 Wrong. OK, anyways, you should have a huge week. I don't think you do. You're up, but you should have one of the weeks, like, which you would have liked and needed, and you don't. So before I teach what I wanted to say to you about the charts, because, Bob, because you didn't do the trade, what's your thoughts on that now seeing that these trades worked? Forget about Google. I know that costs a lot. Forget about that one. Just the ones that you would have taken or did take or didn't take. Yes, the first thing that hits me is how many days down it's gone. And I'm very aware of it pulling back into itself from maybe a day, which is what it has actually done for one day, and it's dropping again. That's why it makes me hesitant to take a trade, because, like I said before, about the ones that haven't worked, I'm taking them straight away, and I'm lost in them. I mean, I've done the same today. I mean, the diamonds today. OK, let's not even talk about today's. Let's talk about Walmart, Target, the Spy, the Apple. Let's talk about all the ones that are done, not the ones that are still on. Let's talk about Babba, Facebook, and Google, even though you didn't take it, because in other circumstances in the past, you would have. So let's go back to Walmart, Target, Spy, Apple, Babba, Facebook, Google. Forget about the one today. I don't want to, we'll be on long, too long today. I guess I have a webinar. I can't talk that long. I want to go over the ones that you already did, that you made money or lost in or didn't do. Forget about the one from today. Let's talk about, and I'm glad you're in the one for today, by the way. It's going to work. So let's not even talk about it right now. Yeah, I hope so. The one, the one, Walmart, Walmart. I've noticed a pattern. I've noticed a pattern, and it's not just you, and this is why I'm recording this. It's not just you, there's a pattern. There's a pattern that's going on. You're not recording the moment, are you? No, no, no, I'm recording this because I'm saying, I'm noticing, the reason I'm recording this is because it's to help other people. Because I've noticed a pattern. The pattern is, like I called Walmart as an option. It didn't work. So if I call a trade that doesn't work, then the next one I call, nobody does. Then that's a huge trade. Then I call another, you know what I'm saying? Like I've noticed a pattern. So you did Walmart, you held, just listen to me. Walmart trade was on. I'll go back and look at the dates, it doesn't matter. But if I call, I've noticed, like if I call Walmart and it goes, it goes down, you're down in it. You're in this trade, okay? You're negative in the trade. Then say I call, I don't know the dates in front of me, but I know Apple was at the same period. So I call Apple. You don't do Apple. I don't know if you did or not. We're gonna talk about it in a minute. But I've noticed this is a pattern. You don't do Apple because Walmart's on. Walmart's down. You don't do the next call. The next one goes on to be huge. You miss it. Walmart's still down. And though Apple, if you had done it, would have made the loss back from Walmart. If you had killed it, flipped it, got out, taken the Apple or done both at the same time and you would be up. I've noticed a pattern. It's a pattern with you and other people. It's a pattern. And do you hear what I'm saying here? Yes, you mean I keep taking the losses and not taking the gains? And you might not even take a trade that I call because you're in another trade that's on. It may work, may not work. It might be one day, it might be two days, it might be in it where it's not gonna work and you should have killed it. But either way, it's on. It's not up. So you don't do the next one and that one is massively huge or even just immediately profitable in like a day, okay? And then you miss it and then you miss it and it's over. Do you know, I've noticed a pattern. And I think this is like, I think you're in a pattern here now too. Walmart, flat out, didn't work. And nothing to do with pullbacks. Nothing to do with pullbacks at all. In fact, do you see the Walmart chart here? I'm gonna blow it out. If I fast forward all the way back. This was a good call. It really should have went there. It didn't have a problem with it not going there. Still thought it was a good call. This looked great here. At one point, I don't remember the time of the day. I'd have to go back and look. But the point is, this was a huge, 50% more into the bar, almost got over the high. Whatever happened here, it didn't. This trade didn't work out. But the second day, it looked like it was gonna. I don't even know. You probably might have even been up in this at the second day at any point. I don't know if you're watching it. No, no, no, no. Okay, all right, well then you weren't. Whatever, you weren't down a lot though. Well, when that, in that rally the second day. Like you could have gotten out of this trade. Flat, a partial loss, whatever. It wasn't a full loss. At whatever point, when this started to retrace, I don't know what happened here why, but this whole trade didn't work. So it's nothing to do with a pullback. The trade failed. It failed. I mean, it was a loss, period. End of story for everybody. It just didn't work. So to say, well, this didn't work because it didn't pull back. But I called it. No, the trade didn't work. Do