Thanks for checking out this video. So this is the announcement for what our next watch party is gonna be and if this is your first Time seeing it we do watch parties every other Saturday at 7 p.m. Eastern Standard Time We use senior which is an extension of group Google Chrome You can get an account for that for free. It is free to use. The only thing you need is a shutter Account because you will have will have to sign into that when we do the watch party So the next one we're doing is on the 10th of April Saturday 7 p.m. Eastern Standard Time like I said we will be watching the very much talked about Especially online right now since it's on shutter Film the Devils from I believe 1971 I want to say I might be wrong on that from the 70s though The Devils which is a very interesting very great film by Ken Russell now I usually take the lead on these films when we do the watch party and while we're watching I'll kind of throw in tidbits of knowledge I'll do a little bit of that for this one But the main person who's gonna be taking this one on is blue room subscriber Blue room who has been a part of these watch parties from the beginning awesome guy very knowledgeable Specifically about this film. He has a history background He knows way more about Religion and the religion at play in the film than I do so I am giving him the helm of this of this Watch party and I think it's gonna be pretty awesome because he already gave me a ton of information on it And I was like wow that adds so much more interest and context to this So join us as blue room talks us through the Devils Which is you know, it's just a great film in the first place So that's gonna be a fun one also what we're gonna have coming up I'll tease this as well, but I'll do videos for these as well announcing them So what well real quick again the Devils on April 10th, which is Saturday at 7 p.m. Eastern Standard Time Then we're gonna be doing a watch party for the Fangoria chainsaw awards because they're going to be showing that on shutter So that will be on Sunday, April 18th at 8 p.m. Eastern Standard Time So show up and we'll just kind of chat while they announce the nominees and the winners of all the categories So that should just be a fun thing and then the weekend after that which will be The set that Saturday the 24th of April at 7 p.m. Eastern Standard Time We are back to our watch party and we are going to be doing butcher Baker nightmare maker Which is also on shutter and in the spirit of the Devils Subscriber uncle Pete has said that he will take the helm for this watch party. I haven't seen that film yet I've heard great things about it that it's kind of crazy. It's like a potentially one of those so bad It's good films, so I'm excited to check that out So join us for that one as well But I'll also have an announcement video when we're getting closer to that so once again to recap on April 10th Saturday 7 p.m. Eastern Standard Time the Devils watch party on The Sunday the 18th of April at 8 p.m. Eastern Standard Time watch party for the Fangoria chainsaw awards Then on Saturday April 24th at 7 p.m. Eastern Standard Time Watch party for butcher Baker Nightmare maker. Yeah, it's a lot to remember But anyway, I'm excited for it. I hope you are excited for it. One of the other things I want to say just really quick So it's easier to know when all the watch parties are gonna end up being as they're coming up Just follow my profile on Cener once you get a Cener account Or if you already have it because then that way you'll be able to see what I have scheduled on there So just saying but anyway, uh, do a quick favor for me hit the subscribe button So you know whenever I'm putting up videos Especially if you want to know when I'm doing these announcement videos for our next watch parties because like I said, we're doing them every other Saturday So anyway, I do appreciate you checking this out and until next time keep it brutal


What's the number one thing I can do to change my life? And I think people are looking for some kind of silver bullet, you know, a morning shake they can drink, a book they can read, or some simple meditation practice that will magically make every problem go away. Well, I recently watched this interesting interview with James Altucher and he mentioned the four things to do every day to be healthy, wealthy, and just feel good. And I want to share what my four things would be. Hey guys, Alex Hein, author of the book Master the Day. Now honestly, one of the things I don't talk about here, but I would add to the list of things to do daily, is to journal. I shot a video here on how journaling led to me having the best year of my life ever. And I've included the first link in the description is a free download for a journaling worksheet, as well as an email series, which will give you a lesson every three days on how I got started with journaling and how you can use it to change your life. So you can check that out the first link in the description. So the first thing I would say is to do some kind of belief work. Now I know this is surprising, but what I mean is do some kind of belief work that challenges your beliefs around reality. For me, you may know this already, but when I got into personal development, it wasn't for shits and giggles. It was really because I was so depressed with being single in my late teens. So the first personal development exercise I ever did in the first really limiting belief was I'll never really have what I consider my dream girl. So when I say do belief work, it means challenge your limiting beliefs. That was a limiting belief. It was a number of years before I said, well, if I wanted to attract XYZ caliber of woman and then you could do it as artificially as putting down a list of qualities and external traits, what kind of person would I have to become? How would I have to upgrade myself to attract that kind of woman? And sure enough, years later, I would attract many of those kinds of women because I did the inner work on myself. Another example of when I did this was in the last year or two, where I was already maxed out. I've been working 70 hours a week for like seven years, right before it was a full time job while building my business. And then it's being in Chinese medicine school doing my doctorate while still running and growing my business and my company. And so I asked myself this very simple question last year, which was, if you could work half the hours, could you earn the same income? So I did a 100 day challenge of working half the hours. Sure enough, my business stayed the same. And then I said, can you work half the hours and double your income? Sure enough, I did that for six months. I worked less hours and doubled my business. So that blew my mind open about how hard I had to work and how long I had to work. And so when it comes to doing things daily, challenge the beliefs that you think are possible by doing a little lifestyle experiment. The second thing is to do activities and exercises and workouts, anything that puts you back in your body. I mean, this era we live in the anxiety and depression epidemic where some crazy percentage of the US population has been on antidepressants in their life. It's a really sad number.  In my senior year of college, I was interested in this one particular girl that I've been on a trip with. And I asked her out to dinner and she was like, yeah, you know, I'll meet you dinner. Sure. And it was one of those cases where like 20 minutes before she flaked. And I was just so naive. I was still a young guy, very inexperienced dating. And I was like, cool. I was so excited. I just like got out of the shower, had my nice shirt on. And I got really bummed out by it. So instead I went to the gym. It was like a Friday night. There was nobody there. It was like eight o'clock. And I just put in like the hardest, most grinding workout, because I was so frigging pissed. I was so angry, like you could feel it coming off me. So if you couldn't see it in my face, you could feel it. And I did that for about an hour and a half, like way longer than I do workouts now. But guess what? After I felt a lot better. And there's something interesting about exercise because exercise will move that stuckness, the stuck emotions, it'll move the, it'll help regulate the cortisol and the stress response in the body. And I find that modern people are so stagnant on so many levels. But if you can just incorporate something that moves circulation and blood flow, it's dramatic in terms of how it changes you on all levels, on all states. The third thing to have an incredible day, an incredible year, is to actually keep an intuition long. Now I started this as an experiment over the last year or two. Now you guys might have seen that manifesting video I shot where I experimented with myself. But I find that we tend to look outside for solutions to our problems. How do I stop being single? How do I stop dating crappy people? How do I save more money? How do I earn more money? How do I build a business? How do I find a life that's fulfilling and meaningful? And yet so much of the time, we intuitively know what we need to do for ourselves, right? Like we are our own best physician of life. So when we take an honest self-inventory, we may know that, okay, maybe I earn a good income, but spending $100 each night of the weekend at the bar, I'm probably spending a lot of money there that that could be going to saving for my Paris trip. Or we know, I really want to have a healthy relationship, but I keep getting myself in these weird gray area relationships where the other person doesn't really commit. That's the intuition. You don't need to read another relationship book, or maybe you do. Maybe it will help. But follow the intuition first. I feel like this is what I need to do for my fitness. This is what I need to get in a good relationship. This is what I need to really save money. Start with your intuition first. But it's one of those things where the more you train yourself to listen to it, the more you're going to hear it, because it's very subtle. So what I do is actually keep a log on my phone of intuitions. It literally says intuitions. I break it down by business, life, and the other goals that I'm working on. And then each day, I make sure I'm tracking one of those and following them. And the last thing is to structure as much gathering time as possible. So I'm in year three out of four of my doctorate in Chinese medicine. One thing we see a lot is that in Chinese medicine, we describe the force that you use to do things as the yang, using yang energy to do, to act, to play a video game, to go through your Instagram feed. And so modern people are overusing their yang. It's one of the reasons why we get sick. One of the reasons why there's so much cancer now is one of the reasons why there's so much fatigue, malaise, anxiety, depression. Just people just don't feel well internally. But life has been the least stressful, really, that we know for a large part of human history and humans work less now than we did maybe 50 years ago. So what's going on? There's the yang forces, the doing, and there's the yin forces in Chinese medicine, which is the gathering.   Modern humans are lacking that yin gathering time more than any other time in history. So like there's one physician that I learned from and he said that the two most important things for modern people are sleep and meditation. And he was referencing the same thing, the lack of time we spend gathering, doing very little, doing nothing, or just focusing on one thing. And we're using all our energy out here doing all this stuff. So that would be my four things to do every day.  But otherwise, those are the four things I would do. And of course, also throw in journaling. I've included the first link in the description that'll get you a free journaling worksheet. But otherwise, I'll teach you in that e-course. So those series of emails will teach you exactly how I use journaling to reinvent my life. So you check it out, the first link in the description. You can also check out my last two videos right there and right there.


