 Hello there, everyone. Welcome. This is Melissa Arbaugh with the Stock Swoosh, and I wanted to go over one week of results of the Gap Options newsletter. So, this is Advanced Trader Risk, which I'll go over in a minute. You can trade options, however, with a beginner risk. If I have time, I will show that for people in a separate PowerPoint. But the idea of winning whatever your risk is is to have a high win ratio. So, this week was a 71% win ratio. It was a great week. In fact, every week has been a great week so far this year. One of the reasons is because the market has had momentum and so have stocks. So, you'll see the trades that we did this week. The expiration date was January 14th. So, risk was, on average, $8,000 per train with a profit of $94,675. So, there were a few losers. Again, we're gonna go over it. If you are interested in receiving the newsletters, you can sign up for the newsletter. There are no monthly subscriptions and no trials. It is a one year subscription, or you could do a six month subscription, which I started this year, which is something new. And again, there's no prerequisites. You can work while you're doing the options trades because you can put the trade in, put the order in, and put a sell order while you're at work. So, that's the nice thing about doing options. You don't have to sit and babysit it in the morning. So, the week of January 14th expiration. Okay, that's what we're going over here right now. So, win ratio was 71%. There were 10 winners. There were zero break evens. There were four losers and then there were 14 trades. Advanced Trader Profits, $94,675. So, I've included in here the newsletters that were sent. You'll receive the newsletter in live time. I many times, and you'll see this here in the newsletters with the timestamp date, I called them in the morning in the pre-market. Why? Because I'm rating the gaps early. I rate the gaps very early in the morning as soon as I get up. So, I may send a trade out at 7 a.m. You can't take options trades until the market opens. So, but you get plenty of time then to situate yourself with what you're doing. Okay. So, here was the QQQs. So, I called this on January 5th. It was a put. I called the $394 QQQ puts. Exit was January 10th. The expiration date was the 14th. This was a nice drop. In fact, I will pull out. I will go to the chart of the market here in a minute and just show you what this market did. I don't have the charts in here for every trade. It was just too many trades. But I'll just show you the market move that this had here during this time period very quickly. Now, this trade came in the later later in the morning. $1036. Again, you get them when I send them. But I do send most of them in the pre-market. Now, I wouldn't say this is pricey, but this is a medium price point for $50 for one contract. So, 20 contracts risk of $9,000. Sold at $22,000 was a $35,000 profit. Return of investment for this particular trade $389%. That's fabulous. Okay. That's really, really good. And again, many trades are huge or have huge return on investments because, again, momentum and movement. Now, let's look at the Qs. I'm just going to pull the chart up here. Oh, I have the Qs right up here. $15. So, call this here. Boom. Get the drop. Here, get the drop. Beautiful move. Beautiful move. So, again, when I'm doing trades, okay, when I'm calling the newsletters, like what you saw is what you would receive during email, we're always doing, we're shorting gap downs, we're going long gap ups. So, the original call was the gap down in the market here, okay, open to $394.74 and getting back to this, I called the $394. Okay. I usually do not call anything in the money. It's usually right at the money or away from the strike. Okay. Then on Wednesday the 5th, same day, I called the Facebook 330 puts, which expired on 114. Again, take it, get the drop. This was a short. Puts are shorts. Cost was $5.15. Contracts risk was $7,500. This is not an exact science. You choose your risk. If it's $1,000, you get as close to that as you can. Do you know what I'm saying? You just can't take five trades with varied risks or you're going to be all over the place with your profits because some trades lose. So, if you take one trade where you risk $8,000 and then you take four trades where you risk $1,000, that one you risk the most loses and the rest win, you see, you can be upside down and then have a high win ratio. So, the idea is you've got to keep your risk steady, steady as she goes. Okay. And really, it's not that hard to be honest with you. And everyone, if you're, if you don't know how to figure it out in your head, then buy a calculator. Shoulder 14, again, take it, get the drop. Profit was $13,500. Return and investment was 180%. That was Facebook. It was a nice one, too. In fact, let's pull up Facebook, too. So, that was that same day. Sometimes I'll call a bunch in one day. What was that? Here. Boy, that seems like a long time ago in this chart, people. Look at what the stock has done since then. Wow. I mean, that's insane, actually. Like the low today, this is incredible, actually. The low today was 230. So, this has moved 100, 100 points, basically. Today is February 4th. This is a month ago. It was one month ago. Look what that stock has done in the month. That's how crushing this gap was. This is a gap down in earnings here. We did that, too, but I don't have that in here because that was not the week of January 14th. But, wow, that stock has just... Anyways, this was a nice call. I knew that would fall even before the earnings. That's another week, another trade. Call the NVIDIA Puts 280. Expired 114. Nice one here. Boom. Little appraising cost was $8.10. Contracts worth $8,000. Shoulder $22. Profit $14,000. Again, if you cannot