 Welcome, this is Melissa Armo with the Stock Swoosh and we're reviewing the Stock Swoosh show live trading room. This is advanced trader tracking 2020 results from January, February, March and up through April 29th. So up and through today, we'll see really where we go with this. I mean, it's been a great year. I've been very, very active this year, options, day trades, I don't know why other than the fact that the volatility has been there, the trades have been there, the set of some in there and we've really hit it hard. So I think that this is one of these things where you're doing something for a really long time and just get better at it as time goes on. And I started trading in 2008, it's 2020, so it's into 12th year here and really, really happy with what I've accomplished so far this year. So 403, 596 year to date, this is the day trades. This isn't the options. This is just the day trades. So we're going to go over everything here. If you have any questions, email me at 929 or email me at melissathestopswush.com or call me at 929-3200 gap and you can follow me on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube or Skype. I post a lot of videos on YouTube, that's probably the best place to follow me. Right now it's earning season. So it is a very good time to trade. It's been a, it's been a wild earning season just in the week and a half almost into the first two weeks here of earning season. It continues into the end of May. So there's, there's first quarter, second quarter, third quarter and fourth quarter earning season. That's the best time to trade because stocks have the most moves when they have earnings. And obviously if you're an active trader, you can make more money when stocks have bigger moves. They have momentum, volume and volatility. You're started off pretty good. In January it took a few days off and again earning season started off in the middle towards the end of January for the first quarter and it's really, really interesting because looking back and we're seeing some of the bullish trades we did versus the bearish trades I did at the earlier in the year 2020 market was very bullish to start off the year. We did do a lot of shorts. So we're in a short place but I did more bullish long trades in the trading realm earlier in the year that we've been doing right now. We've done no shorts really recently. But for those of you that don't know, I prefer to short. The class I teach once a month is the Golden Gap short class. The bullish class I only usually teach once or twice a year. So looking back on how the year started out, there were bullish trades and there were very few bullish trades. In fact, I can't even think of the last long we did in the whole month here of April. But I do prefer to short. Why? Short moves, fast moves, selling panic comes in quicker. So I like to do those short moves because the shorts go faster. That's pretty much the only reason but just looking at all these here, lots and lots of longs were earlier in the year. In January and February too and in fact we did a lot of longs in the market earlier in the year. BYND, we had a lot of longs in that remembering that as well here now. Twitter we ended up doing today. Twitter back this was in March. That was the last time we had done Twitter I think. Boeing has been a big stock for the year. That's been a short. When we've been doing it, it's been a short every time we've done it. That was a big deer there on March 11th. Boeing really has been one of the best shorts we've had this year. CCL too. Done that a bunch of times. That's been a short. But again we've done many, many, many, many longs. Another Boeing. And then there were a couple of days in here where there weren't any trades that set up right. This was towards the period remember when everything went crazy with COVID-19 and the market was getting halted every day so we took it easy that week. And then we got right back to it again. CCL. You've got to get back on that top of that one. JPM was a nice one. Another great, great trade in Boeing to start out the month of April. And just gosh, we were doing Boeing so much. Boeing, Boeing, Boeing. It's really funny that I'm looking at this. And again, April we've done a lot of shorts. March we did a lot of shorts. There's another Boeing. And the Q's, yeah. And the spy. And another Boeing. And ACAM was the really, really nice one yesterday. So this week was just a home run with the fast trades right out of the gate. PS was a good one on Tuesday and we'll see what May brings. First day of May is going to be very interesting because it's a Friday going into a weekend. Nice trade there in the spy on the 23rd. Anyways, most of the risk is about an average of $2,500 per trade, risk per trade, okay? Now you don't have to risk that. You can trade with a small account, risk $100, $200 per trade if you want to. I never know until I see this set up live when I'm calling the trades in the room where the entry in the stop is going to be. I have an idea. But if I say 10 by 50, that's 50 cents, for example. So then you have to size yourself according to your risk. If you take 1,000 shares, it's $500. If you take 2,000 shares, it's $1,000. So everyone's risk should be based on the size of their cash account. If you have questions about that, you can ask me. But you definitely can trade with a beginner risk. You can build up your account slowly, slowly over time. Just for those of you that don't understand margin and buying power, your risk should be based on the size of your cash account. Your buying power, especially if it's a proprietary day trading account, you may have 10 to 1 leverage, okay? So you could open up a prop account with $2,500 and have 10 to 1 leverage. And you could open up one with 5,000 and have 10 to 1 leverage and have 50,000 in buying power. But again, your risk still has to be based on per trade, the cash in your account, which if it's 5,000, it's 5,000. So it really depends on one, what is your margin? Two, what is your cash size of your account? And again, how good are you? And I really think if once you do the class, you can start out small, gain your confidence, be green, green, green. That's what you need. That's what it helps. You can grow a small account into a larger account. But if you have the money to trade and risk $2,500 to trade, you can go for it. But you've got to learn the system. You've got to learn what I do. It's a prerequisite for joining the room to get all these trade calls. Do you want to trade for yourself and work for yourself? You can do it. It's a function of learning, conviction. I was discussing this in the room today, specifically in my call in the market today and Twitter as well. So the class is called the Golden Gap Course. It is a class where I teach my system. Class for May is May 2nd and 3rd. Class tuition is $69.99. Class is online. It can be anywhere in the world and take it. Email me if you want to sign up. The combo is the trends and the Golden Gap course. Combo is May 5th. It's $74.99. Class is online. Again, it can be anywhere in the world and take it. It's been a great, great start to 2020. If you did not have a strategy that works, if you did not have a system that works, then you've got to learn one. You cannot trade this market without a mentor, without a system and without conviction and confidence. At least not if you want to make a lot of money and specifically if you want to stay green, green, green. Markets are volatile. Expect the volatility to continue probably into the end of the summer and possibly into the end of the year. Have a great day everyone. If you're interested in the Golden Gap course, email me and Melissa at thestockswish.com.