Earn Big Profits Trading On The Side Of Momentum!

Awesome. We're going to get started. Give me a hi if you can see the slide. Um, and if you do not know how to chat, you go down to the bottom, excuse me, and you choose new chat. And then you have to choose my name, Melissa Armo. Or I put a high in the box. Can everyone see that? See where that is? Wonderful. Let's get started here today. We're going to talk and if you have any questions, you can write it in the room or you can feel free to email me. Here's my email. You can always email me at melissathestockswish.com. Today we're going to talk about trading, my favorite subject. And we're going to talk about earning big profits trading on the side of momentum. Again, when you're trading stocks or the market, you want momentum. Otherwise, you're just scalping. Okay? And again, it's one of these things where you actually need to have the direction right and you got to have the right pick. Okay. and we're going to talk about that as well. Show you can watch me on TV. I appear on national television. I talk about the stock market. I talk about news events. Uh big news event this week obviously is the Fed meeting at Jackson Hole. So that'll be interesting. That could affect the markets tomorrow and Friday. We'll see what happens with that. Again, if you have any questions, you can email me at melisstheswish.com or call me at 9293200gap. And you can follow me on Twitter, Facebook, or YouTube. So, it's almost fall. I can't believe it. And fall is a good time to trade. It's actually a busy trading time. You have fall earning season. People trade and want to invest before the end of the year, before the holidays. People want to make money before the holidays. And there's usually a lot of volume and momentum in the market. We also have a Fed meeting in September, so that could create some volatility as well. So you have to go into the month of September prepared, ready to go. And not only that, motivated, you know, and again, for those of you that are coming in late, you can chat me here at the bottom. And if you don't know how to do it, you can always email me if you have a question. Okay. Anyways, motivation is a big big part of trading because I think a lot of people they start out trading, they want to do it, they think they want to do it, they want to make money, and then all of a sudden they lose. Why? Because a lot of people don't know what to do and they just start trading. They start losing money and they don't have any idea how to trade or what to trade and then they lose and then they lose motivation. But you've got to keep your motivation high. Learning what to do will help you make money. It sounds like trading 101, but the fact is a lot of people invest money in stocks and trade stocks actively that really don't know what to do. Just thinking it's the luck of the draw, but it's really not that way. So, when I started trading, I wanted to have a new career. That's really how I got into it. And while it's great money if you really are doing well and I've been trading for almost 20 years, it's really the peace of mind that is something that no one could ever take away from you. It's financial freedom. You know, we're six years out from CO, but a lot of people are still not back on their feet since CO. People have lost their jobs or had their hours cut back. Lots of things have changed in the world since co and I really don't think they're ever going back to be honest with you. So things are different now and again you have to take it upon yourself to take charge of your own finances and your own life. So ultimately money means freedom like that's what money means to me. You yes you can buy stuff but it's really freedom relying on yourself. So if you want to trade successfully, how can you make this dream come true? What do you do? What are the steps? Well, again, one of the major problems, the crux of the problem I find for a lot of people, really the most critical issue for people that are trading, the root cause why they're not doing well, why they're not successful is that many people do not have a winning strategy or any strategy at all. They think they'll just buy the dip. They'll just trend trade. They'll go with the market. And none of that works consistently. Sometimes it works. Of course, sometimes anything works, you know, but that's not how you make a career out of doing it. That's not how you earn a lot of money, you know. So, I developed a system for myself and it's we're going to talk about a little bit today, but it's based on a checklist. Okay? So, I want to get up in the morning each day and find one stock. That's all I need. One stock, one pick a day that I can trade. I usually short. I prefer to short. Some of you I recognize here, you know that I like to short. I will go long. But it's the same thing that I do every day. So again, once you learn it, you can apply it for yourself. It's the consistency that's really one of the reasons why I am successful. I'm very consistent. I'm very consistent. So I'm not flip-flopping up and down, going long and short the same stock the same day. I'm not doing the same stock every day. do a different stock each day. I'm very consistent looking for the same thing which is based on what the gap. So let's take a look at what is a gap. So this was yesterday's play. So DKS, okay, this is Dick Sporting Goods had earnings. Stock closed here, gap down. So this is a gap. What is a gap? A gap is a difference