 Hello, everyone. Welcome. This is Melissa Armel with the Stock Swoosh and I'm reviewing the 2022 gap options tracking for the expiration week of January 21st, 2022. I'm going to take a look back here again at the trades for this particular week. It was a very good week. I'm going to go over advanced trader results. There was a 100% win ratio for this week. What does that mean? It means that every single trade worked. Again, it has been a very good year to trade. I think it's been a very good year to day trade and do options simply because of the volatility in the market and I do focus on shorting. Now that doesn't mean that I will never go long, but I do prefer to short and it's been a really good year to short. If you'd like more information, you can email me at Melissa at the StocksWoosh.com. You can call me at 929-3200 GAP. You can also follow me on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube or Skype. Everything that I do is based on my Golden Gap rating system. I look at the gap, I rate the gap in the morning and if you sign up for the Gap Options newsletter, this is a subscription service, I'm doing the analysis. I'm doing the rating in the morning. You're receiving the newsletter live to your email inbox when I call it. For this particular week, again, this was the week expiring January 21st. I always do the weeklies. There were 18 trades. It was a busy week. 100% win ratio. If you did them all, you don't have to do them all. You could do one, you could do two. You could have done half of these. Okay. Zero break even, zero losers, advanced trader risk in total. Total all the positions, 143,350 and advanced trader profits 249,000. Return and investment 172%. Again, it was a very solid week. Now, if you're thinking about learning and want to learn my system, again, I use the system in the morning when I'm making the picks. But if you want to learn how I do it, you would have to sign up for the Golden Gap course. Now, this is a class I teach once a month. March 26th and 27th is the March class that's next weekend, nine to five class tuition is 69.99. You can be anywhere in the world and take it. Class is online. You can email me if you want to sign up. The 12 month subscription is $6,999 for the newsletter. It's a lot of trades. I mean, I just cut done saying we're going to go over 18 trades from this one week. So if you're going to be active and you're going to trade, I mean, you're going to get your money's worth for that. The half annual is 49.99. Again, a really good amount of time, six months. That's a lot of time too in the letter. It'll take you into the second earning season of 2022 and then into the third because we're in the end of March here now. So six months is a good amount of time. You want to get on the letter, start trading. You like it. You do the class after the six months or sign up and renew for the year. Trades are emailed to you again, live time. Most of the trades are signed in the morning of the pre-market. If you would like to sign up, you start getting the letters as soon as you start sign up. Sign up Sunday, you're going to get Monday's trades. So let's talk about this particular week. It was a very, very, very good week. So the first trade was Facebook, 330 strikes that I called on the 13th. This was of January to expire the following Friday. It was a put. And again, I'm doing the weekly. So what happened with this one? The cost was $3.80, which looking back now was pretty cheap. 20 contracts cost 7,600, sold at 12. Great profit, 216% return on investment, profit 16,400. So again, this is taking it on the 13th and exiting the 18th. Let's take a look at the chart. So Facebook is here. 123 drop. Again, this doesn't even look like much, I'm sure, but it was a perfect, perfect entry. It was, it had momentum. Okay, it dropped when you're doing a put, you're doing a short and it went. So again, with the, if you get the direction and timing right, you know, you get a perfect entry. You don't even have to have what you would think would be a monster move in the chart. And it can be a hugely profitable trade. This was 216% return investment, like I said. So again, the expiration date was the 21st. You couldn't even sell this to the last day. Not that I think you should have done that. Really when you're up in a trade, you should get out before the last day. But look where it went. It went to 290, 290. This was the 330 puts. So this 200% plus return investment was not an exit that last day because I don't think it makes sense to hold till then. But it was a nice trade. So then we did the Netflix 520s. Okay, 520s expired January 21st. This was a put as well. Again, if you held this into the very, very, very, very, very last day, you made more money. I'm going to show this to you in a minute. But again, take it, get out, get in, get out. I think it's the right thing to do. But in this case here, this had earnings on the night of the 20th. You didn't know what the earnings were going to do. So when a trade is positive, you got to get out of it with the move before the earnings. I knew the earnings were Thursday night. And it was a nice solid trade. But it would have been even bigger if you held it. You could have held half of it, I guess. Cost was 1350, 6 contracts, 8100, risk sold at $24, profit 6300, return of investment 78%. But if you held it until the last day on a risk of 8100, you could have made $66,900. That's using a close price of that option. That wasn't even the