Allahumma salli wa sallim wa bariq, wa an'am, wa adham, wa qadam, ala Sayyidina wa Habibina wa Tabi'ina wa Shafa'ina wa Qa'idina wa Qura'inina, Sayyidina Muhammad, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, that Allah made us to reach the last 10 nights of Ramadan, and we are in the odd nights. And you know, this is a time where we need to gain to get the maximum of latest Qadr. It might be tonight. So the smart one who will actually try to make it for the 5, all these 5 nights, for sure he will be with the latest Qadr, insha'Allah. And this is something you have to know that this latest Qadr is a gift from Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala and His Habib As-Salaam. Because Allah, Allah SWT, He gave him this. So while we are in latest Qadr, we have to know who is the source of latest Qadr. You know, this in Ramadan, all the doors of Paradise opens. Al-Jannah inviting all of us, come to Me, come to the high striking in Me. Don't let yourself in the low place in Paradise because everything is great, but no, gain more and more. Rasulullah s.alam taught us that Allah gave him Jammu'il-Kalib. That means in few words he will do a lot of meanings. But there is something called Jammu'il-A'amal, the gathering of what? Of actions. Small actions will give you a lot. So praying to Raqqa in this night or doing the Qiyam of this night will give you more than 80 years of worship, one night. What is the best action to do in this night? To get the maximum. You know, there is an incident where Rasulullah s.alam came, went to Fajr and he saw that one of his family, that she is doing a dhikr. He came back after Dhu'a and she is doing dhikr. He said, look, I did one Dhu'a or one dhikr that's higher than everything he did. I did subhan Allah, wa-alhamdihi wa-adadakhaltihi wa-radanafsihi wa-zinaat-a'ashi'u wa-dadaklimati. Allah wanted to teach her and teach all of us that you made the thing that will give you a lot. Because our lifespan is very short. It's not like the previous nations were 1000 years. This Ummah, the Rasulullah s.alam, this Ammar Ummati, between 60 and 70, the lifespan of my Ummah is between 60 and 70. It's very rare to be more than that. So one of the best things to give you to get in these 10 days is to go to that source who gave us this late father, Rasulullah s.alam. When we do salawat Rasulullah s.alam, definitely we read Quran, we do night prayer, but Rasulullah s.alam told us, I am your share, I am your luck, I am your portion of, from Prophets. So we need to increase our hub, we need to increase our share. And we increase it by having ourself be mentioned by the tongue of Rasulullah s.alam. He will mention us because he says s.alam that if you do salawat on me, Allah will give me.  And Allah told him, Do s.alam on them because your s.alat is tranquility on them.  Because Allah will do s.alam on them. What will happen in this case? Allah told the Quran, Allah and the angel do s.alam on you, why? What's the result of this? To take you away from darkness, put you in light. So when we get this spiritual breeze that's happening this night, and we put it in it, s.alam. I want my name to be mentioned in front of s.alam because one angel will take s.alam and the son of s.alam and give you s.alam.  Whenever I'm not doing prayer or Quran, I will do s.alam. Because I want to get a maximum of this night. Imagine if you gathered the highest spiritual gain, you get it in Ramadan, the highest spiritual gain you get in the last 10 nights, and the highest spiritual gain you get in the odd nights, and in being fasting and doing qiyam, and then with what? With the s.alam. And then this will be presented because s.alam said, you're actually being presented to me. Ta'rad, amal, qawali. He said, you're presented to me. Imagine that all are actually being presented to s.alam. He's saying that s.alam on him. He said, if I find something good, I'll do hamed on your behalf. So the s.alawa that we're doing, we're wrapped with the hamed of s.alam, and they're going to Allah swt. Allah will receive the best of action, which is the s.alam, s.alam, because this s.alam is a du'a, it's always accepted regardless of the status. That's the only du'a that never be rejected. So being wrapped with the hamed, going to Allah, Allah will put Allah's khair in it. And this action, the one we are doing on the Day of Judgment, when we come and look at it and see it, we say, whose prophet is this action? They say, no, this is your action. It's covered, wrapped with the hamed of s.alam, and then added with the khair, being grown with the khair of Allah swt, and be presented to you now. And then at that moment we say, Alhamdulillah that Allah made us to do this, and that Allah made us to, get the maximum of this day at night, inshaAllah. And s.alam, with Salam At-Tawla wa tur Alakum. Alhamdulillah, O, Lord Most High, the most Put the alfads the whisperer of the the alfads and say, Alhamdulillah, praise be to Allah. He gave us the Surat Al-Rahman. Now, what's special about the Surat Al-Rahman? Allah Azawajal, the first verse that revealed to Sayyidina As-Salaam, he said, Iqra, Bismi Rabbika Al-Ladhi Khalaq. Read by the Name of Allah, the One Who Created. What's that Name? And later we will figure out that the Name is Bismillah, Al-Rahman Al-Rahim. Allah SWT gave us in the Quran, the only Surat that starts with the Name of Allah, there is only One which is Al-Rahman. It's only the Surat that is said Al-Rahman, Al-Rahman Al-Rahman. So Allah selected for us to tell us that He is the One that created everything through His Rahma. And He told us, My mercy super exceeds my anger. So they are wrestling, the mercy and the anger, the winner is the mercy. And we are lucky because of this. And in another hadith said, My mercy encompasses everything. And everything except Allah is Shayt. So the Rahma of Allah SWT will cover everything. Now, how do we implement this? This Rahma, how do you implement this? How this Rahma be implemented? You know, this verse of Rahman, when the kuffar they said, Allah told them in the Quran, or some told them, if they said, Muzjidullah Al-Rahman, do Sayyidina Al-Rahman, Qalu Amr Al-Rahman, we don't know who is Al-Rahman. And then the Surah came, Al-Rahman, Al-Rahman, Al-Rahman. Now Allah SWT, Allah first taught the Quran, and taught us how to talk, how to say what we want to say, how to express ourselves. Rasulullah SAW, one day somebody recited the Rahman in front of him. And he said, why I see all the jinn better than you? They said, what's that, Rasulullah SAW? Whenever they hear, which is the meaning, which of the blessings of Allah you deny, they will say in each time, it's been mentioned 31 times. Each time they say, or none of the blessings of Allah we deny, we say, Alhamdulillah. So he said, don't let the jinn be better than you, because Allah in the Quran is interacting with you. Now, there is a small secret here, I want everybody to get this secret, and this is from the Arafim. They say, Allah SWT sent his Habib SAW, and he told us, Rahmalil Alameen, his Rahman, so the implementation of Al Rahman, he sent Rahmalil Alameen. Now, we can say in our Dua, we ask Allah for the Rahma for the Ummah. We ask Allah, for example, the Hadith said, if you ask Allah for Maqfira, if you say, Rabbi gharli al-Mu'minat, or Allah forgives Mu'minin al-Mu'minat, you will get, for every believer, you'll get hasana, because you ask for everybody, you know. But you want something Dua that will cover everything. Rasulullah SAW says, Rahmalil Alameen. What's the Alameen? Alameen is anything but Allah. So all creation is Alameen. And Rasulullah SAW is Rahmalil Alameen. So when you say, Allahumma salli alaihi sallim Muhammad, when you say, Salawat Rasulullah SAW, you are increasing this Rahma. You are asking Allah to increase the Rahma, because he is Rahmalil Alameen, to put barakah in this Rahma. So you are making Dua not only for the human being, not only for the creation, not only for the animal, for the whole Alameen, the seven heavens, all the angels. So Salawat Rasulullah SAW is actually, you are asking Allah, and Allah is saying, that Dua is never being rejected, is the Salam Rasulullah SAW. That's why Allah told us, Laqad ja'akum Rasulum min al fisqum. Azeezun aalehi ma'aneetum. Haareesun aaleikum bil mu'mina ar-ufur raheem.  