 The broadcast is now starting. All attendees are in listen only mode Good morning traders So welcome to the book map pro trader webinar series here with raggy Horner. This is Bruce at book map Just a quick audio video check. Can you guys hear me and see my screen? Yes Okay, excellent. Okay. All right. Good. Then we're all set to go So, yeah, we're really really happy to come across and find out that Raggy has been using book map. I didn't really know this until just I Think about a month ago or so and was really excited here. So, you know, I've Been following Raggy for for quite a while actually when I started trading She's she's been trading for for a long time here since age 17 while still in high school Has a passion for communicating the message of the markets as well as teaching traders How to find an edge in the currency and futures markets. She's a author of three different books she's always out speaking in different engagements and seminars as well as the chief currency analysts at bfx and Travels all around the globe here sharing the knowledge that she has gained and is currently with simpler currencies.com And if you have any kind of Questions about book map, you can always reach out to us at support at book map calm our Twitter feed is there as well and then Our support email and website Risk disclaimer, I need to go through that trading futures equities and digital currencies involves a central risk of loss And is not suitable for all investors past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results and then Here is if you're interested in reaching out to Raggy and more information about her Here is her website her Twitter her YouTube channel and her email As well as book map special offers that are from her Okay, I'm gonna put this into the chat so you don't need to write all this down or anything like that I'll put it in several times during this webinar. You can click on the links. It's in the chat box here So there you go go ahead and you know click on those if you're interested in Reaching out to Raggy or finding more information about her Other than that, I'm just gonna turn it right over to to Raggy and and let her take it away And all right sounds great. Let me Let me get the screen going here I'm not sure which screen you guys are seeing yet. Hang on one sec. This is the fun of multiple monitors Let's see So I see kind of a price channel All right. Let me yeah, I know one of these is There we go, how's that? Okay, there we go. Yep Yeah, scanning across 10 monitors is always fun. There we go. We got the magic one. All right, very cool All right, so let's get going again. Thank you so much to book map and to Bruce and yes I have been I haven't a subscriber actually I'm a lifetime subscriber of book map and Been enjoying using the platform as I think many of you have and I'm always finding new ways to Get more from the transparency and quite frankly the edge that it gives me and you know, I remember This sort of being reduced and this is kind of going back Some of you might remember things like an audio squawk When You were trading the SMP pit traded contract, you know, forget the electronic minis You know, I remember hearing a squawk some of you might remember from Ben Lichtenstein way back when and we'd hear what was going on On the floor. Well, this to me is that But better, you know, what I'm able to see is that transparency to me It's sonar, you know, that's kind of the way I look at my trading You know, what am I able to see what kind of tools can I use or develop that give me the ability to see what other traders simply Can't and and that's really what, you know, book map is to me It's that sonar sort of pinging away showing me where That liquidity support resistance may be so with that in mind, you know, of course if there are any questions We'll keep this very conversational and and for sure Bruce will step in and you know, we can we can take any questions that you guys would like what I've done this morning is What I do every morning, which is I'll trade pre-market and I'll trade You know, obviously during the more popular market hours, but What I did is I grabbed some screenshots that I want to kind of cover as we just sort of move through the The session here and What you'll notice is I've got a little bit of the Platform that I use just to look at some charting and then really what The integral part of book map is for me is not just that trend that isn't visible immediately on the candlestick Or the Western bar chart, what have you what's going on inside that one minute candle or that five minute candle And that for me is the edge that we get because a lot of folks won't know what's going on inside that candle without the dots without the pie chart of the dots and Even the accumulation of the dots at particular price levels So I think a few folks in the past have asked me, Rob Do you trade exclusively through book map or do you kind of go through different tools? So I don't want anybody feeling like they couldn't supplant they couldn't replace the charts They're using with book map, but you know having been trading now and yeah, I started trading at 15 I really took it seriously at 17 and So seriously that I darn near flunked out of college. I was on the Dean's list But the other kind when they tell you yeah, we might have to ask you to leave because I was too busy sitting in my dorm rooms Trading looking at charts and trying to find those levels and you know So this was a big part of my life But now that I've got tools like book map again, I think that's where possibly a lot of you are sitting where I Know there's something I can do here. I'm not necessarily ready to let go of some of the technical analysis or support resistance work that I do but what does time and price Oriented volume tell me so let's let's talk about one thing first and Let's talk about what most of the markets already doing so I'm in a I'm in a kind of a Platform that allows me to mark up the charts a little bit here. I hope you guys can see it pretty clearly and and And I'm happy to give you guys these screen grabs, but this is what I did this morning So these are all from literally just a handful of hours ago And and I wanted to show you guys, you know what we were looking at what I did this morning here in my office So first of all, what is most of the market looking at, you know, most the market is looking at Some sort of volume bar at the bottom of their chart, you know traditional volume as I did many many moons ago until I learned that Time-based volume alone Really wasn't gonna give me the transparency or the insight into what was happening really