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Risk disclosure, trading futures, equities, and digital currencies involves the central risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results. All right, so let's jump in here. And we've got Stan up first. And he's going to go through his coaching for a bunch of different people here. So hold on a minute and get it set up. And then we'll turn it right over to Stan and let you go. Hey, perfect. So yeah, I will first go over to Caesar L. So he was doing a trade with Tesla. You can directly go on the graph. So yeah, overall, that's a good trade. I was wondering if he could give me maybe more explanation about his system, what he was really looking for. It's great to see the execution on the left side, but I can't really understand why he took it with Bookmap. Like to have maybe more annotation about why he took the trade with Bookmap, how he used Bookmap in his advantage, like for liquidity. Or it was just potentially like, yeah, a big move down and then lag up and he get in. But I don't see what he was using with Bookmap. But I don't know if he's here. Yeah, I don't see him. But he's usually here. So oh, no, I see him now. Yeah, he's here. Yeah, I don't know if you have anything to say about it but how you are looking at Bookmap and why you took like in this example the trade. Yeah, Cesar, do you have your mic on? OK, there we go. Sorry. Yeah, perfect. OK. Yeah, I said, so you know, I'm usually a pivot trader, but I've been working with really watching the order for closely on Bookmap, especially at these levels where we have big liquidity and it's a fake breakdown and an instant level that gets bought back up. You know, that's usually a trap, in this case a bear trap. And when you have it like that, you can see the V forming in Bookmap with the order flow. No, it just gives me conviction that the move is probably done at the downside and we start seeing pressure up. So I entered on that break down of 173, like you see there. And my stop was at the low, the one minute candle. So I scaled out at the previous highs, like you can see that was my first target. And I was willing to let the trade work, but it was obviously making lower highs on the bigger time frame. And it stuffed right into this area of big sellers, like it wasn't even an order that was waiting there on my last exit up here. And yeah, you can see how aggressive the sellers came in there and stayed on the book. And that was actually the end of the move there. So yeah, this is different from my normal trades where I use my pivots and this was just really working on a pure order flow trade. Yeah, all right. Yeah, just because I didn't read about the other flow, like in this case, for example, I was more wondering about what was your checklist about the fake breakout? How do you understand for you like a fake breakout? Just when it wicks lower and you don't have, I mean, it's tough to say you don't have any follow through until you don't have the follow through rate, like that could have easily popped back up and failed. But just getting familiar with how the candles, sorry, how the volume dots start forming or not forming and you see that, I don't know if exhaustion is the right word, but considering how big this order 173 was and the buying dried up, and sometimes we break below it, come back up, test it, consolidate a bit, and then head lower. But when it springs up instantly, to me, that's a sign of big rejection and to move the other way potentially. And I size these smaller because they're countertrend and they're so fast. Yeah, I know overall that's very good, like where you scale out. I don't know if you scale just front of liquidity or it was a little bit before for the first scale. Yeah, just like matching the front running those the previous high on that big red candle, the big white candle, the previous highs. And then yeah, my second scale was a little bit too aggressive. I think I should have given it more room. But when I saw that doji form right after, before I exited in my last piece, the last little red triangle, I've said in here many times that I don't hold to target. So I should have given it a little bit more room. But these signals, how do you interpret when we see this large seller through about $0.05 almost right above here that held the price down? Yeah, that's all about your money management. I think it's a good thing. Like you took some off and even you lock your profits. Yeah, maybe just lower your leverage and leave potentially one runner if you are entering with multiple action. Yeah, but it will already depend how you want to manage it if you are ready to leave a runner, or if you prefer just to take your profit when you see something going against you. Right, yeah. And it's always like many things in trading, it's always finding that balance, right? Yeah, and how you like to, what feel you more comfortable? More comfortable, you know what I mean? Like what is the best for you? We can all try it from a different way and take just things that speak to us. Right. Yeah, I think Stan, I mean, like I really like your comment and feedback right off the bat about like, well, I mean, yeah, it was a winner, but what's the setup? And so it poses a question to you, Caesar, about what exactly is the criteria you are looking for on this kind of trade? And you said that it's rejection, you know, you see the big wick here. But there are many things to consider. I mean, there's high liquidity in here, over here in Bookmap, very high liquidity down here. Now, just due to these moving averages that I see, I know that this is a pullback in a bigger time frame. So, you know, this is a really nice rejection and a pullback on a higher time frame on this minute chart into high liquidity. And then, you know, you can also see here, this is where it dropped from. This is where it came back up, tested. Here's some exhaustion in here. And now Tesla's, like you said, it moves fast and it's hard to tell a lot of times. But typically, I mean, we see this in the futures a lot. Once you start to see volume back up above where it dropped from here, or even at the swing up in here, and you see volume pressure behind it, you know, you're looking for this to reject down here and trade back up into the range, maybe the other side of the range, or at least, I really like your profit taking. This makes really good sense to me here. And this one maybe, it would be, maybe I see something in Bookmap in here that there's a big red dot over here where they started to sell hard, you know, hard to tell, but somewhere up in this zone up in here. So I really like your second, or yeah, that's your second take profit, no, third take profit, sorry. That makes good sense. It's not about the doji, it's more about the swing here and to see if there's heavy selling in there. I can see down here there's some. So that's a good area for it to spike, retest, and then for you to take some profit on this move back up. That would be, that's the feedback that I'd give. It's like, the question is like, if you take this, can you take it again and again and again, and do you have an edge? And that would start to allow you to create a criteria checklist for your trade. No, that makes perfect sense. And, you know, this trade is from last week, I believe, and things have not been working, these, you know, V-recoveries haven't been working as well as they had been, you know, in my practice, the weeks, last week and the week before. So, you know, it is tough to readjust to the changing market dynamics. And, you know, I guess the moves are just happening so much faster now, especially in the futures. And that just kind of ripples out to everything else. But that is something I'm working on, just really trying to understand when these fake breakdowns are likely to reverse versus likely to turn into, you know, continue to break down. Yeah, yeah, it's tough. I mean, like, you know, I think having the VIX open or keeping an eye on the VIX can be really helpful for understanding some of these moves, or, you know, to widen out your, reduce your size and widen out your stops a bit so that, you know, you don't get just pummeled. I mean, you can do really well when you get some profits, but it doesn't take long or too many losses to really hurt in this case if you don't change your size or stops. That makes sense. Thanks for a perfect sense. So, thanks, guys. That was really helpful. And how we'll look forward to reading Stan's commentary. Good things. Thanks for posting. You did a great job. Thanks, Stan. Thank you, Bruce. Sure, sure. Thank you, Stan and Cesar. So, let's see. We'll move on to the next one. Yeah, the antimatter. You can directly go into chat. So, it's great to see one of your charts with more key elements than you are highlighting. Like, most of the time, yeah, it's very charged and it's great to see, yeah, the key elements like the liquidity, where it tests, in this case, like you recognize the large volume cell this delta on the right side, I think CVP. Yeah, exactly, it's very subtle to control. It's good to see execution through book map. It's easier for us to maybe give comments and to really understand where it took part. So, I was, I don't know if you're here. And so, I was wondering, like, so why you enter at this time? Like, did you try to enter with several, like potentially time and sales, or if you had like big dots or big relative volume with you when you enter in the shot? And why you, I think it was your stop that get Hayton or if you leverage your position? So, yeah, exactly. I don't know if he took a stop there or if he just tried to leverage. Please, let's see, he's here. So, D&T, we can give him the mic. So, yeah, I will continue if he is. Here we go. Ah, yeah, perfect. Okay, sorry, can you hear me? Yes. Kind of remember this, I'm looking at my phone right now. I think this was a couple days ago on the trend down that we had, I think, on Friday, or on Monday, maybe, I'm sorry. I'd have to look. So, I'm actually trying practicing with MES now a little bit. So, yeah, and I entered on, this was just three MES contracts here. So, and you're right, yeah, I did get stopped on one of them. Kind of funny because, you know, normally the stops stack, but in Bookmap, when you use the multi-bracket tool, you can't really like stack the stops. You have to place them out by like one tick, I think. So, I just got stopped on one. What's that? You know, like, but the same stop for all of your position and different targets. So, I got lucky, right? Yeah, and so, I was wondering, like, where were your other stops? Were they? My other... They were all together, I think, Stan. He only one got hit. Yeah, right, so I got lucky. Oh, yeah, right, oh yeah, I understand it. Yeah, that's, hey, it happens, you know, all that bad luck that we have, like here's an example of like a good luck for you. Right, yeah, exactly. And, you know, that happens. So, I mean, you know, it happens, it happens. And, you know, with ES, what I'm realizing, not realizing, but I guess I've always, I've