Good morning traders and welcome to the live trading webinar here at bookmap. This is Bruce and We'll do the live analysis today So we do this Monday Tuesday and Friday 10 a.m. Live trading with J Trader stocks trader on Wednesday and live trading with Scott Balsini was yesterday Thursday at 10 a.m And then every day we have in the afternoon Tom be Streaming in YouTube as well. So you'll all find it on the YouTube channel there and You can you can join Immediately so when the stream starts All right, just a little bit of background on our education and then we're going to dive right into the S&P E Many take a look at the market in general and and give some insight to where we think price is going to move next so to Understand that statement or what our goal here is with these webinars. It's to Educate you on order flow with the best education that we can we have an educational course. It's free. 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All right, let's get into the risk disclosures and jump right in here General disclosure all book map limited materials information and presentations are for educational purposes only and should not be considered specific Investment advice nor recommendations Risk disclosure trading futures equities and digital currencies involve substantial risk of loss and it's not suitable for all investors Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results. All right, so let's jump in. Let's take a look here Pretty choppy here already in the morning as you can see from about 6 a.m You know, we have a bit of a downtrend here But we'll take a look at the bigger picture here lots of liquidity in here up at 3950 3960 3920 down here We've already traded into and through this 3930 area here. We don't have a lot of news out there today either So we're just going to be looking at them. It'd be interesting interesting interesting session here 3910 and also the figure we're going to see some liquidity down here not so much right now But they're probably mount a lot more if we can get down into that area All right, let's see a few notes in here So I just want to mention a couple of things One is On our discord chat room, let's take a look here. Let me find it hold on Yeah Here and the discord chat room under this one here workstations Hey, we kind of renamed it was called workstation pics and it had everyone's workstations in here and it was cool I mean some beautiful Different configurations in here well Tom Tom be here is looking for a laptop And I thought I'd give a shout out here and and and put your comments in here If you have any kind of insights on a high quality gaming laptop 17 inch That Tom is looking for here. 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We look for heavy Sell volume here. All right. Well, we got it And then you know, we want to see it continuous though and that we don't quite have here It looks good. See how it kind of wanes down here a little bit and see the buying coming in All right, so looks good We're just noticing that though. We're still looking for the continuation here to the downside All right, so they have to pick it up again in here the sellers and then they can hit 39 10 Right. The other thing we look for in here typically in the order flow is not just heavy selling But also price movement right now. It's a little it's been volatile lately. So and we're you know breaking the low here The cash low This has already been more than a five-point move. So this is more likely a Continuation move here. Okay, so not only 39 10 we're looking for the figure down here Okay, this is a big concept to understand in order flow Understanding that you know the higher time frame traders are moving it away from this previous value area in here Or this previous kind of choppy area in here, and this is what it takes This is very indicative of the kind of footprints in the sand here That they're moving it away from these areas. So you could see even with You know as we started to note this starting to come down in here And we're looking for the continuation into 10 I mean you could have gotten involved in One thing to note about these these kinds of moves in here and you'll have to kind of put this together in your own strategy and what you're looking for What I've noticed when I see these kinds of things is I just jump in Because it is unlikely you're gonna get a pullback in here when they're moving the market like this Okay, and this is a good example of that The one thing that I didn't like was like what I mentioned in here was some of the selling in here started it It wasn't quite as strong, but it wasn't it's not that bad either, but I wanted to see more I wanted to see big dots like this down at these lower levels here. All right Okay, so anyway The waiting for a pullback on this you're still you'd still be waiting So yeah when I when you know, that's that's my plan. That's what I've studied. That's what I look at I look for the continuation All right, there's also a Bit of psychology involved in that too and it is my limitation is a bit of FOMO I don't like to see this do that and it makes me feel horrible So I jump in I scale out a little bit along the way some in some places like 10 Or or take all my profit at 10 and I might even be done for the day after a move like that All right, it depends on on the sizing etc. It's up to you and Anyway, these are considerations here. This is these are not trade recommendations It's just to read the order flow here and to consider how to interact with it How you might want to interact with it and you need to you need to go kind of See if this fits your trading style your your way of looking at the markets Maybe it doesn't maybe you're you know, you'd be looking for a Pullback here and and that's fine And you you didn't get involved in this this one didn't pull back so It's really up to you also time of day in here. This is very typical. This is the continuation from the kind of You know cash session here I So it's continued to the downtrend and it broke into newer levels here All right, so let me I've been ranting here. Let me get into some of the Comments and You missed it okay Bert Yeah, I mean like this is If it's something that really really bothers you then this is something to consider what we just talked about a Finding way to kind of slip into these things and Scott's webinar from yesterday. It's been uploaded. So I don't know what happened, but YouTube Locked it. Okay, it's private and they locked it. We're finding out what happened there You know Scott didn't swear or anything like that. So I'm not sure why It's not available at this time, but we're looking into it. Okay. We'll have we'll have something some sort of answer for you All right, so let's see here any questions in our YouTube Good morning, Reiner. That's it. Okay. All right, so we're all caught up there and All right, let's let's continue on with our analysis here and you guys can see if you're new in here This is the forward-looking analysis that we do Right is applying that education and so it kind of verifies the education In essence, you know, it's for real I mean like we go through exactly these processes and now we're talking about it in the live market We can also talk about how you might get involved And there's many different ways to do that One of them was the way that I mentioned here. I just kind of jump in and go for the ride and then take my profits along the way and try to let the rest run And if I even I might even add to it In some of these areas in here if I'm looking for that continuation Like right now. Yeah, like why not add to it here look for another one at 305 3905 or maybe 39 a hundred here now. It's not going to be as easy as that. It never is So what we need to kind of manage the trade we need to kind of understand You know, how to manage it and again, this is not a trade recommendation room. All right, we're just we're just covering Different ways to consider it here like right now Well, okay, so it came back up. It tested into 10 and now it's selling off All right If you didn't like that and you saw this just transaction up here and you got involved in here in this top end here Maybe you would take your profit in here. It's just a quick scalp within this range Or you know, maybe we get down below here. You see a big red dot and you're like, okay, I'm gonna sit back I'm looking for this to break down into 3900 All right, so anyway We've talked about all of these things in the past like different ways of Getting involved in here So yeah, you know, I would I would still be in it basically and may have even added in here And may have even taken some off at the bottom of this little range from this position in here Okay, because we yet see how it has the possibility here for these these buyers to come in and then sweep it back up into these areas here and The next area, you know, I don't know probably probably up in in here where these transactions took place and it dropped We also look at these little swings in here And you know, this is just a smaller structural areas where you can kind of anticipate a price to come to And and test just test It might not accept But test that area here, right now look again at another thing that's really interesting here Right. We've seen that by this buying cluster here and and pretty strong buying right now So yeah, I'm looking for them to test back up here, right? Maybe at this point I my one position that's on already. Maybe I dump it And maybe I even scalp it back up into this area here or even higher We can talk about another strategy in here. What about the mean reversion trade? It's a it's right around that time We've dropped a ton here And we see the buyers coming in And we have our VWAP and we have our point of control up here And we have a lot of people that are have sold in here All right, so that could be another way of looking for your Countertrend trade up into these areas Okay, let me look at the you know the thin auction in here, you know on the way down here There's not a whole lot of contracts that traded Okay, you can fill in this area in here and just the market likes to kind of test back and forth in these areas all right, so Anyway, let's we'll see if it if it auctions up in there or not And we're just gonna read the order flow And nothing shaken so far Sellers come back in and bouncing off of this. This is our structural area right here that we're looking at One structure another one So far this structure is we do see some buying in here, but it's not so bullish to be honest This is when this one has a little more volatility to it This is pretty pretty shallow in here. You can just look at the the width of the boxes there All right, so then you know looking at the order flow if we get some sellers down at the bottom edge here We have a lower high Looking for sellers here and then a break and then continuation of that bigger trend Oh nine bottom of the range oh six the down to the figure thirty nine hundred And that that that's another scenario in here to take a look at here I don't see it. I'm not getting much from it right now. I don't see those sellers here And in fact we see a little bit of buying right now up here Okay, now did those buyers make a higher high? No Do we see sellers back down here again great? All right, they should be able to drop it then oh nine To oh six and let's see if they show up. They did here a little bit Here they come again, and let's see him. There's oh nine. Okay looking for bottom of the range here Could it could bounce here? Could bounce right here. We have another little structural area And this this is the point of control or most rated level here So that could be your target as well Instead of oh nine I look for your kind of oh seven and a half ish Area here. Oh nine is not bad All right. Now. Let's see now that do the sellers want to push this through now bottom of the range oh six and then and then continuation It bounced off of