high of the options chain that day on the Friday the 21st. Again, I get this question a lot. Here's the chart. Are these the highest price you could have got out? Absolutely not. That's impossible to do all the time. It is possible to get the direction right with a high wind ratio and often. It is possible to get a fabulous entry. We do that often too. But to get out at the always, always, always have the perfect exit. That's very difficult. While I sometimes do have perfect high of the day exits, it's not all the time. It's not even half the time, to be honest with you. I have good exits. And I do the best I can. And sometimes I'll hold the trade in and I should have got out. But that's rare. It's just, you know, you're up. You're up 78%, 85%. It's a trade. It's a positive trade. To give back this profit plus the risk. So you could have potentially lost not just the risk and you would have lost the profit too. So if you see it's like a double whammy. Again, it worked in your favor if you held it here, but you don't know. You don't know. You don't know. That's the thing. So I think I'm actually conservative with my exits and options, which is one of the reasons why I don't always get a high of the day exit. And it's an active letter. 18 trades in one week. I mean, that's a lot. So here was the original day. Again, take it over 520 putts fell. Now again, if you held into the last day here, take it over. Look where it went. It broke 400 fell fell fell came down here to like 360 or something. Next day it fell to that was Monday. But if you held it the last day was a huge trade. We also did another one that day 525 strike. I did a couple different ones. Again, solid would drop down $16 was the cost is when not cheap. Five contracts cost 8000 your risk should be similar close to equal in every trade you take. Shoulder 27 profit 5500 return an investment 69%. That's great. 50% is great. Most people are losing trading. But if you're like the last day the close in the price of the last day was 128. You could have made 56,000 risking 8. Again, this was the same drop. This was the drop. But this was the earnings look was really good. We also did the 530s. Again, same day the 13th 1750 for one. Do one contract if you want, you don't have to do more than one for contracts cost 7000 sold at 30 profit 5000 71% return an investment. This all taking them on that first day of the 13th and getting out way before the earnings obviously the close of the earnings of the earnings day after the day the last day of expiration was 135 could have made 47,000 and again, I'm putting this in here because I wanted to go back. I wanted to go back and see what it did when I saw how it tanked overnight. It was over 120 point gap down and then I also I wanted to see what they were worth and then I put it in here just because again, I get this question about exits. Am I always out at the high of the options chain? No, no. So, we don't we don't genuinely hold into the last day anyways but in this case here with the earnings you could have got out of half like I said and it would have paid. I mean, it would have paid 535 Netflix is 956 same day. This was a higher strike cost $20 for was 8000 sold at 30 profit 4000 return in investment 50%. Close on the 121 135 46000 boom in and out again. Nice trade but the close of the last day was huge. This is a solid trade here at 50%. You're you're just taking the trade. You're guaranteeing yourself the profit by getting out with the money that you're up not having to worry about their earnings but this does show again this shows the power of the gap and I may cause like this all the time. It doesn't mean I'm holding them through that through that earnings up but it shows the power of the gap. It also shows the power of momentum and getting the positioning right which we did. Good entry, good timing too. So, the same day we did the spies 471 expired on the 21st. This was all that Thursday. I'm not going to do it to an expiration of the following day. Cost was 340 25 contracts which was 8500 sold at $24. This was a fabulous trade. I will show it to you. Profit 51500 return in investment 606% again. This was a nice drop. You do not want to hold this into the last day. If you did it was up more. I don't know what it was up that last day. I didn't go back and look at that. But anyways, here's the initial 471. Okay. This was up every it was up. Gap down. Up, up, up, up, up. So, you're basically up every day here. Again, very little money manager. We need to because every day you're up. You can add it any day you want. Again, if you held it into the last day. Where did it go? 437 it looks like about. That was crazy. Well over 30 points through the strike by the last day. But this was, you know, this is a nice exit here. 600% return on investment to exit the Thursday. Nice selling, selling, selling, selling. Again, that's what you want in a put and that's what you wanted an option. You've got to get the momentum going in your direction. If it's a put it's down. If it's a call it's up. Okay. And we do do calls. These are not calls but we we do do them when we have done them this year. QQQ strike 388 expires 121. This was another put we did with the market. Cost was for 20 20 contracts risk eighty four hundred sold at twenty four dollars profit thirty nine thousand six hundred four hundred seventy one percent return investment. Again, this is was with the market. I read the market. I read the market gap. I saw this would fall. You could have made more holding the last day with this too. I did not do that. It doesn't make sense but if you did you made more. Here it is. It was so far through the strike. 