 everyone and welcome. This is Melissa Armo with the Stock Swoosh and I'm doing a Valentine's Day Golden Gap Course special. Valentine's Day is coming up. I know the Super Bowls this weekend and everyone's thinking about that, but Valentine's Day is Monday. So I'm going to do a one week special for the first class of the year for the Golden Gap course. If you have questions, if you'd like to sign up, if you'd like a trial to the live trading room, you can email me and Melissa at thestockswoosh.com or call me at 929-3200-Gap. You can also follow me in Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, or Skype. So happy Valentine's Day everyone. I hope you enjoy Monday. Spend some time. Order some chocolate strawberries. In fact, I have to do that by tomorrow or they're probably gonna be sold out. Or maybe I'll make some of my own again. I tried some last week. They they tasted good, but I think they could have looked a little bit prettier. Anyways, it's a fun time to spend the weekend with family and friends with the Super Bowl coming up and then of course your loved ones on Monday. So the first Golden Gap course of the year is going to be at the end of this month. It's been one of these years where I mean we just had so much volatility in the market and it has allowed us to have some really big place. If you've been following, if you've been thinking about signing up, if you didn't join in 2021, again I apologize for not doing a class in January. I just got super-duper busy with trading, TV, everything going on in my life right now. And so I'm not getting to do this first class until two months into the year, but you can join now. You can do the class in February and then you can start trading then, which would be actually March 1st. So the near is upon us. It is a time to go after everything you want. It's a time to love your life, love your job, love what you do for a living. And if you don't, it's time to think about changing careers. So I always thought I would do something different with my life and I was doing mortgages, but I never knew that I would be doing this. But I knew that I wanted a new career back in 2007, 2008 when the mortgage industry started to get really tough for me. I said, I want to do something else. And then I met up with somebody and they were a trader and I said, you know what? This looks something like I could do. Of course, it took me three years then to figure out from that point to figure out my strategy. It was a long road for me, but I love trading. I love shorting, which is what I mostly do. And I love the freedom of being able to work for myself and have unlimited income. So that is a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful thing. So the Golden Gap course Valentine's Day special, if you want to learn and sign up by Friday the 18th, you can get the trading room free until the end of 2022. This is a huge offer. It's a nice offer. So you get the daily support in the room, the live calls, and the class dates are February 26th and 27th, nine to five. Class tuition is $69.99 a year. I mean, I'm sorry, $69.99 for the class. And then you get the trading room free through the end of this year. The whole rest of your 2022 free, you've got to pay and sign up by February 18th. And then you would take the class and do the class February 26th and 27th. So this is the live trading room. Again, the class is online. If you want to sign up for this special, email me at Melissa at thestockswish.com to register. Now, as I just said earlier, I love to short. So what is a short? A short is where you're basically betting that a stock price of the market is going to go lower. Why do I love shorting? Because panic comes into something, a stock, the market, whatever, and shorting sell-off moves, big, big moves like we saw today in the market actually happen quick, fast, out of nowhere. So I love shorting because you can make a lot of money shorting. I love shorting because of the whole idea of the fast speed of the shorting. I like to be in and out of trades quick most of the time today in that holding because of the move we had the follow through. But we are out of our trades many times in five, 10, 15 minutes of the day. So, you know, again, I'm not going to kill somebody if it's going like we fell today into the close, but we have one of these things where I have perfected shorting and a lot of day traders don't know how to short, don't understand how to short. They're scared of shorting and I've really become an expert in shorting and that is my niche. And again, that is what you will learn in the class. So, again, as I was saying, what is a short? It's where you're taking a trade and the stock price is going to drop. So, you can short something, for example, at $10 and if it drops to $9, you have a thousand shares, what would you make? A thousand dollars. And it's just like that. Now, I also teach gaps. That's the way that I'm making the picks what I want to short. Today we shorted the market. This is a chart of the QQQs. So, what is it got? Again, how do I identify that we want to do this? How do I know that the direction of this is down, that we are going to short this? This is what