oh eight here as you guys can see Okay, it traded into this liquidity here. So anyway you guys We're looking at these these levels in here In the in in the price structure, and then we're looking for the order flow around those levels To give us some insight so on the way down. We knew that this was the big move All right, so we're looking for jumping in and riding the train here on down to some of these levels ten was one and then The figure here was the other All right saw some chop in here talked about maybe scalping the range in here and then talked about maybe even You know ejecting out of that other position here And then we talked about a potential here for that mean reversion here And then we started to read the order flow in here, and we didn't really like it We know we knew that this is not a really strong move based just on the range And and then we started to note. Wow. Okay, so we're not seeing buyers We're making lower lows in here and lower highs in here We're not really seeing the buyers at this point. We really didn't see the sellers either Then we started to see them here That's when we're looking for the drop And we're looking for them and we stayed away until we started to see them then we then we saw them We're looking for it to drop and we start to set our targets based on market structure again All right, so we're looking for a continuation We've already tested below we hit the 06 bottom of the range and it went through it So we're looking for continuation again down to 3900 here And then we also know typically S&P there's a lot of traders we hit 3900 And then we look to get everyone on the hook down here Go below it. Maybe 3895 everyone thinks oh my god, this is dropping like a rock And then you'll see those mean reversion traders come in Or at least back up into maybe the mean or you know high volume note up here. Okay Anyway, we're we're talking about again like market structure and Then and then looking at the order flow within the structure to give us some insight here Good morning, everybody. Let's see Carolina. Can you explain how you identify sellers? Well red dots are market sell orders Green dots are market buy orders now when I when I'm talking about sellers and buyers in here I'm talking about the aggressor Okay, they're the ones that move the market There's the other side of the trade and I talk about them as passive orders. Okay, they're not the aggressors Those are limit buy orders and limit sell orders here down here There's a lot of limit buy orders. You can see it in the heat map here You can see it in the COB column that stands for current order book. This is showing you liquidity Okay, so there's a lot of buyers down here at the figure at 3900 And the sellers well majority of them are there up here way up here at at 39 39 or so And you can see them in the heat map in other areas here the scale of the heat maps here at the top center Red and orange very high liquidity Then yellow then white then blue then black. This is the auction. Okay, this is the other side of the auction the passive Orders they they are Such an important part of them of the market without them. It's just you know, there is no auction and This is what just I find so funny is a you know getting in arguments with other traders about like, oh, this is all BS The liquidity in here. It's just simply not it's it. This is what? Makes up the market. It is orders that make up the market and This is the understanding of the intent of these traders at these areas that gives you insight Yes, they can spoof. They can pull their liquidity at it in other levels pull it away as soon as it comes up to it and say like Haha, I don't want to trade right Yes however We can see when they do trade we can also start to understand The relationship between these three elements on the chart Only three elements here Right now I've I'll go over this I dimmed my I don't know if you guys like this I'm just kind of testing it out to see if I like it. It's a really nice feature with the stops and icebergs to have it transparent, but the in fact, let me let me just take them off for just a moment here and just go over these three elements here on the chart because It's just not not for the newer traders. I mean like, you know the guys in discord are probably just rolling their eyes It's really important and we're gonna go through the order flow Analysis anyway, so like look what happened up here at 10. Okay, we didn't know that There was a lot of interest up here at 10 to sell as price came up. They started to jump in This is showing pretty good intent to trade Right now price even it didn't even hit them though Now these guys here at 39 39 0 9 and 3 quarters They actually started to pull some of it, but they stayed here at 10 or 10 and a quarter. It looks like Yeah, 10 and a quarter. So you can start to read the auction in here These guys on the bid down here. There's high liquidity in here and they transacted So these guys here that wanted to be buyers. They are they're long Okay, so now we're really truly kind of reading the auction So here we had some insight right that this kind of started to repel No at first they started to go for it here. They came in And then Showed this high liquidity in here and now we're selling off. They come in again at a lower level and we sell off So higher supply at a lower level here and the reaction is we find sellers Okay, now now it's becoming a little more convoluted. We found buyers now and we're finding buyers again So we're reading this in here and starting to understand it, okay now will they go for 39 10 Is there enough buying pressure in here after these two big transactions to come up and test into 39 10? Not yet. In fact, we found some sellers So looking for sellers to drive it to the other side of the range here See if they can do that to 05 and 04 and hit this liquidity down here Okay, we got down to 06 and we're just kind of still in this range. See see how they pulled in here again So there's some softness up here. There's some buyers up here still So let's see if we see higher demand at a higher level in the order book here a skew in the auction Maybe they pull it here and add it higher And they're going to trade oh, they're going to trade 10. In fact, we just got some insight here Okay, very quick transaction right there High liquidity and and it transacted there's buying pressure. So I'm looking for 10 I'm looking for 10 and we can even maybe break 10 here And trade back up into 13 the top of our previous range up here Okay, so let's see these buyers. Let's see them trade into 10 There they are and now I want to see them trade up to 13 Okay, this is a new range now There that there it is. There it is beautiful Okay, now see the new range in here Here was a consolidation and back and forth And here's a new one now And it took buying pressure pretty big buying pressure to be able to do that I would be taking my profit at the top of this range Okay, or at least partial partial So now look at the let's zoom out. This is a pretty strong move. Remember how we talked about on the way down Strong move moving it away from the area Well, here's strong move moving it back to the top of the area Now we're looking for see if we can get even more buyers in here and then move back up into 39 20 Okay, maybe the vwap the vwap is very aligned very nicely aligned here with the structure up here And there's one one move lower here. I mean and that that's this 39 20 area But vwap is aligned with with the majority of the structure So there you go You we know there's a lot of traders looking at vwap and you could still be bearish here for the day Even if we trade back up into here Uh, if you find a kind of a lack of buying and you start to rotate back down We're trading in a new range down here Created by all of this selling that we witnessed when they came in Okay, now you can you can see what I'm talking about in here like the fractal nature of these markets bigger picture for just today Just today only bigger picture was trading range up here Higher time frame traders moving it away And a new range down here And then we've been talking about all these other smaller ranges in within this area in here Joan or I think that answers your question in there. Okay, and let me see if there's more questions in youtube I think that that Pretty nicely covers it though You know and in here you can see this is why I like to take my profits in some of these areas top of these ranges And we're right back down now Okay, and I likely would have been stopped out on my other position Uh down here, right and yeah, does that bug me? Yeah But that that's just a part of the trading here now, there's another way to manage this in here Okay, so let's let's just cover this here because you know, we're getting questions Um, and we always have gotten questions about this Uh is about how would you manage your your trade? Uh, and um You know, let's go over like a real real scenario in here All right, so there's different considerations here. We're talking about like reading the pressure in here And uh, we saw this transaction. We saw these these buyers up here and it's like well, wait a minute You know they want this 10? Okay, and then we're looking for this 13 and a half Uh, and um So we're looking for buying pressure to move up into those areas Uh, and then taking some profit up here So we probably would have gotten in somewhere in here and look how bad of a position that is to get in Right. I mean you're at the top of the range Like this is not what the the books show, but we're reading the order flow and we can read the pressure in here Okay, and just we have this recorded go back and and rewatch For for the reasons uh that we're looking for this And you know, we saw it in real time there. Uh, so Here, let's suppose we got involved in here Okay, so around 08 and three quarters Uh, and we took profit up here at um Partial profit up here top was at top of the range or I probably would have gotten out here at this liquidity So let's say, um, uh, this is it here Okay, so uh at um, uh 13 and a half All right, so there's my profit on my first leg Okay, and let's edit this now Okay, so profit there now. This is where I got in I can have my stop here and then I'll just move it up just a couple ticks or so I could have my stop down here on my second position and I would still be making a tiny profit, you know, basically a break-even So there's a two different ways to manage this and consider it All right, one is you you took your profit on one Okay, another one is just take your full profit, uh up here Okay at 13 and a half Uh, another one is you're just still in it, uh in the bigger Position and your stop is down in here somewhere and you haven't taken any profit Okay, but let's go over these two that most important to you. I think number one is you took partial profit up here and now you have a runner and The um the runner how do you how do you want to manage that now? I like to move mine to break even uh The the initial position break even and I would have been stopped out on that second position and made no profit So I would have had partial profit on my first leg and that's it Uh, and the second one, uh, you know is to uh, you took partial profit up here uh, and then now you have this much of of um leeway in here And you're you're losing on the other Other position here, but the overall break even would be here Okay So, uh Then you almost got stopped out and you almost made nothing on this Okay, you would have made a couple ticks just to cover your commissions, etc And then that would be that All right, and there you are you're stopped out All right, so you made nothing on it, but you gave it a shot to run All right, now we're missing the order flow analysis in here because we're covering trade management, which is fine uh, the um There's another way and this is uh, I use allen as the whipping boy for, um, I don't know how many years now allen Um is to look for that high probability trade Okay, something where you you know looks like the order flow is just it's just telling us it's look We're looking at it and we're reading it and We have a lot of factors that tell us it's going to break out And then take all of your profit at your area And then that's it you're done And then look for the next one and then that is actually you know, although you might kick yourself This builds confidence and we want to build confidence in our trading So this is a real help To just take your profit up here look for the next one Now you've got a clear mind you look for the next one All right in this case you would have been fine, but what if You took your profit there you got your four points your four s and p points or something Or you know four or five points in here, uh, and then it came back up into You know 22 or or even higher or even you know back up into this 39 or 40 area up here Right, you'd be like, oh god. I'm why did I do that? Yeah, you can't do that Uh entry if if this is building your confidence at just hitting singles. This is what you're doing Um and then move forward look for the next one In fact, if you did that and you saw more of like a kind of a bull flag pattern here Uh, whatever the order flow, uh, look like up here you'd look for the next one and take it higher Make sense Does that make sense jana?  