 Another one and welcome, this is Melissa Arma with the Soxwush and I'm reviewing last week's Gap Options Newsletter Trades. I'm going over the beginner risk for this video because I want people to see that you can take trades with a smaller risk. I'll do the advanced risk video in another PowerPoint, but I want to just go over the trades from last week. Now last week was sort of a busy week. I mean there's been weeks where we've done more trades than last week. Definitely wasn't a slow week, alright? You never know if you're going to get a busy week or not. Now I will say in earning season I can pretty much, you know, prepare myself that I'm going to be doing a lot of trades in the height of earning season. We have one more earning season this calendar year and it's just around the corner. I mean this year has just flown by. I can't even believe today's the first day of September, but it is. We only have four more months left in 2022. But in earning season it's very busy. It wasn't earning season last week. We just had the volatility. We had the market. We had some nice trades. So let's go over them. The win ratio was 90% perfect. We had one loser and the return in investment on average for these 10 trades and I included the one loser because it was 0% so this is an average of the 10 trades of this week expiring August 26, 190% ROI. Now I will say we usually do the weeklies. OK, so this is the gap options newsletter. If you want to sign up as a subscription service that you would sign up for and you would choose your risk per trade, that is something that you were going to have to decide and it obviously is based on how what the size of your cash account is. It is a subscription service and it's not a class. You get the trades emailed to you live in a newsletter and if you want to ask me what I think about your risk, you can feel free to do that. You can call me on the phone. We're usually doing the weekly. Sometimes I'll do one out for two weeks. We're not doing really long, long term options. That's something I might consider in the future for now. This is really momentum trading and again I'm using my Golden Gap 26 point rating system in order to make the picks. Beginner risk profits for this week was last week. A 26 expiration was $12,585 with an average risk of $1,000 per trade. You can always watch me on TV. I'm on TV a lot, a lot. Every single week I'm on lots of different networks actually now and if you have questions, you can always email me at MelissaTheStocksWish.com. You can call me at 929-3200GAP. You can follow me on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube or Skype. So everything I do is about one strategy. It's a strategy I created called the Golden Gap. I use that strategy to make option picks, trade picks and it really is a very, very good system. I've been doing it now. Well, I started trading in 2008, but it took me three years to develop the system that I now teach. When I started out, I never thought I'd actually be teaching people, but it all worked out. But it took me three years to calculate and figure out all of the points and do everything that I do now. And again, now I've been trading for 14 years. So it's been a long time. And again, I only do gaps. It is always about the right pick. I only trade gaps. Gaps are very powerful and I also find that I have an edge trading gaps. Why? A lot of people do not understand gaps, do not know how to trade them and absolutely trade them incorrectly. They're very powerful and you can get big moves with gaps too. And also, I do have an itch in the sense that I like to short. So I veer to the short side first always. Doesn't mean I don't go long. We sometimes go long. This is a newsletter that includes puts and calls. But I find that shorting gives me really an advantage in the market. Why? A lot of retail traders, again, do not know how to short, don't understand how to short and don't pick the right shorts. So let's go over this week. Win ratio is 90%. Nine win-or-zero break-even and one loser were 10 trades called. This is for the expiration of 826. I'm using an average risk here of 1,000. This is not an exact science. You can't risk 5,000 if your risk is supposed to be 1,000 and your risk should be consistent in every trade up close to it. Profits for this particular week with an average risk of that would be 12,585. We will go over these here. Average return investment, 119%. Like I said, I did include the one that washed at zero. So this is this particular week. And again, I focus on the weekly. So this is what you get. You get the trade email to you. Usually they're in the pre-market in the morning. Sometimes I call some during the day or later in the morning, but usually they're all sent out before the open. So you can get organized. What do you want to do? I called the Walmart 138 calls. This was 826 expiration. Again, this was on Tuesday the 16th. Okay, let's look at the chart actually first. I'm going to bring this up. Let's go back and look at this here. Walmart. Oh, here it was. So I called this in the morning on the 16th and then had the move boom. Here's the move it had ran up almost to 143 on 817. So again, this was an expiration of 826. So this one was not expensive. I thought it was pretty good price. Cross was to 64 contracts with a risk of 1040. You could have sold it for five profit $960. You're in and out. You would have done it on the 16th exiting on the 17th. How do you know when to get out? First of all, I do give targets in the letter. But second of all, you can put an order out to sell you at something if you want. You could just put an order out to sell you everything at 50% if you want. You know, my goal is try to