you understand that? Well, yes, but it's obviously profit taking that's happening in that period before the stock goes off again. I'm telling you this is gonna go. I have no idea why this didn't go. It didn't go, you know, whatever. I'll call it again when I see it to call it again, which I'm not right now. I agree. But the problem is, it's the timeframe to what, to when it is going to move. Well, obviously, I mean, that's the, obviously, but I called the trade believing it would work. It was a loss. So your rationale is, I'm not gonna do this trade because it has to pull back is hogwash because the trade simply did not work and had nothing to do with pullbacks or not pullbacks. It had to do with the gap. I rated the gap, the gap rated per the system. It should have gone and worked. It didn't work. Sometimes some trades don't work. That should, this is the market. You have to, that's why you have to account for that. But I'm telling you, if you had watched this closely, the third day in, the third day in, when it didn't gap up, which it didn't, the third day after the retracement in the second day, which didn't close right, you could have killed it. You could have killed it. You could have killed it on the day three. Said, oh, this isn't gonna work out. Whatever your loss was. You let these go to full losses when they sometimes don't look right and then you miss out on positive trades. That's the problem. Yeah, I know. I'm not in, I'm not in at the most inappropriate position. So when it pulled back into the third day, my position, my position was worth zero, basically. Okay, well then you should have killed it. You should have killed it so that you... So there's no point. There's no point. Yes, there is a point. No, you're, you're getting, this is the crux of why I'm lecturing you and I want other people to hear it. There is a point. The point is in your mind. In your mind. No, in your mind, you're engaged. The mind is well-taped, the position, if it's worth zero, there's absolutely no point in getting out. I hear what you're saying, but unfortunately then in your mind, now just listen to me. Mentally, you're engaged and you're missing out and other good calls. Right, you're saying, well, if I risk 500 bucks and the trade is at a full 500-hour loss, what the hell I may as well just hold it and see if it ends up flipping around and working. I get it. And if you were strong enough mentally to process, push forward and push on and continue to do other calls with that, and so you're missing out on other ones then because you're bothered by the fact it's a loss and the trade you get up every morning. Oh, there it is. Oh, there it is. Oh, there it is. And you're looking at the one every day. You were missing the point here. The point is, target, warm-up. When you have a number that follow one one after the other and you take a loss in it. Right. You start to think, why is that happening? First thing, you look at that situation and you try to analyze and decide on whether you are better waiting or looking for some other indication that you're not. No, you're not. I get what you're saying and I get everything you're saying, but you're trying to say, I wanna understand. Forget it. There are time, I get, continue to hire, but the trade is, yes, the trades will not work. It has nothing to do with what you're thinking. So you're, in your mind, you're trying to think, why didn't this work? You're not, it just didn't. Let it go. You're trying to figure something out that's not there. In the end, Walmart's gonna move higher. Target did move higher, okay? I'm telling, and I don't know what you did with this one. What did you end up doing with this one? What did you end up doing with Target? That went the same way. That just ran out of time. So you just took it and just let it all go bust until the end? Well, it's the same situation. I was in the similar situation. The point that I pushed, that option, it literally, I must have got it the same, the same time at the high, when I took the option. And then it just literally bounced around, lost the value, and that was it. It died. I didn't think it was going to go, and it didn't. Yeah, and it just didn't have, I can see here what happened with this chart moved higher, but it didn't do it fast enough with enough momentum to make the office chain work aggressively up. I get it, I get it. But anyway, it's getting back to what I was saying, is you're still trying to rationalize like two trades that didn't work. And then I called one, two, three, four, five, that did, and you didn't do all of them. So do you see how that, I'm just, you're- Yes, I do understand, I can see what you're saying, but you have to come to a point when you, you can't keep throwing money in and not bringing money back in again to your account. If you keep throwing it out- I know, but you're missing every trade that works, that's good, and you're taking the ones that don't. And it is happening like so much that I don't understand why you don't say, if I call a trade tomorrow, that is a huge winner, you won't do it, because the one I called today is currently down, which by the way, I truly believe is gonna go. And I'm not gonna talk about it here, I talked about a little bit in the room this morning. The point is that you would probably not do tomorrow's trade, because unless today's trade went positive