Um, kind of what we're, uh, Looking at here and and understanding some of the basics in the order flow kind of, uh, market structure and then, uh Volume within that market structure Uh Penty no, uh icebergs do not work with dx feed. It's only rhythmic data jana how likely is Is it price will go down to fill the um Waiting buy limit orders down at 3900. So there we don't know We we look at the order flow to give us some insight at this point here No Okay at this point here Yeah, not bad. See how they're kind of breaking it here We couldn't make we couldn't have higher highs in here We're looking for these sellers to take it lower and now all they need to do they already went up here and tested up here We're just looking for sellers now to follow through and it's looking really good right now Here's selling. There's some selling down here looking for them to just, um You know, uh sweep the order book down into 3900 Okay, here they come. Let's see it sellers and let's see it. No not yet Okay, but watch it here Not yet get those last buyers on the hook There's some sellers And come on sellers there we go And let's see the sweep here buyers keep on fighting it here We're looking for like a quick order book sweep in here Uh, and um, we're not getting that yet. They're fighting it here Still buyers are fighting it in here It is this is good though This is just going to be more fuel for the sell side here Once we get down here these buyers are going to they're going to feel the pressure so quickly Yeah, here we go. Let's see. No one more one more move. This is kind of a nasty move in there Okay, see the order book quick order book sweep here high liquidity in here Okay, now again sellers here though sellers right here is what we're looking for Okay, oh three All right sellers. Let's look for the move now Not yet. Geez Still still buyers still just just fighting it here All right now we've seen this and you know so many times um We're still waiting watching and and uh Looking for those uh those sellers here to hit that Okay, but uh, we're we're we're finding quite quite a bit of buying in here right now So, you know, it it it's not ready It's not ready yet Now look at the buying coming in So it's the opposite okay, let's see we're back to Let's just zoom out Hey, they came up at the top of this little structural range here Okay, quite a bit of buying Do we get more buying up here? Then we're looking for 12 Okay, one more test All right now here Let's see if we get sellers back down to 06 where these buyers came in And if they can get back into this range in here at 04 Then we're looking for a nice move down not only to 3,900 but through it. I think Okay, again, it's it's contextual here and that that's An answer that I know is very Maybe confounding to to traders. They're just like well, what's the chance of getting down to 3,900? Well, it depends You know, we want to know it's like in a baseball game or something. What's the chance of like, you know, someone I don't know hitting like uh You know some event happening. Well, it's going to depend on a lot of factors What if a big wind like sweeps up? Uh In the in the in the baseball field I guess you're gonna hit a home run Well, if it's if it's helping the uh The ball carry it. Yeah Yeah, I mean one one thing that I'm kind of curious about this move in here because this is quite a bit of buy volume Uh, I'm still looking for it to fail Uh and come back down. They're just kind of pressing higher pressing higher. I'm looking for here though This is where I want to see the fail Okay around this 06 Uh and it's going to be a quick move too. They're going to probably just drive it Sellers are going to drive it right through here on a ton of cell volume Okay, so it's not like uh, it's not going to give you really much of a chance to trade it down to the figure You kind of got it. It's kind of a leap of faith And uh, we're looking for something in the order flow though to give us more insight here like Scott was showing something yesterday, uh That where it cut right through a high volume node area And uh, it's very very typical. I'm looking for that to happen here as well And you can see it's still we're just we didn't get enough sellers down here still We didn't see anyone come in the in the auction and lower liquidity though here in the order book We're not really getting much out of the order book right now All right. Anyway, one thing at one point. I wanted to cover in here Is A lot of times if there's just relentless buying in here and this might be it That's when we're going to get our move back to vwap and and maybe hire So we want to be aware of that one because like uh, we've seen it many times where it's just like wow They're just they're just not going to give this up They keep buying they keep buying they keep buying and then it just It's kind of like marketing like you tell your message enough times Uh, and then people start to buy into it And then they go with the flow and and then everyone jumps on board and then beautiful stop runs and short squeezes etc on up into Uh, you know your Point of control your vwap other Previous structural areas here so so anyway Okay, here's our selling. This is the selling that we're looking for here Okay, so this is getting really interesting now And here's our double bottom here. Look what happened down here. No selling right? This is we look for this pattern all the time Look for them to take it back up to the top of the range and maybe even Revisit 12 up here Or they haven't revisited but at least 10 Right, so here's what we're looking at sellers. This is what we're looking for Retest no selling buyers are relentless in here. So yeah, I like it actually I'm gonna look for uh, see if we can get our sellers or our buyers back up here at 10 and see if we can get back up into 12 So you can see like it What it came back to the top of the range here? and Did we get our buyers up here? No So we're back to here and looking for our sellers yet again Right, we don't have you know, this this was really good for the move back up to the top of the range I thought at this point we'd get enough buyers up here. We just didn't we look at it right here Now we're getting our sellers down here Okay, so second second leg here. Do we get sellers? Yes Looking for the move Okay, they broke it. We got our sellers looking for the move 3,900 and then some Okay, see how tricky that was Now watch this we should see beautiful move here There's 39 3,900 Still looking for more And there's gonna be a lot of people on the hook in here Now, you know Again, not trade recommendations in here It's not financial advice. We're reading the order flow and applying what we Learn from the from the educational course But we let's go through the opposite scenario in here Now, you know, if you're trading it back down here, yeah, you know, one of the scenarios is take take some profit off And you can you can always get back in you can take full profit here. You could be done for the day You can take one leg off and you're looking for continuation Uh the um Uh the opposite scenario here, right? Well, let's just be realistic about it here Here is where we're looking for that breakdown, right? This this move looks pretty good in here Uh, but this move below the swing the true move below the swing doesn't look so good Yeah, that's a big distinction between that and this one over here Okay, so the opposite scenario is like just down to here get people, you know, uh Going short in here and then we're looking to see maybe we get buyers back up above but where here right here Okay, if we can get our buyers back up above here So now if you see buyers starting to come in You can you can trade it back up into those areas too Or it maybe you know This is would be your pullback and you're looking for the continuation after that it Were many ways to slice it and dice it here Okay, so we're going through many many different scenarios and then looking for one of those scenarios to play out And then looking for the uh continuation All right, Sebastian lots of comments in here. Hold on a minute Okay, Janna, I'm Trying to answer your question in here.  How what is it? You know, how likely to trade 39 000? Well, we went through this whole different scenario and back and forth in here Finally, we got it Okay, and we're looking for those sellers At these areas many times over And finally we got it. Did you find that helpful? Janna, are you still in here? And I think it'll is help helps everybody here guys. Okay. Now we're getting our nice move Below I got I mean like um, anyway, look at the look at the sellers coming in like this. Okay, again, this is continuation And this is clearly continuation here. So looking for 90 now 38 90 Okay, these are really easy moves to catch. I think This in here was in question because of up here. It looks good, but it didn't break the structure until down here Now here's our move this move here Is really it's not as much volume Uh, we're already at 39 9 or 38 90 Uh, and um, uh, we'll look for this to start to wane in here And then maybe some pullback, but this is very strong consistent selling in here That is is what we're talking about Before okay, so here strong consistent selling moving it away. That is no different than this one up here Hey, we were just on on board early on that one here. We kind of kind of missed it a little bit as I was Answering some questions and going through some things Uh, we were looking for it in here. We didn't get it It pulled back and went back and forth in here. It only broke down a couple of points Then we got it And then we saw the selling starting to come in Okay, I'm kind of upset. I I I wasn't there at the at the moment Uh, we were in around in in here or something and just that's a pretty easy read It's going to hit 38 90 or you know more likely Lots of liquidity guys on the way down here too So let's uh, we'll take a look at this I mean, they're getting filled in here. That's pretty high liquidity in here A tiki show. Yeah, like looking for another stop runs and stuff beforehand or getting people going the wrong way Uh, testing and testing and testing Seeing if that you know, there's more stops to kind of get up here This is what we kind of witnessed in here Right now what what kind of had me going a little bit in here was like like I had mentioned sometimes we see this Um, it's just there's so much buying that comes in Uh, that we're finally looking for You know the move and the and the um Move back up into some of these areas here Uh, you know mean reversion type of