happening on the chart so if I take This you know, and these are just literally from my desktop I usually have side-by-side markets, whether it's NASDAQ and and the S&P or whether it's gold in the yen. I was trading a lot of gold and yen today But we'll talk about you know, whatever market you guys want to break down. But what I want to point out is There might be levels on the chart. So let's take for example This image of the the yen here on the right and You'll see I put some arrows there to point out That's a zone that I'm watching that's based on historical volatility All right, so part of our topic here today is how I use historical volatility and book map So, you know, I think like a lot of us we might be looking at some sort of, you know platform where we're looking at sort of traditional Candlesticks or or Western bar chart and I know there's a zone here based on the typical price movement range For the Japanese yen futures contract between 9 and 10 that projects below here You know, a lot of us have different ways to find support and resistance But what are the reasons it's sort of flawed or incomplete might be a better way to put it if you will is because When this happens, I don't really know and none of us really do what's actually happening underneath Right, so I'm going to jump on over to the corresponding chart that I've captured here of The yen okay, here we go. So this is the corresponding book map for that chart So what happens is I start sinking into this historical Based volatility support level so so let me let me give you a little background on what that is so I'll look at six months of historical volatility and Break it down into what type of price movement range Do I see between 9 and 10 o'clock Eastern 10 11 11 12 for the entire day? right for the entire day and Then once that Level projects based on typically what the market does I'm going to then make sure that book map is telling me that there is based on Price oriented volume not time right remember most folks folks are looking at volume based on time Which doesn't tell you where the participation took place It doesn't tell you where that commitment that conviction that size took place So then I'll head on over to book map and say okay. I've got a range that I'm interested in Timing and finding that best level for for our entry is of course what we do as traders, right? So then now start looking at where I get two things and and gang I'm showing you guys sort of a very rudimentary basic Sort of the building blocks of when I first started using book map like I said, I guess about almost a year ago now What was the first thing that I sort of observed again and again and again now as you have more time behind the platform You're going to see so much more nuanced But if I dove into the nuance here in our first discussion together I think a lot of folks might find it overwhelming and confusing So let's start with the building blocks of what I do with book map and the two building blocks are very Very simple almost embarrassingly simple I Know where that support of resistance may be now you might be using Fibonacci you might be using traditional support and resistance Maybe you're using chart patterns. Maybe you're using volume profile, right? I'll still take a look at book map. Somebody asked me one time is Is this gonna override or is this gonna be be something that I'll that I'll that volume profile would override Oh gosh, no. Oh gosh. No because remember sonar. We're getting a different view of the market Then we would see on a on our traditional say candlestick chart. So I'm looking at two things I'm looking at the congregation You know, how many dots are congregating at a particular level and does that level jive? with what I'm looking at on You know any kind of historical price movement range support or resistance So here's a resistance level that I was looking at earlier this morning on the on the yen I've been shorting yen all morning and when I rally into a level like this within the context of an overall downtrend Let me show you the book map Corresponding with that the the main question then becomes am I also And let's see that's gold from this morning here. Okay. Am I also seeing and this was that section right here So if you're wondering, okay, Rob, where does that sync up with your chart? It syncs up with all of this All right, so I'm I'm trading up into this area right in here Which you know, I'm not sure if the market's gonna hold that level. I know that I want to be short and Then I see this on book map, but I know two things one look at all the dots congregating And there's not a lot of activity at the moment the market's waiting on something so I know I'm gonna need a catalyst So not only is book map telling me this thing is utterly sandwiched. Does everyone see that? I mean look at the way it's Literally sandwiched Right, but I'm not getting that that big dot. I'm not getting that participation yet I'm not getting that breach with conviction and remember these are these are gonna be slightly smaller dots And I would see after 9 30 Eastern and One of the things a lot of folks tell me is it's so tough to trade pre-market not with book map Because I'm able to see things that someone looking at sort of a sparsely Populated one minute or three minute or five minute chart Is it going to be able to feel and I love that word with book map? You could literally feel the surge and then you see it boom there it is So I'm already wanting to be bearish. I already see this thing as sandwich I'm just looking for the follow-through so What I'm able to do with a lot of confidence is take my short and I'm able to wait and I can't emphasize how important the ability to understand when to just chill out and wait is Because a lot of folks get impatient they get uncertain Doubt starts to fill their mind because oh well, maybe the market's going to really explode higher on me Or maybe I'm in the wrong trade The ability to understand what's going on inside these one minute candles. It's not giving me a lot This gives me the confidence All right, so I don't know if any questions have popped up yet on this example, but Again, I want to look at the congregate, you know, this dots congregating and then I'm looking for the size Of the dot. I want that one big dot showing me. Okay. Here's that push coming in Here's either that respect for support. Here's that respect for resistance Or in this case after that really nice consolidation Where I'm already looking at a historical price movement range exhaustion zone Now I'm getting that confirmation. So I thought I'd take any questions if they've arrived so