Life's kinda boring, but I'll have a Christmas day. Oh my God, please never let me do that again. Hello everybody, good morning. Welcome to Vlogmas number eight. It is like 8.30 in the morning right now and I'm just getting ready to do some gift wrapping because I need to get a head start. Like before we know it, it is gonna be time for Drew and I to go back to Arizona and we have just a bunch of things to do and like travel and just prep and all that kind of stuff. So I figured, you know, I have a nail appointment coming up here pretty soon and I'll probably be filming like an entire other vlog, but in the meantime, I was like, I'm gonna sit down, get some present wrapping done and answer some of your questions. I feel like in the last, maybe like two or three Vlogmas' I have done like a gift wrapping Q&A. It's good for me because I get stuff done. It's good for you because we get to chat and just like, you know, answer your questions, all that kind of stuff. So let's do it. All right, I've got my coffee. I've got the questions ready to go. They've only been on Instagram for like 30 minutes. So we'll just see who was an early bird. You know, who's up early like me and then decide to go from there. I have all the presents surrounding me as well. I'll probably have to like scoot back a bit so that you're kind of able to see what I'm doing even though you probably won't. I'll probably have to readjust. So we have our wrapping materials. If you watched Vlogmas' day one, I bought this like roll of postal paper because I just feel like it'll be nice and simple. I don't want anything crazy, just like brown is good. And then we have a couple different twines. I have a green one and then like a candy cane one and then I've got some cute little bows. And then also I saw this thing on Jocelyn Davis' Instagram as well as like I think on TikTok as well where you can take like a Polaroid and then put it on the actual present. This is one where I was just like testing if my film was good. So I'll use that as an example but Drew and I need to like take Polaroids of ourself especially for the presents from like his family. I need a Sharpie. Okay, hopefully you can still see me a little bit back here. I guess there's nothing left to do than answer the first question while I try not to mess and spill my coffee everywhere. Okay, first I'm gonna wrap the presents for Drew's nieces. If they are watching this video, stop watching. They don't really watch my videos, but just in case. You better stop watching because you are not allowed to see this stuff. Drew's niece, the younger one, asked me for, she asked me for a locket that's shaped with a heart with a picture of us inside of it for Christmas. I love that girl. So that is one of the presents that might get hurt. It's like really, really tiny.  This is like not gonna be any kind of order. It's just gonna be, I didn't plan these in advance. We're just gonna go for it. What is your least favorite thing about the holidays? We'll start off with a banger, traveling. I mean, Drew and I made the decision to move away from home. So, oh, and I like, I listen. Every single year I have traveled for the holidays no matter what, pretty much. I've always been someone who lives like not in the same state as both my parents or like my entire extended family. I just come from a family that's like scattered all over the place. We're in like Minnesota, Virginia, Oregon, Colorado, Montana, Arizona, California, like all over the place. So, and that's pretty much just like my close family, Tennessee, how can I forget? So it's just like I'm used to having to travel but that's just kind of the worst part for me. And also like the stress of just like knowing what to get somebody and you know, knowing if it's like the right gift and has this person got me something and I haven't gotten them something or whatever, like that's kind of stressful. And I just wish that it was like, we just cut the presents part out of it. Except for like kids, obviously for kids it's like such a fun thing and that's like the part I enjoy the most. But yeah, other than that, like the traffic, how busy everything is, how unhinged people can act. Like, oh my God. We were, Drew and I were out yesterday doing a couple things like running a couple errands and it was like people were just not well mentally. Like I was like, is everyone actually okay? Cause this is scary. I still love Christmas time. I still love the holidays. I love the holiday season. I don't love Christmas that much. It's an unpopular opinion. I don't know. I just like, it stresses me out. I don't know why. It must be like a childhood force thing or something. Need your thoughts on 1989 Taylor's version vault songs. I am gonna go out on a limb and say that the 1989 Taylor's version vault songs are the best vault songs. Like they're better than like all of the songs on 1989, dare I say. And that might just be because they're newer or whatever, but like those are the best vault tracks she's ever put out. Those are some of like her best work. That is insane. Those songs are incredible. I'm about to like really ruffle some feathers here but I don't rank 1989 like super high on my list. However, those vault tracks, like it just sends it all the way to the top. They're insane. Have you ever wanted to visit Norway or any other Scandinavian countries? Yes, because on my dad's side, I am Norwegian. I'm, I think Norwegian and Scottish on my dad's side. I would love to go visit Norway someday. I think that would be really, really cool. And just like unique and different from what I've usually done and where I've gone and visited. There are definitely so many places that Drew and I want to go but then we also love visiting places that we've already been because it's just fun and nostalgic. So I don't know. But yes, oh my God, Scandinavian countries definitely at the top of the list but probably not in winter. Thoughts on being a millennial on YouTube and thoughts on getting older on the internet. That's actually so fascinating because I lately have just been feeling like a dinosaur on the internet. And I think it's because most of like the fashion girlies and like people that I follow in like the body confidence space and stuff are like a bit younger than me. Okay, this is a book series that I got for Drew and I don't, they're not numbered. So I don't actually know they're like four of them but I don't know what order they go in because otherwise I would like, you know I'll have him unwrap them in order, but otherwise I guess we'll just kind of wrap them all together and he can figure it out. Geez Louise, this is a D&D plus series by the way. Drew asked for it. Like he sent me the link. This year we actually didn't like get each other we just sent each other links to stuff. Sorry, I'm not distracted. But I never, like so when I'm hanging out with like my friends from high school or people that are my age, I feel like so young because a lot of them are either parents, they like own homes, they have big girl jobs, whatever. And then like, I feel like, you know a 25 year old compared to them. But then when I hang out with people who are younger than me, who are like mostly are in the online space I feel like very, very old. So it's just an interesting spot to be in life. To me like, I don't know, it's like it's not weird to be a millennial online. We've been online for a very long time. We've been online since Gen Z was like babies. I'm gonna have to wrap these individually. So I don't know, it's so funny. Like I'll read comments on like Taylor Swift's tip talks or things that people will repost or whatever. And everyone's like, oh my God, she's so millennial.  It's just so weird. That whole thing is like a whole other topic. Like the internet's sort of, I don't know, persecution of millennials is very weird out of the media to me. Especially if it was like, oh, they're all like racist or they do this or that, then that'd be one thing.   I'm making a little sticky notes. So I remember whose present is whose because I'm not decorating them all right now. I'm kind of just wrapping. But I love being a millennial. I think that we're a great generation and I have no shame about it at all. I love just like, I think sometimes the joke is funny. Like the Buzzfeed accent and being like, I did a thing. I think that's funny. I don't know any millennials who talk like that. I think that came from like the Buzzfeed, like Shane Dawson era. That was, you know, very popular on YouTube back in the day. But honestly, like sometimes I feel like incredibly young for my age and then sometimes I feel incredibly old. So it kind of just varies. As far as getting older on the internet, I mean, it's cool. It's a privilege. And I think that there should be more people on the internet who just like, I don't know. 35 is so young, like in the grand scheme of things. 35 is so young, but you're treated like a dinosaur if you make online content and you're 35. Like, I just, like it's, it's so young. Anyways, I think getting older on the internet is really cool. And I love serving this representation for us millennial babes. And I am not answering near enough questions for how long this is taking me. So let's do some rapid fire. I don't know who really cares, but I'm sometimes I get scared. Like, what if someone's bored or whatever? Do you ever wonder how the rats are doing? Actually, okay. So if you didn't follow me back in 2018, 2019, Drew and I lived in an apartment in Phoenix that was honestly like the cutest apartment ever. But very soon after moving into that apartment, we realized that it was infested with rats. And I mean like, infested with rats. It had roof rats, which are a really common thing in the area of Phoenix that we lived in. And it was just like, because of the excess of citrus trees, it made it so that rats just had a nice little feeding ground near where we lived. And it was so stressful. I'd say the low points for me were when I was in the bathtub one day and I could feel them moving underneath the bathtub, being woken up in the middle of the night to them screaming, not to mention people online were like gaslighting me and telling me that it was like not a big deal. And I was like, you don't live with rats crawling into your, you can hear them behind the bed in the walls at night. So anyway, they ended up letting us out of their lease. I think we ended up living there for like 10 out of the 12 months or something. And then we moved out and moved to LA and that was a whole other story. There were really bad neighbors, et cetera. But I am still in touch with my next door neighbor from that apartment and she has given me the tea quite a few times and also posted on Instagram about it. In 2023, four to five years after Drew and I experienced our thing with the rats, the poor girl who moved into the apartment after us, I don't know if there have been several people or if it was just her, but I was told that a pregnant lady is living in that apartment and she's losing her mind because the rats are still there. I don't know how that building is like still up and running. They had gotten sold to like multiple different management companies and stuff like that while we lived there. So I would imagine it's just like not doing good. It's probably not a great investment and like I can't believe people still live there and pay rent there, but yeah, she did post a thing on Instagram, my old neighbor. She posted a thing on Instagram like recently that was like, if you live in a place where you don't have rats climbing above you 24 seven, consider yourself grateful or lucky. And I was just like, oh my God, I am so glad we got out of there when we did because I cannot believe that it's years later and they still have a rat in the roof. Like that is crazy. One of my neighbors did have one in his shower which is like traumatizing, but these aren't like your typical, roof rats are like extremely like, what's the word I'm looking for? Risky for your health. Like they carry a lot of diseases