 everyone and welcome. This is Melissa Armo with the Stock Swoosh, and I have a Gap Options newsletter where trades are emailed to you in live time. And I wanted to give some trades for the last past week so people can see what results they can expect in the letter. So if I have time, I'll do, I'll do this week as well before the holiday. But this was last week, the week of June 21st. And I also have in here beginner and advanced trader risk. And actually, this was a light week. So there are busier weeks than we had last week because it's the busiest weeks is earning season. So earning season doesn't start until the second week of July. So this was, this is a good example of how many trades you can expect in a slow week, I should say that. So wait a 75% win ratio for the week of June 21st. So if you have any questions, you can email me at MelissaTheStockSwish.com, or you can call me at 929-3200-Gap, follow me on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, or Skype. So it's, it's, we're getting into the July 4th holiday weekend. And you know, thinking about it, it's nice to have a couple of days off. You know, everybody really wants freedom, even financial freedom. And right now, it's almost like, you know, post 2020, post COVID, post this pandemic, people are thinking of extra ways that they can earn money, whether it's picking up extra hours at their job, or whether it's investing, where more people are starting to trade the market. And now you can do it with a small account, you can do it with a big account, there's so many places that you can open up an account and train. You don't have to have an insane amount of money to day trade, or even do options. So you can open up an options account with $2,000 at a retail broker. So it is very, very possible for people to increase their wealth and start to make more money just by actively trading. The thing is, though, you have to know how to do it. All right. So I know how to do it. I've been trading for almost 13 years. And the newsletter is a service. Okay. It's a subscription. You sign up. It's not a class where you learn my method. If you want to learn my method, you would learn that in the Golden Gap course. I teach that class once a month. You can sign up for that too. But the newsletter itself, you would just receive the newsletter's email to you, which we're going to go over last week's here. So anyways, last week, we had four trades. There was one loser, three winners. So the returning investment advanced trader risk average was 220%. Okay. And the advanced trader risk per trade, okay, your trade should be equal or close to equal in every trade was 7,500. Advanced trader total profit 16,500. All right. Weekly return investment for a beginner, because one of the trades you couldn't take as a beginner, I'll explain here in a minute, 90%, still phenomenal, still fabulous. Average risk per trade 1,000. And beginner trader told us for the week, $900. Okay. With one loser and two winners. So I'm going to go over that here because again, your risk has to be consistent. And I'll explain why in a minute. But I called this, it was the spy puts that expired in 625. This was the one that lost. Okay. So this did not work. I called this on the 18th for the fine wink. And it had the drop in here. Actually, I think some people did get out of this positive, but I didn't. I just didn't think it was up enough. It did fall on the day that I called it into the close, but then it reversed. So this never went right then for me. But some people did scout this on that Friday. Anyways, this was a loser. Just went bust. Okay. It was a 417s and this completely flipped around mark. It's been strong. So if you did this and followed it through to a normal course of action, you would have lost. Okay. Unless you would scout it, which is really not how I look at the options trades. Then I called calls and Apple the 135 calls that expired on July 2nd. Okay. This was a really nice trading actually. I don't know anybody that would still be in this, but if you were still in this, this ran up today almost till 140 in the very last day. And I don't think anyone should have still been in it, but it was a good trade. When I called it on the Tuesday to get in and out really, really quick. So I called this on the 22nd here, right in here when it ran and run up, ran up again. This is a daily chart and I called it ran straight up. So again, calls are long. We played the gap. So I make the calls. I make the picks again. I called calls. So this is an example of the letter. Again, you get it in real life time. I call this in the morning in the pre-market. So you take the trade then into the open cost of this was dirt cheap 70 cents, 100 contracts risk was 7,000. This is an advanced risk sold at 140, 100% return on investment. Take it, get out. Take it, get out. You get the move and you book the profit. And again, because, you know, inevitably I will call another trade. So once you're out and have the money book, then you have the money back in your account to take another trade. I also called the, oh, this is a beginner. So 70 cents beginner against size yourself close to the same risk of 1,000. You could have taken 15 contracts for 1,050, 100% return investment. Nice trade. So again, when you're, when you're looking to determine your risk, that is something that's up to you. You can ask me, you know, what, what you should do based on the size of your account. If you want my advice, but I think even if you have a large account, if you're new, if you're new to the letter, if you're new, if you haven't done the golden gap course, then I would start at small anyways. Really? Because you want to be consistent and you want to make sure that you're green. Now this was the big trade for the weight test side called the six forties on Wednesday, the 23rd. So again, here's the 23rd rally, boom, boom, ran up. This was a nice one here. