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It's also open to digital free users as well as previous Bookmap subscribers. Scroll down here. Here's the first deal for the three months if you're interested. And then down below here is the deal for the first month new subscribers or previous subscribers. I'll put the link into the chat here for you guys so that you have it and then you can... All right, I just did. It's in the chat for you, okay? In Discord as well as in YouTube. You guys have it. Okay, all right, so that said, let's move on and start to go through some of the trading activity in here. So Jack went through some trades here for Jay Zay and a few others. Then also we have Slowdown who went through a few images and gave some feedback and coaching. And then Stan as well. So we have three different coaches in here. We're gonna go through what they were covering. Jack is away, so it'll just be me covering what Jack has written. And then also for Slowdown, it will be... I'll be going through the details that Slowdown provided me. And then when Stan gets on, we'll go through the open mic, okay? All right, so Jay Zay, this is what you can see here. The wrong initial bias here at number one, this is where it looks like you bought. No, I'm sorry, that is not quite right. Well anyway, or maybe you sold and then covered very quickly here. And it looks like you maybe sold again in here. So this is technically a consolidation and not a pullback in this area and here's what Jack is talking about. But yeah, I can understand where you're coming from here. I do see the move down and then it is consolidating but then you get the move down again here. So anyway, as Jack had kind of summarized here, your off-size at the open tried to long into a short setup on the first black box there, right in here. It looks to me like there is a sale here and then a cover though. And it's kind of hard to see on the image, that's the issue. And then you can see another sale in here. The second black box is, let's see, canceled my sale orders and hesitated. And then, yeah, you can see some of that in here. And then retest on the... You shorted the retest of the VPOC here and close on the overnight VPOC. So, yeah, down into this box in here. Fourth box up here, a black box that Jack had outlined. A little bit of a short squeeze to the upside here and then waited for the VPOC retest here and then nice trade here. So looking for that follow through, which I like very much in here. I mean, there's a lot of kind of choppy stuff in here. And this is where I think the coaching can be really helpful for you, to be honest. Because we all kind of fall into these, like, what is the market doing? Well, when you start to look for something very, very specific, this is when it gets easy over here, okay? You're looking at something very specific over here. And that is the VPOC here. And then you're, well, you see some selling here. Really, the safer bet would be probably over here as it starts to break away from it and you see selling, okay? And yeah, I can see you trail your stop down like that. That's really good, reduce the risk immediately. And I love your target, getting out here right in front of the high liquidity here. That's a beauty. And this is easy pickings here. This is difficult, right? It's choppy, it's moving back and forth. There's a lot of things to consider in here to take a look at. I mean, look at this move back up into high liquidity up in here. And this is going to be a stop run in here because there's going to be a lot of people getting chopped up that are selling down in here. And it looks like you included, but you took some profit in here on the short move here as well. This is also really nice. This is the same setup, okay? It is starting to break below your point of control and then you're taking your profit into high liquidity down here, beautiful, okay? So I would suggest, along with being careful in here about your bias as Jack is mentioning, to consider looking at something very specific and then the order flow around that specific element, okay? It seems like you like VPOC, great. So stick with that and look for the order flow around it. This is beautiful up here. You get this really, really strong move and then equally right back down to it, right? Now it could have bounced here again. It didn't. We don't see buyers come in. This happens all the time. We see this all the time. We would assume that there might be buyers in here if these are real buyers in here. I imagine they're not. And it might be some, but probably a lot of stops, right? So once it starts to curl around in here, then this is the easy trade, okay? And it worked beautifully for you. One of the other things to look at in here. So look at the volume. I mean, we covered liquidity here, also in here. Look at the volume. Look at your volume, not just your dots, which are excellent for showing you precisely where the volume is trading. Look at your bars. These are your Delta bars. How much buying is in here? Okay, not a whole lot, right? So your bias is still with this kind of trending move here from the, I can't see where it came from. So I don't know how far away a price came from, but I do see a lot of selling in here. So you're looking for that selling to come back in and this is really, really nice kind of idea looking for that below the VWAP here and then the continuation, all right? So that's a nice one there, Jack. Thank you and thank you, Jayzay. Crash, all right. Open the mic for Crash. So let's get you on the mic here. There you are. Hey, Kevin. Hey, how are you doing, Kelly? Great, thank you. Happy Thanksgiving everybody. Yeah, yeah, happy Thanksgiving. So I don't know if you want to go through some of your thought process on this one. All right, so let me see which one you guys got here. Okay, so this was a trend up day the other day and because it was a trend up, I wrote it up a little bit, exited, and then I was looking for another pullback to get another entry into it. And so, and I need to shrink this so I can see the screen here. There we go. You can see that the, I use a lot of different points of confluence on the screens with the different types of indicators of book map and market pulse. And my favorite one so far of everything I've been trying is the VPI spikes. So that'll either be the red spikes down or the green spikes up. But in this particular case, I was looking for a five minute pullback. A lot of my trades, I will use a 15 minute or a five minute setup. So if it's been going up showing strength and it's an upper trend, then I'll look for a five or a 15 minute pullback at a point of confluence, either with a moving average or liquidity zone. And what I really like is when I see favorite setup is seeing sweeps plus stops into a liquidity zone on book map with a VPI spike. So those three or four things together, the VPI spike, the sweep, and the stops down into a liquidity zone. And then if you see the immediate reversal of sell volume going into buy volume, that's when it's a pretty significant opportunity to get in. I personally like to leg in into the trades. So you don't have to be perfect on these. I think many times if you're starting to come down on a couple of different liquidity zones, just depending on what else you use, but you can see that I've highlighted several spikes there, but the one that I like the most is the third one because you can see that that is coming down into a liquidity zone with the sweeps that are occurring followed by a big buy volume. So which one crash are you talking about? Yeah, that one right there. This one here or this one? Yeah, well, so for what I have been noticing is that if you get multiple VPI spikes, let's just say, for example, on the way down, this one doesn't show it wide as clearly, but you'll see a shift. And I know HG Traders been showing this too. You'll see actually a shift in the level of the spike. And so a lot of time, the actual low that you see where your pencil drawing is right there, many times that VPI spike is just slightly higher than the one to the left-hand side. So let's just say you saw that initial zone right above the number four mark there, right? You can see that liquidity zone with the little cell coming in. And so let's say you saw that VPI spike. Well, you just leg in, yeah, right there. Let's just say you decided to leg in because you got a VPI spike right above that liquidity zone there. But what I like best is that you start seeing the sweeps starting to occur on that next VPI. That's right, right there. As you're coming down, you start to see the purple cell sweeps coming into that liquidity zone. And there are some other examples where you'll see more of the sweep dots. But when you start seeing sweep dots into a liquidity zone, what cell stops in a VPI spike, man, it's a sniper's dream. Quite honestly, I'm gonna post a couple slides later today, but if you just use the heavy liquidity zone with the sweeps and stops at a VPI spike, you can snipe all day long on the NQ 10 points. Easy here and there. And if you have other targets that you're using, whether it's liquidity zones or other moving averages or Fibonaches, then you can ride it for a lot longer. And what book map has been helping me to do with the VPI spikes is to have a really precise entry so that I'm having very low risk at that entry point and I ride it for quite a bit higher. So the example of this one again was a five minute pullback looking for the VPI cell sweep into a liquidity zone to reverse my position to buy again. And that's what I'm doing right here. Yeah, yeah, this is great. I mean, that's your, there's your setup right there. You know, you've got it articulated, you've got it outlined. You know exactly what you're looking for. You've got a host of confluences and then you're looking, this is the key though. You gotta have that volume come in on the other side. Exactly. And then once you got it here, you know that a lot of people are stopped out, it's swept the book, you saw the stops. You got the VPI or volume pressure in balance at an extreme in here after several moves to the downside. And so where are you looking to enter? So for me, I always like 95% of the time I laid in and laid out of a trade. So when I see the sweep and hit that sweep with the high sell right into that liquidity zone and I see the VPI spike, I buy right there. Really? So I'll lay in right there. Wow, okay. So that you'll start your position down here and then do you add like when you start to see this volume? And then, yep, as soon as I see that volume pop in there with the buy sweeps up, I add. Okay. Okay. And what about, do you scale out on the way up? I do, I do. But in this particular case, I already had, you know, like I have a game plan of where I think the market's gonna go. So in this particular case, cause it was a trend up, I had already had thoughts that it was gonna go up higher to hit a couple of different moving averages. So if you look through my, the slides that I've been doing on a regular basis this month, you'll see that I use on a one minute chart, the 89 and the 200 and the 400 SMA quite regularly. And so I will use those moving averages with liquidity