Alright, good morning traders. Welcome to the all markets live webinar. I'm Bruce I'll be your host and we're gonna go over the order flow and analysis of the live markets using book map we're gonna go over the order flow and the key here is to Understand the participants behavior in the auction process here To give you higher probability outcomes in within your trading And we can do this for all markets all time frames, etc So let's a quick bio here. I'm the lead educator here 15 years of trading a variety of markets and the orderful of specialists here We have many streamers all day long in here. I'm in here Monday Tuesday and Friday at 10 a.m But I do want to show you the learning center and our calendar So that you know, maybe you don't like what I'm covering But we have volume profile traders. We have You know pattern traders we have You know stocks traders crypto traders looking at a variety of different things So you should be able to find something in there that works for you. 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You can reach out to me on our book map discord Bruce ad book map Or my Twitter handle at flow order General disclosure all book map limited materials information and presentations are for Educational purposes only and should not be considered specific investment advice nor recommendations Risk disclosure trading futures equities and digital currencies Involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results. All right, let's jump in Let's take a look at these markets and we have some nice momentum here to the upside And I would look for this to continue Okay, so looking for 4550 up here now Before we jump in here though and get all excited about all this Let's put some structure on this market and let's look at the higher time frame and why we think this is starting to Unfold all right. So it's pretty simple stuff All right, we're gonna look at the daily here on the left-hand side the hourly in the middle and on the the 15 minute on the Right-hand side. All right, let's look at the daily. Well, you can see very nice uptrend here and We continued to break the the swings up here Last last week and we closed above now. We had a down or it was a down day on Friday But you know, it's and you see the candle wick up here on this daily But look at you know today. I mean we're above it and we're still seeing some some buying here So maybe it can come kind of come up to about this 45 50 area here and that being maybe a good place to look for additional insight so Yeah, that's what we see so far. We can go over the the other The countertrend and that would be we'd see some selling really come in here We'll go we'll go through that in more detail in a bit But we you can see that so far on the daily we tested below Friday but we're right back in the range here Okay, so we look for the continuation here until we see something different now Let's look at the hourly. What is it telling us now? This is really basic stuff in here We're talking about basically just two elements here Looking at these candlestick charts and looking at these higher time frames We're basically just looking at price action and volume and volume is you know Not even really attached to it here. It's down here in a sub chart. So basically we're looking at price action here And we're looking at periodic data in here It's on some sort of in some sort of aggregation And it's bar data. So we cannot see really what's going on within some of these areas So but what we we can see here on the hourly and let me actually let me Come in Got a little easier. There we go. All right, so let's just look at this right here Okay, so yeah, here we have another target here for these buyers to come up and try to get into 45 you know 50 or so Somewhere in there. It looks like 48 and a half on the hourly, right? So You know, that's what we'd be Continuing to look for until we see something different right and we'll look for that something different and the Participants in book map and the order flow is going to tell us All right, so what do we see on the 15 minute chart? Well, yeah, we still see that swing up here Looks pretty good And we've kind of come up and retest it now we're getting a little more insight here on the 15 minute chart We can see this reversal pattern in here. This is going to be like a head and shoulders pattern in book map But we can see that the move into where this selling came in, right? So we're probably going to see some profit taking up here Just about where we the swing high is just this morning And we need to see more buyers come in though to come up and and test and Swing above this 48 and a half here Okay, so a little little additional insight here when the sellers came in here on this 15 minute chart We don't really see that here on the hourly nor on the daily So this is something to can to watch here now on the downside on this move to the downside though Look at the market structure and we see this again again again All right, here is the market structure. In fact, let me up my pen tool And can outline structure so on the 15 minute chart Here's the structure we're talking about here and look if we just take that across here It bounced off of it and it continued on up, right? So yeah, we're looking forward to test the high of this structure here And you know that that's what we're looking for and we can see that that we're already not quite getting it We're seeing some selling coming in here on this wick on this 15 minute chart So, you know, we will Come back in here and let's let's take a look at book map and see what's going on now Hey, well here comes that selling right now We're gonna take the same ideas in here in terms of structure And in fact, I'm gonna make it really simple in here.  We're just gonna look at best bid and offer that creates structure All right now I have a few lines in here diagonal lines that we we just put in that kind of outline some structure But we're gonna look at also these These areas in here. So here is some structure and here's our breakout now this breakout Consize with the open here. Okay strong volume to the upside. It created a new structure We are now bouncing off the top of that structure because it broke out here Right. So anyway, that's what we see right now And let's see if we can now we're gonna we're gonna turn on the volume dots Hey with the transactions within this best bid and offer or within the structure on the best bid and offer That's gonna give us a lot of insight Hey, so your footprint charts kind of do that, but they kind of don't And that's another edge here in book map Because we can see precisely There is no Aggregated data in here. So it's very precise on where that volume is transacting within structure Right. So here come the bowls. They're gonna try to get back up to 46 and a half and then maybe our 48 and a half or our 50 level here All right. Now, how are they doing so far? It's not bad, but it's not so good either Okay, here we can see the volume dots in here. We can look at the bars down here now This is volume Delta. It's by minus cell All right, and we're looking for more buyers here to push this higher And we're starting to see some sellers though in here and In here okay, especially at the at the bottom of the range here, right? So it doesn't you know, how are they doing it? Well, it's not giving us too much information really We're looking for it. We're gonna continue on looking for the the move higher here But we've got to have more buyers here And then they can at least test up here to this 46 and a half And then we've got to see a lot more to be able to break that structure So right now is chopping around within the structure. All right, so that much we know And now let's turn on the heat map though and get additional insight the condition of the order flow All right, well here's resistance up here or supply Now are the buyers interested in it? Here they go. It looks like they're interested. They're starting to bid up a little bit But look how where they're bidding though. It's down here So this doesn't really give us too much insight. It's good to see them bid up You know, I would like to see them bid up here and I would like to see a lot more bid up here and then if we can get the reaction to that strong bid as Being more aggressive buyers, which would be green dots Then we have a higher probability of testing up to the high here and breaking it now We'd also like to see on the opposite side here this supply pull It's liquidity from the market And so let's see if we get that here Okay, so now I this doesn't look like it's high probability to me We don't have all the pieces here So right now we have a little bit of buying in here, but it's not so great We have a little bit on the bid, but they're down here And we have supply up here and they're not really pulling from from the order book All right, so, you know, we'd still look for this to continue higher here But this is not something that is just telling us And giving us that insight that Price is going to go up into these areas here. 