The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective brought to you by Wild Root Creme Oil Hair Tonic the non-alcoholic hair tonic that contains lanolin. Wild Root Creme Oil. Again and again, the choice of men who put good grooming first. Long you sound almost human. It's not Bernadine. Tell Bernadine about your compliment. Made out as best I could.  After all, you have worked hard. You did deserve it. Sam Spade, is that all you have to say to me? I'm not putting the blame on you after all. It is a state law so I can hardly accuse you of letting me down at a time when I needed you most. You might at least ask me if I had a good time. I'm sorry if your conscience bothered you. Well, it didn't. I had a divine time and I met all sorts of interesting people. Mostly men. You don't say. What else? Well, it was this desert ranch, you know, with a lot of, uh, buttes around. You, uh, mentioned those. No, Sam. No, no, no. They're the result of erosion. Those outdoor types. They go to pieces. Sam, are you pulling my leg? Not over the phone, Effie, but stay where you are. I'll be right down to look at your snapshots. And when you have the time, I'll dictate my report on the missing news hawk caper. Dashel Hammett, America's leading detective fiction writer and creator of Sam Spade, The Hard-Boiled Private Eye, and William Spear, radio's outstanding producer, director of mystery and crime drama, join their talents to make your here stand on end with the adventures of Sam Spade. Presented by the makers of Wild Root Cream Oil for the Hair. Wild Root Cream Oil. That's the famous name to remember men next time you buy hair tonic. And look what Wild Root Cream Oil does for you. It grooms your hair neatly and naturally. Wild Root Cream Oil also relieves dryness and removes loose, ugly dandruff. Yes, men, Wild Root Cream Oil is your shortcut to really handsome hair. So be smart. First chance you get, get Wild Root Cream Oil Hair Tonic. And again, the choice of men who put good grooming first. And now with Howard Duff starring as Spade, Wild Root brings to the air the greatest private detective of them all in the adventures of Sam Spade. Virgin River. Can I have the pearl of the west? Uh-huh. And did I mention the beauts? Oh, well, they're very interesting. The result of erosion. Yes, and it's authentic too. Fay Hamlin's ranch. You mean a working ranch? Yes, you see that way you get into the spirit. My job was to feed the chickens. And that's how I met him. One of the beauts? Oh, Sam, he's a very cultured gentleman. Culture smelcher. What's he do for a living? He, he, he cures stammering. You don't say. What's his name? Charlie Shank. Charlie Shank. He's the founder of the Shank Institute of Articulative Correction, which I should learn. Articulative Correction. Where is this institute? Oh, I have the address here. Um, general delivery, beaut Montana. You're sure you didn't help him break parole, Effie? Oh, no, oh, no, no. We just went on long walks together. Where to? Oh, different points of interest. Like, uh, like Wolf Canyon. Figures? Uh-huh. He invited me on this camping trip, a trip. Honorable, of course. But I couldn't go out on account of my sunburn. Oh. We were awful, awful. I still got it, you see. And then, then he went back to Butte. He had to leave in such a hurry. He couldn't even say goodbye. Wow. It was a pity too because an old friend he hadn't seen in years came looking for him. Just a few minutes later. With a warrant? No. No, he was an attendant in a nearby hospital. Mental? Oh, yes. Very intelligent. He read me some of his poetry. Maybe you've heard it. Um, a loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou. Yeah, wait a minute. Isn't that the ruby out of Homer Cayenne that was written by a guy named Fitzgerald? Well, of course. That's his pen name. Quite a pen name. Yes. But he's paid his debt to society. And the other time it was a bad beef. Oh, nice. You told me all about it. Yeah. Well, I'm glad he cured you of stammering anyhow. Ready? Oh, yeah. I've got a brand new notebook. Work you know. Life goes on. I've got a brand new notebook, Sam. I'll just turn over a new leaf. Not a bad idea, dear. Uh, date July 18th to Mr. Alex M. Youngblood. Try that again. Mr. Alex M. Youngblood, P.O. Box 317, San Francisco, from Samuel Spade. License number 137596, dear Mr. Youngblood. I need a vacation myself. You need trolley shank. Ah. It's on Tarte. Fortunately, until I met you, my only experience with any of the men and women who make your newspaper run had been with one of your corner news boys who shortchanged me two times within as many days. I have not read your rags since. But your name looked imposing, and so did the $300 to Mr. Alex M. Youngblood, P.O. Box 317, San Francisco, from Samuel Spade. It looked imposing, and so did the $300 check upon which you had written it. Per your instructions, promptly at 4 p.m. on the 15th inst, I muched through the litter of your city room toward a door marked AM Youngblood publisher, managing editor, and city editor. I wondered if you were ambitious, frugal, or three men. I did not know that you had good taste until I saw the trim, 20-ish, and toothsome secretary in your outer office. Hello. You're new here, aren't you? Well, I'm not exactly here. I'm just here to see Mr. Youngblood. Oh. The name is Spade. Samuel Spade? Sam, except for my most intimate friends. Well, my advice to you, Sam, is to beat a hasty retreat. He's in a foul mood. Oh? Why, is he blind or older than he fails? I refer, of course, to your spectacular charm, Miss... if I may call you, Miss. Please, this is neither the time nor the place. My name is Phyllis Watson, and my phone number is in the directory, if you're really interested. I could be. Thank you. And if a man answers, tell him you're my French teacher. We. You better go in now. If you're late to an appointment with him, you're through. Do you have any more words of wisdom? No, but I hope you can do something to improve his state of mind. He's been awful lately. Good luck, Sam. Thank you, Phyllis Watson. Come in, come in. There. One minute past four. You must be Mr. Spade. That's right. You're almost late. Sit down, Spade. Cigar. No, thanks. Well, don't expect me to offer a drink. You aren't a drinker, I hope. You don't listen to the radio, do you? Well, you will not drink in this office. Nothing here but a cooler filled with water from a clean, gurgling, laughing mountain stream. You sound like a reformed drunk, Mr. Youngblood. What's that? Well, it was good many years ago. If you don't mind, I'll just paste up the weather report for my morning edition before we talk. Oh, you do that, too, huh? Yes, obviously. And with good reasons. I remind myself that I was once a copy boy. And I find a splendid way to, at least once each day, to lower myself to the level of the working man. There we are. Very hot in Phoenix, I say. Mm-hmm. Just what do you want to detect it for, Mr. Youngblood? I was coming to that, Mr. Spade. Sorry?  They all are. In this case, a man's life may be at stake. The situation? My newspaper, at my order, under my guidance, has launched a campaign against crime. Not aimed at the petty criminal, but at the easy-living leeches at the controls of the rackets, the hoods in banker's clothing, the mansion house parasites who direct the pickpockets a second-storey man, the housebreakers, who gamble away half a million dollars a year and pay in compensation for the fraction of that amount. Yes, I understand. I understand. You're after the boys on the safer side of the fences. Nicely put, Spade. Thank you. The long and short of it is this. The author of the expose series, Ray McCully, my top crime reporter, has been missing for two days. I want you to find him. What makes you think he's still alive? Good heavens, Spade. Why must you suggest that he isn't? Because if I were a mansion-housed parasite in danger of being unhoused by a newshawk, I'd see said newshawks standing in a cement block on the bottom of the bay. I will accept that only when no stone has been left unturned. Every straw and every haystack has been searched. Every... Nook and cranny? Yes. Sounds as though you need at least one police force, Mr. Youngblood.  No, no, no, no, impossible. We've already had a brush with the police over the expose. I'll not be dictated to at this stage of the game. I started this investigation, and I'll finish it alone. Well, it's a pretty big order, Mr. Youngblood, but time's a tough. I'll see what I can do. Good. I hereby turn over to you all the resources and power of this smiley newspaper. When one of my reporters is in trouble or danger, sir, I will spend every penny of my fortune, if necessary, to deliver aid and soccer to his side. You then gave me Ray McCully's expose stories to date. I saw why you, his family and friends, and his creditors could have been worried about. They were hot. One followed a stolen car from the time of the heist through the alteration of the body color, tire brands, license number, motor serial number to the time it was shoved onto a used car lot. They named names all the way through. And another did the same to the firm of Otter, Badger, and Moll furriers and alleged manufacturers of coats from clouted pelts. Ray McCully had dropped out of sight right after that story had been published. So I left your office hoping that I'd reach the address of Otter, Badger, and Moll before closing time. I did. The plushy showroom was occupied by a dozen attractive fur-bearing models, female, but waxed. The live models, male, were wearing padded shoulders, pointed shoes, and coats tailored for underarm artillery. They would have looked more natural at Madame Passard's waxworks, burnt from the burglar section. Hey, oh, hey, what'll it be? Something for a little woman? Where do I find Mr. Otter? Are you the Lord? Leo sent me. He's in his office. Come on. Oh, wait a minute, wait a minute. Don't crowd me. You say you want to see the boys? They're nudging me with a