We watched as we do this Yeah, that's who I stole it from because we're doing boomer month and I was like, oh, this is actually great for boomer month So I saw as we do this like this great. Let's do it. We're gonna do this too There's been a lot of very very good consoles and how consoles have evolved over the years is very very interesting to me Why because I think there was a time where we had a period of time kind of like a golden age of consoles Where games were innovative consoles were doing new things. There was a lot of advancement. Let's go ahead and start I'm gonna go ahead and go and the way that I'm going to rank these off of what the console was for its time, right? Obviously you could look at the NES and you compare an original Nintendo. You can compare that to a frickin PS5 coming out and obviously the PS5 is better, but it's not necessarily about that It's about where the system was at its time. What is this? Is this a DS? This is a 3DS and this is a DS, right? Well, let's start with this one. The Sega Dreamcast was in my opinion the most ambitious cutting edge impressive system For its time everything about the Dreamcast blew every other console at the time out of the water It had online play four controller ports built in no multi-tap or anything like that four controller ports built in the graphics Were awesome at the time it had good peripherals, right where you could play different things Sega in its prime was on the cutting edge of everything the memory card having a a a Screen on it and you having like visual stuff on the memory card that you inserted in the thing The controller was a little bit weird, but once you got used to the controller. It was actually really good And I always thought the original Xbox controller actually tried to Model itself after the Dreamcast. I always thought that like it just it was very similar But the problem with the original Xbox controller. It was way too big It was it was hard to hit the buttons. It was way too big, right? You can see the similarities here, right d-pad Analog stick you have the buttons They added an extra analog stick, but it's kind of the similar shape except too big I think the Dreamcast was awesome and I would put this s-tier The problem with the Dreamcast was that it was too good for its time Whenever you guys think of Dreamcast correct me if i'm wrong Do you guys feel that way you put Dreamcast in the same tier as ps2 and xbox as far as like the release time frame Because every time I talk to people about this they're like, oh, yeah, I thought that came out sometime The Dreamcast Was like with the n64. It was a little bit later, right, but it's like n64 playstation 1 and really ps2 xbox and all them They were playing catch up to the Dreamcast whenever the ps2 and xbox came out After 2000 I always remember there not being enough games for it Like they had sonic and that was pretty much it and they had some other stuff like sega specific like sega bass fishing Which was an awesome game and they had a lot of like arcade style of games on the Dreamcast Which is cool, but there really wasn't enough games and that's that's something that I think was an issue for the Dreamcast Let's start with a ds I think the ds Was nintendo's first step into we got to change some stuff up because you had the game boy Then you had the game boy pocket and then you had the game boy color and then you had Game boy advanced ds and then the 3ds. Oh advanced sp. Game boy advanced sp I remember that one at first it was cool. The first game boy was huge like physically big game boy pocket They reduced the size quite a bit. That's what I had.  I think the original game boy was so impressive because it was the first handheld Big time handheld console. I don't know if there was anything before that There was like a little like dinky like rinky dink whatever but the game boy was so advanced at the time It was amazing because people could go and You're taking the kids on a trip going around you're on the go people are sitting there waiting on the bus They're playing game boy on the bus people are sitting in the parking lot waiting for their parents I think that the game boy was really really good even though it was very innovative This is a hard one Because I think that the original game boy and its popularity is what kicked off I mean it is it is what kicked off handhelds But how many really good games were there for the game boy? I can't think of a lot of really good games the pokemon games The zelda games were very popular mega man was popular on the game boy earthworm jim was popular I remember that one there probably were I mean that was around the time where rpgs were like super popular too And I mean even stuff like pokemon right trying to decide between it being an s or an a What would you guys say made nintendo if you were to if you were to ask me I would probably say the super nintendo made nintendo The nes was good, but I think the super nintendo was like oh that made like that like solidified nintendo But the game boy, okay game boy's an s. You know why? The game boy came in and planted the flag for nintendo in a market that This many years later has not only nintendo been the best at it consistently It's turned into their main product with the switch now. I think the game boy To be able to come in and drop it on the table And be that good for that long it all started with this So I will say the game boy is s now. Here's my issue here You have the game boy color, which is really a game boy, but better Because it has colors and it's a little bit smaller and it was a little bit more Ergonomic you remember the shape by all metrics of of like Hardware whatever the game boy is better the game of color is better than the original game boy But it didn't really change anything It didn't really make anything better as far as the games and my original thought was maybe game boy would be an a and the game boy color is s because It's a just a better version of the original, but it didn't really change anything But the games are the same which in some ways Is also very impressive because this was now the first console that had backwards compatibility And they had the same cartridges and the same games for multiple consoles I think from a hardware perspective And there it is better than the original game boy, but it wasn't as come in drop it on the table Boom. This is innovative. Do I remember this right? I believe the game boy advance Also, you could play your original games in the game boy advance. Is that right? It was select b plus a a direction. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I think so. It was something like that I don't remember what it was Nintendo really like set the standard for that But because of backwards compatibility and all that stuff, I'm going to give it an a it's still very good Dreamcast asked no shot, dude I'm telling you the dreamcast was way ahead of its time and it set the standard for every console moving forward The dreamcast set the standard for every single console moving forward every single one I think the game boy advance was good. It was a good system and there were some cool games like uh Final fantasy tactics advanced. Oh, that's another thing the game boy advance was the first one that just like they had been recycling their consoles They started recycling their games It needed a second version which was the sp to really like Bring it together I would probably give this between a c or a b a b minus if I could because I had one of these and I remember like Not I don't even remember why I don't ever remember it being an issue on my game boy color But I remember it being an issue on my game boy advance where like I felt like I couldn't ever see Am I crazy for remembering it this way now the 3ds the ds Excuse me the ds was basically the game boy advance sp version 2 It was the flip that was the same time like flip phones and stuff were very popular And what they were doing here was they were going they were like this game boy advance sp is doing really well This populace is great. What have we expanded this and what if one of these was a touchscreen? What if one of these was a touchscreen? And this is something that nintendo has done time And time again where especially back in the day they would come in and they would introduce something Super cool and they focused on fun. They made everybody else stop and turn and look like oh wait What are they doing at that point game boy nintendo had come in and and It was theirs nintendo ds release date Was 2004 do you guys remember touchscreen phones when touchscreen phones became a thing? I think it was like 2000 I was thinking it was like 2008. I guess the original iphone came out in 2007. I just googled it january 9th 2007 So three years prior Is whenever the nintendo ds came out the nintendo ds and its touchscreen and all that The stylus all that stuff three years before the first iphone ipod touch. Oh, yeah ipod touch was before the iphone That's right ipod touch release date first generation release date Oh That was actually 2001. I'm wrong about that I guess I was only thinking about phones and I really wasn't thinking about the ipod touch. Hmm. I didn't realize it was that long ago Is that true? Oh, no, that's just the ipod. Okay. I was like first gen. Oh, no 2007 It was 2007. Yeah, it was just the original ipod. That was 2001. I was like wow Okay, that blew my mind So it was still like three years before ipod did their thing where apple did their thing the ds was awesome Again, kind of juiced the game boy back up because I do feel like it was kind of starting to taper off a little bit After the original game boy like the original game boy was the first shot in the arm Eventually the ds came out whenever the ds came out. It was I remember everybody wanted a ds Everybody wanted a ds everybody wanted that year. I think I was in like sixth grade I remember one of the big things with the ds was not only Was it portable game boy? Whatever with a touchscreen But also if you guys remember that I think they did a mario ds like super mario 64 ds and that kind of stuff So it was the first handheld that had like the 3d. Yeah, like 3d capabilities Now again in the same. What is this? Is this a 3ds or a ds light or I don't know what this is I don't remember anything standing out or being special and specific to the 3ds It came out in 2011 2011 Seven years later There was a period of time that I think nintendo did things not very well This came out really during that time. What the screen is a little bit bigger Nintendo announced a significant price reduction amid disappointing launch sales There was no excitement behind this from what I remember the company offered 10 free nes Games and 10 free game boy advanced games from the nintendo e shop to consumers that bought the system at original launch price The strategy was considered success the console went on to become one of the most successful hand-filled consoles in the first two years of its release That's good. But on launch it was expensive I mean 250 In 2011 you could get an xbox 360 for that much Like this is a playstation.  Even now how much does a nintendo switch cost like like 350 10 years later? No A nintendo switch with animal crossing costs 300 50 dollars more than this now. I will say this The prices for consoles have not gone up that much Since this time in general, uh, i'm not a fan of 3ds. I think this was trash um I think it eventually got better sure So I would say this is probably a c or maybe even a d it picked back up after the fact if it hadn't picked back up I would say d uh, I might give this a c I will say there was like a golden age and nintendo was on the cutting edge of it, man But I actually did a project on this in college where I went through and I researched a lot of this stuff Gaming took a very big hit Uh in like the mid 80s like you had like the Atari They came in And they just started kicking ass they released a bunch of new games. They had the mario. They had donkey kong They had good peripherals. They had the light gun.  