 Hello subscribers! Today is July 5th, the day after Independence Day. I hope everybody had a wonderful holiday. I know I did. First of all, I definitely want to let you know that I didn't make a trade today. I know, I know it's going to be a week since my last trade, but for good reason, I'll let you watch the video as to why I made that decision. Also, my last video, I did let you know that I joined a few Facebook groups and I'm trying to help people out, answer any questions and whatnot. Being involved with the community, that's always a great thing. But I'm sad to report that I actually removed myself from those Facebook groups for many different reasons. One of the biggest reasons is it was a distraction more than what I felt like I was doing good for the community. Reason why is these Facebook groups are basically designed for pump and dubs, it seems like. And very, very, very beginning beginners, very beginners. And that's absolutely okay. I'm not knocking on beginners, but for the majority, they just, they don't, nobody was interested in understanding how to actually day trade. And everybody's, for the majority of the people that I saw, they're in it for the quick buck. And, you know, to each their own, I'm not knocking on them, but it was more of a distraction. And I got a lot of solicitations of, hey, take a look at stock XYZ. It's going to go to the moon. It's going to be, it's going to go a thousand percent tomorrow. Get in today. And I didn't like that. I didn't like the environment. It was almost exhausting having to read through so many messages, posts, and nobody cared. And that's fine with me. That's absolutely fine. I'm not here for, for that, just for the intention or anything of that nature, but I'm here to stay on track. I removed myself from those Facebook groups to stay on track and focus what I'm doing here with this channel, with my trading, with my strategy. And I'm just going to get right to it. So with that being said, I also wanted to let you know that I have very few trading rules for my strategy. And one of those few rules include, do not trade on Fed meeting day or Fed minutes. And that's for, for many different reasons. The number one reason is markets tend to be flat. The markets tend to be flat because the markets are waiting to see what the results are of the Fed meetings or Fed minutes. And they don't know where to go, whether up or down, whether the, they're going to, you know, hike up interest rates, whether they're going to eat pineapples, whether they're going to eat strawberries, whether they're going to eat pancakes. The markets don't know. And that's where the markets tend to stay flat. That was not the case today. I feel so bad, but hey, I stuck to my guns and I didn't trade. And I didn't lose any money. That was the biggest perk of today was I didn't lose money. That's a win in my book. But thank you so much for watching. Hit that subscribe button down below. It'll help me out tremendously. I'm trying to get to 100 subscribers. And let me know what you thought about this video. If you thought this video was helpful, please comment below. And also if you have any questions as well. Thank you so much for watching. Good morning, everybody. It is Wednesday, July 5th. I hope everybody had an awesome 4th of July. I just want to mention today that the Federal Open Market Committee, FOMC, and we have Fed Minutes today. And that might prevent us from making a trade. I have to be very careful as to the setup that I trade today. It has to be a very good one, very strong in order for me to play it. But again, my prediction, which I generally don't like to make predictions. But I think that today is going to be a very flat morning. And it might start moving after the Fed Minutes is over, which by the way, it starts at 2 p.m. Eastern Time. So about 12 noon, my time. We might start to see a very nice move around noon. It is setting up right here. I don't like it. It's just way too sketchy to trade today on this Fed Day. You could probably squeeze it out. Let's see. Let's look at the 2,4250 puts. 2,4250 puts. Let's even talk about today's. Or no, excuse me. These are Fridays. Okay, they're trading at 82 by 84. Generally, I like this right here. But being a Fed Day, I don't like it. That might have been a good 80. I saw it up to 88. Well, I was wrong. Looks like that was a move right there. You could have been getting at 84 and getting out at 90 cents. It's 89 by 90 cents right now. We saw it around right here. And right here, you heard me say 82 by 84. You could have gotten 84. And been getting out at 91. It's seven cents. Wow, look at that. They're up to 98 cents now. That was a play right there, guys. I missed it. I absolutely missed it. Down. Kind of went sideways a little bit and then continue down. Wow, what a move to the downside. Amazing. I missed it. I completely missed this trade today. I'm not too worried about missing this move here, missing the setup. This is all part of being a disciplined trader, discipline and patient trader. Only swinging at the pitches that we like. There's no sense in trying to swing at a high ball, low ball, where the chances are there. But just when we're talking about money, it's worth being patient. And I know my setup fairly well, so I'm not too worried about it, guys.