 Welcome, this is Melissa Armo with the Stock Swoosh and I'm reviewing the Gap Options Newsletter subscription 2022 Year-to-date advanced trader results. So the win ratio for the letter What is 79% and we're at the tail end of June. So we're almost halfway through the year It's been a very good year on average This is our win ratio But it's been a profitable year as far as return in investment more so than I think last year for example because We've had a lot of large moves this year in stocks and the overall market and a lot of volatility Which has made for great trading you can always make money in volatility if you're trading the right direction We've been doing that very often this year. So you figure if you take ten trains Eight are gonna work two. We're gonna lose You can trade with a beginner risk. We'll talk about that later It depends on the cash size of your account the idea is to take it slow if you have a small account I definitely think that that's something should people should do the gap options newsletter only has two Subscription options six months, which is 49.99 or 12 months, which is 69.99 So whether you want to spend five grand or seven you could be on the letter. Obviously the one year is a better value Overall though It's a very active letter. This is not long-term investing at all You are taking the trade you are getting the momentum Then you were getting out and you're booking the money and then again I'll probably call another trade because it's an active letter. You're gonna see here. This is a lot a lot of trades here So if you have questions or if you would like to sign up for the gap options newsletter You can email me at Melissa the stocks wish calm my phone number is 9 to 9 30 200 gap You can call me if I don't answer leave a message. I will return your phone call You can follow me on Twitter Facebook YouTube or Skype So we're getting into the week before July 4th. Actually, it's hard to believe And we're gonna start the beginning of earning season in July now What's the difference between non-earning season and earning season for what I do all the picks that we make are based on gaps It's based on my golden gap rating system. That's a class the golden gap course Which I teach once a month the newsletter is something separate It's a subscription service if you want to take the class and learn fine You'll learn how I make the picks. Otherwise you sign up for the newsletter I'm going through that process each morning and then you're getting the newsletters if there's any good quality and golden gaps But earning season is a good time to train gaps because many stocks actually gap on earnings They gap up they gap down this newsletter is calls and puts just so you know We do do both so you're buying the call and selling it and then you're buying the put in selling it That is what it is You do know have to you do have to know how to actually do that in your platform And you have to set up an options account and all of that is something that you can go over with your broker Again, you can trade anywhere that you want to trade You can open up a cash account You don't even need a margin account to trade options and I think the minimum is $2,000 to open up an options account You have to obviously set your risk and the number of trades that you're going to take based on the size of your cash account If you want to ask me what I think about that you can always talk to me about that too But 2022 should be your year to make your dreams come true get organized this year Get solid with your trading take a step back so that you can take 10 steps forward because sometimes people are going You know 100 miles an hour losing losing losing losing with no end in sight when they're going to actually make it It's about taking step by step and getting firm on the ground You ever hear of that where you go and you your stomp your feet on the ground and you put your feet in the grass so you can feel You know The vibration of the earth and feel really like grounded That's the kind of thing where a lot of people with their trading. They're really not grounded They're just not grounded at all for me. What helps to keep me grounded Is my process is the analyzing that I do every morning in the 26 point rating system I'm not looking for a perfect score on every gap. Just so you know for those of you that done the class You know this I'm looking for 20 points or more. So that's the cutoff. Okay So if I get something that's under 20 Consequently, then I'm not looking to do it at all. So there are some days when we don't have any options or any trades And there's some days I may have five trades or six trades Okay, you may not want to take all the trades. You may not have the money to take all the trades You do the trades that you can I often get this question. Well, what if I take this one? I don't take that one and I take the one that doesn't work If I'm calling six trades a day chances are most of the time I'm calling trades with the overall market direction. Therefore if one's going to work They're all going to work if one's going to lose they're all going to lose For example, if I call a qqq and a spy and a diamonds, that's basically the market They're very close to the same thing. Do you understand what I'm saying? And again, you can always ask me if you have questions