rod. In there. Hey, move. Okay, okay. Hey, boss. Yes, Woody? Here's Joe here to see you. Leo sent him. Well, nudge him in, Woody. No nudging, Woody. Well, well, well, so Leo's sending a man to see me. I wonder why. If you'll calm this character here out of my hair, I'll try and tell you. Sit down, Woody. Thanks. You're new in town. Yeah, that's why Leo sent me a local muckraker named Ray McCully interviewed you. Leo interviewed Leo, but it didn't get printed yet. Leo wants to find him. So do I. How can I help? Well, he walked out of here, went to his hotel, wrote the story and mailed it in. That's the last anybody's seen of him. Leo was just sort of hoping that you'd already taken care of him. Not yet. That's all I wanted to know. Thanks. Just a moment. Yeah? Leo's sending you out alone? Why not? That's a tough boy that McCully's got plenty of protection. That's what you need. What kind of protection? Go along with him, Woody. Who me? You're Woody, aren't you? Look, look, Mr. Otter, I don't want to look a gift horse in the mouth, but the way I see it, this is a lone wolf type caper. Hey, what's the matter? Hey, you think I'm too good for you? Well, Woody, I wouldn't say that. Good. It's settled then. Take care of him, Woody, and don't mix it up with any of Leo's boys. If he's out to get that rat McCully, he's our friend. I was beginning to wonder who Leo was. I'd grabbed the name off a calendar on the wall, Leo's van and storage. I didn't know whether he was the Leo Mr. Otter didn't like, and I hoped I wouldn't find out. The best way I could think to keep from finding out was to shake Woody. On the way uptown, I walked him past four police stations, crossing Market Street. I pushed him straight into the arms of a traffic cop who begged his pardon and let me off with a warning. At the Blue Bottle bar and grill, I gave Joe the bartender, the Mickey Finn sign, but Woody liked it. He ordered another. Then he said he knew a place on Columbus where the drinks were even better. It was called Leo's Place. I wondered if that meant anything. Hey, oh, hey. Who me, huh? I want your drink. Would you like this joint? Yeah, sure. It's fine. We're not getting anywhere, though. You really take your work serious. Me, when I go gun for somebody, I go where I'm least likely to succeed. You live longer. Yeah. Woody, what do you know about this guy McCully? You're here to push. He says he's a rat. Yeah, but he said he's got plenty of protection. Who's furnishing it? Well, you see those...  Look at what you're smoking. What I saw was not disappointing. She was wearing a skin-tight black satin with a plunging neckline and the new look only in places where it didn't matter. But she still looked enough like your secretary, Phyllis Watson, to be out of place in Leo's Place. She didn't stay there long. She made a beeline through the kitchen to the rear exit. I made a beeline right after her. Woody was breathing down my neck. As I started up the rickety outside stairway at the back of the building, I stopped the landing and turned around to face it. See you later, Woody. I didn't wait to see if he made it all the way to the bottom of the stairs. I was more interested in what was going on at the top. A door had opened and Phyllis stepped inside. The man who let her in looked like Ray McCully. My name is Spade. Your boss hired me to find you. Private Dick. Yeah. Can I talk to you for a minute? Sure. Go on, son. Oh, what's the matter? You're not acting glad to see me. This is the guy, Phyllis. Yes. Alex hired him this afternoon. There you see now. Uh, what do you want me to tell youngblood?  It caught me right behind the ear. The last thing I saw was that plunging neckline as Phyllis rushed forward. I didn't know whether she was rushing to my rescuer to get in a few licks of her own. Five seconds later, I didn't care. The design of the linoleum slammed up at me. I had just time to wonder why of all the people who were looking for Ray McCully, I had to find him. And I was out. Boing. Maced for my pains. The makers of Wild Root Cream Oil are presenting the weekly Sunday adventure of Dashel Hammett's famous private detective, Sam Spade. If you want the well-groomed look that helps you get ahead socially and on the job, listen. 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I staggered to my fate, ran some cold water over my head and took a closer look. It was Ray McCully. He was a very dead, crusading reporter. He'd been stabbed clean through with a long-bladed kitchen knife and set on the handle property of Leo's place. I went through his pockets and his wallet, a press card, a police card, union card and 10 genuine, crisp, new $1,000 bills. I gave me a line on a killer. He was crazy, so was I. I left it on him too. Folded up in his vest pocket, I found two newspaper clippings, one from the Chronicle and one from your paper. It was very hot in Phoenix, according to both papers. But according to your weather report, the temperature in Needles, California was 135 degrees. That needled me. So did the slip of paper I found on his shoe. The number nine and a date had been stamped on it with a rubber stamp. The date was the same as that of the weather reports. I turned it over. It said Ruthie's Booth Manson Bowling Alley. I crowned as a panatella. Uh, thanks. I'm just shot. Uh, I got a nice line of notions. So have I. No, I mean the dolls, the Hollywood dolls. You know, for the bed, only a dollar plus tax. Very reasonable. Say, what's on your mind? Uh, Leo sent me. Oh. Are you going to collect the slips hereafter? Well, not tonight. You see, I'm sort of a troubleshooter. Leo's checking up on some of the numbers that didn't come out right. Listen, I'll tell him to his face. I don't want any part of those wrong numbers. And that's who bought this one. Let me see. Oh, last Thursday. Oh, number nine. How can I forget? He put $500. And honest, if he's been around once, he's been around a hundred times to see if it paid off, did it? What's his name? Mr. Spinelli, he buys a slip every day. And if you ask me, he's learned a system because he's been winning, you know, dimes and then a dollar and then $5. And then when he come in with $500 on number nine and only dropped dead, did it win? Dead. Wait, I'll look on the sheet. Hey, somebody else was in just this afternoon. Give me that address, hurry up. What's right around the corner on Manson, 810. Say, maybe that's his system, 8 and 1. Don't that add up to nine? Hey, what's the matter? Where are you going in such a rush? Are you Mrs. Spinelli? Yes, please. I have so much trouble. Is your husband home? Oh, my poor man. Oh, I'm sorry. How did it happen? Who are you? I'm a detective. Maybe I can help you. May I come in? It took quite a while to gain her confidence and after that it took still quite a while to piece together the grief-sticken grumble of words that poured out of it. When I got it down in the form of a statement, I asked her to read it over. Item, statement by Mrs. Arturo Spinelli. All the time he played those numbers.  Then he met this man McCulley, a writer for the newspaper. My husband says this man chose him how to win. He wins and wins. Then he goes to bank and takes out all our savings. I begged to him not to do it. But no, no, he was greedy. And this McCulley poisoned his mind. Sure, he won. He brought the money home in his hand. $10,000. I don't want it. I'm scared. I took it while he was sleeping with wine and gave it to the men. I tell him all I want is the 500. He tried to tell me we do good. We help catch the big gangsters. I say we don't want to do so good we get murdered in our beds. So he says, hey, but if I change mine here at this I don't change my mind.  As home stand. No, I don't change my mind. She signed it and I left her alone with her grief. I wasn't working for you anymore, Mr. Youngblood. You hired me to find your reporter and I had. And I wished I hadn't. The rest of it I did for myself. You weren't in your office when I got there but Phyllis was. I found her behind the city desk in the act of dropping the morning's weather report into the slot. I grabbed it out of her hand. Where's your boss? At home, I guess. We'll talk in his office. Sam, I can explain how I have to be. You're going to explain plenty before I'm finished with you. What's the matter with you? Plenty.   I should have beaten the story out of you before the trouble started. It's a little late in the day now but not too late to send you up for McCully's murder. You're insane. Ray McCully was... I'm the only one who ever tried to help you. And I'm the only one who can place you in that room not ten minutes before the murder. I told you I can explain why. He had troubles and dimes and dollars every day in the policy racket. Only he had the bad luck to win. There won't be any more lucky dead people like him if I have to make a patsy out of you to stop it. It won't stop it, nothing will.   I won't let you say things like that. Ray was an honest reporter, too honest. He thought young blood meant what he said about that cleanup campaign. Yeah, he did. He wanted to run this town by himself, clean up his competition. collecting material on the numbers racket, he still thought Youngblood was on the level. But that was before he stumbled on to the thing about the weather reports. Yeah, yeah, that was a new one. The old Dutch Schultz mug used to add up the stock market quotations. If they cheated, they knew their customers weren't good enough at arithmetic to prove it. But who knows how hot it is in Phoenix unless they live there. I don't know what you're talking about. Listen, that's how the number game works, sweetheart. The suckers pick a number from 1 to 10, see? The operators tally up the slips, and the least popular for that day has to win. The weather report doesn't have to pass through the copy desk, and with Youngblood pasting it up with a few strategic corrections, it was easy to make their winners look as if they were on the level. But of course, you had no way of knowing that. You only watched them do it day after day. You know, I couldn't understand why he did those things. It seems silly falsifying a weather report, but it didn't seem as if it could do any harm. What did you meet McCully for? To get your cut of the 10 grand Spinelli was killed for?  