far Um, some questions looking at some different markets. Nothing nothing on the image that you're you're showing at the moment. Okay So it's okay. What are the questions? I'm happy to oh, okay. Um, well, uh, yeah, I mean people would like to take a look at Uh, the the nasdaq or the uh, uh, the ym uh, or in the es as well You got it. You got it. So, you know, I know that a lot of folks love the indices And I think one of the things I really wanted to do Was was definitely point out that and I do have plenty of examples there too, but this morning, for example Um, I had another example another setup in gold I have a lot of folks come to me looking at book map for the broader averages, but gosh gang Um, the edge you get in looking at yen bonds gold crude It's so amazing. It's almost like this this market that folks overlook and And I definitely didn't want to neglect the broader averages But take a look at the gold market here and then I'll definitely move on to uh, some of the stock index examples I have a zone once again Overall expectation for movement lower I already can confirm that with book map as I'm seeing the market stair step lower and I get this zone up here around 16 11 16 12 that I know I'd like to short into now Is that going to be exhaustive or is that potentially a zone at which the market's going to just take off on me? and so This is that same zone On book map, so I know that there's this wick that's happening I know that I and I have this limit order out there that I'd like to sell at but again Having the conviction coming from book map again. I see a lot of congregation dots. Okay. That's fine But then I get the larger dot size and this is very rudimentary But gang it's it's it for me It increases the probability of that exhaustion increases the probability Of the follow-through and certainly Increases my conviction when I see a level that I'm watching That's 16 11 so you can see that right over here on the right side And then boom I get that dot so that that I hope is something that for those of you that are trying to Take the book map platform and then marry it with something you're already doing it does not have to supplant Something you're doing it's only going to make it better I think that's definitely something I wanted to you know, drive home with the examples here So let me grab some of the screenshots. I have a question for you Raggy on the on the on the six six j there On the way down into some of these areas, I mean I like the way that you looked for the setup and looking for something very specific And and then once that occurs You know What you're looking for and the follow-through To the downside How about managing the the trade on on on the downside anything in particular you're looking at? Well, so here's the here's the culmination of that trade, but I took this morning, which was basically shorting 90 68 and change down to 90 61 and you'll see that just like I had the Historical price movement range projection here. I'm looking to ride it down to this area But at the same time, I'm also looking for book map to confirm one of two things Can I can I ride it further? Or am I seeing a lot of support in that area? So let me get that six j chart again. Okay, so you'll notice that This zone is happening around 62 to 60 And here's that Same chart. So as we're heading down A lot of folks asked me will rock. How do we know when to push? You know our trades or how do we know when to and I have a lot of screen grabs here again? I know but so so I guess the main question is how do I know my targets? Well, my targets are going to be in many ways to the exact opposite of My entries I want to see the again the dots start to congregate and I want to see some size if I start to see Some size and again the dots congregate and you know in the very beginning stages of using book map gang Have a rudimentary feel a very basic foundational feel for for the order flow for the flow that you're seeing You'll eventually get much more nuance much more advanced with it But I think a lot of folks that I that I've seen wander into book map from the folks that I trade with They get too advanced and they and they try to use too much of clearly what this platform can do But I think they get intimidated and and ultimately They get frustrated because they're just Not starting with that basic so for me the basic they're going to be the opposite first I'm going to be looking for you know the dots to congregate and then I need size So I had a congregation here, you know the dots were starting to congregate But I didn't really see the size but I was concerned about I did at 48 I did at 48 so all of a sudden I've got a dot that's a little bit bigger than the others so far I see it growing. I see it growing. I see it growing Am I in a zone on my sort of traditional charting if you will that looks like support I'm going to confirm it there and and it's interesting also what you take a look just south Take a look at the volume here. I think a lot of folks who look at volume might have ignored this and I'm talking about Time time based volume not price based volume. They might have ignored that Because I saw this spike in volume here I really wasn't concerned with that at all that didn't shake me out because book map told me don't worry about it Yeah, this is not price based support In terms of volume here. I was a little bit more concerned and I said, you know what? Let's scale out. Let's get out while we can not when we have to I'm not going to get flat though Because if I just look at this trend here as it continues to fall, I'm not going to bail I'm not going to get flat But I will scale out and I'll move my stop to a break even So I'm looking for again a level that I'm probably already interested in And then I want to see that some size is coming in But I'm not necessarily concerned about what most of what's the market is Looking at which is that time based volume. We're able to see As it grows remember the one thing that we're not able to see in this conversation is the way that dot Starts to grow and at that point, you know, I'm thinking to myself get out while you can not when you have to rock So that's that's what I'm looking for. So in the very beginning stages what I'm teaching you guys is what I teach my members Don't worry about the smaller dots. It's always a relative comparison. Look for the dots to congregate But then don't let that be the only thing you're looking for But then look for size and if if you get both of those Happening congregate those dots congregating and then size you've got something. So That's really how I'll proactively manage a winning trade