 the targeting, you didn't get it. I could very easily be frustrated, and I am somewhat frustrated, and I was frustrated yesterday, and that was evident too. In this job, when you do this, there will be times when you come across a wall of frustration. That wall of frustration could last for one day. It could last for one trade. It could last for a week. It shouldn't last for a month. But every time that you come up to another point within your trading, know that it is another level of a chance for you to grow. And this is one of the very important things that I think people learn from me is that you've got to constantly and consistently persevere when challenges arise in life. And for those of you that are not trading at all, or are not, or are trading and they're not making money, and have not taken the class that are here just for the week, you know, this is something to be thoughtful about when you're starting out doing this. A lot of people do everything right, make money, and then they have to persevere. And so I always tell people, be prepared. Be prepared at this point in your trading. And for me, why did the last two days happen when I had the right pick? Who knows? I can think about it and analyze it all weekend if I feel like it. I really stopped doing that. In my mind, I know that every time something like the last two days happened, where I have the exact perfect gas, and then I don't get any money out of it, or worth I lose because I take a late trade like today in it, and I had to pick, and I had the first trade and I just didn't do it. Always is it a sign of something else to come. Something else to come that's good when you persevere through the obstacle. The obstacle being getting up on Monday morning and Tuesday morning and Wednesday morning next week and trading and doing everything right. Everything that I know to do is every day I pick the right thing. So you can't ever get to a point where you say, I'm through every obstacle. Because if you want to keep progressing in life and making more money and taking more risks and taking more chances to get to the next level in life, you will have challenges. No one starts from day one and is at the top of the mountain with everything in the world, unless you were born into wealth or something like that. But even then, that doesn't mean you have everything. Wealth and money isn't everything, it doesn't necessarily equate to happiness. There's plenty of rich people out there that are miserable, take their lives, or are not intelligent, evolve human beings. The reason that we trade is that we want to make money and that's the goal to be profitable, but at the end of the day, it's really the freedom that comes with trading and the lifestyle that comes with being a day trader that actually makes it even more worthwhile than anything else. So what is perseverance? Perseverance is a steady persistence in a course of action, a purpose, a state, especially in spite of difficulties, obstacles, or discouragement. In theology, it's a continuance in a state of grace to the end, leading to eternal salvation. Ultimately, the time it takes to become successful trading really varies from person to person. I wish I could say, you're going to start up today, and as soon as you take the class this weekend, Monday morning, you're going to make $1,000. Tuesday, you're going to make $500. I don't know. It becomes successful varies for people. For some it's a few days, a few weeks, a few months, a few years, and for some it's a lifetime. And for some people, they will never become successful because they will quit. And then we'll give up before success has had a chance. So I said, sorry to say, I'm excited to say, and I can tell when I talk to people or went along for months and they don't do the class, I can tell that people really mentally have quit or they break even. But mentally in their mind, I know that people will never make it because mentally they have quit. They have given up on the market. They've lost hope, so to speak. And when you lose hope that you can do it in the market as to become successful other than take personal responsibility for it, which is exactly the case, then you basically quit and you won't make it. So try not to get to that point. Now that doesn't mean you can't turn it around. There's plenty of people I've talked to that could turn to so negative, they've given up on themselves and they've given up on the market. They want to know they've given up on themselves. They want to blame everything and everyone. Are people that have good systems like me because they can't know that it's them that can't do it? They want to blame it on the market. The market just is there and exists. The market is not a person, but it is made up of people. It is made up of people. Okay. You definitely won't make it. Okay. The new thing that have mentally quit, but what acknowledge it and actually at least some days to make money doing some of the things we do when people are trying to buy them and we're shorting them. DRX is a great example because when that reaches the high, somebody bought it up there to think it was going to go over the high and then it fell off a cliff after it broke the low. And there's a million other examples we can talk like that. But the point is though that there are a lot of people trading in the market that are losing money, but they have a bad attitude, that they can do it, that they've given up on themselves and given up on wanting to learn anything more. I'm trying to make this so important. I want everyone to listen to this. As soon as you listen to this because I have my own business, it wouldn't be right. What's the word? It wouldn't be another person's class and an educational system for