zones on book map to leg out of my trades. Yeah, beautiful. Beautiful stuff. Yeah. Yeah, using that, I mean, that, you know, that's what we keep on saying again and again, like if you are using moving averages, whatever it is, like I'm not a fan of either of those, doesn't matter if you are, and it matches with some of the order flow, you've got something. Exactly. And that's what makes it so cool to me is the book map really tells the story that matches with a couple of the other things that I use. And of course you don't have to use the moving averages, but I have found that, you know, the trade setups that I have, they're just repeatable day after day, after day after day. But the thing that book map does is it shows the precision. It shows that what you're already thinking as a game plan is actually happening. So, you know, you don't have to use Fibonacci's, you don't have to use moving averages, but for me, you use those in conjunction with the book map and it's like taking candy from a baby. Excellent, excellent stuff. Do you have like maybe just a few seconds to talk about how you got the name Crash? Yeah, so I was an F-16 pilot in the Air Force and I got stationed out at Hill Air Force Base, which is outside of Salt Lake City in Utah. And I was brand new. Wingman had just been there for two weeks and we got deployed to Las Vegas to go fly in something called Red Flag, which is a big simulated war. And so one of my Air Force Academy buddies that I'd gone to school with, he was a big dirt bike rider with me, we both have dirt bikes. So we took our dirt bikes with us down to Las Vegas. And so I was with my second week of flying with the unit and on Friday afternoon, we decided to go hogging out in the desert behind the base in Vegas. And I went off a jump and totally biffed it on the way down and I had a spiral fracture of my left leg.  So a spiral fracture of my left leg knocks me out of flying for a couple of months after only being there for two weeks. Oh, wow. Yeah, yeah. Okay, okay, we'll have to talk. We're planning to do an actual crash in a jet. So that's good. Yeah, that's what I was worried about. It's like, okay, he's talking to us, but it says crash F-16 anyway. Yeah, I know. Thanks, Crash. So let me, I'm gonna jump over to the next one. We got a lot to go through so, but really, really great stuff. And I love how you have taken this from your journaling and some of these, you know, very specific things, especially with the market polls here. And putting it together, studying it and now you have a plan. Yep. And you know, you didn't, I didn't really talk about that one point. I don't want to take too much time, but this liquidity pulling that you see with the SRI and the SR there on the left hand side, if you're kind of up to a big liquidity zone at point six, but you think there's a potential for it to go higher, I use the liquidity pulling here to decide whether it's gonna go up to the next band of liquidity zone above it. And so if I start seeing the real dark red, as it comes up, I'll stay in the trade. If I don't see it happening quite as much, then I'll be a little more cautious about taking more off here and not writing it as long. But I use that on a decision-making factor on how much legging out I do at that particular liquidity zone right there. Nice. Yeah, fantastic.  Yep, exactly. Yeah, great stuff. All right, all right, thanks Crash. Let's move on to next one here and Shark Baloo. So I've been making some great content in here and the C, are you in here and do you wanna grab the mic as well? Yeah, you're in here. Hello, hello. Up to you, I mean. Can you hear me? Yes, there you are. How are you doing? Okay, I'm here. Yeah.  Which one are we looking at? It's the ES from Tuesday, I'm sorry, Thursday, 16th. So a week ago. Yes, yes. So I've been working on trying to wrap my head around how price reacts at resting liquidity and also, you know, trying to figure out context of trending that seems to be my blind spot, right, catching a trend early on. Just, I just break this down and just trying to narrate to myself what I'm seeing after the fact, learn how to see this stuff real time. Yeah, that's excellent. I mean, like, that's like the first step really that we request. I mean, slow down a few weeks ago or a few meetings ago went through his process. In fact, I'll bring it up here. I've got it handy right here. And this is just so worthy. I mean, it's just so great progression, always getting better. So example one, here's what his charts look like on his markups, identifying certain things, looking for certain things. Here, I'm sorry, that was May, 2023. Here is the refinement in July. So a handful of months later, look how much more focused he's looking at, very specific things in here. Putting pieces together. And then finally, look what he took from that. And then in October, 2023 here. So a handful of months after that, he's got his set up. And you guys have seen his... This White Crafting is doing is amazing. Yeah, yeah, it's fantastic. And look at this. I mean, look at that beautiful entry after a break of that low here. So this is the goal is to, and Crash has just done that as well. He started marking up those charts and then going through the process. He's got a set up now, okay? And he's just looking for that, right?  And I know that Slowdown is working, looking at other setups as well. Just one note on that, guys, before we get back into you, Shark Blue, because it's about your guys trading, is the setups. As you start to look at different setups, be very careful. Keep them as separate studies, okay? One thing is working for you, keep it that way. If you add something else in, it is, I mean, just even one little difference. If you add in, let's suppose like on this one, Slowdown decides to add a moving average or a Fibonacci or whatever it is, study it separately, okay? So you don't wanna confuse something that's already working well for you. All right, because that'll set you back. All right, so- So what I noticed here is this VPAC migration up and down, you know, to me, I'm just seeing buyers and sellers are agreeing on price within this range. Within this range here? Yeah, yeah, buyers and sellers just kind of, you know, it green up, price ping-ponging back and forth in this range. And I'm looking for an indication of when price is gonna leave this range and move one way or another before it happens and as it happens. So I'm sorry, the pink line is your- The pink line is my VPAC, right, okay. So the yellow is my mid. Is your VWAP or your mid, I'm sorry. Yeah, okay. Yeah, yeah, VWAP is green. And they all kind of come together right there as buyers and sellers are happy with price right there.   And at this VPAC migration south here at 11 o'clock, it price, you know, the IC price, rejecting that migration down and headed back up towards the VWAP in the mid and then breaking out of that consolidation, coming back to test the VWAP and the mid, you know, once, twice and then that move out of that area. At this point here or at this point over here? Well, both of them at the first one initially and then that recheck of that little consolidation higher and then the move out. Got you. Okay, oh, at this consolidation, got you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, good stuff. I mean, there's some interesting things in here. You know, in terms of exactly what you're saying, like we have this alignment. So you're looking at these kind of higher timeframe indicators or understanding of what's going on with price action. And then in here, you know, there's really, I mean, in terms of setups or in terms of something to consider for your trading, because this is a range bound trade in here, it's possible though, look at the liquidity, look where price goes into the liquidity. Now, in terms of sellers and buyers, it's all over the place.  Who knows, you know, we don't have any idea but into high liquidity in here and then we can look at exhaustion, absorption. Maybe you look at your volume pressure spikes or you know, something like this to give some really nice mean reversion type of trades. That's a possibility and yeah, I really like how you're looking at after this consolidation here above your VPOC and then why don't you walk me through that a little bit? Like, you know, what you're looking at in here, like these two boxes that are cyan. Okay, so the larger box is that larger swing move above the VPOC, then the VWAP, then the mid, right? So I just marked that off. It also aligns with some low volume nodes in the session profile. And same thing with that little one except that's the on the chart profile, you know, I just mapped that out from some kind of the little dips in that volume there and just watch price bounce off that high and that low of that volume and break out of it, come back, recheck it and then head back out, head north. Are you mean this little area in here? Yes, exactly. Yeah, yeah, that's beautiful. I know this is something Rob also likes to look at, kind of a high volume node in here, but there's an imbalance and or you can also look at trap volume in here as sellers and then here's where they're gonna be pulling it away. Yeah, yeah, good stuff. That low, that low of the low in both of those boxes, first the bigger one and then the second one with the line with that previous point of control before the migration right there. Yeah, yeah, this one here. Is that where you're talking about the pink? No, the one before it migrated there. Ah, oh, here, yeah. Yeah, yeah, right there, so both of those, they kind of recheck it, recheck it again, consolidates above it and then starts to move up and then of course you see the volume pick up right there. Yeah, yeah, great idea with that. I like that a lot of acceptance above this point of control and I'm sorry, your mid and previous point of control. So you still have all that alignment except you just had that migration right here on the VPOC. But yeah, it makes good sense and then once you start to see that volume picking up in here, that's definitely, is this something you're studying? Yes. Excellent. Yes, and you see the box at number four, I kind of have a zoom in on that area and I keep seeing this and it was brought to my attention in something Tom said recently, but the way price consumes that liquidity, breaks above it, dips back below, goes and rechecks that level, even though the liquidity's been transacted and then rejects it and then liquidity moves back in the book, that's that same level that price tested and rejected there almost at noon. Yeah, yeah, nice, nice stuff. Okay, yeah, excellent, anything else? No, no, that's what I see there. And like I said, my goal is to be able to get better at catching this stuff in real time. Yeah, yeah, that sounds great. So let me, let's move on to the next. Thank you, Bruce. Oh, you're welcome, thank you very much. Good stuff, keep going. Let me get to, hold on a minute. Slow down. Okay, new guy in here, Don. And here's what Slowdown had to say about your image in here. In fact, let me open this a couple of times. I can read it and then also read the chart. Okay. Okay, so I don't know if he's in here or not. If so, do you want the mic? Not Slowdown, but Don, Donji? Don de G. Yeah, put your hand up if you can and we can go through it. Okay, yeah, okay. That's fine, we'll go through here and learn from Coach Slowdown here, what he went through. So first off, see he says here, most interesting to me in this images is the liquidity picture. There is clear liquidity discrepancy between bid and ask as noted. We see liquidity added on pullbacks and shifting higher, preventing any movement from sellers. It's a really good one. I mean, look at this high liquidity in here and coming into the bid and in the uptrend, all the way through in fact. So we're looking at a stock here, APL, I don't even know what stock it is, but the larger player activity in stocks, you'll see this a lot more often and it is pretty incredible stuff to see. They're on the bid in here, no question about it. So, they're following up underneath all the way here and that's a really strong sign as long as there's buyers, aggressive buyers, right?  