 and welcome. This is Melissa Armo with the stock swish and reviewing the week expiration for the Gap Options newsletter for February 18th. Again I'm showing every week from the beginning of this year and I'm going to carry this through of the newsletters, the option newsletters. And again the trades are timestamp. You can go look at them, you can go back. I have the charts in here too in order to get the trades that you have to sign up for the newsletter. But this might help people make some decisions to see what are we really doing on the letter. Again we're doing puts and calls but we're always doing gaps. I'm the one rating the gaps so if you sign up for the subscription service it's exactly that. You'll get the trade email to you in live time for you to do it, okay? I'm doing the rating. If you want to learn how to do the ratings, how I make the picks, that's when you'd sign up for the overall class. All in all this has been a good year 2022 and I suspect that we will have a good close to this year as well. So it's been an interesting year too. The volatility has made for a lot of good moves. This was another good week where there was an 87% win ratio, 15 trades to losers, and return and investment average per trade was 143% which is fantastic. So we did have some really big winners this week. Again if you have any questions you can always watch me on TV or give me a call at 929-3200 Gap. You can email me at malice at thestockswish.com or follow me on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube or Skype. So if you've been thinking about joining, if you really want to trade options, actually that's all that you want to do. This newsletter is perfect for you but if you really want to learn the system then you take the class. Either way everything I do is based on the gap. I'm very very focused in the morning. I get up pretty early and I do all my ratings early in the pre-market. Then I send out the newsletter. So most of them are sent early in the morning. Some are sent during the day but most are sent. The majority of them in the pre-market. So again this particular week we always do the weeklies. I'm not doing out for any long term. This is momentum trading. You get the move, you take it, you get in, you get out. It could be one day or a series of days but that's it. We're just doing the weeklies. Win ratio was 87%. Number of winners this particular week was 13. Zero break evens, two losers and 15 trades. This is a busy week. It really was. Advanced trader risk 8,000. Advanced trader profits for the week was $169,885 and an average return on investment of 143%. It was a very good week. Again a lot of trades. Say you don't want to do all the trades then do the ones you can. When I'm calling 15 trades in one week like this week they're trades with the market. So I'm seeing the market's going to go a certain direction either up or down and we're doing with the market. So even if you did two, if two work that's the ones you're going to get with it. Do you know what I'm saying? So you'll see what I mean here is we're going over these and looking at the charts. Facebook we did for the 220 putts that I called on February 8th expired on the 18th. Exit was on the 17th. Again a putt is a short. I did call this one in the afternoon for some reason. Let's look at this. Cost was six stars and 20 cents. Number of contracts was 12. Risk was 74.40. Sold 11.50. Profit $6,360. Return on investment was 85%. Which is very good. 50% is good. Booking money is extremely important and this fell into right before the day of the expiration. If you held it the last day you actually could have made a little bit more. But I think it's chancey to do that when you're up in something. You're not supposed to hold every trade until the end of expiration. I talked to someone once and said they did that. No. You get the momentum and you get out of it. If it happens big in the first day you're out the first day. So again the eighth. So this one closed your gap down, backed up, that it broke. So again if this had gone faster, quicker, the first day you could have got out there but it backed up a bit. Still a nice trade. Still was profitable. You see where it dropped. Take it to the right. Again 220 was the strike so it fell through the strike. Again a putt is a short. Then we did a call which by the way did not work. So this was a loser. We did the apple calls. They failed. This was Wednesday the 9th. They were super cheap and they totally went bust. In fact they never really went right at all. This was on that day here. Fell, gap down, failed, fell with the market. Never went anywhere higher. Again it was the 180 calls. Never got to it. Never got through it. Just didn't go. That was February. That was a loser. Then we did the spy 453 puts. It expired in the 18th. Exit was 217. Three dollars and 60 cents for one. 20 contracts. Wisk was 7,200. Sold at 1550. Profit was 23,800. And a huge return in investment. Why? It was a really big move and again went very far through the strike price. And as long as it does that before the expiration you are golden, golden. So 210 was here. Closed here, gap down, fell off a cliff. If you held it the last day you actually would have made more money. It went to basically 425 that looks like the last day. Completely