This is cool This is innovative This is great now. I don't actually think this is really What made nintendo? I think the system that made nintendo what it is like what it really established them more than anything else Was the super nes better colors better graphics You basically took everything that was good about this and you you amped it up. You actually had a multi tap for this system and Here is why I would go as far as saying not only did the super nintendo set the standard and make nintendo what it is today but What they also did was they made PlayStation Because the reason why PlayStation exists and you say no You say question mark But the history of the playstation if you know this if you don't know this listen up Sony contacted nintendo and they wanted to work together They wanted to work together with nintendo and release a console together where they use CDs now And their infinite wisdom Said who would ever want to play video games on a disc? They were wrong This is the prototype the super fanbacom cd rom adapter and it was an unreleased video game peripheral for the snes That basically Sony wanted to make and they wanted to work with Super nintendo on this or the one of the nintendo on this to add it on the super nintendo To basically be able to put more data into the games and make it better and they're like no This is weird and now while I do agree this is weird This is very weird coming out with their own console eventually, which is what this led to now If i'm right didn't they didn't work with like phillips Does it say this here and like phillips tried to make a console am i making this up? Hold on phillips cdi Yeah, yeah So I think I think co-developed by phillips and sony. Okay.  I don't remember ever seeing this. I guess this is the first version But look it's literally a super nintendo That says playstation on it and sony With a cd drive. It's the same thing What it says you got some ports you got some for this is audio microphone. I don't know what that is The playstation zero. Oh it was the original. It was the original prototype. Oh really That's crazy. I've never actually seen the original prototype That's nuts now. Here's what's happening so far. I'm in love with all these consoles. So I'm just giving everything I'm giving everything s tier. There's so many good things. There's so many good reasons to give all these things s So moving on to the n64 I don't want to be biased and start like not putting things s on purpose I think we've got to make some tough calls here and really start to to stretch this list down a little bit Ooh, do I even drop the dreamcast?  This is like the freaking little engine that could Okay, this is the guy who like he was an amazing football player in college and then went to the nfl And then just like he just he blew out his knee or something and then he just sucked But it wasn't really his fault. That's that's how I feel about the dreamcast It was so far out of its time. I'm putting the dreamcast today Because at the end of the day, it's still kind of it failed, but man, man, was it good now Next up is the gamecube I think that the gamecube was the first console where nintendo Really lost its foothold because playstation 2 An original xbox came in and they said hey, we're just bigger better stronger The systems were better. They had these freaking mini discs Which is like what the hell is this didn't really make any sense Now where gamecube strength lies the exclusives because nintendo Still had the exclusive games that everybody loved Also, they fixed one of the biggest problems of the n64 The gamecube controller was very good very very good and the gamecube had a really really good games Mario Sunshine, Super Smash, Melee, Metroid Prime The controller is so good that people are still using the game the gamecube controller today because right now I'm leaning towards a and b because I think the n64 for its time was better than the gamecube I'm thinking it's a b now the nintendo We I didn't mean to put it d. I was just like throwing it up there Or as I like to call it the console for mom's trying to work out at home with wefit I think brought nintendo back to its roots. I actually feel very strongly about this In what way when nintendo started out Nintendo was innovative Now this console playing games specifically on this console because they had we versions of games and non We versions of games it added value to the game now with that being said Certain games were good on the we and certain games were not good on the we the controller was both really good And really trash at the same time.  Here's the CEO of nintendo himself. Danny DeVito Okay Said we're gonna go back to the drawing board And and we're gonna find out what made nintendo so good when it first started fun innovative stuff Good peripherals. It's a family console I remember my parents thought the we was sick the problem with the we I feel like hardware wise Graphically whatever you want to call it. It did not match up to where the ps2 and the xbox were at I thought it was weak I thought a lot of the games were not particularly good for the we but what this console did this and I guess the we you right My bad, I said ps2 didn't I ps3 and the 360 because I was we were talking about gamecube earlier It was the same issue that the gamecube had it just wasn't there graphically But what they did was they they veered off and they went the fun route And the same thing happened with the we that has now happened with the switch Where there's a lot of people who had a ps2 or sorry ps3 or an xbox 360 who also ended up getting a we I don't know how many of you there were but I remember growing up. You had one or the other like it was Oh, you had one of the consoles and that's just what you did But this was kind of the first time that I remember actively separating like I got a playstation 1 on sale I got uh, I got a dreamcast when it was getting discontinued other than that. I was like nintendo But the we was the first one that I had a uh, uh, I had an xbox 360 and I was like well We're getting a we and we got to play we games and it was fun But I do think it brought it back. I think I think it was better than the gamecube I don't know if it's an s Okay, I wouldn't say it's an s but really the combination of what we saw with the the the we you The ds and the gamecube Leads us to I think this is a nintendo switch. I don't think there's another one Leads us to the nintendo switch, which is absolutely an s I think the nintendo switch is an s because what happened was nintendo went and they fell from grace They were beaten. They were battered.  They have now gotten the game boy They have gotten they've gotten motion controls. They've got portability They've got fun. You can hook it up to a tv. You can pick it up and go The switch is its own genre Console wars are kind of done in 2020 console wars are over right like I think that a lot of people There's so many people now that get both playstation and xbox Some people still try and keep this console wars thing going from like 20 years ago. Yeah, it's done, right?  It is a party system. It is a mobile system It is their handheld system. It is fun You can you can have motion controls you can do everything you could do with all these other consoles And it takes the best parts of everything that nintendo brought to the table after they kind of fell from grace And put it into this amazing system I think the switch is absolutely an s they have they have they have carved out their own spot in the console gaming market And it is theirs. It is it is absolutely theirs People will buy it people like I have a switch to it just I mean it's downstairs I'm not playing it actively because I'm always playing games on computer usually But that's the same with all my consoles. Where's ps3? Oh, there it is. I don't actually is that a genesis? I think that's a Sega Genesis PlayStation one This is a hard one Because we already talked about the origins of the PlayStation one. Sony entered the market Because nintendo said no they went to go work with philips. It was garbage and they said not f philips We're gonna make our own console the reason why I kind of want to put PlayStation one at an a when they came against all odds and they introduced the cds The new medium for games for the next almost 10 years. I mean very very memorable games. It was big time The PlayStation one was great. The games were incredible Absolutely incredible games, but the reason why I want to put it in s It kind of beats itself or at a instead of an s It kind of beats itself because I feel like the playstation 2 came in and essentially perfected What the playstation one did the playstation was like their first shot into the market really And then they came in with the ps2 and just freaking dropped the hammer Perfected xbox one playstation 3 playstation 3 is tough Because in a lot of ways the ps3 was good Oh, that's true ps2 because also played dvd. I forgot to mention that and ps3 could play blu-ray players or blu-ray Discs it had a blu-ray player built in but good god. Was it expensive and and the Backlash on launch dude. This was a joke of a console Of the initial release ps3 online was trash. Wasn't it? It was there was all there was always problems with like disconnects and all kinds of stuff PS3 online was garbage if I remember right and it was like I remember talking to my friends at school about this Where like I had friends who had ps3 and they were talking about and like yeah It's because like you have to pay like they need like the money is like that you pay for xbox Like it's used for something right? It's not like they're just taking money for no reason right that handles the servers It handles everything else I feel like the ps4 came back and they were like they basically fixed all the problems that ps3 had They had good pricing a very powerful system Outstanding exclusives and I think that puts it in an A. Let's go on to xbox the xbox original I did not have an original xbox, but I had friends who did I think the original xbox had a lot of really good things going for it It was a powerful system the very first system that had an onboard hard drive Am I am I remembering this wrong? They had onboard memory and no other system had this yet the interface was fantastic I don't know what exclusives that had really other Than halo like halo is really what made xbox Things that the xbox did though that were innovative it mastered online play For controller ports built in so you didn't need to buy a multi tap In fact, I would say that was the only real problem that I had with uh The ps2 was that it didn't have four ports built in you still had to buy a multi tap That was the real only real problem that I the only problem that I had with ps2 The controller was Terrible for the xbox one or the sorry the original xbox This abomination you guys remember this I was like how the hell is anybody gonna play a game on this thing? I remember not being able to hit the buttons Like the The hell is this Garbage even though it was a very good console I do think they mastered online play and I think that the interface And everything