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All right So let's jump back in here and see what's going on Yeah, see you see how we just kind of avoid the chop here and Until we see something that really gives us something to sink our teeth into In the behavior of the traders in here Then we have something right So right now we just we don't really have too much and we're waiting we're watching and We're just chopping around basically We're kind of in a weird Area here by looking at the higher time frame after the You know the clothes on Friday here you can see we are back in the range though, right? So still kind of looking for and we see that Down here it bounced off of this, you know bounce off this 15 a minute and then moved that back up here So we would look for this kind of test up into here. We we are finding buyers here All right, so I would still continue to look for that basically Okay, and but we got to be prepared for both sides here And it is the behavior in here of the traders that's going to give us insight So what's what may happen next? All right, so let's look at this one for example here now. It's not too great here But here's like a double bottom here of this little range And let's just zoom in a little bit closer Yeah, actually I take that back it looked it looked like it was telling us something but it Really isn't telling us too much. We see some selling in here and here Okay, if we didn't have these sellers in here and we have these buyers in here instead It would look pretty good for neat at least a retest back to the top of the range And then the but the potential for the breakout of the range Okay, a little bidding on up here at 44. That looks pretty good reaction is buyers Yeah, I'm just just gonna stay away from it I'm still looking forward to to spike up above into these areas here I think there's enough momentum here. It looks like it but You know what we don't like here in this kind of behavior Is we don't see them bid up in these areas in here And we don't see that really like strong confirmation in here by the buyers Then the possibility of trading right back down here is higher Much higher so you see the exhaustion here for example Now do the sellers come in though? No, not really. In fact, we're getting more buyers So yeah, I'm still looking for this to hit this 46 and a half forty seven forty eight And then maybe up to even to 50 here Okay, but yeah, it's like I said, it's nothing that I would I think is as worthy of risk At the moment here. I do like to see this this kind of algo behavior kind of chasing up underneath Okay, but I don't see them really pulling anything here at forty six and a half They any any questions? Layla, how to make it simple. Yeah, sure. So I mean really to be honest it is quite simple And I know that doesn't sound right, but This is actually in concept. This is simpler than if you're looking at your candlestick charts with a Few indicators or moving averages or whatever in fact the the transparency here is this is raw data and it's It's giving you everything and There's a lack of transparency or a lot of opacity With a candlestick chart. It looks like it's clear, but it's just not telling you that much Right, so you don't know for example, where does the volume trade within these bars? You don't know Where's the liquidity in the in these bars you have no clue You're just looking at price action And you're making financial decisions based off of that type of behavior. It's it's that's a challenge I mean if you're really good at your trade management and you've done your back testing Then yeah, you know, it's it's possible here, but Here in book map what we're looking at is very simply three elements here back. Let me cancel all the drawings here And let's just go through it again. Alright, so we take the heat map off take the volume dots off This is pure price action Okay, so is this is this clear what this is? Layla, I mean you you know, it's just very very simple here. It's best bid and offer streaming There is no time frame here. This is showing you all the price action Hey, your bar data is not going to do that You're not going to be able to see like this is kind of a there's a hit here It pulled back another hit lower here kind of pulled back a little bit and one more hit lower here And then you can see that it rejected down here We're going to see some buyers that will come in probably around in here And and then they're going to pull that back up and test up to here or in here and this or maybe the high here And you can see that it just went back and forth and and until it got back up here, but Yeah, now we want to see if there's exhaustion here So it's trying to test higher And are there buyers?  I'm sorry. All right. So, um So How how how can you possibly read this here? How can you possibly see that this is potentially trapped volume down here? And see how it retested into here precisely where it broke out from this little range here It's just not in the candlesticks Uh, and we're just talking one element right now So let's add the second one and look at this price action here volume Okay, and very simply Just add the volume dots here. Okay so This is the that potential trapped volume here Okay, and then you can see the retest here, right? So we would look for a stop run back up above this level here Okay, we're people that may be sold in here are going to be placing their stops Somewhere up in up in this area here, right? So we look for a stop run up into that area Okay, and I don't see a stop run yet. It has not Uh, but we have more sellers coming in now Hey, we kind of avoided this here. We talked about it was potentially exhaustion here Uh, and we do see sellers come in now Okay, so so anyway, uh candlesticks Uh, not seeing all the price action candlesticks not being able to see Precisely where the volume is trading. So on this wick here You just don't know that this is the volume that traded uh on the sell side here So it's very simple data Hey now So we're just talking about price structure here Uh, and or price action That creates the structure And then we're looking at the volume within that structure. That's it. There's two elements here Right, and if we take the third element here Is the heat map now the heat map is very simple. Uh, it is just showing you Liquidity, right? So let me we'll come back into it and put the pieces together, but let me just zoom in here And let's take our candlestick off here just gets in the way Um, so everything to the right of the vertical white line here. This is the current market Okay There's our current best bid and offer last traded volume price ladder And the cob column stands for current order book This is your your depth of market Or your level two or stocks And what you see these numerical values here, this represents liquidity These are just simply and they're nothing more than this. They're just limit sell orders Above the market Uh, and they're limit buy orders down below. That's all it is Hey, but it's showing you the intent to trade. Look look how this guy just came in here and just skewed the the whole order book, right? Came in with 300 and and 30 contracts now See what bookmap did not only do you see it in the current order book or your dome You see precisely when they came in and now you have context When they came in and then what was the reaction? By the aggressors So sometimes you see this this come in very high liquidity and you'll see the sellers Take them on and they'll say that that's great You want to be a buyer here? I I will sell to you And the transaction will take place here though. It was the opposite It came in with high liquidity and buyers actually it kind of repelled price, right? That was the reaction Right, so and I would look for we we look for this we look for the other side of the range here If there's still buying appetite here, then it makes sense that they'll reach this liquidity up here at 45 And now this is dynamic and it's always shifting and always changing See how this guy was in here for a very short period and then pulled his liquidity here Okay, so Now that changed now that that whole dynamic changed Okay, so and and you know now what kind of insight do we have?  Maybe we won't Okay, but this gave us a little bit of insight here when it first came popped into the book Right now. This could be more like a spoof. It's very short term high liquidity and it never traded either So, you know, what what did it do? Well, it basically showed a lot of demand and we saw that the reaction to a lot of demand here was aggressive buyers Okay, very very simple things to read here Okay, let's go through it. Let's go through another example now. This would be in a little bit higher time frame right, uh, and let me cancel or remove all drawings And then we'll look at What's happening with this and within this range here by range? I mean this price action here so, uh, you know Where are the buyers and sellers within this range in here? What does the structure look like? And what does the auction look like? And they're bidding down in here in fact at 45 and a half and 45 right, so So, let's uh You know take a look here now for example, we can go through and This is what I think is where the rubber will really meet the road here to start to go through your scenarios in here Okay, here sellers came in right they drop price Uh, hold on a minute try that again Okay So here's our range Uh, and here's where sellers came in and dropped price And now they failed to drop it all the way back down to the low here. So that gives us some insight here Right now these sellers in here They may have to be buyers up here Right, so if we get enough buyers in here Then we look for a stop run to the upside okay above this level here at 46 And we look for a price to come up into our 49 48 49 maybe 50 Hey that we've been talking about earlier. So this kind of insight here Uh is you're talking about like I said very simple data in here, but it's giving you a lot more Uh insight to what where traders are where they might be trapped where they might be compelled to buy And that's what we're talking about Okay, you want to take a look at bitcoin sure, okay, I have bitcoin here Uh, and I have a $10 per tick right now But you can see the uh, look at same same analysis in here And look at the buyers they move price higher more buyers move price higher Come back down look where these buyers came in and look where the sellers came in see that And they were able to move it right back down and retest where these buyers came in And what happened down here? Well, we see what happened more buyers came