 Hello? Do you? No. Oh, I hear you now. Okay. I hear you now. There it's... Wait. Are you there? I'm here. You can't see me, though? Now I can see you. We must have a... It's rainy. Maybe it's just a bad connection. It's my internet again. I got... Yeah, there you are in your bedroom. Is that your bedroom or your office? Yeah, yeah, it is. I have a desk here. That's where I do my trading and stuff. It's like a guest room. Yeah. It's big, yeah. Oh, that's nice. Well, I'm excited. Yeah. Oh, he's excited, too. And it's funny because I have my... What I did was, I realized when I've been doing so well that I had to set a goal for myself. So, my goal is to buy my retirement home in Jacksonville Beach, Florida. Oh, good for you. There we go. When did you come up with this idea? Well, I have a... When did you come up with this idea? Well, I help out an order of Carmelite Nuns. They were in Buffalo for over 100 years, and they just moved their monastery to Jacksonville. So, I really miss them. So, that's why I want to go down there. Oh, my goodness. Now, would you help them out? What do you help them do? Well, they're cloistered, so they don't go out into the world. And they need things from the store, or medicines, prescriptions. I would run and get that and bring it to them. Wow, I never heard of something like that. I never heard of something like that. Yeah, yeah. The Carmelite... I don't know if you know anything about St. Therese or the Little Flower. No. What is the story? Tell me. She was a saint in turn of the century in France, and she was a Carmelite. And so, she's one of the more famous ones. So, she's a pretty popular saint. So, are they like praying 24 hours a day or something? A lot, yeah. They spend most of their day praying, either solitary or in the group. But they always had mass there in the mornings. They would be behind a fence, and then I would go to mass in the mornings. So, I kind of got friendly with, you know, so... So, they moved to Jacksonville. Jacksonville, though, is not on the beach. Jacksonville... So, where they are is 20 minutes from the beach. They wouldn't go to the beach. But you know me, I'm a Jersey girl. Yeah. So, I love the beach. What can I say? After this blizzard we had up here in Buffalo, I'm looking forward to some beach weather. It's 60 to 70 down in Jacksonville. Well, that's a great goal for you. Yeah, it is a great goal, because I said, if I could make this much money every month, and I do it for five years, I could pay for the house. There you go. Well, that's... I'm sure Ben was happy about that. Yeah, yeah. He liked that idea too. He's not ready to retire, but... Well, that you think you've been doing different since you got back this year with the options. Like, what are your thoughts? Well, like, so, number one, I don't panic. Like, tell everyone in the room to be patient. So, I find myself being more patient. Like, today, I had two BAs. I have one, one put, the $200 put. Yeah. Right? Maybe a couple of years ago, I wouldn't gotten nervous, because now, oh my gosh, it's up. But what I really think is, I wonder if BA now is going to wait for its earnings. So now, are you saying you're getting nervous when they're up or you're getting nervous when they're down? No, not nervous. I wouldn't have in the past. I would have said, oh my gosh, I should have got out of it yesterday, but it really, it hit that bottom yesterday, and I really thought it was going to break it. Where was the bottom? Was it like 198? It hit 198 yesterday. Yeah. And I really thought it was going to 195, because that's kind of what I had in my head. Well, I said that. I said that, yeah. Yeah. You said it in the room. So, I'm not panicking. I have a whole other week for it. And like, if I got out of it today, I'd be almost break even, so it's no big deal. But I do have one that you called earlier on. You called the 210s, but you called it out for the nights. I did. I said that. I know one question that, and I did it because it was like a wild card play in the sense that I felt that it was going to drop, but I wanted to, actually, to be honest with you, one thing that I've been doing differently this year, what I look at myself is, I am just giving a little tag. I am giving slightly more time. And actually, I think that's helped us. Like, I should have done that with JPM. I should have did that with JPM, because it's not, that's a bust today. But anyway, I bet if I gave that an extra week, that's all it would need. So, again, I'm giving a, I'm giving, I'm almost giving, I don't want to say too much, because again, but I mean, I'm giving them enough time. And even though some of like the one Tesla I paid so much for, that I ended up pulling it through the earnings because I was not up that much. You know, and because I had called it out. So the only negative thing about doing them out and giving that little, little, little extra time is that yes, it gives them time to go, but we're paying, we're paying a little bit more for them. So, you know, but, but you're doing them and they're working and, and I wasn't planning on that. I kind of made a little, so I hate doing the banks. And it's not because the banks never go, because