I went there to warn him about you. Who killed him? I don't know. You're lying. All right, I'm lying. But I can prove that Ray was on the level. I've got the proof right here. The whole story he wrote on the numbers racket, even naming Youngblood as the head of it, his own publisher. I went there to get it. I was going to take it to another newspaper. Why didn't you? I can't tell you that. You don't have to. Mrs. Spinelli was confused. Grief craze. She had to put the blame on somebody, and when she did, she got her revenge the only way she thought she could. She may have been right about that, but she killed the wrong man.  I wanted to give you a chance to tell me yourself. I'm glad you didn't. And that, Mr. Youngblood, is the crop. I'm sure you appreciate the fact that I gave the double scoop to your paper. Like Mrs. Spinelli, I have my own ideas of vengeance. Besides, it may up your circulation a little, and you can certainly use a little extra money for your defense. By the way, who's Leo? Period. End of report. But Sam. Yes, Evie? I thought Mrs. Spinelli killed Ray McCully. The vacation helped. You're absolutely correct. Mrs. Spinelli killed Mr. McCully, if you'll pardon the expression.  I was wrong. The vacation didn't help. You mean she didn't? She killed McCully to avenge the murder of her husband. You mean Mr. McCully killed Mr. Spinelli? Effie, stop. I'll go mad. Oh, you need a vacation, Sam. Look, type that up. The clatter of the keys may stimulate you to further cerebral activity. I beg your pardon, Sam? Brain work. Now, shoot. Oh, brain work. Oh, you know best. Tonight, men, or first thing tomorrow, get wild root cream oil and see what wonders it does for your hair. Notice how easy it is to apply. 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Oh, stop teasing me. Sam, why do you look at me like that? Effie, Mr. Spinelli was killed by one of the policy racket hoods to get back the 10 grand he won on the numbers game. Then how did the money get into Kelly's pocket? McCully's. Why do you insist on using his alias, Sam? Effie, Effie, that was a tip of the song. I mean, look, Mrs. Spinelli took it to him because she was afraid her husband might be killed for it. Then why didn't they take the money when they killed him? Because Mrs. Spinelli had already taken it. Then she did kill him. Go home, Effie. I'm sorry I'm so irritable to you, but I thought it's... Well, it's been so long since I've been here, you know, Sam and I... Oh, there, Angel, Angel, you're just tired. Vacations have a habit of doing that, too. After a week or two in the office, she'll be all rested up again. You act as though you thought my mind were affected. Come here. Sam, now don't, my son's burning. Oh, it hurts. It's nice to have you back. 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what's up guys today we're going to be opening up a power tool dragon 2009 10 inside of this 10 contains the two first edition ancient prophecy packs that are so coveted because that you can possibly pull a ghost or a first edition ancient fairy dragon which where did mine go i guess i took it out of the background used to be in the background but uh we have a ps8 10 even though it had those weird corners but still pretty awesome all right so this tin is actually was purchased for me by kevin kevin is actually the one that sold me the genzo 10 that had the misprint the error you know whatever you want to say test print card inside so that's pretty cool he actually told me he wanted me to open this up for him so we're going to be opening that up today also for the giveaway given away a horse black from dragon level six jim and i elf from invasion of chaos and a secret rare black wing elf in the raven all you have to do is like this video be subscribed and let me know your favorite pull from the video also we're going to open up a few ots packs these are not from kevin these are just for me just to make the video a little bit longer and hopefully we'll be able to pull an ultimate rare all right let's see what we can pull bottom at shark maybe we'll get some luck here and then kevin can pull something crazy imagine if i pull the ghost share that'd be pretty insane i'm like well just sold away the ghost share it'd be pretty it'd still be amazing though for somebody to get it scrap golem that's a good super rare yeah book of moon i believe is still the most expensive car in this set so it'd be nice when to get muddy mud dragon spiral gear drone all right we have four more packs let's see if we can pull an ultimate rare so far just super rare it's from the synchron junk speeder and bottomless drapple pretty cool uh commons in here bottomless and junk synchron or uh four mil syncron sorry all right spiral mission rescue i think ulti's are about one every like 16 to 17 packs so we do not have the odds but if we do pull one it'd be sweet floodgate and spiral mission rescue all right final pack of ots before we get into the 10 opening so far just super rares spore and deep cd but that's a nice super rare okay i mean usually the super rares are pretty nice because they're from ots but yeah all right let's get in this for kevin power tool dragon i think the promo is still worth at one time it jumped up like 20 bucks and i was when it was used in some deck recently i don't know if that's still the case also i hope you guys enjoyed that dueling video yesterday i know the audio was not fantastic because we're doing it you know downstairs am i the only space i can really do it in my apartment so the uh the noise was not great but that's we did the best we could so i hope you guys enjoyed it seems like a lot of you guys did and we do have two more episodes of that that will have probably have the same issues with audio what in the world this thing's triple wrapped because it look i mean these look like they had been put out in stores and they like wrapped around on top of the regular wrap 25 off like they did it again for something else so there's the actual Konami wrapping that's nutty all right let's see about this promo hopefully it's not damaged all right let's see oh is that is that damaged up top no maybe not okay all right a little bit scuffing which you don't really you see a lot less on these but overall compared to those 2002 and 2003 that's pretty good pretty good for kevin nice power tool dragon all right i'm gonna put this back together how it was probably gonna send them everything uh now i'm not gonna put the promo back in there it'll be messed up okay we have two first edition ancient prophecy which if you don't know in north american there was no first edition booster boxes so that's what makes these kind of rare then you have raging battle unlimited and two crimson crisis so we have five packs all five these packs potential of ghost rares and alternate rares so craziness can ensue let's see if we can do it let's see if we can pull something good morphotronic rusty engine mysterious triangle assault and mercenary bula soldier hypersyncron marauder flip-flop frog and spell reactor okay nothing in the first pack okay just the first pack though we're just getting warmed up we are just getting warmed up come on let's get something good fake explosion assault overload trojan gladiator beast and blackwing gale the whirlwind pour the spear assault teleporter and morphotronic map okay a little slow a little slow come on can we pull something for kevin come on let's get something let's get something maybe we're saving it for the first edition packs that would probably be probably be better like uh the pig what is his name you know i'm talking about what's his name in the comments let me know oh come on remotin gb hunter and blackwing all right so um yeah so that was not good so far we are over three we got two more packs ancient prophecy first edition can we pull something here come on let's do this first edition cards x saber ragagura pixie ring brain research lab blackwing mistral the silver sealed pseudo space okay all right scary moth this is a little scary a little scary oh okay final pack let's do this come on give us a foil not a dud tin please here we go quacky marrow hydro barrier barrier at least restraint wave armored axon kicker oh what oh wait wait we did get something a skill successor okay yeah i was like this came earlier yeah skill successor that is a super rare why does this feel thick for some reason that is weird it feels like super thick all right skill successor super rare we did get something at its first edition too so that's super cool first edition ancient prophecy also this promo i think is worth like 20 bucks so the promo is the real winner here being worth quite a bit it did get a super rare unfortunately we didn't get anything crazy from all those packs what we're gonna do since kevin didn't get two crazy bowls we're gonna throw in a couple ots packs let's see if you can pull an ultimate rare for kevin book of moon come on oh all right form the synchron scrap golem it's actually a good super rare i think it's like a two bucks now it was like five when it first came out all right is this gonna have the magic in it is it gonna have the magic in it here we go abc dragon buster i don't think that's a bad one either i think it's a couple dollars so we'll give those to kevin since he did purchase this tin for a video it's pretty awesome so thank you kevin for buying that also hope you guys did enjoy the video we're gonna be doing some more epic stuff coming up hopefully the package with our next subscriber special will be here soon maybe i really don't know it's international so it could be any time it could be like a week could be like tomorrow you know you probably not tomorrow