and bookbaps had me Really beautifully. Actually, let's go to a live chart of this because this thing's had me short all morning long I haven't in any way been completely Squeezed out of it. I think a lot of folks around Let me show you here around this time right on the chart between 1045 And 11 o'clock I can tell you a lot of the shorts got spooked because if they were looking at let me show you here If they're looking at traditional charts, which I'm always going to marry, you know But they're looking at the traditional charts. They started seeing a little bit of strength here And and this is where I know for me. I don't get squeezed out of this stuff. I don't get I don't get fooled into thinking the ride is over anymore because even though that started to bounce here notice how Bookmap hardly flinched. I had a lot of size I had a lot of size, but I really didn't see Anything more than that Congregation moving sideways and then look at all the resistance above and that's the stuff that we don't see That's the sonar. We can't see on a traditional western bar chart or candlestick. So yeah, I'm a little concerned But then I realized, okay, we're just sandwiched. Let me give the market a minute And if I start to see where we're getting down through support And I start to see size again kind of like the way My trade started in the first place the sideways action earlier In the morning around 7 15 to 8 a.m eastern, you know, I think the patience that this gives me Is really just off the charts. That's really what I'm able to get from this. So This is where I'm still short this market and this is probably one of my best trades on the morning that thanks to bookmap I was able to Take advantage of much much earlier today. I mean, this is now going into the fourth hour Of staying short from this area In the low 90s 60s. I mean, I'm I'm 50 ticks into this so When people talk about well, you know, are you just scalping with bookmark? Oh, gosh. No, I'm trend following gang I'm trend following with this thing and I think that's where for me I have so much more confidence. Is that is that someone helpful Bruce? Is that you think that gives offers a little bit more understanding You you you nailed it Way more than uh, uh, then I had anticipated a really really nice answer. Um, let's see, uh, some questions about, um We always get this about time frames Uh, and how you deal with that like, uh, I If you want to answer that I I mean, I think you kind of covered it with Um, you're looking at your higher time frame chart in your zones and then you're just zooming into bookmap for your zones You're not really looking at any sort of time frame within bookmap I'm not and that's what I love About bookmap because if I want to be confined By time there's traditional ways to do that, you know, I think bookmap not to get all Philosophical but it transcends time. I don't you know, remember that we're forcing a candlestick to to You know, we're confining it to a certain slice of psychology I have enough of those types of tools and enough of that kind of view So what book maps giving me is something that is showing me when size is coming in Not necessarily being confined by a one minute chart or a five minute chart So this to me it doesn't matter if I'm trading a one minute chart of the NASDAQ or the s&p we have the s&p on the chart right now I'll show you what I did in the s&p today and I think you guys are gonna love this and then Well, you know what? Let me just let me show you all and then hopefully that it'll it'll resonate So this is another one of my layouts. I'm looking at the NASDAQ and the s&p, but let's just Let's just blow up this chart of the s&p, okay, so the bell rings And typically I'm going to let about the first 30 minutes transpire. So that's the clearing range And I know a lot of folks say wow 30 minutes. Look, are there ways to trade the first 30 minutes Slightly more aggressively. Absolutely. And I'll use book map for that But again, let's lay a really good basic sort of conservative foundation for the use of this tool And then, you know, certainly we can get more advanced than you want So let's let the first 30 minutes transpire The sheer ability the discipline that you're going to develop By learning to to exercise that patient's muscle is going to be invaluable So what what's this is what I see the broader markets doing So the market rallied up and and through all this you're going to have the momentum players out there in the market You know watching the market climb climb climb climb and and you can see it In the action all of a sudden you have a lot of folks committing to the long side In this little cluster that I've circled there right now I'm not getting sort of let's call it bamboozled By that for for two reasons one As the market was rallying you can see through here We were already seeing size To the upside Telling me that even though the first two minutes after the bell Got down to about 33 78 I'm not going to be fooled into taking a short. Look at the dots There I'm not seeing any real size Now look at all the volume the old fashion and and I'm not poking fun at any type of trader I'm really not but We've got to as traders kill the dogma And the misuse and really quite frankly the overuse of time Based volume I'm going to go so far as to say it's nearly useless When you have book map, you're going to find out how Misleading it can be so the market's heading lower and people see the high volume and a lot of folks are going to think We need to short the market. Well, good luck to them. What they didn't know is what we know as book map users Nobody's home. I'm not seeing conviction there All right, so let's move and regardless. I want to let the first 30 minutes transpire But but take a look. So then we start to move a little bit higher And you'll notice right about here Now I'm starting to see some size and when am I seeing some size the momentum players are coming in I could see it on my charts. We're starting to move higher But the momentum players are starting to come in they've seen the market tick up from 33 33 78 and a half to about 33 81 and a half they've seen these three points go by and again Now they're seeing the momentum and now they're committing and then they're committing some more and they're committing some more Now this is basically taking us to as you can tell here only about 940 All right, if I'm going to play with momentum Well, well these the folks that I want to serve right This is the big wave that's forming And I'm going to paddle out to it and if I want to ride that I will but I'm still personally I was still flat what I'm waiting for