they do, but they never seem to pay a lot. No, they, they usually like 25% or 50% is good for a bank. Yeah. Yeah. I did the Goldman Sachs. You call the call in Goldman Sachs at the beginning of the year. I did that. I got, I got out. I got up. I got out up with that one. And then you called JPN. Did I get the only, the only two options I've taken that haven't, that haven't worked was one JPN and one spy. Yeah. The spy didn't work and I could have gone long it. But then I said, you know what? I'm just not going to do anything in the market right now. I mean, I just like things are working that we're not doing that we're non-market related. And it's starting to season. And I don't really need to be dealing with the market. And so, and again, the last two days, I'm sure people are getting caught in this. So I mean, look, we were up, we were up, we were down today. Now we're trying to play. I mean, it was crazy. Well, all of a sudden it really tanked at 12.30. I don't know if you, I was going to like reach out to you. I'm like, what happened? No, I didn't even look. I was eating lunch. And that's why I said email me. I didn't even look at anything because I'm not, I'm not in anything with the market right now, but I didn't look at it. No, I don't know what happened on Friday. I mean, it's up to what, like four 20, almost four 26. And then in the space of a few minutes, it sold off like three bucks. Like, wow. No, I didn't look at that. But the VA, but again, it doesn't, I don't know what I'm doing about VA yet because the earnings aren't for a couple of days, but I will see either way. I have the flexibility is what I'm saying. And I have the flexibility. If I want to hold it through, I can. If it makes a move beforehand though, I may get out. So I have the flexibility cause I, Right. And that, and that's what, that was my mindset with Tesla. I said, if it, if it hits, there was a strike we were looking for, was it? That was up so much going into the four o'clock the night before I thought, gosh, I mean, again, it was, it was, it was, you know, that, that, like I said in the room, if you hold something and it doesn't work, then you lost in one trade. Big what? And he just lost in one. Right. Right. And so that's, that's kind of been my mindset as well. I thought, okay, I said, I've been winning so much. I'm going to hold a Tesla really. It's, it's, it, I haven't really lost it, but I haven't made big. I'm going to hold it through come what may. And then when I saw, oh my gosh, I saw that. You're emailing me and I saw it then. What? So, so how much did you pay for the one you bought? Originally. Four dollars. And then you held it through and sold it at one. I held it through and I got out at, at $13, I think. So you got out like pretty quick. Yeah. So that one could expire. I'm getting confused now. But anyway, that was going to expire. I guess tomorrow. That was, yeah. This is today. Today. That was the one for today. Oh, I, that for Teslas are like five bucks. They're really not that expensive actually. No, not considering. Again, the only, the only really, really expensive one is NVIDIA, which you said you didn't do that one, right? Yeah. NVIDIA Netflix. I held off because my account hadn't been built up enough. Yeah. So, but now I, you know, I could, I did, I did crowd. See, instead of doing NVIDIA, I did AMD. Oh, that was great. That was a quick one. And network. Yeah. I got out that afternoon. It went and actually, I think I got out at the high. So, so that was good. So, so I forgot. AMD, it's on par with NVIDIA. NVIDIA goes, AMD should go and it's not as much. Yeah. Yeah. That was good. So you're, you're not freaking out. Nope. And that's the difference. Nope. And I'm just, I'm just one contract, one contract, you know, and then I, you know, in the beginning I was go like, we went long Apple, I think it was. We went long and Apple. Yeah. It was a call. And I, I got out like a day or two after I took it. And cause I was up and I just said, you know what? I'm starting to build. I'm starting to build. So, yeah. So you think that you're, you're not freaking out because you're only doing one contract or because you're focused more on the gap or what, why do you think you're all of a sudden now, not worried? So my size, it's not the end of the world. Yeah. And that's what you say. It's sizing and patience. And I think that that's what's helped me, you know, and plus the ones we've taken have really, have really made us some good money. So I love to win. For sure. Now the original, original, original BA, like one of the first trades of the year. Did you get that? Oh, I made a mistake on that one. I did. I was so bummed because I didn't change the expiration date on it till the next week. That's right. You did the first week. Right. And I reached out to her and, oh my gosh, it dropped $8. And I went to go, I went to look for my order on Monday. I'm like, it's not here. Why isn't it here? Why isn't it here? And then I realized, I bet you had expired and expired the Friday before. Yeah. So that was, so I'm really, you know, I, I was getting excited and nervous. So I'm just trying to just slow myself down. Yeah. You, you gave yourself a