between the close and the open. So every day at 4:00 the market and every stock that trades and it closes at 4 and then in the morning sometimes they open at a different number. So in this case here this opened down and I rated it using my system and I said whoa this is going to fall and in which case then you would have wanted to be short. If you would have went long this you would have lost. Okay this actually had a really big move to the downside. Kind of funny looking back because this is a day trade I did in this yesterday. I shorted it at 14340, got out at 14058 and it's kind of hilarious because it came all the way down here. I mean, it was really nutty where it went and I got out of it quick. I made 366, which is a great profit. I was in and out of it in 5 minutes. I typically don't hold day trades all day, but this was one that you could have held all day into the close and you could have done a put in it, too. So, very nice sell-off, but again, I had the right pick. I did what I do. I got in, got out, boom, done. Usually done in the morning by 10:00 a.m. Now, here was another one we did. This was the 17th. This was Meta. Again, this was a short. This was a big trade. Again, here's the 17th. See it? Stock closed here, gapped down, open, dropped, fell. Now, this again is a daily chart. So, I'm looking at the gap on the daily. Again, a big fat red bar is what? It's selling. Okay. So, I shorted this at 580160, got out at 567. This is a big move. Made $36,500 in one trade in one day. What if you took half the size? What if you took a quarter of the size? What if you only took a hundred shares? This is a big move, a $15 move. So, you would have made over $1,000, over $1,500 just with a 100 shares. So, again, no one said you have to take a big size. You can trade stocks with a small account. You could have also done a put. We did do puts in this, but you could have done a put and you could have bought the put and done the put as a day trade. Again, got in, got out, done. Boom. Could have done that, too. But my whole system is called the golden gap. Over time, again, I realized very early, first couple of months when I started trading, that one quality strategy is all you need to pay yourself in a regular basis. You don't need to do a million different things. Knowing one good strategy you can replicate over and over and over for profits can change your trading world. Having one powerful strategy that pays will open up your eyes to the true profit potential of the market. The market can offer you a real lifelong career if you have a strategy that makes money consistently. Professional gaps are high income paying strategy. Why? Because they have momentum just like the one I just showed you with the meta. So you can do this too if you learn how to find the right gap. Gap trading is really where the money moves and momentum in the market take hold. Trading gaps makes it possible to trade for a living or make extra money on the side or do this in retirement or do this for whatever you want. It has to do with the size you take how much you make. But you'll never make any money at all if you don't know what to do and what direction to take the pick or even how to figure out what pick is the right pick. So let's talk about what is a professional gap. A professional gap is a gap that moves in the direction of the gap. It is called a professional gap because professional traders and investors are making and creating the gap. So in the case of a bullish gap, professionals are buying the stock. Therefore, the stock moves higher in the trading day. In the case of a bearish gap, professionals are shorting the stock. Therefore, the stock moves lower on the trading day. Okay, that's what happened with the meta. So I name my gap rating system the golden gap because finding gaps that rate high per my 26 point system is like finding gold. That's how I came up with the name. And golden gaps are professional gaps. So is every gap a professional gap or a gap made with professional institutional money? The answer is no. Absolutely not. Okay. There are many gaps out there that are being made even by retail traders or small investors. I'm not looking for those. I'm looking for gaps that are made with institutional money. Those are the ones that have a high odds of working on the day in the correct direction of the gap and then they will also have a large momentum to move. So, how did I know to do the trades? We just talked about the DKS yesterday, the meta because I went through the process of my checklist and the rating system. When you know what to do, you will not be as scared taking risk in a trade. When you choose to take an amount of risk, $500, $1,000, more. Okay? Again, I've been trading for a long time, so I consider my risk advance. You could risk more than I'm risking. But the fact is, you're risking money. I'm risking money. There's no getting around it. I'm not going to make money unless I put the trade on. And in order to put the trade on, I have to take risk. Okay? So, I put in a stop. It's a limit order stop. If the trade fails, I'll lose. Okay? But I put the stop in. That's like the insurance. It's a protection. I feel confident that I want to take the trade. Example, again, just the DKS yesterday cuz I feel a high level of conviction that it is going to work and that I'll be able to make money doing it. Again, that conviction comes from the knowing and understanding what to do and believing, which again