Okay, good morning everybody, it's 8 o'clock, it is Wednesday the 6th of December and I hope everybody is having a very good trading week. We are live on Discord and we are live on YouTube. I'm going to just change the slide to the next slide to make sure that that is working so I can see it and I'll do the disclaimer at the same time. Okay, all Bookmap limit add one there just saying, no, nobody here can predict the future no matter what any presenter says. Anyway, I will ignore myself and I'm just putting up a new slide there. The Learning Center in Bookmap and there's a link on the Discord channel. I think there's a link in lots of Discord channels in Bookmap at the moment. The Learning Center is being revamped so it's been redesigned and I think there's a lot more content going into each of those sections which are segmented clearly and cleanly now so hopefully it's more used to people that are setting out in Bookmap or are focusing on a particular area they wish to know more about or improve. Anyway, let's move on to have a look at quickly the screen. So before we get into the slide show, I will just point out one thing. Just for the purposes of this webinar, I've added in the Delta numbers in that column. It's exactly the same as we had it on the last webinar just so that we can actually use that for the Delta tails. I don't tend to have those numbers in when I'm trading. It's just for this webinar only. So take it with a grain of salt. OK, let's move on to the slide show. OK, right. We have one bit of news coming out in this hour of power, the breakfast hour. And that is the ADP employment change. It's not ranked as the full three bars of importance by TradingView or Investing.com. So I would tend to agree with that. I'm not expecting a huge amount of volatility. We've already got some of that employment news yesterday. And that is one of the reasons why the market was so bullish coming out of the gate yesterday and perhaps today as well. We can dig out some dailies on some of the indicators, sorry, some of these symbols that relate to that. Basically, what I'm talking about is that the news signified that people think that inflation is coming down or that the inflationary pressure is not as high, so the chance of interest rate cuts increases and the chance of interest rate hikes decreases, both of which are good for the market. Later on, they've got the balance. Oh, sorry, I was ignoring that one, the balance of trade and exports. Yeah. Yeah. So we've got two bits of news at 8.15 and 8.30. I'm actually thinking that's not today. I've got the notice today. Wednesday, December the 9th, non-farm productivity quarter on quarter. OK, that's not the main one. The non-farm payrolls itself is not today. So even though we've got a couple of things happening at 8.30, I would not expect a huge amount of volatility in the way that we saw the volatility at the 8.30 AM release yesterday. So, yep, so they're all there. You can go and see for yourself. I recommend the calendar at 4x factory. That's one of my favorites. I just pulled this one up because I've got a lot of trading views stuff on my screens. OK, let's ignore that. OK, on to the dailies. I have just got one horizontal line drawn across the most significant highs of the last few months. And what I would like to point out in the daily is that, even though this may look like a slight rounding top in NQ, and you've got ES below it, I take the ES chart probably with a little bit more value than the NQ one because this current rally is being driven by the finance sector, all the things to do with inflation and currencies. So NASDAQ has been weak. But then if we look at the dailies, which we will do in a second on what happened for Apple and Amazon, et cetera, you'll see that they were very, very strong. So if we're going by pure price action only, when you've got a big move up and we've got a range, which is essentially what the ES is in at the moment, the likelihood or probability is that it will continue in the same direction IE up and given what happened yesterday, even though we may chop around for quite a bit longer, the price action is suggesting some form of continuation, whatever that is.  Who knows? We cannot predict the future. And just looking across, I mean, you can see yesterday's bolt upwards and what happened as well at the beginning of ETH. ETH is shaded in gray. And I'll talk about that when we talk about our technique in our session today. Particularly, I'm talking about this spike upwards in the Japan opening session, the first hour of Japan or the fact that it actually was before and continued into the Japan open. Not normally quite as strong a move as that every day of the week, but that was very, very strong today. OK, let's go back to where we are in book map and have a very quick high level zoom out. So I've got the unfiltered ES and I've got the Trademap Pro, which I use in ES really as a higher time frame chart. That's what I'm using it for. I use the one in NQ a lot more because it's a lot more readable than the unfiltered one. So this in NQ is filtered. If we go across to there, that's unfiltered. And you can see I haven't been really looking at it. And you can see the Argo bands and the actual resting liquidity is very, very hard to see. So that's why I do not tend to focus on it. And you can even see I have not added in the delta numbers there because I was not preparing it for this webinar. Instead, we'll use this one, which is the filtered one. And again, it is only filtered to show orders that have not changed by size or price level at any point. And I've got the whole of the session going back to that ridiculous ramp up.  It basically opened up there and went and gone straight for yesterday's high. And it was a rocket up in the Japan Open. We can talk about that when I talk about stops in a little while. But anyway, let us get back to this in a more usable fashion. And remember, with these filtered heat maps, or within any heat map, my personal view is that it is worth using a mouse with some form of very quick scroll so you can get a clearer picture. I mean, if we just leave it as it is, this is the NQ one on the left that I'm looking at. Sometimes you might find that clear. You might not find it clear. I mean, it's certainly clear in the sense that you have these resting liquidities up at 16,000 and 15,990. But in terms of what's happening in this zone, which is the 15,950 to 15,920, you can get a little bit more clarity by zooming in both horizontally and vertically. And just to see where they're bounding price at this stage. And then you can have a look across at the profile and the delta profile to see how it's going with this. And this is just a gentle pullback that we've been having that's taken us back inside yesterday's high. Gentle is my expression because it contrasts with the violent up move in Asia, which did remain strong for most of the day. This pullback actually only happened. Let's have a look when did it happen? Happened at about 6 o'clock or about 6 AM. Until then, the market really was very, very strong. And all longs were working really well. And shorts were basically you had to have a tight stop or your pulse would have been racing as it hurtled towards your stop. And the theme of today's session is stops. And I will get onto that in a little while. OK, so we've got a little bit of break up action here. And one of the things that I do like about the NQ filtered heat map, which is the easiest thing to see on this chart is when it has a slip, slip ups or slip down. So that's where it's a vertical move straight up, where there's virtually no price action or trading between this price level here and this price level there. By the way, I do have my tablet here today so I can actually draw on this. So let's see if it's working. Right, so this here is what I'm calling a slip up. And the probability is it will retrace most of that, if not all of that, not necessarily immediately. Sometimes it might take hours like the vertical spike up in the Japan Open, but the probability remains, I think it's been estimated to be about 80% that those slips are reclaimed later. And this one here did not take long at all. We've already been retraced completely and gone past it. So let's move back to the cursor and then we've slipped back up again. What time is it? Because I've got to be aware of that news and I might turn on the feed. That's the financial juice feed. So those of you on YouTube will probably hear this. You should hear it on Discord, but again, I don't know why. It's exactly the same wavelength feed, which is a mix of my microphone and my browser outputs, which are both on yet. So anything that I hear in, I actually should make sure I'm listening to it as well. So I will just switch that across. Yep, so I can hear it as well. I did not have it on. I had it on my computer speakers. I'm one of those people that actually love listening to music when I'm trading or when I'm programming. And I spent an awful lot of today programming. I was trying to fix a bug in one of my own codes. I think it took me four and a half hours and about 57 different attempts to fix it. And I had to find a different way of doing it in the end because it was unfixable. But that is the joys of programming in C++. Okay, the time check is 8.12, just coming up to it. And you can probably hear financial juice there. So we're gonna get some audio from them in the next couple of minutes. So that's just the precursor. I may turn it up as we get to 8.15. And speaking of that, let's have a look. In case there was any volatility, what is the picture in ES? And remember that the liquidity map in terms of resting liquidity and guidance for future direction, bearing in mind that we cannot predict the future, but taking that into account, you're gonna get a better representation of a guide to where price might go in ES than NQ. If you rely too heavily on some of these resting liquidity levels in NQ, they can be great, but they can also be misleading. And this is the thing I've spoken about at length. It can be a double-edged sword. It represents both support resistance and also a magnet of attraction. And sometimes neither of them. It's just a furphy or misleading. So what have we got in ES? So we've got quite a lot of support getting down into this 4580. They're just taking a bit of it away, but the main support is staying there. It's not huge. So if we actually look at the price level in question, it's only about 45 and there's more liquidity down below 4574. So not huge. And I will get onto the TPO's and the relative volume just after this news release, but essentially in ES, we are right at yesterday's high, but not at the overnight high. So we have pulled back from where we were and we have some support in the heat map going into the release, which should be out in about 90 seconds. And going in there, we've got a decent little bit of positive action both in NQ and ES. So it'd be interesting to see if they get some traction or if they're just gonna come back towards this liquidity down here at 4580. If I was going to guess, I would say, maybe a little spike up and then a slow grind back down to the 4580, but I cannot predict the future. And I do not trade on the basis of my predictions because I would never make any money. And again, that's relating to the theme that we are talking about today, which is stops and the different approaches that we can have and we'll get onto that because we've still got 45 minutes. So we've got plenty of time, but let's just watch this news first. So we've got 35 seconds. This liquidity in ES has also come out. So if we zoom in horizontally, we can zoom in a little bit vertically, not too much because we won't get the picture. You can see this liquidity clearly removed at 4580, but they've kept the one at 4578 and the one at 4574, 2510 seconds. I was in sync with the unannounced there. Four seconds and a little spike up, lower than forecast. Okay, so we can turn off that feed. We can turn it back on at 830.  