388. Drop, drop, drop, drop, drop, drop, drop. Again, boom. Here's the very last day. Where did it go? Under three fifteen. Phenomenal. Almost forty points through this strike on the last day. This was a great call. It's like so many other calls I've made this year. But anyways, this one here is a great exit here right at three sixty. And this is the profit. If you took one contract and risk four hundred twenty dollars, you still could have had a four hundred seventy one percent return investment. You don't have to take a big risk but I'm showing you here what the risk is advanced trader and you could even take more than this if you want. Then we did the spy for sixties the day after the thirteenth to fourteenth expiring again the following Friday. Another big one three sixty cost twenty contracts risk seven two hundred sold at twelve profits sixteen thousand eight hundred return an investment two hundred thirty three percent. So, this was Friday. Let me find Friday. Oh, this was here. So, this one was down into the close. Again, you let everything follow through. You cannot risk more than you can afford to lose. So, you can let the trades play out. This was another nice call. It was tricky. If people killed it, they missed the trade. Why? We gapped down here Monday morning. So, I called it here. Look, right at the strike rally fell. This is Friday, Monday, boom. Drop, drop, drop. Again, you could have made more the last day. Broke four forty. Here's the initial day of the twentieth but this if you got it, you got a set your risk. Live with it. It either wins or loses and that's how I play it and I really think that's the best way to make the most possible money. Then I called the kids. Let's do this similar thing backed up. Three seventy-four strike expired the twenty first. Again, this was Friday. Costs three eighty. Twenty contracts risk was seventy six hundred. Sold eleven fifty. Profit fifteen thousand four hundred. This is holding it through the Friday. It was down into the close, getting the gap down Monday morning and the sell-off and it was returned in investment of two hundred three percent. This is something that I'm very, very, very, very very good at doing. What do I mean? Reading what's going to happen and predicting what's going to happen in the future based on the gaps. Reading. So that's what I do. I look at a chart. It's advanced technical analysis by reading gaps. I read the gap. I predict if the gap's going to take the stock or the market higher or lower or fail. Okay. Like this could have been a gap down failure. It wasn't but it could have been. Do you follow me? In which case we wouldn't have shorted. This was a gap up failure actually. Anyways, here's the Friday called the three seventy fours. Gap down, fell, fell, fell, fell. Here's the day before. Nice trade. That was a three seventy fours. Gosh, January seems like so long ago. Then we did Goldman Sachs. This didn't move the way I wanted it to but it was still profitable. It was a rinky dinker. These banks are hard to trade as options honestly but sometimes we do on three sixty five. Called it in the pre-market in the morning Tuesday. Held it into the last day. Try to squeeze something out of it. I'll show you the chart. Sixteen dollars. It wasn't cheap. For one, five risk of eight thousand sold at nineteen fifteen hundred dollars profit. I squeezed this out. Now, here's what happened. So, it was the eighteenth. Only did it for the twenty first. Again, three sixty fives. This should have gone more. It just should have. You know, it's it didn't go fast enough. That was the problem. Like, if this had just gone like that, it went. It wasn't a loser but it took till Monday really look. So, I could have done this out longer. Actually, no, I think about it. This would have been a good trade because if we had paid a little bit more to the three sixty fives, look, I broke three thirty. I don't know why I did that so tight. I thought I was going to go. That's why. Spice four fifty eight. Tuesday to Friday. Four dollars twenty contracts risk eight thousand sold at nine fifty another just solid trade. You take it, you book it, get out. This was the same week. Profit eleven thousand returning investment one hundred thirty eight percent. So, the four fifty eights take it out. Here's the eighteenth. Here it is. Get the drop. Boom. Get out. Again, you could hold it in the last day. You could have made more money. It doesn't make sense. You're risking the profit. I also quote the four fifty fives that day. I saw it was going to continue. Keep going. Keep going. So, this one here I called nine twenty five and then I called right away this into nine thirty seven. The four fifty fives cost a little bit cheaper. Three twenty five contracts for seventy five hundred sold at eight profit twelve thousand five hundred returning investment one hundred and sixty seven percent. Nice, nice move. This is here. Right here. Here's the drop. Again, here's four fifty five. Sometimes I will stack them. I will stack them. This strike, this strike, this strike. If I see it's going to keep falling into strikes. So, you could do them all. You could do one. You could do the cheapest one if you have a small account. Then I called the four fifties that same day but later. Again, I saw it