you learn in the Golden Gap course. It is a 26-point rating system that tells me this is going to fall, which it did. So, anyways, this is the chart of the QQQs, but very basic here, what is it got? It's when something closes at one price at four o'clock and opens at a different price at $9.30. Most everything gaps every day, but not everything is playable in the direction of the gap or opposite it. So, I'm trying to find the good ones every single day and I do that with a rating system. That is the meat and potatoes of what I do and what you would learn in the class from me. So, getting back to this here, this was a gap down. So, the market closed here yesterday, which was Wednesday at one price and opened today at a different price, which is Thursday at $9.30. Then we rallied, then we fell. Okay. So, again, that is what a gap is. Now, let's look at what a gap up is. So, this was a bearish gap. This is a bullish gap. Market closed here at four, open here at $9.30, open at a higher price, rally. Okay. So, this is a bullish gap. So, again, it's very interesting because being able to predict where something is going to go based on the pre-market, that's what I look at, is something that I'm very good at doing and that is what you'll learn in the class with me. Now, one of the trades we did in the live trading one was PayPal. Actually, we did this again today too. This closed here, this gap down, fell. This is back to the beginning of February, February 2nd. We shorted it, called the trade in the live room. Again, if you sign up for the class, you'd be in the room for the rest of the year free. If you sign up by February 18th, we entered it at $136.70, shared the rate $800, risk was $3120, exit $131.50, profit $4,160. That was this day, February 2nd. There's the drop. So, again, this gap down. I rated it in the pre-market. I said, wait a minute, PayPal's going to drop. So, we shorted it. Again, you shorted it one price. You exit at a lower price. You profit. You could risk less than this. You could have taken 100 shares and still made money. So, here we are. It is already February 2022, the new year is upon us. It is time to make all of your dreams come true. Think about where you want to be by July 4th, okay? You want to be in love with your job. You want to be happy. Everyone's talking about inflation and kind of panicking about the data numbers that came out today and everything that's going on and everyone as well as me. Listen, you can make extra money by doing something on the side. That means what? Well, you can get a part-time job or you can work for yourself by trading in the market. So, and a lot of people, quite frankly, do not have the time to actually go and get a part-time job for 20, 30 hours a week. They're out there though now. I mean, people are looking to hire people. I think training is easy because you can do it from home. Now you have to learn how to do it. So, it may be difficult for you if you're doing it now and you don't know what to do. So, make it easy for yourself by learning a system, learning a strategy. That's how you make it easy for me. Some days are so easy for me. When everything's clear and it just plops in my lap. Some days I get up and there's no trains. There's no good gas. We don't trade those days. Sometimes I do have a hard day where things don't work out exactly the way that I planned because some trades I take are losers. But more trades that I take are winners than losers and that's how you get somewhere with this. Overall, I have so many few losers and so many few hard days now after doing this for 12, going on 13 years that it's very interesting. And I wonder, I said to myself, fast forward 10 years from now or even five years from now, what will my win ratio be and where will I be at that point? How much I will be risking? I think if you're on the road up and you're succeeding and you're doing well, you've got to keep going and you've got to keep going. People always say, well, I would like to have this much money and this much money. Listen, if you have a small account, start with a small account. You can grow it. You're making money along the way. You're learning along the way and that's how you get somewhere. It's one of these things where it is a process. It is a process and you get better over time the longer you do it. It's like a sport. So I'm very good at what I do because I'm doing it for a long time. I don't do anything else. I created the system I do and I do nothing other than gaps. The options trades I do are gaps. The day trades I do are gaps. It's all based on my gap method, but I do really love to short. I really, really do. And again, if you're looking to make some extra money in the sign and you've got time to train, then we trade in the morning. So you will learn the Golden Gap system in the Golden Gap course. This is a 26-point rating system. You must have charts and we look at day charts. That's what the points are based off of. You can wait until after you do the class to open a brokerage account if you want. You need charts, though, to do the system and to trade. And then, of course, you need the one-minute chart too. We focus on that to take the