from that regard with xbox was really really good And I think the combination of the ps2 and the xbox's success Came in and that's what really These two changed the direction of nintendo for the future But the xbox certainly had its problems and I I really don't know it might be a high a or a low s It's it's it is it is an a plus or an s minus but yes The xbox 360 was better the xbox 360 Similar to the ps3 same generation on launch the 360 was a catastrophe Red ring of death All kinds of console errors it was bad They they released multiple versions of this console to try and fix the problems that it came with It was better than the ps3 And I would even say it's better than the xbox original by a lot The interface was beautiful online play was great the blades. Yes, dude the blades It was great. I will put this at an s. I think the 360 was an s. I think it was incredible Absolutely incredible system correct me if I'm wrong But do you guys remember whenever xbox One was announced Didn't they say they didn't even want to have a disk drive and people were pissed People were pissed They wanted to require the connect as part of the console they were making so many bad decisions always online freaking nsa Creepy champ like there's all kinds of freaking paranoia with xbox one I think that the ps4 took back over and the xbox one they cleaned everything up. They eventually were like, okay Yeah, you can have a disk drive. Okay. Yeah, you can uh, you don't need the connect sure But like the beginning of the xbox one was really really not good And I think that the xbox one I still think it was better than the ps3 for its time Yeah, I think it was better than ps3 for its time, but I don't think it was as good as ps4 I think the ps4 beat it out and I think that the beginning of xbox 360 was so bad that I might I might knock it down to an A I do think xbox 360 beat out ps3 But I'm thinking about it more and more and like just they had so many errors on launch But it did so many things right. I think it was just really ambitious and then they blew it the psp I feel like the psp was that was sony again trying to go back in and trying to copy nintendo again, right? The psp was good and it was uh, let me see the release date of the psp 2005. Okay. That's what I thought I thought it was like similar somewhere in the ds Here's what made psp good. Nintendo was iphone and psp was android That's what it was the game boy was iphone and the psp was android That's the best way that I can describe it and what do I mean by that? Nintendo was its own thing There wasn't really any modding people go and they they mess around with their android phones and there's way more customization They do all that kind of stuff. I think that the psp goes and it allows for some good things there but also I don't think there was a lot of really good games for the psp that were exclusive correct me if i'm wrong, but there's not a whole lot of stuff that just Comes to mind. There's a few god of war uncharted burnout gta These were all games on the on the main consoles, but i'm thinking of crisis core. That's the first one I think that the psp is very good and it kind of did its own thing and it was like supplementary To the playstation I don't think it's an s and I don't think it's a b necessarily one thing I didn't like about the psp was I did not like how if I remember this correctly Didn't it need its own memory Which was the sony brand like they wouldn't take sand disc cards And sony made their own type of memory and they were kind of trying to do the apple thing Where apple tries to make everything theirs and you're in their ecosystem and and uh That was the vita that they did that. Okay. Yeah, the vita was trash I think the psp is a hard a I don't know how anybody could play this thing without getting a headache How could anybody in their right mind? Play this game without getting a massive headache. Is this true? It gave people seizures virtual boy seizures Is that true? cdbork donated three dollars where the engage at nausea and she seizures while playing Yeah So while the virtual boy it was innovative and it was cool and it was like hey, that's a great idea But it was just Not good. I mean like look it's like an old school. It's like a vr headset I mean that's that's what they were trying to do is like they were trying to do what vr is today And even vr today has a lot of problems. It was way out of its time. Well It was not only ahead of its time. It was also it was also bad Like it was terrible. I will only give it an e because I think it was it was ambitious Okay, I don't know what all these are. This is a genesis Is this an Atari? Oh game gear Is this an engage? Oh neo geo neo geo pocket color neo geo. That's what this is. Oh, that's a second nomad. Okay All these are f all this is garbage Yeah, because I don't want to do it actually Sega Genesis was really good Sega Genesis was like It Sega Genesis was good. Oh Sega Genesis was good.  Sega Saturn uses CD. I never played any of these ones But Sega Genesis was so good. Yeah, I think this order is pretty good. I think this order is pretty good I'll put the Vita down here. Hey, this is my video game ranking to your list


St. Jerome's comment that ignorance of scripture is ignorance of Christ Well, what do we do about that as? The principal teacher of the diocese of Steubenville. I have to ask myself that same question each day As well as when I get out into the schools. We have 11 Catholic schools, and I engage in a Program called ask the bishop Except in the junior high. It's more stump the bishop but I did that I produced a book a couple years ago and It was called ask the bishop and it's a compilation of questions from K through 12 over seven years And I remember running into a lot of people at the grocery store saying, you know More our age and they'd say, you know, I don't it's been so long I forgot that we were taught that and I said you you may not have been so Get it to get that out there. The audience is supposed to be vast now when I visit the classrooms we do invariably talk about the Bible and When the kids run out of questions or they're very reluctant then the I flip it it becomes ask the class and Invariably each year. I'll ask one of the later one of the older classes will be the high school later in junior high I'll ask them How many Gospels How many Gospel writers do we have and they'll look at me and they'll go for you know The rolled eyes of teenagers and then I'll say well, who are they to go Matthew mark Luke and John? Okay, great You're on a roll and Variably, this would be the religion class and then I ask another question Where in the Bible? Does Jesus say you can tell me which which which Evangelist records this when Jesus looks at his disciples and says Remember the most important thing in life is that you're happy Because in the end Everybody is going to heaven. Well at that moment. I get a lot of confused looks which actually is good and And Except for the teacher the teachers usually look around at the students and he or she has that look of don't embarrass me Don't embarrass me and then finally one of them will raise the hand and go Nowhere and I'll look at that person and I'll say is that a question or is that your final answer? You see we need to engage because especially our youth when they go out into the world They're going to of course be confronted with the issues of sacred scripture and Encountering Christ My hope is I'm at least giving them a tool set that they can address and even evangelize not such Not just defend but to be apologists And that's starts with encountering Christ does it not we do it through sacred scripture We're all aware that our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ possesses an inexhaustible Treasury of parables that illustrate the kingdom of God Yeah, Bishop tell us something. We don't know this is a Bible gathering. No We are reminded Time and time again that we cannot exhaust the meaning of any of Jesus parables each day each Revisit if we take it seriously we delve deep enough. We find something anew as in all Jesus parables There's an underlying theme of really cutting to the quick today it's life Eternal life and destruction or Eternal damnation do we have a happy? life existence Which is holy or do we pursue our own? personal happiness that concludes in the fire of purification And perhaps destruction We have seven gifts of the Holy Spirit. We received in the sacrament of confirmation Wisdom understanding counsel fortitude knowledge piety and yes fear of the Lord That last of all is not the least of all We are called each day to fear the Lord It is a gift This is a form of our own trepidation in our own human dignity is it not You see dear friends when we banned God from our existence our daily existence We are modifying our lives From thy will be done to my will be done Nothing good can come from that You see We are called to embrace that fear of the Lord It comes with consequences as the light of God the father Jesus Christ will judge how The baptismal fire has been burning or not within our hearts It seems to me one of the greatest dangers in the study of sacred scripture is the rendering of God to an abstract concept Instead of a person to be encountered and to live in his love The concluding words of Jesus are dark But they are intended to awaken our conscience and To enliven our heart. Yes, there are consequences. I suspect that Over time We can engage society our culture if we remain strong if we exercise that Fortitude we receive at confirmation To be those light burning brightly to be the salt of the earth as Jesus puts it You see Jesus reminds you and me we will all participate in the epilogue of the parable. We just heard as Will all of the human race Yes, it should Strike fear of the Lord in our hearts our bodies of minds our souls in the meantime My dear friends my brothers and sisters in Christ We should Remember daily that you and I our fellow Protagonists in this story of human redemption We're not some sort of static agents sitting out there watching. No, we are involved And we do so credibly and efficiently or effectively After and in encountering our Lord Jesus Christ in the word of God in the meantime Each one of us can certainly encounter others to assist them in their pilgrimage for conversion of heart Because we know you and I write that conclusion of the parable with our own lives Amen


