 Welcome. This is Melissa Armo, the stop swisher. I'm doing a St. Patrick's Day special for the GAP Options newsletter. So many people want to trade options with me, and so this is your opportunity. You can sign up for this now, even though St. Patrick's Day is in front of the week. I've already had people inquiring. Again, you don't have to have taken my class in order to sign up for the newsletter. There's no prerequisites for this at all. I do think if you want to join, if you want to do the class, that's great. You're going to learn what to do, but if you're somebody that doesn't really have an interest in learning, and you just want the picks, and you want to start trading right now, then you can sign up for this, and you can join, and you can be a part of the group. Lots of nice calls here, even today. So if you would like to, you can email me at MelissaStacksWish.com. If you want to take advantage of this special, it is running through St. Patrick's Day, March 17th. You can call me at 929-3200 Gap if you have questions, and you can email me as well. I'm following you on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, or Skype. So again, the St. Patrick's Day Gap Options newsletter special is as follows. If you sign up by March 17, St. Patrick's Day, again, you will get a discount. The normal price for 12 months is $69.99. So I'm doing a special that is $1,000 off, so you pay for $59.99 to get 12 months, and you're going to get the Gap Options course free, which is March 21st, 11-3. So this takes you actually into March of 2025. This is a long time to be in the letter. From now until 12 months from now, you get all the trades to the rest of this year into March of 2025, and you're going to get this class free. And you can start trading now. Again, really nice calls here. We're on fire for the year, but mainly I've just been extremely focused, and the opportunities have been there. The opportunities have been there in the market, and I'm seeing them when we're doing them. So email me at Melissa at the St. Patrick's Day St. Patrick's Day. If you want to sign up, you must email me for sign up forms. And again, you can start trading right now. I've talked about options so many times, and one of the things that people love about options is because you can make a lot of money in options when you get through overnight moves. I'm not taking the trade before the move happens. I'm taking the trade when I see the Gap that I'm writing it. Again, these are things that you can learn from me as you're trading with me, but if you want to learn the whole shebang, you have to take the Gap course. That's the two-day class, and that class is March 16th and 17th, and you're welcome to sign up for that too. But trading is something you want to do on the side just to support your current job, your current lifestyle, your current financial situation, or just do it part-time. Trading is a way to make extra money on the side. It's all about feeling secure in who you are. I was talking to this conversation with somebody yesterday, just yesterday, like how much money would it take for you to not have to worry? And that's a different amount for literally every single solitary person. So once you can be honest with yourself about that, then you know where to go from there. If you're someone that needs daily picks, weekly picks, consistent picks, you want to get out of the cycle of confusion with not knowing what to do in a very tricky market and follow someone that knows what they're doing, and again, I've been trading for a very long time. I started trading in 2008. I can't even believe it, but it's true. Now here we are, it's 2024, and now we're talking about 2025. This is today's pick. Again, I'm still on this trade. We'll see where it goes, but if you were on the newsletters this morning, you would have gotten this trade. We did the target calls. I called the 165 calls, and I sent this letter out in the morning today. So again, if you were on the newsletters, you would have gotten this this morning at 8.25 a.m., you don't take the trade until after the end, and again, theoretically, who'd you have gotten this today, but I don't know why you would have, okay? This is a trade that we were doing out until March 15th, okay? So this is plenty of time to do it and give this a chance to do its thing. Again, we are looking for momentum. We want to trade momentum, and I'm looking to do it with a gap. Targeted earnings last night. I didn't know who's going to gap down, gap up. I didn't even know who's going to be in a nothing burger gap. As it turns out, it was a bullish gap, and it was a good gap, or a gap that rated per by a 26-point rating system to take it in the direction of the gap, which is exactly what we did. We went long because this is a call. And on the newsletter, we do calls and puts. Again, I'm buying the call, selling it to exit, buying the put, selling it to get back. We're not doing any complicated option strategies at all here, okay? This is based on my rating system. This is based on trading the gap of momentum, okay? So this is something that, again, narrowing it down one pick a day, two picks a day, you've got to get the move. It's about working smarter, not harder, and I think a lot of people just struggle with that, because I think more trades is better, not necessarily. If I have a lot of good picks, yes, I'll call five, six, seven things in one day. But that's not every day, okay? And it's really about the quality. So it's finding the quality and finding what to do. But this is a nice bonus to have the options course for free with this special. And again, we do mostly short, which is kind of ironic. We did some short today too, but I put the target one in here because we did that in the room as well today. But if you're someone that really, really, really is just all over the place where you're trading, you need to have a newsletter like mine to have someone and something to follow. And again, you're going to get the half-day class for free with this. Now, this was another short that we did. This was Google. This was back a couple of weeks ago. Again, this is almost a month ago. It started going Tuesday to the 13th in the morning. Most of the trades come in the morning early in the pre-market. I sent out the Google so you know what to do to organize. You're ready to go. You could have bought to put in this, which is basically a short, okay? Here it was. So you take it, boom, get the drop, boom. You could have been out here, could have been out here. This was a nice trade. I don't always think it's a good idea to hold it the last day, but this was a very nice trade. Now you sense you can't beat that with a stick, no matter what your sizing is, you could have traded this. Advanced trader contract, position size of 100 contracts. This definitely had volume. We always trade options with fine. You could have made 21,000. A 233% return investment, 12 contracts. You could have made 25, 20. And again, you could have held the select action a little bit more. Your sizing has to depend on number one, the size of your cash in your account. Number two, why not you have it set up as a margin