traded stocks and I traded options and stuff like that. And I don't know what it is exactly. You know, it's my impulses or whatever it is, but I always, you see, you can actually see my entry. You know, I had a good, I had a decent initial spot right there that I kind of wanted, right? And I pushed my entry to rush into the trade instead of waiting for it to come back. And one thing that I know, not, I don't know, but at ES, it usually comes back and, you know, mean reverts or whatever you call it, but it usually pulls back and gives you an entry. I mean, since it's not a stock and it's not like it doesn't just pull away. Sometimes it does, but not all the time. Since ES, I think may be made up of multiple different equities. It allows you, it allows, it gives you, it gives you more options for pullback. So, I mean, what I'm learning is waiting for it, like looking for your entry and you find a good spot that you want to enter. You know, you can put it there and you can wait for it to come back to you. If it comes back to you, it might more likely come back to you instead of rushing in and then your stop, you end up having to widen your stop or you just take a stop. But if you wait for the entry, like let's say at high volume, instead of putting it where I put it, you know, so, I mean, it's something that it's kind of like in my nature from like the past couple years that I've been trading. I really need to stop that is going trading ES or MES. It usually can give you a pretty good entry if you just, you know, wait. Yeah. This was a trend day, though, I believe if I'm not mistaken, I don't remember this day. I'd have to look, so I apologize if I'm not. I don't know, no worries. And so I was wondering like if you just have a fixed stop or if you place your stop there because it was a point that you don't consider be hitting. I usually put my stop above the structure. So if you look left, the swing high where that white arrow is pointing, yeah, that white arrow. So the swing high that has the 205 stops right there, that's where I would put my stop right there. Yeah, right. Yeah, but you know, the multi brackets, I put my, I set it to like eight ticks and that's not really a lot of room. So I might need to change to widen it just a little bit, but I would normally like my stop above the 205, that the swing high. So I base it off the structure, basically. Yeah, yeah, yeah, makes sense. And as far as profit taking, that also goes to eight ticks as well to get like risk-neutral, but now that I'm trading like MES and I'm using three contracts, it's a little bit different. So I'm just kind of, yeah, I don't know. It wasn't like you didn't scale there because it was like mid or HVN, for example, or even lower for the liquidity that was. Well, if you look left from my first profit, my first take profit, you see where the market broke out right there. So if you see where I have my first take profit, yeah, right there. And then Bruce drew a line to the left, yeah, right there. So if that where the buyers were buying and the market broke higher, that's usually a good spot. If Longs wanted to engage, that would be a good area for Longs to engage. So I would put my one scale right there. And so I think that that was a good take profit there for a scale. As far as the final take profit there, that was at I be low. That was my primary target. And as you can see, there was no reason really for me to like take profit there. The market broke high at I be low, but it didn't really break structure or anything like that. It just had a small pullback. And I think this might have been a trend day. I don't really, I'd have to look back, but there was strong momentum I think in the, and there, you know, when you see strong momentum like that, I don't think there's a really great reason to exit. So I could have took profit, but if I had based my exit on structure instead, I think that I would have had a much better trade. Yeah, if you had your third runner. Right. But the target was in I be low. Okay, yeah, I'm looking at it now. So this is Eastern Standard Time, okay? And the I be low is established at 1030. So when the market broke low at 1015 AM right there, it had a small pullback. And the pullback was up to where? It was up to that large sell delta right there. So anticipating the I be low statistic, which has like a 98% hit rate for probability, it's either I be lower or I be high. Well, the market was breaking down. I want to anticipate the I be statistic. So I engage at that large sell delta to hit the I be low statistic. And since it's formed at like 1030, I was anticipating it. And I entered there for it. And then it happened to hit and, you know, it kept breaking lower. So I could have held it, but. Yeah, obviously. So this was the I be low statistic is what I was saying, sorry. Okay, yeah, I don't know. That's perfect. Thanks for your explanation. And I was wondering too, like you were using a lot of checklists for your thread and here I can see what you were looking for really like a kind of, I don't know. So I don't know if it's a plan or if you're trying to. Good point. I don't have, I don't have one built for it yet. So yeah, that's a good point. There's actually, so I'll probably maybe build one on this, the I be stat. I liked this trade for a long time. So I'll probably build one on this and also I'll probably do one for a VPOC migration as well for trades based off of like Tom in the trader lab. So I've been in there for a little while and trying to, you know, no one's really built structure around those trades or like, I don't know, it's pretty, it's hard to say because, you know, there's not really a method or a way to do it. It's just all kind of based on structure. So I'm kind of trying to build out a database and the database has checklists on it. And based on those checklists, it gives me a favorability scale of like 0% to 100%. So the IB stat, for instance, how many things need to be checked for it to have and what favorability does it give me? It gives me a 50% favorability rate and a good maximum favorable, you know, and I think that, you know, you can take the trade, you know, I don't know if that kind of makes sense. I'll have to send out my database sometime. I'll send it out soon. I've been kind of working on it. I'm pretty slow though, so I apologize. But yeah, overall, yeah, that's a really great job. I will, yeah, obviously potentially say maybe take more like the other floor for your entry and potentially more closer short-term liquidity that come aggressively, but you get your trade, you have your reasons for it, and it play out. So... That's pretty lucky. Oh, if Bruce doesn't have anything to say, yeah. Yeah, I have a few comments based off of your feedback, Stan, just to kind of underscore a few of the ideas. Number one, I think you started off with, like with the order flow, just you really can't see the volume dots very well. So, I mean, D&T, it looks like primarily what you're looking at here is market structure. And that's fine. I mean, that's really important, but the understanding liquidity and volume within that structure can give you a lot of insight. So, and then that can help you build your checklist as well. So, you've got a lot of things here in market structure, which is great. And this is the kind of the really the big piece of the order flow, big transaction drop, big transaction and drop. So, this is moving away from previous structure up in here. And then you note that, and now you're looking for your entry. Great, fantastic. So, it is hard to kind of read the other volume on some of these other areas. But what you have in terms of liquidity is fantastic. I mean, look at this up here, my God. That's just huge. And what is the reaction to that is the important thing. And then you also noted that you've got your IB low and you've got your liquidity down here as well. And that's the justification for your take profit. Now, it being a trending day is a different thing. If you wanna open your take profits and try to let it run. I like your justification for this here a lot. I do exactly this. I'd like to do the exactly the same thing to, it didn't really do much. In fact, actually, it still kind of did something because it just kind of dribbled through it, but then it retested back up here. So, you did have something there that you're looking at. So, I mean, that's good justification in my book. I think this in here though, there's a lot of things to consider. Number one, I see, and thanks for trading and showing it. Guys, this is so helpful. I mean, we can give really good feedback here because you were right. You put your entry up here thinking like, well, it's tested here a couple of times. Likely it'll spike one more time and I'll get it. And then you moved it and you moved it down. Probably because you saw some selling coming in and you're looking, okay, I'm gonna miss it. It's tested here a couple of times. It's rejected a couple of times. I do it all the time. It's rejected a few times. So I'm looking for it to move right now here. You get one more and I think your stop is just way too tight because you put it right within this range. So, you know, I think, and it's really small, which is great, but you don't have a trending move in here. When you have your trending move and you grab it, you can have pretty tight stops a lot of times because it's likely gonna work immediately or it's gonna stop you out and reverse pretty quickly. So just take the small stop. But here, this is still kind of rangeboundish. So, you can consider, I don't know, maybe up above here, you're kind of in the zone up in here as well. It's kind of a difficult place to consider your stop and your risk management. But definitely away from this little zone in here, I think would be helpful for you. And maybe consider like, if that is the case, then don't get all in, you know? Get one in here, one in at the top of the range, you know, one in the middle of the range, et cetera. And then maybe one, another one as it starts to go down and you note it that you got it, you know? So that way, because this game here of trading, it's not exact. It's not like, you know, I chose this is my entry because I'm gonna nail it. It doesn't really work like that. It's a zone. Yeah. So, you know, give yourself a break within that zone. Interesting. Yeah. That's great advice. And then I see you raised your take profit up in here. I actually like it. I don't quite understand why you put the take profit. Well, I guess, I mean, you still see the liquidity here. When you moved it down, then this liquidity came in, but I, you know, I know it's this, I know you see the swing here, but this liquidity's in front of you. So they're gonna get filled first and it might bounce. It was just a quick move. Yeah. Okay. It was just a quick, it was just a quick move. Just to kind of get it down in that zone in that area. But yeah. Okay. Okay. Great. Well, that's a, that's all I have. Which I agree. I would normally probably front run the, the IB low and the liquidity like you mentioned though. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And maybe one more thing if, if you can maybe give us more explanation about your using of your market pros absorption and sweep. Oh, and the market polls. Yeah. So I'm using a 20 minutes training period and I think it's the standard 10 seconds half life. So it gives me an idea over a 20 minute period, the strength of the absorption and sweeps that's going on. The red is the absorption or the maroon and the black is the sweeps. And they're both on the same 20 minute training period. So over that 20 minute training period, you can see that first initial buy sweep or buy absorption there. Spiked it up. And then, you know, like a few minutes later, like three minutes later, sellers come in and buyers absorbing again. And it's, it's pretty, so I mean, it's pretty strong if it's still making a spike over a 20 minute training period, I believe that's how it works. And then the last bubble, the last absorption was really large, even, and it did eventually actually break through. Yeah, look at the Delta volume bars. The sell Delta volume bars. Huge, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly. Yeah, nice, good catch, Stan, I forgot to ask about that. Yeah, look at the sell Delta, the sell Delta volume bars on the first spike, it's really small. The second spike was medium. The third spikes were much larger. Yeah, yeah, sure. Yeah, good. I love the way you're using this. I think you're one of the only ones, D&T, that's doing that with the absorption market pulse. But you've really embraced it and it's working really well for you. It's really showing these areas. It's tough because these higher timeframe players, you really don't know what's going on, so you end up watching the reaction and gauging it with your timeframe that you're trading in. We're day trading, so you place that. Yeah, it's kind of tough because you don't really know, but. And especially icebergs, that's even tougher, you know. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, but I'll keep messing with it. Any feedback on it, too, would be nice, so. I mean, I don't have any feedback, because this is a really nice signal, you know, or I should say just indication here that a lot of absorption there, so fantastic. Yes, it's pretty interesting stuff, just watching it over time. You'll notice a lot of activity right there and then the activity actually kind of dies down a little bit on the pullback, too, you know, look to the right. Like, the activity is actually completely died out to the right after this activity. Yeah, after this strong activity here, the market starts to die down a little bit on the sweeps and absorption and you get that pullback to that large volume delta and there's no activity. It's just like a low volume pullback. See how much that helps you and you're looking right at it, you know? So I, you know, and that justified your entry. You knew that you were looking for a pullback into this area. And this is one more common I forgot to make and I just echo Stan's feedback of like checklist, put that together. I mean, you can very quickly just put a checklist together here of like, I'm looking for tons of absorption, a drop, a pullback, two tons of that absorption, looking and justifying an entry in there and looking for volume dots and high liquidity on the offer and then target high liquidity on the bid. And, you know, you've already got a really good start on your checklist right there. Mm-hmm, oh, cool. Thank you, that's a good point. I appreciate the guidance. Yeah, sure, sure, no problem. That's what this is all about. So, and open the mic and hear what you have to say. Ooh. All right, what should we, you're welcome. You're welcome. Stan, you ready to move on? Yeah. Okay. Got Rob. I think in E in here, no, this is fine. I'm just joking. Yeah, okay. Do you want me to open up the image or do you want to, is there anything else? I think the first image was just below it. Yeah, exactly, just under. Oh, the next one, okay. Yeah, exactly, yeah, perfect. So that's the first one. So it's great to see a bit like more the context of what it was looking for. The same, I don't see any checklist. So it would be great to explain us exactly what you were looking for to take part of it. It's great to see like more slides with explanation about like elements in the liquidity. If you take the first images, you can go, yeah, in the first one. Yeah, perfect. So we can clearly see like the high liquidity that came in. And so I was wondering like why you took the loan at this time because it's quite like a moment where you don't have like those short term liquidity if you are looking, yeah, exactly over there. So I don't see any real convection from bias so I don't know if you were just looking for a putback at this time or if you had any confluence with the other flow as you mentioned, like for example, in the liquidity that just came in now. Yeah, hey, what's going on everyone? Stan, Bruce, Kraters, good to see everyone. Hey, so actually Bruce, we talked about this trade last week. Actually, this wasn't a trade I took, this was just me and I'm kind of reading my discord post and I don't think I did a good job of clarifying that. This was like an example of what I'm not looking for from my setup. So that other image that you looked at, not this one with the warning sign, but this, yeah, so that's an example of like, okay, so what my setup is like is it's a breakout fakeout. So I want to see price get up above a range, buyers push it and then sellers are gonna push it right back down and then take it to the opposite side of the range. So what I'm noting here is like, yeah, so I wouldn't take this as a fakeout reversal because one, the first note is I like more of a rounded breakout. Like I'd want to see that price get up higher and really get away from the level before being slammed with sellers and pushing back in. Two, I didn't really see a lot of buying volume, that second note, not enough volume. I didn't really see a lot of buy volume on the volume bars at the bottom. And then when the selling came in, I thought, well, I was looking at this, I was like, man, if anything, this is the fakeout, right? These sellers are gonna get faked out and price is probably gonna go to the upside. I didn't take that setup because it's not a setup I take and it's something I'm kind of working on developing. But yeah, so again, this is just notes, not a trade at all. And I actually trade on book map, so you'll see my trades on any of my posts. Yeah, great. And then for the second one with the exclamation point, that's actually a setup that I'm looking at developing but not one that I'm taking. I took at this moment. But so that left, so that big push that you see right around 654, you see that kind of, that's that previous image you were looking at the beginning of that. So that first little hump above the breakout zone, that's what we were looking at in the previous image and you get this pushup, right? Now it starts to come back. Here I was looking for a reversal or like this whole breakout to get reversed into, but I just never saw it break the level. And then when that liquidity came back into book, I ended up just stopping out and getting out of there. So you could see I have those stop limit orders on the far right side. I actually pulled those because once I saw that liquidity stepping in and defending the top of that range, I thought, okay though, more than likely this is gonna get, this is gonna hold and it's gonna, you know, maybe retest the top of that range and then go up higher. And I think that's actually what happened. So you were shorting at this time. Right, I would have shorted it. Yeah, I would have shorted it from the top of that range and taken it to the bottom, but I ended up just not doing anything here and staying away and saving my money. Yeah, right. Yeah, because I was more thinking about a bull flag, actually. Right, right, right. That's kind of what I was noticing too. And so I just didn't want to take it. If you could recognize it and cut your loss, that's great too. And at this time, like, where did you enter? I didn't, I didn't enter at all. Oh, yeah, right. Yeah, he was just, he was down here, Stan, but didn't get filled. Yeah, right. Yeah, and I'm sorry, I could have probably done a better job of explaining what I was doing here, but this was just notes on what I wouldn't look for in my setup. Yeah, but that's great too. That's, yeah, yeah. Even if I think you should probably look more for what you're looking, it's good to know what you don't want to see. Yeah, yeah, and that's the kind of way that I, I mean, try to approach it. Can't remember who, I feel like it was one of the mentorships recently that someone was saying like, I think it was you, Bruce, that, trading a lot of the times is just waiting, right? You just wait and wait, and then when you see your signals, you just don't hesitate and you pull the trigger. And so this is kind of helps me not only identify when I want to enter, but also when I don't want to enter. And it just helps having those kinds of images up that I can kind of refresh my memory on because when you're in the heat of the moment, you can totally get pulled into a trade just because you see a bunch of red dots and you see a bunch of, what looks like price action that's gonna work in your favor, but ultimately it's just fake out or chop. And so that's kind of why I like every once in a while throwing out these images, being like, you see something like this, you should probably stay away. Even if it does work out, if it works out, it's because you got lucky, not because your setup was actually there. Yeah. And that's a great comment. I really like it because like, if you get, if you have a winner on something that is just not really your setup and you can't really justify it, it doesn't meet your criteria and you take the trade and you get a winner, it can really mess with your mind. It can be your real setback. It is way better to get stopped out on the proper trade criteria, go back and look at it and would you take the trade again? And most likely your answer is gonna be, yeah, I would, I just got stopped out on this one. And because you know your setup, you know your edge and you just continue to take it again and again. And yeah, and then just manage the risk. So yeah, it sounds like you're kind of getting there, Rob. Like you know what you don't want and you know what you kind of do want too. You're studying that with that fake out breakout. So and putting these pieces together and then you're starting to notice it in the charts. This is what I'm looking for. Now that's gonna lead to your criteria. Yeah, exactly. And you also mentioned this Bruce and it's something I've been embracing is every day I try to replay the day. So I'll trade and then later on that evening I'll replay the day and try to find all those little pieces of confluence. So for example, I've been noticing a lot with the iceberg. Like I had a trade recently where I got impatient and I ended up cutting a position and after the fact I was like, wait, this gigantic iceberg came into the order flow and held price. Yeah, I got a little choppy afterwards, but then I got the move in my favor. Why didn't I hold the trade? And so those little things and I'll replay that trade and I'll play it like I should have. And it just kind of helps ingrain all those little variables, all those, I guess it's that, right? Variables and components of the trade just helps them ingrain them a lot more. Absolutely. Definitely good advice I really have to harp on and advice anyone else who's either struggling or developing a trade that really does help. That the replay mode? 100%. Yeah, and just like even replaying a trade that I messed up or I could have done better. I know it's not real money at that point when I'm replaying the day, but it's kind of like, you almost kind of get like a do over, right? You kind of almost like redo the trading day and be like, all right, this is how I should have traded it. I'll make note of that for next time. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I really, I really like it because it's exactly that. Like, you know, how many times, I mean, in all aspects of life, like we have to be reminded like two, three, four, five, maybe more times. And so the next time you see that big iceberg, you will probably note it. And maybe just note it again and then look for the behavior around it. You're not sure what to do, but it's in your favor and you're like, well, wait a minute, I think when I replayed it, like this is what I saw and it was actually support for that trade, a confluence. So I should stay in it. And that will start to evolve into your trade criteria. Yep, 100%. And yeah, and that's how you do it. I mean, the analogies go on and on and on. I mean, like even, you know, machine learning, what is it for those, this was a couple of years ago, like, you know, the drive automated driving, the way it works is kind of like parent child. You know, well, I saw this and I made that decision and then it kind of slaps the kid or, you know, scolds the kid. No, that's not what you're looking for. You're looking for this and then it learns. And it's like telling your son or your daughter, like, you know, don't touch the hot stove. It's gonna burn you. And, you know, you got to tell them again and again. And until they kind of get it. So, yeah, it's the process. So sorry, a little bit of a divergence there. Stan, any other comments? No, that's perfect. But actually we can maybe look at the last picture that he sent. Sure. And so yeah, we can clearly see like where he puts like his limit stop and what happened after. I was really like considering a bull flag at this time. So here we can see like potentially the finality of the trade. So this is a good example. So right there where you see those trades were, I was looking to get in there. So I got my pull, you know, price pulled away. I got the VPI signal. So the confluence of the VPI with the CVD on the sub chart. I usually like, I've noticed that that tends to be, on the buy side, yeah, I tend to see that that actually tends to preface a reversal. You get that pop and then the pressure dies down. And so I didn't get filled. Price just moved away and started to like hug the top of the range. And when I just kept seeing that liquidity come in like around that stop around 124, like what time is it? A little bit before seven o'clock. You had some liquidity step into the book. I don't see, I think this is it for the image. Yeah, it's right there. Look at the time, the time, seven o'clock. It's right underneath. Right here, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I saw the liquidity step in the book. So I decided just like, I don't know. This looks like it's gonna hold. And I got like Stan was saying, I was like, oh, this looks like a break and retest, right? Like the top of the range got broken. It's gonna consolidate and then it's gonna shoot up. And so I ended up just staying away. And I mean, that's exactly, that's what my note was there. Like if I had kept trying to get into this trade, I would have got chopped up. So I just ended up just kind of staying away because it looked like liquidity was coming in to defend the top of the range. And then you had all those, you know, it wasn't a ton but you had some iceberg orders coming in. So all of that just kind of was like, nah, this is not my setup. So I'm just gonna stay away from it. Yeah. And we can even see like, even a bigger bull flag at this time too. Like the big sellers came into high liquidity. Then yeah, they are losing convection plus like the relative volume from bias stepping. Where Stan, over on the left, you have Yeah, so that was like the micro bull flag that we saw on the previous picture. But then you get like the sellers dropping the price into the high liquidity. And then we can clearly see like with the relative volume like sellers are losing slowly convection in there and bias stepping plus the short term liquidity just below it could lead potentially to the top of the liquidity. Right. Yeah, normally what I like to see with this trade right on the far left where I had my orders is I wanna see a bunch of selling volume come in. And again, that's something you pointed out too Bruce recently on when you're looking at one of my trades is, you know, that looks like a bull flag for consolidation, right? Cause look at that low selling volume after that first big pop outside of the range right around 655 pulls back but sellers aren't stepping in really. Yeah. And so normally what I'd wanna see is I wanna see that selling volume kick in. I wanna see that get high and that will usually be enough to drive all those sellers or all those buyers underwater and help me get the move to the opposite side of the range. But since none of that happened, stayed away. Nice. Nice. Like I said, I mean, I think you're kind of approaching it from both sides here from staying away and also when to engage, which is a great combo. Yeah, I think what I'd like to do and I'm not gonna do it yet cause I really wanna get at least 20 of these trades under my belt and see how they perform but I'd like to almost do like a combo of when it fails, maybe looking for a breakout, right? Cause if the breakout reversal fails and that probably means that breakout's gonna happen. And so start looking for a confluence of what a breakout would look like. Cause then if it's like, well all these people were trying to take out the failed breakout, they're gonna be wrong. Now you're gonna get the move to the upside or the actual breakout trade. So yeah, that's eventually where I wanna take this to be able to play both sides of the trade. Fantastic. I mean, because like what that's gonna force you to read the liquidity, price structure and volume, you know? It's exactly that that's gonna give you you know, a higher probable answer. So yeah, fantastic. Great stuff to hear. Thank you, thank you. Stan. Yeah, but yeah, I think perfect. Really, thank you for your work. Keep posting. Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you for the feedback. Appreciate it. Yeah, I think that's everything that you have, Stan. Yeah, that's it. Yeah, all right, all right. Excellent. Well, thanks, Stan. Great, great stuff, as usual. Also, a man of few words, but very powerful nuggets of knowledge in those words. So I really appreciate it. Thank you. Let's see here, I think I've got a bunch of images in here and slowdown's not in here today. Well, we'll start off with Laura though. And Laura's been posting all sorts of stuff. So it was great, great to see. Let's see here, okay. So, and Laura's been taking notes. So really great work, really great to see the progress here. We made comments last week. You've come in just recently, you've been really aggressive and you took the comments from last week's Academy and then addressed it. So one was to come up with your trade criteria, put it into a checklist, you did it, and then identify these elements on the chart, and then start to manage the trade, look for your trade opportunity, entry, exit, and your trade management. So really, really nice stuff. So you got reversal notes, so trend to higher timeframe level, range develops, okay, so you got that, you got that. And then high liquidity as a target over here in these areas, great. And long entry at the bottom edge of the range, plus high selling VPI in market polls. So that's very specific, that's something you're looking for. For me, I need to look for a little bit more than just capitulation or follow through on market polls, but if this is how you're getting in, you might wanna consider trade management a bit. Maybe it's just one position. And then if there's more buying that starts to come back in, and then some of these areas in here, then you can add another position, and then maybe take some out along the way, because if you go all in in some of the areas that you're talking about, you can really get hurt pretty quickly. I mean, reversals are, I find them a little more challenging, a lot more challenging. But with trade management, you can deal with it, or at least I can deal with better. So anyway, you got your higher timeframe stuff, you got your liquidity, and then you've got your volume here with VPI and in market polls, volume pressure and balance. So really, really nice stuff. And it seems to be you're identifying it here, which is great, that's the first step. And then second step is to start to look for your trade criteria. Here's another one. Well, you got your, here's your market polls in here. And is this the same image? I think so, right? Yeah, it's the same, it's just zoomed in. So, yeah, a beauty here, here's your high liquidity. Here's your market polls, right? You got your CVD and market polls. And then, yep, it never traded into this high liquidity, funny enough. It went below the swing though, rejected and came back in and then reversed. But you have your criteria to lean on. And as you build out your plan and this criteria, I mean, maybe this is enough for you. As you continue to take more and more of it, you'll know what it is. So here's your trade criteria entry and exit. So here's your entry after that spike. You do wait for the spike to unfold and you do wait for a bit of a pullback, which is nice. That helps, I think, I imagine that helps because you know that it rejected here. Because it might not reject and might continue on. And then you take your profit up in here, you've got your IB, you've got high liquidity targets. Now it came up a little bit higher in here but you had your idea and you actually moved your stop a little bit here. This liquidity came in and you front ran it and that's where you took your take profit here. Good stuff. And Laura, any time you wanna jump in, I know you don't want the open mic, but that's fine. We'd just like to be able to give you feedback. Let's see, I think maybe any text feedback in here. And then slow down is not in here. And so that's kind of a pity because I had some real questions in here about some of Slowdown's