trades Um, and and we're looking in here. We're thinking. Yeah, I think maybe they maybe they've got it now at this point Then we saw the selling down here And that's when we're looking for the break One book map and toss is great. Um, you don't have the icebergs though You won't be able to they that you need rhythmic data and and toss does not use rhythmic data These are more directional moves Sebastian. It's not I mean there will be stops in here as well, but um, You know, this is not like a stop run kind of come back up Hit the other side of the range stop run hit the other side of the range stop run, etc It's different And this is moving the market away from these areas here. These are directional moves A big strong directional moves 3900 down to you know, this is a 10 point move Okay, jana. Okay. Thanks for the, um Thanks for the reply there. Yeah Trying trying to answer it was a good it was a great question. I think it'd be helpful for a lot of people Guys, if you like that, please, you know, hit the hit the thumbs up button here The like button in youtube This it makes the big difference here for us Yeah, it really helps us We'll do it again, uh and again and again Okay, lots of comments in there Sebastian. Um Yeah, uh, well, you know lots of liquidity being filled down in these lower areas in here We'll see if um, I mean, this is there. We're still getting in our continuation here Lots of selling right and they're just driving it I want to take a step back here guys. I want to look at the candlestick chart This is really strong move really strong selling here And we're looking for continuation basically 3875 Lower lower areas of liquidity maybe 3850 down here Uh, we want to be It's not it's never like, you know Not always, but typically it's never that easy Uh, especially during these volatile times right now That's actually a good thing to cover here because during these volatile times. This is very very typical Let's look at a 15 minute candlestick chart here Look at the even the daily over here Big big swings and then big big reversals And then a big big swing again down and then a couple of days to the downside So, you know, uh Scott for example, uh covered this the other day Just yesterday about uh, well, I have to use a hundred point stop On some of these uh in the nat it was the nasdaq not the s and p But uh, uh still I mean these are just huge stops. Well, that's his way of trading And um, he's looking for something very very specific And then he's looking at how to properly manage it And uh, you know, he's looking at a higher time frame and he's looking at the volatility Well, it's not higher time frame necessarily, but it's the volatility So, uh, that's what is Dictating how he manages the trade because of these market swings. It's not based on anything more than that. It's just that's what the market is giving us So, um That's one way of of handling it and that's scott's way because he's trading longer term There's other ways to do it. You can trade shorter term Uh, and uh, you're not looking for the bigger move. You're looking for the the range Okay, and you are anticipating a swing a back a pullback Uh at a certain point and in in volatile times they are relentless Uh, I recall during when I first started trading just just before I started trading just before the financial, um You know melt down in in 2008 so And I just you know had my jaw on the floor Watching that it was the dow I was trading the dow many at that time Uh, you know swing a thousand points and then a thousand 800 points back or something It's just like whoa You know hold on a minute here like how can it you know, who's buying this? Um, so but this is how the market works like, uh you know the um the The pullbacks are are are very very strong As you guys can see in in the price action in here Use that to your advantage So scott's trading higher time frame. So he needs to Uh, lessen his size widen his stops That's one way of looking at it Or uh, you could uh, read the order flow Look for taking your profit quickly and looking for the next one That's another way of doing it and you don't have to bring down your your size um And your stops But uh, you know note that you're you're likely going to get stopped out a lot a lot more often As well because the swings are erratic And but you're looking for that continuation now Again, these aren't it's not financial advice. Uh, it's just um Oh different considerations in here, uh for uh, it's not a recommendation It's just you know How to You know Try to put a plan together for yourself and these considerations All right, it's just how the market is Uh, so I need to kind of even this these charts aren't very helpful here I need to to take a look at um The weekly here on the s and p So here's the weekly here. This is covet over here All right, and you can see how volatile times are right now um, here this is this is covet which was even I think we had a higher vix rating during this Uh, then we then we did uh during the um, uh, you know 2008 financial crisis So look at this move here. This is these are huge moves. This is a weekly chart now On the weekly chart This is what at least i'm showing here from investing. Uh dot com Uh, we just went down and tested that well this week here We tested the low from the previous week and starting to get a little bit of a bounce here It's a pretty big darn Red candle though With a lot of momentum it look how it tested all the way back up here to previous week And here's our answer Well, it rejected up here And it's trading back down in the middle here or i'm sorry it traded back down in the middle Now it's down at the at the bottom end So it's still a lot of weakness in here. That's what this is telling us here So where is it going to go? Well, we don't have a heat map here for the for the weekly chart We can look at price structure though Uh and start to understand where these wicks are and where there was like kind of swings And buying pressure one is down here. Okay. Good one Uh, you know, here's here's a lot of buying pressure. Look at that just huge green candle. Here's the pullback followed by more green All right, here's where it broke out from. We've already traded through that area here This is what 3950 Uh, so the next area is here and we're we're basically there already So maybe uh, where's it going to go next if we see more selling pressure On this weekly chart. Well, there's going to be a high volume node in here Most likely. Uh, and then we also see this, um A candle here. So I don't I don't know. I mean looking somewhere around in here. Uh, maybe around 37 60 37 30 is the swing Okay, just keep these in mind in here and this process of looking at some of these Higher time frame levels is no different than what we're doing on the smaller time frame Hey, we're just looking at a lot more detail in the order flow Hey, right in here. We're really kind of just Outlining areas and and kind of flying blind here But we can look at book map in the order flow and then really understand some of the details Oh, okay. Uh, do we um genre do we um Do the macro levels in the in the course not not so much Um, but it's you know, these markets are fractal. Uh, as you guys know That that we just covered that fractal nature in the weekly chart. Uh, and then So you can use the same, uh process, uh in we use the same process in the course Talking about the higher time frame. Uh, so like like today big structure up here another one here And we we knew that they're driving it away here Okay, so then in here We saw this the small breakdown. We were looking for 39 100 Small breakdown Being careful in here Careful, it's only a small breakdown And then here's where it really picks up below Uh, and then that they're just I mean, this is a huge move. They're driving it away here And I you know, like I said, it was kind of kind of upset to uh Miss that when we covered but we covered it earlier When we saw it here same same thing It's just here and then also here All right, so now we are trading into and we we talked about it Here we talked about 39 75 Okay, we're we're we're there Okay, now Boy, a lot of liquidity guys getting filled on the way down here. This is incredible Look at this Large liquidity in here and look at some of these players in here 218 189 You know, these are larger players in here and they're like every at every point here See how they're at every point on the way down 76 75 74 73, etc okay Look for now. We're gonna we're gonna watch this closely. Um, because like uh, if they're if they're getting filled down here Um, and they're nicely getting filled down here Okay, we're gonna have a really nice, uh reaction to all of this. It might not be today It might be next week Okay, look at look at this double bottom looking for the buyers Looking for them. Take it back up to here 77. Maybe back up to here 80 Okay, a quick move there remember we talked about this Uh Selling in here retest no selling buyers starting to come in top of the range back to 77 up in here. Okay, just a little bit shy of it Okay, now that's a counter trend trade, but we saw that it it traded down here Retested and there's no selling Look at the buyers come in and do this this move back up back up into here and and squeeze it like that Okay, now it's very short lived sellers come right back in and we continue to fill all of these areas of lower liquidity at every point Guys, this is really really interesting, uh order flow here. I mean every point here Uh, trade, you know, larger players are getting filled down here Okay, we're gonna watch this here because this is uh, and we're gonna turn on our icebergs because we saw this I think on tuesday We're looking for a big reaction to this Uh, we don't know when hey, but we're looking for buyers to start to come in But let's also turn on our icebergs in here Stop some icebergs on chart Okay, if we're seeing huge icebergs getting filled on the way down here as well Uh This is going to be a really nice move. Uh Counter trend move here Okay, now It may take a couple days. This might be just a bigger move in here But you got a figure And and we we went through this, uh, let's see the i'll show you the webinar Hey, the webinar was here large icebergs filled, um Uh filled by liquidity leads to upside move Okay, this one. So it's the same thing. We're going to be looking for right now Same thing All right, do we see all these huge icebergs on the way down? Yeah 800 400 500 and or almost 600 here Okay, there's some on the other side Uh, but we're looking for them They're big, uh, so, um I've got a kind of odd setting on the icebergs right now it It's showing uh Boy, it's not going to show much until they're just massive icebergs right now. Um I'll I'll go over the setting in just a minute Okay, but we're still seeing some some pretty big icebergs on the way down A note in here. Um, this kind of activity Every usually it's every other tick not every point um These striations though and liquidity on the way down as they're getting filled uh, we've I see this, um, I kind of haven't looked at like euro dollar in a long time But I I've typically seen this kind of activity Um in the euro dollar or some of the currency futures Oh, wow. Okay dug. I missed this. Uh, you said the probability of touching 3,900 3,900 is 85 according to the options market. All right, uh, so the question I think jana if Reach out to dug go into the um dug p in our our discord there He's got actual, um percentages and numbers in there Uh, and uh, according to his options studies Uh and his testing in there So that that's Um, that's amazing dug. Uh, so that's fantastic So there you go, like, you know now dug has an outlook on the market Uh, and he's done his his back testing So he's can now he now he can lean on that and he's got a plan Uh, and you just uh, you know look at some trade management of how to articulate that plan I'm protect yourself and look for your risk reward Uh, and there