He cares a lot about you. Haareesun aaleikum, better than your parents. And he has Rahma, and Raqfa are new. He is, they say his Rahma is better than our parents. So when you say Allahumma SAW, Muhammad, then we recognize this.  That's why he said, Allahumma, he said, Allahumma, he read this amazing verse. Now, one of the secret, as I said, also from the Arafim, they said in this last 10 days, don't depend on your deeds. Depend on his Rahma, SAW. Look, if we think, you know, I'm doing Qiyam, I'm doing Siyam, I'm doing charity, I'm doing this and this, I'm depending on my deeds. But if I depend on the wider skill, which is the Rahma of Allah, then everything I want, I will get. Because the secret of this 10 days, that Allah SWT, he loves his creation. And his love in these 10 days increases a lot, and his Rahma increases a lot. So if you ask him anything you wish, anything, definitely ask something for, it's good, but ask something that's bad, ask something for big. Ask the Murafaqat al-Hayyus, SAW, to be with the SAW, to be with good opinion, with him all the time. Okay? And also, you have a good opinion of Allah SWT. If you have good opinion that Allah SWT will give you what you ask for, you have no doubt of this. And Allah SWT, as Rasul Sahib told us, I'm at the good opinion of you of me. If you think that I'll give you whatever you ask me, I'll give you. If you think that I'll give you the highest position, in France, I'll give it to you. Just have a good opinion, first of all, none. And then lastly, inshaAllah, try to, in these 10 days, in these 10 nights, call Allah with all his names that you know. So we ask Allah, Ya Hannaan, Ya Mannaan, Ya Rahman, Ya Ra'u, Ya Habibi. Ask Allah with all the names that Allah, Ya Wadud, you know, go with the other names and ask Allah with each one. Because once you ask Allah, Allah is waiting for you, waiting for all of us. This is special in Ramadan, especially these last 10 days. And that will make, you know, every night is like the Qadr, when you do this.  Allah is generous, but Allah wanted to see that us, we are asking Him. We're coming to Him. We need from Him. We are not depending on our deeds. We're not depending on, you know, I'm good now. I'm really good. I'm not watching this. I'm not seeing this. I'm not, you know, I'm just, all my time is for Allah. It's good what you are doing, definitely. That's what Islam used to be in the last 10 days, just get in the Atikaf, doing nothing from dunya at all, nothing. Now, for us, a lot of us, we have to work and so on. But once you get between you, mind yourself, like have a special time between you and Allah and ask Him with His names. Just sit and ask Allah, Ya Rahman, Ya Karim, ask Allah and have, make sure 100% that Allah will give you. And He will give you maybe better what you ask. Have no doubt in this. He will give you, He will take away from you all the bad things rather than give you a small thing that you ask for. And do salwat, because He is rahmalil alameen. Once you do salat, you are asking Allah to increase that rahmah that covered the whole alameen and you get reward for all the alameen because you are asking Allah


Columbia and welcome to City of You, where we give you an inside view of the City of Columbia. I'm your host, Alicia Utsy. Recently, leaders from across the Midlands gathered to discuss rail elimination and alignment in Columbia and surrounding communities. The state has made an incredible investment in the port and an inland port, and the result of that is a huge increase of containerized trains coming through our community, and we're feeling negative impact. This is an opportunity for the Midlands as a whole, both at the federal, state, and local level to come together to make a difference for our community, and we're extremely excited about this opportunity. In another press conference, Midlands leaders also gathered with South Carolina 7 to make a special announcement about a special event this summer. We have an opportunity to draw people here on July 18th. We're going to have a hike two and a half miles, and I hope everybody in the Midlands joins us. We just don't want a few people. We want thousands of people to join this. As the Midlands takes part in SC7, which stretches across our beautiful state, we're very excited about the opportunity, not only about supporting this effort, but also understanding that our natural resources are not only our greatest asset, but also our ability to use those to leverage and bring people here to our community and to grow businesses. May is the month where we celebrate National Small Business Week, and Columbia did it in a big way with a special kickoff at the beginning of Small Business Week. So lifeblood of our community is the backbone, and we've talked about that for a long time, but it's important that we recognize them. It's important that we value them and spend time, money with these small businesses in this community. And so as we as we look to continue to grow, as the mayor said, and we're thrilled that we're open for business, in South Carolina, small businesses, we've seen an increase of over 30% over the last two decades. That's the largest increase anywhere in the country. So South Carolina is a great place to do business. Columbia is a fantastic place to work, live, and play. In addition to the kickoff event, a special Small Business Week celebration was also held to recognize additional business owners. I think it just shows that there is still a need from our business community for resources, for information, and for those connections, connections to each other, connection to those resources, and connections to the city, so that people are aware of what we have to offer. We have so many different services and partnerships and collaborations, and we also have a leadership that know the business community because many of them are small business owners. As we continue our business highlights in our We Are Open business series, we're definitely open to business owners who invest in our community. That is the story of the owner of Revont, who recently celebrated 30 years of business in Columbia. It's great as we celebrate openings all the time in Columbia over the last couple of weeks celebrating an anniversary, especially a three decade anniversary is a really special thing. And excited that they continue to grow and expand and have really been part of the heartbeat in five points. May is also Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, and we were able to celebrate in a special way with a special recognition of one of our own, Councilwoman Adelie Bussells. She was recognized by those at the South Carolina State House. As someone who made history as the first South Asian woman on City Council in Columbia, it was especially important for me to ensure that this was a platform that we recognize the growing diversity in Columbia. And so over the next month, I'm very excited to share a lot more about the diversity even within the Asian American community. You know, what are some of the customs and traditions that they bring with them here? And really the history of how Asian Americans came to this country. And following that special recognition, the City of Columbia also recognized Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at the City Council meeting. Well, that wraps up another city view. Thank you for watching and stay tuned for more information right here on City TV. Make sure you continue to catch us on Spectrum Channel 1301 and also on Roku and Amazon Fire TV. You can also get information from our website, columnsc.gov, and make sure you follow us on social media platforms, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. And of course, subscribe to our YouTube channel so you can see on-demand programming from the City of Columbia. Thank you again for watching and remember, we are Columbia.


