 Welcome everyone, this is Melissa Armell and I'm doing a first class of the year special. So I decided to extend this special for the first class of the year until Friday. If you would like to do the class January 27th and 28th, you still have time, you can still sign up, you can email me and Melissa at thestockswitch.com. And again, I'm sure if you've been in my YouTube channel you've seen me on TV or you've seen my clips when I was on television. You can also call me if you have questions at the class at 929-3200 Gap. Actually I just hung up now with someone from Canada. We have a really bad connection but we can hear each other very, very far away and very cold. I'm thinking where he was in Canada. So the nice thing about trading is you can be anywhere in the world and my class is online. You can email me with questions at Melissa at thestockswitch.com and again you can follow me on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube or Skype. So here we are. We got only one more week left in January. I can't even believe it's almost February. As soon as it's gonna be Valentine's Day, this year I feel like already is going very, very quickly. So it's time to get organized. It's time to get ready. It's time to get prepared to have a great year and you wanna have a better year in 2024 than you had in 2023. Whatever that means for you. Could be financially, could be personally, could be with trading, could be career-wise. I have all the stats in here from last year and the results in the live trading room. These were day trades, trades that you wouldn't have needed a margin account to take. These are not options. Again, my average risk in these trades was around $2,800 per trade. So for the year, we were up $569,970 for 2023 in the live room. I call these trades live in the room, the entry, the stop and the exit. For the options newsletter, we had great results. Again, these are all the options trades. For 2023, which was a busy letter. It was a busy year. And again, the options go to your email. So the room, it's not an options room. The room is a day trade room. The options are newsletter service. Don't get confused. I have people ask me that all the time. You'll get the option to your email in live time. And again, many trades I call before the open. So $2,122,895 for the year for 2023. My risk is larger for my options because I'm doing bigger positions. You could risk more in options. You could risk less. You could do one contract. My average risk is around $8,000 per trade. So far this year, 2024. Again, these are the stats for this year. It's just been a good year so far. $35,002.7, this is only through last week. I have to add on the last couple of days. I'm busy, there's a lot going on, but I'm already up huge for this year so far. Not just with day trades, but already with options. We had some really big trades with Boeing. We had some really big trades actually with Tesla. We've had some nice shorts, they were puts. So again, my risk is larger for options, but you could have risked half this. You could have risked one quarter of what I risked. Again, with an average risk of 8,000 per trade, the 2024 year-to-date results of the Gap Options newsletter, and again, I haven't added on the last week's trades, is 250,445, we're off to a good start. I met, and there was just some really, really big trades that happened to go in our favor while we were in them overnight, which is one of the reasons I love trading options. So while I'll do a trade, and if I get a big move, get out the same day, one of the benefits of doing options is you can hold overnight with a fixed risk. And there were some of those BAs that there was no way it was gonna turn around against me or go against me, and that's why I held some of those. Because again, we were so far in the money through the strike with so much time left that it benefited to hold on to it, and then the stock continued. So that's something for a lecture for another time. I wanna do a whole lecture actually about that Boeing chart, but I'm gonna have to do that in a different lecture, but for now so far, not including the last week. Shats here today for day trades and options, $285,652, and it is not even February, and it's not even the end of January, and it's earnings season. We're in full swing with earnings season, and we did an earnings gap today, and I'm excited about 2024. And so far, the total is set. For me, I'm gonna have a huge year, and everybody that's been in the room, and everybody that's been doing the options, I've been getting tons of great feedback so far. It's been a great year. We did this guild. This was, yeah, this was earnings too. Stock closed here, gap down. This closed up here above 87. Gap down here in the morning, around 80 and change, open, dropped, fell. So this was a nice one. This was a short. Again, I prefer to short. This was on the 22nd. Oh no, this wasn't, this wasn't guild. Oh no, this was guild. This was guild. I don't know the trade of guild in here though. Sorry about that. I thought, I thought I had the, here's the daily of DFS. Anyways, this was a gap. This was a gap we did yesterday. I just went on the trade in here. I'll go over that in another video. This was the DFS. This was the 18th. This was the 18th. Here's the daily. This was Thursday. Stock closed here, gap down, open, rallying, dropped. This was a short. But here was the trade. Entry was 115. Shares was 2500. My risk seems high in this, but I didn't add. I didn't add in this and I bumped up the stop and I doubled up on it. That's an advanced concept, which I don't want to get into now, but this was a huge trade because I had a big move. I had a lot of size, okay? And I did the ad and then we got the extension. Here's the daily though. This was a trade though. I usually like to be in that fast. It was a trade I held longer and it played out in my favor. So again, stock closed here, gap down, open, rallying, dropped. You could have been out of this fast. You could have held it. You could have done the ad. This is something that I do not do all the time, but I was waiting for the trade to go. At one point actually was in it and I was down in it and I was in danger of actually being stopped. I gave it a cushion. I gave it extra, which is why I was talking about that too with the risk, but it all worked out. And it went and it looked great. I didn't go back and look at this today. I'll have to check out that. BA was the one I've been talking about. Again, I should do a whole lecture on the BA, but the trade to start off the year was, in fact, this might have been, was this the first trade of the year? This might have been the first trade of the year. I don't know. I have to go back and look. Wednesday the third, I called the 245 BA strikes that cost $3. This was a huge return on investment even if you did one contract. But anyways, if you did 30 contracts, you could have made $48,000. The return on investment was 533%. And if you had held this actually, you probably would have made double this. I didn't hold it. The trade was here. Stack close here, gap down. I called the 245 strikes, dropped, fell. I thought this was a good exit here. Let's look at what the, let me just look at one that I did the 12th. Yeah. I was gonna say, if I had done it out for a week, it would have been like 2,000% or something. The 12th, no, the 12th was two, but that was probably about around 218 low. It was more than 20 points for the strike that I know on the last day I'm talking about. But again, this was up so much here that this was a wonderful exit. Again, I was talking about holding overnight. You see that here, but you actually could have been in this the last day. That's not something that I think that you should do all the time, but you could have got out of half. You could have got out of half. You could have held half. That would have been another idea. So that was a great trade to start out the year. Anyways, if you're interested in my class, the class is called the Golden Gap course. It's a full tuning course in how to strategically find pick and play stocks that are professional bearish gaps. The class is online. You can be anywhere in the world and take it just like the gentleman I just talked to who is in Canada. The class is Saturday and Sunday, the first class of the year. Class tuition is 69.99. Everyone pays the same. It's from nine to five Eastern time. Again, you must sign up by Friday. If you sign up today, you can start trading tomorrow. If you want to sign up because the class special, I decided to give people through Friday to decide to join, but I'm giving access with the class this weekend. If you sign up by Friday the 26th, I'm giving the trading room free to the end of this year. The options newsletter through the end of this year and the market report through the end of this year. It's a great special. It's a huge special. If you want to get going, if you want to start trading, email me and Melissa at thestockswish.com to register. I still have spots available. Have a great week, everybody.