So let me get this, make this a little bit bigger in here. Yeah, big exhaustion in here and then potential counter rotation back to the liquidity and you get it here and then this is kind of odd behavior in here, does not come back down into here and they're just like, here 30K block comes in up underneath it here, so stacked on the bid side. Yeah, greater identification selling into the not able to get through here, so absorption, right? Beautiful. And the continuation on up again, support underneath and some back and forth in here, some more support underneath underneath, it continues to trend, okay? So just looking for basically a few elements in here in this pretty strong move to the upside. Just a note in here on some of the stocks and it's hard to see in some of the volume Delta dots in here but you can kind of see it in the bars down here. So look how this is kind of going up on more sell volume. You'll see this a lot more in stocks. I have at least, sometimes you see it in futures but there's a lot of selling in here but there's all of this on the bid in here as well. And a lot of times it's just, although there's might be more selling, it doesn't take much for buyers to move price higher because there's a lack of liquidity, right? So this is how that phenomena, this is one of those examples of how that phenomena can exist. So it's pretty odd price action to be honest but this is a really good one to cover. It's a good example of it. Typically what we see in a trending move is exactly the opposite of this. Exactly the opposite. Well, in terms of liquidity, yes. There's high liquidity on the offer, getting filled, buyers hit into it. It almost eats up all of that liquidity. You usually get a slight pullback and then there's just, it's completely dark on the other side here, right? No one's interested in buying at a higher level. There's just no interest in the auction at all. So price will start to kind of creep back up on a low volume pullback into this area in here and then you'll get more buyers coming in. This is where you see the more aggressive buying starting to come in this area here, right? So some good stuff on that one. What Slowdown really likes here, clean and organized display. This is one of his hallmarks and I think it is a really valid point. The cleaner that you can and kind of more organized you can be with your markups. It just means you're more focused. You know what you're looking for. And it actually kind of turns into some artwork but you just know exactly what you're looking for. And that's a beautiful thing, right? So let's see some suggestions from Slowdown. Maybe experiment with the volume pressure imbalance. Seems like everyone seems to like that one. I like it too a lot with the market polls. You guys have free access to these tools too. So go check it out. It's in the Educators Library, so or Education Library section on Discord. I linked to it the other day in the Bookmap Chat there, a Bookmap Academy Chat, okay? So yeah, that's it for Don Digi and then CMJ. Let's go through that one. Okay, and make this bigger here. Okay, and CMJ, I don't know, are you in the room? Would you like the mic maybe walk us through? Yeah, there you are. Okay, it looks like you are still muted. Can't hear you. Can you hear me? Yeah, there you are. Okay, I just had to move the mic closer. No problem, no problem. So yeah, do you want to take us through what you're looking at in here and then we'll go through a slowdown suggestions? Yeah, I guess this is, most of the trades that I've been working on have been based off of the Traders Lab with Tomby. Uh-huh. And so I guess this is a short on ES. I saw the test into the liquidity up above up here? Yes, and saw that it failed. And it tested a couple of times. I still struggle with knowing exactly when to enter, but I saw the failure and then the VPox shifted back down. So my entry, I saw the selling structure right where my entry was at. I saw whether the exhaustion was coming in. Yeah. So this exhaustion in this little consolidation area here, is that what you're talking about? Yes. Okay, excellent, yep. Yeah, that along with the VPox migration down after the test was just, I used as a, I guess further confluence and a validation that there was a selling off, it was going short. And so I scaled at risk and I had my pre-determined, I'm sorry. So go ahead. Yeah, and I had my pre-determined scale and areas to exit the trade. And so I just traded to those targets. So targets being down by the liquidity in these areas here? Yes. Excellent, excellent. Okay, what do you think about the trade in here? What would you look at maybe for improving? Entering earlier, mostly entering, like you see where my stop is, my stop is down lower. The trigger to me actually was before my stop. I can't really, over to your left, I'm sorry. I can make it bigger here. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, so my trigger to me, my stop should be back into the liquidity above the high points where the initial tests were. Up in here? Yes. Okay. And my entry could have been at the first exhaustion over to the left, right alongside with the stop, over to your right some more, I'm sorry. So you, I can't see the price action behind here, but I guess maybe you're saying it traded into liquidity here and then maybe exhausted out here, or was there? Yeah, because it tried to get to VWAP and it failed twice. I didn't see the VWAP line above as well. But yeah, the VWAP line, VWAP to V-Pock is a trade in the traders lab that I've been working on. Uh-huh. And so once it tested into the VWAP twice and fail, my entry should have been right where your pencil is now. Right here. In that exhaustion area, yep. Oh, so you would get it up here actually? Yeah, and my first scale should actually be at V-Pock. Okay. And maybe a little tight, but that's just reviewing what I've been learning that. So my first scale should have actually been where I entered at. And then my runner should have been going down into the prior value area or the overnight low. Okay. Okay, so yeah, let me zoom out a little bit. Okay, so let's go through, well, I have some comments on that, but let's go through what slowdown has written here. So the liquidity transact stop runs by ICE Absorption. He sees this as an event and would trail a stop above this counter-rotation for potential change in who's in control. So because we're at the low of the day here and there's the potential for continuation, but be cautious. So yeah, that's some really nice feedback in there, looking at a host of different events in here. There's quite a bit to look at. And I like you getting out in some of these areas as well. But anyway, let's see what else do we have down here. In this example, we see previous, or we can see market pulse extremes readings leaning to counter-rotations and no buy-side pressure visible, okay? This is also, I think, really, really good feedback because what we have here in these extreme readings, and this is something also I didn't mention with Crash, but a lot of times you'll see these extreme readings in here in your market pulse volume pressure, but you won't get an extreme reading on the buy side. It just doesn't happen. There's just not enough buyers. So what you can look at here is kind of an average, but you can kind of look up at this area in here as these other extreme readings. They're not hitting your threshold, but they are extreme readings here and they're kind of like a retest back to zero type of thing. And those can actually lead to some really nice ideas in here that line up really, really nicely for your pullbacks. Then you can look at your market structure in here. This one almost came up to it here, but this starts to align pretty well, and we're just talking about volume in here because I don't see much liquidity. You got your heat map on pretty stark, but yeah, there's some ideas in there. And then these big extreme readings in here, not only a slowdown saying this, but also crash F16. So you've got a whole host of events in here. So it may continue, but there's a lot of things to look at here for maybe a counter rotation at that point. Right, and what I've been, I haven't acted on it. It's just based off of your class, your training sessions this week. I think we were talking about the market pulse and the volume pressure, like where we're getting those extreme readings, but it's not getting the back above the zero line to stay in the trade longer. I've just been looking at how I can, because I've been trading to predetermined targets about maybe adjusting those on my runners to continue to see if I can grab more of the moves. Like you were saying, if it's not getting back above the zero line, then it's a good, not necessarily a good chance, but it's continuation. You can look toward continuation to the downside move because we're not getting those extreme readings back on the other side of the zero line that you were talking about. Yeah, yeah, exactly. I would just say, it's like everything else that we talk about, like look at the order flow. Look at your price structure. Where do sellers take control? Where does the pullback come from or come to? And then look at the volume, this volume compared to this volume in here. And all you can see it, you can see it. And usually we've been just using the volume bars and dots to give us that insight, the delta bars and dots. And there's just a little bit of extreme volume here and that's it, right? There's not a whole lot of buying in here at all. And you can see it in here. It really, this is a low volume pullback, no doubt. So yeah, that's some pretty good ideas to take a look at and study as you're saying. Let's see, slowdown also says, overall be nice to know a little bit more about your entry criteria from your VPOC migration trigger. Liquidity heatmap definitely support the short bias. So yeah, if you want to mention that about, or you kind of did already about your VPOC migration and that you would rather get in earlier. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, this year style is you're looking at a market structure by VWAP and VPOC or looks like mid in VPOC. And that's fine, or here's your VWAP here, yeah. So that's fine. Just make sure you're consistent with it because you can get run over on these trades so easily to the upside. And we don't know until the sellers come in and really start moving it the other way. So yeah, I mean, maybe an entry in here could be good if there's a lot of buying up here and a lot of stops up in here and also maybe volume pressure imbalance up here. You can look for the sellers to try to move it back down to your VPOC here. Something to consider and then your stop would be more or less at break even at this point here. I don't really mind your entry, to be honest, because you're looking for, again, you had a little bit of criteria in here of exhaustion and selling coming in below VWAP here. Right. So I'm sorry, VPOC. So you're looking for that to trade down into lower areas. Right, usually when it's getting close to the VWAP mid area like that, I try to wait until the stops are taken out back on the other side, trade through VWAP mid and just looking at it again. But when the VPOC migration came in, that's what gave me the, I guess, the extra confidence to go ahead and go for it. Yeah. Yeah, makes sense, makes good sense.  What time of day was this? Is this East Coast? Yes. Okay. All right.  This is a really good comment I like as well.  You've got your cloud notes, two cloud notes and your custom notes. That's fine. Just, I would say, as we kind of described earlier, focus. Yeah. Trying to, I mean, this can be, I've seen this from a lot of professional traders out there too. I always found it confusing. But the less you can take, or the more you can take out of your chart and the more you can focus on specific elements, probably the more clarity you're gonna have in your trading. Yeah. One of the cloud notes I had was this convergent trading. I don't know if it's okay for me to say that here. Yeah. That's actually exactly one of the ones I was thinking of. I mean, like FT71 has a lot of levels.  So that's why you see the two sets of cloud notes. I was just comparing the levels that I was coming up with on my own compared to his. That's a very valid study. Yeah, yeah.  Right, yeah, I feel confident. Yeah, just looking at that, it made me feel more confident in the levels that I was seeing on my own. And so yeah, I don't have a problem taking it away. Yeah, excellent, excellent. I mean, I love it. You know, the more that you can kind of compare and contrast and see like, okay, this is working. This isn't working or whatever it might be. Then, yeah, now you're honing your strategy. Yeah, yeah, good stuff. Anything else you want to add? I think that's about it. Okay, all right, thank you. Well, thank you, I've been enjoying it. Excellent, excellent. All right, I hope, yeah, I hope you're getting value out of the Academy.  You went over your image last time as well. This time, slowdown's going through it, so got some different feedback for you. Yes, hello, how are you? Hi, I'm good, how are you? Excellent, excellent. So now you're on your fourth week of book map. That's great. Yeah, fourth week. How's it going? Remember, going round, going round and round. Excellent, excellent. So do you want to walk us through what you're looking at here? Is this the image? No, this isn't the image. Sorry, this is the same one we were just at here. Yeah. Which B.A. was yesterday. Yeah, so the first thing I'm looking at is the daily level. The daily level. I'm always looking at my single stick chart for my daily levels, two, one, eight, eight, eight, eight. Level. So then the second thing, yeah, the second thing is mostly like high liquidity. On this one, there's not like that much, but you can see like a fake breakout. On the top, yeah. So the second, yeah, structure is broken. And then what the third thing is bias. A lot of bias are getting absorbed. You have high volume. Also, market polls. If you look at the market polls, a lot of green spikes. And then exhaust them, came in. Bias got tired and you can see a lot of exhaustion. Some liquidity coming in, came in. And yeah, right around there, on one thing, they took a three, took a show. Where you see the liquidity coming in, more liquidity coming in, coming in later, and some more exhaustion. 17, low volume, which is also like quite important. On the SPP, on the top. Okay, so hold on a minute here. So your entry was 2018-90. So up in here, is that correct? No, no, no. Up in here? More on the left, yeah, more on the left, yeah. Like right after the spike, I took the short. Yeah, around there. Okay, okay. So how did you know like, okay, so you have, was it after the two points of exhaustion that you got in? Or was it in here, or was it over here? Yeah, around there, yeah, no more on the left. Oh, over in here? Yeah, I cannot really, if he zoomed in. Oh yeah, I can zoom in. Hold on. Okay. It was some exhaustion on the bike up. So here's your exhaustion here. One more on the left. Oh, this one here, yeah. Yeah, that one, that red dot. Uh-huh. That was some exhaustion. So I took, like, around 18.90. Yeah. And then, yeah, and not where your pencil is at, that's some more exhaustion. So I got like more confidence, and later on, you got the liquidity coming. I was like, yeah, this is a good trade. Yeah, yeah, yeah, this is very similar to your trade before. Yeah, I like this setup. Yeah, yeah, it's working well for you. I mean, I- It's working well. Yeah, I mean, you have your criteria, which is equal to the criteria before. You're reading everything well in here. Liquidity, exhaustion, you know, exhaustion, exhaustion, exhaustion, high liquidity coming in, and then look at the sellers, take it, right? This is your low volume pullback here, looking for that continuation to the downside. There's something in here, like, boy, it just scares me. I have, I mentioned it last time, but this is your setup. So it is all of this move in here, and especially up in here. Now I know that, you know, it traded into high liquidity. You got a lot of absorption. And it's a false breakout. So you got that. And then this is, yeah, I would personally feel a little more comfortable below here, but it doesn't matter what I think. This is your criteria, and so this is your entry here. And then how long are you holding this and where are you looking to get out? Are you looking to get out down here? Is that, you said? Soft to the high target. Yeah, mostly target is the key web for the wide land. Yeah, because most of the time, it hits the key web and then comes back up, but I'm also looking at like two out of one risk reward. Okay. Like the whole view app was fine. All the time the view app is like way down. There is good word, it's a lot better. Yeah, yeah. And this is really nice in here. I mean, see a ton of liquidity thrown on the offer. Yeah, and also like the thing you mentioned about the exhaustion, could have taken like at 2.18 or 7.00. Because after that exhaustion, that's, would it be better if I took that option? Yeah, yeah. Okay, all right, I mean. But you know, I got too confident. Did you want to, I have the daily up here of Boeing, if you, which day was this, do you know? It's 13th. The 13th? Yeah. Okay, so this day here. Yeah, it was yesterday, 21st. 21st, oh, okay. So this day here. Yeah, so it was basically 2.18, 2.88 is 20. Okay, so this was high of the day. It looks like, yeah, it looks like this was high of the day. High of the day and you're looking for the failure and trading back down into the range, back to VWAP. Yeah. Got you. Yes. Okay, okay, yeah, yeah, I like it. I mean, like. Yeah, I mean, like, this one, this trade, it's not like the best one because like it's too important thing. Like the daily level, the second important thing is like long-term high liquidity and not like high, a lot of liquidity. Yeah. As you can see, so. Yeah, you mean. Yeah, there was a lot of exhaustion and I still liked it. I still liked it, so I took a chance. Yeah, yeah, yeah, makes sense.  You're looking for that mean reversion and. Oh, can you hear me? Can you guys hear me? I think, yeah, yeah, I should be okay. Yeah, the, you know, you're looking for this counter rotation and so your criteria here is high of the day, trades into high liquidity, exhausts out here, well, especially here and then these areas in here, you're seeing the selling coming in, you're looking for the move back to kind of mean reversion or VWAP in this case. And I think that's it. Are you there? Oh, anyway, let me, let's go. I think we lost you on the mic. Anyway, I wanted to go through the comments on slowdown from slowdown here. Let's see, slowdowns. QWERTY added right at the back of the trapping. Yeah, QWERTY flip over a lot of consistencies in the market, polls read in this example. Yeah, it is kind of all over the place. Yeah, a little hard on the market polls. I mean, you're still getting it out of some of these extremes. I haven't looked at market polls too much in stocks. I imagine it's going to work like a freaking charm.  Oh, I couldn't hear you for a moment. Okay, sorry. I was just going through, if there's anything else you'd like to add, feel free. I was just going to go through slowdowns feedback. Are you sure? Okay, so yeah, he was just saying, yeah, clean and clear, which is true. I really like that as well. You're looking at very specific things. You also have your criteria aligned. This is your trade setup. This is what you're looking for. And you've got your false breakout. You've got your exhaustion points, the selling starting to come in and then liquidity here on the offer. You're looking for the move back to an average. And you have nice liquidity starting to come in here. Someone had the same idea as you or maybe you're trading the big size and that is you, one or the other. So anyway, slowdown says, yeah, clean and clear. Liquidity flip after initial move. As you can see the trading through into these areas and then on the bid up at these higher levels, which is nice. Yeah, and then the trap also, which is another really nice one too. I mean, everyone buying the breakout here and just feeling the pressure on the way down. This is kind of a nasty move here by liquidity into these areas in here. I mean, look at that high liquidity. 