Good morning everyone and welcome. This is Melissa Armour with a stock swash, and I'm here to review cost beautiful bullish gap today top watch Best gap today, and it was long. So here was the first call Beautiful rally pushed through to the first target 171 Then it came in here I ended up waiting to do this one here because this was I thought too low of volume So I did this one here boom and then it had one more push and then and actually went over 172 so I didn't get the last bit of this but Got a good move in this today solid move You could have done it twice some people in the room did showing nice bullish gap today and cost and really happy worked amazingly well and Every once in a while. I will go long. It wasn't any good shorts today cost was top watch Like it did it beautiful bullish move cost looks higher If you're interested in how to pick the right stock to do every day the gaps email me at Melissa at the stock Swish.com the classes this weekend if you want to trade with me and make money during earnings season You need to do the class this weekend. It's April 8th and night. Have a great day everyone


Hi, I'm Rusty Komori, and this is Beyond the Lines. We are broadcasting live from the beautiful Think Tech Hawaii TV studio in the Pioneer Plaza in downtown Honolulu. This show is based on my book, also titled Beyond the Lines, and it's about creating a superior culture of excellence, leadership, and finding greatness. Today's special guest is a fantastic example of all of this. She is the president of Hawaii Venture Capital Association, the co-founder of Mana Up, which is a Hawaii-based initiative designed to build the state's next generation of CEOs in the retail and food product industry, and in 2017, Entrepreneur Magazine named her one of eight women leaders who are disrupting entrepreneurship. She is Mellie James, and today we are going beyond business. Hey Mellie, great having you here. Thanks Rusty. I know you for a long time because you went to Punahou, played tennis. When did you start Punahou though? I started Punahou in 1990, in my seventh grade. And then did you have fun playing tennis, and what other activities did you do? I played a lot of tennis. My mom was actually the director of tennis at Mid-Pac in the 80s, so we grew up a very big tennis family. I started playing at Intermediate in seventh grade as soon as I got in, and then ended up playing varsity, starting freshman year. So I think I was there with some overlap with you Rusty. Exactly, exactly. And then what college did you end up going to? I ended up going to Cornell University, to the School of Hotel Administration. Nice. And then I know your sister Kelly, who also played tennis. What is she doing now? So my sister also played at Punahou varsity. She's now at Communications and Community Relations at Honoha Oli School. Any kids? She's got two kids, a four-year-old and a three-year-old. Wow, great. They're cute. And then I know your parents, Mark and Rhoda, and how are they doing? They're doing great. Still living in the house that we were raised in, and everyone's great, and we spent a lot of time together. Oh, nice. Nice. Okay, and I want to... There's so many things we need to talk about today, Mellie. And in 2007, you started a company called Nervino. Tell me about that. Yeah, so Nervino was kind of my first dive into entrepreneurship. I actually had something called a quarter-life crisis, and I know you thought that was pretty funny. You know, a lot of things to worry about when you're in your 20s, you know? But really, for me, when I started working in kind of the adult world, a lot of the jobs I had early on really didn't feel right to me, didn't resonate. And I was thinking, is it just me? Is this like how being an adult is, like you're just not supposed to really like what you're doing? And so I kind of came to the realization that that doesn't have to be your norm.  And I had some savings, and I was doing some work on the side, but I was really able to work with this life coach to think about, you know, what was I good at, what was I not good at, what did I like doing, what did I not like doing? And I created these buckets of things that were...things that could be potentially interested in it. Because I think a lot of people, when they're looking at what they want to do, and they're like, oh, I'm open to anything, that's really overwhelming when you're just open to like anything. And so when I met my co-founder, when he had represented a bunch of things that had fallen into these buckets of things I was interested in was, you know, working for myself, maybe in like technology. I loved wine. All of these different things ended up kind of making sense. And so we launched in 2007. This was actually before the iPhone like launched, which I think it did in June or November of 2007. But basically before then, we just had these really clunky bones that had web browsers.  And there were no apps, because again, there was no app store, there was no iPhone yet. And so we created the first mobile website for wine. And it was solving a very big problem, for me at least, and seemingly a lot of other people where we're always trying to find good wine. And we always base it on how cute the label is and what the price point is. And so now that we have all this information or fingertips, why shouldn't we have it at the grocery store when we're looking at the big shelf? Why shouldn't we have it at the restaurant? And so we created this first mobile website. And then when the iPhone launched and the app store launched, it created a marketplace for us to sell this information. So kind of through all of that and already having a lot of data already, we became the number one wine app very quickly on the iTunes store, a top 10 paid app, lifestyles app and top 100 overall paid app on the entire store. That's amazing. I remember when it came out and it got number one as an app. Now, what ended up happening to Nervino? Yeah. And that's a great question. You know, that was my first company was on a crazy high.  And that taught me a lot of lessons, you know, are really kind of falling very far from a company that was doing really well and, you know, kind of realizing around getting a better relationship with my gut. And there were a lot of red flags that I chose not to look at. And there were a lot of feelings I was having that I was just like, no, no, no, it'll all work out. Learning some of those hard lessons around trust, around finding a founder or co-founder, a business partner that you do believe in, you trust and that is, you know, you've got the right paperwork too. So those are some key lessons I learned. And it was tough as my first company was, I'd say, my most successful company within the startup world. Of course, Mana Up is a different type of company. But just really learning those hard lessons around betrayal and having a co-founder that it didn't work out with. Yeah, trust is so huge. I mean, it's so necessary to have. But then you got involved in blue startups and UHS Accelerate. Tell me about that. Yeah, so when I moved back to Honolulu, I was really looking at what I could do here. I started thinking about, you know, I was living in San Francisco for about 11 years and building this, you know, great network. And I was like, you know, do I really want to be here forever? It's such a transient city. And I was like, you know, I think I do really want to be back in Hawaii long term. So why should I be continuing to cultivate this network here when I should be cultivating a network in Hawaii? And so I came home a lot and started seeing these early inklings of startup innovation and some of the things in Silicon Valley that I had come to love, you know, having my company there, which was like start of weekend, the first start of weekend happened. The box jelly opened, you know, Ray Chung had opened that first co-working space in Kaka'ako. And I started thinking, okay, well, maybe there's something here. And so when I moved back, I kind of quickly got scooped up by Blue Startups. I was part of their initial team as their program manager, running really the program with the entrepreneurs that were getting accepted. And that was an incredible experience, you know, working with Shanoa and Maya and Hank and getting on more of the investor side of things as well as the mentorship side as opposed to just actually doing it, which is what my experience had been for five years right before I left was being an entrepreneur and launching companies. I actually launched a couple other ones after Nirvino. And that was neat to kind of be on the other side of the table. And that was an incredible experience. The Accelerate UH program was incredible working with the University of Hawaii and looking at intellectual property and other talents that were coming out of UH, which was kind of a reflection of regional strengths because the university and their strong departments are reflections of regional strengths in Hawaii.  And then you're also currently the president of the Hawaii Venture Capitalist Association. What does that organization do?  