 Welcome. This is Melissa Arma with the Stock Swoosh and I'm doing a July 4th special for the Golden Gap course for July. Happy July 4th, everyone. This is a wonderful holiday, basically celebrating summer and celebrating our freedom in the United States. So, you know, one of the things that I love about trading is the whole concept and idea that you can work for yourself. And if you can work for yourself, you have financial freedom, you have independence, and you can have the life you want. So, let's get right into it. If you have questions, you can email me at MelissaTheStockSwoosh.com. You can also call me at 929-3200 Gap. You can follow me on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, or Skype. So, happy July 4th, everyone. I can't wait for the next couple of days. I hope it doesn't rain every day in New York, though. And we have a lot of rain in the forecast coming up. So, we'll see if we're, I'm going to be able to see fireworks or if they're going to be washed out by the rain. But hopefully, hopefully, it will be nice to see fireworks on the 4th of July. So, the July 4th Golden Gap course special is, if you sign up for the Golden Gap course by July 4th, of course, you will receive the Stock Swoosh Show live trading room free for one year and the Gap Options newsletter free for one year. So, this is for the class for July 22nd and 23rd. Class is always Saturday and Sunday. You can sign up ahead of time and get in the room, get in the Options letter, start trading. Class is 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern time. And again, everything that I do focuses on gas, which we're going to talk about here a little bit. But this is a nice special because it gives you a lot of time to be able to decide if you want to focus on day trades, options, get all of my calls for a year, and again, be in the room. So, even if you have a busy schedule where you can't be in the room five days a week, then you'll get the options trades and you can still trade doing the options. Now, what do I trade? I trade only gaps. That's the only thing that I trade. That's the only thing that I focus on, that it's exactly what you'll learn in the class. You're going to learn the rating system in the class, how I make the picks, and specifically shorts because I focus on shorting. The play of the day yesterday was GIS. This was earnings, General Mills, stock closed here, night before around 81 and change, open in the morning, under 79, fell, boom. We shorted it. Down here's the volume. So again, we got in and out. I call this trade live in the room. I call the entry to stop, the exit. And again, this is the benefit of being in the room. You will get these calls live. Again, this is a day trade, a day trade where you'd have to have a margin account. Now, there are people in the room that are doing options, if that works better for you, but the options really go to your email. So you don't have to be in the room to take the options trades. But one of the things that I love about trading gaps is you're in and out fast, quick, super-dipper fast. And again, it's summer. It's the time of the year where you don't want to be sitting at your desk for eight, 10 hours a day. You don't want to be working on the weekends. And so many people are working somebody hours right now to make ends meet because of inflation. You want to be like this guy. You want to enjoy your life. Again, it's about the quality of your life. It is not about working forever just to get by. And you want to improve the quality of your life. You want to get ahead year over year over year, not just with your trading, but also with your finances. So this was a nice trade that we did. Actually, we did a bunch of different trades in this. This was CCL. Again, another gap down just to show you again how you're going to learn how to rate this in the class. Stock close here, gap down, dropped. This was earnings too. We had a really nice short in this that I called in the live room. The entry was $14.45 and we added because it was cheap and I liked it and we got it up through the price. So I added at $14.80. Average price was $14.62. I held this. Some people got out a little bit earlier. I said $14.14.14. It got to $14.00, broke, bounced. I was out. Profit was $6,700 and $5,000 shares. And again, this is a trade on margin and it's cheap. We do things that are all across the board as far as price points. You can open up a margin account in a prop firm if you want to. So this was a nice trade. Great trade to have on a week going into the holiday. But it's all about chunking it out. Fast trades. Get in, get out. Short moves. Even the options that we're doing I think are fairly quick because we're doing the weekly options. So again, making money, staying focused. That is extremely important. And if you're one of those people that really, you know, doesn't want to sit at the computer all day and stare at a screen like I don't want to do that either, then this type of strategy, the type of strategy that I do will really appeal to you. And whether you want to make an extra $100 a day or $200 a day or $1,000 a day, it's really about how much you risk and how good you are at trading, which I mean finding the gap, writing the gap, taking the entry. And again, I teach that in the class. But financial independence is on the forefront. I think of everyone's mind right now going into the second half of 2023. It's hard to believe in a few days will be halfway through 2023. This year seems to have flown by. Feels like just yesterday I moved and then it was the holidays and then