insane. Almost 30 dollars through the strike on the last day. But to get out the day before I think is you know conservative to say the least. You need to make sure to book profits. This isn't about piggy targets. And again we're going over advanced trade or risk. I will go over beginners for people. But this is not about how much you risk. It's about how well you're doing the trade. How well you're making the picks. Again you're paying me to sign up for the subscription because I'm doing the work to make the quality picks. So it's your job to take it with your risk accordingly and then make sure you book the money. You can't forget about the part about booking the money people. You know. The symbol was a QQQ. Strike was 360. Expiration date was February 18th. Exit was 217. The type was a pun. Okay. So again you're doing this and you are in and you are out. And this was very similar to the market or the the spy that we just looked at too. Cost was four dollars. Twenty contracts. Risk was eight thousand. Sold at fourteen dollars. Profit was twenty thousand. Returned an investment two hundred and fifty percent. A nice trade by anyone's standards. And once again you are trading momentum. This is momentum trading. This isn't long-term investing where you're buying and holding or shorting and holding forever. So again same thing. Close to your gap down. Fell off a cliff. If you had it the last day you made more even here. This was good. 360. Take it over. Get the drop. Boom. One two three forty. So that was a nice trade. I mean it's just a solid good. Sell off. Got the move. If you took half this risk. You know if you risk four grand you would have made ten. It's just a huge trade. This isn't a couple of days people. This isn't a couple of weeks or a couple of months. This is in days. Days. Again momentum trading is the most profitable profitable trading. It really is. And I think that you know a lot of people. I think they scalp. You know what I mean. They get there. They don't have enough conviction. They are scalping scalping scalping. And they think that that's all that the market has to give. But that's not true. The best trades. The biggest trades that I ever ever do that I make the most amount of money are big moves. They could be bullish moves. They could be bearish moves. Now while I prefer to short. Which is one of the reasons it's been such a fun year to trade with a stockswish. We do we do longs too. In fact we did a bunch of longs this past month actually. Anyways then we did the Amazon 30. This is before it split. 3180. Expiration date 218. Tight was a put. Take it get in get out. Again this was a move or two. Fifty five was a cost. They were a little pricy. But that's what this used to cost. When they were this much. Two contracts is 11,000. Sold at 110. Profit was 11,000 and 100% return on investment. Say you can't watch the trade. I do put targets in the letters. Say you can't watch for the targets. Well then you can put a sell order at 50% or 75% or 100% of whatever you want to do if you can't watch it. Okay let's go over here where we were. Here was the 10th. Got the drop. Boom. Again sell off. Oh this was an all. This is a this is the new chart. Shoot. I wish I would have got this before the the numbers here. Don't make sense because this I must have stuck this in here since the since the split. Shoot. Well this was the days you can see that it that sold off but the but the numbers don't have because the stock split. But you know what this has made it very inexpensive to trade these now actually because the because after the stock split. So people are doing Amazon now that could never do them before and before them before. And the stock still moves pretty big. So Netflix then we did the 400 puts. It expired 218 called 210 exit 217. The Netflix 400 strikes expired on 218. It was a put. Okay again this was sent out 849 in the morning in the pre-market. Cost was $7.25. 10 contracts. Risk was $7,250. Shulled for $13.50. Profit was $6,250 with 86% return on investment. That is very very good. Again if you're looking for something where you're just going to grab 10 cents or 5 cents it's going to be hard for you to win in trades like that and cover trades that lose because we have trades that lose. You can't make money doing this unless you have first of all more winners and losers and second of all the winners have to be decent sized winners of good return to investment to cover the losses because very often the losers are full losers. I mean sometimes you you say you want to exit a trade a certain place and you can't get out. It turns around against you overnight before you even have a chance to get out of it you know. So eight to ten we did the Netflix says again the four hundreds get the drop boom. So again this fell into it take it over. Again this fell more later in the month and then into March it looks like here but it still was profitable still was a good train. It still was close to 100% not quite went over the 50 mark and it was a good train. Okay then we did the Facebook's 22750 expired on 218 again. What is it? It's a put. This was a time where we were doing puts. It was February 10. Cost was 375 and again very often I'm reading these with market direction. I'm very good at reading market direction. That's one of the benefits of trading with me. It's something that I'm good at that a lot of people are not. Doesn't mean I get it right at the time. I get it right a lot. Number of contracts 20. 