 everyone and welcome. This is Melissa Armel with the Stock Swoosh. And what I wanted to do here was to show you one of the benefits of trading gap options. So, or subscribing to the Gap Options newsletter and how I make the call. So for example, one of the benefits of being in options is you can carry options overnight. Okay, you could do an options trade and you could get out of it before the close. That's true. If you're up, okay? If you're in a trade though, say you took a trade today and you are in it and you hold the trade overnight into tomorrow and the trade continues in your direction, you're gonna be up more money. And the bigger the move, the more you're gonna be up. So that is one of the huge benefits of trading gap options. This is something very specific to me. So a lot of people do options, but people don't do options the way that I do them. Because I'm the only one that has the Golden Gap Rating System, which is how I make the picks for the options. So I'm trading them as options. So I'm seeing that somebody's gonna go in a certain directional bias. It could be up or down, okay? And again, if it's up, I call a call. If it's down, I call a put. But the whole idea and the concept is to get the move and the jump to get a big move, a momentum move, institutional buying or institutional selling. So when that occurs and happens and follows through in a gap in your direction and the trade, you're up a lot of money the next day. Again, this is one of the benefits of trading options with me and one of the success, that one of the reasons why the newsletter has been so successful for people who are subscribers. People are making money who are subscribers on my newsletter. And the reason is, again, these calls continue overnight into the move and can be really, really huge return on investment calls. I'm gonna show you just here, just drawing this what I mean here for this. Say you have a stock, say it's at a price here. I'm just gonna do this here. And let's use the market as an example. Say the close is 444. Okay. But this could be anything. I'm just gonna use a spy as an example. So that's the close. Today is Wednesday. Okay. And I'm just, I don't know what we're gonna close out in a minute, but I'm just giving an example. Say tomorrow and say this is a put. Sorry, I forgot to say that. Say this is a put. Say you did the 445 puts. You were ready up but you didn't get out. Okay. The next day you get up, the stock price again opens lower. Say it opens at 440. And again, I'm not talking about where it's gonna go in the live day. I'm just talking about between the close of the open. So the stock would be doing what? It would be gapping down. Close at 444, open at 440 is a $4 gap down. If you're in a put, that means you'd be in the money, first of all, $5, if you did the 445s. And second of all, you would also be up more money than you were into the close of this day. You would be up extra dough. And again, that is one of the things that makes options, training options as gaps, which is the way that I do it, the way that I'm looking at it, the way that I, the whole method that I use, it's what makes them so profitable. And that is the reason that the letter has been so successful. It's the same concept again in a long, what's this out here? Let's do green for that. If you have something that closes, 170, and you're in a call, say you're in the 175 calls, and then the next day it opens, so this is four o'clock, close 170, and it opens at 172, then you're gonna be up more money. Okay. Again, it's heading your direction. You can make money in something, heading the direction with the right timing. If you're in the direction right, even if it doesn't get to the strike. So again, you'd be up more from four o'clock to the next day you get up at 930 if it price open higher at 172, be $2 higher. So again, you could be down in this trade and then up in the trade. You could be up and then up more. I mean, there's a million different scenarios here. I'm just showing as example. It's the idea of trading the gap, but you have to know the direction the gap's gonna go. You have to know the direction of the stock that you're trading the market. I mean, there's many other variables. And again, I analyze this in the morning when I'm figuring out my method and then I apply it. And then these are the newsletters that get sent out to the people in the gap options newsletter subscription. So people come to me and they ask me questions all the time about options. They're trading options, doing this thing and this thing and this thing and this thing and spreads and everything. I do very simple buy the call, buy the put, sell the call, sell the put, that's it. Because I'm analyzing the chart, the daily chart. I'm analyzing the gap. And then I'm calling the directional bias either up or down based on institutional selling or buying. And again, the reason that the trades that are huge returning investments are such huge returning investments and profitable is if you're holding