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The average person walks past 16 murderers in their lifetime, at least. What is the scariest or creepiest theory you know about?  There is science that proves that you stay alive for a bit longer after you're decapitated. French doctors did experiments in asking prisoners to blink as much as possible during the beheading process. Some didn't but others did, up to like 20 seconds or so. Whether or not it's true. Who knows. In the past when executions by beheading were still a thing, they would usually tie a piece of cloth around the condemned's eyes, so that they couldn't see anything. They were also placed in a way that the neck faced, upwards with a basket for the head to fall and face forward. So basically the last thing you'd see, if you'd see at all, would be the bottom of the basket. That my mother-in-law keeps accidentally leaving things at my house because she is slowly moving in. Years ago when I was seriously dating my now wife, almost every time we started to have sexy time her mother would call up. Seemed strange, then disgusting when we found the hidden camera when moving her out. It was hidden under a stuffed animal and aimed at the bed. May or may not be a theory, but the first thing I thought of was that feeling you get when you're on top of a building and think what if I jumped? Or when you're driving and think what if I just swerve into traffic? Well it's actually got a name, Lapelle du Vid. French for the call of the void. I always thought the idea of some ethereal presence calling you towards darkness. Creepy. The dark forest theory. This explains the Fermi paradox, why we haven't seen any other advanced life forms despite the vastness of the universe. Other advanced life forms don't send out signals into the rest of the universe, because they're worried that something more advanced and dangerous is going to find them first. There's another idea which is that other civilizations know there's something out there, but don't send any signals because it has no reason to not wipe out the entire planet. There's a science fiction book based on this and I think this quote explains it better than I can, the universe is a dark forest. Every civilization is an armed hunter stalking through the trees like a ghost, gently pushing aside branches that block the path and trying to tread without sound. Even breathing is done with care. The hunter has to be careful, because everywhere in the forest are stealthy hunters like him. If he finds another life, another hunter, angel, or a demon, a delicate infant to tottering old man, a fairy or demigod, there's only one thing he can do, open fire and eliminate them. Fun fact to add, we dumbasses plainly sent out a golden recording of Johnny be good blasting through space. So fingers crossed. Here's another unsettling explanation, if you're scuba diving above a coral reef, and you know that there should be fish all around you, but you don't see any, it's most likely that they have learned that for some reason it's important not to be seen.  Lots of scuba divers experienced this and then noticed a shark nearby. That you might be aware of everything happening to you during surgery, the anesthesia keeps you from moving and causes you to forget. I had surgery once and woke up mid-surgery. I felt no pain, but it was still awful. It was like running in a dream. I felt the weight of my own skin on my chest made it hard to breathe enough to talk. I remember screaming help at the top of my lungs and flailed my arms around in panic, and then someone coming to put the mask back on me. Later a nurse told me I whispered something and moved my arm a little. Freaked me out massively. We've all pretty much heard of Uncanny Valley. The creeped out anxious feeling when you look at something that's humanoid, but there's something clearly wrong with it. Like the wax figures at Madame Tussauds or that AI robot Sophia. But my favorite theory to come out of it is that we get that strange feeling because somewhere along human evolution we've learned to be wary of things that look human. But aren't. That humans almost went extinct. 70,000 years ago a volcano in Indonesia erupted. There's theories that we have a genetic bottleneck around that time. Took our population down to around 10,000 or 3,000, like the size of one small town. Lots of fresh genetic material died with those who were lost and the resulting inbreeding could have resulted in some genetic diseases that have made their way into humans today. Without this event, we may have advanced faster and be healthier people today. There is still evidence of the genetic bottleneck and the recent and abrupt diversification of humanity. Most of the research that I've seen on this comes from 2000. It's been 20 years, so there has been lots of work done on this very topic in the time since. This is not a fact though, but it is a scary theory that researchers are looking into. More information can be found when you look up Cheddar Man. A dark-skinned, blue-eyed man that lived around 10,000 years ago in England. Anthropology grad here, I did a paper on this and it's surprisingly difficult to find information on this. Most humans are alive today thanks to the Bayobaba Danzonia, or the Tree of Life as we call it today. The same tree Rafiki lives in in the Disney movie from the Lion King. The tree can store up to 100,000 liters of water and produces a superfruit. The humans that survive the eruption itself managed to survive the harsh conditions afterwards by living in and harvesting resources from these trees. Fun fact to add, Cheetahs went through a super tight evolutionary bottleneck. All Cheetahs are descendants of a population of probably less than 250. You can transplant tissue from any Cheetah to another without it getting repelled, because they are so close genetically. Cosmology can be disturbing. For instance, I recently learned of dead-end trips. There are some destinations that you shouldn't try for. It's possible to travel so far away from where you started, that the expansion of the universe will exceed the speed you were traveling at. You can't return home, because home is receding faster than you can travel. You can't reach your destination, because it too is receding faster than you can travel. You can no longer get anywhere, only get further away from everything. You cannot reach any destination, even if you travel forever. This is because the universe is constantly expanding, and galaxies, neighborhoods, clusters, etc. are gravity bound. They stick together in distant clumps while other clumps move away. It's kind of like people in cars on a highway. You will remain a constant difference from however many people are in your car, or on your motorcycle, or in your school bus. But you will get further and further away from other vehicles. This means that if you are within a pocket that's bound by gravity, you'll always be an equal distance from everything else. But if you fall out of that car, you're not getting back in it, and you're almost certainly never getting into any other car either. If the human body senses trauma it is unable to combat, it will switch off metabolism, pump endorphins, and slip into a pain-free dissociative state. In essence, shutting down. It's been seen in air crashes and lots of places really. Basically your body can switch itself off. Some prey animals do this when they are caught. That's why they seem so unfazed about being eaten. I'm sure I've read something about rabbits not being likely to survive an encounter with a predator, even if they escape cause their body is just pumped with so much shit they have a heart attack anyway. My dog killed my bunny without even touching it. Got in his room one day and the cage was still closed but it was laying there, I imagine it barked at it and just set its little heart off. The average person walks past at least 16 murderers in their lifetime. It's even more scary that there are thousands of serial killers out there at any one given time, who often just blend in with the rest of society and live normal lives. Many will never be caught. When you look at serial killers, what's chilling is when you realize that many of them who are caught off and want to be caught, or go for decades before finally ending up getting caught. And those are just the ones who do get caught. Someone who really just wanted to go around killing, and who was organized and rational, you'd never find them. I suffer from PTSD from working in conflict zones. When you're continuously working in these regions, your body pushes past the pain and difficulties you encounter. It modifies your life to always expect danger and as such it normalizes what you see to cope.  The switch your brain makes from survival cannot be processed buying groceries or taking a gentle walk. It thinks that the changes it made in areas of fighting were permanent and that's why it's so difficult to go back to normal. So basically, when I was abroad, I felt no pain and the scary part is, I felt invincible. Being back home, I'm in a world of mental anguish and feel like a paper house. During the Challenger accident from 1986, whenever the shuttle exploded, the ground crews had the astronauts EKGs and vital scans, after the explosion, the astronauts were still alive. Theory has it that they were cognizant the entire time until they crashed in the ocean. NASA never wanted to admit that the astronauts didn't die in the explosion. But there is a major probability that they were not conscious when they crashed into the ocean. Yet several emergency survival kits were activated by astronauts that were still conscious during the fall. Spontaneous combustion. I watched a strange but true episode about this as a child and was convinced I'd randomly burst into flames one day. I'm over it now but that was my top fear for a long time. Nearly every case happened while the person was drinking and smoking at the same time, which kind of explains it. It happens only to the cool kids. Sometime in the future, if we don't disappear before, humans will probably be able to bioengineer themselves to avoid death by old age. Most probably only the richest people would get this, founding an immortal elite of dynasties that will be able to rule nations by themselves, while common people simply keep dying as always. Now almost everyone thinks of death as something normal and inevitable, as part of our nature. But then, in that hypothetical future, death will be seen like a disease which curates kept away from common people by that ruling elite. There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. Some people have had some strange near-death experiences. Going through websites cataloging them can be a trip. I'm willing to attribute some of them to brain damage and some as legit. Though I'll never be able to tell which is which. Death bed visions give me a warmer sense of security. I can't imagine how peaceful it must be to die and see your deceased loved ones there to ensure you make it safely to the other side. The one that bugs me, was the one about the guy who was last seen in an airport.  They link the surveillance footage and you can see him run all the way off the premises. He was never seen again. There's lots of theories about what happened. None I want to look too far into. If you do, look up the disappearance of Lars Middank. Philosophical zombies. Theory that a good portion of the human race lack conscious experience. If you've ever dissociated or done something and don't recall. Driven home but have no recollection, your brain acting on autopilot. That's what they are like. They do everything required to be human. They ape emotions, go through life. They just lack sentience. Also, I've been told that some people have no inner monologue with themselves. That we have so little data about the deep dark parts of the ocean and don't truly know what lurks there. This also makes me curious about potential mysteries held deep under the ground. But it also scares me. You could meet Mr and Mrs Cthulhu in the Mariana trench, or what if the secret to immortality is down there? There were a lot of incidents that could cause a nuclear apocalypse. In 1960, American early warning system detected several nuclear projectiles flying to the US. However, since the Russian president was visiting the US at the moment, they realized it must be a false alarm. An investigation showed that the system thought that the moon was a projectile. In 1961, American bomber carrying nuclear weaponry crashed in North Carolina. The US said that people shouldn't worry about the bomb going off, but declassified documents show that one of the bombs came dangerously close to detonating, with only two wires preventing the boom. Had it exploded, the radiation could have reached New York. In 1962, US puts bombs in Turkey and USSR does so in Cuba, leading to a international crisis. Soon enough, a Soviet nuclear submarine is spotted near Cuba, and a US ship tries to get it to come out by detonating bombs near it. The captain of the sub-thought this was an attack and ordered his men to fire the nuclear torpedo, but one of the officers got him to stand down and save the world. In 1967, all US communication and early warning devices suddenly died, and they thought this was sabotage from the USSR, which was preparing to launch an attack. They sent out bombers, however, a branch of the military realized that the sun released a powerful solar storm which knocked out the equipment, and the planes were ordered back last moment. In 1980s, American planes would often fly all the way to USSR, and then fly back in order to scare the Russians. Well, in 1983 alarms go off telling Russians that the US launched nuclear missiles, it was up to Stanislav Petrov to launch the counterattack, but he did nothing. Why? Because there were only five projectiles, and he thought that the US would have launched thousands of them. He was right, and it turned out that the sun triggered the alarms. Royal AI likes to clarify that these theories are just that, a hypothesis supported by a collection of facts. These theories are not fact and truth in itself. Feel free to join the speculation and share curiosity in the comment section. Thank you for watching Royal AI. Be sure to subscribe and hit the notification bell to receive future episodes. Share your experience in the comments, or tell us what you think of these stories.