We haven't had a grind back down. Partly the reason for my suggestion of the grind would disappeared because that liquidity was removed. The only liquidity now left below is the one at 4574. And then if we zoom back out, they've added some liquidity up here at 4685. And you can only see that they did that by doing that vertical zoom because it came in relatively recently. It came in at 814 just before that news. And remember, a lot of this is manipulated whether we like it or not. Or rather, there are people that have access to information before it is released. You can call it insider information, whatever you want to call it, but it's a fact of life in the trading space that this is not exactly a fair game and that's why mathematics is so important. Okay, and if we were to draw a horizontal line at the scene of the crime, roughly around about there. So we'll just mark that in at the 4584 level and see whether it comes back or not. I didn't really watch the NQ, but I know we can take that. That's pretty much where that was as well. So we'll just have those there. By the way, if anybody has any questions, comments or anything, especially when I start talking about stops, later feel free. Alois, good morning. I do like your surname, Santa. It is a good one. And Trout FY, oh yeah, sure. And Trout would like me to describe my common setups. Okay, I will do that one. I think I've got the wrong ES, there we go. This is the unfiltered one and the reason why I like looking at that one is because I pay more attention to these stops and icebergs in ES than I do in NQ because they're more meaningful usually. So we can now see that liquidity. We've got 554. I'm not sure why that did not appear on the other map. 4594, maybe because they've been moving it around a bit. That should have appeared. So I do watch this one more. So we will stick to this map here in ES and stick to this map here in NQ. So we've now in NQ, you can see them pushing towards this little bit of liquidity up above. I'll just turn my phone on to mute. Sorry if anybody could hear a couple of beeps. Okay, and we should draw across the scene of the crime in the unfiltered heat map. Let's have a look roughly around there, same level 4584. What we're waiting for is to see whether we're gonna get any retag of that line and then what happens when we do retest the scene of the crime. It is a crime today because there was something, there was some action. There was a crime that got committed right at 815. In other words, price moved a considerable distance away. Now we're gonna have our first retest of it. You can see in NQ, we're almost there. It's got a decent spike down. You can see that little vertical spike in ES that I've been talking about. You know, that I do say that those are often reclaimed, not necessarily immediately. That is the point. The point is you've got to stick to your setups, your trading plan, and just factor that in as information. And maybe a target, if it went down a little bit lower later, and you had a stop. And that was a multiple R target. Maybe that might prove useful then, but not right this second unless you were to take the bounce off the scene of the crime, targeting a new hire or something. Okay, whilst we're on this, I did get that question from Tratt. So what are these columns? Okay, right, well, the first thing to note is that this is a completely unfiltered heat map. There's only really one add-on that's being used on this one track. And that is the MBO stops and icebergs. So for example, this pink line here is a sell iceberg, which was only filled to the extent of 63 contracts. And the red ones are stops or MBO stops. They're not the only stops that can happen in the market. So it's just a stop that is identified by a particular order ID. I do not have any bubbles. So I have no volume bubbles, delta bubbles. And one of the reasons is, so I can see these vertical slips. And the other reason is that I have things like visual time and sales, et cetera, that I can see in Sierra. And that's why I prefer to see the price as a naked line in book map. I think one of the exceptional features in book map is that you can zoom right into the microsecond. And I like to see that price action to the microsecond without any cluttering of colored dots, et cetera. So that's why, and I also think that without those dots or the volume bars, I can see the heat map more clearly. I've normally got the heat map dimmed out as much as possible, as you can see by that slider being to the far right-hand side, but you still get quite a bit of shading. A lot of people tend to have quite a little bit more shading so you can have that by turning it up. I will occasionally mess around with that slider and see if there is more clarity in the heat map at this instant by increasing the brightness of the map. In terms of the columns, the first two columns are just levels that are pulled from me drawing rectangles in Sierra. So whenever I draw a rectangle and I give it some text, like here, YDH, yesterday's daily high, that appears within 60 seconds in the book map cloud function. So in other words, that is, that's a cloud note. That's a cloud note. In fact, both of those are there off different charts in Sierra ones. My execution chart and the other one is my TPO chart, which we will look at in a second. This column here is the delta column and all this column is, let me drag it in, is it's the volume profile but with a delta ticked and not split, okay? And this is just the numbers of this column. So these two columns are identical. One is just bars, one is numbers. And actually we're right on a demonstration of why we've got that today. So you can see here that this is a cell iceberg of so far 697, but in the delta column, you can see that there's an ask bid difference of 1158. So that is telling us that there's a potential iceberg much bigger than the 697. And that's just to give you an idea of the potential of buyers that could be trapped and that could push this down because those buyers could be used as fuel to go down. And here we have re-tagged the scene of the crime. Maybe it'll go down much further, but that's a very short distance. So in terms of the types or sizes of swings that you trade, that is entirely up to you in your trading plan, but that is the reason why we've got the numbers and the delta columns. Sometimes if you just got the delta column and you have no context of the actual numbers and you just see a big fat green bar, it doesn't give you the context. If you see 1100 there, it's gone down because it is just what's within the map from time to time. So if I zoom right out, it's gonna get less and less exactly. Sometimes if you look at the bars without the context of the numbers, you'll just think, oh, a big green bar, nothing of it. When you see 1158, you think, ah, that could be decent fuel, and that could have got you a couple of points or so, or maybe more, who knows. Then you've got the volume profile, which is the chart volume profile, which again is just what is within the chart that you can see at the moment. Are you the visual part of the chart? And the numbers are that. So if I, the numbers of the matching numbers, so if I just drag that, so the only thing that's different here is I have not ticked the delta box. And these numbers are for the volume profile. So this is for teaching purposes specifically. Actually quite like having these numbers here. So I may keep this, I might keep this exactly as it is for when I'm trading later on, probably tomorrow, probably you will watch for an hour in RTH, but I don't know if I will trade. I'll have to be quite interesting action. Last night I did trade the first hour and a half of RTH and I found some of those swings are very violent, very choppy.  Anyway, where are we at? 25, we've got some more news in five minutes and we'll turn on the audio feed for that as well. That's my friends at Financial Juice and they are my friends and I do not think they mind if I mention their name and the fact that I use their feed, okay. And yes, I have paid for that product. I own a lifetime subscription to Financial Juice so that is not sponsored by them. That is me as a trader having to fork out certain expenses for things that I find useful. Okay, so we're now in a little seller and buy iceberg trap and hopefully I've answered your question trap so that you can understand why I've done it. The reason why I've done it from a high level perspective is that I'm trading Wycoff supply and demand, auction theory or overlap to such an extent that it's essentially the same thing. So it's probably best if I just call it auction theory. So I'm trading auction. Sometimes I'm trading very, very small auctions. Sometimes I'm trading larger auctions and I'm always trying to do it within the context of other timeframeed auctions. So I'm acknowledging that most of this is likely to be fractals and that I am trading one fractal within another fractal or fractals. So that is why I've set it up this way to best see the auction. For example here, the auction that has gone from this swing here up to that swing there and then back down to the scene of the crime and now holding the scene of the crime. Remember we're still in this bullish phase after, yes until we have a nice big down day it's gonna stay quite bullish. We have the Santa Raleigh coming up in mid-December. This part of the month does not tend to be so strong but so far we've been quite bullish this week and a lot of that is due to currency expectations with these interest rates, as I said. Again just doing a time check because I don't wanna miss this news in case we have another scene of the crime