 Welcome. This is Melissa Armo with the Stock Swoosh and they're reviewing the 2022 year-to-date advanced trader results for the GAP Options newsletter subscription. This is a very popular subscription service because, again, many people are interested in trading options and I think it's important for people to understand that there's many ways that you can trade GAPs. You can trade GAPs as day trades. You can trade GAPs as options. You can trade GAPs as swing trades, even, or long-term investments. This particular newsletter subscription service is all options and, again, I'm calling the trades which get emailed to you in live time. The win ratio year-to-date for 2022, we're into the first week of August, beginning the second week of August now, is 76% win ratio. It has been a good year. I'm very selective about the picks that I make. You have to account for the fact that some trades will lose. Overall, if you look at it and you say, okay, I'm going to risk this much per trade of out of every 10 trades, you say almost eight of every 10 are going to work, 7.6 would everyone say, then you know and you proceed and you move forward as follows, accepting the ones that do not work and then making the money and booking the money and the ones that do work. It's very interesting because a lot of people, I think, lose conviction in their ability to be able to make money with the market. You can make money trading. You don't have to lose forever. I think that people, when they're doing something that doesn't work for a long time and they've lost money or paid for classes or subscription services and they haven't made money using them, they feel depressed, they feel down, they feel like they're never going to make it. That's just not true. One of the reasons this is a good newsletter is because not only do I send the trades in live time, I'm doing the work. I'm doing the pre-work. I'm rating the gap using my golden gap rating system in the morning in the pre-market to make the picks. That saves you a lot of time. I'm here if you have questions, if you want to ask me questions after the fact. If you have questions again, you can email me at Melissathestockswitch.com. You can call me at 929-3200-GAAP. You can follow me on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, or Skype. If you are interested or have questions about the options newsletter or the golden gap course, you can always call me as well. Right now, we're still in earnings season. In fact, the big earnings tonight is Disney. What it does, I don't know. I don't do trades into earnings unless I happen to be in something unplanned into earnings, but we're not taking trades into earnings. I'm not predicting the gap. I'm not predicting the gap. I wait until the gap occurs. Then I go and take the trade after I see the gap and after I've rated it. Does that make sense? So I think it's one of these things where people just have to understand that you got to be a little patient, wait for the good ones to happen. But this year, if you are not on pace to make your goals for this calendar year for 2022, you still have time left. You really, really do. So this summer is almost over. That's true. While it's hot here in New York, before you know it, it's going to be fall. Sometimes the weather in New York City and the Northeast, if you've ever lived in the Northeast, or if you do right now, it can change on the dime. You get out one morning. You can tell in the mornings when the air starts to get a little bit cooler that things are shifting. We're not there yet, but before you know it, it's going to be fall. It's a beautiful time in New York City. We've never been to New York. The fall is the time to visit, actually. And there's a lot of things to do. But we still have four and a half months left in the year. You still have plenty of time to make money, and you have plenty of time to actually turn your year around. If you're losing this year trading in the market, if you're down, you can turn your year around yet. You can. So don't give up. There is time left. So overall, so far this year, we had 236 winners, 75 losers, four breakevens, win ratio, 76%. So you see, this is a very active letter. This is a lot of trades considering the fact that we're only seven and a half months into the year. Average advanced trader risk to hit these numbers was $8,000 on average per train. Your today results $2,388,650. Again, you can risk less. You must if you don't have the size account to take the trades. But this shows you, if you're willing to take the risk, the kind of money you can actually make trading options. Options can be extremely profitable, all right? And again, we're doing the weeklies. Now this is one, this is what the newsletter looks like when you get it, okay? Time stamp is over here. So I called