 Hello there everyone and welcome, this is Melissa Armo with the Stock Swoosh and I'm reviewing the 2021, this is day trades, this is equity trades, the trades in the live trading room for the Stock Swoosh show live trading room from January through the end of May. So first five months of the year, good start to the year, this is an advanced trader tracking which means a risk of average risk of $2,500 a trade. First again trades called entry, exit in the room $277,704. So this has been a good year this year and the market to be honest with you has had some volatility and I think we're going to see some good trading in the summer even though sometimes people say summer is slow, not from what I do, not from gaps. Again, that is my main focus, every single trade that I call in the room is based on my gap strategy. If you have questions you can email me on the list at thestockswoosh.com, you can call me at 929-3200 Gap, you can follow me on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube or Skype. So earning season is a great time to trade, there's four quarterly earnings seasons during the year and that's when companies report their earnings, most times companies gap when they have earnings. Now it doesn't mean that it's always a good gap, okay it doesn't mean it's a qualified gap but it's going to rate per my system but it's certainly something to watch and certainly something that I rate. So in between the four quarterly earnings seasons we still have gaps, stocks can gap on news, they can gap on the sector, they can gap with the market, they can gap for an upgraded downgrade, many different reasons but I will say that the four quarterly earnings seasons are the most profitable times to trade and so the next earnings season starts July. So we're getting into this coming week is June 1st. So since the beginning of the year, gosh January seems like a long time ago now, the year started off January 4th, BA worked, it was a nice profit, 5th, 5th was a loser, 6th, 2 losers in Facebook just didn't work out, BYND and Apple were winners, 7th BYND one winner and one loser that's called a retake. Then on the 8th, BA was a good one and CCL, again these stocks it's so interesting, some of these we've done so much during the pandemic. Then in the 11th, bunch of trades on that day, it's interesting because usually the best days I ever have it's usually just one trade and one ticker symbol but Twitter lost, Facebook lost, Boeing lost and then another Twitter and Facebook on that day, Boeing was break even, Facebook worked and Apple. Then on the 12th, Netflix was a nice one and CCL again, 13th was BA winner, Twitter winner, Wells Fargo winner, big winner on the 15th, close on the 18th, Twitter was a winner on the 19th, Netflix one loser and one winner, UAL was a winner on the 21st, again in January then you had earnings season. So the 22nd was IBM that's always a nice stock to trade, it always has big moves, Apple everybody loves, one on the 25th, Verizon was a baby winner on the 26th, 27th was Boeing in the spy, good ones, 28th no trades, sometimes if I get up in the morning and I raid a gap and it doesn't rate per my system that I don't do anything, that can occur. 29th, spy lost, Facebook won, no trades on the 1st of February. Then on the 2nd, UPS lost, spy won, Q's one winner, one loser on the 3rd, Q comb one in the 4th, spy two trades, one breakeven, one loser, Q comb lost and another breakeven, diamonds worked on the 8th, IBM lost and Apple lost on the 9th, 10th was ACAM and Twitter, two losers and then a big winner in the Twitter. Sometimes there's late trades, that's not preferable, I prefer to do trades right out of the gate early in the morning. The 11th was the spy, lost and save was a winner. Disney, loser on the 12th, IBM loser, Twitter was a big winner, closed in the 15th, Twitter won in the 16th, no trades in the 17th, Walmart worked, 18th, Twitter on the 19th worked, 22nd, Boeing lost, Walmart was a good one, 23rd, no trades. So that was, well here's the end of February, 24th spy, one loser, one winner, again another retake, Twitter lost and Disney won, 25th was BBY lost, Twitter two losers and DPZ won, Footlocker was a winner in the 26th, spy was a winner on March 1st to start out March, DDD was a good one on the 2nd, Ross won on the 3rd and two trades in the spy in the 4th, one loser, one winner, 5th was GPS lost, Facebook lost and another loser on GPS, that just did not work out that day. 8th lost on Facebook won in Apple, Stitch Fix was a good one on the 9th, Spy lost on the 10th and another Stitch Fix, sometimes it was a follow-through continuation gap. March 11th was Orple 1 and then again on the 12th, Lillie was on the 15th worked, Spy was on the 16th worked and no trades on the 17th, then Apple was a big one on the 18th, 19th was Nike worked, 22nd, no trades, 23rd two losers and well, Spargo, Apple lost, Boeing a big one, we've done Boeing a lot in the last 18 months I'd say, that was in the 23rd, 24th GIS won, Q's lost, Netflix won and Apple won, 25th was spy, two again, one loser, one winner, 26th Facebook lost, Apple won and JPM was a winner on the 29th. I will do bearish gaps and I will do bullish gaps but I prefer bearish gaps. So I teach the bullish gap course but the bearish gap course I teach more often because I do prefer to short so most of the trades in the trading room are shorts just so you know but I'll do a gap of a rates good no matter what. I'll do the highest rated gap but I really really prefer shorting, particularly because in the day trades I like to be in and out fast and that's the nice thing. March 30th was Apple won, Lillie was a winner on the 31st, often in the beginning of April, no trades on the 12th, fast was a loser, Apple winner, spy winner on the 13th, BBBY was break even on the 