trading. However, and read motivational books to help myself, and I allow the market really to teach me things. It's almost like I have a relationship with the market. It's a marriage. Maybe it's the only marriage I'll ever have. The markets will learn from it. And there was. What do you think else? I know everything. All I know what it needs to do is just come and take your trades, Melissa. When you're at that point, you're done. You might as well just pack it in. But you know what? People don't, they keep trading. They think they don't need to spend their money on a class. They think they think the market is one of them. Sometimes people say I brag about it. Self up to keep doing this, to keep doing this. I mean, how do you get through the date? Sometimes we have a tough day. Well, you look at the good things that you've done and you put yourself in the back for the good things that you've done. Alone at night with me in the market alone and looking at things and the weekends when I see things that no one else sees. When the market whispers to me on the weekends, like the call I saw for the market to make the high last year. If I acknowledge the power of the market and what it has to teach me, okay, acknowledge the market for that and I thank the market for that. If you're not at that level where you were right there in with the market to listen to everything the market has to say and touch with it, then you've got to learn from a person. And the minute you don't want to do that, then you've quit mentally and you've checked out. There's never a point where you know everything. I wish, I wish I could say that I was at that point. I wish I could say I'd ever be to that point. Do I have more to learn? Yes. Here in the room, but guess what? It's making me better. Things over time and the classes in the room and everything that I do that will, that will be better for all the people that are taking the class with me, that we take the class with me, that are here in the room and all of our experiences, it will make all of us better. Know that I share all the things that I learned with you in some way or another. Okay, in some way or another, it all comes out. Sometimes it doesn't all come out right away. Maybe. Learn from last year will come out in some way. Say, all of a sudden, maybe blossom because trust me, there's a lot of things I've been going through with all of this projects with a television show, but I will tell you though that when you ever get to a point that you don't want to keep learning ever in your career, and this is just not even about trading, but it's very important with trading. This can be anything. Anything you do at all, then you basically mentally quit and you may be able to just retire and you may be able to stop. Okay, and I think the problem is with a lot of traders, they are trading for it and then they kind of, they don't learn anything else and they mentally check out. Whether they're making money or losing money or not making enough money or whatever the case is, they really kind of quit. When you're starting out, it's easier to think where the decision that you're going to do something new that you don't know anything about. And so when you're brand new to trading, I find for people to learn because they have mentally made a conscious decision that they are going to have things they're going to learn and they're going to have to persevere. So it's a conscious decision. The expectation is that they are learning something new and they're okay with it. I find the most challenging people to teach are people that have done many, many classes and been trading for years and years and years and years and years. The pitfalls of the mental pitfalls that they may have with money or risk and all of these things play a part of it. We talk about it in the gap class. Okay. Are in your trading career, brand new or doing on it for a while, it doesn't matter. You ever get to the point that you want to stop learning, then you've mentally checked out. Okay. Not just buying an indicator and looking at a moving average in a different way or something like that. I mean really critically learning and analyzing something to death. I mean people say 26 points Melissa, that's a little much, but the fact is and even Gerard said that the other day. Gerard said that the other day in the lecture for those of you that were here, he said, at first when I met Melissa 26 points, I thought, gee, but then later in the lecture, Gerard said that meeting me was a tipping point for him, this career. I was very flattered. I forgot to tell him that. That was very complimentary, very flattering. Okay. That meeting me was a tipping point in his trading career. If I could do that for everyone, you imagine and everything would be worth it. And so the thing is that, it seems like a lot of things, but that type of analysis, that in-depth analysis is what allows me to hone in on the right stock every day. Whether I get the trader, miss the trader, think it's too spreading, obviously these things count and matter, but in the overall picture of my trading career and the months and weeks and years I traded, it works out to be my favorite because I pick the right thing so often in the right direction to do. And so that matters because that's what gives you the confidence to keep going and it gives you the confidence in the system, and it allows you to persevere when you have a difficult day because you know you'll get it the next day because you know the point and you know you have the pick or whatever the case may be. And you know it even went to the target, for example, like today. So people that are doing jobs, professional jobs, jobs that are serious with trading the serious, anything to do with the market