again is that first 30 minutes Well, where do we see the sort of the crescendo? of sort of the blind Zombie horde Momo, you know, I call them endearingly. Maybe not endearingly the fomo. Momo bozos out there What are they getting in right there? Right they now the folks who weren't intelligent book map oriented scalpers seeing the size What happened? Look at these smaller dots and I'm telling you that's where most folks go Uh, I'm not going to watch any more of this. Let's get long. What do we know as book map folks? Don't do that. Don't do that. Not only were we hitting I believe at that point in time About the 33 7 87 area. I'm seeing a little bit of larger size Smaller dots two big dots. I know that they're selling pressure sitting there We know they're selling pressure pressure sitting there because of all the different transparency that we have. Okay The first 30 minutes is done. Okay, and we haven't been bamboozled into shorting. Thank you book map We haven't been bamboozled into buying the top again. Thank you book map Now this is what I do Patience gang. This is the trade and a lot of folks get overridden by the whole fomo and they miss the trade We pull back And then I'm looking for support in this zone essentially between 33 84 And 33 81 and a quarter 81 and a half Now that's a fairly wide range But what I'm looking for is once again Congregation you know all these dots to congregate the size to start to show me the okay Yep, we're starting to see some size here in the 83 area And and that's going to give you the confidence to step in and buy the area between 83 and 84 And that's a pullback by the way. So Remember I'm not some planting stuff that I love. I'm confirming it and making it better We're adding a degree of sonar that traditional analysis like say a Fibonacci doesn't have Right or or traditional clearing range breaches Don't have so now I've got the sonar now. I can pinpoint my entry now I have a lot more confidence. I did two things. I bought SPY about calls in the spy and I got lung the s&p and and that's How I waited for the size to one tell me don't buy up here and two Now that we what I call retreated Into a zone that it's a pullback into volumetric average price and a Fibonacci retracement of the clearing range I mean that's really clear as day to me Only because I knew that I want to be a buyer in here, but I'm not quite sure where and I'm not quite sure when Right where and when is pretty important for us as traders And then I had the conviction even though I sort of bounced around for a while I had size here I saw where the traders were committed and then that triggered the buy So for not one second did we think about the short side of the market? And then we've been just pretty much committed to the buy and I took profit my first profit and I'm going to scale out again at some point But I took my first profit. Let me show you where And and this is where book map does again confirm for me. So I know that we have a clearing range high. That's this right here. See that I carry that across Take a look at this gang. That's not an accident. Look at this Dot that happens right in there I'm not looking to pick tops and bottoms. I know that I'm going to leave a few points on the table I want to again pay myself Well, I can not when I have to right and so That was the first time I scaled out of the trade and then now I'm going to let this market continue to To go in my favor, especially when I've got gorgeous Levels like this telling me rock. Stay patient. Stay patient. Okay, so Uh, that's that was this morning's trade and that's how book map gave me again I'm and think about the complimentary nature of what book map already did Which is since about 7 a.m. Have me short the yen You think on a day where the yen is this short? I'm not going to have a lot of bullish conviction And again the book maps giving me that that sonar that transparency that this view It's going to help but isn't designed to offer me. So does that help gang this? This is just literally from hours ago, and it's still a position that I'm managing to to the upside Yeah, fantastic stuff Great great feedback great great examples here raggie very helpful any any questions any points of confusion that I can address or Yeah, some questions about Well, there's a few things that I know I know you're using book map 7.0 Some people are asking if you've tried the volume delta dots with 7.1 That's something I can I can show you Maybe after the webinar raggie as well as a transact data and Not offering a full depth of market. You're only getting 10 Levels on the bid and 10 on the offer in terms of market depth although it, you know The areas you're pointing to and in the way that you're reading the heat map with the volume Is is working quite quite well for you here So, yeah, I think you bring up a really great point So when I've got you know, and again, I know everyone's coming to this Discussion from varying degrees of using book maps So whenever I'm meeting a group for the first time and again, I really appreciate everyone You know taking time out in the morning to join Bruce and I Whenever I'm you know introducing something to a group for the first time, you know I really start with the absolute basics and you know one thing that my members Have is is the transact data, right? And I and I always want to make something as affordable and seamless in the early stages as possible because I think For a lot of traders and myself included a lot of folks get a cool tool But they Get way too advanced with it too quick They start committing a lot of capital to it too quick and then they grow frustrated and and abandoned it And and this is something I was acutely aware of because I did not want my traders To feel like they had to have a huge amount of time commitment A very steep and intimidating learning curve or even quite frankly A lot of capital commitment So I I liked being able to ease people into it because within about and I'll tell you this Within about 60 to 90 days max everybody's like, okay. I'm ready I I'm committed. I've got it. This thing's making me money And I love people to have their own aha moment And and so that's why we have this very gradual sort of learning curve With this this is how I sort of onboard my traders in and I and I hope what is the least intimidating and and least You know, basically consuming way Possible, but am I showing you everything that we can do? No, of course not. No, absolutely not, but I think this is a very Um gradual way to start to implement a tool Into our into our trading and you know, I deal with a lot of traders that are very oftentimes Jaded