 Again, this is a impromptu event here. And we've had a lot of requests about how to read candles within BookMap or how to read the order flow more specifically, what makes up the candle. And this should really help traders understand how to gain an edge here using order flow with such a simple analysis here using candlesticks. So let me know if you have any questions. There's the special events room there. Was it hashtag, special events? And then in there, you can ask your questions. All right, so let's get started. All right, so we'll start off with the basics here. Take the heat map off, take the volume dots off, and best bid and offer. So we're looking at candlesticks. So let's get rid of the maybe I'll add cumulative volume delta just for kicks here. And we'll take a look at that. All right, so here's your candlestick chart. This is a five-minute candlestick chart on the S&P E-Many. We can look at whatever you guys want to look at. The problem here with candles, candles do a nice job of aggregating data within a period. The problem is you just can't see what's in that period. You don't have the transparency here. They're very, very opaque. And these candlesticks, it doesn't matter if they're a volume bar, a range bar, time bar. It could even be some sort of point and figure type of rotational bar. It is bar data, and that period shows an aggregation of the data, and you cannot see what's inside of it. That's the problem here. All right, so what is inside it? Well, we look at these, and we say, well, there must be buying pressure here, because we can see that although some sellers here, some sellers here, these wicks are showing buyers, because we came back up higher, and we actually went above this little range here. And it looks like we're trying to maybe test up into this range here, because we are what's back and forth in here, but we do see the test up here. And maybe we can get back up there if we get more buyers. So based on the candlestick analysis here, there's sellers here on this five-minute candlestick chart. So it's kind of range bound. And we're just assuming that there are buyers down here. And that's kind of the issue. We know that this is open, high, low, and close of a period, in this case, the five-minute period. And now let's read what's inside it. So we're going to add the best bid and offer, and that shows pure price action. So now we understand that there's little areas in between, already, in between the candlestick periods. Here's a double bottom on a very small time frame and it worked out. It played out. It came back up to test where it came from here. And then we see we drop back down. We have a mini head and shoulders in here. You just can't see that within the candlestick pattern. So anyway, that's the advantage of looking at best bid and offer. And that's not what we're here for, though. We're here to read the order flow within it. So now when we add the volume dots here, now we're getting some traction. What was the condition of the transactions within that period? So we assumed that due to this buying pressure in here, there must be buyers. There must be green dots. And you can see them in here. Now we can see the details, though. This is where you're going to start to gain an edge by reading the order flow. This cluster in here is showing us something. First off, it's above the swings here, two swings. We know that there's buying pressure in here because we can see the buyers lift this back up to this swing. Now you also know that you had buying pressure here, buying pressure here, and that this candle was developing. You see a cluster of buying here. This is very simple stuff. We'd be looking for buyers to at least come up and test here. Very simple because we know there's pressure and we see there's more buyers here. So we'll be looking for a test up into this area. Now it did that, and then some. It came up a little bit higher here. And then we found some sellers. We had pressure on the wick here. And then it's really back and forth. There's sellers here, there's some buyers here. So it's kind of interesting. And now let's take a look at the current market. We're getting buyers back up here looking for buyers to lift it back up to here, 57. Just that right now. Now I know this is a five minute candlestick chart. And we haven't done too much analysis here, but just based on the candles and what we're reading and based on the volume cluster here, and then we're starting to see some volume here transact. So we're looking for buyers here. We're looking for green dots. There they are. Now they should be able to lift it just to 57 because that's where the previous sellers were up here. So we'd be looking for that to unfold here. Now we don't know the other side of the trade here. And then that's kind of an issue. What if they're trading into high liquidity here? And this is where you're gonna be able to read this within book map. Now we're really getting the full picture here using candlestick analysis. And we can see that, well, they're pulling that liquidity here. It's not trading into very high liquidity, right? And they are on the bit at these higher levels in here. Now we wanna see them up here in these levels. That would be better. And then that would look, we'd look for