 everyone and welcome. This is Melissa Arma with Stock Swoosh and today I wanted to talk to you about shorting. A lot of people that trade the market go long and people I find tend to prefer to go long because for some reason it's easier for people to understand that if you buy something at a dollar and it rallies up to two dollars you can make money. But the fact is you can make money shorting stocks just as easily as you can make money going long stocks. A lot of traders do not know how to short. A lot of traders are scared of shorting. A lot of traders really don't understand how it works and actually the reason that I prefer to short versus going long even though I will go long. I've gone long for the last umpteen years as long as I've shorted stocks but I prefer to short and I'll tell you why in a minute because the fact that short moves selling action happens very very quickly and fast and can happen really big. So if you're someone that likes to make money in the market obviously you want a big move fast versus slow. If someone said you could make two thousand dollars in five minutes would you prefer to make two thousand dollars in five minutes or would you prefer to make two thousand dollars in five days? Well I'd prefer to make two thousand dollars in five minutes. So the reality is that shorting is a lot lot faster to do as far as a trade instead of going long. So long moves just take longer. That's just the fact that's just what it is. And again I will go long but the fact is shorting is fun because you can make a lot of money fast when you get the direction right when selling comes in and why. What is the philosophy behind this? Again it's because of panic something called panic like panic selling. When people are in stocks and they are down in a position they will sell they will not hesitate to sell they will sell sometimes preemptively but anyways they will sell and they will not even think about it and they will sell very very quickly when they're down. Whereas if you're not in a stock and you're not even long it you will take a while maybe to think about buying it. There's no panic thing about it necessarily. Do you understand what I'm saying? If you're not in a position to go long something but selling is different it's very very different. So as a trader as an individual as a person and if you want to trade to you can make money shorting. If you do not know how to do it you should not be scared you can learn how to do it and again you can learn from me. I teach a class once a month that's called the golden gap. If you're interested in more information email me at melissa at the stockswush.com. The next golden gap course where you will learn how to short and how to short gaps is January 29th and 30th. Thanks everyone have a great day.