 and that we're small. It is important and it does count. And it matters and if we can have conversation about it, we will figure it out one day. And we'll just find a balance, yeah. Talking about heights, aren't you afraid to, you know, after 9-11, it's a way so high, you know, like, do we have a sphere that's something like, or in a building that high, you know, hard to get out of, you know? Well, I will tell you that the building, this building starts on the 50th floor for the apartments. So I only get to my apartment from the elevator and it shoots up really quickly. It's hardly everybody on the elevators because it starts at 50. And there's only two floors before that which is like the gym and then one other level. So I've never taken the stairs all the way down. Now, you give me an idea for something to do one day. They don't time myself and see how long it takes me to run downstairs from 16 to the bottom. I've never done it. Do I know where the stairwell is? Yes, guess what? It's right next to my apartment. So I know where it is. I know how to get there. I'm aware of it. And I could run down there. One day I heard smoke. I smelled smoke. I smelled smoke in the hallway. You're not supposed to smoke, actually. You wouldn't be kicked out of the apartment if you smoked, but I smelled smoke. And thinking fire, okay, not that so much smoking and never thinking immediately fire because it's the same concept whether it's fire or bomb or terrorism. How are you going to get out? Okay. So I went here. I caught somebody smoking in the stairwell. I said, you know what? You're not allowed to do this. I called the concerts immediately. It came up because what if a fire was started? Exactly. It's a safety hazard. And then I'm worried about getting out. The fire is in the stairwell. How am I getting out the elevator? And then the electricity goes off and there's no lights and you need electricity to run for the elevator to run, too. So the bottom line is that I'm aware of the fact that I live this high up. Again, I'm not scared because I'm safe within myself, but I know where the exit is. I know how to get out. And I should climb it. It's actually interesting that you said that I should find myself to get out. I don't think I ever got to live on this high. But now that I do because I just love it, it's amazing. Yeah, it is. And I get up every morning and I see this and I see a lady bed. So you get to a point where you're saying, again, am I safe? Yes, I am safe. And I live in a country that I feel safe and I live in a town that I feel safe and I trust the building that I live in that we're taking care of. Thanks for needing to feel safe. You know, you could go live in an island with no one. There's no reason for anyone to harm you or go there or bomb the island alone and something can happen unpredictable that you don't know about. You can't predict every single solitary thing that's going to happen in the future. And I think that's the challenge. Everyone's trying to figure out what's the next thing that's going to happen. Is anything else going to happen? Is something else going to happen? What's it going to happen? Is it going to happen soon? Or is it not going to happen for a while? Or where is it going to happen? Is it going to happen here? Is it going to happen in Russia? Is it going to happen in France? Do you know what I'm saying? And so this is the thing. Everyone's trying to outwit outsmart the next person where something's going to happen. Well, how do you ever enjoy your life? Right. You know, it's just a lie. It used to be more peaceful. Well, I think that, again, being aware of your surroundings, where you're just not aware of it before, is being aware that you're less relaxed. I think we've got to get to the point that we're relaxed and aware. I know that sounds like I catch 22, but I think we've got to get to the point where we can sustain moving forward in the world and be comfortable and relaxed and still aware. The idea of not being aware is not thoughtful or responsible. And yet, yeah, you don't want to be, like, unedged, like 24-7, like... Yeah, we're fast. Just having nervous breakdown. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. So, tell me about what you do. Like, where did you go to school and how you went from there? I mean, what's your major or something, you know? You used to train, now you're in training, so what's that all about? Oh, yes. Well, I went to any of those colleges in Pennsylvania. It's a lovely liberal arts school. And I studied philosophy, which is actually nothing to do with what I do now, but I loved it. And I thought I wanted to go to law school. And so that's the reason that I got this philosophy. And I also mined in Latin political science. Again, all great combination for law. And then after four years of school, I thought, I should not have wanted to go to school, keep going to school. So I decided not to. So then I got into finance, then I got into banking. And I started out as a teller and, you know, I would cash your check and then I was a customer service person and I opened up your account. And then all of a sudden I was doing loans and I was doing great loans. And then I became an assistant manager and a manager at a bank branch and I was very young. So I was managing people that were like, were the twice my age. And so that was very interesting. But I loved finance and I loved numbers. And I was doing loans. So then the president of the bank actually approached me and created a position for me to do nothing but loans, which didn't exist in the company, and then he would pay any commission on doing loans. So that would be loans, car loans, and stop-it loans for his everything. So I was actually apprehensive about doing it, worrying that I would, you know, not