here. If we go across to NQ, this is a pretty much better demonstration of why we mark these scenes of the crime. So at 8.15, this news which caused more of a reaction than I imagined because it was weaker than expected probably. We had a big move up, nice spike up. Probability is that it retraced, it did retrace. On this occasion it retraced right back to the scene of the crime. They had a nice spike through and immediately bounced and now we're closer to the high after that scene of the crime and we've got some resistance in terms of this liquidity that may be holding us back a little bit but essentially just a big trading range of chop between that high and the scene of the crime as the low since then. Okay, I won't do that technique stuff until after 8.30 because I think we may as well wait around for this news and just look at the heat map until then I think a lot of you actually prefer it where I just do a lot of this live commentary and just talk about what I'm seeing. So what I'm seeing in NQ, I'm seeing this one, if I go all the way back, I'm seeing both of these as potential real liquidity because they've been there since 1800 hours yesterday. So they've been there all of the ETH session. So the likelihood is I have a view that the larger a level sticking out in NQ that stays there for a decent period of time, the more likely it is that it will get filled completely so that that's just a view that I have. I'm still statistically building up the evidence for it but on the evidence I've got so far that is a reasonable assumption. Okay, so the main we're holding the scene of the crime and we're being held back by this liquidity and we're just at the top of yesterday's range. Okay, whilst that's there and what have we got? We've got one minute. We can quickly flick into the TPO for, actually we'll keep the heat map on and we'll just have a look at the ranges. I can just drag them across. So the ranges relative volume has been strong all day and what we'll be looking at the ETH range just really bang on the average over the last 10 days. You can see NQ nice and high over 100 basically smack bang on average and again ES the same 19 or 21. So it's met our expectations. When you have large economic releases maybe these ones are those. You know, you might get a bigger range and when the average is above the 100%, there is a mathematical correlation so you might get 120% of that volume but it doesn't quite work as beautifully and simply as that. I wish it would but this is the market and the market does whatever the market wants to do. Okay, we've got 20 seconds. Let's turn on that feed. Come on. Yep, it's streaming again. So you may hear this in a few seconds. So we've got the US trade balance. They've removed that liquidity just there. Low than forecast. Low than forecast and they like that news so it's continued to go up and we've got this resting liquidity. We'll turn off the feed now. So it doesn't interfere in the feed for this stream. So it's quite nice timing when you say that this resting liquidity looks real and then it starts moving towards it. Certainly is not magic anything that I say. I never claim that I know any more than anyone else and all I do is mainly look at probabilities and that applies to both auction theory, price action and all the other stuff that I will look at like looking at things across many, many markets. I'm just trying to increase the probabilities that I understand what might be going on. Having said that, maybe it's just a spike up and they can't come all the way back down. If we look into, we zoom right into this one to see whether any of this is really a spike or it's just a nice steady channeling move up. So that looks like a steady channeling move up rather than the spike that down there looks more like a spike and they reverse that straight away. When I talk about spikes or slips or anything like that it has to be very, very obvious. If it's not obvious that it's a completely vertical move then it isn't one. There's enough nuance in all our readings as it is and all the things that we do and sometimes our trade plans can have lots of moving parts. So the fewer nuances and the fewer things saying that trading is a pure art, et cetera, the better. When you say that the discretionary side of this business is a real art versus a science, that gets dangerous. The more science that we can get into this, the better. This is a mathematical game. This is a game of chance and we have to accept that. So that 90 is coming up quite quickly in NQ. So they've added some liquidity. So it may not get through it the first time. They've added some liquidity at 87, 88. But you can see the liquidity at 90 is quite a lot bigger. Anything over 30 we take with more interest than anything under 30 and this one's got 67 and this one's got 174. That is at a round number and we normally take those with a pinch of salt but the fact that it's been there for the entire session and the fact that we've got this close, i.e. 12 or 11 points away brings that more into focus and the fact that we are in quite a strong bullish move from yesterday. So we've taken out the 90 and the next one there of any magnetic attraction is the one at 16,000 which is also a round number and they do love round numbers. And I think I may have been streaming the last time they smashed through 16,000 a couple of weeks ago. I'm wondering if I'm gonna get a repeat now and they're just gonna smash this and keep going like they did that time. Nope, they've backed off for a bit. They've backed off, so that's resistance but that's gonna be a great big flag that they're waving at market participants that they can transact in that area. So it's likely to get tested again at some stage. Again, we do not know when, but we had a first approach. I'm watching the NQ action and accommodating on that more than the ES because it's obviously moving quite a lot faster. So there's more for me. In terms of this recent liquidity and how this filter deep map does add value, you can see that this liquidity down there had to nicely as support, it got close bounced. What were we looking for if we're looking for anything at the moment, it's long. Once that's broken and there's some action to the downside, maybe we can look at some shorts, but who knows? Okay, let's go back to the TPO then. Okay, now if we zoom right out, we can see this. Time for me to draw isn't it? So does it? Then I dropped my tablet pencil. Let's see if it still works, yes it does. So effectively, if we just draw, without me merging all these profiles together like I normally do, what I'm just doing is pointing out the obvious that there was this big fat range, which is really around about there. And at the moment we are sort of breaking up from it. We've had this breakup overnight in the ETH, which is the M-shaded gray area and I'm just looking across at the next value zone, which is this here. So if it gets past this line here, it's rejected on the first approach, but if it gets past that one, then it's likely to traverse, or the probability is it'll traverse to the other side of that value zone, which would be in the M4604 zone. So it'd be interesting to see if it gets there or not. Again, we cannot predict the future, so we cannot predict whether or not we will get over this line here and into this value. We do not know that, but that's just something that is apparent from looking at where all the auctions have been recently. So we get rid of that. And then when we move across to the NQ1, oops, I've not done this with it. I might just use my mouse as well in tandem. You can see the NQ1 is a little bit weaker because we're really in the middle of this very large value zone, so if I draw that again, and I'm just drawing, oops. I'm just drawing where the most obvious value is without doing any detailed analysis of exactly where it is. I'm just saying it's obviously in there that we're in this big range, and we're now at or just above the midpoint of the range, and that if we can get back above there, then maybe we'll take out that high there. So that level, and the font is really quite small, but essentially, if we get past this naked point of control, which is up at the 16.0, 7.0 mark, probably I can't really read it, so it's really, really small. I don't really wanna put my reading glasses on just to read that. One of the joys as you've been around and you've looked at this stuff for years and years and years, you occasionally need to put on reading glasses, but I still kind of refuse. And that's just to show you that we're in that kind of range. I mean, if I did the opposite and actually did merge them, so I'll just give you an example of what happens. So if we started with a merge profile begin, and then we merge everything to the end of yesterday's RTH, you can see that we're essentially in the middle of this larger value zone within NQ, but if we're there, then you maybe we're over halfway, and we've just been filling in this little hollow tummy in the middle, and once we get past that, then we can zoom light speed ahead towards the high, but we shall see, we do not predict the future, and we do not try and predict the future. Let's reset that one. Okay. Right, what else did I want to talk about in this? I'm gonna get onto, yes, this I did actually want to have a look at as well. So one of the things we were looking at the other day was TNX. Okay, this is the, I'm not quite sure why it's not giving me the scale, but it doesn't really matter. All we need to see is a clear direction, and this interest rate down, which when this goes down, that is positive for stocks, and we're not quite a strong move down from the moment they started believing that the interest rate rises were over, and that is continuing, so that is still very, very bullish at the moment. If you follow this, maybe, you know, if you're following that part of the macro, maybe the list chart is one to watch on a daily basis going forward, and you just keep an eye on that one in case there is a strong reversal. But at the moment, there isn't, okay? Let's quickly go back to NQ, filtered map, just checking the questions. Yeah, Trout, you've got another question. I'm also checking, no, nothing in Discord. So seeing if we've got some people. Yeah, we have got some people long today. It's always nice to have some people so that I'm not talking to completely empty space. Trout, what can I do for you? Oh, you just commented, it's a clean setup. Okay, yeah, no, the idea, Trout, I say this now and again. I've been through a lot of indicators. I've coded a lot of indicators. I've had charts with lots and lots of funny lines all over them. The maths is the most important part of this game, right? If we focus too much on pretty pictures and bubbles and lines and things like that, we can get distracted from the maths to the extent that we are doing this on a discretionary basis and we're trying to see things from our charts and from our heat maps, we want to make them as clean as possible.  