Learn How To Trade Successfully Using Gaps!

Lots going on right now. For those of you that don't know, my name is Melissa Armo and again I am going to talk today about the strategy I trade which is based on gaps. We're going to go over actually today's trade too and I've been trading for a long time now. It's hard to believe. I cannot believe that it's 4 and a half months until the end of 2026. I feel like time is just flying by. I think once you start trading and you really start getting into it and realize that you have a passion for it, you're not going to stop, you're not going to give up until you get it right. And again, it's a process for me. It was a process, too. I ended up taking one class, did not learn how to make money, but then I ended up developing my own system, but that took three and a half years. So, it's it was a long process for me. And for many people again, they go through class after class after class after class and jump around from doing different things till they figure something out or find a good system or take a class like mine. I'll talk about my class at the end. I teach a class once a month. But we're going to talk a little bit about gaps and how you can trade successfully using gaps. If you have questions, again, you can email me at melissatheckswish.com. You can call me. I'm a live person. I live in New York. I see Orin there. or lives in New York too. Um, you can call me at 929-3200 GAP. You can follow me on probably YouTube is the best place to follow me, although I am on X and Facebook as well. So, let's talk about what makes stocks move, how do they move, how do they move up, how do they move down, well, money. That's the only way it can happen. So if a stock is moving up, you have to have momentum to the upside. That means that buying money has to come in where people buy the stock or the market. Okay, some people are very bullish on this market right now. I'm I'm really not. Um but some people are what makes a stock go down? Selling. Now again, you have shorts. I like to short. We're going to talk about today's trade. Today we did a short, but mostly it's selling. So people dump stocks usually when panic or something happens. So again, the money goes out of a stock and the momentum goes to the downside, in which case you'd want to be short or do a put. Again, we're going to talk about options today a little bit as well. A put is an option, which is a short. If you do not want to do day trades or margin trades, the only other thing available for you to short is doing options, which again you would buy a put. But anyways, what makes stocks move? The simple answer is very easy. It's money. And it's a lot of money. More money than you can ever think of or conceive, even if you pictured it in a vault, you know. And it's it's interesting because again we we envision in our mind when we talk about billions and billions and billions of dollars and yet it's more than billions. It's trillions of dollars that run through the market on many many stocks and the overall market in any given day. So all we need is just a tiny tiny fraction of that. A small piece of that in reality. Lots of times people start trading they think oh it's impossible and I can't make it and I'm never going to get there. You know that's not true. You only need really one good trade a day to be successful. You don't need to be taking all kinds of crazy amounts of size. You don't need to trade for six and a half hours a day. You don't need to do even 10 different strategies. You just need one good strategy that you can utilize. And then of course, depending on the size of your account, you can add size to it or you could take a beginner size. Okay, the idea is getting in where the money is going. If the money is buying the stock and going up, you need to be long. Otherwise, you're going to lose. Again, if the money is coming out of the stock, people are selling it, dumping it, then you need to be short if you want to make money or you're going to lose. So again, there's a lot of money in the market and I'm looking for what I call power money. It's not just any money because again, there's lots of money. I'm looking for the power money, the money that's big that has the ability to move a stock because you always have people going opposite directions. There's sometimes you can even see a tugofwar happening where you can't even tell who's in control, the bulls or the bears and there's like a tugofwar. I don't bother with things like that. I'm looking for right in my face. See it? No question about it. Power money. So power money in the market is created by institutions who set the tone for a stock's move in the day. Again, we're going to go over today's trade. It was a short. We did Apple. People dumped it. They dumped it. Why? I don't know. Doesn't matter to me. Again, we'll pull up that chart in a minute. But if you become a specialist in defining what institutions are buying or selling, then you will have a huge advantage in your trading. Power Money sets the trend, makes the trend, and changes the trend in charts. And this is why you can trade options or do day trades or even swing trades with my method specifically because if you're following the power of money, it doesn't really matter how you take the position. Again, whether it's a swing trade, whether it's a day trade, whether it's an option or even a long-term option, okay? The key is getting the direction right and getting the pick. Okay? I'm seeing some people come in late. Again, if you're here late, if you want to chat or ask me a question, you have to go choose my name. uh new chat and then chat in the box to ask me questions if you want to ask me something. Okay, I'm the only one that can see everybody's chats. Anyways, we're talking about power of money. What is it? How does it get there? Where does it go? It's there. It's there. Even if you think it's not there, it is. If you're not trading in the side of institutions in the market, you will have a hard time seeing lasting and consistent success in your trading. You have to learn how to read and trade in the side of institutional money. Even if you think it's not, there it is. I'm gonna I'm gonna use an example. I walk in Central Park every day unless it's raining. One day, this was like two weeks ago, actually. I happen to be walking on a path that I've walked I walk every day. Um I saw two rats like on the path eating something and then I saw another rat and another rat and another rat. In fact, I don't remember if I even posted the video on YouTube or not. Um, and I thought, "Holy crap, that's a nest." Like, that's a rat's nest. Like, there was a shrub and then there was a path and then there was another shrub. Like, it was a pretty narrow path and I thought, "Oh my god, I walk by this every day and there's a rat's nest there. It's was there every day." And I never knew. I never even knew it was there. Now I know. You know what I mean? So, I now when I'm walking by, I'm I'm I'm looking. I'm looking. I want to be careful. You know, it's the same thing with power money in the market. You may be in a position and you think it's great and you think it's fine and maybe you're even up in it or you hold it or you go to bed. It could be an option, could be a swing trade or or could even be a day trade. You get in in the morning and you think you're in a good trade and you think you're in the right direction and all of a sudden boom, you're down or you get up the next day and you're in an option and you're upside down. Why? because you thought it was going a certain way, but power money really was there anyways and you were in the wrong direction. Do you follow what I'm saying? And it whipsaws you around. This is happening a lot with people with the market. I would say the last few weeks. When I say the market, I'm talking about the QQQs. People are trying to make money going long. People are trying to make money going short. And they're getting whips on. So, getting back to the rat story, the rats are there whether I see them or not. That's nature and power money is in the market going in a certain direction in charge of stocks and ETFs like the QQQs whether you see it or not. So you got to make sure you're in the right direction or again you can lose. Okay. Well, here was the one we did today. Okay. So this was Apple. So again, here was today. So, I trade stocks that are gapping. We actually been doing a couple trades in Apple recently. You would have wanted to be short Apple today. You couldn't have made money if you were long. So, again, stock closed here, open here, dropped, fell. Boom. Again, this is a short. If you tried to go long here, you would have lost. Now, again, if you're saying, "Well, how do you know who's in control and what's going on?" Again, I developed a system and a method where I rank the gap to determine who's in control to decide if I want to take the trade or not. But I