We started in 1988. And what we are is really around networking and connecting the business community with entrepreneurs, with investors, government, bringing to light conversations and panels that we should be having around, you know, what's the legislative agenda that affects innovation and small business and entrepreneurship on the docket, you know, this year? Or, you know, kind of looking at what's the state of investment in Hawaii? Like where are we at? You know, where is the money? Who are the new entities? And kind of keeping those things front of, kind of on the front. So we host a panel every other month throughout the year with different innovation ideas around fashion, food, different things like that. And then we also host an annual Hawaii Venture Capitalist Association Deal and Entrepreneur of the Year gala, which features the highlights of the successes of the last year. So it's a really nice way to create these succinct stories around what has been happening over the last year and some great successes and momentum here in Hawaii. Well, you do a whole lot of stuff, Mellie. Now, let's talk about mana up. I mean, it's such an amazing company.  How did that come about? That's a great question. It's really interesting because I think some of the, like, you know, I'm so passionate about what we're doing. And I think it really came from a gap that we saw. You know, a lot of the accelerators here, they're featuring, are focusing on regional strengths. They're focusing on high growth venture-backable companies, gaming, you know, being really sector-agnostic, whether it's service-based, product-based, tech-based, whatever, all those different things. We really didn't see anything that was focused on consumer packaged goods or products. And looking at, you know, what is another regional strength, a competitive advantage we can leverage? Because it is so hard to do business here. And, you know, Brittany and I, Brittany Hyde, my co-founder, and I really came to the conclusion that the brand of Hawaii is an incredible strength we have that's really best seen in more product-based companies. You know, you can start a tech company called Mahalo or something. That doesn't really matter. But we're seeing, especially with Omoyagi, with tourism being on the rise, we see a lot of mainland companies that are leveraging our brand of Hawaii that have nothing to do with Hawaii. Hawaii doesn't profit from any of it. Yet they know Hawaii sells, and so they're leveraging it. So why can't we connect those thoughts here? Start looking at these mom-and-pop companies that are making some beautiful quality things and help them kind of level up and really start to create global brands right from here, creating jobs and sustainable livelihood. Well, it's definitely amazing what you and Brittany are doing to help so many of these companies. Now, is there like an application process for these companies to get selected? Yes. So it is an online application. It's actually open all year, so people can apply anytime. But we do our kind of open enrollment or more application with the interviews twice a year. Okay. So last, our first cohort we had about 85 applicants. Geez. We interviewed about 25 to 30 of them and then selected 10. And that's essentially the process every time. We're about to announce our third cohort in about two weeks. So we have 21 companies already in our portfolio and we'll be announcing another 10 to making that 31 in our portfolio. Well, I bet they're crossing their fingers and crossing their toes hoping to get selected from you. We hope so. So what is that 12-week accelerator program that you guys have at Manaab? So when we looked at the companies, we have very specific criteria they have to meet. One, they have to be headquartered in Hawaii. We want to be focusing on companies that are headquartered here because that's where you truly get really uncapped wealth potential and really uncapped opportunities when someone has an opportunity to really grow with a company because it's headquartered here, as opposed to being the satellite manager for a mainland company and you're the one person over here representing Hawaii. Two, they have to be at $100,000 minimum annual revenue and so these companies are still startups. They certainly haven't, for all intent and purpose, made it yet, but they figured out a few things. People are buying their stuff and we wanted them to be kind of at that level so they're really ready to scale. Most of our companies, to be honest, are more like at half a million but we make the 100,000 the minimum. The third thing is they have to want to scale. They have to want to grow to global markets. A lot of companies here, they've got beautiful stuff. More mom and pop and it's a lifestyle company and they want to stay that way. That's awesome. We're here to totally support you but you may not be the best fit for the program. And also, it's good for e-commerce and other things like that. So you're in the consumer packaged good space, meaning you're a health or beauty product, retail product or a value add food product with a minimum of six months shelf life. So basically with the 12-week program, they're all revenue generating so they're all running their businesses. So this is certainly not an academic exercise where we're like okay, you have to be in our office all day, every day. They're like, I'm trying to run my business. So we really condense it to one time a week. On a Tuesday, we started at about 130 and then we ended at about seven. And what we do there is there's a lot of resources that come in. So we've got great partnerships with resources that have existed well before Mana Up but we have them come in and really talk with the entrepreneurs about in layman's terms, what this resource can actually do for you. And then we have workshops. We normally have two every session. So it's either skills-based training or leadership training. So for skills, it could be Shopify as one of our partners. So they come in from Canada and Shopify, as most of us know, is the platform that most e-commerce and websites are run through. So they kind of teach best practices, what apps you should use to layer on top of your Shopify website, how to increase sales, SEO, stuff like that. And then we have leadership training. Like how do you create that culture for your company? A lot of these founders, they're first time founders. They created these companies maybe after having their first child and didn't feel like it made sense to go back to work but had this idea to start a company and create these products. And so when you think about that and you think about all of us and the training that we had before starting our own companies, it was all so different, right? So the training I had was, I was in sales for W Hotels. I was a sales manager. I was in research and marketing for the San Jose Convention and Visitors Bureau. I had all these different skill sets but I wasn't trained to be a founder. And so when you think about that, how can we leverage some of the great minds here that have been able to create successful business, have been able to create great companies here and have them come in kind of open Kimono style, heavy Q and A and being sitting down in a room with 10 young or early CEOs of flourishing companies sitting down with a great CEO that's been here having great success for a long time. Dennis Terney, she's come in. He was CEO of Hawaiian Host. Oh, yeah. We had Mark Tyra come in who's CEO of King's Hawaiian Sweet Bread. We've got John Morgan come in from Kualoa Ranch. So all of these great minds kind of come in and I think it really starts to address I think the biggest challenge that I see with a lot of our entrepreneurs is that mindset and having that mindset shift of knowing that you can create something big here and to think bigger. Yeah, you guys are, you and Brittany are brilliant together and you guys are doing something that's actually so exciting to really help these businesses. Mellie, we're going to take a quick break and when we come back we're going to continue going beyond business. Thank you. You are watching Beyond the Lines on Think Tech Hawaii with my special guest, Mellie James. We will be back in 60 seconds. Aloha. I'm Wendy Lowe and I'm coming to you every other Tuesday at two o'clock live from Think Tech Hawaii and on our show, we talk about taking your health back and what does that mean? It means mind, body and soul. Anything you can do that makes your body healthier and happier is what we're going to be talking about whether it's spiritual health, mental health, fascia health, beautiful smile health, whatever it means, let's take healthy back. Aloha. Hey, Stan the Energyman here on Think Tech Hawaii and they won't let me do political commentary so I'm stuck doing energy stuff but I really like energy stuff so I'm going to keep on doing it. So join me every Friday on Stan the Energyman at lunchtime, at noon, on my lunch hour. We're going to talk about everything energy especially if it begins with the word hydrogen. We're going to definitely be talking about it. We'll talk about how we can make Hawaii cleaner, how we can make the world a better place, just basically save the planet. Even Miss America can't even talk about stuff like that anymore. We got it nailed down here. So we'll see you on Friday at noon with Stan the Energyman. Aloha. Welcome back to Beyond the Lines on Think Tech Hawaii. My special guest today is Mellie James, the co-founder of Mana Up which is helping to build the state's next generation of CEOs in retail and food product industry and today we are going beyond business. Mellie in 2016, Entrepreneur Magazine named you one of top five women to watch and in 2017, that same magazine named you one of eight women leaders who are disrupting entrepreneurship. How does it feel to be highlighted in that way in this awesome magazine? I was incredibly honored. It's so funny when we're out here in Hawaii in the middle of the Pacific we always feel like people don't see what we're doing but it was an incredible honor and I actually got to go up to New York and meet the other women that were featured. We had