 What's up everyone happy Monday? So today's very important day because it's the day before Valentine's Day That means if you have a wife you have a girlfriend you have a side check Just get her some flowers and call it a day what I like to do is I like to get flowers and write a very thoughtful card I think that goes a long way So before you guys do anything before you guys continue this video get your girl some flowers for Valentine's Day It'll go a long way. Okay, so let's talk about trading and let's talk about the market As you guys know tomorrow is CPI days tomorrow's inflation day, right? So at 8 30 a.m. Market time the CPI report is gonna come out The reason why the CPI report is very important is because that is the number one metric that the Federal Reserve uses to determine the Inflation right and based on that That's how they decide to raise or lower interest rates if inflation comes in high They have the opportunity to keep raising interest rates if inflation comes in low They might have the opportunity to reduce it Interest rates now what I think is a little bit different. This is not trading advice is not investment But this is what my dumb ass is thinking is the market is up like 20% this year Right and obviously we were fated 30% last year and stocks are rebounding So I think whether the inflation report is good or bad I think that's gonna trigger some profit-taking at least in the short term for these stocks now Again, just based on the breadcrumbs that I see it seems like so long as the bottom doesn't break on the SMP in the Nasdaq We probably have a temporary bottom in the market all these stocks are starting to rebound all the stocks were you know starting to Reclaim so long as something random or unexpected doesn't happen I expect that these dips continue to get bought up because you have to remember for a stock market to go up They need to come down collect shorts and then make its move higher So let's see what happens tomorrow for the CPI report good or bad I think the market is gonna fade off on it just as a way of profit-taking But that's not really something that I trade with I know a lot of people have been asking questions about it That's why I've kind of come on here and meet this video about it But for me that's like the level of the billionaires and the trillionaires right those are the guys I trade stuff like that. I'm over here just looking for the easy repeatable small-cap scams And just betting that they're gonna go lower and that for me is a repeatable multi-million dollar strategy So I'm gonna stick to that and when I become a multi-billionaire, I'll focus on the CPI shit, right? So that's kind of what CPI is. No, let's talk about the current market action Let's talk about what's been going on. Let's talk about how you guys can make money in this market, right? So 2022 was an aggressive bear market and everything just went straight down and 2023 everything changed Everything changed the stock market started to find a bottom and a lot of speculation money came into stocks, right? And I talk about this very often because a very very important topic is you guys need to understand that the small-cap stocks that we trade Small-cap stocks that we play are mostly a lottery ticket to people They're like, I'm gonna buy the stock at $1 and if it goes to $10, I'm gonna be rich forever and I'm gonna retire I'm gonna buy the stock at 50 cents and if it just goes to 65 cents. I'm gonna retire I'm gonna be rich. So it's like a lottery ticket, right? And the thing is that people that buy lottery tickets people that, you know, try to get rich quick need cash to be able to do it, right? So in 2022 we had an aggressive bear market and everything was going down and people were out of work and everything is horrible People have no extra money to gamble with, right? They have no extra money to gamble with but when the overall market starts to rebound when people start to have more money in Their pocket, the first thing that they do is they start gambling and speculating on these small-cap stocks, right? So what I've been seeing is I've been seeing a lot of speculation money entering the market. Talk about Carvana going up, you know 300% talk about Bed Bath and Beyond going crazy. Talk about Tesla bouncing a hundred percent Like this is pure speculation money and that's great because that creates opportunities for us professional traders Now last week was probably one of the best weeks I've had in like two years I think I made over $450,000 last week $350,000 from Bed Bath and Beyond short and $70,000 from Tesla short and then a bunch of other stocks in between that, right? So Bed Bath and Beyond was actually an unbelievable opportunity. This was a stock that, you know, has bankrupts, right? So the company itself is worth $300 million and their bankrupt $1.5 billion that they owe to the creditors So they came out with an idea that they're gonna go to a hedge fund and they're gonna get a billion dollars from a hedge fund and In exchange are gonna give the hedge fund shares at like 70 cents or 80 cents a share stock is trading at $3-4 With no lockup so the hedge funds could just dump and dump and dump and dump and hey They might even make a profit on the billion dollars that they lent them so a very toxic offering very very toxic stock and because that was almost like a 99% set up short I bulldozed it and I had my best day of the year last week now Tesla was also a very similar opportunity stock could bounce 100% off the lows and I was patiently waiting for a first red day Got a first red day stock collapse and made $70,000 doing it So the market is you know starting to get a little bit hotter But what you have to understand is these markets do not just go hot Forever just like an overall market needs to slow down trap shorts and then go make a move higher You know the small cap stocks are the same. It's not gonna be every single day They're hot hot hot hot hot you have to understand that when the market is hot That is your opportunity to size up and when the market is cold That's your opportunity to size down. So today I had a $1,500 day That's a really big difference and making $70,000 on Friday, right and oftentimes as new traders You think that you should be using the same size on every