 Good afternoon everyone. My name is Melissa Armel and I thought I would do a little video today and discuss something that I often get asked which is what do you do if you have a small amount of money and you want to start out and you want to start trading and you don't know what to do next or first I should say. So a lot of times people come to me and say Melissa I have the money for trading account but I don't have the money for the class or I have some of the money to trade some of the money for the class or add money for the class but not the money for a trading account yet. You know a lot of different stories that I hear. When I began trading I did take one class when I first started out and it was an expensive class actually it was more expensive than than what I charged for my class and it was eight years ago and at that time I did not start live I practiced on the demo before I went live. Within three months or it was less than three months it was less than three months actually was about two and a half from the time that I took the class that I did open up my own live account and I opened up a retail account when I first first started so I had a good amount of money to trade and I had done the class as well and I also was working full-time. So the class that I took though did not teach me how to make money. I did learn a lot of basic information about technical analysis which assisted me to create my own system from learning how to recharge accurately, learning how to reach Japanese candlesticks and learning how to reprice action and then I practiced, practiced, practiced and then I developed my own method and my own system and my own strategy based on stock scaphing and I found there was very little out there about gaps which is still true today. I mean it's really hard to believe so I started trading in 2008 it's 2017 it's it's almost 10 years so over nine years since I began trading and there's still very little information out there on the web very little accurate class information about gaps so it was like it was meant to be that I decided to trade gaps as my strategy and that I created my own system over a process of three years and I did go back and forth from a retail account to a prop account. So the most important thing I can convey to people with small accounts or limited funds when they first started out or limited funds I should say is the most important thing is to learn first to learn a system that works that you can translate into cash. So I learned how to recharge I learned technical analysis but I didn't learn a system okay and an overall broad-based view of the market learning day training specifics how to recharge all that stuff you can get that stuff in a book and it's helpful and it's good and it's great but it doesn't teach you how to make money you got to have a system if you want to really go in and make money every day and so that's what I set out to create and what I did and what I do however my advice to people with limited funds is to learn first because you've got forever then to save the money to trade because if you take the money you have right now and trade and you don't know what to do you have a system that makes money and you're just following things on a whim then you're going to very quickly lose the very limited amount of money that you have in an account and then you'll have to still save money for the class if you want to take my class and then you'll still need the money for an account as well so you kind of have to step by step by step if you have limited funds if you if you have the money for the class and the money to open up a trading account go for it go for it all at once begin trading right away after the class however if your funds are limited you're better off served by learning first and learning a strategy and not only that a system really so that you can then save money all however long it's going to take you by working a job until you can start trading live and practice on a demo and be in the trading room on a demo tracking results using a system after the class so that you can have some kind of an idea what kind of money you can make once you do open up a live account and you'll find it's kind of like that movie that kevin castor movie build it and they will come you know once you do the class and you're motivated and have the conviction and see the gaps setting up and see how they work in the morning and rate the gaps and see the follow-through you will be amazed at how motivated you are to find the funds then to open up a live account and trade because once you open up an account if you don't know what to do you will lose the money very quickly in the market it is important to learn when I took the class that I took I thought I was going to learn how to make money I didn't but I did learn a lot of basic skills and that did help me and so what I realized then that was important really quick after I started trading with my own money live was that I really did want to make money and that I needed to be focused and I needed this system and that's when I ended up creating myself and here I am today doing gaps so it's been a long journey on a long road but my advice to people with limited funds is to learn first I know that may be hard for people because people are very highly motivated by trading and making money they want to see the money right a ways but you do have to kind of take the necessary steps and you have to be really intelligent about it if your funds are limited you have to be extremely smart and highly intelligent with the choices that you make because you really don't have a lot of uh missteps you can't afford a lot of missteps along the way put it that way so if you'd like more information email me at melissa at the stockswish.com the next building gag class is April 8th and 9th and there is a webinar April 3rd if you'd like more information on that to learn about my system you can email me to sign up for that as well thanks everyone and hopefully this video helps some of you out there