7500 risks sold at 1775. $28,000 in profit with a $7500 risk. Again you could have taken half this. You could have taken 10 contracts okay and you could have risked 3750 and you could have made 14 grand in this trade. That's totally doable for a lot of people. This was a couple of days to get the move return and investment was 373 percent and again ironically doesn't look like something crazy but it was a good one. Again do it get the drop get out boom it fell far through the strike. Again I'm calling it 22750 here and here's where it's selling off. So it went pretty good through the strike you know. Again continued. Then we did the PayPal strike 122 expired February 18th. This was a put okay $2.40 number of contracts 40. Risk was 9600. Sold at 1550 profit $52,400 return and investment 546 percent. Take it get in get the move get out. A huge trade wide. It went so far through the strike. This was another one that was such a gorgeous call. Take it over here sell off boom. Look at that boom. So a really big move for the options chain. A really big return investment when you look at the chart you're like oh these are little bars but it's falling. It's selling off you know. We'll take it. Then I changed the format of the newsletter. These are a lot prettier now. My assistant actually did this. Very fancy. Symbol is QQQ 356 expired February 18th. Again a put this was on Friday the 11th 1015 in the morning cost $5 and 80 cents number contracts 15. Risk $8700. Sold at 10 profit $6,300 return investment 72 percent. A nice trade. A good trade. A solid trade. You don't really want to hold something that's up this much money into the very last day. It doesn't make sense. I think this did go further than the last day. Let's look 211 here 356. Yeah it did. $335. So it went $21 to the strike in the last day. But I really think the 17th again how can you knock it out of something when you're up that much money and you got one day left and it can reverse against you. Time is important in options. Time value is extremely important in options. But I mean if you're up in a trade also you want to make sure you book the profit. Then we did the 5455 expired in the 18th out on the 17th 850 was the cost for 110 contracts risk $8500. Sold at 1750 profit $9,000 return an investment 106 percent. Good trade. Solid trade. Similar setup where got the push again. Here's the date of the call which was the 11th. Got the sell-off drop fell even into the last day. But again if you look at where we're at up here 455 and then you look at where it went. It's a good one. $20 through. Momentum is so critical and so key to making money trading. The 439 spies expired 218. Again we did a lower strike. I called this on Monday the 14th at 1002. That's fine. This one squeezed it out into the last day because it didn't go as fast or right as I thought. In fact up I'll show you. Cost was 550. 15 contracts. Risk was 8250. Sold at 650. Profit $1,500 return an investment 18 percent which wasn't fabulous but it was a winner. Here was what happened. Show again fell here called it backed up dropped went got out of it with profit but you know didn't really work the way that I wanted to be honest but it was a winner. It was a winner. Then we did the queues 345. Again puts called on Monday. 475 was a cost 20 contracts. Risk was 9500. Sold at 550. Profit $1,500. Return an investment 15 percent. Again very similar here where you're doing it backs up drops lean. Some people kill them if they don't go the first day. I don't do that. I really don't but but some people do. So some people killed this and just killed it. On the Monday 11 14 the 343 diamonds again this was a put. This one lost again. Eeked it out the last day. Barely came back almost a break even lost 625. This was very similar to the queues on the spot. It just kind of ran out of time because it backed up. It just backed up again backed up dropped it had the move really the following week actually. You can see where it went in the following week. I find playing for two weeks out though can be really dicey because then you pay so much and then it's almost like you don't make as much and I really feel like this should go pretty quickly. 24 to 48 hours of the same week. Again momentum momentum. This isn't trend trading people. Facebook 215 expired on the 18th. Exit on the 17th. This was the Thursday exit. 380 was the cost. 20 contracts. Risk was 7600. Sold at $7. Profit was 6400. Return an investment 84%. A nice trade by anyone's standards. Nobody said you have to hold something forever until the last day. But sometimes even if you do you can eat that even more. I know it's crazy but I just want to show you where this went. 215. It was a $215 to the strike on the last day. It's just you know ridiculous. But this was a nice trade. 