for this as well But it's time to get focused and get grounded. You've got halfway A through the year this year. You've got halfway more to go You you've got to sit down and figure out what your goals are and how much time you want to really spend trading If you don't have a lot of time to mess around and be in the day trading room and trading We look at charts all day You might want to do options because you can get the newsletter get it to your email You take the trade put a sell order after you get into it It's a day order if it fails you you're out before four o'clock if it doesn't it cancels, you know If you can't sit and watch all day, you can't I do put targets in the letter just so you know, okay You can look at those targets in order to exit the trade or you set a return an investment target of 50 50% 100% or you watch it you watch the number targets like I said So going through the entire stats for the year so far. I'm showing the advanced trader risk results. I'm I've gone through So far since this year showing the actual newsletters I did the whole month of january if you want to go back on my youtube I have it there and again It's very time consuming because we've had a lot of trades, but I'm going to try to do that consecutively for the entire year I'm showing the winners and losers in this power point and the stats And I'm going to show you what one of the newsletters looks like when you would get it And go over a couple things here points that I that I just discussed if I am going to show now between now and the end of the year at some point Basically all the newsletters for the year It's just very time consuming to do that and I have many things on my plate, but january's up Okay, if you want to look at it and I've done it for an average Results for not just advanced but beginners too Because again, if you want to risk a small amount you certainly can no one said you have to take more than one contract in a trade So so far 213 winners year to date 56 losers for breaking even trains The win ratio is 79 percent average advanced trader risk in this these totals here is 8000 per train So you can't lose any more than you risk in an option. Okay, this is not like a swing trade It's not a trade on margin. Just so you know it So if you buy 10 contracts, all right, and you risk $8,000, you can't lose any more than the 8000 I hope everyone understands that if you don't you can email me questions Year to date results and again, it's really been a good year 2,277 995,000 It's it's been a good year. I mean, you know, and really it's because of the market So let's take a look at one of the trades that we did that was just a really nice trade And this was a recent trade with an expiration date of last week. It was june 17 I called the spy 401 putts and you can see here the time stand It was some at 946 on thursday the night. So i'm usually doing the weeklies. Okay, so Here's the chart. Here's the ninth Okay, so this is again, this is the spy So we opened I sent this a little bit after the open Okay, you do it you get in get the drop Boom boom boom and I just want to show here people are always asking This was not the absolute absolute absolute best exit you could have got in this train Because the best exit would have been the last day And I don't really think it makes sense to hold all the time to the last day You're up a lot of money in this a good exit You know, you don't want to mess up the train So this was an exit of 6 13 on the over here Into this drop We're on the spy So 5 75 cost 15 contracts risk 86 25 Should at 36 profit 45 375 Return and investment 26% Again, I don't know what this was into the drop here. I do know that the 409s All the way down here. It didn't quite get to 360 the last day, but it was almost 50 points Almost 50 points through the strike. So, you know, you can do the math I mean and and this is not like something that we do trades like this with a 500 some percent return investment every day But I absolutely do call trades like this And it is the benefit of being on the newsletter And I'm very good at reading directional bias and it's because of my rating system Again, which I teach in the golden gap course that 26 point rating system helps me see when the market's going to rally Or a stock or when it's going to fall And drop. Okay. So again a put just go back here Is what this was Is basically a short Okay, here's where the market sold off. And again, that was last week We'll see where we go here and get this week, but this is what the newsletters look like just so you know So a really nice trade. So what if you had risk One contract spent 575 dollars It is still was a huge trade But you can see here how you don't need to spend a lot of money to make money and options You absolutely absolutely can do trades And you can make money in trades With a small risk whether it's 500 whether it's a thousand. Okay. Oh here. I have this in here for the beginner So this was the beginner risk two contracts of risk of 1150 sold at 36 dollars profit 6050. There you go So you can see how you could take a $5,000 account Build it up to 10 take a $10,000 account build it up to 20 And that is what you should do baby step it Baby step it So again, there was a lot of trades this year over 200 trades so far called this year If you don't want to do them all