And this happens to all of us, especially every time we add something or take something away from our charts. Okay, now we are down to 20 minutes and I did want to have a technique chat about something and I have a screenshot which, let's just leave ES visible and we'll just zoom in and we know that NQ wants to get back up there eventually and it needs some fuel, but the problem is that at the moment, all this delta is pretty bullish. So you kind of wonder, they've got some red delta there and try it, you haven't seen these before with these delta tails. At the end of a down move, you want some nice big red delta tail and that's basically red for lots and lots of price levels and a decent number in the delta column to give you the fuel to go up. That's why I've got that delta column in there, but the moment it's pretty green.  Otherwise they may exhaust and then have to come back down here, for example, down to here to refuel and then go up or they may wait until RTH. Anyway, that's that. So there is a screenshot there. All right, why have I got that one there and what exactly is it? Okay, as people are aware that have been on this channel with me in the last couple of months, my own trading philosophy is that I take equal dollar bets, right? And if I go onto this blank page so it's the same risk dollars for each and every trade unless there is a huge reason for an exception, right? And when you may have reasons why you deviate but the rule has to be 1995% of the time it's exactly the same one R on each and every trade, right? Especially until you have mastered particular setups and they have a statistical edge with a multiple R edge. You might wanna throw a couple more R's in terms of equal dollar bets at them but otherwise you cannot predict the future. So why do you wanna say bet four R on this one and one R on that one and 0.5 R on that one? You're implying that if you don't have equal dollar risk bets that you do know the future and that you are Nostradamus. And I don't think any of us are Nostradamus. Meanwhile, there's a nice little iceberg forming in ES. So I'm just watching that one. So that is the fundamental tenet of the way that I approach risk, okay? I do not know the future and I'd rather put on an equal dollar bet. It helps in the sense that mentally easier to accept same loss each time so you become more emotionally immune. And I'll say that with a big caveat, well, you're never emotionally immune. Your emotions are always part of this but the point is that say you take 20 trades in a day just theoretically, right? And you know that your win rate to get you the positive expectancy from a long-term set of trades that you need for your trading plan to work is something like 60% or 55%. Something as low as that because as long as you have multiple odds on a few of them, that's all you need. That means that of those 20 trades, you're gonna lose seven, eight, nine of them.  In that scenario, you are digging yourself a hole and it affects both what you have to achieve in terms of your winners and your ability or your willingness to let trades run their due course both in terms of achieving the expected targets that you had or just not losing or giving your trades a chance. You know, in other words, taking small losses and small wins rather than equal dollar bets and letting them play out. So that's why it's so important. You know, why do you have a win percentage? It's so that you accept the mathematics of your trading business. Anyway, let's get back to this. So what is this? Okay, this can be any timeframe. I think this one was actually taken off my 10-second chart and I often have 10 seconds in the European session. This is NQ, right? These are just high-low bars. The reason I've got them is exactly the same reason why we can see them in bookmaps. So you can see that those vertical slips easier. And because I don't actually care about candles or where a bar actually closed, they are colored so that the red ones do actually have a close low than the open and the blue ones vice versa. And the numbers are simply some form of zigzag rotation. This one I didn't code, but I'm just using this one because it's essentially it's got a minimum of two bars and when I change from 10 seconds to five seconds or to 20 seconds or 30 seconds, it works. It works every time. And essentially it's showing me a rotation that is longer than two bars until you get a reversal. So why have I got this here and what does this have to do with our stops? Okay, time for me to draw again if I can remember where I put my pencil. Okay. One of the things that I've said and here, let's draw it. We've got a swing high. It's not the best horizontal line in the world. One of the things I've said is that you've got, you've got X and you've got a Y, right? If you look back on my first webinars on this channel when I was talking about supply and demand, right? And supply and demand, I'm saying that X is essentially a category A or B type trade and Y is a category C which is a spring upthrust, breakout failure, swing failure pattern, whatever you want to call it. So what I'm trying to say is that those locations which are near this swing high are really good entry locations rather than necessarily stop locations. So if I get rid of all that for a second, come on. All right, and we'll go back to the pencil. So I'm saying, good entry zone potentially, right? Excuse my handwriting. So why do I want to have a stop just there? If I know this is a good entry zone, why do I want to have my stop just above this, right? And you'll see that a lot that people have. You have your stop just above the swing or a few ticks above the swing or a little leeway above your swing. I'm saying two things. One, this is a good entry zone based on the trading planner and the types of trades that I look for and how I use Bookmap. So this can be really, really useful as an entry zone, not an exit zone necessarily. And secondly, and as equally importantly, I cannot predict the future, right? So if I place my stop just there, right? I'm almost saying to myself, I can predict the future, right? And I can't, right? What can I say? I can say that I might be good, you know, I might be having a good day at reading structure, auctions, big auctions, little auctions, order flow, et cetera. So I might get in at a good part of a swing, you know? And we've got big swings, little swings here. So you've got, let me just get rid of that because that's gonna distract us. So you've got a big swing, for example. You know, you could say that is a swing. I think I need a different color. So excuse me, let me just get a different color. Let's go greener. So we could say that that was a swing there. You could also say that right down there was a swing, right? So you could say that was a swing, that's a swing. You could also say this little one here is a swing, all right? Okay, and I'm now gonna allude to an old webinar from Future Straight at 71, where he was talking about rotations, stops, et cetera, because if you can dig that one out on the internet, he spends a whole hour, maybe 90 minutes talking about this, I think it's completely free. Maybe on YouTube, maybe on the old futures.io on that forum kind of on their YouTube channel. I think they've changed their name now. But basically, these are all forms of rotation. And I think my handwriting is dreadful, so I may actually use the text thing, ah-ha, there we go. And let's just go down a size. So let me just type here. So you've got large rotations, medium and small, all right? You might say that, I'm just gonna check the time as well, because I may run out of time. I'm conscious that I'm doing this a little bit slowly, but it's probably worth doing it slowly so I can get the point across.  But let's just assume that you're trading these big moves, right? And that your aim, say you magically got in this zone here and you're targeting, maybe there's some liquidity up here, or whatever other reason you're bullish, talking about which I think NASDAQ has just, whoops, just having a look. If it's gone through, yes, it's just gone through that liquidity. Let's just go across to it there. Where's it gone? Yes, so it's just taken out their liquidity. I'll leave those markers on there because we're gonna go back to the rotations chart in a second. Okay. So you've got large rotations, medium rotations and small rotations, right? So if you're going to use a rotation as part of the rationale or basis of your stop size, and what I am doing at the moment in my current thinking is yes, I am doing that, but I'm gonna explain how I'm doing that in my six minutes left, right? You can take a very aggressive approach and say that the average rotation size might be from here to there and that because you're such a good trader, you can cope with half of that average rotation size. That's a very, very aggressive approach, where you take a more conservative approach saying that this is your average rotation and to work out your average rotations, you can take a sub-session like this. If you use something like InvestorRT, it's got built-in statistics on rotations. That's wonderful. It's very expensive and I don't use it. Or you can export your data, like you can export your data from Sierra and shove it into Python and you'll get your average rotations that size that way and they've got a built-in zigzag chart so you can just use that to export the data and that's very, very easy. There are two or three lines of code that you need to write in a Python Jupyter Notebook to get that, so you can do that, right?  Or you can take a very conservative approach. If you take a very conservative approach, the downside is that it is much, much harder. You've got a much bigger stock, so much harder to get your 2R, 3R or 4R. That's your multiple 2R, 3R and 4R. And that is what you're really after. You're in a game fraught with risk but you want the mathematics to work for you. So you've got to find some balance if you are going to use these rotations as your stops to work out how you're going to use them so that you're giving yourself the best chance both to make sure you don't just get wicked out by every micro swing. And secondly, that you are at least giving yourself a chance of getting 2 or 3 or maybe 4R on a good trade entry. And that's the basis that I use them. So I've written a code, my current iteration of this code in Sierra, and remember, I'm not here trying to sell you anything, because I don't sell anything. So it takes, you know, I've got a button on my keyboard, so I press it, it asks me for a number. So I'll analyze what these rotations are like, for example, I'll say, here it might have been that 35 was the average rotation size, and I'll say I'll take a 35 as my stop size because I believe that I can get two rotations worth to my target. For example, say you got in here and this was your target, right? You've also got to notice with these rotations as well, it's not one rotation that gets you to that target. Here, say if you got in here, you've got a rotation up, then a rotation down, then a rotation up, then a rotation down.  