by the number of just awful tools out there and and of course bookmap is One of the most valuable that I have I almost feel like I'm cheating when I'm using this And I don't want anybody to grow frustrated or give up on it too quickly So so this is the way I usually sort of on board my traders so that they can That they'll stick with it right and realize that this is one of those real deal Unbelievable edges in the market that that are out there right now. So that's kind of where I'm coming from first Okay, great. Um that answers those questions. Um another question Earlier on someone was asking about uh, you know, you you trade forex spot forex quite a bit And you're looking at the currency futures from the CME here So are you Applying are you are you trading directly? Well, I imagine you're trading directly in the CME But also in the spot as well and maybe some of the crosses or how do you extrapolate some of the data from bookmap into that? So um forex is a little different An animal. I mean I haven't yet, you know, I've been probably dedicating most of the time that I've had bookmap With you know, the the main seven futures that I trade with my crew back at simpler trading, which is es nq rty ym zb gc And 6j so those seven markets are what I'm Predominantly day trading and and I've been actually experimenting a little bit with with equities As well. So I haven't really done a lot in terms of forex with this You know, the currency futures are fine, but forex becomes a completely different animal because for example in dollar yen I like to I'd prefer to be in in some Currency relationships a yen bull that would be Australian dollar yen and New Zealand dollar yen But generally speaking the problem with dollar yen And and I've known this since I had a position in it on a longer term time frame The issue with dollar yen is just the immense amount of strength we're seeing in the u.s. Dollar So if I'm going to use bookmap to trade Say that dollar strength, I'll pull up the the 6e So, you know, right now, I think a lot of folks are noticing that the dollar is just in fuego right now So I'll pull up the 6e to play to play the dollar and so You're not always going to have on the currency futures side of things the best Pair combinations that that is going to be far better on forex But if I'm trading the dollar against something then I'll definitely use the book map and I'll definitely use the currency futures for that Okay, excellent Let's see here Do do any automated trading strategies as well Not really. Uh, I I do in other markets I actually have some some automated strategies in forex, but I'm only because it's something that I've been curious about, you know, can I have something running In the background while I'm discretionary trading, but I'm a discretionary trader You know with tools like this It's less discretion and more just waiting for the evidence Of a trend correction and evidence of trend continuation So so not really I I prefer discretionary trading and when I have something like this I just like I said, I feel like I have a tremendous edge on the market. That's still looking at a very dogmatic traditional way of looking at time-based Volume and not price-based volume and and that might seem like a very Like a semantic difference And I think to everyone here in this room you guys know the difference because the the price-based volume That that is is really where my trading has been evolving to for for a couple years now Okay, excellent. Um, let's see so Yeah, jerry is asking here about percentage wise like, uh, you know optimizing your your Your profit and losses here. I guess Using book map. Have you seen a dramatic difference? Pre book map as opposed to post Okay, so are my levels more accurate is really the question, right? I mean if the levels are more accurate my entries are going to be better My stops are going to be better. You know, that's another thing that and this will be a great topic for maybe a future conversation but Think about stop placement for a moment. You know, I still use historical price movement ranges for stops But if I'm trying to put a trailing stop On on this trade and I don't respect. I mean these levels right in here As support this is where a lot of people use dollar-based or arbitrary point-based stop levels I'll I'll use book map for my stops as well I mean why on earth would I not want to and especially since I've got so much unrealized profit in this Why on earth, but I not want to let this market sell off to layers like this and place a trailing stop below this So, um, not only is the answer yes, but I want to tell you why so it'd be really easy to say yes And that's such a you know, sort of flat binary Conversation, but why is it like why why are my entries better? Why are my stops better? Why are my targets better? It's the transparency and the conviction that I have that You know when I see again either the dots start to congregate Or the dots are to increase in size or I start to see where the order flow is is waiting All my levels are just more accurate now. I'm I'm still using my tools But there's a lot of levels that I could consider So, you know, is it going to be the value area high? Is it going to be the point of control? Is it some time-based volume weighted average prices? You know, I think one thing that all of us traders struggle with are having numerous levels That could be potential reaction levels, you know, it could be potential support or could be potential resistance and this this basically Reduces those choices down to a very actionable finite number and and again that that increases confidence and that increases accuracy and So it's not just yes, but it's a hell yes And that's and that's why I hope that helps Yeah, that that can a hell yes will certainly confirm it for us so A few questions here that I think I'll just kind of answer very quickly For you is about The Coloration of the volume dots there Um, yeah, James. It's not a bid and ask it's it's it's the aggressor of That that is being displayed there. It's a market buy and sell orders in the dots. Okay. It's that's that's what's being displayed the Let's see what else here. Um, yeah Murray yes, she's using that infinity futures. Uh, and about the Correlation To the bid and offer no, I'm sorry here. I got now I lost my my place Um Let's see Okay. Yeah, I think uh, oh about the details in the in the volume dots as well. Yes, you can see those You can use the data tip tool and hover over You can also zoom in and and see all the specifics Yep, she's using the data tip tool there If you if you want the very specifics about what is going on in that