and like they're not like cute at all, but I learned that their gestational period is like two weeks or something like that. So that's just, they were, they were multiplying up there, that's for sure. So as far as an update goes, they're still there, they're still there and thriving and I feel so bad for everyone who still lives there because that is horrible and thank God they let us out of our lease. That was a rapid fire at all, sorry. Favorite season of the bake off? I finished season 11 and I'm obsessed. Oh my God. Okay, so I think our numbers are different here in the US but my favorite season is probably the one with Raul. It's still my favorite. I just think he's like the most hilarious, precious little angel. So probably Raul, I loved his season. I also loved the season. His past season was really good. I loved the season with Jurgen and DeSephi. That one was really, really good. From this season, Saku was my favorite and she was that girl. And I'm sad that she went home but she was so entertaining and so amazing. Favorite Christmas song? Probably, I didn't think very Christmas happy holidays and the Britney Spears, Santa, that's my only wish this year. My only wish this year, I think is what it's called. Those are probably my two favorites and then like Santa telling me and then as far as like classics go, I mean, I love Ben Crosby, I love Nat King Cole, I love all the classics, Frank Sinatra, any classic Christmas song, I'm like all about. Would you ever get Botox? I haven't. I actually think there was a question that was like, how often do you have beauty maintenance appointments and like how do you manage it? And I don't really have that many. I mean, I get my nails done like once a month, twice a month. I was getting facials once a month but I did just cancel my membership because it's just like, I don't, I need like lasers and things like that. I don't really need like skincare and like that kind of thing. I need like more medical attention for like my rosacea and the skin texture and all that kind of stuff. So that would be something that I could do down the road but I've had my lips done once last November so it's been 13 months. I have no plans of getting them done again anytime soon. And then yeah, I get Botox like probably every six months so maybe like twice a year I would say. If that, it kind of just depends.  It doesn't really matter to me, it's not that deep but as far as I can think of, that's it. I mean, I fake tan at home sometimes but that's pretty much it. Do you have a focus word for 2024? I love that. So my word for last year, I'll show you my vision board from last year. Oh my God, it's covered in dust. So this was kind of like my pseudo vision board for last year and my word for this past year is balance. I also have just like other random things on here like Taylor Swift, I did see Taylor Swift. I had wine which like did drink some wine, got some coffee. This was more just like things that I liked. We were going through magazines and I was just kind of going through stuff. Hollywood Hills, I don't know what that meant. I think it was just like manifest my dream home someday type of thing.  I haven't gotten there yet but that's okay. This one says old institutions can disintegrate and crumble, we love that. This is my sun, moon and rising signs. This says best believe I'm still be jeweled. You know, don't forget that you still got it. There's pickles on there. I don't know why.  This is like, you know, go out more, do more fun things, smile, maybe get a new car. I did not get a new car because honestly car prices are crazy. My car's paid off. I'm just going to hang on to it until like literally the wheels fall off. Good friends. I feel like I've gotten into a really good place with like friendships this year and just like in past years as well. But I loved that. Just like, wanted to surround myself with good friends, hot. Love being hot, you know what I mean? Nothing wrong with wanting to be hot. This little thing from a magazine said, this is a lens of possibility and of profound delight. And I just loved that. So yeah, balance was my word for 2023. So where's 2024 goes? I don't have one yet. I need to think about that. But if I had to like think of one right now off the top of my head, maybe it would be, hmm. I don't know the exact word yet but next year I just want to like believe in myself more, take myself more seriously, cut this like imposter syndrome thing out, connect with more people. Like I feel like if, and probably everyone can relate to this, I feel like if I really believed in myself and applied myself and wasn't like trying to shrink myself and be like, no, it's not a big deal.  Who cares, whatever. If I didn't do that, I don't even know how successful I probably would be. Like if I just believed in myself and you know, let myself feel comfortable putting myself out there and you know all that kind of stuff. So yeah, whatever that is, that would be what I would love to do in 2024 and like focus on. Okay, I got quite a few questions about my hair. Like what did you ask for? Like what haircut did you ask for, et cetera? That's just like my normal hair. I didn't get like a haircut. I just got a little bit of a trim but I just styled it differently. And I basically made a Pinterest collage board of a bunch of photos of Sabrina Carpenter thing. And that's what I asked for.  That's what I, I just was like, I want like long curtain bangs and I want them to look like this. And that's what my stylist gave me. She's amazing.  No, I don't think so. I mean, I guess if it's like, if it's someone's preference and they want to like use a different word, I think that's totally fine. But I think I've given up on the presence thing by the way. I'm not doing a fair good job. I mean, there have been times for sure where if I'm trying to like intimidate a guy, like a man's coming over to like service the house, I'll be like, oh yeah, my husband will be home or whatever. But no, it's not really something that I worry about much at all. To me, we are just like best friend, lover, life partner, boyfriend, girlfriend, whatever you want to call it. So to me, it's like all good. What are you reading lately in any book recs? I am reading Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by, I think it's Gabrielle Zevin is the name. I've only just started it, but I've heard really good things and I've also heard that it's going to make me cry. So I'm a little scared about that, but I just needed a break from all of the like sort of smutty books. I wanted something just a little bit, a little bit more, a little bit more thought provoking. So don't give me any spoilers, but I've heard it's really, really good. This one is actually really fascinating. I was talking about this with a friend recently. I feel like I've also opened up a little bit about it on here and that is how do you accept you need to adopt healthier habits without focusing on weight loss? That is such a tough one because for me, that is like the balance that I'm trying to strike at the moment and just like not go back into sort of like a bad place with, you know, restricting everything I eat and making it all about calories and this and that, but there are things, I think these are like, yeah, this is like a pair of shorts and a shirt that I got for dinner. Anyway, I think that there are things that, yeah, I learned about myself with flood work and just like other stuff that like would pose risks for my health in the future that I really need to focus on in the coming year, but I also like, yeah, it's just hard not to make the focus about that. I think just my biggest piece of advice for that is that I'm focusing on like living up a long, healthy life. I'm focusing on my health and not about my size. I didn't learn super healthy habits growing up and so I'm just sort of now learning that as an adult. It's a lot of like inner child stuff as well, which I talk about a lot, but the goal is like better health, better blood work, better, you know, things like that instead of focusing on like a number on the scale or a size of jeans or whatever that may be. But yeah, I think that it's just something I'm gonna keep talking about next year and we're gonna keep trying to figure out together because I know a lot of us are in the same boat, especially if you're like close to the same age as me or you have any of the same like health conditions I do.   So yeah, focusing more on health for sure is where I'm going with that. Any moving plans? So I've gotten quite a few questions about that, like are you gonna stay in LA or are you gonna move? And we have no idea. So there's like a possibility that we would move out of LA but like still stay in Southern California and that's like not for sure yet, but we don't necessarily need to be like in the center of it all.  I don't work somewhere in the city. Like I don't feel like it's necessary for us to be like super smack down in the middle of the heart of LA. So like we've thought about Orange County, we've thought about other places outside of LA, we've thought about the valley, you know, but we are almost positive that this is gonna be like it for this apartment, which is so sad because we really have everything at this apartment. We have all the amenities, we have parking, we have a little fenced in patio backyard area, we have the extra bathrooms and the dishwasher and the washer and dryer and all that kind of stuff, which is rare. So, you know, central air. So I don't know, I don't know what's gonna happen, but we are just like, I mean, at the tippy-tippy top of our budget at this place, it's not like a little bit over, but like if we were to try to find something comfortable in LA right now, it would be way more than this. So I don't know, it's just a weird position to be in. I also have like quite a lot of friends here in LA, like a lot of my hometown friends with here. I've talked about that a million times before, but having them around is super nice and like this piece isn't big enough. Let's go wrap some wiggles. This is a present for Drew's niece. We got her a Chamoy pickle kit. Yeah, I don't know, we'll see. There is like a very strong possibility we will be moving when our lease is up in a couple months. Well, it's like a few months actually. So we have a little while to figure it out, but I don't know, I think we are gonna start just like looking around, taking weekend trips, you know, just trying to see what else is out there in advance so that we're not rushed and it's like a week before we have to be out of here and we're like trying to find something. We will see what ends up happening, but yeah, there is like a, I would say at least 50% chance that we're moving out of this place which is sad, but also, you know, I guess it's necessary. Although I just, I really love this place. Like it's so walkable and it's nice. It's a real like neighborhood vibe. I don't know, well, I'll see what happens. Okay, let's answer like one or two more. I just can't stop talking. Do you feel that you are more creative in LA versus Arizona? I think so, a little bit. I feel like in LA there's just like more to do. There's more kind of creative people around or at least like a more concentrated amount of creative people. So I think like, yes, also there's just like more to do. There's more restaurants. There's more pop-ups. There's more estate sales, thrift stores, like all that kind of stuff. So yeah, it does kind of leave me feeling a little bit more inspired like flea markets, you know, all that kind of stuff. And so like creatively, that's what I love to do with my content is go to flea markets, go to thrift stores, create outfits, hang out with my friends, you know, that kind of stuff. So yeah, I do feel like in a way that does make me feel a little bit more creative but Arizona has plenty of creative people and things to do. I guess just you have to look a little bit harder to find it, but yeah, I would probably say that I do feel more creative here for sure. What travel