 Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome. This is Melissa Armo with the Stock Swoosh, and I'm here with Braulio. How are you doing today, Braulio? I'm doing well. Thank you. Braulio, you are a trader, correct? Yeah, yes. Now tell everybody before we talk about your great trade here, Michael Kors, a little bit about your background. You did take my Golden Gap class, but then you ended up doing something else and came back, like, briefly just tell everybody a little bit here your trading story. Well, yes. Good afternoon, everyone. I've known Melissa for about, I think, over a year now. Yes, I took the class, but unfortunately due to some difficult economic times, I had to leave and came back just recently about six months now. Yeah, it was January, I think. Yes, yes, and I had to start all over again, you know, from zero, go through the class again, and just start getting the building up on that experience. Now let me know, and then you had to come back and retake it. Did you feel like you forgot everything when you redid it again this year, or what did you remember stuff? Of course I remember stuff. I just wanted to get everything fresh, you know. Okay, well then that's good. Then if you remembered a lot, that's really, really good. Yes. I started just following you. I remember I learned. I still had the lessons, previous lessons, and I decided just to follow you from the beginning. Of course I had little difficulties here and there, and most recently was my stop losses, which forced me actually to lower my risk, and I was frustrated for a period of time until actually I had a conversation with you about a couple of weeks ago. And we went over it, and after that conversation, you know, I follow your advice, I took action immediately, and I get that issue solved. It's really, really important to take action immediately when a problem arises, and just make note of that for the future, Braulio, anything, anything at all, whether it has to do with your platform or the broker or whatever it happens to do, or even something that's going on with you if you take a trade or you don't understand it, otherwise it'll fester, and it's going to come up again. Like if something's going on, then it's going to happen again, so you need to address it immediately. Don't be afraid to do that. Roger that. You and your Roger that today. I'm sorry, I cannot help it. In generally wanting to be successful as a trader, and I think his story is heartwarming because of the fact that you literally took the class, and then everything collapsed in your life, and you didn't even have a chance to do anything, and then you had to leave. And it was just like one of those circumstances, and then the fact that you remembered me and you remember the market, and you kept the conviction. I mean, it really is all about the conviction again, you kept the conviction that you wanted to trade, and you did it. And something that I taught you made you want to come back, and I'm really, really proud of you for doing that. Thank you. You just hit it on the top of the nail right there. I saw about conviction and just having that belief in your system was what made me come back. Thank you for coming into your life, Raleigha, but you've been wonderful to have in my life as well. You give me, inspire me for someone that I've actually made a difference in their life. You know what I mean? So I want to say that I appreciate that, all the nice things that you've said to me. Thank you. All right, let's talk about Michael Kors. Okay, so Michael Kors was a gap that happened on May 27. Let me just bring up the one minute chart here. First of all, do you actually rate the gaps on your own or not? I never actually asked you this, or do you just go with my rating in the morning? Recently, I started, starting May, I started waking up early, earlier than usual. Before I even entered the room, I would do the rating on my own. Good. So once I entered the room, I have something to compare it to, to make sure, okay, did I get the right answer, sort of thing. Okay, okay. And that day of the course, I remember the moment I saw it, without even rating it, I was completely in love with it. Did you think like no chance of failure? Exactly, that's what my mind was thinking. That's great. And this is the amazing part, like you have changed the way my eyes see things now. It's crazy, it's almost like, you know, when I first started this, I saw this as a dream, you know, something for the moment too far from reaching. Right. And now I'm starting to see things, no, they're, they are achievable, you know, how hard you want it, I guess. So everything comes down to that. Well, now I forget. Time job, I know you haven't transitioned into full-time trainer. You're training horses or something, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Recently, I'm new to that. That's amazing. So obviously, you're going to watch the race this weekend, the Belmont. Well, I'm not too much into racing, I'm just training horses around in this area. Okay, wonderful. Well, some of them run in the big races, though, don't they? This is what I do is for people that are actually on horses for recreation. Oh, recreation. Okay, interesting. Beautiful. Well, you know, it's one of my dreams on a rainstorm. So when I, when I buy that, then you can train it for me. Oh, yes. That's me. I'll be, I'll be, I'll be more than happy. Wonderful. All right. So tell me here, what went on with you on this day here with the course? What did you do with this thing? Well, I, like I said, I had, I had a conviction and I had my, the stop losses issue covered. So I knew how much I wanted to, to risk. I was comfortable risking for the, for the right setup. And this was a well-rated gap. And