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for the next conversation of the day, you are just in time for this conversation on choosing a career, selecting a career, how best can you get a career that you love. Is it, OK to choose one and live in the middle of a cause and then get another? Today we have a conversation with Lois Achayo Barraca. She is an advocate of the High Court of Kenya. She is a teacher by profession also. Profession also, a YouTuber, akona profilingine, lo inskarebusana. Santisana, thank you so much. It's a pleasure having you, thank you so much. I know it's a cold morning. I have been complaining about lo nibari disana. But thank you for finding time. You teach also professionally. Yes. Where do you teach at? Karura SDS school, history religion. But that is now part time, like over the weekends. Because I'm not as much as I'm a trained teacher, graduated from Kenyatta University in 2017. I do not teach completely because of the advocacy. I have to be attending courts and all that. So basically it's just trying to juggle the two. So you did two courses? Yes. Education and law. And law concurrently? Concurrently. Yes. What point did you say that as a person, you want to become a lawyer and a teacher, didn't you get confused at some point? For most parents they normally say, how was it for you? True. For me it all begins with those childhood dreams that we all have. Mine was and always has been being an advocate. And I remember I used to say I want to be a lawyer because we didn't know there was something called an advocate. So I grew up having that in mind. But the moment I cleared form 4, I managed to get a B plus and the job placement placed me to do education at Kenyatta University. So I remember I was a little bit angered. I felt this is not what someone else has. Someone else is choosing a career for me. Would you not be the case? And since I'm coming from a disadvantaged family in terms of finances and all that, my mom was like, we'll be paying only 13,000 for your school fee. So that is much better than us going to pay over 100,000 for a different cause. In law? In law. So I said, fine. If this is where fate has decided for me, I'll do it. So in the middle of the course, I then got the West Pocot County Government because I had studied in West Pocot, a school called Tash Targal, together with the school. That was in high school? Yes. Having been the head girl in Danwell, they reached out to help my mom's sponsor course that I would be able to undertake. So I picked on law. And then I figured since I was already a year through the education program, and I felt that I liked it because it meant I was going to impact the young lives because I feel as women we grew up, some of us decided to become mothers along the way. And the first teacher to your children is actually yourself. So I figured this would be a personal course even to my own children. And that's how I started juggling the two and graduated from law school in 2018. Education 2017. Wao. Wao. Munguni man. Munguni man. Who is God? And remember as we continue this conversation about choosing a career, ask her any question. She is here for you. She normally does online videos on YouTube. What are they about? They are about access to justice in terms of law. Just trying to make sure that during the RISM CJ interviews, the question that used to come up was in terms of the common one and she really does not even understand the judiciary except the time that he or she has to come before court. So my is just to make the law accessible and to demisify the myth that law is expensive, lawyers are expensive. So I'm trying to put it out there that you can have this access to information even as you go to your advocate at least you have something to bargain with.  I want my lawyer just to advise me. And ignorance is not a defense. It's no defense in law.  No, I don't know what I want. Ya, I don't know what I want.  Why in the morning is the hashtag? Why in the morning? Give us your taking the gas to this. Ask your questions. She is here. She can answer all your questions when it comes to choosing a career. How best can you select a course that is worthwhile for you? Are you a parent? Tell your son that you don't have to tune into this particular conversation and ask questions before a chagwe kusambayat, a kuja kujuta katikati. You've seen students back out of their courses in the middle. Why do they do that? This is a conversation that will help you make better decisions, career decisions for you and for yourself. And Baraka, I'm looking at what you said earlier. As a child, when someone asks you what you want to be, what was your answer back then? Back then, I remember that question vividly well when I was in standard 4. And I remember I told my teacher of English I want to be a lawyer. So this law was in the system from the beginning? Ilkwa Kwa Damu was in the system. But what they didn't tell me is that there is more to life than just being a lawyer. I answered that question as if becoming a lawyer will be my ultimate goal. So should I achieve that, then that's over. But here I am, I've become a lawyer, proceeded to become an advocate of the High Court, but life still has to move on. There are other things with the corona pandemic, there are things I have to do to supplement my law skills, to supplement my teaching skills. So the career journey is actually more diverse than how we make children feel like it's this direct. Does the society normally do a lot of profiling when it comes to selecting careers? Do we have some preferences that we ought not to have as a society when it comes to choosing a career so that we want our children to become X, Y, Z and not ABC? That's a good question. Actually, villages where we come from, every parent, once their daughter or their son to either become a doctor and advocate. In fact, engineer. Rarely will you even hear the teacher part. Apart from us who were brought up by teachers so our parents were like lasima piwukwe mua limu. You were brought up by teachers? Yes, both parents were teachers. So you find that there are those, like you're saying, the society has profiled these careers for these particular individuals. So everyone is working towards that. And then we forget there are so many careers which are even doing much better, way better depending on the personality of your particular child within that given society. So when we force things the way of our children, then that is where we go wrong as a society. It's about looking at what, in fact, what has they even the society offered. This person is coming from Turkana. There are so many oil, oil gases being right now. There are so many from Turkana. So the question becomes since this child has already interacted with oil at a physical and more formal way, then this person should be able, we should allow this person explore, come to the university, do energy. We don't all have to go and do low. You see? We don't all have to go and become doctors. And you know, there's this belief that some causes are better than others. Is that true? Do you subscribe to that notion? That is very false. I can tell you for real, I mean the advocacy field and it all depends with how great your mind is, how willing you are to push. Don't just think simply because I'm an advocate. I'm going to see it, be fine, tell people yes, I'm an advocate and then at the end of the day my salaries are being paid, my bills are being paid. No, it's all about how badly can you push yourself. So there's nothing like a good career that will pay your bills. It's about your own will, your own zeal as an individual. So there's no good career and bad career. There is no good career and bad career. There is no good career and bad career. Remove it from your head and remove it from your belief system. Any career is a good career depending on how versatile you are. Yes. When it comes to a fomfo leave, they still, you know when you're young we'll listen and talk to a lawyer. We'll listen and talk to a doctor. Where am I? We had to cook and however. But I had different options growing up at my first option initially I said I wanted to be a doctor. I later changed and said I wanted to be an architect. I later on went and changed and said I wanted to be a journalist. Leaving fomfo, I had two options. Either no, I had three options. Either no architecture or journalism. I chose journalism at the end of the day because that is what I chose for myself. But there are many who live high school and they are confused on the kind of cost they are going to choose. And some parents normally say we need help. Who can advise my son? Who can advise my child? Is it okay if a parent chooses a cause for their son or their daughter? And how far should an advice on career go for a child who's just finished from fomfo? Thank you again for the question. So when it comes to how we incorporate parents into the career choices of our children, remember there is this saying in the community that goes mzazwako ameshi sana anajua mengi. So they know what is best for you. But for me it's always about incorporating that part of the statement into let's just give advice. The more we can do as a parent is give advice. Depending on our best on the fact that you're saying you've lived for a very long time and you understand the dynamics of life better. Even if the child is confused? Even if we are advising that's why we are trying to get him off that confusion through an advice. Then from there let the child now be able to because at fomfo I'm assuming we are dealing with around 18 year olds, 17 year olds, 20 year olds. As far as we can even go all the way to 25 this person has their own values which they subscribe to. They have their own strengths as an individual which they know much better compared to you because most of the time even we send our children to boarding. We don't even interact with them but you want to purport now at such a time when they now want to make a decision you want to be part of it and become military in terms of you have to do this. Forgetting that your child either is more of an introvert this child really speaks a lot but when it comes to writing or something of the sort they are good in writing. They are good in writing. So do you know like this person can actually end up being a great author. We'll celebrate their books. We'll be able to understand the dynamics of good reading. Get a segment in the newspaper he'll be able to contribute into columns rather than force this individual into becoming a lawyer this person appears in front of court and cannot even be able to express themselves. It doesn't mean this girl or this boy is a failure. It only means that when it comes to speech they are a little bit slow they take time to formulate words in their brain and that means they can only write better rather than speak. So when we force a particular cause to people just simply because we feel that is the best for them as parents that's where we go wrong. Let's just be there in terms of advising our children this is good this is so and so such and such a person did this and was able to progress tell me young girl, young boy tell me mama like how they used to call them tell me baba what are your values? This person will be able to tell you me my values is being in a place where people are hardworking being in a place where people are resilient and when you can be able to interrogate all those values now place your child into a career that will be able to flourish that particular inner self to be able to grow rather than concentrating on the only on the outer self at the expense of the inner person of an individual So parents let's just advise and then but the final decision let's give it up for this children let them go and try I mean to see what it is and you know I am also reminded of the fact sometimes when a parent gives birth unless you are an engineer you know you have already selected a career path for your child at birth when you introduce your child let's say that is engineer baraka and baraka is still in Sunday school is that wrong? That is not wrong for me I feel you are only every person is supposed to speak good words towards a particular individual that one can be able to propel this individual to greater heights he doesn't have to become an engineer but trust me he will not fall less of someone to be respected in a society So the moment we start saying this person is an engineer then what are you doing as a parent? No, you are just saying he is an engineer then you have abandoned your child into some boarding school where every program is so tight the only thing they do is math, English Swahili go and sleep you are not even providing that environment when they come back for holiday you will be able to build things so