watch it, you get... Then you have to put a sell order. If you can watch it, the targets are in the letter. Return investment was 175%. So, if you can't watch it, I say put a sell order at 50% or 100%. If it doesn't fill, it's a canceled day order. Or you could put a sell order higher and check it at lunch. You know, see what's happening with it. Then on Thursday, January 6th, I called the 550 Netflix Puts. Again, expired on the 14th. This was $11.41. Eight contracts is $8,800. Sold at $22. You're in, you're out. You're in, you're out. $8,800 profit. Return investment 100%. I mean, we just have beautiful moves and things. We've had some nice follow through. Nice follow through in the month of January to the downside. February just started. We'll see where February goes. Then I also called the QQQ 380s. All right, January 14th expiration. Another putt. Cross post $5, 15 contracts, risk $7,500. Sold at $11. Profit $9,000. Return investment 120%. A good trade. Again, so this was on the 6th, Thursday. For the following week, I usually do the weeklies for those of you that ask, so like it depends what day of the week it is. Like on a Monday, I'm going to call it for the Friday expiration. On a Thursday, I'm going to call it for the following Friday expiration. You know, I'm not doing it so tight. We're asked to move that day. Then the spy 466s I called on what day was that? January 6. So January 14th expiration. 470. Number of contracts 20. Risk $9,400. Sold at $950. Nice trade. 102% profit $9,600. So let's just go look at this one. Spy 466. It was Thursday. I was here. I was a good read on that. Should we did the one here? Then we did this one here. And then we got the follow through here, which was Monday. Then we had the rally here. I'm just just showing you what transpired. Then that week we had the rally. I mean, I didn't get through all the trades that we get though. But then you see what happened with that. I mean, even here looking like when let's just look at this, this is a month ago. So we just looked at the at the Facebook. So this is January 6. Today's February 6. Market was at 467.83 at the close. I mean, pretend right now as opposed to 330, we're almost going to close. We're at 452. And that's not even up where the lows were. You know, interesting times, people. Volatile market. So then this one was 172.50. Apple puts we did this to Apple fell again. I was reading the market. I was reading the things we're going to go with the market. I was reading the gaps. So then Friday morning, early 944. This was called on the seventh. It dropped. These were really cheap. 250 30 contracts were 7500 sold at 475 profit 6750 return and investment 90%. Again, so I kind of stacked these into the week into the week as as it continued. And what you could do, I did not do this. But this is a personal decision. This is not like a rule. What you could do is you can you can take some out. So you can get the first drop, get out half hold the rest or something. So that's another idea. I don't do that, but you could because usually if I'm investing in something, I'm looking at it. I'm either looking at it or I'm not looking at it. And if I have to bother looking at it all, I feel like I may as well be in a full position. This was 1119. Then on Friday, I called another spy for 60 spy. Again, let's look at that. So that was a seventh. So I called the for 60 spy. That was a nice call. And then we had the follow through Monday gap down and fell. Okay, so this was cheap to for the market 250 30 contracts were 7500 sold at 550 profit 9000 return investment 120%. So that was a nice treat to then we did the QQQs on Monday because we were rocking and rolling got the drop that tail was a drop 375 puts expired that current week. Okay, which was the 14th. And I'll show you what happened here. This was crazy. Cost was $6 number contracts was 12 risks 7200 sold in the very last day with a partial partial save part of it but basically a partial loss 6000. That was when we rallied back. So I did a new trade in there which actually could have taken you could have got out of with profit but I didn't think it was up enough. And so I held it and remember that was that rally that rallied up. So actually this was up in the initial drop. And I think some people did get out of this with profit but I wanted it to go more and I thought that it would it took an extra week. So that was a loss. That was one of the losers Netflix 530s we did and this was on Monday. See the time pre market 530s expired 114 575 was a cost number contracts 15 risk was 8625 sold at 11 profits 7875 return investment 91%. Let's look at that. Netflix. That was Monday. Look at this. This see this fell. But the market didn't that week it backed up remember look at this even since that this is more than 100 points since that look at that. Tell you it's very interesting times spy them I called another spy on Monday the 455s. Okay. This lost because again the market backed up market dropped again this was up initially then it backed up and then it then it ran out of time it just ran out of time part of it part of it with with options and you know this if you if you're someone that's done options is not only do you have to get the direction right which I do a lot but you also have to get the timing right like these puts I got that I got the direction right where we were headed I mean you can see this here even even now but I didn't get the timing right on those last ones there. I mean even now we're under that 455 strike but I was early in that and then here was the drop off because we went all the way down to 420 and those were the 455s so I had the direction right but I ran out of time it's you got to get the timing right too. This is a finesse this is a skill set it really really