will say one thing. This is a good example here, Apple, where you're seeing kind of a tug and war. This is going on for the last two weeks. Okay. But we we shorted this today. We made money shorting this today. Actually, here was the trade. Uh we shorted it. This is a margin trade. This is a day trade at 30385. Got out at 30230. We were in and out of this very very quick in less than 5 minutes. It was a beautiful trade. I'll show you the 1 minute chart. And again, I'm trading for a long time. You could have taken less size. You could have taken more. Made 4340. Again, less than 5 minutes. Here was the trade. So, this is a one minute chart in Apple. Again, every day I'm looking to get boom, a move as soon as I can, as quick as I can. Get in, get out. Now, I could have held this trade. I just want to show you here. I got out right here. Here I was done. Boom. But I could have held it. I actually could have made a lot more. I did a put, too. Now, for those of you wanting to do puts and you're like, I don't want to do margin trades. I just want to do options. I'm doing options, too, but I'm holding them longer than the time I'm doing the day trades. If you want to do your day trades as options instead of margin trades, you would take a closer strike. You would take whatever the closest strike is. In other words, there is a Wednesday expiration for Apple. You would have done that here today if you had done the trade with me if you wanted to do it. That's not what I did. I did an Apple out for longer because I'm doing the Fridays, but you could have done today's expiration. So, when I'm doing a put, it's a short. Again, same thing, but I hold my options longer than my day trades. Okay, any questions about that? Again, I'm not sure if everybody understands how to chat. You have to choose my name on the chat box. I see some familiar faces. I see Ann, Jesse, a couple other people. Anyways, what happened with Apple? If we go back to the daily again, who is in control of the Apple today? The bears. The bears are in control. And you could say, well, why did it sell off? Well, I mean, you could Google. There's like a lot of things that have been going on with Apple recently. There really wasn't anything today that made you go yikes with the Apple. But there's been lots of things going on with Apple, you know, so there's a couple lawsuits and some social media things. So, but there really wasn't anything today. The Bears just decided to dump it and sell their position in this. Okay. Orin's there. John can hear too. Okay, good. Okay. So, again, we're talking about power, money. We're talking about control. I mean, again, you can look at this and see where the stock opened and where it dropped. So, if a stock like Apple drops $5, that's pretty good. Again, I didn't get this whole move as a day trade. I only got a snippet, a snippet of it. And that's all you need to be able to make this kind of money or more. So, again, getting out of the trades very, very fast in this type of environment, I think, is very advantageous. Why? We've got news with the war every other second. Trump tweeting, there's so much going on. If you can get in and out and make your money in five minutes, it's a lot less stressful. It's a lot less stressful, I'm telling you. And then if the option continues rest of the day, fine. You can watch it again before 4:00 or hold it overnight. Again, you have more time with options. With day trades, you don't have a lot of time. You only have between 9:30 and 4 anyways. Okay, but let's get back to talking about power, money, and momentum. It's the power money from institutions that causes these unrelenting moves in one direction. Again, today is a good example because people dumped it. They dumped their apple. And this is again this one directional bias is what we call momentum. Sometimes I go long. Again, I'm mostly short, but I will go long. But if I'm going long, I'm looking for momentum to go long too to the upside. So don't glance over this concept. I mean, this is how you as one individual trader can make money because none of us here have billions of billions of dollars to trade. We have to take whatever we have, whether it's a certain number of contracts, a certain number of shares, choose our risk wisely. You can't risk your whole account and say, "I'm going to take this much risk per trade and get the maximum maximum move I can get out of it." So again, very difficult to do if you're in some rinky dinky stock where you have to scalp it and you can only make 30 cents, 20 cents. Then you're never going to get to the point where you can make thousands of dollars unless you're taking 20, 30,000 shares. And that's just too risky, too. that's even too risky too to take those types of size positions in stocks that aren't even liquid enough. But, you know, getting back to what I was saying about power money, there is a powerful message here that will change how you look at the markets and how you trade. It's really about going with who's the control, who's in control. And I'm not talking about the trend. Do not confuse what I'm saying with trend. Apple's actually in an uptrend. It's actually in an uptrend, but we shorted it today and we made money and we've been shorting it and making money. So, this isn't about that. Plenty of people can dump stocks that are in uptrends. Do you follow what I'm saying? Or vice versa. People will buy stocks in downtrends and you can get momentum to the upside in a downtrend. Now, I personally did not buy SpaceX, but that had a big momentum move a couple days ago. I didn't do it. I didn't go long it, but you could have. Okay? And if I had, I would have been out. I'll tell you that. But anyways, learning how to read the footprints of big money in the market will turn you into a great trader. It doesn't mean that every trade you take works, but once you start to see what's really happening here, you're going to get a lot more winners and losers. And then some of the winners are going to be big winners. Apple was just a regular trade for me. It was just a regular trade. It was fine. It could turn into be a big winner though for me if the put continues. We'll see. So again, that's how you're really going to get big moves. Everybody wants this big big trade and everybody wants a big one. You don't really know necessarily all the time when you're going to have that. It it there's a lot of factors that contribute to sometimes whether something really moves in a big big way or not. If the market had fallen off a cliff today, Apple, god knows, would have gone to like 275, 280. You know, the market's trying to hang on. We'll see what happens with it, but it might not. It might not tomorrow. We'll see. But again, this concept of what I'm discussing with you about control and being with the power of money and going with that to profit, trading momentum, looking for momentum will allow you to have good solid trades as an individual trader. Again, whether you're taking a 100 share lots or one contract or, you know, 2,000 shares. Anyways, here is Zapple. Again, we're just going to talk very briefly about what is a gap. So, I trade gaps. For those of you that don't know what a gap is, we're going to go over it right now. A gap is a difference between the close and the open. So, this was back here last week. Was it Friday? Friday, Apple closed at one number. Open on Monday at a lower price. So, every day there's a close and every day there's an open. In the US stock market, weekends are closed. So, again, 4:00 was here, 9:30 was here. This gap down, open, dropped, boom. So, again, this had a gap down. Okay. So, what's a gap up? A bullish gap would be here. This closed here, gapped up, rallied. You could have gone long Apple. I'm going back like a couple of weeks. So, can you go long every bullish gap or short every bearish gap? No. It's not that easy. If it was that easy to trade, no one would have to think or do anything. We'd never lose any money. You know what I mean? Everybody would win all the time. It's not like that. Here's an example of a gap down that reversed. Again, I'm going back a month. This was here. We closed at one price. The stock gapped down. It did not fall. It flipped. Okay. So, I'm looking at gaps. I'm always trading in the direction of the gap, but I'm not always taking everything in the direction of the gap. Is that clear? Any questions on that? Here's another one. CBX, we did this trade. This is a bullish gap. So, we went long. This is oil chevron. Again, this has been moving on news. Stock closed here, gapped up, rallied. Boom. We were talking about momentum. What's happening here? People are buying Chevron. They don't think the war is over. I don't think the war is over. So, on that, we agree. And institutional money is coming in and buying it up. It's buying it up in here. So, we did calls, which you could have got out the same day or could have held it one more day. You