that we are building that engineer we are not just saying so it's about words matching your actions you are saying your child is an engineer you have given back to an engineer provide the environment we have now the CBC curriculum make sure as they are coming from school with those particular homework that they have been given take part in it make sure that you are more inclined into the engineering kind of virtues Yes Daktari Nimesha Daktari When a parent is in this particular conversation with a child and as a parent you want your child to select a particular career but your child doesn't want that how should that conversation be packaged whereby you are advising your child or in regards to a particular line of thoughts but they don't subscribe to your belief how should parents relate and how should children relate also so that this particular conversation ends up being positive at the end of the day wasi koro fishane they end up disagreeing and leaving the room Sure and actually most of them will even run away from home simply because we are trying to choose a career for a child so for me since this is the parent who gave birth to you this is the parent who has seen you grown trust me they have seen one or two things about you so the moment the results are first out so we are first starting from there we have results with us remember there are courses that can only be taking best especially here in Kenya best on a certain grade so for instance let's say an average Lee a student has gotten a C plus that is like during my time that was the minimum for you to get into a university but remember right now we have TVET institutions so it's not all lost you with your D plus you can still be able to be enrolled into a into a full technique and be able to do a course and even achieve much further than a person who went through university so it's about sitting your child down as a parent bringing your options you are options as a parent I want you to be this I want you to be that I want you to be and then the child also comes with their list of the things that they themselves the careers that they themselves have wanted for themselves so it means you should ask them yes what do you want these are mine what do you want to be so you'll find more often than not you'll find this there might be one career that the two of you are actually agreeing on so that maybe his number three is actually your number two so you sit down based on the fact that both of you have at least an agreement in terms of one of the careers discuss how far that career can take an individual give examples you know when you come with practical examples of people you can relate to in a society you are able to give up a child a mental picture of where they are going but now when you say you just want someone to become a doctor in that village there's not even any doctor who this child can be able to look up to and be able to understand okay this is what a doctor does but when we come up now with practical examples be able to show him so and so went through this and I believe if you go through that based on the fact that you are resilient you've gotten your C plus and C plus is the minimum for you to get into a university it doesn't mean you are a failure it means maybe one of the papers was hard that one is the one that failed you but since you are strong your stronghold areas you've done history well you've done geography well you've done so you can go ahead and do courses that are more humanities and from there make a better a better decision you've given a very interesting example that where I come from in my village there is no doctor so is it okay for someone's child or daughter to say that because where I come from there is no doctor I would like to be the first doctor from my village it is very much okay what we are saying is give this child a practical view bring that doctor whom now you know who has been able to meet the to meet better challenges and be able to even from a different community say as much as as we come from this community where there is no doctor the first doctor from a certain community let now that child understand the journey of that doctor that's what I'm saying about being practical give us the real journey what that doctor faced rather than just saying Ram Oguko is a journalist I want you to be a journalist like Ram Oguko who is this Ram Oguko where did Ram Oguko grow up from what has been his life give us at least the challenges that he has faced so that even as an individual as I go to school I'll always remember Ram Oguko despite the fact that I've never met you I'll always aspire to now want to meet you even as I try to manuva my career just like yours so practicality let's not just throw names in the air yes and for students a child that has just finished wants to join the university what are the things that they need to look out for to help them make that career choice for themselves true first and foremost like I had said we have the grades that we'll determine right now we are still waiting for their results from next so the moment they'll be out with Kenya unfortunately it's all the grades the grades is the one that determine which course you're going to undertake yeah right so the moment we have a grade in place then after that I hear nowadays it's called Kusps it will be able it replaced the former job it will be able to place you into a certain course for you to do now remember that is not all that you have to do if someone had told me when I entered into Kenyatta University around seven years ago that I would be able I can get into the university and still change my course then I think you see now that is a part my parent did not when she was giving me advice she did not also tell me that like if you don't want the moment you have been given this course now go into the university be real with yourself let us not take a course that will also make you drain yourself at an extent that you now want to drop out at second year at third year this is the grade you've gotten let's work with that grade this is the course they have given you let's work with that course go into the university change that course apply to change a course to the course that fits you within your own values within your own interests so that the question that we should be asking our children right now is what interests you as an individual rather than what do you want to become when you grow up what interests you from there we are able now to help and guide them as parents and you start that at an early age so that even by the time we are now getting to form four they now know the courses from the grades they are going to get know the courses they are going to select know how to change you apply to the various administrative bodies like in Kenyatta University you apply to the administration at the UN I believe it's also the same because yes so apply and have your grades have your schools changed from this course to that course and if you you're doing that selection is it that you select based on your grade only or is it that you can also do there is something called bridging can you go for that also as an option or should it be that because I got this grade therefore even though I wanted to become this I should change again do we have that kind of flexibility I'll say that we have that kind of flexibility but keeping in mind the fact that we are in Kenya I can tell you of friends who did bridging courses but at the end of the day you find every time they apply for a job this question always comes up and you find an employer my friend she works at the public service commission she chooses to tell me before I call you for an interview I'll interact with your papers first so the moment your papers comes forward this person does not want to even give you a chance this is the sad reality as much as that is what we wish to happen the sad reality in Kenya is that the moment someone sees you bridged biology you bridged your papers the first put aside let's try someone else first you will call him at some other time but we are now asking we are now looking for avenues where you still get what you want but at a faster rate rather than having to be having those closed on you so many times just because you bridged just because you bridged courses so yes it's an alternative but to be honest with our viewers is that it might don't be too optimistic just be open to the fact that the journey might take long but indeed you'll get there so if you are if you have the zil like I did I mean juggling the both degrees if you have the zil then you'll achieve it it's just about remain focused but if you when you learn to want things quickly bridging will still put you at the other side as other people are first being told take a seat you'll be told stand kido guapo which can be discouraging and you start asking yourself yes you start asking how less of a human being am I it doesn't mean you are less sometimes me kujikubali just let's not force ourselves into these careers remember there is this KFC founder who is celebrated to death to date this person was able he was called Colonel Sanders when he began his career he did everything and anything every time no colleagues no nothing he was just doing every career that he could learn but the time was getting to 65 years old is when he realized he can start KFC and here we are today when I want something to eat I'll go to KFC we still so what I'm trying to say is that even these courses like Chef they'll take you places that advocacy that being a doctor that being a journalist might never might never ever have taken you so at the end of the day it's not too late don't give up even if you get that low grade there's still that something that you can do for yourself so you need to be flexible you don't need to be rigid that this is what I want it to be be open to changes because even remember even us who get into these careers two years within our career you still want you feel like you now want to major and specialize in a particular area so this is just something that will guide you because they say education is powerful education is the key to success just make sure you have your education materials right the moment you come outside this world so long as you have your degree you can get into any kind of job specification and hack it well well compared to even someone who even did low we have clerks who never entered into low school but these people are doing much better in low firms than people who went through low some commit suicide because of the issue of you know courses you want to choose a course but the course that you want is not the one that your parent wants suicide or the job has given you or the job has given you you have already chosen a course you are in the middle of a semester but it's too much for you and you feel like you can't hack it what will be your advice to such a person you are too young you are still young life still has so much to offer you will be disappointed so many times you will disappoint yourself more than enough times does it mean you will remain down there does it mean like you will now decide that we are not going to we are not going to move forward apart from the failures apart from the failures that have gone through so me I will tell you take your time change that course move to another one go and try what you feel you want so it's okay to change it's okay to change I don't care for fear there is no embarrassment my friend go back to that time because the only thing you are saying is that it will take a longer time do you know still 2021 will still come and pass anyway whether you go back and do that course or not wow wow Baraka thank you so much it is a pleasure so it means that you have chosen a course in law and people are calling you lawyer lawyer you are just in your first semester first year these are lawyer these are lawyer it's not bad to change it is not follow your heart follow your heart kubali kwanguka other than you fall when you are when you cannot be able to rise up again you are still young go everywhere find yourself that's all the time we had today thank you very much Baraka for joining me today it was all about choosing a career for you I hope that you've got the inspiration you need Baraka a professional teacher a lawyer by profession actually an advocate of the high court of Kenya and a YouTuber I wonder how you've managed to juggle all of that at the same time considering also other responsibilities she's an inspiration thank you so much for coming thank you too for having me I hope we'll continue engaging in career in talks such as this just to make sure we change conversations for our youth and for the better of the country we need to change mindsets make sure that you keep engaging with us that's all the time we had today but before we wrap it up I'm seeing so many conversations


