 Hello, everyone, and welcome. This is Melissa Armo with the Stock Swoosh, and I'm doing a first class of the year special. This is for the Golden Gap course, which is my main class, which is my bread and butter that I teach once a month, where you will learn everything you need to know about how to rate bearish gaps, how to take the entries, how to do the exits, and of course, that's what you wanna know. That's what you want to do the trades. We're doing the trades fast in the morning, the day trades, and then also we do puts. We had some really good puts, actually, to start out the year in not only VA, but Tesla, and it's really been an incredible start to the year. You can't really plan when you get these fabulous gaps. That's why you have to be active in the trading room every single day, actively trading to wait for the opportunity and then pounce on it when you get it. You can also watch me on TV, and I appear on pretty much every single channel talking about the stock market and talking about where we're going into earning season, which started a week ago. If you'd like to sign up for the class, you can email me at melissa at thestockswish.com. You can also call me at 929-3200 Gap. You can follow me on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, or Skype, and if you call me, you can leave me a message. I will call you back. If you have questions about the class, email me. I will email you back. I'm a busy person, but I try to get back to people within 24 hours. If you were trading last year and you made money, that's fabulous. You should set goals for yourself this year to make more. If you traded last year and you lost money, then you don't wanna do that this year. You wanna get off from the right foot, you wanna have a great year trading, and that means you may have to change what you're doing and you definitely have to change what you're doing if you were losing. Again, it's important to have a strategy to trade. If you don't have any strategy that you're following at all, then that is number one. Find a strategy, then you gotta find a strategy that has consistent winnings. So you gotta make up your mind, it's up to you. It's your life, it's your decision, it's your trading account, it's your money. You have to decide what you wanna do and where you wanna be 12 months from now. Come January 18th, 2025. Can you believe that 2025? That's a great number actually. But January 18th, 2025, are you gonna be in a better financial spot? Are you gonna have earned more money trading in the next 12 months than you did in the last 12 months? So you got to make a decision and again, how are you gonna make it happen and what are you gonna do? I'm planning to hear the results for last year. This was in the day trade room, the live trading room. These were all trades on margin. They were mostly shorts. $569,970 was the results for last year in the room and then I have the options results in here. Again, winners and losers. This was a mix of puts and calls although we mostly do short like I said. 2,122,895 was the results and I risked more of my options. That's a subject for another lecture but I'm holding overnight in the options most of the time unless they get a really big move of the day. And so I am risking more in my options trades. So far a year to date I don't have today. We had two trades today and they both worked but so far just through the 16th, 35,207 in the live room. We're off to a great start for this year and then again, I don't have a couple trades in here that were winners that I booked as well. Year to date, 2024, 250,445. Again, just an incredible start to this year all around options and day trades. So 285,652 again, this is not updated through today but this was through the other day and we were not even at the end of the month. So you can start trading before the class. Again, the class is in a week but you can get in and start trading on Friday or Monday. This special and running is going on only through Sunday though, the 21st. So you would need to sign up by Sunday but you can start to get our trades tomorrow. This was last week, this was a BA short. We've done a couple of shorts in this. Entry was 225,90, stock was 227,50. Again, you can set your risk. You could have taken less risk than I did or more. 2000 shares, this was a short on margin, risk was 3,200, eggs was 223,25, profit was $5,300. Again, this is a one minute chart. You will learn how to take these trades at a one minute. I call these trades in the live room and I just wanna show you here. We got in, got out, this was a nice move and a drop. And again, you can see here how it kept going and you could have done a put in this. We did do puts in this too but if you don't wanna do trades on margin, when I call the margin trade in the live room, you could buy a put. Now I happen to have called puts in this too but I'm just saying that's another idea if you wanna do options as day trades with the Friday expiration because if you only have an options account that's another idea for you. Here was the daily, that was the 11th. Here we are. So again, this was Thursday, then this was Friday, this was Monday. I mean, this has just had an incredible, incredible, incredible move to the downside since the start of the year. And this of course was a great start to our beginning of January, 2024. There were other trades I called in this actually some were at larger profits than this crazy as it sounds. This was really the beginning of the move. We did the short, we did the put on Wednesday the 3rd. I called the 245 BA puts, it expired on the 12th. The cost was very, very reasonable for a stock at this price point, $3. Again, we weren't in early, you could have held this. This was not even the best things that you could have had in this but I think it made sense to get out of it here. Your goal should be to take the trade and make money and get the biggest move you can in it with momentum and try to capture 80% or more of the move. It's gonna be very difficult for you to capture 100% of the move in anything. If you're looking for a perfect exit, you're nine times out of 10, you're gonna give money back. Look for the perfect pick, get the direction right. Look for the perfect entry and then do the best you can with the exit. Make sense, you know what I mean? It doesn't make sense to hold everything to a piggy target. This was not a piggy target. This was a 533% return investment that you could have held longer and actually I'm just gonna go back and show you here. When we did this here on the third, the expiration was here. And again, look what this did. This actually broke to 20. This was more than $25 for the strike if you held it through the last day. I don't think that made sense to do it but you could have done it. I know there were people that did do it. If you did one contract, it would have crossed $300, four contracts or a smaller beginner risk, 1,200 risk, you could have made $6,400. You could have made more, you could have made this to the last day. But again, I don't think that that is the conservative way to trade. But you could have got out of half. It was a fabulous trade, $48,000 profit with a $9,000 risk. So if you would like to sign up for my Golden Gap course and learn how I make these picks so you can do it yourself, plus get the picks from me along the way, you will learn the class of full two-day course in how to strategically find pick and play stocks at our professional bearish gaps. Again, the class is online. You can be anywhere in the world and take it. Don't wait until the last minute to sign up. The first class of the year special for 2024 is going on through Sunday the 21st. And if you sign up by then, you will get all of these subscriptions free to the end of this calendar year. So it's a great offer and it's a great deal. This will help you follow me, get all my trade calls on the options newsletter and in the room, so that you can sign up for my Golden Gap course and learn how to make this pick and play stocks at our professional bearish gaps. So I hope that you guys have a great day. The options newsletter and in the room to the end of the year, which again should help you not only do the trades, but also learn as you go. And that's the point. You've got to learn it to do it. You really got to. And I'm telling you, it helps you also take more risk if you ever want to get to the point where you're risking larger amounts of money. So again, the cost of the class is $69.99. Email me if you want to sign up with sign up forms and you can start trading with us this week. Thanks everybody and have a great day.