Cast is now starting. All attendees are in listen-only mode. Good afternoon, traders. Okay, welcome to the DX Feed Bookmap webinar. Can everyone hear me and see my screen if you just give me a yes in the questions there? All right, yeah, it looks like I'm broadcasting just fine here. Screen and audio. Okay. All right, well, let's get started. Okay, so what we're going to go through. Well, this new DX Feed for Bookmap and trading US equities, the data visualization that you're getting, and I'm going to show you how to get a competitive advantage today right now using DX Feed Bookmap. So let's go through it here. Risk disclaimer. Trading equities, futures, involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors past performances, not necessarily indicative of future results. Okay, a little bit about me. My name is Bruce Pringle, trader of 10 years in a variety of markets, order flow specialist at Bookmap, the lead at the Bookmap trading education and expertise in order flow and market microstructure. Okay, for more information, you can go to bookmap.com as well as our Twitter handle at bookmap underscore pro. Subscribe to our YouTube page. Just look up Bookmap and then email us at support at bookmap.com. Okay, so pretty lofty big statement here. Trading US equities and getting a competitive advantage now. How am I going to show this? How am I going to promise this?  Okay, so what we're going to do is we're going to look at the depth of market and we're going to be able to see all the market liquidity and all the players in the market with full depth of market. Okay, that's one of the advantages. We're going to start to read the order flow in the micro and macro structures. We're going to read the algorithmic behavior and larger players. And then I'm going to show you some examples of some Bookmap traders and how they use Bookmap, some pretty interesting examples. Okay, so we're going to look at a chart like this. This is Apple and let's see, this is back on March, March 22nd. Some interesting things in this chart. And for those of you who are new here, I just want to welcome you and looking at this chart might look like something very foreign to you. But at the end of this webinar, I'm going to show you the different distinctions in the order flow and you're going to understand the advantages you're going to get in the data visualization using Bookmap. And we'll revisit this chart at the end of the webinar and start to revisit and review some of the components that we went through for the webinar. Okay, so an overview of DX Feed Bookmap. What is it? Okay, well, it's a trading platform. It's a Bookmap trading platform with DX Feed and you can trade using DX Feed directly into interactive brokers. Okay, Bookmap is a unique visualization software. Okay, and the DX Feed allows Bookmap to connect to all U.S. equities. Okay, you also have the ability to connect to futures markets and digital currencies as well. All right, we're going to start off with a poll and just oppose the question, what is order flow? Okay, so I'm going to launch this here so you guys take a look. Okay, and if you can give me your answer here, it's a very simple poll. So just what is order flow? Okay, is it the traded volume? Is it resting orders? Is it both? Okay, because traditionally what order flow is and what order flow truly is, we have a different answer. It's kind of updated today. Okay, all right, well, let's... Okay, thanks for the answers there. And let's close it. Okay, and I should be able to get back to... Okay, so now you can see the slide again and we're back to the presentation. All right. Okay, well, it's both. That's exactly what it is. You know, you're looking at... But traditionally order flow has been just transactions following the tape, reading the tape, seeing those transactions go through. But what we're going to look at here is liquidity. It's not necessarily traded or transactions that have occurred. We're going to be looking at how the auction bitters and those that are sellers, how they affect the order flow. The amount of orders in the market, okay? So let's move on. All right, market data. So in the order flow that I was just describing, 10% of that data is in the traditional charts, like looking at your candlestick patterns or all of the charts out there. No one's showing what's happening outside of the transactions that have occurred. That's all transactions and price. And that's it. So you're looking at all sorts of bar rotations, aggregated periods, executed volume. And then on top of that, they throw a lot of different indicators. And those are derivatives of price, time and volume. Okay, now truly that is about 10% or maybe even less of the data that's out there. For example, look at a candlestick chart. It's for whatever time period you're looking at. Let's say a five minute candlestick chart. You're only getting four data points within that five minute period. You're getting open, high, low and close. Okay, a lot of opacity within that candlestick. You don't know what had occurred in there. You don't have any clue to the volume, microstructure, the amount of volume, exactly where it traded. And then how they're bidding and offering in that area as well. Okay, now in Bookmap, you're looking at 100% of the data. You're looking at the executed volume. It's non-aggregated data. There is no aggregation. There is no period of time that is like a five minute candlestick chart or a bar rotation. Even a ranko bar, it doesn't matter. There's still aggregated periods of data. And then we're going to show the full depth of market. So the auction, what's happening outside of those transactions. We're going to look at the current and the historical. And a big distinction between those two, current and historical. So the pyramid that you see over here on the right. Well, it all starts with the data. That's the foundation of understanding and knowledge, which finally goes to wisdom. So we need good data. And then from that, we can draw information. And then from that is knowledge. And then we get to that top of that pyramid. And we really understand what's going on with wisdom. Okay, so data makes the difference.  And DXFeed Bookmap covers all US equities, full depth of market. I'm going to describe that in just a bit. So hold on for that if you don't understand what that term means. Low latencies, servers around the globe. So very, very quick transactions and a quick amount of data. And with the DXFeed Bookmap, you're getting consolidated view of many choices here. NASDAQ Total View and NASDAQ Last Sale. That's what you get with NASDAQ. And now we're offering EdgeX, which is basically bats. You can choose either or, or you can choose both of those together as a combination. And I'll get more into the pricing and the offering here at the end of the webinar. I just wanted to upfront mention this here. Now, we're going to go back and we're going to revisit a regular dome. And using that regular dome. We're all pretty accustomed to this. This is a green mountain coffee. On this side over here, we see the bid and we see the depth of market here at these price levels. These are the liquidity providers and the amount of liquidity they're providing at these price levels. Over here is on the ask. And we can see all of the liquidity providers and where they're offering to sell at these areas. Well, the dome is good. It allows you to really start to understand orders at specific areas to be able to optimize entries, exits, and your trade management. You can see the larger players. You start to understand where they're willing to deal or not. This is what the professionals use, starting to understand that depth of market. Okay, now let's compare that dome with Bookmap. And we're just going to look at the top here, the best bid and offer. This is what it looks like here in the dome. And here's what it looks like over in Bookmap. Okay, so this vertical white line is the separation between historical to the left and then to the right here. We're looking at everything that is live. And then in this view here, what we're looking at here, this is your best offer and your best bid right here, graphically. And then here it is numerically. Now I'm looking at Apple here and we're comparing that to green mountain coffee. So, you know, just this is an older image. Okay, but that's what it looks like in Bookmap. Let's go to the next slide. Here is your depth here on the bid in the dome. And then this is what the depth is here in Bookmap. Okay, and then here's your depth on the offer. Okay, these are traders lined up here providing liquidity in Apple. They want to be sellers up in these areas. And here it is in the dome. Okay, so now you have a comparison or reference guide here to what you're looking at in Bookmap and how it translates to a dome. Okay, now the disadvantages of that dome. Well, we have no historical view. Okay, when these numbers change here, there's no history. There's no record of it. So you're going to have to start to memorize these areas. That's a big disadvantage. Okay, because how long were these traders here? How much liquidity did they provide? How much did they pull? Did they pull and add down at lower areas? Can you see that? What about on the bid? Did they switch from offer to the bid? All of these questions would be almost impossible to answer unless you have some sort of memory that can really answer those questions. It's going to be extremely hard though when you start to look at higher time frames. What about an hour ago? Were they at that price level there before? Did they pull or did they add? Or did they move it to another area? So that's some of the disadvantages with the dome. Inability to read the algos is a big part of that as well. And I just covered the tediousness of reading that dome. And now putting that in context of microstructure, of understanding just