 everyone and welcome. This is Melissa Armo with the Stock Splush, and today I wanted to talk to you a little bit about success. As you may or may not know, I teach people my golden gap rating method in my class, which I teach once a month. I teach my strategy so that people can use it and implement it to trade the US stock market. And we're going to talk about success today because a lot of people trade the market, but they have no plan of action of how to be successful. They want to be successful, but they don't know how to be successful. In order to be successful, success isn't something where you're just born, and all of a sudden you're just born successful. In order to become successful, it's like building a house. It's building blocks. I call it chunking it out where you're constantly moving up. You're taking 10 steps forward and maybe two steps back, three steps forward and one step back. That's what it is. You have to be working on it and building towards wherever you want to be, wherever that is, whether it's your financial success or whether it's personal life growth success or relationships or whatever that might be. You have to put work and effort and time into doing it. So I think in evidence to trading, a lot of people just want to take trains and don't really want to learn how to trade. And they hope to be successful and make money trading without actually having learning anything. But that's really never going to happen. And I think people just don't understand that. Again, what people come into my live trading room, they're required to have and take my class to be in the room. So they learn the system. They know it. I make it easier for them to take the trades that I call life. But that being said, you will trade better if you know how to do it either way. Because if you don't know what I'm doing, what I call the trade, why I like something shorter, why I like something long, then your more apt to make mistakes, make errors, kill the trade, not size yourself right now, put this stop in, kill it. If it's down, the trade goes on to work. I make many other errors. So again, success is something that you have to build on. It's a mindset, but it's also taking practical steps to actually do the right thing so that you can be successful. And for some reason, I think with trading, just because it's the whole idea of investing, people say, well, I'm just going to buy this stock. I'm going to make a lot of money or short this stock. I'm going to make a lot of money. If you want to trade, trading is not long term investing. Trading is active, something you're an active participant, whether it's five days a week, two days a week, three days a week or one day a week, you have to be an active participant in your trades where you're making the decisions and you're making the choices. And you're also deciding your risk. If you know what to do, it's going to be a heck of a lot easier for you and a lot less stressful to trade and be successful and make the money that you want to, if you understand what's going on. And again, part of learning and taking a class is you're building on that success, you're working on it, you're doing the legwork, you're taking the steps necessary to implement all the things that you need to do to put all the pieces of puzzle together so that you can get to the level that you want to be of success with trading the stock market. If you're interested in learning my method in my class, you can email me at melissa at thestockswish.com. Have a great day, everyone.