takes away not 100% of the risk, but makes you feel a heck of a lot better about taking the risk. Do you understand what I'm saying? You won't feel as afraid or in fear if you understand what's going on when when you when you see something. Do you know what I mean? And for a lot of people, there's so much a 5050 crapshoot when they trade. They're they're afraid. They're worried. They're afraid to lose. Now, again, I know some of you I see some of your familiar faces like options. You can use my GAP system for options. I do weekly options, okay? But you could day trade options, too. Here's the options newsletter. Now, the symbol here is CVX. The strike is 195. This was a call we did that expired on the 14th. We did it on the 10th. So here was the day we did it. The 10th was here. So we went long here essentially the stock on this day and again we did the 195s. So what happened with this one? Cost was $135. Sold it at 350. Nice trade made 159% 15,50. So, this is doing it on the 10th, exiting on the 11th. Getting in here, getting out in the push up. Went through the strike up. You could have held this. Now, I didn't hold this, but you actually could have held this. The last day it went over up to 202. Can you believe that? So, I could have held this longer and I could have made more money, but I got out. If you had 10 contracts, you could have made 2150. Again, this is a call. This is me looking at the gap and saying, "Wait a minute. This is a bullish gap and it's getting bought with institutional money. Therefore, it's going to move higher and I want to be long. You could have done a day trade here. You could have done a call here. Again, this is the options newsletter. I don't know if anybody has any questions about that or options while we're talking here. I know some of you are interested in only doing options, but I like options and day trades, you know, like I showed you like the ones yesterday. But how I choose to do any ticker symbol or anything that I do, long or short, is I go through the checklist. This is what I teach in my class. This is what keeps me consistent. This is how I make money. I don't get up and say, "Oh, this is a gap up. I'm going to go long or oh this is a gap up I'm going to short it. I just you just can't be that arbitrary or vice versa and you can't just do something with the market and you can't just trend trade it. It's not that easy. And this is where many traders falter. They just want to a lot of traders are very black and white. They just say well let me just look at one thing or two things or two indicators if they crisscross. No it's not that simplistic. It's actually very complicated. But once you learn how to use it, then you know it. Then it's not that complicated. Again, I've been doing this a long time. So for me, it's not that complicated because I know all the points. I know what I'm looking for, you know. So whether you want to trade part-time or full-time, like I said, I call the trades live in the room and you can take the trades with me in the room. And the room's only open in 45 minutes, an hour at the most. Sometimes we're done in 15 minutes. So you don't have to sit at your desk all day if you want to trade. It's not a full-time hour job, but it's about trying to find the best stock pick every day. One pick a day. One pick is all you need. Whether you do as a day trade, whether you do in an option, that's up to you. Okay? It's a consistency that allows me to constantly be profitable week after week after week and year after year. But if you don't have the right tools to be successful, you will not be successful. And the tools for me is the rating system. That's the nuts and bolts for me because anything that can put the odds in your favor to get you a trade so you can make money is going to give you an edge. You will need an edge. You don't have insider information. You don't know what Trump's going to do with Iran. You have no idea, okay? You don't know what their earnings are going to be on Tesla or whatever. You only know what you see in the charts. Again, my system is using technical analysis. The 26point golden gap rating system gives you an edge. It reads the price of the gap and using technical analysis on an advanced level pinpoints which stock to trade that day and in what direction. The high probability is an equality and detail in the rating system. Again, this is what I teach people. 26 points is an enormous amount of detail quite frankly. Yes, it is. But it takes you 5 10 minutes to rate one gap if you're new and I think less than five once you become experienced with the system. But to be honest with you, I don't rush it. I set get up in the morning probably about 7 a.m. I start going through and rating things. But I say give yourself an hour. 8:00 a.m. sit down. Room opens at 9 and you get organized and then you're done. So again, I know what I'm doing like to do even before the open. It's all the rating system. I go through it, go through all the points. So it's a very useful tool to be able to do this each day. Otherwise, I'd be flying by the seat of my pants based on news or based on what so and so says on TV or based on the market. And you're not going to have good odds of winning that way. And that's what most people do, you know, or they trend trade like I said. If the market's up, the stock is up, they go long, they buy the dip. But that doesn't work all the time. Sometimes it does, but not all the time. Any questions here? I see some