is serious, have to be analytical. Okay. If this is not your personality, that's okay. You'll learn from me and you'll learn a system and it will force you to say, I don't think that's a bad thing. I think that's a good thing. I think it helps develop you and as we've talked about before, for those of you that have done the class, pushing yourself mentally sometime at whatever age you are, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, I don't care, is actually good. Thinking, using your mind, using your brain helps keep you young. Things like you're doing in stocks and so on and so forth help you stay sharp and young. When I see these things and I'm on many, many email lists for lots of different stuff. So I see what other people are marketing about the stock market and things. When I see these things where people want to buy, you know, programs or whatever to, to just the automated systems basically for taking automated trades, you know, I say to myself, you know, where's the thinking involved in that? Not this. Okay? Zero. So, you know, you do get to a point where you say, and do I really want to do this? Is it really worth it? And I think, I think everyone hits this point where they say they either want to change careers or maybe they're in the middle of the trading career and they have to decide, do they want to keep going or do they want to quit? If you quit, you won't make it. If you stop giving up and wanting to learn, you won't make it either. If you think you know everything, you may as well quit right now because you're done. All right? The market is a take no prisoners kind of partner in life. It expects the best of you. It demands the best of you. If you're willing to let it make the best of you, you can be the best that you could be. I think that's one of the things I love about the market. It literally demands the best of me when I go in and trade every morning and look at the gas and look at the call that I made in the market. You know, I mean, that is the kind of thing. It's just incredible. Now, I know we have not made it over the high yet. My job is, my favorite part about what I do, it's not trading. It's not teaching. It's not doing motivational lecturing right now like I'm doing, even though this is fun and all of it's fun. Trading is fun and teaching is fun and making money is fun and doing the motivational things is fun and helping people is fun and that's all fun and meeting new people that's fun too. And the television show stuff, that's fun. Although sometimes it's been stressful last year. The most enjoyment, the most pleasure that I derive out of anything that I've done since I started this whole journey, you know, at the end of 2008, up until now of all the different things I've done and everything that's kind of all of it, which is still a journey that I'm still on it of everything is that, is my ability to be able to look at something and predict what it will do and where it will go and to be able to do that. That to me, my ability to be able to, even the odd people that have bought them when she was in the mirror making better off, but the point is it doesn't even matter what's done with the market. It's time I have this ability to be able to predict what something's going to do before it happens and that to me is phenomenal. That will never, because the call I made in the market was phenomenal. It was just so phenomenal. The way I was able to make that of the stocks which just happened last August, for those of you that were here, when the market swished and reversed the swish and negated the swish and reading the gaps, reading all the gaps that happened in the market, all the bullish ones, all the bearish ones and double trouble checking my, I could have killed them then with partial loss and I held through them. Now they were, you know, almost 20 or out, but the point was to predict them before they happen is what drives me to keep doing this and all the other things are somehow set up in between. When you, when whatever it is you love about trading, whatever it is, and you have to persevere through a difficult day, remind yourself and continue to get up and do it. What he loves about trading is that he can fly to, you know, the Galapagos Islands and swim with the Turtles, you know, a couple of times a year. I don't know. Whatever it is that drives you to do this that you love, remember it. No, if you're not doing it and you're not trading or thinking about doing it, what is the reason that you would want to do it in the first place? I never knew. And it was the same time as in here. Is he in here? Tommy listening. Tom was the one that said so long ago. Tommy there, I hope you're listening. But he said to me a long time ago because I said, Oh, this is years and years and years ago when I started out and I said, I, I wanted to do this to make millions of dollars. And that's why I said that I wanted to trade. And, and, and, Tom, I had already made millions of dollars in the market from the time I met up with him, he had been, you know, through it all and back and made a lot of money in the 90s. But he, you know, and, and, and Tom doesn't feel the need to live a luxury lifestyle like me. His tastes are very normal and he's a regular guy. But anyways, he said, you know, very often, Melissa, you find that the reason that you set up to do something does not end up being the reason at all. And I thought, whatever, I'm always going to want to make millions of dollars and now I want to make billions of dollars. And I still do. But the funny fact, and this was way, way a lot of doing something doesn't end up becoming the reason that you end up, end up loving the thing or doing it at all. And I thought it was very interesting because at the time