 Hello there everyone and welcome. This is Melissa Armo with the Sock Swoosh. Welcome! Welcome to 2024. And guess what? We're going a huge snowstorm in New York City this weekend and I can't wait. Actually it's supposed to continue into next week so I am so looking forward to seeing the snow in Central Park. It's going to be absolutely amazing and beautiful. I even got boots so I'm ready to go out in the snow. So I am excited and so far this year 2024 I could not have asked for a better year to day trade. We've had great trades every day so far this week and it was supposed to be a slow week but so far we've been active. We've had things every day and tomorrow we're going to have something too because it's the economic data out in the morning. It's going to move stocks and it's going to move the market. So this year could not have started out better. I'm looking forward to the rest of 2024 and hoping you will join me. So I'm doing an amazing package and I'm calling it the Winter Wonderland Package. If you're interested in it, if you want to sign up, you can start trading now. You can start trading with us as soon as you sign up. You can email me and Melissa at thestockswoosh.com for more information and sign up forms for the package. You can call me and ask me questions at 929-3200 Gap. You can follow me on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube or Skype. So happy new year everyone. Like I said, 2024 is officially here. The market started out this year gapping down and selling off. Not a great start for the market this year for people that were long, for people that have had such a bullish bias. Again, I'm an active trader. I trade momentum so I do go long and I do short but I prefer to short. And you'll learn all about that in my classes and why I like to short. But it's going to be a very exciting year this year, 2024. I think we're going to have a lot of momentum and I think we're going to have a lot of opportunities to make money trading. So this is a beautiful picture here of Central Park and New York City. I'm actually going to walk on the snow. I really did buy boots. I don't know how comfortable they're going to be. I might have to buy a second pair if I take one walk and they're not comfortable. But I am prepared. I am ready to go for the snow and really looking forward to it. And I might actually walk at night, which I tend not to want to do in the park. But I might because I think it's going to be beautiful and it is lit up. So the Winter Wonderland special starts today and I'm running it through January 12th. This gives you plenty of time to join, start trading and get prepared for the classes then that are at the end of January. So here's the special. If you sign up for the Golden Gap course combo, the combo, which I will tell you what's included by January 12th. Again, you don't have to wait until the 12th. You could sign up today, tomorrow and start trading. You will receive the package. So the Golden Gap course combo tuition is $7,999. $7,999 U.S. And it includes the Golden Gap course, January 27th to 28th, 9 to 5. And the trends course on February 1st, 11am to 3pm Eastern time. So you sign up for that by the 12th and you will get the Wonderland package. Now what's included with that besides the two classes? You will get the live trading room until the end of 2024. You will get the options newsletter until the end of 2024. You will get the market report until the end of 2024. You will get the Gap options course, which is January 30th, 11 to 3. And you will get five, and this is a really big deal. You'll get five one-hour one-on-one mentoring sessions with me online. We'll go into the room. We'll look at charts. You can talk, ask me questions, go through things. You could do this before the class if you want. But I think it's more beneficial if you wait until after the class and ask me questions. But you could ask me questions about trains, the class, whatever you want. It's the one-on-one time with me, and this is five sessions. You could do one a week or spread it out one a month. This is for 2024. So again, the special ends Friday, January 12th, 2024. It's a great offer. And again, I really think that the mentoring sessions is really going to be so beneficial for people. And then you'll get all my trades for the entire year for 2024. And like I said, you can start trading as soon as you sign up. So today we did Apple. It was a good call. It was a great trade. It worked. And again, here was the Gap. So what will you learn from me in the Golden Gap course? You are going to learn how to rate the gap. And you're going to learn how to know that Apple was a short. So the stock closed here, gap down, open, rallied, dropped. Again, this was a really expert call, a nice call in here. You want to start your year off right? It's always a good time to reset. If you have not been trading well and if you haven't been doing good, whether it's just last year in 2023 or whether it's for a long time or you haven't been doing well, you can reset. And again, people have goals for that beginning of the year. They have new year's resolutions. I say do a reset. You know, a lot of people start exercise programs, diets at the beginning of the year. Start your trading reset, you know, and really get on the right path to, and that's just not even actively taking better trades and booking money more continuously this year. It's also actually learning a new system, learning a new strategy because your goal for 2024 is to make money. That's the whole point of trading. Yeah, it's fun to press the buttons and be in trading rooms, but it is not fun if