get something to 100 if I can, but I do have numbered targets on the chart. And also the goal is to get momentum. That's really the goal in every trade. So you really want to try to stay with the trade until it gets what I call a move or momentum. Sometimes trades go the same day at column. Some takes to take a little bit of time. Return of investment in this was 92%. Again, this was a nice one. Very reasonably priced too. So that was the 138 calls. Then on that same, no, it was the same week. Yeah, next day, 0.17, I called the expiration for target. I called the 175 puts. This expired on the 26 as well. This one took a bit. Let's look at a 817 target. This one now, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. There. So again, I called a put in this and I called the 175s. Here you go. Get the drop. Boom. So this worked. It was really something that I expected to go bigger. I guess it was the word I'm trying to say. I expected it to go bigger faster. It did go big, but I expected it to go quicker. If you look at that chart, you kind of scratch your head and say, wait a minute, where was the earnings? Because this was earnings. So it was one of those ones where you really had to look hard for it. But we got it. The cost was $5. Two contracts, risk was $1,000, sold at $13,000. Nice trade. So if you risk $1,000, you're going to make $1,600. This did take a couple of days. Return and investment 160%. So you say, well, you were up in this before the 23rd. That's true. Again, you can watch something, but once it's so far past the strike, I'm just going to go over this here, and if you have the market with you, again, here's $175. Here was the day to get the draw. Once you're so far past the strike, do you know what I mean? I mean, you can watch it, but it's rare that it's going to turn against you in some massive way. If you're deep in the money, deep in the money in this, which this was, once it hit under $170, it was a goner. And that actually had a nice push with the market. So that was a put. Then we did the QQQs, sent this out again, a little bit after the open. Wednesday, it's 17, 327 puts expired again on 826. This costs $4, three contracts, risk was $1,200 sold at 13. Profit $2,700, return and investment 225%. This one, again, was a marketing, the Qs of the market ETF. Sometimes we do the market, we don't always do the market every week, but I do watch the market every day. I mean, and sometimes I'm calling a round of trades with the market and also the market itself. There we've had volatility in the market, so it's been well worthwhile to do. So let's go back to this day of this trade, which was here, this is a really nice call, there it is. And you could have got out, you could have got anywhere in here. Again, you're not always going to get the low of the day exit in a short and you're not always going to get the high of the day exit in a long. In fact, there's trades that I call this particular week, which we're not going over today. I mean, you could have made so much more than even if you held them longer. You just, you have to pick and choose. Your goal is to make money. I mean, you do the best you can. You do the best you can. So again, that was a nice move, nice drop off there. Great call because we were in it so early. I saw that we were going to make the move. So early and we did it. Beautiful call. Just one of these things where I call, you can't screw this up. If you did the trade, you made money. Period. QQQ325, then I called on Friday the 19th. Again I called this in the pre-market. You do not take the trade in the pre-market because it's an option you can't. You, you, you, well, you can take the queues actually 10 minutes before the open or an exit them 10 minutes after the open, after the close. I wouldn't suggest that. I'd wait until 9.30. But you can't take it in 9.05. You're getting organized at 9.05 for what you want to do. And your position sizing and, you know, where are you going to get out of it? If you're going to watch it, you watch the chart. Everything I do is based on technical analysis. You can watch the chart. You can watch the targets. Again, the targets are in the letter. Or you put, if you can, if you're busy, if you're working, which is one of the reasons why people love options is sometimes they're at work. Just put a sell order. If you pay a dollar, put a sell order at a buck 50 or put it at two. You know, it's a day order. You can sell order. If it doesn't fill you, then you're still in it. And if it does, you're out. You don't have to sit and watch it, watch it, watch it. So let's look at this. This was the 325s. This was a nice day. So here called the 325s, got the drop. Again, could have got out of here, could have got out of here, could have got out of here. You know it was so crazy talking about low of the day exits. Let's just look at this now. I didn't go back and see what these are worth. So the low in the very last day of exploration, which was 826. You could have said this about every one of these that I called. Actually, let's look at target. Where was target that day? That wasn't much more through. Yeah? See this? Low of the day, the last day of exploration, I'm not telling anyone you have to hold something to there. I mean, it would be ridiculous to do that because this was up so nicely. But look at that. It's both of these. That was $20 in the money. This is what would have been worth more. This trade here would have been worth more with an exit of 826. And this trade here would have been worth more with an exit of 826. That's crazy. I didn't go back and look, but I know, because I know how these things are priced. $4 was the cost for this one. Three contracts, risk