 Welcome, this is Melissa Arma with the Stocks Question. I'm doing a Shark Week weekend option special for those of you that are interested in trading. It's been a great time to trade this year, specifically the strategy that I trade, which is based on my Golden Gap Rating Method. We've had a lot of shorts this year. I do prefer to short. It doesn't mean I don't go long. We did go along a couple of things, actually, in the last two weeks that we're earning trades, but I prefer to short. And it's been a great market to do that. And an option that is a short is a putt. If you have questions or you'd like to sign up for the Shark Week special, email me at melissathes stockswish.com, or you can call me at 929-3200 Gap. You can also follow me on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, or Skype. So it's Shark Week. I've been watching all the specials, both on Nat Geo and the Discovery Channel. I love learning information about nature and it's fun. And of course, there's been a lot of shark sightings actually in New Jersey and recently up in the Northeast this summer, which is unusual. So it's fun to learn and it is also fun to trade and make money. So if you'd like to sign up to trade options, I'm doing a special for the half annual subscription sale. This is six months of the newsletter for $49.99. The Shark Weekend Sale is running through Sunday, the last day of July. So it's just a weekend sale. If you wanna sign up, the savings is $1,000. It's $39.99 for the sale. So you would get six months of the options newsletter subscription and a thousand off if you sign up by Sunday. And the nice thing is you can start to get the trades next week. We're still in earning season. This whole next month of August is earning season. So it's a really nice time to trade. The sale ends though on Sunday. So if you do wanna sign up, you must email me forums. You cannot sign up through the website. So again, let's look at a couple trades here that we did. As far as this year though, again, it's hard to believe we're more than halfway through the year. It's less than six months till Christmas in the end of the year. It's just flown by. And if you're in a path where you're not making money this year and you're actively trading, you have to take a step back. Don't keep digging yourself a deeper hole. Change what you're doing. You still have time to turn your year around. And you still have time to make money. A lots of money before the end of the year. So get on the right path. So many people are concerned about inflation, recession and so many other things. Becoming financially independent is actually very important. It's something that everyone should think about. And it doesn't matter if you're getting close to retirement or in retirement or whatever the case may be or planning for retirement. The fact is that if you want to make sure that you're not affected by outside circumstances that you can't control. Like for example, interest rates or things that are going on right now with food prices, you have to have more money coming in than you have going out. And by making extra money with trading in the market, you can supplement your normal income, part-time job or full-time job. The reality is that you have to learn how to trade though or you have to sign up for a subscription service where you would get trade ideas like mine. Now, I think it's good to learn but not everybody wants to learn and take the class. I still think it's important to learn but some people sign up for the options because let her make money, realize my system works and then end up doing the class anyways. You know, down the line. This was a really nice trade. I'm gonna show an advanced trader risk and beginner trader risk for this. This was a put, talking about the market. Again, market's in a range right now. Gotta be careful, but this was a June trade we did. The 409 spy puts, I usually send the trades out in the morning most of the time. This was 946, this gets emailed to you. It has a symbol, strike, expiration date and type. It was a put. Cost was 575, 15 contracts cost 86.25. Shoulder 36 and again, this is an advanced trader risk. You can risk more, you can risk less. It depends what you wanna risk but you needed to do even one, spend $575 or you could have done actually a strike further away. A put is a short, okay? The profit was $45,375 for this one trade which was a 526% return investment. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful move and let's take a look at the chart. Oh actually, let's go over the beginner risk first. Two, with 1150, you could have made $6,050. When I heard people say, oh, I need a big account to trade, that's simply not true. You could trade options with a small account. You could trade options with a cash account. You don't need even a margin account to trade options and you don't need to risk a lot of money to make money if you're doing good trades. If you're making money, it's money. Whether it's a small risk, one contract even. Again, nice call here. Let's look at the chart. Here it was, wait, when did I call that? Let me go back, 69. Oh yeah, I remember this one. Close to your gap down, fell, boom, got the drop and I always get this question. Huge return investment, yes but it's because we capture the overnight move. Was this the best exit? Absolutely not. Look what it did into the end of it. It expires on the 17th. It was down close to 360, which would have been almost $50 through the strike of the last day. So was this the best exit before the last day? No, but it doesn't make sense to hold something into the last day, to be honest with you. So that is something that you have to ponder but I think that this was a good exit in here. Lo and behold, look what it did, continued. Many times it happens, but your job is not to get piggy targets and everything but I mean, 500% return investment, how can you ignore that? You can't, you have to book the money or you could piecemeal. If you're doing two, if you're doing 10, get out of five, hold five. I don't do that but you could. You could, I'm giving you ideas of what to do. So again, beginner trader risk here, you absolutely can make money trading small size. People always ask me that question, it can be done. If you wanna join the live trading room, it is not an options room. People need to know that. You have to take the class as a prerequisite to join the room and it's not an options room, it's equity trades, it's day trades. The newsletter is something separate. The trades are emailed to you so you can do it when you're doing other things out and about, put the order in, get it by it, put a sell order in, you don't have to watch it if you don't want to. It's a way to make extra money to get overnight moves and as far as it's a lot more protective right now than swing trades because you have the benefit of having a fixed amount of risk on whereas people are getting killed this year in swing trades. Don't get killed trading, know what you're doing. Have a set system and strategy and I apply that in the newsletter picks. But if you wanna learn, you can sign up for the Golden Gap course. It's a checklist, it's 26 points. I teach the class once a month. The next class is not for a month from now but you can sign up, early and start getting into the room and trading. And again, it's a great system. I just did the class for July. Lots of nice compliments and emails from people who did the class. I always, I mean, I've done the class with anybody else, obviously it created the system but it is always good for me to do the class myself and do the review for myself. And then it's always nice to hear feedback from people who are so amazed at how really good the system is and it kind of pulls everything together for people. The entries, the exits, the points, everything. If you'd like to sign up the class it's August 27th to 28th, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern time. Class tuition is 69.99. Again, class is online. It can be anywhere in the world and take it. And the Shark Week special for the options newsletters, six months, this is a great deal people. 39.99 for six months. It's gonna take you into next year. You get so many trades. Do you have to do them all? No, you do the ones that you can handle. If I call five, you can't do five, do one. And people only say, well, what if I don't get them all? The reality is if I call five trades in one day they're probably with the market. So if you do one and it works they're all gonna work. Do you understand what I'm saying? Right now I'm doing selective things for earnings season. So it hasn't been like that. But the reality is that there are some weeks that are busy and there are some weeks that are not as busy. You do what you can afford to do. And again, same thing with the risk. If you'd like more information if you wanna sign up, do not miss out. It's end Sunday, that's it, no extensions. And again, gonna be a busy week next week. Email me if you have any questions about the class or the special. Have a great weekend everyone.