nuances in price movement and the relationship between that and liquidity and transactions. Well, what about a macro view? Let's just move away from that and look at several hours, maybe a whole day of data. It's going to be really difficult to do in a dome. And that's some of the advantages you get with Bookmap. Quick graphical representation. We get that consolidated view or feed. So everyone is at the same price level. And then you're able to start to understand the microstructural content. Here's our recent historical view here. Well, we can see sellers are in this market here. They're pushing it down. They're hitting the bid into lower areas of liquidity. And the highest liquidity is down here at the moment, down at 18624. Well, where are they on the offer? Well, they're up here. We can start to answer some of these questions down here. They traded into high liquidity that's down here as well. And traded through that area. Okay, let's move on to some of the elements here in the Bookmap chart. So start to define some of these elements that I just went through. This is the same slide, just looking at a little bit bigger view. And okay, so the dome in Bookmap, graphical representation, liquidity here, 3,600 contracts or shares, and then 2,200 shares here. Well, pretty high in the book. Well, look up here, 18650 at the round figure. Almost always you see, especially in equities, higher liquidity at these areas. And here they are, 31,787 contracts up here. It's the darkest area, dark red. The scale of liquidity is up here from red to orange to yellow to white to blue and then to black. So we understand immediately by looking at the heat map. Here they are. These are the larger players. They're up here. And we take the data in the current market here and then to the left of this vertical white line, it's all recorded and transposed onto the chart. And that's the heat map. And that's what we're looking at here. We're looking at the evolution of the order book plotted onto the chart historically. So you can start to read some of this liquidity. Look how they started to pop into the book from nothing or very low liquidity in this area here, on up into higher and higher liquidity and price came down and traded into it here. Transactions took place in that high liquidity and they traded through that area. Now, okay, so best bid and offer down here. Last traded volume is this number here. Here's our price ladder and again in Apple, this Apple example. And then let's go over the transactions, these dots. That's the third element here on this book map chart. Best bid and offer is the first historical best bid and offer here. The heat map that just covered. Now the transactions. Red dot is an aggressive market sell. They hit the market sell button. They took liquidity and provide liquidity and they took it off of the best bid. And that's a red dot. The size of the dot is in relationship to the other dots here that you see. So if it's a big red bubble here, well, you know that there was a lot of selling there. And then same with the green. That's an aggressive market buy that took place on the best offer. The size of the dot is a relationship to the other volume that traded here that you can see. So that's a really quick overview of the basics. We'll continue on and start to read some of the micro structure because we have it right here in front of us. High liquidity on the offer. Buyers aren't willing to take them on. We start to find sellers, hit the bid into lower areas. We find liquidity here that pops into the book. They start to lower the offer, as you can see in these areas here. And then, well, we kind of go back and forth for a bit. But the sellers take these guys on. They want to buy here. They decide to trade into them. They hit into that high liquidity, trade through it. Don't have many transactions that happen down here. So we start to rotate back up. There's going to be a little point of control in this area here. We don't find buyers that step in again up in these areas here. And we rotate again down lower. And we know here from the clusters of the selling and another cluster down here, we're looking for follow through to the downside. I know I'm going through this very quickly. We do this every day in the advanced order flow webinars. Once you subscribe, you'll have access to those. But anyway, that's some of the micro structure. But that's just kind of current or recent historical market. Let's get into the macro view. Just larger zoom out and look at the entire day here in Apple. Now, this is from that same slide. We were just looking around that 186-20 level or 18-15 somewhere down here. Well, here's what the day looks like. You can't do this on your dome. You're not going to be able to see it. Look at all the high liquidity up in this area here. This was yesterday. And we traded up into these areas yesterday and broke out to the upside. A lot of sellers were up here. And we need to see if they stay in that book or sell, absorb the buying pressure or if they start to pull and add to higher levels. Answer a lot of those questions by looking just at the liquidity and transactions. Again, macro view here. And this is a reversal. Well, where is the high liquidity? Well, it stands right out there at 102. You're going to notice in all of these examples in the U.S. equities, they're at the big figures. 102, here they are. We're looking at Disney in this example. And where are they on the bid? They're down here at 101. Well, look, we trade right into them. And we trade through them for a bit. Well, these guys down here, they are long now. These larger players providing that high liquidity, they're long. Sellers come down and they basically doesn't trade much through it down maybe about 20 cents or so. It starts to rotate back up. And these buyers, they step right back in at the same price level. Sellers take them on again and looks like a partially trade into that. Some of that, this is absorption at this point, because we get the bounce. We trade through by a few cents, maybe five or 10 cents or something. But start to rotate back up. We start to find buyers instead of sellers. The sellers have all been absorbed up at this point here. Now we're starting to rotate back up when we're finding buyers starting to jump in. The swing up here is what we're looking at. We're looking for buyers to step in. We're starting to look at maybe where targets will be. Well, where is the higher liquidity up in these areas up here? Where is that? 101.50 and a little bit higher here as well, 101.60. As we start to rotate back up, look at the buying start to really pick up here. And especially up in this area above the swing up here. Note all the buyers starting to step in here. This is a shift in the order flow. We can very clearly see it. We know where the buyers are and they're back in here as well. Back here at 101. Where's the target? The target is 102. It really steps up here. And what does this look like here? And this is all due to the order flow. Well, we have a shoulder, a head, and a shoulder. And this is a reversal pattern that you're looking at. But we're analyzing it here very objectively in terms of the order flow. And that order flow shift, we're starting to see it here. And it really takes place over here. Anyway, we have many examples here to go through. So let's continue on. Let's compare volume profile with liquidity. We're looking at Tesla and targeting higher liquidity up here in some of these areas. Here's a breakout. Look at the buying here that lifts the offer up into. They actually pull some of that liquidity here. But it trades up into this area up here and starts to transact. Nice cluster of buying. We can also see it in our volume column over here. Now, if you're trading volume profile, you'd be looking for a pullback to where? Here's a big cluster of activity that just took place. And here is the previous activity here. Well, you'd be looking for your low volume node pullback. Oops, sorry. You'd be looking for a pullback into this area here. And maybe around 302.50. Well, that's not the story here, though. You would be missing the move here. And why is that? Well, because they flipped from the offer side here at 303 to the bid side here at 303.05, looks like. So actually, the story is here. This is where they want to buy. High liquidity is here. So you'd be targeting the higher liquidity up here at 304.30, it looks like, or 304.25. Let's go to the next slide. Well, here's that same area right here where they were. We did not get that pullback into the low volume node. Instead, we got kind of a skew in that book on the bid side. And we came up and hit the target. Now, curiously enough, there's some more things going on here. Very short-term high liquidity in some of these areas. And I'm going to go through and I'm going to show you this slide later in about five or 10 minutes. And we'll start to notice, though, that they're pulling. They pull here. They pull here. And it looks like they actually got transacted here. And we do finally dip down into that low volume node. But the story was here at this point. And the buyers stepped in again and hit the target. So we're starting to understand context of the liquidity, support, and resistance, and trend, and putting all these pieces together. In this example, we're looking at Facebook. And we're looking at the US Open right here, 930. And look at all the transactions that take place. And look at them layer in. You already know the targets or areas of resistance in advance here, because we have full depth of market. All of these areas are live. That's the DX feed full depth of market that I mentioned earlier. The buyers took on these traders here at 180, the figure. We trade through it. And look how they start to flip to the other side here at 180. From offer to bid. Targeting up here at 181. Note 181 liquidity, 182 liquidity, 183 liquidity. Larger players providing liquidity at those areas. 