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful move. So actually, look at how it continue. Like, look at this. And this is what I mean by momentum. In this case here, it was buying. Okay. It was buying momentum. Again, this was last week's. This was not cheap though, $23 for one. So three contracts, 6,900. Again, you try to get as close as you can to your wrist sold at 16 profit, 11,100, beautiful trade, 161% return investment, really, really, really, really, really nice trade. So, you know, when you're looking to do this, you're looking to see, well, how many, okay, or how big of a move can we get it? And how much momentum word has it have into it? Now, if you are a beginner, you could not have done it. Okay. So if your risk is 1,000, you can't do it. If one contract costs $2,300, you'd be taking to be like taking two trades. And so then what if it would have lost? Then you would have needed two trades just to come back break even. So you can't do it. So as a beginner, you could not do this. And that's why the values were different at the beginning when I was reviewing this. Now, I also call the 700s in Tesla, again, expired July 2nd, called this on the 24th here, rallied up, boom. Now, this one was cheaper. So beginner advance, you could have done it cost was $12, six contracts risk is 7,200, sold at 21 profit 5,400, return investment 75%. Nice trade. And if you were a beginner, you could have taken one. Okay, again, this is not an exact science, but it's a big difference between 1200 and 2300 risk. You know what I mean? So again, this was a nice trade profit 900 return and investment 75%. I always say between 500 are between 50% and 100% you're looking for. And again, I teach more of this in the golden gap course and also the gap options course as well. So whether you want to do this full time or part time, I think this is a good way if you like options, if you've done them before to transition into doing it full time, because you can work your regular job and do options on the side, you take the trade in the morning, you can put an order in to sell it at 50% or 100%. You don't have to be sitting there watching it. If you are, if you've got the time to do it great, fine, watch the chart. Okay, I'm here, I can watch the chart all the time. But, you know, if you have to work and run around the town, then you just put the order in to sell it. And again, I'm calling the weeklies are out for the following week. Everyone wants to make money trading, but not everyone does. And why? Because many, many, many, many, many people have no clue how to trade. And I think it will always be that way. So I consider myself blessed. I mean, I really feel actually lucky that I know how to trade, that I can see where somebody's going to go before it does it. It does not mean that every trade that I take works, it doesn't. You know, you saw some things lose. But the fact is that more trades that I call win than lose. And so that is again, a gift. And it's based on the fact that I personally created my own system, which took three years of my life to do. From 2008 to 2011, I developed my Golden Gap 26 point system. And it is a great system. You can come and learn it from me if you want, or you just signed up for the newsletter. But many people fail and cannot make money the market because they have absolutely no idea what to do. They get the direction wrong. They're going long or they're going short and vice versa. You've got to get the direction right. You've got to get the momentum right. And particularly in options, you've got to get it right within the timing, within the timing too. And what I'm looking for when I'm taking a trade is institutional money. So when you see something like Tesla, you say, well, what will make a move like that to get a run up in a big move like that institutional money? It's not just the price of the stock. It's the move that it made. So I'm looking for institutional buying or selling the footprints of that is what I see in the gap. And again, this is how I'm coming into figuring out in the pre-market in the morning what to trade based on the gap and based on my rating system. It is called the Golden Gap rating system. And this is how I make the picks. You don't have to worry about this if you're signing up for the newsletter. But again, you can learn it if you want to learn it. And I think people should learn it because I may not be doing this forever. In fact, I'm sure that I won't be. So people really, if they want to learn it, then they should sign up and learn it so that they know how to do it themselves. A lot of people, though, they just like the newsletter. I think it makes it easy for people being on the newsletter. They like it. And people just continue with the newsletter because trades just come right into your email. So summer has been a great time to trade why we've had volatility in the market. It hasn't been the kind of volatility that people think the market's moving higher and the volatility was in the direction that was unexpected, which was to the upside. So volatility doesn't mean falling. Volatility means anything you don't expect. And in the case of the market, people thought we were extended and we would fall off. That's not happening. And it has not been happening. Now, I'm not saying we go up forever, but I'm saying we've had some great trading in the last month, some fabulous trades in the last month and some nice momentum. And in the summer, you would think, gosh, you know, things don't move, but that's not true. Even though people are on vacation, and even though this was a holiday week, people are active in the market. People are buying, people are selling, things are moving. Now, if you do want to learn the system, you sign up for the Golden Gap course, it's a student class. I think my class is pretty straightforward. I do my best to explain it. Everything is based on the daily chart. Okay, so I'm looking at the daily chart, I'm looking at the gap. And I really think it's very straightforward. You can always email me and call me with questions, even if you just sign up for the newsletter and don't want to do the class. I make myself available to people. I'm really here to try to help people understand it so they do well. I've had a lot of new people on the letter in the last month, and, you know, quite a few questions, but people are getting the hang of it. People are really doing well and getting the hang of it. I mean, the trains that lose lose and the ones that win-win, and you have to just book the money when things are up. Because remember, trading is not long-term investing. You're in, you're out. You're in, you're out. And remember, I've been active. This was even a slow leak, like I said, though. Anyways, my method is called the Golden Gap system. If you want to learn it, you can learn it. The next class is July 24th and 25th. And what I do is I focus on one thing a day. I'm trying to hit a bull's eye right