Okay, we are going to start in a few seconds. Good morning everybody, it's 8am Eastern, that's New York time. Welcome to Wednesday the 13th of December, that's the final fed day of 2023. Morning Marius. And yeah, without further ado, let's get the disclaimers underway. All bookmap limited materials, information and presentations are for educational purposes only, and should not be considered specific investment advice nor recommendations. Trading futures, equities and digital currencies involve substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results. Okay, right, with that out of the way, we've got a zoomed out picture of the two heatmaps. I think I've got the font settings okay today, so everything's fine. Let's quickly get on to the slideshow. This being Wednesday, we're going to do more of a technique session. We are going to stream the PPI release at 8.30. Our friends at Financial Juice should be live, hopefully on the YouTube audio and hopefully on the Discord audio as well. Anyway, I hope everybody is having a really good week. Let's do that slideshow. Okay, just the key events, the important three bar events. We've got the set of the PPI. There's quite a few individual PPI releases, but effectively it's one release, the PPI month on month at 8.30 New York time. Then you've got the Fed interest rate decision at 2 o'clock and just as important, the press conference at 2.30. So yeah, it's the rate itself and then their dot points and whatever words are in their statements. So that's when the fireworks are going to begin. And yeah, even though I wouldn't be talking at that time, just bear in mind that the first move is often to send you the wrong way. That's kind of the way that FMC works in the afternoon. It's about 3.30 a.m. my time. I occasionally do get up, but I doubt very much I'm going to get up tomorrow, or tomorrow my time or today your time. Okay, let's keep moving with the slideshow. Okay, this is the daily. So you can see we're continuing on this theme that we were talking about for the last few days. Essentially we're in a range after a big move up and we're getting towards the your highs in ES and NQ. So as long as we stay in that range and until we see some real down movement, it remains bullish. And this is also reflected as I've got a five-minute chart. I haven't even bothered to show yesterday's session on this five-minute chart. This just shows you how strong and how range bound the action has been in ES and NQ, NQ on top, ES below all day in the ETH session. ES here is only five points worth of range so far, which is absolutely minuscule but a quarter of the expected range or the average range. And you can see that we're staying well above yesterday's high and settlement in both ES and NQ and they're basically in a holding pattern pending these economic releases and especially the Fed one this afternoon. So nothing really surprising there. For the TPO's today, I've just got the screenshots because there isn't an awful lot to do in terms of aggregating the individual profiles of the last few days. We've basically broken above the extended profile of yesterday and we're in this tiddly range. What I have marked on and you can see this in Bookmap when we get back to the Bookmap is the options open interest for the 4,750 and 4,600 SPX options. There's currently a premium of about 53 between the March 24 futures and the SPX and I've just gotten there just because there is a large amount of options interest at those three strikes. So that's just there for interest. That will not reflect the change in live options. We're going to go back a little bit a little bit more statewide during the session. In fact, it goes really live at 8am as in now. But yeah, there are some services around that do that. This is just just general information just to show where some of those may be positioned at a longer term. NQ again, just a screenshot of the TPO and you can see we're well above the extended range and we just been rocketing up and we will talk about that in a second. On the relative volume side rather 73%, low considering we're in the middle of the week and we've got these economic releases but then again, not unexpected because we have those major releases especially the Fed this afternoon. So again, this reflects that we're in a holding pattern and you can see actually, yes, there's six points now. I lied, I thought it was five, it's actually six. Wow, but it is very, very small. And just a quick snapshot of what has happened in pre-market with the underlying stocks and the only point really to note here is that there's nothing bearish. You can see Microsoft's had a nice bump up and so has Google but there's nothing bearish yet. So nothing is really removing to the downside in pre-market which again is consistent with the fact that we are in a range. Okay, as always, hey morning Tom and morning Stan. As always, if anybody has any questions feel free to ask either on YouTube where I can see the comments or in the Discord channel. Okay, and since this is a technique session we're looking at the two heat maps. I will again explain what is present on these heat maps. By the way, you can see that option open interest from the TPO's there in purple. I'm just pointing out that's the 4,650 SPX option strike. Right, so I have a dimmed out heat map. You can see the slider here in ES sliding all the way to the right to show that this is the least brightness possible. If I slide it all the way back you can see the difference between maximum brightness and minimum brightness. Okay, when you are zooming all the way out and we've got 70 points here you can see on the vertical range of 70 points. It is easier to see if you do have it dimmed out when you are zooming this far out. And the reason we are starting off with a zoomed out picture is to give a high level perspective where these sitting orders which may be magnets or support and resistance later on have been present. So if we scroll all the way back both in NQ on the left and ES on the right you can see where liquidity has been and if we start with ES you can see this order at 4721 of 250 and I've marked that option's interest for the 4700 strike up above but that's where the liquidity is at 4721. If we zoom out a little bit you can see that they are beginning to add some more liquidity below so they are hedging their bets but in terms of liquidity that has been there all day and that has bounded the price action it's the 4710 so you've got 200 there you've got 250 up above and that's essentially where they've been and we've been in this range and if we zoom vertically let me just get that on and we go back a bit you can see that yeah that they have essentially had a liquidity resistance up about the 0525 and below at the 4700 itself so that has essentially held price if we actually look over at these two columns so again so this is just a heat map the only add-on that is present on this heat map by the way this is unfiltered this is just the bog standard ES heat map the only thing on here is these stops and icebergs and if we look at the settings for the stops and icebergs on chart you can see that we're just filtered by 50 I don't rely on it heavily but I do like to see the larger MBO stops and icebergs so that's the anything that is present there there are no volume dots there are no volume bars as I explained a couple of weeks ago and again last week I've got access and I'm sure most of the people watching this have got access to things like a DOM with columns that show you how many orders are hitting above and below they've got volume bars on whatever software they use I've got Sierra but you know Bookmap for example has got the Trader DOM Pro but you know you've got Ninja, you've got RRT you've got all sorts of software even TradingView has got volume bars so I don't feel that there is tremendous need in this session when I'm really talking about how I use Bookmap and how I use it to see a clearer picture to cloud that picture sorry my phone is now on silent time I was unaware it was not on silent so apologies for that but I don't see the need to over complicate the picture by having lots and lots of bubbles all over this heatmap what we want to see is is price action on this heatmap and when we zoom in we'll see that and also where this liquidity is tracking and where it's stable so that's why that's there in terms of the columns we've got the order book column which is just the numbers again you can configure these exactly as you'd like so if we go through the columns I'll just explain what they all are again I'm doing this as a technique session so this is just the order book and it's just the numbers only and it's showing both sides and it's the extended order book so it's the whole order book which in NASDAQ's case is probably about 800 levels the next column I have which is this one it's called EX because it's a cloud note which is linked to my execution chart in Sierra so anytime I draw a strip or a rectangle and give it some text it appears here and the next one is from my TPO which you saw and that's again where I draw rectangles and give them some text they appear in this cloud notes cloud notes column there the delta and the volume profile so the delta it is the volume profile but with this delta box ticked so this is showing the ask volume sorry the ask volume versus the bid volume differential and I'm showing it bars only so for this purpose especially for the technique session I don't want to cloud this with having numbers I just want a graphical picture so we can clearly see where we have fuel so when we start talking about a strategy in order flow this is the column that gives us a picture of the fuel and the CVP is the chart volume profile and this gives us a picture of the actual auction that may be happening and I like talking about fractals of auctions so if we zoom all the way out you can see you've got this today you've got this quite balanced normal distribution type auction which is over here a bit bigger you can see it maybe exactly the same as it appeared in that screenshot I had of the TPO it's basically very very similar in terms of its graphic presentation and with NQ if we did that let's just blow up the NQ because there's more that's happened with NQ you're always going to get more action in the ETH session so that if we look at again we've got one balanced profile overall but within that for example if we zoom right into the current little bit of action there and if I try and get you can see it's relatively balanced it's a little bit poor on the south side so it's a bit heavier down here than there but you can see within that the fractal of the current auction and if you zoomed right in you get a nice short bit of height balanced profile but again it's showing you those fractals and one of the benefits of having such a clean representation of this heat map that I like in NQ is also that you can drag this left and right I'm just dragging it with my mouse by holding the left click button down to have a look at other auctions one of the