you go Okay, and then uh, yeah, dug's also looking at thinkorswim and a lot of options. Um Uh statistics in there as well Yeah, burt that is really odd that the you don't see that the vixus spiking right now That that just makes me feel thanks. Thanks for that. Um, that makes me feel that uh, this here is like um You know, we're we're on to something here Uh, that's uh, you know, they're just they're not in the vixx because they're not hedging They're just getting filled in here on the way down This is this is amazing. I like I said, I have not seen this kind of activity in here I don't think ever uh in the s and p And we continue to trade down lower Right here 30 38 500 But they're getting filled all the way down So, uh Like I said the the currency futures. Well, let's let's just add the euro dollar in here Uh, but this is where I've seen it before and but not is not as uh distinct as this But like every other tick they'll provide liquidity and it's just larger players I wanted to pose the question. Why do you guys think that is? Why why do you see that in um, uh You know, what do you guys think like a why why would you see that? In the um currency futures Well, I don't even it's been so long. I don't even have it listed in here Yeah, see see how these striations is here. It's like, uh It's more than uh It's like every other few ticks In here, but this is very very typical This is this is really odd in here 11 o'clock You know someone's uh One one player or you know, maybe they're kind of reading off of each other as well But there's must have been some news or something I don't know some sort of I mean look look at those just huge blocks of liquidity in here in this euro dollar Anyway, uh, let's go back to our s and p Okay, uh, and then where are we going to start to look for like, uh, when is this finally going to kind of maybe Turn around and and uh and move back. Well, we got to look at the order flow All right. Well, let's let's mark up some structure in here Now, I don't think there's really much of a need about uh distribution or Um accumulation down here and and why why do you guys think that? I'm not looking for a lot of accumulation down in these areas here I'm looking for more of a v bottom type of move So and it is due to the order flow What why would why would that be maybe? Just what do you guys think like, you know more more likely a scenario or a possible scenario and and more likely than not Posing these questions make you guys think a little bit Need heavy buyers? No No Let me go let me jump over to youtube and see uh, see what guys are saying And ladies Oh, I have full I have full depth here. Um Sebastian Oh, that was a while back back. Geez. I'm sorry guys trying to get to your questions here Yeah, if you guys like what we're doing in here, it seems like it reading these questions. So thank you Hit the like button Like I mentioned that really it really helps us captain price. You're all over this Yeah, this it is weird stuff in here, but um, here's kind of what I'm thinking. Um Well, uh forex tradex, um the Real-time futures data Stocks and futures. Well, you can dx feed offers stocks data, okay, and uh No one else at the moment So that's your your only choice for book map That might change though soon. So be on the lookout for that Uh, and then for futures, there are many data providers. We connect to many just go to bookmap.com and connections and you'll see I don't uh Nicor, I don't think we're gonna be we we do connect to trade station, but no no trade station data Reason for the v reversal is there's no cell orders up above not That's I'm I'm kind of thinking this, uh, tom l. Um that the um There's just they're getting filled all the way down here. I mean the accumulations already happening here So there's there's no need uh to accumulate any longer We can see it. We already know they're accumulating All the way down So and we continue they they're they continue to stay in the order book and they're still getting filled in here And we're still seeing icebergs in here All right, so we're looking for a nice reaction to that A really nice reaction At a certain point here Uh, I have the global plus license Uh, james. Yeah, I'm sorry. I kind of check in and out of some of these questions in here. Um So Yeah, I need a moderator to help out that's that's uh, that's not a bad idea Not a bad idea at all So, uh, anyways because we know look at here 1200 900 500 Looking for some big ones down here too. I don't see any yet uh once There's enough filled in here and we start to see the selling dry up Look out uh, and And where how do we look at the icebergs now? Look at this Okay, now this is uh, we're not seeing big ones here. Um, we're just seeing accumulation here uh With smaller ones. Uh, I filtered out the on chart here, but look at this is undeniable These are it's huge right now Okay here at 38 60 All right now, you know We got 38 50 down here. Uh, now let's look at the structure And let's also start to line up Where we think This may, uh May go All right, we're gonna look at the order flow to start to determine that or The where these orders got filled to start to determine that Okay, so where did this behavior come in in here? Well all the way down from below 39 000 here So we we can look at the figure here at 39 000, but we can also look here Uh, there's a lot in here and it read all the way down here. Look at this. It's just, you know, You know pretty dark dark orange all the way down Um, we have icebergs here, uh, also, uh, really picking up in this area in here A big big spike here in icebergs. So here we have, uh, how many, um Negative 100 and now we're up to 1400 so 1500 in the last Um, uh, I don't know five minutes or so Here here's 14 14 81 plus these other, you know a few hundreds in here, right So a lot, uh There it is. There's our big iceberg right there. Uh, and uh, so We're we're all set up here. Uh, now we're just looking to see when We might have, um less uh less buyers and or less sellers And we start to um, and we're looking for a v bottom because they're already accumulated So we're looking for something like this Potential move here would be like, um, maybe like Up to here Maybe maybe back to here and then up to here Something like that And we're looking for this is where we start to note the this behavior In here. It's usually it's right around in here. So look for this to be a really nice target in here Okay, just based on the behavior of these orders getting filled on the way down And that's what we're looking for. Maybe maybe it's a maybe it's a little bit lower But boy it once they get in and like they'll just be kind of like at break even or You know in in the green up in up into here And that's when we're looking for the much much bigger move like we did. Um, uh the other day on on tuesday To to much higher levels like, you know, we're talking about back up into, uh, you know Up in here somewhere Potentially maybe four thousand What's below 3850 3800 3812 or 15 somewhere around in there Yeah, 3850 is a big one All right, guys. So these are just some again some thoughts here, uh by reading the order flow and understanding the positions here in the order flow We can start to look for a potential move like this and Just keep it in mind and look for the order flow So we don't know But this is a likely if if it plays out that way. This is a likely, um Kind of structure that we would get instead of some sort of like, um You know beautiful like a a rounding bottom structure Which would be more like this it would be lower like here's this here's this here's this Here's this, you know, and then finally um You know it it would uh in fact, let me just take this further Then finally It would make a lower high and a or a higher low and a higher high here And then it would do this right so, um Because the accumulation would happen down here Okay, so instead I'm looking for this one as being more likely Right, so let's take let's you know, keep an eye out for it. Um, it is just the european close coming right now Uh, so look for the potential, um, you know move back up into some of these areas here And we got icebergs and we have this Really kind of um just Yeah, I mean Just beautiful all the way down here getting filled all the way down Wow And here they come already so look for this bind. They're already coming in And in fact, this could have been the pullback here likely another one, but uh, We we don't know, uh, you know, they just might come in hand over fist here And and no one's everyone's going to miss it everyone's going to get stopped out And we'd be looking for these moves back up into these areas here Okay, nice one up into here 38 75 would be another one But you know, this is where that move really kind of started or that behavior in the order book kind of started Okay, maybe even higher 30 just below 39 000 I did want to cover this in here the way I've got the icebergs Uh, let me show you this By the way, I've got it set up here Okay, and the stops Um, I I took the I'm using the automatic threshold here. I boosted it up quite a bit here Uh by using the um 60 minutes, but then the multiplier here up to eight So it's it's telling me here Don't show an iceberg unless the threshold is above at or above Uh, 795 which is huge It's huge setting But then down here Um, or here I've got the show the filtered icons though And then filter the icon transparency to 50 so I can still see the other ones in here Right, but they're uh, here's 10 for example. All right. So, you know, it just doesn't just kind of Muck up my screen too much. Here's 544. Here's 166 Uh, you know, so they don't they didn't quite make the the filter here But uh, but they're on there. Uh, it's just they're you know, kind of transparent same with the stops It's uh, don't show me stops unless it's uh, let's see. What did it what did it say here? 158 and which is pretty pretty good pretty good, uh stop run in there All right guys, so, uh, we're just here at 11 30 european close, uh, and Uh, yeah covered a lot in here On this, uh, some of these moves in here And then we start to cover, um You know what we're looking for here, uh on this move back up a potential move for, uh Back on up in here, uh and look at the volume already starting to come in All right now is this it well I don't know but let's just look at this. Um, looking for that kind of behavior in that structure of Move pull back and then move and not much of a pullback. It's going to be kind of slight one, uh, and then You know A continuation on up into these areas here All right, so keep an eye out for it and you can start to position yourself for it Okay All right guys, we'll hope that makes sense. Um, and uh, if that does please hit the like button there give us a thumbs up uh helps us and Uh, let's uh, oh we got tom b. He's lined up next Um, so you can we'll filter right over into that stick with this stream right here You can you just stay right here. I think the the, um um It goes right into his his stream So, uh, you guys can just uh continue on and tom is going to go through his expertise in volume profile All right Okay, have a good weekend everybody and uh, we will catch up with you next week Okay. Yeah, thanks guys. Yeah, take care And we'll um, we'll see you next week. Okay. Bye. Bye