I was just waiting for the setup to once it opened it, as we can see in the charts, it went up. And I saw it was fighting resistance. And right about the, the third minute, I think, when I saw the, the red, the red candle. That's when I, I don't even know how much I risked, but you know, my, my account size is, it's, it's not, it's not that big. You're like, I took the whole thing. I remember I just made that calculation. You know, I have a calculator, just like, like you do next to you. Yes, I told you. Yes. And I did the, the maximum of shares I can, I can show. And that's when I saw that, I immediately just pressed the button and went all in. So you were, was this the where you got it? Yeah, I did it right on that, on the red bar. Now let me ask you this. Again, I'm calling these things live, but because you did the class, like, are you kind of like preempting it with me? Like, are you like, and I'm watching these, like, are you like right on top of it with me? Are you kind of like getting it right after me? Like, are you like right now? No, I am preempting it. Like, I can see the action that is going on. Okay. And then I think a second after you just called it and gave me more conviction in it just to, okay, I did it right. You know, the kind of thing. Now let me ask you this. Were you worried about this one? Because again, going back, like, let's pretend this wasn't even here. At the moment that this was doing this, it was like, uh, you know, like, were you worried it was going to reverse swoosh or something? Or what were you thinking, like, before it did that? I remember looking during the pre-market. So I had a, Yeah, let's bring that up. I had an expectation that you could, there was a chance that it could go up to 50, 60 or 50, 70s, run around that number. So I was, I was okay with that. Okay. And just seeing that, that resistance level made me the conviction to actually just go, go all in. But then there, and then you were actually negative with the stop and it didn't take you out. Like, were you, did you sweat a bullet then or what was going on at this one? Yes, of course. Yes. Since I was going all in, yes, I definitely was sweating a bullet there. But I, I, I luck, you know what? I locked my hands. I put my hands in my back. Really? Did you? Yes. That's what, that's what I did. I said, I'm not going to kill it. I'm not going to do it because it's not doing anything wrong. Well, that's exactly what I say when I like something that's not doing anything wrong. It's not doing anything wrong. And actually here you could have taken more. Right. But I couldn't, I couldn't take it. Okay. Well, that was okay. You're like, I risked a million dollars. Okay. Since I saw I was falling and you weren't in the trade. So I was just doing it exactly what you were doing. I think if it was, if it wasn't, if I, if you weren't doing it and if you weren't in the room, I think I would have killed it just around 10 o'clock because that's, I guess that's what I would go for. Right. Which is not if that is a reversal time and usually a little bit here around the 10 o'clock, 10 o'clock, period. But literally did you hold this to 48? Cause I was like 48, 48, 48. Yeah. I held it. I already, I took this much risk. I'm just going to go with it and just follow what you're doing. You know, I, I, I had the conviction to that he was going to have a big movement. And if I just stuck with it. So how much money did you make in the straight of the day? It was my biggest win. It was about 1800. And I couldn't believe it. Because I never, I never, I never had that much money. That is humongous. If you don't want to, but. No, that was about 25% of the camera. Crazy. That's crazy. That's crazy. It is. I didn't believe it. I was literally sweating a bullet at the beginning and then at the end I was like, I cannot believe I have this much. That's fabulous. But you hit it with this is like you said, you put your hands behind your back when this thing happened. And by this time you're up the money, which is, which is fine. But I had a webinar that day. Did like, where did you end up getting out of the whole thing then? You remember? Yeah. I think around 11. Yeah. 11 o'clock, right in here. Yeah. Like you got, you got a four seven in front of it. Right. Leave it a certain time or how do you manage your day? Like if you're in something like this and it's working and you're up a lot, like what do you've been doing with that? Well, uh, with, with that trade, I, I was done by before 11. Okay. But like if you're not, what do you do? Do you just kill it? Like, or what happens if you're waiting for it? If you have to leave the house, what do you usually do? I, I change the, the stop loss, uh, the limit. I changed the limit to, to break even if it reverses. Okay. All right. Well, that's a good idea. And I, I kind of, and then whenever I have a break, I check, I check the trade. Well, most of them do go really, really quick in the morning, but like every once in a while, obviously you have something like this. I mean, this thing just fell into four o'clock really, which was really, really good. I mean, it would have gone to 45, which I said was his dream target. I think if it wouldn't have run out of day, the next day down it got like in the pre-market, this was actually like 45, 18 in the pre-market the following day. So this was your biggest day ever. And you just been back at it six months and you made $1,800. Yes. And that was my biggest, my biggest win. I still cannot believe I did that. You know, that just there amount, amount of risk I took, you know, and I think it's, that's, that's the conviction right there. So what do you attribute that to? The setup, the gap rating, having me call it, like in your mind, what do