 Happy New Year Navigation Traders. I hope 2018 was great for you and I really look forward to an excellent 2019. Just like I do at the end of each month, I wanna go through our trades for the month of December and in this video, I wanna take a deeper dive and go over all of our trades for the year of 2018. Okay, so let's jump in. In December, we had a total profit for our closed trades of $2,372.25, giving us an average profit per trade of $237.23. We had nine winners, one loser, total trades of 10, giving us a winning percentage in December of 90%. We used strategies of short strangles, iron condors, short call verticals and we did one pre-earnings long straddle. If we jump into the members area for you non-pro members, this is where all your training is included as well, so we don't just give you the trades, we don't just give you the fish, we wanna teach you how to fish as well. So for every strategy that we trade, we have a step-by-step video training course that you can go through and learn exactly how and why we make the trades that we do. In addition to the alerts being sent immediately to you by text message and email, they are also posted right here in your members area. But let's go over the closed trades from December, starting with the first ones that we made. First one being an iron condor in forward slash GC, which is the Gold Futures, booked a profit of $200 on that trade. We did a short strangle in EWZ, booked a profit of 150. In EFA, which is the International Index, we did a short call vertical, booked a profit of $332. In 6E, which is the Euro, we booked a profit on this short strangle of $225. In ZB, which is the bonds, we booked a profit of $281.25. Our one loser this month was a pre-earnings long straddle in Micron Technology, symbol MU, booked a loss of $228 there. And this one was EEM, we did a short strangle. And as you can see, we had to do multiple adjustments, a few rolls, but ended up coming out with a profit of $117. And that just shows you the power of our strategy. If you stay methodical, if you stay consistent and mechanical with your adjustments, you can turn a losing trade into a winner, which is exactly what we did here. Next trade was another short strangle in Forge Slash GC, which is gold, booked a profit of $300 on that trade. In Vidya, we did a short call vertical, booked a profit of $528. And lastly, in Netflix, we did another short call vertical, booking a profit of $467. So those are all the closed trades for December. If we go over to our performance page at navigationtrading.com, Forge Slash Performance, you'll notice that I've added a cumulative running total of our profits. So you can see we started back in June of 2017, and I just give a quick summary of all those closed profits year to date. So we'll update this at the end of each month. If you took a look at the 2018 trade statistics, you can see for the total year, we closed 151 trades, average profit per trade of $263, with an outstanding winning percentage of 91.4%. And as always, if you scroll down, you can see the details of each month, the different symbols, contracts, and strategies that we traded along with the amount of profit that we booked. Now, depending on the strategy or opportunity, you can see we use different number of contracts, typically anywhere from one to five contracts, and we're typically using anywhere from at the minimum $500 of buying power for a trade up to several thousand dollars for each position. So that concludes our recap of December. What I wanna do now is jump back over to the slides, and I wanna give you a breakdown of our profits per strategy throughout the entire year of 2018. So here we go with starting with short strangles. No surprise that this was our best performing strategy. There's a lot of heightened implied volatility across the board. So we had a total profit in short strangles of a little over 23,000, average profit per trade of $347.33, 67 winners, zero losers, 100% winning percentage in short strangles. Now, keep in mind, we still have some short strangles open. So we'll see if those end up closing for winners as well. But for 2018, for all of our closed trades, short strangles at 100%, iron condors, $5,991.25 of profit, average profit of $352.43. We had 16 winners, just one loser, giving us a winning percentage of 94% on our iron condors. Next strategy, butterflies. We only did one butterfly all year, which is kind of surprising when I'm going back and going through these statistics for each strategy. It was interesting that we only did one butterfly that we closed out, made 120 bucks on that trade. Calendar spreads, we only did two calendar spreads, which makes more sense because we are in a period of high implied volatility. We like to do calendars when IV is low. So we had one winner, one loser, and average total profit of minus $256 on our calendar spreads. Next strategy, short put verticals. We had a total profit of a little over $2,100, seven winners and zero losers on our short put verticals. On our long put verticals made a little over $1,100, had five winners and zero losers on that strategy. With our short call verticals, we had a total profit of just over $1,000 with an average profit of a little over $143, six winners and just one loser for short call verticals. On our long calls, we actually did one long call and booked a profit of $380 on that strategy. Now getting into the earnings related strategies, we did pre-earnings long straddles. We had 14 of those, nine of those were winners, five losers, total profit a little over $1,500 for pre-earnings long straddles. We did one pre-earnings long strangle, which is simply just widening those strikes, had a total profit of $244 on that one trade. Pre-earnings long calls, we had 14 of these trades, nine of which were winners, five losers with a total profit of a little over $1,100. Earnings short strangles, so these are short strangles that we're holding over the earnings announcement. Total profit $324, we just did two of these, both of those were winners. Earnings iron condor, and we had just one of those for $370. Post earnings short straddle, we did one of those, booked a profit of 27 bucks. Post earnings short strangle, did two of those, both were winners for a total profit of $310. Post earnings iron condor, just had one of those, booked a profit of $156. And post earnings short put verticals, we had eight of those trades, all of which were winners, booking a profit of a little over $1,800. And all strategies combined, total profit $39,682.39, with an average profit of $262.80. We did a total of 151 trades, 138 of which were winners, and just 13 losers, giving us a winning percentage in 2018 of 91.4%. Now, keep in mind, don't feel overwhelmed by all the different strategies if you're not even sure exactly what they are. We provide step-by-step detail so you can learn exactly how to trade each of these strategies. And we have some members that just focus on a couple, and we have some members that do all these different strategies just like us. You can trade our methodology at any level. Like I said, some of our positions take a minimum of $500 up to several thousand, depending on the strategy and the opportunity. And this year, at the beginning of the year, we started in our alerts portfolio with just under $70,000. So we had about $68,000. Now, we're never using all of that money in our positions. We usually use anywhere from 20 to 50% of our buying power for all the positions at any given time. So we have members that start off with just a several thousand dollars, and we have members who have million-dollar accounts that trade many more contracts than what we're showing here. And obviously, you can just multiply your profits by the number of contracts that you're trading. Implied volatility continues to stay high, and I don't see it slowing down in 2019. Right now continues to be the best time to be trading these strategies that we teach. Think about how these types of profits could affect you financially. I was messing around with a very simple calculator. You can go to bankrate.com. This is just a simple savings calculator. Think about this, if you have $50,000 in your account and you make 20% per year for the next 10 years, that's $309,000. And what if you made 30% and run the calculation again? Now we're talking about $689,000 in your account after 10 years. If you make 40%, now we're talking about $1.4 million so you can see how these high returns can really accumulate and get you to a large account balance extremely quickly. And that's talking about just starting with that, not making any monthly deposits. I mean, what if you had that started with that and we're doing $1,000 a month, contributing into the account with those returns? I mean, look how quickly that can snowball. Compound interest is one of the most powerful things that we have at our disposal if you know how to utilize it. If you're ready to join our community, just go to any page on our site, navigationtrading.com. In the upper right-hand corner, there's an orange button, pro membership trial. You can try our alerts and get 100% access to the training for two weeks for just a dollar. And then you can continue after that if you think it makes sense for you. There is no better business that I'm aware of that you can get this type of return on investment without employees, without equipment, without anything except your personal computer and your knowledge. This is a lifetime skill that you can pass on from generation to generation. We are so excited to have you as part of our community. Can't wait to watch you all grow as traders. 2019 is gonna be an amazing year and we can't wait to see you on the inside. Happy trading.