 Everyone, welcome. This is Melissa Arm of the Stock Swoosh and I'm doing an earnings season class special. Why? Because earnings season has started. It actually officially started right before the long weekend. So it's Martin Luther King Day, market closed today, federal holiday, but the earnings season really officially started Friday with the bank earnings. And you know what? They were all down. While some lifted on the day, some fell on the day, it wasn't really what I would consider a good start to earnings season for stocks, for people that wanted to go long and really go hog wild in stocks. Now again, that was only the first day. We'll see where we go from here, but I think a lot of the volatility this first quarter of 2023 is gonna be dependent on what happens with economic news and specifically the Fed. So while I am watching earnings and we're playing specific stocks, specific picks, I'm also looking at the overall market to see where I think we're going for the first quarter of 2023 and ultimately this whole year. 2022 was a volatile year for the market. We made out at the stocks, which why? Because I focus on shorting. That is my niche. If you're someone that didn't know how to short in 2022 or were scared to short, or just didn't short at all, you missed out on a lot of opportunity last year. This year you have a chance to start all over and actually have a fabulous year trading in 2023. So I'm doing an earnings season class, special to help people for the first class of 2023. If you have questions, you can email me at melissathestockswish.com. You can also call me at 929-3200 gap. You can follow me on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube or Skype. So ask yourself and you must be honest. Are you prepared for the market for 2023? Are you prepared to make money trading? Are you prepared with your long-term investments? Are you prepared financially for what the year may bring? Again, some people think we're going into recession. Some people think inflation has peaked. I absolutely do not know if inflation's peaked or not. But I know the cost of things has gone up astronomically in the last two years. And so people have to adjust. What can you do? Well, if you're in a position where you can't make more at your current job by working extra hours or you can't get a raise to cover inflation, you have no other options but to make money doing something else. So you can get a part-time job or you can trade. Now, while trading takes an initial investment to open up an account and take a class like mine, it can pay off for you not only in the long run, but even in the short run, if you learn what to do and can go after it and really take charge of your own life because no one is gonna do it for you. You can't change the circumstances of what's happening in the economy. And who wants to work 60 hours a week? No one. The nice thing about trading is that you can trade and get it out quick, quick, quick, quick, quick. So that's what I focus on. It's a short, fast moves. And again, that's what I'm focusing on for this year for 2023. So think about what I just said. It's January. We're only a couple of days into the year. You can still have a phenomenal year, not just trading financially for yourself and also who wants to work all these hours? I think that when you're someone and you're starting to get smarter, it's about thinking really, what's the best use of your time? You know what I'm saying? And so sometimes I think about it. And I like to trade in the morning. The trading room's only open in the morning. And I think about it's like, if I sometimes, if I hold a trade in the afternoon, I only make a little bit extra. And sometimes I give it back. So I decided a long time ago to stop doing that. I focus in the morning, the first 30 minutes of the day, the first hour of the day, that's it, okay? Making money and trading has to do with quality of life. You can improve the quality of your life if you don't have to worry about money, okay? If you can pay your bills effortlessly. And also if you have more time, more time to enjoy your life, spend with your family, spend with your friends, do leisure activities. So think about that. You can have a great year this year. This is the time when you wanna be optimistic and positive. And if you didn't have a good year last year, you gotta shrug it off, okay? So it's a new year, a new you, time to start out to learn something new. So I teach my method in the class once a month. It's called the Golden Gap course, but it is really a checklist. It's a 26 point checklist that goes through all the things that I use to make the stock picks that I use each and every day. So how do I pick that I'm doing Tesla, the Q's, or whatever we happen to be doing in any given day? I rate it, I rate the gap in the morning, in the pre-market. This is what you'd come and learn from me. You can use my method for day trades, for swing trades, or options. So the earning season class special is if you sign up for the class by January 22nd, which is Sunday, you will receive the trading room free till the end of 2023. The normal class tuition is $69.99, so the room is a great bonus. It's normally $500 a month after the class. So this allows you to be in the room the whole year, and the class is January 28th and 29th, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern time. I'll go over that here when we're done. But getting back to what I was saying about trading fast and being done very, very quickly, it is about chunking it out. Not just in this market, but any market, okay? Take a calculated risk when you take a trade. Again, you have to put the trade on and put in a stop, why? If you don't have a stop in, you essentially have unlimited risk to far too many traders do that. Put the stop in. If you take the stop, you can always do a retake. I teach retakes in the class as well. But everything I do is based on my golden gap course strategy, the golden gap 26 points, the golden gap rating system. That is what I use to trade. That is the reason for my huge success. It is because I'm very, very picky about what I look at. So again, this checklist is the meat and potatoes, which how I use to make decisions every morning. And the benefit of being in the room is that I call the trades live. I call the entry, the stop, and the exit. And that is a huge benefit. And again, it's a bonus for the earnings season special that I'm running through Sunday for this month's class for January. So again, here's the market. We're starting out the beginning of this year. You could say, oh, we had a very bullish start to 2023. Yeah, I don't know what that means. Doesn't mean