a big photo shoot and then actually one of the women was hosting a women's conference a few months later in Houston and had invited all of us to be at different speaking engagements during that conference so that was a lot of fun really getting to know them. I will say the woman who was one of the five and she was actually on the cover she was the woman that created the female Viagra so I got to give hats off to that. No, I love that Mellie and you're someone that definitely goes beyond the lines and I want to ask you about my book. How did you like the book? I know you read it. Yes, I really enjoyed the book and it was interesting I guess for selfish reasons because I was there for so many of the years on the team granted not on the men's team but I could kind of tell some of the people you're referencing so I thought it was really neat to think about I have always kind of seen my tennis experience and that competitiveness or being able like that teamwork and different things like that that have really helped me be a better leader and also work together more but I was really kind of inspired by your book by just kind of reminding myself of that time and what that meant for me so I really enjoyed it. Well I think all of our viewers they're learning about how brilliant you are as a leader and how you're helping so many people you definitely go beyond the lines I want to know Mellie how do you define success? I mean success can be interpreted in so many ways and I want to know what your take on success is. That's a good question I think I always say this quote which was interesting because I saw it when I was back at Cornell I'm an entrepreneur in residence for the school so I'm there every six months and I was walking by and I saw this quote that said success is never final and it was a quote from JW Marriott of course the hotel person in the hotel school and I was actually kind of thought about that for quite some time as to like what that quote meant to me and I think it's as we continue to gain certain successes we're never we don't ever think like okay I'm successful now I'm just gonna like rest on my laurels and just kind of sit here because that's not really the point as we gain certain successes as we continue doing things there's always kind of that next thing and I think that a lot of people when they think about success think it needs to be this this destination but really it's about that process and if you can be enjoying that process as you have goals and you hit them and you've got other goals and you hit them that it is about that process which is why it's never final and if you can embrace that more you're gonna find a lot more success and really enjoy that whole journey because you never really know when you know life can end or you know things shift but I know that there are a lot of highs and lows that I've had in my career and I and I really feel that through all of that I've been able to to figure out that I trust myself more in that I know I can figure anything out and that's actually the kind of the fun part about it when the world becomes your oyster and an opportunity to problem solve is when I actually trust that I may not know how to do that right now but I can figure it out and that's actually what makes it quite fun for me so I guess if that kind of answers your question how I view success it's that success are just kind of these different iterations of process and so for me I never look at like I've done all these things I just think yeah this has been so much fun and granted sometimes it's not so fun when it doesn't go well but I'm enjoying that process so I guess I guess that's how I view success yeah no that's great and you know every successful person they deal with challenges and adversities what do you think was a major challenge for you in your young successful life so far I would say well one having the big falling out with my first co-founder that was a real that was a real blow for me because I think I'm I'm very trusting and I think kind of I'm in this for the best reasons and I think everyone else should be but it's kind of that trust trust would verify which is the lessons that I've had to learn you know I think another kind of like that's a good question I'm trying to remember what I like originally thought about this one I'd say you know really building kind of mana up came from going through like another process for me about like what was really important for me and why I'd moved back to Hawai'i in the first place and for a lot of it is selfish reasons for for building helping to build this innovation ecosystem I want to see more smart people being able to move back or to be here and doing really cool stuff and so I think when I was growing up and graduating from high school and graduating from college there was this kind of I unspoken or maybe spoken thing around you know if you were really motivated you really wanted to do things you had to move away you you couldn't do it here unless you were going to be a banker lawyer doctor or you had some family business you were taking over where you had like this pathway to success that true opportunity wasn't going to be here and that really frustrated me for a long time because I don't even think I really had the choice if I wanted to stay or I didn't I felt like I just couldn't and I did leave for a long time I was gone for 11 years but I think kind of at a certain point you know as I was trying to figure out what Mana Up could be and I had you know met Brittany and we were loosely talking I really had to dig deep I actually went to Nepal for a month and trekked about 120 miles through the Himalayas up in an area called Mustang which is like northern middle right below and right in the northern middle part and it was an incredible journey for me and it kind of actually relates to your book a little bit around I think when I was trekking it wasn't about what I was thinking about because you were just doing it and you were trekking like 10 to 12 miles a day at sometimes at 15,000 feet but it was through that process of starting like to like trust my body and to just to feel like strong and just kind of that those moments of just kind of doing and like getting back to basics around just kind of getting up the mountain kind of helped me to start to just feel more connected to me which I thought was which was really important for me at the time as we were trying to figure out how we're going to do this thing What an experience that must have been jeez so Meli you know you're a strong successful leader what do you think is one thing you need to improve on for yourself You know that's another good question one thing I know I need to do and one thing actually I've figured out is you know how to create or how to find a co-founder with complementary skill sets and Brittany who is the co-founder of Mana Up and I are just totally perfect partners like all the things that I hate doing she loves doing and she's really good at and all the things she hates doing I really love doing and I'm really good at so it's been really neat to see that kind of a partnership where we're not competing with each other we just really make you help make each other better but I'd say one thing I do need to work on is is kind of getting that kind of perspective walking away from myself and getting out of the minutiae of like the every day just because we're executing on so many things to kind of get off the dance floor and get on to like the balcony and really look down at myself and and think about okay what's next like what do I really want to do what am I building towards that isn't necessarily within a year or two but it's kind of bigger than that and so that's something I know I need to work on and so I've actually just started working again you know with like a you know engaging with like a career coach or a life coach which I haven't done in over 10 years but I'm really excited to have that opportunity to go through that process of like how do I start to have those ways of disconnecting and seeing it from this level so that I can really make some bigger strides and actually think bigger even though we work with entrepreneurs to help them think bigger I need to think bigger too well that's why you're successful now Mellie you've worked with a lot of CEOs what do you think what do you think makes these good CEOs great what do they do that makes them great that's a good question I would say the ones that I've met or that I've worked with that have made them great are the ones that are really taking an interest in not only in their culture of the culture of the company they're trying to create and I think as they bring on more employees like we're seeing them kind of early sometimes but as they're trying to figure out who to bring on and also not looking at the direct check marks of skill sets they need but really looking at who the person is and how they're going to impact the company and being able to speak to that I think is really important because it really starts with that first hire yeah and that's where it's interesting because most of our companies they have at least maybe one employee and having them and having us we really started actually increasing more of our leadership training in the cohorts because we were seeing that it's a big need as they're looking for like okay what kind of leader do I want to be you know what kind of what kind of culture do I want to create in the company how am I able to exude that in many different ways and I think that's the difference I see is when people have real intention around the environment that they're creating within