single set up every single stock is Thousand shares thousand shares thousand shares Well, will you have to understand this as you level up and become more of a professional trader? You know you should be betting based on the opportunities in front of you So if bed, bath and beyond was a 99% opportunity I'm bulldozing in if Tesla was a first red day opportunity I'm bulldozing in but if today I show up to the market and there's not much opportunities There's not much stocks trading it might be better for me to not even place a trade or take very very Small size, which is what I did today So I walked into the market today, and I didn't really see anything nice I didn't really see anything that fits my criteria. I didn't really see anything that fits my strategy So I went back to the basics. I went back to the day to low hanging fruit the repeatable easy money strategy Which was expo a short expo on the VWAP projection made like 20 cents a share made 1500 bucks and called it a day Baby, that was it. So I want to remind you guys that you know the market is gonna move in cycle It's gonna be hot. It's gonna be cold. It's gonna be hot. It's gonna be cold And your job as a professional trader is to recognize, you know, based on your experience based on your guidance based on your mentorship If this is a market for you to step on the gas or if it's a market for you to step on the brakes last week I was putting gas. I was hitting the nitrous button. I was doing everything. All right I was driving like I was in fast and furious last week because that's what the opportunities had But this week I'm driving like a grandma because I don't see much opportunities and you know after nine years of trading I've learned that you know, you got to step on the gas when it's hot But when it's cold your biggest mistake is trying to repeat what you did last week this week because it doesn't work The market already has changed within a week within a week. The market has changed last week stuff is not working this week So you must adapt and adjust accordingly, right? So for me as the market kind of slows down I don't think it's gonna be slow all year again I don't think the bear market is here again But I think that at least in the short term maybe for a week the action is gonna slow down and when the action slows down You get in your head you start to say man, like I don't know, you know, these stocks are really weird They're not trading normally. Maybe I should change the strategy Maybe I should just like size up to like compensate But like Tell you guys it just in like any market any business any relationship nothing is perfect every single day There's gonna be days where it's slow. There's gonna be days where you don't want to talk to your girl There's gonna be days where she doesn't stop talking to you but as your trader or as you know Someone that's living in this world. You have to understand that, you know, trade your stocks trade these size trade the opportunity based on what you see in front of you not based on what you feel don't get me wrong I want to make $450,000 every single week every single day But if I came in with that mindset today, I would have probably lost a hundred thousand dollars because the opportunities were not there So as a trader you need to first identify Which patterns fit your personality which strategies fit your personality and based on those setups if they are showing up If they are if the pattern is there on that day, how are you gonna size in accordingly? When I first start trading I would use the same size and every single stock and I make money one day lose my one day make money One day lose my make one another lose one day one day, you know say so like now I trade based on the opportunity So for bed bath and beyond last week. I was using 300,000 shares for expan today I use like three thousand five thousand shares right like nothing right, so it's I'm betting Exponentially based on the opportunity that I see in front of me and if I don't see that opportunity in front of me I'm sizing down so again guys get understand that I think the market has bottomed I think that we're gonna see opportunities every single day But understand that not every single day is gonna be a massive opportunity Not every single day is gonna be a six-figure opportunity your job as a trader is to show up and honestly on these slow days That's the time to double down on your education double down on the videos double down on the mentorship, right because The reality is like alright, let's say you missed the first red day setup last week on Tesla What you should be doing is this week You should be learning every single thing there has to do with the first red day setup so that when it comes back again next Month or whatever you're prepared right oftentimes what ends up happening is I make a bunch of money on a first red day And then after that is when people start to watch the first red day videos So while the market is slow, it's time to double down on your education while the market is hot It's time to double down on your size, but right now based on the opportunities. I'm seeing it's pretty slow Let's see what inflation brings tomorrow. Let's see what the market does tomorrow and again If you want to learn how to trade for free go to my investing club comm slash webinar This is a free mentorship course that I put together that has our strategies that has live trades And that has everything that you need in order to get started trading 100% free These videos are free the webinars free a lot of the stuff that we do is free so that you learn how to trade So that one day you finally have the capital to become a full-time MIC member and learn how to trade at the professional hedge fund level So I'm gonna kind of go back and help the members today today was a stress-free day And I remind myself that fifteen hundred dollars a day is what like three hundred thousand dollars a year Four hundred thousand dollars a year So I'm not although it seems like a little if you do this every single day it will add up So I'll see you guys back in MIC Please leave a like and leave a comment on the video with one lesson that you learned from the video And I will see you guys back tomorrow. 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