14th, 15th C lost, Apple won and the 16th was MS lost, NBA won, no trades in the 19th, IBM worked on the 20th, Netflix then one loser, one winner in the 21st, LVS lost on the 22nd, Netflix won, 23rd was INTC that worked, no trades in the 26th and UPS was a beautiful winner on April 27th. Again some of these stocks just seem to always go in our favor which is really really nice. SAVE was a loser on the 28th, Starbucks was a winner and Microsoft a winner, eBay was a winner, 30th was Twitter, 2 again needed a retake, one loser, one winner, sometimes it happens, Twitter worked again then to start out May, May's been a good month. Microsoft was a winner on the 4th, Microsoft we done a bunch in May too and they were shorts, May 5th no trades, May 6th spy lost, Uber lost, Netflix lost and Etsy worked, May 7th BY&E just did not work for the 1, 2, 3 trades then it worked, that was a crazy one and Shaq worked that day, May 10th was the Q's, nice quick one there, May 11th Q's lost, Microsoft lost, Apple lost, Boeing lost, spy lost, BA break even and then a winner in the spy. Microsoft lost first trade, second trade worked and the spy worked big one on the 12th. Then on the 13th two trades in BAB with the last target big one and that was a long actually on the 13th and then on May 14th Disney was a winner, Microsoft winner in the 17th, May 18th, T was a winner, 19th spy lost and Q's lost, AA worked and spy break even, May 20th Cisco lost, KSS worked, no trades on the 21st, BY&E nice winner in the 24th, 25th Apple lost, Shaq lost twice, DY was a big one then on that particular day and one of the reasons that was a big trade was it got a small stop, JWM was a winner in the 26th, DLTR was a nice winner in the 27th and HPQ was a nice winner on the 28th. So again going over the advanced trader risk, it's $2,500 a trade, some trades had ads that's an advanced concept that I teach in the advanced entries class but the bottom line is that you should have your risk the same or equal to same no matter what your risk is if you want to risk a beginner risk fine, you want to risk $100 a trade or $500 a trade fine, your risk should be based on the size of your cash account and again these trades are on margin, you have to have a margin account set up but a proper retail broker to do these as day trades, these are not options, these are day trades, we're in, out and we're in and out fast and quick and so the risk is the difference between the entry and the stop and again I call the stops in the room, I use stops or limit order stops so if it hits the stop again you're out and again this is just a chart here of the QQQs of the market, just to go over again what I teach in the class and what we do in the room is only based on gaps so I'm just going to go over here briefly what a gap is and again this was the QQQs back here was the end of April where the market gap down, it closed here, gap down fell, okay so this closed at one price of four o'clock and opened at a different price at 9.30 in the morning the next day that's a gap, this is a gap down, you also have gap ups, here's a gap up, market closed at four o'clock, open here up the next day at 9.30, this is a gap up so again I'll do gap ups and gap downs but I rate the gap so I would rate this as a bearish gap and I would rate this as a bullish gap and this is a bearish gap too, this was a bearish gap that happened here too, okay I rate gaps in the morning, could be the market, could be individual stocks like you saw that we train and then I determine if they rate per my 26 point rating system, if it rates 20 points or more then I'm taking it in the direction of the gap again could be bearish or bullish but the bearish class is what I usually teach once a month the most so do you have to risk $2,500 in advance risk per trade? No I think this is a goal for some people to get up to the point if they want to trade for a living but you have to start with what you have don't wait until you have you know 100 grand in an account or more to start training you can build your account up I think it's good to take time and you learn as you go and I do teachings in the room too which is which is very important for people so you can trade with the beginner risk and again there's something called proprietary day trading accounts you can google online read about them you can go to a retail place or you can go to a prop place but your risk has to be similar to equal in every trade okay so for example if you have a let's talk about margin if you have a $40 stock price that's 200 shares you need what 8,000 and buying power that's not 8,000 in cash that's BP it's buying power margin and everyday trader big traders professional traders you know individual traders like you and me we everyone uses margin okay no one trades with cash when they're in and out especially if you're in and out in several minutes or in an hour that would be silly no reason to do that this isn't swing trading this is a long-term investing it's your pulling money out of the market on a regular basis okay anyways you could take a position like that with a $2,500 proprietary day trading account because you get 10 to 1 margin which means you'd have 25,000 and buying power so you could have taken a 200 share position with a $40 stock price just to give you an example show up the stock moves a dollar in your direction you can make what 200 bucks if you short it at 10 and it drops to 9 that's a dollar and you have 200 shares you'd make what you'd make 200 bucks I know you make yeah you make 200 bucks if it dropped a buck if it dropped two bucks you make 400 so the nice thing is that look at your size of your account and that will help you determine if you're going to do retailer prop okay some people like prop you know even if they have 50 grand because they