people that came in late again. Does everybody know how to chat? See where I put the hi? If you do not know how to chat, you can email me a question. Again, I see a lot of familiar faces. Okay, I'm going to keep going then. So, having a way to look at something and say this, this, this. Again, it's if this then that. If this is doing this, then I think the stock's going to fall. If this is doing this, then I think the stock's going to rally. So that's that's the whole purpose of the the 26 points. Probably comes and I developed this whole thing, the way my brain works because it was a philosophy major in college. If this then that and that's how I thought about things based on conditions. But I prefer to short. I really, really do. And one of the reasons I prefer to short is because a lot of day traders don't know how to short. I feel like it gives me an edge. I also know that panic comes into a stock or the market and selling happens. It happens very quick and I like to make money fast and quick. So, you can make a lot of money to the downside if you know what stocks to short and where to short and when. And it's something that I've done in any market, even a bullish market and a bearish market. And if you've never made a lot of money shorting, you don't know what I mean. But once you will and do, if you join, you will see how fun it is to actually short. And a put is a short. Okay? A put is a short. Oh, sorry. I did not turn my I did not turn my phone off. I'm sorry. >> Call from >> Hold Hold on one second, everybody. >> Call from Okay. Are you there? Sorry about that. I had to turn it down. I had the phone right at the microphone. Sorry about that. Anyways, what were we talking about? We were talking about shorting. Okay, so Meta here 575 was the put that we did on 817. Okay, again, it expired on the 21st. So, let's take a look at the day. Again, I sent this trade out. It goes to your email if you sign up. 9:39 in the morning, 8:17 here. Okay, so this was the same day I showed you we did that day trade. Okay, and again, we also did a put. So, you could have bought the put. Now, the put was cheaper than to do the day trade. All right? Because again, this is an expensive stock. 500 some dollars a share is expensive, but you could do the put. So, we did it there and it cost $6.25 for one. $625. That's all you would have had to pay for one. Number of contracts 15, risk $9375, sold at $31, made $37,125. This was almost a 400% return on investment. This is taking the trade here in the morning. Remember that was 939 getting the drop and then getting out here. Boom. Done. So for two days, two days is all you had to hold this here, you would have made money. Look at that. If you had done two, you would have made 49.50. If you had done one, you would have made over two grand. So again, sometimes one good trade, like I said, is all you need for the day or even all you need for the week. But again, going back to this chart, this is a short. So, this is the momentum and we're talking about earning big profits with momentum. This is it. I mean, this is a big move from tip to tail here. From this to this is about a $50 move. That's big. That's big. Okay. And then there was there was news on that today. I saw the stock gapped up and fell. They settled that lawsuit, which wasn't surprising. We didn't do anything in that today, but that was what was going on with that. So, we were talking about institutional money or what you could call smart money. Again, I use my tools, which is the rating system. It's based on technical analysis in the GAP. So, I do the work every day. It's not guessing. It's not thinking. It's not maybe. It's not a 50-50 crapshoot. If that was my odds, I would not do this at all. I wouldn't risk my own money and I certainly wouldn't do it for a living. You have to feel confident that more trades that you take are going to work than lose. If you're unsure of yourself, you're what you're doing when you're risking money in a trade is probably not a trade you should be doing. If you're nervous about it or you're scared about it or you're afraid about it, chances are you shouldn't be in the trade. Do you follow me? So you have to feel confident. So I find gaps and rate them using a checklist. Gaps have to be qualified. The checklist tells you what to look for in the price of a stock. So I'm trading on the side of institution of money for the momentum moves. Big momentum equals big money. Okay. Any questions here so far? Doing okay. So if if you're if you're wanting to follow the news, that's fine. Again, I talk on TV about the news. You know, I look at things and I say, you know, maybe this could happen with the Fed, maybe not. But I don't make trading decisions based on that because I really don't know what the Fed's going to do in September. I don't have a crystal ball. So, no one really knows if they're going to raise rates or keep them the same or lower rates. So, if you're if you're trying to trade based on that, you're guessing it's a 50/50 crap shoe. I don't want to guess. I want to look at the chart. I want to see the gap. I want to rate it and then I want to make a determination if I want to short it or if I want to go long it. So, this is a this rating system is a very useful tool. It's something that you can learn and apply yourself. You don't need me once you learn it. You don't need me. Now, people like being in the room because I call the trains. I help them learn it. I help them make