 I know where to find it and I just got to do more of it, do more practicing and do more. Well, how have you been doing? Because I really didn't talk to you since the class. I know you're in and out, in and out, you're not there every day consistently. Yeah, I mean, I've been in it now every day for this month. Okay. Like the day, what was the best day you ever had? I think Disney on Friday. So Disney, when you made $1,100, that was the best day you ever had? Yeah, I mean, I made a couple days around that amount. Yeah. Okay, so that's been the most, so you had a couple thousand dollar days? Correct. Okay, so that's good. What about the worst day you ever had? What happened? The worst day was the Weight Watchers day where we got stopped out twice. Then it went on to work. Weight Watchers just last week? Because that worked. Yeah, the 11th. But then we... No, no, I'm sorry. It was best Bed Bath and Beyond that got stopped out. Bed Bath and Beyond, BBBY. Okay, so BBBY got stopped. We did not retake it. That was just a loss. That was a loss. WTW though, we did make money in. Did you not do it another time? What I did, I did. I got nervous and I didn't buy it as much. Or I didn't short as much. So I gained some back, yes, but not... I'm looking at that. We didn't get stopped in this. We did it late. We did it late, but we didn't get stopped in WTW. I mean, look here what it did. No, no, it was BB. WTW was a game. BBBY was the short where we got stopped out. Okay, so what did you... Are you not risking the same on every trade? Is that what's happening here? Because if you have one loss and one winner like WTW, you should have been up. That was what happened that day, yes. So when we do a trade and the first one's a loss, you get scared then you don't want to take the same risk or what happens in your mind? I think what happened was I didn't figure out what I should trade. I just did the 1,000 shares because that's what my system is set up for. I did it quick because we were in the room and we said short it now and so I just shorted it. Okay, so you could have taken more. Yes, correct. But you took a lot of the BBBY is what you're saying. Yes, exactly. My max buying power in one trade is what I did. In BBBY? Now, why did you take the max buying power just because you liked it? Well, I only have 20,000 in my account, right? But that's still 80,000 in buying power, isn't it? Or how much? That's 100. Oh, yeah, okay. Well, then still, though, that's, I mean, I don't remember what this... I need to buy 50,000 worth, yes. I don't remember what the stop was in that, but okay, so that's one thing that I can help you with. Your risk should be the same in each trade. You're going to risk 500, risk 500. We're going to risk 1,000, risk 1,000. So the first trade stops and the second trade you take it, you have the same risk. Otherwise, now, in that case, some trades you may not be able, like if it's really, really, really expensive, like for some reason, if we do BA, and you can't take the same risk on the second trade because of the stop or something, but usually something like that has a really big stop. So then the fact that it's expensive, you're not taking 1,000 shares of it anyways. You know what I mean? Yes. But BBBY was cheap. WTW was cheap. You could have taken similar risk and you didn't. So that's why you didn't have a good day with that. That's correct. Yes. Yeah. That was it. I was saying going forward, you have to decide what you want to risk. I think $500 is more than enough for you being fairly new to this. I think $500 is fine. And if a trade goes on to work and you could make 500, you could make 750. If a trade doesn't work, then you'll lose 500, but that's not the end of the world. If a trade works really well, you could still make 1,000 with a $500 risk. And if the trade goes only a little bit, you could make 350. That's not bad. Yeah. Great. Yeah. Absolutely. Like today, what did you do with this? How much of the BAC did you do? And what did you make on the BAC? We did it right around, I don't know. What was it like 30 or 27 or something like that? Yeah. Okay. So BAC, that was a thousand shares. Okay. So let's go over that BAC. And I'm still in the cubes. Just trying to get it up to the high. Well, you could have got out of that when we had the rally. And then when it didn't lift again here in the afternoon, you could have got out here. But anyways, this looks fine. I mean, this is positive. I mean, this is fine here. I mean, this looks fine. But I mean, basically you could have got out here and you could have got out here and you almost got to 187. So you probably should have gotten out there. But anyways, I would watch this here now. I mean, it looks like this could rally into the close, but don't miss your exit on this, basically. I mean, you could have gotten it up in this. Absolutely. Yep. All right. Let me go over the BAC. The BAC, today is the 16th. Okay. The BAC really was about 25 cents, 25 cents. So you took a thousand shares. It