back in again. So this is bullish And now we're just looking at you know since 7 a.m. The three and a half hours worth of data But more buyers. I don't see a lot of sellers more buyers. I don't see a lot of sellers Okay, what does the book look like also so and we broke this high here Uh, and we kind of failed to break it here though So we're kind of going sideways in here at the moment Okay, but we would look for more buyers in here Uh, the bid looks good the bid. Okay See how the bid is supporting price here all right, so now the then I would look for if we can get buyers up here at this 250 level a green dot Then we should come back up and test 300 And just just to test the this this side of the range and that these sellers in here will have to be buyers back up in here Hey, and just just up to here though You know, it would just be a range bound trade basically All right by understanding that the auction in here and the transactions Okay, we'll come back and revisit this I mean we may find more sellers come in and just drop it and they'll come back down into Test this area down here Hey, or maybe even lower here Or even lower, right? We don't know right now, but we're watching And we're going through what that would look like If that did happen It well, we'd get no buyers here, which is the case up here This is exhaustion And we look for more sellers in here and to hit into this and through it So we're looking for that scenario would be big red dots in here Uh, and then then for them to retest these areas down below Okay Now the opposite is what we just covered First was we get our buyers up in here And then we get a stop run or the liquidations up to 300 Okay, top of the top of the range All right, so uh, I'm kind of leaning for the liquidations to the 300 level here, but uh To get that upside down here or these traders upside down basically you really got to see the buyers in here at 250 They've got to come in pretty hard If we get that then yeah, it is high more likely that we can get our test back up here Yeah, you can you can get your bigger picture Understanding of this you can add more data here And look at you know 12 24 hours, etc All right, so here we go Now that's not really the kind of buy and we're looking for We want to see big big green dots in here lifting this market Yeah, we can add more data in here or you know what we can do too and this is this is free and open to the public Let me show you this If you want to look at higher time frame stuff Okay, go to bookmap.com and Click on the more button and bookmap web right here Okay, this is html based And you can zoom out to a month And let's take a look Well, you can see this nice move Back in june And then right now we're kind of Is struggling to make a It made a slightly higher high up here But then you know, you can see it come right back down to the the bottom of this range here On this monthly amount of data now this data from over here in the left edge to the right edge is one month I'll zoom in a little bit closer. See what's going on Okay, so we can look at maybe several days here Yeah, we see big transaction down here Uh At the moment, this is not looking too good for bitcoin See how it failed to make a higher high up here and we don't see buyers up here That doesn't look too good on this higher time frame Doesn't look good at all in fact Uh, you know, we see these bigger bigger red dots selling at lower lows here Uh, and uh, it failed to make a higher high in here. So if you you know in the bigger time frame If you look for More sellers starting to come in here Yeah, I'd look for them to to trade back down to the bottom of this range here So around, um, you know, 30,050 or you know, 30,000 the figure All right, that's just higher time frame stuff, but that's what that's what I see right now Uh trader carlson when I say sellers failed to drive price, uh to the lows you're just referring to Yeah, yeah, we're looking at the um, well first off, it didn't go to the lows, right? Uh, and then secondly, uh Basically what happens is you'll see like, uh This is a little different. This is more like a trap here. Um, like we were talking about earlier but uh If you see sellers come in sellers come in And yet they just can't seem to move it lower here It's a failure. Um, basically it failed to go below this It rejected below the swing here So far Right, so that's what we look for the if it rejects down here These these are very simple, you know strategies, uh that uh, this is would be rejection at the bottom of the range You look for it to trade back into the range and maybe to the other side of the range Uh, basically and that's what we covered back up into 300 here All right Okay, so let's let's go back to the es and see what's unfolded here. So we didn't miss anything. Um, it's been really choppy Uh, and we you know, we stayed away from a lot of this stuff in here We went through our scenarios in here and we're just not seeing it. Um, in fact Uh, let's see here Yeah, I I'm actually seeing quite a bit more selling at the at the bottoms of the of the range here, right So now let's just watch this here. So we're looking for maybe a pullback exhaustion, which is right here in fact And now we're going to get a retest here And if we get exhaustion here again and we see sellers start to come in and curl back into this like like they are Okay, now let's take a look at this liquidity here at 43 and a half It's pretty fickle they pulled we're getting our sellers Okay sellers. All right. So now let's see if we can get the sellers back down to 42 and a half Uh, and then our break. Okay, and then we'd be looking for let's just put in a like a maybe a measured move in here Okay, so uh, and why measured moves work? Uh is um, This is pretty simple stuff. You you just look for uh, uh an equal move or at least half of that move Uh to the other side And now we're going to line it up though with liquidity and uh Other stuff see see how like, um Basically we're looking for that move here Or I'm sorry. We saw our exhaustion here. We're looking for a move here and buyers came in Okay, now this is where we can get the trap volume It do we see sellers see the buyers in here? All right, so now we're looking for our red dots in here right here 43 and a quarter and it's just not enough now the order book's not really helping us out either Okay, I would love to see them lower their offers From our red dots Yeah, it still just doesn't look that good Here's why The liquidity up here. There's there's real no no real imbalance in here In fact, there might be more of an imbalance on the bid you can see them coming in here see the blue blue areas in here So it's kind of telling us like yeah, we're not really looking for that move now We're not looking for that break right now back down into maybe 40 And we read it in the structure. We read it in the volume in here and in here But we didn't see it here Okay, so when we really zoomed in and we took a look at this in here, we didn't really see it We're just going to kind of we're going to stay away from it All right, so I cover the larger time frame for you Yeah, Lucas one of the things here like, you know, um about the analysis in here The more objective you are with understanding the participant's behavior Uh, the better it is Hey, like you don't get wrapped up in it emotionally Uh, and uh, uh, you just like, okay Well, they traded here and we're looking for these scenarios to unfold and so far in these scenarios to unfold We're looking for it and we just didn't get the behavior. We're looking for Hey, so just we don't see an opportunity Uh, and uh, when we do see that opportunity it a lot of times it it it's it's pretty clear It kind of hits you over the head they let you want to take a look again here at Big red dot here in bitcoin. Yeah, well, I mean here here's, you know You can kind you can kind of see it in here again, like, you know in the higher higher time frame here Uh, big red dot here. Look at look out at broke structure here and a little bit of bi volume Here's our retest and there's just a little bit of selling here Okay understand If there's not a whole lot of selling down here and look at the swing here Okay price price came down to here Into this liquidity down here Uh at 30,000 Hey, this is doing some funky things. Um, it came back down into here 30,000 It failed to get there and in fact, we don't see much selling at all If you you look for buyers to come in back on the other side here And look for them to to come back up to the tops of these ranges Okay, the first one being up here basically They were even here is the most conservative They write where it dropped from see how it went back and forth and then dropped Look for a retest back up into those areas now Uh, if you see that strong volume and the book supports this idea You can look for the move to this swing or up into this swing or even a breakout from that area Okay, but this is your rejection here again. It couldn't even make a low or low Uh, and we don't we don't see any selling down here. Okay in this time frame And we're doing the same thing here in the es Like look at this one here Hey, we were looking for sellers down here, right sellers sellers looking pretty good looking for the drop So we're getting buyers here. It wasn't trap volume Hey, in fact, look at look at here. We don't I don't see sellers here Now I'm starting to see buyers here. Okay, and look at the book supporting it here. It's looking better now Starting to look better if we get enough Just looking for maybe a bit more in here on the buy side And then looking for our move into 46 and 47, etc I still like this kind of idea to the figure here at 40 45 50 Okay, see see the book and balance here I don't see sellers Okay, so I'm looking for buyers here And I'm looking for them to trade up into these areas here