So in effect, you've got like one, two, you could say four rotations up and three rotations down that get you to that target.   Time checked, 8.55, just seeing if we've got any questions on that. Yeah, so essentially, yeah, so my code takes the number that I've accepted as either the aggressive or the conservative or the average rotation or part of a rotation size based on, you know, I can see the live rotational analysis and why I use the live one is because every market session is different. Why do I use the relative volume? Because it helps to, you know, discover or deduce the level of volatility that is likely to take place in this sub-session. And I have lots of sub-sessions that I look at and I try and delineate between them. They have lots of different types of volatility. So, you know, that's why I like these live rotation sizes to give me a best indication because, you know, this is maths, but this is also discretionary because you're deciding where that stop level is, but you're accepting that you don't know what the market is going to do next. You cannot predict the future. And then, yeah, that pumps in the stop size, which then calculates, you know, the number of contracts that I can trade. That's done all automatically so that when I press a limit or a market order, it's that number of contracts that are traded. And, yeah, so all I'm entering is a number based on this average stop rotation size, or the average rotation size, which is a live number. Anyway, that was my two cents on just rotation and how I use them. And you'll find it's quite similar to what Future Trader 71 was talking about except that he does his on, you know, he'll take three months of rotations. I think we live in a market environment which changes so much even during the course of a single ETH session. That's why I have these sub-sessions that I can't do that personally. And that's why I have to look at these live rotations. It also, you know, when I see what they are, it helps my mind, my mental side of me, except, you know, if I've gone past that rotation either I was completely wrong or my ability to execute was pretty poor. And, you know, in those circumstances, you know, my stop should be hit and I accept that. All right, let me just get rid of all of that. So we're continuing to go up. So smash through that liquidity, pull back a little bit, and grinding higher. So the theme remains bullish. You know, you've got this liquidity here around this scene of the crime and it may well get re-tagged later, but, you know, but we can't assume that it will. You know, it's just there. The auction is up. You can look at all these little micro swing lows on ES there. You can look at them also on NQ. You know, they'll have these little swing failures where they just take out the previous one by a couple of ticks and then they continue. That was nice to pull back there and then on they go, but they're clearly exploring upwards at the moment and there's a macro reason behind it. So, and we have to respect that. But we then take into account, you know, all this other macro stuff and also all the transactions that are taking place in correlated stuff and in other symbols that affect this, you know, in the large ETFs that also invest in the same stocks these futures do in the option space, etc. Yeah, but it will be interesting to see what happens when we get to RTH. So let's have another look up at the levels. So they're painting quite a few levels in ES and some of them are not smack bang on these round numbers, like that 100, usually a round number of orders, that's 1605250, then they've got 9250 and then that one is a round number. Yeah. I can add to my statistic, you know, when you have a very large number and it rests for hours, increased likelihood of it being taken out for us during our hours, so it always helps to see that live and to see a statistic like that actually play out. And let's have a look across at ES. They've just added a few of these liquidities. You can see when they came in, it was after the 830 news and then this liquidity around the scene of the crime from the 815 news was put in after 830 as well. Yeah. So yeah, the other thing about liquidity and well worth saying is they can change that at any time. They can add these levels. You know, these levels were invisible before 830 came along and so you don't know, you think, oh well, there's a fallacy at looking at some of this stuff. It can act as resistance but there is nothing stopping them because you can't predict the future for price to go through that and then they provide more liquidity above. Remember, a lot of these people are market makers to explore upwards. They'll provide more liquidity upwards and just because you can't see liquidity up above at 829 does not mean it won't suddenly appear at 831. It often does. So yeah, that's the last thing I'll say. I think I've run over my time by half a minute or so. So again, thank you very much for watching and paying attention during our techniques session. I hope that was some use or information or an assignment. Anyway, thank you very much for coming.


All right, hey guys, welcome to Rotorite. If you've been in FTV, you would have heard the term never say last pack. Yup, yeah, definitely, but never say that word.  Usually when you say last pack before your last pack, everything will. Yeah, the quad gods don't seem to like when we say last pack. They don't. So me and Peter, funnily enough, both have one pack left. So we're gonna test what happens if we say last pack before we fly. So we're gonna yell at last pack and then just go out and fly. Pretty sure. We need to like say it really well.  I applied my last pack guys. Last pack, last pack, last pack. Oh no!  That's fine. That's like saying the R word too. You never say the R word. What's the R word? Rain. Rain. I swear if it starts raining. It'll make us even more cold.  I didn't say the forbidden word, but I'm kind of scared. Come on, make it say it again. I'm scared. What will you give me if I say it? We'll get sushi after this. We'll get sushi after this? Yeah, I'm hungry. Last pack! Last pack! Did you hear that sign? This will be a good test to see if we will finally break the curse and all of us in the palace will be set free. I'll let you go first. You go first. Last pack, last quad? Go first. Your session recording? Yeah. See that's the thing, the last pack, maybe the GoPro will start recording or you can lose your quad to length. There's variable levels of. Ooh! You wanna test the quad gods? First on like on top of the roof or something. First on top of the roof? Yeah. Oh my goodness. It's so dark, let's see if I can even see anything. Maybe not there, but like maybe find another roof that like you can't even do. Okay, let's see. We're testing the quad gods. Oh! Okay, going up. I can see better on the Vista than the O3, wow. Oh yeah, Vista definitely has better low light. Okay, so, somewhere on the roof? Sure! Let's test the quad gods, let's see if it'll rearm. We'll lose the video. I was first on top of the elevator chef roof. You could do that. I can hardly even see the elevator, okay, I see that, all right, let's do it. Okay, yeah, we can't really, you don't have any ladders? What are you trying to do? He's testing the quad gods. Let's see if we'll just like cut off his video or let him lose our ceiling. I can't even see if we're, there's a ledge right here, but that's. Gotta disarm. It's so dark. Gotta disarm right there. Go right on the ledge. All right, disarmed. Ooh! Okay, I'm right on the ledge. Let me, let me, let me put a little bit more. Let's see if, let's test it even more. Let's test it even more. Oh, I like this guy. Let's test it even more. Oh, there's like the ledge. I can't see nothing. This is scary. I see the drone a little bit. I see the lights. Probably not now. Oh, yeah, I'm right on the ledge. Are you listening out? Oh, dive down. Okay. The quad gods have been nice to me. The quad gods have been nice to me, too. All right, let's do something else. See if I can perch on the top of this. Oh no. There's a bunch of spikes of pigeons. Oh, they almost got you. I would have definitely been stuck out there. And then cut the ceiling. We're gonna follow him down. Where is he taking me to? Let's see, oh, he's taking me to the elevator. Okay, okay, he wants me to go up. He wants me to go up. He wants me to go up. He wants me to go up, all right. Oh, my goodness. I guess the quad gods didn't... It's hard to really send it when you hardly can see, but I tried. I tried. I mean, all that matters is the quad gods didn't wrestle him. Yeah, I thought I was gonna get stuck on that roof. Honestly, it's all metal up there, too. I guess it's my turn, right? It's your turn now? Oh. I already said it one more time. I don't want to say it again. I already said it. I'm just plugging in. They did it. Yeah. They did it. They did it. All right, so the quad gods are really nice to Peter. Let's see if they're... Hopefully even half is nice to me. I don't usually have good luck with last pack. I'm not even joking. It's a weird thing. Even if I think last pack in my head and I don't say it out loud, I still end up losing a quad of tree.  It's nuts. It's nuts. It's nuts. You don't even think last pack. Or always have another pack as a backup, just in case, you know? Go home with one pack charged all the time and you'll be fine. Kill it. Oh my goggles are fogging. Haven't been fogging all night, but now they decided to fog, okay? Oh gee, oh come on, are you kidding me? Okay. Oh my gosh, my goggles are fogging like crazy. I, it's really, I'm not, I'm not joking. It's so bad, sir. You're like quite 20 feet up, I think. 20 feet up, really? I'm 20 feet up. Well, I always want to, I want to try to turtle it out. Brandon said I must have had my quadian angel with us. Good morning. Good morning. I mean, I'm on like the top deck of the parking garage. I guess, Well, you would just figure if you said last pack and then you got stuck in the roof. It would totally figure. So I guess the quad gods were not mean to me or Peter today. Yeah, we both have. So it's just a superstition then, seriously. Well, yeah, I think it's just a superstition. It's not real. Last pack is not real. Last pack is not real. All right, all right. It's not real. A very anti-climactic animal. Yeah. It's not real. Just like birds. Last pack is not real. Just like birds. I have my quad. I have my quad. The first one.