volume Okay, and as you zoom in you'll be able to break it down and see even You know down to nanosecond resolution if you want Okay, uh, and yeah, that's uh, I think that answers those Uh, let's see here Can I answer something? It's real quickly gang when I was introducing how to use sort of the pie chart of the dots And a lot of folks were asking, okay, you know, what's the red versus green rod? So Um, this is the way I look at it. Notice that since we've been moving higher notice how Few dots and most of those dots are smaller Were mostly red So let me point out a couple of them right here that one right there. You'll see it's mostly red, but very small Notice the larger dots are mostly green so that to me is still Relatively bullish. I may proactively take some profit just because of the the large size. It's happening because look, I don't Want to overstay my welcome in any trend But when people ask me about the coloration the what and maybe bruce you can tell me if this is super accurate or not But until you start seeing large dots that are dominating the red as far as I'm concerned with this trend I'm not going to be concerned that I'm going to be overpowered by by a Formidable amount of selling so again my my level of relaxation To continue to follow this trend despite the fact that it's pulling back a little bit Is because I'm not seeing a dot that's dominated by the red. That's a large size So bruce, would you say it's fairly accurate? Absolutely in fact, I mean There's so many different ways. I I I really like the way you're zoomed out looking at the bigger picture here using book map and you know just being patient with your trading and your your management and You know, you can you can Filter the volume in many different ways as well as the heat map and the way you're filtering and reading it is Giving you a lot of insight I think one thing I find that you know This view to me and again, I think a lot of and I and I want to speak for anybody But I think a lot of folks think this is just a tool to get in and get out and get in and get out and I'm sure you can if you'd like. I'm not a scalper by nature. I don't particularly like that type of trading And certainly you can do this because this is like literally seeing, you know to me like I said as we started this conversation It's like seeing the pit only now it's visualized but I think the one thing that I really wanted to get across everybody with my time with you guys is the fact that One it can be a tool that acts as a filter for other tools, you know Because we all we're all coming to book map typically from another charting platform and a lot of folks Don't want to abandon things they're already doing. So what I say is this super charges it makes it better because you've got that Ability to be a sonar trader. You're sonar trading and number two I think a lot of folks really overlooked the fact that this is a tremendous Trend following tool, you know, if you want to find those intraday trends and have the conviction to stick with them You know, I'm in a trade right now. That's, you know, about seven points in a pretty narrow day and and If you if you think about what broader market participants probably did And this little pocket right here, they either did one of two things they bailed or they got short And and when I'm able to look and just chill out and look at where the size is at and look at the size of the dots Notice, I'm not I'm not giving it a second thought and notice how the markets are just kind of floating back up again You know, I'm looking at a 92 and a half for my next target You know when I scale out again and I'll be down to I think about two or three lots at that point for the remainder of the day Right and another thing to remember too Once you've got the ability to have a nice cushion of profit. Take a look at that VWAP Take a look at the VWAP sitting there and say look as long as we're above that VWAP Which we can chart on book map, you know, kind of leave it alone. I think a lot of traders Don't have the ability to be patient and risk unrealized profit in order to see how how high is high And again, I think that's where book map for me brings that level of calm where I'm just not Worried about every little twitch of a candle because I can see inside the candle I'm literally pinging away sonar inside that candle. So I hope I've gotten those points across to everybody You know in our short time together Yeah, absolutely Some more questions about some of the volume dots if you could just right click Raggi on on one of the dots and then go to the volume dot settings. They want to take a look at your your settings there So there you go guys She has the smart clustering on and and that's that's it It's about midway on the slider there Um, so mami that will answer also. I think your questions the last String of questions about your your volume and the and the volume dots etc I have some different settings that I do play around with on on different Layouts that I've that I've saved but I purposely kept things pretty default Because I think before we can start to tweak things I I like starting off with a very default basic way of looking at a at a new platform Where some of you might be wandering into this maybe you're in your first three months You know when you look back at your book map use after another three months You're going to find how much it's evolved But I find that especially with a tool like this keep it really basic in the beginning Get really fluent in the basics and then you know start to tweak. I think we tweak too quick We start to just wander too far away from just the basic Out of the box goodness That is book map because it is really good to go out of the box gang You know what you want to do with it after that is perfectly up to you But to think that you know for me, I haven't tweaked a lot as you guys can tell and it doesn't need it And you know not really to be effective. It really doesn't need it. That's that's my opinion Excellent. Um, another question a few questions here about stocks and how you look at stocks and maybe differently compared to the futures No difference gosh no difference at all, but what I will say And maybe sometime in the future we can talk about stocks. What I will say is the way I like to group the stock so remember I'm looking at Dow Russell Nas S&P yen And remember yen gave me a lot of confidence about the conviction that I have to The long side in the averages So, um, if I did get any short triggers, which I did earlier this morning. I ignored them. I ignored them I got short triggers aggressively on the Russell and the Dow and thanks, but