is I'm very good at it though but I still have trades that lose sometimes. Tessa 980 puts 114 was the expiration date this lost this was expensive too this can be expensive cross was 31 to contracts risk was 6200 I saved a little basically it was a bust that was one of the losers spy then we did the 458 puts on Monday this one did go enough to move and drop and then remember I did the other ones to hold and those that didn't work so you could have got out of all of them actually that day with profit in that tail I wanted to hold something until the bigger move which took an extra week so again 275 was a pretty good price sold at 56750 82% return and investment nice trade we did the Amazon's 3150 this lost never really went anywhere to really get out of it right and was very expensive too and then ultimately like I said we had four losers ten winners and a pretty good week again if you took a risk of a thousand dollars per trade you still would have had seven out of ten winners it's a good week so we're getting into still in the middle of earnings season now we've had a lot of trades even this week it's interesting because I think this year is not going to be the year like last year where people think they can just do whatever and you gotta know what you're doing this year but I think you're gonna do it know what you're doing all the time and that's always been my philosophy it's one of the reasons I created my system so the gap options newsletter annual subscription it's 12 months it's 6999 for one year the trades are emailed to you okay and if you want to sign up you can email me at Melissa the stocks which dot com you can sign up whenever as soon as you sign up you'll start getting the emails so that's up to you if you want to do the half annual you can do that too 4999 six months from whatever you start up this would even take you into the summer so you get through the rest of this in our earnings season the full next earnings season a part of the summer one so this is this is a good period of time to be in the and you can see here how many trades we do in a week so just looking here at overall let's pull up the spy here you know just recapping here and what we've had to work with since january one to do to to trade most of them have been puts as you can see we have done some calls I will say that one thing I've noticed is the calls have been a little pricey and the puts have been a little pricey which is you're like okay well what do you mean I'm talking about things that are at the money so I've noticed that things are getting a little pricey and for calls and puts and that's really because of the volatility you're seeing in the market so when you something that costs you know more than you would expect it to I should say if you've been doing this a long time you kind of know what something should should cost at the money or far away depending on what stock you're doing to the market and that tells me you know this is it's volatility okay there's you know you have a lot of people on one side then you have a lot of people on the other side and I hate to say the word betting because what I do use is a system but most people that are trading do think of it like that and you know I look at it as something where I'm taking calculated risk if I'm taking a trade so I rate the gap if it rates 20 points or more I take it in the direction of the gap I use my 26 point system that's how I'm making the options calls however when you're doing options like I said the price point has to do with whatever you're paying you can never lose more than what you pay which is one of the reasons why I don't kill trades in the middle of it because I effectively this the the risk is the stop now I do know people sometimes kill trades but then they end up losing and trades are going to work so I would say set your risk if you want to do this at a amount that you can let the trade play out and do not do more trades than you can afford to do if you can't do all the trades in one week then say okay I'm going to do three trades a week I'm going to do four trades a week I'm going to do five or whatever the case might be or I'm going to be in three in one time or something like that it's a pretty active letter it's definitely worth the money it's very active in 12 months you get a lot of trades in that time but this year we've been active even though I feel like I pulled back a bit as a result of that again we're having much much more wins and larger wins it's nice to have some big trades and it covers the losses and then you're still up a lot which is why you can have good profits but a 71% win ratio is great so some weeks we have higher win ratio some weeks a little bit less but it's that's probably an average 70 to 70 to 80 and it's getting back to the beginning of the year here January 4 now here was the first day of the year we gapped up we failed to move higher made a new high though on the second calendar day of the year I mean you can't ignore that but really when you look where we were four seven nine nine eight gosh it seems like we're so far from there right now people doesn't hit like it seems like impossible we get there I'm not saying we can't get there but all the big earnings that would move the market all the financials all the banks Amazon Google Facebook Apple Boeing everything that would affect the market Microsoft too is is out is reported so we'll be very interesting to say we're rallying today we had mostly good economic news bad unemployment number but we we pushed back and I'll be watching to see where we go Monday morning anyways if they're interested in the gap options newsletter if you want to sign up it's well worth it people are doing very well email me at melissathestockswish.com have a great day everyone