something overnight and it continues in your direction and you're ready in the trade. You've got the trade on, you went to bed. You went to bed. You didn't do anything at all but sleep all night and get up the next morning. You didn't do any work at all, but you were in the trade. You get up the next morning and all of a sudden you're up all this money because it continued when in your favor could be through the strike, could be at the strike either way in your favor, whether up or down depending if you're in a call or a put. And that again is the benefit of the way that I've been making these calls on this newsletter. And I think a lot of people don't understand that. They don't get it. They don't understand that. Here actually, let's look at the market right now since it did close. So, the spy, what we're gapping down right now actually, so this is good. So I called the 445 puts today and we're gapping down tonight. So, I don't know where we open tomorrow but I'm gonna give you an example here. So let's, we can pretend that right now is tomorrow. This closed at 443, 444.33. Right now we're trading around 443.75. So that is 50, 60 cents extra profit if we gap down 60 cents or whatever if tomorrow was 930, if this was 930, pretend you'd be up more, okay? So that is how it works. Now again, I don't know where this opens tomorrow but what if this opens down a lot tomorrow? Everybody that did that trade is gonna be up a lot. Do you see how it is? While the trade was up into the close, that's true. The big trade is if it gaps in your direction and follows through overnight. And again, that's one of the great things of an exciting things about trading options is you can go to bed at night and be in a trade. If it's a good solid trade, you get up in the morning, you could be up so much money. And then what do you do? You get out of it right into the open if you want. So trading options, the way that I look at it, analyze it, my whole method, all of the whole shebang is very unique. Everything I do is very unique. It is not the way most people trade options is one of the reasons for my success and the success of the people in the newsletter. It's been a huge year so far. This trade right here could end up being a huge trade. If tomorrow morning, we're down anywhere, anywhere. We could be $5 in the money, you know, cause I called the 445, so it could be $5 in the money into the open tomorrow. And nobody will have had to do anything but take the trade today. So, you know, it's one of these things that the overnights is what really means you can capitalize on this. Look at this, we are selling off here tonight. Yay. Yep. Diamonds. So, this is a, I'm trying to explain a little bit here why the GAP Options newsletter subscription service I have has been very successful for people. It is a unique service. There are people that have options services out there. They're nowhere near like mine. Again, we're doing it in the direction based on the momentum, but it's really on the GAP. And again, I'm using my GAP Rating System to analyze it in the morning, but the, ooh, look at that. Whoa. The amount of money that people have made, again, it's, you know, me making precise calls, but it is also the momentum that comes in with the GAP that you can get them overnight with the follow-through. And that's something that really makes trading options advantageous, really. Because you got to get the direction right to make money in any trade, but the timing is critical too for options. And when you get that kind of move, boom, overnight, look here, we are selling off. Look at this. It's only 406 too. When you get that kind of move overnight, it really makes a big difference in your profit. And that's how you can have trades that are three, four, five, 600% return on investment. Because again, this is going to be $5 in the money tomorrow after it opens at 440. And that's not crazy because we're at 440, 367 right now. So, and what if you were down? What if it goes against you overnight? I don't think that happens here, but what if it does? You can only lose what you have on at risk. So it's not like a swing trade. A swing trade, usually people on two to one margin are cash. When you take an option, if you risk $1,000, that's it. It's a fixed risk. And it's like, people say, well, what is the stop? Well, the stop is your risk. You can't lose any more than that, you understand? So that is the security in it. Whatever you risk is it. So you can't risk more than you can afford to lose in case it does go against you. I don't think that happens here with this. This is a nice call. This is a nice call. So anyways, good lesson here today. If you're interested in signing up for the GAP options newsletter subscription, you start receiving the trades the day you sign up. There's no requirements to sign up. No previous classes for eligibility you can sign up. Email me at Melissa at thestockswish.com for more information. I think we're gonna have a good day tomorrow, people. Have a good day.