trade management, what he was going through in here. Because this went against him in here. He took some stops and then got in and then hit it and then scaled out in here a couple of times and then had his runner here and moved it down to the bottom of the swing and the range in here. So, but really nice to, here's your large momentum and initial pullback and kind of tricky that went up one more time here. And then actually one more after that. But it is hard, you can't see the edge up here where that selling came in, but that's where it got retested. And then he sees the selling coming in again though here and gets back in. That's beautiful because this is where he nailed it and scaled out down in here and then held. Anyway, I would love to hear more about it, but maybe next time. And some other things from him, kind of more status quo stuff that we've seen before. So maybe I'll go over that another time. And then we got Shark Blue and Rob. And then I also want to go over one with Alan. So Shark Blue, let's take a look here. And so this was just yesterday. I'll open up the mic for you. There you are. I am here. All right. I'm pulling this straight up so I could see which one it was. Yes, this was yesterday. Can you hear me, Bruce? Yes, mm-hmm. Yep. So, well, walk us through. I mean, you got a lot of stuff on here. I'm going to pull up my other. So same thing I look for every day as I, actually, this was a little different. I'm looking my higher time frame pieces is built on opposing supply and demand zones. They're lower time frame zones, typically from the ETH sash or sometimes the previous day. These lower time frame zones are more recent and seem to be really highly reactive. But if there's a higher time frame zone or level that kind of overshadows that, that's what I'm going to work with. In this case, I was looking at resistance from the previous day, as well as resistance from the end of pre-market, right before the opening bell there at 630. So as my, as my trend, that trend line I draw from my one, two, three reversal, when I see that start to converge with those two resistance key levels I'm watching, that's where I'm looking to get into this trade. And for me, it's that all that liquidity on the offer that starts popping in right at the bell. So I see more liquidity on the offer bid. My one, two, three reversal is telling me to get in the trade. And I also have stacked resistance at 20 and 19, five. Those three things, I'm going to jump into trade. Yeah, beautiful. Fantastic. That actually a webinar that you did with those guys was really good. And it just has me really trying to work on building a position in that consolidation where I'm looking at entering a trade rather than entering and then scaling out of the position, which is what I had been doing at three points, as you see in a lot of my previous trades. I'm sorry, you said the Axia Futures, is that right? Yeah, yeah, it was the webinar you did with them. Right before you went on the mic, Richard just had some really great insight into getting into a trade with the starter position and being willing to trim that at the bottom of the consolidation and add that to it at the top of the consolidation and continue to build a larger position for the impending move that I'm actually looking for, which is going to run back to my trend line pivot low or my opposing demand zone. And this, in this case, as per Josh, I've been working with micros rather than minutes and I find it, I guess it gives me more time, right? I don't feel like I'm in such a rush to either get in, make some profit and then get out. That makes sense. Yeah, absolutely. This is a real kind of sea change or mind shift to be able to look for that and change your habits and do that. It's not, I don't find it easy to make that transition, but because you're always thinking about risk, you can still reduce risk, but you're trying to really build for a reward. You know, the only way I would be able to even consider that mindset shift is, you know, as per Crash's, you know, perpetual teaching is trade micros in scale and so I'm comfortable taking a starter position. If right now I'm looking to build a position of six contracts. So if I take a starter position with two cons and price is moving against me, well, you know, I'm only going underwater, seven bucks, 18 bucks, 20 bucks, you know, it's not, it's not like trading a mini where very quickly if that moves against you, all of a sudden you're down 150 bucks, 300 bucks, 500 bucks, you know, that kind of changes my whole emotional state. So I'm comfortable taking a starter position with two contracts, knowing that I'm eventually gonna build the six, eight or 10. And if price moves against me, I'm okay with it. It keeps me focused on that move that I'm trying to get into you at the same time. I'm comfortable averaging down as long as I'm not jumping in with my full position right away. Yeah. Yeah, this is great. I mean, you can see where I added to the trade and then eventually cut out, Bruce, if you can pull up the candlestick chart, the 400 tick chart that accompanied this one. I don't have it. Hold on a minute to go find it. Yeah, my executions aren't on the book map screen because these are in my trade of eight accounts. I'm kind of hopping back and forth or occasionally trying to do execute on both at once. It did not work out too well this morning, but oh yeah, there's the executions. So in the first white box, up in the upper left, that's where I took that first starter position. Right here, right? For the very upper left corner of the box. Ah, up here. Ah, okay. That's where I took that first starter position. And this, you know, the white box kind of shows what's on the book map chart. So you can see where I added to that position. What is that? What is, you know, right around 5110. And then I added to that position again at 08-ish. And then I added again at 07. Yeah, so those are all adds to that position, which I eventually, you know, I covered the whole thing right there at that. It was like 225 or something. And I left, I'm still trying to practice leaving a runner. So I left one runner, which I eventually covered. So I closed everything except one runner. It's a little blue tick there by the red bar. And then down in the lower right is where I just finally got out of the whole position. Nice, that was great. You know, there's just a couple of comments. And then Stan would love to hear what you have to say as well. The one thing that's I think really important from that AXIA Futures webinar as well as your trading performance here was this was a trending day. And you were looking for that. So if this was a chop day, you would not be looking for this. You would be building a position in a direction and it might really go against you. So if you're looking for a trending day, then this is a really, you know, more of a trending day than this, this is working out really well. If it's not, if it's more of a chop day, and you know, that's kind of what you're anticipating, then it could, you could get really hurt as well. So at this point, when we're entering a position right at the bell, we only have a bias or a belief, right? If it's going to be a choppy day or a trending day, we just don't know at that point. We can take a guess, maybe an educated guess. True, but then I'm hoping that this is where, here you can see there's a couple of things and you noted it here in Bookmap that can help. So in this area in here, it's kind of tough to know. I mean, look at the volume, look at the volume bars, look at the ranges in here, and then, but you note the flip here. Here's your, here's your flip and it's really here where you can see the flip. In that particular area where you first through the circle, Bruce, I'm looking at what I learned from Donkey Face, which is the price change divergence because price is ticking up and our price change in market pulse is ticking down. What's to me, exhaustion, buyer is exhausting right there in that area. Right in here. Yeah, what I have in the pink box is just, I have the arrow going up and to show the price ticking up and then down below, the price change in the sub-chart is ticking down. So that divergence on the price change market pulse, and this is what, I learned this from Donkey, I'm gonna figure this out on my own, but that really kind of shows buyers petering out and then sure enough, we see the VPI spike and CVD inverse to prints of higher highs, which typically sends price south and right after that, the volume delta goes from to the high highs to sellers. Right, right. Yeah, yeah, great stuff. And also too, I like, you got your checklist and your image over here of what you're looking for. I've done so many of those, I think that's probably version 12, and I've just never been happy enough to post it on my chart, so I put it on and I ended up picking it off, but with some help from Slowdown, I only back the amount of text I was trying to put in it. I'm okay with that one. I'll end up changing it a couple of times though for sure. Yeah, yeah, no, it's great. I mean, because you know what you're looking for and your one, two, three pattern, I mean, I love the one, two, three pattern as well. And I know it's a head and shoulders up here, but you're looking at the downside of it, the one, two and three here. So, you know, that's what matters. This is the part that you're looking for after. And but you've got your reasons in here. Here's your supply up here. Here's your supply in here that likely gets filled. And then you're looking for that kind of, now you're looking at market pulse that you learned from Donkey and the price change add that into the picture as a confluence in exhaustion. And then, you know, the selling starts to pick up, break a structure, selling starts to really pick up and flip here at this point. And then you're really looking forward to roll at that point, I imagine. Yeah, yeah, great. I mean, I don't know, I kind of summarized it for you. Maybe you had more to add. No, all I really have to add is the, you know, Tasha's perspective is really a game changer. Like I said, because the way it feels to me is it buys me more patience or more time to work through the entry in the setup and not be in such a rush to cover, you know, to cover this trade or even exit early in profit without any real reason. Because, you know, I'm starting with the two lot of minis and, you know, P&L is moving so fast back and forth. No, I don't, I try not to trade P&L and I don't have to have it on my screen to know what's happening. I mean, my brain does the basic math and I know how badly I'm getting beat up or if money's starting to add up and sometimes I just want to take it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, great, great stuff. Also too, I really like the market or the volume delta in here, the trap. And, you know, that's where these, you're going to look for them to get hurt and on the way back down. I'm going to continue trying to identify that, you know, stand and slow down of health with that and I'm just