Hello everybody and welcome to the average. I always say welcome back to the average It doesn't really make Make much sense because what if you've never been here before Today we're gonna have a bit of a rambly draw with me video and feel free to just Grab a cup of whatever your beverage is and Draw along and experiment with me today as we go through the trials of Feeling Pretty much burnt out. Well, I mean I feel burnt out. I don't know about you guys I don't know why but recently I've just felt really tired all last week. I kind of had a Bit of RSI in my wrist from drawing and working and then also it kind of so I was like Oh my wrist hurts a little bit. So what I'll do is I'll go for a massage because I know that Usually when my wrist hurts, it's kind of stemming from my mid-back and I went from massage to try and like get The pain away and I think it made it ten times worse And then my whole back and shoulder and neck were hurting more than my wrist I mean the wrist pain is gone. So technically I I did a good. I did a good thing. No, I I It fixed the problem to hand Yeah, I have had back pain all week, but now it's it's kind of better But today I just thought I'd do like a chill video where we can just chat and you guys can draw along with me or not Or whatever and I know these videos aren't usually it's super popular But like I said, I'm feeling pretty burnt out. So what I wanted to do today is just kind of Experiment with different art supplies that I have because it's fun it's fun to do this stuff if I kind of call it like playing with art supplies because You know, you can just do whatever and there's no pressure Definitely these drawings don't turn out the best drawings that I've ever made but I you know It was relaxing and there was no pressure so if you guys are here for like one of those videos where I draw on a book cover and it's Quite a good outcome or it's not kind of be that kind of video. We're gonna chill out I'm gonna tell you stuff about my life and we're gonna draw I'm drawing scenes currently from a neon demon because I wanted to make a video You know, I was doing that series of horror drawing horror film series. I was gonna do a neon demon Episode of that and I sat down and I even started drawing them out here And then I just felt tired and I realized I just wanted to have fun with this stuff that I have my art supplies all laid out. I Had a mint tea because I've been having like a really bad stomach Well, it's not bad stomach. It was like a a gripey stomach, you know when it just hurts I think I don't know if I ate something funny TMI Anyway, I had a mint tea not a coffee and I'm here drawing a scene from a neon demon because the colors in that were really striking and I'm using these Molotow Acrylic paint markers now I go on about these a lot because I really like them I did have a period of time this year where I used them a lot and I thought like this is my new style I'm gonna use these all the time and then I haven't used them for ages And I felt like coming back to an old friend because these are really nice And I really enjoy using them Also, Posca pens kind of work well with them too. I like Posca's but I prefer these I don't know why like they do have a different range of colors, but I just think you can be I Just like the feel of them or I don't know each to their own I guess I do like some of the colors in Posca so I go in with that that light blue in the beginning was a Posca and then Yeah, they have different tips So this black which I kind of regret using is like a thin tipped black Molotow pen and Yeah, I like it. I feel like it it kind of ruins it a little bit because it was working really nice We were just colors But I guess it helps to give a little bit of detail But like I said, this isn't a video where I'm gonna be critiquing the work because I'm experimenting and we're having fun and we just We're kind of drawing for the sake of it just to get like those bad drawings out That's the thing that I've heard, you know, if you want to become an expert in your field You've probably heard this as well where you spend 10,000 hours on a particular Profession I guess or Hobby, I don't know what you would call it But you spend 10,000 hours doing something and then when there's 10,000 hours up You're supposedly supposed to be an expert in that field And then there's also the saying goes that if you spend if you draw 10,000 drawings Then eventually you will become an expert a drawing as well, which kind of makes sense You know practice makes perfect blah blah blah. Everybody knows that So I'm just getting these drawings out That stems to like getting the bad drawings out in quotations because Once you get those bad drawings out then you start to get better and you get to the good stuff, I guess That's what is a common practice as well is to just think okay I don't like this drawing, but you know if I've I've done it and it's gone it's done Then hopefully next time I go to draw a similar thing it will be better and I mean slightly. Yeah, that makes sense. Oh That's got practices. Thanks Steph. Thanks for letting us know that we should practice our art. Yeah, I know that doesn't make any sense Still we're doing a long rambly video so get buckled in and used to the way that I'm speaking right now because It's just the way it is This is one of those videos where you don't really need to pay that much attention as well it's just to have one in the background was you draw I think is the Is what people say anyway This week because if you in case you guys don't know I'm also a full-time graphic designer And it's just been a really long week. Like I said, I've had that back pain and stuff and so Maybe that made working on things a little bit harder, but I've also got I mean I can't say too much But I've got a big project that I'm working on at work So I think that's what's left me a little run down with my creative energies I did get into using the iPad Pro a little bit more because well I used to use it quite often and then I grew a bit tired of it And then for this project at work I had to kind of draw out some characters and I thought I would sketch out on the iPad Pro and I Really enjoyed working with it and I even like did a little doodle comic thing at lunch one day And that's on my Twitter in case you guys want to go check that out It's not really is nothing special honestly to go and check out but just in case you're curious I thought you know I should say but yeah, it's just really nice. I've missed Just doodling out little comics because that's what I used to do a lot is make little funny comics slice-of-life comics and It's something that I really missed doing but I feel like I don't have the time necessarily to do it I mean, of course I have the time but When you talk about creative energies, I feel like it is I feel like I have this barrel of creative energy and every day I take a cup of it and I like sip it This is a really weird analogy. Sorry. I sip I Drink the Creative energy away and you use it up in certain areas So if I'm doing graphic design all day, I feel like by the end of the day I am burnt out I'm done with creative stuff and some people like they have the stamina. They can draw all day long They can draw all day night, but that's not me I have bursts of it and especially with my job being 9 to 5, you know working every single day It's like It's all taken up in the weekday So when it comes around to the weekend and I have to film my video I'm pretty tired and so that reflects sometimes in the videos. I always try to do my best obviously, but yeah This is a coming background to me right now being a little bit burnt out and so I thought I'd make this more chilled out video Yeah, anyway, so I'm drawing things from neon demon still and then I sort of digress and I start just experimenting with what I have and This picture of I think it's alphanning this picture of alphanning is just It kind of stems to be something that's not really Anything anything recognizable from neon demon which I kind of like and then I started to get more experimental and using the jelly gouache and also some poster paints that I found and just messing around with Textures and things like that and just having fun with it Pesto of course kept bothering me. That's stopping you and I had kept having to push her away because I have this Because I have this really janky setup basically my tripod It fell one day. So one of the legs sort of broke apart from the rest of it.  I mean the sellotape has done the job and Pesto is a cat. I don't know if you guys know this about cats But sometimes cats love plasticky stuff and she loves sellotape like she's obsessed with it So, you know, she slowly cottoned on that this Tripod is wrapped up with sellotape and she's like oh my my lunch is has arrived and she kept trying to like bite the Tripod and I'm like please I'm trying to film like it's hard enough to summon up the energy to be creative or start a project And then have your cat there just like trying to mess with everything. It's kind of funny She's usually quite a little helper. She sits next to me and just lies down. So I She is a good cat. I'm making a sound where she's gonna get me for this Yeah, so still experimenting with water and Different jelly gouache here. I saw this image of like it's not even a Recognizable image, but it's like a hand grasping something So it's a still from the movie neon demon and I wanted to paint that again And it just it's a very weird thing Shot but it's like recognizable and I couldn't remember what the scene is just a shot of her hand Grabbing something but anyway, I don't know if you guys have seen neon demon. It's actually a pretty horrific It's a horror and it's very very slow paced full of like Really dark moods and tones and it's beautiful. It's a beautiful film. It's stunningly shot, but it's it's kind of horrific It's one of those films that Stuck with me a long time, you know when you you watch something and it kind of shocks you or It sticks with you and you you stay thinking about it the next day That's kind of what happened with me with this film So I don't know if it's one of those films that I'll ever watch again And if you've seen it you might know why but um, I'm probably really intriguing you guys to watch it But it's one of those things. I'm like warning you don't watch it as well because If you don't like horror films don't watch it definitely not It's I don't know if it's like for me if it's horror.  But yeah, I'm just I'm just taking things from Pinterest looking at stills and Not gonna really apologize for Not being bothered about Composition or making up my own things. I'm just looking at reference and studying it and kind of painting it and experimenting and Doing whatever I want and not most of it doesn't look very good But it's just for the practice of it. It's just for the fun and it's just for the feel of it and I'm a mixed media artist really is what I Enjoy doing the most so the fact that I Got to get down and start doing this kind of thing was quite fun I haven't done this in a while. It's very weird because obviously I've do my book cover paintovers And I do everything I do for YouTube, but I tend to have stuck to one media recently I don't know why so in the future. I think I'm gonna just when I do my YouTube videos I'm gonna try and mix it up a little bit more Obviously I have stuff planned ahead of time so for things like Boxes or things I've ordered that I want to try I'm probably gonna have to stick with that one media But for things like book cover painters things like that I think I should really try and mix it up a little bit more because that's where my interests lie I don't know about you guys What's your favorite medium to use do you mix it up? Do you do stuff like this in your sketchbook where you just are rough and You don't really care what you're drawing or do you have like every page really detailed? I know I've heard people get really annoyed that about people who have like really clean beautiful sketchbooks But I don't I think that's a really cool thing to have because that's somebody's way of expressing themselves That's where a lot of people only do that are in their sketchbook So I understand that form of it But I also understand using the sketchbook as like a tool to just get drawings out and painting and experimenting and thumb nailing So I kind of understand what both aspects come from But yeah, I don't like it when people get like annoyed at people for having these perfect sketchbooks Because I think that's each to their own really if that's the way you want to do your art Then that's the