One of the things to look for on choppy days Is to look for the traps Okay, so it's on choppy days. There's no kind of directional move So what you're going to be looking for is more where traders are compelled or forced to trade And that's where you you get a lot of trapped volume and then stop runs to the other side Right compared to like a maybe a trending day You know the buyers in an uptrend they'll still be in it the entire time Uh, maybe they'll get shaken out here and there on on some areas, but Uh, you just look for it to continue, right? So look at this. This is getting interesting. So this guy actually pulled here and maybe he might have even flipped to the other side here Hey, we don't know that but We know that this liquidity pulled and we know that liquidity came in on the offer up here And they're still coming in What we're finding by buying, um Appetite trading into these areas here So it is starting to break out now Okay, starting to to move higher now. I don't like the way that this is breaking out at all Uh, I'm still kind of looking for it. I'm looking for that buying To to trade up into here and I'm well, we got our stop run We got a bit of a stop run here already It was this move in here was the stop run above the swing here And now so yeah, maybe maybe we can see that maybe we can see a failure here Uh, here's why hey, we have a stop run Right now. I'm just going to try to break it down. Um really simply here so What we look for in the move up is not this liquidity here nor here or here nor here We're looking for them to be up here and actually to pull that liquidity and um Uh these this This liquidity here these are limit sell orders and they're getting filled This guy up here not getting filled. Looks like it's the same guy Got filled in here added more up here See see how we we think it's the same person because the moment they pull that liquidity add it to another level Pull that liquidity add it to another level So we're starting to really get into the nitty gritty of the auction here and start to understand potentially individual Uh bigger players here Now here's our move right, but I still don't really like the move This is what we're looking for but I still don't really like it here now Because there's a lot of traders in here. We got our stop run. We got even a bigger stop run here Hey, but we they these um Larger players here are getting filled on the offer in these areas here Okay, so they're basically Trying to absorb that buying pressure and they couldn't they couldn't absorb it Hey, but now watch here And watch the sellers bring it right back down to here right back down to 45 Uh, and so, you know this we got our stop runs Hey, I'm up into 47 47 and a half Uh, and then we know that a lot of traders getting stopped out Uh, and we also know that a lot of traders in here Uh, we're on the uh on the offer and getting filled Right, and then we're looking for that potential move back into the range due to this price action in here Or auction action, I should say Auction activity and it's already trading at 45 Okay, so again and now It's it's not um Let's be objective about it and just just go through it, you know We saw a skew in the order book here. We saw our buyers We're looking for the move higher and then we didn't quite like it because Looking at this high liquidity in here high liquidity looking for our stop runs. We did get our stop runs Okay, and then But are we getting new buyers in here or are they pulling on the offer allowing price to freely go up? Uh, and maybe they're supporting on the bid And that's not happening On the bid they're down here 43 42 We were just reading the the participants in the auction and here's a guy at 45 And let's see So by reading this activity in here it gives us it gives us some insight That uh, well, you know, there's a potential for the move back into the range here Basically that this is a stop run above it and a move back down into it Okay, now we read the double bottom or triple bottom down here And we said, uh, you know, here we had our sellers here. We didn't Looking for our buyers Okay, we're looking for our buyers top of the range And that did unfold and then this kind of you know through, uh, Made the the picture more complex Okay, so we had we were looking for this to unfold it did But this in here, uh, is telling us, you know, something else now Okay, so let's see this battle unfold again. Look at high liquidity coming in here now at 46 Do we see buyers take them on? Now they pulled That allows for the buyers to come in they're going to pull that Okay, let me get back to questions here Find where I'm supposed to be Okay, now I got Okay Okay, switch to The w picture not sure what you mean the weekly Layla, okay. I think I covered it for you. It looks like I did or it looks like, uh comrade, uh Offered some help here Okay, so well, like I said, there is no weekly time frame here or you know, whatever we can put one week's worth of Order flow within the chart here within this range in here or one month up to one month So if I put in one week, uh, this is what it looks like here Okay So you can see this is like a failed breakout and then look at the sellers trying to, you know, get these guys Going the wrong way And this is a really really strong move back in back in june And no question about it Really strong But you can see since then it's just been really sideways in here Okay, so In fact, they're hitting hitting the bid down here As you can see down this weekly chart Um, layla, I would highly recommend that you go to our learning center I'll put the link into the chat for you Uh, and then um And then go to and watch, uh, well, there's a few different things first off The getting started course will cover lots of Features in book map how to use the various features and read them Um, but the market mechanics course click here And then um, you'll you'll see the basic market mechanics in here This course and it will go through some, you know, it's just fundamental stuff and I really recommend anyone who hasn't seen it to take a look here The reason being is that what you're going to start to understand here. Let me just show you just some simple illustrations That You know things like this like what makes price move Um, you know transactions on the on the bid on the offer Into liquidity here contracts in here This is how the market moves Hey And uh, then this is all extrapolated to higher time frames And I can go through it again and again and again Like this move here. Look at this in the es See the sellers come in and move this now And we talked about this already In fact, here's our stop run. Here's our sellers below it Uh, let's see if we can get the sellers to try to hit back down to the low here at 42 and three quarters Okay And then this would be well, this is stop runs, but this this in here would be trap volume They actually do see a stop run here too All right, so let's just zoom in here and let's go through the micro structure Okay, now to be honest micro structure means sub second.  Well, look look here. All right, so here's a bid Here's buyers in here. Here's a little bit of support underneath. We're getting buyers. So they should trade up to here Okay to 46 Right, maybe maybe to 47 now if we zoom out a little bit more Okay, so let's read it in here. Look at the buying and the selling in here There's a little bit more buying up here. Here they go, right? So we're still looking for 47 here Okay, now what about the bid? Well, I don't see a whole lot of support down here So if sellers can come in if we don't see more buyers up here And we see sellers in here at 46 or lower. They can move the market like this just like this Okay, now If if they can do that and we don't get buyers again Then we look for them to trade back down into 44 and a half Right and then anyone that bought up here is going to be a seller down here. These are the same ideas Okay, so here we have some selling again selling Let's just read this Selling And it's failing to move the market Okay, now there's some buying this is one tick wide this market right now But it's almost always one tick wide in the es Okay, there's a few ticks in this range in here Okay, there's some exhaustion there now. Do we get sellers here hitting the bid then I'm looking for 45 Okay, let's see. Let's still see if this could be trapped volume in here Yeah, no, I don't Don't like that idea now And I'm not getting a whole lot on the bid in here. We're just it's all about the aggressor right now And this liquidity up here at 47 Okay, so anyway, we're reading this very very small auction in here And really the the it's this high liquidity here. That's kind of bullying the whole book right now And there's some down here at 45 as well Okay, there's some exhaustion I see no I see exhaustion here also on the on the sell side in here If I if I see some sellers come in here and hit this though We have the potential for that move Okay, see see the seller hitting it here. No, I want to see them hit here Okay, there we go. There's a little bit Okay sellers, let's see if you can trap these guys and let's see if you can swing it down to 45 Go now hit it harder We're looking for more red dots in here to drive this market lower take all this liquidity this 80 80 contracts here and these this 108 here trade all through all of it here and then into 45 And there's 130 down there and there's our move Right Okay, and that was it just looking for that now this concept in here Let's just zoom out bigger picture same ideas really is Okay, same ideas Look at all of this buying in here Okay And they failed to move it higher Look for the sellers to come in. I would love to see them come in here it let right around where it is right now Okay, and then hit this hard then they can trade down to 43 and 42 And you know, I mentioned this. I