 Welcome, this is Melissa Armo with the Stock Swoosh and I'm revealing here the tracking for 2019, the Options Newsletter. Okay, this is through Friday, which was the last day of May. This is an advanced risk, and we're going to go through the trades and the charts. 86% win ratio, year to date, 2019, 560,630. Now, this is an advanced risk. So the risk at the beginning of the year was around 4 to 5, and obviously it's been a very good year, so it's been increasing. It's about 6,000 now for trade, just so you know. And so the one thing I always tell people, listen, if you're doing really well, you can increase your risk. And then you can be a little bit more gentle with yourself when profit-taking. In other words, say if you took 10 contracts, you could get out of 5, hold 5 for a bigger move. You know, that's an idea for people when they are trading, when they start to take more size on. You could get out in the first move, hold a little bit for the secondary move. So anyways, it's really all about success and making money if you want to trade. I know trading's fun. I know everybody loves to trade and it's fun, and sometimes it feels like a computer game, but it's not fun when you're losing. It's fun when you're winning. So you have to have a winner's mindset when you're doing this. You absolutely, absolutely, absolutely have to have the right mindset. So there's been 81 winners, only 13 losers for the first 5 months of the year. One break even and a total of 95 trade calls. Win ratio, 86%, which is outstanding. And someone had asked me about a stop-loss. I tell people, take the trades and only risk what you can afford to risk in the trade, don't kill it. You got to give the trades a chance to work. The way that I call trades, which I'm going to go over here, I mean, it's really, they work or they don't. And you have to also know why you are doing this. What is your number one goal? You're doing this because you want to do it for a career. You're doing this for extra money. You want to go on a vacation, buy a car, you know, or is this something that you really want to do as your full-time thing? So if you're a beginner and you have no experience trading, you can do this. I have people now that have joined this letter and I have people that have signed up for the class next weekend that have never traded in their life. They're seeing success already by taking the trades and they're getting out when they're out. Simple as that. They don't overthink it. They don't overanalyze it. They don't have a negative attitude about the market or anything. And I think a fresh, fresh outlook is what many people need to do well. And a lot of people that have been trading for a long time have a horrible outlook. And that's unfortunate. I get this question a lot too. Do you need margin to do options? No. No, you don't. So that's the benefit also of doing options versus the equity trades. The weather, even if you do something and say it's Amazon, a very expensive stock today trade, with an option, you just pay the cost. You pay the cost of it. If it's cost a dollar, then you pay $1. So the cost of the options varies in these trades. And ultimately is about manage your expectations versus your goals. You're doing this. You want to make money? That's key. It's absolutely, absolutely, absolutely key. Okay. So using a high wind ratio system is important if you want to do this, particularly for a career, but I even think if you want to do it on the side, it's more important to use a high wind ratio system than anything else. Why? Emotionally helps you. Stay positive. Okay. By being consistently green. Financially, obviously, so you don't have big drawdowns in your account, and your account grows over time, which also helps you emotionally, helps the confidence, helps the conviction, and proof of consistency in the system, which a lot of people, when they're doing it, they say, well, does it work under this market condition, this market condition? You know, right now the market's in an uptrend. That could change. The market could go in a downtrend. You want a consistent system that works under any market conditions. Okay. Now this was a really, really nice trade call Disney, and I'm pointing this one out because it was a big one, and a lot of people want to hold stuff, hold stuff, and this market that's volatile, you can hold some of the position, or some positions for a day or two, but I don't think holding for a long time right now is key. Now, every once in a while, though, I will say you will get a big one, and when you get a big one, you just get it. It happens out of nowhere, and that's why I'm pointing this out. People sometimes try to force a big one. You can't force a big one. If you get a big one, it just gives it to you, and Disney was one of those ones, and so that's why I want to talk about it. Called this