way you want to do it for me. I like to have full pages I like to make each page look as good as I can But I know that some pages are gonna look a little bit janky and that's perfectly fine with me because I Think that's the process of things. You can't just always have like an amazing drawing. Well, I can't anyway Is what I'm saying so yeah, I think for this day, I am really pleased to have just Just had a chilled out session and I hope that this is a chilled out video for you guys because I mean It's either this or no video as well and I know some people really enjoy this type of video So I think it's gonna be okay that I post this Let me know if you've gotten this far if you enjoy this type of video because I Would like to know if actually is true because of you know, you hear you see one or two comments You don't know like actually if that's a lot of people or if it's just like one or two people enjoy that kind of content so It's it's hard to gauge sometimes what everybody's gonna enjoy and also draw attention to because obviously I want people to watch the Videos I create because I spend a lot of time with them And that's something that YouTube it's always been a little bit like you kind of have to ignore the numbers a little bit As much as you can because if you look to focus on the numbers It would be kind of demoralizing because some things you spend your whole day on or longer If you're somebody else like I spend my weekends doing YouTube, so I can't really say forever people So for me, I spend like a whole day doing something and then it doesn't really do very well I get kind of down which is so silly because it's like no I should just be happy that I'm creating and doing something and I mean Making a YouTube video is kind of an accomplishment in itself plus the art that I'm doing so I've Trying to will myself to think more positivity in that direction I think positive thoughts are always a good thing to do like it's difficult because I think bad thoughts are kind of Addictive sometimes like you think I don't know if speaking absolute rubbish, but I think sometimes Negativity can be a little bit addictive So you have to really watch yourself and be strict with yourself and be like and not say horrible things about yourself in your mind This has gone to a really strange mental health area, isn't it? But yeah, I went on to draw this girl from Kill Bill I don't know if you guys remember her name. I can't remember her name but she has like the ball and chain weapon and then she gets killed by Uma Furman and Yeah, that's that's it. It's this shot of her with the bloods coming out of her eyes Which is really just lovely, isn't it? But you know, that's me. I draw this kind of stuff. I Think I really like the way Because this is the final thing I paint but I really like the way that I did this because I think I let down all the barriers and I warmed up and I just started to really experiment with brushstrokes and colors and just going for it and I think once I Got away from this really rigid like careful drawing that you can see I originally started with on the right there's something about the brushstrokes and the textures in this piece that just seemed a bit more special and more Appealing to me anyway, I don't know about you guys, but there's something more freeing about it and more contextually Attractive I guess I would say I think I really like looking at this piece on the right on the left rather than the right definitely and also in case you guys noted I haven't said this yet, but I Really tried to stay away from my purple and blue color schemes that I always have and I think I've been doing well because Neon Demon they have a lot of that purple and blue in there And I was like I could pick those I could draw those and I remembered that I'm trying to be strict on myself with the colors That I'm using so here. I am trying to use more greens browns just reds anything that isn't the purple and pinky colors that I usually do and I think it's kind of a successful page. It looks kind of cool In terms of like flicking for a sketchbook if you want it to look good. I think it looks kind of nice And I really do like the final image on the top left I don't know. I think all my warm-up stuff grew to that And I really like that the best and I think Yeah, it's just a simple drawing a simple time for me a simple time for me Yeah, I guess a little like me time sitting here with my mint tea and my different hour suppliers and just having fun So I'm sorry about this video. I guess it's kind of selfish of me. I'm not really being that entertaining But some people might like this. So there we go. That's it at the end of the day and That's pretty much it. I hope you guys enjoyed this video Let me know and I can Do more of them, I guess because they're pretty simple to make it's just I'm really not editing my voice over very much I'm just gonna post this video. It's very raw Maybe some people don't like that so much, but They probably haven't even made it to this stage of the video anyway, if that's the if that's the way it is Before I go I would just like to thank my patrons for their awesome support So they are Devon a tubulum Lucille, Tim and Charlotte, Jacqueline, Alex, Steph, Eva, Erica and Meghia, you guys are awesome. Thank you so much. It honestly means so much to me If you've made it all the way to the end of this video, congrats to you as well But yeah, that's basically the video for today and I hope that you guys enjoyed it a little note about the Competition that's going on. I did want to show everybody's artwork, but honestly, I'm I really apologize and feeling really burnt out So I just can't right now But I think I will be showing it in the final when we announce the winners and everything But if you guys want to see the competition entries so far, they are on my Instagram page There is a little story thing there that will show you every single entry so far And I really hope that you can take a look at them and give some love to everybody who's done like such an amazing job And it's honestly so inspiring and it's completely blown me away all the entries that we've had and I'm just I'm really happy and Thanks guys for entering. But yeah, so the deadline is Friday Next Friday, which is the which is the 4th of September. So best of luck for everybody and Yeah, I'll let you know in next week's video basically Thanks so much for watching guys, and I will see you next time. Hopefully. Bye


The floor may not be in your robot. While I admit I have never liked Pinterest, I was never afraid of it. Or I wasn't until recently. We all have at least one person who worships Pinterest. It is usually either your aunt, co-worker, or obnoxiously productive friend. Either way, the story is always the same. You see them constantly on Facebook, posting recipes for stuff you didn't want in the first place, but the second you see it, you crave it all day long. The last thing you need after your afternoon coffee fix, is someone blowing up your feed with recipes for Sriracha flavored everything, or the millionth way to make guacamole. To add insult to injury, they are never easy recipes.  The crafts and DIY section is just as bad. I mean don't get me wrong, I love amazingly over the top Halloween decorations as much as anyone, but those crafts are like that one Lego set you had as a kid. The one that said it was easy to assemble, but halfway through, you realized there were pieces missing, and the directions made absolutely no sense. Which was why an hour after beginning, you had to suppress the urge to pick up the half-completed Lego set, and throw it against the wall out of frustration. That's Pinterest summed up in a single emotion. Hence the website called Pinterest Fails, which is a far more honest and entertaining use of your internet time. To be honest, I would bet money 99% of the stuff that people post on Pinterest never gets made. It's like any other list people make, something gets written down in a moment of excitement and then is immediately forgotten. Or at least that's what I've been hoping. I was at home last week on a Saturday night. The dates had just flaked out on me for the second time, and being an incredibly productive user of time, I found myself indulging in the time-honored pastime of looking up random things on Wikipedia and elsewhere. I was delaying the inevitable walk to the kitchen to cook when I saw it. Sometimes being on the internet is like being caught in the middle of a bar argument. Shit can escalate quickly. You start out looking for the address of a new restaurant, and before you know it, you have wasted an entire afternoon on some mindless click date. How exactly I wound up in that section, I still don't know. But somehow, I ended up going from a page, depicting tenderizing a steak to instructions for how to properly dispose of a body. Everything was there from what chemicals to use, how deep to did the hole, and where exactly is the ideal location. I couldn't help but get a chuckle at this. Thank God someone on here had a sense of humor. I mean come on, this couldn't be real, right? No one would seriously post this for real. Shaking off any lingering suspicion, I carried on. I saw something below the post on how to dispose of a body scene, and read on. It was a picture of a crime scene. Blood smeared all over the walls, broken glass scattered on the floor, and a human-looking shape wrapped up in a white sheet sitting on the floor. Below was a caption. With the help of Pinterest, I was able to clean this up in nothing flat, thanks to the latest tips for getting rid of hard to eradicate stains. In the past, my carpets had been ruined countless times, but now my carpets look brand new in no time flat. Not to mention, this will make some great fertilizer for my tomato plants. Well done Pinterest as always. Okay, this was starting to get really weird. Someone was trolling Pinterest users pretty hard now. But hey, this was the internet. So I kept scrolling down when something else cocked my eye. How to never get cock poisoning someone, was the title of the next posting. Scheming through it, I saw it had the names of some ways to poison someone, using various household items.  All of these posts were all from the same, just some obviously fake account with a bunch of random letters and numbers. How had no one reported this yet? I immediately flagged it as violating the community guidelines, then I logged off the page and closed my laptop. I sat there in silence for a few minutes, then I got up and made myself some dinner. For the next few days, I tried to forget about what I saw.  But I just couldn't get it out of my head. Out of sheer curiosity, I went back to Pinterest last night, to see if it was still there. The articles from before had gone, but the poster had just uploaded a few new pictures. When I saw them, I almost knocked my laptop on the floor in shock. My new DIY project, such amazing potential for this space. What do you guys think I should deal with it? It was my apartment space. Right there for all to see. My living room, kitchen, and bedroom. I immediately got up, deadbolted the door, and checked everywhere to make sure nothing or no one was in my apartment. Later, I called a locksmith to come and change the locks. But I won't lie, it terrifies me that some random Pinterest user got in my home. I still don't know if there's anything more I should do.


We believe in doing good works, but what good does it do to feed a man today who goes to hell tomorrow? We believe in taking care of the poor, but what good does it do to house someone today who doesn't have a home in heaven for tomorrow? We believe in healing, but what good does it do to minister healing to their body and not salvation to their soul?  We believe in prophecy, yes, wonderful gift, but what good does it do to prophesy about someone's future if that future doesn't include heaven? What about souls? It's time to get back to soul winning.


