us in executing these tactics. So let's just go back to current moment. So here we see the big exhaustion as the market's coming into structure. We had some intensity of trade occurring when on this momentum transition. And it's continued to follow this, brighten this up a little bit. So we can see, we definitely have some liquidity here coming in at the bottom of the directional metric. So it comes into alignment here. So keeping an eye on the bid, as long as we're bid above 1827, we're good. We can see there's a lot of buyers as well, because these dashes are representing kind of one person in the order book. We can see there's a lot of different buyers in here, not just one. So it's always good to have, especially on a momentum shift, having more people involved in that. We don't really have any big outstanding resting orders above the market. When we're, we do wanna see this market continue to hold positive price structure, because it's a breakout, so it should just keep going. So as we can see the market is, had these trades here, it's built in a base. This base should hold if it's really gonna go, or is that it? So if it doesn't go, we're not going to, we're going to, it's gonna be a tell that this momentum's over. The market did attain the very bottom of that metric, so it made its move. It doesn't need to go any further to say that it tagged it. And so if we do break structure here, it's more likely if we did get a rally, and if we start trading back below 1830 on this momentum, it's gonna tell us that more likely the next surge is not gonna be yet. And if it does hold, and it continues to scale, and we continue to see the order move up, and we see it start to base above this level and continue to hold positive price structure, that's a tell that tells us this is true. And we might be in for a big transition. So it's always this, it's always starting out with the big picture, what's the state? What are the characteristics of that state? What's the structure of that state? How does sentiment influence that structure? Because of that state and structure dynamic, what are the strategy themes? What are the optimal and hedge strategy themes? Where are we at within that structure? And what tactics do we want to use to participate in it? What is the true essence of those tactics? Fading momentum into a major structure point. This is where we're at on this picture. Can it do that? Or are we going to, and so this directional area becomes really pivotal for an extension back to the positive momentum, or we're gonna continue to correct? And so that's where this, that's this decision. So this is a momentum surge into this area. We can, if we do get another push up here and we start to see some intensity of trade occurring into this area, we get a lot of buying happening here, and it starts to get a little overdone.   If the trade's more consistent and we get more consistent flow and the market we start to see basing above, especially basing above 1846, that's gonna be a tell that we might be in a bigger transition and definitely when we get a breach of the metric, that'd be a fresh breakout signal. So we do have a live trade room that we welcome you to come into where we go over how to use the microstructure and the macro structure as well as how to work with our trading tools, with our playbook. So you welcome me to come to dharmiccapital.trade to check those out. We're all about fact-based trading solutions. You know, objective facts, data-driven. The biggest thing that we provide you is this statistical outside view and this is gonna give you a benchmark and slow down your decision-making process so that when you have an opinion or you get a subjective, you have a subjective technical indicator that you're using. It gives you a real baseline to fact-check that against. Okay, I've got this indicator I came up with and I kind of use this sometimes, this sometimes. You know, it's a little bit subjective when I pull the trigger on it. Well, how does that relate to what the facts say? How does that relate to the baseline? And so I do recommend this book, Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, which in one of his quotes is, the outside view offers a more accurate prediction than the inside view. So the statistical foundation can give you a better prediction than your gut feel, your inside view. And it goes into why. And that comes back to the very start of what we talked about in this series of self-awareness because we all have these biases that influence our decisions in the moment. And so when we are more aware of those biases, we can make adjustments for them and we can really get into a state of flow where we're in sync without biases. And that's what the kind of a statistical outside view can do for you. So welcome you all to come to Dharma Capital of that trade, check out what we have to offer and we can get you set up with our book map integration. So you can have the structure right in the microstructure. Any questions, feel free to email me directly at js.dharmacapital.trade. And I look forward to working with you. Enjoy your day. Cheers.


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