 and welcome. This is Melissa Armo with the Stock Swoosh and I'm doing a golden gap course hawk special for this month for June. The class is coming up this coming weekend, June 24th and 25th. I teach my class once a month and I'm doing a special for the hawk because I have a hawk that actually lives on the top of my roof. In fact, I have two of them. It's a male and a female hawk. I've only seen the female once. I've seen the male now several times and it is an awesome, awesome sight to see this hawk. I have a couple videos that I was able to capture. If you go to my YouTube, you can watch them and in fact, I'm planning on going up there tonight before it gets dark to see if he's up on the roof right now. Since I moved near Central Park in New York, I decided to stay in New York and move it in a new neighborhood. I'm amazed at the nature and all of the things that there are to offer in New York City. All of these birds and animals and turtles and everything is going on and they're living their lives completely oblivious to everything that's happening in New York. It's interesting. It's been very therapeutic for me to actually live near all this nature. I never consider myself a nature girl, but I'm really into seeing this hawk. I can't really describe to you what it's like to see this hawk. You'd almost have to see it. The best thing I can do is to show you the videos on the roof because he's massive, huge, more than two feet in body and length and actually way more than that with the tail. It's a red tailed hawk and size and girth and he's so close. I mean, he's absolutely, absolutely, absolutely so close and probably going up on my roof is probably the closest any human being will ever get to a red tailed hawk in Central Park of this size because they're really not around humans, but they perch up in the roof and I'm not sure if the nest is up there. I really don't know, but I see him every day flying and I decided to do a special for the hawk. If you have questions and you want to learn my trading method, I teach a class like I said once a month. I do enjoy teaching. I spent more time teaching I think years ago. Now I'm trying to space the classes out once a month because again, I want to enjoy my weekends and my free time, but I really do enjoy teaching. Of course, I try during the week, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday in the live room in the morning and I try to do specials to help people to get people the support that they need to get up and get started. I know that there's challenges to beginning a new program, a new system, a new strategy. I know that everyone else has a different learning curve. I'm here to help you do that and again, I think that it's a different side of myself, the trader person and then the teacher person, but it's definitely something that I do enjoy doing. If you have questions and you want to sign up, you can email me at Melissa at thestockswitch.com. You can also call me at 929-3200 Gap. You can follow me on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube or Skype. So there he is. There he is. Look at that. I first saw him. I first saw him flying because I was looking down and I saw the tail. I saw the red tail. So this was like a couple of months ago and I said, oh my god, that's a red tailed hawk and you never, when you're looking up at red tailed hawks, you can't see the tail is red. It's only when you're looking down top of them, but it really is a beautiful, beautiful color when you see them. So I was looking down on top of the body and that's when I first saw him. I had no idea he lived in my roof. I went up to the roof to get some shots, some pictures of the view on the top of my roof and he startled me. I'll tell you the story. He startled me because I never even want to have seen him. I would never even want to know he was there if this hadn't happened because when you're up on a roof, which there's lots of rooftops in New York City, you can go for views. Some have bars, some have lounges. There's chairs and tables up there, but I've never seen anyone up there sitting up on the roof since I've moved here. But you're looking out and down when you're on top of a roof. You would have to have looked up to see this hawk or the partner. I would have never done that if this wouldn't have happened. So I was walking and crossing around the one side of the roof and he was coming up to the roof and there's a glass partition so you could see out. I was walking down. He almost hit me in the head. He was going up and over to get on top of the pole and it startled me because I wasn't expecting it and I'm sure that he was startled by me too. But if that had never happened, if I hadn't had that close encounter with him, I would have never even known he was there. I would have never even saw him. I would have never even looked up because you don't look up when you're on a roof. I mean unless I've seen planes go over top of the roof, but really the interest is you're looking down and out when you're on the roof. So it was one of those things I was like, oh gosh, it's meant to be that I was supposed to see this beautiful creature because he almost hit me, but he really startled me actually because he was so big in his size. This is not the picture that I captured when I first encountered him. It was with the partner that was on another pole that I have, the pictures, if you want to go into Twitter. It was just another day. This is one of the closest shots that I