180 is well down here. Well, this is a trending market. We start to trend. We break the high here. Nice clusters of buying, transactions, lifting the offer, continues to lift the offer. And we're starting to note areas of really quite pretty areas here of liquidity at these figures. And they're flipping from offer to bid, from offer to bid, and then from offer. And we don't get there. But the target was here at 83. And we did reach that. So we're starting to understand the context of the transactions versus the auction, where the liquidity is, and this kind of relationship between the two. Well, here's an example of not trending through those areas in Facebook. This is absorption. Well, it's 52,000 shares here. 183, the figure. When we trade up into it and massive transactions take place, here's what traded. Out of the 52,000 shares up here, it absorbed all of the buying activity. There were no buyers after they came up and traded into this area. It's almost completely filled here. About 50,900, let's say. And after you see that, well, where do they go? Well, we're looking for them to come down and test higher liquidity that's going to be down here on the bid. We need to find buyers. And that's exactly where it probably slipped down to. We're actually looking for this area down here also because of the figure here at 182.50, probably a better area than 60. Okay, another example today in Apple. This was earlier. We actually traded through this area. But massive area here of 327,000 shares in Apple. Where? 190. Completely absorbed. Let's see, the amount of transactions up here, they didn't even, they kind of just scratched the surface here. It looks like 112,000. So about a third of them were transacted, completely absorbed, have to go lower to find buyers. We did find more buyers later in the day. But we came back down and traded to where they started to initiate their buying down in this area here. So starting to understand, again, those transactions and initiation of buying and starting to understand these areas of very, very high liquidity and the absorption in some of those areas. All right. Let's see here. Okay, let's talk about some, the opposite of absorption. Let's talk about exhaustion and look at the liquidity and transactions. Well, in this market here in Amazon, we're trending to the upside. Hitting these areas of high liquidity and getting a pause, absorption here, but they find buyers again and start to lift the offer up into higher areas and trade through some of these areas up into higher liquidity. But look on the other side, though, in the trend. A lot of buyers, but where are the sellers, especially on these higher lows in these areas here? It's completely exhausting out. There's very little liquidity in these areas. We don't see a thick band of liquidity in some of these areas at all. It's pretty dark on this side. Well, no one's willing to buy at some of these higher areas here. Okay. So the sellers, it basically just exhausts out. There's no interest. So what happens? Well, we rotate back up into areas where it can trade, where transactions were taking place before, and we're looking for price discovery up into higher areas where the liquidity is. And that's exactly where the price or traders move the price to up into those areas of higher liquidity. Okay. So starting to understand exhaustion in these areas as well and looking at the majority of these transactions and where they're taking place and how we can, if we exhaust out down here and we can't find any trading activity, the trading activity is going to revert back to the mean, back to where it can trade. And it would be up in these areas here. And that's how you get some of the price discovery. You still find more buyers in price discovery to reach these targets of high liquidity. And that's that relationship in context that I was talking about. Now let's talk about some of the, a little bit more about maybe some microstructure and some algorithmic activity. Okay. So we're looking at Amazon here and looking at ignition algo that pushes price through 1600, pretty important area in Amazon. You see this dark area in between here is the spread. I mean, we're looking at pretty high price here. So the spread is pretty wide. Nonetheless, here's an ignition algo and this is what it looks like and it's captured here because we record all of these areas of high liquidity. It'd be rather difficult to see this in a dome. But here's high liquidity here and it's got to be not only an algo or an individual actor, it's an algo.  And then it stays for a bit. Now, what is that? Well, think of an auction and think about how we have in an auction, you have a skew in that auction. You have more buyers willing to buy very quickly at higher areas. Well, if they're clamoring to buy, a price must be worth more. We actually do find more buyers in here and it starts to ignite more buying activity into where higher liquidity up here at 1600. That's the figure. And what happens up here? They pull. They pull before price gets up there. So with the skew in the book and not finding sellers, we're looking to go further on up through and get that ignition and push through 1600 in Amazon and that's exactly what it does. This is today's action actually and we're looking at JP Morgan Chase. High liquidity up here. Where? Again, 114, the figure looks like 29,000 shares up here. But look at this here. Very, very high liquidity. It looks like roughly around 88,000, or precisely 88,000 at this moment today. But again, it's got to be individual actor algo that it gets more aggressive here and starts to front run this high liquidity. And then the moment they decide to pull that liquidity, they're adding it lower. Again, here pulling adding lower and then pulling and adding lower again. And we can see the reaction that price is having on this kind of activity. This is just from the order book. And the transactions and reactions that price has or traders have to that liquidity movement there. All right, one more here. This is what I was showing you early with Tesla where we see the book flip from offer to bid instead of getting down to that low volume node. We do get down to it, but they pull. Again, no intent to trade. So they're going to pull that liquidity, but the job is done, the target has been reached and now they can pull. Starting to just piece together, understand this relationship between liquidity and transactions. Now, this is something really nice to see. This was back on March 22nd and this was some geopolitical tensions, some news. It was a tariff protection announced by Trump and really interesting stuff here. Right now, this is what Tesla. We have to understand what Tesla is. It's obviously a car company, but it's a U.S. car company. And we're talking about tariff protection. Well, look at the stock go up here. Right when that announcement occurred, look how you can see all this liquidity pull here. Well, they don't want the risk. But who doesn't pull? Well, these guys up here don't pull. Around this 320-10 area. They stay in the book. So we're starting to understand evaluation of this company by someone who has figured that out. Larger players willing to provide the risk. This is where they think it's of value to sell. And we're getting this information for free from the order book, from this complete depth of market. We know where they believe it's worth to sell. The rest of these guys start to pull. They do start to add in here, but they're pulling as well. So as price starts to come up here. And look at the auction here. Very strong auction. A lot of buying. They just start to jump in. It just goes basically vertical here. And it continues that way. Until it gets up into this area here. I'm not sure if it went through here a bit further. But not much, if any. And then it starts to, I think, go back and forth. Anyway, the point is, though, is in this example, we have geopolitical news. And we have transparency in the market at these higher valuations. We understand for free, basically, what other traders are telling us Tesla is worth. Now, what I like so much about this example is here's the same example in Apple. And price goes down. And we need to answer that question. What kind of company is Apple? And where are traders willing to buy Apple at this point? Well, Apple is a U.S. company. Actually, it's supposedly a, or technically, I think it's an Irish company. But what about all the components? Those are made in China. And this geopolitical news is about tariff protection from China. And the reaction to it is to the downside. So here's Tesla to the upside. And here's Apple to the downside. Now, but let's look at the way that it came down into these areas here in Apple. And you can see clearly that, yeah, there's some sellers. No question about it. We know where it's valued at 174. But the selling is not as strong as that auction that we saw earlier, looking at Tesla here. Look at how it's just a very strong, nice auction. Just buying handover fist. But if we look here at Apple, well, they're not so sure about that. It's debatable. They definitely think that this is going to hurt the company. But they're not so sure about it. And we continue to go lower. Once we get through this 175 area, we find where the sellers are. They're up here at 175. Looks like about half a million. No, I guess 50,000 shares, 54,000 shares up here.  