reasons why you might do that is back testing this concept of fuel that I talk about in this channel and see where you have a trapped set of cell volume and again we've got no numbers here so we're just doing it purely on the delta visual representation whether that then acts as a trap to provide fuel to go up as both I and my colleague Tom state quite often price goes down to go up and price goes up to go down and by that we mean it goes down to get this fuel to then go up so if we go up to where price went up from and we can zoom right into this it's probably best to actually get it from where it was topping it there this is not a very good example but quite often you'll see a long green tail and that will then provide the impetus of fuel to get back down okay I've got to do a time check because I know we are on a tight schedule so we do not miss the 830 news release okay so let's just blow that back out make sure that's not too wide so that we can still see all of this and zoom all the way back in so if we just quickly look at where we are so we're in this balance that I mentioned on NQ you can see the range really it's really tiddly for an NQ type range it's essentially about 611.5 612 down to 604 for NQ that is remarkably small for it to stay in a range like that for over 30 minutes that's quite rare that tells you that it is most likely in a holding pattern whenever I start using words like certainty I have to correct myself there are no certainties in this game this is a game of maths probability, chance good luck, bad luck and a lot of it is about protecting yourself from the bad luck that can happen all you can do in this game in my view is developer strategy which has clear edge in terms of it gets you more money than you lose when you're right and that you have a strategy that you believe shows you things that you're more likely to be wrong than you are more likely to be right than you are to be wrong even though you can do quite well if you are exactly 50-50 in terms of right and wrong or even less than 50-50 psychologically it's quite hard to deal with a winning strategy that is say 30 or 40% win rate even if it has great big wins it does tend to grind you down if you are a day trader rather than a multi-day swing trader let me just quickly flip through some notes macro strategy order flow just a reference for me to talk about by the way this is the NQ unfiltered and for a change this is actually quite legible or normally we've got these algo bands which are just above and below you can see them at about about eight or nine points below and eight or nine points above and they absolutely dominate the heat map but at the moment you've got some really really heavy liquidity which is more dominant than those algo bands so that is quite apparent so you can see if we zoom out that you've got these liquidity bands here one at 13 there was one at 20 which has been ditched or mostly ditched one at 33 that's gone and there's some new ones below at 580 and 576 and that probably equates with what we are seeing over here in ES with these new liquidity bands that went in about the same time so if you can see the vertical cursor that I've got which is saying at about 540am New York time those liquidity bands went in at exactly the same time in ES and NQ when things like that happen you take note you don't say oh great there's liquidity there it's definitely going to go there I'll take a trade now that is not what you do you stick to your strategy you stick to your setups you stick to the game that you have been playing that is making you money and you just build those into your observations of the market and maybe they will form part of a target or maybe there will be an entry if you are going along later on during the course of the session whether it's the next hour or during the RTH session or this afternoon's Fed release who knows when or if those liquidity bands below are going to be tagged macro I was alluding to talking about macro I don't think in day trading you can really even apply a strategy which is as good you might be the world's best scalper you might be somebody who is really really good into quite small swings I'd call my style sort of more smaller swings not tiddly little scalps I'm not going for a point or two points in ES or NQ I'm going for larger swings than that but it's still relatively small swings I don't think you can execute that kind of strategy without having some understanding of the macro environment that we're in and I do like to talk about that macro whenever I can in these sessions people do take the time to make sure they're abreast of what's happening and that they can find sources just quick summary sources to help them determine what that macro is whether it's like a one major that you read on substack or there's a certain couple of Twitter feeds that you read or you're a full blown macro economist and you read a thousand articles a month it really doesn't matter too much as long as you have a relatively good inkling of what is happening and what is happening apart from the fact that we're in OPEX week so we've got option expiry on Friday the monthly options expiry that is are in a period of euphoria or relative bullish euphoria where the markets believe that the interest rate cuts are coming it's a bit like that Green Day song The Saints are coming after Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans but yeah the market believes the interest rates cuts are coming in 2024 and so they're pricing in a big move to the upside and that's effectively what we've seen coming into that daily and we see we're at basically multi month highs one point to note when the market does get euphoric is that that euphoria can last a lot longer than common sense might prevail so you might think surely it can't keep going up now it can't keep going up it's completely ridiculous whatever opinions you might have they're irrelevant if the market on an auction this is auctioning upwards based on euphoria or whatever and it is finding buyers it will continue to auction upwards until until exhaustion is reached and nobody else wishes to buy up there it does not appear that has happened yet but you never know maybe this afternoon if if the Fed say something not as bullish or suggest that there may yet be another interest rate rise who knows what hell may break loose quick time check at 21 so we've got about 7 or 8 minutes okay so there's that and the other piece of macro news that came in in the last 7 days is that whilst people believe that the US is going to begin to cut interest rates early next year Japan has signaled the absolute opposite so if you look at the USD JPY exchange rate that USD is going down Japan yen is going up and that seems to have had a bullish effect on stocks or equity indices in general as well so you've got that sort of compounding the view that interest rate cuts are coming in the US so that's the cherry on top of the cake so that's my bit of macro right so in terms of what I'm looking for in my trading plan and my strategy that I've been talking about session after session and week after week in these webinars I'm somebody that believes in auctions, auction theories supply and demand, Wycoff it's all essentially the same thing so I'm looking for price exploration through value I'm looking to see where is the auction and if we're in a balanced environment I'm looking to trade the extremes of the ranges and if we're in a trending environment I'm seeking to go with it and be very, very careful with fading it and not holding on to trades that fade a strong trend move lest I destroy my trading account okay so let's have another look we talked about that in terms of strategy itself and setups I've described a few of the setups that I look at and I've got favourites like the swing failure patterns or the breakout failures or the springs that are up for us whatever you'd like to call them I've got tests of a range or tests of the supply demand zone it's essentially the same concept and the two that I don't tend to talk about and I won't talk about too much in these sessions are the concept of breakouts which I do not do very often because they don't tend to work out very well and pullbacks I'm essentially doing my pullbacks sort of a fractal within a fractal so I'm using the same strategy I've got for a range in a smaller fractal than the bigger fractal which may be trending upwards or downwards so if you get what I'm saying I'm going down a time frame to see the kinds of setups that I want to get on board the trend okay let's have a look okay and finally on our technique piece let's talk about order flow right just checking ah good morning on YouTube Magdy Salome welcome and yeah good morning to you so I hadn't scrolled down to see the chat okay order flow right order flow is a nebulous non-objective term which means a million different things to a million different people and if you go on the web or you go on YouTube or wherever you go to get your infotainment or your education you will see completely different meanings I would treat the word with the words the two words order flow as literally that the flow of orders so I see it as mainly a time based motion of orders and in terms of what I'm looking for in order flow what I've been talking about before is I'm looking for little vicious slips up and down and I'm looking for fuel on this side and I'm looking to see where the liquidity is moving or is staying the same so that's essentially how I'm using order flow inside book map maybe as we talk about individual setups that come into play during this session if you haven't been to some of these sessions before where I describe what's happening and what's likely to happen and I try very very hard and I fail sometimes I try not to predict the future what I try and say is that there is a strong probability that we will go in direction A or direction B but you'll get the idea of how I actually use that order flow so I see it mainly as a time based flow of these orders I do also believe that you know I have a very short term time frame chart in Sierra that I look at in conjunction with this I love the way that book map has it because you can zoom right in and you can see you can see these little vertical moves up and down so you can see this one in NQ you see this move here in NQ where my cursor is that's a vertical move and that is often retraced and has already been retraced here in terms of auction theory as to why it might be retraced one theory might be that the auction did not properly occur because we just slip through a whole bunch of prices without having a proper auction and that's one of the reasons why it often comes back but I'm sure there are other theories as well so that's one of the reasons why I like looking at the minuscule time frame based price action in book map and I prefer that to using any indicators again as I've said before I have coded a lot quite a few different platforms, I've coded a bunch of indicators I do not use them I do use short term time frame charts like book map