you're losing. It is only fun if you're winning. It is only fun if you're successful. So this was another really good call here this week. We did Apple. So in tears to the second I sent this trade out at 8.49 in the morning. You take the trade into the open. You cannot trade options before the market open, but you would get into this trade soon into the open as quickly as you can. I call the Apple 190 puts that don't expire next week. Theoretically, you could still be in this. And actually, if you are still in this trade, you're still up. I got out of it. I thought it was a good exit today. I wanted to book some profits. It was a nice trade, but this trade is still positive. This trade is still up. This is still through the strike. If we're lower tomorrow, this could go to some crazy number. But again, you've got to book profits and trades. So again, important to take it, get the move and book it. Take it, get the move and book it. And that's something that I teach in the class too. I teach the targets. And again, I teach the exit. So I called the trade here. Stop close here, gap down, open, drop. Actually, you were up in this trade here. You opened this trade here. And obviously, you were up in this trade here. But it hit through a bunch of the targets I had. It went past the targets actually that I had in the letter. And so it was a nice trade. So you can set your exits at a sell order, at a certain percentage if you want, or you could watch the trade for the targets, because I do have the targets in the letter. So this cost 370, which was really, I thought, a good price. 25 contracts, risk was 9250 for an advanced trader risk. You could risk more, sold at 875. I think this even went over nine something today. Profit was $12,625 or 136% return on investment. And again, this trade is still positive. If you're still in it, this still could be lower. But this is going to be dependent on what the market does tomorrow. And again, when you're upward at 100% in a trade, you got to be looking to get out at some point. So this was, again, a smaller risk, a beginner risk of three contracts with an average risk of 110. Again, around $1,000, exit at 875. You could have made $1,515. Again, this is taking a trade on the Tuesday, exiting on a Thursday. I consider my options trading fast rates too, because again, we're trading momentum. The momentum came in today in the gap down. So again, say you're in a trade. Say you're in a put, okay? You get it into your move overnight. You capture the overnight move. Again, one of the best things about trading options, particularly with me and something I'm really good at is calling the trade, getting the trade, getting in early, and then we get that overnight move. And that's where all the money really comes in and then you get all the profit. And whether you get out in the open or you weigh a little bit is up to you. So again, that's the name of the game here. So if you were short, if you were in a put and then it gaps down, you're out. If you were in a call and it gaps up, again, you're up then when you're in a call, what if it gaps up and you're long. But again, this was a short and the momentum in Apple has been to the downside pretty much all this week. It was another nice call. So two nice trades, same gaps, played them out and really, really had some nice moves of this this week. So we had the beginner risk to advanced trader risk. I'm showing this here for people who want to risk different amounts because you could have taken one contract of this. You'd have to look at your amount of money that you have and use it accordingly. You could have risked $370 in this and you still would have doubled your money. But I found that over the years, teaching people ever since I started the stocks which was 11 years ago now, no, it's 13. It's crazy. It's absolutely crazy. No, 12 years going on 13. It's 12 years going on 13 that I've had the business. It's nuts. It's just so long. And I've been trading since 2008. Wow, 16 years. And all the time and all the people I've talked to and encountered thousands, hundreds of thousands of people in this time, people I've met that have traded, friends I've made over the years, clients, people that have just come and asked me questions, people are always in need of great trade ideas. That's what they want. It's something that I'm very good at. I don't like good trade ideas from other people. In fact, I don't trust them. That's something about my personality. I trust myself implicitly because I develop my own system and I apply it. I don't trust anyone else I trust myself. So that's, I think, what makes me such a great teacher and trader and to actually call the trades live in the room and send out the newsletters with such confidence and conviction. Someone asked me today, actually he's new. He just signed up for the newsletter and he said he wants to trade like me. The best advice I can give someone if they say they want to be like me is have confidence and conviction in your trades. And again, that's where the education comes in because if you learn what to do and you know why I'm doing it, then you will have the confidence and the conviction. And you don't waver. And that's really the ticket. Especially something like today, I'm going to go back to this really quickly here where you see Apple backed up. See, Apple backed up before it dropped. You had to be patient in that today. Oh, here it was again. So here's the day trade. So the entry was 182.20. Shares was 3,000. This is an advanced trader risk. You could have taken less. Risk was 3,300. Exit was 181. It dropped. It didn't quite get to 