going to keep watching for it and I'll stick it there on my chart and when I can really see it in real time and use it in real time, that'll be great. Because the trap participants, I really see in hindsight more so. Yeah, yeah, that's true. I mean, but even in hindsight, it can be helpful because you can look for pullbacks to it, you know? So, like here is a pullback to it here. But the selling hadn't really picked up at that point though, so you don't quite know yet, you know? There's some selling in here, but hadn't quite picked up. This is a quick move in high selling, but kind of in an odd place. But yeah, anyway. Yeah, I think any more comments that you have, Shark? No, no, I appreciate the insight and you talking about minis versus micros and crash shaft 16 and it's working out well now as I dial in what I'm looking for. Excellent. It's really great to hear and I love the way you also are giving credit from others you learn from. And because that's what we're trying to do in here, exactly, is like help each other and learn from each other. And we've got some great traders in here with all sorts of different perspectives and totally different ways of trading. But we can grab bits and pieces from them if they resonate with you and make better decisions. So, yeah, let's move on and Rob got you here next. Get over to it. Okay, all right, Rob, are you there? There you are. I don't know if the mic's on yet for you. Rob might be away from the screen. Well, anyway, I'm real curious to see what you have to say. And Stan, please jump in any time. But it looks like Rob is... I know he's been looking at Anchored VWAP and some other things in here. We talk a lot about market structure, so this Anchored VWAP is about a very specific structure you're looking for based off of the anchor. And then you can see how this pretty nicely outlined the structure. And if this is something that helps you using that, then fantastic. There's all sorts of ways of looking at the market structure. It could be volume profile on the horizontal. It could be candlestick patterns on the vertical. Hey, there you are, Rob. Sorry, I had a little issue there with the mic. No, no, no problem. So why don't you kind of walk us through? This is something kind of new I haven't seen from you. Yeah, I know I keep hopping around between things too much, but I was trying to work on that continuation pattern, the flag for a while. And I was having trouble identifying places to do it. And I thought that VWAP might help. There's a video I watched about it with the, using the VWAP with the bands and, you know, then Robert Rother also does something similar to that. So I thought, okay, maybe this could help me with with continuation because sometimes you can see price going from an outer standard deviation back to VWAP. And sometimes I have trouble with it because it depends on if it's an insider and outside day, what you're supposed to do with it. So I'm still working on that. Okay. Yeah. So just kind of playing around with new tools and mixing that though with older setups to help you kind of guide you or outline some of the structure better. Yeah. And I'm still working on it. It's still real difficult. I did real good the first week this month and I thought, oh, I'm on a roll. I've got it figured out and then these last two weeks haven't gone so great because I'm still trying to figure out exactly what I'm supposed to do. You know, when am I supposed to be looking for, you know, going from VWAP to the outside or from the outside to the inside. Yeah. Yeah. I guess that could depend on what the day type is. Yeah. The day type for sure. And that volume and liquidity within that structure. A little more challenging here with NASDAQ unless you use that Trader Map Pro. Although you can see high liquidity, at least in this area here filled. And that looks like also some of it got filled up in here. Yeah. You know, this. Go ahead. Oh yeah. Yeah. Cause like on the left there, you saw those orders getting filled. You've got the green bubbles there and that filled that up. And then, uh, then you're getting out towards that standard deviation, you know, the bell curve thing, you know, you've got 95% of the. The price supposedly inside of. Yeah. And then it looks like it's starting to run out. And then I see that move down. Yeah. You've got those red bubbles coming down real quick. Right. Yeah. Yeah. That one. Yeah. Yeah. You know, and then I figure, okay, this is looking like it could head down to VWAP. And then, uh, I think I have too many input. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And, uh, I think I have too many inputs still because then I'm, I'm listening to market polls. And when I got out there, uh, I thought I heard something and that I guess it made me check in out. And I didn't stay until VWAP. The VWAP down here. Yeah. Yeah. And I forgot if, if it actually got there or not, I think it did, but it took a long time. I forget exactly how it went. Yeah. Yeah. Um, just a few things that, you know, kind of pop out for me. I mean, obviously this high liquidity getting filled in here. Uh, and then, uh, this kind of volume shooting up here and. How it kind of relates to this volume now. So we see this kind of pivot all the time right around this what 17, uh, 9, 10, uh, area somewhere around in here. Um, how. You know, buyers lift it, pull it away from that area. It comes up and then sellers come in and pull it right away from that area as well. Uh, and they're trying to take control and, you know, uh, to see if they can get these guys upside down. Uh, and get them going the wrong way. Uh, and, um, you know, just these, you know, these big shifts, uh, in here. So, um, yeah, you identified that, uh, which is nice. And then, uh, you're thinking, well, so, you know, it didn't even trade up to the standard deviation, uh, traded through this one, uh, likely to trade back down to this one then. I mean, make, there's some sense there. This is where this move started, uh, and a retest back into that area. Um, makes, makes some sense. Uh, here I can draw it up better. And I'm wondering if you tool this threat, uh, with a flag pattern, for example, like you got your first leg down, like you're in pull, smooth, then, uh, shallow pullback, plus sellers stepping in and then you took the shot up to view up. So I'm wondering if it was part of your plan too. But, uh, the other foot might be a good confidence in it. Yeah. Yeah. It's, it's a little bit hard to see on NQ. Sometimes you get a, uh, you know, but I just found like sometimes ES doesn't move the right way or my trade management's off. And, you know, and I talked to some other people, they're saying, oh, well, I had trouble with ES too. And then I went to NQ and that ended up being my thing. So I figured I'd give it a try. Yeah. Yeah. Good, good. Uh, yeah, there's some, some, some nice, uh, nice, uh, decision-making or logic in here, uh, that, uh, using that trade structure. Uh, and then you got order flow within that structure. I mean, I, it's clear. I mean, it's, it's right, it's right here. Uh, I, I think, um, maybe, uh, consider, uh, Rob, I mean, like, uh, what, um, you know, marking up some of these ideas about like, well, okay, this is, uh, it's trading above this area, but it can't seem to make it any higher. Now it's trading below that area. So I'm looking for a retest back down to maybe, uh, another zone or, uh, I would, you know, match it up with, uh, uh, some structure and where, where buyers came in, likely you'll get some buyers again, or at least some covering and maybe some buyers in here, which, which you do, and that's where you covered your trade. So, uh, uh, you know, some, there's some clarity there in the, in the decision-making, which is, which is really nice. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm gonna start, I have to marking these up, uh, you know, immediately after I do them, cause you, you know, if you come back to it an hour or two later, sometimes you, you forget exactly everything you were looking at right then. Yeah. Yeah. Or maybe I should record it with some narration or something. But, uh, you know, I have a lot of trouble putting my whole, my whole program together, whatever, whatever you call it, you know, getting things organized to where I, I know exactly what my criteria is, what I'm looking at, what I'm doing, you know, you know, when and why am I doing a certain thing, you know, how to put it together, have it be organized, where I know I'm making this progress because I'll come up with something that might work good for a week or two and then it just goes downhill and I destroy all of the, the P and L for the month that that's a lot of trade management stuff too, which, you know, I don't know how to get the trade management down either what kind of formula I need to come up with for that. Well, one, one's, I mean, a step at a time, I mean, like it's, it's, uh, uh, keep it really simple. You know, you've come up with lots of simple plans before, I guess you, like you said, sometimes they, they work for a few weeks and then they don't. But, you know, that's where the backtesting and like, am I, am I taking the same trade? You know, is it, is it the same thing I'm looking for? And refine it, hone it. And then you have, you have the backtesting that, that whole concept is just really difficult for me to figure out, you know, am I backtesting this the correct way? You know, I don't know if there's just a particular way I'm supposed to do it. And when I go into replay mode, you know, I'll start running it in replay mode and I'm like, uh, I'm just sitting there. I'm like, Oh, what am I supposed to be doing here with this? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that's, I know it's very valuable to replay mode. I'm just, sometimes I'm just like, oh, I don't know exactly what to do here with it. Yeah. Well, I think maybe we will do a couple of, uh, webinar events and, and, uh, end of the day, like, uh, replay sessions and go through some replay files. I don't know. What do you guys think? I think that sounds like a good idea. Uh, maybe, uh, feedback in the, uh, in the chat there. Uh, or we'll put it, we'll put a, uh, maybe a post in tomorrow, uh, tomorrow's webinar. Uh, and look for that. Cause, cause, cause do you think, you know, if I'm backtesting with some strategy like this with, I mean, am I able to, cause I have a huge library now of replays. I record them every day at the whole session every day. So, I mean, uh, would I be able to take several months worth of these replays and. I think it's, I mean, backtesting just nozzles me on. No, don't, don't do it. Um, the, I think here, let me bring up, um, um, book map, uh, and, uh, you know, it has to be done during the day, uh, that day. I mean, I would recommend it at least put it that way. Uh, because, um, uh, if you, um, wait, you're not going to remember the day and you're not going to remember the context. Like this context in here, like what, what was the move? Uh, what was I looking for? What was I anticipating? What was the data like that day? What did Powell say that week or the day before? Uh, you know, that's, that's kind of invaluable context. It's going to be completely lost, uh, from a month ago or more. Uh, so, uh, you know, we can just take that simple idea that, of like, you know, um, that kind of shift, uh, in the market. Here it is here. Right. Uh, so in start marking it up, um, that, that shift in volume, you know, happened here. Uh, here you can see that they tried. They only came up to here though. Uh, they can't break it. Uh, and then you can look for that shift to maybe unfold again on the sell side. Uh, and you start to see the volume pick up in here, but the shift kind of takes place here on low volume though. That's kind of weird. Um, but, um, uh, you see what I mean? Like you saw the shift to the upside and then the downside here though, we're looking at the shift only to the downside and it's trending down. Uh, you can see the, even here they try, but the shift has to take place up here. Right. Uh, so, uh, can consider like that as a study, maybe, uh, you got to see the bought volume dots back up above here on the green, the green side. Um, else like, uh, this is not the shift. You're still staying with this trend, uh, with this idea here. Uh, now here we go. Okay. So it came back up, uh, and, uh, uh, tested here on strong volume. Is this a low volume pullback? Hell no. Uh, this is a lot of buy volume. Uh, in fact, here, here you can see the shift I'm talking about. Right here. Right here. To here. Uh, you can see it in the, in the, also in the bars very clearly. Guys, look for this again and again. I think I'm a shark, uh, robbed and a few other guys. Like I forgot to mention that, uh, look for this shift. Uh, it's going to be, it's going to be really helpful. Uh, because you don't have to guess, uh, anymore. You, you really noted that shift. Now they, they, you can see that they came back down below, uh, in here. Uh, it rejected though again on strong, uh, volume in here. So once it gets back up above here, you know, we're looking for buy side here, uh, buy side. Uh, and, um, uh, yeah, it took a while, uh, it unfolded, but you can see the buy side did come back up into these areas. Okay. So just to, to kind of sum it up for the back testing, I, I do, I do it on the same day. I look for that particular thing. Yeah. Whatever it is. How many times it happened in the day. Whatever the thing is you're looking for, um, do it for that day. Uh, and then, uh, the, the beauty, like, uh, Rob was saying about the back testing, um, is, uh, that you can trade it and then you can replay it again and trade it again. Uh, and then replay it again and trade it again. Like, what did I do wrong? How could I have done it better? What am I looking for exactly? Uh, you will really hone the process. Uh, and, uh, here, here's another like shift. This is a, this is a breakout and failure right here. Um, so here's your breakout into high liquidity. And then you see your volume shift below it. In fact, that becomes the pivot for the pullback right here. I mean, I, it, you know, it sounds like I'm making it up. Uh, this was at the close though. So it's a little bit, a little bit different, but, uh, uh, you know, it's, it's just a, you know, trap traders, shift above trap traders, you know, shift below type type of thing. Um, it's something to consider Rob. I wouldn't say that this is what you, you need to look at. They all kind of, they all kind of make it their own little areas of support and resistance there. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Uh, and, and you'll see it. Um, but, uh, uh, yeah, it's just, it's just an idea. Um, you know, find out, you know, you talked about, I've seen you for, for a long time. Uh, I haven't seen it in a while. You look for your, your deep pullback to some of those areas. Uh, and then, uh, and then your turn, turn around, like you would always noted that, um, with an arrow, uh, you know, you'll see like a move down, uh, and then a pullback, you know, to that area. Uh, and, uh, and then the continuation. So, uh, this one's a lot different. I mean, we got the close here. We have this massive volume. It kind of screws the whole thing up, but, um, you can find another one someplace, but, uh, uh, look for that, whatever that event is, and you'll, you'll look for it again and again. Uh, and, uh, start to put your, um, uh, criteria together and you'll know exactly what you're looking for. All right. Well, uh, I'll keep barking on it. Yeah. I hope it helps. I'm, I mean, uh, uh, anyway. Um, yeah, just try to keep it simple. Something that you can relate to, um, I think is, is really the key. Uh, let's see. We've got one more, uh, with, uh, Alan. Uh, so, uh, and Alan's actually is a little bit different in here. Uh, so, uh, let me, um, let me show you. Uh, so, uh, we're going to get a little more aggressive with our book map insights, uh, and, uh, post some of your guys stuff in here a little bit more. It's on bookmap.com slash insights. Uh, and, uh, we put Alan's in here so you guys can search them in here as well and others can search them, uh, and come across them. Uh, so, uh, we put Alan's up, uh, in here. Uh, so, uh, uh, you know, others can see it, uh, and learn from it. Uh, and, uh, so we, we've got the mic open. We've got Alan here. So, uh, I don't know if you want to, uh, start to go through. Yeah, sure. Do you hear me? Yeah. Yeah. Maybe lower the volume just a little bit. Oh, there. Better? Yeah. I think so. Okay. Yeah. This, this trade was kind of a mystery to me because you see the, you know, the top right corner, you know, it's like, you know, indicative of a news event or some event that never imposed liquidity. So I was, I'm like, so I would have gotten into trade earlier, but I said, like, I was checking, uh, for our factory, uh, any news, like, like, what am I missing? Is there, is Powell's talking? Is Powell burping? Is Powell, someone that someone, I go, why is it black of a thing? I couldn't, I didn't see any reason. So I said, uh, so I, I got in, um, uh, what did I get? I'm right. You see where the 10 to stop right here, right here. Um, because, um, this is also a good example. Like for people who, who look at, um, icebergs in a vacuum, you notice that the sea, they cancel the 68 on top and, uh, yeah. So it's just some more thing. Oh, they cancel a sell order. That means it should go up, but no, it's going down and on the bottom, underneath that was the 39. Oh. No, no, no. It was there, but it still went down. So I was looking, I go, there's no liquidity. There's no nothing. There's only thing on the card is POC. I'm like, I'm not saying any trade is easy, but then it became kind of simple. Like, because I, I, I know like POC, you know, I'm big with the mean version and all that stuff. So I didn't see any liquidity. As you can see, there's really nothing. And it was just like, like, like walking on a staircase kind of, and, uh, and I, I just figured like, it just passed. Like, it just has to go to the POC. There's nowhere else to go. Like, you see, even below it, there's nothing that it's just went straight to the POC. And, um, and like, I still don't know why what, what else can cause, um, like an area to be black like that. If there's like no news event or nothing, like that's, that's, that's really like a question I had. I don't know if you know the answer or just sometimes it just happens. I mean, it was like a big volume when service came in. Because I saw like when you have like a big move. Yeah. Like potentially something is changing or it's too But everything like everything's like nothing. It's like black. Nothing. Yeah. Okay. So, so, um, So for me, it's when you have like a big move happening, then liquidity shift a bit above. I don't see really a big move. I see like, you know, the, the tiny short squeeze on the left side and then it was just like dribbling down. I don't know what time it was. Yeah. So, so, uh, I saw liquidity was pulled. There's no other areas to fill. There is nothing to hit. And I said, I mean, can it be this easy? Sometimes sometimes it's just obvious. There's, there's no other place it can go besides the POC. I mean, yeah. Hedge funds should also dump or buy and anything can happen. The other thing I'm not saying is trading, but as you see the screen, you know, there was just nowhere to go but POC. It was a POC, uh, yeah. And, uh, was, uh, uh, yeah, yeah, yeah. At the bottom. Yeah. Like, yes, it's on the bottom. That's why I would, I wouldn't, I don't want to taking long as when the POC is underneath it. That's, I mean, it's not a really, you know, guaranteed, but I prefer from. It's like, you know, I, I rather be above if I'm thinking along or a shorter, rather, rather, I mean, that's just, it's just my personal preference. Cause you know, like I was like in today's trading, uh, like the market was like, uh, went up and then it came down and the buyers were trying to like push it past you up, push it past you up and they just couldn't do it, you know? So, so, uh, that's why, like, I like to be like on the direction where it can go. Like this case, I was telling you the view up was down. So like this is like, you know, like I try not to complicate it too much. I tried to just like keep it simple. I don't know if you guys heard the acronym kiss, you know, keep it simple, stupid. Like you don't always have to look for all these, I'm not, I'm not saying like, you know, all the patterns aren't good and not good. Everything is great, but sometimes like less is more, you know? I think you've seen that from me, Bruce, you know, that's my, my attitude is like, I don't like to, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, just like a little spelling error on me, a version trade, but uh, and it's a little challenging with the font size. Cause I don't want to cover the numbers sometimes or something. So that's that. But uh, in my eyes, I see it as a pretty clear and simple and I just forget not getting in sooner because there was nothing. There was, there was not, there was no news coming out that uh, they should have scared me away. Like you even, like I, if I took the trade earlier and you see it went up a little bit with some green bubbles, since the POC was on the bottom, I would have stayed in, you know, I would, that wouldn't have shaken me out a little, that like you see under the, the 10 stop run, like if you, like, like that normally to the right, you see there's like a, like I, I, I would have gotten in like, like where the icebergs at 16 over there, you know, things, see where it says, I ended up getting in on, um, yeah, I would have gotten in like there, but I ended up getting in like where the 10 is. I'm sorry, Alan, where, where, where am I? This, this one here, like, or this one here, 16? I, um, what I'm trying to say is that if I would have got, I, if I would have gotten, like we were pointing before by the left side, if I would have gotten earlier, I would have rode it all the way down that I wouldn't like, you see that, you see them, the green bubble under the 10 stop run to the