 Hello, everyone, and welcome. My name is Melissa Armagh. I'm in a company called the Stock Swoosh. And today, I'm going to talk a little bit about why maybe you, as an individual, might want to trade. Why might you want to trade the US stock market? If you'd like more information after this lecture, you can email me at Melissa at thestockswoosh.com or feel free to give me a call at 929-3200 gap. So why might you want to trade for money? Obviously, that's the goal. That's the reason that many, many people trade. But the thing is, is that all? Is that the only reason that you want to trade? Think about it. You're doing it for the money. That's the thing that you want to take away from the market, which is money, which is profits, income, savings, more money coming into your life. That's why you're doing it. But is that really the reason? So many people want to trade for money. Money is obviously the goal that you're trying to achieve, but is that really the reason? So many people want to trade and they hesitate to do it because they think it's gonna take a huge chunk of your time and they can't devote the time to learning or doing it. But yet, if you think about really why you're trading, money is the goal, but is it the reason? And therefore, if you think about that, which I'm gonna mention in a minute here, is it really worth your time? It really doesn't take that much time to trade, at least not my method on gaps. It's Monday through Friday, you're sitting at your desk watching trades between 9.30 and 10 a.m. Eastern time for half an hour and you might prep before there, maybe 30 minutes or a little bit more so it's about an hour a day. So it's really not that much time to trade gaps that you're spending five days a week and no weekends. The class I teach is two full days Saturday and Sunday so you're giving up one weekend, but that's it. One weekend of a class and an hour a day is all that you need to trade. So it's really not a lot of time when you think about it for the money that you can make doing this. But again, going back to what I was saying is money the reason? I'm gonna get to that again in a minute. I think a lot of people make excuses. In 2018, it's still early in the year, it's February, it's time to stop making excuses. Why you're not successful? Why you're trading, you're losing? Why you're still watching and waiting and not deciding to proceed and do something different with your life? If you don't like your job or if you're doing something that you don't enjoy or if you're doing a trading strategy right now and you're losing that's not working, why are you continuing to do it? Why are you continuing to go on and make excuses for not changing your life? 2018 is a time to relook at what's going on in your life to make significant changes so that it can be a great year for you. And obviously that's what you want because really when you're sitting down to look at trading your goal is the money but what's the reason you want the money in the first place? Why do you want the money? Not to just sit and look at it on your desk, okay? Or in your bank account. You want money because you want more freedom, more financial independence. You want to be able to go on vacations. You wanna be able to buy nicer things. You wanna be able to work for yourself. You wanna be able to have more peace of mind, not worry so much about the future or even right now. You wanna be able to pay your bills. So the money is the goal when you're trading but that's not really the reason you're trading. The reason you're trading is financial independence, freedom, which you get once you learn how to trade because then you don't have to report to a boss. All you need every day is the market when it's open and a good trade to set up which the market gives you very often. If you look at the whole calendar year, there's plenty of good trades that the market gives you. Stop making excuses this year why you're not successful, why you're not achieving your goals. The goal is the money but the reason you're doing it far exceeds that and I'm just plopped in here the last month of trade calls for the trading run. This is using an advanced risk which means between a thousand and $1,500 in some of these trades. Really a very solid strong start to 2018 because if you had taken all of these trades when the advance risk and there were some days in here where there were no trades or the room was closed even one of the days you could have made over $38,000 in just one month. Again, money is the goal to trade but the reason is what? Financial freedom, financial freedom. Some people don't make 40 grand in two months. Some people make that in a year, almost 40 grand here. So the bottom line is that get your head on straight for 2018, stop making excuses. And if you're trading right now and you're attempting to do it but it's not working why. Is it you or is it the strategy you're doing? Think about what I'm saying. It's very important. People come and they learn from me and they take the class but really following in the trading room is extremely important as well. So I teach a class that's called the Golden Gap course. It's a complete system used to trade. All of those ticker symbols, all the stock symbols that I just called in there are all ones that were gaps. There were a few longs but most of them were shorts and I have a rating system I used to look every morning to determine which ticker symbol to trade and in which direction to do it, long or short. Although I do prefer to short. The class I teach is called the Golden Gap course and you must sign up, learn my method, do the class in order to join the live training room because I want people that are committed. You got to be committed to yourself and I think the beginning of the year is a great time for that to happen. Classes online can be anywhere in the world and take it. It's a full two-day course in how to strategically find pick and play stocks that are professional bearish gaps. Again, classes online, doing a special live trading day on the Monday. It's a 24, 25th and then Monday the 26th. It's a great time we'll go over gaps live in the room. I never ever do this and doing this is probably the only time this year with my schedule. It's a great opportunity to be in the room live and review gaps in the morning before we trade. The cost of the class is $5,499. And if you want to sign up, email me at melissa at thestockswish.com. I would not wait. I only take a certain number of students each class and again, it's earnings season so it's a very busy time and there's lots and lots of opportunities to make money. But remember, money is the goal. It's not the reason that you trade. The reason you trade is financial independence. You don't want to have to work for someone else for the rest of your life and you don't want to be stuck making a set salary, your job being, but if you like what you do, the idea that you can have more is beneficial for you and you don't feel trapped in your life. It's the idea of independence and freedom and that's very empowering. If you have any more questions, feel free to email me at melissa at thestockswish.com. Thanks everybody and have a fantastic day.