destination would you like to go to in 2024? It'd be really cool to go back to Japan in the fall. Like that's something that we've talked about doing with our friends. Obviously it'd be cool to go back to the UK again but it would also be really, really cool to go to new places. I would really love to finally take Drew back to Tennessee in 2024. That would be really cool because he's never been. Like, and we've been together almost seven years and like, yeah, he's just never, we've never gotten around to it. So those would be really cool. I got a couple of questions that are like, would you ever move to England? Like still asking the same questions sort of like, what are your current thoughts or plans on moving to England? Well, I wish that there was a way that we could but it's just too much. It's like almost impossible to get a visa so we're not even gonna try, probably. When are you moving to the UK? Like, trust me, if I could, I would. I would be there, I would be there in a heartbeat but it's just like, it's not as easy as it seems. Getting a visa is extremely difficult. Okay, the last one I'll mention is like, I'll do it sort of an umbrella. This one says, how do you deal with questions from friends slash family about kids? I don't want them but the questions are endless. I feel like I don't get the questions from friends and family like at all. My parents have never pressured me or asked me. My friends either like, just are kid-free or they have kids who are grown up or they're just like doing their own thing. So no one has really ever asked me. The only time I get questions about it is online. I think there were like a few other questions that were something like, do you feel weird for like not wanting kids or how does it feel to be like child-free in a world where it's sort of expected to have children, et cetera? I never feel weird about it until people ask me if I feel weird about it. Like, I feel like sometimes, I was talking to my friend about this the other day, like I never think twice about it, it's just something that, you know, I've made a decision on and it's not like 100%. I mean, there's still a small chance that I probably would have kids someday but also it's mostly no. So like, I never feel weird about it until people ask me about it. And then I'm like, wait, shouldn't I feel weird? Like, I don't. I just feel really content and comfortable in the place that I'm at in life and I know how overwhelmed I get emotionally. I know how hard of a job it is. I think also like an aspect that I guess I haven't really talked about much online is that I was 12 years old when my younger brother was born and then my younger brother and sister were born when I was 15, 14. So I think I just like, I lived that. I realized how it's a 24 seven job and like I, that really just shook me up as a kid. Like most kids were on the weekends, you know, like going out to parties and stuff and I was like literally changing diapers and taking care of my siblings and obviously they had their parents and stuff but yeah, it was just like, it was definitely a unique experience growing up being in middle school and high school and like having babies and toddlers around, you know? And so I just, I think I was like, I'm good after that. Like I am good. I just enjoy my peace and quiet. I enjoy my solitude. I enjoy my life the way it is now.  Like I absolutely need to do this. Then yeah, Drew and I would talk about that. But yeah, I mean maybe someday, but probably not, you know? And I saw a podcast recently. I think it was Shambu Drems podcast called Lovers and Friends and she had this couple who had like made a decision to be child-free. They've kind of gotten back and forth about it for a while and they talked about how they realized that it wasn't like we want to have kids more than anything. We want, this is a want. And it was, the conversation was always like, should we, it's a should type of thing. And that really struck home with me. I was like, that's exactly how I feel. It's never like, I want this more than anything. It's like, should I, should I do this? You know, type of thing. So that could obviously change over the years, but I don't know. I don't think it probably will. So that is where we will leave it. This was so chatty. I need to go get ready because I have to leave for my nail appointment soon. But thank you so much to everyone who sent in your questions. I definitely blabbed a lot, but that's sort of what we do here. And you know, this will help me have a vlog ready to go and then I can like chug right along with more vlogmas content as I like ease back in after being sick. I still have a lot more wrapping to do. So I will probably tackle more of this when I get home. It was more about the like chit chat and the Q&A. But thanks for being here. We will do like more ad-fed in the next vlog. And I will see you very soon from always number nine. Crazy. Bye.


We have more information seemingly on a Nintendo Direct this week and look it's been a bit of an interesting ride getting to this Nintendo Direct right? We've had all these updates from insiders that have made us a little nervous but also maybe not that excited but then maybe really excited for next month. We have Necro Philippa Lima from Universal Nintendo coming out and saying hey there's going to be a Nintendo Direct this week. I'm February 15th. All right cool that's this Thursday either announced tomorrow or a shadow drop naturally we don't know fine. Then we have Nate the hate a well-known Nintendo insider going on different podcasts and being like hey this is going to be a partner showcase and we're like oh man a partner showcase we really don't know a lot of stuff for switch this year like man that really kind of sucks but whatever I guess we can give up on seeing Metroid Prime 4 that's just lame but then well they give us this hope where both of those same sources say hey Nintendo Switch 2 is being revealed in March and things seem to be lining up in that way. Now Nintendo themselves has already been supporting this idea that we might not get a general direct one they gave us the date for the Splatoon 3 DLC side order they gave us that last month they've been giving us tons of trailers for the Mario plus Donkey Kong which does release this upcoming Friday so yeah they've even doing other ads for other games they have coming this year. Now today they ended up dropping a near five minute showcase of the Splatoon 3 DLC side order which yes that's a really big deal I'm not going to sit here and pretend it's not it is also something that you figure would be in a direct a five minute showcase of what exactly this DLC is by the way the DLC looks incredible as a Splatoon fan I'm pretty excited for this DLC but that's not it now if you guys remember we have a weaker reliability chart and at the very top of that chart is an insider known as Pioro. Pioro has a 100% track record that's why he's in the category practically Nintendo and he responded to someone on Twitter to yesterday that added a lot of context for this being a partner direct this week let's take a look so you have Bart Klotz going are we going to have a partner showcase and he adds Pioro Pioro respond that says I'm not aware of any imminent first party announcements at the moment so while you're saying at the moment of course things can change reality is he doesn't know of anything being announced by Nintendo at least this week right imminent means almost immediately like happening very soon so yeah he's not aware of anything this week and with his track record that would suggest well Nintendo doesn't have any brand new first party games to announce this week which lends you to believe it's not a general direct but instead a partner showcase now this assumes we get a partner showcase at all there's also the possibility we just don't get a direct right until it's announced until it happens we could just not get a direct now I'm of two mindsets here we're either going to get a direct and it's going to be a partner showcase or we're not both of these things like credence to my second belief and that is switch to will be revealed in March look if there's no general direct this month and again Pioro said the inside track on the last few directs so if there's no general direct this month there's no nintendo mini it is a partner showcase or nothing the only way this even makes sense to me because remember Mario vs Donkey Kong comes out this week that leaves what some dlc that they just dropped their big video for that leaves princess peach showtime next month and then a couple of games that we don't even know release dates for and they're literally just the hd ports you know a thousand year door and Luigi's Mansion 2 and look I'm excited but also I've already played and beat those games so where's the new for me like if you're someone who has been a nintendo fan this whole time princess peach showtime is the only new experience for us this year besides this platoon 3 dlc that is rough that's that's just very rough so switch to then right it's obvious they could do a partner showcase this month and just do a full general direct next month that is obviously something nintendo can do they have done march directs before very very rarely most notably the last time was when they released the nintendo switch so I'm of mine that whether there's a direct this week or not partner showcase it's going to end up meaning that switch to is being revealed next month I don't even know next month I don't even know that I need insiders to tell me it's going to be revealed next month to come to that conclusion it just makes too much sense because if they're not going to unload the cannon a little bit here give us something for switch it has to be because they're literally holding all of their cards for the switch to reveal some people might panic by the way there's one game in particular that is supposed to become the switch it's been announced for switch that we haven't seen that game is Metroid Prime 4 and I know so many of you are growing impatient waiting and waiting and waiting but reality is that they might be doing a cross-gen release or it could be even a switch to exclusive I think if it's exclusive to switch to there's going to be a lot of you that are mad if it's a cross-gen release I think most of you will be okay with that the question is are they going to release on one platform first than the other because it's going to be a Twilight Princess situation right it came to we first and then came to Gamecube a month later or will it be more like Breath of the Wild comes out the same day on both platforms I hope that's probably I hope that's likely the case I guess we don't really know because we don't know anything about this game other than that it exists and it's still listed as TBD or TBA or what happened on TBD to be determined on Nintendo's most recent software list when it comes to upcoming releases so that is a concerning thing though if you are a switch owner I think you do have some concern and I don't know how legit it is but I can understand if there's some concern Metroid Prime 4 may not be on switch I'm not saying it won't be the fact they won't show it for switch without revealing switch to first that to me is concerning at least but we don't know we gotta let it come out we gotta let it be seen we gotta see what happens there I just think that it's very interesting that we have pretty much every confirmation we can have without it being announced that this is going to be a partner direct or it's going to be nothing and I want to throw one more thing out to you guys I talked about this a little bit last night Xbox has an event happening on Thursday right the 15th they have a podcast with Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond going up at 2 p.m central time very interesting timing it's the future of Xbox podcast and what I find fascinating about this is there's all these rumors at hi-fi rush like that's the really big one here from Microsoft is going to be coming to