this on June 9th, 9.46 in the morning. It was the Spy 409 put that expired, 617 was a put. So when you get the newsletter, I put the symbol, the strike price, so you buy it at the strike. You have to make sure you're doing the right one, the caller put, and the expiration date, okay? So anyways, this is what you receive to your email in live time. You take it when you get it, or five, 10 minutes after you get it. I wouldn't wait three hours after you get it. Like if you miss a trade, if you're busy or you're in a meeting, then you don't do that one, okay? So this is what it looks like. This was the chart. So June, was that June 9th, the 409s here. So again, you see where we're at. Oh no, I'm sorry, here was June 9th. This close to here, this gap down, 409s. It was slightly above the strike or right at it, where we open, fell, dropped, continued. This was a huge trade. The reason I'm showing this trade was because I want people to see really that you can make a lot of money, even with a small account, or you can make a lot of money with a big account, but you can make a lot of money trading options when you get in the right direction and get the overnight moves. Sometimes people think they need all this money or have to risk this huge size in options. That's not true. That's not true. This is momentum trading, momentum, momentum, momentum. In the case of this, with a put, the momentum is to the downside. In the case of a call, the momentum is to the upside, okay? You're always, always looking for it in the direction of the gap. Do we always go? Do calls or go long bullish gaps? No, the market gapped up today, for example. I didn't call any long to the market whatsoever at all. And then obviously in a gap down, we're not always shorting every gap down. This is where I'm doing the pre-work in the morning to make the picks like I did on this particular day, all right? This cost $575, that wasn't bad. That wasn't bad for one. 15 contracts, $8625, sold at 36 profit, $45,375 dollars in one trade. In one trade, okay, this was a series of days, expired the 17th, exited the 13th, returning investment 526%. So let's go back and look at the chart. Again, here, one, two, three, four, drop. I wanna point out, because people always ask me this question for some reason, I don't know why, this continued. You could have made more money if you held it longer. You do not expect or pressure yourself to always have the high of the day exit options chain. In fact, I think that if that's your goal, you're gonna fail. You're gonna be up trades and lose money. You know what I mean? And have them turn against you. In reality, there are times when I do get perfect exits, what I would consider a perfect exit, but that is certainly not my goal in every trade. I do the best I can. This was a good exit on the 13th, but on the last day of expiration, I just wanna show you it almost got to 360. Remember, this was the 409s. That was a great call. Here is where I wanna show you the beginner, the beginner risk, two contracts of 1150, or even one you could have done. Two contracts would have made you $6,050, return investment 526%. Where are you gonna make this kind of money? Doing anything really, this quick, this fast, it was just a few days with an $1,150 risk. Not in a money market account, not even when interest rates going up, not in a savings account. And if you're investing in something for the long term, you know, like you're buying a stock or something like that long term, in reality, you're still gonna have to wait a long time to get a move like this. With options, you have the protection. You take a trade, it loses, you can't lose any more than your risk. So this trade, when it worked, the most you would have lost is 1150. And then again, you could have made more if you held it. But this was a nice call. It just goes to show you one contract to your contracts, you can make money. It can be very, very profitable trades. So don't risk the farm, all right, and think you have to risk thousands of dollars with a small account or have a certain size large account to train. You can grow your account size with good quality picks and good quality trade calls. And that is what I get on the newsletter. So this is the entire year going back all the trades we did. The losers are in brackets and then of course the winners. The average risk on all these was 8,000. We did a lot of puts this year. We did do some calls. Do I always do puts? No, I will do calls if they come up. Again, we've gone long some earnings in the last couple of weeks. We did Microsoft, for example, long CVS long. We've done some long trades. So, but this year we have done a lot of puts simply because the setups were there in the market. Now we're in a range in the market. Again, we're in August, but we still