because tomorrow's saturday but hope you guys did enjoy the 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The Midget State University is celebrating the different backgrounds of all their students with the annual Festival of Nations. Reporter Sherelle Moore has a look at this year's ceremony with this week's In Focus. The Bull-Arcs Ballroom at the Midget State University was packed with the song, dance, and food of more than 30 different cultures for the 49th annual Festival of Nations. Putting the eye in me together, how can we represent the diversity at BSU when we have so many students from different countries, from different cultures, and from different age, right? And we say, okay, maybe this year the thing should be one festival, but many cultures. This is a platform where they can come in, show their cultures, show their talent, food, anything they want to represent their country. The International Student Organization at BSU has been working on the festival for the past month, encouraging everyone at the school to show their talents. We had a black show where all the countries of the students were represented, and then we are doing performance songs from different countries, dances, and also we have food which represents different countries. Another big part of the evening was the fashion and room decor that really displayed just how diverse BSU really is. We have a lot of international people wearing their cultural dresses from Malaysia, from Uzbekistan, from Pakistan, from Bangladesh. This year was so different because we were doing different things. Last year was our first year, so we had no idea what we were doing, but this year we had a theme, and we did like little hot air balloons and big hot air balloons, and we did a lot of origami, and we just wanted to make it look colorful like a party or like a festival, so like everybody feels welcome. Next year the festival of nations will be celebrating 50 years. While this year's ceremony was extremely extravagant, ISO has a few more tricks up their sleeve to celebrate half a century of BSU diversity. I really wanted to be grand, and I think we need to get more people, more culture, more shows. Reporting in Bemidji with This Week's InFocus, Cheryl Moore, Lakeland News. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


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Hey there friends, thanks for checking in. It's time for another handgun showdown where the viewers of this channel decide which Firearm manufacturer makes the best handguns this time We've got car arms versus canik and I think this one will be a good showdown But before we do that let's report the results back from the last handgun showdown and here we had sky versus diamond back I called this the battle of the budgets and this showdown was Extremely close a lot of people had nice things to say about diamond backs, especially this am2 It's a great handgun, but in the end sky pulled it off It was a tight tight race the whole time through but sky got more votes especially near the end and they won that handgun showdown But I think we have a good one here, and I know there will be a lot of people commenting So let's get to it. Let's start with car arms and we'll begin with their newest bottle This is a PM9 covert now the car PM9 is a little bit smaller with the grip It still has a three-inch barrel, but the covert model has a seven round magazine It also offers three finger contact on the grip But a very nice trigger pull double action only breaks between six and a half and seven pounds Extremely smooth, and then there's what you're looking at With the reset now the one thing that car arms offers is consistency Extremely small light weight and thin only point nine inches wide on the top of the slide So it's very thin and you look at that grip they carry So well a lot of people pocket carry the PM9 the PM9 covert is new It offers an additional round three finger contact, and I think a beautiful gun now this one here has Night sights and I I'm just very much impressed with their models. I love this one too This is a PM45 3.2 inch barrel five round magazine and 45 ACP and it offers that same Six and a half pound trigger pull you're looking at a double action reset and a very smooth trigger now the triggers with the card is Consistent it doesn't matter if it's a 45 like this a 9mm or 380 You're getting that same trigger pull that many people love and I love that 45 ACP One of the best deals in the car line that I think is the ST9 also the S9 a little bit smaller This has a four inch barrel front serrations very nice engraving three dot sights in a magazine That holds eight rounds now. It's a single stack all these are single stack That's one of the things that car arms does they make their guns very light very thin So they use single stack mags, but once again We're looking at right around six and a half maybe a little bit more with the trigger pull But extremely smooth and this one here has a pick rail and over here has an accessory rail I'm not sure if I mentioned that but a fine gun and I love all three of them And I think they will match up very well with canik I have two caniks to feature here the smallest and the largest canik Most are in the middle the TP line on average has a four inch barrel But what we have here is a canik TP9 Elite Subcompact released not too long ago like four or five months ago. It's a very nice handgun It's their smallest model 3.6 inch barrel has a magazine that carries 12 rounds They also offer another mag that has 15 round capacity and a very nice trigger Got a red trigger bar safety in there But I'm measuring it right around five and a quarter pounds very short reset But caniks are loaded with features and accessories in the case. So they also come with holsters and Optic ready plates. Okay, it's optic ready But they do have plates that you can add your favorite optic to so that is an option with both of them They also have tungsten sericote finish slide that I think looks super cool additional backstraps Striker fire indicator right there that goes away when the gun is no longer charged a loaded chamber indicator serrated black rear sights front dot and an all-in-all nice package here with their subcompact model very much impressed with the canik line of handguns and this new model did not disappoint Now this one is a race gun. It's been around for a while. It's the TP 9 SFX This has a whopping 20 round magazine. You can see that it does have the plus two base plate there 20 rounds and the same very short Actually, this one feels a little bit lighter with a very short reset But a race gun because it's got a 5.2 inch barrel lightning cuts there fiber optic front sight Also has the striker fire indicator in the back serrated black rear sights already mentioned fiber optic front sights And this also comes with a holster Additional plate because this is optic ready to and canik says they made this to hit the Competition range immediately after picking this up. They say you don't need anything else I understand these two companies couldn't be more different with their handguns I did that intentionally to get your thoughts and opinions So which is it? Is it car arms the small sleek lightweight models with single stacks or is it the larger? Canics that are double stacks and feature loaded. Let me know in the comments I'll total them up and report the results back with the next handgun showdown If you like videos like this, please subscribe and share I always appreciate thumbs up button. Thanks for watching and you guys be safe


Hello, everyone. Welcome to Options with Doug, streaming live daily on Bookmap Discord and the Bookmap YouTube channel at 1.30 p.m. Easter time. Before I get started, I need to go through the disclosures. General disclosure, all book 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 options involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results. And I also need to pause for a public service announcement for Bookmap. Bookmap is asking everyone to fill out a form for Bookmap Discord. It will provide extra additional benefits, webinars, services, beta programs, free add-ons, other freebies, and it will help us to reduce spam and Bookmap Discord. So if you can scan this code, it should send you to a form. You'll need your email address, your Bookmap Discord name, your Discord name, and your license key for Bookmap. And if you don't have a license key for Bookmap, you can just sign up for a free version if you're not interested in subscribing to a paid version of Bookmap, so you can subscribe to a free version of Bookmap that's for crypto. It does include delayed data, pretty substantially delayed data, I believe. All right, so everyone, if you have not done so already, please fill out the form for Bookmap Discord. Here's my contact information. The best way to get in touch with me is through Discord. My name on Discord is Doug P. Also, in Bookmap Discord, there's an options-doug-chat channel. That's a great place to post questions, comments, and content related to the topics that I'll go through in just a moment. And note that Bookmap Discord, there's a lot of great content there about a wide variety of assets. Options, stocks, futures, crypto, also in a wide variety of languages, a number of experienced traders and less experienced traders, all working together to help each other become better traders. Also, again, I'm also on X, formerly known as Twitter. My name there is at Doug Pless. I also want to go over my key tenants for trading. This would set the framework for what I'm looking at, what I'm showing today, and how I look at the market. So, first of all, I believe that options, trades, and market maker hedging activity are key drivers of price and many need to edit that. Oops, sorry about that. All right, there we go. And many stocks and futures. So, again, options, trades, market maker hedging activity, or key drivers of price, and many stocks and futures. Excuse