money. I'm experienced. I've been doing this for a long time. But you really don't need me once you learn it. So once you learn the system, it is a tool that you can use to determine what stock to trade and when. It's a very useful tool in any market, but particularly in this type of market. Again, we've been back and forth. SPY made new highs, the Q's did not. People don't know what to do. But it can also help you decide if you should exit along. That's the other thing, too. If you're short or if you're long something and you get a gap down and it rains good, you say, "Wait, maybe I should exit this long now." So, it's really a very useful tool to day trade, to look for long-term positions if you want to be in them, to manage longs, or to do shorts. And it takes the guesswork out of your trading, which is, like I said, where a lot of people are constantly constantly in that fear mode because they're guessing. But when I first started trading, I realized that I only needed to do one thing. I got involved with shorting. So, I became an expert in shorting and I also became an expert in gaps, but I was looking for big moves and I knew if I had like a little tiny tiny 20 cent move, 30 cent move, I really wasn't going to be able to make enough money. I wasn't going to be able to take enough size to cover the losses, the trades that lost. And I said, I need to have a big move. So, I'm looking for a dollar or more in everything I do. One to one. If I risk a,000 and trying to make a,000. If you're risking 2,000, you're trying to make 2,000. So, I need to have stocks that have volume and they have big moves. We're not doing any penny stocks or lowflat stocks. So, I'm looking for institutional money or what I call power money in the market. This brings momentum and opportunity. Reading this is a skill. It's something that I've acquired over almost 20 years of a career of trading and reading charts and it it's a skill that you can acquire through education and learning with me and then actually trading with me. You know, trading education is something that is very important. I think people know that. I I genuinely think people know that despite the bad rap that trading education gets, I think people know that they need education. The problem is people have to have some discernment to decide what education is good, worth the money, and what isn't because by far there is more education out there for traders that is not good than is good. So, you have to use your own instinct, your intuition, whatever you want to call it, to make a decision on when you're choosing different subscriptions, classes to do because some are absolutely a waste of money, but not all are, but more are than aren't. And I think that's that's one of the reasons that trading education gets a bad rap. But I think if if someone asked you face to face when you I was interviewing you and you were going to be on TV, you would say, you know, you need to know what to do. You know, you need a strategy and you know, education is important. People have a hard time though discerning what to do and and what to learn. Any questions about that? The other thing is, you know, you know, people say, "Oh, I'm doing this. I'm making money." Lots of times people really aren't making money. People don't want to tell me that they're losing. They don't want to tell me that they don't know. They don't want to tell me that they don't know what they're doing or that they need help. Don't be afraid to admit that you need help. Don't be afraid to tell me that you're losing. Don't be afraid to tell me that what you're doing isn't working. It's the only way I can help you. You know, and the sooner you come to terms with reality if you're losing money that you don't know what you're doing and that you need help, the faster you can turn it around and you can turn it around and turn it around very quickly. So again, the checklist helps me be consistent and it will help you be consistent and more than that it will help you focus. A lot of times people are just not focused and I think that is the critical critical thing for people. There's so much out there. There's so many stocks. There's so much news. You can turn on different channels in the morning. Look at social media. Go to free chat rooms. You can be all over the place. And then boom, market opens it. It moves. It's a half an hour into it, an hour into it. Then you're jumping from thing to thing and then bam, you're down. you know, and meanwhile, I've been done for an hour, you know. So, when you think about trading, you have to use your head about it. Think, I have this much money and I want to risk this much a day and this much a week and my goal is to make this much a month and so on and so forth. That's how I would break it down. That's how I would be very practical about what you're doing. Okay? And for me, like I said, I only do gaps. So, let's just do another little lesson here. What is a gap? A stock gaps on the opening price today is different than the closing price of yesterday's trading. A gap is a break in price action from one day to the next. Simple. So again, let's talk about what is a gap. I didn't do this, but CVX actually had a gap down. Stocks here gapped down. Again, this is Chevron. This is oil. So I don't know if the war's over or not, but this fell. Oil prices fell this week. Okay, this was from the 24th to the 25th. This was yesterday. Technically, you could have shorted this here. You could have made