no thanks um, you know, but When I'm going to trade stocks what I prefer to do is You know grab some of the more heavily weighted Names within the averages. So if I'm going to play the S&P, of course when you're keeping an eye on things like uh sector-wise Tech health care and financials if I'm looking at the Nasdaq, which I've been the most volition, you know apple Microsoft facebook goog goog L Amazon so I will I will look at the heavily weighted names within Those sectors that way it becomes very complimentary. I'm not trading something that's likely to do something very different than the broader averages I'm not looking for an anomaly. I'm looking for sort of that more cooperative grouped Uh, we're going to correlate it because of the weighting Approach so it's it's not real complicated. Uh, what I'll do is um, you know, just kind of break down the The the average into the top 10 or 11 weighted names and I'll focus on the most heavily weighted of them And I could you know, just run that on book map Okay, excellent. Um, I think uh, you've answered there's a lot of questions about different data fees, etc And you've you've already answered those uh, uh, ragi. Um, very succinctly. So I think we can kind of skip over that uh, and um Ragi, I don't know how much time you have we've all we've been going about 55 minutes or so Um, if uh, maybe one one or two more questions if Okay, uh, let's see By the way gang, you see the NAS that I have on the screen right now A lot of people are going to flip out because the market moved about 10 11 points like this, right? Now the ability for me to stay calm with my lungs and just say hey, let the market move 10 or 11 points The NAS that has a typical price movement range and look how it's sandwiched It's really not going anywhere Now if I wanted to be really aggressive, I could play back and forth But I don't want to do that because I have mostly bullish conviction But but look at just I'll just really sit and let the market do what it has to do When I see that it's sandwiched and that's what I mean by the transparency And just the ability to sort of sit and be really patient With that kind of that kind of back and forth movement that of course we're seeing During the midday doldrums, which shouldn't surprise us either But when a lot of the market might get really intimidated or confused or antsy and this You know, I realize why we're doing this see most traders don't know why we're stuck in this range Do that right but the moment I take a look at this It's like oh, but of course take a look at the level to the south take a little level to the north That's why we're sandwiched right so that's what I mean by transparency and just that calm that we can have Wow, that's a that's a fantastic answer and a really big theme Raggi that is it's so nice to hear is about the patience A lot of the traders that we've had webinars with they haven't really talked too much about that and and the calm and the ease that That the book map is giving you While you're in your positions and managing them I mean look at the size of the dots near the bottom of the range gang You know am I in any way Concerned that as we reach support that I'm seeing size. No, they're my friends Right. They're my friends. And yeah, I see a little bit more red here But as far as I'm concerned there might be a little conflict in the message But if you have directional bias and and take a look this is why I love this crunched up view I think if we look at this chart like this We might get bamboozled into a short when we step back and look at the chart like this And feel free to you know play around with that horizontal axis Feel free to squeeze this stuff in because you're going to say why on earth Would I not look at that as an opportunity to play a pullback? With a quick bounce to the upside of the current resistance. So Yeah, I I hope that patience and that directional conviction is coming through. Thank you Bruce Yeah, yeah, no absolutely And some some some very nice compliments regarding that And I think that's about it So we've there's some other kind of questions in and you know kind of loosely or tangentially Related to some of her answers there. So I think we'll kind of skip over those but Just um, I wanted to say thank you very much. Roggy fantastic webinar I'm again. Thank you so much gang. I'm I'm a fan You know, I've been I've been a user of bookmark for a really long time And you know, one of the things that I always tell my members is if I'm using something It's because I'm paying for it. I subscribe to it and and like I said, I just met Bruce just I don't know. Maybe a two months ago. Bruce. We finally got Yeah, not long ago at all And I've been and I and I actually paid for book map month to month for And you could probably see in my account Bruce, but I think I paid month to month for maybe two months And about 60 days in I'm like sign me up. I'm done. I'm in I'm convinced and and that was that So I I've been a user and I'm I'm really honored that you guys asked me to speak because you guys have had some Epic speakers and so um, I hope this was helpful. Um, it is purposely basic But I really want you guys to understand that, you know, get that good foundation of understanding The dots congregating the size Understanding when a market sandwich understanding that directional conviction and then start getting a little bit more advanced with this This will grow with you. I mean book map is certainly capable of growing with you as you get more sophisticated as a trader But I guess I want to say that I don't use it in a in a really highly sophisticated way And it's giving me a tremendous amount of Transparency that's so in ours. I like to call it In my trading. So I'm just a fan and I'm really really again. Thanks everyone for your time. I really appreciate it Yeah, thank you, Raghia. Really really wonderful stuff. Um, people are asking about some of the subscription Specials, etc guys. I've been putting it into the chat look into the chat there along with content or Contact information for ragi That you know, it's all in there This is recorded. It will be On our youtube channel later today this afternoon and then You know, ragi will Also have access to that to broadcast to you guys Who are you guys following her? Um, and I think that's that's about it ragi and we'll definitely Really interested in doing another one with you here Maybe maybe shortly If if we can we can get to that'd be that'd be fantastic. No, it'd be my pleasure. It'd be my pleasure Okay, well, thanks ragi and thank you everybody and we'll we'll connect another time Thanks everyone. Okay. Bye. Bye