boom. So this year has really gone fast and it seems to be that way lately. And when the Fed talked the other week, they were talking about the fact that inflation is going to persist and continue into 2025 and probably beyond. So you've got to take it upon yourself to make extra money, earn extra money. And even though people are getting raises, it's not covering the cost of inflation. And the fact is that trading is fun. I like doing it. It's just fun. Learning is fun too. So if you're interested in learning my GoldenGap 26-point rating system, you can sign up by July 4th for the class. Again, the class is at the end of the month. So it gives you plenty of time to plan ahead, but you can get in the room and start trading. You can get the options news as already. You can get into it, start to do it. And again, set up your account and do all of that stuff after you sign up for the class. So I go through the checklist. It's 26 points that you'll let you learn. It's how to rate the gap to find the best bearish gap on each day to trade. A lot of people, you know, are trading on their own and they don't really have a mentor. They go to these trading rooms blind or the Reddit chat rooms and they're not really following any one specific person or any strategy. You're going to drown in the market if you do that. You cannot just trend trade everything. And trends don't hold the same trends for a long time. And a lot of times people don't know how to read trends right. It is very, very important to understand what to do, have a set strategy and follow someone when you're trading each and every day. If in fact you want to be successful, which of course you do. You do. So this was a put. For example, again, if you sign up for the special, you'll get the newsletters for one year free with the class. This was June 21st at 9.52. I emailed this out. It was Wednesday the BA 210 put. They expire this Friday and out of this. But it was a nice trade. It was a really good trade. Again, we're going to look at the chart. It was Wednesday. Cost was 225. 40 contracts is an advanced trader risk of 9,000 or you could have taken five and risk 1125. Sold at 550. Profit was 13,040 contracts, 1625 on five. Either way, returning investment 144%. And actually I could have held this longer. But you know, I thought it was a good exit. Again, 100% or more is a fabulous trade. So let's look at that Wednesday. Let me see what was Wednesday's date. The 21st here. So you can see how this went because I called it here. Then it gapped down. Then it fell the following day. So that was really, really nice because of the follow-through. Again, the follow-through in what? BA falling. BA selling off the follow through in the gap. And we are already in the trade overnight. One of the benefits again of being on the options newsletter is being in those trades overnight when they follow through and you're just up in the morning and you don't have to do anything. You just get out, boom, right into the open, you know. And that's a lot of times what I I think is the best most conservative thing to do but I could have held that longer. So again, being in the live trading room with this July 4 special will give you the opportunity to ask me questions every day. Here what I have to say about the market and learn. It's a continually learning process. And again, it's very important to think about your own livelihood, your financial independence, and how are you going to create that? How are you going to make that happen? You need a plan of action. A plan of action. Everyone needs a plan of action for their life, for their personal life, for their professional life, and for their trading. So for me, it's the checklist. It's the Golden Gap 26-point checklist. I get up early every single morning and I go through everything and I rate the gaps and I rate the market and I decide what I want to do and this process is invaluable to me. And it will be invaluable to you if you take the class and learn it. And in the class I also teach six entries, exits, and targets. And again, all of this is very important for you to be successful. So if you want to sign up for the Golden Gap course, you can. It's July 22nd and 23rd. It gives you plenty of time to plan ahead. 9 a.m. the 5 p.m eastern time cost of the class is $69.99. The class is online. It can be anywhere in the world and take it. The July 4 special is a great deal. It's a great deal because you can get the support of the room and the options newsletter. Many people are doing both. Options of day trades, but if you're not sure which one you want to do, this gives you an opportunity to trade both and decide and also to trade before the class and make money before the class. So again, very, very important. I try to do the most things that I can to help people. I do want people to succeed. And one of the things that's special about me is that I will take people's calls. I will email people after the class. After you sign up for the class, I don't disappear from your life. I'm here. Even if you did the class five years ago and you want to call me. I mean, you know, I have people now that I've had the business so long, they leave, they come back. You know, I am here. I want people to make it. It's very, very important. And again, the support system in the room is invaluable because it's the daily time that you have with me. And then of course, I'm calling the live trades. If you have questions, you can email me at Melissa at thestockswitch.com. And if you'd like to sign up, don't miss out on this great special. Happy July 4th, everyone.