got a lot of time left in the year to see where the market's gonna go. Is it gonna go up? Is it gonna go down? I do call trades with the market. I do call specific gaps on news and earnings. Again, I'm doing the ratings. I'm doing the picks, okay. So we started out the year. The QQQQs was a huge winner, 28,200. It was a good start to the year. TASA was a winner, SPY lost. Netflix was a huge winner. We've done this quite a few times this year too, 37,500. QQQs was a winner, 35,000. Facebook was a winner. NVIDIA, we've done this year too, 14,000. Good winner. We just did that. Netflix, 8,800 winner. QQQs, 9,000 winner. SPY, 9,600 winner. Apple, 67,50 winner. SPY, 9,000 winner. QQs lost. Netflix, 78,75. TASA was a loser, SPY, 67,50. So you can tell from, in reality, as far as the losers, I hold trades to win or lose. Now you could kill trades if they're down 50% if you want, or even less than that. I hold them to win or lose. So in other words, the trade could blow out for me in the date of expiration if it doesn't. I can lose the whole amount or almost close to it if it doesn't go by the last day. But in those cases, the trade really never went right for me, if you know what I mean. So I held it not because I was up ever a good amount to get out before Friday, but because I was down. Like, I'm gonna take a trade on Monday, and then I'm down when I take it on the day. And then by Friday, it never, like Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, it just never goes right. It could come back on the last day, but if I lose the full amount, that's why. Amazon lost, Facebook was a good winner, okay? 16,400, Netflix was a winner, another winner Netflix, another winner Netflix, another winner Netflix, and sometimes I will do multiple strikes if I'm absolutely in love with the gap. You can do all of them, you can do one of them, you can stagger them out, or you could do one that meets your parameters for the price point. So if I'm in love with something, I might do multiple strikes, same direction. Spy was a huge winner, 51,500. QQQs was a huge winner, 39,600. Spy was a big winner, 16,800. QQQs, 15,400, we did the market a lot this year. GS, 1500 winner, spy, 11,000 winner, another winner in the spy, 12,5. Another winner in the spy, 6,400. Again, this is with an $8,000 risk. So what's your goal? Your goal is try to get 50 to 100% out of every trade. Some of these are more than that because you capture the move overnight, or it has a really big move in the day that I call it, you're gonna make more. You don't have to kill it at 100%. If you can watch it, the targets are on the letter. If you can't, if you can't watch it, then my suggestion to you is to put a sell order so that if it hits and you watch it, you don't miss out in the profit of the trade. Amazon was a good winner, 20,400. And Disney, again, the diamonds was 67,50. So that was a good winner. We haven't done the diamonds that much. Facebook's 7,200 winner, QQQ's 11,500. QQQ's 11,250, spy, 40,600. Netflix, 18,600. 16,800 in Netflix. Again, some of these are all with the market. QQQ's 16,200 spy, 22,600. In the month of February, again, this is going back since the beginning of the year, we did do a series of putts because with the market, because the market, that's when the market really started to drop off. If you go back and look at a chart of the cues of the spy, you'll see that Apple was a winner, 5,500. Spy was a winner, 7,500. Ques was a winner, 4,200. Spy lost, 4,500. BA, 1,600. Apple was a winner of 3,200. And Microsoft was a winner at 4,400. McDonald's lost, BA lost. QQQ's lost, spy lost. So again, if something doesn't work in our favor and we go with the market, you might have three, four in a row that lose. You have to account for that. While we've had very few losing weeks this year, since the beginning of the year, there are some weeks we have had losing weeks. If you can follow me on YouTube, if you don't, go there right now, follow me on YouTube. I'm putting back since January on, I'm doing weekly videos where I'm showing this week and all the trades and the actual newsletters and the trades so you can see. So you can see all the winning weeks and the losing weeks. And I'm doing that week by week because we always do the weeklies. Again, I'm not calling this week's trades because you have to pay to sign up for the newsletter to get the trades. But later in the year, I'll show you the trades from this week. Spy was a loser, UPS was a small winner, and Facebook was a big winner that week, 32,800. That saved us this week because that week because that trade was so, so big. PayPal hot earnings, I remember this trade, 8,050 and a second strike, 10,000, that was a great chart. Netflix 12,250, Facebook was another winner, 8,400. Again, this week we had a good strong