 Welcome, this is Melissa Armo of the Stock Swoosh and this week, for one week only, I'm doing a gap options newsletter annual subscription special. This is really going to help people get up and running, trade options. It's been a great start to 2022 of the options newsletter. I've had so many nice emails from people in the last few days. And again, it's just been one of those times where the trades are there. You've got to take advantage of the volatility when it's there and today is no different. The volatility I think is going to continue into 2022 and that means for great, great trading. But you have to know what to do. So you can email me at Melissa at thestockswoosh.com. If you'd like more information, call me at 9 to 9, 3200 gap. Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, or Skype if you have questions. It's hard to believe it's almost March. This year has flown by already. So it's almost spring. We got about one more month a winter. I am counting the days here in New York. 2022 is flying by. Whatever the season, wherever you live in the planet, it's a nice living to be able to trade. You can be anywhere in the world. You need a platform. You need an internet connection and you can be anywhere and do this. So it's really, really interesting because it gives you freedom, freedom of where you want to go, where you want to live, and what you want to do. And the only thing stopping you is you. You've got to learn what to do. You've got to get with someone that has a good system. That's me. I use my rating system. And we're going to talk about this a little bit here now as well. So this is just a chart of the market where I'm encapsulating here the end of 2021. Okay. And then the beginning of 2022. So we sold off in January, rallied, sold off again in February. So you can see the volatility. You can even see the volatility here today. Big sell off yesterday, gap down, rally today. So volatility makes for great trading when you know what to do. If you want to trade, if you want to do this, if this is really your dream, if it's your destiny, then you've got to take active steps, real life steps to make it happen. If you do not have a strategy to trade, you should not be risking money in the market. So many people just buy dips. That's not a strategy. Okay. It really isn't. If you bought every dip in the market, you would lose. So the reality is that any stock, you can pick any stock at all up trends, down trends, it doesn't even matter. The consistency in trading is what counts to be able to make money, particularly if you're going to do this as a living. But even if you're going to do it part-time, it's the whole idea of being profitable. And you've got to have a strategy that has a high win ratio. So everything I do is based on what? It's based on the gap. Let's talk about what is a gap? This is a chart from PayPal. One of the biggest trades we've had. Let me just show you here. This was earnings. Stock close to your gap down fell. Okay. So this is a gap. It's when the closing price and the opening price are different. This is a gap down. We close at four. We open at 930. This is a gap up. Close here at four. Open higher at 930. Rally. Now again, I can show you the opposite. Here's a gap down. Open, close lower, rally up. And I can show you the opposite over here. Closed here, open lower, rally. So you can't buy every gap up and you can't short every gap down. That's for sure. But the reality is that I'm looking to qualify the best gap to play each day and predict the directional bias based off of that. That is what you learn in my bigger class. But I do love shorting. I talked about this today on TV. I love to short, but many, many traders don't know how to short. We do short. We do go long. We do both, but I love shorting. And I think that in 2022, you're going to have to know how to short because you can't go long every single solitary day like in 2021. And you could have gone long every day in 2021 and made money going long, all kinds of stuff. That is over people. You need to know how to do both directions. And again, just going to go over this here. Like just very, very briefly, just showing you here how we had this drop again in the spy and then the rally up. Here was a gap here. Closed here, gap down, fell. There's gaps all over the place. You've got to learn to pick the good ones. And those are the ones we look to enter. Those are the ones that we look to do. So let's take a look at one of the trades we did. Actually, this was on front of the newsletter, January 14th, I called in the pre-market. Many of the newsletters come in the morning early. 460 putts that expired the following week. Now let me look it up. 460. No, I'm sorry. The date was the 18th. No, the 14th here. We went in here. So take it to over here. So we did the 460s. Here was the drop. Boom. It was a putt. A putt is a short. We do calls as well. A call is a long. Okay. So the cost of this was $3.60 for one contract. You could have paid a little bit more, a little bit less. Again, you take it when you get it. This was before the open. So you wait until after the open. Okay. If it's during the live day, then you would enter the trade whenever it gets sent. The newsletters are emailed to you. All right. Costs was $360. Contracts, 20, risk 7,200 sold at 12. Profit was $16,800 on a 7,200 risk. Return of investment could be the same for any amount of risk that you take. So you don't have to take an advanced risk. You can take a beginner risk. 233% return investment is a fabulous trade. I showed you the drop. I'll go back to chart in a minute. What if you did three contracts at 316, 1080, sold at 12, 25, 20? Beautiful, beautiful trade to be able to turn your money around like that twice. Where can you do that in a couple of days time? Again, I'm going to go back. Boom. Give the drop. Boom. Again, I was talking to the phone with somebody the other day about this. We're doing momentum. Momentum. Again, if we're buying calls, then I'm looking for the momentum to take us up. All right. If I'm buying pets, I'm looking for the momentum to take us down. All right. So for example, yesterday, the market went down. Today, the market went up. We're always playing the momentum, but I'm qualifying the gap and the trades that we're doing on any given day, and we're only doing the good ones. So if you decide you, this says PayPal, but this wasn't PayPal. I'm sorry. This was the spy trade. I didn't change the title of that. That was that trade. I just lost my train of thought here. Oh, I know what I wanted to say. Going back to risk. Okay. Set your risk according to the cash size of your account. All right. What do I mean? The letter is very active. So there are some days I don't call any trades at all. There are other days I might call eight trades a day. Okay. They may not all go that same day. Like for example, this spy reversed before it went. Okay. So you have to choose a risk amount per a trade. Decide how many trades you want to take a week or a day, and it has to be something that you can let the trade play out because sometimes the trades go immediately. We've had that a lot often, to be honest with you, PayPal was one of them, but sometimes they take a little bit of time and you have to be patient. All right. You've got to wait for the momentum to come in in your direction, but that's why you have to choose a risk amount that you can live with. You don't want to be nervous about trades. You