and in Sierra and I do like looking at other ways to see these auctions or fractals so whatever other types of bar period that you occasionally look at to get a slightly different angle on that for example point and figure or reversal or renco or range or case whatever it is just to give yourself a different perspective on the auction that is taking place sometimes having that different type of time period helps you better see the overall balance distribution and also where people are getting trapped so that's one of the reasons why I use them so whilst I do have that daily TPO there I've got smaller fractals of the profile to help me better see what is happening but as I say you don't need those you can actually do that within book map with this column here the CVP and by zooming in and out of the chart and dragging it left and right to see those fractals as they occur okay so let's have a look over here at time okay let's better turn that feed on so that should be I'm just double checking the stream yep it's got the browsers on so I'm going to just turn that up so the volume of financial juice will be a little bit louder and we are 50 seconds away my trading engine is not on I'm saving my bullets for later today in the RTH session the morning session that is probably taking small to medium swings but I am not trading this so I'm just observing what is going to happen so we've seen that a lot of liquidity the close by liquidity has been removed and they have yeah they've taken out most of the liquidity you can zoom out you can see the liquidity bounding 4680 and 4721 so let's just see what happens let's focus on ES and we've got about 10 seconds left very small iceberg sell iceberg just above and we're at this options open interest level okay so that's annoying the chart zoomed in on me so I have to get rid of that I'm trying to draw the scene of the crime so let's try again let's hope it doesn't slip on us about there and I think we need to zoom out in ES to really draw it so I'll try it again over here hasn't been a big move in ES essentially where that iceberg was at about 4704 and we're retesting it already so what we do on some of these news releases is see where exactly or the price level zone that the release came out in and see if there was a move away you know whether it's up or down if it's a significant move away we consider a crime to have been occurred in other words something happened to cause the price action I'll just turn off that feed now and that's why we mark with a cyan line where that crime occurred because it's quite often a good reference point it will often be tagged even if we have a trend up session it stays above that it often comes back to just tag it and then if it does go back to the other side on this side if it goes to the south side I below that line that gives us market generated information that the scene of the crime itself is not holding you know occasionally that won't provide good information occasionally it will wick up and down backwards and forwards across that scene of the crime but that does not usually happen so here NQ's provided a much better scene of the crime than ES even if we zoom in vertically so we're holding that we broke through the liquidity that remained and was retained at 16.613.25 and it is exploring up a little bit there's no resting liquidity so these are all just algo bands whereas this liquidity at 4710 which got put back you can look at it as resting liquidity when I use that term resting liquidity I put more weight on it than I do algo bands it's because there is a higher probability that price will approach it doesn't have to tag it we're just talking about approaching it so in ES's case that's within one or two ticks of that liquidity usually because NQ is such a thin instrument that one or two ticks doesn't really apply so you know if it was within two points that's just about the same thing and you'll see me zoom in and out on that heat map to try and get some better visual clarity so I'm trying to get clarity on seeing the heat map better and I'm also looking to see what we can see on these delta and profile or auctioning columns so if you look at ES we're right at that scene of the crime level it wasn't much of a crime that's like two points not a real crime and we're back underneath it and NQ we're about to tag it and we have tagged it and we're now underneath it so at this point let's have a look at those liquidity bands that were placed at 537 below you got that you got two key levels there yesterday's high and settlement T plus one so that's interesting as well adds confluence to the fact that you know we may get a tag of that at some point again we're not expecting a tag right this second things take time to play out I mean even if you trade NQ where you can hit your targets in about three and a half seconds sometimes patience is still a tremendous virtue with trading NQ as it is with the ES if you wait and you wait until you see that fuel in place you know the trap by fuel or the trap cell fuel you may find that your maximum adverse excursion which is how far into the hole you go on a trade will be less than it otherwise was just simply because you're patient okay so we're now under that scene of the crime for ES and NQ I mean this whole point about having something within a point so we don't look at individual price lines as one price it's a zone so the fact that it only managed to break the scene of the crime by one point we only really did a spring of this little swing low there that in our eyes should be that it is holding the scene of the crime and it remains bullish from that news release and looking across at that USPPI so it was 0.9% I mean the actual numbers don't matter to us as day traders but it's red in fact because it is less than forecast it's forecast at 1% but you know after the price action has settled down a bit or sometimes when I get a chance straight away I always have a look at it just to see you know it was worse than expected and the market was bullish you know it is market generated information that the market reacted in that way to essentially bad economic news in other words why is the market reacting like that because the market likes anything that currently that is bad economic news because it may believe it being the larger players who ever control the market or who have the pockets to provide stronger price action than you and I on the retail side they may believe that that means we're more likely to get those interest rate cuts next year or less likely to get interest rate rises so yeah that's been a consistent theme over the economic releases over the last few weeks that it does not matter if it's slightly worse than expected you know the market likes it and you could also say that it didn't really matter it could have printed anything at all and most likely we would have had a bullish reaction and that probably can be considered true as well only if it had something that was completely out of the ordinary by way of that release would we have likely got a bearish reaction and that is the macro environment that we're in and that's why it's worth bearing in mind you know having some knowledge of that environment before you get to these news releases okay time to zoom out a bit and have another look so let's actually get into the fuel on the ES side let's blow the ES up and so let us look at this move from 830 so we're going to try and get across 830 this is where we're using the power of an infinite scroll mouse with book maps amazing micro second, millisecond feature so what we're looking at here is the fuel at the top so the idea is the visual representation even though it's relatively balanced in terms of the profile you've got this nice draw, we haven't actually drawn at all today let's change colours to that colour so you've got this this nice bit of green fuel potential trap buyers to get as to get the fuel to get down to that scene of the crime so that's what I'm suggesting with the way that I've set my book map up I'm looking to be patient I'm looking for scenarios where I have a potential fuel trap which lines up with the direction that I'm going in so for that I was looking for a fade back, I'm not trading right now but I would have been looking for a fade back to that scene of the crime let me just get back on the cursor and as we zoom out a bit you can see let me just get rid of that you can see the potential trapped fuel to get us back down to this level, again this is a game of probabilities and are multiples and the question is if you were trading towards that did you have a tight enough risk to make that trade worth it and if you're trading in NQ you're more likely to be a price fighter and what that means is you're not going to take a trade unless there's a really good prize involved because there are so many opportunities in NQ both in ETH and RTH and so why are you going to take something where the actual R reward might be only 0.5 of an arm what I mean by that is that if we draw where the risk might be up there then you've got a reward there that might be twice as big as that is that really worth it and the answer in my view is no but that's just to give you an illustration of why that delta fuel can be useful just fast forward to now just having another look here so by doing that I completely missed what was happening in NQ so we had something that's been quite rare recently which is a large resting cell iceberg in NQ that absorbed enough buyers to give us a really, really good move so what I was talking about earlier was going down a fractal so if you go down to a fractal we haven't got a specific time frame on this chart but say we're going down to a fractal of a time frame this is still a double top and then an upthrust, a breakout failure up into both a cell iceberg and into liquidity above so one of my favorite trades and I'll draw this again this time is where you've got thick liquidity you've got a swing high and then we just take out that swing high and we stop just short of that liquidity and then we go down that's where you're using the power book map together with a traditional supply and demand type setup let me just ditch all that so in this circumstance as opposed to one ES you do have a tight stop so if we're going to draw this on again so you've got to say you'll say that essentially is where you would have got in around about here so we'd draw that across about this level and you could have had a nice five point stop there and it's already gone the ten point so you've got to are out of that if you had been stalking it again this is about patience and preparation it is not about chasing the trade is up there is not here here here all the way down here they are the risk to reward ratio is a live risk to reward ratio and you take the trade down here it's a much worse trade than it is up there it may be scary up here but we're not playing this game based on fear we're playing this game based on mathematics and the intention to try and earn more money than we lose okay so you'll often find when