you don't and again, you may not feel comfortable being in five things at once Sometimes the trades take a little bit while to go And if you're not comfortable being in multiple trades Past the night going to bed overnight Then you can only be in one or two things at a time whatever you feel comfortable with Oh, I want to go back to one thing here. Let me go back to the chart one of the advantages of Doing what I do learning what I do and also becoming a newsletter subscriber to the gap options newsletter is Capturing the overnight moves in stocks and the market when you're already in the train And then it goes into The gap in the next morning You're already in it you took it you're in it and you get a massive overnight move Which is what happened with this here. What do I mean? We closed here gap down fell Closed your gap down fell so when you get the overnight jump Okay, that Really is how you get that massive momentum and I'm very good at calling trades like this So, you know doing this in this manner and having the perfect time to entry which we did on the night You know, it's it's really one of these things where Again, you could have held it the last day, but no matter when you took it the first day You got out the first day the second to the third day. It was a profitable trade Up until the end so it's the overnight moves though that are so beneficial And where you can really see the dollar signs and it actually makes it You know really fun to trade quite frankly Okay, so getting back to The beginning of the year So a lot of nice trades in here. We did the Q's test of spy netflix was a really big one This is to start off the year. We were doing the market early this year Um that spy there didn't work But we were Rare to go in the market early in january and we've had a lot of volatility even going back to january now It's hard to believe because it's june, but this has been going on all year people Nvidia we did facebook which is now meta netflix was a nice train What should your expectation be? I think 50 percent is a good profit I think you should try for 100 percent in every train But some of the trains were 200 300 400 500 percent of whatever you risk Again, you have to be comfortable holding things sometimes overnight. That's something that you have to get used to The Q's again a nice trade if you're risking 8,000 9,000 is a good profit. What if it keeps going? Chances are i'll call another trade and again if you're going to do a Q and a spy Maybe you you get them you take them one goes the other one goes get out of one Hold the other or you take two contracts book one contract hold the other overnight Or if you're taking 10 get out of five hold five, you know Apple was a nice trade spy was a nice trade Q's lost there. Netflix was a winner tussle lost spy one then amazon did not work Facebook was a big winner netflix. This is all the netflix earnings in there beautiful beautiful beautiful trains Uh huge trades in the market this year spy 51,500. This is a risk again of average 8,000 Q's 396 and again, this is not an exact science. So you may take a train say your risk is 1,000 It's okay to risk 1100 or 900 what what you shouldn't do if your average risk is 1,000 risk three Or 2200 you have to be within the range. It's extremely important to do that spry profit 16 8 q q q is 15 for Goldman Sachs that really didn't work out right. Unfortunately. It was a winner, but not much spy was a winner two spies sometimes I'll stack them I'll stack them like I'll call, you know One strike two strike three strikes lower strikes. You can do the cheaper one if you want Um, because if they're gonna work, they're all gonna work in the same direction in the timing amazon was a big winner 20,400 diamond 6750 I don't always do the diamonds, but sometimes sometimes we do And and that's not and that uh index can move Facebook 7200 cues 11 5 11 250 spy was a big winner 40,600 These trades or these cost of these options has increased this year They fluctuated up and down, but they're definitely more expensive the the market puts that we've been doing it recently than earlier in the year Netflix 18 6 16 8 q 16 2 spy for 22 6 Apple was a little one 5500 spy 7500 cues 4200 spy was a loss now. What about Losers so you can kill it if it's down half if that's what you want to do So if you risk a thousand it's down 50 percent you can kill it If you have a small account you want to do that fine However, I will say if the time is still on in the trade So say it's down 50 percent. I call it a monday. It's down. You kill it This trade could go till it could go it could go by friday. You've got plenty of time left So I really think people should size themselves conservatively to the lower end so they can play every trade out The trains that I'm I lost in full you can see that I they just they just expired the day of expiration That never went right for me or I was I wasn't up enough to get out And then I didn't get out it was positive a little and then I didn't it flipped against me Or maybe it never went in my direction But I didn't kill it if there's something where I lost a portion like this spy And there's other ones in here with the losses that are less than the full amount I ran them into the last day and and and saved whatever I could and they just never went right for me So I think