immediately today or tomorrow morning. So the point is though that you, you, you have to be- No, no, no, I would take it. You can't pick and choose the trades you're gonna take if you want consistency. Boom, that's it. If you want consistency, that if I call 10 trades, you can't do, I'm gonna do this one and not the next one. I'm gonna do this one and not the next one. That is what you are doing, and that is ridiculous. Yes, yes, you have to do it, because if you call a trade, which is obviously Google, it's an expensive option to purchase. As opposed to- It doesn't even matter. You would have had a huge week if you had done Baba. You didn't do Baba because it didn't pull back. The contract, the contract is very expensive. I know, forget it, forget Google. I don't even call the trade on the fifth. You should have been out of it. You should have been out of it six. You take it on the fifth, you get out of it the sixth. You take it on the fifth, you get out of it. Dude, you could have done it in one day and gotten out of it the next day. What's wrong with that? You could have done that. I couldn't, as I explained, as I said to you before, I couldn't take it. When the option landed in my box, I didn't, I didn't, I couldn't take action to buy- Well, that's a different story. I don't know if you could have called the broker if you weren't, that's not even true, because I call all of these at the same time when you took Facebook. You did Facebook, luckily. Yes, yes, I did. But this one, I couldn't take it. And when I did see it, it had moved a lot. And then when I looked at the option price, I thought, well, this is ridiculous. I'm getting in the wrong time of day if I'm buying this. And then the following day- So you're overthinking it to your advantage. If you're using it against yourself, you're like, you're like overanalyzing something to death when you're killing it. It's like, you're not in a flow. It's like, if you were at the beach and a wave goes by and it goes, whew, sometimes you're at the beach and a wave goes by and you ride the wave into the sand if you ride the waves or you're on a surfboard and you ride it in on the floaty. And sometimes it goes over you and it takes you under. It's like every time the wave has taken you under, you're working against yourself instead of riding the wave in, it could take you far, it could be a quick ride, it could be a fun ride, it could be a slow ride in. You're getting wiped out every time. It's like every single, I don't know what to, I just wanna, it's like if I had told you take this trade and get out here, you would have done it. You would have listened to me because I'm not saying take it right here. Even though I'm setting the trades, I'm not forcing you to take it and I'm not forcing you to get out but you should know better. You are overthinking these things to the point now of this pullback nonsense of what you've been discussing now for more than a year. More than a year you've been talking about this crap and it doesn't even work and it's now affecting your ability to even take trades. I just don't, I don't, if you're really gonna focus on options and you don't wanna be in the room and be active anymore on day trades because you wanna focus on options, I don't know what you're planning on doing between now and the end of the year but if this is really what you're gonna focus on then you gotta start making better choices and you can't pick and choose the trades you're gonna take. Because inevitably, if I call seven trades which I did in the last week, not including today's and two are losers and five are winners, you will choose to do the ones that don't work. It's the same on scenario. If you get confidence when you win. So the more winners you have, the more you feel like you go in the right direction. When you don't, then you'll have to rethink your situation. You really do. You don't have any, you don't have, you're in no place now. You can bankrupt yourself. I know but you're in no place to have confidence and that's why, guess what? You're lucky you know me. So you gotta have the confidence in me. That means you gotta take all the trades. So if you don't have confidence in me, then don't do anything. If you have confidence in me, you gotta do them all and then because that's how you're the only way you're gonna get confidence in yourself. You can't be looking to yourself for confidence right now because in your head you screwed up your mind. You screwed up your mind listening to too many things and really that was just a result of you making poor money management choices going back the last couple of years which we talked about when I would call a trade and it wouldn't like I don't even know if you had done like fast rewind two years ago. If I had called Facebook and BABA you might have, you might not have gotten out of these and they were actually good trades and good exits. You might have held them thinking they were gonna go even more which they very well will but not right this second. Not right this second but look, BABA did. So it's kind of like you might have, you might have missed your exit and Facebook still being BABA from years ago when you were wanting everyone to be this massive, massive trades and then you would hold on too long and you would let the ones that go bus go full bus but I think you've made improvements with that