week. QQQ's 4,800, Spy 4,875 and the Q's was a small winner at 400. Netflix was a winner at 300. Facebook was a winner at 6,360. Apple wash, Spy 23,800. QQQ's 20,000. Winner, Amazon winner at 11,000. This is before the price changed and Netflix a winner at 6,250. Big winner of Facebook again, 28,000. PayPal again, huge winner, 52,400. Great chart that was put. QQQ's 6,300 winner, Spy 9,000 winner, 1,500 winner and the Q's a 1,500 or small winner. Pulled it out with diamonds of small loss. That just didn't go right, that one particular chart. Facebook was a winner, 6,400, 6,000. QQQ's 9,060, Spy was a winner, 7,500. Microsoft was a winner, 10,500. Spy was a big winner, 44,600. And Tessa was a winner for 54,750 and a huge trade. We did Tessa recently too. Again, that's been falling. Facebook was a winner for 12,000. Netflix was a winner, 20,300. QQQ's was a winner, 10,560. The Spy was a winner, 11,250. Tessa was a winner, 24,400. Facebook won 10,500. Spy won 11,500. Again, there are some times where I'm on a roll and every trade is working and I mean, I could do no wrong. You still have to risk yourself within your parameters, okay? I mean, if I call 50 trades in a row and everyone works, you can't forget your risk. You still have to think about your risk, knowing the odds over the course of a whole year. The QQQ's 10,700 winner, Apple was a winner for 17,000. BA, we haven't done that much this year. That was the gap of the year in 2020. 10,800, Spy 9,750. QQQ's 7,800, PayPal 14,000 was a winner and the QQQ's 71,25. Apple lost and the QQ's this particular week in the Spy. Didn't play out. BA, 5,400 winner, Facebook is a winner, 12,000. Diamonds was a winner, 6125 and the QQQ's won for 1,200. Spy lost and Apple, good two solid winners in BA. 16,050, 20,250. That stock moves a lot. PayPal we did again, 18,125, Netflix, 88,50. Again, once and over is a good trade. And then we have some of the big ones. BA was a big one again, 31,500. Another winning period here. Diamonds won 7,500, JPM 11,250. QQQ's 12,000, Spy 11,520, Facebook, 17,700. PayPal 10,000, Microsoft 98,25. I'm very good at calling the market. I don't get it right all the time, but when I do, we hit it and it's winner, winner, chicken dinner. I mean it's just, you know, look at this period. Spy, winner, QQ's, winner, BA, 14,000, Facebook, 14,750, QQ's, 97,50, Spy, 82,50, Microsoft, 60s and 50, all these trades are with the market. So I get up in the morning, I read the gap. I read the gap in the market, I rate it and then I go look at everything I wanna do in conjunction with the market, rate those gaps and then we do them and then we do them. So if I call 10 trades in a day, they're with the market, nine times out of 10 and if you don't wanna do 10 in one day, then you do two. You do one because again, if they're with the market and they're gonna work, whether you do one or two or 10, you're gonna make money in the ones that you do. You know what I mean? Or do you one contract in each one? Amazon was a winner, 6,000, Spy was a winner, 4,500, Spy was another winner, 37,50. CVX 1, 20,600, X1, 1, 15,600, CVX, 49,50 and the QQQ's break even. Sometimes I'll hold something to the last day and I can get out of it, break even, I don't lose in it or sometimes I might kill something the Thursday. It's not going in my favor, I was down all week and then I can get out break even Thursday before it expires and I'll kill it. That's not often but sometimes. You do have to look at the time you have left in something, particularly if it's not working right or you've been down all week. Spy lost two trades in a row, BA was a winner, 3,800, QQQ's was a winner, 8,400. Spy lost, CVX 1, we've done that a few times this year as calls, Microsoft was a winner, 5,900, NVIDIA was a winner, 4,500, QQ's lost, Apple lost and CVX was a winner for 4,000. BA was a winner and then we lost a bunch of these. Spy didn't work, FDX didn't work, JPM didn't work or BA. Four in a row didn't work. CVX was a winner, 71, 75 and the QQQ's 5,000. Another one in CVX worked, Adobe worked, we did that but the second trade failed. I did two strikes and that one didn't go right. CVX 1, 3,600, XO1, 1, 2,500, Spy lost, Q's lost, BA lost and NVIDIA lost, Goldman pulled out 300 bucks. Netflix lost Q's, CVX, QQQ's, that was not a good week. Then we went back and very often if something doesn't go in the timing that I want that particular week, then I will hit it again to the next week, knowing, knowing that it's gonna go. Again, reading the gaps, reading the gaps. The timing is something that's very, very specific with options because something could go but if you're early and you pay too much and even if it goes and you can't get out with enough money or it still could be down, you know what I mean? If it takes too long to go, Spy was a winner, 