Nintendo switch right and also PlayStation 5 but you know right now we're focusing on switch there's a possibility that if this is a partner showcase hi-fi rush is one of the highlight games in that announcement so this podcast might actually be timed for two possibilities to happen right after a Nintendo direct or to happen right before a Nintendo direct and now I might say well why because obviously that announcement is an Xbox exclusive going multi-platform from one of their first-party owned studios this isn't a partner studio right hi-fi rush was made by a studio owned wholly by Microsoft like Ori they don't own the developers of Ori they just own the IP well they actually own the IP and they own the developer of hi-fi rush so it's kind of a big deal that that game is going to end up multi-platform so wanting to address that immediately before it's announced or immediately after it's announced makes a lot of sense so the Xbox podcast I don't think de confirms anything for those out there I think it's just hey Microsoft knows this announcement's about to happen they obviously approved of it they've been part of the direct planning and hey they want to get right out there right when it happens so they can just be upfront and honest with all of their fans so I actually think it also just supports a partner showcase um I don't know all the evidence is going that way all the evidence is going towards man if this is the case and all this evidence is true it's a partner showcase and the way Nintendo's handling the marketing switch to revealed in March some people are saying the 13th I don't know everyone's making their bets on what day is going to be in March I don't know then I have a day I'm going to wait till this partner direct happens and then I'll come back maybe next week and give a prediction on when I think switch two is going to be announced remember our podcast this week has been moved to the 15th as well we wanted to make sure we were able to react to the partner showcase the day it happens so yes we have our podcast tentatively scheduled for the 15th not tomorrow night tomorrow night will just be a standard stream anyways guys thank you so much for tuning in and I'll catch you in the next video


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The ones who all put your hands together and welcome our host today, Melissa Armo, www.thesports.com. Melissa, please take over the microphone. Everybody can hear me? Let me know if everybody can see the chart here today. Okay, very good. You should see a chart of CMG. So, plan a vacuum today as I'm going to do something a little bit different here. Instead of talking with a PowerPoint today, I'm going to talk about charts. The topic for today's webinar was to learn a strategy that you can use to short to make money in the market. And how can you make money shorting? Well, you've got to find stocks that are dropping in price. The only way you're going to make money short is if you find stocks that are moving lower. And so that is very, very key. And interestingly enough, even though I'm not going to talk about going long today, you can make money going long. And I'm just going to show you briefly here the chart of the market because it had a really nice bullish move today. Actually, look at this. We've got over 249. Anyways, I'm going to talk about the market here before I start into the shorts. Because once you learn how to spot weakness, once you learn what to short and become an expert in shorting, which I am, then you will also more easily be able to see longs are what's bullish or particularly what stocks are strong, or in the case here of the market, which is the spiders, what ETFs are strong. This is an ETF. So, I think it is very important if you want to be successful trading to have a focus. When I first first started trading, I ended up doing gap and it was a gap that was trading lower. It was a short and I made a lot of money and that's how I got into shorts in the first place. The one thing that I love about shorting stocks, whether you do options or swing trades or day trades, is that when panic comes into a stock, it can happen very, very quickly, almost like a train wreck. Like a train running out of control type of action and that's selling. Now, let's look at here at this. This is CMG, Chipotle. This stock has fallen almost completely straight down vertical ever since all the way back here in June. In fact, let's look at the whole chart here where the previous high was at one point. 2015, everybody knows this place. It's a restaurant. They're all over the place in New York. Looks like this got up to 758.49. This is all the way back, summer 2015. Now, that was a very high price for the stock. What did it do? It had a gap down that happened here then in the fall of that year. If you see where this is, I squished these bars together here because I'm trying to show you something. If you knew how to read gaps, and I'm going to go over what a gap is here in a moment, and I'm going to blow this up so you can see the bars better, but if you knew my strategy and how to read gaps, you could have traded just this one stock to the downside a ton of days in the last two years because really this was like the fall of 2015. It's September 2017. You could have done this stock. You could have bought putts. You could have shorted it as a swing trade. You could have done a million day trades in this. That would be the right thing to do. Going long anywhere in here would be almost a disaster because the stock has collapsed. It has lost actually more than 50% of its value in the last two years. Now let's go back and I'm going to briefly describe to those of you that are brand brand new what a gap is if you don't know. I'm going to go back to that one that started the whole thing from two years ago. Now this is a daily chart. We can see the candlesticks. Here it was. So this is two years ago, 2015. The stock ran up here. 758.49 was a high in August. The stock gap down. Now if you don't know what a gap is I'm going to tell you right now. The stock closed here the night before. The market closes at four o'clock eastern time. Closed at this far here in the night of. Was 705.63. Boom. Then a gap down. Now what is a gap down? Or a gap up but we're just going to talk about gap downs today. When a stock or an ETF closes at four o'clock and opens at a different price the next day at 9.30 that's a gap. So this could close at whatever I just said 705.63. And open at any price lower than 705.63 would be considered a gap down. Now in the case of this guy here. It got down an open where 665.67. So that's pretty noticeable. Okay. But I want you to see something here.  The stock rally day. Actually know the open was 650.60. I was looking at the close. It opened at 650.60. Rally up. Closed at 665. So the stock actually gap down 50 bucks plus from the open. But it rallied on the live day. But guess what? It fell then every day since. So this day here in October 2015. The day in the morning when the stock opened in the gap down. And again, let me get the price ready. It opened at 650. On the day it rallied. But it wasn't a buy. Now if you went long this on this day particularly on this day. Could you have made money theoretically as a day trade? Yes. Would that have been the right thing to do? No. Why? Because you would have been watching this to short. Now whether this would have rated well per my system to short or not as a day trade. Or even set up intraday. You don't know until the stock opens in trades. But do you see here how it really was a short? Okay.  But it would have rated well as a gap. As a gap down to short. And if you had looked to do it. You would have done it as a follow through trade the following day. It sold off like freezing. And then it broke. And then it gap down again and gap down again and gap down again. So I'm trying to show you the transition here what happened with this stock. And why am I using this as an example? Because shorting is something that can be extremely profitable. Because when panic comes into a stock. It kind of almost never looks back. Unless. Unless what? Somebody try to finish my sentence here. So you understand my logic train of thought. When panic comes into a stock. It goes out of control until or unless what happens. Anybody want to guess? Don, what do you think? When panic comes into something. It goes out of control to the downside. Until what? Gala had. Guess. Somebody. Battery. Here we go. Eclipse trader has a guess. Reassurance that big money is buying it also. That's a very good answer for a new person. A plus plus to eclipse trader. Who signed it for the class this weekend. But hasn't even done the class yet. So obviously eclipse trader gets the concept. Bogey says it hits support. But Bogey, there's a bazillion supports. How do you know which support is going to hold? This day here it held this support. But it didn't last long. Broke it, broke it. Gap down here this day held this prior support. Broke it, broke it, broke it. There's like 100 gazillion supports. So no you can't say until it holds support. Because how do you know which support it will hold? And I'm going to go back to the market in a minute. Because it's a good example of the opposite of this chart here. Of the opposite. And again, go with my train of logic here. If you can see weakness and learn to read that really well. You're going to be able to learn strength well too. Okay. So it's the opposite. But it's the thought process of what you're going to understand when it's not coming in. When the buying isn't coming in. Which it wasn't coming in here. Okay. Barry says overshould. I'm not sure what you mean by that. Daryl says exhaustion. I think him and Barry are thinking the same line of thought. But again, how do you know when that is?  Because this thing here. And I literally haven't looked at this for a little while here. I'm just looking at this today. This thing here. Do you think this is exhausted here? Barry and Daryl. Do you think that CMG cannot go any lower right now for the near short term future in the next couple of days or weeks? Do you think that this is exhausted? What do you think? Barry, do you think it's oversold? Let's look at what happened today. The stock fell on Friday. Gapped up today with the market rallied. Barry says no. No, you don't think it's oversold? What determines exhaustion? Do you see it's like, it's too, you can't determine that. It's too indeterminate. It's too willy-nilly. It's to your opinion. It's to anybody's opinion. You can't train based on what you think is oversold or overbought or exhausted or can keep going. You've got to actually be more specific. Which is what I do. Which is what? I'm looking at the stocks that are gapping. Particularly, if we're just going to look at CMG tonight here, I'm going to look at the gaps in this chart. Which we're going to talk about. Which there was a gap on Friday. There was a gap back here in June. But let's go back to the one I was talking about earlier that started the whole shebang from two years ago. I have a system where I'm looking at the gap. The gap is a strategy. And by the reigning system that I look at, and this is what I teach in my class, I'm making a decision based on the points. If I think it will keep going lower or not. So I look at 26 points in a chart. If it's gapping down and it rates 20 points or more, chances are high probability that the stock will continue lower. Whether it's on the day or lower the chart in the big term picture. So that's how you know how to get in. And ultimately, the concept of trading, no matter what you do, is very, very simple. Which is, if you're in the right direction, you'll make money. If you're in the wrong direction, you'll lose. And the sooner you can get in the trade in the right direction, the more money you'll make. Because if you're chasing something up, or you're chasing something down, if you're chasing it, you may have to have a quick, quick, quick exit. If you get it late, or you may have to have