you attribute the ability that you did? Cause you did it. I mean, even though I called it, it was really you that did it. Cause you risked your own money. You didn't risk my money. You risked your own. Like what do you attribute that to? The setup. The setup is what gave me that conviction. Okay. This here. Cause I already, I had, you know, I had, I had my, my plan of action, you know, prior to entering is like, okay, how much I had this notion that I described at the beginning. I knew it could go all the way to 50, 70, you know, reach 51, but I, in my mind it was 50, 70 was, I guess the highs. And I was okay with it. So it was doing exactly. And I recognized the resistance. And right when I saw the red candle, you know, all that, that action coming, coming in to the downside. That's when I, okay, this is my, this is my, my key, you know, my trigger. Right. Yeah. Exactly. I forget, have you actually done the class? Like, I don't think I've ever, I've actually even asked you that. Well, this, this year, I think, three, three times. So what do you, after the first time, like when you retake it, like, what do you get out of it? Well, of course, the class has a lot of information, you know, I think most, most can agree that it's overwhelming. I think I'll take that as a compliment. In a good way. Yeah. Exactly. It's, I feel, every time I'm done with, with, with the, I was done with the class, I felt very knowledgeable because I learned something new. And I think I told you that in a, in a couple of emails, you know, every time I take your class, I feel like I learn, I pick up something new. I always pick up something new and, and anything that I learned before, you know, it's even gets deeper into my, into my mind, into my brain. And that's what helps me, you know, just have this information engraved and just the repetition and the experience in the room is what helps build up this, this conviction, you know. Yes, definitely. And you can, you saw that this month. I mean, look at what happened. Like you saw that this month. I mean, there were other examples of other trades that have happened earlier in the year that you just didn't take that much risk in. But as time goes on and you're feeling better about yourself and your abilities, you'll continue to replicate this. And then one day you'll make $4,000 on a trade. Do you know what I mean? And then you'll really like, and then you'll probably quit your job. But actually horses are pretty, they're, they're, they're amazing. That's a beautiful world. Oh, that's wonderful. But, but yes, this, this gives me a, another way to actually do things made perhaps in the future, even on my own ranch. Yes, definitely. I can see it. Wonderful. Wonderful. Talk to me about which one was it? Oh, Rex, Rex. Oh, okay. Are you still in this? You're in this as a swing trade? No, I had a, I had a plan of action as well. And I was, my plan of action was to stick with it until they hit 40. When that did that yesterday. So you got out of it. So where did you get in it? I did it on the second day of the gap, the day after the gap. 530. Where was your paper stop? I did a, with this, I didn't want it to go above the, the first candle of the gap, the green, green candle. Now did you actually take this as an option or an equity trade? What did you do with this thing? If, if I could, my, my profit would be equity. But since I have, I don't have the, the buying power yet. I did an option. Play of this. So how do, how much did you end up making in this with the option? I mean, this is a good move here. I did 700. I did 700. That's good. Now let me ask you this again for the overnight. If, what was the price of the entry? Like if you had taken this as an equity, like let's just say you build the count up, you're doing really well. You have a couple more $1,800 trades. What would you have made if you did do it as an equity at the price that you, of the day that you got it? Like I stayed in it to 40. I think with, with this one, I think I would have, would have taken a thousand shares. And I would have made $5,000, I think. That's crazy. That's crazy. Cause look, this really fell. And I want, I think what made, what gave me conviction to enter this trade? Because with, with options, it's tricky. You got to have the right timing and timing gets more difficult. And, but what made, what gave me the conviction to enter this trade was, I think the, the knowledge I gained from your trends class. That's, that's what, that's what helped me. Yes. Absolutely. That's what helped me enter this trade. And because it's an option, I had to risk even more, but I was confident it would go. It would go to Target. And I, and even though, you know, it had green days and on the way, I didn't, I didn't kill it. And I, I started with it. My goal was to, it's going to go to 40. And once it reached 40, I'm up. That's really good. I mean, I think the best thing that you said there just right now was the idea that you had a target and you had a plan of action and you took it out. Now, as it turns out, this did go down and actually broke 39, but it might have reversed before that and flipped you on through. I think the idea that you actually stayed with it and got out when you said you would, because you did the option was going to do, because again, it goes to do with the timing. Like when was that going to expire by? No, you should. It would expire in September, if I'm not mistaken. Oh, okay. All right. So then yeah, you're fine. But still, it's the idea. You've got to get the timing right with the option. Right. Because it fluctuates even more. The options, that's how they do it. You've got to be very careful with that. Yeah, definitely. Now, let me, every day with me in the room, how many options