This is Think Tech Hawaii, Community Matters here. And welcome to the condo insider or program about everything having to do with condominium living, condominium owning. Even last week we had how it was to buy a condominium. And this week I am pleased to have as my guest somebody who I've known for a number of years and have actually spoke with or at events over the years as a panel speaker and things like that. And that is Francine Y. who is the Executive Director of the Disability and Communication Access Board of the Department of Health. And welcome, Francine. I'm so excited to have you here today. As I mentioned before, you and I have spoken together at a number of events over the years and I will admit that I have actually learned some things from you over the years. So first to start out our program today, which again is about condo living, but we'll get to that in just a little bit. But first I wanted to ask you, because I was curious myself, what is the Disability and Communication Access Board? Okay. Well, the Disability and Communication Access Board, we shortened it to call it DECAB, the initials DCAB. So it's just long for me to say that over again. So DECAB is a state agency. We are administratively attached to the Department of Health. And our job is to promote equal access for persons with disabilities in Hawaii and society. So we have a number of programs that we offer. We're not a direct service agency in the sense that we don't provide therapy or counseling or rehab or education services. We don't actually have case workers. But what we do is we provide information and technical assistance, and to some extent, regulatory services on that impact equal access for a person with a disability to benefit and to live independently in society. So you're not actually going out and doing these things, but you're providing the information for the people who need the assistance. Right. We don't actually go out most of the time, but we do provide a number of services that are definitely interactive in the community. So as an example, we administer the parking program for people with disabilities who get a placard. So we write the rules.  We maintain the database. We get the statistics. We order the placards. We order the decals. We help with enforcement. We work on renewals. So we are what you would call technical assistance and voluntary compliance because there's so many laws that give people with disabilities rights. But we are really there to help both the consumer with a disability as well as the business or the employer or the government agency comply with the law. Our goal is to keep you away from court. Yes. Well, it's interesting you said there's so many laws. Just under my studies of the Americans with Disabilities Act, I have three notebooks on that and they're fairly thick notebooks and that's just the law. That's just one law. Yeah. So and of course you have... There's fair housing law. There are laws that govern the air carriers, access act airplanes. There's laws impacting kids in school. There are laws affecting telecommunications and the internet so that there's a lot. But by far the broadest and the one people know the most about is the Americans with Disabilities Act and then subsequent to that would be the Fair Housing Act. Would be the Fair Housing Laws. Well you know it's interesting you comment about it's not just parking and things like that. Many years ago even before the Americans with Disabilities came out we had a call from a student wanting to attend one of our classes and she was hearing impaired so she was using the teletype at that time and so we would talk to the operator and the operator would type and then type the response back and I'm thinking to myself now that technology has come so far that now you have email, now you have texting and a lot of what we were used to seeing like even at the airport you used to have telephones that had to pull out keyboard on them. Well you still have those, it's just that they're rarely used because technology basically technology has advanced faster than government rules can... This is true. Because government rules are really really slow. In my teachings of disability laws and stuff for the realtors I've pointed out that it's been recognized that there are well over 900 recognized disabilities but not all those disabilities require any special treatment so to speak. You're right that not all disabilities have a functional limitation. I think the number 900, I mean you can play around with how you categorize but there are as many medical conditions as you can diagnose going to medical school so each one of those is a separate impairment whether or not there's a functional limitation or not just depends upon the level of severity and mitigating factors. People have all sorts of conditions that are well controlled by medication. Well it's like one instructor told me many many many years ago not all disabilities are visible so somebody could be disabled may even need accommodation of some sort but it's not visible and I think that's what happens when you're dealing with the handicapped parking space is somebody sees somebody get out of the car and walk away and they go well you can't possibly be handicapped well that's not necessarily so. Right. So well first thank you for explaining what it is you actually do. And beside parking we do interpreter testing credentialing. We review blueprints for projects to ensure that they're designed appropriately. We help individuals and their employers if they need to understand what a possible reasonable accommodation on the job is but if you think you've personally been discriminated against we don't investigate your complaint. You're helping people stay away from that but then they have to go to either Fair Housing or the Hawaii Civil Rights Commission if they feel that they've had something done wrong to them. And if somebody gets to that point and says you know I absolutely feel I've been wrong then we'll tell them what the process is to file a complaint. Well you had also pointed out that you help businesses and I hope I'm not the only one who sends you crazy stuff although I'm beginning to think I am but I one time had sent you a picture of a parking space that said handicapped parking only and right underneath it was another sign that says electric car parking only. And that raised an issue with me because to me it was it's either one or the other it's not both. You're correct yes. But you had mentioned in that one and we won't say the name for the sake of propriety that you had actually guys had reviewed their plan before they opened. I think in that particular instance we had seen the space although I can't remember where it was but we would to answer the very specific question EV parking stalls have to be accessible so that someone who has a disability and has a car that needs to use that stall can use it but those are separate than the accessible parking stalls. And there's some discussion you know of that an EV an EV location is really not a parking space it's a charging station where you leave your car while it's being charged as opposed to it being a parking space. Yeah that's a good argument though there. Yeah. Yeah. Well now that we know what your department does let's talk about where some issues would come up in say condominium living and the first one would be which realtors and particular property managers have to deal with on a regular basis and that's reasonable modifications. Yeah reasonable modification is a structural issue and by that I mean that we're talking about the physical design of a space so if a condominium isn't designed to be accessible then we talk about what kind of reasonable modification do you make. After the Fair Housing Act was enacted in 1988 all condos that were built at apartments multi-family dwelling units were supposed to and I mentioned supposed to because not everything is done the way it's supposed to but in theory everything that was constructed after the Fair Housing Act went into law is already supposed to be accessible. That's a common area and then there are supposed to be certain features for every unit that is on a floor that's accessed by an elevator but usually the problem is not a new condo the problem is an older condo and the law does not have any requirement that the condos go back and retro automatically retrofit so what the condo what the Fair Housing Law says is that a condo association has to consider a request by an individual with a disability who says I need a ramp at the front door I would like to maybe put some modification into the area where the pool is typically the issue is ramps that's the most common or or even a person says you know I own my unit and I would like to make some changes within the unit and I to make it more accessible so what what Fair Housing says is that the condo association has to allow a person to do that but they can also ask the person to pay for it yes exactly unlike another law the Americans with Disabilities Act and one of the reasons is that the condo is where you live you you've typically purchased it or if you even if you are a renter you're you have a an owner and you know Fair Housing Law they did not want to say that all older condominiums had to put in expenses because you didn't know which unit a person with a disability might want to live in exactly yeah and just because they're disabled the assumption is oh it's all going to be on the ground floor no not at all they can be on any floor that they want to be right in my past experience and property management at least the most common requests I used to get for reasonable modification was for a ramp you know they can't get their wheelchair up the up onto the sidewalk and grab bars in the showers yeah and a lot of people know that under the Fair Housing Law for those kind of request it says that you must put the unit back in the same shape it was before you rented it right but what a lot of people don't realize and it's not written into the law but if the modifications that have been made do not affect somebody who is not disabled from renting the property you would normally not make them unwiden a door that you had widened to accommodate a wheelchair or even take the grab bars right or and if you're putting it into a common area like the front door you would not necessarily want to take away a ramp to the front door because there might be somebody next week or next month that's renting yeah well and I always joke you know let them leave the grab bars in the shower because we're all going to need them one day so you and I were chatting before the show because I brought up a fact that I had a condo association where owner had requested to put in a ramp and the board president did not allow the ramp he decided to have a curb cut put in and the and the reason he did that is because he knew that this request was going to come again someday and why not do it right the first time and I think that was a wise decision on that association right well they actually would have to allow the person put it in they could condition putting it in on meeting certain standards but if it's in the common area the maintenance and liability is going to fall on the exact nation so it's really wise for the association to take the bull by the horns and to go ahead and do it because if I were to ask to put in a ramp because I had an elderly person or a person with a disability and in where I live the fact is that it's going to be used by everybody with their shopping carts baby so the association really ought to do it you know and not say hey you know you can go ahead and put it in the way you want because you want to make sure it's got the right slopes and the right grab handrails and everything well we're going to take a quick break and when we come back we're going to talk about reasonable accommodations which is different than modifications but we'll be right back with more of the condo insider this is think tech Hawaii raising public awareness