money. So, it closed at one price at 4:00. Opened at a different price at 9:30 when the market opened, fell. Could have done a put. Again, this is one we were talking about here. This was DKS. This was earnings. Closed up here, gapped down, fell off a cliff. This is a nice big fat move. Again, this is a short or you could have done a put. But when I'm looking at something, I'm trying to determine who's in control, the bulls or the bears. Because if the bulls are in control, then I want to go long. The bears are in control. I want to short. The only way you're going to make money is if you're in the stock or the market in the right direction. Otherwise, you're it's you're going to just lose, lose, lose. I'm telling you, if you don't get the direction right, you're going to lose. It's like you have to that's like basic again trading 101. You have to get the direction right more than you don't. You to go against it is dangerous. I mean, that's just flat out the truth. So, now what is a golden gap? A golden gap is a gap that rates 20 points or more per the golden gap 26 point rating system. You take the trade in the direction of the gap. You can do the trade as a day trade or an option or you can even do it as a swing trade. So, how do I determine who is in control? I get up and rate the gap. This gives me the daily focus. Sometimes I rate five things. Sometimes I rate 10. Sometimes if it's a busy morning, I might rate 30 gaps. You said, "Well, my god, that takes forever." No, it could take me an hour and a half, you know, but I'm not doing 30 things. I'm doing one thing at a time or maybe I have two two top watches and then I narrow it down to one. So, how do I know ahead of time where a stock will go? Again, I rate the gap. I use a 26 point checklist. This checklist tells me what to trade and what to look for each day. So, I'm telling you, if you learn how to read the footprints of big position players before the momentum occurs, you can take the position in the right direction and get out after the move happens for profit. But you have to understand how to trade with the side of power, and you need to know how to find it. Knowing how to read what institution of money looks like is essential to becoming a successful trader. The benefit is that you can win big training on the side of power, you know, and we talked about a couple here. I mean, there's a million million that I could show you. It's just that so many people are too all over the place when they're trading. They're jumping around from thing to thing. They don't have a focus. And it's one of the reasons why I don't think it's hard to follow me. And when people join to do the class, they get in the room. I honestly do not think it is hard to follow me because I'm usually doing one thing a day. And you know what direction we're doing it too. So, how did I get into gaps in the first place? Well, gaps are the most powerful show of price action in a chart. Gaps have large moves, big moves. gaps can go move up or down. Some of the biggest momentum moves in the daily chart come from a gap. When I trade, I'm looking for and trading momentum. Then whether you have a small size or a large size, you will get a good riskreward. Lots of times people say, "Well, I don't have a big account. I need more money. I need more money." If you have more money, you're just going to lose it if you don't know what to do. If you have a small account, you can grow it, okay, if you know what to do. Because honestly, some of the trades can be like I showed you 400% return on investments and that'll grow your account pretty quick, you know. So again, what will you learn in the class? The rating system, the 26 point checklist. You will learn the entries. You will learn the exits. You will learn how who's in control. Is it the bulls? Is it the Bears? How to determine who's in control? Because it's only two. You either have the bears in control, in which case you want to short, or you have the bulls in control, in which case you want to go long. Like that's it, okay? That's only two directions you can go. So that's good. You know, that narrows it down. But a bank flow of money going a certain direction is what moves the market, stocks, creates momentum, and sets the trend in charts. When you're looking for institutional money, you're really reading the side of power in a stock. You want to be on the side of the power in order for you to make money trading. Institutional money is in charge of the market and stocks at all times. Even if you think it's not, it is. And this is true. So I only trade when I get a good gap. If the gap rates 15 points or 16 points, I'm not doing it. And I don't do the opposite and flip it. So if 20 is the cutoff, I don't need 26. I don't need a perfect score, but I've got to get 20 or more or I'm not even going to do the trade at all. So, every day in the room, I'm trying to look for a quick trade, a fast trade that I can do to get in and out quick. Again, I'm mostly short. I call the trades live in the room if you want to do them with me. And again, I'm doing day trades. Some people in the room are doing options as day trades. That's up to you. Again, some people are doing that. I'm doing options where I'll buy a put and I'll hold it for a couple of days though or a week. But it's again very quick in the morning. First half an hour of the day, I don't have the room open all day. We're done. We're out. I check my options like at lunch, maybe before the