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And it's actually the most, more liquid of the two. And NQ is a derivative of NDX. And the same form goes for the NDX and QQQ. When traders are buying, selling puts and calls and those instruments, market makers are taking the opposite side and they're hedging their delta exposure with NQ futures. The focus of my presentation today and the focus of the options-dash-dug 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 at 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 a directional bias. And the second step in my process is execution. I look at real-time order flow on book map and real-time market maker hedging flow on spot gamma 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. For example, the SB500 setups can be taken with the S futures, SPY shares, SPY options, SPX options, or even ES options. Questions and comments are welcome. And I will be watching both the options-dash-dug chat channel and Discord, as well as the chat and YouTube free of questions and comments. Please feel free to post, and I'll do my best to answer your questions. And hello, Steven. Welcome. Glad you're here. All right, here's my agenda for today, Tuesday, February 13th. First of all, I want to go over news items, economic data, and events for today as well as the rest of the week. Then I'll go through my positional analysis, then I'll review some setups from earlier today, and then I'll try to move through this as quickly as possible to get to the live market. All right, so let's start with news items. And, of course, the big news item for today was the CPI data. And let's take a look at that. This is the CPI data for today. And it came in higher than expected and greater than or equal to the previous number. And there was a very bearish reaction to that data. So CPI data, worse than expected or higher than expected. And the market did not like that at all, especially a market that has run up so much. All right, for the rest of the week, tomorrow is VIX expiration. And then on Thursday at 8.30 a.m. Eastern Time, retail sales reports. Sales are reported. That's economic data released. Then on Friday at 8.30 a.m. Eastern Time, PPI data is released. 10 a.m. Michigan consumer sentiment. And, of course, Friday is the monthly options expiration for Friday for February. And that is, we'll take a look at that. Starting tomorrow has been a very call dominated options expiration. So again, Friday is the February monthly options expiration. All right, let's move on to positional analysis now. We'll take a look at the ESP 500. So this is the ES Futures and Book Map. And just want to point out the reaction to the CPI data right here. Big drop down about a 40 point or so drop. From over 5,000 down to the initial down to actually more than a 50 point drop down to around 4950 at the lowest. So that's in SPX terms. And hello, Cesar. Welcome. Glad you're here. All right, so we'll take a closer look at the ES Futures in just a minute. And before I do that, I do want to take a step back, look at a larger time frame. I'm going to take a look at the SPX. This is the, again, the underlying index. I'm going to start with a one day chart. And the current rally began October 30th last year. So far from the low to the high, this rally was about approximately 940 points. All right, let's take a look now at a one hour chart. So we're still looking at SPX. So that is the context, this large 940 point rally. Now let's take a look at the upper portion of that. And what I want to focus on is how the SPX has progressed through these big round number levels, starting around 4,800. This was the 4,800 call wall around the beginning of the year. That's right here. SPX 4,800. And SPX broke above that level. This was on the January monthly options expiration, also a call dominated expiration. Price broke above that level. And then broke above the 4,900 level, above the 5,000 level. And then finding resistance so far around 5,050. So strong rally has progressed through these call wall levels as the call walls have gradually moved higher. All right, let's take a look at the levels on this chart. So first of all, the dash purple lines are showing the lower and upper weekly expected move. This is based on the options market. It's updated once a week. These levels remain in place on my chart for the entire week. Then the dash blue lines are showing the lower and upper daily expected move. That's based on the options market also updated once a day. I update both of these levels every day in Bookmap Discord. And I show them the evening before. So the expected moves for today I posted yesterday evening. And the daily move, again, that's daily, it does change every day. And note that SPX is trading below the lower daily and weekly expected move today. Big move down after the CPI disappointment. And note the move down did actually start about midday yesterday. All right, the other lines on this chart are spot gamma levels. These are proprietary spot gamma levels that provided to subscribers. They're available on a variety of trading platforms. This is thinkorswim. I'm going to point out the key daily levels. Excuse me. All right, these are based on gamma weighted open interest. Again, proprietary to spot gamma level. First of all, spot gamma. First of all, here's the put wall. This is I'm going through the key daily levels. The put wall at 4,600. That's a strike with largest net negative gamma that can be expected to act as support. That level did move up from yesterday from 4,500 yesterday to 4,600. The next level up is the volatility trigger. That's at 4,945. That is spot gamma's 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 hedge their delta exposure. And that tends to enhance or increase volatility. And that is definitely what they have been doing today. And we will take a look at that in just a couple of minutes. So below that level, market makers position on the gamma curve is negative. And again, they have to trade with price to hedge their delta exposure, enhancing or increasing 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 hedge their delta exposure. And that tends to decrease or subdue volatility. In Chin-Tan, you are in the options-dash-dug chat channel and that's where you need to post your questions. So you don't want to post your questions in the live stream channel. This is where you need to post right here in the options-dash-dug chat channel. That's what I'm watching. All right, so the next level up is 5,000. And that is the call wall. That's a strike with the largest net positive gamma that can be expected to act as resistance. That's also the absolute gamma strike. That's a strike with the largest absolute positive and negative gamma. Note the call wall did move down from yesterday. So the last couple of days the call wall has moved up from 5,000 to 5,050 to 5,100. And now today back down to 5,000. And that is bearish. All right, Callie Boy asked if I can zoom in. This is a one-hour chart. And sorry, I want to show all the levels. So the put wall is way down here. So even if I zoom in, that level will still be shown on the chart. I'll get to a one-minute chart in just a minute. All right, let me check for questions. All right, Chintan, the volatility trigger did hold up as support so far today. And that is a good observation. And I don't understand your question. How this gets dervised? Sorry, I don't understand. Maybe you could rephrase your question. All right, so Callie Boy, now let's go to a one-minute chart so we can get a closer look at the levels and play for today. And then we'll get to book map. All right, so here's a one-minute chart for SPX. This should be easier to look at. So I'm looking at levels for today. And Chintan asked how the volatility trigger gets calculated. That is a proprietary calculation to SPOT Gamma. We can take a look at the combo charts and give you an idea of where that level comes from. But the actual calculation is proprietary. All right, so let's look at the levels and play for today. First of all, here's the call wall, 5,000. SPX gap down lower, well below that level. Also, there's the lower daily expected move, lower weekly expected move. Right around 49.68, there's also a SPOT Gamma level right there acting as resistance. So as Chintan points out, the volatility trigger at 49.45 acting as support and this 49.68 and this lower weekly expected move acting as resistance. All right, let's get to book map now. I'm going to zoom in, focus on the regular trading hours. All right, so this is the 9.30 cash open right here. All right, let's take a look at the levels on this chart. All right, still reading questions. All right, so these are the levels on this chart. I have my own cloud notes, so I can show SPX levels. Oops, it looks like I've got a mistake there. So that's the 49.50 level. Not sure what that is above that. That looks like a mistake. I'll check my spreadsheet. Let me zoom just a little bit. All right, so the important level is this 49.45 volatility trigger as Chintan points out acting as support this morning or a target for a short at the 4.95 spy level. So I have SPX levels on my chart and I have spy levels on my chart. This 4.95 level being a key level today. And note there is a difference in price between ES and SPX and today it's right around 16.5 points. That's what I'm using. So I'm showing the SPX 49.50 at ES 49.66.5. All right, Callie Boy asked, should we take calls able to spot gamma level then? Well, how you trade these spot gamma levels is up to you. I will talk about how I approach trading with these levels in just a couple of minutes. All right, so those are the key daily levels, the key levels on this chart, both SPX and spy. I talked about shifts in levels for the SPX, put wall higher, call wall lower. I put more weight on the call wall, moving lower, interpret that as bearish. Also for spy, the volatility trigger, put wall and call wall all moved higher. So a hat trick for spy and that is definitely bearish. Again, volatility trigger, put wall and call wall all shifted higher. And for the SPX and spy, both the call wall and call wall shifted higher again for SPX and spy. All right, let's take a look at NASDAQ. And then we'll wrap up the positional analysis. All right, NASDAQ. NQ Futures and BookMap. Equally bearish move after the data