really like actually Mentioning or saying this, you know, don't don't take my word for it Um go go this is just um a starting point for you to go and study this Right and understand how these markets work And then start to look for and back test higher probability setups Okay, and then put some risk management around it as well. So we're looking for that move lower Hey, we got down to 44. Now is it look at look at down here A little bit of selling not too much. Yeah, there's some selling And it's just moved right back up And now what about how does this selling compared to this buying in here? It looks pretty equal All right, so to me this just looks more range bound than anything right now and on this time frame here Okay, so we're talking about a handful of minutes Okay, let's zoom out. Let's let's get a bigger picture here. All right. Well, we traded up into this high liquidity here We saw that unfold And and we talked about that scenario And then right now Boy, it looks pretty pretty horrible. I mean the one thing I do like is this selling in here, but they've been tested Up here at 45 and a half Right. So this whole this whole range in here Uh, we're just back in the range basically you can just take this here And just extend it across Okay, so leila, let me put this into the Okay, so you're still on this big red dot At 30,420 Okay, hold on a minute 30,020 This one now Well, I don't I'm not really sure which one you're talking about but I do see this in here And that's pretty strong move by the sellers back down to the bottom of the range Okay, so And I don't see a lot of buying in here right now Either and so now if we do get our green dots back up into here look out, you know, they can stream right back up into here very easily But um, anyway I guess this is the one you're talking about Yeah, all right. Well, then, you know, we can look for a pullback into that That area and all of that volume and then see if there's more buyers back up above it or lack of buyers and sellers come Come right back in and drive it back down. Okay, so look for that Right, let's zoom in here now. This dot's going to change is based off of vwap Okay, so as we zoom in and we we pull it apart Uh, we we can see exactly what unfolded in here Uh, and then this is why see see here you can look for pullbacks to test These sellers in here Uh, and then here it is right here. Okay, this is around 300 Right And that's kind of still where we are Looks like Okay, so see how the these these sellers remain in control Okay, until buyers can get back up above it. All right So this whole move is in control of sellers. Uh, in fact, we can zoom in here Uh, and and you can see where where the selling came in it it really came in over up here Okay, which makes sense, right? There's a structure up here as well It broke that structure on selling pressure. See see the same things again. Okay, and then we we just drew this up here Sellers in here, but it was broken Get buyers back up above And they are So, okay, so let's suppose you're you're looking for a break of the range. Well, what is that going to look like here? Okay, well we're looking for our green dots up here We're looking for this bid to support it here at a higher level and we want to see these guys at 47 They don't have to but we're looking for them to pull and maybe add to a higher level That will give us some good insight It now there will be variations of this Maybe we come up here and um We don't get anything on the bid, but we just get strong buying they come right into it mo mo right through Um, uh 47 on up to 49 and 50 Hey, or Another one is uh, uh, maybe, um Yeah, we see that uh, they completely pull here and you get a book flip basically from offer to bid Uh, and then those aggressors come in and and pull that market up Uh, or uh, maybe we um, we get another uh variation over here This happens a lot too is um Maybe they'll trade into this like it looks like that scenario is the most likely here They're going to trade into it. They got to take these guys on we might get some support on the bid We're getting a little bit right now Uh, they they take these guys on but uh, there's still enough buying pressure to take it up higher And then we look for maybe that potential stop run and the now See look at the exhaustion here and selling Okay, so it couldn't make it here. So now, you know, watch it come back down into the bottom of the range and ranges in here Hey, you can look for your mean reversion trades here. Maybe maybe you're a volume profile guy Or or a woman, uh, and you're looking for the move back just just down to the high volume node Covering some maybe get maybe get some of the outside edge here as well Okay, here's our exhaustion Hey, we were looking for that one of these scenarios to unfold here well, uh None of them unfolded here There was exhaustion here and our sellers came in here And and then moved it back down to the bottom of the range Okay, so it's already through that high volume node And so if you were looking for that, you know, and this is this is the way you trade Then on this time frame in here, uh, you'd probably take some profit And that's just some trade management, uh, but uh, you're looking for a mean reversion trade or, you know, back into the range here Uh, then, uh, yeah Why not? Why not take some some profit here? This is what you're looking for Uh, Joe not enough range to consolidate to to trade. Yeah. I mean the futures are pretty good. I mean you you can You know, uh, there's this is only like a what you know Three points or so that's not actually so bad. I mean we've seen a lot worse than that Um, but if you can look for something higher probability, why not? You know, uh If you know it is starting to you know align here I mean, it depends if you're looking at a higher time frame and let's do that Okay, so instead of looking at this small range in here that we've been talking about And looking for, you know, the potential breakout, etc Uh looking again here for it and it just completely failed. Oh, it still may do it, right? We still may find buyers back up here If we do we'll look for that scenario More likely scenario them to pull You know add on the bid get our green dots and that get our move to the upside Okay, we've seen this so many times Uh, it it looks like it's going to happen and then you can even say like a cup of handle whatever it is doesn't matter Uh fails comes back up and then and then does what you're looking for And then that these sellers in here will be the buyers up in here It happens a lot Especially on days kind of like today We didn't have high expectations at all. Uh, we were back in the range here on that higher time frame on the daily here Uh, and then looking for the potential move up into our 50 Uh, and then we looked at the hourly and it's like, yeah, it still looks pretty good 48 and a half or so Uh, and then we looked at the 15 minute chart and we're like, um, not looking as good. Um Just because of these these sellers coming in here driving that market lower And we're starting to find some wicks up in here this whole session. We found nothing about wicks up here basically Okay on the 15 minute chart here. So it's been very back and forth All right, see how we can align that though and we can look at this in here within book map to give us deeper deeper insight Uh, if profile traders the cjo, um Do not have mean reversion On this upper just distribution again only switches roughly 5 m atr Right. Well, here's that scenario. We just covered now. I again know like I just don't like it Uh, this liquidity did not get out of the way and I do not see support on the on the bid Uh, it's up to you joe. I mean, I don't know what time frame you're trading Uh, but uh, you know, if if you're looking for your mean reversion, um And I mean basically from the data that I see in here It would be the middle of this range or kind of near the bottom of the range in here. This is your I volume node or if you want to see it break and come back down into this node here And if it's not enough for you then that's it's not enough for you Um, that's the way that you trade. Um, don't totally make sense It's some pretty strong strong volume here On the buy side Yeah, I hear you joe. I mean like, you know, just um You know, it seems like maybe a waste of time to trade into small stuff in here And just just wait for something better Uh, I'm just trying to cover all time frames in all markets Uh, so that uh, uh, you know, it is fractal Uh, you know, this could be like, let's say a weekly range in here or a daily range in here Uh, you know, this would be several days of of data You'd be looking for basically the same things You know, another thing too that we um I haven't uh, I haven't covered for a little bit, uh, but uh On these kinds of range boundaries in here like this Um, we're looking at the correlations can be a real big help So you could, uh, you know, look at, uh, well is the NASDAQ the Russell the ym All doing this or like what are the bonds look like? What is uh, Uh, you know, the euro dollar or the dollar index look like In fact, we have a tool called market pulse, which um, I think you guys will like Quite a bit Can we have our stops and icebergs down here that we've been covering Looking for those stop runs, uh, but the market pulse a really interesting tool here We've just developed it, uh, just recently But you know, it can give some some great insight, especially for correlated markets in here All right. Oh, here it is right here. Okay Yeah, so here we can look at price change and volume well volume pressure imbalance and volume pressure for the es Let's just look at the same. We won't even look at correlated markets. We'll just look at uh, maybe these three Okay, and then we'll look for uh, some insight here Okay, because what we're looking for now here is to