I'm doing these webinars that NQ is going to give us a lot more to talk about and a lot better price setups at this time of the day sometimes ES is really really good at this time of the day today it does seem as if it's waiting for RTH and the Fed release but NQ the only setups I took one short earlier today from a trading range extreme and there's been nothing else for me ES has given me nothing and I refuse to trade for a point it's just not my bag okay another time check so we've got about 15 minutes left so again if we're going to talk about how we'd use book map and we'd use this delta column so if we're in this trade here we've used this little trap of fuel to give us a trigger and we've got this scene of the crime or the zone the price zone of the crime not the exact level of 16.610 but the zone so you could say it's already got there because it got to 11.5 what we're looking at here is this red delta tail on this lower half because you know as I said we're talking about fractals upon fractals upon fractals so if you go down to this kind of fractal so we're going down a time frame you can see that this is a tail to get to get people on such a tiny time frame a long right so I'm not suggesting that it's going to go long for very far or that it might not get back down to the scene of the crime I'm just saying that it's this concept of a fractal within a fractal within a fractal and that's why you might want to use other bars in addition to very very short time frame bars and here we've got another book mat feature that I like to talk about and I do quite a few screenshots in the room which is if this was ES and you've got a resting cell iceberg and it's already got 78 which is a lot in NQ that becomes a target so even though it's also a trigger for a short which would have got to R if you're taking it in the right place it becomes a target for a long trade later on if that stays there again nothing works 100% but there is a good probability that these cell targets of resting icebergs above price do often get filled why because on auction price theory they're advertising that they wish to conduct more trade at that price level so that buyers and sellers will then auction back to that price zone at that level so that that trade can be conducted so that's why that probability works out whether it you know the probability that it does work out the statistic itself you have to look at that yourself in your research I'm afraid it's one of those where you have to do a manual back test and you know you have to go through your charts and note down when they occurred whether they got filled whether they didn't get filled you know were there any characteristics which said they were more likely to get filled than others but I've certainly found that if we were talking about ES rather than NQ it's a good probability that that would get tagged in NQ this is quite rare that you have such a large iceberg and then you've got this nice move away and then you've got this target above so you know if you were to take that trade you know what would you do you use this cell fuel as your trigger you would have used the scene of the crime potentially or just about there as a stop level so again you know maybe you got in a round about this level say 14 and you've got a 5 point stop and you know you're targeting right up to this level this time so you're trying to get it tagged so you're looking for an 11 point target and again if you get within half a point you know it is in your own interest to scale so you know if you're expecting a perfect single perfect tag every time after you've got 2R on your trade you're going to find sometimes that goes all the way back and you lose that 2R that's one of the reasons why I'm a strong believer in scaling also if you know if you're trading ranges let's draw a range here again so if you're trading ranges I'll just draw one over here so you've got a range high and a range low and a mid and price might go backwards and forwards and forwards quite often it might just do that though so that you know if you go along there targeting the top of the range it'll get the mid and it'll come straight back and if you haven't scaled to that mid you've got nothing even if you had a very very tight stop so you know there are lots of reasons why you would scale there are lots of reasons why you wouldn't scale but you know what you do in your trading plan and your strategies and your execution of your setups is up to you what would I have done in this scenario I would definitely have scaled by 23.5 I think it's likely that we will get back up there I'm looking at especially since this is the high of the day and I'm looking at the total number of contracts traded at the high and I'm seeing 107 so I haven't got I have not got a volume number column in here but I'm just looking across in Sierra and I can see 107 ordinarily you know that is not likely to be the final high of the day for an NQ session you know it'll be a smaller number than that but anyway it's quite often it will it will toy with you it will get to within half a point a point and then it will move away move away, look for fuel again if you're looking for fuel to get to the upside further you kind of have to go down a fractal to see where that fuel is developing to see if we can then get back up part of me also then wants to zoom out again have a look at this liquidity here at yesterday's high and think that if they can absorb enough buyers into this liquidity zone here 25 to 27 to 30 that may increase the probability that we will get down to this 16-5 80 level during RTH but we'll have to see so you can see again yeah we got really really close we got to 24-50 but we have not tagged that 25 on this one occasion, two occasion, three occasions on this really really low timeframe basis and you can also see that you've got a green delta fuel potential trap to get us down for a pullback again before we get up there so it will be interesting to see whether whether or not we now get up there without going and retracing a little bit but right now I would not want to short and over in AES let's have a look and see what's happening it's really just a lot slower in its motion you've got some support around the 05 04 so that was resistance early today so you know if we zoom all the way back in that level there, the 05 level was resistance and now it's now we've got liquidity support at the same level and here we go yep and we're through now so and now we're continuing up and we've got a nice little spike up and you can see that a little vertical spike back down which has been retraced already so you can see the move up was not a vertical spike but the move back down was and there should be a clear differential between them you should be able to see that so that there shouldn't be any doubt in your eyes what is a vertical move and again that is one of the beauties deep map and that's one of the reasons why I like it see that there, that's a vertical move and don't expect them to come back straight away sometimes they can take quite a long time before they come back it's just the probability is that they will at some point revisit that I think it's quite a higher probability we're talking about above 75% okay just double checking any more questions in YouTube or Discord we don't really have a big number of people today I know we've got a few in Discord I'm never quite sure sometimes on these Wednesday sessions I noted last week I thought it was quite a good technique session we went through quite a lot of stuff but maybe we're going to have to label them on YouTube so people are aware what is covered in the content of one of these webinars because there was a below average number of viewers on that particular one even though I thought the actual technique stuff was better than some of the other ones that I had done I'm also told with the YouTube stuff that a lot of this a lot of the videos on YouTube are aimed more at beginners so some of the stuff that we talk about in these types of webinars are not aimed at beginners they're not magic indicators they're nothing like that they require work effort and manual backtesting a lot of the time and zooming in and out and understanding the concept of multiple timeframes and fractals and a lot of people are not prepared to do that kind of work even though it would increase both their win rate not that that matters that much and more importantly there are multiples or their average are multiples and thus their expectancy of their business but that is the way that YouTube is and there isn't much that one can do about that but that's not really for me I'm not here to bullshit or lie or invent stuff I'm here to provide hopefully help on technique and also live analysis describe what I see in the pictures and what do I see right now in NQ since they lit up this liquidity here at 35 and we're driving towards it I'm just watching to see what happens in terms of the additional liquidity being provided around those levels that's where you can zoom in and out so you can see where that little level at 40-50 was added again I'm not convinced that the RTH morning session will be a trans-session I cannot predict the future and I've said that many, many times again and I'm just looking across by the way I didn't notice in the years but since 8.30, since that news release we have held that scene of the crime beautifully within one tick maybe two ticks we've lost it but it's held it absolutely beautifully and it's going up to this resting liquidity that's been there beforehand 202 now at 4.7.10 so did the heat map provide generated information that could have been useful to an ES trader? The answer is yes it did and that's something that I would say that with every single one of the tools that you use and you should have your own wiki you should have your own wikipedia that you've written describing each of those tools screenshots where appropriate and how they fit into your strategy and your trading plans so that you can refer to them because your memory is not going to be watertight no matter how good you think your memory is it is essential it is really really helpful to every single trader to be able to go back and refer to things that you observed and that's one of the reasons why I journal so that I have things that I can then put into little stub type articles inside a wiki that I can refer to so that if you see something sometimes it'll be the formation of an idea for a new edge or a new little mini setup or trigger or something like that that you can use that might be in play for a few weeks or a month it might be one of those temporary setups because sometimes these edges do not last forever and the fact that you've observed what's gone into play that is in play at the moment can help you for a few weeks and then you can also observe when it stops helping and you can then disregard it okay so we're now in this little ranging pattern here in NQ what we're going to do is zoom in and we're going to watch this delta column so we're going to see what