be able to make enough money. And he was trying to convince me, well, let's see, he'll make more money. Well, he convinced me. I took the job. And then the rest is history. I ended up doing mortgages for that company when it left to a different place and then moved all around the United States in different places doing loans. And then, you know, the mortgage industry just changed. You know, we were just talking about the market and different sectors that are affected by different things. Well, when all the bank collapses happened, and the mortgage industry, companies were going out of business. Banks didn't want to lend it to people. You know, it didn't matter if you had this with a credit or that with a credit. Companies were going under and loans were going bad. And if you were doing it like I was doing it, I would get up in the bed in the morning, all of a sudden, oh, this place just closed down with us. You weren't even surprised. You're like, oh, this is interesting. And you didn't know all the stuff that was going on behind the scenes, but you knew that things are not good. As a person in the industry, when every company is going under, people don't want to lend money, and you're fighting with the banks on the phone, why don't you do what you lend to Mr. and Mrs. Smith? You know, they're perfect. And so, I saw the writing on the wall. And so when I saw the writing on the wall, I decided I needed to find another career. But I did keep doing mortgages for quite a few years while I taught myself how to trade, because when I started trading, I didn't know what I was doing. I didn't have a clue. You know, so I lost money at the beginning, but kept working. And then I ended up figuring it out. But it was a long process to figure out how to trade it. And then I did. And then my friends encouraged me to start a business and teach people what I know how to trade on gaps. Like we talked about with the gaps that happened in the airlines after 9-11. When something happens, dramatic. And that dramatic thing could be something gapping down or it could be something gapping up. Where you could get up in the morning, let's say you owned stock in Amazon and it gapped up on the airings. You get up in the morning and all of a sudden, you're holding this money. And the more money you're dreaming of, that can happen here. So, I'm just featuring. And every once in a while, I'll do an option in overnight. An option is something that has a fixed amount that you can only risk. It's not owning the stock shares outright, which is what happens sometimes when somebody owns a stock like the airlines and then they own it, and they're owned stock, and they own the shares, and then stock price drops in an event. And whenever I make a prediction, it's like right now, I make a prediction that the market will make another brand you often buy this year. I say, based on any world climate or world events, because you never know something could happen. Everything looks good. The market's rallying. We're in a bullish uptrend. Everything's fine. All of a sudden, something happens that no one can predict. There's a lot of things happening in the world right now that are like, anything could happen. Something's way over your web. So, the fact is, you've just got to put that out there for people. But I just focus on patronage. So, yeah. So, then I came back to New York and I figured that I came back to New York and I love what I do and I love the market and I don't trade all day. But now I could sit here with you if I had a regular job, I wouldn't be able to take the time to do it. So, I'm a paid trader. I trade in the morning. I run the trading room. People that did my class that I teach you class, you know, once a month on a weekend. And that's it. And it's nice because I get to enjoy all the things in New York that a person makes it worthwhile to live here. This is not something to live in a city. And if you live here, you want to be able to do stuff and get out. So, you were enjoying your life? I was enjoying my life. It was a hard work to get there as far as work and perseverance to get to this point. I think, you know, do I wish that I would have found the stock market in my early twenties right after college, of course, you know. But hindsight service 2020, you know, say, well, I should have wouldn't put it. I just thought that I found it, you know. And you have all the other experiences which is what you're experiencing. Yeah. This is a good experience. It's definitely good. The mortgage business gave me a lot of experience to deal with finance and awesome numbers, which I'm just really good at very quickly. And the interesting thing is teaching people how to trade. The biggest challenge people have is just basic arithmetic because a lot of us haven't been to school for years, a long, long time. And we're so used to having an anatomy and a calculator and everything else. We're not used to doing numbers in our head, but there's really just a lot of simple arithmetic sometimes you're figuring out share of sizes or something like that and taking a position to trade. A lot of people have to go back and kind of relearn those things. But I think trading is something that anyone can do from any walk of life if they want to take the time to learn how to do it. The thing is that a lot of people don't. Like I can say to you, go to Amazon, you'll just go buy it. You won't even be like, I don't need that class. I'm just going to do what she says. You know what I'm saying? If that doesn't sustain you, if you want to do it for a living or if you want to make money, even investing in your 401k, retirement, that type of thing doesn't sustain you. You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? Stop that. Like a hot tip from Melissa. You're smart.