could still be in it, actually. So, again, this is a bullish gap. This was a long. Okay. So again, the control in this aspect here of the momentum trade that you would have wanted to be in, you would have wanted to be long. If you're short here, you're you're upside down. Here was the market. This was well, this was from yesterday. Actually, let's pull the market up. Um, can you see the market right now? I just flipped the chart up. Can you see it without me taking the thing on and off? You should be You should see the QQ's. John says it's there. Okay, good. David's saying the chat's disabled. Um, it's it's not, but maybe you just don't know how to use it. You can email me, David, because I just saw your email. David's new. I don't know why it's saying that. I'll have to ask the support guy because some others are chatting. But just chat, email me if you have a question, David or anybody else. I don't know. I don't know why it's saying that. Um, let's talk about the market. Okay, so here we are again. The market is in an uptrend. We're not that far off the highs. Fact, the last time we made a brand new all-time high was 63. Again, we're just talking about the QQQs right now, not this buy. We ran up to 74865. So the trend of the market is what? The trend is bullish. Okay. But again, you could have shorted the market at different periods in here in the last month, which we did, and made money because we sold off. I'm going back here to the end of July. So again, let's talk about what is a gap. Even here the market was still in an uptrend. Uh the market closed at 70535, gapped down here and opened at 69467. Closed here, gap down, fell off a cliff. So even though the market was in an uptrend, even here it was, you had a huge sell off in here. Huge, beautiful. Actually, from this day in here, 705 down to 661, it was almost $50. That's a big move. Now again, one of the reasons I prefer to short and I focus on shorting is because moves to the downside happen much much faster than moves to the upside. So I mean that's just that's not a rule. It's just something that I've noticed trading for almost 20 years and why I decided to focus on shorts. So anyways, why is reading institutional money so important? It is important to read the flow of institutional money in the markets. You can make money from their moves. Again, as an active trader, you want to make money today, tomorrow, this week, by the end of the week. Whether the market sells off or goes higher or they raise rates or they lower rates, none of that should matter to you if you're an active trader. You just you got to make money today. It's Wednesday, tomorrow's Thursday, then we have Friday. You literally have to break down your every day like that. A lot of people get overwhelmed, you know, they get overwhelmed when they're trading and they want to make all the money back that they ever, you know, lost trading from doing crazy things at the beginning. It just doesn't work like that. You literally have to take your time and chunk it out and look at every day as an individual goal, whether it's $500 a day or $1,000 a day or whatever. And again, your goal should be set based on your risk. You should be trying to make one to one. So it's important to read the flow of institutional money in the market so you can make money from their moves. When you trade with its power, you're following the trail of the money flow. Again, that changes or could change on a daily basis. Okay, a bank flow of money going in a certain direction is what moves the market and stops. And again, getting back to the what the example I was saying before, institutional money is in charge of the market and stocks at all times. Again, the rat story is a good example. I can't see those rats every day, but I know they're there now. So, when I walk around that corner, I'm careful. I don't want a rat running over my sneaker, you know? So, again, it's like when you're with the power, you feel more relaxed and not so in fear about the trade losing. Do you know what I'm saying? And if you're against the big money, it's scary. I think you're starting to see that a little bit in the last few days in the market. The market has not been moving up and following through to the upside. The market's been selling off. Personally, today we had econ out today. I didn't think there was any takeaway from it at all. I thought it was a big fat nothing burger and everybody on TV was hyping it that they're not going to raise rates in September. I don't believe that this means anything. The number that was today and the market reacted accordingly. I think what I what I was my gut intuition was right because the market didn't rally today. It gapped up and sold off. So the market really doesn't believe that there's not going to be a rate hike no matter what Poly Market says or all these other betting places say. Do you follow what I'm saying? So it creates long-lasting momentum and sets trends. 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 power in order for you to make money trading. Very important. If you're on the side of power, it's going to be easier for you to make money. It just is. And you won't have to take necessarily some huge size. And again, ideally, even if you're in an options trade, even if you want to hold it, an option, if it's going to go and it's in control with institution of money, should go within 24 to 48 hours. Should start to go in your direction. Now, here was another one we did. This really was the gap of the month last month in July. Too early to say what the gap of the month will be for August because we're it's only August 12th, but we were in the height of burning season here last month and we had a gap in Tesla. So, I'm just showing you this here. This is a one minute chart. This is a great example of momentum. This is also a great example of selling because that's what happened here. People dumped Tesla. Again, why doesn't matter to me. I don't even know what the earnings said. But the night before the stock closed up here snug as a bug around 373 and change gap down here in the morning absolutely got crashed and was under 340. We shorted this and we did puts. So you can see this again. This is a one minute chart. This is just selling selling selling selling selling selling selling. This can't get a breath of life. If you're trying to buy this for a gap fill or trying to buy the dip or buy Tesla or whatever you're getting killed here. It's just breaking every every second it's breaking off. This is a good example of momentum and it's a good example of what I do very well trying to find stocks like Apple that are that are under pressure that are under selling pressure. Those are the ones I'm looking for and then I decide to short. So again, how can you read the side of institutions in the market? How do I do it? I do it by reading gaps. We've talked about a little bit about what a gap is, but it's really my skill set of reading the gap, reading the direction that allows me to pick Tesla or pick Apple. So, gaps are a secret ingredient in charts that many people overlook and yet they hold a lot of significance. They're actually very important. There's nothing more important than a gap. Actually, gaps make the trend, set the trend, and continue the trend in stocks in the market. They set the trend because they are definitive and demonstrative change and show a price and what is called an event. And again in the case of Tesla in particular that event was created because of the earnings. Okay. Sometimes you have gaps in the QQQs because of economic events like we have some economic data tomorrow morning quite a bit before 9:30 before the open and then we have also a consumer sentiment number Friday after the open. So there's still some more inflation data out this week that could move markets Thursday and Friday. And again, they could create tomorrow a gap in the market. Gaps are a real show of the power of money. Gaps either continue the trend or in fact change the trend. Very often when something's going to change trends, sometimes it just happens like that out of nowhere. There there's like no uh precursor necessarily to it. You follow what I mean? It just changes just flips. That's a lot of times what people find scary, especially if they're in a stock and they're long a stock and they think they have a good trend and then it flips. If you follow the gap, you'll be following the power of money and that is the whole point. Okay, any questions here so far? Again, I know some of you haven't figured out the chat thing. Um, David was asking about it. I think if you choose my name, if you choose my name, it should let you do it. Does anybody else have questions? If you don't know how to chat or it's not letting you, again, you can email me at melissathestockswish.com if you have questions. Okay, I'm going to keep going. We started talking about institutional money. There's one thing