was 250 bucks. Was that what you wanted to do? It was kind of a similar. You were like, I don't know. I went for it. You shorted it. But I'm saying to you, like, okay, wait a minute, do I want to take a little bit more? Do I want to take a little bit less? Do you know what I'm saying? Like you could do that. Like I do think it's important to get it. And that's fine. But I'm saying like if you risked more than $250 in the trades last week, and today was a nice solid flush down in here when we did it and just went boom, you didn't get the maximum amount in that. Like you probably made against 200. And I didn't ride it to the bottom either. I just, I got out because I wanted to take my game. Well, that's okay. But you still didn't size yourself then what you've been sizing yourself. I think that's a bigger problem. So if you made 15 cents, that's fine. Or 20 cents, that's fine. But you only risked $250. And I'm guessing with the BBBY, WTW and Disney, you risked more than $250. I know you did it. Exactly. Yeah. And Disney worked. But the point was, if it hadn't worked, you would have lost whatever the risk was in that, which was more than a buck. So you would have lost $1,000 and you would have made like 150 today or whatever you made. So do you see this, you see what I'm like trying to get out here? I do. I do. I mean, I know it's, you know, it's me in my learning curve. So I understand that. So what are you going to do to fix that now? I'm going to size myself, you know, the same each time. Okay. And yeah, I think I definitely think of, you know, 500 is kind of what it is. I want to try to earn, you know, $500,000 a day. Okay. So let's figure out, you're still in this here. Let's see what you did with this one. All right. So you're in this, where's your price in this and where's the stop? You have it at $185.90. What did you take of this? Yes. So then how many shares do you have of this? I have 400 of the cubes. Okay. And what's your price? The price was 186.50. Okay. So 60 cents times 400 is $240. So you could have taken more of this as your risk is 500. Now, I don't know. Now today you obviously risked in the same and the other one, but I'm just saying here, you could have taken more if you wanted to. You could have actually taken 800 shares. Well, I know I think the trading platform that I have only allows me 50% of my buying power in any one trade. Oh yeah, because you have a retail account. Yeah. Steric only, yeah. No, no, no, no, no. The place that you're at, you don't have it set up to actively date you. Would they give you a four to one? Are you in a prop place or retail place? Where are you? It's a prop, it's a prop place. Then you should have 10 to one, you should have 10 to one, not two to one. No, it is 10 to one, but they only, of that 10 to one, you only can have 50% of that in one trade. I don't know anything about that. I never heard of that before. I'll have to find out about that. Yeah, no, that's what that's, that's, it hit me a couple of times where I've tried to, you know, buy more. Well, then how did you maximize your buying power, the BBBY? That doesn't make any sense. If that's the case, how did you max out on that day? I didn't even know that they had those kinds of limitations, but even if they did. They also have a limitation where you can't lose more than 10% of your account. Well, that's, that's good though. I mean, that's, that's good. I mean, that's good for you right now being new. I think that's okay. But the other thing I have to find out about, because I never heard about all email the guy about that. All right. So basically, well, either way though today, you risk the same in BAC as you're risking in this. Okay. So for example, if this goes back up to 187, what are you going to make today? 50 cents times 400 shares. You're going to make 200 bucks. Yes. Okay. So then that would be a good day. So how much did you make in BAC? I made $110. Okay. So then you'll make about $300 today. So maybe you need to be a little bit more realistic here because you've been making some mistakes, like between now and the end of April, which is only two weeks. So okay, fine. If you want to risk 500, fine. If you don't want to risk 500, then risk what you risk today, risk 250, and then set your goal to make between 200 and 400 every day between now and the end of the month. That at least you'll be, that'll be at least $2,000, $3,000 or whatever in the next two weeks if you can do that. But, but if you want to risk 500 fine, but then it has to be in every trade, you need to decide like over the holiday weekend, what you want to do about your risk one and two, you have to risk them the same, either whatever you decide to do, but set some realistic goals for yourself so you can start to see some momentum because May is still earning season. And now it's earning season, but May is still earning season two, and then you can start to see some progress for yourself by making some goals for yourself, whatever those goals are, which