me. Also, for the SME 500, SPX and SPI, which is just another version of SPX, is the underlying index. ES is a derivative of SPX. So, when traders buy and sell, puts and calls in the SPX and SPI, market makers hedge those trades with ES futures. They always want to remain delta neutral. So, if traders are buying calls, for example, in SPX, market makers are selling calls, and they have to buy ES futures to hedge their delta exposure. And that's the only way to hedge SPX. All right, for the NASDAQ, the same NDX and QQQ, that's the underlying index. And in the case of NASDAQ 100, the QQQ is the most important underlying, and NQ is a derivative of the NDX. All right, so for the same thing, when traders buy and sell, puts and calls, and QQQ. Now, there are other drivers of price, and this does not occur all day, every day. But overall, options trades, market maker hedging activity are key drivers of price in many stocks and futures. The focus of my presentation today, and the focus of the options-jug chat channel, is options order flow, the impact of options markets on stocks and futures, and the influence of market maker hedging flow on price action. I have a two-step process for trading, and the first is planning, and I use positional analysis. I look at how traders and market makers are positioned to the options market, and how those positions change from day-to-day to develop a thesis, regarding the expected trading range and volatility for the day, as well as the directional bias. And the second step in my process is execution. I look at real-time order flow and book map, and real-time market maker hedging flow and spotting a hero to confirm my thesis, and for setups, for entries and exits. And when I talk about setups today, I will be focusing on an underlying asset. And setups in that asset can be taken any number of ways. For example, the S&B 500. Setups can be taken with ES futures, spy shares, spy options, SPX options, or even ES options. Questions and comments are welcome, and I will be watching both the chat and the options-jug chat channel and Discord, as well as the chat in YouTube for your questions and comments. Please feel free to post. I'll do my best to answer your questions. All right, here's my agenda for today. Tuesday, February 6th. First of all, normally I go over news items. There's nothing today. So we'll just skip over that. Oh. Slow to Rossi did post some earnings today. The stocks that I follow, mostly I have most have already reported earnings, except for NVIDIA. All right, so the next positional analysis, then I'll review some setups from earlier today. Then I'll take a look at the live market. And when I get to the live market, if anyone has any stocks they want me to take a look at, please let me know and I'll be glad to do that. And hello, Steven. Welcome. Glad you're here. All right, let's get started with positional analysis. I'm going to start with ESP 500. This is the ES Futures and Book Map. And before I take a closer look at this chart, I do want to take a look at the underlying index, which is SPX in a larger time frame. Hello, Caesar. Welcome. Glad you're here. All right, so let's go to SPX. I'm going to start with a one-day chart. This is in Thinkorswim. The current rally began last year, October 30th, ran into resistance at 4,800 toward the end of the year and early this year. Then SPX broke out of that range above 4,800 on options expiration last January, this past January, January 19th. All right, from there, let's pick it up with a shorter time frame. Still sticking with SPX, the underlying index. I'm going to go to a one-hour chart. So this is SPX, one-hour chart. Here's the resistance, 4,800 level. The breakout on expiration Friday. Resistance at 4,900. Then a breakout last Monday. So not this week, but the previous week. Breakout, FOMC reaction, and then rally beginning Thursday after the FOMC, up to 4,975. All right, so that's where the SPX stands now right around a couple of key levels that I'll talk about in just a moment. All right, so speaking of levels, let me point out the levels on this chart. First of all, I have the lower and upper weekly expected move. This is based on the options market that's shown with the dash purple lines. I update that once a week, and those levels remain in place for the entire week. All right, next, the dash blue lines are showing the lower and upper daily expected move. Also based on the options market, I update those levels once a day. That's on the closing price of SPX. And hello, Ida. Welcome, glad you're here. All right, the other lines on the chart are showing spot gamma levels. These are levels that are provided to spot gamma subscribers. They're based on gamma weighted open integers. They are proprietary to spot gamma. Each one has a different meaning. And I'm going to start with the key daily levels. Here's the, let me zoom in on this just a little bit so we can get a better picture of these levels. All right, so the key daily levels. First of all, here's the put wall. That's at 4920. That's a strike with largest net negative gamma. That can be expected to act as support. That level did move slightly lower from yesterday. It was at 4930 yesterday. Now at 4920. So a slight move lower in the put wall. Then the volatility triggers the next level up. Then a spot gamma is proprietary gamma and volatility flip level. Below that level, market makers position on the gamma curve is negative. In a negative gamma environment, market makers have to trade with price to hitch their delta exposure. And that tends to enhance or increase volatility. On the other hand, above that level, market makers position on the gamma curve is positive. In a positive gamma environment, market makers have to trade against price to hitch their delta exposure. And that tends to subdue or decrease volatility. When market makers are trading, they're selling as price moves up and they're buying as price moves lower. Then finally, in that level, did move higher from yesterday from 4930 to 4945. So a slight move higher in the volatility trigger for SPX. And then finally, 5000 is the call wall. That's the strike with the largest net positive gamma that can be expected to act as resistance. That's also the absolute gamma strike. That's the strike with the largest absolute positive and negative gamma. So that's where most of the gamma-weighted open interest is concentrated. So those are the key daily levels. Fairly tight range there. A potential floor at 4920, potential ceiling at 5000. All right, finally, let's take a look at the, again, sticking with SPX. One more chart. We're going to go to a one minute chart. So the right shaded portion here is the regular trading hours. And note the levels in play for today. Here's the volatility trigger at 4945. This combo two level that has acted as support, then resistance. Now price testing that level again. So that's been a very important level today. That is the combo two level combining SPI and SPX. Gamma-weighted open interest into one level shown here in terms of an SPX price. 4950 just above that. So note that SPX has been trading up and down around the volatility trigger. So that gamma volatility flip level has definitely been in play for today. All right, let's go to book map now. In book map, I have my own cloud notes. So I can show those levels on my book map chart. So here are the SPX levels that I talked about. The volatility trigger combo two level and then the 4950 large gamma four level above that. Note there is a difference in price between ES and SPX. And today is trading somewhere between 20 and 21. Right now I'm using 21. So ES minus SPX again somewhere between 20 and 21. What I'm showing is 21. So ES minus SPX 21. Here's the SPX 4950 level at ES 4971. So SPX 4950 ES 4971. And that level has definitely been in play for today. I'm also showing SPI levels on my chart. Here's the SPI 494 large gamma four level great entry point for short this morning. Here's the SPI 493 large gamma three level acting as resistance multiple times here and here then price finally broke out above that level. Right so I have SPI levels SPX levels on this chart and then other key levels for ES 49 in this range. Alright we'll talk about setups in a few minutes. Alright let's take a look at NASDAQ now. Oh shifts and levels again let me just summarize the shifts and levels for the SP500 volatility trigger higher slightly higher and put wall slightly lower for SPX just the opposite for SPI volatility trigger lower and put wall higher and also the absolute gamma strike shifted lower for SPI so kind of a mixed picture for shifts and levels. Overall today my directional bias thesis for the SP500 was neutral. Alright let's take a look at NASDAQ now. So this is the NQ futures and book map a little bit weaker today than the SP500 and again remember the underlying index products QQQ and NDX so let's take a look at those charts. I'm going to first start with QQQ this is a one minute chart dark portion on the right showing today price action for today regular trading hours 430 level that's the absolute gamma strike acting as resistance in the morning notice price moves down consolidation at the round number levels then a lot of chop around the zero gamma level at 427 the 428 is the volatility trigger and QQQ currently trading below that and earlier today the 426 acting as support right shifts and levels for QQQ just minor the volatility trigger shifted higher up to 428 so QQQ again trading below its volatility trigger all right let's take a look at NDX we'll take a look at this just for completeness but I typically focus most of my attention on QQQ for the NASDAQ alright so levels in play for for NDX this combo level up above just to right around the QQQ 430 level acting as resistance and then these two levels the 17,625 also on range today alright let's go back to book map in Q futures so just like ES I have my own cloud notes so I can show QQQ levels there's the 430 absolute gamma