but your confidence right now, you need to go back to the basics which I said six months ago. You need to go back to the basics of the stuff that I taught you in gaps and you need to be looking at charts only focusing on the gaps, not pullbacks and you need to follow me because your confidence isn't high and you either have confidence in me or you don't and when I emailed you last week and I said you should be up huge I thought, I knew you weren't because you didn't email me. I knew that if you had done all the trades and taken them all right, you would have been very happy and you would have emailed me and said, oh my God, I really needed this and thank you so much and blah, blah, blah. I knew that you either ate into the trades or screwed them up and at least you did Facebook. I mean, you know, at least you're up in the last week. So that's positive. Yes, but the problem is that I'm now taking them out sooner rather than letting them run for the amount that I'm losing. I'm losing more than I am actually making because I'm taking them out sooner. You could not possibly have done that in Facebook. What did you risk in this trade in Facebook? How much did you risk? Dollars and cents? I think it was 400. Okay, how much did you make? I got in the rock top of my head. You had to make at least twice if you even held it for a day or did you get out the same day? Or what did you do? What did you get out of this? Facebook. I can't remember, Melissa. Did you hold it down into the drop past the strike or not? Yes or no? Yes, I think, yeah, I didn't hold it down. Yes, yeah, I'm sorry. And that you had to turn your over your risk at least twice with that then? I probably, I don't think it was twice but I probably doubled it. You had to make at least 500, 600 bucks in that trade at least. And that's, I mean, like I said, I mean, I just take the trades, you know, do the bed work, stick it in the fire and that's it. So I don't, I don't hang on to them. Even the reason- Yeah, but that's okay. That's okay. If you were taking quick profits, I don't have a problem with that. If there's one that you are in love with and you think this is amazing, then you could always email me and say, what do you think about this one, Melissa? Do you think that this is worth holding? Blah, blah, blah. That's an okay question. You can always email me. Now I wouldn't have said that about this anyways or the other one because, you know, because of what's going on with the market right now, but because the market is so strong, market is still so strong. But I'm just saying in general, if you're not sure, you can always email me. You can always email me and here, Baba continued, but I thought the exit on that literally was the second day. And, you know, that was fine. And that see that would have been a good decision because then you would have been totally stressed out Friday. It did rally Friday, not knowing that this would have gapped down today which it did, but either way, I don't have a problem with you taking profits out within 24, 48 hours. I don't have a problem with that at all. I think that's better for you, but the problem is that you are not taking all the trades and inevitably you are choosing then to take them based on the fact you're either actively in one that's down, waiting for it to go so you don't do the next one or you are concerned that the last one was a loser like Walmart and then you don't do whatever the next one is. No, not necessarily. I was involved in that and I also was in Target. Did you do Apple? I don't know. Yes, I did Apple, yes. Okay, then you should have made out in that. How much did you make in that trade? I did, but not to the amount that, you know, I would have done if a while ago I would have done very well with it because I would have held it and I would have been working on a larger size anyway. So, but I didn't. You didn't do what? You didn't risk more. I didn't make the amount that I have been making. So, it was only a small amount. Yeah, but I mean- Just say it again, you see, it's like you were saying before. When you're up, when you've been profit, take the moment. So, it's a question of how many days and how long do you hold it? How much money do you want to make out of the position you're in? But again, it's okay. I'd rather see you get out early with money than hold it too long and let them lose. I don't have a problem with that. I don't have a problem with that. But again, you could have emailed me about this. You could have asked me. Yes, yes, I could. But that's okay. But if you're taking half your risk and then you get hit for a full risk, like I have been doing, then you feel it because the ones that have been going on to make have continued strong. And you would have- But it does seem to be the case. It does seem to be either I get it right or I don't. And then when I get it right, I really get it right. That's just, that is me. I mean, you know that from working with me for years. Like it's like, that's why I'll, that's why like, I mean, half the people didn't even do the Facebook and Babbo once they, I mean, they just, on Google, they didn't even think, again, I called Google so late. I mean, you could have done that the day after. I called that so late. So late, and I even knew it was gonna work and it did. I mean, you know, I know it's expensive. Which day did you call Google? I