Again, a bit stronger. I mean, it's definitely weaker, but it's not as... And compared to how strong this is, this is not as strong on the weak side. But we're starting to understand why. And it's all here in the chart. And that valuation. Now, I'm going to extrapolate that same understanding of valuation from larger players for the market open. And that's at full depth of market. So here's Amazon. Here's the market open at 9.30. So all of this is pre-market activity here in Amazon. And where do they hold this liquidity after the open? Well, they're still up here at 15.80. They're also still here at 15.70. And then they're down here at 15.45 basically on the bid. And we already knew this. And they stayed in here. So here's the cash open. Well, if we already see the move to the upside up into 15.70, I'd be looking for a move back up into 15.70 and potentially 15.80 here if we can get some more buying to happen and occur up at this 15.70 level. So let's go forward. And again, we're getting this valuation for free at the open. Just like we are at the news, geopolitical news for Amazon and Tesla. Well, here's our 9.30 open. We definitely move and trade above the 15.70 area and kind of go sideways here for a bit. A little tricky pullback to where though, where they did initiate that buying in the pre-market and we start to rotate back up and start to trade into higher liquidity up here, targeting 15.80. Objective achieved. And then just understanding that valuation by the larger players. So those are a lot of examples we've gone through. A bit over my time frame here, we're going to go through just a few more examples and then open up to questions and answers here. Some examples from some book map traders. Here's the traders looking at the SPY. And starts to note that the price starts to go down here in SPY. Well, he's looking at correlations and looking at the VIX. And he's starting to note that price actually in the VIX is also going down. Well, something's amiss here. This is your volatility index. And he notices this wall of liquidity here around $47.15 or so. And price has moved down. But the SPY has also moved down. Something's wrong here. So he notes this and jumps in and buys an option here in the S&P E-mini. Here it is at $255 pm. He just buys one at $13.25. Okay, let's move on. Price starts to rotate back up. He's capturing that disparity in the correlation back up to the top of the range here. And that's where he looks over at book map and the volatility index. It has dropped down now into another area of liquidity, as we can see here. So at this point here, down next to the swing down here as well, he's willing to cover. So he fills just a six-minute trade. That's it. Makes a $1.75 out of it. $175 for one option and covers. So starting to understand correlated markets and discrepancies in prices. Here's another trader here looking at VTVT. This is basically a penny stock. He's looking at the $1.50 area here. He sees that price has gone through that $1.50 area on a strong auction to the upside. So you've got your psychological number. And then look at the bid here. They flipped or they were showing quite a bit of liquidity here. 29,000 shares. We rotate back down into these areas here. We do not trade through it. So we're starting to note the way that prices, and this is at the open too. This is 940, between 940 and 945. And we're seeing that they're starting to even bid up in front of the $1.50 area here. So looking for an entry. We're making higher highs as well. Waiting just for the buyers to step in here to shift the auction to the upside and lift that offer. Because we have a lot of strong support here.  You can see from 29,000 here to basically about 27,000 here. Even a bit more. One at $53,000 here. So putting all those pieces together notes the spike in volume at this area here in the buy side. Looking for a pullback to where it broke from. And looking for that continuation to the upside and bouncing off that support. All right. So those are the examples I have for you. Showing that competitive advantage by being able to see all of the liquidity, all of the traders, full depth of market start to target those areas. See how the context of the aggressive buying and selling within those areas of liquidity. Reading the order flow in the micro and the macro structures. Reading some of that algorithmic behavior as well. And clearly seeing the larger players and their willingness to stay in the market at some of those areas. And then we looked at those examples of traders. All right. There we go. And then they'll end up here with this slide again of Apple looking at a lot of different things that we started off with. Now starting to understand some of these areas. Here's our 930 open is right around here. Well, I'm looking for high liquidity up here to trade. We rotate back down to the swing down here in the pre-market. And then basically don't find any traders. We start to find buyers instead. Come back up to the open. Instead of reaching this area up here around 17650, they start to front run here. So at this point, the situation is different. We trade in that area, but we just don't have enough buyers to trade through that area. So looking for this to rotate back down to where? Higher liquidity here on the bid. And we go right to it. We get a retest of it here. And we do see some selling here, but we get no follow through to the downside. So we're looking for after this retest here and we're not finding enough sellers to rotate lower. Well, we're going to find buyers. See a nice cluster of buying up here. Looking for it to return to where it dropped from up here. And then we start to note high liquidity starting to come back in. You're going to see this again and again in book map. And now this is where it gets really interesting because we had that geopolitical event, that tariff protection. And someone actually looks like someone knew something here because you can see that getting very aggressive on the offer. And then they are pulling, but they're jumping in and out here. And then finally, we see them all pull at the same time here. And then we fall through here. We get the seller's big transaction is selling at 175 and we see the flip. As we start to come down, they flip from that 175 on the bid to the offer back down into 174. And then this is after the market close here at four. Look at them layer in though down here. So larger players starting to layer in 173.90, 80, and 70. So after market, this is starting to give us a lot of insight here that maybe this has been pushed to the downside too far, willing to snap it up some of these areas. All right. So let's move on. Questions, answers, anything you want to know about book map, about this DX feed, any of the advantages I've gone through. Happy to help you here. I'll show you here in just a minute how we can, how you guys can get this new DX feed with the consolidated view with NASDAQ total view and Edge X and get a lot more liquidity and understanding of what the larger players are doing with that consolidated feed. Okay. Any questions? Let me show you where we can. I can point you to some of the questions here. You probably came to this landing page to register for the webinar with a small video here as well. There's the Q&A section down here, which goes over the costs and how to purchase, subscribe to the feed, et cetera. All right. So here are the costs. And I'll show this as well in just a minute here. But your NASDAQ total view, you're probably paying $69 a month. You can get Edge X. One or the other here. Okay. 69 for the NASDAQ total view, Edge X, which is CBOE and BATS here, for $59 a month. And these are for non-pro.  And then the bundle. Okay. So you can get them both together. Now this is an offering here for the first month. Okay. First month only. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. That's incorrect. This is after the first month. The combination price will be $119. Okay. So that's some of the pricing here. We can go over more questions that you have. Feel free to ask. I want to show you here how you can get BookMap in the process that you go through for this DX feed BookMap. Okay. So first what you'll do for step one is go to bookmap.com and you're going to need BookMap 7. Okay. This is a beta version, the latest build. And the version you need though, just click on the packages up here. You need global or global plus. These are the two different versions. You can subscribe yearly or monthly. But select that and start to go through the process. So after purchase, log back into BookMap. This is step two. Okay. Log back into BookMap and then click on this link here, add-ons. Okay. So once you do that, you go to the third and final step here is choose the package that you want. Okay. So here's the updated pricing. You can see that you have Nasdaq depth here for $69. You can choose that if you like. Or you can choose AdJax if you like for $59 a month or you can choose the bundle here for both of them together, $59 for the first month and then the second month onward $119. Okay. All right. Let's open it up here, Dell. You have a question. Do we offer historical data for Nasdaq, TotalView, AdJax? Yes, we do. You get up to 24 hours of historical data. Okay. And, yeah, see, it says here that includes 24 hours of, you can see it here in the listing. Okay. All right. Yeah, part of the package. Turner is the broker integration with TD Ameritrade on the roadmap. That's a good question. We definitely want to go that direction. I don't know. I'd have to get back to you on that. Okay. Currently, the way that you can trade using any of these combinations here, Nasdaq, TotalView, AdJax or the combo together, it's going to go through DX feed into interactive brokers. And that's the way it's done right now. Okay. David, you missed the first part. It's no problem about that. You can, it's all recorded here. And I'll follow up with an email with everybody and send the link as well. Okay. All right. Any other questions? Any plans to add OTC markets? No, not at the moment. You know, looking at just U.S. equities at the moment. Okay. If it's available as a U.S. equity traded on the exchanges, then that should be available here with DX feed. This is Zoran. Is it possible to trade to watch two or more window shares