got of him. It was just unbelievable and he looks right at you. So anyways, you say to yourself, sometimes do things happen in life because they're meant to be. Sometimes do things happen in life. It's fate. You know, I'm a firm believer in free will that we create our own destinies and we make our own choices. But I do think that sometimes fate intervenes where things sometimes do happen for a reason. Again, when I started trading, I had no idea what I was getting myself into. I actually thought that I wanted to trade forex. I never learned how to trade forex. I've never traded forex in my life. I never will. But anyways, initially when I found out about trading, that's what I thought I was going to do and that's what I thought I wanted to do. Then I ended up getting into the US stock market. So sometimes things transpire in our lives that are really, we go down different paths and we say, gosh, is this fate our free will or is this meant to happen? Again, our free will is that we have dreams that we want to make happen. We just don't know how to always make those dreams happen. Then I think sometimes fate steps in and takes a hand to help us accomplish or get on the right path towards our dreams. Of course, when I started trading, like I said, I didn't know what I was doing. I didn't know how I was going to figure it out. The one class I took, I didn't learn how to make money in the market and then I ended up spending years figuring out my system. Then again, at that time, I never dreamed it would be a national television or have a business or any of the things that I've accomplished in my life. You go down the road and you pursue your dreams and you take chances and you take risk and you never know where it's going to lead you. When this hawk goes down to capture its prey, it's take new prisoners and he gets it. I think when you trade, you have to go after a trade like that. You have to go after it fearlessly. Again, this isn't about taking risk sake when you trade. You should look at something and you say, I'm going to risk this much money per trade. You put in the stock, but you should have a reason for taking the trade. I think far too many people don't have a strategy, don't have a system, and don't have a reason for taking their trades at all. They don't even follow any method or methodology. Then people wonder why they lose. For me, it was about figuring out something that I could do every single solitary day that I could make money in the market that had high odds for me because I understood that some trades were going to lose and some trades I take do lose, but I have more winners and losers and that's what allows me to be profitable. Once you get on the right path where you're doing something where you have a high win ratio, then you can move forward and you can be a lot less stressed about trading or taking risk and take more risk. Getting back to the hawk, what a great symbol of really the ability of power, of strength, fearlessness. I could go on and on about this hawk. The hawk special is, if you sign up for the Golden Gap course by June 23rd, which is this Friday, that is the deadline to sign up for the class and the special. You'll receive the trading room free to the end of 2022, December 31st. The live trading room is where I call the live trades. They are equity trades where I will call the entry, the stop, and the exit where we're shorting stocks mostly. Sometimes we'll go long. You have to have an account where you'd have the account set up on margin to do equity trades. There are some people that are doing options in the live room. If I call to short the spy, they'll buy a put in the spy instead of actually shorting it on margin, but the trades I'm calling in the room are day trades. The options newsletter, if you want to do the options, you will also get for free through the end of this year with the newsletter subscription. Some people prefer the options newsletter because it comes to their email directly. It gives you the strike, the ticker symbol that we're doing, the date of the expiration, and the targets are on the letter as well. Again, I will review the options in the room too. You also get with this special five one-hour mentoring sessions with me online. We can go in the room. We can go and Skype. We can do it on the phone if you want to, although I think Skype or the room is better to show charts. That's very beneficial after the class to be able to sign up and actually learn from me what to do and go ask questions and after the fact. The class itself is $69.99. You will get all of these extra bonus things free if you sign up by Friday, which is a great way to start and get going. Again, what do I trade? I trade golden gaps. For a lot of people, they really don't understand exactly what to look at and as far as choosing directional bias on any given particular day. I think when you're going through and you're trying to figure out, do I want to go long? Do I want to short today? If you're looking at the market or relying on the market, you're going to have a hard time trying to figure out what to do because the market is not always easy to predict which direction is going to go on any particular day. On top of that, you're better off getting something that doesn't need the market. Just to go over here, what is a gap? A gap is a difference between the close and the open. This was back May. Target closed here gap down. The close is at one price and the opens at a different price. That