19,200, Facebook was a winner, 3300, CVX 6,500, Zoom was a winner, it's 5,700, QQQ's was a winner, 12,500, Netflix was a winner, 13,500, and QQQ's was a winner at 14,000. QQQ's was a winner, 11,000, Apple was break even, Q's one big winner. How did he, lots of good trades in the market this year. I mean, really, we've had a lot of volatility and we've been playing it. And we're gonna, we're seeing that right now today. Actually, this is volatility. Today's trading action, boom. Twitter was a winner, 12,000. Then we did two BAs that won, Spy 10,100, Amazon 26,600, Q's was a winner, 12,375, Netflix was a winner, 10,000, Diamonds lost, Spy worked, Facebook worked, BA lost on that day, QQQ's won, Spy won, Facebook big winner, 22,800. That's Dr. Moon, QQQ's won, Microsoft won, Spy won, Amazon won, too. Big winner in Google, 24,000, QQ's 56,25, 6,000, Spy 48,00, did two strikes in the Q's, Facebook 25,000, another huge winner in Google, 32,750 and Netflix 7,500. Netflix 11,200, Disney, which is out tonight. We'll see where that goes. We get a trade in that 14,875, Tesla lost, Netflix won, QQ's two trades, 16,818,000, Spy 16,216, these are great trades. Again, remember the risk is 8,000 here. A lot of these were double, double winners. And again, when you have big trades, it covers the losses. It covers the ones that don't work and then you make money. Two, after the fact, Twitter was a loser, QQ's won, Google lost, QQ's little bit of winner, Microsoft small winner, BA winner, Netflix 1560, Amazon was a good winner, QQ's won, Spy won, Diamonds won, QQ's breakeven spy, the last second one watched in that. And the Amazon was a small winner, eBay was a good trade. That was earnings, Netflix 25,600, QQ's 18,600, Spy 16,875, Amazon 19,000, Spy 16,000, QQ's 20,400. BA was a huge winner, 46,000, QQ's 20,800, Spy 20,000. These are all more than double winners. Again, this is a risk of 8,000. NVIDIA 11,250, Facebook 5,000, Amazon 8,800, and the QQ QQ's 5,500. Walmart was 8,400, QQ's 15,960, Target was 12,000, Spy was 11,000, Amazon 10,200, QQ's lost, Spy lost in those two and then another Spy and Q on Facebook and Amazon, Netflix, they were all with the market. And that BA too, that was a losing week. Nothing worked in our favor that week. CVX won 6,375, NVIDIA lost, big trade in the Spy, 13,250. CVX lost, all to lost, I remember that trade, that was because of the market. That actually failed, that was a call, it failed. It was a great, it's a great chart though. Failed because of the market. And then the market trades worked. Target was a winner of 15,6, QQ QQ's 14,625, BA lost. Walmart was a nice winner of 13,5, Microsoft won, Apple big winner, little lost in Tesla. 22,200 in QQ's, we did another one in Walmart, 17,5 and a huge trade in the Spy, 45,375. This is, that was one we went over. Target 31,200 winner, QQ's 13,000 winner, Diamonds 11,716, Netflix 15,825, Amazon 14,400, Spy 9,250, QQ's 4,800, Tesla 2400. Again, all with the market. Then the Q's lost, Spy lost, Walmart lost, Q's lost, Netflix lost, Q's lost, Spy lost, and Nike was a big winner that week. Luckily we had the one nice trade in Nike that week, flipped. Spy 17,625, won, 15,375, won. Target huge winner, 31,5, Spy big winner, 11,2, Amazon 7,050, Q's won, 6,900. And then we had a Q and Spy that lost and a BA and a Tesla. Then we had the Twitter trade. I don't know if you remember this, this was, we were in this really early before and in the news came out that that deal was going south. We had a huge trade in that, 25,600. Everybody made money in that. It gapped down overnight and we were readying the puts from the Friday to Monday, it was a great trade. QQ Q's 12,600, Spy 12,000, Twitter 4500, and we did one last Twitter that didn't go right that lost and a Q that lost there too. Two Spies that lost, Microsoft lost, GS, good trade, 6,500, QQ Q's 4,200, Spy 5,000, IBM was earnings, a nice winner, 7,200, and Tesla 4,500. We did meta that worked that week, 7,350, Q's won, 6,120. And we lost to Walmart and Target. Those earnings are coming up in the next week. I'm looking forward to that. Microsoft was a winner, 18,500, meta lost, XLM and CVX both worked. We did those on the one Friday, they were calls. Apple was a winner and CVS was a winner and against CVS was a call. So I will do calls, I will do puts. And it's just a matter of timing. But for all of these, for advanced trader risk, it's an average of $8,000 per trade. For someone that's looking to risk as much money, I suggest you take the class. Know I'm taking the trades, do the ratings yourself. You can risk as much and sign up for the newsletter without it. I don't have any prerequisites for the newsletter, but I think it is important to understand why you're doing something. Now, if you have a small account, you can open up an