 It's not real. The only place that fear can exist is in our thoughts of the future. It is a product of our imagination, causing us to fear things that do not at present and may not ever exist. That is near insanity, Katar. Now, do not misunderstand me. Danger is very real, but fear is a choice. We are all telling ourselves a story. Good afternoon, guys. This is Giovanni from the Options Trading Channel. I hope you guys are having an awesome weekend, quarantine at your house. Yes, unfortunately, the coronavirus situation has hit my hometown as well, I'm sure, as everybody else's home. And we were not necessarily forced, but we were asked by our government and our governor and whatnot, that all of our businesses around town operate at half the staff, half operation. They've closed down restaurants, they've closed down movie theaters and whatnot. And it's serious stuff, very serious stuff. Along with that comes fear. And I want to talk to you a little bit about my fear and my problems. My biggest problem as far as day trading goes, as a day trader, as an investor, it's fear. It's fear, guys, for many different reasons. Reasons that prohibit me to really sit at a computer and focus on my trading. I think that's more of the issue more so than just losing or putting myself in a bad trade. It's fear that I can't watch my trades at work, although I'm allowed to actually trade at work. I got permission from my supervisor. Things come up during the workday. The phone rings, clients call, guests call to make reservations and whatnot. And I'm forced to, I force myself to get out of those trades, whether I'm winning or losing, likely for the most part, because I have a great strategy. I'm in a winning position and I sell out. And usually I don't end up selling out at my 10% gains. And should I just set my 10% or sell order at half of my position, usually most of the time it will get filled if I'm just patient enough, but I can't watch it. And that presents an issue within my trading world. Let me show you two trades that I placed that I haven't mentioned over the last week or so. I did place two trades, two winning trades, but let me explain to you those trades, why I got in, why I got out. And moving forward, I have sort of a plan and idea, I have a big announcement to make later this week, earlier part of the week, maybe Tuesday, Wednesday, I will announce something big, something huge in my personal world life, my career as well. So stay tuned with that for the here and out. Let me show you the two trades that I placed this past week that I haven't mentioned yet. So the first trade that I want to talk to you guys about is this QQQ puts trade. This is the very next trade after my VXX, the last known trade that you guys know about. I bought the 178 puts that expired in at that time, I believe nine days. I bought it at $11.75 and I sold it at $12.50, not quite 10%. I think 10% would have been a little over $13. I can't remember quickly, but let's take a look at that signal. This was traded on the 18th of March. Let's take a quick look at that signal here. Here we go. If you look at the middle chart, this is the one hour chart on the Qs. If you look to the far right, that's the daily chart on the Qs and the far left, those are the intraday chart, the one minute chart of the puts that I traded. I got this signal right here, one, two hours into the market open and at the start of the third hour, that's when we were supposed to get in and look at that massive drop day. And again, I bought them at $11.75. I bought that one at $9.13 my time. It's this one right here possibly, yes, and I sold at $12.50 right there. They actually ended up going to $15.70 and that's what I'm talking about guys. If I can just be patient, calm my nerves a little bit, but also putting in the element of my day job while I'm trying to trade during my day job, during work hours, not the best combination, but still nonetheless, I'm still allowed to day trade. So that's why I'm able to put in these small trades. But if I'm just patient enough, I put in my 10% sell order in, it'll be filled and then hold the rest for bigger gains. But part of the strategy, if you would have held on to it, if you didn't have any money management skills at all, you would have been at a losing trade here. You can see that it actually lost because the way the strategy works is you get in depending on what the last signal is on the daily chart. That's the only direction that the strategy will take. You enter as soon as it closes below that lower MOBO ban and then you exit after it closes above the upper MOBO ban. So per the strategy, this was a bad losing trade, but with good money management skills you could have squeezed out a huge percentage gain. Huge percentage gain. That's well over 20, 25, 30%. I can't do the math quickly in my head, but that's a huge win there. Let's take a look at the other trade that I made. This was the Qs, I believe on Friday, when was the 20th? The 20th, yes, was on Friday. I bought one at $12.78 and sold it at $13.31 even though I put in a limit order at $13.20, so I got this signal on spy after the second one hour candlestick close and I got in at $12.78 right at the beginning of the next candle here. I bet this was me, the top one, yeah, right here and it went sideways for a while and then it made its move and I ended up selling at $13.30. This was probably me, yeah, this was me. Then it went up, 10% would have been $14.05 and it obviously cleared that by a mile, got up to the high $15.11 in that run and then it came back crashing down. I would have been selling the second half back at my original entry point at $12.78. But I didn't. This was mainly the one that was more sort of not really concentrated, not really focused the phone was ringing, things were going crazy in the lodging industry because of the coronavirus. I want to show you before I let you go, I want to show you this signal on the cues that I was thinking about getting in while it was up here. It's not a bad idea. If you miss a signal here and it reverses back, if it's a bad signal, my risk to reward is better up here because it has sort of retraced a little bit and then it made its ginormous move back down. If I remember correctly the 180 puts were trading around $8 or so and they ended up going up to close to $15 or something of that nature, I can't remember. Moral of the story is fear. Fear is not real. Like you saw at the beginning of this video, fears is not real. The danger is the danger of losing money is absolutely without a doubt real. But we choose to be fearful. We choose to fear the markets and that's just the honest truth guys. I need to prepare myself better. Like I said, I have a huge announcement in my personal and career sort of life world. I will announce that Tuesday or Wednesday what that is. Stay tuned guys. I need to be better at controlling my emotions, controlling my fear because it's a choice. It's a choice guys. Before I let you go, just a quick recap. I will make a recap of all my trades since the start of the year but for the year, the profit loss for the year is $841 and that's a little over 80%. Nothing to sneeze at, nothing to be extremely happy about but I'm still happy that I'm in the green. I'm consistent more than anything else. If the only thing that I'm going to be proud of in my trading is that I'm consistently beating the markets, consistently profiting. I have very little bad trades. I think since the beginning of the year I only have two bad trades. I'll make a recap of all my trades in a later video guys. Stay safe everybody. Thank you so much for watching. I greatly appreciate the support. Comment down below what you think about my trading, my strategy that I'm using. What did you make money on? What did you lose money on? What do you need help with? I'm here to help guys. See you here again on the next trading video hoping it's another green one guys. You guys stay safe. Talk to you guys later.