is going to be determined on your risk. You have to decide. Yeah. That's makes a lot of sense to me. That's kind of the way I would approach it as well. I mean, I do want to do the options, but I want to kind of feel that I'm going to be earning something with the day trading before I jump into the options and just throw and invest more money. Well, I know. I think that you should have reached out to me before now. I wish you would have reached out to me before now. I don't know why you waited so long. I was still working full time and I could only trade like maybe one day a week or something because I had too many other responsibilities. So now I'm in it. So you really only have been every day since April 1st? I haven't really noticed. Oh, OK. Well, then I don't think you're doing bad. I thought this was going on for a couple of months. Have you really only have been active for the last two weeks? I don't think then these are critical mistakes or whatever you're not down. I mean, these are just, these are very simple fixes. You can fix it tomorrow. And Melissa, I mean, I'd make some mistakes. I hit the wrong button, you know, instead of buying stuff and stupid things like that. That's the learning curve. So, I mean, I fully take it on myself of where I'm at. This looks really good here, though, though. Look at this. But don't misdirect it on this now. It doesn't go over the high. Get out. Yeah. All right. So it's, yeah, I mean, it's what is it? Yeah, well, it's once, well, the high is 91. Well, if it gets over 18680, then I'm telling you what will go up to the high, whether it gets over the high or not. I don't know. But right now at 130, here this looks really good and this looks like this could rally into the close. It could go up over 187. I'm just saying don't, at this point now, you only have 400 shares. You don't have 4,000. Just make sure you get green in this today. It's not like. No, I agree. Absolutely agree. And this being in the trades all day, I hear like you say it's exhausting. Oh my God. I can't stand it. I know. I mean, to have killed this here and then see it go. But again, I mean, look at this. So I was like, oh, I was glad I got out of this. So look at that thing. The BAC could be flipped. So I mean, you know, I mean, I'd say, you know, but I do think with earnings season, we'll get back into routine of getting out quickly, which worked for Disney too, even though Disney was along. But anyways, I'll just really quickly talk to you about the options briefly. That's this. If you decide to do them, it's the same thing as the gap system. Now, if you do it, you can rate the gap or if you don't want to rate it, just take the call when I give the trade. But what you would have to learn how to do. And again, you'd have to. So you don't make a fat finger mistake with this. Go over with the broker. How do you place an option trade? You either buy the call, whatever strike I give, or you buy the put if we're shorting that at whatever strike I give. And then you still have to watch the trade. So it's different in the sense that. We, I might call it trade. Like I called this Disney trade here. People, then we're up a little bit the next day. And some people got out. Some people didn't. Then they were down here. And then this was the big game. So for that, again, I think people get out of here too early because it wasn't up that much. And, but I'm saying like you have, you will have to still watch your trains. And it's not the same meaning. You might have to look and say, Oh, what's the price of this right now? And it could be two o'clock in the afternoon or something. It's not like you have to sit there all day and stare at it, but you will have to manage these trades because I could call them in the afternoon. They could go in the afternoon. You have to still watch it, but it's the same philosophy about the gap. But sometimes I don't go the same day. Sometimes I don't go right away. Sometimes I take a couple of days. So then you have to watch it. But if it's gapping in the direction, when I've already called the trade, that definitely tells you like Disney on Friday. Oh, this is the day. This is the day we want to get out of it. Like I called the market higher. I've called so many trades in the market. There's a lot. There's a bunch on, but like I call this higher. Like today you would have said, Oh, today we'll get out of this one, you know, because it's up because it has the momentum into it because it gapped up today. And I had called it back a week or so ago. So you would look to get out of this today. This proper account that I have with Sterling, they're telling me that I can't trade options with that. You would have to open up another account in another place then. I mean, I can refer you to a place, but they may not do options. Yeah, they may not. But that, you only need $2,000 to open up an options account minimum. You don't need, that's not margin. If the stock cost a dollar, like this cost 80 cents. So if you