37,000, almost 38,000 shares just thrown in here right after price moves. Does this little move to the downside? No one's gonna take that on. Sellers are already starting to move it and no one's gonna take that on. Most likely you've got liquidity here and here. So yeah, nice trap and then suggestions. Yeah, you might wanna play around. He said the market pulse isn't helping you too much. You might wanna play around with it a little bit in different settings and see if it can work. Your spike at number four. Yeah, I'm just starting. Okay. Yeah, I'm not focusing on the other stuff. Yeah, I mean, play around with the settings and see what you get. Like the beauty with the market pulse tool is like it works in real time and gives you the audio, but it also, look at the sub chart here. It's beautiful that you get this reading in the sub chart like this. So try to align, by playing with the settings, try to align it with the spikes and see how that works. So look for a spike up into high liquidity at extreme range, like here's the previous high here, and then look for the spike here. All of these spikes in here, these are pretty bad signals for market pulse. It's not giving you too much. Also, some of these in here not giving you too much as an extreme reading. This one sure is, but in here, like this is kind of, it's just really back and forth, but it's still giving you extreme readings. That's when you look at the settings, play around with the settings. You can get rid of it. You can get rid of it and maybe look at another one that works for you. Or you can look at a combination of two as well. Look at price change and the extremes with falling pressure. I demoed that the other day. It's just for some ideas. So I can demo it tomorrow as well, if you like, during the webinar. So let's see here. Yeah, I think that's it. And that was a slowdown's opinion was, you know, disregarding some of these and unless you're willing to consider other green spikes prior. So something to study and look at, or maybe it's as simple as, you know, looking at these bigger levels in here and then disregarding everything in here unless it's only at your Bing levels. That's another way to look at it. But I would start with the settings and then check it out from there. All right, well, thank you, General Iro. And we've got a few more to go through here. Yes, thank you. Thank you very much. And yeah, good work. We were a little more critical this time for you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Okay, excellent, excellent. All right, take care. And let's see. Next one. Got Alan up here from Jack. Shark Blue, Alan, Adrian. Okay, yeah, right. Boy, it's up to you guys in here. I mean, we've gone through quite a few and it's been really good. We can try to quickly go through. So this is what we have left from Stan. And Stan's been, I gotta let Stan talk. We've got Stan, the coach here online. So he can take it from here and give him the mic. And what you saw, we'll start with Adrian and you've only got two. So you've got Adrian and you've got Stephen. So we'll start with Adrian here. And Adrian, if you want the mic as well, you and Stan can both talk. Hey, how are you doing? Hi, Stan, how are you doing? Yeah, great, thanks. So, yeah, walk us through your coaching here. Yeah, but I find very good what he does actually. Like, we can see he's using the checklist. So he recognized like truck traders, sellers at the bottom. Then the steep move, the strong move. Yeah. Yeah, so we have a low pullback on the, so yeah, the number three, then, yeah, exactly. Yeah. And so he entered on the number five. Yeah. Yeah, on aggressive buying. So yeah, actually, that's a good one now. I would maybe just suggest there, like, for more liquidity on the bid. On the bid in here. Yeah, exactly, yeah. Yeah, I agree. Yeah. But that's the only thing, actually. After it's a great tool and we can even look with the market pulse, like it was really showing, like, buying activity. Yeah, yeah. And now I find this work very great. That's great. That's great. Yeah, this has been really resonating with people and me as well. Also this idea, like we had mentioned before, like you're on this really strong impulse move. This is the cash open, right? 9.30.  So these pullbacks in here, you're not gonna get much of a strong read. You're not gonna get actually one. I'm sorry, Stan, why don't you continue on with a few notes? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's perfect. Like, yeah, he took the profit front of liquidity. Another target was above, yeah, at liquidity. Now if I'm a good example, I would just suggest maybe for more liquidity on the bid when he was entering. Yeah. And yeah, as you said, yeah, it was the cash open. So, yeah, be careful. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, good stuff. Yeah, even for the relative strong volume on the bottom, like we can already see the behavior. Yeah, yeah, I find this to be so key and then in relationship to these liquidity levels. I remember this day, I mean, this was just the other day when we were in the webinar. I actually didn't see, well, there was some, you can see some trapped, the trap in here. It was pretty thin, I thought, but I can see what he's looking at. And yeah, I also love, I mean, there's some details in here. I know it's not part of the flag setup, which he's covering beautifully here. My feedback would be like a little bit on the, these are a little too strong of, yeah, maybe they're not all nines and tens, but there is definitely a lot of buying coming in. And this is kind of the critical area for me, like we don't see much liquidity underneath. We have a little bit of a pause here, but then that buying comes back in. It would be great to have a zoom view in there in this area. Yeah. I have it on a replay file, I guess, but some interesting stuff in the second strong move. Look at the liquidity here on the bid. Yeah, exactly. You know, this I think turned into a bigger flag pattern for the day or kind of a strong move pulled back and then it just continued on up that day. So yeah, I mean, this was kind of initial scalp, beautiful. I mean, he caught from like 78 and entry here. So yeah, a nice solid eight points out of that, but it took some off at 75 and then 78. With very little risk, it didn't go against him. I don't think a tick. Yeah, no, not a tick. Yeah, anything else you want to mention, Stan? No, but for him, yeah, no, no, it was a great one. And yeah, with confluences with the market, so yeah, no, that was a good one. Okay, okay, we'll move on to the next one. What advice you want to give Steven here? That's Rob. Oh, well, this was Rob. Yeah, this is Rob. Ah, okay. Fix that then, sorry. Hi, Rob. Yeah, but I can cover both of them, if needed. Okay, so yeah, we can really see the improvement that he made by time and same. So yeah, he's looking at the flag strategy. So the same, great. So he properly identify like a trap sellers, then the steep move, the consolidations or flag. We can see like it was a low volume. Then bias that's in. So yeah, actually, yeah. So there, there is the first small steep on the left. Like on the row. You just row on yellow row. And he took along there. Right here, with a little blue circle. No, no, on the left. On the left, oh. Yeah, in the steep move, the way completely on the left. In here? Yeah, exactly, a bit right, yeah, there. Oh, okay, okay. That's hard to read. So yeah, so there is a consolidation. And then he took along right there on the right. Over. No, no, no, left. I'm sorry, Stan. I can't, I just can't see it. No, no, no. So guide my pencil. Yeah, all right, left. Ah, here. Yeah, there, yeah, exactly there. Got it. So yeah, there is a first steep move when we have, when we had like your or trap sellers, then we can really see like the convection of the buyer that came in and even the liquidity added even if the ball just after. But this one was a good one for me. He could take profit, liquidity, but actually the trade went against him and he preferred to took some profit just above his entry on the big red bubble on the left. Big red bubble on the left, he, he. Yeah, so he took there and he closed quite tight. Up here. Yeah, exactly. I see it, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, it's a good, it's kind of a, I would, I'm with you on that with the getting out here. I mean, if you kind of front ran some of this high liquidity or you're looking for the kind of move into here, you're basically getting out at the same area. Yeah. So up in here, you have some exhaustion. We don't know if it, maybe it will kind of bounce off of this and come back up, but he sees the big red dot and he just says, I'm out. I'm gonna protect some profit and get out. Yeah, that's good too. Yeah, yeah, I think so too. And so yeah, and then he recognized like a measure flag. Mm-hmm. And we're here, yeah, really at the end of it. When we can really see like a lot of green bubble like becoming bigger and just larger and larger. And now, yeah, that was a great entry. Maybe, yeah, I would just say more liquidity on the big two, but the move was good and we can see with the market pulse, like we were in the buying activity. Yeah, that's a really good point. Another kind of read, I mean, this is really back and forth with market pulse in here, but by far, there's way more on the buy side here. So, and you look at the delta dots and look at the price movement.  So now, instead of looking for the pullbacks to kind of like we were talking earlier with CMJ, it was kind of at the average area you're looking for. Well, now you can look for it down in here. And then look for the, if you are still bullish in here and you have your criteria, after this spike, look for the buyers to come back in. That's a possibility. A spring or a crash. Yeah, like crash and also like slow down, exactly. I mean, here's your, let me clear these for a second. Here's your move below the swing. This is a quick move. Here is your extreme reading here. And then the buyers start to come in. Now, I'm kind of with Rob on this. Like I would be, I don't know if I would be in this area in here, maybe in here, but I don't see enough buyers here. I know though the buyers are going and I like Rob's entry in here. Yeah, it's a good one. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, and he is good at recognizing like the other flow, I would like his success to go. Where I entered there, that second entry. In here. Yeah, I mean, I'm kind of wondering if I could have gotten in a little bit earlier. You know, there's the big red bubble that dipped down real low and then there's that second one that stepped up a little bit. Yeah, right there. I'm wondering if that might have been a better entry than where I did enter. I don't know. I mean, like what Stan had said, you know, you don't have much liquidity on the bid in this area. It's more a volume play and going with the momentum. And this flag in here is kind of a funny, it's not a really, really bullish flag. But just to get to your entry in here, I don't think it's bad. In fact, I would even feel safer back up even above it maybe a bit, you know, where you drew your trend line and this would be more of like a kind of a breakout at that point. I mean, I just, in terms of criteria, what do you have on your side? And you don't have much in here. Yeah, I kind of saw one that volume started to take off. Like, okay, it seems like it's breaking out of that shape. Like, oh, we can start heading up towards that liquidity that's up higher. Yeah, yeah, any of these areas, I mean, to begin with up in here and up in here as well. Yeah, yeah, Rob, I have to commend you. I mean, like, you know, this is great. Look at how much more focused you are looking at very specific things. And you have your reasoning. You have the setups here as well, and you're grading it, looking for this to work out. Yeah, the grading it with the checklist, it's kind of subjective.  Oh, this looks like a nine, whatever. I'm just kind of doing it like that. That's true. I'm with you on that. This will happen over time. And the more that you document your trades like this, the better you'll get at your being more objective with your scoring. Oh, you know, way over on the left there where I got the two circles, and you see how that liquidity, that's all getting absorbed. Yeah. That's all getting, you see all of the, see the green and purple squares, I made them a lot smaller, that's the absorption indicator. You see all that activity going on. Yeah.  