a terrible price. And even if you're in the right direction, you may have to hold it long for a bigger move for your risk to reward to be there. So, you know, conceptually trading is something that's easy if you get the direction right, but you still have to get the entry right too. And in this case here in the CMG, you had a beautiful entry the day that the stock gap down. No matter where you got it, but you had to wait to get paid because the stock didn't start to fall until the second day after the gap. And it didn't really start to get going and pay you until one week later. But it didn't take that long. And then it broke, broke, broke and fell. Now this bar here, which is a monstrous one here, I don't even remember the reason, but the high of this bar here is 614, low is 534, this is insanity, okay? 80 points or something here. This is not a gap down, but this is a huge sign of weakness in the chart, okay? And if you just look here, the stock has never gone over the high of this day. So this day here was around high of the day 614. The stock has never gone over the high of that day. So this is follow through of the selling from the original gap. You wouldn't have played this here as anything, but it would have given you the conviction to know that it really had more into it. It had more leg to go, that there was no exhaustion yet, that it wasn't holding any of these areas here that Don was talking about. Let me see the questions here. It depends what you use to indicate exhausted. Nothing. You're not going to make your trading decisions based on that. That's what I'm telling you. If you make trading decisions based on exhaustion, you're going to get tripped up because there is no such thing. It's a matter of opinion. It's like if I say, oh my gosh, this is a beautiful, fabulous weather we're having here in New York. It's lovely. Some people may go outside and say, this is so cold. It's freezing here for this early in the year. It should be hot out. It should be much, much warmer. I have to wear a jacket now. This is too early to be this cold. But some people might say, oh my gosh, this weather is fabulous. It's a matter of opinion. It's like if you, it's whatever you think, because a lot of people here, I'm sure, and I'm going to go over here to this one here, because it really had a collapse into 2017, which some of it was earnings gaps, and some of this fall off in this stock was news stuff. I don't even remember. Like people eating food and getting sick. I don't even remember all of them. But the big, big, big collapse really, this was this year. So here was the gap down. I'm going to talk about this one here that happened. This was in June, June, July, August, three months. This stock in three months has gone like that. So anyways, to make a long story short, going back to what I was saying, you don't make trading decisions based on exhaustion. You make trading decisions based on a strategy, and that's what I'm here to talk to you about today. No matter what decision you take, whether you go long or short in trades, and I prefer to short, which I'm reviewing with you here too, and I'm going to explain why, but whatever you do, you have to have a strategy to do it, and it can't be based on your opinion of something that is so subjective that somebody else couldn't come to the same conclusion. Because if somebody here would look at this and say that this is probably exhausted in a drop-off, I would say I don't feel that way at all. I would say looking at this here, this clearly looks like it's fine off a cliff, and based on that, I would never, never go long this. Also the idea, even if we could all agree, let's just say we get up tomorrow morning and this stock is gapping down at something crazy, under 200. He rolled out of bed tomorrow morning. CMG is at 200. Another person got sick. Somebody died, let's say. Something horrible happened and the stock loses 100 bucks overnight, which absolutely could happen. It could lose that much overnight in a gap from something, bad news, earnings, whatever. But anyway, say that that happened, would you say it's exhausted then? See, you know, everybody would have a different answer, but the point is, people play exhaustion in the reverse, meaning that they'd buy it. And somebody said in here about buying support. Well, 200 is the supports. So here's the support in here. Find out. Right in this area. So would you buy the stock there, though? Would you think it'd have a bounce? Would you want to buy it?  You think then it's exhausted. It can't possibly get any more. Would you buy it? Would that be the right thing to do? Bo, you're saying today went up a low buy-in. So it looks like it's to keep going down. The only reason that this rally here today was because the market gapped up. Otherwise this probably wouldn't have even done that. Anyways, okay, let's go back to the original gap. So why short? So let me just make sure I got the one point I was trying to say. Exhaustion is in a strategy. Buying support is in a strategy. Of course you're going to look at things like support, like moving averages. If you can look at something and feel like it's already had a move, you could say, well I don't want to do this maybe because not because it's exhausted, because it's already had a big move, you don't want to chase it, and you choose to walk away from the trade. But it doesn't mean you're doing the opposite direction. And it probably could keep going anyways, even still, okay? Anyways, selling action. Getting back to my original question, which Eclipse Trader did answer correctly. When selling action comes in, it keeps going, going, going, going, and till what? It keeps falling off a cliff with a panic until something tells you that it's going to stop going down. So do you get it? And Eclipse Trader's answer was again, reassurance that big money is buying it also. So you need to see that coming in. That gives you the confirmation if you'd want to either exit this as a short, if you're in it for a long-term short, let's just say you're in a swing trade short in the CMG, or if you were short puts, you'd get the confirmation if big money came in, institutional money came in to buy it, that it was turning around. You'd either exit your short or you could buy it. Now I'm going to go into this one over here because this is a good one today to discuss, which is Tiva. Tiva, Tiva had a gap down here. Just a couple of weeks ago, a little bit more than a month. Again, panic selling. Do you see this here? How do you make money? Getting the trades in the right direction. In the case of Tiva here, the stock closed the night before a gap down. You would have raided the gap using my system if you did my class and were a golden gap course student and it would have told you, hey, this could set up as a good short. You watch it to take it to trade it on the live day. You see the gap in the morning pre-market and sometimes you see them at night. Anyways, it worked as a short. Followed through here. Kept going down. Fell, fell, fell, fell, fell, fell, fell. Low in here was around 1522. Yes, 1522 was a low. So Tiva looks to me like, well, it's getting selling. It looks weak. Now today, Tiva had some news. Some kind of trial thing or whatever. And the market gapped up. So Tiva gapped up today on positive news, I believe, and it also gapped up with the market and it had a green bar day. High on the day was 1924. So what do you do with this here? Again, how do you make money trading? Well, if you shorted this today as a day trade, you didn't make any money. This was not as short today. But would you have wanted to go long this? Like you can't ignore all of this situation here. Okay? Now I want to show you something interesting about the intraday chart of this of the Tiva. Here, I'm going to show you. Here's the 15 minute. This is the rally up in the stock.  Right in here. Now where does this go after this? You say Melissa, where does this go? Well, right now the chart still looks lower. Did it have a lift today? Yes. But again, going back to what I was saying, about shorting and what's happening, things fall, fall, fall, fall, fall, fall, fall, fall, until they fall off a cliff. Okay? The panic comes in. The panic keeps coming in and the panic isn't over until when? Until something's telling you that the panic is over. Do you think the panic is over in this? Somebody answer me. It's stock outduped up today. It rallied on the day. Do you think that everything's fine now? It's sunny days ahead for this stock. Is the panicking over yes or no? Gallowhead says not yet. Anybody else? Bogey says no. Doggy says no. Anyone disagree with them? I don't think that the panic is over yet in this. So I would agree with the people that answered. Okay? Darryl says no too. Eclipse Trader's saying, don't know unless you see the follow-through. Well, that's right. You're going to wait and watch and see what happens here, for example. Okay? Now what if the market rallies tomorrow and it's green tomorrow and gaps it again tomorrow because the market is such a bullish state today? Could this follow-through for a second day? Yes. But is it going to go anywhere? What's really going to have the people coming in? Were they just stepping like a monster?  This is like, and again, I'm talking about shorts today, but I'm going to use examples of monster buying too to show you. So you can read the difference here so you can understand what I'm talking about. Big money comes in like a monster. So this isn't a monster. It's a move. Okay. It got the stock I bought up today. It did. Okay. I wouldn't have bought it. But anyways, this here is, see, this is a monster. The stock closed here. 3125 gap down. Boom. Open at 2575 and fell all day into a dream target. Almost got to 23. High of the day was over 26. Stock dropped $3 on the day. Dropped again the next day. Gapped down the next day. Fell hard. Fell almost down to 20. A $6 move from the oak, from the high of this day to the second day and from the previous day, $31 move in, you know, 48 hours. Boom, boom, boom. So this is a monster of the selling. This isn't a monster over here. Okay. And even if this has another little rally in here, it still wouldn't look like a monster. And also here's the chart. This is the chart you're looking at here of the stock. So you can really see when I squish the bars together, the more data I squish, you can see what I mean by the power of shorting and panicky action to profit. If I could make it smaller, but I can't. This is as small as I can make it. But you see how this is almost like, if I even squish this together more, it would almost look like one line down. It would almost look like... It would almost... Shoot, I don't have a thing up to draw on. But it would almost look like, I could almost draw a line that would almost have no bend in it. This actually has no bend in it. Look, it just went... It just went like that. Look. In fact, before today, it had absolutely no bend in it. Here, you can look at the moving averages. The moving averages kind of depict it easier. And these are just drawn on here. You can see it just went... And it went like that.  