 Hey everyone, I hope your trading is going great I want to take a couple minutes to give you an update on the trade performance of our alerts for the month of August another month in the books another great month for navigation traders This month we had 18 closed trades, which is more closed trades than we've had in our history of recording these alerts 17 of which were winners total profit $5,835 another record as far as the amount as far as dollar amount Booked profits so continue to be awesome trades and remember we're trading this alerts portfolio with Relatively small size. I mean anywhere from one to five contracts at the max So we have a lot of members doing five or ten times that amount Obviously if you're more experienced to have a larger account, you could be multiplying these profit numbers Significantly, we keep it small because we want to make sure that you understand even with a smaller account You can provide consistent monthly income trading the strategies that we teach The amount of capital that we're using in the account is anywhere from 30 to $35,000 of buying power And so we typically use anywhere from one to a few thousand dollars in buying power per trade So depending on your experience and your account size you can really scale this to any level that you want If you are interested in getting all of our alerts down here at the bottom You see navigation trading comm for slash pro dash Member we are open for new members right now. So you can check it out We do have a 14-day trial for just a dollar if you want to check it out to see if it is right for you so one of the keys to our Consistent profits are the different strategies that we trade and the diversity of not only the symbols that we trade The amount of time in the trade, but also also the different strategies We had six different strategies this month. We traded some short strangles some short put verticals a calendar spread We were in the thick of earnings season So we did some pre earnings long calls pre earnings long straddles and post earnings short put verticals Let's jump over to the site if you go to navigation trading comm forward slash performance This is where we keep track of all our statistics for you and these are updated each month So for the calendar year of 2018, we've now closed 108 trades Our average profit per trade is $241 and our winning percentage is over 90 percent 90.7 percent and then if you scroll down you'll see each month So this is August the current month where you can see the 17 out of 18 trades were winners total profit 5835 and we keep all the past months as well going back to the beginning of 2018 and then also the trade stats for 2017 where we started in June of last year so you can see all the performance numbers winners and Losers going all the way back since we started total transparency. Our goal is to be completely transparent There's nothing hidden. We have nothing to hide. We want to show you everything the good and the bad So you can visit this page anytime again, it's just navigation trading comm forward slash performance Now I want to take you into the members area So if you're a pro member, this is what your membership area looks like You've got all your courses down here and then access to all the alerts our current portfolio and Closed trades, so I want to go through and break down each trade from this month So starting at the beginning. Let's go down to the beginning of August the first trade was Tesla. We did a post earnings short put vertical Textbook trade just like we teach in our earnings course booked a profit of 364 dollars there in Disney we did a pre earnings long straddle trying to take advantage of that pre earnings IV expansion worked out nicely for 162 dollars in Google we did a short put vertical got bullish on Google for this play made $477 in ZN, which is the 10-year note We did a short strangle there booked over 343 dollars there With Tesla we did a short put vertical booked a profit of $258 in EEM. We did a short strangle as well booked a profit of a hundred and thirty dollars in GS which is Goldman Sachs stock We did a calendar spread which is a another strategy that we teach to trade in low implied volatility environments booked a profit of a hundred and eighty four dollars there In DE John Deere We did a pre earnings long straddle booked a profit of 244 And what you'll notice is with this month We traded a lot of different individual stocks as opposed to as many ETFs And what you'll see is when implied volatility is really high We're doing premium selling strategies in some of these ETFs and broad market type Symbols whereas if implied volatility is a little bit lower or we're doing earnings related trades You'll see us do a lot more trades on individual stocks With Lulu lemon. We did a pre earnings long call booked a profit of 296 dollars in CVS did a post earnings short put vertical booked profit for 290 our one loser for the month was in video We did a pre earnings long straddle there. It just didn't quite Work out for us leading up to earnings announcement. So we closed it out for a small loss of a hundred sixty three dollars in Walmart we did a post earnings short put vertical booked a profit of 260 in BBY which is best buy did a pre earnings long call booked a profit of three hundred dollars even In ZN the ten year note. We came back and did another short strangle booked another profit of a hundred fifty six dollars and 25 cents in CRM which is sales force booked a profit of 492 dollars doing a pre-earnings long call and in Tesla again did a short strangle there booked a profit of 531 dollars in Ford slash 60 which is the euro futures. We did a short strangle there booked a profit of 750 and Ended the month with a short strangle in Ford slash GC which is gold and booked a profit of 160 So those are all the trades for the month of August again If you're interested in checking out our pro membership Just go to navigation trading calm for slash pro dash member you will get immediate access to all of our past alerts our current portfolio closed trades all the courses all the training that you saw in the members area as Well as you'll start receiving our trade alerts by text message and email It's good a navigation trading calm for slash pro dash member We look forward to seeing you on the inside. Happy trading