180 today, which I thought it might. It did get to 180 and change. Profit was $3,600 on this trade. This one particular trade. This was a day trade. The trade on margin. I called this trade live in the room. You had to be in the room to get it. So again, you can do puts. You can do options. You can do day trades on margin. You could do whatever works for you to do it. Okay. But the system is the same. It's the golden gap. It's the reigning system. I got up in the morning. I rated the gap. The gap rated 20 points or more per the 26 point system. And that's how I knew the stock would fall. And that is what you'll learn in the golden gap class if you sign up and take it with me. But one of the reasons this package is so nice is you can get the options class, the trends class, the main class where you learn the points. You're going to learn the targets. You're going to learn the exits, the entries. And then of course the mentoring sessions with me too and then get all my trades. I say no piggy targets, but at the same time, the apple could have a piggy. If you're still in that 190 put and we drop tomorrow, it could have a piggy target. I don't know if that happens. And again, I'm not saying anyone should take that chance, but you know, I mean, anything is possible in this market right now. I think the piggy target thing is again, something we discussed in more detail in the class, but what usually happens is you're already in a trade. You're ready and eating it out. You're up a little down a little, maybe a break even and then boom, you're in it overnight. Like I said, the benefit of doing options is you can capture these overnight moves with a fixed risk and then it explodes in your direction. And that's really where a lot of the money is too. So if you want to work for yourself, if you want to trade for a living, if this is something you want to do, you've got to make the move now. You've got to find a way to work it into your schedule to do it. You're never going to have all this time of the world free that you could just say, oh, I'm going to quit my job and start trading even though I have no idea what I'm doing. That's not a good idea. No one should do that. And I didn't do that. First of all, I worked two jobs when I was teaching myself how to trade or shouldn't say that I was trading and I was working another full-time job. So I pretty much was working two jobs when I was trading and I was doing mortgages at the same time and I worked long hours and that's what I had to do. I didn't quit my mortgage job until I was making enough money trading and that's the best thing for people to do. But one of the reasons why the room is so great is because we're only open and trading in the first half hour of the day. That's it. Like the day trading apple, you're in, you're out. Boom, that's it. You're done. You're off with your debt. You don't have to sit for six and a half hours all the time the market is open. This type of trading, the schedule that I keep allows you to be in and out of trades very, very quickly and go and do something else with your time. And then again obviously if you want to do the options, you put the trade on, you can put a sell order, a limit order, it's a cancel day order. If it doesn't fill, you get up the next day and you put in the order again. But what you will learn in the Golden Gap course, what you will learn in the combo, the trends, the big class, the two-day course, you will learn the rating system and that's really the meat and potatoes of everything I do and allows me to make the predictions like I do about the market, about Apple and other trades we've done. So the class is called the Golden Gap course. It is a class on how to find, pick and play stocks that are professional bearish gaps. The class is January 27th to 28th, 9 to 5. Class tuition is $74.99 US dollars. Class is online. You can be anywhere in the world and take it. And like I said, 2024 started out to be a great year. Again, if for a short week and a holiday week where people are still off, even I am surprised what a good week this has been. But the Winter Wonderland Special, if you want to take advantage of this, this is a great package. You'll sign up for the combo. This gets you two classes. The Golden Gap course and the Trends course. You can sign up and start trading. You're allowed to do that and I'll give you entry into the room. You can start making money before the class. Again, like I said, people are already doing well this year. You must sign up on January 12th for this, though. The package includes the room, the newsletter and the marketing report through the end of this year. And then the options course, which will do that same week of all the other classes, January 30th, and then five one-hour mentoring sessions, which is great. So helpful. And really, really, I know people have questions after the class. And it's great to be 101 with me while people ask me questions every day in the room. And they email me, too, to have this 101 time with me to go over trades or charts or anything you want to. Like if you did the Apple trade today, you said, I understand this, Melissa. What did you see here? We could talk about it. So this is a lot of my time here that I'm really giving you in this package. And I'm trying to support people. I want people to do well. So again, this is going on through January 12th. Sign up. Don't delay. Start trading with us. It's been a great start to 2024. If you want to sign up, email me and Melissa at thestockswish.com and have a safe weekend, everyone. Make sure to go out and get your bread, eggs, and milk before the storm.