 Hello there everyone and welcome, my name is Melissa Armell and I own the Stock Swoosh. You know, trading is one of those things where you really have to want to do it. It's not something that you have to do, like brushing your teeth or going to work every day or, you know, eating, sleeping, putting gas in your car. You have to do those things to get by. Trading is not something that you have to do, okay? You get up in the morning, if you decide that you want to trade, it should be something that you want to do. It's fun that you're excited about that you look forward to. That actually brings meaning and purpose to your life and your days. And it's fun. I mean, making money is fun and particularly what I find fun about trading, when there's two things. One, I obviously love making money. I absolutely do and that is one of the reasons why I'm so successful. And also people say, well, why do you trade and teach and do TV and do this thing and this thing? Because I love to make money. I mean, it motivates me. So if money is something that motivates you, then you've got to do it. Because obviously it's not something that you have to do. It's something that you should want to do if in fact you want to earn more money. Now if you're fine with your life and you're fine making the amount of money that you're making, whatever that happens to be at your job, or maybe you're in unemployment, if you're okay with that, then so be it. But I found that a lot of people really aren't okay with that. They try to convince themselves that they are, but they're really not. And they're always wanting more. This thing, that thing, the other. At the end of the day, trading is fun because you make money. But for me also, the thing that I find fun about trading is that I like to be able to predict what's going to happen in stocks and the market before it does. Like this week, the market fell. I predicted this. I totally, totally predicted this. I got it down, predicted it perfectly. Exactly. I was right. So I like being right. I like predicting things and then having them turn out to be true. So that obviously, the money is the benefit of that because I predict things right and then I get the benefit of the profit and the trades when they work, when I predict it right. But in order to make money in the market, you've got to be able to predict whether someone's going to go up or down. And that's how you know whether to go long or short. And so that's something that I love about trading. But getting back to what I was saying at the beginning, trading is not something that you have to do. Absolutely not. And it's not for everyone either. Like my sister, for example, would never want to trade her life. She has no interest in it. She doesn't even want to hear me talk about it in the market or anything quite frankly, which is hilarious. But at the same time, she used to be a teacher. She's not right now, but she was for a long time. I would have no interest teaching little kids. So everybody likes to do different things. But if you're one of those people that enjoys trading and you like reading charts and you like making money and you love the market and you have a passion for it, then go for it. Stop waning around. Every single day now seems precious ever since COVID. But if you're a healthy person or you live through COVID, wherever you are in the world, and even now when you look at the world and you say, gosh, I'm so thankful for everything that I have, a roof over my head. I can feed myself and all of the rest. We have to make our lives count. We have to do things that uplift us, that actually bring joy and excitement to every single solitary day. I can't tell you how many people I talk to that seem so down even now in 2021 and almost feels like we're never going to be out of this thing. It's up to you to get out of it. If you're in a funk, it's up to you. If your trading is not going well, if you're losing money, it is up to you to change that. And if you want to make extra money, it is up to you. You have to learn to do something different like trade. And in order to do that, you can take a class. I teach it once a month. It's called the Golden Gap. If you're interested, email me at melissa at thestockswitch.com. Have a great day, everyone.