right. I have the, I have a, the arrow pointed towards it on the right side. Oh, here in the middle of the screen, yeah, the 10 on the, the other one to the right, this one to the right, all the way to the right, where you are, just go to the right, okay, to the left. Yeah, this one. Okay. Yeah, that one. Yeah, got you. So like, it's like, if you notice, you know, there was a, you know, this was like, going down like a staircase. And, um, I would have, like that wouldn't, that up move wouldn't have scared me at all, just because the POC was on the bottom and, you know, and just the way the market was moving is that I just felt it was just like people just, you know, a little proper taking here, something like that. And, uh, my idea was right, you know, I thought, you know, once they cancel, and a satellite has to go up or, you know, and executed, look, look how they executed a 39 buy iceberg and, and, but look how big the, like when it gets to a POC, look how big that red bubble is, like, to the right little, yeah, it's a huge, like, it's like, it's like, I feel like everyone was just like, no, I feel like everyone was like driving in the highway and, and just didn't know where to go. And everyone just, I was all just driving through the POC lane, you know, like that's what I felt. So, um, I don't have any questions or anything like that. But I, uh, I, uh, actually last week, I felt bad. I, I missed it, you know, beware of Chinese foods and things. Like I made a trade on, I know you, I know you're big on trading on the heat map. And I made a trade specifically on the heat map just for you. And I, and I missed the session last week. So I apologize for that. Oh, no, no worries. No worries. Uh, so, uh, but, uh, no, we got you in now. Um, I don't know, uh, Stan, do you have, I have some, some comments, but, uh, anything in particular that you were starting to drive at, like, maybe, um, liquidity, uh, context or something? Um, no, I was just pointing out, like when you, we have like more volume or, uh, move down some, just liquidity is shifting. Yeah. I think, yeah, just as part of, uh, trading, maybe when we have a move of people, I, I come setting order, putting orders, uh, my nice shifting is shifting. But, uh, I like the way, uh, where you entered, uh, like mechanically, they say like the red bubbles, like the other flow, like clearly in your favor at this time. Um, uh, I would maybe potentially, uh, suggest to have a first target from the 17, uh, 880. Well, let's say it again, a first target tour. Yeah, exactly there. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Front of this liquidity. Yeah. Yeah. I, I, I usually front one. I think, yeah. You see, I put the arrow there next to the big red. Whatever, for front round and exited this kind of location. Is that, is that same like area you're, you're thinking of? Yeah. It was just potentially suggested earlier. Yeah. Yeah. I'm always, I'm always paranoid of the, the reversal. Like it gets right there and then like, boom, just like falls like a, like, like a knife, trying to catch a knife. So it's not worth it. You know, that boosting rain in my head. So just front, front, front, front. It's not worth the risk a whole trade to get another two points. You know, that comes to the experience, I guess. Great job. Thanks. Thanks. Yeah. I just, a couple of things about this black area of liquidity. It's actually in our, you know, our market mechanics course on the knowledge base, not in the knowledge base and learning center. It's very typical actually, Stan. I mean, Alan, that we see something like this and Stan kind of nailed it too. Like, you know, it's a pretty strong move and there's just liquidity. There's no one's interested in following it down. And, you know, it's kind of a vacuum in here. So this is where if you do see buyers come in, look out because it's, it's a vacuum. But no one's, no one is interested in here and look at the buying on some of the pullbacks in here. Yeah, it's shallow. It's shallow. Like, and these are shallow moves too. So you really got to, you really nailed it here and, and grab the momentum. I probably didn't even go a tick against you, you know? And I just, I just forget not getting earlier because I was busy searching for why you want, why is it black? Like something, you know, I was just, if I would, if I just got, I got it in like right of like much earlier, but it is, I mean, whatever it's, it's trading, you know, like better be safe than sorry, you know? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, but it's, it's, let me try to bring up an example. Maybe we can see it better in the, I haven't, I haven't, I mean, I haven't really seen it besides the news events. I mean, I could be wrong, but I, I, you know, I watch it every day for hours. And I never really see it on us. There's something, someone's in the talk about, you know, anything. But now, now, you know, it doesn't have to be in those. Yeah. Yeah. No, not at all. In fact, a lot of times, most of the time, to be honest, maybe we can see it better in stocks. Most of the time though, like what you see is like, like here in Apple, you know, it's just liquidity on the bid. And there's, there, look at how dark it is in your, you know, here on the offer. Yeah. Yeah. Very, very typical sellers continue to trade into that high liquidity. It balances a little bit typically, and then, you know, and then continues on lower into high liquidity. And then, and then you can see this, this is, I mean, I'm just kind of talking quickly here, but it's, it's very typical in the order flow. Maybe more stocks, maybe you see more stocks, because I, I don't really see it. Thank you that much. You will, you will see it. And then also this kind of action in here can be followed by, by the reversal. A lot of times you'll see this high liquidity, very aggressive down in here, trying to push it into here, maybe, but you know, people getting filled in here. And then once it starts to lift, then you can look for the opposite move to high liquidity on the offer. Did it ever hit the liquidity on the bottom? Or was just like, no, no, it doesn't look like it ever came down here. Is it a spoof? No, no, it did not a spoof at all. I mean, they were in here for a long, long time. They just never got filled. Really? Yeah. I thought the institutions always get their way, somewhere in the other. No, no, not at all. I mean, like, if this is, you know, I mean, Rob looks at, looks at floor trader pivots, you know, others look at volume profile, others look at Fibonacci levels, etc. This is like real-time levels, but it's real demand. I mean, this is where the buyers are. Yeah, I would have gone out if you move, if you move all the way to the right, just like a little, no, no, no, where you were. Yeah, over there, like, you see here, yeah, where you are, you see it goes like a little red dot right above the, like, so anyway, I would, if I did that trade out, I would have been okay, because anyway, I front run. Like, so that's a perfect example. Like, like that trade, if you see a little pink dot between 1338 and 14 o'clock. Where? Now go down, if you go down, the little pink dot, I would have got out there anyway. So like, it wouldn't have killed me, but that's why I, that's why I try and hit home. Like, it's not worth, and look at that, how it reverses on you. Like, that would kill, that would kill me. Like, why the hell do I need the risk, whatever, another 50 cents or a dollar, just, and then lose it all, you know, just because I, that's an algal thing, right? Like, algal trick. Well, I don't know. I mean, it's just, it never made it there. There was never enough selling to make it there. You can see other little pockets getting filled of liquidity, you know, on the way, after some massive liquidity getting filled on the way down. Yeah. Yeah. So, and then here, they start to bid up, you know. Here, I see more that what Stan is saying about like the sharp, the sharp, like, he's, from the left side, there's a huge sharp down move. In my example, like, I don't think it was really a sharp down move. Like, you know, like, I've seen that, you know, I consider a sharp down move, like, when it falls off the cliff, like a mountain, like, like it just goes down. But it seemed to be like a gradual move down. But, you know, like, I couldn't be wrong. Because maybe before that, there was more data that's not on the screen. But it was a, it was a pretty easy trade. Like, wasn't really nervous because, because I, I just, I just watched so much. Like, I think you could just make a living on a mini version. It's like all day long, it's just going to the VWAP or it's going to the POC, or it's bouncing off the POC, going back to the, like, you could just, like, you know, take three, four of those a day and you're good. Yeah. In my humble opinion, like, you know, you don't have to, like, learn 10 strategies, you know, if you like, just like master two or three, like the money's still green. You know, it doesn't, like, you don't have to make it more complicated than what it is. You know. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Get, get really good at a few and you're, that might be enough. You're done. So, yeah. Guys, we're over the two hour limit, my God. We got a lot of, well, I think we've, it's around there. But like, I, I wanted to get a lot of guys on the mic. As many as we can and get into more detail here. You know, so that you guys can get some more feedback. So, anyway, I hope you enjoyed it. Some of you other guys, like, are due next. I'm sorry, like, sorry not to get to you, but Steven, let's see, Dune Runner, other, other guys like Rubicon Trader. Look, it's kind of important. You got to fill out your spreadsheet. You got to fill out. You got to put the content into the, you know, the chat room. We can give you feedback on it. And then we can go over it in these meetings in more detail. So, yeah, please, you know, let's do that. And then you'll get feedback from everybody else too. As you can, you know, you heard Shark Baloo, like mentioned four other people and how he learned from them. So, you know, that's incredibly important and made a huge difference for his trading. So, the feedback is a big, big part of it here. So anyway, I stand, do you have any closing comments? No, that was a great session. Thank you for participating and keep going. All right. Well, thank you, Stan. Thank you, everybody. And we'll just one more note before we go. All next week, we're going to have pro-trader webinars on trade management. Okay. So, we're looking forward to this event. It's going to be, we haven't done a pro-trader webinar in a while, but with a focus on trade management is fantastic. This is something we should have probably done, didn't really think about until we started doing the trade management recently in the webinars. So, yeah, hope you guys enjoy that and look forward to it. I'll send an email out in the digest here soon about that. All right. All right. Well, thanks, everybody. Thanks for coming. And we will see you tomorrow in the webinar.