we have this crazy thing going on today I was just walking by and all these djs and producers are set up all around the city I just walked by and I said what's happening guys they told me they were making music so I do it and welcome back to the condo insider everything you ever wanted to know about living and owning in a condominium and we have our guests with us again today Francine why the executive director and the disability and communication access board of the department of health and before we went to break we were talking about reasonable modifications right but there's also this area called reasonable accommodations right that's a little bit different you want to explain that to us yes as I said reasonable modification is modifying bricks and mortar handrails grab bars rams what something even as far as a lift into a swimming pool reasonable accommodation is a modification to your policies and procedures the way you do business so the the easiest example I could give which I say easy but that but it's not typical is let's say somebody has a set of bylaws yeah and it's printed on a piece of paper but you have a tenant or condo condo owner who is blind or visually impaired low vision and they can't read it and they say I'd like to get a copy in braille or large print or I'd like it in electronic format so I can listen to it on the computer you know with voice synthesizer that is an accommodation because you're modifying the way you do business in order to accommodate a person with a disability so I'll have to admit I learned something from you all the time I had never thought of the aspect of the condo association's documents I know when I teach classes if somebody is disabled they need to let me know so I can provide the proper you know is signer braille documents I had never thought of that for bylaws and house rules and stuff like that so I learned something new every day so another type of accommodation might be that if I am in a unit if I'm in a building with central maintenance fees that includes electricity but that also means that nobody has air conditioning as an example but I have a respiratory condition or that requires me to be on oxygen or requires me to have an air conditioner because I have to clear the air of a doctor's note so I may have to run the electricity 24-7 for that particular device so the association might have to accommodate their policy of no AC or whatever to accommodate my needs to have additional equipment well it's interesting you bring that up because one of my friends who was here on a wahoo from Maui for a few months going through rehab from a hip replacement needed to be in an air conditioned environment and where she was staying was one of those situations where electricity was included in the maintenance fee so she was allowed to have an air conditioner but she paid an additional $50 a month correct that's correct and and so the electric company can give you a really good very accurate estimate of how much you're running a bipap machine or a CPAP machine or oxygen concentrator would be and in fact the Department of Housing and Urban Development when they give subsidies for low to moderate income houses for instance at public housing they have an adjustment based upon different types of appliances if you happen to have a disability so that's already built in and calculated they'll give you $27 a month more or $40 or whatever it might be depending upon your situation so that's not an uncommon request somebody might say you know you might have a rule that says only tenants may use the washing machine because you don't obviously you don't want to be having all your relatives come in exactly and use the machine but if i if you have an individual who has an attendant and that individual has quadriplegia and can't do his own laundry then the the rule has to be modified to allow the tenant to use the washing machine funny you should say that i've been noticing over the last few years more and more rules so to speak where they're now acknowledging caretakers right also being covered if they're taking care of somebody who is disabled right yes so at least now we're getting to the point where caretakers are also acknowledged because somebody's got to come in and do the stuff for for people with disability yeah do the laundry have an extra set of keys perhaps because the individual's going to be coming in two or three times a day and typically the condo association rules only give a key out to somebody who's residing there now the other thing is in regards to rules is and i've seen it many times um is no external and uh ornamentation outside the door like please take your slippers off that kind of stuff but if the person is hearing impaired as an example they must allow them to install one of the special um doorbells right which when they push the doorbell the lights flash in the unit yes so if someone's deaf or hard of hearing the um the adjustments would include that type of doorbell um if they have something on their phone probably nobody would ever yeah you wouldn't need any kind of a special permission to do that but yeah so there's there's a lot of nuance things that that people may need to be accommodated and that's um what reasonable accommodation means well i think also when you talked about policy like the bylaws and stuff like that you could actually have something in the bylaws or the house rules that on the face of it doesn't look discriminatory right um but the enforcement of it becomes discriminatory which is disparate impact which has really come up again uh in the last couple years because people have good intentions when they make policy but don't think beyond that policy that it could have an effect on somebody with a disability right so we're seeing more and more of those cases starting to pop up right now by far and and i don't i know we're not going to discuss this today because this is a whole radio show by itself but by far the biggest reasonable accommodation request is for somebody to have an animal or which would be either in housing either a service animal or an emotional support animal in uh an association or a building that doesn't allow pets if it allows pets that's not the issue i think at every seminar you and i have ever done that is the number one topic that's right but prior to that happening because that's sort of been really on the rise in the last four or five years i think one of the biggest issues at a condo association prior to the emotional support animal issue or service animal issue was parking right right because well because parking is limited and in many condo associations and even some apartments as well there is a specifically a specific assigned stall and it comes deeded to the condo so it's very difficult to uh if not impossible to force somebody to give up a parking stall so if you have a hundred unit building and you have a hundred unit excuse me you have a hundred units and you have a hundred parking stalls and you don't have any extras there's not a lot of flexibility there when though they're deeded and so if i buy into a unit and at the time that i buy into it i don't have a disability but i decide to live there for 40 years or 30 years and at some point acquire a disability i might be using a wheelchair and then what happens i say i want to i want accessible parking stall and my parking stalls on the fifth floor but i can't force the person who has their parking assigned next to the first floor on the ground floor to give up their parking you know if all parking is not assigned but is open and the management has the opportunity to reserve a stall that's different yeah and then you get into real complications when when either you have a unit that's part rental part owners part vacation rentals which are going to be transient or that you have people with placards parking in the guest stalls that's another difficult and you know one of the things that over all the years that i've been doing management and stuff there people always complain about the special things that the disabled person gets well i try to remind people in my classes and even one to one that being a person with the disability is the only minority group that you can become a member of in an instant yeah you're gonna have a stroke you can get hit by a car and suddenly you are now part of this minority group and i've actually seen it where i've had people argue with me about giving a special parking space and then a couple years later they themselves are disabled and demanding the same the same you know so it's it's an interesting aspect there yeah i i'd say parking is very difficult to accommodate and sometimes depending upon the organization the way the association is structured you can encourage people to swap stalls but sometimes it just isn't possible when the law was written there was an expectation not expect there was the assumption there was the assumption that management had control of all the parking stalls which isn't the case and management could then say scott if you need a parking stall because you have a placard we're going to give you stall 101 and we're going to move and they could move people around and in some places they can in some places they can't they can't do that but i found that the vast majority they can't they can't you know it the parking to me seems in a commercial setting it's possible in a residential setting like a condominium it it can get pretty hairy that's right well we've run out of time it's the fastest 30 minutes we've ever gone through but again i want to thank our guest francine for coming in today i'm always fascinated with everything that she tells me and i again learned something new today just sitting next to you so thank you again for being on the condo insider you're welcome and be sure to tune in next thursday for everything you ever wanted to know about condominium living and condominium ownership 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The loss of history is an endless struggle for documentary evidence of what took place in the past, but there is not always evidence documented from certain events physically available to call upon as we seek out historical accuracies. In some cases we only remember that things took place through human remembrance, and we can't stress the importance of this enough. The oral tradition of remembering things is part of our civilization journey here on Earth. From the earliest of times we have told stories from generations to generation, with nothing else but our memories to call upon as the story ages the people involved in the events die out, but the story remains in the families of the involved. We do constantly say in this day and age when someone tells you something incredible about past events. We say prove it, and therein lies the seeds of doubt that it ever took place, for if evidence no longer exists of certain things that existed or took place, then we have no reason to believe it ever was real in the first place. And the longer history is stretched out into time, the more inevitable this will become. In some cases, even with undeniable evidence of a technologically advanced past, we still don't believe it because the today and now we live in is seen as the pinnacle of all that has ever been. Now we are not saying to believe everything you hear to be true, not at all. What we are saying, however, is that if there is a widespread oral tradition of remembrance in say the lighthouse of Alexandria or the Colossus of Rhodes, even with no physical evidence these things ever existed, there is still a massive foundation from where these stories originated, so they obviously existed. One of the remaining wonders of the ancient world is the Great Pyramid. Now get this, no inscriptions exist anywhere about these things. Nowhere does it say what it is. Who built it? Or why? It is just sitting there with no apparent reason as to its existence. Now if that had been blown up or destroyed somehow in the past before we started documenting its