maximum. We're not going to be in this many things at one time or you don't care now. Uh, like right now I'm pretty heavy. I'm in, I'm in four things, but they're, they're two contracts at two different strikes of BA and Tesla. I'm not too worried about that. And they didn't create things today. Like it's four or five. Like that's it. Like have you set a maximum for yourself? Yeah. Like three or four is probably my max because then I can really, I don't get scatterbrained about it. Like it's not just too overwhelming. Yeah. Yeah. So now are you doing any day trades now or you're just not. No, not yet. Not yet. And you know why? Because we're going away next month. So we're going away for like almost two weeks and there's just, there were so many things going on for me. The first quarter, I just kind of pulled back a little from the day trades figuring, okay, I'll just, and I'm doing good with the options and so it allows me that flexibility like I love to listen to you in the room because I learned like that reinforces the beliefs I have about things. Yeah. And targets. And so it's almost like, you know, it's a, it's a mentorship, an ongoing mentorship that, that has really been helpful for me. So like I called INTC today. Did you do an option in it because I didn't do the option or you didn't do the day trade. No, I didn't, you didn't call it as an option. Did you? No, I didn't. But that's what I'm saying. I'm focused on options and we do a day trade. Are you doing it as an option? Or are you just not doing it? My account with Charles Schwab lets me do three day trades a week. Okay. So I call it if I wanted to, you know, and that's even just getting, you know, buying the option, getting in and out the same day they allow three of those in a five day period. So you, you, but you're not doing that right now. No, I did it yesterday with BA and I got in and out. Yeah. That's fine. That's fine. Yeah. I mean, I should get back into the day trading to get in and out quick as the margin trades. But if you want to wait to get back from vacation and just wait. Yeah. I just figured that I would, I will probably do that on the second quarter. That's kind of what I figured. I figured, let me, let me get, like, get this situated. So, you know, just, just going slow with myself because I have a tendency like I'm a doer. So I got to do. I'm trying to pull myself back. You know what I mean? I'm like that. Well, I figure stuff, but you also could have, besides the big goal, you know, five years from now, whatever, like you could also have a baby goal. Like you're going to try to make 2,500 by, you know, March 1st or this, but like you could set small, like little baby goals along the way, like monthly goals or something like that. Or, you know what I mean? Yeah. Because sometimes we don't get, you know, it's been a long time since we've done BA like this and Tesla like this. And, you know, we get runs of things like we were doing Walmart for a while, you know? Yeah. So kind of, you know, like you just got to ride the momentum while it's still there. And, you know, who knows? There was so, there was a couple of times there was, they were, the earnings were nothing burgers. You know what I mean? Oh my God, I know. I felt like it's the earnings season, actually. Yeah. But what is so surprising? And I, all right, I expected a bigger problem with the the econ out today because it shows that inflation's not over. So those people that are, you know, controlling money that think that they're going to rate cut, they're not going to rate cut. Well, that's probably why you said we're falling at lunch. I didn't look at it. That could be why that we're falling late. But I agree with that. But again, if we can't, again, I can't short this market again right now because it's just going higher and higher and higher. There's plenty of other things to do. Right. There's a lot of problems with going, even the day trade type longs because I don't believe in it. You know, Netflix, you couldn't, but you know, you always got to be careful. Are they up too much? You know, and people are going to, people want to do the gap fills. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, but it's been fun. It's been a lot of fun. It's always fun when you're winning. Back to doing options because you can make a lot even with one contract if you hold it overnight and the gap goes in your direction and then you can have a huge trade. And while, again, we never know when we're going to get those. They're certainly very, very profitable, you know, when they happen. But, you know, it's been a long time, like you said, where we've had the big, like the big Walmart bars or big, big bars even on the day. You know what I mean? Like where you've had it, whether even the longs or the shorts, you know. So I'm hoping early season, again, we're just at the beginning, Apple, Google. We are. All of these things haven't, you're not going on vacation, you're not going to miss those, are you? No. I cannot. I can do for my phone. I can see it. I can do options for my phone. So, so we're actually going to Asia. We're going to Hong Kong and the Philippines in February, which is going to be nice weather. But I can do them from there except I think the time, though, I think it's 12 hours difference, I believe. So when you trade it, but it'll be nine at night. So I can. That's not too bad. Yeah, that's not too bad. It's not. I tried it in Hawaii, remember? Well, Hawaii was rough. Two, three, four am in the morning. That's right. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I'm so glad that you're doing. What a success story. If you hadn't written that in the room yesterday, what have never even known? Well, because I was looking at my total, I'm going, oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. So you started the year with $1,500. Where are you? Where are you at right now? It's like I was, I was getting close to 9000 yesterday when those, when those options were up really high. I went, you know, now they pulled back. So, so yes. So I'm anywhere from 76 to like 86. So I think, I think your next goal should be get the account up to 10,000. Yeah. And then, then you could start to look to, to move some money or use some of the money then to, to the, to the day trades or whatever. Like, you know, I mean, cause you could, you could get it up to 10,000 and then trade with, you know, 2,500 as day trades and still have 7,500 in the app. Or you could get it up to 10,000 and then you could risk more. You could do, start doing two, two contracts and start sizing yourself up for things. But only you have to gauge where you feel like you're, like we were talking about off the wagon and on the wagon, like with drinking alcohol. Like only you can gauge, like it sounds like you're on the wagon now. Like you can only gauge when you start to feel like you're slipping away from yourself or like you said, you're getting too crazy. Yeah. And then you start to do wild card things that you shouldn't be doing. Yeah. Or like the, what I was doing last time was I was holding them too long for like an extra move and the move I had was decent and I should have gotten out and, you know, and like, and the other thing that you've taught me too is that you always say nothing goes straight down or straight up. It, you know, like the bounces. Yeah. You know, somebody mentioned it. I didn't do it again. I thought, again, if people were still in it, they made more, but they suffered through that drop of the day and it's almost like too much stress. Like, and that's why I think that doing multiple strikes like we've been doing or out extra weeks or again, it's an active letter. We're doing a lot of trades. I think this is even more, more than we're doing the day trade. So I mean, there's plenty of, it's not like you can't get out of two things and hold one. I mean, there's no reason to hold everything. You know what I mean? Right. Right. Yeah. Even in something that you don't have to hold every single one. Like what you could have done even yesterday with you could have got out of one of those and held the other one. Like again, you didn't. It's fine. And I'm in them too. But I'm just saying like that's another idea, you know? Yeah. Well, the BA, the one that expires the ninth, it's way through the strike. I mean, I could get out, but if it has one more move, you know, maybe by Monday, then it'll be looking good. But we'll see, you know, I'm playing God from. I know. I've been getting Oh my gosh. me and I've been scanning them and I'm like, Oh my God. So sad. So sad. Nobody's dying though. Nobody's dying. Luckily. Thank God. Yeah. That's good. You know, in Tesla, I think that everyone, you know, they couldn't, they couldn't charge the cars during that cold snap. The chargers weren't working. I didn't see that. Yeah. And you know, the other thing is in October, we were in Holland and charging stations all over. I mean, it's almost like it's, to me, it's a hideous site. It's just, there's nothing attractive about them. Well, you know, I think it's a pain in the butt because again, if you have to wait in line, if there's other people there, you have to wait. It's not like we just in and out of the gas station. It's not convenient and you're waiting hours for them to charge. You know, I mean, it's a nice idea. You know, there's status symbols, but I don't know, maybe those shines worn off them a little bit. And I, and I don't think the people in general, like the, the elites, like Elon Musk because he's free speech. So. Oh, you think that's why that's taken. I think that's part of it. I think they're trying to stick it to him. Yeah. I don't think we're getting away from fossil fuels though anytime soon. And they're very expensive. It's very expensive to buy a Tesla. They're not cheap. Right. And he says he's bringing the price down, but we'll see. He might have to do that to get this talk back. I know. Well, let's keep riding the wave while we have it. Yeah, for sure. For sure. Well, I'm so glad you're doing wonderful. And I think this is great with your goal. This is a good big term goal. And then you should, you should make smaller goals. Like I said, you know, it's definitely it's seeable. You know, I can see it maybe in another two weeks. Sure. Well, with learning season, we could. I know. Well, I'll let you know. Soon as I reach it, I'll let you know. Bye.