even a quicker, maybe a stronger move up into 57. Okay, now you can see we just traded up into 57. In fact, 104 contracts traded up there. Let's see if we can continue. We're gonna read the order flow here by the buyers. We were just looking for that, right? From down here on up to 57. And let's just zoom in here and verify our transactions into 57. Here they are, right here. So we only had 21 contracts there, but that was the target, all right? So any questions on this? Now we're getting more buying pressure. Look at the bid here. See how the bid is starting to push this? The reaction two, and it's not a whole lot, but the bid is stronger here, right? We saw this kind of bump up here and we're finding some buyers here. So let's see if we can continue here. We're getting, it's kind of a trap here, or at least it's trading back into the range at the moment here. But we're still going with the overall flow, okay? We're up here, we're still auctioning up here. We're still seeing transactions up here, all right? So anyway, that's what I wanted to cover here and start to understand what's in the candles. And we can look at the different, directly, what's in between here as well, between this five minute period. And we can start to read and ascertain like a volume profile, for example. If you wanna look at a volume profile and mix that into the picture here, click on this zoom by drag tool, click drag and release between these two periods. Here's our profile, right? So, although we looked for that move up into 57 and we got it, our profile is, it's not, it shows the transactions up here at 56 and a half, which is pretty good. And we also have some here, but most of it traded back down in here, right? So, and the move here was 57 on a kind of shorter timeframe. Getting maybe a pullback to, and let's do that again here, that zoom. Getting a pullback to maybe in here, 55 down to 54 and a quarter wouldn't be out of the question. We'd be maybe looking for something like that and then looking for the bid to support it and then more buyers to start to come in, right? So, let's zoom out now and let's take a look. Where did that pullback go to? Boy, that was it, 55 and a half and we continued on up here. So, yeah, not much of a pullback on that. That's good. I mean, it's still showing the buying pressure in here. And now we're up at about 57 and three quarters. Let's see if we can trade into 58 here. See them pulling here. Okay, now we just need a few buyers in here and a bit on the bit. There we go, beautiful. And there's gonna be a nice stop run as well. Okay, and there's nice move up into 59. All right, maybe we can get to 60 now too. So, anyway, that's smaller timeframe and we're doing that on purpose here just so you should be able to see my stream. Okay, Greg, I don't know what the issue is. There's our move to 60 guys. So, anyway, I wanted to cover this example with real-time analysis so that we can't fake it. We're doing the reading. It might not work out. It might totally fail, but we gotta go with the reading of the order flow here. And this is what we're looking for. This is what we saw in the candles that helped us down here. And then we just, it was the volume clusters in here that really made a big difference. Okay, and then we put in the heat map as well. Okay, understanding well, they're bidding up here. They're bidding up in here. We saw them starting to pull here. It's kind of dark in here. We don't like that, but we're still looking for our 57. And then we still gotta go with it. And then we started to see a little more support on the bid here, still finding buyers. So we're still looking to go higher. All right, so some very, very simple things here to read a candle, put the pieces together, and then look for follow-through in the move. Now, just because this is a smaller timeframe doesn't mean this can't work on higher timeframes at all. In fact, we went through the webinar the other day. We were looking at the daily, the hourly, and the 15-minute chart. And we covered the same analysis in here, but then we zoom in and look at the order flow within book map. So a much higher timeframe, this is exactly what we're looking for on the daily. We're looking for a move, but we know there's sellers up here because we know there's Wix and we know there was selling pressure that really drove this market lower. We come back up here. We're starting to look for, we made this, drew this line in here around 60 on Monday. And we were looking for a pull or a move up into it, but we were anticipating some sellers up here too, some profit-taking and some sellers on the daily. That happened in a couple of days. Here's Monday, here's Tuesday, here's Wednesday, here's today. Okay, so we got up there. Now I'm looking to see if we can, if we still maybe see a bit more buying pressure and we are on the hourly, but I'm gonna start to look for also getting above some of these Wix here and then look for some sellers. Okay, and then maybe a pullback again on this daily. So then we just go into book map and we look at the order flow to support that, just like we did on this five-minute candle. Guys, that was it. It's just a quick 15-minute covering of the candlesticks and how to read them. If you have any questions, hit me up now in the...