existence, would we believe this thing was ever real? Or would it be glassed as a mythological fantasy like so many other things from history? The fact we are actively documenting every little thing these days proves that us humans have memory problems. Maybe subconsciously this is our new way of remembering, but we also need to not become reliant on artificially remembering things and the oral tradition is still our most important tool. Now what if we were to tell you that in the months that followed the end of the First World War, striking workers in Glasgow went out in protest at the long working week. They wanted their hours reduced to 40 hours per week to make jobs available for men returning home from the front lines of war. These events took place in the second city of the British Empire and what unfolded will shock you, so wait till you hear this. 100 years ago on Friday the 31st of January 1919 there was a sense of change in the air. Workers were instructed by their union leaders to march on George Square to hear the government's response to a change of working hours from 56 hours per week to 40 hours per week to free up space for soldiers as there was no job opportunities available. Instead of agreeing to which now seems like a no-brainer in today's world, thousands of workers were astonishingly read the riot act. This was a 200-year-old doctrine that allowed the British government to take punitive measures against a crowd of 12 or more people who had gathered unlawfully. The horrors that followed are shocking. During the Great War, Glasgow and her hard working industry were key to the overall outcome of war. Not only was the city sending troops to the front line, but also supplying in manufacturing munitions and the latest weapons and armory of the day, as well as playing a vital role in the Royal Navy's blockade of Germany, which is considered a key element in the outcome of the conflict. The altruistic move to create jobs was just another inventive and forward-thinking idea that seemed pretty tight, and it is hard to see what the problem was with the idea today. Well, the government never thought of it first, maybe that was the problem. A strike was called on January 27, 1919. Two days later, the city's Lord Provost put these demands to the government in London. With the threat of further strike action crippling the industry, the government were more concerned that what was unfolding in the second largest city in Britain was in fact the rise of something more sinister. As we mentioned, thousands marched on George Square on the morning of the 31st January, 1919. They had aloft a red flag, which was a symbol of Marx's socialism. As the Lord Provost read out the government's response, and as the riot act was read for the last time on the British mainland, the police charged the crowd, beating the people indiscriminately with their batons. Union leaders pleaded with police to stop the violence, but were also badly beaten for their efforts. Some of the crowd dispersed while others fought back, as the fighting raged on into the alleyways and streets surrounding the square.  While in London, a war committee was meeting, and it was described that what was happening in Glasgow were the effects of a Bolshevist uprising. That day and throughout the night an estimated 20,000 troops were sent by train to Glasgow City. Tanks were deployed, armored glories were rolled out, and machine gun posts were established across the city center at strategic locations. They were preparing to quash and kill any signs of a revolt. Ten armored tanks were now patrolling the second city of the British Empire, along with 20,000 armed soldiers. Pretty ironic that soldiers were deployed as the point of the strike was to support the soldiers. But these were young men, teenagers in some cases, and willing to carry out orders, whatever they may be. The measures the British government took against its own people were uncalled for. But at the same time, tensions were high back then. Paranoia was rife and any hint of uprising was quashed. The government compromised with the workers, reducing the working week to 47 hours. But the union leaders were all put to trial, where it was found that the strike did not challenge the authority of the government, and it was indeed the reaction of the government that ensued the riot. The judge declared the riot act of 1714 was never to be read or enforced to a public gathering on the British Isles ever again. In this sense, the workers won and justice prevailed to a certain degree. The military remained in Glasgow until February 17th that year. These events later became known as the Battle of George Square. This is one of those events we were speaking about earlier, largely undocumented with the exception of a 1970s documentary, which recorded the eyewitness testimonies of some of the striking workers. Events like these can easily be lost to history because a great empire is unlikely to document such events to the rest of the world. They would rather portray the land to be stable, united, and hard working. And of course, this is the case, but in times of war, even the top brass are guilty of paranoia and bad judgment. And in this case, it is probably the striking workers who prevented the escalation because their government seemingly were willing to kill them. The message of the people prevails, however, above all else. It's crazy times we live into the guys, but it was even more crazy back then. All that is changing is the times, the technology, and the people, but the madness surrounding our civilization is still very apparent. That's all from us for the moment, and we will of course be back just shortly with more lost history for you guys. We will speak with you below, so please comment, and as always, thank you for watching.


so I thought you would be interested in cruising, you know? March of 81 was particularly a good month for me. I'll seem to be on fire with no... From his longtime residence in LA's Pacific Palisades to the cozy cottage he bought for his daughter, Martin Short has been known for his iconic roles like Ed Grimley and Jiminy Glick. And he's brought his humor and charm to Saturday Night Live, multiple TV shows, Broadway, and countless films. So let's get into his houses, which are just as interesting as he is. After studying at McMaster University as a pre-med student, Martin caught the acting bug and he made his professional debut alongside Eugene Levy and Gilda Radner in the 1972 Toronto production of Godspell. In 1977, Martin joined the Second City comedy troupe, unleashing fan favorites like Manic Ed Grimley. When Second City got its own TV show in the early 80s, Martin's quirky personas left audiences in stitches. He then sank his teeth into Saturday Night Live in 1984, breathing new life into the show with spot-on impersonations. His career exploded from there with ghoulishly hilarious films like Three Amigos, Father of the Bride and more. Over the decades, Martin has proven that despite his short stature, his comedic talents and influence loom larger than life. After politically losing his wife Nancy to cancer in 2010, Martin is a doting father to their three children, Catherine, Oliver, and Henry. He's spoken candidly about grieving Nancy's death in his touching memoir, I Must Say. Rather than let fame go to his head, Martin Short has called himself just a normal guy who found he could make people laugh. We adore his down-to-earth attitude and ever-present sense of humor, where a clown has brought some seriously smart comedy into the world. Martin Short calls the posh Pacific Palisades area of LA home. He lives in a gorgeous property here with his family, though details are scarce since he keeps his personal life very private. What we do know is that this luxurious mansion has plenty of amenities for Martin to enjoy his downtime away from the spotlight. I'm imagining lots of open area spaces perfect for entertaining a home theater when he can watch his own classics in a backyard oasis with a pool where he could relax, maybe even a personal golf grain where he can practice his swing. Pacific Palisades offers spectacular ocean views, so his backyard surely takes advantage of that. While the interiors remain a mystery, this estate likely is Martin's trademark charm and witty decor throughout. I bet there's a special tribute to his late wife Nancy, plenty of cozy spots to read scripts, and rooms decked out with Julia from his decades long career. In 2014, Martin made a very sweet 1.1 million dollar purchase, a Cape Cod style cottage tucked away in LA's legendary Beachwood Canyon as a home for his daughter. How thoughtful is that? This charming 1,836 square foot of boat has three beds, 2.5 baths, and the perfect tranquil setting. Inside, there are refinished hardwood floors, canyon views, and patios ideal for his daughter to entertain her friends. With lush landscaping and a peaceful outdoor ambiance, this cottage is the perfect gift from a doting dad. Martin is clearly a family man at heart and I just love that he bought this place to take care of his daughter. It's got that cozy, welcoming vibe that suits perfectly thanks to details like the patios and the gardens. And the secluded location offers privacy and security. Well done, Martin. From his early days on SCTV to his current standup tours and talk show appearances, Martin's short commitment to character work and live performing is unmatched. His fearless physicality and ability to squeeze laughs out of any moment are legendary. While Martin's short himself remains humble, his impact is undeniable. He paved the way for shorter, unconventional looking comedians to make it big based on sheer talent. He also showed how powerful it can be to draw on real-life tragedy and channel it into joyful art. The iconic character's Martin Short has created over his 50 plus year career will live on eternally in the history of comedy. Ed Gramley's calic, Jiminy Glick's vulgar sweater vests, Jackie Rogers Jr.'s albino flare, all parts of pop culture. That wraps up our tour of Martin Short's wonderful homes. Let me know in the comments which property is your favorite and don't forget to like, subscribe and follow me on Instagram. I'm Kara the Vampire Slayer and if you want to check out more celebrity homes then stay tuned for this look into the properties of Jane Fonda. Bye.


Just two hours ago, Allied Air Forces began an attack on military targets in Iraq and Kuwait. Just after midnight on January 17, 1991, President George H.W. Bush gave the orders for U.S. forces to lead an attack on Saddam Hussein's army, making the transition from Operation Desert Shield to Operation Desert Storm in the Gulf War. Operation Desert Shield began August 2, 1990 and concluded January 16, 1991. The purpose of the operation was for the U.S. to build up forces in the Persian Gulf and to provide time to build up the Saudi Arabian defenses. Operation Desert Storm, led by U.S. Army General Norwich Hortzkopf, kicked off with an extensive aerial bombing campaign on Hussein's armies in Iraq and Kuwait around 3 a.m. the same day it began. The following day, President Bush authorized the order to call up to a million National Guardsmen in reservists to active duty for up to two years. February 24, 1991, the first Marine Expeditionary Force and Coalition forces began a ground assault on Iraqi defenses in the final chapter of Operation Desert Storm. Along the Persian Gulf, the 1st and 2nd Marine Divisions, with their four main task forces stormed Iraqi defenses and convinced the defenders that it was the main effort of attack. Meanwhile, heavily armored Allied forces attacked the Iraqi defenses in Iraq from behind. At the same time, Marine units of the 4th and 5th Marine Expeditionary Brigades in the Persian Gulf stopped the Iraqi troops who were anticipating the aquatic attack. Within a hundred hours, U.S. and Allied forces defeated the Iraqi Army with few U.S. casualties. President Bush declared a ceasefire February 28, which ended Operation Desert Storm.