when I made the transition from mortgages to wanting to become a trader, I wanted to make good money. I thought the market was something that I could do. I wanted to get out of the mortgage industry. I wanted to keep working for myself. And I wanted to work my own hours and I wanted to work from home. And that was the reasons that I decided to do it. And I wanted to have the potential to make millions of dollars. Okay. And so I decided to do that. Now, I never made millions of dollars of the mortgage industry, but I did really well. I could have. I might have if I had kept going or the market hadn't changed, but then everything changed with the banking growth and lending changed. And so then that had to make the transition. Well, I didn't have to. I could have kept doing mortgages, but I never would have made the same money unless I had worked harder. And it was only so many hours and weeks. And I was working very hard in 2007 and 2008 when things started to last in the mortgage industry. And I didn't want to work that hard. I didn't want to work that hard to make less. And I wanted the potential to make more. So then I found the market. And all the potential of the world exists in the market, but you've got to make it up the mountain. And you have to be willing to persevere. And that's the whole point with this. It's the idea that you will have struggles in your career that you will have to get over the hump. And I only say to people, do you think of yourself or do you consider yourself a winner or loser? One of the critical success is that no matter how much money I was moving when I was figuring this thing out, when I didn't believe that I was a winner. I believed I was a successful person because my entire life I wasn't anything that I chose to do. And when the chips were down and you looked at the paper of everything and I was losing and didn't have all the points, I couldn't figure this thing out. It made no sense at all. And I decided to persevere because I knew that I couldn't figure it out because I believed in myself. Yourself, if you're a winner or a loser, be honest with yourself for the answer. Because if you think you're a loser, then you better turn your mindset around. And since for why things aren't working in your life is never going to get you to the top of the mountain. Keep self-responsibility for the choices that you've made and the things that you're doing. And know that you can turn them around and believe that you can. Whether you ultimately is up to you. I can give you the knowledge. I can teach you the class. You can take the trades with me. If you took the course. But the bottom line is whether you succeed or fail is still on you to do it. You have to have. Once you stop wanting to learn, you have never favored, you've mentally given up. You've lost the mental toughness. And the reminder requires it. And I'm sorry to say it's true. And I could help you through that. It's the truth. A long, long time ago, I met up with the people. I never ended up going with them. It was a prompt play. This was like the first like six months that I still meant. They were all a group of men. And they were telling me what to do. And this is not it. They wanted me to work with them. And they were going to pay me something ridiculous. They weren't going to pay me enough. 50% of the profit. I remember what they were. They were like $10 trade or something. I was like, wait a minute. I'm going to do all this. I'm going to have to put my own money. And then you're going to take 50% of the profit. I'm like, this is a scam. I'm like, I'm not doing this. But I remember, I remember, I was like, why are you, why are you even offering me this, you know, all of this free training and this and that? Because I was like, well, you know, why am I so special or whatever? Anyways, the point was, they were like, well, because we think you'll make it, Melissa, you're tough. And tough chicks always make it. It was all men. Well, I didn't go trade with them. I didn't take it. I didn't do it because I knew it was ridiculous. It was a total scam. And I knew it was ridiculous for anyone to take so much of my profits, even if I had commissions on me. Because that's all they would have made. They would have lost my own money. And then they would have made commissions off of me, which is why it was a scam. But the point is, I didn't go with them. I knew it was a scam. Know that I can make it. Well, then I'm going to make these people. I don't need these people at all. I don't need anyone. Help me keep going off the road, off the mountain. What do I wish? I wish it comes up in the room. And I tell myself about the calls that work. But to be honest with you, I call my mom or whatever, but she doesn't know anything about the market. She doesn't know anything at all. And she doesn't even want to see me if I have a bad day. I don't know. Except for I've had a lot of winter and successful because I was and everything I did in life. And if you're at that place where you did good in something in the past, or you're doing really good in something right now, you need to tap into that. You have to tap into that remembrance of who you are, of the person that is successful that can do it. And I don't care what this is. You could be a great mom, a good writer, a good singer, a good musician. You could be good at photography. You don't have to be a good transistor to believe in yourself to learn this thing. You're going to learn how to do it for me. You're going to learn the point, and you're going to the entries, and you're going to learn it for me. Confidence within yourself to allow you to come through the obstacles to make it when a challenge arises, or you're trying to learn something new like my system. Because