close. I'm not sitting and staring at my screen for six and a half hours. You know, honestly, your eyes get tired. You get tired. You get sucked into trades. If you're training in the afternoon, you shouldn't be in. You lose money. You give money back you made in the morning. It's about working smarter, not harder. It's like almost like the more you trade sometimes the more you lose. If if you've ever traded before, you know what I mean. Short and quick is done. So, I'm very consistent with what I'm doing. Very consistent doing gaps. Very consistent with my shorting. And luckily, we get a lot of gaps. I mean, the only reason I can even do this for a living is because there's lots of gaps every day. Gaps happen in the market on a regular basis. However, some gaps are better than others and some gaps are nothing gaps and some gaps are very powerful displays of institutional money. The most important gaps though in the market are gaps that signify a change in direction or a bigger move in the same direction. Understanding which gaps are meaningful and which gaps are not meaningful in the market will help you to know what to do and when a change is occurring. That is how you will know when the power of money will flow to pay you. And again, I got involved with shorting because I realized a lot of people didn't know how to short. I realized that stocks fell a lot. I realized stocks fell fast, okay? And I realized they could fall big and I realized and I I started to understand really the panic that comes into stocks. I mean, when you think about it, you're like, "Wait a minute, this totally makes sense. It makes sense that you should be trading things that only have big moves made with institutional money." This whole idea about shorting panic, that makes sense. I mean, if you think about it intellectually, you only need one trade a day. You'll also have less losses. Makes sense that you need a strategy. You got to be consistent. I mean, all of this makes sense. So again, the system tells you how, what, and when. How to make money in the market. Trade a strategy and system that is profitable. Golden gaps are highly profitable strategy because they focus on large momentum to trade. I think a lot of people don't know how to find momentum. They're just happy scalping. It's, you know, that can be dangerous. Actually, you could take a trade, make 10 cents, and then take another trade and lose a dollar. So then you're upside down. What was the point of that? You know, what stock should you trade? Stocks that gap and rate 20 points or more per the golden gap 26 point rating system. You trade the gap in the direction of the gap. When do you trade them? Early in the morning in the open when they set up and trigger. Again, we're in quick quick and we're out quick, too. You must though have a structure in place to make any money at all consistently. It is about the consistency that many traders lack in their systems. One of the reasons is because people are always chasing the money. They're chasing the dollar. They're always chasing the next get-richqu big thing. At the end of the day, you're going to realize that once you get good at something, if it is indeed a strategy that works, which mine does, that's how you're going to do well and make money. It's not jumping around from thing to thing to thing. That's not going to get you anywhere. It's going to just add up your losses. And not only that, waste time. waste of time. Wish I had started trading when I was in my 20s. I wish I had done it. I didn't even know about trading then. But again, the system measures gaps by rating them on the daily chart to find stocks to trade that have number one, a high probability of directional bias for the entire day. Two, big move in the day. Three, early confirmation of my bias and they move between 9:30 and 10 and precise entries with follow through and a good risk-to-reward target potential. So, if you say, "I want to do this. I want to take this seriously. I really want to learn it. I'm going to risk this much money per trade. I'm going to try to make one to one. I'm going to do options and day trades. Or maybe I'm only going to do day trades. Or I'm just going to listen to Melissa in the room. Whatever it is, write it down and stick to it. Have a plan of action. If you're going to do this, you know, everybody's so worried about when am I going to make this much money and when can I make back the cost of the class. You should be looking at the longevity of learning something that will work for the rest of your life and learning the system. get organized about it. You know, whatever money you have to trade in the size of your account is whatever you have to trade. You have to take that and divvy it up. But it's the idea of building upon that and as you're building upon it and you're getting good at the rating system and you're getting good at taking the trades and you're making more and you're building your account, you're risking more, then you'll see the potential that you can actually get somewhere with this, you know. But like I was saying earlier, people are inquisitive. Human beings are inquisitive. They want to know why. They want to know why. They they want to, you know, be able to understand the risk, you know. Any questions here so far? How we doing? Everybody doing okay? Okay. So, think about the things that I said tonight. Your dreams are possible, but you need to take steps to make them action. You know, it's like