of $1,200, sold at 11, profit 2100, return in investment 175%. Beautiful. Beautiful trade. Again, could have gotten out of it early, could have held it. Could have held it an average time like this. Just make money. That's your whole goal. And really, if you want to, you could split it up. I don't do that, but you could. Because if I'm looking at something to focus on something, then I'm focused on it. So I don't want to have to focus on it. But I mean, you could take four or something, exit two, hold two. You know, there's another idea. Then the spy, I called on Friday in the morning too. This was another fabulous call, called the 420 puts that expired in 826 on the 19th. Just beautiful prediction here. Where did this cost? 240. This was so cheap. Five contracts, risk was 1200, sold at 850, 254% return in investment and 3,050 profit. So this was the 420s. Again, this was another one, very, very, very similar in the sense that called the 420s, fell, fell, fell, could have had the best exit on the last day, which is insane. So that would have been $15 in the money. It would have been worth more. You know, you kid, your goal, my goal, okay, my goal, my personal goal, one is to make money. I'm very focused on that, which is why it's good to trade with me too. I always want to get the right pick. And three, I want to get not only the right pick, meaning get the direction right, but the one that's going to have a big move. I'm very focused on that because that's how you're going to make the money. You're going to make the money when you get a big move, whether you take a small size or a big size. And then we did BA, 165 puts again, called this a little bit after the open Friday. 941 was sent out. Here we go. And again, nice one fell. You could have staggered this one. 350 was across three contracts, risk 1050, sold at 725, 107% return in investment. Took a couple of days. You could have got out of it the 19th, though, 1,125. So 165, let's take a look at BA. On that day, again, this was all the 19th, all the Friday day, yeah, fell through the strike here, gap down here. This is one of the things here, this was, yeah, this was a good exit. I was looking where did this go, the 26th. Yeah, this was probably, this probably actually, this day probably was the best exit on this now that I'm looking at this here. I don't even know why that rallied there. But anyways, getting back to what happened from here to here, I didn't really go over this, but this was Friday, this was Monday. One of the things that makes it very beneficial to be on my options newsletter is I'm very good at predicting directional moves up and down. And a lot of the profit from a lot of the trains in the newsletter, if you decide to join and sign up and become active is from capturing the overnight moves where you're already in the position. So you're in a put, it gaps down in your favor, you're in a call, it gaps up in your favor. Those are hugely profitable trades that happen here. And it's, it happens a lot because I really know what I'm doing. But in the sense that people want to learn how I'm figuring this out, that that's going to happen, how somebody's going to follow through, because things don't always follow through. They just don't, you know, I mean, you could book today here at the market, the market gap down today, and we reversed. So things do not always follow through in the gap down to the gap up. But anyways, it's a benefit of being on the letter because I'm really good at calling trains. You get the advantage of getting these big return on investments by being in them when the move happens, and it goes through the strike and gaps into it. That is what happened here from 18, from the 819 day to 822 day. That was really good. Okay. So that was BA. It was Monday. Beautiful. 935 QQQQ315, 826 expiration, $3 for one, four was 1,200 risk, sold 625 profit 1,300, return an investment 108%. You're in, you're out. Oops, let me go back and look at the Qs before we go over the next one. 822. Which one did we do? The 315. Yeah, we did the 315s. Here. Showing up on like 318.50, called the 315s. Drop through, fell into it. Could I get out here? Could I get out here? Could I get out here? Could I have held it all the way into here? So this one was down around 307.35. This one, again, I decided to hold one of these ones. The previous ones, like I said, you could stack them. You could stack them or stagger them. Hide up your positions or do a couple of different strikes, get out of a couple that are up and hold a couple. I chose to hold this because, again, it was so far through the strike that I figured, well, I'm not going to, I just figured I wasn't going to lose in this, holding it. I mean, that's where I was at with it. So it was a nice trade, but I had gotten out of other ones previously and I still think it was the right thing to do, even though they were going to be up more the last day too. I figured it was worthwhile holding something. Then we did the Netflix. The 225 puts it expired on the 26, called this on Monday. This one did not work. This was a bust. The cost was 420. If you risked 1260, you would have lost a partial. It wasn't a total loss, but this ran into the last day, even though it fell like everything else. In fact, let's look at the chart. It didn't work right. I don't know why this didn't work right. It just didn't. And this is the one loser that we had. So that was here. Even though it got through the strike, it just wasn't enough for me to get out. Didn't get any traction the next day here. Theoretically, you could have got out of this with money either one of these days, but I didn't. And then the last day, it ran out of time. Yes, it