strike acting as resistance just after the cash open and there's the NDX levels the 600 and 625 large gamma levels and QQQ 428 427 and 426 I also have the big brown numbers the zeros in the 50s for NQ and then also note the lower daily expected move for NQ and price did trade below that today and now trading back above alright shifts in levels again for QQQ the volatility trigger shifted higher and the same for NDX alright so minor shifts in levels for the NASDAQ as well alright let's take a look at gamma notion we'll see how market makers were positioned on the gamma curve at the beginning of the day remember this is at the beginning of the day so what I'm going to look at this is the data table at the bottom of the spot gamma AM founders note gamma notional for the SB500 NASDAQ and also 2000 note for SB500 and NASDAQ all these numbers are positive again at the beginning of the day this indicates for an index that on this position of the gamma curve traders are short calls market makers are long calls hence the positive gamma and they have to trade against price as their delta exposure now this does not paint a complete picture so what I want to do is take a look at the a couple of things on the index page here this is for SPX I'm going to start with the VANA model what this chart is showing is market makers delta notional on the vertical axis price for SPX on the horizontal axis there are two curves on this chart the light gray curve shows how market makers delta notional may change with changes in price only and the purple curve that's what we want to take a look at shows how market makers delta notional may change with changes in price and applied volatility with changes in applied volatility is the VANA effect hence the name of this chart so the purple curve is the one that we want to take a look at so the let's check the low of the day for SPX right around 49-35 so let's see where that is on the on this curve here so that's on this portion of the curve to the left typical of a negative gamma environment so what this is showing is if price price continues to fall market makers delta notional will increase and they'll have to sell futures to hedge their delta exposure on the other hand if price increases market makers delta notional will decrease and they can buy back their short futures hedges alright so then the VANA model pinks a little bit different picture than the gamma notional at the beginning of the day looking more negative and that's really confirmed by SPX trading up and down around the volatility trigger today let's take a look at one other chart let's see where that is this is the combo strikes so remember the volatility trigger is right around 49-45 right between these two strikes so these bars are showing gamma the bars above the zero line are showing positive gamma call gamma and below the zero line showing put gamma or negative gamma so it's pretty clear from this chart that's the gamma flip level so below this level put domination there's slight put domination below this level alright so that's my planning process so based on this looking for again kind of neutral for the SMB500 as far as directional bias goes and also looking for low to moderate volatility more of a range day alright let's take a look at some setups now so everything that we've looked at so far other than book map is based on static data once a day OCC provides open interest data once a day spot gamma takes that data applies their algorithms to that data to come up with the levels that we've looked at and everything else the Vantamodel gamma curve alright so now let's switch over to the execution process and start to look at real time data so what this chart is showing is the hero signal this is available to spot gamma subscribers hero stands for hedging impact real time options and the white curve on this chart the white line is showing price for SPX the purple curve is the hero signal hedging impact real time options so what this means is if traders are taking positive delta positions they're buying calls and or selling puts the hero line is going to be rising this is in terms of delta so traders are taking positive delta positions market makers take the opposite side and they have to buy ES futures to hedge their delta exposure and this hero signal is for a combined signal of SPX by XSP and ES futures so spot gamma's combining options trades and market maker hedging activity of these instruments to display on this chart so this is the most complete picture of options trades and market maker hedging activity in the SB500 this is the chart for the day I'm going to zoom in on this chart now and this number this total notional value of 480 million is very low not much going on today so the first thing I want to do is let's review a setup from this morning I'm going to zoom in on this chart and I did post this in discord I didn't actually I posted the hero signal and the book map chart in discord so what I was looking at in the morning up until about 945 traders were taking positive delta positions and that shifted pretty sharply to negative delta positions so when traders take negative delta positions again market makers take the opposite side and they have to sell futures to their delta exposure Steven says saw that thanks for sharing you're welcome Steven so let's go take a look at the book map now I'm going to zoom in and we'll take a look at the clues and confirmation in book map for the short setup alright so what I was looking at remember right around 945 options traders started taking negative delta positions shift from positive delta to negative delta I'm looking at this 494 level I typically want to frame my trades around the levels shown on my chart so I'm looking for reactions at these key levels so there's the spy 494 level I see just at the cash open that acted as resistance actually let me change that one more time get my arrow pointer so that was resistance note also the liquidity in the heat map just above that level the heat map and book map shows a history of trading orders in the order book those were limit sell orders and then as traders start taking negative delta positions so price moves higher traders start taking negative delta positions price does a recheck a 494 lower high so at this point that's the first lower high great entry point for short the aggressive sellers starting to come in the volume dots are showing buy minus sell magenta dots indicate more sellers than buyers and green volume dots indicate more buyers than sellers note also on the sub chart both the dark blue line that's showing CVD cumulative volume delta is falling and as price starts to move lower the yellow line starts to drop that's showing stop orders sell stop orders help to fuel the move lower so again what I'm looking for is reactions at these key levels so there's your entry point for short and if you missed it there's another entry point as ES continued to make lower highs so nice short setup in the morning again I posted that in discord let me just point out let's go back and take a look at options trades again and then we'll take a look at some other areas on this chart alright so during this time let's go back say around 10.30 to not quite 11.30 there were some great shorts multiple shorts at the volatility trigger that's this area here so let's go see what options traders were doing during that time go back to hero so note that just before 10.30 trader started taking positive delta positions price moved up higher hero consolidated and there was chop up and down around that volatility trigger mostly lower setting up multiple shorts at the kind of cluster of levels there let's take a look at one other thing so this is a combined signal again for the SB500 one thing that I look at every day is this mag 7 signal and this is the combined signal for the stocks known as the Magnificent 7 Apple, Amazon, Google, Meta Microsoft, Nvidia, Tesla these stocks make up a large component of both the NASDAQ and the SB500 it always helps to pay attention to this and note for the day we've been trending down all day after a brief move up starting around 9.45 it began moving lower this was some additional confirmation actually acting as a lead for the SB500 short also a great indication for a NASDAQ short during this time of consolidation that I was just talking about the mag 7 signal continued to trend lower not quite the steep slope of this initial move lower but instead of consolidating like the SB500 signal it was still trending lower in my mind putting downward pressure on the both the NASDAQ and the SB500 so note the time here this is right around 9.43, 9.45 when the hero signal for mag 7 starts to make a lower high so that the high of the day for the mag 7 signal 9.43 let's go back to the SB500 here's the high of the day that's at 9.46 so a slight lead for the hero signal for mag 7 alright so let's go back to this area right here we know that the hero signal for the mag 7 was trending lower mostly sideways for the SB500 let's go back zoom in a little bit more so this is what I was looking at multiple shorts at either the spy 493 level or the volatility trigger each good for about 5 points or so alright let's move on to NASDAQ zoom in so if you're watching the hero signal the the safer entry for first of all this is the 430 QQQ430 acting as resistance at the cash open some aggressive buyers on the way up shown by the green volume dots aggressive sellers come in and the same thing at 9.45 when traders start taking negative delta positions in the mag 7 aggressive sellers start to come in and price reverses lower below the 625 level that's also the QQQ 429 level and then there were multiple pullback entries this one to the 600 level also QQQ428 and another short at the NQ650 and the pretty much the same clues in NASDAQ as the SB500 cumulative volume delta moving lower that's shown by the dark blue to pink line shifts to magenta when the value turns negative also sell stop orders fueling