here Uh, this these little um widgets in here, um This one's price change Okay, uh, this is volume pressure imbalance and this is volume pressure. So we're looking for volume pressure We're looking for buyers to come in here and dominate And I don't really see them doing that at all It's it's pretty muted in here Okay, if they come in then We should we should start to hear it Right right up here and then we can get our move into 50 that we're looking for It looks pretty good here. It looks pretty good We're getting a little bit of support in the book here, but they are on the offer at lower levels here. So it You know, it's not the the the great setup here that we're looking for or that kind of insight in the order flow here So the opposite scenario would be the failure of this, uh, uh breakout here And what would that look like what we'd look for sellers down here Or lack of buying up here now you can see that the volume pressure imbalance. We're starting to get buyers It's our need to hear it. You'll hear this guys. You'll hear it over on youtube. You won't hear it in discord um, but Let's see if we can get it here Yeah, and it's it's pretty muted right now Okay, let's add, uh Here we go. There's a little bit of volume now see see the sellers come in You can hear the sellers come in Okay, now Now sellers are gonna they're gonna try to drive it away from here as fast as they can Uh and try to get back down to well basically back down to the mean here Uh around 44 and a half And now if they can't They're gonna be the fuel for the move up into 50 Oh, thanks, joe. I really appreciate it. Um Love what i'm doing uh if scalper Yeah, I mean scalping or like I said, I don't think it it has to be um, you know scalping You know if you zoom out here and you're looking at higher time frame Um, you know, you'd be looking at the same things. You're just gonna have to widen out stops Uh and your risk management is going to have to be different I'm sorry. It doesn't have to be different. It just needs to be wider that's all Right, and that's why I go over the lower time frames for the most part so we can go through many instances And again, it I want to try to simplify and clarify this You know, we're we're just looking for The the behavior here of the players to tell us Okay, so now these see these sellers here Like we went through that scenario they're they're gonna be shaking in their boots in here If we can get our buyers in here, we should get a nice stop run to the upside here So I would look for this here Uh and again, it's not a trade recommendation But I'm looking for these guys to get stopped out and I'm looking for a move up into our 50 Maybe 51 And I'm looking for a quick move in fact I want to see them get stopped out I want to hear this like really big buying coming in here And I also want to see the For our stop run here. We look at the iceberg buying in here Be pretty good Hey, there's our bid now. What's the reaction to our 47 here? Hey, there's still some on the offer at 48 and a half, but Starting to find some buyers here still looking for this this uh squeeze here to the upside Okay, we got some support Just got to get our buyers here And let's get our squeeze That 48 and a half is the one that's kind of They're not the the buyers just aren't aren't tangling with that 40 48 and a half yet They need to Okay buyers, let's see it Here we can add, you know, we can add in here is apple or tesla And look for these stock correlations for this to unfold It I don't I mean this is one of these funny days here Like we should be hearing a lot of volume. We're we're hearing something, but it's the price change algo This is not it. That's not a real good sign actually You know, we want to we want to hear now the volume starting to pick up a bit See, we want to hear volume Not price change on no on little volume in here. Okay, we got we got a mild stop run here Nothing nothing great And this this can really help here with your momentum moves Uh, and right now it is helping us with momentum moves. It's telling us like That it's not so strong momentum Right the the white line if the volume can cross the white line in here or these white lines in here That's when we can uh, you know, we can hear the momentum or see the momentum come in And um, that's that's what we look for on this move here Right if we can start to see that unfold we're looking for that continuation here And we're just not getting it Let me jump back to discord if you guys have any questions. No Okay, now we're getting it. Let's see it buyers. Let's see if you can move this now Now notice this is high of the day So for it to accept and see the tapered edge in here for your volume profile guys This this means that it's not really accepting up here Hey for it to accept and this is why we'll see like you'll get these kind of low volume Nodes like like this and tapered edges like this But then you'll see a lot of buying come in here and lift it and then it'll go into a new range up here And then kind of define itself up there Right, and that's how you get those kind of you know trending days you get I mean today you see double distribution like this and Uh, you we're looking we're looking for you know the buying to try to lift it here not not exhaust out In fact, what we're looking for Is the primary scenario for the day was just the move up into here Uh, you know the swing up here Uh, and then that was it, uh, then we'd we'd see after that There we go. There's our move Okay, and our stop run. Uh, I'm still looking for a bit more here out of this move actually see 51 hold their liquidity Uh, this guy at 50 traded these guys So it's still still looking for a little bit higher here 51 51 and a half Okay, so we're above our Um, our line here our price changed but our our imbalance Volume pressure and balance is not showing us much Hey, so Now how much how much do we believe in this move now? It did what we're looking for but this is all we are looking for Is it going to establish up in a new range up in here? It doesn't look too good right now And now watch this watch we look for Exhaustion sellers here now sellers to trade it right back down to 49 maybe 47 and a half Okay, because we're not finding quite enough buyers for it to accept higher So we look for this look for the sellers to move it back down into the range here back to areas where it Transacted previously Okay, so for your bigger range bound, uh Move or your mean reversion move that would be a nice move back down to about you know 44 and a half Okay, so let's see now This we just didn't We're watching and listening to the whole thing here and we just didn't get quite what we were looking for As a really strong move A little little pockets here. We're not bad Now watch for the opposite move Okay, we're and today's a good day to look for that Okay, so there's our uh, no, there's no exhaustion there now now they're trading up here Okay, it's still looking though for maybe 49 and three quarters. There we go And let's see them hit it here. Let's see them pull it away quickly Back down to we can look at a smaller node maybe back down into 40 47 and a half 47 Just looking for traders to see if see if we get sellers that'll move it back down there Yeah, we had our stop run We have some liquidity getting filled here and here 520 contracts traded at 49 a lois I don't see that They're still squeezing higher here but i'm just We're listening to it too here with market polls not hearing it. So now This is going to be the trap volume up here And we can look for a mean reversion trade at this point Okay, uh, that's what uh, we were answering earlier. Thanks. Thanks. Howlois liquidity close together mean that algos are Present and market makers well market making algos are a bit different animal completely, you know that that They're constantly like in you know pretty close, you know, two or three ticks range three to five ticks maybe You know and their job is to make the market provide liquidity and They can they they're very very efficient and effective And we're looking for something beyond that Basically, and we're looking for a little bit longer term liquidity in here and the condition of that auction So trading up into it here trading up into it here Then we look for you know, did they get filled in here? Uh, some of them are market making algos, but uh, you know, there's just you can see this is a little bit longer term You know liquidity All right, so now we're looking for our mean reversion here back down to 48 and 47 and a half 47 maybe Anyway, just uh, want to uh, let's uh, we'll wrap it up here. I just uh, You know first off, please hit the like button if you like this Uh, you know, we'll go over more tomorrow. Get your questions together for tomorrow Uh, the one important, uh element though in here are Uh subject here to to to mention is that The this is we're covering order flow in here. We're reading the behavior in here. Uh, I'm not trying to present Uh a trading strategy. I'm not trying to present. Um, uh something Like oh the market's going to do this market's going to do that Uh, it's about understanding this in here and the presenting ideas Uh about like how this might unfold due to the behavior Right, so now we can look at patterns Uh, and uh, you know trends whatever it might be in here. Uh, it is the same ideas Right like if you're looking at a you know double top or like a A trend line Or range whatever there's going to be volume and liquidity within those areas And that's what can give us more insight here So, you know previously due to this exhaustion on the buy side up in here and sellers coming in We're looking for a move back down into 47 Hey, all it did All all that price action did was it traded and it did trade down to This volume dot here. So, uh, layla, this is uh, you know, kind of like your your volume dot on