are you going to get? Not many. I just go for the ones that really, they have, I guess, strong potential. Like right now, I have, I could amount invested in the market, but the way I do it is just because it goes up and down, up and down, whenever I see like when just, I think last week, Thursday when when the market was down, I added to my position. And it just keeps building up to it. And I, as of now, I'm still up in the QQQs. And then I remember doing the Oracle and Costco. And once I'm up a certain percent, I have, like I said, having a plan of action is very important. So now, once it hits my target, I'm out. And I guess what I'm doing is compound interest. Well, that's okay. Yeah, look at this. You're in the QQQs. What's your target on this then here? Are you, what are you, where are you gonna get out of this one? My plan of action is to wait for that breakout and most likely 115. Okay, all right. Anything, if it hits, because nothing goes up in a straight line. So just wait for that retracement. And once I cash the profits on the top, you know, just wait for that retracement and get in play like that. That's my plan of action for the market. If it gets to 115, have you figured out how much you'll make on this one? Yes, I'll probably make, as of now, I don't want to jinx it. You don't have to tell me that. I don't want to jinx you either. You're funny. Since it's a good size, I plan on sharing it once it becomes realized. I'm telling you, it's gonna go to 120 or 125 though. I mean, I don't know yet the timing, but I'm telling you it's going over 115. But I mean, I know and I have the conviction. That's why, you know, but I do have a plan of action how to play it because, you know, it goes up and down and it's why not take a profit in the way, you know? Yeah, no, that's a good idea. That's a good idea. And as you get more experience with this and doing more of them and also building the account, then you can piecemeal out and then hold a portion of it to the larger target, you know, which you haven't been doing, but you could certainly start to do that once you grow your account. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I think this was really, really good. I appreciate you sharing with everybody. And the reason I wanted to do this video with you is because you did the class, you left, you came back. And one of the things that I talked to so many people about is this idea of perseverance. And I think you're a living, breathing example of that, Braulio, because you went through hard times after you did my class, didn't even have a chance to start really using the system and then you still came back at it. And now look how successful you've been this year. I mean, it's just, it's really, really a great story. No, I owe this success to you. Thank you. Oh, thank you. You don't know all of it to me. I mean, you owe a lot of it to yourself. Somehow you found me. How did you even find me? How did we meet? I remember going on, looking for YouTube videos on the market. Really? That's how your website came across. Really? That's interesting. Wow. And it's just the energy you project with that made me even go for it. Yeah, yeah, definitely. Fired you to do it. I think that, again, I've said it's before and I'll say it again. I think that people that find me and take my class and learn from me are meant to be successful in the market and they're meant to find me. And obviously there was something in you. You manifested me coming into your life. Do you understand that, Bralia? Like you created this to happen. Do you get that? I do, I do. I mean, you are responsible for that. Something in you wanted to meet me and then you found me. So you are responsible for that. You are responsible for finding me to have the impact I've had on your life. So it is you. There's something within you that allowed that to happen. Your instinct, your knowing, your spirit. That part of you that wanted to do something different with your life, that wanted to trade the market, that had the inspiration and motivation that you wanted to make more money and you were looking for someone that would help you do it. And in a sea of a million people in this vast universe and you live in California and we've never even met face to face, you put it out in the universe and you created it to happen to bring me into your life. Yes, and I'm so glad I am. I appreciate everything that life has given me so much. And I appreciate every single thing and you're one big piece of it. Oh, thank you, Briah. But know that you can do it with other stuff. You know what I mean? Like you can keep doing it. Like the stuff that I taught you, the mindset, these things I'm talking about right now, this is above and beyond the money and the market. Other things that you wanna create, circumstances that you wanna change in your life, things you want to happen, now that you proved, and I'm telling you that you brought me into your life and that you're doing this now with the market, you can keep building on that to manifest other wonderful things for yourself. Yes, you're absolutely true and that's something that I'm starting to see more clearly, clearly, especially when I start thinking ahead now and I can, just the micro-course trade that I did, it made me realize, okay, it's no longer a dream, it's everything that you put your mind to, it's achievable and just work towards every goal that you have. And right now, I'm writing my goals and I'm created to achieve every single one. That's great. The time happens that you give up. I think that's what's great about your story is, and I said this to you in the email, like, gosh, you know, the end of last year, whenever you reached out to me, it's really about the fact that you, I think the great