is what a gap is. This is a gap down. There are gap ups. This is a gap up when the close is at one price and the open is at a higher price. That's a gap too. Now, in the class that I teach, the class that I teach once a month, it is focused on bearish gaps. We focus on shorts. I will sometimes go long. We actually went long Friday. We went long NVIDIA, but I prefer to short. The class that I teach once a month is focused on shorting. It is also focused on fast trades where we're trying to get it out very, very quickly. We are chunking it out. The best thing that you can do is to book profits in this market or any type of market, particularly this market, I think. We're about two weeks out from July 4th holiday. Getting into this period of the year, halfway through the year, I think a lot of people assess where they're at with their trading, with their finances, with their lives, with their careers. It's all about financial independence. Yes, you want to make more money, but you want to make more money so you can get somewhere in your life so that you can have more free time. You don't have to spend so much time working that you're exhausted by the time that you're done, and you don't have the energy or time to do anything fun. Financial independence means being able to pay your bills with ease, and it also means having more free time. I think a lot of people who are trading the market, they don't know what they're doing. They're trying to figure it out. They're going into chat rooms blind, following people that are strangers, having no idea what to do with any strategy. Don't do that. This is not a market that you should be trading in alone. Don't drown in the market by trading alone. Follow someone that you trust, that you believe in. Having a mentor is extremely important. And like I said, actually having the mentoring sessions, the five mentoring sessions, is really, really beneficial. That time, that extra time. So I call this options newsletter. I sent it out on Friday, June 9th at 8.07 in the morning. It was the target 129 puts that expired on June 16th. So again, a put is a short. So here it was June 9th. Okay, this is what I call the trade. Stock closed here. Gap down fell. Could it get out of here? Could it get out of the next day? I knew Monday, boom. That was the day to get out of it. It was up. It was up a really good amount. The cost of the option was $2.40. Contracts is an advanced trader risk of $8,000. You could have sold it that second day down into the drop. You held it from Friday to Monday, and you could have made $2.50 on a $2 risk, which is a really good trade. Profit is $10,000. Return of the vest 125% ROI. Now, if you want to do a beginner risk, the beginner risk could be one contract. You could have risk $200 and maybe $250. That's still a great trade. So again, it's one of these things where you have to determine your risk base and the size of your account. Five contracts would have risked $1,000 and you could have made $12.50. This is taking it on a Friday and getting it out on a Monday. Some trades have to hold a little bit longer. Some trades, again, you could have got it on the target on Friday if you wanted to. It was a nice call. Again, tying it right with the gap, getting it with the momentum to the downside. Again, it was a put. But if you're interested in the line trading room or I call the day trades live, again, I call the entry, the exit and the stop. That is where you will do the day trades. We're not day trading options. We're doing them again in momentum. I might get out of an option the same day, but I'm just trying to get a bigger move in an option. So the live trading room, which is open in the morning at 9 AM, is for fast, quick day trades. Day trades where you will have a day trade account on margin. Now, there are people in the room that are doing options, too. That is your decision if you want to do that as well. But the room opens at 9 and we start trading at 9.30. So it is about you, whatever you want to do with your life. If you want to work for yourself full-time as a trader, part-time as a trader, but everything I do, whether it's day trades or options is based on the 26 points and the 26 point golden gap checklist. So again, I go through the checklist. I follow it through. I go through it each and every single solitary day. And I read as many gaps as I get, actually. So the class is called the golden gap course. I teach it once a month, like I said. Excuse me. The class for June is June 24th and 25th coming up. And the class to wish is 69. Excuse me, 69.99 US dollars. So the class is online. You can be anywhere in the world and take it. And again, the trading room is online, too. So if you want to sign up, you will email me for the forms. You cannot sign up for the website. If you want to sign up this week by Friday the 23rd, which you'd have to, and anyways, because the class is starting Sunday, you will get these bonus specials for the hawk special that I'm doing. What a great shot. So again, the class is 69.99. Everyone pays the same. And if you sign up by Friday, you'll get the trading room and the options that are free to the end of 2023 and five one-hour mentoring sessions online with me. If you have questions, if you want to sign up, email me. You can email me here at Melissa at thestockswish.com. Again, this is the class dates, times, tuition costs. Feel free to reach out to me if you'd like a trial for this week as well. And have a great evening, everyone.