get 500,000 in buying power okay which they're not going to get a retail broker unless they have you know 125 or more so you've got to look at what you have okay and then determine what works for you if you don't think it works for you to go retail don't do it look into some prop places there's plenty and plenty of options out there in today's environment to to treat okay and I think that the important thing is to look at what you have and if you have questions about that you can ask me okay I use stops though because I want to fix risk and everything that I trade you don't want somebody running against you particularly if you're doing in the one-minute chart so the stop is like the insurance it protects you but 200 bucks a day is what a thousand dollars a week and again sometimes we don't have a trade but usually we do you can day trade with a beginner account and risk the only difference is your share size is smaller but that's okay that's fine I teach beginner people you can grow a small account into a larger account and I have people that have larger accounts that are trading with me too for a while so it's it it really depends on your experience and and how comfortable you feel taking risk but it's all about teaching you know yourself how to do something new which is a process you come to me you take the class you ask me questions it's a process for you to even ask me questions after the class and in the room because you know this is all new for a lot of people what I do with gaps is very very unique I created my own system nobody else does it okay so a lot of people out there that do gaps but they do them incorrectly in my opinion okay I'm looking for the institution of money what I do is very specific obviously 26 points is a lot of things you think it's a lot and it takes forever but it really doesn't once you learn it it doesn't take you much more than five minutes to read a gap I do get up really I like to look at things I like to take my time and I don't like to rush the more time I spend in the morning getting ready the more money I'm going to make in the live day and the faster I'm in and the faster I'm out okay so again many people are looking for direction in their trading they don't know what to do this class my class the golden gap course gives people direction it says get up in the morning make a watch list of gaps rate them all and anything to rate 20 points or more you're going to trade it in the direction of the gap boom that's it it gives people the direction they want instead people wait till they open wait till 10 o'clock see what the market does flounder around many people can't even read the market right they're trying to trade stuff which doesn't work either so you know now people are going to those reddit chat rooms which is so crazy I mean there's just no strategy to anything they're doing there whatsoever at all there's not even a fundamental or technical strategy to anything that's going in those chat rooms it's it's like gambling and people are doing it and there's more people losing money they're making money and even if you've made money in a chat room like that I guarantee you're going to lose it eventually and more it's very dangerous that type of environment I think for people because there's no strategic reason for doing trades and you have to understand what's going on in the market big money controls the market institutional money controls the market boom that's it and that's one of the reasons why I think right now you see this market continuing higher and higher and higher the spy almost made new highs on friday before holiday weekend on low volume I mean the market is strong and you you can't be in denial of it and there's people short this market which right now to be honest is crazy so if you'd like to learn my system it's called the golden gap course I teach it once a month this is where you'll learn the meat potatoes and what I know the strategy the 26 points the entries the targets at pretty much you know what I do in a daily basis when I'm calling the trades in the room so the golden gap course the next one is june 12th and 13th nine to five eastern time cost of the class is $69.99 class is online it can be anywhere in the world and take it because it is online which is convenient you can trade the u.s market from anywhere okay the market though opens at 930 and we're mainly doing the trades in the first half an hour hour of the day so you got to be there by I'd say 915 the latest preferably nine email me at melissathestockswish.com if you want to sign up okay you must email me for the forms if you want to do the combo you save $500 by signing up for the trends class at the same time this is June 15th Tuesday during the week 11 to three this is nice to get both the classes and definitely definitely is helpful particularly if you want to do options as well and if you want to do long-term investing or swing trading so think about what I've said really I'm you know I try to do my best to break it down I think I'm a good teacher um I try to explain everything in very detailed ways in the class and then we'll review everything in the room you cannot join the live trading room without having done the class people always ask me that no you can't the room is $500 a month after you take the course okay just so you know but I do think the room is valuable particularly after the class to follow along and make money you don't have to be in the room there are some people that are in the room there's some people not in the room I think right after the class it's helpful but you learn everything in the class to do it on your own you don't have to be in the room okay it's a support system so think about that too any questions email me at melissathestockswish.com thanks everybody have a great day