thing that you did for yourself and your own life is that even though stuff happened, you stayed optimistic. What a lot of people do is they let something that affects them and then they conspire a lot of control and things can get worse. Do you know what I mean? And you didn't allow that to happen to you, you stayed strong within yourself and then was able to turn it around. And now things are better. It's just like the butterfly and the caterpillar in the class. Yes, exactly. That's the perfect analogy. Yeah. I didn't even know I could do that. But you can. You can. Yes. And look how smart you are. You didn't even know you were this smart. And look how intelligent you are. You're making these decisions, you're doing these option trains. I mean, you're looking at the gaps before I even run the room and you're seeing the exact same things as me. I mean, this is what I'm talking about where you have to act like your eyes are seeing the same thing that I see and that's what you're getting. Yes. And I'm still amazed what happened last week. And I think as I go along, I'll be getting more comfortable at risking. Like I said that day, I was literally sweating the bullets. Well, I'm offending you take the risk. You've been doing this now for quite a while though. I mean, it has been six months. Like are you afraid ever? Are you saying, you know what? If the trade fails, like obviously some days trades don't work. When a trade doesn't work, like are you like angry about it or what's your attitude then? Like how do you feel about it when you get up the next day? If you have a day where you take a loss on one day and you get up the next day, like what are you thinking then? Well, prior to that trade, I was only risking 100 to 200 per trade. The days that didn't work didn't work. I would just, you know, flip the page sort of thing. And I was doing that. Like I wasn't able to remember, I had an issue with this stopwatch. So I was forced to stay in this limit size. And I'm still, I actually solved it. And it was the turning point and what I just had this vision, this is gonna work, stay with it. You have the conviction, what? If it doesn't happen, at least, you know, you did it. You know, you did it on your own and you learn from it. Right. And that's what I did. And fortunately it didn't work. I think the one really good thing that you do, which can probably help other people is you never get out of control where you act like a crazy person when you don't have a good day because I think that sometimes people have that and you never like double down or start trading like 10 different things. I mean, you really like, if something doesn't work, you're like, that's it. Like, I mean, you really are good at that being in control like that. Yes, and that's because that's why you emphasize, you know, and the big movements do happen in the morning. And if it didn't happen that morning, oh well, you know, it's okay, there's gonna be another good gap the next day. Yeah, that's a great example here. I mean, like you played this really well because obviously this one didn't fall through in the day that got, actually, did you get out of this with the money? Because we were up like 65 cents in this. Did you get out of this with profit or were you staying, did you stay through this, the racks of the day trade? I've been following, I was following your call. Okay, good. But then you made more than that on the option. Correct. Yeah, that's the important thing here and I'll just say this and then I'll let you go. This, the fact that you took the stop on this, even though you were up, but you believed again the target was 40, it didn't get there in the day of the gap. But then you looked at the next day and you said, wait a minute, the gap rating is still telling me this thing is good. I still see that this thing is good, that you allowed yourself, whether you did the day trade here or swing trade of the option, which is what you did, you kept the conviction in the rating system and I think that has made an impact on you improving to make more money. Absolutely, absolutely. And every, I decided, I took all your classes. I forgot you took all my classes. That's so funny. I forgot you even did the trends class. Yes, and that's what enforces that because in the trends class, you go deeper into major, what major resistance, what major support levels are. And that's, I started once after every now and then, I look at the trades we take and I look for these key factors that are gonna. Good for you. And that's what I saw in the racks. I was like, okay, I have conviction that this is gonna go. And then you would in the room, you would even cover that the racks is gonna, yes, it's gonna go down. So you would enforce that conviction on top of that. So why don't I let you go? What is the biggest thing that you get out of being in the room? Cause you really could trade by yourself now. I mean, you're at the point now, you could trade without me. Like what's the biggest thing you get out of the room? It's building up my conviction because like I said, I remember I said that I, prior to actually entering the room, I do rate the gaps on my own and then try to verify if I get close or if I got the right answer. And it's helping me with my conviction. That's what it's doing. It's just the experience, seeing it through your eyes is helping me a lot. I appreciate you sharing with everybody. I think it helps traders that are trading with me now and it helps new people to understand that a regular person can obviously learn this system. This is not something that's out of reach. Yes, absolutely, it's achievable. Thank you so much. Have a great night. If you're interested in more information, email me at melissa at thestockswish.com.