So I wonder if that's something that could be an entry point, but I don't see it at the time. I don't think so. I mean, this in terms of the setup, this is a number one up here. You know, you're looking at your, identify trap traders and develop scenarios. You're trap trading or, I mean, look at your market structure in here. Look at that liquidity here, here, here, and also down here, okay? Look at the retest here and you can draw a line across here, right? That's being even kind of a little bit bullish. It should probably be more closely aligned here. Anyway, all right here, I can just use a line tool. So, all right, there we go. So here's your market structure. Here's your potentially stops, trap volume, et cetera. That's what you're looking for. Okay, who's pushing it on the other side? Where are the trap traders? What's the scenario gonna be? And I think you got it. I don't think this is a place to mess with unless you're looking at more microstructural areas. Okay, I get it. Once you see the volume start to break out of there, then that's when you're going, okay, this is starting to head further up. Yeah, so I mean, I think the trick is to, on this setup is what you're looking for is as much support as you can get on your side. Who's on your side? And you can look at this area in here as the stop runs, the trap traders, the absorption by the larger players, or getting filled in here, no question about it, and then the move away from it, a move away from that area. And it's gotta be on strong volume. The other thing in here is the, what I kind of found funny about this flag pattern in here is it's like, not really the cleanest at all. And that's why I think you see a lot of chop in here. You identified it clearly. Who's in control is the buyers? But there's a lot of chop in here. This would be kind of like your first flag. And then, which you grabbed right here. I don't know if you saw the buyers come in first, this would make me feel better up here. And then maybe you can also see some of the liquidity came in a little bit later, but maybe some was in here as well to kind of push that up into here. And then I would be looking to take some up there, take some profit off up here. You got out here and we already talked about that, which is not bad. Yeah, I was kind of anticipating, could still go higher than that, then it started to pull back. And I figured out I'm gonna get out of this now, wait for the next one. Yeah, yeah. Which is good thinking. What kills you is like, what if it did it here, you know? But anyway, like what I kind of mean to mention here is, this as being the really strong move is not that strong. It's not bad, but it kind of came up here and then it chopped and then it got kind of strong in here, but then it chopped a lot. And that's where you can also see the market pulse that Stan was mentioning here. You're getting back and forth in here in market pulse. So this is- Yeah, market pulse, I just, I have not been able to figure out at all how to interpret that thing yet. Well, maybe take some of the ideas we talked about earlier with crash and slow down, you know? Yeah, I'll look back over that again and see if I can try to figure out. I mean, to me it's just, I just can't read it yet.  Okay, so yeah, go back. We'll cover it more in the webinars, go back and take a look as a confluence in some of these areas. It crashes even using it as a signal at this point. But anyway, so one of the things in the flag pattern here in the setup, in the checklist, like if the stronger this is in here, the less chopped there will be in here, most likely. And the strong move will also come back in again. And you did identify that in here pretty nicely. Yeah, that second leg, that's much cleaner. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. And I think that was a way better entry right there. Yeah, yeah, I like it a lot as well. So yeah, anyway, like that's just, we mentioned this I think in the other webinar the other day that when you have really get into the details in here on your setup, and I know like you said, it's subjective, but you'll get better at it and looking at some of these things. Like how strong of a move is this? Well, if it's not strong of a move, it shouldn't do this, right? It should be strong and consistent all the way through. And so it was kind of a mini flag pattern, a bunch of chop, and then it kind of turned into kind of somewhat of like another flag pattern. And like I said, it doesn't matter about the flag pattern, what matters is about the momentum. And then the sellers not really being there on a low volume pullback to look for more buyers in another momentum move into the high liquidity. So where the buyers meet the sellers up in these areas. So yeah, that was my only comment. Yeah, and I had that liquidity up there as my exit area, but that move actually went way, way further up. Yeah. If you remember that day. I do, yeah. It went way further up than that. Yeah, this was just the beginning of the move. Yeah, so I'm kind of wondering also like how do I, you know, because I found myself like that sometimes I get this really good entry, and then I'm just letting it go too early and not following the momentum and it's, and it just keeps on going and going. And I could have a really huge win if I could figure out, okay, this is not the time to exit. This is just time to keep continuing with it. Yeah, that's... I prematurely exit on a lot of these. I don't know, Stan, do you have any comments on that? Um, but I think more you are in the market, more it is risky. So I think it's great to sometimes have just fixed targets somewhere and take your profile and don't think to go too higher or scale a little runner. Yeah. Yeah, depends your profile. Yeah, I agree. And like don't worry about some of the things that you could have had. You're studying something very specific and you're looking for it to play out the way that you have studied. That's it. Yeah, I had a lot of confidence in that second entry what I was seeing, you know, versus that first entry where it was more choppy. Right. The second one, you know, it felt pretty clear to me what I was looking at. That's beautiful. So keep it simple. Don't worry about what you could have had. Look for that to play again and again. That's what builds the confidence. All right. Well, that's, I think that's about all that I have to say about it. Okay. Well, happy Thanksgiving, guys. Yeah. Thank you, Rob. Let's see, we had one more. By... Yeah, it's Steven, I think. Oh, yeah, I'll bend. Alan, did you cover this one? Or I think it was Jack, that went over it. Yeah, yeah, that's Jack, yeah. You can go over it if you like. Stan? I don't know, no, that's okay. I leave you. Okay. Okay. Well, we've been going quite a while here, guys. And we had a lot of tech problems, which we will iron out. I thought we had it this time, but we didn't. Some new kind of ranches in the gears there. Anyway, the... Yeah, all right, I'll just go through this and what Jack had looked at here. And thanks, Stan, I appreciate it. You can stay on if you like, but yeah, I'll bounce some ideas off you here. So going through Alan in here, large amount of resting liquidity here in the book, market consolidation in here, stop runs along the way, on the way up, also fueling the rally, some iceberg buying, and then driving up into liquidity. Okay, so consolidation breakout, consolidation, yep, there's your entry right there, it looks like. And potential stop run, stop location, higher highs, yep, resting liquidity, okay. And hold on a minute here, and Jack has a lot of comments. So for you guys that, I didn't really give Jack justice on that. He made a lot of comments on your spreadsheets. So you guys go check out your spreadsheets and look it up because Jack had given you guys a lot of good feedback, spent quite a bit of effort going through these trades. Let me find it here in Discord, and I can read some of it out here. Alan, yeah, there's quite a bit of feedback in here. Anyway, yeah, he says there's a lot of great elements in this and the, yeah, just stick to your methods in here. Like is what Jack is talking about, like more conservative entry by waiting for that support in the pullback, entering at the same level, just after you get at two, just after you get pushed higher from that. So, maybe some of these areas in here, here's your pullback, and then looking for maybe entry in here, and then exit here. Now, this is where I think is worthy of some real study to look at how this broke out here and is starting to ramp up again on volume here. I know that you're maybe scaling maybe or you're getting out here, and you got a small win on your hands, that's really good. But there was a lot more buy volume that came in here, and you could at least hold it to maybe up here or higher because you're pointing to these areas anyway, and that's where all the resting liquidity is. So, there's some potential for this to go up there. Now, this is kind of a real deep pullback here. So, it didn't make it up here immediately. It pulled back hard here and on some pretty good selling, but then the buyers came right back in and moved it back up. So, anyway, maybe some of that initial liquidity here to front run. I don't know if there, I can't quite see it. It looks like there was some in here, but it's hard to see in the NASDAQ because they keep on adding and pulling as it's going up. This clearly though is staying in the book. So, maybe you could have gotten a bit more out of it here. Look at some measured moves in here too, potentially, or for some of the, to align some of your targets. Yeah, so, let's see, he says following from four, we can see higher highs and higher lows, not to mention that we find support right at the levels of initial break, and that's where he'd be specifically looking for a runner. Okay, so, after that point, he'd be putting a stop below four and trailing it from there and then looking for the higher liquidity up in here in five. So, yeah, Alan, go through Jack's feedback and he's got his numbers in here and he's got quite a bit of writing here. I can show you some of it in here. So, there's a lot of notes in here to go through. All right. Anyway, some really good stuff in here. And Alan and Rob, guys are making some real nice progress. It's great to see. It's great to see like your charts that were all kind of detailed out and had a lot of information on it, and now it's focused, which is great stuff. So, anyway, that's all I got. Alan, did you have the mic or did you have anything you wanted to add? Stan, did you have anything you wanted to add? No, that's great. That's great. Okay. I'm hearing. No, yeah, but I think great what you said. Like you could take profit on liquidity or enter on this pullback just after his entry, for example, like Jack Wood's blow, I think. Yeah, yeah, I agree. And trailing that stop as well, protecting your risk, being very vigilant about that. Yeah. Alan, it looks like you got the mic. You're still muted at the moment. Hear me now? Yes, there you are. Yeah. I just wanted to say, like I know it could have run up more, but I know like you always say it's a lot that how many times have we seen it like the first attempt at trying to break through like an obstacle, like a highly wrestling liquidity, and it gets right to it, like, you know, like, and then it just reverses. Yeah. I like to the front run to be sure, because my thinking is by the time it gets that high, I'm satisfied with the trade.   