 Welcome, my name is Melissa Armand, I am the Stock Swoosh, and I wanted to answer a question that I've been getting a lot recently about how much money do you need in order to trade the Golden Gap. The Golden Gap is my strategy. It's the strategy I use. You can apply it for swing trading, day trading, or options. Well, let's just talk about the facts as far as what you need to open up an account. In order at the minimum to open up an options account is $2,000. So that is the minimum you need, but you cannot risk the entire account when you take a trade. So if you would open up a small account, then you need to assess your risk per the size of your account. As far as opening up a retail trading account, you can go to a proprietary day trading place or a retail day trading place, and again, you can day trade my system using margin. The margin depends on where you go, again, retail or prop. At a retail place, you'll need a minimum of $25,000 per margin rules. At a prop place, you have to talk to the prop place to see how much you need. They usually require less than $25,000. So many people attempt to go to those places to try to get more access to bigger margin with a smaller cash amount. But either way, you can use a beginner risk when you're trading. You can risk and take one contract, for example, in an option. And at the cost of a dollar, you'd be risking what? $100. That's perfectly fine. You can still make money if you risk $100 and the stock moves one buck and it's worth two. And you bought it for one. The profit would be what? $100 with a $100 risk. So a lot of people think you need all this kinds of money in order to trade. You do not. You have to take what you have and you have to make it work for you. You have to assess your risk conservatively based on the total size of your cash. And whether or not you choose to do options or trade an account based on margin really has to do with A, what type of trading do you want to do? B, how much time do you have each day to devote to trading? C, also, how much cash can you put up? Can you afford to open up a margin account or do you have to stick with the options? People tend to go with options accounts simply because of the fact if they have a low balance that they can open up an account, like I said, with a small amount of money, but you still have to conserve and watch your risk. And even if you had, for example, $100,000 in a trading account that you could have a margin account and an options account and set it up for everything, you still have to assess your risk based on the total size of your account and your knowledge. The knowledge is key. If you have the correct knowledge and you know what to do and you have a high win ratio system, then you're going to do a lot better than someone that's just taking pot shots or 50-50 chances of trades in the market. So you don't want to waste your cash, whether it's $2,000 or 100 grand. You have to think about what you're doing and be conservative in my opinion. You have all the time in the world to get this right. If you come and you take my golden gap course and you learn from me or you sign up for the Gap Options newsletter, you have all the time in the world to do this. Go slow, be careful. I'm here a few questions. Email me and Melissa at thestockswish.com and have a great day, everyone.