called it on the day of the fifth, the same day as all of them, but it was late. Late meaning, not in the morning pre-market. It was later in that day. Later in the day actually had rally. Yeah, that was actually a perfect price to take it. It was rallying. But you said the same thing. I mean, after the second day, that third day went down. To me, that would have been an ideal situation to take it as a short. Yes, I know I haven't broken it. Yeah, that's the day it went into the money. Yeah, that's the day. I haven't broken the love. But it just fell away then after that, didn't it? I know, but you know, either way, I'm afforded to do that with just less size. You just don't wanna take one or two contracts and something, but you could have. I do. What's up to the sale? Anyways, I want you to do better. If you're truly going to focus on options the rest of the year instead of day trading, that's 100% up to you. I still think doing both is the right thing. I don't know where you're at with everything, but I'm telling you that one of the problems that I've noticed, and I see this with other people too, is again, if I happen to call seven trains, five work two don't, people don't do the five that work, and you can't do that. And if you ever have a concern, if something you think is something is a good exit, or if you should get out of it there, then ask me. And that's just asking me because I'm good at reading, something if I think this is the day to get out or not or whatever. Right, right, I will. But I mean, taking profits is not negative no matter where you're getting now. It's just that you're not doing all the trades, it's all. So this one here today, you're down in, but I really like it. So you gotta see what happens with it. But stick with whatever your money management is. If you're playing them all out, then play them all out. This has not failed. I think this goes on to work. And if I call something else this week, you need to do it. I mean, even if that means putting your size down to take all the trades, but I don't think that's why you didn't do, I don't think that's why you didn't do Baba. And I know that's not why you didn't do Google. No, it was the timing in Baba. That's as simple as that. I just missed what I considered to be more fruitful time to take trade. And it did prove so. I could have taken it the following day when it pulled back into itself. And I didn't, I saw the price. You didn't, because it was, do you thought it was too expensive or what? No, I should have just taken it. I was watching it and I saw it pulled back to me. What was it? 166, I think it was. That would have been an ideal situation to take it to go short again. I'm telling you, there's no other way to get your confidence up besides making money. And the problem is, if you're not gonna follow what I do to the letter, you're gonna struggle with that because of your confidence. So it's, you gotta focus on the things that you know that I taught you and take the trades and kind of step away from yourself a little bit because you're all over the place with what you should be doing right now. Like you gotta almost step outside of yourself a little bit and you gotta just kind of have a faith that I'm gonna be calling good trades. And I do, it's just that you haven't, like the last week, I mean, for this kind of period over the holiday, I mean, all those trades worked and I really don't think many people did them all. So, you know, what are you gonna do? It's like, you gotta take the trades. It's the only way you're gonna make money. Yes, yes, it is. Right, okay, thank you. You wanna go over anything else with me now or ask me anything else that you're up to? I know, there's a, I'm only in this one today that you've called. And that's, I don't increase the risk as well in that. So, we'll be interested to see what it goes. Yeah, that's the only one that's on right now that I think goes and it could go on a heartbeat. So, watch it and see where this is at tomorrow morning. But I really don't think, I don't feel like this is any big deal today. We fell today, but it's like nothing really. That's how I'm looking at this. So, I know the price is down, but as far as the chart and everything else, like, I mean, this just didn't have enough oomph to keep going here today and on Monday to start out the week and that's all. But I mean, I like it, I like it and I think this goes. And so, just follow whatever money management you have and don't get too heavy in these adding when they pull down though, so that you're oversized. You said you added, what did you do? Yes, I have. You were crazy, you were crazy. Whatever's going on. You know what you should have done if this capped up tomorrow morning, that would have been a time to add. Now, it wouldn't have pulled your price down, but then you would have had the confirmation, see that, or, you know, or. Well, yes, yes, but I didn't think, I mean, obviously even where the price is now, it's just sitting there at resistance, isn't it? I mean, it hasn't gone any way like you said it. He's not saying anything negative about that chart, is it? Yeah, it's just the money. It's all about itself. I don't have any problem with it. I really don't, not today anyway. All right, it was good talking to you, Philip. I will talk to you soon. You too. Okay. Thank you. Okay. All right, bye-bye. Bye-bye.