 Welcome, this is Melissa Armo with the Stock Swoosh and I'm reviewing the track game for the GapOp Shows newsletter for one week. This is the week of May 26, 2023. The win ratio was 67% and average return investment, this includes the losers, was 166%. This is with an advanced trade or risk. Again, I get this question a lot. How many trades do you call on the newsletter? How many can I expect in a week? You can expect as many as I get good gaps. In a slow week, we may have, you know, three trades. I don't think we've ever gone a whole week without any trades. In a busy week, we may have more trades than this week. So this is like an average week. And there were nine trades this week. During a busy week, there might be twice as many trades. It's earnings season is a busy time. Sometimes you have a lot of volatility in the market. So you have to plan accordingly and say, I'm going to take this much risk per trade. I'm going to do this many trades per week. That'll really help you plan. But this gives you kind of an idea. This particular week was nine trades. How many you can expect? And again, you must choose your risk. With a win ratio of 67%, you figure out of every 10 trades, three and a half or so on average, you're going to lose. And six and a half, we're going to win. If you have questions, you can always reach out to me. You can watch me on TV or call me at 9 to 9, 3,200 gap. You can email me at Melissa at thestockswish.com or follow me on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, or Skype. So everything I do is based on my golden gap rating system. That's a system that I use to rate the gap, to determine if I want to go long the gap, enable a gap up or short the gap and a bearish gap down. We do a mix on the letter. We do putts and we do calls. So it's really a question of whether or not it is a gap that rates good. Like for example, this past week, we went long to video. So the video was a call. So I will do calls on this letter, even though I prefer to short. As far as options go, I'm doing really good mix of them. So this particular week, again, the win ratio was 67% with nine trades, three losers, zero break even and six winners. The advanced trader risk, and the trades I'm going to show you here was $8,000 per trade risk. That's on average. Some were a little bit more, some were a little bit less. You must determine your risk. The profits were $98,600 for this one week, with an average return of investment of 166%. So getting to the point I'm trying to make is you must determine your risk with the cash of your size of your account. So again, if you have a margin account or if you have a cash account or it's a retirement account that you are allowed to trade options, you must check with your broker to find out. But we're buying the call, selling it, buying the put, selling it. That's what we're doing. This is trading momentum based on the gap rating. This is not complex option strategies. Your risk should be based on your cash account, like I said, so that you can take multiple trades. So if you want to risk $1,000 a trade and you want to do five trades at once, for example, then you need to have more than $5,000 in your account to do that. So let's go over the first one here, which was May 16th. Did the test of puts? It didn't work. Again, looking at this here, I'm going to show you the chart in a minute. The trade never went right. It cost $3, which was relatively cheap. Sold at zero. The profit was negative. Return of investment was nothing. Blew out into the day of the expiration. We'll hold into the day of expiration of a trade. It's down to see if it comes back. This never had a chance, really. Stock closed here, gap down. Here's the day I called it. It reversed. So if you have a strategy where you want to, or money management, where you want to kill something at 50%, you can go ahead and do that. I don't do that. Some people do do that. If that works for you, you're going to save in the cash and the ones that lose. But then you may not make money in some that went that go at the end of the week. So this could have. It just didn't. So that was a loss. Apple 170 puts that I called on the 17th. This didn't work at all either. Very similar setup, too. Tessa, actually. This was, what day was this? The 17th. Here. So again, closed here, gap down, fell, reversed. And again, take it to the right here. The 170s never got anywhere near that. So that did not work. That was a loss. Cisco completely reversed. This one lost, too. The 45 puts I called. This was earnings on the 18th. And it was cheap. It almost was like too cheap looking back, but the volume was there. I mean, the volume was there, so I didn't take a full risk on this because I just thought it was just too much size. And I was worried about not getting out. That should have sort of been a sign that it wasn't right, actually, now looking back. I could have added to it if it had gone in my direction, but it just never did. So this closed here, gap down. I called the 45s, never went down there. Completely reversed 100%, lost. So those were the three losers. Then we had to get one in PayPal. On the 18th, I called the 60 strikes in PayPal that expired the 26th, exited the 25th, although you could have got out earlier. Could have even held this to the last day, although I don't suggest that the trade is up this much. 55 cents was across 150 contracts, risk was 82.50, sold at 95 cents, that's a good trade. That's a great trade. Profit was 6,000. Again, 73% return on investment. So this was the 60s. Let's look at those here on the 18th, here. So again, fell. It was a good timing on that. It was a nice move, it dropped. We had been playing that, and really that was the big winner, actually for the month of May, that was a nice short. Again, a put is a short. We did BABA 86 puts. This worked nicely, called this on the 18th too. Cost $1.50, 50 contracts, risk was 7,500. Sold at 7, profit was huge. 27,500 dollars, 367% return investment. You could take one contract if you want. You could risk $150. It doesn't matter, it worked. Again, that's the nice thing about options. You can hold options overnight with a fixed risk, whatever you risk. You can't lose any more than your total risk. And if it continues overnight, you can make big banks. So that's what happened here. Gapped down, fell off a cliff. So again, you can see through the strike, fell, fell, fell. So again, fell through the strike, dropped through, even went through 80. Did the Foot Locker 31 puts it, expired the 26th. Again, you'll get this newsletter live to your email. So when you get it in the morning before the open, you can't do anything until after the open. If you get it in a live day, you take the trade after you get it. Very recently priced $1, 80 contracts, risk was 8,000, sold at 5, profit was $32,000, return on investment was 400%. So this again, was one of these ones we did a lot. Close to your Gapped Down, fell, boom. That was a nice short in Foot Locker. Again, called it on the 19th, I'm doing the week lease. We did Disney, which was Monday the 22nd. I'm fine with that, it has a whole week to go. $90 strike, 90 cents was the price, good price, cheap. 