So I just, I figure, you know, I just, if that's, I'm happy with that, if the trade gets up to the liquidity line, that's the reason I can hold any longer. Okay, okay. Yeah, just not a criticism. It was just a feedback and suggestion and, you know, wanted to understand your reasoning. And you- Where do I, all these comments, where do I see them? Well, your spreadsheet should be in your spreadsheet. I saw some comments you made in the column, but that page you just showed of everything. Oh, okay. Is that my spreadsheet? Yeah, it should be. If not, then I'll put it in there. Or, you know, Jack will put it in there. But he's been writing volumes. So, yeah, go, definitely go check it out, guys.  I don't understand it. Like just, you know, put it in your spreadsheet. And all you have to do is, you know, go to post, you could post it in Discord. Yeah, go ahead and do that. So, you know, come in here and go to, let's say your book map, book map academy here. Take here, Alan, here's yours. And then just, you can just right click on it and, you know, copy the link right here. That's it. Have your spreadsheet open, open it up and just paste it right in, as simple as that. And it doesn't take any effort at all. And then you've captured it in here, you're part of the book map academy. We can use it now. And you're building your way into book map academy and getting book map for free and becoming a streamer and all that good stuff. So, Alan, I know you've been doing it, so it looks good. Just, I encourage you guys to try it. We're not asking for much, just one a day. And just, you know, a quick after the post, copy it and paste it into your spreadsheet and you'll get your feedback. Okay, yeah, Crash, there should be in there. Anyway, we'll, yeah, I know you were one of them, Crash, you were just like one image after another and it's like, look over your spreadsheet and it's like, there's nothing in it. And it's like, oh God, okay, I gotta reach out. All right, guys, so anyway, thanks everybody. Really, really good stuff. You know, I know these meetings are going way long. Maybe we'll cover, maybe we'll do them once a week and then cover less, right? I wanted to do this before Thanksgiving though because we haven't done it for a while and it wouldn't be until another week or two that we'd be able to do another meeting. So, one thing for those of you that you wanna get book map, you haven't gotten it or you wanna try it and you wanna take part in the academy, there is that Black Friday deal that's on now. Okay, so just let me show you the links in here. Here it's live right now, here's your page and I put the link into the chat both in YouTube and in Discord and you can try it for three months or you can try it for, if you're a new user for the first month, you get that 60% discount. If you're interested in that, please read through this. Click on the grab the deal here and it goes through the offer. This is for current subscribers as well. If you have monthly subscription, get it for three months, get the discount. And then for digital users or for users as well as non-active subscribers, that means you had it and you unsubscribed, you can get the deal here again too or brand new users can get it as well. And then the month deal is here for brand new users or it's also good for free digital users as well as previous paid subscribers as well. Okay, so you can get that month back at 60% discount. So, some good stuff here and try it, see if you like it. This is the opportunity. And yeah, click on the more button you can go to under community here, go to Bookmap Academy and you're good to go. Just want to say thank you to everybody. The coaches, especially Jack, slowdown Stan, also Dan, thanks a lot for you guys staying up late here. Although you don't have Thanksgiving, but thank you for staying late. And then thank you for your very much guys for partaking in this program and providing us with your trade journals here so that we can go through them and give some feedback. I think we got something good here and we'll continue to build this out in the future. All right, so yeah, thanks everybody. Have a good Thanksgiving. Thank you, Alan. Thanks everybody, Thanksgiving and have a good Thanksgiving and we'll see you. Well, I'll be in on Friday for the webinars and it's a half day, but I've got something kind of interesting to go over if there's no real price action. So we're gonna talk about first principles. I'll leave it at that. All right, Elon Musk always talks about first principles. We're gonna talk about it in trading and I'm looking forward to going over it with you guys, okay? All right, yeah, thanks again everybody for participating in here. Get some really good stuff and I hope you got some good feedback, okay? Yeah, take care. All right, bye-bye.


Hello and welcome. We have with us Mr. A.S. Sundaresan, joint MD and CEO of J.A.S.W. Payne's. Hi Mr. Sundaresan. Hi, nice to get connected. You just launched a film, a digital film called Planet Home. Tell us a little about it. You launched it during the download. What was the plan? So, I mean the first thing was to submit, you know, connected, empathize with the entire, you know, ecosystem and more so our consumers, stakeholders, et cetera. Wall or lockdown at home and, you know, in some way, in the recent past, the home itself has been a planet. But the larger idea was like, you know, it is these times that typically gives each one of us an opportunity to introspect, to see, to observe what is happening and why it is happening. And our brand idea was about thinking beautiful. And we felt like, you know, it is these times that really gives an opportunity for each one of us to be that much more thoughtful at home, as well as with our community.  And it is keeping in that in mind that, you know, we felt like that could be nicely captured in the video like this, which talks a bit about what is happening outside the home, as well as what is happening at home and how little acts of thoughtfulness are really making it better.  So what is the meaning of putting out this ad? Is it just going to be awareness and just being relevant at a point, you know, where everybody is grappling with this crisis? Or eventually, are you looking at, you know, this resulting into good sales for the brand? Everything is completely shut down now. You know, it is in terms of at times like this, when we send out certain communication like this, then the larger objective is to say, it's just something fun way as to how does the brand look at a situation like this? And what is it, as a company, probably keep in mind, and we would urge everybody connected with us to keep in mind. So that's the idea. Of course, it is certainly not done with a very straight objective, like, you know, will this increase sales? No, that's not what it is. It's more about how are we looking at this thing as we are going through as a brand? That's the idea behind it. And tell me what are your key learnings from the lockdown? So the key learnings from the lockdown is I think the speed and the, you know, and the way the entire ecosystem is responded to a challenge like this, which is facing each one of us, but it is not just not facing us individually, but the community and the world. And how everybody has sort of aligned and said, like, yes, this is the best thing to do. And, you know, so I think that is something which is very good. The way we are able to still stay connected and the ability to communicate even when we all are locked down at home. I think that's a great thing. So with sort of reinforces that like in today's world, if we want to end up with the help of technology, et cetera, we can actually take things across to a wide set of people fairly quickly rather than having to actually go and stay and stand in front of them. But even without that, we can put across a lot of things. I think that would be one of the key learnings in terms of saying that we are all connected and therefore we all can come together. But at the same time, you know, we can keep communicating very effectively if we want to. I think that's that would be the most single most important learning. It's just come out of this. And what kind of consumer patterns are you preempting right now? What are you seeing for your and an important industry? So, you know, like we are, you know, we have two legs of the business, but the larger part of the paint industry is consumer facing. And therefore to that extent, you know, whatever we are feeding and whatever we are sensing as what the consumers will be doing, which is actually there is, there is a kind of intuitive deal that yes, there would be some conservation in terms of how consumers would spend, what how they would like to, they probably cut off on discretionary stuff, spending and therefore consumption, et cetera, may get affected. It is something which most industries are talking about, especially consumer facing industry. So I don't think we will be any different in terms of that. But but having said that, and also have an alternate perspective and we feel that is also important from a consumer point of view, which is there is going to be a heightened consciousness about the hygiene and how clean are the home and the surroundings. And before I believe that is something which will certainly trigger a certain bit of actions for consumers. If they've been postponing painting, they would probably pick it up and rather get it done and live in, you know, not so clean surroundings. I think that is something which certainly would happen and we would do anything that is going to be helpful to support that. That's one. And the other thing which we see is in terms of consumers would also be that much more careful about who comes and works at their homes. And therefore to that extent, you know, how does this entire ecosystem of people who go and apply or do the painting job. I think that is something which consumers would be that much more careful about and they would, their expectations probably would go up a bit in terms of how they come and do the job. So, so these are two things which one clearly sees as what would be emerging trends once the markets open. Interesting. Tell me another thing, you know, as a brand, what is it one thing that you should not do at this time? So, you know, the one thing which we should not do is, you know, as an industry has been a bit more of a push kind of an industry. You know, the companies push stocks and then stock up the retail and then like let them sell it sometimes, you know, they take one, two, three months or so. Right from the start, we started about a year back our approach to the market has been saying, you know, in today's world where everything can be