the move lower and down as we saw before down below finally below the lower day they expected move and that's a good place for a longer term target for the day alright so now NASDAQ back down right at the lower day they expected move let's go back in hero at hero and take a look at what the let's go back to the mag 7 signal so this continues to be negative all day some consolidation in the afternoon notional value minus 1.16 billion traders definitely taking negative delta positions in the mag 7 stocks alright so let's take a look at some of those stocks then we'll get to the live market the first stock that I want to take a look at and I kind of have a wall theme today so I'm going to start with AMD and this is actually referring back to yesterday the yesterday I showed AMD reversing at the 180 key gamma strike and today that move lower continues now down towards the put wall that's at 165 traders taking negative delta positions up until about 1150 this is pretty typical of a stock traders taking negative delta positions up until anywhere from 1030 to 12 or so and then they take the foot off the gas maybe start taking positive delta positions and price consolidates or reverses higher it's a very typical pattern aggressive early in the morning and in the case of AMD here that continues up until about noon or so and when AMD approaches the put wall they finally stop taking negative delta positions start taking positive delta positions let's go take a look at book map go to AMD so from the call wall yesterday down close to the put wall at 165 so another bearish day here in AMD the next is Amazon usually there's not much range in Amazon but I did want to point out since I have this wall theme today 170 is the call wall key gamma strike and Amazon price broke below that let's go take a look at hero see what options traders have been doing today back to hero to Amazon and here's that 170 call wall key gamma strike and price breaks below and as price starts moving lower some larger orders come in that's shown by these vertical lines large block orders institutional orders helping to move Amazon lower note the floor there indicating significant options activity and that has continued until about 130 large positive delta position comes in and price is starting to consolidate around right now let's go back to book map reversal at the 170 call wall price now trying to move higher consolidating the next is google for google 145 is the call wall key gamma strike acting as resistance let's see what options traders are doing go to google really the hero signal is kind of all over the place but it was let's zoom in on the morning here definitely bearish here's the call wall key gamma strike price reverses at that level traders taking negative delta positions price moves lower and then finally meta note for meta 455 is the put wall so in the morning traders were taking negative delta positions and then right around just before 1030 at the put wall they start taking positive delta positions so they're looking for support at 455 let's just see what they were doing separate outputs and calls orange line showing calls blue line showing puts so starting around 945 950 they started aggressively selling calls and then right around 1005 sorry about that starting right around 1005 like good contrarian contrarian options traders they start selling puts on the low taking advantage of the higher volatility of that move lower also the price lower to sell puts and then price consolidates right around that put wall level and then as they start to buy calls price moves higher so the rising line indicates traders are buying calls positive delta the rising blue line indicates traders are selling puts also positive delta now both these numbers are positive so net for the day they are buying calls and selling puts let's go back to the total signal and now as the hero signal as consolidated price is doing the same let's go back to book map go to meta there's the 455 put wall remember traders started selling puts when they started buying calls in addition to selling puts meta rose higher hero signal levels off and here meta still struggling below VWAP that's shown by the light blue line there VWAP resistance right around 459 does anyone have any stocks they want me to take a look at let's get back to the SB500 nice reversal lower we'll take a look at this reversal lower right at 4948 down to the high liquidity just around 492 the heat map and book map is showing history the limit orders in the order book so these orders below price are limit buy orders WRB wants to take a look at Tesla I'll look at Tesla in a minute let's figure out what is going on here in the SB500 this reversal lower right around 2 o'clock 2 o'clock reversal so let's go back to hero take a look at the SB500 zoom in so hero drops lower right around 2 let's see if we can slice and dice this a little bit to get some more detail first of all I want to take a look at zero DTE trades so the green line or teal line is showing trades and options that expire in the next expiry and for the SB500 that's today so the SBX by ES all have options that expire every day so the teal line is showing options that expire today for the SB500 so that provides a little bit of additional clue that did start to level off here go back to all trades shown by the purple line separate outputs and calls so right around 2 traders just started selling calls and buying puts so when the blue line and the orange line move in the same direction that's a very powerful directional signal sorry about this auto zoom this has been a problem with hero for some time so starting around 120 115 actually right around 130 orange line blue line moving in the same direction that's a powerful directional indicator and then they both shift lower right at 2 so a powerful directional indicator for a move lower alright let's take a look and see what traders are doing in the mag 7 stocks alright so not a lot not a lot of additional clue here let's go back to the total signal take a look at NASDAQ alright so now it looks like options traders are reversing higher right at that high liquidity at the 492 level alright let's get to Tesla and so to rise he wants to take a look at snap I don't have snap in book map let's take a look in hero so very bullish morning for Tesla traders take positive delta positions and as they take the foot off the gas Tesla consolidates that happened pretty early so first 15 minutes bullish for Tesla then hero signal levels off let's go take a look at book map for Tesla a lot of green volume dots in Tesla today here's the opening print just above $177 traders aggressively taking positive delta positions price seems higher they take the foot off the gas now Tesla is consolidating or moving lower alright so to rise he wants to take a look at snap so again I don't have snap in book map we can take a look here in hero see what options traders are doing very choppy very low notional value 4.2 million and net for the day traders are buying calls and selling puts let's take a look at nasdaq mag 7 back to the SB500 so for me today this is providing the the best confirmation of price action let's go back to book map go to ES so let's look at this reversal and again these are the key levels where I want to trade typically the SPY levels especially the SPY the spot gamma levels so as price moves up to this level that I expect to act as resistance price starts to consolidate then breaks lower so if you're expecting this level to act as resistance you could enter short at that level wait for a move lower and I would enter short at the 4945 volatility trigger as price moves lower and in that case you can also see there were large actually one large trader selling this move higher with iceberg orders that shown by the on chart indicator also the sub chart indicator that's that light blue line and as price moves lower cumulative volume delta starts to move lower and then sell stop orders with the yellow line also fuel to move lower a very obvious target at all this liquidity up and down around 492 alright so again I'm always looking for reactions at these levels and interesting how this liquidity has coming around the 492 level and yesterday 492 was the volatility trigger for spy alright so again what I'm doing is I'm just looking for reactions at these levels and anticipating any test from below the level will act as resistance any test from above it may act as support and Floyd's garage welcome glad you're here garage says that's fast not sure what that means maybe if you could clarify alright WRB wants to take a look at IWM or Russell 2000 I don't have either in book map we can take a look in hero here so this is a combined signal for rut and IWM so pretty choppy day let's just try IWM this is one reason that I don't don't trade the Russell 2000 there's just not a lot of options activity typically and not a lot of I don't feel like I have much edge in trading trading the Russell 2000 so again this notional value right around 31 million let's compare that with the SB500 even at a low value it's minus 600 million and I've seen this get up into range up to 10 or 12 billion for the SB500 so the SB500 very heavily driven by options trades and market maker hedging activity alright ABU ask about NQ and then we'll wrap it up for the day my time is up so NQ signal not providing much let's go to the mag 7 signal still pretty flat consolidating let's just take a look at if we can look at a shorter rolling window so here this is showing about from about 1215 the hero signal moving higher than consolidating now maybe move lower around to let's go to book map NQ and then we'll wrap it up for the day so NQ still trading around this cluster of levels here the lower day they expected move QQQ 426 and NQ 600 so now moving slightly higher and really the range is I guess the most recent range for the last couple of hours 427 on the upside and let's say 42550 on the downside chopping up and down around really around 426 in the middle and note at these lower points aggressive sellers on the way down aggressive buyers on the way up CVD shifts higher also large traders net for the day I have been buying the weakness with iceberg orders on the other hand sell stop orders and CVD have been trending down all day helping to drive the move lower alright my time is up I want to thank everyone for watching thank you very much for your questions and comments I hope I answered all your questions if not you can post them in discord everyone have a great afternoon and I will see you tomorrow thanks again bye