trade, called the 120 calls, and it gapped up, flew, flew over the price, literally almost after I called it in within a few days, and that was a news gap, not earnings, and it was really, really, really good, and two traders that are on this options letter made over $40,000 on 40 contracts, and so it was a really nice trade. Everybody that was in this and didn't get out and didn't kill it before it went ended up having a huge day that day. So here was the 120 calls, and I called it on the 9th to expire for 26, and I'm going to go back here to the chart. You can see where it went. I mean, this just, and this, and that flew up even after that, but again, you would have really exited it here the day of this, because it was more than $10 through the strike, okay? So I can call something out for two weeks, but it doesn't mean you hold it. And it was, let's go back to the beginning of the year. Lulu was positive. Netflix was a good one. QQQ is a lot of market calls this year. Mavidia was a loser. Cat was a loser. IBM, nice solid winner. And again, all of these trades are based on my golden gap rating method. I rate the gap. If the gap rates more than 20 points, then I call it. It's a 26-point rating system. 20 is a cutoff. Under 20, you don't do it. There's nothing to do. QQQ was another winner, $11,250. Starbucks was a winner. SPY, big winner. A lot of market trades this year. And I mean, it's just been, I've been on point with reading the market this year. Another winner in the SPY. Another winner in the SPY. Ntap was a loser. Cisco was a winner. Walmart was a winner. HD was a winner. SPY was another winner. Q is another winner. Target was a loser. Cost was a winner. QQQ's was a winner. Another winner in the SPY. Google's a nice one to do options because of the cost of the stock versus the day trading. Alt of big winner earlier this year. Netflix winner. Sitchfix lost. That just didn't work at all. SPY won. FDX another loser on there that just didn't work at all in any of the timeframes correctly for the follow through whether they did the day or the next day. Apple was a winner. SPY was a winner. Lulu was the break even. SPY was a winner. QQQ's was a winner. Google was a winner. SPY was a winner. Amazon little winner. Q's was a winner. SPY loser. BA was a winner. Disney, another big winner called a bunch of trades in Disney. SPY was a winner. QQQ's was a winner. Amazon was a winner. QQQ's was a winner. Google was a winner. Again, Google and Amazon are really nice to do options because of the cost. Another great trade in Disney. I have lost count of how many Disney ones. QQQ's was a winner. Apple winner. Twitter winner. SPY winner and another Disney. Big, big, big. Disney is really the golden gap of the year so far this year for the bullish side. I just, you know, I've done a couple of videos on that. Every trade in that has worked. Amazon was a winner. Apple, QQQ's was a winner. SPY was a winner. Microsoft was a loser. Q's was a winner. SPY was a winner. BA was a winner. Apple was a winner. Microsoft, there was a winner that day. Diamonds was a winner. SPY winner. Netflix, loser. Lyft was a good one. SPY was a winner. Q's was a winner. Apple was a winner. BA was a winner. Diamonds was a winner. Baidu was another beautiful gap. That was a good gap down. Puts in the Baidu. The diamonds was a winner. was a winner, spy winner, Amazon winner, Apple winner, low winner, that was one that went past the first day too. Actually I looked at that just today and I said, geez Louise, that really fell off a planet. Even after that dead. QQQQs was a winner, Netflix loser, Qs winner, spy winner, another big buy-do. Google was a loser, Apple winner, diamonds loser. Apple was a winner, spy winner, diamonds winner, Qs winner, diamonds winner, spy winner. I mean I'm just calling boom, boom, boom with the good ones in the market. I mean I'm calling the market at the exact right time where the market is actually gapping after the time that I call it. I'm just seeing where this next market is gonna go. Anyway, spy was a winner, BA winner, Qs winner, Google winner, Netflix winner, Amazon winner, Google winner, Alta was a loser and cost was a winner, the fast one. And even that Alta might end up continuing this week. If anybody's still in it. Anyways, that was one where I just felt if it had to go right a ways, it would have gone that day. It's rare that I would call a trade really tight on the day but it happens every once in a while. I do think it's better if you give things more time but I'm probably not gonna call anymore in the Alta because the way that that acted on Friday but cost even that which is a very strong stock now maybe lower into the month of June. So it's one of these periods where things are very, very volatile and if you don't know how to read the specific stock you're trading, if you don't have a specific