 actually this is my home and this is where I work and I trade so I'm a day trader so every day I get up in the morning and I don't have to commute I don't have to travel I could trade my pajamas if I want to even though to be honest with you I don't but I could so could I trade my pajamas and you could too if you want to or you could just trade in your bed with your laptop I don't do that I like to get up have breakfast do my thing but I thought I would share with you the benefits of being a trader by just giving you a window into my life so what do I do in a normal day well I get up in the morning and I go to the gym early I live in an Eastern time zone I live in Manhattan this is Manhattan I don't have professional lighting right here so it's very challenging to see the lighting but this is the city of Manhattan back here I live on the 60s floor in a penthouse apartment in midtown and I absolutely love my apartment and I absolutely love my life it has taken me a long time to get to this point and one of the benefits of trading is that you can set your own hours work from home and set your own income meaning that the more money that you risk in the market the more that you can make and as time goes on the benefit is you get better as a trader I mean I have never traded better in my life and I had this year in 2015 and of course it's seven years into it so one of the things you have to look forward to is if you learn how to trade well over time you will make more money with continued effort one of the things I find interesting is I talk to so many people and they're like well I I want to wait to have this much money or this much money or this much money in the meantime 12 6 7 9 months have gone by so-and-so could have taken my class learn how to trade been risking a hundred dollars a day or whatever they could have afforded at the time that I met them and they're waiting to save all this money which is still on have to take my class and trade to try to make the same amount of money as me like right now the second like it's not about that it's really about just getting into the flow and doing it the longer that you wait to move forward to have the life you want the longer it's going to take you to get there because you know what this is what happens you lose momentum you lose motivation your dreams start to just go like this and you have to do things to keep it up you really have to do things to keep the momentum up I do that for myself constantly it's really about feeling good about yourself it's very important to feel good about yourself in fact one of the things I do to feel good about myself is I love clothes I love fashion I love shoes in fact I'm gonna try to show you these shoes here if I can get them in the camera can you see these shoes there they are they are gorgeous shoes and some days you know you get off and you want to trade and some days it's just like not enough motivation to like trade to like pay like the cable bill my cable here in the city is insanity it's really really high just for my television I do have like a thousand channels but the point is some days you're like you know but the idea of being motivated to buy the shoes okay that helps me get the conviction to take the trade knowing that if I have a fabulous trade I could buy one pair of shoes or two pair of shoes or whatever so some days it's like not enough motivation just to pay the rent you know what I'm talking about like when you roll out of that and you go to your job but it's good to have dreams and other things we'd like to spend money on that are fun to keep us excited and going with life now doesn't mean you can buy all the shoes that you could eat no but it's the idea that if you do well and you save you can buy the shoes and it's the idea of just having dreams and things that you aspire to accomplish or you know want to achieve in your life so what my schedule is as a day trader is I get up in the morning and I go to the gym and I come back and then I rate my gaps because I trade the strategy that I invented which is called the golden gap system so I rate my gap so when I come back from the gym and I have my breakfast and then I sit down and I run a live trading room and I take my trades live and I work from home then when I'm done it's like around 11 o'clock I'm done trading about 11 ish 11 a.m. sometimes I close up the room early because we're done sometimes by like 10 15 10 30 ish and I just like well I have things to do every once in a while like twice a month or something I have a webinar like around 4 30 so then usually those days between 11 and 4 4 30 ish I will do paperwork or pay bills or clean the apartment or do a laundry in those days but really when I'm done trading most of the days of the month the 20 days of the month from 11 o'clock till the rest of the day I can do whatever I want in this fabulous city in New York and so you know the thing is that if you get to the point which it did take me time to get here I'm saying is you have to have a goal and a dream to get to this point and if you do you can achieve it because I've achieved it now when I started out trading I did not realize that it was going to be as challenging as it turned out to be because I thought oh I'm really really smart I'll figure this out like in a millisecond well it didn't turn out to be that way and I had to make a lot of sacrifices I really made a lot of sacrifices to get to this point but I will tell you that is a hundred percent worth it and sometimes you have to make sacrifices and this is the point that I'm trying to make right now I have a great life I live in a penthouse