and one thing only that can move the direction of a stock and it's money. It's not a little bit of money, but it's a lot of money. more money than a whole trading room of people with a thousand people in it could even do. It's what I call power money. Power money is in charge. Power money is in charge of the stock's direction. Trends are set and moved by the power money people of which there's a lot of in the market. It's large hedge funds. It's big banks that take positions. Lots of hedge fund money in the market. Retirement funds, retirement money, big big traders. The amazing thing is that as negative as traders and analysts talk about the power of money people, they're the reason that one individual can be successful in the market. If you didn't have the power of money moving stocks, we never be able to make money long or short. Honestly, you know, the volatility and momentum that's in the US stock market is what makes it so beneficial and advantageous that people all over the world want to trade our market. Even in their people in different countries, it's fluid. It moves. It has a set close and open. It's got lots of volume. You will get filled in trades. Again, I'm not doing stocks that have low floats or no volume or too sprey or penny stocks. I'm not doing any of that crap. All that stuff is just crap, crap, crap. Everything that we do, like we did Apple, Tesla, you've heard of these companies. You know these companies, okay? They're not going to go under either. It's not like you're going to be in a position one day and then the company's going to go under. Let's talk about another one we did. INTC. So, let's talk about a gap. Stock closed here, gap down. Boom. Fell. Let's go back to the end of July. Stock closed here, open here, dropped, fell. Could have held it for a week, came all the way down again. This was right around 100. Fell all the way down where to 80 bucks. This is a big move. This is a large move for a stock of this price point. It's a 20% move. And again, you would have been in puts to get this carry on down through into there. This was the end of July. But again, there's a lot of gaps in there. A gap is a difference between the closing price of one day or the opening price the next day. It's a break in price action from one day to the next. Simple. Okay. And guess what? Almost everything gaps every day. It's very very rare that something something would not get. It does not mean it's a good gap. It does not mean it's a predictable gap. Do you follow what I'm saying? What do I mean by predictable? That I can look at it in the morning and say this is going to drop, which is what I said with Apple today. Some gaps are just nothing gaps. Maybe they go up, maybe they go down, maybe they go with the market. On any given day, most stocks do go with the market. The market rallies, the stock rallies. If the market falls like the market fell today, the stock falls too. So there's there's many gaps on any particular day, but there's not many many good gaps. Do you follow me? So I invented a system to find the good ones because there's less good ones than not good ones. And again, it's about the predictability. It's if this then that. And that's how I look at the checklist when I'm going through and trying to decide what to do. Now, here was another one that we did. Stock closed here, gap down. When was this last week? Closed here, gap down, rallied. Closed here, gapped up, fell. Closed here, gap down. Boom. We did a short in this. Boom, boom, boom. This fell. This broke 470. So, we did a day trade in the AMD. Now, I'm just going to show you here. I'm showing you a 15minute just to give you a different vantage point here instead of a one minute. But this was yesterday the 11th. Look at look at this right out of the gate. It's the first 15 minutes of the day. It's up here around $474 and change. This fell what? Boom. $10 out of the gate. Boom. What? Again, we're just talking about institutional money. What do you think's happening there? Somebody dumped it. Somebody just dumped that thing. So again, if you're long this, it's not good. So again, this makes you want to do what? Well, you should think about going long, but it's the antithesis of what a lot of people want to do. A lot of people want to go long when they see a selloff like this. I mean, you I'm sure you've heard the buying low, selling high. That's not how you make money as a trader. It's really not. If you're a long-term investor and you have, you know, all the money in the world or your retirement account and you want to buy something and hold it, that's a different story. You're doing that on cash. That's long-term investing. That's not trading. That's not trading. Do you follow me? And a lot of people just get confused because in their mind they're thinking buy low, sell high, investing, investing, investing. But that's not trading. Does anybody have questions about that? Again, if you signed in late, you can chat me by uh choosing my name, the new chat in the chat box, and then you have to choose my name to write a message to me individually or you can email me and I'll see it. Anyways, getting back to the AMD. This was a nice drop here in this stock. We did a late day trade in this, which I don't normally do, but it was right there in our faces. $469. Now, if you're like, "Oh my god, that's so expensive. I don't want to do this." You could have bought a put. Okay? You could have bought a put. You could this closest date of the expiration. Again, this is a day trade. Then added at 468. Average price was 468.50. Again, almost a $3 move out. Done. Boom. 46575. Again, I'm going to go back in here and just show you this was a late day trade. We did this late in here. Got the drop. So, I did not do this immediately on uh yesterday. What was yesterday? Tuesday. But I'm just showing you here again. This is what this is selling and this is selling. And that's how you can make money. So, it was $11,000 profit on a $5,000 risk. That's pretty good. You could have risked a,000, could have taken less shares. could have again like I said bought a put at the closest expiration date. Any questions about that? So again, gaps happen in the market on a regular basis. However, some gaps are better than others. Some gaps are nothing gaps. Like I said, a lot are. But luckily, each day we usually find at least one or two good ones. And some gaps are very powerful displays of institutional money. Those are the ones we're trying to find. That's what I have to do each morning. like tomorrow. I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. It's too early. I'll look I'll look tomorrow. Okay, every day I could be doing something different, something new. The most important gaps in the market are gaps that signify a change in direction or a bigger move in the same direction. Ideally, that's what I want. And 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. So again, I'm looking every morning to find a good gap. If I can find a good gap, I can do it as an option. I can do it as a day trade. I can get out fast. I can hold it. I can do whatever I want to do. I don't need to worry about the market. I don't need to worry about the market direction. Now, here was one we did. This was a market trade. So, like I said, I do puts as well and calls. CVX was a call. We did the QQQ690 puts. This was that week I was talking to you about. So, we got in here Thursday the 23rd. So, let's look at the chart. Feels like a long time ago compared to the sell-off, but here it was. Remember, we were just talking about this. Stock closed here, gap down. Again, I'm usually doing it at the strength. You want to do it farther away, you'd pay less. I wouldn't mess around with the date that I give you on the newsletter. And then this was a drop. So, this was a nice trade. This was a short. Again, a put is a short. Again, the momentum was going where down. So, the cost of this wasn't cheap, but this still cheaper than if you did a day trade or a margin trade because the mark both the Q's and the spy now are expensive no matter which direction you're doing them. Cost was 820 12 contracts 98.40 sold at 22 profit was $16,560. Return investment was 168%. Again, that's an advanced trader risk. If you took a smaller Oh, no. I didn't show the beginner here. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. If you took one, I meant to do that, but I didn't. If you took one contract and spent $820 and sold it, you could have still made 168%. You could have made a,000 1,380. Let me write this in here. Sorry about that. I forgot to put the beginner example. So, this would be one. So if you risk 820 bucks, but again $820 is cheaper than shorting it on margin. Although I will tell you that even at this price point, the QQQ's actually have a very tight spread if you are day trading, which which is great because there's lots of volume in the market. Down here's the volume. And so you're going to get filled. You know, you're going to get filled. But that was a beginner example. Any questions about anything I just said? My system identifies the good gaps. Correct. Correct. In fact, let's look. There's an earnings tonight. Let's see what it's doing. I didn't look here. We may as well look. Oh, here we go. Here we go. right here. This is a gap. Do you see this, John? Now, I don't know what this rates. I don't like to rate gaps at night cuz honestly, I'm a morning person. I'm fresh in the morning. I get up very early. I'm tired by the end of the day. But I will be rating this tomorrow. If this rates 20 points or more per my 26 point rating system, I'm going to short Cisco. Why? It's gapping down. Now, again, the other reason I don't rate stuff at night is this could not be down tonight, tomorrow. This could flip. I don't know where it's going to be. Now, you're seeing it right now. It's around 119 and change, but this could be totally different by the morning. Woo! There we go. We just broke 119. Do you see it? This is a live gap. So, every day I'm looking for the best gap. So, this is something that I'd put in a watch list, John, and then I would go through and rate it. I'd scan and I'd go and I would write down my gap list. Cisco will be on the list tomorrow unless it totally flips up and then I'll rate it as a bullish gap. But right now, it's gapping down and I'll go through the points and I'll rate it and I'll say see if it rates 20 points or more. Again, it's still moving here, so it's kind of too early to see. And I just told you that we have economic data tomorrow morning. So, this is a this is a market stock. So, this is a market stock. Therefore, this could move with the market. If the market has a positive reaction tomorrow on the data, I don't know. I have no idea what it does or what the data says. But anyways, I go through each morning and rate maybe five things, maybe 10. I don't rate 3,000 things every morning. Again, without, you know, going into the details, once you learn the system, you can scan with your eyes manually and you're going to say, "No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Maybe maybe Cisco." and then you put it on a list or maybe this one. Do you know what I mean? So then you have a little like maybe we'll do Apple tomorrow. I don't know. Now right now Apple actually is gapping down too. It's only down a little bit. Little baby bit 20 cents, but it's still gapping down. Okay. So again, I will make a watch list. Then I will rate them. And then I'll try to pick the best one at the highest rate. And then I'll do it if it sets up. And then I usually have two picks in case the one I like doesn't set up because again, I'm not trading in the pre-market. You could do this as a day trade. You could do it as an option in the room. I'm doing day trades. Again, if you're on the newsletter, if I like this tomorrow, is Paul here? I saw Paul sign in. I see Otto. Uh, they're on the newsletter there. I see Paul. If I like this, see auto too. If I like this, I will send out a newsletter probably tomorrow morning at 8:00 or something early. No, 8:30. But you don't take the trade until it it opens. So, look now. Now it's jumping a little. Now it's jumping up. Look, now it's over 120. So, like I It's too early. It's too early to see what's what with this yet. Do you follow me? But this is this is something that would be on my list for tomorrow. Well, that was a good question. Anybody else have any questions? Again, I know some people don't know how to chat or say they're having trouble with the chat. I'll have to ask my support guy with that, but you can email me if you're having trouble with the chat. if you have a question. Okay, I'm going to keep going. So, anyways, you got to focus on the right information. There's Ann. Ann can chat. Do I ever work directions with iron condors? No. If that's something that you want to do, if you want to learn my system, learn the rating system and then do that, that would be something that you would choose to do on your own. Again, some people are doing spreads. They learn the system, they want to do a spread. There's less risk at play. That's up to you. I'm not teaching you how to do any fancy dancy options, uh, iron condors or spreads or any of that. It's simple directional trading for me where I'm trading the momentum. If the gap rate's 20 points or more to the downside, I'm buying a put to enter it and I'm selling the put to exit it. If again, if you want to adjust the strike price, if you're like, "Oh my god, I want to pay $8 for a Q." You could do a lower strike, you could do the target and pay less. Again, if you want to use the system to do that in a different way, then that's something that's a personal preference. That's not the system itself. For me, though, again, if I'm doing CVX and I think the stock's getting bought and I see the bullish gap and the gap rates good, then I want to go long it, then I'm just buying the call and then I'm selling it to exit it. And that's what I'm doing. Um, Orin has a question. Can you take the course over a couple of days? You have three babies. I I would not suggest like jumping in and out of the class in one day. Like if you want to do day one, you know, in August and day two in September or do day two the Sunday in August or do I wouldn't jump in and out during the day because you're going to just be totally lost. I would try to do one day at least of the weekend if if skipping a whole weekend with kids and stuff is too much. But we do break in the morning for 10 15 minutes for a bathroom break, water break, coffee break in the morning and the afternoon. And we do have a lunch break, but I would the class is 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. I would I would not skip in and out of the day because you're going to just be lost. you know, you're you're paying for the class. You want to get the information. You want to understand it. You want to ask questions. You don't want to miss when other people are asking questions. Some some of you are asking questions which are helping other people of the people that are here. So, you can do one day, one month, one day, another month. If that helps you, Orin. Yes. But if you're if you're like, you wouldn't know what you missed. Do you know what I'm saying? If you're like if you're there from like 9 to 10 and then you come back at 12, like you're you're going to be lost. Do you know what I'm saying? It's like not cohesive. No, you have to be there live. You have to be there live. But again, if you have questions and you're in the live trading room with me, you can always ask me questions in the room every day after we're done trading. I said, "Does anybody have any questions?" or you can call me, you know, I mean, I'm here. But you want to get the program together. Like again, if the first day is the 26 points, so you want to get the points and you want to get them in order. You know what I mean? You don't want to be jumping around, you know? You don't want to be lost. Okay. So anyways, let's talk about just in general classes and things. I was talking to somebody the other day about classes that it was a client that did my class a long time ago and uh he actually found me on YouTube. I think it was when I first started getting on YouTube. Like it was a long time ago. You know, I have YouTube and when I upload videos, it's funny. I get commercials or ads from other places and sometimes I watch them just to see what other people are saying or whatever and you know and hear with other people. I get that there's a lot of stuff out there and I understand that not all of it is good. You know I'm very intuitive. I can you know tell when I think someone is knows what they're talking about or not. It's the same thing when I go. Actually, to be honest with you, when I go on television or even now that I hear people on television, I can tell when the person like is talking on TV and doesn't have a clue what they're talking about, it's like they almost are just you regurgitating like some kind of talking point and they really somebody else wrote it for them. You know what I mean? So, it's kind of funny now. I can see both sides of it from talking on television with people that are so-called experts and also teaching classes and you know then seeing and hearing other educational places. So I get that not everything out there is good but not everything out there is bad either. You know what I mean? So people from all walks of life have come and taken my classes. And one thing for sure you're going to learn is you're going to learn about gaps. Whether or not you do them as day trades or options, whether or not you fully take advantage of the system and really trade with me and show up in the morning and get in every day and be in the room and trade actively. Well, that's up to you. That's up to you. I mean, it's up to you to make it work once