reached very fast and serviced very fast, our focus has been more on the second portion. So, so far as the entire retail is concerned, we would continue to do that. We should not do anything to go and push too much material than what is required, but we should certainly look to service the market very, very, very effectively and very quickly. So, the way to put it, the stocking of the dealer and the retail is not what should be the focus as we go out. But in terms of how effectively we are able to service the market, that is something that should be in focus. So that's what we will look through. Having said that, are you going to increase your spends on digital? You just launched a digital film. Are you going to, you know, move your spends from television and other mediums to digital now? Digital has always been an important part of what we have been doing. And, you know, to the extent that the television would take time to probably come back with content because right now I think that is also something which is very severely affected so far as the entire television is concerned. So, is digital a play a much larger role? And we see that going up. We are still in our early stages. I would not be able to put this thing number in terms of how much would be digital, but clearly digital is emphasis in terms of using digital as a medium to reach consumers will be quite, quite significantly enhanced. At least in the next quarter or two as they say here. And last question, what would be your message to your consumers at this point? So, the first thing is would urge all our consumers to say stay very safe in a complete line with the way the government is at least suggesting as to how to take care of themselves and their family because that's very important. And as we open up, we would certainly urge them to look at taking care of whatever they can do about their home and surroundings in terms of making them safe, high tech, clean so that easy to maintain because those are all going to be important because it's not just a lockdown. I think it's going to be an extended kind of fight which is going to be there against this pandemic. So that's something which we would encourage them to do. I like it happens after any such adversity like this. We would certainly look forward to consumers not being wary and holding back once but I think we would expect them and we would encourage them to see how much life can come back to normal because that's going to be important. For us as an industry, but I think as an economy because it's very important rather than to really overcome this thing because certainly there is going to be a huge economic cost and load to this on the individual families as well as the economy. But the best way is to get to be more positive, more active and see what each one can do to really help things bounce back. And so therefore to that extent, we would encourage them to be active, be positive, co-spend and take part in those activities which all become that much more safer as time goes. And let things bounce back to normal as quickly as possible because that is what I think will be good for all of us. And to that extent like say one thing which certainly we would also like we are also looking to do is to see, we can work with the, I earlier talked about the concern which consumers may have about the applicators and factors. We are going to be working with that set to see how they can be better prepared so that the consumers are able to take to painting because that happens in the house with lot more care and comfort. So that's something which we would also be working very closely with our contractor partners.  Thank you so much for speaking to us Mr. Sinharesan. Thank you, thank you so much.


Hello everybody, E here. Welcome back to 31 Days of Halloween. Today we are doing another top five Friday. Once again I'm not bringing back top five Friday, not right now anyways, but I am doing it for the month of October for 31 Days of Halloween. These books are in no discernible order. These are just another, since it's indie week, indie slash small press week, I figured I'd do another top five indie small press books. I've done this multiple times in the past. If I can find the videos, I'll leave them down there in the doobly-doo. But anyways, first off we have Crossroads by Laurel Hightower. This is the second book that I had read from Laurel, and I need to be upfront. I know probably everybody on this list, and I'm at least friends or acquaintances with each and every one of them, so keep that in mind. If you're worried about bias, I mean just check out my other reviews. I'm harder on my friends than I am on Strangers. So anyways, about this book, it is the story of a mother's grief. She lost her adult son. The best part of the book, I look for character pacing and dread. No matter what I read, even if it's romance, even though I rarely read it, I look for those three things. The characters need to be good, the pacing needs to be interesting, the book needs to be interesting, keep me reading, and the dread, even in something like romance or whatever it is, it's just a conflict. I don't want to either I want something bad to happen to somebody or I don't want something bad to happen to somebody. So dread plays into every genre. The character pacing and dread in here is absolutely phenomenal, but what I will note specifically, and I brought this up in my original review, my written review, everything for this one is I am super impressed with how we never meet this son character, yet Laurel managed to give all the character development we needed through how the mother looks at the world by comparisons like, oh, my son used to do that, my son used to say that, my son used to do this and that and the other. I thought that was brilliant and it's a favorite of mine. Alright, next up we have one that I don't really think it's an autumnal read like for Halloween season, but I also think it would be a hell of a lot of fun like sitting back and watching, you know, like Monster Flicks with your friends, and that is The Rue by Alan Baxter. Alan Baxter is an absolutely amazing person and amazing writer, and I've really, this is the first one I read from him since then, I've read The Gulp and Manifest, I can't remember the name right now, I've stopped my head, but this so far, and he'll probably cringe hearing it, but this one is my favorite one so far just because it is just fun from beginning to end. If you are a member of the horror community on Twitter, even some on YouTube, you're going to recognize a few names in this because he used a bunch of his acquaintances and friends and followers as the victims for The Rue, and yes it is about a demonic kangaroo. He's Australian, he did a fantastic job, just try it. I mean it's super short if you're looking to go, I don't know, it's 127 pages, and like five of those pages are the glossary with all the Aussie sling, so anyways definitely pick it up, check it out, it's a lot of fun. Next up we have a darker, much, much darker addition to this list, and that is Waif by Samantha Colesnick. I first read True Crime from Samantha, and I was chomping at the bit to get anything else that she published, and this one here is probably the most Cronenberg book I have ever read, and David Cronenberg writes his own books also, but this one is even more Cronenberg than his own book. It is about a woman who is trying to find herself, trying to, you know, going through trying to figure out her sexuality, trying to figure out a bad relationship, and it has some of the coolest gnarliest body horror I have come across. The boyfriend who wants to change so that she will, you know, love him or want to want him around, that one of the cooler storylines I've come across, but definitely, if you like David Cronenberg, definitely check this one out. Next up we have this one I have to give even more of a disclaimer. I am not only friends, good friends with this person, talk to her every single day, but I also am a business partner, and we have read my publishing company that I co-own with Darren Kapoff and TC Parker, the author I'm going to be talking about next. We have since removed it from her personal account and published it under The Hold Might Be or Publishing, so I have a vested interest in this book, but it's fantastic. Just go read other people's reviews if you don't trust mine because I have a vested interest, I understand, but this is the book, this is the reason why I contacted her to begin with, to ask her to come write Maiden with me. So we wrote a book together about a horror story about a boat out in the Bering Strait that is overcome by mermaids and some really gnarly crew members, but anyways, we're talking about salt blood. This one is absolutely, it's fantastic. I've never read anything like it. It's about a prison compound and the prisoners probably shouldn't be there. It's more along the lines of crimes against the state or that kind of thing. Anarchists, that kind of just, there's not terrible people on this prison island, and the mesh or whatever it is that's over the island, fantastic bit of creativity there, but my selling point here is the creature, the lore, everything behind it. This book is only 300 pages and I got so much lore, she introduced me to a brand new monster that I never heard of before, and it was a lot of fun from beginning to end, highly, highly recommended, recommend this, and I reviewed this ages ago before I even contacted her to come and work with me. Also, she's my editor. She's a bunch of different things, but yeah, salt blood, TC Parker, check it out. It's a different cover now. I actually created the, no, wait a second, did I do a new cover? I don't think I did a new cover for this one, but anyways, Keeland Patrick Burke did this one and it's fantastic. I don't think we had to change that one. Okay, next up, last one on the list. If you have not read this author, you're doing yourself a grave disservice. I reviewed one of her books yesterday and I keep saying this, but this channel is turning into a Hailey Piper fanboy account. This is Queen of Teeth by Hailey Piper.  Anyways, but if, if that kind of story turns you off, give this a try anyways, because it's not only about that. It's a sci-fi, what is it, dystopian future world where genetics have kind of gone crazy. Certain people are born with certain code.  We're talking about big set pieces, big action. We're talking tanks, giant monsters, all that stuff. And you can't really tell by the cover or by the description that it's gonna turn into that. But I promise you, if you, if you don't like this, I don't know, I just don't know what to tell you. And I would not know what to recommend you if you said that you did not like this book.  But I would be hard pressed to recommend you anything else. If you were to ask me who's a new horror author, I should try.  But anyways, those are my five choices this time for my top five indie small press books. Have you read any of these books? If you have, let me know down there in the doobly-doo. But until next time, I have an E, you have an U. This has been another episode of 31 Days of Halloween. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye-bye!