had bought 10 contracts, it would be $800. If you bought one, it was 80 bucks. So for the options, you'll only need $2,000 because it's not margin. You have to go to a different type of place, which I can refer you to. We go to any of the places that you know. Ameritrade, whatever. And these accounts for the options, are they like the proper accounts where you mean when you buy and sell, it's almost instantaneous? It's instantaneous, but it's not like them in the sense that it's not margin. They're not going to cap you out. You call it 1-800 number to talk to a person there. You don't have like a rep guy. And also you have no margin. So you go in when you look and you say, oh, I have $2,000. That's it. You have $2,000. You don't have $50,000 in buying power, whatever. And you have to watch the trade. They're not going to kill it if you're down or whatever. But you're not, you don't put a stop in. So it's a fixed amount. If you buy one contract and it costs $80, that's the most that you could lose. And you don't put a stop in. But you still have to watch the trade. But it's different than the prop in that sense. But as far as going in, taking it immediately and getting filled, yes, yes, you will. So I have options set up on my e-trade account. Oh, there we go. Yeah, that would work. And do you have any money in it? Yeah. Yeah, then there you go. You could do it. But what I would do is you said you made some mistakes with the shorting and the buying. Make sure you know how to put in an order to do an option if you're going to do it. I'll send you a sample trade today if you want to call them and say, how would I have done this one? Doop-a-doop-a-doop. And then you can go walk it through it. Because if you have a live account, you won't be able to do a practice one unless they have like a demo thing or whatever. But I don't know. That's something that you'll have to talk to them about to make sure you know how to do it. But it's the same system. It's really, everybody's been getting excited about the options because I've called some big trades. But it's not every day. I'm not calling five days a week. It's whenever I see it. Like I call it Disney, I see it. If I call the market, I see it. It could be like, it could be three in one day. It could be nothing for four days. It's like, you know what I'm saying? The day trading is more consistent when we're looking for the gaps. But the options trades can be big wins. And I think that might help your conviction right now because you're so new for the profits. Because I've had some really big calls. But it's really just because I've been so focused and I've really been looking at the market really well. And so a lot of the trades have been in the market. Right. Yeah, exactly. OK. Well, I'll start learning, researching and reading how to do the options. I would stick with the E-Trade account if you have the account there. You can use your charts with Sterling. You can keep that saying, charts see the trade. Just practicing how to put in the order. And as far as the Sterling thing, I'll find about this 50% thing, because I never heard of that. I'll find out from them. But I think that you're doing better than I thought you were considering you haven't been hardly trading this year. But now that you're here, it's earnings season. It's a good time. You reached out to me early enough to fix these problems right of ways. But you should decide between now and next Monday at the very least, are you going to risk $250 or are you going to risk $500 in the trades? Yeah. Well, I mean, I'm going to do the five. I mean, but I can risk. I mean, my thing is, at least from what my account set up, I can only risk 50% of my buying power. That I don't understand. And that I'm going to find out about, because you won't be the only person that's having that situation. I never heard of such a thing. You should be able to access all your buying power. Otherwise, what's the point of having it? I don't know. Do you know what I mean? Like, what's the point of having $50,000 or $100,000 if you can't ever use it? You find acceptable trades, right? But it's just you can't have it in one trade or one position. I know. But that's mostly what we're doing is one thing at a time. And that's mostly what we're doing. Exactly. So sometimes when you say, OK, let's take more here. Well, I can't do it because I already have my max in there. Yeah. Yeah, I see that. I see that now. Well, I will find out about that and see if there's anything they can do about that. Or maybe they just did it because you were new. I don't know. Because that's the first I heard of it. I mean, Rich is the guy who I deal with. Yeah, I'll text or email or call Rich today and find out this story. But I think you're honestly doing good. And I mean, this was totally, totally new to you. So I mean, I think you're doing well considering how new it was. Yeah, I mean, I'm happy with it too. And, you know, I mean, there's been ups and downs, but more ups. So that's a