are they trapped below to get us to this liquidity so this liquidity here when it came in firstly there and again here they didn't change liquidity but it's acted as resistance so the point to note is that these liquidities do have a double headed demon type of purpose they both act as support resistance also as magnets and you have to accept them for what they are but I'm hoping by zooming in and out there you can see we can see this delta fuel develop and we can also see this little bit of liquidity below in terms of liquidity sizes I like liquidity 30 and above NNQ I think I'm sure I've said that a few hundred times now as well anything below 30 in NQ I take with a massive grain of salt and yes I trade NQ and ETH a lot more than I do ES just because there are more opportunities to make multiple R trades and why do this if there are not multiple R trades there isn't much point it's a very very hard business there's plenty of luck involved a lot of it it's bad luck there are occasions where you execute really badly I had a trade after the CPI yesterday I had really good size on a short and I did not milk it properly and it was really bad execution by me and you have to accept and expect that you will do that from time to time your execution of your own strategy will not be perfect and a lot of what we're talking about here is discretionary rather than automated mechanical some of this I've written a couple of algos to get in that cover a couple of the triggers that I have and I'm quite happy provided I have a clear target to let my algos do the entry for me but most of the time I'm still manually entering just zoom in and focus on ES for the last few minutes we've only got one more minute so we've got this resting liquidity up above at 4.7.10 I thought we'd get closer than 3 ticks thought we might get to 2 ticks or so but we'll have to see it's just because this liquidity has been there for a while and we've had one approach ordinarily when it stays pretty much unchanged a filtered heat map so this is ES filtered by orders that have not changed by way of size or price level you can see the little break for the news release but effectively that's been in place for hours and hours and it's 181 orders so it's likely that they'll have a second approach but again I'm just observing I'm not trading until the RTH session okay I think I'm coming up to 9 o'clock you can see this support as well at the moment that's holding us that support there in ES is trying to push us into this resting liquidity let's see if they can do that job anyway I will call it a day there I hope the information has been useful and trade well people and enjoy the enjoy the Fed release this afternoon and the fireworks that are likely to happen cheers


When air expands diabetically, which is just a fancy way of saying that as it expands it's neither gaining or losing heat Then its pressure and volume are related to each other by the equation PV to the 1.4 power is equal to C where C is some constant Suppose that at a certain instant of time the volume is 400 cubic centimeters and the pressure is 80 KPa and is decreasing at a rate of 10 KPa per minute at what rate is the volume increasing at this time This is a related rates problem because we're given information about the rate of change of one Quantity and we want to know about its relationship to another quantity So what quantity are we trying to figure out here? What rate is the volume increasing at a specific time? So we're trying to figure out what is the change of volume with respect to time at this moment of time Well, what else do we what so that's what we need to know? What do we actually know about this problem? We know that the volume at that moment of time is going to be 400 cubic centimeters So V equals 400 cubic centimeters We know that the pressure at this moment of time is going to be 80 kilo Pascal's so P equals 80 kilo Pascal's and we also know that the rate in which the pressure is changing is It's decreasing 10 kilo Pascal's per minute So we get that Dp over Dt at this moment is negative 10 Kilo Pascal's per minute You notice I have put a negative 10 the negative 10 represents that the change of pressure is decreasing with respect to time So we're only make we've able to observe the given information and what we need to figure out Now we've reached what's typically the hardest part of a related rates problem is actually coming up with the equation that Relates together pressure and volume the two quantities in play here, right? We need to relate together the derivative of volume with the derivative of pressure So you find an equation that relates pressure and volume and then take the derivative implicitly But the good news is and this is what's so beautiful about this problem Is they're giving you the equation it just handed to you on a silver platter Wow, how amazing and that does happen sometimes that because of the scientific applications The equation that we have to relate the quantities is essentially already given to us We don't have to search for it that really removes the hardest part of this problem. Definitely We're now in the position where we need to take the derivative of both sides of this equation So we take the derivative of the left-hand side with respect to T We're gonna take the derivative of the right-hand side with respect to T As we take the derivative of the left-hand side because we have a product to two things in order to expand the derivative We're gonna use the product rule so we're gonna get the derivative pressure times volume to the 1.4 and Then we're gonna get pressure times the derivative of volume to the 1.4 like so on the right-hand side We have to take the derivative of the constant But notice they didn't give us the derivative of the constant and guess what don't know Don't care about that constant because its derivative is gonna equal zero. That's why I wasn't given to us Next we need to finish calculating the derivative of volume to the 1.4 Be aware that we are taking the derivative with respect to time not with respect to volume So the chain rule comes into play here. The derivative will look like 1.4 times V to the 0.4 power That's the outer derivative. We're gonna lower the power by 1 there and then we times that by the inner derivative V prime Now at this moment, we've now finished all the derivative calculations We're gonna plug in the information that we know into this into this equation here So the change of pressure remember with respect to time with a negative 10 kilo Pascal's per minute The volume was 400 cubic centimeters and I'm just gonna leave that right now as 400 to the 1.4 power I'm gonna practice what in computation theory is called lazy computation. It sounds like a bad thing I mean, how could lazy be good, but the idea is we're not gonna compute it until we actually need it It turns out we're gonna wait because later on if we just if we postpone the calculation We might find it easier to do it later than it is now. What's the hurry? There isn't one So then we're gonna plug in the pressure which we know that to be 80 kilo Pascal's then we have 1.4 times V to the 0.4 so again, we're gonna get 400 to the 0.4 power again I'm gonna be lazy in my computation. We're gonna times that by V prime, which we don't know So now when you look at this we got a bunch of numbers We could try to crunch them in our calculator and go from there But essentially we have to solve this linear equation for V prime which we don't know So we're gonna move this quantity to the other side of the equation It's we have a negative 10 times 400 to the 1.4. So we move to the other side of the equation It'll become positive. So we get positive 10 times 400 to the 1.4 power What's left on the left hand side notice that 80 could be factors 8 times 10 The reason that that advantage is is it times 10 by 1.4. You're actually get 14 So you get 8 times 14 That way you can avoid the fractions right 400 to the point for power and then times that by V prime We then need to divide both sides of the equation by this coefficient right here divide both sides by the 8 times 14 times 400 400 to the point 4 8 times 14 times 400 to the point 4 and so now we're gonna see that our lazy computation actually paid off Notice how we have a 400 to the 1.4 on the top. We have a 400 to the point 4 on the bottom This is an exponential expression We have the same base and since we're across the fraction bar We're gonna subtract the exponents there and so we end up with the change of volume to equal 10 times 400 to the first power over 8 times 14 you'll notice that at this moment We don't we just have to take form to the first power. That's pretty easy. That's just 400 So we don't have to compute any x what it actually canceled each other The next ones can't show each other out and so no irrational numbers were ever necessary because in the end the irrational numbers cancel out I would recommend this, you know having an algebraic mindset instead of a numerical mindset Not mindset can help us with these lazy computations And so if we continue on with this thing, we're gonna end up with Well, we simplify the fraction we're getting 250 over 7. Whoops over 7. Don't worry about the arithmetic That's not the point of this video 257 a 250 over 7 what this is gonna be cubic centimeters per minute Although an approximate solution is probably more advantage advantageous for us here So we're gonna get thirty five point seven one four and this will be centimeters cube per minute as Then that's gonna be how quickly the volume of this gas is increasing at this specific moment in time