in the center. Boom! You know, that's what I want. Get the money. Get in, get out. Get in, get out. Hitting the bull's eye. And this takes skill. This takes practice. This takes know-how. It takes experience. This is why I've been doing this, like I said, for all going on 13 years. The experience that I have doing nothing but gaps for this amount of time really is phenomenal because many, many people do multiple things. Even people that have educational businesses, like they're teaching all kinds of things. You can't be great at everything. That's just not realistic. It's like somebody can't be a fabulous, fabulous, you know, baseball player and football player and tennis player. Usually, people are good at one sport, okay? So I'm really good at one thing, reading the gap. And that allows me to get that bull's eye and to get that move and to get that pick, okay? And that is what I do every single solitary day. So it's a good time of the year if you want to train. Email me if you have questions. You can trade for yourself. You can trade for long-term to save. You can trade if you want to, you know, transition into a full-time trader, if that's really what you want to do. You want to work for yourself. Totally up to you. Many people are trading for multiple, multiple reasons. Some just do it because it's fun and making money is fun, okay? So you've got to learn how to do it. How much time do you have to spend trading weekly? Well, if you're day trading, you have to be in the room between 9.30 and 10 a.m. Eastern time. If you're just doing the options, you've got to check the trades in the morning or to email because they usually come in the morning early. Occasionally, I will call a trade late, but not that often, but most of them in the morning, you don't have to spend six and a half hours sending your desk to trade. You can take the trade, put the order in, and then put the sell order in. So day order, it cancels at the end of the day. If it doesn't fill that day, then you get up the next morning, put the sell order in the next day, okay? So you don't have to sit in babysit, but I would still check. Everybody has, you know, an iPhone usually. You can check and see where the stock price is when you're going about your day. You don't have to be sitting at the computer 24-7 looking at it. So I think options take up less time than day trading if this is something that you want to do, plus you capture the momentum of the options overnight. And so occasionally, you can get really big moves overnight. That's what that Tesla was, that move up on that one day last week, and then it blew through the following day and continued. I mean, that kind of move is exactly what we're going to see starting in earnings season in some of these really nice high flyers. And I'm excited to see really what happens with earnings season this month in July. So if you want to take the Golden Gap course, what are you going to learn? You're going to learn the entries, you're going to learn targets, you're going to learn the exits, and you're going to learn the Golden Gap 26-point rating system. And that is how I make the picks, and that's what's really, really the meat and potatoes of my system. And it's all based on the daily chart, and it's all based on institutional money, as I was stating earlier. So empower yourself to earn your own income working for yourself. It is something that is possible. I think one of the reasons that people fail is they don't know how to trade, and they think that they do. So they never take a class or spend the money on a class like mine because they think that they know everything, even though they're not making money and they're failing, and they just kind of waddle along. You know, you really have to throw yourself into this if you want to do well. You really have to be all in. And when I first started trading, I was all in. I was all in. I was going to just continue going until I made it. And that's exactly what I did. But you can't give up. And if you're not making money, if you're losing, you don't know what you're doing. And you have to learn from someone like me. So it's really just a question of what are you going to do to get there? You can develop your own system, but that takes a lot of money and years out of your life. And many people can't go through the emotional ups and downs and financial ups and downs of doing that. It's a lot easier to pay someone that knows what they're doing for a service like mine or a class like mine rather than figuring out your own system yourself. Because you have to have a system and a trading strategy that works in order to make money in the market. You're not going to make money sitting in chat rooms, taking trades from strangers that just doesn't work consistently. And it is about the consistency. Okay. And that is what's really important. And you see this here with this just even one week of a slow week of results. So in the welding app course, you will learn what you will learn the 26 points you get up in the morning and you will rate the gap with me. If you want to, if not, then I rate it and I call the trades on the newsletter. And again, trading means what? You could do it for a job. You could do it for extra money. It's totally up to you. If you're interested in the Golden Gap course, the class tuition is $69.99. Class dates are July 24th and 25th. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern time class is online. It can be anywhere in the world and take it. If you want to sign up, email me for sign up forms. If you just want to sign up for the newsletter, I do not have a monthly subscription. Please don't ask. I don't have any trials. Don't ask for that either. This is a fabulous, fabulous letter. This letter is, you know, like gold, just like the class. You sign up for the one year. It's a lot of trains, you know, and you just get the newsletter's email to you. So it's $69.99 for the whole year. If you want to sign up, email me and you'll start to get the trades right away. Email me at melissathestockswush.com, but you've got to get serious for the trading. You got to get serious if you want to make money. I don't think there's any point in doing this. If you're not going to make money, I really, really don't. And you've got to be all in on your own success and you've got to believe in yourself. If you have any questions, email me at melissathestockswush.com. Have a great day, everyone.