their company Mellie I really enjoy all of your insights about leadership and business and you're completely right about creating a culture of excellence and discipline details that's what I'm all about and that's what the book is about and that's definitely what you're doing I want to really thank you for being on Beyond the Lines today thank you Rusty this has been a lot of fun oh thank you Mellie just like you said it would be of course and thank you for watching Beyond the Lines on Think Tech Hawaii and a special thank you to my clothing sponsor Eolani Incorporated for more information please visit my website RustyKamori.com and my book is available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and all Costco stores in Hawaii I hope that this show inspires you to create your own superior culture of excellence and to 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It's a two-week event. It happens every year. It's called the COP, the Conference of the Parties. It's in Durban, South Africa this year. The climate finance and the future of the Kyoto Protocol are probably the two biggest issues at stake in Durban. The Kyoto Protocol was struck in 1997, and it was actually setting some firm emissions limits for many of the big countries, although the U.S. did not sign on. It expires next year in 2012. And so the big talk is, will there be a successor treaty that will be agreed to? In addition to that, there's a lot of discussion about some agreements that were struck in Cancun last year regarding climate finance. A lot of the developed countries agreed to provide 100 billion of funding for mitigation and adaptation in these poorer countries. But unfortunately, we haven't seen that money materialize yet. And so a lot of the debate has been around finger-pointing, and will we see some of the funds materialize? There are 194 countries officially represented. You see thousands and thousands of NGOs, IGOs, other governments, as well as an increasing amount of the business community. We've seen, especially since Copenhagen, where there was a rise in business interest because of the pressure that was put on for that meeting, a lot of the sectors are coming. And it's really not just the traditional, maybe the heavy industry or energy. We're seeing agriculture and water. They see a very strong stake in sort of proper resource management. How does this get folded into the climate change process? Well the World Economic Forum has been invited by the South African government to co-host a series called the Durban Growth Series. We're really happy to welcome President Zuma, who will kick us off on Sunday morning. And it will be a series of discussions with leaders in government and industry. The government specifically asked us, can you come up with really tangible, good, concrete examples of successful partnerships at the national or sub-national level, where people are really achieving green growth, and we're seeing real results. We're going to have sessions on clean energy. It features some really good progress that the country of India has made with the national solar mission, as well as Kenya looking at renewable energy. We'll then have a session on water and adaptation. And that session will be featuring South Africa, who has just struck a new partnership for water resource management. And then also we'll have something on agriculture with Tanzania, who has developed a really interesting green growth corridor to attract investment for agriculture and green growth there. The sessions will have ministers and CEOs and business leaders talking with each other about this partnership has worked. How can we have more of these, and how can we scale them up to achieve the climate change challenge? Well, we've had a lot of success so far in the area of water resource management and agricultural plan development. And in both of those areas, we've done this sort of model where we've come into these emerging markets and there's a lot of growth, there's a lot of demand for energy and food that are needed, a lot of job creation that's needed. And what we try to do is bring together the right stakeholders and form sort of a country coalition. How do we help the country of Tanzania, for example, develop a green growth agricultural strategy? Let's bring some of the fertilizer companies, agricultural companies, even the end users, some of the consumer products companies, and talk about what they would invest in and how to make an attractive investment environment and then give advice in terms of policies that we've seen work in other countries. So we've worked in Tanzania, Vietnam, Mexico, and several other countries with agriculture and water. We've worked with Jordan and Mexico, Mongolia, China, India. So we're starting to get a bit of a coalition of peers that are looking at each other and seeing that these models can work. And then we're working as well on clean energy. So that's sort of a newer area looking at, as I said, India and Kenya.


Hello, everyone. Welcome to Options with Doug. Streaming live daily on Bookmap Discord and the Bookmap YouTube channel at 1.30 p.m. Eastern Time. Before I get started, I need to go through the general disclosure. All Bookmap limited materials, information, and presentations are for educational purposes only and should not be considered specific investment advice nor recommendations. Risk disclosure, trading futures, equities, and options involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results. Here's my contact information. The best way to get in touch with me is through Discord. My name on Discord is Doug P. Also in Bookmap Discord, there's an option stash Doug chat channel that's a great place to post questions, comments, and content related to the topics of my presentation as well as the topics of the channel, which I'll go through in just a moment. And I'm also on X, formerly known as Twitter. My name there is at Doug Pless. The focus of my presentation today and the focus of the options stash Doug chat channel is options order flow, the impact of options markets on stocks and futures, and the influence of market maker hedging flow on price action. I have a two step process for trading and the first is planning. And I use positional analysis. I look at how traders and market makers are positioned in the options market and how those positions change from day to day to develop a thesis regarding the expected trading range and volatility for the day as well as the directional bias. And the second step in my process is execution. I look at real time order flow in bookmap and real time market maker hedging flow in spot gamma hero to confirm my thesis and for setups for entries and exits. And when I talk about setups today, I will be talking about setups in an underlying asset. For example, the SAP 500 setups can be taken with the S futures spy shares, spy options, SPX options, or even ES options. Questions and comments are welcome. And I will be watching both the options stash Doug chat channel and discord, as well as the chat and YouTube for your questions and comments. Please feel free to post and I will do my best to answer your question. All right. Here's my agenda for today Monday, Monday, October 30th. First of all, want to cover news items for the week that would be economic data events and earnings. Then I'll go through my positional analysis, my planning process for today. Then I'll review some setups from this morning. And then we'll take a look at the live market. When I get to the live market, if anyone has any stocks they want me to take a look at, please let me know and I'll be glad to do that. All right. Let's get started with news items. So first of all, really nothing today. Tomorrow. And I'm going to cover just the high impact events as well as earnings for the stocks that I follow and trade. Of course, there are many earnings reports this week. I'm just going to mention a couple of them. So Monday today, really no economic data releases. Tomorrow, there is consumer confidence number coming out at 10am eastern time. And then AMD reports after the market closes. On Wednesday, first of all, there's PMI data that comes out at 10am. And then the big event for the week is the FOMC announcement. So the announcement is at 2pm. That's during my session. And then the press conference begins at 2.30pm just as my session will end. And so that is the big event for the week. Then on Thursday, Apple reports earnings after the market closes. And then on Friday, the next big event for the week is the jobs report. That's at 8.30am eastern time. Also, there's more PMI data out at 10am eastern time. All right. So that is the week ahead. Big event on Wednesday again. FOMC announcement. All right. Let's take a look at the positional analysis today. I'm going to start with the S&P 500. This is the ES Futures and book map. Very choppy day, range day. Before I take a closer look at this chart, I want to take a look at a larger time frame. I'm going to go to the SPX in a 30-day one-hour chart. Let me point out just a couple of key events. This was the jobs report for September, October 6. Gamma squeeze after that. Then the, let's see, I think over that weekend, that was the, might have been the Hamas invasion of Israel. Anyway, the market did not make it up much higher. Interest rates increasing. The geopolitical situation and the market rolled over. This is the October expiration. Very negative Gamma put dominated. The expectation was for a put banner rally that really only lasted a couple of days. And now the market has moved lower again with the treasury yields being an issue as well as the geopolitical