was through the strike, but the cost ate up the value and it wasn't enough. If this had gone to 220, 221, 220, 220, probably it would have been worth something. So this was the loser for the week. And then we did the 415 spies. I called Monday at 940. Again, nice call. This one I did get out of. I was up over 50%. I just booked it. And you could have, again, two, 330, three contracts, 990 risks sold at five. But if you held this into the last day, it was worth more. So again, you could do, here's another idea. You could do one cue, one spy trade, however much size you take. Say you want to get a market move. You know the market's going to fall. I knew the market was going to fall last week. You could hold one, get out of one, then you made some profit on the one, and it gives you something else. If we get the bigger move that you can squeeze some more out of it, let's look at where this really went. It's the 415s again. It was here I called it. Drop for the strike there. And then we ended up 405. Yeah. That would have been a lot worth a lot more there the last day. It's crazy how that happens, but it does. It does. And it's so good. Then the last thing we did was the Amazon 134, as it expired on the 26th, called a Monday 1003. 250 was the price for contracts. Risk was 1,000, sold at three. It was a little profit. This didn't get the momentum I wanted either, but it was a profitable trade. We can take a look at this one, too. Again, this was on Monday. It finally went. It was on Monday, fell on the last day. It was profitable. It actually needed this week. I'm seeing that here now. I kind of didn't look at this past this week. So in fact, doing this for two weeks probably would have paid off a lot more. So that was a week. If you'd like to sign up for the GAP Options annual newsletter subscription, it's a 12 month subscription. There are no monthly subscriptions. The annual subscription is $69.99. Each and every one of these trades that I'm showing in here, you would have received if you have been on the newsletter, trades are emailed to you. Again, no trials, no monthly subscription. I have an annual subscription or a half annual subscription. If you want to sign up, there's a lot of trades in six months and 12 months, too. If you'd like to sign up, email me at melissathestockswish.com. The half annual subscription is $49.99. Again, trades are emailed to you. You can email me if you'd like to sign up for this. It depends what fits your budget, quite frankly. If you can afford the $69.99, it's a better value. 12 months is a long time in the letter. Again, for this particular week, I'm just going to go back to the stats here. We had one loser, and again, 10 trades. You may say, well, that's a lot. You don't want to do all 10 trades, don't do all 10 trades. So do what you can afford. But this is an average risk of 1,000. Some were slightly more. You have to look at the contract price. All of these would have fit the parameters for around that risk, though. We didn't do any crazy expensive ones this past week. And again, you could have actually made more than $12,585 because of some of those trades, if you had held into the big sell-off, into the Friday on August 26, you would have made more money. It's still a spectacular return on investment. Now, if you want to learn how I'm calling the trades, you want to know how I do it. And I think education is important. I continue to remind people that, even though people really just like to trade and make money, the reason I'm good at what I do is because I know how to do it. That's why. And I've been doing it for a long time. And I don't do anything else. So I go through a checklist every morning. The process is I get up in the morning and I rate the gap using the checklist. You must do the class to learn the system. You can watch every video of the 3,000 videos I have on YouTube. Going back 10 years, you will not know anything about this without taking the class. It is hands down worth the money. It's a system you can use for the rest of your life. I've been trading gaps and mostly shorting in bullish markets and bearish markets now. I've been trading that long. We do things that are selective against the market or with the market. Depends what I like. Depends how the gap rates. We have done trades in the market like you saw this week when the volatility is there. And again, we don't always do pets in the newsletter. We do calls too, which just so happens. Again, we did the Walmart call. But it just so happens the setups were there to go short in the last week. If you would like to learn the method, how I call all the options trades. And if you want to join the room because you must take the Golden Gap course to join the live trading room, you would take the Golden Gap class. So the next course is September 17th and 18th, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Easter time cost of the class is $69.99. It could be anywhere in the world and take it. And the Golden Gap combo includes the Golden Gap course and Trends course. The Trends is September 20th, 11 to 3. The Combo class tuition is $74.99, which is good because it gives you two classes and you save $500. And the Trends course is really good, to be honest with you. There are four options trading for learning long-term trends. But if you want to learn the rating system, how I make the picks, you've got to do the Golden Gap course. The class is online. You could be anywhere in the world and take it. Email me at Melissa at thestockswish.com if you want to sign up. Don't miss out on another great week like we had last week and this week too. Really looking forward to the last four months of 2022. Have a great day everyone.