Radiant Church presents Radiant Stories, a collection of stories that showcase God's faithfulness to take our hopeless situations and craft them into beautiful testimonies of His power, provision, and love. We are here today with Kendra Zondervan. We are so excited to have her on. She is the wonderful other half of John Zondervan, who is the Richland campus pastor here at Radiant Church. She also is on staff, and she plays a huge role in our day-to-day here at the campus. So we are really excited to have her, and she's got a really powerful message. I've heard her testimony before, and the growing up portion of it is really intense, and then encountering the Lord as well, and Pastor John works, he's woven into that as well. But today I think she's going to talk about primarily the love of the Father and how it's affected our life. Yeah, thank you so much for having me, and this is a really cool opportunity because I don't typically get to talk about my story, and I love interviews so much. So it's just something that John has the ability to be out front, and I love that about him. So this is a cool moment for me. So I actually grew up with a single mom, and I've never met my birth father. He was not in my life at all because of just a lot of circumstances revolving around abuse, and he actually was in prison, and he just was never in my life. My mom kind of escaped from him really more than anything.  They came from the Netherlands, actually migrated to this country, and so growing up I kind of was off and on. I would stay with them. They were really a place of safety for me.  So she moved in with this guy who later became my stepdad, and it was off and on, we'd be there, we'd move out. We'd be there, we'd move out. So it was just, I grew up very early, I guess. I had to depend on myself. I probably started doing things that you wouldn't even do until your college years, basically before I was like 12 years old. So just had an interesting kind of life, but you don't understand that you're really in dysfunction until you grow up and you grow out of that dysfunction, and then you realize, wow, okay, I would never want that for my kids. So that was kind of my history. I met John and we met in a restaurant. Neither of us were saved. I really hadn't had any experience even going to church at all. I would occasionally go with my grandpa to this community church that was in our town, and I just remember going and being like, oh, I kind of like the music here. I had this kind of acknowledgement of God, and I always just remember thinking even, oh, well, I'm a pretty good person. I mean, really, that was what I thought, and it was really never went beyond that. I never felt conviction of sin. There was an emptiness and there was definitely a brokenness and just so much shame that I carried and I just had no understanding or idea how I could ever get rid of that. I mean, as a very young child crying and thinking a lot, like why am I alive? Why am I here? Because I did have a brother that was born before me with my real dad. My mom lost him in the hospital. He was born with some birth defects, and I remember crying myself to sleep like, God, why am I the one that's alive and just never really understanding that. So it kind of went through my life being very independent. I moved out when I was 16. I would just live with friends because it was just so chaotic within the environment, just constant, just screaming, fighting, yelling, police. It just was never ending. So I learned how to be on my own and John and I actually came to radiant when it was not radiant for a birthday party and literally went to service and encountered the presence of God and for the very first time and he came forward and I had this fear for whatever reason. I knew that God was real. I knew Jesus forgave my sins. I believed, but I didn't go forward then. But from that moment on, it was the change in my life and John and I were able to really walk through those steps of maturing as Christians together because I had kind of lost my friend relationships that I had prior to that. I mean, my life was literally turned upside down in a great way. So super thankful that we had each other during that time. And so it was kind of like really early on, I think I was just so liberated from the sin and the shame that I carried that I really pressed in in the sense of being made new in Christ and the life that he gave me for paying for my sin. But it was just very natural and easy for me not to go deeper with the Father because all my life I had lived not really understanding what that relationship means. I had no context for it. So it was just very easy for me to pray to Jesus and to Father God. But it was very methodical, if you will. There wasn't a relationship context. And so I just remember even like the image I had of the Father was distant. He was just distant to me. And when I prayed, I always pictured Jesus as the mediator, like literally the line in the telephone, like, okay, I can get close to the Father through this cord, but it was just never a closeness that I felt like, I don't know, he wanted to have with me because I didn't understand. And I believed that because of the blood of Jesus, I had access to the Father. I mean, the Word of God talks about us being grafted in as children of God and we're co-heirs with Jesus. But instead of something that kind of broke down barriers, it became an invisible wall almost for me. And then there was an awakening that happened when I went on this heart quest. I don't know if you've ever heard of that. It was just an intense, like, one-week time where you went through just a lot of your past, a lot of things that, a lot of times you don't even understand, have kind of shaped and formed your ideas about yourself, your identity about the Lord. And it was just very, very in-depth. So I spent that week and, you know, I just did incredible things, spoke to me in personal ways that I hadn't experienced before. And I just remember at the end, we were at this dinner and we were supposed to kind of ask God a question about, like, what he wanted to ultimately do for, like, in the future, kind of what was beyond this. Like, we were going home. And I clearly, in a way that probably apart from certain dreams, that I've had, it was almost as if I heard the audible voice of God, but it was so strong in my spirit. And he just said, Kendra, you know Jesus, but you don't know me. And so it was just like this awakening moment where I realized I don't really understand the love of the Father. And I want to, I really want to. And so I just think that was the time when the journey really began for me to sink into the depth of his love. And I think he wants that for all of us. It's not about being just saved by grace. And it's incredible what Jesus has done for us and what we can, you know, have because of what he did. But it's ultimately, we were created to have relationship with the Father. And it was just for whatever reason, that was the moment when that became something that I was not going to let go of. I was going to be on a mission in order to encounter that more and more. So I just love radiant so much because it's, you know, just, it's not going through the motions.  It's always a challenge to go deeper, to grow in ways that I never could have imagined, you know, in the years that I've been here. So I just am so thankful for obviously Pastor Lee and Jane and their leadership and sacrifice and just the way that Pastor Lee does not compromise when it comes to the presence and the Holy Spirit and the Word of God and just I, it's changed me. It's changed my life. No, I feel like that is such a profound realization that you obviously didn't have on your own. It was, it was an encounter moment. What are the things that you have done? Like what has changed practically in your prayer life and even in your relationship with the Lord and the friend Jesus, the brother Jesus and the Father God from that point on when you really heard His voice, what changed practically day to day? How did you start seeking that relationship? I honestly think that there was something that came alive in me as really embracing and believing that I was a daughter of God. I think that that helped me to actually communicate and want to like really enter into intimacy like with the Father. I talked to Him differently. You know what I mean? It was more like it wasn't a ritualistic type thing where it was, I've got to come pray to Jesus to be like this mediator for me to actually get close to the Father. It just literally those walls were just broken down and it was almost as if I really felt like I was able to sit on His lap, like be fully embraced if that makes any sense. So it just changed the way that I had conversations with Him. It was just really turned into, I talked to the Father all the time like I would somebody who's standing right here next to me. It wasn't like, okay, I'm gonna, again, I get you carve out time, you have a set of side time to read the Word of God, but it just became a presence that I knew was always there with me. And I think that definitely was something that changed and surely it's changed over time. But I think that that was the difference. As a new Christian and as a new believer, it was almost like I had these kind of traditions that I don't even know where they came from, but this idea that, okay, I've got to do my devotions every morning or every night and that was the time that I really had to spend with the Lord and to talk to Him and when He would hear me and it just slowly changed to, I know He's always with me. I'm always talking to Him. I'm always getting new revelation about how He feels about me, about my identity, about things that He's putting on my heart to do. And so that just became more of a reality. And I think ultimately what it did was it allowed me to understand how He speaks to me because I do think that the Lord speaks to us in different ways. Some people will see an image and they will see a picture or they will just get this, a scripture will literally just jump off the page and it will mean something to them that they could have never had a pastor or someone explain. It's the Holy Spirit. So just really learning how to understand His voice and how He speaks to me and when He's speaking and that has changed my life really even over the past, I would say less than five years. That's become very strong because I had always been a, I don't know, dreamer, if you will. I think I dream every single night and I remember, no, they don't always make sense, but the Lord has kind of escalated, I think the way that He speaks to me and it happens a lot in dreams. And then I've developed like this thing where I just, I really want to understand. I'm definitely like very analytical. I want to know and I want to research and I want to understand. Some of the ways that He has really downloaded just His love in a profound, like supernatural, miraculous way is through dreams and Him helping me not interpret other people's dreams but help me interpret my own dreams. I can just share like, this was probably about eight or nine months ago, I was like at a conference, I was with a coworker at the conference. I'm sleeping in the night and I have this just horrible, horrible, horrible dream and I have a son, Eric, who is six and so in the dream it was like some, I don't know what was going to happen but it horribly terrible, like apocalyptic type thing was going to happen. Like Eric was going to suffer and he was going to, like something was coming after him and I don't know, maybe I've watched too many walking deads or something, I have no idea but John and I had to give him poison in this dream and my heart is, I mean in total, total anguish. I can't imagine, but I know I have to do it so I'm in the dream and I'm just like, I have to do this and it was, I can't even verbally tell you like how real it felt in that moment and how it was beyond anything I could ever imagine that I would ever do, but I had to do it so I'm giving it to him and I'm just holding him and I am just broken, I'm broken and I'm feeling him fade away and I wake up and I'm sobbing when I wake up from the dream and I'm just, I, it again just felt so real and I just knew in that dream I can't go on how can I do this, I don't know how I'm going to get through this I don't know how I'm going to go on and I woke up and I was just, instead of kind of being like oh my gosh, I can't believe that, I'd never do that I can't