100 contracts, risk was 9,000, flipped it around. Again, 50% is good. If I get more than 100%, it's a great trade. And again, this just continued. So we'll look at this here, the 22nd. You could have held this all the way down. Look at that. So that was a nice movement in Disney. We did another Foot Locker strike, the 28 puts on Monday, this was huge. 40 cents, 200 contracts, risk was 8,000, sold at 225, profit was 37,000, with an $8,000 risk, return investment was 463%. Again, you could have held this into the last day too, but I don't suggest when you're up this much money holding into the last day. So you exit the day before, you take the money, don't let the trade go against you when you're up this much. And again, the 22nd was here. And there's the drop through the strike. And that was a short. We also did low, this was Tuesday. Sunday night early in the morning, this was earnings. This didn't go the way that I wanted, but it was a profitable trade. So you could have made 50 cents on this with a risk of 70 cents. And again, a $7,000 risk for 5,000 is still a nice trade. Now again, what happened with this? So close your gap down, it reversed. That's not what I wanted it to do, to be honest with you. I wanted to fall and drop and did it, reversed. Then it fell, then it fell. And I said, boom, that's enough of this thing. And I got out. Cause I was down when it rallied for the first day. That wasn't good. So I was happy to have it go in that direction. So overall, again, nine trains, this is an average week. Some weeks it's more, some weeks it's a little bit less. But this gives you some kind of an idea. And again, you can risk more than $8,000 per train. Risk what you are comfortable risking so that you can take more than one train and keep your account intact because you are gonna have some losers. But the whole idea about being profitable trading is that you have more winners than losers, which we do. And some trades were huge winners. If you wanna sign up for the Gap Options newsletter, it's a six month subscription or a 12 month subscription. The half annual is $49.99, if you wanna try it out, sign up, you'll be on the letter to the end of 2023. That's a long time. For me, I rate the gaps. You don't have to worry about that if you sign up for the newsletter. Again, it's a subscription service. Now, if you wanna do the class and learn, you can take the class and learn my method. The objective is to make money. I think that people make money better when they understand what to do. But there's plenty of people on the letter that have actually never taken the class, which is interesting. And people always say, you know, about paying for a six month or 12 month subscription, you have to have the time invested that you're gonna do this. You have to commit yourself that you wanna trade. You have to have a trading account. You have to have an options account. You have to be able to do the trades. You pay for the subscription service on a credit card and you take your time paying it off if you're risking a smaller risk. If you're risking a larger risk, you could pay it off the cost of subscription even for one year in one good trade or one good week. The idea is that you are trading, learning as you go, getting the calls, making money, moving forward, and then usually people end up doing the class after the subscription because they are doing well and they wanna learn what I know. But whatever your goals are, if it's to make money on the side, trade for a living, you need good trade ideas, it's all about making money, but you have to be serious about it. So I'm very serious about what I do. Again, sometimes I'll send a trade out seven o'clock in the morning. I can tell it's gonna be that good. In this type of environment though, you, you and you alone will determine the course of your future and your financial freedom. You have to take charge of it in this market or any market, in this economy or any economy. And again, the nice thing about trading is you can do it from home. If you would like to learn my system though, the system is called the golden gap course. It's a 26 point professional bearish gap rating system. The purpose of the system is to help you evaluate which gap to trade each morning using a checklist. This checklist tells you what to trade when and in what direction. The 26 point checklist predicts directional bias in a stock. Again, the golden gap checklist is something that I'm doing in the morning. Then I'm sending the trades out, okay? But if you wanna learn and take the class, the June class is coming up. Friday is a deadline. June 24th and 25th, 90 to five p.m. Eastern time. Class tuition is $69.99. It's online. Anyone in the world can take it. You must email me for the forms. The combo includes the trends, which is a nice offer. You get the two-day golden gap and then the trends, which is Tuesday 11 to three. You save $500 by paying for them both. The trends helps you with swing trades, long-term trades, options, all of it. And the class for July, if you're interested in doing it a month from now, save up $69.99 for the July class. Again, everyone pays the same price. It's July 22nd and 23rd. And then if you wanna do the 12 months annual, options is $69.99. Six months half annual is $49.99. That takes you to the end of the year. That's actually a lot of time. That's actually a lot of time to be in the letter of six months and a lot of trades, a ton of trades. So if you have questions, email me at melissa at thestockswish.com. If you wanna sign up, you can sign up. You can sign up today. We'll get tomorrow's newsletters. Have a great day, everyone.