everyone that comes and you learn something new, because no one created the system but me, it doesn't exist out there anywhere else. But here, with me, with the soft push, part of you that's a winner, the part of you that knows your grace, whatever, okay, helps you. And everyone has something different in saying, well, this person is better than this person because they're so and so and they make this much money. And then this person is just a mom. Well, no, being a mom is a hard thing. My sister's mom someday, but that's going to be a whole different mountain. Everyone has something to offer, but it's your mental attitude to believe that you're a winner. Because you will, aren't good demands the best of you and demands the best of me. And it's easier for you because you can take my class and follow me and you have me. And I don't know, I made it through, but there are days and you people have been in here with me when I have me, you know, which is that sometimes I have to pull away from the whole world. And luckily, I can do it. And living here in this magnificent apartment in beautiful city allows me to help me to do that. But it is challenging for me sometimes when I even feel like I have to get to the next push to the next level. Do you want to do it? Think of the reasons that you love to do it. For me, continue on a special thing to be able to predict what something's going to do before it does it in a way that really no one else knows that I know. And the boldness of my ability to do that says a lot about me too. Because it is bold to say that Mark is going to make a brand new all-time high when it's trading down and retesting the level at 180 and it's down five days in a row. And I'm telling everyone to buy call options in this buy. Well, the fact that they were two cents or three cents or five cents or one million dollars is too bold to make because I'm putting myself out there and people are trusting in me and they're risking money with me and you are cute every day. Okay. Trust in me to teach you these things. I honor that in you and you honor it me when you come and pay me money for the class. But you're still going to leave your winner. So tap into that part of you that is good at something that you know you're good at or quality that you like about yourself. You're a nice person, you're smart, you're whatever. Think about the quality in yourself that you admire that you're going to have to tap into to do it so that when you have a bad day, you'll remember that about yourself and you want to quit or give up or give up on anything whatever it is your dream is. And then getting back to what I was saying earlier, many times we start out and the reasons that we want to do the trading thing of all hundreds for yourself includes yourself off. If you, you will fix that, you will fix that in those boundaries. You will not allow opportunities to open up for you like taking my class or doing something else or trading the market or anything at all. Even people that you might need like me or somebody else. Maybe it'll be me and so forth. Maybe it'll be me and what is that once you close yourself off things and close off the boundaries then you'll give yourself a lot of opportunity to expand your life and we all need to do it. It keeps us young. It keeps us alive. One of the things I love about trading my system and gas is that every day I get up, I have no idea. No, I don't know if I'm going to trade MFRM. I don't know if I'm going to trade RA and I think that's good for everyone. When we start, we really close off opportunities for ourselves. All I want to do is talk about the past. All I want to do with that, I'm in the present moment. One of the things that I think is great about being single at this point in my life, which is incredible actually and I'm at a great, great point in my life and being single is that the person I am now today, whoever I meet as a partner, I am so much different of a person than I was 10 years ago. Not inside of my world, right? Like that. But the one is that I am today is so 10 years ago and things with your life, back to New York in six months. It didn't happen for a long time where I was depressed and I was down to myself and I was crying every day. I think that I was never going to get back to New York and alone but whole, I just let it go. I just let it all go and I stopped thinking about the future of getting back to New York and I started looking in the present, which was figure this freaking thing out, Melissa, figure out how to do this darn thing. You've got to be right in the now. If you're not going to do that, you will never reach your future goals. And again, sometimes those goals change it up more than we thought or different than we thought but better. I always say this whenever I'm thinking something and I'll share this with you today and let everybody go. When I'm putting something out there and I have a goal or something I asked for and you asked the universe for it, you can meditate, you can pray. This doesn't have to be a religious thing, although it can be. You say to yourself, you say what you want and you say I asked for this or something better. And that's what you say because even if this closes you off, because guess what? You have to say something better. What is something better? What if it is something better? Okay. I recently met a man. I told you guys about this man two weeks ago. I haven't gone out with him yet, although we're talking every day. I never imagined I could meet a man like this. Never in my wildest dreams. We haven't gone out. It doesn't matter now because there will be someone better. There will be something better. You see? So it's just not believing. And that's the point of the lecture today.