set strategy, if you don't know how to read the market, you're getting eaten up. If you do know how to read it, which I do, you are making bank. And that is one of the reasons why these results are so amazing. But I have been extremely focused. I mean to the point where I'm like getting ready to go to bed like right now so that I can get a good sleep every night, get up early, rate everything. I'm rating them at six, I'm rating them at seven, I'm rating them at eight, I'm rating the gaps at nine. I mean, I am like double, triple checking myself on everything I'm doing in the pre-market to make sure that I'm seeing everything the same from six a.m. to nine, nine a.m. even, you know. Anyways, I'll talk about that more in a webinar, hopefully soon or some more videos. But long story short, the winners, 81 winners, 13 losers, this is year to date, one break even at 95 trades. So 86% win ratio 2019. So the benefits of trading options versus equity trades is what? No margin requirements, no day trading margin requirements. The only cost is the price you pay for the trade. Like I said, whether it costs a dollar, $2, $3. So if you paid $3 for something and did one contract, it would be what? It would cost you 300 bucks, all right? You can make active money trading just like equity trades, which is nice. And there is no requirements for me, you don't have to do the class, there's no prerequisites. Although I think doing the class is important, I think you will trade better if you do the class, you will be able to see things clear when I call these gap trades if you do the class, okay? But you do not have to do the class as a prerequisite for me to sign up for this newsletter. And you can make a very good return on investment for your risk, you're usually looking for one over, okay? So people come to me and they want all kinds of different ideas of how to manage themselves. I'd say look for 50% to 100%. But it doesn't mean you have to kill it at 50%. You wanna give the trade a chance to work. Some trades end up being 203%, 300% return on investment, like the Disney's, like the Lowe's, like the Bidew's, where you gotta give things a chance to work in the favor that they want to. The momentum, the volatility is in the market so far this year, I'm calling great trades, you wanna take advantage of it. Don't kill things too early, but then again, you gotta make sure you book money, okay? So you're watching the gap, you're watching the time of the day, you're watching the market, all of these things in combination. And again, you learn this in the class if you do the class with me, the golden gap course. So what works for you and what doesn't? You have to decide. You have to decide if you wanna do the equity trades, if you wanna do the options trades, if you wanna do this part-time or full-time, it's up to you. I definitely think that the options letter has helped a lot of people make money from this letter than to pay for the golden gap course. So that's positive. However, this letter is only an annual subscription service and you have to keep that in mind. So you have to be able to afford to pay for this letter for the entire year, you get a year's worth of trades. And always, everyone I was asking, well, how many trades do you get? I'm showing you how many we had so far this year, I called a lot this year, but it's never in a set amount because I don't know. I don't know what good trades we're gonna get. It's like saying, well, where's the market gonna be? X, Y, Z. I have to see it when I see it in the gap. And if I see a good gap, then I call the trade. So I don't know how many from week to week, but on an average, this review helps you see how many, if you had been on the letter from January through now, you would have gotten this year, okay? But it's more than enough is the point I'm trying to make. More than enough trades for you to do it and get a feel for the gaps. So if you wanna sign up, it's 49.99 a year. No prerequisites, like I said. Email me at Melissa at thestockswish.com if you wanna register and sign up. If you sign up and pay, your letter subscription starts immediately, okay? Get on this letter if you wanna start seeing what I'm doing, getting a feel for it, and then you can save up the money from the letter for the class. It is, I just had great calls this year. And really, honestly, it's the gap rating system. It's the 26 points. That's how I'm reading the gaps. But it's really the way I've read the market. I've read the market very accurately and it's because of my gap rating method that I've read the market accurately. You understand what I'm saying? So that's one of the reasons why this letter has been amazing. So congratulations everyone that has been on the letter. It's been a great year. Everyone's doing well. If you have any questions, email me at Melissa at thestockswish.com.