believe I would dream that I, in that moment just asked the Lord I asked the Father, I was like, why would I dream this? Lord, I could never do that, how could I do that how could I even dream about doing that? Why would I even have this dream? And I immediately, it was the tangible presence of the Father in a physical way came on me and he said, I did that and it literally was something that was a revelation to me about the depth of his love he gave and sacrificed his son that he loved so much more than I could ever love my own son that it just gave me like this revelation of oh my god, you love me I mean so much, I can't even comprehend the heartbreak and the brokenness that the Father had to go through to literally put the sins of the world on the son that he loved, turn his back and again, Jesus chose he chose to make that sacrifice for us but the Father had to have just the heartbreak that that is, I can't even imagine it and I just, it was something that I don't know it changed me, it changed my view in an even more profound way about the love of the Father and it was like this horrible, horrible nightmare became a like, just a catalyst for the Father to actually even pour out more of his love on me and so I, it's just been things like that time and time again that he has done and revealed to me in just random, crazy ways so you've had revelations as kind of an individual you've had revelations because of being a parent what do you feel like he has revealed to you through the years since you know being saved and encountering him in that way about being a daughter, like an earthly daughter yeah, I think it's that he would go through any lengths to honestly just be there for me to provide for me to be like with me and it just, I don't know when you don't have like an earthly Father, it's just so interesting because you just don't understand what it would be like to have like this unconditional like presence, love reliance on somebody and my mom you know did the best that she could again when you have, when you're parenting out of pain in her and brokenness it's very difficult for you to to honestly do the things that I'm sure she wanted to do for me and so being so independent I think that obviously has changed because I am able to press into like the unconditional love of God it's crazy like I know that there's nothing that no mistake that I could make nothing that I could do to separate him from loving me, from encountering me it's just amazing because God continues to like reveal things like that even I mean honestly like I was saying like in the last few years being able to kind of surrender those things that did give me this false stability and gave me this idea of okay I'm like I'm okay like just so thankful for the love of God and how he speaks to all of us it's like insane blows my mind it is I mean I've been personally impacted by your testimony and I've been personally impacted by the courage that I've seen you display in sharing what the Lord has put on your heart because I know you as a person you do not like talking in front of people I know I feel like there's more of a power more of an edge and the Lord uses it in a very specific sharp way when he uses people that are typically quote on quote behind the scenes or they prefer to be a little bit more behind the scenes upfront or you know something like that I feel like there's an edge to it there's a specific thing that cuts right to people's heart and I have personally experienced that from you and it's been absolutely incredible just to end I want to ask you a really simple question and it doesn't have to be a long answer but Kendra before encountering the Lord how would she define a father and now how would you define a father wow that's I have to like literally sit and like really just do on that it's so hard to even like say because I really had no idea I had no idea if that makes any sense like it was just distant there was really no concrete like feeling of what that was prior to my relationship with the Lord and sure like it's developed because I was able to really kind of get close to John's dad who was an incredible father so just even early on in my Christian walk it was kind of like I had these representations of incredible fathers which gave me a glimpse into the heart of the father but I mean now the father to me I mean he's everything he unconditionally knows me he created me his thoughts are always positioned towards me he is my life line I guess that's what I would say like I could never do anything that would separate me from how much he loves me that's what's changed like there's just no conditions and maybe before it was there was a distance or because you know I could only see that in kind of earthly terms and even probably with some of the things that I went through with my mom even love seemed conditional and now I know it's not just unconditional it's literally God he did not spare anything in order to be close to me to really know me and it's not that's not just me that's all of us it's kind of an abstract thing to grasp onto especially daughters that do not have close relationships or any relationship at all with their earthly father you do have a father you can experience that especially as a woman or a girl when you don't have a father I think there's definitely differences between fatherless sons fatherless daughters you go through you know different things and I think there was always this like overwhelming need for validation for me that I just couldn't get I couldn't I couldn't attain it I knew that it was like this hunger but I didn't understand how to get it and of course in you know the I guess process of trying to get that validation I went to many other things whether it was you know like the wrong friendships drugs alcohol guys I mean just so many different things I can try to fill or bring this false validation that never satisfies it literally leaves you more and more empty and broken I love you thank you I can't listen to this this has been radiant stories click subscribe to get a brand new story delivered to you every Monday


Okay, so we're here today at City of Sydney Fire Station. We cover obviously all in the city. A lot of people said to me that it's the best job in the world and I truly believe it is the best job in the world. So I've just recently started out here at the academy now. So my role is training and assessment, so level one firefighters going from that level one stage to a qualified firefighter stage, they do different jobs while they're out at station and then you assess them. Have a good back, love it. The first thing I do when I come to work, I go and get my gear. So I go get my turnout gear. So you have a look what number you are on the pump and I'm number two, so I hang my turnouts, whatever position I am, grab my helmet and my bushy bag and put it on the pump. Yeah, so we have three in the back. The city's a little bit different to other stations, but we have three in the back. We have the boss and we have the driver. So I have to take my air set. Yeah, so I have to take the mask off.  And this is so we can breathe, obviously don't breathe in the toxic gases. This is our tag where when we go into a fire, we disconnect and we give it to the driver so they know how long we're in the fire for.  Obviously water in the pump, making sure the radios work. And this is just so there's no leaks, get it to a certain pressure. So I've been in the job for roughly two years now. It took me probably four years to get in. First of all, Erica got involved in it first and I found she just loved it so much and I have a few friends in the job and they kept telling me how amazing it is and they said that I would be good at it. So I decided to sign up and yeah, I just love the team aspect of it and helping the community. And I feel it kind of relates well with Wanderers because they are quite a community based club and yeah, I love what I do.  So a normal day. So I obviously live in Wollongong. We've got a call now, so do you want to film that? So you look at the board, so it tells you what we're going to. So it's an AFA, so a fire alarm and where we're going. So the driver goes and gets a print out and then goes to the map around here and we get ready. OK, so here we are at the academy. I've just recently transitioned from station life to out here where we do some training and assessment side of things. My role is to assess junior firefighters into a qualified firefighter role. What I'm going to show you is a new bit of gear that we got, fire simulation that we're looking at trialling with using. It's a good way, a good tool for people starting out or even just a simulation. If you in that scenario, you would have seen me looking around a lot just to see if there's any other hazards or anything around it. That's another thing that can be useful as well. Can I just see where I am in the room? Oh, OK. This is, like I said, up there, the practical learning environment with the academy. We've got the live fire training facility in here, so that's where there's actually live fire. So this is Petra Station prop. So you can light up different parts of this and do different scenarios, I guess, so you can have the car on fire. Inside, whether there's office spaces, bedrooms. Oh, yeah, there's a delivery, like a loading dock in there. So it's just all different jobs you might go to. So this is what I was talking about there, urban search and rescue. So we've got a like a disaster and humanitarian response capability. And this is where they do all the training for urban search and rescue. I was a teacher to start with and I traveled overseas for a few years and came back and started teaching again and thought, you know, I wanted to do something else and I spoke to a friend that was a fiery and I had never even really given it thought. I've always said that it's an easy crossover between a team sport like football and fire brigade. It's very team orientated and I love that. That's why I play team sport as well. And this job as well, they're like your family, really, you're with them a lot of hours in the day. So and you're doing some pretty dangerous stuff at times. So you want to you want to know that you trust the person next to you. And that's kind of the same thing on a football field as well. That got you a little jump with football. I experienced a lot of places that I probably wouldn't ever experience before. And I'm quite fortunate. Yeah, like I said, the places I've been and I thought there was a time that I need to actually think about what I was going to do outside of football. And yeah, I'm glad I chose fire and rescue and yeah, I love it is tough at times, but I love I love juggling in them both. I'd like to think that I would inspire the younger generation to push their boundaries and to follow their dreams and do what they want to do. Just believe that you're a badass woman and that can can do whatever they put their mind to and like myself and Erica have done. And we've followed half of the firefighting and yeah, I love it.