your, um Um on your crypto Right. So On on bitcoin it traded down to here and this is where the buyers move that market higher now. They That wasn't quite a stop run And it bounced off of there Right, so it it is so far it has accepted above this area in here So this is now if that presents an idea to go back and study Okay, so take take a look at that idea here. This is where they came in This is where they moved the market here, right and it went into a range Now, how do you know that like, you know, here's our we're looking actually for the move back back down lower Uh, and uh, well We didn't get anything in the order book to tell us here Uh, it just traded back down to here and we got buyers And we didn't get sellers in here Okay, so and look at that behavior down here. See see the buying Here's the selling here's the buying coming in here's the buying coming in And here's the continuation now Yeah, so now take some of these concepts and ideas here, uh, and, um Go back and back test it Try to have like at least 20, uh instances of this, uh, that that you've studied take take a picture of it screenshot, uh, and, um Get an understanding of it Okay, the variations of it what it looks like Uh in here so like right now that same idea in here Well, where are the buyers in here the majority of them? I would say it's down here. There's some here too So maybe maybe we get a pullback just to 55 50 here I'm sorry 50, uh, and a half or maybe we get lower here It comes all the way back down and retraces to where these buyers came in down here at 49 and three quarters Okay, jack you're looking for a move up above 50 here. Yeah, maybe I mean, uh, this is on our daily here. Here's our move Uh, we were just looking for the you know the move up to here and it boy did it take its time Uh, now the next area here is is up. Yeah about 55 And uh, if we can get an auction up there, uh, maybe we can even come back up into the wake up here You know from uh, friday's close or you know on friday Uh, the the the large wick Yeah, thanks leila. Um, all right. Well, uh, thanks everybody. I've gone over my time limit We'll be back tomorrow though And if you have anything specific happy to go through it and answer it for you Hit the like button. Please that really helps Get things going here so we can go over more Uh, do you have a dex feed or dx feed? Is that what it is? Uh, yeah, yeah, you can look at the es. Uh, you won't be able to get the mbo data, but that's fine um for Getting up and running in book map. Uh, the the mbo data will Gives you a real bonus here of being able to see stops in icebergs if you have the the mbo bundle Uh of indicators Uh that we were looking for we're looking for that behavior like stop runs, right? Uh, and uh Yeah, so now look at this see see look at where this selling came in Or the buying i'm sorry And if we can get sellers here They were trending pretty nicely But if we can get our sellers here we can come back down into these areas That's some pretty heavy selling already Yeah, look at the look at the offer here Okay, we got two out of three now Let's get a little more selling in here and look for the move right back down to 49 and three quarters Uh, maybe uh, maybe about 49 Let's just watch and wait here because it's looking pretty good See how the offer here they're even at a at a lower level below the swing here So we're looking for that to dissuade buyers from going higher And we're looking for sellers now to jump in and try to hit this liquidity down here And I don't I don't I mean there's some selling there we go. There's a little bit more No, that's not what we're looking for not buyers For sellers here at 51 And not seeing it. Okay, so that trade idea Is it's not ready yet for it. It's not setting up Anyway guys. Yeah, thanks for coming everybody. Uh, we will Go through whatever it is you like more. How do you get mbo get you need to get um a rhythmic data? um SK gango Uh, and then uh, yeah, they they offer it it comes with it. So, um, then you'll need to get the mbo bundle It which is on the book map marketplace Okay Yeah, thanks everybody. We'll um I'm just back from uh A week off. Well, it wasn't really a week off, but uh, uh, I'm I'm just back. So getting back in the groove Uh in the swing of things here. Uh, we'll see you tomorrow at 10 a.m Don't forget. Um, actually, uh, I will I'll be there for uh, Fausto's webinar If you go to the learning center, I can show you where that is again Hey, so Uh, free Our live events scroll down. Uh, here it is here Fausto. He's at one And then options with dug and then algo boys All right, so tom is off this week. Uh, he will be back on monday All right. So, uh, in fact, you can see here. We've we've got a webinar all set up for him So you guys know he's coming back On monday right here. Uh, so, uh, yeah, here's tom's. Uh, we have crypto lifer as well new new trader. Well, we've been dealing with him, uh, and uh, Hosting webinars with him for for a while now Uh, however, he'll be streaming weekly now. Okay, once a week So, uh, great stuff in here, you know, we continue to, uh, expand All right, guys.


Good your time of day to you. This video marks the 200th episode of in its many iterations of Plainly Difficult. It's taken 6 years and over 750,000 subscribers to get here. And I'm surprised that you all still keep coming back every week to hear me talk and watch my dodgy cartoons. Well I'm glad you do. Whilst I've got your attention, would you like me to revive one of my early days series from the channel in the future? Such as Strange Places or Interesting People? If so, what would you like me to cover? Let me know in the comments. Anyway that's enough of me talking. Time for the episode of me, well talking. It is a December morning and traffic is flowing along Interstate 75 in McMinn County, Tennessee United States. All is calm until two lorries crash. Both drivers are uninjured and in the face of it, it is a pretty unremarkable event. However, it was set off one of the USA's most deadly pile-ups in living memory. Hello my name is John and welcome to Plainly Difficult. And today's video is on the I-75 Fog Disaster. Background. The I-75 is one hell of a long road, stretching from Florida's Miami Lakes all the way to the Canadian border. Measuring in at 1787 miles, this behemoth highway slices through 6 US states. The first parts of the route had been opened to the public in 1957 and over the following decades sections would be added. The section that will be the focus of today's video is a part of Four Lane Highway, opened in December 1973. More specifically, the SR163 interchange near Calhoun, Tennessee. This section of road is situated between two valleys and is very susceptible to quick-forming fog. In the area, there are several locations in which water collects, such as behind the Chikamuga Dam and in settling ponds of a local paper mill operated by now defunct Bowwater Incorporated. This alarmingly quick and thick fog was responsible for six multi-vehicle collisions in which several people had lost their lives during the 1970s. With a now increasingly notoriously bad stretch of road, the state of Tennessee Department of Transportation decided to try and improve the situation. What they did was to install dual warning signs, which read, extreme dense fog area next five miles, along this stretch in each direction, which contained flashing lights that would activate if fog was detected. In addition, state troopers would be placed along the section of road on foggy days to help reduce the speed of motorists. The initial spate of the section of roads pile-ups came to an end in 1979. This accident would involve 18 vehicles and resulted in three deaths and 14 injuries and luckily all would be quiet for the next 10 years until two trucks would have a minor crash. The disaster. It is 5.30 in the morning on 11th December 1990 and a Tennessee State Highway Trooper is conducting a pretty standard fog check. He found that the morning, as far as he could see, was acceptable on the visibility scale. A light fog would descend on the road, although at the time it was not causing any visibility issues. The fog would continue to intensify as the morning dragged towards 9am. Witnesses would later report that the thickest accumulation was at State Route Overpass 163 near Calhoun. The distance that drivers could see varied between 20 and 10 feet, but some even reported less. Because of the visibility issues, many drivers slowed down, however some did not. This was when at roughly 9.10 in the morning, a freight lorry was struck in the rear by another lorry, which had a tanker trailer. The former was travelling at 25mph and the latter at 45mph. The accident was pretty trivial. Both drivers of the southbound trucks were uninjured. They stopped to inspect the damage, roughly 100 feet south past the overpass. After a few minutes of pleasant trees and checking out the damage, a 1991 model year Oldsmobile saloon vehicle struck the rear of the tanker, which then itself was struck by a truck. This caused the car to crush between the two trucks and caused a fire which killed both driver and passenger in the Oldsmobile. A secondary cluster of crashes occurred a little back north on the southbound lanes, and this involved 72 vehicles. Around the same time on the northbound, traffic started to slow, which were then themselves crashed into. By 9.20am there were two sets of pileups, one in each direction. Some of the collisions had also caused further fires. This resulted in many victims being burned in their vehicles, and even the asphalt road surface being damaged. Some were burnt beyond recognition. Just four minutes after the initial collision, 911 had received its first calls. First responders were quick to arrive on the scene. By 9.30am a triage had been set up for the wounded on the northern side of the