options account with $2,000. You can't risk $2,000 in one trade. If that's your size of account, then risk 400, 200, do one contract. So you can trade with a beginner risk, absolutely. And I showed you in the earlier train how you can really have a very profitable trade and grow your account size with a small risk of one to two contracts. But you have to look at how much cash you have and spread it out. Because again, at 76% win ratio, you will have some that lose. But then the big winners will more to make up the difference for the losers and that's how you gain ground and get ahead. Now, what's the benefit of trading options with a small account? Well, easy. You don't need margin. You've got to have a margin account to do day trades, to do equity trades. Somebody asked me, actually, that's on the newsletter and he's in the room too. He said, why do you not always do the same? I said, because, excuse me, some day trades don't make sense to do his options. Just like some options don't make sense to do his day trades. Excuse me, you know what I'm saying? So are these all the same trades I called in the live room? No, they're not. So it's completely different. The day trades and the options as far as what the picks are, but I do the ratings anyways. And we mostly short in the room, to be honest with you. Sometimes we go long. This is a mix. The options newsletter is a mix of puts and calls going long and short, just so you know. So it is all about working for yourself. Find some time out of your life to do this, to make some extra money. I mean, it's really not that much time out of your life to be honest with you and most of the trades are sent in the morning. You don't even have to watch them. You could put a sell order after you get into it. Again, like I said, you could put it at 50% or 100%. It's a day order. It will cancel you out. So say you buy something for two bucks, you get into it and into the open. You could put a day order, a sell order at $3. So if that fills you, you'll be out with 50% profit, 50% return investment before four. And if it doesn't, then you'll still be in it until the next day. Next day you could put the same sell order number. You know what I'm saying? So that's how you could do it if you don't wanna follow, but I do call targets in the letter. If you're interested in learning the system, it's called the Golden Gap course. If you're just interested in the newsletter subscription, 12 months is $69.99, six months is $49.99. Again, newsletters are emailed to you. No prerequisites for the newsletter. There are no trials and I have no monthly subscriptions. If you'd like to sign up, email me. You can sign up today and start trading tomorrow. If you wanna learn the class, upcoming dates for the class, check the website, www.thestockswish.com or email me for upcoming class dates, class tuition to learn the system. The rating system, how I make the picks is 69.99. And if you want to do a combo, it's a trends class and the Golden Gap course, it's 74.99 for both these classes, which is a deal. Long-term trends on the Golden Gap course for the Gap ratings. Think about what I've said today. Think about joining. You have plenty of time left in the year to make up the ground if you're losing this year. A lot of people have had a bad year day trading and doing options because of the year's been shopping. Now everybody thinks the market's just gonna go straight back up to the high. That could happen, of course it could, but there's no indication that's going to happen yet. You have to be willing to look at both sides of a train and you have to be objective and that is the process I go through when I go through the process in the morning of actually rating something, okay? So I look at something, I rate it in the morning before I even make the pick. So you see the objectivity, okay? Taking bias out of the equation is very, very important and I think a lot of people miss that and of course they're reading so many things and looking at the fundamentals and they're watching TV and they're getting opinions from people. I watched a show this morning, they had 10 people in the panel. That was excessive. Way too many people for this morning. I didn't agree with anything that anyone said, but one person. One person, I agree with them. So if I end up being right and that person's right and the other nine are wrong and people listen to them, they're going to lose money. You see how it goes. Learn what to do. This is based on technical analysis. It's not based on fundamentals or guesses or opinions. Technical analysis is how I make the choices. If you decide to do the class, you're going to learn that. You're going to learn them in the chart. Have a great day everyone and if you're interested again, email me and Melissa at thestockswish.com.