publishers clearing house. It's not going to knock on your door. You need to be grounded, realistic, you know, set a course of action, learn, start slow, and get going. You know, your dreams are possible, but you have to take steps to move forward to attain them. You know, we're getting into Labor Day. It's a great time to relax, go to picnics. It's the end of the summer. I'm ready for fall personally, but I'm I think we're going to have a big end to 2026. It's been a very good year. Kind of funny this year when I look back at my results so far year to date and think of all the trades that I did and all the shorts that I did and uh the market actually was very bullish this year. I don't know how we end up the last, you know, quarter of the year in 2026, but it is kind of funny that I did so many shorts this year and the market was very bullish for 2026. Again, I don't I don't know how we end up, but you know, you can short in a bullish market. So, empower yourself today to trade. Again, if you decide you want to learn my class, you'll come, you'll learn the entries, you'll learn the exits, you'll learn targets, you'll learn all the 26 points, you'll learn how I look at a chart, which is very, very important. So, I teach my information in the Golden Gap course. It's a full course on how to strategically find pick and play stocks that are professional bearish gaps. Class is online. You can be anywhere in the world and take it. And the next class is September 26 and 27th. So it's a month away 9 to5 classes always on a weekend class tuition is $69.99. If you want to sign up you would email me for sign up forms. I am doing a huge bundle that's going on through Labor Day. So you plenty of time to decide. Labor Day is late. Labor Day is September 7th. So if you want to join now, you can get in and start trading now. If you want to join, you can still get in and start trading. Your membership start now. you would learn then during the classes in September at the end of the month but you could start trading before the class. So the Labor Day special again this ends on Labor Day is you sign up for the bundle which is $89.99. It's all three classes everything you need the trends course the options course and the Golden Gap course. You get all the memberships free through the end of 2027 which is next year which is huge about a year and a half and then two 1-hour mentoring sessions with me. People really like the mentoring sessions usually after the class. Like they do the class, then they have questions, then they come back, they start trading, and then people do the mentoring sessions with me after the class. But I do think I'm a good teacher. I mean, I do think that I explain things very well in the class. But when people have questions or don't understand things, the free mentoring sessions with this special are valuable. Any questions from anyone? Quiet group tonight. Again, I don't know if everybody knows how to chat or not. If you don't know how to chat, you can email me a question. Pretty much recognize everybody here. Some of you I've been talking to for a while about the class. I don't know. It's hard to believe we're almost at the end of 2026 and it's almost 2027. It's crazy how time is flying. Paul, do you have any questions? We have two paws. Paul M, Paul C, Jerry, you've been following me, I think, since I started. I think Jerry's been following me since I started the business 15 years ago. Um, James, I don't know what you're up to. You've been AWOL. Terry, I think you've been following me since I started the business. Jesse, too. Dan, I don't know what you're up to either. I know some of you are busy, but you just got to make time. You just got to make time. Again, the class is on a weekend. You have plenty of time to schedule the September class. Book it out in your weekend scheduling. And again, the training room in the morning is just a half an hour, an hour a day at the most. Like today, we weren't even I didn't even have the room open a whole hour today. I think we had the room open for about 40 minutes today. So, you know, it's not a lot of time. It's the commitment that this is something you want to do and you want to get serious about it and then you can get in the room and you can follow and take my trades. You know, Dan, do you have any questions? Dan's got his tie on, ready to go to work. Listen, if anybody has any questions or if you're interested in the Labor Day special, you can email me at Melissa at the stocksswish.com. I know some of you are following me for a while. I don't know when you're going to get ready to get started. Somewhere in the next couple of days, I'll have the stats out for the last week of trades and the year-to- date trades. I mean, we've really been doing very well this year. This is probably the best year I've ever had day trading to be honest with you. And again, the the irony is how bullish the market was this year. And that most of the trades that I did, the day trades I did this year were shorts. I mean, that's it's almost uncanny actually. But it goes to the fact that I'm very good at shorting and very good at finding that one stock to short every day, you know. And I I like being done in the morning. I don't want to trade all day anyways, you know, personally. Okay, have a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful evening. Stay safe. Email me if you have questions or you want to sign up for the special at melissathetockswish.com. You're welcome.