entries, but making money trading is about using the right system. You got to put all the pieces of the puzzle together. It's never about looking at one thing. As I said, I look at 26 points. That may sound like a lot of things, but if I could look at 126 points and never, ever lose, that's what I do. So far to date, I have not added any points in my system, but my overall analysis and the nuances I see in things, particularly in the market, has improved over the years that I've been trading and doing this. So it's a benefit being in the room because you get the live calls daily and obviously what I say about the market. Today, the market was tough. I called it correctly. I said the market would fall, but I didn't know what time I was right. And so if you were in the room today, you had the benefit of that and getting the calls. People are successful trading with me. The fact is, you can do it. You've got to be out there and decide and make a decision if this is something that you really want to do. It's a time commitment for an entire weekend for a class, but it's one weekend. That's all. You learn it, then you're in the room. The time commitment during the week is not so much. It's an hour a day or half an hour a day. We open up the room at 8.30. I usually start talking about 9.15 Eastern time. So if you want to come and learn my system, take the opportunity because I, like I said, I didn't do any class in January and I don't know when I have the next class plan. I am very busy right now. If you weren't new, I have taught new people. I would not worry about that either. Now, if there's somebody that's traded in the past, you know the trading is fun, but to be honest with you, making money is fun. So if you're losing, you can't be having that much fun trading. It's the making money part of it. It's the success part of it. It's advancing. And again, all of this incorporated with having the live trading on free to the end of the year is a nice bonus. The live insight that you get from being in the room and hearing my market call is extremely important in a day like today. The market rally a lot today this morning, all the way up, I think to 10.30 in the morning, an entire hour before a broken fell. It was a tricky day, but I had the call. I had it right. I'm very good at what I do. So part of being in the room is the mentoring, the calls, the targets, the stops, everything we go over and the teaching we do on the days that we don't end up trading. If you're somebody that wants to make money, this is one way to do it. I do not think inflation gets any better between now and the end of the year. I think eventually it might, but we're in a situation now where you just got to find a way to make more money. And everybody wants to make money in the market and not everybody does. Most of the reason is because people do not have a good trading system and they do not follow a good trading system and they do not have a good mentor either, which really helps. Like I said, particularly on days like today, but it is about the conviction. You've got to keep your eye on the ball. I'm trying to find a bullseye every day and hit it, hit it, hit it, hit it. That is how you can do it. One trade a day is all you need really. And there are some days we do more, but really I try to focus on one. And again, I do prefer to short. So I'm trying to hit a bullseye every day. It's, it's, it's, I mean, it's a lot of work for me in the morning, but I really enjoy what I do. I love analyzing charts. And today, I love a day like today where I basically called the market lower and that was an impossible call. And that was right. So if you want to learn my system, it's called the golden gap course. And the first class of the year is February 26 and 27th, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern time. You must email me to sign up. It is the first class of 2022, first class total, first golden gap to class two, classes online, like I said, and the Valentine's Day special is going on through February 18th. It is the golden gap course you will see the trading room for you to the end of the year. If you sign up, normal price of the class, and this is a good deal because the room is normally 399 a year and it's or 500 a month. So this is a nice bonus. If you want to sign up for the gap options newsletter, just want to do options. That's not the trading room. The trading room is day trades. The options newsletter is separate. These are emailed to you. I have two choices. 12 months subscription for 6999 or six months subscription for 4999. That's up to you. And this is if you're an options person. And then I have the combo, which is going to be the Tuesday after the Saturday Sunday class. It is 11 a.m to 3 p.m. You save if you sign up for both of these together. It's the trends course with the golden gap. Trends course is long-term trends. This is a beneficial class if you're doing options. And it also really helps your day trading too. So if you're interested, email me at melissa at thestockswush.com. Have a wonderful happy Valentine's Day everyone. Have a fabulous weekend. Enjoy the Super Bowl. And if you're interested, email me if you want to sign up.