apartment on the 60th floor and I am done working every day by 11 o'clock your path does not have to be as challenging as mine once you meet me because I will help you teach you my system in my golden gap class and then on top of that motivate you to keep going as you have internal struggles or whatever happens to you to keep pressing forward and persevering like I did at the time that I was going through my own process number one I know that anyone to teach me what I know right now except for the market and the market just kept taking taking taking taking my money until it took almost at all okay and I kept persevering and then as far as the motivation I really just basically have myself because I mean I have friends I had friends loving family that help me but I will tell you that you know they were pushed to the limit I will tell you that God loved my parents because you know at one point it was just like all my friends had all you know because life was so hard for me and I would call them upset or crying about a traitor anything I did all the time you know and my friends are just like you know friends can only be friends so long where they're like please you know and you know what I'm talking about but I will tell you that the friends that I kept through that process are my friends like still now for life and they're so so happy for me which is amazing and I you know it's just incredible anyway it's getting back to the fact that my parents helped me supported me and love me through this process even them even my mom and dad who were my number one fans and still are today because I have great great parents who made me the person that I am that I'm now helping other people because I wouldn't be the person I am today really without my mom and dad so I care about people I care about my traders I I empathize with them for their process and it's because I had great parents that taught me how to be like that with people to care and it's getting back to what I was saying my even my mom and dad were like almost at their limit like my dad's like okay you know Melissa when are you gonna just decide to stop quit this thing and find a real job again you know I mean really my parents were pushed to the limit and I have this thing where I can sometimes do that to people like sometimes this thing where I really push people to the limit but you know what I did it with myself I made myself better for it if you come and you learn from me my class pushes you to the limit to expand your horizons learn what you need to do to make a lot of money in the market and know that you can in fact one of the gentlemen that just did my class this past month he emailed me after the class it was so hilarious and he said well listen taking your class is like down in a fire hose because it's so much information not just the knowledge of the trading system but obviously me the way I motivate people everything I do and it was it was a very high compliment actually was a wonderful compliment and it was amazing and obviously you're paying me so you know good money for the class information and I want you to get the most out of it I want you to get the most out of the experience with me so yeah it is like full-on but that is me and that's what you get and if you are willing to push forward and persevere through the things that happen in your life you can have an amazing life where you work from home have unlimited potential income and buy all the shoes that you can eat and also the penthouse apartment with an amazing view I'll have to get better lighting for the next time but whatever your dreams happen to be wherever you are whatever you want to do I'm telling you the market is a vehicle that can get you there and it's not just about the money the money gives you choices okay then you don't have someone else controlling you because when you work for someone else you know they control you because you're at the mercy sometimes of situations and you know when I I'll say this one last thing what I don't remember what your was when I started real is it was either 2007 or 2008 and again I was a broker doing mortgages and I really was a hundred percent commission so I worked for someone but I was kind of working for myself in the sense that I could work really hard find more clients find more realtors prior people to buy houses do refinances all of that I was doing but it was good to the point then when the whole mortgage really collapsed it was like it didn't matter how hard I worked the banking system was in control okay the banking system was in control it didn't matter what I did or how hard I worked or how great these bars were I mean I had people that amazing credit and then I want to money it's like every time I thought the deal was done they come back they want to they want blood from the people to give them a house and it was ridiculousness and and I just said you know what this I have to be in control of my own destiny and find a career where that exists and I found the market and so what I'm saying to you is if you want to take back the power in your own life and empower yourself to make the money you deserve and also have a good quality of life whether it's wonderful the beautiful things or just more time because I'm done trading every day in the morning it is possible you've got to expand your horizons think about what you're going to do how you're gonna make it happen you can make it happen and that's really me and part of my story so have a good evening everyone have a wonderful night if you're interested in more information email me at melissa at thestockswish.com thanks everyone