situation. All right. Let me point out some levels on this chart. First of all, the lower and upper weekly expected move. These are shown by the dash purple lines. This is based on the options marked the expected move for the week. So I do that once over the weekend and that those levels remain the same for the entire week. Then the dash blue lines are showing the lower and upper daily expected move that changes every day. And note that SPX is trading up toward the upper daily expected move for the week. Let's take a look at the spot gamma levels. These are proprietary spot gamma levels based on gamma weighted open interest that are provided to spot gamma subscribers on a variety of platforms. This is thinkorswim. So let me point out the key daily levels. First of all, here's the 4000 level. That is the absolute gamma strike. That's a strike with the largest absolute negative and positive gamma. That is where most of the gamma weighted open interest is concentrated. The next level up is the put wall. That's a 4100. That's a strike with the largest net negative gamma that can be expected to act as support. If it doesn't, of course, the next level down is 4000. And so far the 4100 level has done its job. And note that it did not shift lower from last week. It remains at 4100. The next level up is 4300. That's the volatility trigger. That is spot gamma's proprietary gamma flip level. Below that level, market makers position on the gamma curve is negative. In a negative gamma environment, market makers have to trade with price to hedge their dealt exposure. And that tends to enhance or increase volatility and can lead to fairly unstable markets. And note that SPX is trading well below its volatility trigger. The next level up is the call wall at 4600. That's a strike with the largest net positive gamma that can be expected to act as resistance. And that's really far out of play today. And the call wall has been moving around quite a bit. Really the force driving the market today is the put domination in this negative gamma environment. So the call wall is not significant up at that level. So those are the key daily levels. And note the potential range is very wide. 4100 to 4600. All right, the only shift in level for SPX was the call wall shifting lower from an even more unimportant 4800 level to 4600. All right, so those are the key daily levels for SPX. Let's just take a look at a one day chart just to get a closer look at the levels that are in play for today. I'm going to zoom in just on today here. So here's the upper daily expected move. More or less acted as resistance before and now SPX is up at that level again. This is also a combo L5 level at 4150. Acted as resistance midday there. All right, let's take a look at book map now go back to ES futures. So in the ES futures, I have my own cloud notes so I can show SPX levels as well as spy levels. So there's that SPX 4150 level that I pointed out that it acted as resistance three times earlier today or four depending on how you look at it. And now after 1pm SPX or ES moved up pretty sharply up to this 4165 close to the 4165 level that's SPX that acted as resistance more or less maybe just a little bit below at that level also above the upper daily expected move for ES that's the ES upper daily expected move. And then here's the spy 415 level that's a large gamma two level combining no that's just spy gamma level at that 415 level. So I have SPX level spy levels as well as other key ES levels on this chart. Note there is a difference in price between ES and SPX. And today it is around it's somewhere between 19 and 20. I'm using 20. So ES minus SPX is 20 today. And I have been posting all the ratios that I use every day in the book map discord in the options dash Doug chat channel. In case anyone else wants to show these levels on their chart. So this is how I look at the ES in terms of spy and SPX levels both round number levels and also spot gamma levels for spy and SPX. Alright so levels in play no direct contact other than this 4150 level acting as resistance. Alright let's take a look at actually let me just wrap up with the shifts and levels for spy. So for spy the volatility trigger did shift higher from 425 to 429. Also the call was shifted lower pretty dramatically from 460 down to 414. So that is actually shown here this may be difficult to see but there are two white lines. So that spy 415 level lines up pretty closely with the SPX 4150 level. And that is very unusual to have that call down below the volatility trigger. For you spot gamma subscribers there was a discussion in the spot gamma AM founders note about that this morning. Again somewhat unusual and we're really focused more on puts and the location of the put wall and the put domination in this very negative gamma environment. And I would imagine that that should resolve this location of the call wall in the next few days certainly after the FOMC announcement. Alright so the SMB500 staging a late day rally call wall shifted lower for SPX and spy and then the spy volatility trigger shifted higher. Alright let's take a look at NASDAQ now choppy session and NASDAQ as well. This is the NQ futures and book map. Let's just take a quick look at first of all a QQQ chart so we can isolate the QQQ levels and play for today. No strong resistance or support. Note 350 is the absolute gamma strike and there's a combo level just below that that combines QQQ and NDX gamma weighted open interest into one level and shown in an equivalent QQQ price. So that's QQQ choppy day. Let's take a look at NDX and here's that combo level and NDX. Let's go back to book map. So in book map just like in NQ futures just like the ES futures I have my own cloud notes so I can show a combination of levels in one column. Here are my cloud notes. So there's the QQQ 350 level and note my NDX levels are not correct. The spot gamma is not updating the levels on the home page that I use every day. I need to send a screenshot to them to their spot gamma support. Alright so that is the QQQ 350 level and this is also the NQ upper daily expected move and there was a sharp move higher at the open. I'm sure everyone is aware and the NQ traded up above the upper daily expected move and then reversed pretty sharply lower. Alright so those are the levels in play for NASDAQ. As far as shifts in levels the only level that shifted was the put wall for QQQ shifted higher from 340 to 345. So I interpret that as somewhat bullish is the put wall shifted higher for QQQ. Also the put walls held for the SPX and SPY. Alright let's talk about gamma notional now. See how market makers were positioned on the gamma curve at the beginning of the day. What I'm going to take a look at is gamma notional here. Again this is how market makers are positioned on the gamma curve at the beginning of the day. And I'm looking at SPX, SPY, NDX, QQQ, RUT and IWM. The only number that really is not significant here is NDX. So we'll take a look at the other numbers. Note every all these numbers negative quite negative especially for SPY also SPX, QQQ, negative and IWM. So what this means for the SP500 NASDAQ and also 2000 traders are long puts. Market makers are short puts and they have to trade in the direction or price to hedge their delta exposure and that tends to lead to more volatility more unstable markets. Alright there were some shifts in these in the gamma notional levels. First of all for the SP500 and NASDAQ the level the gamma notional became slightly less negative than Friday and just the opposite for the Russell 2000 gamma notional became slightly more negative. Alright let's take a look at the VANA model now and we can get a graphical representation of what this means. Let me just check one thing here. So SPX low of the day was right around 4133. Let's go back to the VANA model for SPX. Alright what this chart is showing is delta notional. This is market makers delta exposure on the vertical axis price on the horizontal axis for SPX. There are two curves on this chart. The first the light gray curve shows how market makers delta notional changes with changes in price only. The purple curve adds implied volatility to the equation. That shows how market makers delta notional changes with changes in price and implied volatility. And that change in implied volatility change in delta with a change in implied volatility is the VANA effect. VANA is a second order Greek. So again that is the change in delta with a change in implied volatility. So that's the curve that we want to take a look at. Alright let's take a look at some prices now. So first of all the low of the day looking for 4133 somewhere between these two points. And this is a very unusual curve to have the entire curve sloping up from right to left. And this is typical of a negative gamma environment and they're depending on what what Jerome Powell has to say on Wednesday this there should be some some relief to this to this very negative gamma situation. Of course we'll see more on on Wednesday. Alright so what this showing is as price increases market makers delta notional decreases. So price is increasing delta notional is decreasing and they can buy back short futures. So remember in this part of the gamma curve market makers are trading with price to hedge their delta exposure. So if price increases implied volatility drops they can buy back their short hedges. Let's see where SPX is trading now 4167 and this is not following my cursor very well. Alright so you can see that market makers delta notional has been increasing decreasing as price increases and they can buy back short futures. Let's just take a look