Let me squish it. Going all the way back two years before, this, again, if you're an overnight trader, if you're a day trader, similar concept, the strategy that I trade and teach can be used for looking at transactional bias in any stock or ETF. You're playing it based on the gaps in the correct direction if the gap rates well. And in this case here, you can really see the power of panic. Selling action. When a stock has made just a tremendous lift, a tremendous move, and then takes a fall just ever so quickly. As quickly as it rallied up, it lost it all and fell. This is done yet, either. But, you know, you watch the gaps, you rate the gaps, you could have shorted this on Friday a gap down, and it had a nice, nice move. And you could be in this for a long-term trade. So the key to making money in shorts is to finding stocks that have a panic look to them, that have selling action going on in them, that look like they are going to need help and that the help isn't coming. And that's what I'm saying about the Tiva and even the Green Day here. This isn't help coming, and I'm trying to break this down to talk about it in really common-sense terms. This isn't really help coming. It's like these stocks need a savior. It needs somebody to save them. They're drowning. That's the best way to describe it. Does anybody have any questions about anything here that I'm saying at all? Now, I'm going to go over to what I was talking about earlier about the spy. And if you have questions, ask me here. Now, again, shorting makes sense because the moves come in big and fast and swift. You can make money going long, okay? The reason shorting is fun, though, is because in fact that the moves can happen very quick. And if you're day trading and you want to trade just quick trades in the morning, you can be in and out fast. And we're going to look at some one-minute charts here in a minute. But I want to go back to this idea of seeing something and then flipping it, okay? A couple of weeks ago, not even two weeks ago, before all this happened, this was back on here. It was a month. This doesn't look like the gap in CMG or Tiva, but it is a gap and it is valid for you to look at to actually watch, to check out or to rate, okay? So the spy had a close here at 2.4694 on the 16th and then it opened in the morning, gapping down at 2.4624. The market then power trended all day on this day and closed at the low. In fact, it closed exactly at the low. The low and the close were the same number, which is extreme weakness, 2.4309. It followed through here on the next day a little bit by gapping down and falling a little, little, little. So then you had to watch it, but then it didn't and then it recovered. So do you see here where you could be gapping this thing and you could have shorted the market on the day as a day trade. You could have and if you did, you made money. Now if you were doing my system you would rate this gap and you would determine if the gap rates 20 points or more for you to short it. If it does, you could look it for a setup intraday, okay? But as far as the follow through, you did have panic on this day. Then you had a little more panic here the second day down and I remember even looking at this and saying well it will be interesting. It will be interesting to see where we go here. This is really a tell-tale side for the market. It will be interesting to see what happens next. But see, nothing did. We retraced almost 100% of the move that happened then. And see going and looking at the TVA I'm just going back to these two other charts or what you've been talking about. That has not happened here at all. Number one. CMG that hasn't even even remotely happened here at all on CMG, okay? So going back to this do you see how it was just a temporary you didn't have you didn't have that panic following through you immediately had somebody saving you or saving the spy here. Really this to me wasn't panicky but a lot of people read it that way and it could have I mean it could have. We could have fallen all the way down all the way down in here. We could have fallen 30 points. 20 points. 25. But I really would have been surprised if we did that. But anyways it could have. You don't know. This happened immediately where the saviors come in and it retraces. Okay so then that tells you that no reason to panic don't have a you know conniption but a lot of people do panic. Okay whenever they see red and people also panic when they're in something that looks like this and I'm just talking about this chart this could be anything this could be any symbol in the world. This chart itself is a chart of the spy. Man we broke out today look at that chart we really are higher. But this is a beautiful chart. So people look at this though and any red they panic I'm explaining how people think not me but I'm saying people if you would be along this thing which is the spy but it could be anything any symbol at all you want to give it when people are along and they're up money and they see red they do sometimes tend to panic because then they wonder if they should get out and if this is it. Does this make sense what I'm saying? So that is why sometimes you have bars like back on the day of the 17th and you do have selling and the selling did happen all day in the day and you have it but it doesn't really go anywhere you just get the people that are very excitable and they are up money and they're taking the profits and they're getting the profits and they're getting out and when people are in things for a while sometimes they're in it and this chart keeps going and they say well this can't keep going and it can't keep going and it can't keep going but it does. But at any little sign of the red people panic because then they think well this is the end this is the top this is it I better get out now this is all over that's how people think they understand but that's not how people that are in charge of stocks and that move stocks in the market think Now any questions about anything I just said because I'm talking talking talking here but I think this is going to be a good chart lecture here for today. Does anybody have any questions about anything I just said here so far tonight let's go look at the one from this was two weeks ago because the room was closed last week for the labor day AMBA okay here we go now you understand this is great thank you I think so too alright let's go look at this guy here um this was back always was the first actually this was on this before the labor day so again have a strategy which cannot be exhaustion because it's too it's too opinionated and not based on enough reference that is something that could be replicated and duplicated and that two people or ten people or 25 people could come up with the same conclusion remember you know when you're doing something that almost every single person or every single person comes up with the same conclusion then you have something to make a basis on if it's too opinionated too much based on someone's judgment of something yes or no then it comes from their place of knowledge and therefore it can't be replicated where everybody can come up with the same conclusion because everybody's knowledge base is very very different if you come from a place where you're you're used to seeing things back up that fall really really hard then you will come to the conclusion exhaustion more so in play it than other people so it has to do with your frame of reference and that's why you can't trade on basic you know assumptions like things like that you have to have a set set system okay that's not to say that everybody doesn't have different variances because everybody comes from a different skill set when they come and learn with me but the system itself has every point and you go and you total them and you look at the points and you tally them up it's the same points so you add them up and that's it and that's how you follow my system it's not subjective looking at things like where this what support level it will hold what support level or what resistance level it will hold or what resistance level it will break it's too subjective because there's way too many on a chart number one and number two something like the idea of exhaustion as well it you can't you can't say it trading itself should not be subjective because the stock is only going to do one of two things on any given day rally or drop that's it you only got two options unless the stock is not going to move or it's halted stocks must move if they are open and live on the day trading day unless they're halted they must move they can only go two ways one is up and the second is down that's it so you only have two picks to play it long or short alright it's not subjective it's going to go where it's going to go and the person that's going to be right is the one that makes the prediction and takes the trade in the right direction and makes the money before it happens you know after the fact if you see for example the spy trading all the way up and blowing over the high today if you're looking at that at 12 o'clock noon today well you didn't have to be a genius to see the market was green on the day but you're in the trade very very late and may have a terrible entry or stop now let's get here to the amba getting back to the shorts it was a gap down so the strategy is a gap down and then you will rate it per my system to look for an entry stock close here the night before at 5440 open in the morning where again another monster beast opened in the morning at 4593 almost 46 so looking from here to here about eight bucks down and there we have it it's had a gap down and you would get up in the morning and you would look at the gap and you would rate the gap per my system determine what to do is it going to fall on the day is it going to rally do you want to go along it do you want to short it so my point system tells you that now let's go to the intraday chart and you can ask me any questions while we're here because it's just very free flowing here tonight because I think it's it's good to look at a lot of charts so this is a one minute off the daily now if you want to day train after you figure out that ambo looks good lower you say I like it it rates good for Melissa's system the system tells me that this has a high probability of falling today that the panicky action will come into the stock okay which it did so you watch it so what did it do 930 in the morning the stock opens has a rally in live live time the stock had a move up and actually it was almost above the stock rallied in 60 seconds which happens very fast but if you watch did it did then the next bar did what 931 again we're on the one minute chart off the daily it did not rally and it started to go red and then it started to go really red and this is all happening into 945 okay and then it fell fell fell all the way down again into 10 o'clock so I just want to show you here and again you would learn this in the classroom me if you came to do the class with me you could have shorted this stock now why would you have done it you would have done it because the gap rating system here in the daily chart told you that this stock has a high probability of continuing to fall on the day but you still don't get in it until it sets up you would learn the setups with me in the class anyways this did set up and it didn't rate good and you could have watched it as a short okay here again is the panic the panic panic panic panic panic panic and this is how you make money shorting on panic again you can make money going long I called the market long in the room today but the nice thing about shorting is that it seemed to just happen just very very quickly the market did move over the high today but it took a while to get there in fact what time did the market let's just compare because I just want to show you here again why shorting is so great 12 30 so 3 hours it took 3 hours for the market to have the big move today this took 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 18 minutes if you held it all the way down if you didn't you could have get out in 10 minutes we have this big action happen in 10 minutes the long bullish reaction the market had today took 3 hours and that's very very typical that's very very typical when you're going long you have to wait longer for the trades to go when you're going short you want to see the move quickly you want to see that panic okay but you still have to watch the right stock to do it still have to know to take the entry which are 6 different entries and you have to put stops but I want to show you here this was a really big move even if you got out in the first area the stock moved 3 bucks that's a huge move if you had a thousand shares of this how much money would you have made? $3,000 if you have 2,000 shares of this and you're in this drop and the first 10 minutes of the day and it drops $2 how much do you make? 6 grand the moves happened swift and quick but the real benefit is knowing knowing my system actually to know that AMBA has a high probability of falling on the day and therefore the only thing that you could possibly do to do anything at all is what? short it because you wouldn't go long it now let's look at the overall here does anyone have any questions about that? let's look at the overall chart of what's happening here we say gosh let's look at this thing 1, 2, 3, 4, 4 days up fell broke is it extended? is this exhausted? is it filling the gap? is it going to rally? is this done now? what's happening here? what do you think everybody? AMBA does anybody have any opinions on AMBA at all? risk the farm? if you had 10 million dollars would you go long and short it? AMBA AMBA AMBA Kathy you're cute thank you yes I will be on fox business on the 13th does anybody is anybody awake anymore? it's only 515 people have your caffeine somebody needs a coffee burst dog is saying 35 is the target gal ahead saying short if somebody here thinks it's going to fill the gap koala bear says short eclipse trader does not want to risk the farm in any direction which is always a good idea do not risk the farms the pigs won't have a place and the cows won't have a place to go koala bear says short Dara says short T says resistance can't get through which resistance where? give me a price number of a level of resistance you're talking about because there's a million resistances which resistance level do you mean? give me a number bear flag I don't play bear flags I pledge allegiance to the flag I don't play bear flags or bull flags I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America that's the only flags that are in my vocabulary give me a number give me a number T anyways 46 okay so T thinks it's rallying up to 46 let's find 46 here's 46 so what do you think it's going to do if it goes there? hold it drop again go over it first of all if you day traded this here you made a lot of money second of all if you shorted this here second day down you made good money too if you did this as any kind of long term overnight short swing trade put trade you would have had to be out of half of this trade the whole trade or some of it why one of the targets was 40 bucks it got it if the third day down it reached $20 so if you did if you had done this for an overnight you had to get out of either the whole trade or at least half or more because it hit the $40 target before it even did this thing here in the last few days alright before it even rallied so you would have made money the downside here if you did that was the right thing to do let's just say you didn't let's say you did it as a swing trade you didn't get out of any in here you had in your mind a piggy target somebody said 35 if you had in mind a piggy piggy target of 35 and it bounced at 40 and you didn't take out any profit in the trade if you were up and if you'd shorted it at 46 and I'm just theoretically here if you'd shorted it at 46 and you swore 35 or bust you'd still be up in the trade it said 40 for 59 if you shorted it at 46 you'd still be up but you wouldn't be up as much as you would have been up when it was at 40 and you got within $5 of the number of the original number you had even though $40 really was a target Galli had saying it may rally up to 48 what if it does it may rally up to these United States flag number 46 and what if it does go all the way up here to 48 goes over the the area of the previous scap down the one that had the big move on the first goes up to 48 goes over 46 what do you think then that it's turned around that all the panic is over that everything looks beautiful and fabulous and amazing would you go along the stop then if that happened I mean if you were still in it to the downside obviously you would be down if you'd shorted it at 46 and it does rally to 48 but hopefully you would have killed it then and again no one should have been in this still through that drop into 40 but would you would you want to go long here then would you say all the panic is over Galli says no way well I would hope you would say no way okay and again this is just a sidebar here brings up another point and then I'm just going to finish up what I'm saying to answer any questions there's so many different levels of support and resistance in a stock 46 is a resistance level could it go over it yes if it does doesn't mean that the stock isn't low or no but if you did the trade and shorted it at 46 money management says that you really should have been out of trade into 40 or way before and if you didn't get out of it I mean the only thing you could possibly do would be to kill it at break even if it does touch 46 because you wouldn't want to lose in a trade that you were up $6 in that would not be good money management okay but it doesn't mean that the stock isn't going to break or go lower again and Tiva really is a better example because Tiva had this gap up today and Amber really is just kind of rallying but I'm sure some people will look at this today and say this is why I use this as an example too that the move in this is done or that it's exhausted or whatever they will say it for lots and lots of reasons one because it couldn't break 15 two because it did get up today in its own reason too it wasn't just the market it had news some kind of positive news alright and it didn't have a small move today I mean the stock actually rally more than above so you know that actually happened again I wouldn't have called this long in the river gone long yet because the stock still looks like a piece of crap where does it go from here you have to watch it and see but there's still plenty of panic in this alright and that when you're looking to short and you're looking to get in a trade and you're looking to play it no matter what you want to do and I'm going to go back to the CMG whether you want to go whether you want to do the day trades or whether you want to do the options trades which really in an ideal world you do them all but if you have a if you have a set time if your time is limited where you can trade where you can't be in the room where you can only be in the room you can't watch options I mean depending what happens with your lifestyle schedule right now to make money in the market okay either way you're the concept the strategy is the same as the gap and you're looking for if you're shorting something to play on the weakness to play on the selling action you're looking to get the direction right your targets will vary whether your day trade or doing swing trades or doing options okay but the most important thing that you have to do and think about when you're trading is getting the direction right and making money it doesn't always pay to hold something to a dream-dream target there are many many many areas to look at the spy today could have very well rallied all the way up to 250 I wouldn't be surprised at all if we got there tomorrow it looks like there's nothing stopping that from happening if you had if you said I'm not getting out of this day trade today until it reaches 250 or bust it did not get there you ran on a day it hit the high of the day at 12.30 face-based-based and held all afternoon which actually tells me I should do a market video this is unbelievably bullish from 12.30 until 4 o'clock the market traded in a tight range that isn't weak people reading a weakness that I've learned how to read strengths so well this is so strong the market traded in a narrow range in the spiders all day from 12.30 to 4 o'clock I would be shocked if we don't run up tomorrow it's almost like no matter what we do tomorrow is going to we're going to rally we could gap down a little bit tomorrow rally we gap down a little bit into the barn rally we gap down a half the barn rally we grab a neutral rally unless we gap down and fall all the way down to something crazy I can't see us not rallying tomorrow for almost four hours today the market traded in a range of it looks like 20 cents and that is not a sign of weakness that is a sign of strength so the market is digesting all of the buying coming in here if people wanted to sell they would have nobody should the market got bought and kept going and then stopped nobody got out do you see here what I mean there's no panic here none not only did the market gap up and have a nice move up and then a big move on the day went over the high no one panicked thinking that it wasn't going to keep going they said fine and they're waiting for it to go to the magical number of 250 and blow see you see how this is not weak and this is actually weak so this had a move up today time of the day that this hit the high same time as the market 12, 15, 12, 30 do you see how this didn't hold itself it came in hard and then we closed but do you see the difference between this and this and I'm just looking at an intraday 15 minute because both these stocks tiva and spider is gapped up today but the spy is strong and tiva is not it's weak I really care the reason for tiva trials this that news somebody bought the company I don't know who cares I don't look at any of that stuff I look at the gap I look at the price action I'm very good at reading price action does anybody have any questions at all so far of anything here today I have a class this weekend if you're interested in taking it and learning it's Saturday Sunday and Monday Monday is going to be a repeat of day one if you cannot do Saturday classes this is a great time for you take advantage of this because I normally always do a Saturday and Sunday class so the class would be Sunday and Monday okay and the bottom line is that I usually don't do this so if you if you have a conflict with a Saturday class if this is a good class to do it you do Sunday and Monday and day one or day one and day two which is Saturday and Sunday day one you learn all the 26 points which is my system how you would know that something like CMG or even the AMBA was a good stock to short and you learn the 26 points and you fill out a worksheet and you learn how to see where the gap is going to go in the day and then day two is you learn the entries which we talked about a little bit here in the one minute in AMBA but do you see how the panic that comes into shorts is so attractive because you don't have to hold something for hours and hours and hours which to be honest with you is a pain in the butt and the people then were in the market this morning when I called it so listen if you want to get this up to the next number to 249 or 250 if you want to if you don't get out of this here in the morning you're holding it into the close you're holding it waiting all day and actually whether you get out of 1215-1230 I'm not a patient person overall I'm trying to get better about it but honestly, honestly, honestly in an ideal world all the trades in the morning go just like AMBA 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes, boom drop off a planet, fall out so here's the dates for the class and if anyone is interested in signing up you can email me here okay yes I will be on Fox Business on Wednesday and it's exciting I wish I would have been on today because I could have talked about the market I could have said the market looks like it's going to make another brand new all-time high today don't be surprised and then boom I did it at 1230 any questions about the class any specific stock chart you want me to look at the market shorting Eclipse Traders once you're looking for to the class you're going to do great you've got the general concept of trading gaps down which helps you have to learn my system how do I get the picks which you're going to learn in the class but you get the concept getting the concept understanding the concept helps you take the trades it helps you, number one, pay for the class number two, take risk take the trades because you have to risk your own money to take the trades you're not going to make any money you can't make money trading