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So I'm not sure how many of you are tuning in to the RNC convention. I mean, it's a combination of insanity and also Just very dry, very boring. It's like the same thing over and over again Like all of these speeches have the same exact theme be very afraid of MS-13 be afraid of Antifa Be afraid of Black Lives Matter protesters be afraid of socialism be afraid of Marxism Be afraid of Cory Bush But if you vote for us will protect you so you don't have to be afraid of all of these big bad scary boogie men in the world It's just the same thing. I mean, this is like watching the movie idiocracy except the difference is that The people in the movie idiocracy who were all idiots mind you They may actually be more intelligent than the crowd that the GOP is trying to appeal to with this event because I mean It's there's no substance like there's almost no policy at all And the reason why there's not much substance is because the Republican Party this year doesn't even have a policy platform And I'm not being sarcastic. They literally do not have a platform Basically what they are running on is we support Donald Trump and whatever he wants to do which he doesn't know what he wants to Do he just wants people to love him and things that he's doing a great job But in terms of what he's doing for the American people not offering healthcare They have no plan with regard to health care. I don't know if they have a strategy to safely reopen the economy given, you know What we're dealing with when it comes to COVID-19 it's just there's there's nothingness and Some insanity and boredom sprinkled in and I don't know what to make of it I mean a wet fart is more substantive than some of the speeches that we've seen And I know that you think I'm just being a hater But take a look at this speech from Kimberly Guilfoyle like does this sound like Someone who's a serious person that should be speaking at the convention of a national party You can be that shiny example to the world Manifest and be the change in this country that you dream that you hope that you believe in Stand for an American president who is fearless who believes in you and who loves this country and will fight for her President Trump is the leader who will rebuild the promise of America and ensure that every citizen can realize their American dream ladies and gentlemen leaders and fighters for freedom and is yet to come Okay is a hell of a drug No That wasn't a scene from a dystopian science fiction movie that was real life She actually thought that giving a speech where she yelled to a crowd of zero people Would get the Republican Party base excited. I It's just weird like this is very weird to me Weirder than usual and I'm never not amazed by what I see coming from the Republican Party On top of that for some reason they invited Ken and Karen those Gun-toting Individuals who were trying to protect their mansion what you saw happen to us could just as easily happen to any of you Who are watching from quiet neighborhoods around our country and that's what we want to speak to you about tonight That's exactly right Whether it's the defunding of police ending cash bail so criminals can be released back out on the streets the same day To riot again Or encouraging anarchy and chaos on our streets It seems as if the Democrats no longer view the government's job as Protecting honest citizens from criminals, but rather protecting criminals from honest citizens Not a single person in the out-of-control mob you saw at our house was charged with a crime But you know who was We were they've actually charged us with felonies for daring to defend our home On top of that consider this the Marxist liberal activist Leading the mob to our neighborhood stood outside our home with a bullhorn screaming. You can't stop the revolution Just weeks later that same Marxist Activist won the Democrat nomination to hold a seat in the US House of Representatives in The city of st. Louis. That's the same as winning the general election that Marxist Revolutionary is now going to be the congresswoman from the first district of Missouri Now I love how after they were photographed Pointing guns at peaceful protesters. They claim that they're the victims now We were defending our mansion from these people, but they weren't doing anything they weren't marching to your mansion So what were you defending yourself from like I don't understand.   So you're not the victims They're the victims but in case you missed the very subtle message that they're trying to get across be afraid of Cory Bush and also Marxism Marxist liberal activists Marxist activists Marxist these radicals no matter where you live your family will not be safe in the radical Democrats America the mob Are you scared yet? No, okay Well, if you're not afraid after watching that then maybe this is going to change your mind Joe Biden is hiding in the dark waiting to take the lives of our unborn babies And he's also going to cook them preferably at 350 degrees for about 45 minutes after marinating them For about two to three days in barbecue sauce and then once he cooks up these babies He's gonna chop them up and feed them to the other politicians at their Satanic Illuminati meeting like People are out of their minds and the way that he says it the way that he said that was like my favorite part But aside from all of the insanity This Freudian slip here is probably not my favorite moment from the entire event Poland is home of the Underground Railroad and two of our greatest Abolitionists Frederick Nope, no take backs.  This is literally real life This party is just They are a spectacle now. I saw this headline from vice news It says an RNC speaker said cops would be smart to racially profile her own son Now I thought to myself, okay This is something that a Republican would say but there's got to be like Some sort of clickbait going on here like they have to be Misrepresenting her because why would they invite some wackadoo who says something like this saying that cops should racially Profile her son like that. There has to be something more going on right?   Why would you invite someone like this? She literally just said that the police should racially profile her own son Because statistically because facts don't care about your feelings. He's more likely to commit a crime She is insane and they invited her to speak You're not considering like socio-economic factors the fact that communities of color over police No, it's just that there's something unique about communities of color that leads them to do more crime Why don't you just say the quiet part out loud?  Statistically Nothing else to look at just you know, they are in jail more So I mean it's it's cool if the cops want to racially profile my own son Like you have to be Insane to think that but this is who they invite to the RNC convention to speak on their behalf to promote their party to get People excited to vote Republicans in November. I Mean, there are no words to fully capture what's happening here Like when we look back to this moment in history Like people aren't going to believe some of the things that are coming out of this convention except you know Now we have the internet. So this is all being documented. So I mean this this period of time We are going to be laughing at this forever once we're out of this era in American politics That is if we ever get out of this era of American politics now I want to talk about Melania speech because you know, there wasn't anything special about it It was incredibly long like way too long. It was insufferably boring, but it was at least more normal I mean, it was disingenuous. She lied But I mean she said what she had to as the first lady to support the president But one thing that stood out to me is the fact that they had over 70 people in attendance there Not wearing masks not social distancing and according to CNN None of them are tested for COVID-19. I mean you think that for their own well-being They would want to take this seriously They just don't care they just don't care Now I haven't even gotten to everything because Like most of this content is from days one and two of the event But there's gonna be more and you can't possibly capture all of the insanity of the RNC convention in a quick YouTube video But just know that what we've seen from this event Like this isn't normal like even though we expect insanity from Republicans. This is not normal We shouldn't accept this as the norm We should understand that what we are seeing is insanity We are seeing a dying party who has shifted so far to the right that they are off the political spectrum and they are boring on sheer insanity and You know, this is why we see them becoming more Fascistic and conspiratorial because when you shift so far to the right You can only go so far until you hit a brick wall and you reach fascism and straight up loony territory So this is what we're seeing but meanwhile, you know The media and Republicans are still gonna cry about the far left when we see this level of delusion from Republicans Like how are we not all collectively worried about the far right in this country? I Mean after seeing the RNC invention for anyone to bring up the far left ever again shows you how Unserious they are right the overton window has shifted so far to the right that this is acceptable This is what's normal in America the RNC convention where they're screaming at you and talking about how Joe Biden wants to murder unborn babies Like this is not normal.  So don't hit the subscribe button, okay? And whatever you do folks do not hit the notification bell either Mike treats me so unfairly