winning or playing every trade to win or lose is actually going to give you the best results But you've got to have the cash to do those trades and be able to hold them because you might take a trade on a monday That's down and if you can't stomach watching it every day. You can't take anything else. You're in the trade It's dead until it comes back around again if it does Wednesday, thursday, friday Then you have to manage them by killing them if you want But I will tell you that some trades go the last day with me that happens It happened two weeks ago or three weeks ago whenever we were doing some they came back the very last day They completely came back positive trades. They were down all week came back the last day So I mean, you know, I'm just letting you know like this is how it is The way that I'm looking at it looking at the chart and reading the gap So we're playing momentum people That is what this is BA was a winner apple was a winner microsoft another nice one. We haven't done that a lot this year mcd did not work. I was regretting doing that actually BA didn't work out queues lost by lost facebook was a winner 32 8 spy lost ups was a little winner There are some weeks where Things don't work out. So like this was a losing couple of days here You can see you can see the stats here So of the course of 52 weeks in a year again Even at an 80% win ratio or 79% win ratio You're going to have a week here and there that nothing's going to work and you're going to lose that week So whether you decide to take three trades and you're losing a three that week or five You're going to be able to suffer through it Until the downturn when the trades then work again Because there's more trades that work that don't but usually the way that I call trades again Typically with the market if the market doesn't cooperate on that particular week Then nothing's going to work right unless it's a particular specialty gap Which actually this facebook was that week But it still was a bunch of trades that did not work out right on that particular week So that's why you can't oversize yourself either But you definitely have to take advantage of all the weeks we've had a hundred percent win ratio Which is just so many this this year PayPal worked we did two tickers netflix was a winner facebook was a winner q spy Little cues there again when there's a small profit in something It's usually because i'm running it into the last day And didn't really go huge at all before the friday I'm only like holding the last day if it's down or not up that much Facebook was a winner apple lost Full spy was a winner cues were winner amazon was a winner netflix was a winner facebook big winner huge trading paypal Have to go back and look at that Cues was a winner spy spy cues Little bit of a loss in the diamonds facebook one two trades cues spy microsoft We've had just huge trades in the market this year big spy and tesla two Really big trades and tesla they're expensive if you cannot do them because of the cost then you take it off the list amazon used to be very expensive than the stock split now It's very playable for people with smaller accounts, which is nice for people because the stock still has Good moves not moves like it used to at a higher price point But if the stock still has a lot of volume momentum and can move and still pay facebook 12 000 netflix 1300 Winner in the cues winner in the spy another winner in tesla facebook spy See again, you can see here where i'm calling trades like usually in a group in a grouping where i'm seeing the market's Going to go up or the market's going to go down And then we're doing you know puts or calls depending on the market direction And if the one goes they all go Again another winning week cues one apple ba spy cues another paypal I was on top of that paypal for a while and that was dropping. I haven't looked at that lately I I got to go back and look at that and then the cue cue cues 71 25 Then these two were bust bustin full blew out the last day apple and cues again If you want to kill something was down a certain portion that's up to you spy was a bust too ba 5400 facebook 12 000 diamonds a little one cues was okay That didn't fully go spy lost apple lost in full two good ones in ba Paypal again, I mean it's just When I when I find something and this is again, you know, I'm I'm I'm just right on top of something We did that with netflix. We did that with the pay pals Years again, we were doing that with by and but I haven't played that for a while Like and and that was actually we were doing calls and that Huge trades and that it was a couple of years ago. I forget if it was I want to say it was 2019 summer 2019 ba 31 5 Diamonds was a winner jpm was a winner cues was a winner spy was a winner facebook was a winner paypal was a winner microsoft was a winner You know again for every Time there's a losing week. You you just have to Grin and bear it or bite the bullet because you know the way that I call trains there could be You know 10 weeks in a row where there's all winners You know and so this is why you have to come to some kind of conclusion Where you can live with the amount of size that positioning size that you're having with the trade Or how many you want to be in at one time? Spy was a winner cues was a winner ba was a big winner facebook