Hi coffee time and thank you so much for joining me Tulip with my video series I'm trying to do some songs. It's a beautiful day in Amherst and The wind is there. I was up in the morning and while the dandelions were still asleep and while I was up They woke up and the green field became filled with yellow dandelions and you know What the scientist and everyone is saying so if you want the beast to have a better life This spring Please leave the dandelions alone Is there food and they keep the honey for you, you know That is fine And it's a song from Rabindranath Thakur It's really sung on New Year's Day in Bengali years because it speaks of the old memories and the days that are coming and all that So bear with me


Right, so we're now just going to finish off the level that we've built in Unreal Engine 4 by just adding a couple of particle effects. So this is by no means going to be a particles tutorial. Cascade is the system that you use to make particles in Unreal Engine and that is its own thing. So we'll open Cascade and have a quick look at it, but we're not going to be creating a whole new particle system because that would be quite a big thing. So what we'll do is we'll use the ones from the starter content, which is pretty much the whole reason we included the starter content in the first place. So we'll start with some fire to go here. So if you have a look in your starter content folder, there's a particles folder and you can see within here you've got an explosion, fire, smoke, sparks and steam. So that's good, but that's not what we're going to use because if we go into the blueprints folder, you see that those things appear again, but they're now blueprints. And that's because this fire one, for instance, has got the sound of fire added to it as well. So as we run past it, you'll hear it crackling and stuff, which is pretty cool. So we're going to drag that into our level and just place it in the fire and you'll see straight away we have fire. That's it, that's done. You could, if you wanted to kind of try and scale it up, but, you know, that can quite quickly get out of control. It's already a pretty good scale, so I'm happy with that. So if you did want to, let's just have a little look at this. If you wanted to, you could have it emit more flames. So one thing that it's tied to is if we go to end your scalability settings, it's tied to effects, I believe. And so the higher your effects are, the more particles will spawn. So now I've turned that up. I should be getting more fire, but if you decide there still aren't enough particles, what you can do is go into the actual particle thing for it. So this here, P fire. So this is cascade. This is what you use an Unreal Engine to create your particles. You can see we've got two different types of flames here that are being spawned in different ways. So if you go to the spawn for them and go into, I think you need to go into rate and then distribution, you've got a constant number. So if you wanted to double it, we'd change that five to 10. And the same for this one, five to 10. And that would now spawn twice as many flame particles. You could also add smoke embers, etc. There's quite a lot going into this fire, but we'll save that and close it, hopefully. And that's now going to be creating twice as much, but it also makes it twice as expensive to render because there's quite a lot of transparency going on with this. But that's how we do it anyway. So that's the fire in place. So what we also want to do is get the smoke coming out of the chimney. So go back into the blueprints folder for that. And we have some smoke for it. So let's just drag the smoke in, put it as close to the chimney as we can get it. And then I'm probably I'm just going to have to refine that a little bit because I want it to look like it's coming from the right place. So let's just drop that in that direction a little bit and I might just push it down the touch. In fact, now I'm going to move it up. Okay. And that is pretty much it. So let's just get a decent view of both of these doing their thing. So we've got some fire going on that may be a little bit big. It looks, oh no, I've duplicating my house. So it may be a little bit out of control. I might need to just bring that down. But it looks pretty nice. Now I've got some smoke coming out of the chimney, make it like someone's in. They just cook in themselves a little meal. Maybe they've got a chicken roasting on the stove. I don't know. I don't know who lives there. But that kind of brings us to an end. So what I will be doing is there will be a follow up video to this, like a bonus video. So there will be two things in there that I'll definitely do. One of them will be based on this window and we'll update the material to add a flickering effect to that. I will also add some displacement to the rocks. So what that will do is make them look more jagged as you get close to them. So that will be in the bonus video. But what I also want to see if you've got any questions or anything that you'd like to see added to this as an exercise, as an introduction to the art side of Unreal Engine, then drop it in the comments or email me or DM me on Twitter, slide into my DMs. And I may well put it in the bonus video as well if I think it's a good fit. So keep that in mind. So this is as far as I'm going for now. I will also be doing another series of these. I haven't yet decided which way I'm going to go with it. I'm going to either go into gameplay mechanics or importing a third person character and kind of doing everything on that. So that will be including modeling, texturing, rigging, animating and putting it all together in Unreal and having that third person character run around. So we can either do that or we can do something based on gameplay mechanics. I don't know yet. So again, in the comments, let me know how you want that to be. But what I will say to you is if in the meantime while you're waiting for me to get my shit together and make a new series, if you want to keep learning how to use Unreal Engine, you should check out the courses on PluralSight. So it was the courses on PluralSight when it was called Digital Tutors. That's where I first learned how to use Unreal Engine myself. So, you know, as a teacher, I have to kind of try and keep on top of things or as on top of things as I possibly can. And so when I need to acquire new skills, that's where I go to. And the courses are incredibly good. So I will put a link in the description if you want to check that out. If you use that link, you'll get a 10-day free trial. So you've got nothing to lose really in checking it out. I highly recommend it. And if you do use that link, it does give me a little bit of a kickback. I'll earn a little bit of commission on that as well, which will also help me out. So that would be ace. I really hope you have taken a lot out of this tutorial series. I hope that you feel you've acquired a lot of skills to be able to put together environments that will enable gameplay. If you think this has been a tip-top tutorial, then hit the thumbs up button. If you thought it wasn't very good, then, you know, there's that button as well. And please, if you create your own projects based on things that you've learned from me, then send me pictures. Send me builds of your level. Send that through to me so I can have a look. I really do enjoy seeing what people have made based on, you know, my videos, my tutorials. So, you know, there's the Facebook page that I've got for that. You could also, again, slide into my DMs. You could email it to me. But that's always really interesting for me to see. So don't forget me, you know, if you make your own cool stuff. In addition to liking and commenting, if you would like to show your support for my tutorials and my YouTube channel in general, then you could support my work through Patreon. So there are some awesome individuals already doing so, and that help is really unbelievably appreciated. I still find it crazy that people are willing to pledge money based on what I'm doing. But it says it really is ace. If you want to become one of those people, then the link is down there. So check it out. And the last thing I want to say is thanks very much for watching. I hope to see you again very soon in another video. Bye! Thanks for watching. If you really want to take your learning further than I can cover in this series, then I highly recommend checking out PluralSight. They have loads of really detailed video courses covering game art and game development using Unreal Engine 4. When I learned how to use Unreal a couple of years ago, this is where I went, and I log in regularly to take a new course and improve my skills. I recommend checking out the introduction to Unreal Engine 4 course by Joshua Kinney. This is really good and offers a good overview of what you can do in Unreal. You can get a free 10-day trial by using my link in the video description, and you get full access to all of their courses for that time. At the end of your 10 days, you can either subscribe for more or cancel, totally up to you. It's got to be worth a free trial though, right? I'd like to say a massive thank you to my patrons. Your support helps me to keep making videos like this one, and I really appreciate each and every one of you. 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