Hello and welcome to Little Garden on the Prairies. So we are at about the third week of July here, 2023. And this is really kind of the time of summer where everything is really at its best. I think flower pots are blooming, everything is thriving. We've got all sorts of vegetables coming in the garden. And I'm just heading out there today to do some watering and I thought this is a good day to do a garden tour. So we have been suffering through another drought again this season and we did get some rain about a week ago. We got a half inch of rain, which was great. But as you can see, most of my lawn here is pretty brown. I don't think I have cut the grass since early June. But so everything that is thriving relies on me watering it and keeping it going. This is my sweet potato that I'm hoping to harvest by the end of July maybe or we'll wait until August. We'll see. I brought this succulent plant from my basement grow lights outside this spring and brought it out in June, I guess it was. And it is just thriving out here. It just loves it. I planted it up in my great grandfather's dish that is over 130 years old. And I'm just really happy that it's being put to good use and it's enjoying a beautiful prairie summer.  It's a nice shady cool spot in the mornings. Get to look at my garden from here. Get to hear the cattle out in the pasture, enjoying some grass. So let's head out to the garden and have a look and see what's growing on. My lasagna garden bed is really doing well. I'm starting to see some sunflowers come here at the end. I've had some good harvest of chamomile, enjoying some sweet peas, got tons of mint, different flowers. As you can see, everything has got a lot of quack grass in it, but that's just the way it is. The color out does the weeds, I think. We have tons of choke cherries coming here, probably be harvesting some here in the next few weeks. I wanted to show you my nasturtium plants that I planted just in the front of these two areas here, along with some merry golds, just to help keep the pests down. They are thriving here really well, almost a little bit too big and overshadowing my peppers. So you can see here, I'll just kinda push them down. We've got a whole pile of banana peppers. These are sweet banana peppers. I'm going to harvest them today and maybe try make some sweet and spicy pickles. So watch for that video coming. Got some pretty rainbow ones. We had some of these purple peppers yesterday, just ate them fresh. They're nice and crunchy and sweet. And some king of the north peppers are coming here. Those are looking really good. Over here are my sweet Italian frying peppers and they are just starting to turn red. So the best part about my garden this year is my irrigation system that I have set up to water, probably about 75% of my garden. This has just saved me so much time. I used to spend over an hour every evening watering my garden and didn't have much time left to do much else. So now I have this set up to do my potatoes. It waters all these containers here. This used to be my lettuce area that I have pulled out because they were bolting and going to seed. I've replanted some arugula. I think I got carrots. Another batch of carrots coming here. And then as you can see, I got lots of beets and carrots. I had a tomato plant just voluntarily show up in this container here. Found another poor little tomato at the greenhouse that was kind of the last of the tomatoes there. So I brought it home. So I got some new tomatoes coming here. We'll see if they make it through the season, if we can get a harvest or not. And the tomatoes are going crazy. I should be probably pruning them but kind of seem to lose control once they get this big. But as you can see, I got my drip irrigation going here. So while I take you on a tour, everything is getting watered as far as tomatoes, peppers. So I have these drip irrigation set up so that there is an emitter right at the stock of each tomato and it waters it for about 10 to 15 minutes depending on how I set the timer. And in my pepper containers here, I have the bubbler type system going. So this spreads out a little spray, set it up in the middle of the container and it's watering my peppers and I got a bunch of green onions going here as well. So as you can see, both my carrots and beets are pretty thick in these containers. I've been trying to thin them out as much as I can just by picking the odd one here and there and then hopefully get some good-sized beets. The baby mochums are a nice size for picking and eating fresh right now. And then I've got the Danvers and the Nantes in these two containers, which aren't too big yet. They probably still need some more thinning. So this is another area of the garden that I have to water by hand and this is my squashes and they haven't been doing great. I'm not sure if maybe growing in containers is just not working well for them. I'm going to give them some fertilizer today, some fish fertilizer. I have some spaghetti squash coming. You can see there's a couple there. This is my pumpkin, which is blooming and I am not seeing any fruit, so I don't know why, but I can't seem to get any pollination or any fruit showing here with my pumpkins. The zucchini produced a couple right off the bat and then just stopped producing. I think I see a couple coming here, but again, definitely not getting a crazy amount of zucchini like most people do. This is my sunburst. As you can see, I have a nice, pretty sunburst squash coming here. I will probably harvest this pretty soon.  I can see lots of blooming coming, but nothing much yet. I got three containers of potatoes that my grandson Henderson and I planted and one of the varieties here has died right off. I'm pretty sure there's a harvest of potatoes in there. I'm waiting for him to come back for a visit so he can help me with the harvest since he was a big help at planting these. I think harvesting potatoes is one of the funnest things to do in the garden because you just never know what you're gonna get until you start digging down and pulling out those plants. My cucumbers are looking a little yellowish and I'm not seeing a whole bunch of fruit on them yet so today I'm going to give them some fertilizer today. I'm going to use some fishy mulch diluted in some of this rainwater and give them a feeding before we give them a good watering. Just using this seaweed concentrated fishy mulch in here or just a little pour. So this vegetable bed area here never did get set up with drip irrigation. As you can see here, I did have the lines running right to it. I got the on tap switch. I just never got it set up. Got late in the season. I got doing other things. I could still probably set one up here similar to what I've got over here on this one. Just a bit more challenging once the plants are all growing. So up until now I've just been hand watering this. Got lots of tomatoes. Got some parsley and basil. Another Italian parsley just growing in here just to help with pest control. And then over here are my cucumbers which are loaded up with lots of blooms. We had our first cucumber yesterday and it was kind of bitter. So I was really disappointed. If anybody knows why a fresh garden cucumber would be bitter, please let me know. I'm trying to keep these well watered every day. And as you can see, like I see the leaves are looking a little yellow. Some of the cucumbers here, you can see this one died after it bloomed. So I'm not sure what's going on. Cucumbers are my husband's favorite garden thing and he's really anxious to get more and I'm just not seeing some really good production here so far. So if you have any cucumber tips, please leave them in the comments for me. The sun gold cherry tomato is probably my favorite one to grow and eat in the garden. I think I've got two of them planted here. Start to see lots of fruit coming.  It's an indeterminate variety so it'll just keep growing and growing. So I'm trying to just kind of keep it a bit pruned and kind of guiding it up on this trellis here. Over here is the Tomasel tomato and these are a white variety which they don't really look that great but last year when I grew them they were really sweet and delicious. I like them. So I got another plant going here. I can see a tomato got rammed into the fence here so I need to see if I can try to save it. It's just kind of stuck there now. Not sure if I can save it. Over here is a Mamma Mia Roma. Got lots of Roma tomatoes coming. I think this is another sun gold over here. Over on this side I have planted three more tomatoes. These are ones that I purchased at the nursery or one of the big box stores I got a sweet 100 cherry. I got one called a celebrity. I think it should be larger size tomatoes they're not super big. And this one is another sun sugar gold but it's kind of sprawling out. I didn't trellis it very well and now it's kind of sprawling out but it is getting me some of these sun gold tomatoes. I love these. These are super sweet and they're so good. So after I finished videoing my walk through in the garden here I was editing my video getting it ready to upload and I said to myself Tracy you need to do some pruning to some of these plants. Like they really need to get some more airflow. They're getting a little bit out of control same with my squash. So I'm gonna do some pruning and then I'll show you what it looks like after I'm done. Okay so I am done pruning the cucumbers and look at this pile I have here. I got rid of so much foliage, lots of diseased leaves that were yellowing and dying sacrificed a few that had some blooms on it but just it really needed to be pruned. And you can see now there is lots of room down around the base. There's airflow, there's no leaves touching the ground which is where you can usually get disease starting insects prey on the weak leaves. So I'm hoping that this is going to help my cucumber production.  There is a cucumber there. I think this is my, that will be the next one to harvest probably. Then over on this side I had some more plants probably planted too many but I trained them to kind of flow out of the container going this way onto the ground. I also went through my tomatoes and pruned and pruned and pruned. Once you get cut in with scissors you get a little scissor happy and it's hard to stop but I did prune tons of branches off of my tomatoes. Again just trying to keep the base of the stem clear so that there's lots of airflow. I had so many tomatoes jammed in here and there was so much foliage I couldn't even see them. So really cleaned it out. I think they should be much happier. Hopefully they'll grow bigger. Again, a few tomatoes were sacrificed. Had to pick some. This one should ripen indoors but it was a job that needed to be done and I'm glad I was able to share it with you today. I almost feel like I can breathe better myself just looking at all the space that I've created and all the airflow that is amongst all these plants. They should be much happier. I'm gonna harvest some of these sweet banana peppers and I found a one jar recipe I wanna try out to make a sweet and spicy pickled pepper. So stay tuned for that video coming. Hopefully it's successful. So I hope you enjoyed walking around with me in the garden, giving everything a water, checking everything out. Should be enjoying lots of tomatoes, hopefully cucumbers over the next few weeks. So I always enjoy reading comments if you wanna leave me some. Hit that like button. You haven't already done so. Hit that subscribe button so you don't miss out on future videos coming to the channel. Thanks for watching.