highway. The overpass was repurposed as a helicopter landing site, but most seriously injured. Many others were sent via ambulance to local medical centres. More than 200 rescue personnel were involved in rescuing recovery work on the highway. In total, 99 vehicles were involved in the pileups. Sadly, 12 would die with a further 42 injured. The accident site also posed a hazardous materials risk due to the number of freight vehicles involved, and this would require extra time and specialists to clean up. The NTSB attended the scene pretty quickly, to begin investigating the underlying cause of the horrific number of crashes. The investigation. Investigators had quite a large number of witnesses to interview, as nearly 100 vehicles were involved. Because of this, the NTSB would take the best part of two years to release its findings. Initially, the finger of blame was pointed at the bow water paper mill and its settling ponds, but the NTSB couldn't find definitive proof. The striking quickness of the onset of the fog was one of the most startling parts of the story. One eyewitness, who was under the overpass, stated they could not see the bridge, just a few feet above their heads. The NTSB put the root cause of the accidents down to drivers responding to the sudden loss of visibility by operating their vehicles at significantly varying speeds. But even though the NTSB didn't put the blame on bow water for the fog, the US Department of Energy had contradicted this finding nine years before the accident. When it had concluded that the plant was likely to cause three times more fog in the area than that would have naturally occurred. As such, multiple lawsuits were aimed at bow water, which would result in an out-of-court settlement of $10 million with 44 victims and family members of victims in January 1994. But it wasn't all bow waters fault. The state had failed to implement proper fog detection procedures and as such it spent $4.5 million on a computerized fog detection system. This is a pretty sophisticated system with nine forward scatter visibility sensors, 14 microwave radar vehicle detectors and 21 CCTV cameras. All of this is linked to variable speed limits, flashing lights and warning signs. The variable speed limits lowers from 70 to 50 miles an hour at a visibility below one-quarter of a mile and down to 35 miles per hour when the visibility is below 480 feet. Access to the highway in the area is restricted by gates when the visibility drops to below 240 feet. The pile-up highlights the risks of traveling in poor visibility and serves as a sobering reminder that an average commute can become deadly. Well thank you very much for watching this 200th episode of Plainly Difficult. Hopefully we will have well over 200 more. I'm going to have myself a nice vanilla latte to celebrate and I'll see you next week. This is a plain difficult production. All videos on the channel are creative commons attribution share alike license. 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Hi! In this video we'll demonstrate how to convert an Excel spreadsheet document to CSV format using Bitescout Cloud API server. Here, we have links for Bitescout API server documentation. API server base URL. This is the local URL. Lastly, we have a link to a sample input spreadsheet. To begin with, let's review the input spreadsheet document. As we observe, we have simple spreadsheet data here. Now, let's go to documentation and find the endpoint for XLS to CSV conversation. Here it is. Endpoint name is slash XLS slash convert slash to slash CSV. Upon observing different parameters, we have parameters like URL. This parameter requires a link to input Excel document. It represents quotation symbol used in CSV document. Separator symbol, it's a separation symbol in a CSV file. By default it's a comma. Worksheet index, it's a zero based worksheet index from an input document. Okay, let's begin generating a request URL. Here, I have copied the API endpoint URL which is slash XLS slash convert slash to slash CSV. Now, let's add parameters. We'll be adding a worksheet index as zero. In addition to it, we'll be adding a URL to input Excel documents. Please note that this URL should be public so that the API server can do further processing based on that. Finally, let's add a base URL to it and process it within the browser itself. We have an instant result in JSON format. Let's observe output. Thank you for watching this video.


Erin, after a bit of the struggle the last two days, how important was it for the offense to get out to a quick jump? Yeah. Yeah, it was great. I mean, you know, put a couple up there early, and then Garrett kind of took it from there and was terrific again. But just it was good to see the offense just really string together a ton of really good at bats tonight. A lot of guys having big nights, and then Garrett going out and really just continuing what he's been doing over this past month. Paul's final start before the postseason, what leaves you most encouraged heading into the postseason with Cole? I just feel like he's got a real good understanding of his attack plan and developing the game plan as the week unfolds and then going out there and executing it. And I continue to go back just using all his pitches effectively, not being afraid to shy away from any pitch in any situation. And he's filling up the strike zone. So it was just really continued to be encouraged by what we see. Judge said it might take him four, five, six games to get in the groove offensively. Is he starting to look more like himself at the plate? I think so. Felt like his last at bat last night was pretty good where he just missed the ball the other way. And to get some results today with a few more hits and he's getting closer, I think. What happened with Tyler Lyons? Was his name not on the scorecard? Yeah, his name was not on. So just in these new rules, we don't exchange at the home plate. So I don't know if it was an issue of the transaction not going through by the time our card went through or what, but on my card, he's on there. So we'll try and make sure we're airtight on that moving forward. So it's an electronic thing that? We'll do some more digging and see what went to the bottom. I know the transaction went through a little bit late, so I mean, we're gonna have to continue to work to get to the bottom and make sure that doesn't happen, obviously. Thank you. Next one to Marley Rivera. Hi, Aaron. How would you overall describe what adjective would you give to Garrett Cole's first regular season with the Yankees? You gotta ask that again, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. How would you describe Garrett Cole's first regular season with the New York Yankees? Man. What kind of adjectives would you use? Outstanding. Is that an adjective? You know, he comes in with all these expectations, obviously, you know, and understandably and rightfully so, you know, the big deal, the best picture in the game, coming to the Yankees and all that goes with that. The team he cheered for as a kid, you know, and now all of a sudden you throw 2020 on top of it and all that's transpired, you know, playing in this environment, playing in the COVID situation and I think he's navigated it all so well. You know, that's not easy. I think we take for granted just because a guy's talented and really good at his craft that it's just be able to throw, but he's gotten better as the season's gone on.  Next one to Dave Lennon. Hey, I know you're confident in Judger's ability to get up to speed for the playoffs, but does tonight like tonight at least let you check a box for him or something and just feel a little bit better with that progression? I mean, scoring from first base to early in the game on Hicks's triple, just to kind of be in the mix and scoring three times and stuff like that. Yeah, to see him moving well, I think that's the biggest thing right now is physically just seeing him bounce back and seeing him be able to do all the things he needs to do to be here and judge. But I'm confident like he's gonna get there, you know, the guy we know in the box. And so it's, yes, it's great to get results and have another day where, you know, he's making improvements and clearly getting more comfortable in the box, but more for me right now is just making sure he's physically bouncing back and moving like he will, because, you know, I know the difference maker that he is. Thank you. Bruce, back to you the next question. Aaron, you talked about Cole's regular season. How much are you looking forward to handing him the ball and seeing him perform in the postseason? Yeah, I mean, can't wait. I mean, one of the big reasons we brought him here is to be that ace that can go up against anyone. So I'm excited. I'm excited for him about where he's at, you know, and kind of as his season's unfolded. And again, you know, I feel like he's pitching his best baseball right now and feel like he's very much ready, you know, to go, hopefully set a good tone for us starting in the postseason. Brendan Cuddy, you have the next question. Aaron, you mentioned being pleased with Garrett's attack plan and I guess the planning that goes into a start. How do you consider that one of Kyle's big strengths developing that kind of attack plan? I think he's part of that process, you know, I mean, and I think he's done a good job of getting on a good page with, you know, with Matt Blake, with Garrett, obviously and just, you know, so I think he's been an important part of that, but I would say the same thing about Gary and I think it's more about Garrett getting entrenched here and knowing our information now and how to reply it and who to go to and all those things as the week unfolds. I think he's just getting more and more comfortable with that and I feel like it's been excellent and continued to improve.