much of anything to me. Yeah, we rallied a couple of days. Some days we started down and rallied. Some days we started up and dropped. It was a really nothing burger so far as the year goes, as far as the market. We've only been open a few days. Let's go back and look at the last three months, four months, six months, 12 months. If you look at where we were, 12 months ago from today, shocking, shocking almost. And I know a lot of people that have money invested in the market, they're 401ks, or nowhere near where they were from their profits from 12 months ago. So how do you make money in the market? As an active trader, you can make money by chunking it out. But you have to learn what to do. And far too many people go into the market, think they know what to do and don't, or just take haphazard trades, risky money and have no idea what they're doing. They really don't have a strategy at all. Again, the reason for my personal success and the success of my clients at the Stockswish is because we're applying a strategy daily. I'm rating the gap using the 26 point rating system. So this was a nice options trade that I call in the Qs. Actually, let me show you the trade first. This was on the newsletter. I called a put in the QQQs 275 puts that expired in the 23rd. I caught it in the 15th. So let's go look at it here first. It costs $5. Let me find you here. There. So again, well, no, let me go back. It was here. So 14th, 15th. Closed here, gap down, fell, boom. So again, this was a put, which was a short. We could have done a day trade in it, where you could have done an option in it, which is what I called here. So it costs $4. It's midway priced for the market right now. 20 contracts, which is an advanced risk with $8,000. You could have made seven grand, 88% return on investment. If you did three and risked 1200, you could have made over $1,000. That's a good solid trade. Again, a put is a short. You're doing it as an option. And again, your risk is what? You have a fixed risk in an option. So you can't lose any more than your risk. If you take three contracts, you can't lose any more than you have at the cost of a contract, $1,200, that's it. I mean, you're at the point where you are seeing something and you're looking at it, and you're like, okay, this is worth the risk. I looked at the gap, I rated the gap, I'm seeing where it's going. We're trading momentum, momentum, momentum, momentum, momentum. That's what this is. The momentum here is to the downside. This is selling. And then we add shorts, okay? And then the market fell, boom. So that was a good one there into the first second week of December, into the end of December, that fell. But again, when you're trading, it is extremely important to get the momentum as big and as fast as you can and get in and get out. It's not just for options, it's for day trades too, because in a day trade, you have to be out by four o'clock, which is a long way away. So I try to be in and out in several minutes when I'm in a day trade. So again, then you don't have to worry about all the market fluctuations as well. Now I get this question a lot. Can you do this if you're a beginner? Of course, you can learn as a beginner. I've taught beginner traders. I've taught people who've never traded in their life. Sometimes people that have never traded are better off because they don't have any bad habits. A lot of people that have been trading the market and losing money for years have negative thoughts about losing and also bad habits. And all of that is problematic. So you've gotta start fresh. Again, January's a great time to do that. But it's all about making money and not only that, but having fun. I do my best to try to make it enjoyable in the trading room so people can have a good time, make money, stay focused, and again, enjoy your life by having the rest of the day to yourself. It is about freedom. It's financial independence and working for yourself. What do you wanna do? Everybody wants to just take one big trade and make all this money. It's really not about that. It's about the long haul. It's about longevity. It's about consistency. It's about commitment. It's about education, learning what to do. Education really is a gift to yourself because you are committed to yourself and you're investing to yourself that you're gonna do this and you're gonna change your life. If you wanna change your life, the only way that's gonna happen is you. You are the one that has to make it happen for yourself. No one else can. I'm the vehicle that helps you by teaching you in the class and in the live room, but you're the one that has to take charge of your own circumstances and your own life and change your situation. If you wanna improve your life, the only way that's gonna happen is if you take active steps to do that. It's the same thing with your trading. If you are losing money in the market and you're not doing well, the only way you're going to do well is if you change what you're doing. Learn a new strategy. Stop doing the thing that you're doing that isn't working. People that were buying the market in every dip all last year in 2022, I lost the whole year, they still wanna keep buying every dip even to start off the year in 2023. That's ridiculous. They're just gonna keep losing, losing, losing, losing, losing, losing, losing. You can't keep losing money and expect to have different results if you don't change what you're doing. So learn a new strategy. Do something different. And again, invest in yourself. For me, the process is easy because I've been doing it now for 15 years. But again, for you, if you're new, you will learn from me. So I go through the whole system. It's a golden gap checklist that I go through. It's a two-day class. It is a 14-hour class. It's 16 hours, really, but we get break an hour for lunch and Saturday and Sunday. I teach it once a month. I teach the entries, the exits, the targets, and it's called the golden gap courses. It's my signature class. And again, I teach it once a month. The class for January is January 28th and 29th, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern time. Class tuition is $69.99. Class is online. You can be anywhere in the world and take it. If you wanna do the combo, this includes the trends course, which is January 31st, 11 to three. This is 74.99, includes the golden gap and the trends. And again, the earnings season special includes the trading of free to the under 2023, which is a really nice bonus. This ends Sunday, January 22nd, 2023. Don't miss out. If you have questions, you can email me at melissathestockswush.com, have a great week, everyone, and have a fantastic earnings season.