was a winner qq cues was a winner spy and microsoft too Another winning streak here amazon was a winner spy spy cvx huge winner that chevron Actually, when we did that was a nice winner. Those were calls Another cvx cues was break even Netflix was a winner facebook loss cues break even spy lost in those two ba was a little one and cues worked too The spy did not work cvx again microsoft winner nvidia winner cues lost apple lost And cvx again ba one spy lost fdx lost i remember that one that was annoying that fdx didn't work jpm lost ba lost cvx one qq cue was a winner cvx one adobe one in the first trade the second one did not win cvx One a little one in xom We haven't done that for a while spy lost cues lost ba lost nvidia lost so that was a period there where things weren't working in our favor golden was a little winner and then netflix cues cvx and cues all lost that week Then we were back on a hot streak Hot to trot spy winner 192 facebook winner cvx one zoom cues netflix cues Again winner winner winner winner cues one apple was break even big winner in the cues twitter was a winner ba to ba spy When i get in a roll i really can get in a roll and and what i found You know with people is Then people don't size themselves again if i call 32 trades in a row that are winners People stop sizing themselves and then the 33rd trade loses and then don't size themselves you can't do that You have to think about your risk in sizing every trade You've got to do that even if i'm on a hot streak You know i mean you have to be responsible for the amount of risk that you're taking per trade Amazon was a winner cues was a winner netflix was a winner diamonds lost spy one facebook one mba lost Cues was a winner spy big one in the facebook. I have not traded that since it became meta I have to look at that chart cues was a winner microsoft spy amazon was a little guy google big one cue cue cues was a winner 56 25 6000 again sometimes i'll stack the strikes You don't have to do both of you don't want to okay spy was a winner facebook big winner google big winner netflix another hot streak here netflix winner disney we did I don't know why that tessa didn't work. I don't remember that why that didn't work Everything else worked this week netflix cues another cues another big spy twitter failed that one i remember cues one google lost little cue microsoft ba netflix again that was just running into the end of the week amazon one cues one spy one diamonds one cues break even spy was a small loss and the amazon worked ebay was a nice gap netflix was another big winner cues was another big winner spy amazon again spy cues Again winning week winning week winning week ba was a huge winner. I do remember that one Cue cute cues 20 800 spy navidia facebook amazon cues I mean again You can come to some kind of say okay. I'm in three things cure up The other one's up But I think the other one's gonna go get out of the two that are uphold the one To get to a bigger move a bigger return in investment You know what I mean Walmart was one and we didn't get to this here that I did and I got out the day that it that it that it Went and I thought it was fine to do that It ended up being a massive trade like I don't know six seven hundred percent return investor or something I did not get that whole thing It's you have to like kind of pick and choose you can't hold everything to a piggy target Again chunk it chunk it chunk it out That's the way you're gonna make money. That's the way you're gonna build your account. Oh here. This was the week I was just talking about it It was a fine trade But it ended up being a massive mover which you wouldn't have known you you see the trade you're up It's almost 100 percent the day you take it you get out boom When you're in a trade and you're up money It's never over to the fat lady sings and you book the money anything you turn around the next day That's number one number two You know just because you have more time in something it doesn't mean you should hold it You got to know that too target earnings were that night and I didn't know how to report as it turns out it helped The wal-mart go but I didn't know that you don't know that nobody knows that before the earnings What they're going to say or how the stock's going to react so the conservative exit was the day of But take the profit never look back. There was a solid trade the first day Q's was a winner target was a winner than we did that one spy Amazon this other Q and spy did not work That spy Q's facebook amazon and netflix and ba lost that was a losing week then Then we did cbx again This was this was all the same week navidia spy cbx alta That altar was Ridiculous that altar should have worked So this all of these was one week that didn't work Target was a big one then 15 six Q's winner ba 62 50 Actually want to look at that altar too then we did wal-mart again winner microsoft winner apple winner tesla little loser Again running into the last day Q Q Q's was a winner wal-mart was a big winner spy was a huge winner target was a huge winner Q's was a good winner diamonds winner netflix winner amazon winner spy q's tesla Let's look at all time I remember that day, but I'll remember it when I see the chart here Yeah Yeah That sucker this was a call we did calls in this And a and a and it started and