release. And the reaction at the cash open was a little bit more bullish in the NASDAQ than the SP500. All right, so the underlying index products for the NASDAQ are QQQ and NDX. Before we go further on this chart, let's take a look at charts for first of all QQQ to take a look at the levels and play for today. So this dark shaded portion is the regular trading hours. Support at the open somewhere between 426 and 427. And this is the put wall at 430. So QQQ trading below its put wall and the zero gamma level at 431 acting as resistance. So for a while the put wall was support and now QQQ has broken down below that level. All right, so that's QQQ. So one minute, one day chart. Let's take a look at NDX. We'll see that this 750 level has been key. That's the volatility trigger for NDX. So remember the volatility trigger for SPX acting as support this morning. Here's the volatility trigger for NDX. Also acting as support. And now NDX is heading back down toward that level. All right, so just like the SB500ES, I have these levels QQQ and NDX levels shown on my chart. There's that 750 level that I was talking about. There's the QQQ 431 level, zero gamma acting as resistance. I also have key NQ levels on this chart. The big round numbers, those are shown in red. The zero is in the 50s. And here's the lower, daily and weekly expected move. All right, remember I'm still on position analysis. Looking at the levels and how ES and NQ have reacted to those levels and the levels of play for today. All right, shifts and levels for the NDX. The volatility trigger did shift higher. And for QQQ, the put wall shifted higher. And the absolute gamma strike shifted lower. So kind of a mixed picture for the NASDAQ. And Kelly Boy asked, are the indicators and toss for traders to buy in a book map store. So these lines that I'm showing in Thinkorswim, these are available to spot gamma subscribers. So they really don't have anything to do with book map. And if you do use book map, the spot gamma levels are available in cloud notes for book map as well. I use my own so I can be more precise and show the spy and SPX all in one column of notes. All right, so this is available to spot gamma subscribers. It's not in the book map store. All right, let's go back to the SP500. Let me check for questions. And the tremendous Tim asked, why is the put wall so low? And the call wall always so close to mark. So remember the definitions of the put wall and call wall. And they're calculated and shown every day. So the put wall is the strike with the largest net negative gamma. And the call wall is the strike with the largest net positive gamma. All right, so let's wrap up the positional analysis. And then we'll take a look at some things to answer these questions. All right, so I'm going to go back to, first of all, take a look at gamma notional for the beginning of the day. So this is market makers position on the gamma curve at the beginning of the day for the SP500, Nasdaq, and also 2000. Note all these numbers are positive, indicating at the beginning of the day, market makers position on the gamma curve is positive. So what spot gamma assumes for an index is that traders are short calls, market makers long calls, hence the positive gamma environment. They have to trade against price to hitch their delta exposure. All right, the next thing that I want to take a look at is the, the Vana model to get a graphical representation of what that means. All right, what this chart is showing is delta notional. All right, so for those of you who have seen the recent discussion in bookbap discord and the options dash jug chat channel, please note that this is delta notional. All right, so that's on the vertical axis. This spot price for SPX on the horizontal axis. There are two curves on this chart. The first shows how delta notional may change with changes in price only, and the purple curve adds implied volatility to the equation. That shows how market makers delta notional may change with changes in price and implied volatility, and that change in delta with a change in implied volatility is the, is the Vana effect. Vana is the second order of Greek. All right, so let's take a look at prices now. So we know the low of the day for SPX was right around 49, 45, and that's the volatility trigger. So that is firmly on this left skewed portion of the curve. So what this is showing is price was falling today, implied volatility increasing. Market makers delta notional was increasing. Remember, they want to remain delta neutral, so they had to sell futures to hedge their delta exposure. And then as price rallied off that 49, 45 level, price was increasing, implied volatility dropping, and market makers could buy back their short futures. And that is a put Vana rally, and that was what was helping to fuel that move higher off the 49, 45 strike this morning. All right, let's, we'll take a quick look at SPI and QQQ, then we'll move on. All right, so the low of the day for SPI, the last time I looked was right around 493, also on this left skewed portion of the curve, indicating traders are trading with price to, with price to hedge their delta exposure. Prices falling, implied volatility increasing. Market makers delta notional was increasing. They had to sell futures to hedge their delta exposure. And finally the same for QQQ. Low of the day, right around 426, somewhere between 426 and 427, so very much high up on this left portion of the curve. All right, let's go back to SPX, and I'm going to take a look at absolute gamma. So Tim, this will answer your question. It looks like he might have left. Anyway, let's take a look at the, all right, so the call wall. We know that's at 5,000. That's a strike with a largest net, positive gamma. So that what this chart is showing is absolute gamma. Orange bars are showing call gamma or positive gamma. Blue bars showing negative gamma or put gamma. So the call wall is simply a calculation. It is the orange bar minus the absolute value of the blue bar and looking for the greatest value. And that's the greatest value is right there at 5,000. No, that's also the absolute gamma strike. And that strike is, can be expected to act as a magnet for price, especially in a still a positive gamma environment. All right, the put wall at 4,600. That's not even shown on the chart. I may have to see if I can find it. All right, so there's the put wall. So Tim, if you're watching this recording, there's the put wall. Again, it's a calculation. So it's the blue bar minus the orange bar. All right, so finally let's take a look at the volatility trigger. This is the combo strikes. So this is showing combined gamma for SPX and SPY. This is the zero line and negative gamma or put gamma below the zero line. Call gamma or positive gamma above. Let's take a look at where this shift occurs. All right, so there's 49, 47. All right, so note there is some put gamma above that level. But no call gamma below that level. So that's where the shift occurs, to purely put gamma. All right, so Chin-Tan, this gives you a visual representation of about where that volatility trigger is located. All right, so based on this today, my thesis for the day was bearish based on the shifts and levels. And of course, you never know until the market reacts to the CPI data. All right, so let's take a look at some setups. And one the man asked, how does the Vana model influence your trading? If at all, it gives me a sense of how market makers may be reacting to changes in price and applied volatility. And I know on that left skewed portion of the curve that market makers are going to be trading with price. That leads me to expect a wider trading range, more trending days, and more volatility. So I can set my profit targets higher, look for more profit, again, wider trading range in my setups for the day, as opposed to a very positive gamma environment that would be on the right portion of that curve moving up. I would look for taking profits at much lower for my entry. All right, so I'm looking for, again, higher volatility today. A wider trading range as SPX and a spy and QQQ have all moved to the left portion of that Vana model. All right, so I'm going to start now with real time looking at setups. All right, so everything that we've looked at so far is based, other than book map, is based on static data. Everything that we've looked at so far is based on static data. The gamma levels and the Vana model, spot gamma takes open interest data from the OCC that comes out once during the night. They apply their algorithms to that data and come up with all the information that I use in my planning and positional analysis. All right, so now we're moving on to execution, looking at, first of all, how options traders have been reacting today. All right, so what this chart is showing, let me just zoom out, zoom out briefly. This is the hero signal, hedging impact, real time options. This chart is showing price for SPX and the hero signal in purple. Again, hedging impact, real time options. So this is showing options trades and market maker hedging activity for a combined signal of the SPX, spy, XSP, and ES futures, all into one combined signal. So if you trade any form of the SP500, this is the signal that you want to take a look at. And a falling hero signal indicates traders are taking negative delta positions. They are selling calls and or buying puts. Market makers take the opposite side of that, so they have to hedge their delta exposure. They want to remain delta neutral. Their job is to make markets and manage their risk. And the risk is in delta exposure. And for the SP500, the way they do that is with ES futures. And for SPX, that's the only way that they can hedge. There is no SPX. You can't buy or sell the SPX. So they sell, buy and sell futures to hedge their delta exposure. And a rising hero line indicates traders are taking positive delta positions. They're buying calls and or selling puts. And we'll see what they were doing earlier today. All right, so let's zoom back in on this chart. So we know it's a combined signal. Zoom back in. I'm going to take a look at a couple of setups. Now I mainly trade in the morning up until, you know, from say 9.45 to to noon. All right, so looking at setups this morning. And the first was this short setup. Traders started taking negative delta positions right around 9.40. Price reverse lower at the SPY 495 level. And then right around 10.20, the call buyers were not to be denied. So the dip buyers came in right around 10.20, right at that 49.45. That's shown as the hedge wall here. It's the volatility trigger for an index. Call buyers come in. So let's separate out puts and calls and see exactly what traders are doing. Close this. Look puts and calls. So what this is showing the orange line is showing calls. A rising orange line indicates traders are buying calls. When traders buy calls, market makers sell the calls. They have to buy ES futures to hedge their delta exposure. And a falling purple line, which is what was driving price this morning. Sorry about that. Indicates traders are buying puts. Market makers are selling puts. And they have to sell futures to hedge their delta exposure. So that was what was driving this move lower this morning. Traders buying S&P 500, SPY puts. Market makers take the opposite side. And so they were selling puts and selling futures to hedge their delta exposure. That turned around around 10.15, 10.20. They started selling puts. They started buying calls. Note the orange line, blue line moving in the same direction. That's a very bullish signal in this case. Setting up along