you learn it. Do you know what I'm saying? But, you know, you don't want to be shortsighted. You want to think of it like you're learning something, you're going to use it, you're going to use it for a long time, and you're not going to worry about making the money back quickly, quickly, quickly. Sometimes people do multiple classes over the year or subscriptions that cost more than even the price of my class and they spend them on bad programs and I know this because I've heard the horror stories from people and then they come back and then they don't have the money to take my class because they spend it on another class. Do you know what I mean? Depending on what you're risking, one good week or one good trade, you can make the money back. But that should not really be your goal. Your your goal should be to learn it, to understand it, and then to utilize it for your own advantage that you can make money in the market. Grow your account. If you have a small account with five grand, grow it to 10. You have $10,000, grow it to 20, and so on and so forth. Some people that are trading with me are only doing options because they are familiar with options and they're trading their retirement account and they're not doing margin trades because they can't short. You can't short in your retirement account but they can buy puts. So I have, you know, a good percentage of people that are retired. They're there in the room and they're trading the retirement accounts. Then I have some working people who work maybe they work three days a week or doctors or dentists and then the other days that they come in the room two days a week whatever they make it work you know but it's I am on the other side of both things having been a student having taken a class and spent the money for a class which actually the money that I spent for the one class I took costs more than my class even now and that was more than 15 years ago which is kind of interesting. um you know it's it's you know you have to look at something and say I'm going to learn something from this and I'm going to use this then and I'm going to move forward. If you said to me what was the biggest challenge that people have that come training with you Melissa? Actually is Leroy here? Leroy is an old student. Leroy are you still here? Leroyy's here. I don't know if you can chat Leroy. Some of the biggest challenges of people that come to me is they don't size themselves correctly. They'll take too much size in one trade, not enough size in another. That is the one of the biggest things for people. They're not equal with their sizes or consistent. And the other challenge for people is that they will not stop doing things that were bad habits that they did before they met me. And one of those things we were talking about we were talking about buying the dips like remember when we were talking about that where people will they'll like sometimes they'll do a trade with me sometimes they'll do something else. Sometimes they'll do something they did before and then sometimes they'll do a trade with me. They're kind of all over the place. they're not focused just on doing this which you said well then if again why would somebody revert back to something that they did before human nature human nature I don't know you know human nature is people tend to want to revert sometimes back to things that they did before even if they didn't work you know what I mean so again you know it's it's our minds I'll just say this I got to get back to the lecture here and Leroy if you can chat chat me if Not you can email me you know our minds are very very very very powerful seriously and if we have a set way I don't want to say stubborn but it could be that it's just the way our minds work where we are looking at something in a set way there again here let's here let's let's pull up apple this goes back down again Um, here we go. Oh, no. Let's talk about the market. This is a better example. I just showed you that trade we did when we shorted. I'm sure there was some people that were on on trading with me on the newsletter that didn't do the trade again. Paul, you're here. Otto, you're here. I don't know if either one of you chat, you were on the newsletter. Did either Paul or did you do the puts in the market when we got this selloff here? I don't know if you want to tell me. Again, some people have a set way that they look at something and they have a hard time looking at a different way. So, I look at this. I look at this and I immediately have 100% conviction this is a short and I do it and I do it and I get it and I drop it gets the drop and the trade works. Some people though again from things they learned before they met me are stuck in that mode buying the dip or buying gap bills or buying support or buying low selling high. Do you follow what I mean? And and it takes time. It takes time for people to I don't want to say erase but it is kind of like you know get learn something new, get used to doing something new and erase that old thing. Because I mean, if you're coming to me, there's a reason you're coming to me. You're not making money on your own at all, or you're losing. Or maybe you're brand new. You don't know how to trade, and you have to learn how to trade. Or maybe you are making money, but you're not making enough. You're really not making enough to put in the worthwhile effort for you to get up each morning and do it, you know. But those are the those are the issues that I find with people. Okay, any other questions? But, you know, in general, there's just no holy grail. You do have to learn it. You have to learn how to do it. I think it helps people when they follow me in the room because if they're still learning and they're new and they trust me, then they can follow me. If I say Apple's a good short, they can do it. But there's no holy grail indicator that you can buy that alerts you to daily signals. That's another false misnomer as well. You actually have to use your brain to do it. And that's okay. You have a good brain. You'll get you'll become smarter by doing it and using your brain. The more you use it, the smarter you get. You learn how to trade using a system and then you yourself implement it daily. Again, and if you want to do it, learn a system and do it in a different way with options like you're talking about, that's up to you, then that's you'd make it your own doing that. But again, it's the idea of being proactive and actually doing it. But I think a lot of people procrastinate waiting for the perfect time to do something. And there there's no time when all the bells and whistles are going to go off. It's just whether or not you really want to get serious about trading. But honestly, it's not serious in a way that it's a it's it's a bad serious. It's a fun serious, you know? I mean, it's exciting to learn something new. It's exciting to learn something that can teach you how to make thousands of dollars in the market in five minutes like we did in Apple. That's exciting. You know what I mean? I mean, at least I find it exciting. The most valuable information for people to trade though can be found in reading price action and gaps. Understanding chart reading of gaps and how important the patterns of price are in the market will assist you in being profitable. Reading power money when it sets up will help give you conviction to trade. Again, just like I talked about with the market, it's called 100% conviction. Seeing when and where the power money positions are getting in is like finding a gold mine. That's how I coined the term golden gap. I said, "This is like finding gold when I see it, when I find a good one that rates 20 points or more. Seeing gaps clearly and how they're creating trends, changing trends, and making momentum is a powerful way to trade." Again, you got to be with the power of money. Very difficult to make money if you're against it. You can use this information to enter trades yourself so you can get paid along with the power money moves. Again, it is easy once you get on the right side of it when it comes in in a big way. And again, we're aggressive. I'm in trades very very early. Apple today was a good example, but we were we were in the Tesla early too. But you know, becoming great at one thing for me at Scaps and particularly I focus on shorting will achieve the results you want in the end, which is to make a living doing this or really to make any money doing this or to supplement your lifestyle if you're retired. Again, one of the biggest challenges for people and I think this is more so human nature than one specific person or personal problem for people. Human nature is that people are always looking for the holy grail and they always want to jump around from thing to thing to thing. One of the biggest holy grail things that's now out there just recently this year is the stuff with the prop accounts. You've seen it out