214 was the day I called it. Then we got the sell up here. You're in. You're out. Boom. I mean it bled down. It just completely bled down. It was a nice trade. Again 84% return on investment. But it was slightly more on the last day. Then we did the 210s. This was good too. Again I sometimes I'll double up and I'll call 123. If I'm absolutely in love with the gap. Which I was. This was the 210 Facebooks. These were cheaper. Cost was $2. Contracts was 40. Just say I call 1 and you think it's too expensive. You can't do it or as many. Then you do that. You can do a higher strike or a lower strike depending if it's a call or a put. Sold a 350-6000 profit return on investment 75%. This is the exact same day. The exact same chart. You can stack them or you can do one. Get out of one. You can do one and hold one. Do you know what I mean? Here's the drop. Boom. Ow. Again this is momentum. Selling. You know and you have shorts in there too. So if you're interested in signing up for the Gap Options newsletter. This is a subscription service. It's very beneficial for people that don't have time to be in the day trading room every day and they still want to make money and they want to be able to trade and they don't have time to do the class or really don't even have any interest in doing the class. I think the learning is important personally. I think people trade better when they learn but some people just want to do their own thing and take the trades and that's all they want to do. So that is something that is totally up to you and you can make up your own mind. I have a lot of people that end up doing the trades. 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And again we do trades with the market but we also do selective things on news and earnings that we don't need the market. I am very good at rating the market though which is why a week like this we can just bang it out and you have so many winners. So if you have concerns, if you have questions just email me. Just email me and I will answer them for you. But if you want to sign up for the class if you want to learn that's totally fine because I offer the class once a month. You can sign up for the newsletter though today and start trading right at Waze. But the process that I go through is I get up in the morning and rate the gap. And if you want to do the class you learn the checklist of the ratings that I go through the whole thing. I go through the whole shebang. My main goal is making money. I think this is one of the reasons why trading with me is beneficial because I created the system for myself. Not to teach it to anyone. That was never my goal. It ended up evolving into that when I realized I had a voice by doing YouTube videos and then it evolved into a business. I wanted a new job. I wanted out of the mortgage industry. And so if you're in a job where you don't like it and you're unhappy, I mean it can be very miserable if you get up every day and you don't like what you do. You know I was in that frame of mind for myself for a number of years towards the end of my mortgage career. I was really wanting to find something else. But when you're making money and you have a good income it's hard to replicate that just out of the gate in a second. So you take the class you learn. Keep your job up. Once you're making money trading then you can transition. I do have people that are retired that were trading with me too and it's a secondary income for them. So think about the reasons you want to do this. There are definitely a lot of benefits to trading. There are challenges too but you can overcome them. I'm here to support you and again I'm here to teach you and that's one of the reasons why you're paying me to take the class and for the information. But I mean it's all about financial freedom and in this today's day and age everyone's looking for that. I mean the cost of food, gas, everything is going sky high and I don't think the cost of food to be honest with you is ever going to go back down again. Like I think this is the price of some of these food products is what it is. So it is up to you to take care of yourself. You can do this from home or you're from your office wherever you are in the world and again every trade is based on the Golden Gap system. What is the Golden Gap system? It's a system I created over the course of three years and I own it. It's a system you can come and learn from me in the Golden Gap course. The Golden Gap system is a 26-point professional bearish gap rating system. 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It's a cost to doing business if you want to change careers and you want to get involved with doing this even if you're trading part-time. I really think you got to know what you're doing to do it. But there's people that are trading for a number of years that want good trade ideas and so the newsletter works for them. So they sign up for the newsletter because they don't care about learning because they just want trade ideas and they traded for many years in the past and they they do it and they manage your trades for themselves and it all works out. So I really don't know what you're interested in. I do think education is important but if you just want the trade sign up for the newsletter it is definitely less stressful to trade when you're following someone. It's it's really just when you can call someone or email someone or ask them questions it makes it so much easier for you. The market's been tricky this year. I've been reading it well. We'll see where we go. 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