from that, again, that 49, 45 level. All right, let's go take a look at book map. Gonna zoom in. Actually, let me zoom in a little bit more. So let's look at the short first. All right, so remember traders were taking negative delta positions. Primarily buying puts. After a brief move up at the cash open, then right around 9.38. The volume dots show market buy minus sell. Green volume dots indicate more buyers than sellers. And the magenta dots indicate more sellers than buyers. And aggressive sellers start to come in right around the 4.95 level. That's the SPY 4.95. As traders were buying puts, SPX buy puts, and the SP500 move lower down to the 49, 45 level. And note the lines in the subchart. First of all, a pink line showing cumulative volume delta. And then also the falling yellow line showing sell stop orders fueling the move lower. That's also shown by these yellow dots, green dots. And there were a couple of entry points. If you missed the initial entry at 4.95, which is very obvious to me. Let me just scroll over. So I drew this horizontal line in right here. Wrong tool. I drew this horizontal line in. Notice that it acted as resistance before. So that was a secondary entry. Then another entry right around the 49, 55, zero gamma level. That's point of control just above that. And down to the 49, 45 level. Let's take a look at the long. So we know right around 10, 15, 10, 20, traders started taking positive delta positions. They were selling puts and buying calls. The dip buyers came in. So let's look at the clues and book map. Actually, first, we'll see what large traders were doing with iceberg orders. That's shown by the light blue line in the subchart. This is pretty typical of large traders with iceberg orders. They were buying weakness. So it's prices falling. Large traders buying ES with iceberg orders. We saw the subchart indicator there, as well as the on-chart indicators. These are not large, but large traders were buying that move down with iceberg orders. Then around 10, 15, 10, 20, aggressive buyers came in. That's shown by the green volume dots. And price started to move higher back up to 495 and continued all the way up to this lower weekly expected move just above that. And then there is an SPX level just at the same level. It's at 49, 68. That's SPX 49, 68. That's also VWAP there. Price consolidates, then breaks that trend and moves lower. So let's go back to hero. So here's the setup for the long again. Traders taking positive delta positions, selling puts. Then a few minutes later, a couple minutes later, they start buying calls. All right, let's zoom out now. And this is a very typical pattern. Let's go back to the total signal now. Actually, while we're here, let's just take a look at the notional value. So puts definitely driving price today. That's in opposition to yesterday where calls were driving. Traders net for the day buying puts. That's shown by the negative notional value minus 3.7 billion. Net for the day, they have also been buying calls. And they are not doing too well with those calls they've been buying. All right, so let's go back to the total signal. And this is a very typical pattern. Traders taking positive delta positions. They take their foot off the gas. In this case, right around 1145, 1150, and price moves lower. And that move lower continues as the hero signal continues to make lower highs. All right, so let's zoom out. Take a look at that. And notice 1145, 1150, trend break. A lot of aggressive sellers come in and price moves lower. CVD shifts negative. And then sell stop orders fuel to move lower. That's shown by the yellow line. Also the on-chart indicators. Large traders are buying this with iceberg orders, but they don't have enough size to move the market. All right, so this is the entire session for the SB500 making new lows. This is starting yesterday at 6 p.m. Eastern. All right, let's take a look at NASDAQ. Remember NASDAQ was a little bit more bullish in the morning. So here's the cash open 930. Let's go see what options traders were doing. And for NASDAQ, I like to take a look at this MAG7 signal. And I'm not going to zoom out and show. For those of you who have seen this before, this is a combined signal showing options trades and market maker hedging activity for a combined signal for the stocks known as the MAG7. Apple, Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Tesla. So in the morning, and this is brief, right around 10.18, traders started taking positive delta positions and that set up along, did not last long. They shifted, started taking negative delta positions and NASDAQ started to move lower. And let's take a look, see what they were doing, put some calls. So what they were doing, right around 10.18, they started buying calls. That's shown by the rising orange line. When traders buy calls and a stock, market maker sell the calls and they have to buy stock to hedge their delta exposure. And these seven stocks, of course, make up a very large component of the NASDAQ 100 and the S&P 500 as well. Then after that, it's been a short. All right, so let's go back to book map. We'll zoom in on this. So here's the long in the morning, just after 10.15, at the 5.70 level that I've mentioned before. I think I might have been calling that 7.50. That's actually 5.70. Sorry about that. So it's the 5.70 level, the volatility trigger for NDX. Note the aggressive buyers coming in. Green volume dots, magenta volume dots on the way down. CVD starts to rise. Buy stop orders, fuel to move higher. There were some large traders in before that move buying with iceberg orders. By the rising light blue line. Price moves up to the 431 zero gamma level. As traders were buying mag seven calls. Let's take a quick look at some stocks. Then we'll get to the live market. And this is pretty typical of the move starts before the move down starts before my webinar, just like yesterday, and it continues during my webinar. Apple was bullish in the morning. Let's go take a quick look at Hero. Go to Apple. So in the morning, traders were buying. Let's just go to the total signal. This is kind of noisy. So in the morning, traders were buying calls and selling puts. Price moves up. All right, the next is AMD. Traders taking advantage of the weakness in AMD to sell puts. Shown by the rising blue line. Note the put wall at 165. Let's go to book map AMD. AMD find support around the 165 put wall. Traders are selling puts. Price moves higher. They took to take their foot off the gas. Price consolidates. Let's go to Netflix. So in Netflix, traders were selling puts and buying calls. Let's go back to the total signal. Price moves higher. Up toward the key gamma strike at 560. Let's go take a look at book map. Netflix. All right, so bullish morning in Netflix. All right, so Caesar asks, should the same thing happen at the Lowe's? And we get another put banner rally. It's possible. Just because price moves down, does not mean a put banner rally is in the car, in the cards. Think of the put banner as a potential fuel for a rally. So put banner is potential fuel. If price starts to move higher imply volatility drops. All right, David wants to look at Nvidia. We can do that. All right, dip buyers definitely in Nvidia this morning. Let's see what options traders were doing. Go to Nvidia. So this, not real strong in the morning. Nvidia did increase. Looks like quite a bit of most likely aggressive buyers. Put wall at 705. Options traders, whatever they're doing, slightly bullish taking their foot off the gas and price consolidating and moving slightly lower. Hero falls, price consolidates. Not a lot of clarity here in Nvidia today, as far as hero goes. Let's go back to book map. So it looks like more just aggressive buyers moving Nvidia higher today, shown by all the green volume dots. And also David wants to take a look at SMCI. I don't have that in a book map. We can take a look in hero. That's been a very bullish stock. 800 is the call wall. And starting right around 10, somewhere between 10 and 10, 15 today. Traders started buying calls. Price started moving higher. Take the foot off the gas. Just below the call wall and price consolidates. Let's take a look. One other thing I want to take a look at is the fixed chart. So remember this morning for the SMB 500. 10, 18 was about the entry point for a long. This is 10, 15. At that point in the day, that was the high of the day for fix. So the SMB 500 find support at 49, 45 volatility trigger. Vic started dropping price increasing. That's the put that rally. Market makers can buy back their short futures as price increases imply volatility drops. They can buy back their short futures. And then starting right around 1150. Vic starts increasing again. Let's go take a look at ES 1150. At that same time, traders start buying puts. Price moves lower. Traders buying puts. Market makers sell the puts. And they have to sell futures to hedge their dealt exposure on that portion of the of that portion of their, the Vanna model. All right, so Caesar, I hope that makes sense. This just gives me an idea of how market makers may be reacting whether they're trading with price or against price as price and volatility change. And I'm using VIX as a proxy for implied volatility. All right, let's go back to book map. Go to ES. Maybe finding support at 492. And that is also the ES 4950 level. That's right. Caesar says it's a secondary event, not a primary event. VIX has to drop, then a rally is fueled by the put Vanna, not the main event. So yeah, that's right. The Vanna model is secondary. It just gives you an idea that there is fuel in the tank for a rally or also if price continues lower, market makers will need to continue to trade with price. So as price dropping lower, they will need to continue to sell futures. So now SPX is below the 4945 volatility trigger. Let's go back and check hero. Go back to the total signal. So this was a pretty steady drop in the hero signal from 1150 up until about 215. Sorry about that. This auto zoom, I think the changing from total signal to puts and calls kind of triggers this auto zoom. So now it looks like traders may be buying the dip again. Hero may be shifting up. Let's go take a look at book map. Note that large traders have been buying the move lower with iceberg orders that's shown by the rising light blue line. And right now they're doing this in some size. This is a pretty significant size. That's 4,430 contracts. And this zoom level book map will aggregate those. So that's showing 4,430 contracts, 20 executions. 1,500 contracts. 2,195 contracts. 2,135 contracts. And 3,030 contracts. So a lot of large traders buying this move down with iceberg orders. All right, are there any more questions? My time is up. Let me know if you have any more questions. Otherwise I'll wrap it up. And one last thing I want to answer and ask. I've had several requests recently for a primer video. Something about background of how I'm using book map and spot gamma. If that's something you're interested in please let me know. You can leave your comments in the option stash dug chat channel or also you can contact me by direct message in Discord. Again my name is Doug P. I'm interested in some sort of primer video that is on my to-do list. Not quite sure how I'll do that but please let me know if you're interested and what you're interested in, what you want to see. All right everyone, thank you very much for watching. Thank you for all your questions and comments. I love these interactive sessions. Love to answer your questions and I will see you tomorrow. Have a great afternoon. Thanks again. Bye.