looked like it was gonna go And it was up at one point actually but again I just You know it ran out of time and then because of the market fell and i'm just looking at this here I mean It's actually a beautiful chart. I talked about it. I talked about it. I talked about it. I talked about it This is a fairly strong chart again We did calls in this if it wouldn't be for the Market this would have ran up would have been a brand in laltime high wouldn't want took off like a rocket It was here. We did it here close your gap dump And again if you got out of it at some point you could have maybe get out of it with some money I don't know what the highest percentage it would have been but it wasn't it was nowhere near 100 percent I'll tell you that Anyways, this is a nice chart It's just you know the market has been taking a beating And where the market goes so goes everything Yep So anyways an advanced trader risk is 8000 or anything really in my opinion over five You know intermediates probably three to four You know 500 to a thousand is more a beginner level 1500 I think he's it is even a good risk you can make money with that So you can make money with the beginner risk and again you can ask me what I think about this The benefit of trading options with a small account if you do want to take a smaller risk is that You don't need to set up a margin account. Okay, and you can open up a cash account And you only pay the cost of the trade You don't have to worry about necessarily the price of the stock having to trade at a margin Talk to your broker ask questions. There's many brokers out there shop them around But you can trade and make money on the side doing options on the side And if you do not have to take my golden gap course in order to do The newsletter or sign up for the newsletter. So that is totally up to you I encourage everyone to learn. I think learning the system and the rating system is very important But not everyone wants to take the time to do a two-day weekend class and people just want the trade ideas So if you decide you want to take the class, I do teach it once a month It does teach 26 point rating system that I use to make the cost If you want to sign up for the newsletter 12 months is 69 99 everyone pays the same price six months is 49 99 It's six months. So half annual or annual no prerequisites No trials. Please don't ask me the letter is like gold The letter is worth 69 99 for one year. It is worth really so much more I mean, I just went over all the winners and losers in here And again, if you're willing to play everything to win or lose That's how you're going to see the best results If you want to sign up you can sign up today you get tomorrow's trades It's not like there's any time period. It's not the first of the month, whatever You can sign up whenever you want and you can immediately start getting the newsletters and again It's it's been a good start to this year. We're halfway through I'm looking forward to the rest of the year Email me at melissathestalkswish.com if you want to sign up If you're interested in upcoming classes, you can go always go to the website www.thestalkswish.com see what classes I have for June and July and if you want to email me you can email me too I will tell you when the classes are the class is a two-day class Saturday and Sunday I always do in the weekend because during the week I'm busy with the market So during the weekends I can focus on trading. I mean a teaching during the week we focus on trading Class tuition is 69 99 And then if you want to do the combo it includes the trends class, which is 74 99 That's a half-day class on long-term trends. And I think that's beneficial for options too So if you'd like more information Definitely definitely definitely reach out if you want to take the class I urge everyone to do that to learn But there's quite a number of people in the letter actually that have been in the letter for years And never taken the class. In fact, I was thinking of one gentleman. I haven't heard from him for a while He renews every year every year. He renews. He has never taken the golden gap class He has been on the newsletter since I started it. I want to say I started the newsletter in 2015 So it's seven years. He's never taken the class. I mean one day. He's got to take the class I I'm shocked that he hasn't but he's making money with the options newsletter and every year He pays and every year he renews and he's never done the class. So You know, it's been seven years. You don't have to do it. I think it's helpful And then you're going to know what i'm looking at and quite frankly people that have been trading for a long time And are not doing well Sometimes need that foundation if you're someone that says I think this girl knows what she's talking about Um, and you use good money management again with my win ratio at 79 You can make money without even knowing the system at all, you know So clearly there are people that are doing extremely well that have never taken the class It really depends on your personality and what you need, you know, some people need that foundation Some people don't you know Anyways, any questions feel free to email me at melissathestockswish.com If you're interested in signing up I wouldn't wait. It's been a good good period here. Have a good night everyone