was going to keep going. And it did cost us two bucks for these. That seems insane down with the cost of puts right now. Forty contracts for this was eight thousand sold at three sixty profit sixty four hundred returning investment eighty percent. Tuesday afternoon. Get the drop. I saw it was going to follow through. Again, this is eighteenth. I saw it was going to keep going. It did boom boom boom. Again, you've got to get momentum in options to make money. Now, this was a little pricing. Same day the eighteenth. Amazon thirty one hundreds. These are fun to trade. I call them high flyers but they are expensive. So, you've got to be able to take the risk. Cost was twenty one hundred. Four contracts for a city four hundred sold at seventy two profit twenty thousand four hundred return in investment two hundred forty three percent. A very solid trade. Again, this is a put. Amazon is expensive. It isn't cheap but we had a great entry here. A beautiful entry. Stop close to your gap down. Boom. Called the trade. Again, early. Got the drop. Here's the sell off. Boom. Again, another one you could have held into the last day I made more money. I mean seriously. The diamond three fifties we did. We don't always do this but I did Tuesday afternoon. Again a put. Cheap dollar eighty five fifty contracts for ninety two fifty sold at three twenty six thousand seven hundred fifty dollars. We did this late. Return investment seventy three percent. In other words, you would have gotten a bigger trade on this if you had done this in the morning. You know, I saw we were going and just you know that was that. Close to your gap down. Again, here's the drop. Boom. Selling selling selling puts our shorts. We did another Facebook then on the eighteenth. We did the same strike. Was that right? Yeah, we did. The three thirties. Eleven dollars four. One. Eight was eighty eight hundred. Sold at twenty. Profit seven two hundred. Return investment eighty two percent. This was not cheap. Okay, this was on eighteenth here. That's the we did that. It was in the money. I don't know why I did those three thirties. I'm thinking about that. Yeah, that was already that's why that was eleven dollars. Then we did the three seventy two cues. Again, sometimes I'll do multiple strikes the same week the same day especially if I say the market's going to go three seventy five which is reasonable for the market. Twenty contracts sold at seventy sold at nine fifty with seventy five hundred and made eleven thousand five hundred. A solid trade. A hundred percent is great. Return investment hundred fifty three percent. Again, the ones we made four hundred five hundred six hundred percent we had very early entries on. They were they were really great calls just to see where we were going to go so early. This was then the eighteenth. Take it over. We did the three seventy two. Here's the job. Again, you could have made more holding the last day. We also did three seventies so I did a different strike same day. Okay, cost three dollars twenty five contract seventy five hundred sold at seven fifty profit eleven thousand two fifty. Returning investment a hundred fifty percent. This is taken on the Tuesday as in the Thursday. Again, could have made more money if you hold it through. Again, three seventies. Take it over. It's dropping here. Almost twenty bucks through the strike and then the last day. Where did it go? Three thirty five. No, it went past three thirty five. It's just just a nice call. We got this too. We got that sell off too. So, you know, one of the things I think people go back up here. Miss out on with options and one of the benefits of trading options is that when you're in an option and you one of the benefits of trading options is that if you're in an option and just listen to me. If you're in an options trade say you're in a put. You're already in it. I don't care if you're up or down, whatever. If it gaps in your favor continues down and gaps down and you're ready in it and you're in a put, you were going to be at more money or you could be negative and then positive or if you were at money the day before you're going to be up more. That is one of the huge benefits of doing options and why so many of these trades ended up being such big returns and investments. You can hold overnight. Your risk is all that you have at risk as far as the cost of the trade. That's why I say let trades play out. If you're down in something you don't have to kill it. If you have time left, give it a chance to work. Don't risk more than you can afford. If you're in a call and you're up and it gaps up in your direction, you're going to be up more or you could be in a call and you're down and it gaps up in your direction and you could be up and you the day before you were down. Again, getting the gap in your direction already in and in a call if the gaps up and a call is along, you're going to be up more. That is one of the benefits of doing options in reference to the way that I trade them. So I trade them a very specific way. I'm trading the gap and I'm picking the gap based on my Golden Gap Rating System which I teach in this class. So you can learn the class if you want. You could just sign it for the newsletter if you just want the trades. You could start trading Monday if you want. If you have experienced trading options, you just may want to do just that. If you have questions, you can email me. If you want to sign up, email me. Have a great weekend everybody.