there. You can trade 10 prop accounts and pay, you know, $50 a prop account and trade a million dollars and make a hundred grand in a month. You've heard all the crazy crazy claims. If it sounds too good to be true, like I just said, something like that. Trust me, it is. And this is the next holy grail for people that they think that the all these prop accounts. If you don't know how to trade, you're not going to make any money with a prop account, you're going to lose and you're going to just waste money in fees. You have to know what to do. You have to know how to trade. And you have to know how to trade whether you have five grand in the account, $2,000, or 2 million. You just, you know, people think that if they have a big account, then they'll be better off. No, you could just lose more. Really, you still have to know what to do. Any questions about anything? This was uh nice testimonial from Phillip. And what else? So again, what do you start? How do you do it? You take the class and learn. The class is next week in August 22nd and 23rd. If you want to join, you can start trading before the class though. People are already doing that. So again, how much money can you make? The share quantity you take is determined by the number of shares you take based off the stop amount. So if I say 30 by 60, that's either 30 cents for the day trade or $1.30. If you want to do the option, then you would buy the put when I say 30. And if I say 60, if it hits over that number, then you got to take it out, then you would sell it. Okay? The most important thing is getting the directional bias right in the trade. You get this from the accuracy of the strategy you're using. And for me, it's based on the gap rating system. So I look at a gap in the morning and go through a checklist. If that checklist meets the criteria that range 20 points or more, I will take the gap in the direction of the gap. If it's 17, 18, 19 as a 50/50 chance of working or failing, in which case you're really not supposed to do it. But if I call a trade like that in the room that ranks 19, I do it with me. Again, my system can be used for day trades or options. I'll tell you if I call a day trade on the day and I call an option on the day that means I really really really really really like the gap. Tesla was one of these. Again going back here stock closed here gap down. We did puts we did day trades. It all worked. The stock kept falling. Again this is a good example of power money because people dumped Tesla. I don't remember what the earnings said on this. It was a couple of weeks ago but people dumped it. Here was the day trade we did in this though. Again, you could have bought a put, which I did, but this was a day trade. We entered at 336.90, added at 337. It was almost the same price. Really nice trade. $336.95 was trying to get $10. I mean, this is close enough. $16,390. This is this trade here. Getting in this here and getting out and it kept going. We This is That was not a low of the day exit by any stretch of the imagination. Again, I tend to get out of my day trades very, very fast. We did do an options in this, too. 723. We did the 325s. Again, this trade was set early in the morning before the open. You buy the put for the 325. Here's the strike. Here's the expiration date. Again, I'm doing the Fridays and you pay the price and you do it and you would have made money here. So, you see where it was opening and you would have bought the 325s and you see where it went and you also could have held it. This was a nice trade. It was 344%. I This wasn't even the best I could have Oh, I could have held this longer. I could have even held this longer. And I didn't do a beginner. Oh, no. I did a beginner size for this. Three contracts with 1350. You could have made 46.50. Again, you could have done one. You could have risked $450. you know, you you have to do what works for you. But that that's still doing a put was cheaper than the than the day trade. But remember, you can do day trades now. You can do margin trades now with less than 25,000. That's the other reason why I find it interesting that everybody's hyped up still on these prop accounts because again, you can trade on margin with, you know, 10 grand, five grand. But my point about the holy grail, there is no holy grail. There's no two intersecting moving averages. There's no series of indicators. If you just stick them on your chart, a Fibonacci, a this, a that, it's always going to work. There's too many variables. There's too many things going on. There's too many things to look at. When I said I look at 26 things, that's a hell of a lot of things to look at. I'm not rating 3,000 stocks in the morning, though. I'm making a watch list. I told you what one thing that's going to be in my watch list tomorrow is Cisco. Probably Apple, too. So again, I make a small watch list and then I rate those picks and that's how I go through the process and that's what you learn in the class. Try to find the best pick every day. How you take the trade is up to you. If you want to follow me, you do the day trade in the room. If you want to do the option with me, you do it. So, but it the checklist is what you're learning. And that's day one. That's day one. That's the most important thing. The Golden Gap system is a 26 point professional bearish gap rating system. Again, I'm mostly shorting. If I call long, you can do it with me though. Again, everybody really knows most people go long. Shorting that a lot of people don't know how to do a lot of people and again I don't know why are scared to short and they get crushed when the market sells off, you know, which who knows what happens tomorrow or Friday. The purpose of the system is to help you evaluate which gap to trade each morning using a checklist. This is the meat and potatoes of what I do. And I do it every day and I don't skip it. And again, I could do it at night, but I'm too tired at night. My brain is tired at night. And things change in the morning. It's better to be sharp and fresh and right before the open and figure it out. This checklist tells you what to trade when and in what direction. The 26 point checklist predicts directional bias in a stock. And that's how you're going to make money because if you're in the wrong direction, you're going to lose. And the benefit of doing this is I'm trying to pick the right direction and I'm trying to pick the direction that's going to have a big move which means that institutional money is going to move it. It's going to either dump it or buy it. Okay? Again, depends if we're going long or short. But the checklist measures gaps by rating them in the daily chart to find stocks to trade that have number one a high probability of directional bias for the entire day. Big move in the day. Early confirmation of my bias in the move between 9:30 and 10. Again, many of these trades set up very fast, which is good. And then precise entries with follow through and a good risk-to-reward target potential. Um, Paul, are you still here? Paul did the Apple today. I know because he emailed me, but Paul got out. I don't know, Paul, if you know how to chat. If you just don't like to hold anything when it's up, Paul, Paul does options. If you want to get out of everything as soon as it as soon as it goes green or if you want to email me, Paul, I don't know if you know how to chat cuz that was something that I emailed you back. If you want to do an option and get out every day before 4, if it's up, that's fine. I I personally I think Apple's lower, though. So anyways, you will learn the strategy. You will learn the 26 point checklist. We're done with the day trades by usually 10:00 a.m. 10:15, sometimes earlier like today. And you don't have to worry about the market. And this is the, you know, a beneficial thing in a sideways sloppy market like we're in right now. It's very tough for people if they need the market for a move. Market's up in the morning, down in the afternoon, vice versa. gapping up, not following through, you know, and then you have the afternoons to yourself to do whatever you want to do. So, the course teaches a 26 point rating system to find the best stock to trade each day. How to enter and exit the stock intraday to get excellent risk-to-reward trades. Again, I'm looking for one to one and many times we get more. Showed you a bunch here that were more um you're going to learn technical analysis on an advanced level. how to read selling, how to know what to short, how to read where something's going to go, looking at the chart. It's a more proficient way to read support and resistance also in the right direction. Because again, a lot of times people have things in their head that they may have learned from other places or other classes or other systems, but they don't work. And they don't work because if they did, you'd be making money already if you knew how to do them. So, it's like opening