unless you take the trade and you actually put the trade on and if you understand what's going on conceptually and you get it then you'll be able to do it better whereas so many people that are in the market are risking money or trading they just they think that it's gambling and it's not what we do is because what we were just talking about about the support and the resistance stuff people get upset when they see something like this I'm just going to go back to the TV they get very upset and they say, gosh darn it this thing I swore was lower now this sucker happened today but it's still lower this one little blippy happened today, that's it it doesn't mean the stock isn't lower stocks do not go straight down every day just like they don't rally straight up every day you can't get tripped up on things things wiggle and jiggle and that's why money management is a big part of trading too because you've got to get out when you're up and you have to watch your trades and you have to make good money management decisions I will be on TV at 4 o'clock on after the bell on Wednesday, September 13 on Fox Business Network CRM and actually I'm going to be on TV Thursday too but I didn't send out that email yet but not Fox another station I have a busy week CRM what do you want to do with this here what do you want to do with this guy here Tee what do you want to do with it are you in this here something or what are you doing with it Tee are you there there's nothing to do in this right now if you're long the stock you're up it's just hit a target today 98 if you're not long it I wouldn't go long it here and you definitely can't short it you believe it's up yes sell it 80 plus I don't know what you mean sell it 80 plus this is nowhere near 80 I don't see any signs this is going in the near future to 80 if you're not in it there's no play here in this the play here was long you missed it I'm going to go along here today tomorrow and there's nothing here to do with this 100 100 it could go to 100 I mean you need something to get it there though 98 22 this gapped up today with the market most likely I'm guessing I can look it up but I'm just guessing this gapped up with the market ran out 98 22 100 is a number could it reach it yes again the stock is an uptrend in a time frame that you could predict like tomorrow you'd have to watch it tomorrow and see this isn't necessarily going to just run right up to 100 because that is a number that it's getting close to it's been running up every day for two weeks the market is bullish it could keep going and get there tomorrow because the market is bullish but otherwise this needs a reason to get up to that number which may or may not happen in a time that you could know to take the trade unless you can just wait it out you know when you're in options you have this fixed time that it has to go day trades too because you got to be out before four you got to be you're in and out if you're in October calls I don't know what day in October you're in it that is dependent on if it's the end of the month if it's the end of the month you've got six weeks or something like that you got a long long long long time does this report between now and then October 20th you got more than a month does this have a report between now and then you know you got to look at that stuff too you know you got to look at that stuff too does this have an earnings report earnings season starts fourth quarter so you know that's something else you got to look at too I don't know if this gets right straight up immediately to 100 with the market continuing higher which I do think happens tomorrow this could make it but close is close enough and it's almost there if you're up in this trade there won't be a piggy so there again I'm giving you the same thing that I say to Gala had no piggies, no piggy targets if you don't get a run up again with this tomorrow and the market goes then you know you're taking a chance this could stop the pull all the way back five points and may not make it then through the number to the number even by the 20th this has had a good move what do you want out of it it's just moved ten points in a month what do you want from life from this unless it does a reason to keep going something's going to happen here to make it to that number do you know what I'm saying so don't be a pig and for sure you're up in this because it's gone it worked the trade was good, get out in fact this might have been it today you got to look at this here you got to watch this here this was an unusual move for this to happen today to help with the market it got very very very very very very close 215 it ran up I would be very close watching this tomorrow $120 in one contract that's not bad I wouldn't complain see if you had done this trade with more size you'd be up more what if you were up $1200 what if you're up $12,000 you and Gala had sound like you could be best friends he always says well I'm only up $100 I'm only up $200 I'm only up $50 $120 is $120 add a couple zeros on to your size you wouldn't be pig-ing it you'd say oh my gosh I'm up $12,000 it's just had a beautiful move and you could say I got it I got 80% of the move I did it and you wouldn't be pig-ing it out probably would have gotten out today but because you're up $120 and you don't think it's enough you're like I gotta get more what are you gonna make if this goes up to $100 and then I'm just gonna answer my question what are you gonna make $175 you're gonna lose a little bit of time value you lose a little bit of time value every day Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday you'll lose time value the stock will trade higher it goes up another $1.75 when you lose 4 days in time value $35 more and you sweat it a bullet every day you're not gonna make a grand more if this goes to 100 do you know what I'm saying so this is where common sense common sense, common sense, common sense common sense in order to get to the point where you're trading with a lot of size, with good size you can make the moves and make the money make thousands of dollars in a couple of minutes or in a couple of days or in a couple of weeks in the options trades you gotta think like someone that is making good, good decisions about money let's say this one last thing it's very, very important here you have to be thoughtful about what you're doing with your money see people think they're thoughtful because they're like I'm gonna think about doing Melissa's class for 3 years for 4 years, I'm gonna think about it for the rest of my life I'm gonna think about it every day until she decides not to do it anymore than miss my opportunity and that's probably gonna happen with many, many people and I'm not kidding you or the class will be $25,000 for a weekend and you come to New York and you learn from me live and people won't be able to afford to do it being thoughtful about your money is not being stingy and it's not not spending it's just being smart it doesn't mean not spending money it doesn't mean hoarding your money either it doesn't mean risking the farm either okay, if you can't afford it and don't have a farm to even risk it means it means being smart it just means being smart I had a gentleman that I talked to two weeks ago that I spent a lot of time talking to and he's done I don't know how many classes I'm telling you a story he's not here tonight but he watches my video so he'll hear it he can only afford to pay $500 for the class I said you are not in a position to be trading then you are not in a position to be trading okay you don't have money to trade the most important thing is learning it because if you know what to do and you can make $120 every day from now until the end of the year however many days are left in the year October and November December so we got 9 weeks 12 weeks plus 2 14 weeks 14 weeks times 5 days in a week you got about 70 more trading days say in the year so if you could make $120 your profit in this trade right now you'd make $8400 between now and December 31st and if you could do that then come next year you could make $240 every day from January 1 to December 31st 2018 and then you'd make even more so that makes sense that you have to be smart being smart with money doesn't mean being a piggy and it doesn't mean being singy too and it doesn't mean not spending it means being thoughtful and saying you know what it makes sense that I probably should learn what to do before I take any trades or risk any money it makes sense that I need money to trade before I do it which is more than $500 it makes sense that if I hold this to the piggy target I could make $45 and you know I'd rather get out because I am up $120 and if I could do this tomorrow and the next day and the next day and the next day and the next day and the next day and the next day and get in the habit of doing just that I'm going to make more in the long run the stocks have moves when the move is over you get out this is what a lecture gala had about all the time you're not married to this you're not married to CRM gala had you are not married to tesla what a beautiful move here today don't marry this stock it doesn't want to marry you anyways okay don't marry your trains go on a date with them have a good time have a fun go out to dinner too if you want go out on the weekend spend a whole Saturday do not marry your trades you're not living and dying by every trade you take if you want to be a professional trader and think like a wealthy successful person you are getting the job done and you're getting in and you're getting the money and you're doing the task at hand and when the job is completed you're off to the next job if you want to work if you're a doctor if you're a lawyer if you're whatever a nurse you go get the job done you come home that's it it's the same thing when you're a trader you do the job you take the trade out your job is not holding every trade to the piggy target you'll make it that way you'll lose in the end you'll have an up all day I have an up since early this morning and I need my beauty sleep for TV alright so gala had his argument with me right now he wants to have a theoretical and a little discussion he's saying maximize the position Melissa I'm gonna go we went over and Kathy has to go to bed so great job everybody that did the task so today great lecture very very good doggy says thank you Melissa you're the best looking forward to seeing you in a fox me too and so are my parents alright have a great night everyone watch me on TV alright I'll see you later thanks for staying Kathy don't marry your stocks I don't love you actually Tesla loved you a lot today you might have you might have considered marrying Tesla you might marry it tomorrow too because it looks higher even still tomorrow but I'm telling you you're still not gonna marry it saying Kathy I mean I appreciate you staying over Kathy's mad cause she's saying that she's not going to bed 45 I was joking alright have a good night everyone email me if you're interested in the gap class okie doke wow ok well kind thanks go to our presenter Melissa Armo that is www.thestockswitch.com emails to Melissa at the stock swish swish.com I'll be posting it one more time the information to bookmark the fox business channel because they'll be you know obviously putting a link and if you've given a valid email for today's registration when I send Melissa the list you will absolutely get follow-up information from her they're very very good and her emails are extremely interesting she does play at the day I mean it's worth it alone if you can't take the class right now it's worth it alone just get on her mailing list ok so you all have a great night ahead and good day trading tomorrow we will wish you all the best of luck email her at Melissa at www.thestockswitch.com to get more information about the upcoming course and like she said she's doing a very specialized one where she's keeping a day one on that Monday alright you all have a great night ahead good day trading tomorrow