good thing. But the downs, I've taken bigger. I've had more larger downs than I've had larger ups. But I think that's just part of the learning. It's part of learning. But I think the consistent wins are going to help you. That's what I'm saying. Maybe. Yes. Determine the risk. Because I know in Disney, you wished 1,000. And on BBBY, again, if you maxed out your buying power on this, you definitely risked at least $800 on that trade, which again, may be too big of a risk for you at this point. Yes. Yeah. And that was, yeah, I think that definitely wasn't, you know, not the right thing, but I'm going to get that corrected. Once I think you need to be more in a better group before you start to risk 1,000, which could be as soon as May or June. It doesn't have to be like December. So you know what I mean? Like I think you have to get in more of a groove about it, which will help being in the room every day. And then you can step up the risk. Because if it definitely bothers you when we have a losing day and you're down 1,000 or whatever, then you know you need to back it off. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. So what did you think? I know every day is not going to be, you know, we're not going to make money every day. No. We have a, you know, a high, high, you know, 70, 80% success rate. We're going to be fine. I mean, BBBY could have been a losing day. Sometimes days happen like that. And then I think we should just stop. But luckily WTW did work. So I try to find something else when we stop at the first train, but some days you can, some days you can't. You know what I mean? Yeah. And I would have made it all back if I sized myself properly. You would have because that was a good move. But that's, you know, that's why it's good. You reached out to me to determine it. Because I think your risk of BBBY was larger. And those stocks were similar priced. Yes. WTW was similar price and not on Friday or the Thursday or Wednesday or whatever day it was. That was around 17 something and BBBY was too. So you definitely could have done the exact same thing. And again, it's not an exact science. If you hit the trade like BAC and you short it at $29.27 and then you realize that you could have taken more and it drops to $29.24, just take more. Get the stop in. You'll be three pennies into it. Now if it drops a dollar, don't chase it and take more. But in something like where it starts to go a little couple pennies, you certainly can add more if you realize that you don't have enough or if you realize that you have too much, then take some out of the trade. Even if it means losing a little bit before it goes. I'm not saying chase it. I'm not saying if it drops a dollar, I'm saying if it starts to go a little bit, then you realize, oh, I could take another 400 shares, take it, get the stop in, and it'll pull your price down a little bit. But this, again, this isn't an exact science. If you're trying to risk 250 and you end up risking 300, that's not the end of the world. If you try to risk 500 and you risk 575, that's not the end of the world. If you're trying to risk 500 and you're risking a thousand, then your results are going to be all over the place. And I think that's what you've been doing, because you've been going from a thousand now to 50, and that's too different of a risk each day, each trade. Understood. What did you think of the class? I don't think I talked to you since the class. Oh, no, I think the class was good. Yeah, I know I want to do a retake because it's been since December, and I couldn't do it this past weekend, so maybe one of the next ones I'll do it. I think it would be good for you to retake it since you've been trading now. Yes. Since you've been doing it. I think that would benefit you. I think that you should do that because I think that that will help you now solidify everything here. No, exactly. I mean, I need to get better on charting it myself and pointing it myself. I mean, I've been following the room, and that's good, but I have to get to the point where I can confidently chart it the same way that you do. You know what I mean? If you say this is 20 points, I should be able to find those same 20 points. Exactly. Now, load about this queues here. I don't want you to lose in this today because if you do, you got out of that other one quick, you'll lose money of the day. So what do you want to do? I think you should put the stop at break even and you let it ride and see if it goes over the high. If not, then you'll make the 110 you made in BAC today. That's what I think you should do. I don't think you should keep the stop. I think this rallies, but I don't want you to lose today and you will lose today if this loses because you got out of BAC. I think you should put the stop at 1850, whatever your price is, and call today. Watch it. Get out if it goes up and goes over the high, but don't lose in it, okay? Okay. I'll move my stop. Yeah. I would do that. Okay. Listen, it was good talking to you all.