up your mind, make it a blank slate, learning something new. Somebody says, "Well, what if I never traded before?" Actually, if you've never traded before, that's fine. That's great because you learn something brand brand new and you don't have any bias necessarily or any bad habits. Do you know what I mean? Now, somebody that's been trading for a while has experienced trading. They're familiar with what to do technically, you know, how to press the buttons, how to get in, how to put a stop, but maybe they've learned something that they that they have to just kind of delete, you know, and to focus on one strategy in a detailed manner so you can become a good trader. So, it's a complete system how to learn how to trade. It's it's it's a lot, but you have to learn it. And again, if you're in the room with me every day, you can ask me questions. So, the class for August is not this weekend, it's next weekend. It's August 22nd and 23rd, 9 to5 Eastern time. It's online. Cost of the class is $6,999. You could be anywhere in the world and take it because it is online. And again, this is a class you'd want to do if you want to start trading with us before the fall earning season. So, I'm doing a huge special, which some of you I know have been thinking about doing the class and you may want to take advantage of it. It's a back to school special. This is for anyone. Old students can come back, take advantage of this. New students can come back and take advantage of this or come and learn it. If you sign up for the Golden Gap course by Friday, what's today? Wednesday. So, you have tonight, tomorrow, and Friday to decide, you'll receive the following free the trading room through next year. That's huge. That's all of the rest of 2026 and all of 2027. You'll be locked in with this price with the room, the options newsletter, all of my trades for the rest of this year and all of next year. Again, this is huge. And the market report through next year, too, and then you do the class and you learn it. So, again, if you want to split up the days because you have babies, Orin, you can do that. But I would do, you know, day one, one month, day two another month or day two, one month on the Sunday or day one. The class is set up so you could break it up in two days, but I wouldn't be in and out, in and out, in and out because you're going to just be lost and miss stuff. Any questions? This is a really good offer for those of you that have been thinking about joining. And if you like being in the room, you don't even have to think about anything or worry about anything until January 2028, which is even crazy to even say 2028. But again, the whole point is a support system of you getting my trades and following me and learning, you know, and everybody has a different learning curve. Some people pick up things like that. Some people need time. Everybody's coming from a different place. It's it's, you know, I don't know everybody here personally. I get to know you when you become a client and you're in the room every day and we're emailing and talking and then I see sometimes questions people have or a kind of guest. Like I said, I'm very intuitive, but I do my best, you know, to make learning fun at explaining things. I think pretty good in the class. Any questions from anyone about anything. So again, I don't know if I'm doing Cisco. Don't jump into that short tomorrow. I'm saying it's a watch. Again, that'll be something I rate and whatever else we get tomorrow. Any questions from anyone? Ann, I don't know if you're thinking about signing up. And I see a bunch of new people. And David, I I don't know if you want to email me because you said the chat isn't working. We're at the end of earning season. It's still earning season, but it's the end again. Cisco is in earnings tonight, but it's the end. Then we have Labor Day. Then we come back in September. Then we have the Fed meeting. And then we have the next earning season, which is fall. And then that then that goes till basically Thanksgiving. So there's four quarterly earnings seasons during the year. It's when stocks report earnings. You just get a lot more trades in earning season. But it's not like we don't trade in non-earning season. No, we do trades. You can have a gap for news. You can have gaps for lots and lots of reasons. Again, the market gaps and the market can gap from economic data. Look at the war stuff. Again, CVX is not an earnings gap. That was, you know, oil war news. Like, let's look at that quick. Everybody go. This got up to 1973. Yeah, hopefully you can you can join in whether you decide you want to jump in now or not. I mean, if you're trading actively now, if you have time to trade, I think about this offer because it's a great deal if you if you know you want to join. You know, you have to be available to the class, you know, next weekend. But, I mean, again, I had another guy, it was an older student. he wants to come back. He's trying to sell his business and he's been wanting to come back. You know, whether you decide to sign up now or, you know, at the end of the year, it's like you're going to pay the same thing because the price of the class is $69.99 and everyone pays that. You'll just get to start earlier now. You'll just have more free time and get more trades with me. This is a good offer. Orin, do you have any other questions? I know you were going to call me and then I never heard from you, but you can still call me, Orin. Again, it's it's really really really it's like it's so just like if I could find the words to explain to people how knowing what to do and having conviction and not knowing what to do, it's like it's like night and day. It's I can't like you can't like really understand it until you get to the point. And again, you you won't until you actually do the class, you know. But once you do the class and you rate a gap, you know, like if you had done the Tesla, if you were there in the room and then you see it and you do it and you rate it and then it goes, it's like, "Oh, this is like magic." And then you're like, "Oh my god." You know, because when we decide we're doing something and we get in these trades that the stock has barely started to trade. That's the whole genius of the system that you can predict that it's going to fall that that I could even predict that it was going to even go to 325. The day we did the Tesla, it didn't open at 325. It was 20 points away. Do you know what I'm saying? I'll pull that up really quick for everybody to go. I mean, that's the genius in the system to be able to predict where a stock's going to go based on where it's gapping before it goes there. Otherwise, it's too late and 80% of the momentum is gone and then you're chasing it. It's actually open here at 3:41. So, remember, I sent that trade out in the pre-market. So, I called that 16 points away from where it was opening and it crashed through. It actually went all the way down to 3:15 on that day. And that's what you're going to learn from me. You're going to learn that because this isn't even here. I mean, I don't even know if you people understand this. Again, I don't know what everybody knows, but like this that isn't even there. Like, I get up in the morning and that bar is not there. Do you understand? There's nothing there. This is what we did today. This is the genius of my system. This is this is why I'm really good at what I do. Like today, this see if I can get rid of that wasn't there today. I'm not showing it to you and I'm saying this is going to go down and it it wasn't even there yet. Does everybody understand what I'm saying? That's what you're going to learn. That's the genius of what I do, which is makes it so special. And this is how you make money. Because if you're waiting for it to fall already, it's gone. You're scalping it. You're not getting the big move. You're not getting a great price in an option, you're you're not getting a good day trade entry. Do you follow what I mean? The genius in my system is seeing that somebody's going to happen before it does it. I'm not seeing the gap. I'm not predicting the gap. Like I didn't know what Cisco was going to do. Could have could have could have flown up 100 points. Look, now it just broke 118. But tomorrow when I get up, I will rate this gap before it even trades. Do you understand? And that is that's what you're going to learn. And it's really something special actually. So I don't you know, we'll see what we get tomorrow. busy time, busy day. Those of you that are here that have been following me, I think you should think about the offer because you'll just get a jump start on trading, you know, this year. And um or if you want to call me, call me. And anybody else that couldn't chat, just email me here if you want to tonight. So, if you want to sign up, email me. I'll send you sign up forms. If you have questions, email me there. And have a great night, everyone.