account or cash account, or if you have restrictions on how many trades you can take. Those are questions you have to ask your broker or you could ask me to. But if you're new, I would be in no more than three things at one time. You know, just so you know, to get used to what we're doing here. Because you want to be able to give the trades a chance to work. And you want to be able to consistently size yourself the same amount on every trade. That's extremely important too. And this isn't an exact size. It's close enough. You can't be risking $1,500 in a trade if you're supposed to be risking $300. You know what I'm saying? Take a trade you risk $1,500. And then the next trade you risk $1,200, that's close enough. But you can't be risking $301,700 or $1,000. That's all over the place. And you're not going to see consistent results on your P&L. Now, as I was saying in reference to what I do, how I make the picks, I'm looking at the gap. And for those of you who don't know what is a gap, a gap is a difference to the closing event. Again, target was a gap up today. Target was a bullish gap. Stunt's gap was every single solitary day. But not every gap is a good gap or what I call a golden gap. And that is what I call my strategy. I'm looking for gaps that are predictable. How do I do that? I use my reading system. It's not a gambling. It's not about 50-50. You have to put the odds in your favor. Otherwise, you're risking your money and you're going to lose. Because the fact is, if you don't have a consistent strategy to follow to make money in the market, the market will eat you up with a spoon. And I'm telling you right now, I knew since the beginning of the year this market wasn't going to go straight up. It's also not going to go straight down. But that's why you have to get in, get the move, get out. Get in, get the move, get out. And the whole key to options is really getting the big fat bars. The big fat green bars. The big fat red bars. You can call a chunk in and out. You can hold overnight if you want if you're waiting for something to go, like I'm doing with Target. But the fact is, we're doing pretty fast trades in reference to options. We want to make money on a consistent basis. These are not swing trades. We're getting in and getting out, whether it's in one day or a week. It's the idea of not holding something for days and weeks and months and years. It's the idea of building up your account, taking a small account and building it. Taking a large account, building it even more. Increasing your risk. Making money over time. And many of the trades, like I said, we are getting really nice extensions on this year simply because of volatility and has been in the market. Today is no exception to that. Today is exactly what I'm talking about about the sell-off we're getting right now in the market. But if you've been somebody that's been trading alone, or you've been in Reddit chat rooms or other chat rooms that you've lost money in, you're taking trades and ideas from complete strangers that you don't know and you don't know their strategy. Now, while you're not going to learn my strategy unless you take the golden gap course, if you have been following me for a while and you know me in the sense that you've been following what I do and have the feel and idea of what it is, have called me on the phone, talked to me, emailed me, something who have followed me as long as I've had the business. More than 10 years. The fact is, you know that I know what I'm doing. And you have to get to a point where you can trust me in order to say, wait a minute, this is a good one, this isn't a good one. And again, Target was a good one today. If you want and change the library mode, you're going to have to do the golden gap class. It's a class I teach at once a month. But if you have no interest in doing the class, and again, you sign up for the newsletter, it's a nice way to make money a sign if you have an extra job doing something else. But the immediate benefit of everything I do whenever I try to call on the options newsletter, I'm reading the gap. So I'm reading the gap for you, essentially, when I'm calling the options newsletter trades. I get in the morning, I rate the gap. If it reached 20 points or more, we take it in the direction of the gap. So the upcoming class is soon. If you want to do the big class, if you want to do this, it is the weekend in St. Paul's Day. It's March 16th and 17th class tuition is $69.99. It's $9.00 to $5.00, class is online. You can be anywhere in the world and take it. And again, the combo includes the trends, which is March 19th. And again, that is a Tuesday. Class tuition is $74.99. I'm doing a special four class, which includes the room and the newsletter free for one year. If you want to sign up for this, it's huge. Got to sign up for the combo. It's $74.99. If you want to do this, you're going to get the whole shebang. Now, if you want to do just the newsletter, again, that's perfectly fine. But the options newsletter is the options class and the options newsletter. And again, you're going to get a discount on that through St. Paul's Day for $59.99. The March class special includes the golden gap course and the trends course and the room and the newsletter for one year. And that takes you into 2025 as well. So again, the newsletter, standalone, no prerequisites. You save $2,000. Again, this also takes you into 2025 for getting the options trades. You have until March 17th to sign up for this, which you can sign up today and you can start trading with us. And I wouldn't delay. I'm calling some really nice trades. I'm extremely focused. I mean, the better we're doing, the more focused I've been. We're having one of the best years we've had so far. Starts to the year. I can say that. But again, it's about me staying focused and I'm in a really good place right now. I just really, really have a wonderful, wonderful life where I am right now. So I think that's contributed to my ability to be able to pinpoint, see things, trade better. And everybody's on board. So I've been talking to people. So people have been making some mistakes about their sizing. And that's why I mentioned that earlier. It's something you can fix like that in a tweet. If you know you can't afford NVIDIA, and it costs $2,000 to a contract, you don't do it. I'm calling plenty of other trades. I don't think I'm calling too many. I think I'm calling just the right amount. I think, I don't think we're trading. I think we're doing great this year. But your sizing counts, because again, if you take five trades and you're supposed to be risking $500, and one you take and risk $2,000, and that one loses, you're going to have to take four trades just to make up a round of the $500 risk to be breakeven. Keep your risk the same. The only ones we're really doing that are that expensive is NVIDIA. Honest to goodness. That's it. Everything else is so reasonably priced. So staying focused and doing the trades, you can afford to be in. And again, follow the momentum. Follow what's happening. And if you have any questions, you want to sign up, email me or let's set the stops, swish.com. Have a great day.