of the same thing? No, it's not. It's one chart per viewing. But, you know, you can zoom in and out very quickly. In fact, yeah, I can demo that for you if you like. Zooming in and out is very quick in book map. Oh, you're welcome, David. Yeah, that's great to hear that you're enjoying the new feed, that new consolidated data feed. Yeah. Yeah, new feeds will be added in the future. Okay. And, you know, looking to extend this, obviously, you know, we've, we're growing into this, into this market. And, you know, I just need to explain a little bit about the, you know, equities and the book in equities compared to futures or digital currencies. I mean, it's just a much more complex book. There are many more liquidity providers. Okay. There are dark pools. There's a lot going on. And whereas if you're trading futures, you're looking at very much, you know, a centralized limit order book. Okay. All taking place at the CME or wherever the instrument is trading. Okay, CBOT or whatever it might be. Okay. So, yeah, a little more complex or a lot more complex with the equities and all the different data providers. Okay. So, you're getting, yeah, we'll continue to grow into this field here. Can the historical data recording sessions be saved to external drives? Well, no, I don't think so. Turner, I believe it's all, it will be recorded on the local drive in the feeds folder. But once it's recorded, you can move it to any other feed and you can always add it or any other folder, and then you can always add it from that other folder, no problem. Okay. But recording, and I believe has to be recorded locally. Well, it might be possible to, yeah, I mean, if you have some sort of Turner, if you're talking about maybe some quant features, something like that, we can work with you to maybe provide some other kind of solution that you're looking for. Okay. So, just reach out to me, bruce at bookmap.com. Okay. Yeah, you're welcome, Turner. Yeah, we, you know, work with several quants. So, you know, happy to work with you guys and find custom solutions for you. Okay. I know you have custom indicators. You're looking at custom data feeds and timeframes, et cetera. Okay. Data sets. All right. Well, anyway, all right, if there's no more questions, just go for a couple more minutes and just review here just a bit how to get this again. Just go to bookmap.com. You're going to need the Bookmap 7 Global or Global Plus version. So, under packages here, here they are, select those, go through the payment process, the log back into bookmap.com and then click on add-ons here. And that's where you'll finally just add the data package that you want here for DX feed. Okay. NASDAQ TotalView, EdgeX or both. Okay. All right. And let's see all the different examples here. See, I guess we're pretty clear for you guys. Okay. Yeah.  So, let's go to the end here just a second. Okay. And you can see here for the first month, $59. Okay. So, nice discount that you're getting here. And then following month, though, it's going to be $119. Okay. Okay. Let's see if the data source includes other counts. Is that utilize anywhere in bookmap? Not sure exactly what you mean, Turner. The actual order counts. Okay. Yeah. Then the number of orders at the given price level. Yeah. I mean, we have the number of shares and I'm going to have to get back to you on that about the actual number of orders. We are working on that. So, I don't have any details on that at the moment. All right. So, again, happy to answer that. Just Bruce at bookmap.com. Oh, hi, John. So, you came in late. Is the data feed required? What is the data feed requirement? Yeah. I was just going through that. So, here it is again, how to get this. So, DX feed bookmap, bookmap seven is what you need, the latest build. And you're looking for the global or the global plus version. That's what you'll need. And then for you, John, since you're already a member, you'll just log into bookmap.com. And then this is step two anyway. And then click on add-ons here. Okay. And then you'll choose what feed you want here for DX feed. You either want the NASDAQ total depth here or EdgeX or the combo package here, which is a consolidated feed of both of them. Okay. NASDAQ and EdgeX, $59 for the first month and then a $119 the second and following months. Okay. All right, guys. Well, I think that's it. We've gone for about an hour here. I really appreciate you guys coming. And let me know if you have any questions. And we'll do more of these as well and find more examples. Just as a note, I mean, you know, the clarity here is something really to recognize with the U.S. equities. These larger players, they really stick out in these areas like a sore thumb. And the aggressor here, we see them pushing toward those areas of high liquidity. It's just where the market trades. They need that liquidity and they trade toward it. Okay. So you can really start to map out your day here by this advantage of seeing it in the book, you know, several dollars away, but it's all live. Okay. And that's one of the big distinctions here that you get in that advantage with Bookmap DX feed. Okay. All right, guys. Well, thanks for coming. We'll do more of these in the future and reach out with any questions. And yeah, have a good day. We'll see you next time. All right. Yeah, thanks, guys. Yeah, take care. Bye-bye.


Let's discuss a forward contract and how the accounting entries are going to be recorded. It's a simple question but technically we are not supposed to record any entry in practice but for the accounting purposes if we are entering into a contract so we must record somewhere normally sometime we record a memorandum entry just recording that we enter into a contract and this and this that's all but still accounting entry can be recorded number one let's see A B enter into a forward contract A is ready to sell an asset for 12,000 on 1st January 21 and B agreed to buy it on 31st March 21 3 months later B agrees A agrees that I will give you this for 12,000 and no matter the price but you have paid 31,000 for this and you have paid 31,000 and the price is fixed. The spot price of asset is 10,000. If you buy today you get 10,000 in cash but you have to sell it for 12,000. Seller will record on 1st January this is a basic accounting entry and later on it reverses. Receivables debit because you have to sell an asset so whenever we sell something we debit the receivables. In this case sales asset is not there and the asset is to be sold but that too is not sold. The exchange is not happening so you simply debit the contract receivable and credit the asset obligation. The asset obligation in the sense that you ultimately have to give the receivable against assets but the interesting thing is that the asset value today is 10,000, the spot rate is 10,000. So the differential you have to credit in the premium of 2000. In January, in the beginning whatever you will contact you have to put this entry but on 31st March we will reverse it. As it is reversed, reversal entry means that you have put an adjustment at the end of the year and you reverse it in the beginning of the year. So we also put reversal entry in accounting. Now settlement on maturity. Now you have to give it an asset and it will give you money. So you will debit cash for 12,000 which is fixed but you have to buy an asset from the market of 11,000. Then you credit the asset from 11,000 and the gain will be credited from 1000. Let me tell you here that if your asset is 13, 14, 15, then you will have to buy it and give it and you will get 12,000. In that case you will lose. So in this case since you have bought 11,000 and sold it in 12,000, then you have a gain of 1000. What will B do? B is going to buy an asset so he will debit the asset because he has to buy an asset and he will credit the liability and he will credit the contractable and the differential again same. The differential is going to debit the premium. So the reverse is there, we had debit the receivable and we have debit the asset. If we have done the receivable debit from 12,000, then we have credit the payable from 12,000 to 12,000. So the entry will be correct. Now on 31st March, this entry will be reversed which B has done. Exactly similar item, same contract payable, debit, at just receivable the credit and premium credit 2000. Now see this is the first and second entry net off. Now he is buying an asset. So how many assets do you have? 11,000. You have to give 12,000. So basically you are getting a loss of 1,000. So you have debit the asset and debit the loss and credit the cash. So this is total of 12,000. So in forward contract, generally we don't do anti-record because it is over the counter. Two parties agree and they deal with it at the end of the day. They balance out. But if you have to do accounting, then this is the way you book them and take them to the record and finally settle. One more thing, I will tell you that normally there is no asset exchange in this. They balance each other. If I have a loss, they give it to me, if I have a profit, they give it to me. Then they go forward like this. But if they want to take the asset, then it can be an entry. So this is how in the forward contract, general entries or accounting entries are made. In this way, we conclude it. So it is simple. It is not a difficult thing. How to record an entry? Generally, it is called contingent. Contingent means occurring on something. If there is something to happen in the future, then we should watch out from now on and bring it to the record. So this is how basically these contingencies are taken care in accounting also. So in this forward contract, you have seen that we are selling something, somebody is buying something. So the seller is recording, the receiver, buyer is recording, they are payable. And similarly, the asset in between is also being recorded. Thank you very much.