at VIX. So this is the VIX futures and it really started to decrease around 1115 somewhere between 1115 1130 made a lower high and then really started to move lower just around 1230 1245. Alright so we know now that price is increasing implied volatility dropping market makers are buy back short futures. Alright let's take a look at the VIX model for SPI. SPI low of the day right around 412 412.50 somewhere around here currently trading about three points higher. So not quite as dramatic as the SPX curve but market makers as price is increasing have been able to buy back short futures. Let's take a look at QQQ. Low of the day and QQQ around 346.50 somewhere around here and very similar. Now this does work both ways so if price continues to drop market makers delta notional will increase and they will have to sell futures to hedge their delta exposure and for QQQ this would be for options traders traders if they are buying puts market maker sell the puts and they have to sell in Q futures to hedge their delta exposure. Alright let's take a look at some setups now. So this chart is the hero chart for SAP 500 hero is hedging impact real-time options this is available to spot gamma subscribers. What this chart is showing is price for SPX that's the white line and then the hero signal that's the purple line again hedging impact real-time options showing options trades and market maker hedging activity for a combined signal for SPX SPI XSP and ES futures on to one combined signal. Alright so using this we can take a look at a couple setups. I'm going to zoom in on this chart. Let's go to the morning session. So the first setup and we'll go take a look at these in book map in a minute was this divergent short. Just after 950 options traders started taking negative delta positions as the SAP 500 moved up toward that upper daily expected move and then price responded a few minutes later. Alright so that's the first setup a short setup let's zoom back out and then really more chop since then for several hours and then options traders started taking positive delta positions again right around 1245 note this flow alert often a mean reverting alert that's the way Brent the founder spot gamma uses these quite often and he's the one who developed these so the floor alert indicating potential reversal point they can also confirm a trend and or you just have to watch watch hero and I watch book map to make a decision but anyway in this case it acted as more of a mean reversion reversal higher as options traders started taking positive delta positions and that was right around 1245 alright so let's go to look at book map we're looking at a short in the morning then along in the afternoon let's zoom in on this a bit alright so here's the morning short note all the aggressive buyers these are shown by the green volume dots the volume dots are showing market buy minus sell and when there are more buyers than sellers the volume dot is green when there are more sellers than buyers the market dot is magenta so note more aggressive sellers coming in so everybody's on one side of the boat here from the cash open you can see the rising cumulative volume delta that's the dark blue line also buy stop orders helping the mule fuel to move higher and then note that large traders were fading that move with iceberg orders that's shown by the falling light blue line not large size but they were selling and the strength they use iceberg orders to hide their size and then as options traders remember options traders started taking negative delta positions and price move lower so that's the short setup from this morning pretty typical pattern for the last few days and then finally the chop resolves higher right around 1245 again everybody on one side of the boat sellers shown by all the magenta volume dots then price starts to make higher lows as traders were taking positive delta positions and then the buy stop orders shown by the rising yellow line as well as aggressive buyers shown by the rising dark blue line move price higher as well as traders taking positive delta positions back up above the highs of the day so far all right let's go back and take a look and see what options traders are doing what i want to do now is uh kind of slice and dice this a bit first of all take a look puts and calls see what traders are doing so what this is showing is in the the morning traders were buying puts that's shown by the falling blue line blue is for puts shown in the direction of delta so falling blue line indicates negative delta traders are buying puts sorry about that that's what i'm afraid of and then let's take a quick look at this move this afternoon so they were buying puts they stopped start selling puts also start buying calls and price starts to move higher and spot gamma has pointed out when both of the lines are moving in the same direction that's a very powerful signal traders at this point are buying calls and selling puts market makers taking the opposite side so they have to buy futures to actually their delta exposure also their uh delta exposure due to the put vana is decreasing so they are also buy back short futures due to the increase in price and the decrease in uh implied decrease and implied volatility so the put vana rally combined with what traders are doing helping to fuel this move higher as well as aggressive buyers that we saw in in book map and let's just take a look at next expiry which would for the s&p 500 this would be the zero dte options that expire today and that is not that's making up uh less than half of the total notional value today that's shown by the green line and i'm looking at the notional value here so really traders are taking options positions that expire further out than today that's shown by all trades by the purple line so that just adds a little bit of additional context all right so short setup in the morning then long setup in the afternoon took some patience all right let's take a look at nasdaq now already a nasdaq there was a clear divergent short this morning pretty much from the open traders were taking negative delta positions as price was increasing and then price responded lower as traders were taking negative delta positions and just like the s&p 500 they were buying puts shown by the following blue line all right let's go take a look at book map go to nasdaq so here's the reversal lower and nasdaq assume it on this so it was a little bit more clear to see when i was zoomed out more but note everybody on one side of the boat aggressive buyers from the open remember options traders were taking negative delta positions they were fading the move higher also large traders also fading the move higher with iceberg orders shown by the falling light blue line on the other hand aggressive buyers in there that's shown by the green volume dots as well as the rising cvd line the dark blue and then also buy stop orders shown by the rising yellow line also fueling that move higher it runs out of steam as traders were taking negative delta positions and aggressive sellers start to come in and nasdaq makes a series of lower highs finally reversing just below the upper daily expected move again remember traders were taking negative delta positions in nasdaq and just to note when i'm trading i'm looking at i have multiple screens so i my main computer i have two screens so i'm looking at either es or in q or whatever i'm trading book map on one screen and hero on another screen so you know of course i'm only presenting on one screen so i have to jump back and forth but in when i'm trading i'm actually looking at one screen or two screens at the same time all right so this is the afternoon setup right around the same time as s&p 500 and at first didn't it kind of look like the same chop but then finally a lot of aggressive buyers start to come in just after just around around 115 or so so let's see what options traders were doing so there were several ups and downs in the hero signal and this one finally takes hold around 1245 traders start taking positive delta positions let's just see what they were doing with puts and calls so they started buying calls and really somewhat took their foot off the gas from they were buying puts and then that activity and then that activity leveled off they started buying calls not quite as clear as the signal in the s&p 500 let's just take a look at one other thing there's a new signal for the magnificent seven and these are the seven stocks that have been driving in the markets both the s&p 500 and nasdaq for most of this year it's a combined signal for apple amazon google meta microsoft nvidia and tesla sometimes it acts as a leading indicator this is fairly new something that spot gamma just introduced so it took a while the options traders in the magnificent seven really didn't start taking positive delta positions until price was already increasing so not not much of a leading indicator today for this last move higher but still an important signal indicating that right around 120 let's say traders start taking positive delta positions in those seven stocks all right any questions all right let's take a look at some stocks now and i did post this in discord i called a tale of two stocks microsoft and tesla and wavy ask how much is spot gamma cost i just go to the spot gamma website and there i the last time i checked there were three levels of subscription and if you this hero signal is included with spot gamma alpha so the last time i checked they have a uh they had a standard pro and alpha subscription and i'm not sure what the prices are so you'll have to go to spot gamma dot com and