want to play things out. You want to be relaxed, and that's part of the learning, which is one of the reasons why this is a nice special and includes two classes. I'll go over that in a minute. But anyways, you can earn extra money trading on the side. One of the participants of the newsletter, he signed up a few weeks ago. He is a FedEx driver. He trades during the day and he's working his regular job. So, I mean, you can do this while you're working. You can do it on the side, gravitate them into full-time later. My system is based on a system that I had long created. It's called the golden gap. I personally have created this system, and it's something that I look to do and teach people in a class once a month. Now, you don't have to take the class. It's not a prerequisite for the newsletter, just so you know. You just receive the newsletters. It's a subscription service. If you want to take the class, you take the class, learn the class. That's something separate. You can email me if you want to sign up for that. But making money trading really is about using the right system, okay? The right system. You want to get the right system. You want to do it. You want to get used to it. You want to make sure that everything's right. And when you're doing this once again, it's the kind of thing where, you know, if you don't have the right system, in this year, 2022, the last two months, you're getting killed, all right? You have to be flexible. You have to be flexible with what you're doing, and you really have to know what you're doing to trade in the market. But people are successful trading with me. You can do it. You can do it a hundred percent, a thousand percent. You want to be able to do this. You want to be successful. And I'm here to answer any questions for you. Again, you can learn the system if you want to. I think it's important, but it is not a prerequisite. Many people have been doing options. They come to sign up for the newsletter, and they just take the newsletters. You can learn as a beginner, too. If you've never traded before and you want to learn, I suggest you take the classes first, but you don't have to. But that's a suggestion. I do think trading is fun. There are days that are difficult or hard, but there's a lot more easy days than hard days. And when you get to that point, then you know that you've made it. The idea is to make money. We all want to do that. So this is a live active trading room that I have as well. This is not an options trading room. The newsletter is for options only. If you want to join the trading room, it's for day trades. So I have day trades, then I have options for the newsletter. Two separate things. The day trading room, the live active room is equity trades. I don't call options in there. Just so you know, if you've read on the website and heard about that. But the live insight that I provide in videos or emails or even in the live trading room is really so beneficial because I'm very good at reading the market. This is one of the reasons why the system is so successful. When people come and they sign up and people have been having so much success this year, we've gotten moves with the market. I've been timing them correctly and timing is very important in options as well. If you're interested in mentoring, that's something you can reach out to me as well. I try to help people, especially if they're new. Now, not everyone wants to do the class. That's totally up to you. But the fact is, if you want to learn, it's going to help you make money. Some people just want to trade. They just want to be active. The whole key is to make money. So you say, well, why do some people lose and some people make money? Earlier, I just got done saying some people just think that something that they're doing is a strategy and it's not. Buying dips isn't a strategy. People think it is. It's not. So again, you have to have a strategy. Understand what a strategy is. Then you have to have a winning strategy. There's so many pieces of the puzzle to this in order to be successful. And that's one of the reasons to take the classes where you can learn from me because everyone wants to make money in the market. But quite frankly, not everyone does. It will always be that way in the market. But that's beneficial for people like myself that know what they're doing. I'm trying to find a bullseye every day. Just hit it. And that is what I focus on. That's part of the gap rating. And it's part of being profitable to keep your eye on the target, which is again, to make money. To make money. I call it chunking it out. It's chunk it, chunk it, chunk it. $500 here, $1,000 here, $2,000 here. Yes, we have big winners sometimes. But the idea is to chunk it, chunk it, chunk it. I mean, there was that one trade, the PayPal trade we did, the PayPal option was over 500% return on investment. You're going to get trades like that to be signed for the newsletter. Today was another day, huge wins. But the idea is to chunk it, chunk it out. Again, everything is based on my Golden Gap system. Now, if you want to take the class, you will sign up for the Golden Gap course. It's March 26th and 27th, 9 to 5. Class tuition is $69.99. Class is online. It can be anywhere in the world and take it. Okay, so that's that. Then if you want to sign up for the Gap Options newsletter, it'll take you into, as soon as you sign up, you can sign up today, you can sign up tomorrow. You will start receiving the trains. You'll start out, like I said, we're getting into the spring season. Then it's second quarter earning season, which is the busy time. And then you'll get ramped up and trade. Now, this is a special going on through next week, one week, March 4th. You must sign up by Friday, March 4th, if you want to receive it. Sign up for one year of the annual subscription and you will receive two classes free. It's the Trends course and the Gap Options course, March 9th and 10th. Class is online. Again, you can be anywhere in the world and take it. Okay, so if you're thinking about doing this, if this is something that you're interested in doing, email me questions. I do not have any trials for this newsletter. Please don't ask. No trials. The newsletter has been huge. I had someone email me today. He made a hundred grand since he signed up. I think he signed up two weeks ago. Now, I did not ask him how much he's risking. It is a former student. He came back. He joined the room and the newsletter. But I've also had many other people that are recently signed up and they've doubled and quadrupled their accounts. And I know some of them have small accounts. So it has just been a great start to the year. But I am like, talk about a bullseye. I've been extremely focused myself and every day, even like a day like today, I get up and I rate the gap. I rate the market. I double triple check it. That's part of, you know, doing right by yourself, which is the work. You have to do the work. So many people just join these chat rooms, take free ideas and trades. No, no, no, no, no, no. You want to do this. You want to get serious about it. There's an investment in my classes and subscriptions. It costs money. You must do it. You must learn. You must be serious about it. While trading is fun, it is not fun to lose. It is fun when you win. So we try to win as much as we can. If you are interested to sign up for this, email me at melissa at thestockswish.com and have a great night, everyone.