uh you should see the pricing there all right let's take a look at a couple stocks so again i mentioned microsoft and tesla tale of two stocks first of all here's microsoft gonna separate out puts and calls so the rising line is showing that traders were buying calls aggressively in the morning buying calls driving price higher when traders buy calls in a stock market makers sell the calls and they have to buy stock to hedge their delta exposure sorry about that try again so also they were really not doing much with puts in the morning blue line pretty flat aggressively buying calls that levels off price starts to drop they start buying calls again they are also selling puts takes a while for the price to respond but net for the day both lines are positive so they net for the day they are selling puts and buying calls so bullish options trades in and microsoft today so that's the first setup let's go take a look at book map no gamma levels no spot gamma levels in place so let's again let's go but book map take a look at microsoft very bullish morning in microsoft sharp jump higher from right around the 333 level all the way to 338 note the liquidity in the order book shown by the dark or dichro collars orange to red that comes in at the cash open typically at the round number levels and price quickly made it up to the 338 level and reverse lower as call buyers started to take their foot off the gas and wavy says i see thank you you're welcome hero could be very useful to me as an options trader yes i think no matter what you trade any you know whether you're trading equities or equity index futures i think hero is a great help gives you a pretty significant a significant edge all right so that's microsoft very strong opening trade as traders are buying calls all right let's take a look at the other stock that's tesla and they're just hammering tesla today all right let's go take a look at hero down from 210 to 195 let's go to hero see what options traders have been doing so we know again that traders are buying calls and microsoft helping to drive price higher take a look at tesla now let's see what tesla options traders have been doing and they were buying puts so just about 10 minutes after the open initially they were buying calls and selling puts that stopped just 10 minutes after the cash open started aggressively buying puts stopped buying calls and price moved lower so just the opposite of microsoft when traders buy puts market makers sell the puts and they have to sell stock to hedge their dealt exposure and tesla moved lower than its 200 foot wall key gamma strike let's go take a look at book map so here's the 200 key gamma strike put wall there was some consolidation at this level and price finally continued lower we just toned down these volume dots just a little bit so 200 the put wall the key gamma strike a little bit of consolidation there then that level became resistance that's what happened with spx last week break below the put wall and then it becomes resistance all right so there's tesla let's go back to hero so actually net for the day traders are buying calls the orange notion of value that is positive but the put buyers are definitely in control and they're more aggressive all right one other stock i wanted to take a look at so that was really the the most interesting amazon and what i saw in the morning was this divergent short but that hero started moving lower price responded and looking out at the big picture the setup today for amazon was really a long let's go take a look at book map so a better setup today is the long and amazon here's the short that i was talking about that divergent short at 132 you can see the aggressive seller starting to come in shown by the magenta volume dots and absorption at that level again the liquidity that comes in at the cash open those are limit sell orders all right does anyone have any stocks they want me take a look at other otherwise we'll go back to the go back to the sb 500 looks like it may be finding resistance at the 4165 level that level was noted as resistance in the spot gammam founders note let's just zoom in a bit note the heat map and book map showing all these sellers these are again limit sell orders above price also iceberg orders large sellers selling with iceberg orders that show them by the falling light blue line and the sub chart as well as that icon right there 560 contracts and three execute executed in and three transactions as um as buy stop orders fuel that move higher up into that liquidity so a little bit of a stop run up into that liquidity and then large traders start to come in with uh iceberg orders uh to sell that move higher let's see what options traders are doing go back to hero go the sb 500 zoom in on this so as prices reach that high level again options traders are starting to fade it um options traders uh can often have a uh mean reverting uh influence on price and that's what's happening today options traders are um buying weakness selling strength often that happens at key levels again there's a flow alert indicating potential uh mean reversion activity the flow alert basically just signifies significant options activity and hedging activity but the research that spot gamma has done indicates these can also often be signal of a potential reversal so that's the way the alerts have acted today on the sp 500 let's just separate outputs and calls again remember we noted earlier uh with this reversal hire traders started selling puts and buying calls and now note that has reversed so now they're selling calls and buying puts both lines moving in the same direction lower sorry about that nothing i did all right shane wants to take a look at tlt so i don't have tlt in book map but we can take a look in hero here so that's an etf that tracks the uh 20 year treasury i don't know what happened could be faster tracks the uh 20 year treasury 20 plus year all right so starting about 10 am traders are taking negative delta positions as tlt started moving lower so tlt is um may have been a moderate options market certainly nothing on the uh order of magnitude of the sp 500 or even nasdaq so the notional value for the sp 500 for example is in the billions typically could be anywhere up to uh six or seven billion on the high side and here this is tlt options traders notional options trades uh notional value negative for the day at minus uh 29 million so options traders are taking negative delta positions in tlt although that activity did stop right around 10 50 or so so now it has shifted to slightly positive looks like tlt is moving higher so yields would be moving lower all right so there you go shane so right now traders are taking positive delta positions in tlt let's go back to the sp 500 all right so it may be shifting higher again options traders may be um starting to take positive delta positions again let's take a look at nasdaq though they were definitely taking negative delta positions uh starting just before two o'clock take a look at the magnificent seven you need to pin that all right so the magnificent seven that has um the hero signal has not uh dropped as dramatically as nasdaq separate outputs and calls so for a while they're starting uh right around one right around one o'clock they were buying calls and a few minutes later 20 minutes later started selling puts now those lines have leveled off all right let's go back to book map all right let's go back to book map so right now the sv 500 just consolidating between the spy 415 level and the sp x 4185 take a look at nasdaq right nasdaq just below the q q q 349 level large traders continue to sell into strength with iceberg orders not large size so one thing to note is um tomorrow and probably wednesday morning that uh you know probably best to expect price action like this and then some resolution uh up or down out of this range after the fomc announcement so that is probably what uh whatever you want is waiting on is the fomc announcement and press conference so really expect uh more of the range uh until then uh more of this type of price action unless something else comes up unless there's a significant move in treasuries and yields or in the geopolitical situation got a couple minutes left anyone has it does anyone have any stocks they want me to take a look at last call for stocks questions all right so we looked at good short and long setups and both the sv 500 and nasdaq confirmed by options traders with hero as well as order flow and book map again that was both the sv 500 and the nasdaq and calib wants to take a look at netflix i've got netflix now and book map we can take a look at that netflix bullish day let's see what options traders are doing let's go to netflix very bullish day in netflix 400 key gamma strike acting as support this morning sorry i should have shown this one earlier this is a good setup and calib says the 400 level seems key yes it was that is the key gamma strike so a good choice of words there key gamma strike note the flow alerts a couple of flow alerts right at the open and traders have been buying calls and selling puts in netflix today all right let's go back take a look at book map again very bullish day in netflix thanks for pointing that out calib there's the 400 level acted as support this morning 400 key gamma strike and traders have been taking positive delta positions buying calls and selling puts all right i need to wrap it up i want to thank everyone for watching thank you very much for your questions and comments and remember tomorrow consumer confidence at 10 amd reports after the close and we'll see you tomorrow thanks again bye